Distorted Spiral: The Whirlpool Design, pt. 3
WHO: Master Asia, Simon, Nia, Aya Kobayashi, Nono, Duo Maxwell, Kazuma Torisuma, Superman, Shin Matsunaga, Isa Reichert, Viral, and a special guest star. A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS: KAMINA!
WHAT: The Undefeated of the East presents Simon with an ultimatum: give him Nia, or he'll kill everyone in Kamina City. His objectives behind the threat are even worse than everyone thinks, to the point that even the Divine Crusaders cut him off.
WHERE: Kamina City, the Spiral Planet
WHEN: December 21, 2007
WATCH FOR: Schrödinger waveforms, epic clone wars, the Superman-Batman combination mech, Viral landing four crits in a row, Shining Drills, giant spaceship drills, a whole lot of drills going everywhere exploding everything, and Nono Getting Pissed. Whew!
P.S. "Kamon" is a Japanese word that can mean "a whirlpool design."
Getting to Kamon is easy, Simon, because Kamon is coming for YOU. That's right! "GOOD!" Kamon screams. "I'D HATE FOR THIS TO BE OVER /QUICKLY/! I WANT YOUR DESTRUCTION TO BE MEMORABLE!" With the way that the berserk rush is going, it's a matter of ease for Simon to put the spear into the sweet spot.
Careful, you might spawn a whole new doujin series, though.
With a howl, the Laser GASTON is launched into the air, every strike eating away at the drill. Shin comes in right after Simon drops, Shin continues to juggle, ratcheting up the combo meter as the missiles slam into him. Each one blasts another chunk of soul-forged steel from the frame, launching him ever higher. The Superman/Batman Combination Robot continues the Dream Cancel, plowing the Laser Gaston into the air... But with a whipping motion, a brilliant spiral shield manifests, blocking the massive impact and lofting him even farther into the air. "Bigger talk coming from the man who can only fight people in tights!" No, it doesn't really make sense. Kamon's distracted.
Distracted with what? The spiraling energy reaches the outer edge of the fins, and there is a brilliant explosion of light, a swirling tornado forming and blasting everything back around him. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The light begins to fade, the Laser GASTON... changing. The fins behind him have shattered into pieces, swirling around him inhelical patterns.Behind the GASTON, a massive spiral wheel spins, drawing green energy all about into itself. The traceries on the mecha fairly burn with harnessed power... And the Laser GASTON doesn't bother to fall. It floats, there, standing in the air like a shining lord of destruction, as it surveys the area around him... And focuses on Simon. "IT'S TOO LATE FOR YOU! TOO LATE FOR YOU /ALL/! I AM SUPERIOR! YOUR EVERY ATTACK JUST MAKES ME STRONGER, SIMON! YOU FAILED! YOU ALL FAILED! AND NOW... YOU WILL ALL DIE!" With shrieks of maniacal glee, the shards around him spin, beginning to burn with massive amounts of Spiral Energy, forming into innumerable drills. Each of them bolts downwards, striking out and shredding at his opposition, crushing through defenses and swarming to overwhelm each opponent in turn.
Kamon switches armor modes to Spiral Awakening.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Shin Matsunaga with his No One's Born Like GASTON attack.
Kamon hits Superman with his Eats More Corn Than GASTON attack.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Simon with his Reveals Yet More True Forms Than GASTON attack.
The blast is enough to send Kazuma flying backwards, and it takes him a moment to recover, skidding backwards through the air until he can finally manage to stop his flight. "Damnit!" he curses. It seems like these guys have something for every attack he can come up with! That leaves... well, he said it to the other Syndicate members. If all else fails, use more force.
And Kazuma is going to try and use a hell of a lot more force. He gives a deep throated, primal yell, holding both of his armored hands up above his head, the heavy plates on the back opening up and a vortex of golden light being drawn into them as he transforms the atmosphere into additional power.
The result is a blazing golden aura around the Alter User, and he looks down for a moment, both hands held up above his head. "God damn all of you! DAMNIT ASIA! This sort of thing..." And he swings both of his hands down, unleashing a massive, wide area shockwave upon the assimilated Zakus blow. "SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING ON MY WATCH!"
Kazuma Torisuma buffs his POW to +2.
Kazuma Torisuma misses Master Asia with his JUST CRUSH YOU THEN! attack.
The third member of the Geist Squadron seems to be the quietest, though Ancel has no difficulty in following their flight lead's orders expertly. He just has nothing much to say, only gritting his teeth when a Mobile Suit's rifle whizzes by the cockpit.
Neither does the weapon miss its mark, crunching into the tail of the Fulcrum, crumpling the edge of the rear elevator and the tail fin.
As for their fearless (and slightly mad) leader, Isa finds herself with her hands full, and her plane rather full with whatever they're using for bullet alloy. Many of the shells bounce off the plane's hull with a sharp and metallic 'ping,' but a good many of them bury themselves into it, pock-marking the plane's metallic skin.
For her part, all she can really do is cringe and clutch at the cockpit until the barrage is over.
Fortunately, there's one of the squadron members left. Liese turns her plane, skidding it through a sharp curve and turning it to face the cannon at the offending Mobile Suits.
The cannon's placement can sometimes prove difficult to aim -- centered right at the root of the port wing -- but she seems to handle it well enough. Not quite as accurately as Isa, who seems to show a marked favoritism of the gun, but accurate enough for a day's work.
Once free of the volley, Isa manages to right her plane, banking into a free-fall, only to come up and ascend quickly enough to turn and dive on her opponent. Liese attacks from another angle, and Ancel completes the trio's assault.
They come together in a roughly triangular shape, but at different altitudes; spiraling up and away as they go.
Isa Reichert hits Master Asia with her We Can Has Bullets <3 attack.
Nono simply...stays there. Watching. Silent.
He won't die from something like that. He isn't nearly that weak.
Kamon is going crazy over there - a mysterious power not even she's equipped to fight just now.
But she has something else, instead.
She takes one, deep breath as the Sekiha Tenkyoken streaks toward her....and then there's a loud sound, like the shutter of a camera opening, as the shells on the backs of Nono's hands and over her heart swing open, forming a pinpoint barrier. The beam smashes into it, then ricochets away, boiling out and away from Nono, forming a roiling sphere in the air. The sphere grows more and more massive, consuming the energy of the Sekiha Tenkyoken into an enormous charge that hangs in the air, and the charging only stops as Master Asia directs the energy blast away from Nono and toward Viral and his Enkiduran.
"You don't need to worry about me, Viral. Thank you, but..."
She closes her eyes again. She needs to focus, regulating the ludicrous amounts of energy as it streams into her body, filling up energy reserves up to and beyond their designed specifications, an infinite tank that has just received a significant charge.
She opens her eyes again, still busily and silently regulating the tremendous energies now flowing through her. "...I am fine."
Wraith: Isa Reichert doesn't say anything, but it sounds like her plane is getting /chewed up/ by gunfire. *Ping.*
"I won't LET YOU!!" Simon roars, as he flexes out the Gurren-Lagann's arms and legs. Drills erupt from joints all across it - wide and fat ones, long and thin ones, short drills, big drills, and every kind of them. They come tearing free, shooting up in an immense swarm towards the incoming laser drills - and meet them, exploding in brilliant bursts of green light. A few of the remaining ones get through, though, and lash into and partially through the Gurren-Lagann's red armor.
Simon grunts, as he looks up at the Laser GASTON in midair. Spiral energy is already burning around the Gurren-Lagann. Simon sees a potential idea; the way that his clone is absorbing the energy, feeding off it, and being affected by it... the answer may be to give him what he wants.
He swings out another drill lance - and this one forms with the same shudder of spiral power. The energy glows, like a nimbus. Simon aims it upward. "This drill of mine glows with an awesome power!" he roars. "It tells me to crush whatever stands in my way! TO PIERCE THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES!!" The green light around the drill lance explodes - bright energy rippling outward, and then trailing after as the Gurren-Lagann's wings glow blue and throw it up into the air. The machine begins to arch and spin, drill lance aimed at the chest of the Soulsteel Gundam.
"And I'll ANSWER ITS CRY!!" Simon roars, as he tries to ram the drill lance into the chest of the Soulsteel Gundam - and then twist, sharply, to the side. Energy explodes off it a moment later, a rush of Spiral Power that floods towards the Soulsteel Gundam and ideally into it. Enough power to, he hopes, completely overload his clone.
His face is darkened by the immense glow of the energy coming from his massive assault. "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINING DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL!!!"
Simon hits Kamon with his When in Rome... super.
"They're bike shorts!" Superman snaps, and then, well.
The Combination Superman-Batman Robot SLAMS into the ground, the Spiral attack having drilled a hole right in the center of the machine! Superman blinks, looking over to see if his friend is..."Bruce?"
Superman blinks. The red glow of his eyes is visible even when his eyes are closed.
There's a faint tugging sound at the ruined robot's "Superman" arm...and the whine of metal under pressure, as it SNAPS off, and the rapidly increasing sound of an enraged Kryptonian fills the air, as the Man of Steel takes his own robotic arm and scorches through the sky, swinging the Metallo-alloyed piece of robotics at the Laser GASTON's True Form until either the arm, or the giant robot breaks! Superman isn't picky on which. "...rrrgggGGGGRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Meanwhile, inside, Batman grunts, dragging his finger over to a button on his gauntlet. "Softie." Wayne mutters, whiping the blood from his temple and then laying back as his last resort goes off; the chest of the machine blinks, once, before shooting a red light into the air. It's shaped like a skull.
A skull with sunglasses. It's the Kamina Signal!
Superman juggles Kamon with his You Made Superman Yell combo.
Superman juggles Kamon with his You Made Superman Yell combo.
Kamon breaks Superman's combo.
Just when you think this can't get stranger. Just when you think it wasn't possible for more pairings to be formed by girls on the internet. There is a sudden, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" from a few frames that way.
Suddenly there is the Gurren Lagann...The other one and on top of it, holding a sword at his side is someone who kinda looks like Kamon. Maybe it's Simina?! The figure grins, his tattered cape blowing in the breeze as he adjusts the sword on his shoulder. Kamina has arrived and he looks like he's leveled up. "SIMON! YOU GOING TO LET THAT ASSHOLE CALL YOU OUT?! BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIVES IN YOU! It doesn't matter if he says he's me or you...which one is he?"
Kamina looks down at the Lagann with a confused expression. The younger Simon sighs and just says, "Both of you..."
"HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK?! I mean He's either me or him...Wait Is this another level of UNION?! Heh, this might be a challenge then. SIMON! LETS KICK THIS GUY'S ASS!" Kamina takes a leep off Lagann, landing in the Gurren's hand before being swallowed.
Kamina buffs Simon's POW to +1.
Superman says, "Hey Kamina. New cape?"
The White Wolf of Solomon is very much unfond of transforming mobile suits. The ReGelg's taken substantial damage already; with one shoulder plate it can't quite get out of the way of all the drills, a couple of them ripping through one of the mobile suit's legs and blowing out a few servos. Nevertheless Shin is able to swiftly pull the smouldering white mobile suit away from immediate danger, putting some distance between himself and the Gaston's new form.
He takes stock of the situation in the space of a second. He's up against a mobile suit that gains power whenever it's hit by a drill, changes its form when it gains enough power, and he's missing a shoulder full of verniers. On top of that, he's out of missiles.
Yet running doesn't occur to him.
Despite the dire straits, he's suddenly gripped by a deep calm, cold logic and even colder focus kicking in.
With a boost of thrusters the ReGelg jogs to one side, briefly exiting the immediate field of battle. This is mainly to allow it to intercept the pair of Zeonic Dopp fighters that've slipped out of the Kogane's ventral docking bay, laden with repair and restore kits. One of them, in fact, is carrying a fully intact white ReGelg shoulder pad.
It takes surprisingly little time for the pair of Dopps to lower the shoulder pad into place before they zip off. Shin himself has opened a panel over his head and done some quick rewiring and remodulating - repairs in the field, using Simon and Superman's heavy-hitting salvo to ensure that he's out of the line of fire.
Shin Matsunaga heals Shin Matsunaga with his My ISP is ass. action.
Kamina says, "Eh? Heh. Nope. Not wearing Gurren Uniforms yet."
Superman says, "Oh? My bad, sorry, I'm so angry I'm melting anything I directly look at, so."
Kamina says, "No prob, Uhhh Super guy?"
Kamina says, "Sorry. Not really sure what your name is...Strongman."
Superman says, "No, that's the guy in the luchador mask."
Nia says, "His name is actually Souperman."
Nia says that, somehow.
Shin Matsunaga says, "/Great,/ look who decided to show up."
Superman cough. "Superman. I like soup, though."
Viral tch...
Kamina says, "Supperman. Got it."
It's as Viral predicted--but the sheer force of the golden energy attack is too devastating to do much of anything about. "Tch!" he grunts, engaging his swords to block it, knowing that evasion would mean that buildings will be brought crumbling down on all of them...but Viral would have been much better off trying to evade considering how that attack smashes into his blades which scream with the stress. The sheer force of it sears into the white Gunmen, and smashes it into a nearby building that is thankfully empty, thanks to Aya and Nia's evacuation efforts.
