Mission 240: "Mine Shall Be a Utopia of Strength"

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VJockey (02:20:08): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3sSQ6KNgM
VJockey (02:21:00): This is it. The Blitz Valhalla base has been tracked to a facility deep in the Alps
VJockey (02:22:06): The Chalice had to stop a short distance away, leaving the team to have to handle the rest of the insertion on their own - Base Jabbers provided for those who can't fly.
VJockey (02:22:37): The Wind is roaring like an enraged beast as condensation develops on metal.
Wyverncakes (02:22:56): Inside of REVIVAL, Lynn's antsy but determined.
tengusaur (02:23:12): Lily: "Here it is. Time to stop the spread of Izanami Virus once and for all."
Aero (02:23:51): Ichitaka: So we just have to break into it and destroy the transmission tower right."
sketchbookfiend (02:24:00): Yusuke's surfing on Gouram he's good. Already Rider'd up even. "I'm looking forward to this."
Wyverncakes (02:24:19): Lynn: "That's right. That's what we need to do."
tengusaur (02:24:44): Lily: "I'm sure Typhon will be waiting for us."
Wyverncakes (02:24:46): "The Virus isn't a danger because it can kill people... but just it can keep adapting. Nothing works against it more than once."
Wyverncakes (02:24:58): R: "And if he is, then we'll kill him."
Wyverncakes (02:25:05): Lynn: "Takeda and Volschoft too."
VJockey (02:25:26): Everyone, as you get closer to the mission area... there's some static over your comms...
Meraxa (02:25:28): Richard had barely just gotten back when this cropped up, so he hadn't even left Ideigi. It flies under its own power, spell circle lightly humming behind it as it casts a shadow over the land below.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:25:29): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_vePHWS50
tengusaur (02:25:46): Lily: "I'm counting on him being there, yes. For this specific reason."
VJockey (02:25:50): like a transmission coming through...
tengusaur (02:26:07): Lily: "Huh...?"
Aero (02:26:11): Ichitaka: "Hmm that's weird."
VJockey (02:26:18): And at the same time... through the fog and the rain you can see an off blue light...
VJockey (02:26:20): a projection
sketchbookfiend (02:26:28): Kuuga: "What's that?"
VJockey (02:27:36): ???: http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h454/Steamrollerssolveall/Hazardous%20Pursuits/Marie_zpsc7260eac.jpg
VJockey (02:27:45): "You are listening to Marie Weiss, and I am here to ask you a simple question: the world of today... what reason do we have to accept it?"
Wyverncakes (02:28:00): Lynn: "... What?"
Wyverncakes (02:28:05): Weiss... Weiss...
Wyverncakes (02:28:34): She was trying to remember if she'd ever heard that name before, or if she'd ever seen that woman either.
VJockey (02:28:40): "The Britannians: parasites of Japan who exploit its resources in the wake of the Festum! The Federation: led by dictators who wish to rule the colonies they did not even build with their own two hands? The world as a whole: squabbling and fighting, and pinning their hopes of survival in the wake of this asteroid on their precious 'HALO'!"
sketchbookfiend (02:29:04): Kuuga: "....uhm."
tengusaur (02:29:09): Lily: "It's a prerecorded message... A very old prerecorded message."
Wyverncakes (02:29:14): R: "Mentioning HALO..."
Wyverncakes (02:29:24): "Seventeen years old, at the very earliest."
VJockey (02:29:28): As the projection of Marie speaks, the fog begins to roll away... you are all getting closer...
Aero (02:29:28): Ichitaka: "It's older than I am."
VJockey (02:29:43): "No. Oh no... theirs is the world of the parasite. The coward who cannot stand the presence of the brave. The fool who cannot tolerate the existence of the wiseman. And it is coming to an end. Like a rapture the asteroid will fall and they will die... and we will live. We will survive Ragnarok, safe inside..."
Aero (02:30:17): Ichitaka: "Well...she was slightly wrong."
sketchbookfiend (02:30:29): Kuuga: "...Is she talking about what I think she is?"
Aero (02:30:48): Ichitaka: "The Second Impact?"
VJockey (02:30:55): Then you see the mission area. A city, pristine - albeit with some damage scattered across the skyline. Everywhere you look is artistry and architecture of an astounding level.
Meraxa (02:30:59): Richard: I was a baby when that happened...
VJockey (02:31:08): "Yggdrasill!

The city of the worthy! My city, and a city that will become yours too, a city where strength of character and ability, not strength of arms, determines worth! A city for the select: myself, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, those that truly matter!

The old world is at an end, but here, in Yggdrasill, we shall begin a new one. And when the time is ripe, we shall take back the Earth we were cheated out of, for the utopia that shall be will come from my hands, and it shall be of true strength!"
Wyverncakes (02:31:45): Lynn: "Talking like that..."
VJockey (02:31:49): True strength.... its hard to really say that the inhabitants of the city had that...
sketchbookfiend (02:31:52): Kuuga: "Hmm."
tengusaur (02:31:56): Lily: "That sounds good if you don't think about it too much... But it's aso supremely arrogant."
Aero (02:32:00): Ichitaka: "Well, I think she needed to motivate whoever came here."
tengusaur (02:32:04): *also
VJockey (02:32:08): Everyone.
VJockey (02:32:17): If you take a closer look at the streets
Wyverncakes (02:32:23): Lynn: "I could see Takeda getting behind her ideals. And the Izanami Virus, then-"
VJockey (02:32:24): at the windows of the buildings
VJockey (02:32:30): you'll notice something disturbing.
VJockey (02:32:42): Bodies. Lots of them. All of them.
Meraxa (02:32:46): Richard: ...Good god...
VJockey (02:33:01): Dried and mummified, it seems that this City too was put to the test of Izanami.
Wyverncakes (02:33:01): Lynn: "Oh my god..."
Aero (02:33:02): Ichitaka: "So much for a utopia..."
sketchbookfiend (02:33:06): Kuuga: "!!!"
tengusaur (02:33:07): Lily: "...What..." She floats slowly towards the ground. "What in the world happened here..."
Wyverncakes (02:33:46): R: "A weapons test for Izanami? Or was it intentional for them to try to prove their own worth?"
VJockey (02:33:53): Takeda: "They were chosen by her. Yet they failed a test that she would have succeeded in."
VJockey (02:33:59): "Truly a dissapointment."
tengusaur (02:34:07): Lily: "!"
frifreeman (02:34:07): Elena: "I wonder how long have they died?"
Wyverncakes (02:34:08): Lynn snaps to attention! "Takeda!"
Wyverncakes (02:34:22): REVIVAL's already drawing a handgun!
sketchbookfiend (02:34:25): Kuuga: "....a dis-" wow that gets the Rider seeing red.
Meraxa (02:34:42): Richard: A test?!
VJockey (02:34:45): There was both amusement and scorn in his voice. It seems the projection had changed from Marie to Takeda. The Scientist smirking at the heroes.
VJockey (02:35:10): "Of course. How else would they have proven their worth to her new world?"
tengusaur (02:35:49): Lily: "This is insane! How do you even expect humans to survive the Izanami Virus?"
Wyverncakes (02:36:27): R: "No doubt thinking anyone subjected to it could manufacture a cure in the span of time between infection and death."
sketchbookfiend (02:36:30): Kuuga: "This was no test...this was a massacre. How do you look at yourself in the mirrior."
VJockey (02:36:42): "Very easily."
VJockey (02:36:51): "But you would be surprised though."
VJockey (02:37:19): "Even if they were unworthy, they were willing to take the virus willingly in order to prove they are better than those outside."
Wyverncakes (02:37:32): (Also, Takeda just for anyone who forgot: http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h454/Steamrollerssolveall/Hazardous%20Pursuits/Takeda_zpsaf3d624f.jpg)
Meraxa (02:37:52): Richard: Likely story...
VJockey (02:37:53): While Takeda speaks, there seems to be movement from the streets.
Aero (02:38:04): Ichitaka: "Below."
VJockey (02:38:06): Around corners, cutting through parks...
Wyverncakes (02:38:12): Lynn: "That's... insane! An ideal that just kills off all your followers is pointless!"
tengusaur (02:38:35): Lily: "Whether he's telling the truth or not doesn't change that a horrible travesty happened here..."
sketchbookfiend (02:38:39): Kuuga: "...."
Aero (02:38:57): Ichitaka: "Yeah, they killed everyone here. No matter the reasons it's terrible."
VJockey (02:39:11): (Enemies: Valhallan KMF (Sutherland) x10)
Aero (02:39:36): Ichitaka: "Knightmares?"
Wyverncakes (02:39:44): Lynn: "And if we don't stop them here... then it means even more cities will suffer this place's fate!"
tengusaur (02:39:50): Lily: "I don't think just the broadcast tower is our target anymore."
Peter Kampschroeder (02:40:23): (Please refer to prior track)
VJockey (02:40:36): (Initiative: Lynn/R, Lily, Ichitaka, Richard, Yusuke, ???)
tengusaur (02:40:53): (you forgot Elena)
Aero (02:41:01): Ichitaka: "It should be our priority though Lily!"
Wyverncakes (02:41:21): R: "And no time for riff-raff either."
Wyverncakes (02:41:28): Lynn: "Dullahan, warping in!"
tengusaur (02:41:34): Lily: "Of course!" Her eyes flash brightly for a moment.
VJockey (02:41:53): (sorry)
VJockey (02:42:01): (Initiative: Lynn/R, Lily, Ichitaka, Elena, Richard, Yusuke, ???)
Wyverncakes (02:42:17): * One portal later, REVIVAL's hefting its missile launcher and vvwwwwwwwrrrrs towards the Valhallans, loosing a salvo of missiles so it can break on through!+
Wyverncakes (02:43:14): ^
Wyverncakes (02:43:16): (DURANDAL!)
Wyverncakes (02:43:17): (DERP!)
VJockey (02:43:22): (Lynn, Lily, Ichitaka)
Wyverncakes (02:43:32): (Also derp for jumping the gun like that)
VJockey (02:43:41): (Its okay, you were first anyway)
tengusaur (02:43:57): * Lily flies towards the incoming KMFs, bombarding them with blue lasers from all wings as she rushes towards them, and zips last! When she's behind them, she quickly turns around and fires 6 beams at once at one of the KMF's backs! +
Aero (02:44:28): * Ichi himself rushes straight at the nearest KMF and slams his fist down on it. +
tengusaur (02:44:29): Lily: "You are working for a madman. Is it worth throwing away your lives for that?"
VJockey (02:45:52): Lily! Lynn! The both of you account for one Knightmare each... but the others are manuevering wildly across streets and buildings, dust, bodies and grit were kicked up as they skated across streets and parks and rushed across the sides of buildings, unleashing gunfire upon the both of you! React!
Wyverncakes (02:46:00): R: "Unfortunate to say, but the city's population threw their lives away for less!"
VJockey (02:46:38): Ichitaka! You'll find that the Knightmare lost an arm from that as it moved aside, but its going to attempt to take one of yours in retaliation! React!
Wyverncakes (02:47:13): * REVIVAL's shield gets brought up for protection, and R doubles-down with unloading its handgun on the Knightmare.+
tengusaur (02:49:05): * "Very well then..." Lily switches all wings to full maneuverability, using her small size and high speed as an advantage! She takes off to the sky, spinning between the incoming bullets and taking cover behind the tall towers. +
Aero (02:49:20): * "Light Blazer." In response Ichi turns ever so slightly and unleashes the large blue beam at point blank range at the Knightmare. +
VJockey (02:51:41): (Elena, Richard, Yusuke, Corel Character)
VJockey (02:53:20): Lily! Lynn! Between the shield and the towers, the gunfire does zilch! The Knightmare that R shot at found one of its Landspinners trashed and unable to keep its momentum, slid a considerable distance down and crashed repeatedly across the road. Was it still working to a degree? Yes, was the pilot dead from the repeated impacts? probably.
