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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 1, 2016 16:14:23 GMT -8
Theta looks back over at the horned girl.
"Harder how? making it harder for you to drag her even deeper down?"
He closes his blank eyes.
"You know, I think that's part of why seths are so dedicated to kats. Because once we're given a reason to trust someone, we will do anything for them. It's the reason for half of the shit we do. We've gone across time and space, life and death, even to the point of existential peril for her. Medi is just as valid and kind as the others of her template!"
He opens his eyes again. Blank, but burning with determination.
"She is worthy of nice things! She is good enough! She can be accepted by others! And most importantly, she can find someone out there that will love her just as much as she loves them."
Theta isn't exactly sure how he got this much worked up about this, but it just seems like something clicked after all this time of watching over his brothers and their dedication towards her.
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Post by lunarLunatic on Aug 1, 2016 18:26:52 GMT -8
The girl looks at him in a mix of absolute frustration, anger...and desperation.
She's furious, steaming. She bellows out in loud voice:
"LI▲R!!!"
And in a blink of an eye, numerous drill-like tendrils shoot out towards Theta...But stop just short of actually striking.
It's kind of claustrophobic.
She's breathing heavily, black smoke pouring out of her mouth.
"You're trying to trick us....I just know that you are! Everyone does! Make us feel important, so the moment you crush our hopes is all the more suffocating! I know every trick in the book, you can't fool me!!"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 1, 2016 21:55:19 GMT -8
Theta immediately tries to shield himself with his arms. Upon not getting hit, he puts them down. He's a bit shaken at the near-strike.
The substitute nurse sighs and presses a button, encasing the room in an iridescent protective shield until the confrontation is over.
Theta tries to gather his wits to deliver a counterargument. The only way he's going to be able to dispel this negative attitude is through rational conversation.
Unfortunately, he is stuck with the mental capabilities of a 13 year old.
"I'm not! Why the fuck would I do that?! I'm not my father! Even as much as he always wanted me to be. He's the only real asshole in this situation. There's a reason the session I never made it to went against him. Sure Medi released his spirit from his imprisonment, but who fucking cares? With the shit the party is up against now, paired with his dead status, he shouldn't be a problem worth being mad about. Also, they did accept Zwei on their side, even after all that she did too."
A pause.
"I realize the both of you have been hurt in the past, but it doesn't mean that everyone is out to get you. You may know every trick in the book, but not everything that looks like a trick is as insincere as you think! What do I have to do to convince both you and Medi that she's not at risk anymore?"
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Post by lunarLunatic on Aug 2, 2016 23:23:14 GMT -8
"Zwei..."
Her expression softens a little.
"If only we listened to her. But no matter how much she told us how angry we should be, how many times she said the truth, we turned a deaf ear."
The girl keeps quiet, looking at a wall as she ponders.
"...We just...We just don't want to keep getting hurt like this."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 3, 2016 14:08:29 GMT -8
Theta sighs in exhaustion. "...I, don't know what to say."
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Post by lunarLunatic on Aug 3, 2016 19:17:05 GMT -8
The tendrils retract and return to nothing.
"There is nothing left to say."
"Nothing."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 4, 2016 12:07:57 GMT -8
Chronos looks at the screen from across the way and squints. He watches it for a moment. "IT'S T▲KING TΘΘ LΘNG TΘ BUFFER. IT LΘΘKS ▲S EPIC ▲S ▲ DECISIVE CΘNFLICT SHΘULD, BUT IT'S CR▲WLING ▲T ▲ SN▲IL'S P▲CE." He soon notices the mechanical man of agreeable (but not quite baddass enough) aesthetic by a familiar girl's bedside.
"...WH▲T THE FUCK IS GΘING ΘN THERE."
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Post by metreu on Aug 15, 2016 11:42:17 GMT -8
Omega's eyes widen while looking at a screen.
"No...... NO..." He gets up from his chair and it topples over behind him. His hands ignite into a pale blue fire as a loud thunder roll cracks across the Necropolis sky.
Omega runs to the bars of his cell and tears them apart, launching himself into the hallway.
He looks at Chronos and then back down the hall as alarms start blaring.
There are guards shouting and weapons going off in the distance along with screams.
Omega looks back to Chronos.
"She's Here--"
His words are cut short as a glowing yellow tendril bursts through Omega's chest, a pale mist erupting from the wound. He stops and staggers, falling to his knee. Shards of null explode out and deactivate Chronos' cell, but also are showered over him.
