Part 2!

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The wave of force coming from Hamidon is too much; combined with the insects making it impossible for her to fly, Signum is caught by the shockwave and flung into some debris.

"Ungh," she complains, as she pries herself off the debris.. swiping her blade at the insects, finding it impossible to clear the air... Jurassik is still up... and Nono is too, way way up. This is leaving a gigantic monster for Signum to deal with...

"Laevatein! Cartridge Load! Bogenform!"

=Cartridge Load! Bogenform!= Drawing her scabbard, Signum forms scabbard and sword into a compound bow... and draws back, forming an arrow of energy... that she fires straight for Jurassik's chest!

Signum switches armor modes to Bow Form.
Signum misses Hamidon with her Not the Ultimate Attack Yet attack.

What the heck?! Spider-Man has too many animal-themed nemeses' as it is! And now even hordes of bugs are going after him! It seems like life indeed does hate Peter Parker. Really, being attacked by so many things at once, he really can't resort to the timeless method of getting the hell out of the way. So all he really can do is make a little shield with webbing. Of course, it only partially works, and a horde of bugs make it through and start stinging up Peter. "Gh... dammit!!!" he mutters, a bit annoyed by this turn of events. But thankfully, Spider-Man is a resourceful teenager! And even though he's getting swarmed around, he manages to shoot a line aimed for the Giant Rock Man's hammer-hand. And with a few moments of struggle, the young boy in his pajamas manages to -hurl- that hammer hand, using it to smack hundreds of bugs at the sky and eventually aiming to the thing by the arm straight into that disgusting gooish stuff!

Peter Parker critically strikes Hamidon with his STOP HITTING YOURSELF!! attack.

Nono pierces Jurassik's foot but the giant rock thing just grunts as it hefts its mighty hammer in attempts to knock Nono out of the sky before she can get away but Signum's bow attack distracts it. He is about to react to it when Spider-Man's webbing latches onto the hammer. There's a game of tug-of-war that would seem hilarious due to the sizes of the two opponents if it wasn't for the fact that the 'puny' human is obviously overpowering the mighty Jurassik.

It swings out and around, smashing through bugs, into Signum's bow attack and back on itself. The force of the blow causes the creature to stumble backwards. It looks like it's about to fall into the goo for a second because it digs its feet in and manages to upright itself. It grunts again as it hefts the makeshift hammer in both hands and wades forward. It looks at both Signum and Peter for a second before swinging the hammer into a mighty arc, hoping to catch both annoyances at the same time.

Largo hits Signum with his Rock'em! attack.
Largo misses Peter Parker with his Sock'em! attack.

Except the dinosaur doesn't reach the nucleus. Moving through the cell membrance is surprisingly easy, and the cytoplasm does little than feel strange. In fact, it's breathable, though it smells a bit funny. The problem is that one of the green mitochondria moves in to intercept, taking the brunt of the attack. In fact, it's enough to make the thing pop in a small spatter of slime. Of course, this gets the attention of some of the other defenses inside the cell.
One of the yellow Mitochondria Antibodies moves a bit closer and shimmers slightly, sending a blast of energy-charged chemicals toward Jade in an attempt to start digesting him.
It seems that most of the bugs are gone. And aside from Jurassik, the only thing left moving here is that giant amoeba and the things inside. That must be Hamidon.

You get a glancing blow on Jade Leaf with your It burns and stings! attack.

That is a very big amoeba.

Nita decides to give it another shot. Using the Speech again, she asks, flat-out, (Are you Hamidon? If so, what are your goals?) It's professional-sounding, although she is doing it when red from bug bites and leaning on the inside of her solid-air shield of support because of them, so it loses some of the effect.

She prepares an offensive spell, just in case, saying all but the last few words and unhooking something from her charm bracelet.

The sound barrier wails, as SOMETHING is coming down from the upper atmosphere, or more accurately, an upper-atmospheric cruise - a bright red streak across the heavens, coming closer, closer, closer--

"BUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

It's Nono. And she's got something really, really big in her hands, something she had to slip off back home to retrieve. In fact, her HANDS are pretty big right now, too, enormous in fact, sized for a fifty-meter giant robot due to the powers of the Buster Corps., and that's for one very simple reason:

Nono has brought Dix-Neuf's gigantic spiked baseball bat, and is aiming it at Jurassik's fool head.

"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!"

Nono gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with her Gigantic Super Robot Baseball Bat attack.

Look, up in the sky!

Really.

Any day now.

"Cripes." Superman, the Man of Steel, grumbles to himself as he FINALLY gets through the security checkpoint. "These Paragon City guys really take their ID checks seriously. At least they didn't make me try and "register"..."

ONE WEEK AGO,
Tony Stark, the Iron Man, Director of SHIELD, and leader of the registered heroes of one instance of the 616 plane, crossed his arms and attempted to look intimidating while sporting a Van Dyke. "I'm sorry, Superman, but for the IPA to act in this plane, we're going to need metahuman operatives to register with SHIELD."

The Man of Steel also crosses his arms. "And go through your boot camp?"

"The Initative is an optional training program...and more importantly, Clark, I can't guarantee that the Thunderbolts won't take an excuse to go after one of your kids." The Iron Man pauses for a moment, as if the weight of his actions was suddenly made into a physical burden.