VJockey (02:54:01): Ichi. The Knightmare is blasted apart. It didn't EXPLODE due to the Universal Alloy structure, but it was taken out of action.
sketchbookfiend (02:54:08): *Kuuga leaps off of Gouram as it buzzes right over one of those KMF. His intent? To stomp a hole THROUGH the mech without touching the cockpit.+
frifreeman (02:56:31): Elena: "You're pretty crazy, mister. Making a cure is pretty hard, not everyone can make a cure. But that doesn't mean they're useless!"
frifreeman (02:57:04): Elena: "Like me, I bet I can't make a cure. But I bet I can kill better than you! Hee hee!"
tengusaur (02:57:27): Lily: "She makes a good point, but I'm still disconcerned..."
griefgathering (02:57:45): *There's a jet-like screech as an already transformed Neptune approaches one of the Knightmares. Apparently even she didn't want to take any risks for this one. Large sword in hand, the goddess sweeps low- aiming to cut the leg(s) off the enemy machine!+
Aero (02:57:48): Ichitaka: "That's Elena for you..."
tengusaur (02:58:14): *disconcerted
frifreeman (02:58:28): Elena flies at low height on the ground fast toward one of the knightmare frames, then she floats around one of the knightmare frames and slices its head with her vibrating knife from behind.+
Meraxa (02:59:53): Richard lands his massive mecha in the streets, attempting to block off the path of the knightmares with Ideigi's very own feet... before trying to kick what comes his way.+
VJockey (03:01:37): Kuuga! You slam against the KMF but it seems to be quite durable thanks to the UA upgrade! You're going to need to do a lot more damage than that. Additionally your leg seems to be somewhat embedded into the armor - the KMF is now trying to shake you off! React!
VJockey (03:02:28): Elena, you successfully decapitate the KMF, it swings towards you and tries to fire upon you utilizing its gun-cam! React!
Aero (03:02:39): #
VJockey (03:02:44): Approved
VJockey (03:03:06): Nep! Another Knightmare falls to its pilot's death! But two more are shooting at you! React!
Aero (03:03:38): * "Forget about someone!" Ichi gets a flying start and then punts the KMF as hard as he can towards the sky before firing a barrage of Maser Eyes. +
sketchbookfiend (03:03:47): *Kuuga will pull his legs out, shaking helped a bit, and then leap off of the KMF with a kick off of the robot's head for an extra boost of momentum to get away.+
VJockey (03:04:08): Richard! One of the KMFs is booted through a building! But the other manages to skate UP onto Ideigi! Grabbing to the top of the head and jamming a gunbarrel into its face! React before you get point blank dakka!
Meraxa (03:05:03): ...Richard employs a tactical facepalm.+
Aero (03:05:10): It dodges
Aero (03:05:15): He hits himself in the face
VJockey (03:05:29): Callback to the first Ideigi mission I ran
griefgathering (03:05:41): *Purple Heart suddenly ascends to try to throw the aim off of those shots! If that's not enough, she releases a single wave of energy from her sword to help intercept some of the projectiles!+
VJockey (03:07:19): Kuuga! The Knightmare gets its head smashed beyond repair, but it uses its Slash harkens to keep from falling to its Pilot's Death!
VJockey (03:07:51): Ichi! The KMF attacking Elena is reduced to an explosion in the sky! Nice job!
VJockey (03:07:57): Richard...
VJockey (03:07:59): Yeah
VJockey (03:08:02): what was said above
VJockey (03:08:07): it doged
sketchbookfiend (03:08:11): Kuuga: "I'd suggest you bail and run. I'm the only person that'll give you that chance."
VJockey (03:08:13): you hit yourself in the face
sketchbookfiend (03:08:16): To the KMF pilot
Aero (03:08:45): Ichitaka: "Thank god they're pretty small..."
tengusaur (03:08:55): Lily: "Watch out, Richard! Those are not ordinary Knightmare Frames!"
VJockey (03:09:16): Nep! The projectiles are eliminated. Simple bullets from not-simple mecha.
VJockey (03:09:46): KMF Pilot:...No Retreat. No Surrender.
Meraxa (03:09:58): Richard: ...I suspect they're not ordinary pilots either
VJockey (03:10:00): KMF: Besides... you don't get option number one Either.
griefgathering (03:10:09): Purple Heart: "These are much tougher than I remember them to be..."
sketchbookfiend (03:10:09): Kuuga: "..."
VJockey (03:10:13): As the KMF pilot said that...
VJockey (03:10:26): A MASSIVE shield washes over the city!
VJockey (03:10:37): Enclosing it in a dome, it seems that there is most certainly no way out...
VJockey (03:10:47): Say it with me now... ITS A TRAP!
sketchbookfiend (03:10:54): Kuuga: "...this seems unnecessary."
Wyverncakes (03:11:10): R: "... Well that explains why they lowered the barrier in the first place.
Aero (03:11:15): Ichitaka: "They'll probably have a follow up."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:12:10): "Aw, you saw right through me!"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:12:21): Oh hey, it's the sound of a rather familiar crazy robot.
sketchbookfiend (03:12:39): Kuuga: "!!!"
Aero (03:12:45): Ichitaka: "Alice?"
tengusaur (03:12:47): Lily: "ALICE? She's here?"
Wyverncakes (03:12:50): Aaaaand if R had blood it would've just shot up to boiling.
Wyverncakes (03:12:53): R: "Her."
Wyverncakes (03:13:32): "When you said that you were going to be going to a location even the Chalice would need help breaking into, I suppose you never specified where the help would be coming from."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:13:43): "Yes, yes, me. Anyways, do we really have to do the whole justice, fairness, truth and love routine? It get's really old."
VJockey (03:13:52): Volshoft: "Normally I wouldn't take outside help, but considering her usefulness in making sure you all were trapped here.. well"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:13:57): "Well, I had another place in mind, but this was on the market for cheap."
VJockey (03:14:13): "A chance to tear Idris out of that tin can and crush her with my bare hands... how can I refuse..."
sketchbookfiend (03:14:53): Kuuga: "Alice you can't be serious...why would you pick these people to side with?"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:15:47): "...Because they were nice?"
sketchbookfiend (03:16:13): Kuuga: ".....I am unsure how to respond to that."
Aero (03:16:14): Ichitaka: "There's a pile of bodies in this city Alice..."
Wyverncakes (03:16:34): R: "Considering her standard operating procedure I don't think she minds."
griefgathering (03:16:39): Purple Heart: "More than just a pile..."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:16:52): Meanwhile, R, you'll get a whole burst of a transmission shot at you.
Peter Kampschroeder (03:17:08): "Well, I mean it needs some cleaning up, but it's a very solid facility."
sketchbookfiend (03:17:32): Kuuga: "Alice even you can see the problem with them though! Why would you trust them? They could just use you and throw you away. You'd be putting yourself and Caulder in danger!"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:17:37): "We're totally doing the justice routine though, aren't we...Man, I wanted to skip that..."
sketchbookfiend (03:17:55): Kuuga: "It's sort of in my job description."
Wyverncakes (03:18:04): R: "What in the-"
Wyverncakes (03:18:06): No, forget it.
Peter Kampschroeder (03:18:12): "But it's soooo cliche..."
Wyverncakes (03:18:15): Probably just some stupid gloating or something from Alice.
VJockey (03:18:31): [REVISED ENEMY LIST: 44 Valhallan KMFs (1 Damaged), 15 "Clementine" Class Battle Tanks, Typhon, Gungir (Volshoft), 3 I-C-003-IN ]
Wyverncakes (03:18:50): Lynn: "... We've got company."
VJockey (03:19:03): [Gungir - Appearance wise the same as the Nemean]
Peter Kampschroeder (03:19:03): "Anyways. Seems I'm going to be killing you all now! Sorry <3~"
sketchbookfiend (03:19:09): Kuuga: "Alice be sensible-...damn it."
tengusaur (03:19:24): Lily: "I don't think talking to her is going to work."
VJockey (03:19:24): [I-C-003-IN - http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131024190121/armoredcore/images/f/fb/2.png ]
Aero (03:19:30): Ichitaka: "It almost feels like we've wasted our time talking to her..."
griefgathering (03:19:38): Purple Heart: "Cutting straight to the action, then."
VJockey (03:19:46): [Clementine - Remember that tank ALICE made before? Here's more of them.]
griefgathering (03:20:12): Purple Heart: "And those tanks are..."
tengusaur (03:20:14): Lily: "If you ally yourself with Blitz Valhalla, even though you know what they've done..."
Aero (03:20:29): Ichitaka: "A custom tank she made herself on the Chalice."
sketchbookfiend (03:21:10): Kuuga: "Fine. I'll just have to smack some sense into you. As much as I don't want to."
Wyverncakes (03:21:25): R: "Alice."
VJockey (03:21:29): (Lynn, Lily, Ichi)
Wyverncakes (03:21:32): "I hope you're listening."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:21:36): "Ah, the threats of violence as a means to agreement! I was waiting for that."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:21:44): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9-jAdbvRHQ
Wyverncakes (03:21:45): "And I hope you don't take this seriously, so that when the time finally comes there's nothing but horror in your eyes."
Wyverncakes (03:21:50): "I'm going to kill you."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:22:00): "Bring it, Greta."
griefgathering (03:22:09): Purple Heart: (to Ichi) "I know that much. I drove the first one myself. But to think that would ever be used against us..."
Wyverncakes (03:22:15): Oooooh fuck, Alice shouldn't have said that!
Wyverncakes (03:22:50): Fortunately R's not the only one with the control of the VeHA, and Lynn has the machine ready the Durandal once more!
VJockey (03:23:04): (ALICE, go)
Aero (03:23:11): Ichitaka: "Right, sorry. We still can't hold back though."
tengusaur (03:24:21): * "Don't worry. I know how to take on such units..." Lily flies up into the sky, summoning her giant arm cannon mid-flight. She uses the nearby buildings to stay under cover, then suddenly dashes into the open sky and bombards the tanks with a barrage of explosive blue balls from above! "I used to be in their category!" +
Aero (03:24:35): * Rushbird raises it's hands into the air and begins to open up another Dimension Crack. He then charges straight into the crowd before calling down the pillar of energy on them. +
Wyverncakes (03:25:25): But first...
VJockey (03:25:30): (Ichi, state targets)
Wyverncakes (03:25:32): Lynn: "Alice isn't the only abomination here."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:25:45): *The tanks break formation, scattering! As they spread out through the area, with five of them firing at Rushbird with their double railguns, five at Idegi with the same weapon, while the last group splits and fires on Neptune and Lily with their tiny red laser guns.+
Aero (03:26:11): (Crowd of Clementines)
Wyverncakes (03:26:35): * The VeHA moves towards Typhon! "And if you die... then Valhalla's precious delivery system for the Izanami Virus dies with you!" Missiles are fired, and REVIVAL's already drawing its electric knife too!+
VJockey (03:27:33): Hey Lily? About those blasts... you'll find them intercepted by counterfire. From what you ask?
VJockey (03:28:23): Its Typhon! He would have hurled a derogatory remark at you... if his face wasn't filled with missile!
VJockey (03:29:11): Typhon let out a snarl of annoyance as the smoke clears.
VJockey (03:29:18): "Are you finished yet?"