The blades are still intact, but the mech itself has incurred heavy damage, its entire right side a total wreck. Viral himself felt the heat from within his cockpit, and the visuals on that side are blurry as well. He won't be able to take more attacks like that...but that can't be helped. As he assesses the damage swiftly, the beastman chances a glance over in the direction of the battle against Kamon, and scowls as he sees Kamina now showing up. Goddamn Kamina Signal. But for Simon to keep using Spiral Power when Kamon absorbs it...is that really a good idea?
Viral doesn't have to time to worry about someone else, though; perhaps Shin is right, and all they really *do* need to do is to hit it so hard it overloads, then Kamina's presence might well help.
If not, then they're probably all screwed.
"...Very well then! I'll draw his attacks--so don't you dare miss!" Viral barks to Nono, pausing briefly as he sees that not only is she unharmed, it seems she...absorbed what of Master Asia's attack came her way. He forces the badly damaged Enkiduran to its feet, and once again bares the twin blades. They've held up quite well...
With a mighty battle roar, the blond beastman unleashes a series of shuriken-like projectiles at the Master Gundam and charges in their wake. Once he's in range, Viral once again attempts a high-speed series of jabs--but the follow-up is different. Instead, the beastman slams the blades down on the ground, and when rock and gravel and shrapnel fly up, he deflects them off his blades at the Master Gundam. This is not so much to do any real damage as to distract Master Asia from his real purpose; if he thinks Viral missed, then he won't be seeing that twin cross-shaped chop he aims up and forwards.
And during all of this, Viral attempts to direct Master Asia into Nono's sights.
Viral juggles Master Asia with his Sounds echo underground nauseating; I'm here because you're here combo.
Master Asia breaks Viral's combo.
A few Gatling gun blasts aren't enough to keep the crazified Blues off of Duo's lawn. They're already upon his mobile suit, clawing their way through its shredded armor. "Its like I'm fighting zombie mobile suits," Duo opines.
"Which makes it a perfect time to test out Deathscythe's new shotgun."
Its definitely not a work of art from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fresh out of the wrapper and assembled from various pieces of tubing, wiring, and solid metals, it still looks much like the bits of assorted salvage that Duo and Howard had built it from. Still, its quite effective at bashing the heads of zombie Zakus with its solid metal stock without even falling to pieces. And Deathscythe looks awesome cool standing tall and aiming it with one hand straight for the back of the Master Gundam. "For being an embarassment to those of us who pilot a Gundam without any of this crazy Bruce Lee ####, I'm revoking your Gundam license, pal!"
Duo Maxwell gets a glancing blow on Master Asia with his Shop Smart, Shop Sweeper-Mart attack.
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Isa, I'd stay off the ground in a moment..."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...or away from."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...not close to. You know."
Kamina says, "Ok. Now will someone explain why there is some jerk pretending to be me and Simon at once?!"
Haruko Haruhara says, "Uh..."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Evil robot!"
Haruko Haruhara says, "Made by dinosaurs."
Viral says, "..."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Yes."
Kamina says, "Eh? DINOSAURS?!"
Viral deadpans, "What she said."
Kamina says, "Simon! We might need to fight harder!"
Isa Reichert grunts in acknowledgement, over the sound of a gun blazing.
Kamina |Simon sighs. "I think they are playing with us, brother."
Kamina says, "THE HELL?! We better not take chances though. There is no playing around when there are Dinosaurs."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Evil dinosaur robot! You should hurry."
Kamina says, "Tch. Who the hell do they think I am?!"
Duo Maxwell says, "Its an Evil Plot, Kamina. I'll explain later after I teach this guy the proper way to use a Gundam."
Kamina says, "Great Grins. I'll handle the guy who looks ridiculous!"
The Death Army is on its last legs. The Kogane, Geist Squadron and Kazuma have torn their opponents to shreds, and the Undefeated of the East takes in their vitals from the display inside his cockpit. <> he broadcasts as he struggles to maintain mental control of his Super Mode, to stoke the rage in his heart. <> The Death Army does just that, Zakus swooping in toward their opponents and reaching outward, grappling for their targets as self-destructs initiate (although Yellow Wing will have to settle for just getting close enough).
The Master Gundam whirls suddenly, ignoring Nono for the moment - she's absorbed his energy again, and Master Asia judges the best thing for him to do is get in close with her allies. The shotgun blast bites into the Master's remaining wing, and pink cloth flows from its hands as it turns to face the charging Viral. The GUndam's left arm comes up in a half block, shuriken biting into its armor plating, but twin slashes deflect Viral's crosscut, even as the Master Gundam leaps into the air, attempting to spring off the Enkiduran's head toward his next target.
The Undefeated of the East snarls as his Gundam reaches for the shotgun, trying to snatch it from the Deathscythe's hands as he blurs around behind Duo. "Guns," Master Asia snorts as he tries to shove the weapon up the Deathscythe's rear. "So uncivilized."
How many times can he pull the trigger?
Master Asia hits Viral with his Headstomp jab.
Master Asia misses Duo Maxwell with his Just Close Your Eyes And Think Of Heero combo.
Master Asia hits Isa Reichert with his Crack Suicide Squad super.
Master Asia hits Kazuma Torisuma with his Most Efficient Use Of Gumbies Ever super.
Superman says, "There are a lot of those guys."
Isa Reichert says, "We will disengage, soon. There are not many lef--" Her signal cuts into static.
The Kogane really does have a lot of anti-aircraft guns, but it's taken quite the pounding from the Death Army. The men manning the turrets begin to pump even more gunfire towards the incoming Zakus, while the E-field is widely bolstered by power from the impact cannons, leaving the ship's sub guns, rockets, and turrets to try and ward off the defenders.
Explosions still ensue. The ship's huge and well-defended, but it can't stop EVERY incoming Zaku. Somehow, it stays aloft - although closer to the ground than before.
Shin Matsunaga says, "Reichert, come in!"
Kamina says, "Tch! Who dresses this asshole?! He looks ridiculous in that cape!"
Master Asia sound sout of breath. "Should have...cloned a mute."
Viral mutters darkly, "That's what you get."
Kamina says, "What the hell does that mean?! Wait a second...It's that damn geezer from the DC!"
There's a thunderous, rolling bank of explosions as the Death Army begins to go up in a massive wave of detonations, and Kazuma is consumed in the massive detonation, vanishing from view as he's lifted upwards and thrown almost a mile away, ping ponged about like some poor pinball as explosion after explosion tosses him around. He finally comes to a stop, digging a large trench into the landscape, smoke rising from his gold armor body as he smolders in the ground.
ineffective, not working, damn it all! He doesn't know how a bunch of damned Zakus are able to resist all he had to throw at them, but it's really starting to piss Kazuma off! Which... helps, and it doesn't help. Sure it makes him even more angry, but at the same time, it makes him... well, not as likely to be able to effectively do any damage. But the one thing he does have is rage, and Kazuma just growls, the brilliant golden aura blazing up around him...
And he rockets right across the city, locating the brilliant shining form of the Master Gundam in its hyper mode. And Kazuma just goes faster, and faster, and he roars out as he bears down on Master Asia, "GOD DAMN YOU, YOU BASTAAAAAAAARD!"
One punch. He just needs one... good... punch.
Kazuma Torisuma buffs his POW to +3.
Kazuma Torisuma hits Master Asia with his Fist of an Angry God super.
As though on cue, all three Geist planes ascend to higher altitude, careful to stay away from the ground. They bank as one, turning to confront the Yellow Wing with a barrage of gunfire.
Yet this doesn't seem to be enough. Isa frowns, clutching her flight controls loosely as they shore up and rush the three fighters. Well, at least this makes for an easy target. She shakes her head, dismissively, and all three aircraft close in with blazing cannons.
The transmission ends, in a brief spate of static.
The distance closes, but before they can make any decent aim of the shots, the self-detonation triggers on the closest of the Mobile Suits. There isn't enough time to pull away -- all three jets head straight into the inferno. All this, in a heartbeat.
Brilliant blossoms of fire erupt from the middle of the furball, and only one jet arcs upward from the fray, scorched but still mostly intact. Geist Two or Three, by visual confirmation -- it doesn't have the Reaper's scythe that Isa's plane sports on its tail.
Liese is the first to call, spotting the broken fighter, voice anguished. There's no way either of them could have avoided the mess.
But she isn't stupid. She pulls up, jamming the afterburners to gain more altitude. Kazuma did warn them to stay away from the ground.
Out of control, the other two jets careen on a steady downward angle, trailing thick clouds of smoke.
...That landing's gonna hurt, innit?
Liese Lustig (that's Geist Two) sounds anguished. "Isa! Ancel...!"
"HOW CAN YOU STOP ME?" Kamon screams back, giggling. "THE POWER... IS INCREDIBLE! I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!" He's interrupted in his gloating mania when the Man of Steel monologue-cancels his ass with PURE HARDCORE. The arm bears down on the Laser GASTON, slamming into it over and over. The Spiral Ring behind the machine begins to wobble...
And then Simon plows into the Laser Gaston with the power of SHINING DRILL. The impact of the drill shears straigh through the absorbing, hardened steel, plowing a massive hole through the center of the machine and impacting the center of the ring behind. The Drill spins on, the Ring rotating ever faster and faster...
And then there is a crackling sound, much like someone putting a hardball through God's own windowpane at 90 mph. There is a corsucating explosion, driving everything around the Laser GASTON backwards. The Spiral Ring is stopped, the Gaston hanging limply off of it as if attatched to a single point in space. Kamon is visible, sitting within the hole of the machine, blood staining his body, his face, his eyes. His face is downcast, silent...
"Simoooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnn..." He hisses, his whispey voice radiating outwards. "Kamiiiiiiiiiinaaaaaaaa..." He slowly looks upwards, staring directly at the ghostly shade of Kamina with wild, unhinged eyes... And then he laughs, the unhinged, uncontrolled bellow of the truly insane. "IT BURNS!" He screams, arching backwards, hands clawing in abject pain, the swirls on his bracers flaring green-white. The skin around them is smoking. The air around him contorts, swirling and spiraling about him in vague distortions. "IT BURNS! MASTER!
Space around the machine twists, and with an eruption, a massive twisted spire of black helixes directly down, plunging deep into the ground. Another manifests, striking out above. A third, to the left. Faster and faster, the machine itself begins drilling in all directions, uncontrolled as Kamon's agonized shrieking becomes that of mad ecstasy. "EVERYTHING WILL BURN! MASTER! BURN WITH ME! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!"
Kamon switches armor modes to Spiral Overload.
Kamon hits Master Asia with his It's Not Easy Facing Up When Your Whole World Is Painted Black super.
Kamon hits Shin Matsunaga with his I See A Red Door and I Want I Painted Black attack.
Kamon critically strikes Superman with his No Colors Anymore I Want Them To Turn Black attack.
Kamon misses Nia with his I See The Girls Walk By Dressed In Their Summer Clothes attack.
Kamon critically strikes Nono with his I Have To Turn My Head Until The Darkness Goes attack.
Kamon critically strikes Isa Reichert with his I See A Line Of Cars And They're All Painted Black attack.
Kamon misses Kamina with his With Flowers And My Love Both Never To Come Back attack.
Kamon hits Simon with his Like A New Botn Baby It Just Happend Every Day attack.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Kazuma Torisuma with his I Look Inside Myself And See My Heart Is Painted Black attack.
Kamon critically strikes Viral with his I See My Red Door And It Has Been Painted Black attack.
Kamon hits Duo Maxwell with his Maybe Then I'll Fade Away And Not Have To Face The Facts attack.
Master Asia has been knocked out!
Isa Reichert has been knocked out!
Liese Lustig (that's Geist Two) says, with increasing panic, "I've lost visual on them! I just hope they can bail, they're not repsonding, they--" And she, too, cuts out in a spate of static.
With the replacement shoulder in place, Shin jams the overhead compartment shut and jacks his chair forward again, feet clashing down against the ReGelg's pedals. His hands find the control grips and slip into them, eyes darting across his screen in search of where the Laser Gaston is now - and more importantly, what sort of damage has been inflicted on the thing.
The first thing he sees is Kamon completely flipping the hell out.
In a split-second he's thrown the ReGelg high into the air, but the shrapnel thrown up by the drills beats him there, tearing at the mobile suit's already damaged armour. Still, the damage is minor, not enough to stop the mobile suit's upward flight.
Somehow the White Wolf is still calm as he takes up the other item the Dopps left for him. It is a twenty-meter-long javelin - not even superheated. As he guides the ReGelg's leap up over the Gaston, he hears the news of the Geists' fall, but it only deepens his focus. Master Asia and his pet will pay for killing his men.
The ReGelg grips the huge beam javelin in both hands and drops out of its jump, verniers firing as it swoops into a vicious dive - aiming to drop straight past the tornado of drills and skewer the monstrous machine from above!
Shin Matsunaga hits Kamon with his The Aeris Factor super.
Shin Matsunaga barks, "All units, hit the Gaston with everything you've got!"
