NPF Avatars 5 - Another Version Of The Truth

[Inbred Chocobo]

Shots came raining down upon Rei Ares. From above too, which is how they rained down. A black chocobo like zord was seen flying down, fighter-jet style. Odd that IC's zord would be a fast flying jet zord, and not something like a rhino that had a lot of strength and whatnot. Still, to admit, the zord had a rather long neck, and it definitly looked like legs were tucked underneath.

IC had already taken a few seconds to get adjusted to this zord. It was all just a fighter-jet combo, with a whole lot more power. It would take someone that could take some serious Gs to be able to pilot it. Instead of just a screen in front, he was surrounded by the battlefield, seeing a complete 360. Which was kind of strange, but it allowed IC to hunt targets in the air much better. Though to admit he had ripped out the speaker for the voice of the mech when it said "Hey homie, how it be hangin'?" He didn't need that.

[mauve]

Mauve frowned, remembering something. The cockpit of the robot opened and Mauve jumped out. She ran towards Ecurt, dodging whips of nothingness and swarms of Gaians.

Ecurt, meanwhile, was just about to learn what form his fantastic zord would take. Excitement! He held out a fist to summon his giant robot to him.

"GO NUK--"

"Ecurt!" Mauve yelled. "Camera! Report! Now!"

"You're kidding!" Ecurt sighed. "Can't we just get to the giant robot fight? We'll get higher viewer ratings, y'know. Who watches news instead of giant robot fights??"

Mauve waved him aside.

"Have the robo war in the background," she said. "It's our journalistic duty to keep the public informed. We gave bad information: POS duped us all into thinking HE was the victim, and that's what we told the world. Now we have to let the world know what's REALLY going on. Ethics, Ecurt. Ethics." She looked back over her shoulder at her Zord. "And then we can do some robot fighting."

Ecurt brightened.

"Inside the camera is the device that allows POS Industries to monitor our transmissions," Mauve continued, tossing Ecurt one of her knives. "Get rid of it."

Ecurt grumbled something about being late for every robot fight, but did as he was instructed. He carefully pried the small object out from its web of wires, taking care to avoid getting electrocuted. He tossed the device to Mauve.

"And freedom of the press triumphs once again," Mauve declared, even though she was the one who installed the device into the camera in the first place. She did it out of politeness for POS Industries International, because she figured if ever her news station needed financial assistance or defense against any Gaians who figured out where their news van mysteriously disappeared to, she could ask Pedro. Fat chance of that happening now.

"Rolling!!" said Ecurt, framing the shot and beginning to record. "Get it over with so I can get my stupid Zord already!"

"This is an NPF News Special Report." Mauve declared into her microphone. "Shocking new information has been released regarding the pending O'Sullivan crisis. Mr. Pedro O'Sullivan of POS Industries International, once thought to be the victim of a deranged former employee, has revealed himself to be the grand mastermind behind a plot to not only rule the City, but transform himself into something greater than humanity: A god."

"Behind me you see the latest development in this truly horrible situation. As NPF NEWS LiveFeed cameras have documented, O'Sullivan's supposed captor Doug Doukhobor openly admitted to receiving aid and information from R.E.I., POS Industries' Relatively Empathetic Interface. Now O'Sullivan has revealed his true intent: To obtain Godhood and gain complete control of the City, as well as to destroy all those who stand in his way.

"Now calling himself Pedros Nihilem, the God of Nothing, O'Sullivan freely admits that everything, from the tournament to his kidnapping to his own murder, has been planned out in an attempt to lure potential threats to his ascension, namely the NPF, to their deaths.

"We now stand on Gaian soil, just in front of the chamber where Pedros Nihilem is being 'born.' As you can see, chaos runs rampant. The very world itself is being torn apart by Nihilem's newfound ability to create Nothingness. If he is allowed to continue, the future of Gaia, Nuklear Power, and the universe itself looks grim.

"NPF Rescue Forces have been given some godly assistance of their own, in the form of Zords."

"WHICH IS WHERE I SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW!" Ecurt whispered loudly.

"NPF News will continue to broadcast live coverage as we kick some ass with robotic awesomeness. Or until we die. Whichever. Until then, Nuklear Power," Mauve said, taking off her hat, "Good night... and Good Luck."

"OKAY BACK TO ROBOT FIGHTS!" She ran back to her Zord and made it leap into the air, aiming to knock one of the Rei's out of the sky.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

As it turned out, Wrath's mechahamsterball of doom didn't in fact have a jump button Incarnate could press on, repeatedly.

In fact, there was no buttons at all. Just a spinning ball of doom that looked like it would overshoot its position right underneath Nihilem's fat, nonexistent body and not be that doomy at all.
But that's when Wrath pivotted inside the ball of rotating blades, landed one foot on the base of the ball, and tapped it ever so slightly like a dancer spinning in sync to some invisible beat.

The mechahamsterball rocketted directly upwards, its spin somehow increased. It seemed to climb through the air, grasping reality with its many blades of Fury and pulling itself upwards.

Only one of the Rei's stood between her and her target, and it looked like Wrath's fury-borne ball of spiky doominess wasn't about to stop for an extra hitch-hiker passenger.

[Nikose Tyris]

Giggling, The Nikose Ranger hit "next" on his CD changer.

"Is that you doing that to me
With your stare
I feel the temperature start to rise
And I
Really take it from there"

Nikose Laughed and sung along gayly to the CD.

