NPF Avatars 5 - Let's Leave a Mark

[Bailey]

MEANWHILE, IN THE CLOCK TOWER.

"NO! No! Don't focus on the clock tower! There is nothing to see here for at least another six episodes!"

OH, RIGHT, MEANWHILE, AT THE SCENE OF THE HOT DRAGON ON DRAGON ACTION.

Arhra was currently attempting to bit through the neck of a shadow dragon. Most people would be hindered by the fact that shadows are intangible. Arhra neatly solved the problem by having been designed to eat anything. Panicking, the shadow head writhed out of Arhra's grasp and the fire head began breathing junk at Arhra. Turning her head, she neatly snapped up a sofa, a television, a boat with "amigo" written on the prow, and some legumes the size of a planet. Unfortunately, friend ship and world peas proved to be too much to swallow, and she had to stagger away, choking.

MEANWHILE, AT THE CLOCK TOWER

"Why can't you just leave me alone!?"

MEANWHILE, ON A PLANET WHICH USED TO BE GAIA ONLINE

The water head examined the shadow head, and with a quick burst of water cleaned off the cuts and scrapes.

[mauve]

Mauve, having gotten the Riyal's attention, had just discovered a rather nasty flaw in her plan. Namely, that every weapon on board the ship was now aimed at the X-wing she was currently inhabiting.

The mage cursed under her breath as she pushed the x-wing into evasive maneuvers. She had to find someway to A) survive and B) either stop the Riyal or at least keep its attention until the others figured out a way to stop Rei.

The star fighter lurched sideways violently as one of the blue energy bolts tore through the lower left wing. Mauve went into a barrel roll to avoid the same thing happening to the wing on the right. Instead a bolt rushed past the ship's nose, so close to the hull that the metal was singed black and the entire bow moved in the same direction as the gunfire. Mauve struggled to correct the x-wing before it became space shrapnel.

As she zoomed past the observation deck she pulled the ship's nose inwards towards the great windows and fired off a few gunshots. It probably wouldn't cause much damage, but she felt that the action would convey her sentiments rather well.

There had to be something she could do. Running and avoiding gunfire would only hold their attention for so long. One mistake and she was just another lifeless hunk of metal floating in the vastness of space.

As she went into another barrel roll she caught sight of a docking bay. Well... heck. Why not.

"I'm gonna go inside for a bit," she said over the comlink to the observation deck onboard Majimmier. "You guys take care of Rei. If I don't make it back alive... Tell Fenris he's too young for me."

Eol formed the space suit again, and the cockpit opened in space. Mauve raised a hand and an orb of electricity formed in her palm. It pulsed as she made it stronger. Using her other hand to steer the ship, Mauve headed straight towards the docking bay. When she was almost upon it, she released the magic at the forcefield surrounding the entrance. Mauve floored it. The electricity collided with the forcefield, making it flicker for the briefest of instants. Just long enough for Mauve to book it through without getting killed. Suddenly faced with gravity again, the ship slammed into the ground and slid along the hangar floor, sparks and trails of smoke flying every which way. The spacecraft spun madly as friction and inertia did battle with one another, smashing into anything nearby and sending the Riyal crew members in the area running for cover. Mauve opened fire with the x-wing's laser cannons for good measure.

As soon as the x-wing came to a permanent halt, pressed against the back wall, Mauve hopped out of the cockpit and pushed a button on the key fob. The lights flashed once and the vehicle let out a strangled "bwip-bweep!" as the doors locked.

The members of the docking bay's crew who had regained their senses advanced on the intruder, hoisting whatever weapons they happened to have. Mauve raised her eyebrows, noticing them for the first time.

"Hey guys!" she said cheerily as Eol returned to a ring on her pinky. "Could you possibly give me directions? I've never been on this ship before and I'm a bit lost."

The answer was no. She was politely asked to surrender and be imprisoned and probably killed. She politely responded with a series of thunder bolts, fireballs, ice spells, magical rockets, et cetera. The negotiations went well, in Mauve's opinion. By the time she was finished, no one tried to stop her from leaving the hangar area and taking a look around the ship.

Seconds later Mauve was staring up at a map of the Riyal, pinned on a bulletin board down the hallway. It was probably meant for new recruits. Mauve was using it to find the best place to set on fire/electrocute/cause general sabotage and the fastest way to get there. She just hoped it wasn't printed off Mapquest or something.

[Arhra]

Arhra One was glaring at a very particular tree with enough venom to make its leaves wilt. The grass she was standing was dying, but that was directly caused by rage: she'd drained its life because of anger. She'd run into Fenris and then POS had suddenly appeared, demanding to see their leader with a half hearted 'Take me to your leader' line. Fenris had then agreed, leading POS into the building at oblivion point.

Neither had paid her any attention.

"Do I smell or something?" Arhra muttered angrily to herself.

Knowing this called for magical doom, Arhra sat down, crossed her legs and began calling up power to construct magical doominess of a chaotic and doom filled nature. Her essential plan was she'd try something along the lines of setting POS on fire for the next thousand years and not take much care to exclude Fenris from the blast radius.