"Iron Man, I'm going to be frank with you." The Chief of Banana Division says, leaning his elbows on SHIELD's fancy hologaphic table. "The first thing I did when I got here was hang out in the open." Superman then gestures his thumb behind him, showing a large rubber-band style ball consisting of, apon closer inspection, unconscious supervillains turned government agents.

"...oh."

THE PRESENT,

"Good times." Clark sighs, holding his arms akimbo and savoring the memory. Tony wasn't a /bad/ guy, he just caught a case of Batmanitis, as Superman liked to call it when Bruce wasn't listening. Oh, hey, he can finally move...and okay. The giant rock monster was pretty standard, except for the car tomahawk. That was neat. Bees? Clark raises an eyebrow at this, but figures that even if they're evil space bees that live in the sun, well, he's better at using solar energy than any punk wearing their skeleton on the outside. And that...

...oh, wait, that's not a hill, it's moving. Like jello. It's a giant amoeba. "...yikes." Superman mutters, looking shellshocked for a moment. But just one; Clark cracks his knuckles and floats into the air, coming up upon the belabored IPA troops. "Sorry I'm late, guys!" Superman shouts down, "This 'mapserver' thing kept screwing up the security checkpoint computer." The Man of Steel then turns his attention to the Hamidon. Well, time to do his part. The Man of Steel crosses his arms, squints his eyes...

"Hey! Giant primordial nerd!" And spams the taunt button. "I just had a can of soda, and I put it in the normal trash! When a recycling bin was right next to it! It would've actually been less work to throw it in the recycling bin, too, it was closer to where I was standing! I just /hate nature/."

Jade Leaf yelps as he gets stung /again/. The acid hurts, kinda, but in this form he's made of sterner stuff, and it scars his scaled flesh, but doesn't do a whole lot else. For it's trouble, however, the antibody is immediately targeted for counter-devouring: the tyrannosaurus snaps its head around and then brings its jaws together around the mitochondria. *SQUISH* Will anyone else attempt to fill his shoes?

Jade Leaf hits Hamidon with his Tired, But Full of Transformers References attack.

Kim Attaway keeps hitting the button to zoom further out on the camera, but he can't get the whole blob into the frame at once. "They are never going to believe this is a documentary," he mutters, and scrambles backwards through the rubble. After a frustrated moment of just not getting it all in, he tucks the camera under his arm and goes looking for some place a bit higher to stand. Scope of the battlefield, big panaroma Lord of the Rings style shot, that's what this video needs. From on top of the wall, maybe.

The buzzing of the insect swarm drowns out whatever Kim says in response to Thraskar. This, perhaps, spares him from further tongue-lashing.
More likely, though, is the fact that the Lieutenant is hitting the dirt, rolling around to squash the bugs that are still attached, and discourage new ones from attaching. When he stands, he is covered in bug guts.
Thraskar spreads his wings, only to find that they feel... heavy. Unwieldy. Damned bugs. The sesheyan swears once more, reaches for yet another one of those strange discus-like grenades, this one painted light blue. He primes it, and throws it at the gelatinous mass--hopefully far away from the T-rex.

Thraskar Davidson hits Hamidon with his Pulse Grenade attack.

Signum's defenses have always relied more on her speed than anything else; she carries no shield and she is not -particularly- sturdy. Her method of defense rests upon slicing up things before they can do the same to her. When one is talking about -gigantic monsters-... it doesn't work so well. She is swept off her feet and thrown into another pile of debris... somewhat annoying but what can one do? Her clothing is -really mussed- now.

Although the others are all within the monster, this big thing can't be left alone... Stand tall, and shake the heavens! Once again she gathers power in her bow, expending the last of her cartridges.

"Laevatein! STURM FALKE!" The energy builds, forming a gigantic purple-white projectile that then is then released... but then breaks apart, swarming into many projectiles to assault the gigantic stone monster! Who says you can't teach an old knight new tricks?

Signum misses Hamidon with her Axel Shooter mo--waitaminnit... combo.

Of course, being bogged down by bugs doesn't particularly bother the young Spider-Man. And neither does weird flashbacks to universes he doesn't exist in! And let's face it. They don't need to make morally ambiguous miniseries to make everyone a massive dick. So with a quick backflip, he leaps away from the giant hammer as his flies harmlessly under him. And then he sees... the TRUE threat. And almost without thinking, he joins the crowd, shooting two lines of webbing to the floor, pulling himself back, and then using the momentum to -slingshot- himself towards the beast with a thunderous kick!! ... Lets just hope that its not one of those amoebas that consumes what it touches. That would be bad.

Peter Parker gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with his LACK OF FORESIGHT, GO!!! attack.

Obviously Jurassik is not the only one who has a might hammer of DOOM. It brings the hammer back around with a great deal of fury as it attempts to absolutely pulverize Spider-man and Signum but their lives are saved when

Like an angry banshee, Nono appears with her angry spiked bat. The bat makes a solid "THWACK" as it connects with Jurassik's very large head. The force of Nono's attack is what fells the giant creature as Signum's attacks breeze harmlessly over its chest. The giant rock beast crashes with quite a bit of fanfare, rattling the ground. It's almost as if an earthquake broke out. Of course, those inside Hamidon are protected from the worst of the shocks due to the impact absorbing nature of Hamidon's protoplasm.