Wyverncakes (03:30:13): R: "Not until you're dead too."
tengusaur (03:30:29): * Lily: "I knew you would show up sooner or later, Typhon!" Lily counters the incoming lasers by spreading an energy field between four of her wings to protect herself! And while Typhon is distracted, more blue energy balls towards the tanks! +
VJockey (03:31:18): Lily! Your energy field holds, but you felt some pressure from each shot.
VJockey (03:31:24): (ALICE Tank Army. React)
VJockey (03:31:44): (To the additional fire)
Peter Kampschroeder (03:33:35): *the tanks do their best to dodge, putting their oversized generators and turbofans to work in an attempt to zip out of the way of fire! They'll try to turn their tiny red lasers on Lily's shots, and do their best to stay nowhere near Rushbird.+
VJockey (03:34:36): Tanks, the mobility helps avoid most of the fire, admittedly two are lost in the barrages from all parties and thus the laser party was considerably smaller!
VJockey (03:34:53): Ichi and Richard though have high speed projectiles headed for them
VJockey (03:34:55): REACT
Meraxa (03:36:18): Richard raises his shield, though railguns DO tend to be pretty fast, so...+
VJockey (03:37:03): Also Lily, Nep react to lasers
VJockey (03:37:05): (derp)
griefgathering (03:37:23): (Lily already did, I think...)
Aero (03:37:25): * "Solids again eh. DIMENSION STORM." There's no hesitation from Ichi. The hands of Rushbird are punched together immediately and he unleashes the gigantic blue beam to devour the shots. +
VJockey (03:37:30): (Gah)
VJockey (03:37:54): (Then just Nep)
VJockey (03:38:10): (Elena, Yusuke)
VJockey (03:38:26): (Nep can go After react, Richard can go after react resolution)
VJockey (03:39:03): Richard! Three sets of rounds are stopped and that's good! Two manage to nail you in each shoulder and put Ideigi on its ass!
griefgathering (03:39:05): *Purple Heart starts to dodge as if she was playing a bullet-hell game, only having buildings around to use as cover helps with that. She also uses her sword like a lightsaber to deflect any shots that do come too close for comfort!+
tengusaur (03:39:13): * Lily just keeps up the shield again, while moving behind a building for cover. +
Peter Kampschroeder (03:40:07): "No, not Orangey and Binky!"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:40:17): "They were such good tanks..."
sketchbookfiend (03:40:55): *Kuuga decides to run head long towards one of those tanks, changing into his purple Titan form as he grabs onto one. And with the strength behind this form, he does...something a bit ridiculous "RIDER...REVERSAL!" Kuuga twists with all his stength to THROW the tank upside down.+
Aero (03:41:06): Ichitaka: "I can't believe she named her tanks."
VJockey (03:41:09): Nep! The buildings get lines carved into them with lasers, and a few are deflected right back into their turrets!
tengusaur (03:41:19): Lily: "Aren't all of them orange...?"
VJockey (03:41:31): Ichitaka. BOOM. That's all that needs to be said. You may have flipped a few of the front tanks as well.
griefgathering (03:41:36): "Nhh..." This is when Neptune tries her best not to think of how stupidly fun driving one of those was.
frifreeman (03:41:41): Elena: "What's wrong with that!?"
VJockey (03:41:56): Yusuke. TANK FLIP. ALICE. React.
Aero (03:42:23): Ichitaka: "Well she's trying to kill us with them!"
Meraxa (03:43:47): Richard: Ngh... Right then... *Thankfully, with the spell circle on, Richard can have Ideigi float right back up, and rear back its fist.* Nova...! *It glows bright like the sun, before suddenly flying forward!* PUUUUUUNCH! *A fist of light propelled by a beam, aimed to clear the street a little!+
Peter Kampschroeder (03:44:26): *That tank squirms about on its back like a disabled tortise...before it fires out grappling hooks and zips itself away from Kuuga! As it slides along the ground, it'll turn its turret beneath it and try to return fire.+
VJockey (03:45:34): That turret kinda hits nothing except for the ground.
VJockey (03:45:50): (Richard. State yer targets)
Peter Kampschroeder (03:45:53): Sadness...
frifreeman (03:46:00): Elena:"How romantic... She's fighting to be together with her loved one... I... I don't know if I can do this, guys... Trying to wedge people in love... "
sketchbookfiend (03:46:12): Kuuga: "...wait really?"
griefgathering (03:46:32): *And seeing as the tanks are mostly occupied, Purple Heart flies down an adjacent street! She's got her sights set on one of the White Giants, drawing her gun with her free hand and launching fireballs at it!+
VJockey (03:48:32): Nep! The White Giant is.... staggered. The armor is glowing but aside from that, very little visible damage. It and its brothers are aiming those absurdly huge guns at you though. The effect can be described as a tidal wave of fury and destruction as a blue-white roaring tide of plasma tears through street and building, melting or incinerating everything in its path! REACT!
Meraxa (03:48:38): (KMFs good?)
Aero (03:48:44): #Nep
VJockey (03:48:45): (Yup)
VJockey (03:49:07): (You've been supporting quite a lot Aero. Wait for another turn to pass)
tengusaur (03:49:38): Lily: "Watch out, Purple Heart!"
VJockey (03:50:23): (Richard! You take down three of the Valhallans.... but... there's just one problem. Being the biggest mecha among the heroes means thall ALL of them are going to gang up on you! Some are shooting at you with cannons, machineguns and missiles... but most of them? Trying to tie you down with SLASH HARKENS! REACT TO ARMY!
Wyverncakes (03:50:42): # Richard
tengusaur (03:50:43): # Richard
Meraxa (03:50:57): Richard: Wait!
sketchbookfiend (03:51:09): # Richard
griefgathering (03:51:46): *Purple Heart is going to need some help for this, which is why she proceeds to buff herself and graze those beams like crazy. She's still going forward if she can though, and the edge of her sword glows violet as she targets one of the White Giants' cannons between firing intervals - aiming to pierce straight through it!+
frifreeman (03:51:47): Elena flies around above, not sure on what she should be doing. "Aah, I'm confused!" Elena grapples one of the KMF and stabs it over and over and over again to release her frustration.+
Meraxa (03:52:49): Richard is.... going to let them actually. After only a few moments, the giant mecha just stops resisting... so that when there's enough latched on through slash harkens, he can do the simplest of tasks.
Meraxa (03:52:53): Fly up. HARD+
VJockey (03:53:33): Elena! The KMF is tackled to the ground and stabbed repeatedly and JOY OF JOYS! You hit the cockpit block! As you tear it open blood and gore is coating your knife as well as the rest of the cockpit! FUN TIMES!
VJockey (03:54:50): (All Richard Supports approved)
tengusaur (03:55:21): * While Richard does his trick, Lily helps by shooting down the incoming missiles and other projectiles from afar by the means of rapid blue lasers! +
VJockey (03:56:09): Nep! Trying to get past the surging rush of Plasma was a difficult and painful manuever, but when you manage to get through, the cannon is soon carved to pieces - and explodes! Taking the arm of its user with it!
Wyverncakes (03:56:22): * And add onto that, Ascalon shots to blow through multiple KMFs whenever Lynn can line up a shot!+
Wyverncakes (03:56:36): Lynn: "George, we're not stopping!"
Wyverncakes (03:56:57): "We're here to stop yours and Takeda's plan...!"
sketchbookfiend (03:56:58): *Kuuga grabs Gouram as it whizzes by him and flies him towards the boyos attacking Richard. And once they're hooked he'll leap off and Super Man Punch into those KMF, since he's still purple.+
griefgathering (03:57:04): Purple Heart: "...That's not something I'm going to try again."
tengusaur (03:57:19): Lily: "Are you alright?"
VJockey (03:57:36): (Kuuga, The Shooters or the ones tied to him?)
sketchbookfiend (03:58:10): (tied to him, make them into office clackers)
griefgathering (03:58:40): Purple Heart: "For the most part. As long as I can keep fighting right now, that's what matters."
VJockey (03:59:39): Kuuga! Lynn! Richard! Lily! Richard only has to deal with minor damage from the shooters... and as for the ones hanging off him? Well...
VJockey (04:00:11): Yusuke manages to smash into a set! Causing them all to crash into each other! The last one in line is sent flying off into a building!
VJockey (04:00:16): And Lynn....
VJockey (04:00:36): Well. When you mix a Penetrator Rifle with a Crowd, you know what the result would be.
VJockey (04:00:54): Several top halves are liberated from their lower halves, arms and legs rain down below!
Wyverncakes (04:01:37): R: "And that thins out the crowd."
tengusaur (04:01:46): Lily: "Make sure not to overdo it. We can beat them if we outlast them."
VJockey (04:01:51): Typhon: "And leaves you so very open"
tengusaur (04:01:54): Lily: "And... I have a request."
VJockey (04:01:56): LYNN!
Wyverncakes (04:02:20): R: "!"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:02:50): "Hey, I liked those guys! Well, not liked liked them, but they respected my space, you know?"
VJockey (04:03:09): Typhon is tearing towards the REVIVAL at full speed! A lance-like arm pierces right through as he unleashes a burst of Izanami nanomachines...
VJockey (04:03:14): directly into the cockpit
tengusaur (04:03:25): # Lynn?
VJockey (04:03:30): (Denied)
Meraxa (04:04:07): Richard: ...LYNN! *realisation kicks in like a b*****
sketchbookfiend (04:04:14): Kuuga: "Lynn!"
tengusaur (04:04:22): Lily: "No!"
Aero (04:04:27): Ichitaka: "That's not good!"
Wyverncakes (04:04:28): * REVIVAL's still moving to counter, knife at poised to stab back and thrust out at Typhon!+
VJockey (04:04:35): "Do you want to know a secret 'R'?"
VJockey (04:04:41): "Its a good one!"
VJockey (04:04:55): There's a maniacal grin on the RE's face.
griefgathering (04:04:59): Purple Heart: "Lynn! R!"
Wyverncakes (04:05:00): R: "Don't know, don't care!"
VJockey (04:05:33): "Oh! But I think you're going to like it a lot mother!"
Wyverncakes (04:05:40): And at that-
Peter Kampschroeder (04:05:48): "Oooooooh!"
Wyverncakes (04:05:49): R: "What?"
VJockey (04:05:58): "After all if it wasn't for you rejecting your identity, Father never would have made me!"
Wyverncakes (04:06:02): Lynn: "R!"
sketchbookfiend (04:06:09): Kuuga: "...wha-"
Wyverncakes (04:06:14): ... The entire machine just seems to... slow down.
Wyverncakes (04:06:15): No.
Wyverncakes (04:06:19): No. No. No.
Wyverncakes (04:06:33): In the span of microseconds R's opening up the data package Alice sent and...
Wyverncakes (04:06:40): ... No, this can't be right...
Wyverncakes (04:06:42): Typhon.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:06:44): "Okay, it's official. Today's going to be awesome."
VJockey (04:06:45): "Hahahahaha! Don't you see? I have you to thank for all the misery and carnage I got to do for every moment I existed!"
Wyverncakes (04:06:48): Dr. Wagner's second RE he made.
Wyverncakes (04:07:03): Making a wife based on a pre-existing human failed so miserably.
VJockey (04:07:14): "Thank you mother. Thank you for letting me be born!"
Wyverncakes (04:07:15): So he made one off of a fictional son who never existed...
Wyverncakes (04:07:32): ... All because "Greta" didn't want to be "Greta"...
Wyverncakes (04:07:37): "... The only reason..."
Wyverncakes (04:07:47): "... You exist is because... I was too selfish..."
Wyverncakes (04:07:49): Yeah.
Aero (04:07:49): Ichitaka: "WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT?"
tengusaur (04:07:50): Lily: "This is messed up..."
Wyverncakes (04:07:56): R's guard is completely down.