Simon says, "Bring him down!!"
Nono says, "Everyone! I am transmitting a firing path!"
Nono says, "DO NOT BE IN IT."
Simon says, "Before he destroys the city - or the damn planet!!"
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...he's overloading, don't bring him *down* you fool!"
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Send him *up*!"
Simon says, "Remind him WHO THE HELL WE ARE! -up, down, away from the city, of course!"
Superman says, "It's a figure of speech. Don't be an ass."
Kamina says, "Leeron. Get me the ship."
Kamina sounds serious.
The ground shakes as the fire rains down, the underground shelters being all that prevents the beleagured citizens from falling victim to Kamon's rage. It protects Nia, too, but her heart already aches to imagine the destruction that might have befallen her city once more. The doors must stay shut, for the sake of safety. Her hand reaches for the small compact radio in her hand, and she speaks to all allies present, IPA, DC, Mithril and...Kamina.
"All of you! You must not succumb to fear while facing such a menace! You are strong enough to defeat him! I know, for I believe in you who must believe in yourselves! You know this too! The situation is not hopeless. You almost have him! All of you, destroy the enemy of Kamina City! Let your desire to win pierce the heavens, and carve a path to victory!"
In a very princessy tone.
The helixes seem to rend the very air itself, black helixes lashing outward like the a shockwave from an explosion. One Geist jet remains in the sky, still struggling to circle and evade the last of the Yellow Wing as it expoldes in a brief, brilliant flare of fire and heat.
Liese managed to avoid the exploding nasties, but she isn't fast enough to turn her jet around and flee the shockwave from the machinery at the center of the maelstrom. It engulfs the jet, sweeps past it, and leaves a brilliant explosion in the jet's wake.
Crippled, the Fulcrum looses another explosion near the tail, still continuing in its sprint, though the engines flare and die. The last Geist's radio also falls silent, as well.
Finally, it seems, brought to their knees, the Belkan mercenary team offers no more resistance; machinery crippled, and with no real telling whether they're alive in there or not.
Isa's jet is the first to come to a crashing, skidding halt outside the city -- it's a miracle the thing doesn't go up in a brilliant blaze of fire and slag. It skids to a slow halt, still after that, smoke drifting up from its ruined engines.
Ancel's is the next to land, not too far off from Isa's jet, trailing even more smoke, and with a chunk of its wing gone, fractured off from the stress.
And Liese's is the last, just missing the outskirts of the city in another direction, skidding perhaps the farthest. Her plane had been in an all-out sprint at the moment it was broken; it goes the farthest, digging deep furrows in the earth where it comes to rest.
The Undefeated of the East whirls to face Buster Machine Seven, preparing to deal with her attack...when suddenly the sky above him breaks open with drills of darkness. The old man's eyes widen. "NOOO!" he roars, his Gundam rocketing up toward the GASTON. "You fool! You'll destroy the city! You'll destroy my core with y---"
A flash of darkness rips across the sky, and a back helix rips through the Master Gundam's cockpit like so much paper. Blood spurts from the mouth of the Undefeated of the East as he slowly begins to fall to the earth, darkness slipping in around the edges of his sight.
He was so close, he thinks. So very....very close.
And then the Master Gundam vanishes in a ball of fire.
Master Asia's signal vanishes.
"Gosh." The Man of Steel blinks, as the world is suddenly filled with...
WHAM.
"Urgh..." Superman groans, rubbing his head and looking exhausted. That hurt. And he doesn't have a robot anymore. And that thing is spitting evil sea urchins. Well, the strong core of Clark Kent that allows him to wake up every day and fight a never ending battle, I guess I'll just have to have sushi tonight...
"Not bad!" Superman shouts up, cracking his knuckles, popping his back, and catching the remains of the robot in the eye. "And that would've been it for just about anyone else, to be honest. I'm kind of worn out, and what can a guy with fists do against...that?"
Superman leaps into the air with enough force to cover a small building in a single bound, landing ON a Dark Spiral, struggling with it for a second, and leaping up again, hopping from spiral, to spiral, to spiral...
...to the shoulder of Laser GASTON. "But I'm Superman." The Man of Steel informs the enemy, "And I know your machine broadcasts all of its internal communications at 83.5 Tetrahertz." Gripping where his Super Senses have detected the most delicate sensory part of the machine, Superman cranes his head in, "Would you like to hear what white noise sounds like at 83.5 Tetrahertz?"
Superman opens his mouth, intending to show the man.
Superman misses Kamon with his The Audience Is Now Deaf super.
Back in the Fortress of Solitude, Krypto looks up, his ears perking, then goes back to licking his butt.
The Kogane itself is too far out of position to press any sort of attack, far too badly damaged by the assault of the Death Army. The huge gold ship slowly sinks to the ground, landing legs unfolding with a jerk to support the weight of the battered carrier. They really are big landing legs given that the ship's over a kilometer long.
It settles to earth and waits for the fighting to end.
There was a reason that Deathscythe let go of the shotgun so easily. Scrawled on the side of the barrel is "SHOTGUN MK I 'BARNEY FIFE'". All that Master Asia gets is an empty click.
Actually, make that two reasons, as the mobile suit rearms itself with its eponymous primary weapon. "Uncivilized?", Duo snorts as the blade flares to life. "That's just how we do it on the mean streets. If you really want to get to something more snobbish, you're playing with the wrong Gundam-"
And Darkness Falls.
The drills are everywhere and anywhere, pure blackness piercing and breaking through Deathscythe's gundanium shell. Not even the cockpit is spared as the pilot himself is lanced in the arm, in the leg, and in the shoulder. Sparks fly, blood spurts out on his console, and the mobile suit spasms like a doll with its strings yanked. Yet Duo does not scream.
When the dance is completed, Gundam Deathscythe is bowed but the green eyes in the shadow still glow. So do the eyes of its pilot. "I've had enough of this," he spits.
A roar of rockets and the Gundam takes off after Gaston. It got drilled by a ship? Nono shot it? Simon drilled it again? Superman broke his audio receptors? Who cares. "I want these ############# spirals out of this ############# plane!" Whoosh. Deathscythe flies past Gaston slicing away with the scythe. Whoosh. Another pass, another slice. And another. And another. The fourth wall itself is seemingly seared with the final pass, and the Gundam finally lands with its back to the spiral machine as whatever happens happens behind it.
Duo Maxwell juggles Kamon with his Insult To Injury combo.
Kamon breaks Duo Maxwell's combo.
Getting one's head used as a jumpstep is ignoble enough, armor crunching under the heavy mech's footfall as the Enkiduran stumbles back from the assault; chasing after the Master Gundam in the air only for the Laser GASTON to go completely out of control in the air and utterly smash through the white Gunmen with a black spiral is another. It's far too fast to dodge, and had Kamon not been screaming a few seconds before, it would have struck Viral without him even realizing it was coming. As it stands, the Enkiduran's right arms are smashed straight through, sending the damaged sword whirling away to embed itself pointfirst into a nearby skyscraper. Viral himself screams as well in both pain and rage as the Enkiduran nearly smashes into the ground; as it stands, it wobbles, the machine nearly falling apart. It's only due to it not being a direct hit that he's survived, as Viral can tell when he watches the Master Gundam go up in flames.
".....Toho Fuhai..." he murmurs, eyes narrowing. Then the beastman shakes his head once, gritting his teeth and turning his gaze upwards at the rampaging Distorted Spiral. In his current state, there's no way he can hurt that guy as much as the others are, and even the attempt might end up destroying his Gunmen--but Viral wouldn't be able to leave this fight without trying.
"If you want to die so badly..." the beastman snarls, pulling on the controls with all of his expertise, sending the white Gunmen soaring upwards at maximum speed with its one blade held firmly, screaming as it cuts through the air, "then WE'LL OBLIGE YOU!!"
There is no way, after all, that Viral will leave this battle with letting Kamon get the final strike on Master Asia *and* not at least getting one hit on the Kamina-Simon clone. There may be the sound of a loud KSHINK, a red stop-screen that lasts a split-second, and then a blur of motion as the Enkiduran sails upwards and gutters in mid-air, the mech on its last legs. But perhaps that tempered blade sliced through the Spiral Machine before it has to quit this battle...?
"Tch..." Viral murmurs, gazing downwards with lidded golden eyes. "All of Lordgenome's creations..."
But he does not finish.
Viral hits Kamon with your All of Lordgenome's Creatures Got Shoes super.
He's ignoring Nono? The Buster Machine narrows her eyes. He's learned at least a little - while he's close to others, Nono can't unleash the full fury of her Buster Beam.
...technically, Nono probably shouldn't do that while she's close to a /planet/, but, she's got a few ideas for how to temper the destruction.
The first is what she uses for now - as Master Asia takes off after Viral and begins mutilating several of the people surrounding him, Nono shifts her weight in the air, and gathers energy into her hand. Heat gathers there - light warping and bending as Nono warps space around her fist to contain the star-like heat gathered in her palm. She begins coasting, shifting across space toward the Master Gundam, when--
The drills come, and Nono is unmade. For a moment, her signal simply dissipates, utterly buried beneath the spiral helix drills.
But only an instant, just a moment, before the waves of drill are shorn asunder by Nono's power. She can't find the Master Gundam, can't find anything else...but she knows what she has to do.
She opens up her other hand, while at the same time calculating a firing trajectory.
Narrows it down. Focus. Precision. But the striking surface still needs to be broad enough that a lucky evasion won't cut the Moon in half or set the atmosphere on fire - dissipate the energy's focus by broadening the range!
Nono finishes her calculations, sends the trajectory out to everyone in the area, highlighted in a bright, DO NOT BE HERE red.
"BUUUUUUUUUUUUSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER....!"
She bends her body backward, gathering all the power she has gained into twin poinpoints at the ends of her fingers, and then joins the two hands - a veritable star forming in the combination.
"BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM...!!"
The energy flies forward - ripping into the drills, searing through them like they weren't even there, tearing across distance, space, everything, toward a single, atoms-wide point: The heart of the Laser GASTON!
"MAXIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!!"
Nono hits Kamon with her Buster Beam Maximum super.
Nono buffs her POW to -5.
Superman ow. "Probably should've waited for after you shot..."
Kamina just kinda watches his "brother" over load. He groans, grinding his teeth together. He almost could feel those burns...It was him and Simon wasn't it? Then again there was something missing. Kamon was missing the ability to control that drill that would pierce the heavens. It was missing Kamina's will to keep going. It was just a ghost of everything that fucking geezer thought they were. Just people who hit things until they fell down. ATLEAST KAMINA THOUGHT OF WHERE TO HIT THEM!
"Get me the ship." Kamina talks really quiet for someone who was just yelling a moment ago. Suddenly, if on cue, that spaceship they built out of other spaceships comes flying at full speed toward the Gurren Lagann. It is impaled suddenly by a drill from the Gurren Lagann's fist, sending a green light speeding through it as it combines. "I'm gonna put you out of it...OMMMMMMMMMMMNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The ship suddenly starts to spin, glowing green as it gets faster and faster. "SPAAAAAAAAAAAACEEE!!!" The drill gets faster. Leeron sighs with the crew at a safe distance. This is why that idiot wanted a remote control. "DRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!" The Gurren Lagann hits the boosters on the back of the ship. "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamon breaks Kamina's combo.
Simon's eyes widen, as he sees the response of the man. The energy blasts come raining down - and Simon decides to activate the Spiral Shield, but not for the Gurren-Lagann. It expands over Kamina City - and the blasts rain into it, bouncing off as the barrier struggles to be held - sparing a large part of the city from Kamon's wrath. He sucks in a deep breath, and then looks back at his clone.
Kamina is here, he realizes. He smiles a little, but it's grim - he looks at his brother, and nods. "Brother!" he calls out. "We've got to stop him... all of us!!" the commander shouts. He turns his head, and looks back at the maddened Spiral Warrior. "Before he destroys the city... or even the entire planet!"
The other attacks rip into the Gurren-Lagann. The black spirals slash into its armor and peel chunks off, throwing it to the side. The massive machine holds in the air through the pilot's willpower more than anything. Simon's eyes narrow, as he looks forward, and sucks in a deep breath.
"I'm sorry... You're part of me, in a way, but you're going to destroy this city and the people I care about," Simon says, with a growl, "and I CAN'T LET YOU GO ANY FURTHER!!"
The Gurren-Lagann's hand reaches down to the chest, pulling free the sunglasses on the Gurren. They shine brilliantly, as the sunlight catches the pair of shades. He swings them backward, with a grunt. "FINAL BLOW!!"
The pair of bladed glasses is swung - and flies out, as drills erupt from the joints of the Gurren-Lagann. They poke outward, as the glasses split - into four, separate boomerangs. The blades threaten to pierce the Laser GASTON at its hips and shoulders. Simon then hits the Gurren-Lagann's controls - and the thing goes flying forward. The drill lance on its arm glows, Spiral Power erupting from it. Energy ripples, and the drill responds.
It grows. Bigger, and bigger - until it dwarfs the size of the Gurren-Lagann. The immense waves of attacks fly inward, preceding it, energy waves and a ship drill and a blow from a beam halberd, as the drill grows larger yet.
