NPF Avatars 5 - Getting Smaller

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose, after his initial electrical wave subsided, and his senses had returned, shook himself vigorously. "Right, okay. Nenyel, Monofillament Whip." And there was a whip in his hands.

"WH-CRACK!"

all 6 that had been near him fell in half, twitching and sparking. Nikose grinned, then flicked his whip upwards, taking out the light that was above him- and suddenly, he vanished entirely.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC had used Hawk's attack as another kickoff point. He was liking these aerial attacks, so instead of pushing enough power to possibly break Hawk's weapon, he pulled back, and used Hawk's swing as a kick off point to go back into the air. This time though, he saw his target, and hopefully he would be able to do something about it.

He started falling towards Smokey. Of course, he made himself fall a little slower, but it was because he had a plan. He had caught sight of Raven falling towards Smokey and the bear, and was aiming to take him out. IC thought that following up her attack and striking them both would be a good manuever, even if it resembled his attack.

So IC fell, slowly at first, allowing Raven to gain some distance, then he came in right behind her, sword ready to strike just a split-second after Raven had made hers. And hopefully, it would take her out, along with that bear.

[Red Mage Black]

Black reached a point he liked in Rhiya's throat before enacting his plan.

'Latis activate!'

'As you wish.'

Thy suddenly stopped, Black suspended once more in his liquid armor. Spikes sprouted from Latis sticking to the walls and blocking the colossal dragon's throat.

"Choke on this!" Black shouted looking down through the water and to the blackness of her throat.


'Lets hope this plan actually works.'
'Who do you think trained me?'

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Where Monty had once stood, there was a flash of white, blue, and an explosion. But something was wrong... a bit askew. Queer if you will.

Monty was gone. Just vanished. The Über-Longknife, however, sat motionlessly on the arena floor.

Once the flash died down, the culprit was clear. A SepT confinement beam, an obscenely large one, filled a mass of the arena and a slew of white, sparkling ‘particles’ were milling pointlessly around the beam before it thinned and vanished, like a closing spotlight.

“Incidentally, Roboflop, you shouldn’t speechify before you shoot. It gives the faster of us time to react,” KP Morgan corrected in a smug voice, before saluting PX-05 and vanishing in a SepT-Beam of his own.

Unfortunately, Pyros’s fiery potshots were still heading for where Monty’s head had once been.

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Somewhere up in the Etemenanki, a confused, newly-separated Monty looked around in confusion.

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Raven threw her hands in front of her face to block Pyros’s potshots. She thanked the goddess silently for the Fire Shield that was still protecting her.

She pulled up in midair and came to a stop, glaring down at Pyros, watching as his car—and he himself—were accosted by a shovel-wielding bear.

Daymn that was weirder than her.

Still, that wasn’t enough punishment for him, but her attacks were divine. She’d have a hard time affecting him. So she hovered, watching and thinking.

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Jane woke up in a scene she had not been in before. To her, however, she was just walking through a door. The fact that she couldn’t remember what or where was hardly unusual to her.

The room seemed to be some sort of spa. A particularly fun spa, from the look of it.

Jane kicked a robot. Not for any particular reason, she just enjoyed kicking robots.

And it exploded too. “Yaaaaaaaaaay!”

It was about then that Jane caught a whiff of the thoughts floating around the room. These weren’t funny.

Okay, they were a little funny.

She pulled a cell phone out of her camouflage pants and used a speed dial.

“Boss, I think you need to come see this.”

“Not now!” KP snapped back, “I’m examining my snake.”

“Eww!”

“Oh, for God’s sake! Leave me alone!”

Jane shrugged and put the phone away. More for her then.

She kicked another fembot. It exploded, too.

[Melfice]

Melfice had been pounding on more and more fembots.
He was currently taking abuse of a bottleneck situation, in which he had used Indori and had changed him into a sort of moving shield.

It involved a large rotating spike of sorts with ridges. It was an idea of Indori's and was being been very effective in "disembowelling" the fembots.

"I grow slightly tired of this. Pedro, sir? Where is this power switch? I am sure Indori can dig us a way there, using this shield. You will find it is quite effective."

He decided to change the shard into a rapier and proceeded to cause more onslaught, fighting his way towards their host.

[Demetrius]

Demetrius strode toward Pedro in a cocoon of Raggies, converting the odd fembot that managed to make it through to him.

"As much fun as this is, I am having fun mind you, and for the entertainment I do humbly thank you, which way is the power switch and what does it look like, I would like to finish my massage." A Raggie hearing this broke off from the others and began to massage Demetrius' shoulders...MMmmmm...

[Fenris]

Fenris did a juggling act that likely should not have worked. He switched the banstick into his right hand, and the sword into his left. He hit more fembots in the skull, causing more explosions, which took out other Fembots. He put away the sword, and willed his boomerhammer back to him again. He threw it, taking out more fembots, and slammed the banstick on another bot that was behind him.

He was starting to get a little singed, but it was all in good fun. He threw the hammer again, decapitating several of the fembots. He started to use three weapons at once, putting the sword away when he was about to catch the hammer.

It was amazing how the Halo multi-weapon system worked.

[PyrosNine]

(before the fox fire incident)
Pyros took the shovel in hand, and proceeded to do a 9.9 vault, then dismounted with a spinning flip that landed perfectly, winning adoration in the hearts of millions. Then, he proceeded to take the only logical course of action. Grab mime-

"Run awaaaaay!"