Wyverncakes (04:08:00): Heroic BSOD.
Wyverncakes (04:08:01): Literally
Wyverncakes (04:08:03): And Lynn?
VJockey (04:08:07): "Now be a good mommy... and let me KILL MORE!"
Wyverncakes (04:08:12): Lynn's seeing Typhon coming in, struggling at the controls.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:08:13): "I know, right? It's wonderfully twisted."
Wyverncakes (04:08:19): Lynn: "R! R! M-MOVE!"
Wyverncakes (04:08:27): "D-DAMMIT GIVE ME MANUAL CONTROL IF NOTHING ELSE!"
tengusaur (04:08:35): Lily: "Be quiet."
VJockey (04:08:35): With that Typhon pushes further! Breaking past her defence!
tengusaur (04:09:01): Lily: "R! You can't just freeze in the middle of a fight! Too many people depend on you!"
sketchbookfiend (04:09:28): Kuuga: "R! You have to move!"
tengusaur (04:09:31): Lily: "I almost died when I made the same mistake! Don't repeat it!"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:10:05): "Ah, somehow I don't think she can hear you..."
tengusaur (04:10:20): Lily: "R is not male or female."
VJockey (04:10:33): This time... without R's interference... the lance pierces through.
VJockey (04:10:40): Lynn. You can feel it.
VJockey (04:10:49): Izanami making its way into your body.
Wyverncakes (04:10:55): Yeah, there's something big piercing straight through into her cockpit.
Wyverncakes (04:10:56): And...
VJockey (04:11:12): Everybody Else...
VJockey (04:11:28): The Big Whites are unleashing a MASSIVE explosive payload!
VJockey (04:11:31): Grenades! Missiles!
VJockey (04:11:40): REACT!
Wyverncakes (04:11:40): Already her lungs and muscles are tensing up, breathing becoming damn near impossible.
Wyverncakes (04:11:51): Lynn: "r-r..."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:12:04): "Surprise!"
Wyverncakes (04:12:11): Coughing, oh yeah this is how things went from here.
Meraxa (04:12:25): Richard: No, no, no! SENTINEL SHIELD! *Richard tosses his shield forward, and from there, projects a massive energy barrier to try and shield the group from harm+
Wyverncakes (04:12:42): Was this fate...? To die in such a painful way after everything she'd done? The lives she'd killed and those she'd failed to help?
tengusaur (04:13:03): * Lily: "I have to hel- guh!" Too many incoming projectiles! She has to help herself instead, dodging between the incoming ordnance and using her psiguns to shoot down as many projectiles as she can! +
Aero (04:13:15): * "Incoming!" Rushbird opens up yet another Dimension Crack in front of him and allows the energy explode out from it to destroy that payload. +
Wyverncakes (04:13:36): "N-no..."
sketchbookfiend (04:13:38): Kuuga: "TSK!" *The Kamen Rider dodges into the sky grabbing onto the Gouram to weave away from the grenades and missiles.+
Wyverncakes (04:14:05): Those faces. Every single one of those faces... Cora's husband, Laura's aunt...
Wyverncakes (04:14:08): So many others...
Wyverncakes (04:14:11): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqdGMlzTTS4
Wyverncakes (04:14:17): Lynn: "N-not yet..."
Wyverncakes (04:14:40): REVIVAL was still locked down. It couldn't even move or punch back at Typhon.
Wyverncakes (04:14:41): But...
Wyverncakes (04:14:51): There was still one thing she could do.
Wyverncakes (04:15:10): Jerkily her hands fumbled acoss the controls... and between Typhon and REVIVAL...
Wyverncakes (04:15:15): ... A portal suddenly opened up
griefgathering (04:15:17): *Purple Heart is simply too shocked for words...and now she has incoming fire to react to. "Aaagh!" She draws that small handgun and fires another Werter Cluster - the rock formations grow on the buildings and even the missiles and grenades that her shots hit. In the case of the former, they act as cover! In the latter, they'll probably help weigh down the projectiles at least!+
Wyverncakes (04:16:34): It was big. Bigger than any portal Lynn'd ever opened with the Linker System for the past seventeen years.
griefgathering (04:17:03): Purple Heart: "What?"
Wyverncakes (04:17:08): Big enough that you could see the garish, twisting, chaotic mess of colors inside. And as it grew big enough... it started to crack.
Wyverncakes (04:17:18): Lynn: "Down to the very last String..."
Wyverncakes (04:17:53): "... Typhon... I can't... face them-" More coughing. Oh god it felt like her lungs were starting to fill with blood now. "-U-Unless I stop an even bigger killer than me!"
sketchbookfiend (04:18:28): Kuuga: "LYNN!?"
VJockey (04:19:25): Volshoft: "It can't be...."
VJockey (04:19:32): "Typhon. Retreat."
VJockey (04:19:36): "NOW!"
VJockey (04:19:44): "She's recreating the bombing!"
VJockey (04:19:56): "Pull back to the secondary defensive line!"
Meraxa (04:20:01): Richard: ...The blowback! LYNN! NO!
tengusaur (04:20:03): Lily: "What?!"
VJockey (04:20:29): Typhon: "Bah, No reason to be afraid... I'll just KILL HER FIRST!!"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:20:32): "Eh?"
Aero (04:20:40): Ichitaka: "Not good!"
VJockey (04:20:45): The Lance pushes deeper.
VJockey (04:21:13): With everyone else, the bombardment is brutal, you all feel the fury even through the various shields and defenses!
VJockey (04:21:28): Richard... the pressure is overwhelming... you don't know if you can keep this up!
Wyverncakes (04:21:44): And Typhon might be moving in for the kill...
Wyverncakes (04:22:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkF13YQkPx0
Wyverncakes (04:22:12): But suddenly the portal just seems to... shatter.
Wyverncakes (04:22:24): And from it, destruction
Wyverncakes (04:22:48): Just a massive, unbelievable cone of destruction right in front of the VeHA.
Wyverncakes (04:23:04): Buildings. The dead. Roads. The ground underneath...
Meraxa (04:23:13): Richard: LYNN!
Wyverncakes (04:23:22): Oh right.
Wyverncakes (04:23:24): And Typhon.
Wyverncakes (04:23:27): At ground zero.
Meraxa (04:23:28): Richard: ...N-Not again...
VJockey (04:25:08): Typhon was sent crashing far through the carnage.... the body was still in one piece...relatively... but everything else? It was spasming, twitching. Like a corpse that was suddenly bereft of control.
VJockey (04:25:17): Then it went silent... and collapsed completely.
VJockey (04:25:20): coming apart.
VJockey (04:25:29): With no mind to maintain it.
tengusaur (04:25:43): Lily: "...Dead."
Wyverncakes (04:25:53): Inside of the VeHA's cockpit... Lynn would smile if she could.
Wyverncakes (04:26:06): But on top of her body just... failing her, half the world's just gone completely dark for her.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:26:26): "...Impressive. But, I wonder, how much time do you have left...?"
Wyverncakes (04:26:26): Lynn: "He gorckk... eye..."
Wyverncakes (04:26:40): "R..."
Wyverncakes (04:26:48): It's all she can manage before collapsing in the cockpit.
VJockey (04:26:54): Volshoft: "Hah... good riddance."
tengusaur (04:27:06): Lily: "Ack! R, can you take her to safety?"
VJockey (04:27:10): "Even if he died, at least I know he did his job."
Meraxa (04:27:21): Richard: ...Y-You...
Wyverncakes (04:27:23): R: "... Take who to..."
Wyverncakes (04:27:38): R: "L.. Oh my..."
VJockey (04:27:47): "Lynn, I hope you're awake enough to hear this, but you deserve everything that's coming to you and I hope you die in agony."
Wyverncakes (04:27:50): "Lynn, no. Please don't. Don't be doing this. Lynn! LYNN!"
Wyverncakes (04:28:03): There's some furious beeping inside of the VeHA's cockpit.
Aero (04:28:07): Ichitaka: "...what are you planning Alice."
Wyverncakes (04:28:18): All in the vain effort for Lynn to open her eyes again.
Wyverncakes (04:28:30): R: "Lynn... everyone... no.. -I din't..."
VJockey (04:28:37): Everyone. The Blitz Valhalla forces had retreated deeper into Ygdrassil.
VJockey (04:28:42): And....
Peter Kampschroeder (04:29:01): "Me? Nothing special. A better question is, what are you planning on doing?"
Wyverncakes (04:29:03): It falls to its knees.
Wyverncakes (04:29:18): ... And stamps its fist furiously.
griefgathering (04:29:22): Purple Heart: "R..."
VJockey (04:29:23): its a wild guess considering the source of transmissions from ALICE, it may be where the Control Tower and the AI may be!
Wyverncakes (04:29:24): "ALICE."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:29:32): "One of you is already knocking on heaven's door. There's only a few left..."
tengusaur (04:29:54): Lily: "Only a few... is more than enough to destroy you."
sketchbookfiend (04:30:10): Kuuga: "....Alice..."
Meraxa (04:30:18): Richard: Shut your mouth. Just... shut up.
Wyverncakes (04:30:24): Slowly, the machine rises up, opening up its cockpit and pulling Lynn's limp body from the inside.
Wyverncakes (04:31:00): There's a lot of blood running from her mouth, and the left side of her face... the area around her eye just a complete mess.
Wyverncakes (04:31:45): Looking around, R moves towards a building before stopping... and then moving towards one a little further away. It'll have to do for a temporary gravesight.
Wyverncakes (04:32:25): Very gingerly, R opens the door, and then reaches in and deposits Lynn inside and away from prying eyes... and then turns back to everyone else.
Wyverncakes (04:32:34): R: "Everyone... I'm sorry."
Wyverncakes (04:32:45): "Do whatever you want with me after this..."
Wyverncakes (04:32:53): "But let me see this to the end."
tengusaur (04:33:22): Lily: "Don't be. It's not your fault that a madman did something horrible because you ran from him."
tengusaur (04:33:37): Lily: "Let's go. We still have to destroy the transmission tower."
Aero (04:33:50): Ichitaka: "And to be honest there's another AI that should be apologizing."
sketchbookfiend (04:34:42): Kuuga: "..."
Wyverncakes (04:35:17): Recollecting its weapons, REVIVAL makes its way back down after Blitz Valhalla's forces.
Wyverncakes (04:35:30): If it could, it would cry.
VJockey (04:35:32): Once everything has been said and done, you all move deeper into the facility.
VJockey (04:35:40): There it is... the control tower.
VJockey (04:35:46): And with it...
VJockey (04:36:53): [Revised Enemy List: Gungir (Volshoft), Ichiryou, 7 Valhallans, 3 Big Whites (1 damaged), 4 Clementine Tanks]
VJockey (04:36:55): Wait
VJockey (04:38:26): Takeda: "Well it seems you've all made it to this last stretch."
Wyverncakes (04:38:39): R: "Good. You're here too."
Wyverncakes (04:38:52): "I can kill all of you and have no regrets."
VJockey (04:38:58): "Not for very long. You see, I have business elsewhere..."
griefgathering (04:39:10): Purple Heart: "...?"
tengusaur (04:39:12): Lily: "You're not going anywhere!"
Meraxa (04:39:15): Richard: Let me guess, another 'test'?
Aero (04:39:23): Ichitaka:"If you think you can escape you have another thing coming"
sketchbookfiend (04:39:27): Kuuga: "Don't think we'll let you get away."
VJockey (04:39:31): "Hah..."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:39:43): Alice giggles.
VJockey (04:39:46): The Ichiryou turns towards the heroes.... and opens up.
VJockey (04:39:50): Empty.
VJockey (04:39:55): It.
VJockey (04:39:56): Was.