Truly, it was a scheme for the ages.

* * *

With nudity having failed her in the robattle, Arhra Five fell back to ancient knowledge: explosions fix everything. And they'd need one hell of an explosion to fix this mess.

Fortunately Arhra knew just how to make an explosion of that magnitude. The wings structures of her mecha opened into an array and vents opened on her mecha, drawing in power, streaks of energy pouring into them. The torso armour folded upon, revealing the intolerable brightness of the power core. Arhra forced her hands together, massive resistance between them as the energy built up.

"SUPERNOVA BOMB!"

Arhra fired. A churning ball of energy larger than her entire mech was launched towards its target, acclerating steadily.

She'd shot it at the sun.

Arhra had actually blown up Gaia's sun once before and it was a well known fact that once something had been done, it became easier to do. Of course, last time she'd done it, she'd been virtually omnipotent, so it remained to be seen if it would actually work.

In approximately sixteen minutes they'd find out.

* * *

Shadow dragon head tasted vaguely like licorice, Arhra Four decided as she gnawed industriously on Newb's neck. Unfortunately, Newb did not enjoy being treated as confectionery. The head writhed out her jaws and then the fire head twisted, exhaling its stream of random junk.

Arhra's swung her head around in irritation, a sofa and a TV turning into lumps passing down her throat into her gullet. Then friend ship and world peas appeared, something Arhra simply couldn't cope with. The dragoness flittered clumsily away as a boat that was rapidly expanding to its full size rammed down her throat. Luckily, as Arhra gagged, it slipped down and through her stomach portal. She suddenly felt disgustingly full, but it was now in a mysterious other dimension and unable to hurt her. World peas close behind it, was more complicated. Arhra successfully spat one out, but there had been three. The pressure of one was just enough to cram one through into her portal, but then the last one was too big to fit through and still expanding.

The planet sized peas thankfully didn't adhere to the scientific definition of a planet, or else they'd have been at least several hundred kilometers in diameter. Obviously, swallowing that would have hurt. They barely were planetismals even.

Of course, while a tiny speck by planet standards, it was still a lot bigger than Arhra. Perhaps fortunately Arhra's dragon shape was very malleable. Arhra puffed up and up until she was a scaly ball, little limbs, tail and head flailing weakly, as she tried to think of how to get herself out of this situation. As basically a thin membrane enclosing a giant pea, she was not amused.

And so the tiny planet that had been formed from what little remained of Gaia now had a pair of tiny moons, one pea green and the other suspiciously dragony one possessing a dark iridesence.

[POS Industries]

"Sir, we have an intruder alert on Deck 4, Section 7. One of the NPFers has boarded us from the shuttle bay."

"Wait, what?" Captain NexGen questioned, "How is that even possible? I thought I told you all to raise shields!"

"We did, sir. See?" one of the crewmen confirmed as the rest of the bridge crew raised their left arms into view, each one adorned with a large heavily armored shield.

"Oh jeebus," NexGen sighed, "You're all so fired after we're done with this...."

"Looks like it's Mauve down there," Rei Zeus chimed in, looking over one of the monitors, "Send a security team to intercept her. Oh, hey Flare! You're still under contract with us, right? Go with 'em. Have fun!"

"Yeah, er, what she said. Also, target the giant enemy robot and fire all weapons. You know, since we've got nothing better to do," NexGen ordered, turning his attention back to the battle outside.

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Meanwhile, back at the battle outside, things were looking grim for Rei Overdrive. Restrained by giant tentacles with not only a massive energy spork of doom heading toward her but the shockwave from the destroyed Gaian sun as well, she was left with little recourse.

"Looks like this is the end. Thanks for the fun fight, guys! Hopefully this proved to be a suitable enough distraction for you while Pe-chan destroyed the Pantheon of the Gods and conquered the NPF! Anyway," she informed the crew of the megazord as she disengaged her giant energy form, returning to her normal appearance, and redirecting the power in front of her before releasing it at full force toward Majimmier, "SPECIAL DOOM CANNON!!"

The beam hurtling toward the megazord on one side and the Gaian supernova coming from the other, Rei opened a hyperlink portal behind her and gave a quick bow to her opponents before retreating into it.

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"Hm, you know, it really has been too long since I've had a haircut...."

Pedros Nihilem looked over himself in a mirror hanging on the wall in Shiney's office, messing with his long, brown hair a bit while Fenris sat in a nearby chair, nervously clutching a large fish. A small wisp of darkness generated around Nihilem's right hand and grew outward, enveloping his head and swirling about for a moment before receding, revealing a much shorter hairstyle.

"There, I think that should do it," POS smiled, adjusting things a bit more to his liking, "Now I guess we just wait. How's your day been, hobo?"

Before Fenris could reply, Nihilem became aware of the sound of hoofed feet approaching from the hallway..

"Hey Cockwranger--I mean, POS! Oh, how could I ever get those two names confused?" Fifthfiend greeted as he poked his head through the door.

"Fifth, you old assmanager! What brings you here?"