The stone giant groans and makes slight motions in attempts to stand before shuddering to a final stillness. Congratulations! You have destroyed the gumbies!

You know, it isn't often that someone tries to talk to Hamidon. Usually they just try to kill him, or foil his plans, or steal his ex-girlfriend before he can mutate her into a horrible monstrosity. But talking? Not often.
Hamidon doesn't speak out loud, but some more of the insects come back down to swarm around Nita. Instead of stinging, they seem to emit some strange telepathic communication toward her.
And then the bugs buzz around Nita's ears just to be -really- annoying.
Maybe that's why people don't usually try talking to him.
Those mitochondria don't seem to last too long, but there are a bunch of them. The one Jade bites probably doesn't taste very good as it explodes in his mouth. One of the blue ones moves down to face the dinosaur this time. Instead of trying to digest him, it fires an electrolytic shock toward him, conducted by the jello.
Then Superman appears, and draws some attention. This might not be a good thing. Invulnerable or no, the chemicals those yellow mitochondria shoot out will hurt if they hit!

You hit Superman with your Untyped damage, baby! attack.
You miss Jade Leaf with your Zzzzzzap! stun.

Thraskar is about to congratulate Nono via radio when the shockwave from Jurassik's destruction rattles the ground. The sesheyan is cought off-guard by the sudden earthquake, and suddenly pitches forwards as the ground beneath him jumps.
"GAH!" is all he manages to get out, before he plummets towards the center of the crater... and Hamidon.
*BLORP*
This, more or less, is the sound of Thraskar sinking through the membrane and doing a slow-motion plunge through the gelatinous mass beneath. His first instinct is to hold his breath, so as to avoid drowning. His second instinct is to reach for his knife again, so he can destroy those globules before they destroy /him/. It's slow going, slashing at things in Jell-O, but Thraskar tries.

Thraskar Davidson gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with his Lysosomes? More like /Lol/ozomes, amirite? jab.

You might not be expecting a tyrannosaurus to dodge anything, especially weighed down by a magical poison and being surrounded by cytoplasm. But dodge he does, whipping about with so much force that when his tail goes flying towards the blue mitochondria that nearly hit him, it might very well strike with enough force to eject the poor organelle from Hamidon entirely. Anything else that happens to get too close will face a similar fate, since his tail is whipping about in an arc.

.oO(This form is strangely satisfying. Best sacred hunt I ever went on.)Oo.

Jade Leaf gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with his What Did The Five Fingers Say To The Face? attack.

Well, it's not the best thing he's ever felt. "Argh!" Superman grunts, his flight path sagging under the weight of the acidic /goo/, his skin burning with strange, painful irritation. Man, it's like every part of your body getting a charlie horse all at once! "Nrrgh..."

The Man of Steel wipes his face off, spitting a hunk of the goo to the ground. "That all you've got?" And then Superman...smirks. "No wonder you had to mutate yourself a girlfriend."

Yes, Supes is being the Tanker tonight, ladies and gentlemen. The Man of Steel twists to the side, giving Nono a quick thumbs up for baseball batting Jurassik into submission, and going, "Hey Spider-Man!" because it's nice seeing that guy again! And then he fires his horrible laser heat vision out of his eyes, attempting to run a long streak of burning pain along the Hamidon's outer jelly...thing. Man. Wish Bruce was here, he'd probably know six different names for the giant cell.

Superman misses Hamidon with his Eye Lasers Are Awesome jab.

The nuances of rock climbing weren't in the prep course for this job. Something of a flaw in the course, in retrospect. Kim's been forced to create his own handholds in the wall to get up the side of it properly, but after some annoying climbing with the camera slung over his shoulder and recording he doesn't know /what/ back there, he's finally made it to the top of the wall so that he can record dramatic panorama shots. It's still not quite enough height to get the entire scene in, but neither is this New Zealand when it comes to scenery, so the editors back home will just have to cut him some slack when the video gets sent in. He takes a seat on the edge of the wall, camcorder to his eye again.

Nita Callahan won't talk to him again then, eesh.

She waves her hand around to try to clear the bugs, grumbles something to herself, and then glances back at Nono. She saw the bat, it was awesome, and is standing inside her sphere and is as such mildly resistant to earthquakes. She rolls rather than falls.

"Hey, Nono!" she calls, once she's back on her feet. Nita holds the charm overhead, and air starts to pull in toward her upraised hand, whooshing in and compressing against her fist in a vaguely shimmery sphere. It would very shortly be too heavy for her to hold, except she's making the air do that, too.

When Nita is holding the only barely visible ball, about seven feet across, she swings it forward and down; the object detaches from her hand and arcs toward Nono, dense enough to be quite heavy even for its size. "SWING!"

Nono grins like a damn fool, but doesn't separate her ENORMOUS HANDS from her ENORMOUS BAT just yet, instead leaning it against her shoulder like a champion slugger, and declaring, "Outta the park!" with a loud laugh. It's not often she gets to clobber a giant rock monster with Onee-sama's Buster Bat!