VJockey (04:39:58): EMPTY.
sketchbookfiend (04:40:20): Kuuga.... slides his hand down his face in annoyance.
Meraxa (04:40:34): Richard: ...That bastard-!
Aero (04:40:35): Ichitaka just slams his fist on the controls. "Dammit!"
VJockey (04:40:43): "I have already left Ygdrassil's boundaries."
VJockey (04:40:58): "But I believe you have a bigger issue on your hands."
VJockey (04:41:19): "ALICE. That machine you have. I suppose it would be time to show it to them wouldn't it?"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:41:31): "Aaaah, I was waiting for that! Let's do it!"
Aero (04:43:23): Ichitaka: "Here we go..."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:43:44): And high above the central core stands a robot-a black nightmare, a NEXT armed with entirely too many guns. It leaps, and lands on the ground in front of the intrepid heroes.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:43:54): http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130930172714/armoredcore/images/0/04/N-WGDK.jpg (N-WGIX)
tengusaur (04:43:56): Lily: "Takeda might not be here... But he's not our main target. Volshoft is more important, and... This. Whatever this is."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:44:24): "There's what, six of you left? I'll make ace in a day."
Aero (04:44:34): Ichitaka: "She built a NEXT?"
Wyverncakes (04:44:38): R: "If Alice is piloting it, how nice of her to give us a means of killing her for good."
Meraxa (04:44:39): Richard: You'll be scrap in an hour.
sketchbookfiend (04:44:52): Kuuga: "..."
griefgathering (04:45:12): Purple Heart: "Lily's right. Let's focus on what's before us."
VJockey (04:45:23): Volshoft: "You'll all be left to rot here like the rest of the bodies."
Aero (04:45:34): Ichitaka: "You wish!"
VJockey (04:45:41): (R, Lily, Ichitaka. Go)
Peter Kampschroeder (04:45:47): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTHJkeqRt-8
Aero (04:47:19): * The Rushbird immediately charges the the Big Whites, simply throwing out a Lightning Fist at the first one he got near. +
tengusaur (04:47:39): * Lily: "Charge Mode, engage!" Suddenly her eyes light up with intense blue flames! Lily flies through the battlefield until establishing a good point high above, upon which she lands and starts charging her cannon! Energy gathers at the end of the big wave motion gun...
Wyverncakes (04:48:04): * Size difference be damned, R charges at Alice's machine, firing a flurry of missiles at it! "I should have deleted you when you were locked down in the Chalice!"+
Wyverncakes (04:48:10): Yeah, lots of anger going on here
VJockey (04:48:16): Ichitaka! It counters with a massive fist of its own! The Lightning fist is crushing it more and more... then it flips its grenade launcher down, barrel pointing right at your face!! REACT!
tengusaur (04:48:22): * Lily: "You have to answer for all the people your organization killed, leader f Blitz Valhalla. EVE Shot!" And she fires a huge blue blast towards the BV army! +
tengusaur (04:48:29): (target - Volshoft and KMFs)
VJockey (04:49:24): Lily! The KMFs try to scatter... but this time barely any escaped judgement.... Volshoft though....
VJockey (04:50:24): The Gungir was untouched.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:50:43): "Ha....hahahahaha! Good one, Greta!" The black NEXT dashes off to the side, and returns fire with a swarm of missiles!+
VJockey (04:50:43): Wait...
Peter Kampschroeder (04:50:51): "You couldn't have taken me then even if you tried!"
Wyverncakes (04:50:54): R: "Proto-Gleipnir still..."
VJockey (04:51:01): Now its on fire. And its limbs are being swung at you!
VJockey (04:51:05): REACT!
Peter Kampschroeder (04:51:09): "Just like you can't now!"
griefgathering (04:51:49): #Lily?
Aero (04:51:56): * "It's like you guys don't learn, MASER EYE." The Maser Eye glows and Ichitaka fires the beam right into the barrel of the Grenade Launcher before backing off from the explosion and then. "LIGHT BLAZER." A large blue beam larger than Big White erupts from the gem in it's arm. +
VJockey (04:52:23): R & ALICE! Gunfire and missiles everywhere! The Black Glint takes some damage, but the explosions will make things difficult for the REVIVAL as the ground around it is devastated!
VJockey (04:52:32): (approved)
VJockey (04:53:18): Ichitaka! The launcher explodes, sending the giant staggering into another, the Light blazer pierces through its chest! While it appears unfazed, the one behind it was struck in the generator and KILLS IT FROM BEHIND!
Wyverncakes (04:53:53): R: "Even if I have to delete your very code, line by line, I will!"
griefgathering (04:54:03): *What those limbs will meet are lines of energy swords formed by Purple Heart - stacked closely next to each other to form an impromptu barrier!+
Wyverncakes (04:54:09): "You're a piece of hacking software that can't crack me!"
Wyverncakes (04:54:15): "I have all of eternity to wear you down!"
tengusaur (04:54:16): * "I know your giant suit is very touch. But I also know it's not indestructable." Lily quickly abandons her vantage point by flying upwards and circling away from the Gungnir in increasingly large circles! +
griefgathering (04:54:19): Hopefully they'll at least slow down the limbs!
VJockey (04:54:40): "Its tough enough to outlast any of you!"
Meraxa (04:54:59): Richard: Let's test that.
Aero (04:55:04): Ichitaka: "I highly doubt that!"
VJockey (04:55:33): Nep! The arms are slowed down, but you may need to get away quickly because the pressure they're pushing down into your shields is just insane! Lily managed to flee unharmed thanks to your intervention though.
VJockey (04:55:54): (ALICE, Elena.)
VJockey (04:55:57): (GO TEAM YANDERE)
VJockey (04:56:13): (and yes actions for the tanks as well.)
tengusaur (04:56:59): Lily: "Thanks."
frifreeman (04:57:02): Elena: "Hey Alice, may I ask you something now?"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:57:08): *The tanks split up and try to flee as far from the battle as possible-but they're not just escaping, they're just getting farther away. Once more they set on Ichitaka with their double railguns, though this time they do it from all sorts of different directions.+
Peter Kampschroeder (04:57:12): "Sure!"
frifreeman (04:57:14): Elena: "Are you happy now?"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:57:41): "Aaaaah...Yes. I'm very happy!"
VJockey (04:57:43): Ichitaka. React.
sketchbookfiend (04:57:50): #Ichitaka
Wyverncakes (04:58:05): R: "Why wouldn't she be?"
Wyverncakes (04:58:16): "She has everything her programming wants in all the world: Caulder."
Aero (04:58:24): Ichitaka: "...."
VJockey (04:59:35): (approved)
VJockey (05:00:02): (Richie, Yusuke, Nepnep)
VJockey (05:00:25): (Yusuke, post your support, then wait for results before taking your turn)
sketchbookfiend (05:01:06): *Kuuga, still Titan, is going to give a repeat performance and grab onto one of those tanks and throw it into more tanks, reduce the number of tanks guns on his ally with "RIDER REVERSAL!"+
Aero (05:01:21): * "Why are these tanks focused on me?" The best thing Ichi could do now was open one Dimension Crack in front of him, allowing the railgun shots to pass harmlessly into the energy dimension. +
Meraxa (05:02:55): Richard: You and me. *Ideigi strides towards Gungnir, one big robot starng off against another...* Shining Body! *Before light envelopes Ideigi's form, and sets it off at a shonen-esque pace. It appears close towards the Gungnir, attempting to knock it into the air with a rapid flurry of punches!+
VJockey (05:03:04): Yusuke, Ichi, the good news is that there is no damage to the Burd.
VJockey (05:03:10): Better news is tank dominoes.
frifreeman (05:03:26): Elena: "You inspire me. Show that you're worthy of him, alright?" Elena flies low and unsheathes his vibrating knife. She then starts to spin around Black Glint as if dancing in the air, slashing it from various angles.
frifreeman (05:03:29): +
VJockey (05:03:54): "Hah... not even a contest."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:04:36): *"Haaaa...Alright then!" The black glint [Name pending] Slams down into the ground. "Genocide cutter!" And with that, it activates its assault armor, sending out a massive explosion centered on itself.+
Aero (05:04:41): #
VJockey (05:05:07): Richard! Volshoft isn't budging! Every single one of those punches is countered with another.. .and then another! Even when you land a hit, it seems like he retaliates with two more! And to make matters worse the beam guns and rocket launchers on the Gungir are firing into the melee! REACT!
griefgathering (05:05:19): *And as soon as she breaks away from Volschoft to let Richie do his thing, Purple Heart does a very good imitation of the Destiny Gundam and advances towards the Valhallans! It looks like she's going to run them straight through, or try to!&
VJockey (05:05:22): approved
Meraxa (05:06:52): Richard: Hmph! *Richard may not be in the best of moods, but if he wants this fight to last, he knows to move. Good thing that like this, Ideigi is pretty damn fast, flickering in and out of sight to avoid what it can, whilst attempting quick strikes+
VJockey (05:06:55): Nep! The remaining Valhallans are carved through but before you can get to the last one it was litterally slammed aside by one of the White Giants - which swung its own blade at you! React and continue!
frifreeman (05:07:46): Elena: "All you've been doing now is making you and caulder target. That's just to prove how powerful your love with each others is, right? I wish I could be as brave as that. If I'm you, I'll just hide somewhere by the two of us forever."
Aero (05:07:48): * "Laplace Wall!!" Rushbird charges straight into the Assault Armor with the hex-like shield covering it's entire body to absorb the energy from the attack and mitigate it. +
Aero (05:08:30): Ichitaka: "That's...actually a good point...if you had all that you wanted why didn't you just go into hiding."
tengusaur (05:08:40): # Neptune
Peter Kampschroeder (05:08:54): "Well, there is something else I wanted. And Blitz Valhalla was able to give it to me."
Wyverncakes (05:09:07): R suppresses the urge to say something.
Wyverncakes (05:09:13): It would love to comment on this.
Wyverncakes (05:09:16): Oh it really would.
Wyverncakes (05:09:18): But...
Peter Kampschroeder (05:09:19): "It's. a. secret."
VJockey (05:09:29): Richard! You manage to avoid the weaponsfire and land several swift hits... but before your next one can land its grabbed by the Gungir. The machine is slowly moving the hand away as it glares at you. Then punches Ideigi in the face as it releases the arm.
Wyverncakes (05:09:31): ... Took the words right out of its metaphorical mouth.
sketchbookfiend (05:09:49): Kuuga looks between Black Glint and Gungnir before making his decision.
VJockey (05:09:52): (approved, Lily)
VJockey (05:10:46): Elena, Ichi! The Black Glint is cut a few times! And not only that, Elena escapes unharmed because of the LaPlace Wall!
tengusaur (05:10:49): * "Trance Bit!" Four extra wing-funnels appear around Lily! She extends her arm forward and sends them spinning, flying towards the White Giant's blade like buzzsaws to intercept it! +
tengusaur (05:11:04): Lily: "I will handle this. Continue your attack!"
VJockey (05:11:47): (R, Ichitaka)
griefgathering (05:11:55): "Got it!" *Purple Heart reacts to LASER BLADE by accelerating off to the side to dodge. If she can, she'll go under it - using the light of the blade itself to mask her presence temporarily, before dashing straight up at its face! Her own sword is dragged along the White Giant's body as she tries to split it in two!+ "Haaaa--!!!"
VJockey (05:11:59): (Lily, take action after react resolution(
tengusaur (05:12:16): (gotta ask for enemy list at that point)
Aero (05:12:18): Ichitaka: "R...how quickly do you think you could create a row of portals."
sketchbookfiend (05:12:26): *The Rider leaps around the back of Gungnir, shifting to Mighty form and leaping upwards, sparks changing and giving him a nice gold Rising trim. And once he was airborn behind the enemy? "Rising Kick." He was playing for keeps against his enemy as the flaming kick aimed for it's spine.+
Wyverncakes (05:12:37): R: "Not as fast as Lynn could, but..."