Then, Simon's voice /roars/ over the battlefield. "GIGA DRIIIIIILL BREAAAAAAAAAAKER!"
He tries to ram the massive drill into his clone's machine, firing it off, and then drops the engines on the Gurren-Lagann - letting it come falling downward, as the immense Giga Drill explodes in a cross-shaped starburst.
Simon hits Kamon with his Giga Drill Breaker super.
Kamon has been knocked out!
Simon says, "GIGA DRIIIIIIILL BREAAAAAKER!"
Recovering from a concussion Cammy White says, "It appears that...I...have tuned into the band during a battle. What's going on?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "I surmise from your speech alone that you're suffering from a concussion. I suggest recovering and paying no heed to the weighty matters of the world."
Kamina says, "Man, all the geezers are out today. What's up, Shin?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "...Kamina, I'm ten meters away from you sticking a spear in this Gaston. What do you THINK is up?"
Kamina says, "Eh? Tch, who says you can't chit chat while working, old man. You dying or something?"
Shin Matsunaga, over the sound of explosions, "No, but HE is."
Nono corrects, completely serious, "Laser Galactic Artificial Spiral Tactical Operational Nemesis, Mister Shin."
Viral says, "...You don't have to remember all that, Nono."
Nono says, "It's important to remember the full names of things!"
Shin Matsunaga says, "Less talk, more killing it."
In monotone and nearly emotionless, Cammy White says, "What exactly are you engaging?"
Duo Maxwell sounds haggard, "Speaking as a God of Death, I think he's pretty much dead."
With Master Asia eliminated, and everyone else moving to engage the strange black distortion, Kazuma swings around and lands heavily on the ground. His armor is cracked and fractured all over, and he's not in the best of shape. He staggers for a moment, and looks up, grinning as he sees all of the firepower that is being thrown at Kamon. Hmph.
Ruri Hoshino says, "Well. If I had to guess..."
Ruri Hoshino says, "They are engaging a Laser Galactic Artificial Spiral Tactical Operational Nemesis."
Superman summerizes, "Giant evil robot."
With a Japanese accent: Midori Sugiura says, "From the sounds of their fighting spirit, it's in trouble."
Kamina says, "Ha Ha. SIMON!"
Simon says, "Brother?"
Kamina says, "You did it!"
Nia says, "You did, indeed!"
Simon says, "Eheh..."
Kamina says, "Simon! Remember, believe in everyone who believes in you and you'll do everything."
Viral says, "Hmph..."
Kamina says, "Tch, I guess you did something too furry. You can sit at the people table too...once."
Viral says, "..."
Superman says, "Now, Kamina, racism is wrong."
Viral says, "No thanks. Not interested."
Superman says, "You should want to punch him because he's a jerk, not because of his ethnic heritage."
Kamina says, "It's not racism. He drools!"
Kamina says, "I've seen it! And he smells awful!"
Superman says, "Dude, glass houses."
Kamina says, "That isn't because he's a furry...but it doesn't hurt."
Viral sighs. "I find I can't bring myself to care about your lies, Kamina."
Viral says, "Go insult someone else."
Shin Matsunaga says, "Less stupidity, more business."
Shin Matsunaga breathes out through his teeth. "Where's Toho Fuhai?"
Viral says, "His mech exploded after one of those drills pierced the cockpit."
Viral says, "I need to retrieve my other blade anyway, so I'll double-check it."
Kamina says, "Eh?"
Kamina says, "Seriously?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "Do. If he survived, I /want/ him."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "I lost track of him after I hit him... sorry."
Kamina says, "Well.."
Kamina says, "I guess it's no fun to kick someone who won't fight back."
Viral says, "Are you still on the ground, Kazuma? I'll rendezvous with you."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Yeah, used a bit more power than I was expecting for this sort of fight. ...nrgh."
Shin Matsunaga says, "He surprised all of us."
Viral says, "Yes."
Shin Matsunaga coughs out a small smoke cloud. "White Wolf to Geist Squadron. Come in, Geists. Do you read?"
[RADIO] To Viral, Nia radios: Viral?
Kamina says, "Anyway. Who all is alive out there?!"
Wraith: Isa Reichert | Radio silence.
[RADIO] To Viral, Nia radios: I know you did this not for Simon's sake, nor for the sake of the city, but I still thank you for your aid.
[RADIO] To Nia, you radio: *sounding the tiniest bit tired* Yes? ...hmph.
Nia says, "The citizens are safe in the shelters. It seems we were able to evacuate everyone..."
Nia says, "In what condition does the city remain?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "...Kogane, send out the ground crews and med-evac teams. Find where the Geists went down. If they're alive, I want them treated ASAP."
[RADIO] To Nia, you radio: ...I won't be so arrogant as to refuse your gratitude. You're welcome, Nia.
Kamina says, "Hmm. Looks pretty busted."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...I need to cut back on this. Fighting at this level... isn't the easiest thing on my frame."
Kamina says, "That guy...is he still alive?"
Nia says, "I see..."
Shin Matsunaga says, "We're verifying Toho Fuhai's status."
Kamina says, "Don't worry, we'll help where we can!...Eh? I meant the other guy."
Viral says, "Given Kamon's power output, it could be much worse, Nia."
Kamina says, "If he isn't...Well I guess we'll bury him."
Viral says, "..."
Kamina says, "What?"
Kamina says, "Even if the guy was a tool, doesn't mean I have to leave him to rot. The smell will be awful in a few days."
Viral says, "Kamon was a creation of the Spiral King made at Master Asia's request, created from your and Simon's DNA, Kamina."
Kamina says, "Exactly."
Kamina says, "That makes him a blood relative."
Viral says, "...Oh, so you understood what was going on after all?"
Kamina says, "Eh? I don't know what you're talking about."
Kamina says, "Heh."
Viral says, "Hmph. It figures."
Kamina says, "So I guess the next step is..."
Kamina says, "Heh, I guess I can't put it off any longer."
The drills keep on coming, radiating outwards and digging into anything and everything they reach. They don't stop... And the only thing louder than the sound of a million drills, is the insane laughter and screaming.
It was only a matter of time until it became too overwhelming for even the forces arrayed there... Or something even worse happening. Even as it is, the space around the Laser GASTON warped, twisting and darkening, heralding something even more terrible in the making.
Shin slams into the mecha, skewering it from above and driving through the top of the machine. It begins to shudder, as Superman flies upwards and screams at a powerful resonant frequency. The white noise causes the entire frame to crackle dangerously...
Duo's rampant slashing cuts into the machine, shattering portions of the stationary ring and causing dull cascades of uncontrolled energy to lash outwards. Viral is also there, blurring upwards and finishing the combination strike with a dual assault, the mechanisms beginning to slide apart... Duo and Viral escape from the telemetry just in time to clear Nono's obliterating beam of energy. It fires straight through the core of the mecha and pierces Kamon's chest, the nigh infinite power of Number Seven warring with the similarly nigh infinite power of a machine that absorbs Spiral Energy... And doesn't release it properly. It's like Asia made a universal-level memory leak.
The war looks like it might be similarly infinite, until Kamina slams in, smashing the craft with the incredible power of the Omni Space Drill Breaker from behind. It begins to descend to earth, Kamon howling in a meteoric descent...
When Simon launches forth, slamming the Giga Drill Breaker into the precise point where beam and drill meet.
The sky alights as if a second sun was born, the endless howl stuttering into a single coherent phrase for one moment.
"I... I... Master... I don't feel... your soul... It doesn't... burn anymore..."
With a sky-rending thud, a spiral explosion lances out, deep into space, the energy likely discharging for light years...
But eventually, it fades, gleaming green sparkles floating downwards in the aftermath and winking out. There isn't a single sign left of the mad clone and his machine.
Kamina says, "Heh."
Kamina says, "Goodbye brother."
Viral says, "...hnh."
Kamina says, "What is it?"
Viral says, "You wouldn't care."
Kamina says, "Try me."
"Go get em guys." He says, and waits for the finale...
The second Gurren-Lagann lands suddenly, holding the ship above its head before the drill gives and ship falls to earth somewhere away from the city with a thunderous crash. Kamina was certainly pleased with himself, grining widely at his new attack. "Just came to me, Simon."
The younger Simon was...still in shock. "B,brother...That was the ship!"
"And it kicked his ass pretty good!" Kamina grinned, turning back to see Simon make the final blow. "Heh, that's your older brother too."
"Will I be that strong when I grow up?" Simon was watching too.
"Heh. Of course...Now lets go get your older brother nice and drunk after we get the survivors to safety." The Gurren Lagann, crossing it's arms before Kamina opens up the cockpit and climbs down.
Leeron can see a month of work going down the drain and another week of trying to figure out if that ship was salvagable. Kittan is...The blonde falls to his knees. He didn't get his Lacus stuff out of there. Hopefully it was only kinda burnt.
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Hmph. Good riddance."
Duo Maxwell says, "... No salvage?"
Pulling the solid spear out of the stricken Gaston, Shin hurls himself away from the sinister spiral-sucker, watching through the smoke in his cockpit as the other fighters on the scene strike the machine down with their own heavy weaponry. He breathes out a slow breath, the outrush disturbing the acrid white-grey cloud whisping around him and sending eddies through it. With careful hands he guides the ReGelg to a slow landing, surveying the scene from above.
Seems Toho Fuhai - he won't show that man the respect of thinking of him as master of anything - is dead, from the reports. Disappointing - at some level, Shin wanted to get his hands on him and make him pay for his treachery.
His treachery - and for the deaths, it seems, of Reichert and her Geists. At least, it seems they could be dead.
The ReGelg touches down in one of the rubble-filled streets, its body settling now that the stresses of combat are past. Whisps of smoke waft from its joints. Tapping his radio, the White Wolf coughs once into the smoke. "This is Crusader One. I thank all of you for your assistance. Med-evac teams, find where the Geists went down. And someone confirm that Toho Fuhai is, in fact, dead; if not, bring him to the Kogane brig."
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Message: 13/14 Posted Author
Regarding Master Asia Sat Dec 22 Kazuma Torisuma
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The Man known as the Undefeated of the East launched a massive attack on Kamina City tonight, although I cannot ascertain his exact motives - I'm sure that Crusader Commander Shin and Viral will have more information on that to come. But he appears to have been seeking a power source for a machine which he intends to use to wipe out humanity, and he was seeking it in Kamina City.
I can't start to describe how uncool this is. We don't do this sort of thing around here folks, and it's pretty clear that this 'Toho Fuhai' has cut all of his ties with the Syndicate. If he's actually betrayed us, or is simply pursuing his own agenda, I can't say - I'll leave the final estimation up to Shin, as well as any bounties or rewards for dealing with him or his plans.
But the Undefeated of the East is to receive no Syndicate assistance or resources. He wanted to call down the thunder, so now he gets to deal with it on his own.
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Message: 13/15 Posted Author
Master Asia's Remains Sat Dec 22 Viral
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Once Kamon, the clone made by Lordgenome from Simon and Kamina's DNA, was killed, I searched for the Formerly Undefeated's remains, as Kamon had punched a drill through his mech's cockpit and made it explode.
I found scattered pieces remaining of the mech's armor, but I couldn't find anything of the man himself--not even bones that might be his. I don't know how he could have survived that, but I have a bad feeling about this. So far they haven't led me astray, so in the meantime...I suggest we assume the worst.
Shin, the Enkiduran is currently in several pieces, so I had a retrieval team bring back the remains of the Formerly Undefeated's mech.
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Message: 13/17 Posted Author
RE: Toho Fuhai Sat Dec 22 Shin Matsunaga
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AAR: Toho Fuhai and Kamon
On December 21, UC 80, the Divine Crusaders were alerted to an unsanctioned action carried out by Toho Fuhai, also known as former DC member "Master Asia". As per his own admission, his plans were to capture the lover of Kamina City leader Simon, or murder everyone in Kamina City were she not turned over. He admitted intention to use the girl as a power source for something called the Devil Gundam, which would make use of nanomachines to obliterate all human life on his plane's earth in some sort of restoration process. He disobeyed orders to stand down and rebuffed the possibility of healing his world without murdering everyone on the planet.
Naturally, the Crusaders responded with help from Kazuma. We encountered Fuhai, an army of Zakus, and a clone created from Kamina and Simon's DNA, which he apparently obtained from Lordgenome. Though Fuhai, the clone, and their various forces all gained power during the engagement - the Zaku pilots seemed to show evidence of bioengineering, from the remains we captured - they were ultimately defeated, the clone killed, and Fuhai apparently bested, though we found no remains.
It seems that Fuhai's agenda was always to make use of this Devil Gundam's weapon of mass destruction; he was able to conceal it from everyone. With that in mind, I will pay top prices for any information on Fuhai's Devil Gundam, its capabilities, and in particular its whereabouts, with the intent that if we can locate it, I will organize a strike to destroy it. Fuhai may still be alive, but even if he isn't, I don't want any more whackos getting their hands on a weapon that could potentially purge all life from a planet.