"Well, I figured I'd let you know Shiney's gonna be a while," Fifth shrugged, "There's some crisis down in the RaiRO forums where people are being stupid. You know, nothing actually new, but he's gotta deal with it anyway."

"Well, that certainly sucks," POS sighed, "I really don't feel like waiting too long, you know? I'm assuming you don't have the authority to hand over the NPF to me, right?"

"Naw. Also, I wouldn't do it anyway on account of I think you're a jerkass."

"Ha ha ha, you sure do, Fifth. You suuuuure do."

Patting the administrator on the shoulder as he walked past him out of the room, Nihilem started making his way to the building's exit. This was really more for dramatic flair after all, as he had already begun breaking down the boundaries of space and time around him in order to teleport to Shiney's location.

Still, it afforded him an opportunity to throw a friendly greeting to a rather insulted someone who was heading down the same hallway toward him.

"Hi, Arhra. Bye, Arhra."

And with that, POS vanished from the Adminstator's Office, appearing instantaneously on the far edge of town: General RaiRO. The area itself appeared to be a large industrial facility, well-enough lit but more or less empty. Apparently, this was the central control complex of the RaiRO subdivision.

Complete with a very annoyed Shiney frantically looking over a large pile of paperwork.

"Yo, Shinester! How goes it?"

"Oh, POS, hi," Shiney sighed, briefly looking up from his work, "I'm really kinda busy right now so I can't play with you. I've got a lot of people down here screwing around and I'm having trouble dealing with it because someone messed up the main power distribution system and I can't ban people. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"

"Heh heh, yeah, I guess that was my bad, huh?" Nihilem grinned sheepishly, "Well, maybe I can help.... So you can't ban people, right? How about just killing them? I could totally just erase them from existence for you. It's kinda like a permaban."

"Wait.... Since when can you do that?"

"Since I became a god a bit ago. It's pretty awesome."

"POS. That's.... That's just......

...........

=D"

And so began the best day ever.

[Fenris]

5 seconds left

Fenris frantically punched the stomach of his fish, enacting the emergency "DON'T BLOW UP DAMMIT" button.

'Bastard left the fuckin' building!'

Fenris kicked himself for not having foreseen this.

[Arhra]

With POS making his getaway right in front of her and Fenris desperately activating his abort sequence, Arhra One took some time out to consider her emotional state.

"I am both confused and angry." Arhra stated, after a few moments of reflection. "And slightly aroused."

She glared at the one person left - Fenris. It was an intimidating glare, for vivid lightning was crackling over the short and bristly figure and she was leaving glowing footprints behind her. This added somewhat to Arhra's well known capacity for deadly glares.

Arhra crossed the room, sat down in a chair and leaned back in it, looking at Fenris with her arms crossed. "I have gone to all this effort to prepare magical doominess and yet I see a distinct lack of Pedros to unleash magical doominess upon. It demands to be unleashed upon somebody! Why the alternative of no magical doominess is not even to be considered!"

She paused for a moment and got to her point. "You'd better have some way to fix this, Mr Hobo."

OOC: When in doubt, blame the hobo.

[Flarecobra]

"My plesure!" I said, and headed down to the right deak, looking for Mauve. After soving aside some Random Crewmen, I ran across her. "Hey Mauve! I said with a smile. "Care to help me disable this thing? Or destroy it? I've got a plan, which involves us taking out the energy cores. While they're busy either fixing them or switching to the backups, one of us heads to weapons control, and takes it over, while the other goes for the computers." I said, as I set up a wall of fire to cover us.

[Bailey]

Next to the five-headed dragon, there was a small explosion of air displacement, as ten bipedal hypervelocity canines suddenly came to a complete and total stop. On of them looked at the small device in his hand, then looked around in confusion. That was when he noticed the insignia on the stomach of the dragon. "Hey Amalgam, is that you?"

"Not exactly, and Wizardcat is in here too, but close enough. Hold on, let me ditch them and I'll come with you guys. You do have a plan, right?"

"Sort of. Kinda. Good enough."

"All right. Hold on."

The five headed dragon breathed in deeply, stuck both of its hands over the 'ears' of the fire head, the fire head close its eyes, shut its mouth, and then blew as hard as it could while the other heads remained open.

The other four intelligences which had gone into creating the dragon tumbled to the ground, and the dragon glowed black.

When the glowing subsided, the entire dragon looked like the plushie of a robot of itself, but still full size.

Also, it was wearing the cutest little vest, and there was a totally awesome floppy brimmed hat on each head, in a color to match each head's element.

"Awesome, now set your tummy compartment to treadmill mode and open up. We're going to be using your power transfer systems to give that robot over there some help."

[Fenris]

Fenris fwipped out the banstick and activated a hyperlink portal to the RaiRO boards.

"Go in, have fun, I'm going to be sitting here enjoying living."

[mauve]

Mauve considered Flarecobra's plan for a moment. One minute she was protecting Pedros, and the next she was suggesting a joint mission to blow up his ship. Should Mauve really trust her...?

"Yeah, okay," she decided with a shrug. "Sounds good to me. Do you know where the energy cores are? If so, lead the way." She pushed up her sleeves and prepared for some core destroyin'.