NPF Avatars: with hardcore finger pointing action!

[Darth SS]

Darth didn't even bother to dignify the Gaian's existence with words. Instead he decided to speak with actions. Deftly, he grabbed his P90, pointed it at the head of the nearest Gaian, and took off the safety.

"Mm-hmm."

[POS Industries]

(OOC: Gaian Leader Guy's dialogue comes courtesy of Incendius.)

It was the Gaian General's turn to speak. "You forget option number three," he stated, trying his best to broadcast confidence, "The option that you are mostly ignorant of what is actually going on and most of the events and people of this little escapade."

The Negative Kamen stood perfectly still, allowing his adversary to speak his piece. It was only fair, after all. Whether the man's words would be taken under anything more than brief consideration was a different story.

The Gaian continued with his speech, "Number one, you actually think all of Gaia participated in this? If so you're a fool. This, where you are standing now and where this all has come from is merely one of the districts, the sub forums/boards. Truly, it is even one of the more tame ones, this little cleen up would have been very different if other parts of Gaia had participated."

He took a sip from a glass of water which sat on small table next to his command chair. "Number two, you think threats will effect me or my position. I, honestly, am safeguarded against all your attacks. Even if you think and know that you have bested one of Gaia's mods, already learn that he was merely a mod of this particular sub board/forum, and thus was low in the hierarchy. I myself am a super moderator, having domain over all the boards, though I usually stay close to this one. Also, within my access are several admin devices, which with my full knowledge of them I could easily use to at the very least banish you from Gaia. Furthermore, I have full confidence in my abilities at escaping any situation you would throw at me, even if I am not capable of taking down your little god," the general stated with a smug grin.

The Kamen grew a grin of his own, but remained silent. It was a rare treat for him to be on the receiving end of someone else's villainous monologue. Frankly, he was rather enjoying the show.

"Thirdly," the Mod continued once more, folding his hands in front of his face, "You might have seen we have already withdrawn our forces, and even halted our attack, for we are finished for now. You have destroyed a commendable amount of our undesirables, and for that we thank you. Honestly, I'm surprised you're still here and attempting to plow further through Gaia while your 'friend' is currently conveying all your companions to what shall be a very interesting encounter, of which even I am not sure of the outcome."

Almost as an afterthought he added, "I can convey you out of Gaia if you wish, I don't really think with all your services rendered to us that any ill will should be felt on our part, even the destruction of that particular mod was not unwanted in some corners."

Negative Kamen nodded as he feigned taking it all in. Whether what the Mod said was true or not was yet to be revealed by Kyuubi Pyros. Of course, what really mattered was if the man truly believed what he was saying. Either way, it was irrelevent. "I see, yes," the masked man breathed, "all very good. Still, there are some problems. The biggie is that, while I don't speak for my godly associate here, the fact is that I'm not the least bit concerned about what's happening in NPF at the moment. Either they stop Raiden, which doesn't bother me, or Raiden annihilates them, which doesn't bother me, either. For most of them, death is only temporary anyway."

The Kamen's tone grew ever colder as he spoke, "The reason I'm here is because I'm very angry with you. While this whole adventure has benefitted me greatly overall, the fact still remains that thanks to all this, the Mashirosen tower was irrepairably damaged, forcing me to destroy it. I worked long and hard on that project, and I don't like seeing it all go to waste. Lastly..."

The Kamen closed his eyes as dark energy swirled around him, enveloping the man in shadow. A moment later, he reappeared, now without the tuxedo, top hat, cape, cane, and mask. His eyes were hazel, his hair was brown, and he was casually dressed with a long black overcoat. He was now in his true form.

"...I just don't care for your tone," Pedro stated, raising his right fist and pointing at the Mod, "HEART!"

A beam of energy shot forth from the ring on POS' finger, enveloping the Gaian Mod in a warm, glowing aura. Almost immediately, the Mod's countenance changed from that of forced arrogance to an expression of pure kindness.

As the light around him faded away, the Moderator blinked confusedly for a moment before looking back up toward Pyros and Pedro. "What.... whatever was I thinking?" he asked, smiling happily, "I've made a terrible mistake and I insist that I make amends. What can I do for you? Anything, just name it!"

Yes, this was much better.

[PyrosNine]

"Well, he was honest about having Admin devices, but foolish to think he could have even lifted a finger to use them. He was correct in saying there were stronger mods out there, but considering our current placement and my powers, they would have difficulty even getting here. But what I have learned about Raiden and the others is just as I have worried. We'll need to move faster." Kyuubi summed up the lying/truth factors.