-Shin
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WHAT: The Undefeated of the East presents Simon with an ultimatum: give him Nia, or he'll kill everyone in Kamina City. His objectives behind the threat are even worse than everyone thinks, to the point that even the Divine Crusaders cut him off.
WHERE: Kamina City, the Spiral Planet
WHEN: December 21, 2007
WATCH FOR: Schrödinger waveforms, epic clone wars, the Superman-Batman combination mech, Viral landing four crits in a row, Shining Drills, giant spaceship drills, a whole lot of drills going everywhere exploding everything, and Nono Getting Pissed. Whew!
P.S. "Kamon" is a Japanese word that can mean "a whirlpool design."
Getting to Kamon is easy, Simon, because Kamon is coming for YOU. That's right! "GOOD!" Kamon screams. "I'D HATE FOR THIS TO BE OVER /QUICKLY/! I WANT YOUR DESTRUCTION TO BE MEMORABLE!" With the way that the berserk rush is going, it's a matter of ease for Simon to put the spear into the sweet spot.
Careful, you might spawn a whole new doujin series, though.
With a howl, the Laser GASTON is launched into the air, every strike eating away at the drill. Shin comes in right after Simon drops, Shin continues to juggle, ratcheting up the combo meter as the missiles slam into him. Each one blasts another chunk of soul-forged steel from the frame, launching him ever higher. The Superman/Batman Combination Robot continues the Dream Cancel, plowing the Laser Gaston into the air... But with a whipping motion, a brilliant spiral shield manifests, blocking the massive impact and lofting him even farther into the air. "Bigger talk coming from the man who can only fight people in tights!" No, it doesn't really make sense. Kamon's distracted.
Distracted with what? The spiraling energy reaches the outer edge of the fins, and there is a brilliant explosion of light, a swirling tornado forming and blasting everything back around him. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The light begins to fade, the Laser GASTON... changing. The fins behind him have shattered into pieces, swirling around him inhelical patterns.Behind the GASTON, a massive spiral wheel spins, drawing green energy all about into itself. The traceries on the mecha fairly burn with harnessed power... And the Laser GASTON doesn't bother to fall. It floats, there, standing in the air like a shining lord of destruction, as it surveys the area around him... And focuses on Simon. "IT'S TOO LATE FOR YOU! TOO LATE FOR YOU /ALL/! I AM SUPERIOR! YOUR EVERY ATTACK JUST MAKES ME STRONGER, SIMON! YOU FAILED! YOU ALL FAILED! AND NOW... YOU WILL ALL DIE!" With shrieks of maniacal glee, the shards around him spin, beginning to burn with massive amounts of Spiral Energy, forming into innumerable drills. Each of them bolts downwards, striking out and shredding at his opposition, crushing through defenses and swarming to overwhelm each opponent in turn.
Kamon switches armor modes to Spiral Awakening.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Shin Matsunaga with his No One's Born Like GASTON attack.
Kamon hits Superman with his Eats More Corn Than GASTON attack.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Simon with his Reveals Yet More True Forms Than GASTON attack.
The blast is enough to send Kazuma flying backwards, and it takes him a moment to recover, skidding backwards through the air until he can finally manage to stop his flight. "Damnit!" he curses. It seems like these guys have something for every attack he can come up with! That leaves... well, he said it to the other Syndicate members. If all else fails, use more force.
And Kazuma is going to try and use a hell of a lot more force. He gives a deep throated, primal yell, holding both of his armored hands up above his head, the heavy plates on the back opening up and a vortex of golden light being drawn into them as he transforms the atmosphere into additional power.
The result is a blazing golden aura around the Alter User, and he looks down for a moment, both hands held up above his head. "God damn all of you! DAMNIT ASIA! This sort of thing..." And he swings both of his hands down, unleashing a massive, wide area shockwave upon the assimilated Zakus blow. "SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING ON MY WATCH!"
Kazuma Torisuma buffs his POW to +2.
Kazuma Torisuma misses Master Asia with his JUST CRUSH YOU THEN! attack.
The third member of the Geist Squadron seems to be the quietest, though Ancel has no difficulty in following their flight lead's orders expertly. He just has nothing much to say, only gritting his teeth when a Mobile Suit's rifle whizzes by the cockpit.
Neither does the weapon miss its mark, crunching into the tail of the Fulcrum, crumpling the edge of the rear elevator and the tail fin.
As for their fearless (and slightly mad) leader, Isa finds herself with her hands full, and her plane rather full with whatever they're using for bullet alloy. Many of the shells bounce off the plane's hull with a sharp and metallic 'ping,' but a good many of them bury themselves into it, pock-marking the plane's metallic skin.
For her part, all she can really do is cringe and clutch at the cockpit until the barrage is over.
Fortunately, there's one of the squadron members left. Liese turns her plane, skidding it through a sharp curve and turning it to face the cannon at the offending Mobile Suits.
The cannon's placement can sometimes prove difficult to aim -- centered right at the root of the port wing -- but she seems to handle it well enough. Not quite as accurately as Isa, who seems to show a marked favoritism of the gun, but accurate enough for a day's work.
Once free of the volley, Isa manages to right her plane, banking into a free-fall, only to come up and ascend quickly enough to turn and dive on her opponent. Liese attacks from another angle, and Ancel completes the trio's assault.
They come together in a roughly triangular shape, but at different altitudes; spiraling up and away as they go.
Isa Reichert hits Master Asia with her We Can Has Bullets <3 attack.
Nono simply...stays there. Watching. Silent.
He won't die from something like that. He isn't nearly that weak.
Kamon is going crazy over there - a mysterious power not even she's equipped to fight just now.
But she has something else, instead.
She takes one, deep breath as the Sekiha Tenkyoken streaks toward her....and then there's a loud sound, like the shutter of a camera opening, as the shells on the backs of Nono's hands and over her heart swing open, forming a pinpoint barrier. The beam smashes into it, then ricochets away, boiling out and away from Nono, forming a roiling sphere in the air. The sphere grows more and more massive, consuming the energy of the Sekiha Tenkyoken into an enormous charge that hangs in the air, and the charging only stops as Master Asia directs the energy blast away from Nono and toward Viral and his Enkiduran.
"You don't need to worry about me, Viral. Thank you, but..."
She closes her eyes again. She needs to focus, regulating the ludicrous amounts of energy as it streams into her body, filling up energy reserves up to and beyond their designed specifications, an infinite tank that has just received a significant charge.
She opens her eyes again, still busily and silently regulating the tremendous energies now flowing through her. "...I am fine."
Wraith: Isa Reichert doesn't say anything, but it sounds like her plane is getting /chewed up/ by gunfire. *Ping.*
"I won't LET YOU!!" Simon roars, as he flexes out the Gurren-Lagann's arms and legs. Drills erupt from joints all across it - wide and fat ones, long and thin ones, short drills, big drills, and every kind of them. They come tearing free, shooting up in an immense swarm towards the incoming laser drills - and meet them, exploding in brilliant bursts of green light. A few of the remaining ones get through, though, and lash into and partially through the Gurren-Lagann's red armor.
Simon grunts, as he looks up at the Laser GASTON in midair. Spiral energy is already burning around the Gurren-Lagann. Simon sees a potential idea; the way that his clone is absorbing the energy, feeding off it, and being affected by it... the answer may be to give him what he wants.
He swings out another drill lance - and this one forms with the same shudder of spiral power. The energy glows, like a nimbus. Simon aims it upward. "This drill of mine glows with an awesome power!" he roars. "It tells me to crush whatever stands in my way! TO PIERCE THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES!!" The green light around the drill lance explodes - bright energy rippling outward, and then trailing after as the Gurren-Lagann's wings glow blue and throw it up into the air. The machine begins to arch and spin, drill lance aimed at the chest of the Soulsteel Gundam.
"And I'll ANSWER ITS CRY!!" Simon roars, as he tries to ram the drill lance into the chest of the Soulsteel Gundam - and then twist, sharply, to the side. Energy explodes off it a moment later, a rush of Spiral Power that floods towards the Soulsteel Gundam and ideally into it. Enough power to, he hopes, completely overload his clone.
His face is darkened by the immense glow of the energy coming from his massive assault. "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINING DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL!!!"
Simon hits Kamon with his When in Rome... super.
"They're bike shorts!" Superman snaps, and then, well.
The Combination Superman-Batman Robot SLAMS into the ground, the Spiral attack having drilled a hole right in the center of the machine! Superman blinks, looking over to see if his friend is..."Bruce?"
Superman blinks. The red glow of his eyes is visible even when his eyes are closed.
There's a faint tugging sound at the ruined robot's "Superman" arm...and the whine of metal under pressure, as it SNAPS off, and the rapidly increasing sound of an enraged Kryptonian fills the air, as the Man of Steel takes his own robotic arm and scorches through the sky, swinging the Metallo-alloyed piece of robotics at the Laser GASTON's True Form until either the arm, or the giant robot breaks! Superman isn't picky on which. "...rrrgggGGGGRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Meanwhile, inside, Batman grunts, dragging his finger over to a button on his gauntlet. "Softie." Wayne mutters, whiping the blood from his temple and then laying back as his last resort goes off; the chest of the machine blinks, once, before shooting a red light into the air. It's shaped like a skull.
A skull with sunglasses. It's the Kamina Signal!
Superman juggles Kamon with his You Made Superman Yell combo.
Superman juggles Kamon with his You Made Superman Yell combo.
Kamon breaks Superman's combo.
Just when you think this can't get stranger. Just when you think it wasn't possible for more pairings to be formed by girls on the internet. There is a sudden, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" from a few frames that way.
Suddenly there is the Gurren Lagann...The other one and on top of it, holding a sword at his side is someone who kinda looks like Kamon. Maybe it's Simina?! The figure grins, his tattered cape blowing in the breeze as he adjusts the sword on his shoulder. Kamina has arrived and he looks like he's leveled up. "SIMON! YOU GOING TO LET THAT ASSHOLE CALL YOU OUT?! BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIVES IN YOU! It doesn't matter if he says he's me or you...which one is he?"
Kamina looks down at the Lagann with a confused expression. The younger Simon sighs and just says, "Both of you..."
"HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK?! I mean He's either me or him...Wait Is this another level of UNION?! Heh, this might be a challenge then. SIMON! LETS KICK THIS GUY'S ASS!" Kamina takes a leep off Lagann, landing in the Gurren's hand before being swallowed.
Kamina buffs Simon's POW to +1.
Superman says, "Hey Kamina. New cape?"
The White Wolf of Solomon is very much unfond of transforming mobile suits. The ReGelg's taken substantial damage already; with one shoulder plate it can't quite get out of the way of all the drills, a couple of them ripping through one of the mobile suit's legs and blowing out a few servos. Nevertheless Shin is able to swiftly pull the smouldering white mobile suit away from immediate danger, putting some distance between himself and the Gaston's new form.
He takes stock of the situation in the space of a second. He's up against a mobile suit that gains power whenever it's hit by a drill, changes its form when it gains enough power, and he's missing a shoulder full of verniers. On top of that, he's out of missiles.
Yet running doesn't occur to him.
Despite the dire straits, he's suddenly gripped by a deep calm, cold logic and even colder focus kicking in.
With a boost of thrusters the ReGelg jogs to one side, briefly exiting the immediate field of battle. This is mainly to allow it to intercept the pair of Zeonic Dopp fighters that've slipped out of the Kogane's ventral docking bay, laden with repair and restore kits. One of them, in fact, is carrying a fully intact white ReGelg shoulder pad.
It takes surprisingly little time for the pair of Dopps to lower the shoulder pad into place before they zip off. Shin himself has opened a panel over his head and done some quick rewiring and remodulating - repairs in the field, using Simon and Superman's heavy-hitting salvo to ensure that he's out of the line of fire.
Shin Matsunaga heals Shin Matsunaga with his My ISP is ass. action.
Kamina says, "Eh? Heh. Nope. Not wearing Gurren Uniforms yet."
Superman says, "Oh? My bad, sorry, I'm so angry I'm melting anything I directly look at, so."
Kamina says, "No prob, Uhhh Super guy?"
Kamina says, "Sorry. Not really sure what your name is...Strongman."
Superman says, "No, that's the guy in the luchador mask."
Nia says, "His name is actually Souperman."
Nia says that, somehow.
Shin Matsunaga says, "/Great,/ look who decided to show up."
Superman cough. "Superman. I like soup, though."
Viral tch...
Kamina says, "Supperman. Got it."
It's as Viral predicted--but the sheer force of the golden energy attack is too devastating to do much of anything about. "Tch!" he grunts, engaging his swords to block it, knowing that evasion would mean that buildings will be brought crumbling down on all of them...but Viral would have been much better off trying to evade considering how that attack smashes into his blades which scream with the stress. The sheer force of it sears into the white Gunmen, and smashes it into a nearby building that is thankfully empty, thanks to Aya and Nia's evacuation efforts.