And then she realizes the presence of the giant amoeba. She blinks, a little, because holy damn that thing is huge, how did she miss that.

Answer: Busy hitting giant rock monster.

She unlimbers her bat, and gets ready to go clobbering enormous organelles - a rather surprisingly natural task for her; they say the Variable Gravity Wells she was created to destroy are the 'white blood cells of the Galaxy', after all - when Nina makes her shout, and Nono snaps to look at her. And then grins like a damn fool, pulls her SUPER ROBOT BAT back and -

Nono misses Hamidon with her SUH-WING BATTAH BATTAH super.

... Signum reloads Laevatein almost reluctantly; these are the last three cartridges she has on her. She'd better make them count; after this it's back to the sword and Hamidon is just too large for that. Signum makes her way closer to Hamidon, not that it's a hard target... and aims for the nucleus.

"Alright, Laevatein... this is it, our last shot..." In response, Laevataein fires off the three cartridges, and once again that gigantic missile of energy forms on the bow.

"Are you ready...? Then... STURM FALKE!"

=EXPLODE!= exclaims Laevatein.. and then Signum releases the attack, a blazing beam of energy flaring and shot to strike Hamidon right through the nucleus. After this... well, we'll see.

Signum hits Hamidon with her Sturm Falke... for real! super.

When that breath runs out, Thraskar will at least be alive. Weird and gooey as it is, the cytoplasm is still breathable. Those aren't lysosomes, though! That's a Mitochondria he just cut, and it spurts yellow goo all over him. It isn't pleasant yellow goo, though.
The blue electrolyte pops as Jade's tail smashes into it, but a yellow soon comes to take its place, sending another stream of burning chemicals toward the dinosaur.
The heat vision burns a scar across the membrane of the Hamidon, but a green mitochondrion quickly floats over and starts to glow, sealing the wound. A blue one follows soon after and discharges an electrical pulse at Superman, trying to drop him down into the gel.
That attack might have been really impressive... if it had hit. A half dozen various mitochondria swarm to one side of Hamidon, firing blasts of acid and electricity to deflect the incoming ball of air. Hamidon might be a fanatical anti-human giant blob, but he's still a genius scientist! Can't trick him that easily! Well, okay, you can. He's a supervillain mad scientist. But it didn't work this time.
The arrow flies true, piercing the cell membrane and flying toward the nucleus. Those mitochondria are pretty protective, though. Several of them move into the way of the arrow... but it keeps on moving. Bursts of yellow, blue, and green stain the cytoplasm, and the arrow even manages to reach the nucleus, though the giant cell seems to still be kicking.

You critically strike Thraskar Davidson with your Yellow goo of DOOM attack.
You hit Jade Leaf with your -I- made dinosaurs extinct attack.
You stun Superman with your Come in here and fight like an organelle! action.

Superman glub. Glub. Glub.

Superman us glub-glubbing because he is /trapped in gel/, having been blasted by the bioelectric pulse and frozen in place! He looks suprised, nervous, and most of all...angry. Unfortunately, he can't do anything about it right now.

It's been ages since Thraskar sat through high-school biology; do you honestly expect him to remember the /proper teminology/ for different bits of goop?
And then again, Hamidon is a Rubber Science giant blob, and its mitochondria can do whatever the hell they want to do. Thraskar stares in horror, and tries to 'swim' backwards through the gel, away from the yellow goo. It is faster than he is, and as it touches his exposed skin, it /burns/. The sesheyan lets out a sickly half-scream, clenching his fists and tensing his wings; with a sudden, powerful stroke of the legs, he's out of the frying pan. Even though he feels like the acid took some skin with it.
And Davison realizes, dimly, that he's not getting out of here until that thing is /dead/. Through the haze of pain and goo, the alien draws his trump card, and prays it'll work in this mess. It's a pistol, of bulkier make than the sabot gun, with a larger than normal energy cell.
Thraskar aims the plasma pistol at a chunk of Hamidon near the nucleus, and fires. He fires again. And again. And again. It takes roughly five shots for the weapon's charge cells to deplete, assuming the goo doesn't clog it completely.

Thraskar Davidson hits Hamidon with his IT FEELS LIKE BURNING super.

Nita Callahan tried her best, it's someone else's turn now.

The airball took a lot out of Nita, to be honest; she looks tired now, although not any more injured than she was a few moments ago. She is also looking at Hamidon rather disgustedly. "Ugh," she says, "and these were good clothes too."

After that, she moves toward it, unsure if it is safe to enter - but everyone /else/ seems to be, and she needs to help them, if nothing else. Nita rather thoughtfully shoves her Manual in her backpack and pulls out what looks like a branch about eighteen inches long, peeled of bark and trimmed free of twigs, before marching in with the rest.

She doesn't even need to cast a spell. The rowan rod starts to glow bright silver as soon as it touches cytoplasm, burning with the power of moonlight and feeling like a small moving brand inside the unnatural organism.

Nita Callahan critically strikes Hamidon with her Rowan Rod attack.