"As for everything else, he was lying his (pardon my poor language) 'ass' off. Though he did become quite truthful after you used that Captain Planet ring. I do think it might be bad for his health, as he had a electronic heart, and your ring just stuck a real heart over the metal one. So hurry up and make your demands before he dies." Kyuubi calmly stated, although being quite anxious.

Raiden was out there somewhere, nigh unbound, and the others were being sent to the one pulling the strings. It was not a good combination. He'd have to plan, and plan well for the next few moves. And he'd have to do it fast. Because beyond the need to protect the others and stop raiden's unbinding, there was another problem just biding it's time. Just biding it's time...

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Back at the Dark Temple...oooh...aahhh...
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The gaian aides whimpered, but one found a voice. it wasn't his though, and instead it was the voice of a scared girl. "We....we....We work for General NexGen! We were having trouble with an overpopulation of our unwanteds in Gaia, and some guy the Gaian President met said that he had a plan that would get help us and him. He said that there was this place where they didn't have as many unwanteds, as they had fierce forumites. And that we could dump ours there. Naturally, we had considered and attempted this, but all the forums like yours had superior shielding and an access code preventing us from doing it." The Gaian Aide twiddled his thumbs as another checked his pants to see the damage.

The third continued for the other two.
"Well, then he said he not only had it, but he could also cripple your defenses and allow us to get in more than normally possible. The higher ups thought it was good idea, just to at least fraction of our current number down, and couldn't hurt us in the long run. All the guy asked in return was that we send as many Gaian unwanteds as possible. Which we were more than happy to comply with."

The second stopped checking his pants. "And it worked, just as he said. We were able to send our Gaians directly into your forum, and aside from a few non-connected power systems, we were unhindered in teleporting mass amounts. The guy who gave us this info even kept calling to tell us where to deploy them for maximum effect. The numbers of our unwanteds dropped dramatically within minutes. As of my last watch, we were down to 1/4th of what we used to have. Even some of the greater unwanteds were happy to see them go, and agreed to help in exchange for some benefits. Like Fidem."

The first whined and pouted. "Ohhh!!! Why did you have to get that fire god over to our forums? I lost my entire neighborhood!"

[POS Industries]

"I do think it might be bad for his health, as he had a electronic heart, and your ring just stuck a real heart over the metal one. So hurry up and make your demands before he dies."

POS quirked a brow at Pyros. He considered pointing out to the god-kyuubi that there was a stark difference between between the figurative heart and the blood-pumping physical one, but decided not to. Still, time was of the essence. The Heart ring's effect only lasts for a few hours, and there was no time to dilly-dally. Reaching into his coat pocket, Pedro pulled out several pages of paper that had been stapled together and folded and approached NexGen.

"Simply put," POS stated, unfolding the papers and handing them to the Gaian General, "My demands are exactly what I stated. Sign over the forums to my company, and we enter into a bold new era for Gaia. What do you say?"

NexGen skimmed over the contract and pulled out a pen. "Well, everything certainly seems like it's in order here, so I'll go ahead and sign."

As the mod signed on the dotted line, POS turned to Pyros. "I'm going to assume that godhood comes with notary status, yes?"

[PyrosNine]

Kyuubi heard POS"s thought about the heart ring, and did twirled his tails only slightly faster. Some fools did not fully know the power of the items they possessed. Didn't he know of the planeteer that used to own that ring? And his having a too big a heart? And then dying from it after eating too much sugar?

"I'm going to assume that godhood comes with notary status, yes?"

"I risk being somewhat cliche, so forgive me." Kyuubi lifted one of his forepaws and placed it on the bottom left hand corner, making a paw-stamp. The document immediately gained a gold sheen and Kyuubi shaped watermark.

[mauve]

Mauve continued to examine her nails as the Gaians sputtered out their hasty explanation. Nothing like a few threats to get people to cooperate.

"That's an interesting story," she said, stifling a yawn. Casually, she drew her knife from its sheath. "Not sure it was what we were looking for, though. You know, you could have just ASKED Nuklear Power if we could fix your noob problem for you. Most of us are quite fond of random forum undesirables destruction; you probably wouldn't have even had to pay us to do a little exterminating job. But no. You preferred to take the more dangerous route. What you did could be considered a full-scale forum invasion. You basically declared war on us. And we don't like that."

She looked over at Darth and smiled grimly.