The blades are still intact, but the mech itself has incurred heavy damage, its entire right side a total wreck. Viral himself felt the heat from within his cockpit, and the visuals on that side are blurry as well. He won't be able to take more attacks like that...but that can't be helped. As he assesses the damage swiftly, the beastman chances a glance over in the direction of the battle against Kamon, and scowls as he sees Kamina now showing up. Goddamn Kamina Signal. But for Simon to keep using Spiral Power when Kamon absorbs it...is that really a good idea?
Viral doesn't have to time to worry about someone else, though; perhaps Shin is right, and all they really *do* need to do is to hit it so hard it overloads, then Kamina's presence might well help.
If not, then they're probably all screwed.
"...Very well then! I'll draw his attacks--so don't you dare miss!" Viral barks to Nono, pausing briefly as he sees that not only is she unharmed, it seems she...absorbed what of Master Asia's attack came her way. He forces the badly damaged Enkiduran to its feet, and once again bares the twin blades. They've held up quite well...
With a mighty battle roar, the blond beastman unleashes a series of shuriken-like projectiles at the Master Gundam and charges in their wake. Once he's in range, Viral once again attempts a high-speed series of jabs--but the follow-up is different. Instead, the beastman slams the blades down on the ground, and when rock and gravel and shrapnel fly up, he deflects them off his blades at the Master Gundam. This is not so much to do any real damage as to distract Master Asia from his real purpose; if he thinks Viral missed, then he won't be seeing that twin cross-shaped chop he aims up and forwards.
And during all of this, Viral attempts to direct Master Asia into Nono's sights.
Viral juggles Master Asia with his Sounds echo underground nauseating; I'm here because you're here combo.
Master Asia breaks Viral's combo.
A few Gatling gun blasts aren't enough to keep the crazified Blues off of Duo's lawn. They're already upon his mobile suit, clawing their way through its shredded armor. "Its like I'm fighting zombie mobile suits," Duo opines.
"Which makes it a perfect time to test out Deathscythe's new shotgun."
Its definitely not a work of art from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fresh out of the wrapper and assembled from various pieces of tubing, wiring, and solid metals, it still looks much like the bits of assorted salvage that Duo and Howard had built it from. Still, its quite effective at bashing the heads of zombie Zakus with its solid metal stock without even falling to pieces. And Deathscythe looks awesome cool standing tall and aiming it with one hand straight for the back of the Master Gundam. "For being an embarassment to those of us who pilot a Gundam without any of this crazy Bruce Lee ####, I'm revoking your Gundam license, pal!"
Duo Maxwell gets a glancing blow on Master Asia with his Shop Smart, Shop Sweeper-Mart attack.
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Isa, I'd stay off the ground in a moment..."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...or away from."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...not close to. You know."
Kamina says, "Ok. Now will someone explain why there is some jerk pretending to be me and Simon at once?!"
Haruko Haruhara says, "Uh..."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Evil robot!"
Haruko Haruhara says, "Made by dinosaurs."
Viral says, "..."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Yes."
Kamina says, "Eh? DINOSAURS?!"
Viral deadpans, "What she said."
Kamina says, "Simon! We might need to fight harder!"
Isa Reichert grunts in acknowledgement, over the sound of a gun blazing.
Kamina |Simon sighs. "I think they are playing with us, brother."
Kamina says, "THE HELL?! We better not take chances though. There is no playing around when there are Dinosaurs."
Haruko Haruhara says, "Evil dinosaur robot! You should hurry."
Kamina says, "Tch. Who the hell do they think I am?!"
Duo Maxwell says, "Its an Evil Plot, Kamina. I'll explain later after I teach this guy the proper way to use a Gundam."
Kamina says, "Great Grins. I'll handle the guy who looks ridiculous!"
The Death Army is on its last legs. The Kogane, Geist Squadron and Kazuma have torn their opponents to shreds, and the Undefeated of the East takes in their vitals from the display inside his cockpit. <> he broadcasts as he struggles to maintain mental control of his Super Mode, to stoke the rage in his heart. <> The Death Army does just that, Zakus swooping in toward their opponents and reaching outward, grappling for their targets as self-destructs initiate (although Yellow Wing will have to settle for just getting close enough).
The Master Gundam whirls suddenly, ignoring Nono for the moment - she's absorbed his energy again, and Master Asia judges the best thing for him to do is get in close with her allies. The shotgun blast bites into the Master's remaining wing, and pink cloth flows from its hands as it turns to face the charging Viral. The GUndam's left arm comes up in a half block, shuriken biting into its armor plating, but twin slashes deflect Viral's crosscut, even as the Master Gundam leaps into the air, attempting to spring off the Enkiduran's head toward his next target.
The Undefeated of the East snarls as his Gundam reaches for the shotgun, trying to snatch it from the Deathscythe's hands as he blurs around behind Duo. "Guns," Master Asia snorts as he tries to shove the weapon up the Deathscythe's rear. "So uncivilized."
How many times can he pull the trigger?
Master Asia hits Viral with his Headstomp jab.
Master Asia misses Duo Maxwell with his Just Close Your Eyes And Think Of Heero combo.
Master Asia hits Isa Reichert with his Crack Suicide Squad super.
Master Asia hits Kazuma Torisuma with his Most Efficient Use Of Gumbies Ever super.
Superman says, "There are a lot of those guys."
Isa Reichert says, "We will disengage, soon. There are not many lef--" Her signal cuts into static.
The Kogane really does have a lot of anti-aircraft guns, but it's taken quite the pounding from the Death Army. The men manning the turrets begin to pump even more gunfire towards the incoming Zakus, while the E-field is widely bolstered by power from the impact cannons, leaving the ship's sub guns, rockets, and turrets to try and ward off the defenders.
Explosions still ensue. The ship's huge and well-defended, but it can't stop EVERY incoming Zaku. Somehow, it stays aloft - although closer to the ground than before.
Shin Matsunaga says, "Reichert, come in!"
Kamina says, "Tch! Who dresses this asshole?! He looks ridiculous in that cape!"
Master Asia sound sout of breath. "Should have...cloned a mute."
Viral mutters darkly, "That's what you get."
Kamina says, "What the hell does that mean?! Wait a second...It's that damn geezer from the DC!"
There's a thunderous, rolling bank of explosions as the Death Army begins to go up in a massive wave of detonations, and Kazuma is consumed in the massive detonation, vanishing from view as he's lifted upwards and thrown almost a mile away, ping ponged about like some poor pinball as explosion after explosion tosses him around. He finally comes to a stop, digging a large trench into the landscape, smoke rising from his gold armor body as he smolders in the ground.
ineffective, not working, damn it all! He doesn't know how a bunch of damned Zakus are able to resist all he had to throw at them, but it's really starting to piss Kazuma off! Which... helps, and it doesn't help. Sure it makes him even more angry, but at the same time, it makes him... well, not as likely to be able to effectively do any damage. But the one thing he does have is rage, and Kazuma just growls, the brilliant golden aura blazing up around him...
And he rockets right across the city, locating the brilliant shining form of the Master Gundam in its hyper mode. And Kazuma just goes faster, and faster, and he roars out as he bears down on Master Asia, "GOD DAMN YOU, YOU BASTAAAAAAAARD!"
One punch. He just needs one... good... punch.
Kazuma Torisuma buffs his POW to +3.
Kazuma Torisuma hits Master Asia with his Fist of an Angry God super.
As though on cue, all three Geist planes ascend to higher altitude, careful to stay away from the ground. They bank as one, turning to confront the Yellow Wing with a barrage of gunfire.
Yet this doesn't seem to be enough. Isa frowns, clutching her flight controls loosely as they shore up and rush the three fighters. Well, at least this makes for an easy target. She shakes her head, dismissively, and all three aircraft close in with blazing cannons.
The transmission ends, in a brief spate of static.
The distance closes, but before they can make any decent aim of the shots, the self-detonation triggers on the closest of the Mobile Suits. There isn't enough time to pull away -- all three jets head straight into the inferno. All this, in a heartbeat.
Brilliant blossoms of fire erupt from the middle of the furball, and only one jet arcs upward from the fray, scorched but still mostly intact. Geist Two or Three, by visual confirmation -- it doesn't have the Reaper's scythe that Isa's plane sports on its tail.
Liese is the first to call, spotting the broken fighter, voice anguished. There's no way either of them could have avoided the mess.
But she isn't stupid. She pulls up, jamming the afterburners to gain more altitude. Kazuma did warn them to stay away from the ground.
Out of control, the other two jets careen on a steady downward angle, trailing thick clouds of smoke.
...That landing's gonna hurt, innit?
Liese Lustig (that's Geist Two) sounds anguished. "Isa! Ancel...!"
"HOW CAN YOU STOP ME?" Kamon screams back, giggling. "THE POWER... IS INCREDIBLE! I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!" He's interrupted in his gloating mania when the Man of Steel monologue-cancels his ass with PURE HARDCORE. The arm bears down on the Laser GASTON, slamming into it over and over. The Spiral Ring behind the machine begins to wobble...
And then Simon plows into the Laser Gaston with the power of SHINING DRILL. The impact of the drill shears straigh through the absorbing, hardened steel, plowing a massive hole through the center of the machine and impacting the center of the ring behind. The Drill spins on, the Ring rotating ever faster and faster...
And then there is a crackling sound, much like someone putting a hardball through God's own windowpane at 90 mph. There is a corsucating explosion, driving everything around the Laser GASTON backwards. The Spiral Ring is stopped, the Gaston hanging limply off of it as if attatched to a single point in space. Kamon is visible, sitting within the hole of the machine, blood staining his body, his face, his eyes. His face is downcast, silent...
"Simoooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnn..." He hisses, his whispey voice radiating outwards. "Kamiiiiiiiiiinaaaaaaaa..." He slowly looks upwards, staring directly at the ghostly shade of Kamina with wild, unhinged eyes... And then he laughs, the unhinged, uncontrolled bellow of the truly insane. "IT BURNS!" He screams, arching backwards, hands clawing in abject pain, the swirls on his bracers flaring green-white. The skin around them is smoking. The air around him contorts, swirling and spiraling about him in vague distortions. "IT BURNS! MASTER!
Space around the machine twists, and with an eruption, a massive twisted spire of black helixes directly down, plunging deep into the ground. Another manifests, striking out above. A third, to the left. Faster and faster, the machine itself begins drilling in all directions, uncontrolled as Kamon's agonized shrieking becomes that of mad ecstasy. "EVERYTHING WILL BURN! MASTER! BURN WITH ME! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!"
Kamon switches armor modes to Spiral Overload.
Kamon hits Master Asia with his It's Not Easy Facing Up When Your Whole World Is Painted Black super.
Kamon hits Shin Matsunaga with his I See A Red Door and I Want I Painted Black attack.
Kamon critically strikes Superman with his No Colors Anymore I Want Them To Turn Black attack.
Kamon misses Nia with his I See The Girls Walk By Dressed In Their Summer Clothes attack.
Kamon critically strikes Nono with his I Have To Turn My Head Until The Darkness Goes attack.
Kamon critically strikes Isa Reichert with his I See A Line Of Cars And They're All Painted Black attack.
Kamon misses Kamina with his With Flowers And My Love Both Never To Come Back attack.
Kamon hits Simon with his Like A New Botn Baby It Just Happend Every Day attack.
Kamon gets a glancing blow on Kazuma Torisuma with his I Look Inside Myself And See My Heart Is Painted Black attack.
Kamon critically strikes Viral with his I See My Red Door And It Has Been Painted Black attack.
Kamon hits Duo Maxwell with his Maybe Then I'll Fade Away And Not Have To Face The Facts attack.
Master Asia has been knocked out!
Isa Reichert has been knocked out!
Liese Lustig (that's Geist Two) says, with increasing panic, "I've lost visual on them! I just hope they can bail, they're not repsonding, they--" And she, too, cuts out in a spate of static.
With the replacement shoulder in place, Shin jams the overhead compartment shut and jacks his chair forward again, feet clashing down against the ReGelg's pedals. His hands find the control grips and slip into them, eyes darting across his screen in search of where the Laser Gaston is now - and more importantly, what sort of damage has been inflicted on the thing.
The first thing he sees is Kamon completely flipping the hell out.
In a split-second he's thrown the ReGelg high into the air, but the shrapnel thrown up by the drills beats him there, tearing at the mobile suit's already damaged armour. Still, the damage is minor, not enough to stop the mobile suit's upward flight.
Somehow the White Wolf is still calm as he takes up the other item the Dopps left for him. It is a twenty-meter-long javelin - not even superheated. As he guides the ReGelg's leap up over the Gaston, he hears the news of the Geists' fall, but it only deepens his focus. Master Asia and his pet will pay for killing his men.
The ReGelg grips the huge beam javelin in both hands and drops out of its jump, verniers firing as it swoops into a vicious dive - aiming to drop straight past the tornado of drills and skewer the monstrous machine from above!
Shin Matsunaga hits Kamon with his The Aeris Factor super.
Shin Matsunaga barks, "All units, hit the Gaston with everything you've got!"
Simon says, "Bring him down!!"
Nono says, "Everyone! I am transmitting a firing path!"
Nono says, "DO NOT BE IN IT."
Simon says, "Before he destroys the city - or the damn planet!!"