Nono frowns when they counter her airball. OK, so that didn't work...honestly, she doesn't really want to risk Onee-Sama's bat against a monster like this (Dix-Neuf would be pissed if she broke his favorite weapon, too...) so Nono wheels back and THROWS the weapon - where it disappears, as if through magic, or perhaps more accurately quantization by a psychic powerful enough to turn paltry concepts like physics on their fool heads. Nono then turns toward the cytoplasm, rolls her shoulders - and dives in, massive super robot hands now turned toward PUNCHING ORGANELLES.

"BUSTAAAAAAAAA PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH" Nono yells, in the goo - and yes, she can yell in the goo, just like she can yell in space. Don't question it.

Nono hits Hamidon with her Let's Try This MY Way attack.

Kim Attaway tries to zoom in on assorted heroes slogging around inside the goo. Why couldn't everyone fight a more transparent monster? Or one that explodes more often. A transparent, exploding monster. Now that would make for good television.

Signum can at least rest a bit easier knowing she did some damage to the giant monster. But where to begin? This is... outside of her abilities. She isn't afraid to admit it. She's been heavily damaged and it's more than likely she'd need at least one of the Aces, if not two or more, to actually take this thing down... so she'd call them for reinforcements if she could. But pride won't let her, and there are people still fighting. She can't fly, but she can run, and so she makes her way towards the big thing... slashing her way inside, if she can.

Signum switches armor modes to Laevetain.

As Superman falls into the cytoplasm, some of the mitochondria begin to gather around him. Hey, he taunted. He'll have to deal with it! Some of the yellows latch on and begin trying to digest him. And his cape.
Both the plasma blasts and the magic rod burn through the cytoplasm, and the entire cell begins to shake. Seems all this is really starting to hurt him! One of the yellows breaks away from Superman and fires a stream of chemicals toward Thraskar as well.
A blue advances toward Nita, trying to engulf that rod (and her arm). It can't take the burning for long, and soon pops, but it's hoping to stop the young wizard before it goes.
Hey, anyone can yell in here. Don't ask how it works. This is comic book science. However, Nono's charge does take out the last of the green ones. That, of course, leaves nothing between her and the nucleus, which fires a blast directly at the robot.
There also seem to be a lot fewer of those brightly-colored mitochondria than there used to be. In fact, most of the guards around the nucleus are gone now. Better take advantage of it!

You critically strike Superman with your NOM NOM NOM attack.
Superman is no longer stunned.
You miss Thraskar Davidson with your Slightly less tasty alien attack.
You miss Nita Callahan with your We hates it, precious! attack.
You miss Nono with your It burns like hygiene! attack.

Ugh, Superman thinks, what the heck /is/ that?!

And long experience replies, well, Clark, it looks like the thing is trying to digest you. Superman's costume and skin start to...strain, for lack of a better word, his cape being quickly consumed. This may, ultimately, be something the Hamidon regrets-even though his words are garbled, the monster can probably hear Clark shouting within its body, 'MY MOM MADE ME THAT CAPE!' while his eyes glow blood red and his arms pump inward...

...and Superman strains, focusing his titanic strength and shaking with effort; the Man of Steel is attempting to /shove/ the section of the Hamidon he's trapped in apart! Sort of like when you put a jello mold in the microwave and part of it explodes, only with more titanic solar-powered strength.

Superman misses Hamidon with his Superman Wuvs His Mommy super.

Nita Callahan is holding her breath despite the fact that she does not actually need to, just to be safe; the last thing she wants to do is start spitting up cytoplasm once she gets out of here. She's already sort of worried, in the back of her head, that it is going to ruin her clothes, even though clothes are usually a third, fourth, or maybe even fifth priority for her.

She is still forcing her way through the cytoplasm, toward Thraskar by preference; he is near the nucleus, however, so it is actually the right way to go. Nita actually sprints for a couple steps and throws the wand overhand like a javelin; it doesn't look like it should be propelled quickly, but she used a bit of magic to do it.

The rod rockets toward the nucleus and, triggered by a sharply said word, explodes in a blast of white-silver moonlight as it gets close. It was almost out of power anyway; Nita considers it a worthwhile sacrifice.

Nita Callahan hits Hamidon with her Silver Nova super.

Thraskar grins like a shark at Hamidon's reaction to the plasma bursts. But he's not going to be smiling for long if that acid (enzyme? peroxide derivative?) catches up with him. The alien is starting to get the hang of this 'swimming in thick gel' thing, and with another flutter-kick or two, he's out of the path of the chemicals.
And while this is going on, Thraskar exchanges the drained plasma pistol for the sabot gun--he sees that opening near the core, and he fires the rest of the clip in its direction. The slugs leave little spiralling trails as they travel through the gel, but Hamidon's mass is barely slowing them down.
And then Nita hits the flashbulb. Thraskar saw that through his glasses; he swears, loudly, and closes his eyes tightly. Being photosensitive sucks, sometimes.
And well, at least it wasn't another emergency flare.

Thraskar Davidson hits Hamidon with his Destroy the Overworked Gradius Reference! attack.

