Avatar RP VIII: Chapter VII: Timing

[Steel Shadow]

Originally Posted by Teal Mage

Engines revving, the motorcycle riding badgers charged at the pair of Forum-dwellers in the center of their hastily formed ring. Thinking quickly, Teal snatched up Steel's cape, and, with a ripple of Furian Energy, propelled both of them upward. Chains swished just below the place where they had been moments ago, missing their feet by inches. Bikers followed the chains, covering Teal's magical red platform in a chaotic maelstrom of fur, leather and metal.

Blond hair billowing in the (mysterious) space wind, Teal laughed - releasing Steel from his clawed grip to float in space at his side. "Man!" His claws slashed the buttons from his jacket, causing the tuxedo to billow open, revealing a candy apple red button-up shirt beneath it. "I really needed that." A short flash of red erupted along the seem of his tie, causing it break into a mass of iridescent red cherry blossoms.

As the Badger Biker Brigade wheeled beneath them, aligning themselves for another charge, Teal shot Steel a bright look. "Remember Steel," he grinned, winking conspiratorially at the Time Knight, "killing things is a felony on most planets!" The Badgers revved their motorcycles, barking out the last of their latest orders. "And you can't erase them from time either!" Teal added sharply, anticipating the Time Knight's obvious solution.

"But we're not on a... Aw, fine. Lame." Steel drew his sword and half heartedly parried an iron bar wielding motorcycle-badger. Normally this would be a fun filled battle of comedic mishaps and adrenaline pumping action, but since Steel was on the other side of godhood... way way waaaaay on the other side... it just didn't feel the same. Who knew infinite power would be such a drag?

He absently punted one of the critters off it's bike. On second thought, watching it flail about like that in zero-gravity was kinda funny.

Even with only twice infinite power, Teal easily out gunned these Badger-like creatures. As the remaining members of the motorcycle gang wheeled above him, Teal figured it was time for that discussion he'd wanted to have with Steel. Brushing aside his blond locks, the mage laid two fingers onto the Communication Device still securely placed in his ear. "Hey Steel?"

Steel... did things. "Oh god, I can't even be bothered with the narration." He sighed and waved the badgers off. "Time out guys, I need a moment to get back in the spirit of things."

The badgers were surprisingly obliging!

Bikers swept in from the side, and Teal lithely jumped away - a ripple of red force appearing where he had stood. "Look, could you do me a big favor and," The mage's free hand snapped out, streams of scarlet light flowing in its wake. "hop back in time say..." The streams of light grew larger the further away from Teal they flew, until they struck the Badgers, wrapping the pair of them in magically wrought - non-lethal - scarves.

"...oh, fifteen minutes?" He spun, firing off a ball of fashion magic toward another Badger's face. "I'd like you to take a message to me when I'm in the Kurosen Tunnels, killing eagles I think." The sphere exploded, tying the badge, head-to-toe, in pretty red thread and lace.

"Anyway," Teal stopped moving, turning his attention to the (random) mothership that had appeared some distance away, "just tell Past-Me to send the Chaos Nova Shot about...ten minutes into the future when she has to, and about..." He did some quick mental math, "...couple thousand miles up, and maybe another thousand to the right." He shrugged, "I'm sure I'll figure out what I mean."

"And done. Anything else? Teal?" There was no response. Apparently Teal was busy.

Steel looked at the badgers. The badgers looked back at him, expectation in their eyes. He winced. "Look, I'm sorry guys, I'm just not in it at the moment. There's no way to give this scene the real comedic omph it deserves! You know it, I know it." He waved his hand around dismissively, then pulled out The Pipe Of Exposition and blew out some bubbles. "It's not your fault, it's really not. It's me, I'm just to powerful at the moment."

The Biker's faces fell. It was adorable. Like kicking a box of Kittens. Steel immediately backtracked, waving his hands.

"B-but that power wont last forever! How about this. You guys head back down to the planet, start training up a bunch, then in a few Avvies you come back near the start and run rings around me. We can have a big epic fight, a few tasteful slapstick moments, y'can maybe ride some Harleys or what have you, and at the end you'll run off and I'll shake my fist at the sky with a glorious cry of 'Baaadgerrrsss!' and it'll be on! Yeah? How does that sound?"

The badgers huddled together and exchanged thoughtful chitters. One or two glanced at the Time Knight thoughtfully over their shoulders. Said Time Knight just tapped his foot while he waited. After a while it occurred to him he wasn't actually standing on anything, so he switched over to fidgeting with his cape. Soon enough though, the badgers had reached consensus.

One particularly tall critter with a big hat, which Steel assumed was the leader, floated over to him, and struck an intimidating stance. "Meep." It said. "Meep, meep meeep me meep." A deal was struck, and within moments, the badgers had taken their bikes, and vanished into space.

"...How did they understand what I said if they don't speak English?"

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"Okay! I'm back! Done with the messing around! Anyone up for some team work? C'mon, let's finish this thing off!" Steel's voice called out over the comms network some time later, the Knight having finally found the main battlefield. Hey, 3 dimensional space is complicated, ok?

"Let's see what we've got here. There's Bard in a giant mecha, good for him... There's... A giant... Arhra... Oh... Oh god..." Steel suddenly felt very, very small. "I'm just.. .going to count her on our side, because I really can't process her being on anyone else's right now," he finished quietly, then looked around some more. "There's... the remains of the Azure... great... and... Um. Well. Ok, this will just have to do for now." Steel couldn't make out anyone else. Maybe they were just hiding?

Then Steve broke in, firing back at Arhra, and the time for planning had ended. The laser made it about half of the distance to it's target before winking out. Steel hovered there, glaring at the nameless robot, his sword glowing in his hands. His cape lay flat over his body, not bothering to stir in the non-existant winds that covered the battle.

"Hey, Arhra, Bard, sorry I'm chimeing in late. How've you been?" he asked calmly, sliding his sword back into it's sheath. "Well, I guess pleasantries can wait. How's about we end this Robot? You two have giant mechs, right? Think you can combine them into a super ultra fighting mega zord-mech thing? If you can, that would be just swell, really."

The man raised a hand, pointing two fingers towards the final boss. Lights began to form and circle around them, spinning quickly. "Well, anyways, if either of you has a plan, I'm all ears. If you need time, I'm going to try to distract him now. Or vaporise him, whichever works." The lights were spinning faster now, so fast that they disappeared into each other and formed a ring of light around his hand. "Just, uh, don't get hit by this. It'll probably sting a little." The light was blinding now, matching the stars above and below.

"CHRONO BEAM!!!"

The light lanced out in a focused red beam, spearing right for the robot faster than the smallest measurement of time could measure. Pure time in it's most concentrated form, it burned like it was a tear in the universe. Centuries, millennia, eons, almost infinite time piled on top of one another within it. Whatever it hit would age into oblivion.

He really, really hoped it wouldn't miss.