Solaris growls and turns the corner. She lifts Omega up by his wound and her tendrils invade Chronos' cell, leaving him no where to run. Her solar wings then start their onslaught, attacking Chronos at point black while her remaining keeps the dying Omega suspended mid air.
"You were my creation... what do you think you're doing...?!" He groans and holds the tendril, his hand burning with a searing pain of fire.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 15, 2016 14:41:34 GMT -8
"▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲GH!!!!" Chronos screams an ungodly screech as he is assaulted by the ribbon-like tendrils of light. His form desperately tries to shift elsewhere, glitches and artifacts attempting to pull away, only to be snapped back into place.
A few brave souls apart of the buster force run towards the commotion, shakily brandishing their vacuum packs.
Meanwhile, the power shorts out, lights flickering wildly. The only steady light is that from Solaris's tendrils.
With this distraction, it's enough for the inmates to make their moves. The barriers holding them back are at their weakest point.
It doesn't take long for all hell to break loose.
Thousands of ghosts, ghouls, demons, and various previously imprisoned undead rush out of their cells, creating chaos throughout the prison. The busters not brave enough to face off against Solaris (most of them) try in vain to capture as many as they can. Some of the slower and weaker ones are vacuumed up, but the vast majority are able to easy abscond through sheer will and numbers.
A few of the inmates however, apparently somewhat loyal to Chronos, gather to stand up to Solaris.
"PuT tHe TiMeKEePEr DoWn...." an endlessly bleeding figure in a tattered dress rears its head.
"you mess wit chronos, you mess wit all of us!" a grotesque backwards crawling figure bent in unnatural positions bares its fangs.
"weeeere not looosing the one who gavvvve us ssssomething when we haaaad nothiiiiing!" a whispy wraith towers above the rest.
Meanwhile, Chronos is still struggling desperately as he is slowly being incinerated by Solaris's grip. Knowing that his followers have stepped in for his sake...
It fills him with determination.
...unfortunately, determination is not enough.
Chronos attempts to break free, but he has been eroded away at for so long that he can't even summon the strength to overcome Solaris's wrath.
So instead, he uses his energy to muster up one last speech.
"҉.̛..̢L̴ISTEN̶. ͢Y͜Θ͜U͜...̛ WI͜L҉L N̨E͠VER͝ ̶D̷ESTRΘY ͏M̵E CΘ͝MPLE͠T͝EL͏Y͠. ̷YΘU̢ ͡C̡▲N̵ ̡NΘ̵T E̕N̢D͠ TIME I͝T͝S̸ELF̧. ͞THIS ̀IS..́.̡ ̧BU͞T ̛Θ̛NE INS̕T͟▲NCE Θ̴F ͜MY͝S̶E̡LF... I͜ W͝I̷LL RIS͜E͝ ΘN̷C̸E ͢▲͜G▲͢I̕N,͢ ͜▲̢ND Y҉ΘU̢ ̀W̸IL̛L ̢NΘT͟ ST̴Θ̷P͏ ̢ME...̵ ̀EV̴ĘN͞ IF͢ ͟I̢ ▲̸M͏ ÉR▲̷SED̴ HER̛E.̀..͝ ͏▲T LE҉▲̸ST͠ I KǸΘW I'̷M NΘ̷T ̛D̕ÌS▲PPE▲̴RI̸N̴G ̶▲LΘNE̶!"
Chronos looks over towards the immolated form of Omega, and lets out a cackling laugh.
"͕̙̖͟B̟̫̺̣̼͢W͏̩̜͙̠̞̣́͘▲̧̨͏͚̥̖̦̥͚̘̯̫H̸̳̯̙̳̞̻͍͘▲̡̭̝̫̼̥̭͢͡ͅH͏͉̞͕̫̩̫̯▲̷̤͍͍͓̺H̵̴̨͖̠̪̦̩͉̩▲̴̪̦̝͚͠H̵̨̭͔͍͡▲̨̼͈͢͡H̼̦͚̤̮͍̹̻͞▲̶̼̭̣͇͔Ḩ̞̖̣▲͜͏̼̲̥̣͓̘̭̦ͅH̷̝͇̥̼͘▲҉̼̤̱̲̳͎͖H̹͕̙̼́̕▲̶̬̭̰̦̭͖̞̮̫Ḩ͈͍͔̗̤̜̬͇͞▲̴̻͚H̷͙̗͈͘▲̷̧̦̪͘H̱̤̦̩̤̀͢▲̨͙̤̞̰͓H̝▲̧̦͓̱̬͈̼͜!҉͍̞"̧̢̮͙̹̙͢
He closes his eyes as he allows the tendrils to begin ripping him apart, laughing all the while.