Nono continues onward - having giant robot hands on your teeny tiny robot body has its advantages. Her massive hands eat the blows easily, weakening, shrinking, but still easily four times bigger than the girl herself is. "You can't defeat me like that!" Nono bellows, hoping the monst before her hears. "A true Nonoriri never gives up! Nonoriri will keep fighting, no matter the odds, no matter how deadly the enemy --"

She rears back and SMASHES her mammoth fists toward the exposed nucleus, hard enough to shatter the alien material from sheer power. "--UNTIL THE VERY END!!"

Nono hits Hamidon with her Justice Rant attack.

Silly Man of Steel, the Hamidon cares not for mothers! Because his never cared much. Sniff. The poor hideous monstrosity. With no green mitochondria left to heal it, Hamidon must shift his cytoplasm around as Superman tries to explode part of himself. The goo quickly compresses back, trying to crush Superman in place.
The rod rockets through the cytoplasm and strikes its target. The Hamidon's nucleus shakes at the magical impact, sending slight shockwaves through the gel. Seems he didn't like that at all! For a moment, the purple nucleus glows dark, then fires a bolt of energy toward Nita. Strangely enough, even though it's chemical, there are some magical properties in there. Maybe because it incorporated what's left of the rod she just sent flying.
The projectiles seem to hurt just as much as those energy blasts. From the outside, it seems as though Hamidon is getting just slightly smaller, too... Maybe some sort of defense mechanism. The blast targetting toward Nita turns once it sweeps by her, arcing around to zap toward Thraskar as well.
Nono manages to get through to the nucleus, and the organelle even moves from the impact. Hamidon doesn't seem to like that much, though. Purple lightning arcs over the nucleus, channeling itself toward the small robot.

You get a glancing blow on Superman with your Like a grape! attack.
You get a glancing blow on Nita Callahan with your Here's your stick back! attack.
You hit Thraskar Davidson with your Chain lightning? attack.
You get a glancing blow on Nono with your Point blank! attack.

Right. Exploding giant monsters doesn't work. Clark should know this by know. "Arrrggh..." Superman groans, as he feels his very bones creak under the massive pressure of the Hamidon! What is he supposed to do now, stuck inside the thing?!

...he could always go deeper.

Struggling, Superman groans with effort, pulling his fist back and hammering a blow forward! He uses the inertia from the swing to power his next swing, continuing to swing away at the monsterous amoeba until he manages to get to...or through...the core, or the darn thing stops him! Stupid physics, ruining Clark's plans.

Superman juggles Hamidon with his Fisto Socko Bam combo.
Superman juggles Hamidon with his Fisto Socko Bam combo.
Superman juggles Hamidon with his Fisto Socko Bam combo.
Hamidon breaks Superman's combo.

Kim Attaway leans forward from his seat on the wall, trying to pick out the action going on inside the blob. He could probably get a better picture if he got closer, but even for Kim, there's only so far you can expect a guy to go for the good footage.

It works when NITA explodes things.

The bolt of energy, not being solid, pierces what's left of Nita's shield with little resistance, causing Nita to bite her tongue instead of saying something she'll regret later (or now, if something particularly unpleasant happens when she does it). She instead focuses the pain and anger in reinforcing her shield, and this time setting it to block energy as well.

Shield done, Nita focuses on Thraskar. She can't heal him - he's too far away, and she doesn't know enough about his physiology to do it without the Manual anyway - but she can defend him, since it looks like he's getting hit quite hard. Unfortunately, she can't think of much to do other than simply help defeat Hamidon more quickly.

She speaks, quietly, into the gel around her, in the Speech, explaining what needs to be done. She can't affect the gel itself with this, but she can affect the air caught in her shield, and it slowly starts to heat up, just 'warm' at first but shading into 'hot' and 'boiling' after about twenty seconds. Nita is sweating inside, too - she can't keep /all/ the heat away.

Nita Callahan misses Hamidon with her BOIL, DAMMIT attack.

The lightning blast smashes home, frying Nono. Her Physical Reactor absorbs some fo the damage but not much, not enough, and the power seeps past and blasts her internals. She scowls -- and then gone, up, flying away, higher, soaring away from the entire assemblage as if to retreat.

But everyone knows Nono would never do that.

A comet of bright red streaks away toward the heavens, like an angel, ascending to heaven, returning to its home --

--to space. It stops, abruptly, and Buster Machine Seven, in all of her radiant glory, slows to a halt far up within the void, gazing down upon the Third Planet with an angry face.

She takes two deep breaths, and then focuses her attention, drawing on her energies, focusing on what she has seen. Nature, perverted against mankind itself. That beautiful blue planet, Lal'C's home, the precious haven of humanity--

Nono hisses something. "Monster," she whispers. "Enemy," she says, and then she is moving.

The comet is returning - burning a brighter red now, due to the heat and friction of reentry searing an impermeable energy field. Sound can be heard, barely audible because of the immeasurable distance, but something...

"....gaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

It is coming faster, closer, speeding up by the second. Already it has passed terminal velocity. Already, lightning, energy generated from within, flashing around the comet like a deadly sheathe of power, is visible. Already, sound is clearer.

"......InazumaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA........."

Another blast of light, as the Buster Missile silos extend from Nono's legs and ignite upward, channeling their power into accelerating their mistress faster, faster, faster than sound, and if Nono didn't regulate the power so carefully, maybe even faster than light. The sound barrier wails like a beaten child, but over the din, as the comet comes zeroing in right on Hamidon, on the nucleus, leg extended, death in her eyes, a single, mighty cry can be heard.