"As you can see," she said, "We're not overly happy about all of this. I really can't stop my friend Darth here from shooting your brains out. So if you don't have anything to say about who this mysterious code-supplying gentleman is, or give us any other valuable service or information, I might have to let him and my other friends here do what they do best."

[Krylo]

Haeru had watched the interview for a few minutes before getting bored. "Who cares who he is? He's in here and he's inviting us for a chat. You can keep questioning them if you want... but I think I'd prefer to just get this over with.. and get away from the stench," she said before turning around and walking straight down the hallway toward the inner sanctums of the temple, prepared to plant a bullet in anything else that appeared, out of nowhere or otherwise.

[Mesden]

Haeru's words rang quite earnestly to Mesia. With a nod she followed swiftly behind.

This will all be over soon...

[Fenris]

Fenris, having taken forever to get used to his split conciousness, "piloted" the RoboHobo, which was waging war on its own against the Gaians.

'Okay... AutoPilot...' Fenris muttered to himself, searching for a way to turn off the AutoPilot. No later than he thought it than he found himself in control of it, rather suddenly. The RoboHobo collapsed comically, due to Fenris not knowing what he was doing.

He turned the AutoPilot back on and took a conveniently placed course on RoboHobo control, which he passed admirably in the meantime. Interestingly enough, he met and lost his first girlfriend there too, but that's another story.

'AutoPilot, off!' he thought, swiftly using his new hammer to knock the head off of a Gaian, while firing a swarm of Beer-bottle shaped rockets at a group of Gaians behind him.

'Radar... gotta love it.'

He then jumped high, high into the air, and unleashed a swarm of his bumbs, which were miniature explosive devices that went off when enough pressure was applied to them. Using his jump jets, he glided over to the next large swarm of Gaians, and landed directly in the middle of them. Untieing the cloth along his bindle/knapsack, he grinned a mechanical grin. Using robotic dexterity, he retied the cloth without revealing any of the contents within, and stored it in some compartment on his body. Weilding the bindle-stick, he spun it a few times, and unleashed some insane staff-fu that would go excellently with a wicked guitar solo.

After he had taken out several of the Gaians, he was greeted by the survivors, who quickly surrounded him closely. He grinned his mechanical grin and set his "staff" on the ground and balanced, with both hands on the head of the stick, and lifted his feet off the ground. He spun around, and turned his jump-jets on, with his legs fully spread, to create what was basically a flaming circle around him, with the Gaian's faces level with the flames.

Fenris got an idea. Being a hobo, one doesn't exactly have the best personal hygeine. Using some of the grease that is mandatory amongst all stereotypical hobomen, he created a gigantic ring of oil around him. Then, grinning his mechanical grin once more, lit it aflame. Suffice to say, the Gaians in this particular area were no more.

A red bleep appeared on the RoboHobo's radar, followed by a swarm of red dots. A portal from Gaia had ripped itself into the battlefield, and the Hobo, still feeling confident that he could handle anything Gaia threw at him, headed over to the portal.

"hay, asl!" one of the Gaians shouted upon seeing him.

The only answer Fenris had to offer him was a swift punch to the face. The other Gaians went from "omg hi!" to "wtf, u noob, u suk!" mode, and started to attack. Fenris grinned his mechanical grin again as more and more Gaians poured out from the portal.

'This is gonna be fun...'

[mauve]

Krylo (Kryla?) was right, Mauve admitted grudgingly. As much fun as it was to psychologically torment the morons who let the Gaians into NPF, the REAL bad guy was waiting just inside. They'd probably need all their strength for that battle.

"Aww," she said quietly. "And I was having fun..." She brushed her hands on her pants legs and looked over the Gaians.

"Okay, she's right. We don't have time to mess around with you guys." She grabbed one of the cleaner Gaians by the collar and dragged him over to the edge of the cliff. She cupped one hand around her mouth like a bullhorn.

"HEY GAIANS!" Mauve yelled. "You wanna know the reason why you're getting your asses kicked over here and you can't go back? Because this dude sent you here!" She tossed him over the edge, letting him roll down the mountain to the ground, where the remaining noobs, lurkers, and whatnot were trying to avoid the RoboHobo. Like a zombie horde in a bad horror flick, the Gaians converged on the fallen man. I won't go into what happened next.

Mauve turned back to the others.

"See you later!" she said brightly, going after Krylo (Kryla?). "Don't mess with us again!" Whether the other NPFers let them go or killed them was no longer her concern.