"I start to press my skin to you
I'm craving it
I'm feeling you
Will you relieve me fast"

Nikose quickly knew he wasn't going to win any fight here easily.


"Feast your eyes on my display
Take control
Fall over me
Cover me in ecstasy"

Nikose reached up to the shelf in the Zord, and pulled down something very old. A silver Bracelet, that had the power to summon. The tricky thing was, people could refuse the summons and not show up. Frustrating indeed.

"Let me ride to heaven
Let me feel the swelling
Oh let me concentrate"

Nikose fingered the several Silver Trinkets on it, each in a different interesting shape.

"I can feel it
When I taste
Like the wind
I breathe
Crawling inside of me baby
Oh oh oh
"

he gently stroked the teardrop Trinket that had belonged to Kaitlyn.

"Now's the time for you to let go of
All your inhibitions
We can do this one more time"

He fingered the fire shape that was Black, and Ripped it free to summon him.

"With a little
Tease and conversation

Watch the way my body moves
Feel the rhythm melting you
Mm, this is how it should be
Crawl over you

Nikose grinned down at the Circle with the 10 shaped charm, and ripped it free to summon Newb.

I'll dominate
Your destiny
I'll be your faith
I will be your fantasy"

He toyed around with Karesh's Bit, and grinned to himself a bit, before Tearing it free as well.

"Let me ride to heaven
Let me feel the swelling
Oh let me concentrate"

He frowned slightly at the Sword Charm, but ripped it free anyway.

"If I've fallen in love with the soul
If I've fallen in love with myself
I'll take it all in one time"

He grabbed hold of the Cake charm, then realized that Mauve was right nearby- He didn't need to waste the charm.

Then he laughed and spoke along with his CD:

"I can feel it
When I taste
Like the wind
I breathe
Crawling inside of me baby
Oh oh oh"

he hummed the chorus of the song a few lines, before:

"I can feel it
When I taste
Like the wind
I breathe
Crawling inside of me baby
Oh oh oh."

[Flarecobra]

I was finally done with clearing out the Gaians, as they now started to avoid me. A flash of light behind me caused me to look up and I saw the NPFers in robots fighting 5 Reis. "Well, that ain't exactly fair..." I said, as firey wings formed on my back. "Guess I'll have to even things out..." I said, and took off, a pair of white-hot fireballs already forming in my hands. Once airborne, I targeted the nearest NPFer, which happoned to be Mauve's, and attacked, firing the fireballs at her, one hitting the front of her robot, the other just barely grazing it. I flew up close to her and said "Sorry, but I can't let you kill him. Nothing personal, but it's in my contract to defend him." before I flew over her, attempting to land on it.

[mauve]

The robot's hand reached up and scratched its head, its posture looking slightly sheepish.

"I WASN'T GOING TO KILL HIM, PER SE," Mauve said through the external speakers. "JUST... Y'KNOW... BEAT THE STUFFING OUT OF HIM A LITTLE. SORT OF."

The robot straightened, hand on one hip, and pointed up at Rei.

"ANYWAY, I WAS GONNA GET RID OF SOME OF THE REI SCOUTS, FIRST," she continued. "AND THERE'S PROBABLY A KIND OF SMALLISH CHANCE THAT THEY'D SURVIVE IN A SENSE, KIND OF SORT OF..."

The robot's head swiveled to regard something on the ground which had become very, very interesting all of a sudden.

"THIS ISN'T HELPING, IS IT."

Mauve didn't know why Flare was defending someone who was going to destroy them, unless maybe he promised he wouldn't destroy her in return.

Said winged lady had taken into the air and was now attempting to land
on the brim of her robo-hat. Mauve had the distinct feeling that nothing good would come of this.

"AWWWWW, MAAAAN." Mauve whined, making the robot leap backwards and raise a metal hand towards Flare. "DON'T TELL ME I'M GONNA HAVE TO FIGHT YOU, TOO."

A segment of the robot's palm slid open to reveal a bright white light burning from within. Some kind of energy weapon. Mauve prepared to fire, if she had to.

[Flarecobra]

"Friad so." I said, and dived down to gain some speed.

See, the problem with using big mecha to fight human-sized targets was that, well...they're just so damn small! I gained speed, and flew under the arm and grabbed onto it. Once down, I began to change form again, this time my body losing my solidity, as I moved to the joints of Mauves zord that was exposed.

[Bailey]

A giant blue swirling time gate appeared above Flare and two humanoids fell out.

The one in black with green trim grabbed the metal one and then time froze, although awareness continued. The one in black with green trim used the opportunity to totally cheat and continue moving anyway, and climbed on top of the metal one, opened up his chest cavity, pulled out a rope, tied it to his leg, and then leapt onto Mauve's zord. He tied it around the edge of a piece of armor plating at the joint, and then time resumed, causing the metal one to slam heavily into the side of Mauve's arm.

"Thank you Nikose, that WAS rather timely, wasn't it?"

[mauve]

"FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, FLARE, I JUST GOT THIS THING!" Mauve complained as Flare grabbed the robot's arm. She shook the appendage forcefully, trying to get rid of her. She tapped a few more buttons and the hand and lower half of the arm crackled with electric bolts that ran up and down the metal skin like a glowing spider web.

[Bailey]

TEN O'Clock bellowed in pain and slid down the rope to hang with Amalgam, and hopefully avoid further electrocution.

This didn't help much, as being on the end of a flailing rope will still hurt you.