And bolt!

Hopefully, the raging chaos that was following Pyros in Giant Snake form would keep Smokey busy while Pyros formulated a new plan....

(during fox fire incident)
"Okay darlin, mes pattes ah goin’ back there, so I can sacrifice m'self to appease the bear's anger, and become his bride. Maybe even have a slowly diminishing lovelife that favors neither of us, and we both end up killin' each other with large fashionable, ceremonial Japanese knives!"

Putting her hand to her forehead and her other hand over Mime's mouth, she continued her drama. "No! Don't you speak! Don't try and argue, telling me not to throw my life away so! Do you remember that time...in Rio? Of course darlin, I only told you it was Rio, you being blind and all, and now that ah'm thinkin' bout it, it may have been Reno....but as we watched that man bleed ta death, I swore that I would never, NEVER! let chu die by getting mauled to death by bears! Even them, antypro-morphin time ones."

Asheth stood up, away from the possibly sleeping, unconscious, or fully awake mime (She could never tell. Kitsune's eyes were always closed) and turned to face her destiny and walk towards it.

Then she turned around and sat down again.

"I s'pose, after much recollection, that ah'm really not in ta gettin' married just yet. Specially to bears. Couldn't have matchin' rings or anythin', cuz he gots big paws and I've got sweet lil fingers. Reckon we need another plan?"

Asheth looked over her shoulder and cackled in a way that could kill small animals and dark alternate futures if the volume were turned up higher.

"P'raps, a dee-version is necessary, eh darlin?"


In a move of his own fox magic, a trio of spectres emerged from the smoke of the battlefield, lurching slowly towards the Bear duo. Mostly Smokey.

Smokey the bear could only watch with horror as Hoppy the rabbit, Dam the beaver, and Up the woodchuck lurched before him, each moaning with every sickening step. Their bodies were hideously warped, their fur had been burned off (Hoppy suffered the most fur loss) and their eyes were white with death. Bones and muscles were visible through what remained of their flesh, and showed signs of char and soot.

"Smokeeeeeeyyyyy!" "SMOOOOoooookeeeeeeey!" "Why didn't you save us....SMOOOoookeeeyyeeeyy!?"

They lurched closer and closer to the fire fighting bear and the non fire fighting bear, the smell of burnt flesh becoming more and more odious.

"You swooooore to protect us from forest fires! But you couuuullldn't stop them all, Smoookeeeeey! While you were busy telling some kids to stop forest fires, you failed to stop the forest fire....THAT claiiiimmmed US!"

"Why.....smokey? Whyyyyyyyy? Didn't you care for ussssss?"

[TheBlindMime]

Every word she spoke was true, TBM was never sure if it was Reno or Rio but they had watched that man die together. Asheth etching his final moments in perfect clarity with her wondrous lips. And though it pained TBM to even let the thought cross his mind, deep down he knew there love could never be. Reaching deep to the depths of his unknown power TBM pulled forth everything he had to strengthen his attack. His hatred, love and sorrow all combined in his heart and the fox fire showed all of this. The flames burned hotter, the lightning grew brighter and all of it burned with the passion TBM held for the women he could never have.

I <3 you Asheth...

Smokey could feel the impending wrath of a Kyuubi scorned as the magicked flames reached him.

[POS Industries]

AB was able to put her rifle up just in time to avoid being cleaved in half by Mesden's attack, but the force of the soul goddess' blow was enough to send the fanservice battler tumbling backward out of the ring, onto the black outer area and vanishing in a flash of teleporter light.

"Armored Bishoujo has been eliminated by ring out! And has been sent to the spa where I assure everyone the isn't a deadly horde of zombie-like supermodel robots attempting to kill everything in sight! That would be silly, of course.... Hey look, the arrow's slowing down again!" Rei announced to everyone.

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Meanwhile, Smokey stared horrified at the summon spectres of his lost forest friends. Shaking, he glared past them at Pyros, dragging his shovel along the ground as he moved toward the rather self-satisfied fire deity.

"How dare you?" Smokey growled, "I never thought you could sink so low. Yes, I remember leaving the forest to go teach human children the basics of fire prevention. They were safe and warm in their little woodland dwellings. They were happy..."



"...When I returned, however, they weren't so happy. A massive blaze had torn through the forest and ended them all. I couldn't believe... how could a forest fire move so fast? I'd never quite seen anything like it..."



"...I buried my fallen friends and vowed never to rest until I found the one responsible for that inferno. I searched and I searched, looking over ever charred bit of ash in that forest, and then I finally pieced it together. I finally found the culprit. And it was you!"



As Smokey continued moving toward them, the rage seemed to dramatically increase his fire suppression powers, to the point where it seemed like all the heat in the area was being suppressed. As he began to charge toward Pyros, an icy rain began to fall over the arena.

"ONLY I CAN PREVENT YOU, PYROS!!!"

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Elsewhere, the roulette finally came to a stop over Raiden, who looked up from his tea just long enough to see it before flashing away to the spa of death. The red arrow started moving again, but suddenly a blue arrow also appeared, moving about over the heads of the other contestants.

"Raiden has been randomly eliminated!" Rei called out, "And with four elimination left before the end of the match, it looks like the second phase of the lightning round has begun! This blue roulette arrow will occasionally stop over the head of one of the combatants and issue a random power up to the lucky target! Enjoy!"