NPF Avatars: with hardcore finger pointing action!

[Mesden]

Her gaze traced to the Newb, a look of annoyance falling over her.

What the hell are you doing here? You caused me enough pain with your damn Blue Magic. Then when you separated...god...do you KNOW how annoying it is dealing with a problem like that? Don't answer.

Her glowing hand went to rest on Newb's head, he could feel himself slip away from the real world. Soon, he found himself in the ethereal realm, the swirling lights and beauty sending a sense of awe through him.

Alright, let's start.

She spoke another word, creating a glyph that embedded itself in her hand. She dove it into his chest and a sudden writhing went over him. He could feel three in mind personas being ripped away from their holding place and formed together.

There, that's good enough for now.

And with a wave of her hand she and the newly formed Newb returned to the physical realm.

[PyrosNine]

The door opened, it's numerous mystical, magical, and technological defenses gave way one after another. Kyuubi and the Kamen entered calmly, seeing the inside of the room for the first time. Or, at least the Kamen was.

It was a dark room lit only by the many monitors, and a few well placed red LED displays saying "Warning", "Intruders!" and "Danger! DANGER Will Robinson! DANGER!"

Along the walls were numerous computer desks with computer technicians typing, using the wall monitors. The technicians were mostly fem, or at least had a female avatar just to not stick out. The biggest monitor hung from the ceiling, and currently allowed Kamen for his viewing pleasure, himself. Kyuubi enjoyed having a good look at himself as well, seeing as this form was rarelly ever used, nor did Sub-Pyros get to look at himself in a mirror.

Sitting in the very back was a man almost completely covered in shadows, who sat in a spinny control chair before a ladder which led even deeper into the area. Kyuubi assumed it wasn't an escape, but felt no need to check it out. Some of life's surprises are best left as surprises. If a flaw could be found, Kyuubi was much more philisophical than Pyros ever was.

What was visible of the leader of this Defense Control, was that he wore a Gaian Army beret, and flickering metal was somewhat visible on a military vest. Obviously, he either found "Army-R-Us" in the Gaian Marketplace cheap, or he took his job seriously. Either way, it mattered little to Kyuubi. All that mattered was that they take three steps forward.

Kyuubi and Kamen took three steps forward, and from both sides the Aides leapt out armed with strange weapons. They looked a bit like the egon guns from Half Life, or a mix of a shotgun and the electric sniper rifle from Unreal Tournament.

"Hyperlink beams fire!" A lead aide cried out, and all three fired in unison.

A purple beam of energy flew out and at the two invaders, only at the last minute the Kyuubi barrier made itself known and pushed the energy back. Before the Gaian Defcon aides could yell "Oh Sh-!" they were gone in a flash of energy.

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"-it!" The Gaian defcon Aides yelped as hyperlink portals opened above the party's head and dumped them out onto the ground.

They groaned as the impact with the ground had proved quite painful for their fragile bodies.

"Argh!! My spleen!" The first aide whined, rubbing his spleen.

"Ack! My pelvis!" The second aide whined, but didn't rub as it wouldn't be right to do next to his coworkers

"OH! MY GOD!" The third aide yelped, his leg being broken but not the top of his worries. He looked up painfully to see the NP forumites standing right next to them.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHa!
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Kyuubi nudged POS Kamen with a tail. "Well, that was exciting. But I believe you would be best one to ask the questions. I'll tell you if he's lying."

[Bailey]

ThunderPaw dropped to the ground, landing on all fours, his brown bifurcated flexi-robe neatly covering everything that might otherwise be revealed.

His hinges squeaked from disuse, but soon they would run smoothly. He ran his hands over his bristling golden fur, and his ears struggled to escape a bandana. "I'm back together. Not all the way, but I'm getting there. I don't know how to thank you enough Goddess of Souls. I suppose that the way to start would be aiding to apprehend your brother without bringing harm to him." He patted at the small satchel he had at his side and checked the contents. Sure enough, everything he had had in this form the first time was still there.

"As you know, we shattered in stages. You have just helped us move back up from the fifth stage to the fourth. Do not worry, if we manage to get back up to our original form, it will most likely have been through your help, and we will be able to regulate ourselves. I can't think of a reason that the problems we caused might happen again." He hugged Mesia, and a small amount of static energy transferred from his capacitators to cause her hair to stand up slightly.

"Once again, I thank you for this second chance. My only regret is that it had to be Raiden we were going after when I finally found you." He held up one furry hand and pointed at the cyborg implants with his other. "I have no idea how useful I'll be against him." He frowned for a moment. "Why am I being so terribly verbose? It's as if I'm speaking for- ah, three people. I'll have to find a way to correct this. There again I could talk people to sleep now. But they might as likely decimate me while I debate with myself. Okay, I'm just going to stop talking now until I straighten out my thoughts. Agreed. Agreed."

That rendition of Newb now known as ThunderPaw bowed deeply to Mesia and walked away to sit crosslegged on the floor, waiting for the group to be ready to move forwards.

[mauve]

The Gaians popped into existance right next to Mauve Thief. Her eyes narrowed. Mauve looked over her shoulder at the others.