His laughing echoes throughout the cell as his faithful followers try in vain to attack Solaris however they can. The few busters there try out every containment procedure and sealing spell they have on hand against Solaris, not even bothering with the ghastly break-outs nearby.
meanwhile, back at the school, an alarm goes off.
On the intercom, a voice can be heard.
"ATTENTION! THERE'S BEEN A MASSIVE BREACH AT THE PRISON. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. ANY AND ALL HIGH LEVEL REAPERS MUST REPORT FOR DUTY. MID LEVEL ALSO GREATLY ADVISED. STUDENTS AND NEW LEVEL REAPERS MAY ACCOMPANY, BUT ONLY WITH A CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR OR MENTOR."
Theta regains focus and looks over at Medi and the girl beside her.
"oh shit, the chumplord is in that prison! He might escape! What do we do?"
The substitute nurse takes a drag on a cigarette. She's not paid enough to give a damn about anything else crazy going on in this dead city.
At the skeleton army base, troops begin marching towards the prison as evil spirits continue to flee from it in all directions. Some into the forest, some into the river, some up into the sky. Some even manage to make their way to the bubble barrier and slip through into the prismatic dreamscape beyond.
Helicopters rise up into the storm with nets and anti ghost weaponry.
Needless to say, chaos is all around.
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Post by metreu on Aug 15, 2016 14:57:48 GMT -8
Solaris walks to Chronos' struggling form, despite any attacks done to her. She grabs his skull with her bare hands and lifts him up as he cannot reform.
She opens her jagged mouth...
Omega's eyes widen, watching Solaris break into a hideous smile...
"Go to Hell."
Without another word, Solaris goes super nova.
Her body collapses into a singularity, and explodes outwards before sound has a chance to catch up. The entire prison facility has a split second of silence before the entire thing goes up like an atomic bomb... |
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Post by raz on Aug 15, 2016 16:02:06 GMT -8
The busters and other innocent staff of the prison find themselves falling suddenly, looking up into... blackness. Portals with writhing gray tentacles at their borders that swirl closed shortly after they've deposited the would-be victims, surely disoriented by the sudden change in location and possibly not even able to make them out, make sense of them or register them before they're gone. They're in... the park now, it seems. Close enough to see or hear the destruction Solaris wreaks.
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Somewhere far off...
"Just once... Interfering just once is enough. Don't expect a habit of it."
"These are extraordinary circumstances, after all. But still, I appreciate it. I knew you had something resembling a heart under all that~"
"Don't misunderstand. Pragmatism and altruism merely happened to line up this time. I don't expect it to be a common occurrence."
"Whatever you say~"
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Post by lunarLunatic on Aug 15, 2016 16:21:51 GMT -8
Despite the overwhelming chaos, Medi does not move.
"...There's nothing you can do. The prison has become ground zero. Gone. Kaput. How do I know? The flowers told me."
The inky girl sits at the side of the bed, just as unphased and apathetic to the disaster.
"Such a shame we weren't there to dissapear with it."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 15, 2016 18:29:04 GMT -8
Theta is knocked over by the shockwave, and quite a few others are floored as well. Static fuzzes the speaker system.
Soon enough though, he gets back up. He immediately pulls out his laptop and writes a post. The others need to know this.
"...fuck, I wanna see the damage for myself... but I can't leave the two of you alone here..."
Meanwhile, in the park, a fairly large amount of prison staff appear out of harm's way. They have no idea what's going on.
Some of the escaped convicts had made it far enough to escape the blast, but the vast majority have been destroyed completely.
Quite a few townsfolk, oddly energized by the shockwave and broken out of their eternal routines, begin making their way towards the site of the destruction.
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Post by lunarLunatic on Aug 15, 2016 18:51:12 GMT -8
"...Honestly, we want to check it out too. Get up, little lady. We're going to ground zero."
The girl motions upwards, and Medi stirs from her apparent slumber, slowly getting up.
"We'll behave...After all, there's not much out there that can obliterate us anyway...Aside from whatever is causing this weirdo phenomenon with the dreambubbles."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Aug 15, 2016 21:07:10 GMT -8
Theta appears a bit surprised upon seeing Medi just get back up like that, but quickly gets back on track.
"...alright then. Are you sure she'll be fine to walk that far? It's quite a few blocks away."
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