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...he's overloading, don't bring him *down* you fool!"
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Send him *up*!"
Simon says, "Remind him WHO THE HELL WE ARE! -up, down, away from the city, of course!"
Superman says, "It's a figure of speech. Don't be an ass."
Kamina says, "Leeron. Get me the ship."
Kamina sounds serious.
The ground shakes as the fire rains down, the underground shelters being all that prevents the beleagured citizens from falling victim to Kamon's rage. It protects Nia, too, but her heart already aches to imagine the destruction that might have befallen her city once more. The doors must stay shut, for the sake of safety. Her hand reaches for the small compact radio in her hand, and she speaks to all allies present, IPA, DC, Mithril and...Kamina.
"All of you! You must not succumb to fear while facing such a menace! You are strong enough to defeat him! I know, for I believe in you who must believe in yourselves! You know this too! The situation is not hopeless. You almost have him! All of you, destroy the enemy of Kamina City! Let your desire to win pierce the heavens, and carve a path to victory!"
In a very princessy tone.
The helixes seem to rend the very air itself, black helixes lashing outward like the a shockwave from an explosion. One Geist jet remains in the sky, still struggling to circle and evade the last of the Yellow Wing as it expoldes in a brief, brilliant flare of fire and heat.
Liese managed to avoid the exploding nasties, but she isn't fast enough to turn her jet around and flee the shockwave from the machinery at the center of the maelstrom. It engulfs the jet, sweeps past it, and leaves a brilliant explosion in the jet's wake.
Crippled, the Fulcrum looses another explosion near the tail, still continuing in its sprint, though the engines flare and die. The last Geist's radio also falls silent, as well.
Finally, it seems, brought to their knees, the Belkan mercenary team offers no more resistance; machinery crippled, and with no real telling whether they're alive in there or not.
Isa's jet is the first to come to a crashing, skidding halt outside the city -- it's a miracle the thing doesn't go up in a brilliant blaze of fire and slag. It skids to a slow halt, still after that, smoke drifting up from its ruined engines.
Ancel's is the next to land, not too far off from Isa's jet, trailing even more smoke, and with a chunk of its wing gone, fractured off from the stress.
And Liese's is the last, just missing the outskirts of the city in another direction, skidding perhaps the farthest. Her plane had been in an all-out sprint at the moment it was broken; it goes the farthest, digging deep furrows in the earth where it comes to rest.
The Undefeated of the East whirls to face Buster Machine Seven, preparing to deal with her attack...when suddenly the sky above him breaks open with drills of darkness. The old man's eyes widen. "NOOO!" he roars, his Gundam rocketing up toward the GASTON. "You fool! You'll destroy the city! You'll destroy my core with y---"
A flash of darkness rips across the sky, and a back helix rips through the Master Gundam's cockpit like so much paper. Blood spurts from the mouth of the Undefeated of the East as he slowly begins to fall to the earth, darkness slipping in around the edges of his sight.
He was so close, he thinks. So very....very close.
And then the Master Gundam vanishes in a ball of fire.
Master Asia's signal vanishes.
"Gosh." The Man of Steel blinks, as the world is suddenly filled with...
WHAM.
"Urgh..." Superman groans, rubbing his head and looking exhausted. That hurt. And he doesn't have a robot anymore. And that thing is spitting evil sea urchins. Well, the strong core of Clark Kent that allows him to wake up every day and fight a never ending battle, I guess I'll just have to have sushi tonight...
"Not bad!" Superman shouts up, cracking his knuckles, popping his back, and catching the remains of the robot in the eye. "And that would've been it for just about anyone else, to be honest. I'm kind of worn out, and what can a guy with fists do against...that?"
Superman leaps into the air with enough force to cover a small building in a single bound, landing ON a Dark Spiral, struggling with it for a second, and leaping up again, hopping from spiral, to spiral, to spiral...
...to the shoulder of Laser GASTON. "But I'm Superman." The Man of Steel informs the enemy, "And I know your machine broadcasts all of its internal communications at 83.5 Tetrahertz." Gripping where his Super Senses have detected the most delicate sensory part of the machine, Superman cranes his head in, "Would you like to hear what white noise sounds like at 83.5 Tetrahertz?"
Superman opens his mouth, intending to show the man.
Superman misses Kamon with his The Audience Is Now Deaf super.
Back in the Fortress of Solitude, Krypto looks up, his ears perking, then goes back to licking his butt.
The Kogane itself is too far out of position to press any sort of attack, far too badly damaged by the assault of the Death Army. The huge gold ship slowly sinks to the ground, landing legs unfolding with a jerk to support the weight of the battered carrier. They really are big landing legs given that the ship's over a kilometer long.
It settles to earth and waits for the fighting to end.
There was a reason that Deathscythe let go of the shotgun so easily. Scrawled on the side of the barrel is "SHOTGUN MK I 'BARNEY FIFE'". All that Master Asia gets is an empty click.
Actually, make that two reasons, as the mobile suit rearms itself with its eponymous primary weapon. "Uncivilized?", Duo snorts as the blade flares to life. "That's just how we do it on the mean streets. If you really want to get to something more snobbish, you're playing with the wrong Gundam-"
And Darkness Falls.
The drills are everywhere and anywhere, pure blackness piercing and breaking through Deathscythe's gundanium shell. Not even the cockpit is spared as the pilot himself is lanced in the arm, in the leg, and in the shoulder. Sparks fly, blood spurts out on his console, and the mobile suit spasms like a doll with its strings yanked. Yet Duo does not scream.
When the dance is completed, Gundam Deathscythe is bowed but the green eyes in the shadow still glow. So do the eyes of its pilot. "I've had enough of this," he spits.
A roar of rockets and the Gundam takes off after Gaston. It got drilled by a ship? Nono shot it? Simon drilled it again? Superman broke his audio receptors? Who cares. "I want these ############# spirals out of this ############# plane!" Whoosh. Deathscythe flies past Gaston slicing away with the scythe. Whoosh. Another pass, another slice. And another. And another. The fourth wall itself is seemingly seared with the final pass, and the Gundam finally lands with its back to the spiral machine as whatever happens happens behind it.
Duo Maxwell juggles Kamon with his Insult To Injury combo.
Kamon breaks Duo Maxwell's combo.
Getting one's head used as a jumpstep is ignoble enough, armor crunching under the heavy mech's footfall as the Enkiduran stumbles back from the assault; chasing after the Master Gundam in the air only for the Laser GASTON to go completely out of control in the air and utterly smash through the white Gunmen with a black spiral is another. It's far too fast to dodge, and had Kamon not been screaming a few seconds before, it would have struck Viral without him even realizing it was coming. As it stands, the Enkiduran's right arms are smashed straight through, sending the damaged sword whirling away to embed itself pointfirst into a nearby skyscraper. Viral himself screams as well in both pain and rage as the Enkiduran nearly smashes into the ground; as it stands, it wobbles, the machine nearly falling apart. It's only due to it not being a direct hit that he's survived, as Viral can tell when he watches the Master Gundam go up in flames.
".....Toho Fuhai..." he murmurs, eyes narrowing. Then the beastman shakes his head once, gritting his teeth and turning his gaze upwards at the rampaging Distorted Spiral. In his current state, there's no way he can hurt that guy as much as the others are, and even the attempt might end up destroying his Gunmen--but Viral wouldn't be able to leave this fight without trying.
"If you want to die so badly..." the beastman snarls, pulling on the controls with all of his expertise, sending the white Gunmen soaring upwards at maximum speed with its one blade held firmly, screaming as it cuts through the air, "then WE'LL OBLIGE YOU!!"
There is no way, after all, that Viral will leave this battle with letting Kamon get the final strike on Master Asia *and* not at least getting one hit on the Kamina-Simon clone. There may be the sound of a loud KSHINK, a red stop-screen that lasts a split-second, and then a blur of motion as the Enkiduran sails upwards and gutters in mid-air, the mech on its last legs. But perhaps that tempered blade sliced through the Spiral Machine before it has to quit this battle...?
"Tch..." Viral murmurs, gazing downwards with lidded golden eyes. "All of Lordgenome's creations..."
But he does not finish.
Viral hits Kamon with your All of Lordgenome's Creatures Got Shoes super.
He's ignoring Nono? The Buster Machine narrows her eyes. He's learned at least a little - while he's close to others, Nono can't unleash the full fury of her Buster Beam.
...technically, Nono probably shouldn't do that while she's close to a /planet/, but, she's got a few ideas for how to temper the destruction.
The first is what she uses for now - as Master Asia takes off after Viral and begins mutilating several of the people surrounding him, Nono shifts her weight in the air, and gathers energy into her hand. Heat gathers there - light warping and bending as Nono warps space around her fist to contain the star-like heat gathered in her palm. She begins coasting, shifting across space toward the Master Gundam, when--
The drills come, and Nono is unmade. For a moment, her signal simply dissipates, utterly buried beneath the spiral helix drills.
But only an instant, just a moment, before the waves of drill are shorn asunder by Nono's power. She can't find the Master Gundam, can't find anything else...but she knows what she has to do.
She opens up her other hand, while at the same time calculating a firing trajectory.
Narrows it down. Focus. Precision. But the striking surface still needs to be broad enough that a lucky evasion won't cut the Moon in half or set the atmosphere on fire - dissipate the energy's focus by broadening the range!
Nono finishes her calculations, sends the trajectory out to everyone in the area, highlighted in a bright, DO NOT BE HERE red.
"BUUUUUUUUUUUUSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER....!"
She bends her body backward, gathering all the power she has gained into twin poinpoints at the ends of her fingers, and then joins the two hands - a veritable star forming in the combination.
"BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM...!!"
The energy flies forward - ripping into the drills, searing through them like they weren't even there, tearing across distance, space, everything, toward a single, atoms-wide point: The heart of the Laser GASTON!
"MAXIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!!"
Nono hits Kamon with her Buster Beam Maximum super.
Nono buffs her POW to -5.
Superman ow. "Probably should've waited for after you shot..."
Kamina just kinda watches his "brother" over load. He groans, grinding his teeth together. He almost could feel those burns...It was him and Simon wasn't it? Then again there was something missing. Kamon was missing the ability to control that drill that would pierce the heavens. It was missing Kamina's will to keep going. It was just a ghost of everything that fucking geezer thought they were. Just people who hit things until they fell down. ATLEAST KAMINA THOUGHT OF WHERE TO HIT THEM!
"Get me the ship." Kamina talks really quiet for someone who was just yelling a moment ago. Suddenly, if on cue, that spaceship they built out of other spaceships comes flying at full speed toward the Gurren Lagann. It is impaled suddenly by a drill from the Gurren Lagann's fist, sending a green light speeding through it as it combines. "I'm gonna put you out of it...OMMMMMMMMMMMNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The ship suddenly starts to spin, glowing green as it gets faster and faster. "SPAAAAAAAAAAAACEEE!!!" The drill gets faster. Leeron sighs with the crew at a safe distance. This is why that idiot wanted a remote control. "DRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!" The Gurren Lagann hits the boosters on the back of the ship. "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamina juggles Kamon with his OMNI SPACE DRRRIIILLLL BREEAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! combo.
Kamon breaks Kamina's combo.
Simon's eyes widen, as he sees the response of the man. The energy blasts come raining down - and Simon decides to activate the Spiral Shield, but not for the Gurren-Lagann. It expands over Kamina City - and the blasts rain into it, bouncing off as the barrier struggles to be held - sparing a large part of the city from Kamon's wrath. He sucks in a deep breath, and then looks back at his clone.
Kamina is here, he realizes. He smiles a little, but it's grim - he looks at his brother, and nods. "Brother!" he calls out. "We've got to stop him... all of us!!" the commander shouts. He turns his head, and looks back at the maddened Spiral Warrior. "Before he destroys the city... or even the entire planet!"
The other attacks rip into the Gurren-Lagann. The black spirals slash into its armor and peel chunks off, throwing it to the side. The massive machine holds in the air through the pilot's willpower more than anything. Simon's eyes narrow, as he looks forward, and sucks in a deep breath.
"I'm sorry... You're part of me, in a way, but you're going to destroy this city and the people I care about," Simon says, with a growl, "and I CAN'T LET YOU GO ANY FURTHER!!"
The Gurren-Lagann's hand reaches down to the chest, pulling free the sunglasses on the Gurren. They shine brilliantly, as the sunlight catches the pair of shades. He swings them backward, with a grunt. "FINAL BLOW!!"
The pair of bladed glasses is swung - and flies out, as drills erupt from the joints of the Gurren-Lagann. They poke outward, as the glasses split - into four, separate boomerangs. The blades threaten to pierce the Laser GASTON at its hips and shoulders. Simon then hits the Gurren-Lagann's controls - and the thing goes flying forward. The drill lance on its arm glows, Spiral Power erupting from it. Energy ripples, and the drill responds.
It grows. Bigger, and bigger - until it dwarfs the size of the Gurren-Lagann. The immense waves of attacks fly inward, preceding it, energy waves and a ship drill and a blow from a beam halberd, as the drill grows larger yet.