"I may be mistaken," she began, "but it appears that our new little friends here are not of the lurker/noob/flamer variety." She looked back down at the obviously-pained Gaians. "No, it seems what we've got here are the Let's-Send-Gaian-Trash-to-the-NPF-While-We-Watch-From-Elsewhere variety." Mauve set the PSG down. The gun would be too swift a demise for these people.

"Glad you showed up. We've been wanting to meet you for some time now," Mauve said to the unfortunate Gaians.

[Bailey]

Newb glanced over, and his smile widened. Rows of gleaming yet rusty teeth shone. "Your plane of existence caused me pain." The horde of ninja rabbits which had been multiplying came together and surrounded the Gaians. "Why don't I use you for practice? My teeth and hinges could use a little work. I wouldn't want to steal the fun from the others though. Why don't I let them start and gnaw on whatever bones are left, sucking out the marrow. But then, it could be that there won't be any marrow left once they are done with you. Quite a dilemma, one for much deliberation. What do you think?" He growled, his teeth just in front of the face of the nearest Gaian, who promptly pissed his pants and fainted. "Now now, it's no fun to hurt you if you aren't awake for it." He rubbed his hands together, and then touched his nose with each finger. "CLEAR!" He pressed his nose against the skin of the fainted Gaian, instantly bringing him back to wakefulness with a combination of nervous spasms from the electricity and shock from the sensation of being lovingly caressed by a piece of defrosting liver.

[PyrosNine]

It was obvious that the aides were threatened by the Mauve Thief. Of course, they knew on the hierarchy of NPF hard hitters Mauve Mage was pretty low, but as a thief, she could certainly do some damage. Or at least steal their lunch money.

Then Newb did his frightening display, and one of the Gaian aides raised his arm like a school boy. "Would you stay away from me if I tell you I wet myself...terribly?"

[Bailey]

Newb sniffed at the air.

"Yes, but only because I despise the scent of fecal matter. Wetting yourself was only the beginning of it." Newb stalked around to the other side of the group from the aide who had forgotten his toilet training. "So, anybody here still clean enough to eat, or have you all shat yourselves?"

[PyrosNine]

There were times to be proud and to save face, and there were times you shoved feces on your name.

The entire group nodded heartily. One even moved his pants about to prove his point, and a distinct sloshing noise was heard by all.

[POS Industries]

As the would-be Gaian assassins vanished to wherever the hell they might have gone, Negative Kamen looked around the room to find it filled with no less or more than himself, Kyuubi Pyros, and the Gaian Commander-in-Chief. There was an efficiency about teaming up with this particular form of Pyros that the Kamen rather liked, all the way down to the core of his Pedroness.

"So," he said calmly to the Gaian leader, who sat trembling in his special captain's chair, "Let's get down to business. It would be nice to have a table and some chairs to do this in, but that's all superfluous, I suppose. Anyway..."

Initially, POS had intended to be a bit more smooth in his dealings here. The Gaians had signed a fairly bad deal with who-knows-what and now found themselves staring down the barrel of annihilation. Honestly, he had expected them to be quite a bit more receptive to the idea of maintaining their existance, so much so that they'd be far more apt to negotiate.

Of course, they had not. In fact, a bunch of what were most likely office workers had leapt out of the shadows in one futile, last ditch effort to attack. Obviously, there was no logic or reason to be found on any level of the Gaian civilization.

Well, not until now.

"You see, Generalissimo Gaian Guy," the masked man continued, "One of two things is going to happen here. One involves you signing over control of your forums to my company unconditionally, whereas my people will begin rebuilding your operation, reformatting your entire system to operate on a much more respectable level than it is now."

The Kamen's voice, while being direct and to the point, had been uncharacteristically chipper during these proceedings. It was his salesman routine, an act that came rather naturally to him, but he felt the need to drop it now as he continued, "The other possible outcome involves only two of us walking out of here alive, while the first has all three of us leaving here as friends. So, what sounds more appealing to you."

Oh wait, no, there was that salesman voice again at the very end.

[mauve]

The Gaians were afraid of her. That amused Mauve to no end. Seeing how this may come to her advantage, the ex-mage decided to force a negotiation.

"Well, it would seem that you Gaian higher-ups are too wimpy to do anything but soil yourselves," Mauve said pleasantly, inspecting her fingernails. "Quite disappointing, really."

She sighed and ran her thumb over the edge of a nail.

"Now, seeing as how you gentlemen sent out an army of YOUR destructive forum trash onto OUR city, with the clear intents of harming us, it would be perfectly within our rights to brutally massacre you right here and now," Mauve continued conversationally. She stretched her fingers and examined her cuticles. "You see, that's kind of how we deal with invasion here on the NPF. And I must admit that my colleagues and I," she gestured towards the other NPFers, "have been looking forward to doing just that."

If any of the Gaians had anything left in their bowels, they were emptied.

"So," the ex-mage said. "Unless you guys feel like telling us, oh, I dunno, why you attacked our city and who you're working for, my friends and I would like to start the satisfyingly one-sided battle to the death now."