"......KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!"

Nono stuns Hamidon with her UNEXPECTED ATTACKS ARE MY SPECIALTY action.
Nono critically strikes Hamidon with her This Is Super Robot For I Don't Like You attack.
You are no longer stunned.

Lightning is trickier to dodge than dispersing chemicals. Thraskar is a large target, and carrying metal objects--the energy arcs towards him, and plays across his body, doing painful things to the acid-burned skin.
Bright blue fluid--blood--is slowly flowing from the alien's wounds, and into Hamidon's mass. And because he can be highly morbid when he wants to be, he wonders if the Concord will refer to this as 'falling in the line of duty while defending another plane from alien terrors'.
But he's still alive when the lightning surge is over with. Thraskar rights himself, grits his teeth, and draws the molecule knife. He carefully flips the blade, gripping it between two fingers as he judges the distance between him and the core. With one smooth motion, he throws the blade right at Hamidon's core, hoping the momentum will keep it going long enough to get there.
And then Nono one-ups him times infinity. For once, Thraskar can actually appreciate this.

Thraskar Davidson hits Hamidon with his Monoknife to the Core! attack.

Wham! Kapow! As Superman slugs his way deeper into the cell, it shudders with every blow. Eventually, he gets to the nucleus, which shakes from the impact.
The blade from Thraskar strikes home as well. As to aliens... depends on your definition. Hamidon used to be human, so he's definitely from earth. Maybe he could spin it that way!
Nobody has dropkicked Hamidon from -orbit- before. Heck, most of the heroes here in Paragon can't make it to space on their own. When Nono makes her impact, the entire amoeba wobbles violently, and the nucleus is slammed down to the bottom of the cell.
And then... it begins to glow.
Suddenly, dozens of the yellow Mitochondria Antibodies begin forming throughout the cytoplasm. All of them charge up at once, filling the interior of the Hamidon with digestive chemicals which begin to attack the intruders on the molecular level. This is what so many heroes fear. The dreaded Yellow Dawn. Best take out that nucleus before it's too late.

You get a glancing blow on Superman with your Last time it was just the cape! attack.
You hit Nita Callahan with your Death and Taxes! attack.
You hit Thraskar Davidson with your Tasty alienflesh! attack.
You hit Nono with your Tasty robot! attack.

Nono is just lying there in her rather sizeable crater, getting digested.

Dizzily, she supplies, "Impact explosions really hurt..."

Nita Callahan is very, very glad for her shield right about now. She doesn't have to feel being digested!

Instead, she has to watch as her shield erodes almost as fast as she can reinforce it; powering that thing is an /effort/, especially given how much magic she's already used. Next time, she thinks, she's going to need to put more on her charm bracelet and bind more spells ahead of time, because this is ridiculous.

Rather than attack directly, she does her best to neutralize the chemicals, reciting long strings of chemical description in the Speech and requesting that they change themselves just slightly to something less likely to actively digest people. It will still be disgusting, but at least it should be less hazardous.

Nita Callahan hits Hamidon with her Surprise Chemical Alteration jab.

"Aw, snap." Is about all Superman gets out before YELLOW DAWN ARRRRGH! The glowing, yellow mitocondreas tear into the Man of Steel, much of his costume disintigrating as well as a few layers of skin...which sounds petty until you think about what it's like to have layers of your skin eaten.

In other news, why Superman wears the bike shorts/underwear on the outside is made fairly clear. When you're fighting something that can destroy your costume, you want your modesty protected!

Groaning, the Man of Steel forces himself forward...fortunately, the Yellow Dawn passes him fairly quickly, and Superman shoves his way back towards the nucleus. He has an idea. Shoving a hunk of the beast apart, Superman takes a quick breath, and blows a torrent of freezing Super Breath down at the Hamidon's core!

Superman misses Hamidon with his Cells Hate Freezing To Death attack.

It's all Davidson can do to hang on as Hamidon's cytoplasm is punched, kicked, and so forth. The pilot is half-expecting the barrage to do it in, but what's this? Oh God, not /again/.
The Lieutenant would very much like to take this punishment like a man; perhaps he could wince, swear, and maybe even laugh once he's shaken it off. In reality, he screams in agony, curls up into a fetal position, and tries to remain conscious as every square inch of skin burns.
Thraskar just kind of hangs there, in the gel, for a good minute. Did the monster kill him?
Nah, he's only feigning. For all of two minutes, before the alien starts frantically clawing his way toards Hamidon's cell membrane.

"Now that was good," Kim says, standing precariously at the edge of the wall. He swings the camera over the sky a few more times, but it looks like the massive meteor strike attack isn't about to get a repeat. Still, with a little editing for dramatic pacing, this should into at least the first hundred-block of channels. Assuming all the people inside Mr. Blob take it down before it comes to eat him. Because it's a lot harder to film effectively when fleeing for your life.