Then, Simon's voice /roars/ over the battlefield. "GIGA DRIIIIIILL BREAAAAAAAAAAKER!"
He tries to ram the massive drill into his clone's machine, firing it off, and then drops the engines on the Gurren-Lagann - letting it come falling downward, as the immense Giga Drill explodes in a cross-shaped starburst.
Simon hits Kamon with his Giga Drill Breaker super.
Kamon has been knocked out!
Simon says, "GIGA DRIIIIIIILL BREAAAAAKER!"
Recovering from a concussion Cammy White says, "It appears that...I...have tuned into the band during a battle. What's going on?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "I surmise from your speech alone that you're suffering from a concussion. I suggest recovering and paying no heed to the weighty matters of the world."
Kamina says, "Man, all the geezers are out today. What's up, Shin?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "...Kamina, I'm ten meters away from you sticking a spear in this Gaston. What do you THINK is up?"
Kamina says, "Eh? Tch, who says you can't chit chat while working, old man. You dying or something?"
Shin Matsunaga, over the sound of explosions, "No, but HE is."
Nono corrects, completely serious, "Laser Galactic Artificial Spiral Tactical Operational Nemesis, Mister Shin."
Viral says, "...You don't have to remember all that, Nono."
Nono says, "It's important to remember the full names of things!"
Shin Matsunaga says, "Less talk, more killing it."
In monotone and nearly emotionless, Cammy White says, "What exactly are you engaging?"
Duo Maxwell sounds haggard, "Speaking as a God of Death, I think he's pretty much dead."
With Master Asia eliminated, and everyone else moving to engage the strange black distortion, Kazuma swings around and lands heavily on the ground. His armor is cracked and fractured all over, and he's not in the best of shape. He staggers for a moment, and looks up, grinning as he sees all of the firepower that is being thrown at Kamon. Hmph.
Ruri Hoshino says, "Well. If I had to guess..."
Ruri Hoshino says, "They are engaging a Laser Galactic Artificial Spiral Tactical Operational Nemesis."
Superman summerizes, "Giant evil robot."
With a Japanese accent: Midori Sugiura says, "From the sounds of their fighting spirit, it's in trouble."
Kamina says, "Ha Ha. SIMON!"
Simon says, "Brother?"
Kamina says, "You did it!"
Nia says, "You did, indeed!"
Simon says, "Eheh..."
Kamina says, "Simon! Remember, believe in everyone who believes in you and you'll do everything."
Viral says, "Hmph..."
Kamina says, "Tch, I guess you did something too furry. You can sit at the people table too...once."
Viral says, "..."
Superman says, "Now, Kamina, racism is wrong."
Viral says, "No thanks. Not interested."
Superman says, "You should want to punch him because he's a jerk, not because of his ethnic heritage."
Kamina says, "It's not racism. He drools!"
Kamina says, "I've seen it! And he smells awful!"
Superman says, "Dude, glass houses."
Kamina says, "That isn't because he's a furry...but it doesn't hurt."
Viral sighs. "I find I can't bring myself to care about your lies, Kamina."
Viral says, "Go insult someone else."
Shin Matsunaga says, "Less stupidity, more business."
Shin Matsunaga breathes out through his teeth. "Where's Toho Fuhai?"
Viral says, "His mech exploded after one of those drills pierced the cockpit."
Viral says, "I need to retrieve my other blade anyway, so I'll double-check it."
Kamina says, "Eh?"
Kamina says, "Seriously?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "Do. If he survived, I /want/ him."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "I lost track of him after I hit him... sorry."
Kamina says, "Well.."
Kamina says, "I guess it's no fun to kick someone who won't fight back."
Viral says, "Are you still on the ground, Kazuma? I'll rendezvous with you."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Yeah, used a bit more power than I was expecting for this sort of fight. ...nrgh."
Shin Matsunaga says, "He surprised all of us."
Viral says, "Yes."
Shin Matsunaga coughs out a small smoke cloud. "White Wolf to Geist Squadron. Come in, Geists. Do you read?"
[RADIO] To Viral, Nia radios: Viral?
Kamina says, "Anyway. Who all is alive out there?!"
Wraith: Isa Reichert | Radio silence.
[RADIO] To Viral, Nia radios: I know you did this not for Simon's sake, nor for the sake of the city, but I still thank you for your aid.
[RADIO] To Nia, you radio: *sounding the tiniest bit tired* Yes? ...hmph.
Nia says, "The citizens are safe in the shelters. It seems we were able to evacuate everyone..."
Nia says, "In what condition does the city remain?"
Shin Matsunaga says, "...Kogane, send out the ground crews and med-evac teams. Find where the Geists went down. If they're alive, I want them treated ASAP."
[RADIO] To Nia, you radio: ...I won't be so arrogant as to refuse your gratitude. You're welcome, Nia.
Kamina says, "Hmm. Looks pretty busted."
Kazuma Torisuma says, "...I need to cut back on this. Fighting at this level... isn't the easiest thing on my frame."
Kamina says, "That guy...is he still alive?"
Nia says, "I see..."
Shin Matsunaga says, "We're verifying Toho Fuhai's status."
Kamina says, "Don't worry, we'll help where we can!...Eh? I meant the other guy."
Viral says, "Given Kamon's power output, it could be much worse, Nia."
Kamina says, "If he isn't...Well I guess we'll bury him."
Viral says, "..."
Kamina says, "What?"
Kamina says, "Even if the guy was a tool, doesn't mean I have to leave him to rot. The smell will be awful in a few days."
Viral says, "Kamon was a creation of the Spiral King made at Master Asia's request, created from your and Simon's DNA, Kamina."
Kamina says, "Exactly."
Kamina says, "That makes him a blood relative."
Viral says, "...Oh, so you understood what was going on after all?"
Kamina says, "Eh? I don't know what you're talking about."
Kamina says, "Heh."
Viral says, "Hmph. It figures."
Kamina says, "So I guess the next step is..."
Kamina says, "Heh, I guess I can't put it off any longer."
The drills keep on coming, radiating outwards and digging into anything and everything they reach. They don't stop... And the only thing louder than the sound of a million drills, is the insane laughter and screaming.
It was only a matter of time until it became too overwhelming for even the forces arrayed there... Or something even worse happening. Even as it is, the space around the Laser GASTON warped, twisting and darkening, heralding something even more terrible in the making.
Shin slams into the mecha, skewering it from above and driving through the top of the machine. It begins to shudder, as Superman flies upwards and screams at a powerful resonant frequency. The white noise causes the entire frame to crackle dangerously...
Duo's rampant slashing cuts into the machine, shattering portions of the stationary ring and causing dull cascades of uncontrolled energy to lash outwards. Viral is also there, blurring upwards and finishing the combination strike with a dual assault, the mechanisms beginning to slide apart... Duo and Viral escape from the telemetry just in time to clear Nono's obliterating beam of energy. It fires straight through the core of the mecha and pierces Kamon's chest, the nigh infinite power of Number Seven warring with the similarly nigh infinite power of a machine that absorbs Spiral Energy... And doesn't release it properly. It's like Asia made a universal-level memory leak.
The war looks like it might be similarly infinite, until Kamina slams in, smashing the craft with the incredible power of the Omni Space Drill Breaker from behind. It begins to descend to earth, Kamon howling in a meteoric descent...
When Simon launches forth, slamming the Giga Drill Breaker into the precise point where beam and drill meet.
The sky alights as if a second sun was born, the endless howl stuttering into a single coherent phrase for one moment.
"I... I... Master... I don't feel... your soul... It doesn't... burn anymore..."
With a sky-rending thud, a spiral explosion lances out, deep into space, the energy likely discharging for light years...
But eventually, it fades, gleaming green sparkles floating downwards in the aftermath and winking out. There isn't a single sign left of the mad clone and his machine.
Kamina says, "Heh."
Kamina says, "Goodbye brother."
Viral says, "...hnh."
Kamina says, "What is it?"
Viral says, "You wouldn't care."
Kamina says, "Try me."
"Go get em guys." He says, and waits for the finale...
The second Gurren-Lagann lands suddenly, holding the ship above its head before the drill gives and ship falls to earth somewhere away from the city with a thunderous crash. Kamina was certainly pleased with himself, grining widely at his new attack. "Just came to me, Simon."
The younger Simon was...still in shock. "B,brother...That was the ship!"
"And it kicked his ass pretty good!" Kamina grinned, turning back to see Simon make the final blow. "Heh, that's your older brother too."
"Will I be that strong when I grow up?" Simon was watching too.
"Heh. Of course...Now lets go get your older brother nice and drunk after we get the survivors to safety." The Gurren Lagann, crossing it's arms before Kamina opens up the cockpit and climbs down.
Leeron can see a month of work going down the drain and another week of trying to figure out if that ship was salvagable. Kittan is...The blonde falls to his knees. He didn't get his Lacus stuff out of there. Hopefully it was only kinda burnt.
Kazuma Torisuma says, "Hmph. Good riddance."
Duo Maxwell says, "... No salvage?"
Pulling the solid spear out of the stricken Gaston, Shin hurls himself away from the sinister spiral-sucker, watching through the smoke in his cockpit as the other fighters on the scene strike the machine down with their own heavy weaponry. He breathes out a slow breath, the outrush disturbing the acrid white-grey cloud whisping around him and sending eddies through it. With careful hands he guides the ReGelg to a slow landing, surveying the scene from above.
Seems Toho Fuhai - he won't show that man the respect of thinking of him as master of anything - is dead, from the reports. Disappointing - at some level, Shin wanted to get his hands on him and make him pay for his treachery.
His treachery - and for the deaths, it seems, of Reichert and her Geists. At least, it seems they could be dead.
The ReGelg touches down in one of the rubble-filled streets, its body settling now that the stresses of combat are past. Whisps of smoke waft from its joints. Tapping his radio, the White Wolf coughs once into the smoke. "This is Crusader One. I thank all of you for your assistance. Med-evac teams, find where the Geists went down. And someone confirm that Toho Fuhai is, in fact, dead; if not, bring him to the Kogane brig."
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Message: 13/14 Posted Author
Regarding Master Asia Sat Dec 22 Kazuma Torisuma
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The Man known as the Undefeated of the East launched a massive attack on Kamina City tonight, although I cannot ascertain his exact motives - I'm sure that Crusader Commander Shin and Viral will have more information on that to come. But he appears to have been seeking a power source for a machine which he intends to use to wipe out humanity, and he was seeking it in Kamina City.
I can't start to describe how uncool this is. We don't do this sort of thing around here folks, and it's pretty clear that this 'Toho Fuhai' has cut all of his ties with the Syndicate. If he's actually betrayed us, or is simply pursuing his own agenda, I can't say - I'll leave the final estimation up to Shin, as well as any bounties or rewards for dealing with him or his plans.
But the Undefeated of the East is to receive no Syndicate assistance or resources. He wanted to call down the thunder, so now he gets to deal with it on his own.
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Message: 13/15 Posted Author
Master Asia's Remains Sat Dec 22 Viral
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Once Kamon, the clone made by Lordgenome from Simon and Kamina's DNA, was killed, I searched for the Formerly Undefeated's remains, as Kamon had punched a drill through his mech's cockpit and made it explode.
I found scattered pieces remaining of the mech's armor, but I couldn't find anything of the man himself--not even bones that might be his. I don't know how he could have survived that, but I have a bad feeling about this. So far they haven't led me astray, so in the meantime...I suggest we assume the worst.
Shin, the Enkiduran is currently in several pieces, so I had a retrieval team bring back the remains of the Formerly Undefeated's mech.
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Message: 13/17 Posted Author
RE: Toho Fuhai Sat Dec 22 Shin Matsunaga
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AAR: Toho Fuhai and Kamon
On December 21, UC 80, the Divine Crusaders were alerted to an unsanctioned action carried out by Toho Fuhai, also known as former DC member "Master Asia". As per his own admission, his plans were to capture the lover of Kamina City leader Simon, or murder everyone in Kamina City were she not turned over. He admitted intention to use the girl as a power source for something called the Devil Gundam, which would make use of nanomachines to obliterate all human life on his plane's earth in some sort of restoration process. He disobeyed orders to stand down and rebuffed the possibility of healing his world without murdering everyone on the planet.
Naturally, the Crusaders responded with help from Kazuma. We encountered Fuhai, an army of Zakus, and a clone created from Kamina and Simon's DNA, which he apparently obtained from Lordgenome. Though Fuhai, the clone, and their various forces all gained power during the engagement - the Zaku pilots seemed to show evidence of bioengineering, from the remains we captured - they were ultimately defeated, the clone killed, and Fuhai apparently bested, though we found no remains.
It seems that Fuhai's agenda was always to make use of this Devil Gundam's weapon of mass destruction; he was able to conceal it from everyone. With that in mind, I will pay top prices for any information on Fuhai's Devil Gundam, its capabilities, and in particular its whereabouts, with the intent that if we can locate it, I will organize a strike to destroy it. Fuhai may still be alive, but even if he isn't, I don't want any more whackos getting their hands on a weapon that could potentially purge all life from a planet.
-Shin
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