NPF Avatars 5 - The Big Come Down

[Jeneralissimo]

Jen wandered over to Mauve and her cameraman. "Maybe I wasn't on the ball with raining pie, but I know about the Seaking." She whispered. "And while we're at it, I know about the stolen van and equipment as well. I can shut you down any time I want. And then this poor young man will be out of a job." She continued, looking at Ecurt. "If you ever want a real job, you know where to find me." And with that, she stalked off to her side of the press box.

[POS Industries]

As Fenris hoisted him up, Pedro was himself grabbed by Jimmy and a strange crystalline shard of something else as everyone quickly did their best to avoid horrible electrocution. The fembots, however, weren't as quick to avoid the attack and after a violent flash of light and various explosions, it became quiet.

But only for a moment.

As quickly as they were destroyed, more fembots began raising out of the hot tubs, pools, mud baths, closets, and busting through walls on a couple occasions. Furthermore, the obliteration of the fembots guarding the door merely resulting in a big smoking pile of destroyed robot parts now blocking the exit, so the lack of escape route problem continued to remain as the rising water problem also unfortunately failed to cease as a major issue.

"Okay, we definitely need to shut down the replicators," Pedro sighed, dropping back down into the water, "If you guys can cover us, Jimmy and I should be able to make our way to the manual shutdown system."

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Back at the arena, the red arrow finally slowed to a stop, the roulette falling on Incendius, who vanished almost instantaneously as he was teleported to the deathtrap that used to be the POS Industries company spa.

As the red roulette arrow started up again, Rei called out, "Ten down and six to go! Where we stop, nobody knows!"

[TheBlindMime]

TBM's leg rushed over the very edge of the circular arena only to stop just before disqualification and a sudden trip to a formerly relaxing circle of hell. No one had chased him, yet his bell rang when he reached the edge. "I would be in danger if I left the arena?" He pondered aloud as he drew his leg back and took a firmer stance on the ring.

He heard the automaton Rei call out above him, "Ten down and six to go! Where we stop, nobody knows!"

"Six more need to be eliminated for me to move forward with no risk of roulette doom, that is if I still want to stay." This day had been a very odd one for TBM, when he woke up this morning he was just a man who was on a very suicidal trip into a tournament. Now he had powers he didn't completely understand and a chance to be a contender. "I'm going for it."

TBM charged straight towards his first target with a mighty bellow that drew his opponents attention from his current quarry, a blueberry pie. He'd had a problem with that bear ever since... well never really but it was fun to dream. "TRANSFORM!" As TBM discovered through the use of his powers he didn't need to say this, but he like to. *POOF* Through the sudden swirling smoke charged forward one of TBM's favorite creatures from his childhood.

A Triceratops. He was fully intent on knocking the bear right out of that ring in one fell swoop. And then maybe parading around as a dinosaur for a while. Maybe.

[POS Industries]

As TBM rushed toward it, the bear looked up from the pie it was just finishing up and growled, standing tall on its hind legs as it let out a mighty roar at the charging dinosaur.

BEAR used ROAR!
THEBLINDMIME fled from battle!

[Fenris]

Fenris decided that enough was enough. Irium moved everybody out of the way of what he was planning to do next. Waving his banstick, Fenris pulled a thread like a locomotive through the wall behind the blocked exit. This caused three things to happen.

1. The fembot bits and pieces and bodies were sent flying in every direction across the room.
2. The doorway was now much bigger.
3. The water level lowered as the water flooded out into the halls at a quicker rate.

"This lowered water level won't last forever! Quick, Pedro and Jimmy, go!"

'I'm ready to fight some more Fembots, Fenry!'

'We all are, Irium. Let's do this!'

And so, Fenris jumped back into holding the Fembots at bay with the sword, as Irium took out rows of them with their own bodies as ammunition.

[PyrosNine]

Pyros landed upon the triceratop's back, as he was summoned by it's sheer awesomeness. Of course, to be fair, he'd always been more fond of the stegosaurus but it wasn't like Mime would listen to him now. He's a dinosaur, and dinosaurs don't take lip from no one!

"Heyo Mime, pleasure to see you here! So watcha doin, besides stepping on my shapeshifter turf? Though, I must say, a triceratops suits you. I think. Either that or one of those guys that hit things with their heads. Umm...Head-hit o'saurus or something."

Pyros bent over Mime's head to look him in the eyes. "Say, that bear is quite the annoying! Wanting people to settle down with a family and live productive lives? Truely, there is only one thing for us to do: Team up, and destroy it!"

[Incendius]

A shame... Was Incendius thought as he found himself teleported into the spa room. What a way to go out, not through being beaten by a worthy adversary, but but a stroke of possibly random luck.

Quickly, Incendius noticed the frantic activity around his arrival area. I was wondering what the all the emotion coming from here was caused by. I thought it might have been at annoyance from losing. If only I had had a chance to fully analyze it. Ah well, now lets see what exactly I can do here.

Not much. The floating half mask admitted Those fembots are mechanical, and at the moment my ability to effect the physical world is no where near its normal potency. If only I had my focusing crystal back... it would at least reverse the effects of losing my body.

Until then, the thought being decided to spend his efforts as a coordinator. Floating over to the furiously fighting Fenris, Incendius sent If you wish, I will coordinate your thoughts with the rest of the team's, and with connect them to Pedro's as well. Seeing as he is not present, I assume he's trying to fix this yes?

Simaltaneously Incendius spread out his mind in search of Pedro, and when he found him would contact him much the same way he did Fenris.

[TheBlindMime]

TBMeratops had picked out a nice home with a picket fence in downtown Columbus Ohio when Pyros landed atop his mighty back. Despite TBM's innermost thoughts of running away to find a bride and raising some young'uns Pyros was a catalyst for doing quite the opposite. As Pyros so often was.

In fact Pyros was more right about that Bear then anything ever in his entire life, he was really annoying! TBMeratops let out a mighty rage-filled roar that could only come from a Triceratops, which as it happens sounded a lot like a bicycle horn but no matter, thanks to Pyros he now had the power to jump back into battle!

Pyros chose TBMeratops!
TBMeratops uses horn drill!

[PyrosNine]

"Go! For great victory! Also, I'm going to start yelling at the top of my lungs now, so you can hear nothing but the sound of my sweet, Siren-like voice! Ergo, no Roar can affect you!"

Pyros tapped his throat. "Eh-hem. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

[POS Industries]

TBMeratops attacked with its Horn Drill, the pendant around the bear's neck randomly began glowing, and a magic shield deflected the attack. The bear found itself enraged that its feeding on pie was continuing to be interrupted, and swiped its claws at the offending attackers.



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"This lowered water level won't last forever! Quick, Pedro and Jimmy, go!"

"Thanks, Hobo!" Pedro called out behind him as he grabbed Jimmy and made his way to the override controls. The cane in his right hand was a most serviceable weapon indeed, as he had little difficulty tearing through the mob of fembots. However, the mob was getting quite a bit thicker as he plowed on, and he only hoped he'd be getting some cover fire while he pushed through.

And his socks were still soaked. Man, that's uncomfortable....