It is indeed hard to film things while running for your life. Fortunately, Hamidon doesn't seem to be exceptionally mobile right now. Superman's breath manages to freeze several of the new Mitochondria solid, but it doesn't quite get to the nucleus. Nita manages to do some damage as well, but the giant cell isn't quite finished yet.
The mitochondria begin to swarm, expending all they can of their digestive chemicals. This may be Hamidon's last chance to save itself! From afar, at least, it looks like quite the fireworks show as the organelles begin to focus their fire rather than just spreading their acids through the cytoplasm.

You miss Superman with your Last-ditch effort for survival super.
You miss Nono with your I still see you! super.
You hit Nita Callahan with your The shields, they can't take much more! super.
You miss Thraskar Davidson with your Don't run, you'll only die tired super.

Nono's force barrier rises, repulsing the acids as the Oldest, Smallest, and Most Powerful of all Buster Machines slowly rises up, shooting a lethal glare up her crater at the Hamidon. She wasted almost all her energy on that attack. There's almost nothing left. Nothing, except...

Quaking, she raises her arms up, levels her index fingers at Hamidon, and hisses, "Buster--"

Energy forms on the end of her fingers, burning bright pinpoints of radiance, hotter than the surface of the sun.

"--BEAM!!"

Pencil-thin rays of light lance out, aimed to pierce the Nucleus, and Nono hopes, end this battle here and now.

Nono gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with her Climactic Desperation Final Attack attack.

Superman snarls. Stupid, stupid mitochondria...wait a second! The Man of Steel takes juuuust a moment to grin at the unblinking nucleus of the Hamidon...

...before pulling his head back and SLAMMING into the frozen Mitocondrea, hopefuly jamming the ice into the nuclus itself! Or at least making a mess.

Superman gets a glancing blow on Hamidon with his Headbanger attack.
You have been knocked out!

Oh shit.
Thraskar's flailing becomes that much more panicked as Hamidon unleashes yet /another/ rain of chemical death. Fortunately, Nita's neutralization spell manages to buy him the time he needs to get the hell out of Dodge--there's another one of those sickening *BLORP* noises as the amoeba's membrane ruptures, spilling a bloodied, goo-soaked sesheyan onto the ground nearby.
The Lieutenant slowly climbs to his feet, and starts staggering away from the blob. This is when he bows out, and lets the people who get /paid/ to kill giant monsters do their thing.

Nita Callahan, somewhere in the yellow cloud, screams.

It would be louder if her shield wasn't holding most of it in. She didn't have time to finish working her neutralization spell before they decided to focus, either; it may have helped others, but certainly did not help her.

When the clould clears, Nita is gone; she has teleported a few hundred feet away, behind a rock, and is currently trying to scrape Hamidon ooze and acid off with a flat plane of energy.

The deadly acids are mostly neutralized. Well, for everyone except poor Nita.
Superman slams the shards of frozen mitochondria toward the nucleus just as Nono lets loose with her final beam, the added impact jamming the sharp bits into the nucleus.
And with that last blow, Hamidon begins to shudder. The nucleus just... pops. And so does the rest of the cell. There's no fire or heat, but the entire cell just explodes outward, showering the entire Hive with Hamidon slime. It might take more than a trip to the laundromat to get this stuff off...
But Hamidon is defeated. Nevermind that some of the slime seems to seep down into the ground rather quickly. Ah well, nothing to worry about. The day is saved!
Don't worry about all those acid burns. Paragon City has a wonderful hospital service.

Nono takes two deep breaths, and then whispers, "We...did it..."

She collapses, sprawled out in the center of her truly impressive impact crater.

She's going to need a bath. Maybe she'll get Lal'C to do it.

The spatter radius is impressive. Kim quickly discovers that he can't clean a slimed camera lens with an equally slimed shirt. He frowns at the equipment, and then shrugs, pulls out the default backup legal pad and pen. From there it's just a quick scramble (well, 'slide' is more like it) down the wall, and he heads off to see if he can pin down anyone for an interview before all the heroes disappear again.

Thraskar gets all of twenty feet away from Hamidon before he suddenly doubles over, and sinks to his knees. He crosses both arms across his gut, and starts coughing up amoeba-goo in a most undignified manner.
At least now he has some idea of how the Evas' fluid-filled cockpit nonsense works, unpleasant as it is.
And then Hamidon /explodes/, showering him with even /more/ crap. Thraskar just... slumps over, resigned to the fact that he's going to be spending the next few weeks in skinfilm. Again.

THUMP.

That is the sound of a Superman finally landing after being at the epicenter of an explosion of twisted, nerd-turned-goo. Clark looks at himself, dripping, and idly hopes that the Hamidon doesn't turn him into some kind of giant Kryptonian mutant or stain what's left of his uniform, or something.

"Ow." Superman finally says, because that was hard, yo.

Nita Callahan only wishes, right now, that she had an umbrella.

The energy plane vanishes as Nita takes shelter from raining Hamidon pieces, half-under the rock she was behind; thank goodness for blast patterns that don't go /through/ rocks.

She pops back up a moment later, bright red now from acid and those old bug bites, and starts to work her way out for first aid duty; she doesn't have enough magic left in her to heal anything, but her backpack has a more or less complete first aid kit in it.

PS: If anyone has the post I made after this, let me know. I forgot to get it in the log.

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