Wyverncakes (05:12:46): "I've had at least a little experience with making them."
Wyverncakes (05:13:05): "What are you planning?"
VJockey (05:13:16): Nep, Lily! Smite and Cleave! The Giant is reduced to two halves, the laser blade not even touching the goddess due to the arm it was attatched to getting carved open - forcing the weapon to shut down!
Aero (05:13:17): Ichitaka: "Eheh some shenigans."
Aero (05:13:25): shenanigans*
Peter Kampschroeder (05:13:30): "Cute."
VJockey (05:13:54): [Enemy List: Gungir, Black Glint, 1 White Giant.]
Wyverncakes (05:15:21): R: "Understood."
Aero (05:16:04): * "I was about to say the same about how you're trying to fight." The Rushbird charges it's fist and then points it forward opening up a huge Dimension Crack. "Now R focus it!" He unleashes the huge beam from it which erupts towards the Black Glint. &
tengusaur (05:16:45): * Lily spins around, sending the four revolving blades towards Gungnir as if controlling them through an invisible wire! And four more of her wings follow immediately afterwards, aiming for the weakened parts of the armor! She keeps the last two for herself so she can fly. +
Wyverncakes (05:17:56): (Waiting for Alice's react)
VJockey (05:18:53): Lily! Getting through that armor was going to be an absolute pain. Even if you found weakened sections, it was taking a LOT of pressure to even dig the blades in!
Peter Kampschroeder (05:19:15): *Alice is going to dodge that kind of beam, of course-by dashing off to a completely direction and letting loose with her missiles and rifles on R in full. She'd rather not let R do whatever it is that it's trying to do.+
Wyverncakes (05:19:36): Oh, but Alice.
Wyverncakes (05:19:39): BUT ALICE!
Wyverncakes (05:20:09): "You're pouring gasoline on a raging housefire. One that's already burning down your ideal world with Caulder."
Wyverncakes (05:21:16): * A portal forms in front of REVIVAL. And for that matter, so do a multitude of ones forming in the course of Ichitaka's attack. And now suddenly, all around the Black Glint those portals are opening up again. The missiles? Riflle shots? Ichitaka's beam broken up into countless smaller ones? All coming at you in a cage of death.+
Wyverncakes (05:21:38): R: "Dr. Shirakawa showed me this. It wasn't his intent... but it still helps."
Wyverncakes (05:21:56): "In fact..."
Wyverncakes (05:22:23): "The only reason I'm here today is the help of others. The only reason Lynn made it so far, found meaning in her life... was from outside help too."
Aero (05:22:25): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0V3_nx4PI
Wyverncakes (05:22:38): "And everyone else on the Chalice who's ever needed someone else to get through their problems!"
Wyverncakes (05:23:15): "Yggdrasill's whole 'every man is an island' approach... nothing could be further from the truth about life!"
Peter Kampschroeder (05:23:42): "You all sound like pages out of a self-help book!"
Wyverncakes (05:23:57): "One that sells!"
Aero (05:24:09): Ichitaka: "Maybe that's because you are someone who needs a LOT of help!"
Aero (05:25:29): Ichitaka: "Can you even feel any guilt?"
tengusaur (05:25:40): Lily: "A self-help book is better than a badly-written messed-up romance."
Aero (05:25:41): Ichitaka: "Or is your programming all just about Caulder."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:25:49): "Of course I can!"
sketchbookfiend (05:26:24): Kuuga: "Then show some."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:26:40): "Every time I have to do something bad, like take him away from his friends or kill everyone at IDS...That's not something I do lightly! But for Caulder, it's worth it!"
VJockey (05:26:49): Kuuga! There's an explosion, but it seems the kick.... only shoved the Gungir forwards a bit.
VJockey (05:26:57): "Was that an insect?"
sketchbookfiend (05:27:03): Kuuga: "....what."
sketchbookfiend (05:27:13): Kuuga: "...are you...made of."
VJockey (05:27:14): meanwhile...
VJockey (05:27:17): CAULDER!
VJockey (05:27:36): While before the battle was mostly far enough for you to be left in your own little world.
Peter Kampschroeder (05:27:52): Alice does try to dodge the like a billion shots, keeping her primal armor up while she does so.
VJockey (05:27:54): its now gotten close enough to the safe haven you were sheltered away in that you can hear the chaos outside!
Aero (05:28:20): Ichitaka: "Then why did you doubt your feelings for him if you're alright with doing all of that for him?"
VJockey (05:28:47): ALICE! The shots hammer through the primal armor and begin to force you down!
VJockey (05:28:50): This is it!
VJockey (05:28:54): It could be the end!
Peter Kampschroeder (05:29:09): "G-gah! This is...impossible..."
VJockey (05:29:22): In fact Caulder... you could go outside and get a look if you wanted to...
Peter Kampschroeder (05:29:25): The white glint knockoff sinks to the ground.
VJockey (05:29:26): the question is...
VJockey (05:29:27): do you?
Peter Kampschroeder (05:30:19): Well Alice is right there with him, looking all cute in her green hoodie.
VJockey (05:30:52): Volshoft: "This isn't proto-glepnir anymore."
VJockey (05:31:03): "This is the real deal. The finished product."
VJockey (05:31:14): "Which means I'm invincible."
Mister Giggles (05:31:24): Caulder feels the building shake. He knows what this is. He's felt it so many times before. He reaches for the suit that was originally designed for withstanding the frigid, high altitude temperatures in the winter... but before he does... "Allie... tell me. What is really happening out there?"
VJockey (05:31:24): "You can't hurt me. None of you can!"
Aero (05:31:31): Ichitaka: "Do you even realize the extent of the things you've done for Caulder?"
sketchbookfiend (05:31:35): Kuuga: "...Maybe not from the outside."
tengusaur (05:31:37): Lily: "Kisrill claimed the same thing."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:31:50): "...Combat."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:32:00): "Some people are trying to take you away from me..."
Mister Giggles (05:32:43): "I know that. But that's too many explosions to be coming from just you and whoever it is you're fighting. Who else is out there?"
Wyverncakes (05:32:45): R: "... not from the outside..."
Wyverncakes (05:32:53): "Yusuke, you may be on to something."
Mister Giggles (05:32:54): He may be useless in combat, but he's not dumb.
Meraxa (05:32:55): Richard: If it can be made, it can be destroyed. That applies to magic as much as science!
sketchbookfiend (05:33:14): Kuuga: "It's not like I haven't fought something "invincible" before."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:33:44): Meanwhile, outside: "...Ah...Sorry, just joking!" The black glint powers back up, vents all over its body turning orange as it begins to spread Kojima particles errywhere. "We're not quiiiiite done here."
Wyverncakes (05:34:12): "... And of course it wouldn't be that easy."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:34:28): The black glint draws two laser blades and dashes at Revival, much faster than before!+
Aero (05:34:29): Ichitaka: "It never is."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:34:55): (Mode 2: http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131020155220/armoredcore/images/7/77/Super_Mode.png )
tengusaur (05:35:08): Lily: "This is not a fight we can afford to lose. Watch out, R!"
Aero (05:36:20): #R?
tengusaur (05:36:27): # (opportunity attack)
VJockey (05:36:52): (approval)
Wyverncakes (05:37:04): * With its inexact supply of portals currently exhausted, it's all R can raise a Fragarach and its shield to block one strike and parry the other!+
tengusaur (05:37:42): * Lily turns around and fires another blue blast, but this time at the charging Black Glint! Not fully charged because no time, but still! +
Peter Kampschroeder (05:37:56): Inside: "...Really dangerous people, duh."
Mister Giggles (05:38:10): "They were the ones who gave you that body, weren't they?"
Peter Kampschroeder (05:38:26): "The most dangerous, actually...Well, some of them are. Those people are on my side."
Aero (05:38:57): * "Don't get ahead of yourself!" All of the Assault Armor energy is poured into the thrusters. Rushbird moves way faster than it usual does and places himself right between R and Black Glint. He's not going to bother trying to block it and just lets both laser blades impale him. +
Aero (05:40:37): Thankfully Rushbird is still one large energy absorbing grid.
VJockey (05:41:24): Ichitaka! R! Lily! The laser blades cut into Rushbird but... the blade has been drained enough that they can't get through and get to the REVIVAL!
VJockey (05:41:25): And...
VJockey (05:41:45): Lily's hit slams into the Black Glint!
VJockey (05:42:16): While it isn't full charged, it still does a respectable amount of damage that may see limbs tear if it tries to go too fast!
Mister Giggles (05:42:24): Caulder is silent for a few seconds after that, as the explosions continue outside. He's shaking a bit. "Allie..." he said quietly. "Do you remember what you said to me last night?"
Peter Kampschroeder (05:42:34): "Of course I do."
Mister Giggles (05:42:50): "... it was a lie, wasn't it?"
Peter Kampschroeder (05:42:56): "No."
VJockey (05:43:00): ALICE, Elena, Richard, Yusuke, Nep!
Mister Giggles (05:45:11): Caulder sighs, and looks down. "You know everything about this place, right? You probably hooked yourself into the mainframe a long time ago."
Wyverncakes (05:45:41): Man...
Wyverncakes (05:45:51): All those Kojima particles flowing everywhere.
Wyverncakes (05:46:07): R: "All we needed is one small opening inside of the Gungnir."
Wyverncakes (05:46:24): "Even a hairline fissure would be enough."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:46:39): Alice has had quite enough of all this, and goes heavily on the offensive-while the kojima particles she's spewing out eat away at everyone's armor, she'll zip around the side of Ichitaka...and go after Revival again, chasing the robot down while slashing away furiously with her blades. Missiles arc out towards the rest of the team, but the brunt of her assault is on R.+
Meraxa (05:46:42): Richard renews his assault on the Gungnir, though at first flitting about, apparent strategy uncertain. At least, until Ideigi appears behind Gungnir to attempt a... full nelson?!+
Meraxa (05:46:59): *&
Peter Kampschroeder (05:47:11): Inside: "Yes, I did. Why?"
Mister Giggles (05:47:31): "Make me a promise."
frifreeman (05:47:37): Elena :"I wish we could have a double date together, Alice. It'd be fun" Elena opens all of her missile pods and fires all the missiles.+
VJockey (05:48:40): Everyone React
VJockey (05:48:44): Also
VJockey (05:48:53): Elena. Missiles vs Missiles.
VJockey (05:48:57): Yours win.
tengusaur (05:49:38): * Missiles? Time for Lily to do a combination of quick backing away and circling to the side to throw their targetting off, and shooting lasers at the incoming ones with the free wings she's not using for flying! +
Wyverncakes (05:49:43): R: "Accuracy is what we need right now, Elena!"
Wyverncakes (05:50:09): * Time to chop through some with the Fragarach, and shoot down others with a handgun!+
sketchbookfiend (05:50:22): *Yusuke taps into his insane idea and leaps to cling onto the Gungnir. And starts to spark. The same spark that initiates Rising form, the electrical shock that can bring a man back from the dead. And he let's loose, electricity discharging into the enemy. All of it! A current that creates heroes and destroys villains! Kuuga drains all his energy in this attempt, losing his gold trim of Rising, and even going from his usual Red to his weak base white Growing form as he clings....also you know direct missiles to follow him and hit Gungnir I guess+
griefgathering (05:50:48): *Getting a bit creative, Purple Heart opts to ride the first missile coming at her after stabbing it and filling it with magic so that she can control it. She's going to lead the other missiles this way...straight into the last White Giant!+
VJockey (05:51:20): Nep! For a few moments you see the missile just bury itself into the White Giant's head. Then its top half detonates!
Meraxa (05:51:54): Richard will try to avoid missiles a part of his initial flitting around Gungnir+
Aero (05:51:57): *Just a sweeping Maser Eye. Damn missiles. +
VJockey (05:52:20): Yusuke! The electrical surge keeps the Gungir in place, managing to get through the armor! .... Then Richard pulled a full Nelson and got shocked.
VJockey (05:52:35): The missiles show that friendly fire isn't. You manage to avoid damage.
VJockey (05:52:51): Ichitaka and Lily beam the missiles to death!
sketchbookfiend (05:53:33): Kuuga: "Uh...sorry, Richard."
Meraxa (05:54:01): Richard: Nnnnnngh! I've h-h-h-had enough of this for one life!
VJockey (05:54:17): (R has to deal with pissed Slasher ALICE)
VJockey (05:54:20): (Not Missiles)
Peter Kampschroeder (05:54:39): (alice who is much larger and has lightsabers)
tengusaur (05:54:54): Lily: "Please try not to zap Richard. He went through a lot already."
Wyverncakes (05:55:10): (Derp)
Wyverncakes (05:55:13): Well still!
Wyverncakes (05:55:32): * Use sword to try to ward off offensive, and fire the handgun at any joints that are exposed.+
Peter Kampschroeder (05:55:38): Inside: "...What kind of promise?"
VJockey (05:56:33): R! It was a vicious battle and you've only got one blade to ALICE's two. But the both of you manage to land a large amount of hits on each other!
Wyverncakes (05:56:51): R: "... All that size and weaponry..."
griefgathering (05:57:01): *"Now, for the 'invincible' one!" And for her actual act, Purple Heart starts drawing energy to herself...which is something she doesn't usually do, but still...this leaves her wide open for the Gungnir!&
Wyverncakes (05:57:07): "And you still can't beat not one, but two relics from the pre-Second Impact world!"
Mister Giggles (05:57:47): Caulder takes a deep breath. He's shaking a bit. "Allie..." he begins, the explosions outside just getting louder. And he hears those lasers. "You were my only friend growing up. But... but all of those things you did..." He nearly chokes on his own words. "I know there's nobody left who can fix you, but... just once... just once I want to see you be happy, not because you think you're protecting me or making me happy, but because you really are happy."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:57:52): "...Shut up shut up shut up! You're cheating you whore!"
VJockey (05:59:16): Nep! You get your wish, because there's a flaming arm being swung towards you! React/Continue
Wyverncakes (05:59:21): R: "Yes. Keep calling me a woman. Let me enjoy it all the more when I kill you."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:00:20): A small part of alice ponders this, inside with Caulder. Perhaps...no. It'll be better this way. "...Caulder, I can't do that."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:00:55): "You're...the only thing that brings me happiness..."
Mister Giggles (06:01:20): Caulder takes another deep breath, bracing himself for the shockwave from the colliding missiles. He then shakes his head. "Listen to me! If you swear to me you won't hurt anyone else... we can escape together. And I promise you, I will spend every last minute of my life working to give you the only real gift I can give you that can make up for everything you did for me, and everything I didn't do for you: Your freedom. In any way I can."
Aero (06:02:09): #Nep?
Peter Kampschroeder (06:02:13): She frowns. "...Freedom is an illusion, Caulder. I don't have it, you don't have it, and we never will. Just...learn to accept that. In time, you might even start to like it!"
griefgathering (06:02:19): *A now glowing Purple Heart reacts to that by suddenly forming an energy platform behind herself - one that she proceeds to step on and push herself off of! What happens though, is that she disappears...and re-appears next to the arm to slash it. This happens again...and again, and again...in a rapid sequence!
VJockey (06:02:32): (denied)
griefgathering (06:02:46): Purple Heart: "Stronger, Sharper, Faster!! Cut through...Neptune Break!"+
VJockey (06:02:55): Nep! It takes a while... it actually didn't look like it was working at first....
VJockey (06:02:57): then..
VJockey (06:02:59): a gash.
griefgathering (06:03:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGWkq-N2Jg
VJockey (06:03:01): and anothera
VJockey (06:03:07): nd another and another!
VJockey (06:03:18): Volshoft: "What?!"
VJockey (06:03:27): [Everyone can go!]
sketchbookfiend (06:03:36): Kuuga: "Looks like we took the invincibility out of you."
Wyverncakes (06:03:44): R: "And it's about time!"
sketchbookfiend (06:04:40): *Kuuga leaps as Gouram comes to pick him up. Even without the power of even mighty if he can use some last remaining energy. The Beetle flies around before coming down fast at Gungnir. Yusuke leaps off "GROWING RIDER KICK!
Peter Kampschroeder (06:04:58): *No sense holding back now! Alice goes all back to back with Volschoft, the Black Glint taking out its rifles...and positively covering the surrounding area in missiles and bullets!+
sketchbookfiend (06:05:14): and Gouram also comes striking downwards at a ridiculous breakneck speed to smash and pierce into the enemy with it's master!+
Wyverncakes (06:05:18): R: "Thank you for making this so much easier, Alice."
Meraxa (06:05:21): Richard: HERE I GO! *There's... a slight rumbling. Power building up. Growing. Swelling from within Ideigi, and its currently fro-tastic pilot. Using its hold on Gungnir... to try and jump up! And body slam it as hard as the great paladin can muster, all the strength that shining body allows!+
Aero (06:05:27): Ichitaka: "Let's get it right this time R."
VJockey (06:05:33): Volshoft howls with rage as he lets loose gunfire all over the place, intending to take everyone with him!
Wyverncakes (06:05:48): R: "I was intending to go with the Ascalon, but I'm open to other ideas."
griefgathering (06:06:07): Purple Heart: "It might have been better to claim to be invincible after you've actually defeated us. Not that we'll let that happen in the first place."
tengusaur (06:06:47): * Lily: "This is it!" She recalls all of her wing funnels! they spin around her, then take on offensive positions. A small beam starts to charge at the end of each psigun... and that doesn't include the big cannon around Lily's arm! "Fully charged EVE Shot, fire!" Bright blue flames explode over her eyes as she fires eleven large beams at once, all aimed at the cracks in Gungnir's armor! +
Wyverncakes (06:08:07): Uuuuunfortunately, just as R is bringing up the Ascalon for a super-cool shot to hit both enemies, Alice's attacks do manage to snag the machine!
Mister Giggles (06:08:20): Caulder continues staring at that door, the building shakes again. He feels his eyes growing wet. "Let me try," he says quietly. "You're not a computer, a robot, a weapon, or a monster, Allie." He turns back to her, reaching for her hand. "You're my friend. But I can't let this continue. I can't live with that on my conscience, that I stood by and didn't even try to help you get better. It's... it's like I killed those people myself."
Aero (06:08:27): Ichitaka: "R!"
Wyverncakes (06:08:34): REVIVAL's thrown backwards, an arm blown away from it... but the machine still rises up!
Wyverncakes (06:08:42): R: "Almost had me."
Wyverncakes (06:08:54): "But I'm the one person you're going to regret you couldn't kill!"
Wyverncakes (06:09:01): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ombJ_dv1eGo
griefgathering (06:09:01): Purple Heart: *"Let's finish this!" Her last move for this fight? Summon that giant beam cannon her sister turns into, and fire!+
Wyverncakes (06:09:12): "Ichitaka!"
Wyverncakes (06:09:41): * Have some more portals to be an asshole with and bolster the crossfire up even further... and with its other hand? Well fuck, more plinking with its handgun.+
Peter Kampschroeder (06:10:11): Inside: "Then...what do you want me to do?! Do you want me to just kill myself?! Do you want me to kill you?! I don't exactly have much choice in all of this, Caulder!"
Aero (06:11:09): * "This ends here." Rushbird opens up a dimension right above him and does not bother closing it before he slams it's fists together. "DIMENSION SSTORRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMM." The torrent of white energy fires out at Alice and Volshoft and does not stop coming out. The beam is hyper focused through the portals and does not look like it's stopping any time soon. +
VJockey (06:14:09): Everyone! The barrage from Volschoft and ALICE does some damage but... the immense barrage of attacks was an unstoppable force! For a few brief moments, Volshoft suffered a horrific and intense pain from having every one of his organs try to up and destroy themselves because of the Kojima Radiation. Then he was disintegrated. Black Glint crumbles as well under the onslaught and....
VJockey (06:14:11): wait...
VJockey (06:14:22): Oh that's RIGHT! Richard was in the MIDDLE of all that!
VJockey (06:14:33): Somehow he managed to survive.
VJockey (06:14:48): But it was extraoridinarily painful.
Wyverncakes (06:15:36): R: "Over."
sketchbookfiend (06:15:42): Kuuga: "You'll be seeing your family again, at least you have that Volshoft."
Wyverncakes (06:15:49): "... It's finally..."
Mister Giggles (06:15:50): Caulder shook his head. "I couldn't ask you do to that." Literally. It violates her prime directive, and, well, cannot self-terminate. "We're running out of time, Allie! They'll be here soon, they'll notice the facility. I can't stop them if they do. If you want me to escape with you... you'll let me try to fix the programming. Even if I can't, that will be enough for me, if you promise me you'll stop this... this senseless killing!."
tengusaur (06:16:00): Lily: "The judgement is passed..."
Meraxa (06:16:03): Yeah... Shining Body enhances speed and strength, but durability? No. Ideigi collapses backwards in a smoking slump.
tengusaur (06:16:05): Lily: "Richard? Are you alright?"
Meraxa (06:16:59): Richard: ...Yeah... Hurts but... I'm used to it...
Aero (06:17:07): Ichitaka: "Did we get the tower with that?"
Meraxa (06:17:09): Richard: At least we got the bastard...
VJockey (06:17:17): Ichitaka!
VJockey (06:17:19): ...Yes
VJockey (06:17:20): you did
Peter Kampschroeder (06:17:22): "...But...I can't..."
VJockey (06:17:25): because its a molten mess
Peter Kampschroeder (06:17:35): "Changing my personality like that-that's equivalent to death."
tengusaur (06:17:40): Lily: "It's a bit worrying you're so used to that feeling..."
griefgathering (06:17:44): Purple Heart: "That's one benefit of exposure to punishment I suppose."
griefgathering (06:17:59): Purple Heart: "As long as he doesn't start enjoying it..."
Aero (06:18:11): Ichitaka: "Come on, we still need to find where else Alice is hiding herself...but first."
sketchbookfiend (06:18:22): Kuuga: "And Caulder."
Aero (06:18:27): The Rushbird begins to absorb the massive amount of Kojima Particles in the area.
Aero (06:19:00): Ichitaka: "No point in leaving this place radioactive."
Wyverncakes (06:19:50): R: "... Yes, please."
Mister Giggles (06:19:51): Caulder reaches for her shoulders. Not shaking her, but... gently. "I'm not asking to change your personality. You're my friend, remember? All I want is to give you the chance to make your own decisions. Something I was never able to do for all those years at IDS." He turns back to look at the door, and then back to Alice, more urgency in his eyes. "I swear, I won't change one thing about who you are. I..." He swallows a lump in his throat. "I love you too much to do that."
Wyverncakes (06:20:14): But now the hunt is on for where Caulder is.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:20:50): "But that's not what you're saying. You're saying you love me, but you can't let me keep existing as I am? That's...terrible..."
sketchbookfiend (06:20:53): Kuuga's gonna start running off to search. Time to hunt down a boy and his computer.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:21:15): She gets up. "...I'm going out, to end this."
Mister Giggles (06:21:56): Caulder shook his head, furiously. "N-No! That's not... not what I'm saying at all..." He just wants the violence to stop. As she gets up... "Allie... no. Please, no!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:23:02): "...Whatever." She heads on outside with her cute little green hoodie. There are no more robots, no more tanks, no more Knightmare frames. Just her.
Wyverncakes (06:23:43): And R spots her soon enough.
Wyverncakes (06:23:55): R: "Here to beg for forgiveness?"
sketchbookfiend (06:24:05): Kuuga is not far behind.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:24:09): "No."
Wyverncakes (06:24:10): It's already approaching her, remaining fist clenched.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:24:27): "I am here to tell you that you are all going to die."
Mister Giggles (06:24:34): Caulder can't move. He can only watch her. Every part of his mind is screaming at him to stop her, to run out there.
tengusaur (06:25:09): Lily: "I am sure I will die one day. But I doubt that day is going to be today."
sketchbookfiend (06:25:34): Kuuga: "Alice you can stop this now. There's nothing left. Just surrender!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:25:37): "This base's self-destruct sequence operates on rather crude processes."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:25:50): "Even if you kill me, it will finish it's operation."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:25:58): "Leave, and I will terminate it."
Aero (06:26:22): Ichitaka: "And what we just leave you here?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:26:54): "Somehow, I suspect you won't do that. Unless you want to search a whole city in under three minutes for one boy..."
sketchbookfiend (06:27:15): Kuuga: "...Alice..."
tengusaur (06:27:21): Lily: "Where did you hide him?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:27:49): "I'm trying to think of why on earth I would tell you that. Hm, nope, no answer. Clock's ticking."
Wyverncakes (06:28:09): R's response is quite simple.
tengusaur (06:28:13): Lily: "Because if you don't, he's going to die as well..."
Wyverncakes (06:28:21): Picking the girl up in REVIVAL's hand.
sketchbookfiend (06:28:25): #ALICE
Wyverncakes (06:28:32): (Not to attack)
Peter Kampschroeder (06:28:37): Alice offers no particular resistance.
Wyverncakes (06:28:39): (Just so it can be at eye level)
Wyverncakes (06:28:42): R: "You're lying."
Wyverncakes (06:28:54): "You wouldn't endanger Caulder like that."
tengusaur (06:28:57): Lily: "And I really don't think you want him to die!"
sketchbookfiend (06:29:19): Kuuga: "...Unless she planned to die with him so they could be together forever."
Mister Giggles (06:29:19): That's it. Caulder can't take it anymore. If he runs out there... they'll find him. If he stays here, they'll find him. But he can't. He can't leave. He just swore that he would help her in any way he can. She was his only friend, and she had finally gotten what she's always wanted: A body. A chance to be with him. If there's any chance - any chance - of her being able to live peacefully after this, he can't let this happen. He pulls out his tablet from before, and starts playing with the controls, until he finds the comm channel.
Wyverncakes (06:29:21): "So you're going to tell us where he is, and then I'm going to kill you, and then we're going to leave."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:29:45): "No...not really. But you know, there is a life after this one."
Mister Giggles (06:29:53): "I'm sorry... I can't let that happen."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:30:01): "So if I must, which I-Caulder?"
sketchbookfiend (06:30:04): Kuuga: "R..."
tengusaur (06:30:27): Lily: "It's him! Where are you? We're going to rescue you!"
Wyverncakes (06:30:29): R: "No, Caulder. You're going to let that happen."
Wyverncakes (06:30:36): "Face facts."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:30:52): "Caulder you stop that this instant!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:30:58): "They're going to tear us apart!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:31:04): "We'll never see each other again!"
Wyverncakes (06:31:04): "Until Alice chooses to be a real person, until she chooses to rise above her programming, she's just a weapon."
sketchbookfiend (06:31:09): Kuuga: ".... R ..."
Mister Giggles (06:31:11): "I'm just as guilty as she is of everything bad that happened. The massacre at IDS... the Jade Falcons... Pandora... even this. If she has to die, then so do I."
Wyverncakes (06:31:23): "A weapon that will kill and kill and kill."
Wyverncakes (06:31:39): "A weapon that will be obsessed with you and say she loves you but never in a way that means anything."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:31:42): "So what?! You people kill all the time?!"
Wyverncakes (06:31:44): "I know her better than you do."
Wyverncakes (06:32:15): "I DON'T KILL ENTIRE BUILDINGS OF PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE ONE MAN!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:32:17): "I haven't killed half the people Lily must have, but she gets praise while I get a fucking bullet in the head?!"
Wyverncakes (06:33:03): "Caulder, the clock is ticking and I don't have the time to sit around her and wait!"
tengusaur (06:33:04): Lily: "I kill only when there's no other option. I never murdered anyone unarmed."
Wyverncakes (06:33:19): "If I can't get back to Lynn in time..."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:33:30): "..I hate you. I hate all of you so-wait, I thought she-"
Wyverncakes (06:33:51): "You thought what you wanted to think."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:33:54): Alice's eyes widen. "You didn't. You can't have known about that!"
Mister Giggles (06:33:54): "I could have stopped her... I let all of that happen. As good to me as she was, I... I let her be a weapon. I never once thought to let her just be herself."
Meraxa (06:33:57): There's a slight wheezing from Ideigi.
Meraxa (06:34:01): "Lynn... is...?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:34:10): "I don't-but-what-"
tengusaur (06:34:11): Lily: "Wait. She's not...?"
Wyverncakes (06:34:12): "Later."
Mister Giggles (06:34:21): "If you have to kill her... I'll let myself get infected with the Izanami Virus."
Wyverncakes (06:34:31): "And if you do, we'll just cure you."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:34:35): "HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?!"
Wyverncakes (06:34:35): "The adaptive quality is gone now."
Mister Giggles (06:35:01): "Not soon enough." Caulder sighed. "Allie... do you think I'm stupid? I know what this place is."
Aero (06:35:04): Ichitaka: "You really shouldn't be making threats to us either."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:35:10): "Not you, moron! I mean her!"
Wyverncakes (06:35:43): R: "You'll never know."
Wyverncakes (06:35:47): Squish.
Mister Giggles (06:35:51): "But what I can't do is go on living I didn't try to help her. I owe that much. After everything, I owe her that much." He pauses.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:36:02): Critical hit!
Wyverncakes (06:36:16): R: "Caulder."
VJockey (06:36:18): Sorry Caulder.
Wyverncakes (06:36:21): "We're leaving."
VJockey (06:36:21): She's dead.
sketchbookfiend (06:36:26): Yusuke with the last of his Rider strength punches R.
Wyverncakes (06:36:46): The VeHA's going to actually be blown over by this. It's been pretty bashed up too and it's not really that big.
Wyverncakes (06:36:51): But still... it weakly tries to rise up.
tengusaur (06:37:05): Lily: "Stop! Don't infight now!"
sketchbookfiend (06:37:06): And a man, not a Rider stares at it with TEARS streaming down his face.
Wyverncakes (06:37:10): R: "Caulder, you have to believe me when I say that there is life after this."
Mister Giggles (06:37:16): He didn't need to know what happened. That was all he needed to hear. He's already breathing in the virus, and retreating deeper into the facility. They have a minute left.
VJockey (06:37:19): There's a rumbling. The good news is that the shield over the city is dead...
VJockey (06:37:23): the bad news?
Wyverncakes (06:37:23): "And I will help you through this. Lynn will help you through this."
Aero (06:37:24): Ichitaka: "Lily can you go grab Lynn?"
VJockey (06:37:29): Everything's going to explode soon.
griefgathering (06:37:33): Purple Heart: "I'll help."
tengusaur (06:37:33): Lily: "We have to get away from here! We have to get Lynn and Caulder too!"
VJockey (06:37:44): So someone grab the drama queen and get out of here.
Aero (06:37:45): Ichitaka: "Just get going then!"
VJockey (06:37:52): Also
VJockey (06:37:54): Caulder
tengusaur (06:38:01): Lily: "Alright. I'm going for the former." And off she goes, towards where they left Lynn before!
VJockey (06:38:02): You forget the effects of the virus
Wyverncakes (06:38:05): R: "I'll get him. Get one of the stasis containers from where Lynn is!"
VJockey (06:38:12): within moments your EVERYTHING feels like burning
VJockey (06:38:19): your lungs must be in agony now
Mister Giggles (06:38:21): ... crawling, then.
Meraxa (06:38:21): Ideigi is forced up by Richard one last time through the spell circle, and it starts to float away from the scene.
VJockey (06:38:41): Yeah have fun with that.
Wyverncakes (06:38:43): And the VeHA is blasting into the facility.
Wyverncakes (06:39:23): Caulder, you're not very hard to find with all those transmissions you made, and R's throwing you inside of its cockpit before blasting on out.
VJockey (06:39:41): Bad news Caulder!
VJockey (06:39:46): You're gonna LIVE!
Wyverncakes (06:40:05): Lily!
VJockey (06:40:09): You get to live with the fact that the murderer of your psychotic best friend is saving your life!
Wyverncakes (06:40:19): When you get back to the building where Lynn was, you'll actually see...
Wyverncakes (06:40:26): ... A number of rows of stasis containers.
Wyverncakes (06:40:34): With fancy medical tech inside.
Wyverncakes (06:40:45): And Lynn's in one of them! With an actual heartbeat and everything!
Wyverncakes (06:40:57): ... Still missing an eye though.
sketchbookfiend (06:41:04): Yusuke: "...." So this guy stares at the remains of Alice's body. Hesitates a bit ... before taking that hoody and then flying the fuck out on Gouram. He is out of this mission, going home.
Wyverncakes (06:41:08): Might want to get one for Caulder too!
tengusaur (06:41:53): Lily: "Alright, let's see if I can disattach this somehow...!" She tries to lift the one with Lynn inside it gently. Or at least gently for someone who has robot strength.
tengusaur (06:42:08): If that works and she has enough room, she will get another one for Caulder.
tengusaur (06:42:11): And then she's away from there!
Mister Giggles (06:42:20): It hurts. Everything hurts. His lungs, the blood, everything. Before he passes out - not dying - he thinks back on all of those years alone in the IDS corporate headquarters, with nothing but school, teachers, and a name on a screen for company. He thinks of that one little moment of glory when he actually feels like, for once, he's helping, and isn't more than just a failure at everything. He thinks about last night, and that smile on ALI-- no, Alice's face as she reveals that she had gotten what she always wanted. 'Allie,' he thinks, as he loses consciousness. 'Dad... I'm so sorry.'
Aero (06:42:41): Ichi will be the last one to leave in case Alice was lying about the time they had.
VJockey (06:42:58): Caulder... it seems, that no matter what you do.
VJockey (06:43:05): You're always destined for failure.
VJockey (06:43:17): But that's alright
VJockey (06:43:40): Assuming you get some therapy after this, you have several long years to try move on.
Wyverncakes (06:43:59): R's getting you into another of the stasis containers as we speak.
Wyverncakes (06:44:09): R: "Lily... thank you."
Wyverncakes (06:44:18): "Everyone... time to go."
VJockey (06:46:13): That's it then...
VJockey (06:46:16): the battle's over.
VJockey (06:46:38): Volshoft, Typhon and Blitz Valhalla are all as dead as the people of this city.
VJockey (06:46:42): Alice as well.
tengusaur (06:46:43): Lily: "This place has seen too many twisted and horrible things already... At least I'm happy Lynn's or Caulder's deaths arenot among them."
VJockey (06:47:05): And nothing of value aside from Lynn's eye was lost.
VJockey (06:47:08): MISSION
VJockey (06:47:11): COMPLETE.