NPF Avatars 5 - Getting Smaller

[POS Industries]

[mauve]

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.

((XD Ouch.))

Mauve was filled with BLIND MURDEROUS RAGE at the moment.

"Trying to blackmail us with all of our evil secrets! The nerve! Something that wicked belongs at NewsCorp!!" she ranted to nobody in particular.

Sure, she was angry, but she wasn't going to do anything she'd regret later. She was supposed to be a reporter, a professional. Sure she didn't have a big fancy studio, but stealing Gaia's van and broadcasting on their freqency in the pirate radio version of television was half the fun! But she was an adult, and she would handle this like a mature person.

"I'm so gonna slash her car's tires when this is all over," she declared. "Then I'll blame it on the FOX News girl." That anthropomorphic fox girl already had an unnatural fear of women in pink now, and Mauve didn't plan on letting her recover any time soon.

[PyrosNine]

"Damn! Damn you, SMOKEY THE BEAR! I'll see you dead yet!" Pyros was seething with rage at his nemesis standing before him.

Even so, he held onto Mime's head like a Ninja realizing his Genjutsu doesn't work on Pirate Zombies, and he left his exploding tags in his other pair of black tights.

"Hey, uh, Mime old buddy? Mind turning into something incredibly convenient that will both save our asses and vaguely follow the lines of a lame pun?"

[Red Mage Black]

'Latis, brace for impact!' "As you wish. But before do that I'll correct our path to keep us within the ring." Latis responded with before sending out a jet of water which worked much like the rocket boots idea. The landing wasn't soft but it wasn't anything he wasn't use to.

Black followed Krylo up only to jump and use the fire boots idea once more. Taking a few seconds to get up towards Rhiya's neck, Black looked at Arhra carefully.

"Krylo isn't the one you should be worried about." Instead of trying to get in close, Black transformed Latis into a giant hammer. Black lifted the humongous weapon and sent it crashing down upon Arhra.

[TheBlindMime]

A lame pun eh? Now the ball was in TBM's court, What always defeats Smokey, no matter how much Smokey prepares or plans for him..... And somewhere between the line of genius and stupidity (where TBM owned a condo) an idea appeared.

"I've got the answer snowman!!" TBM surprisingly answered up, despite being a dinosaur. But before anyone could question it he had changed again, Pyros fell helplessly into the smoke having to hand over complete trust into his mime companion.... which was a bad idea.

And yet, it wasn't. As the smoke cleared it left behind the one thing Smokey could never defeat, evah. It was a black trans am. Nearly identical as the one in the movie except this one had a Knightrider-esque console. "Hello Michael, please infer that our opponent is heavy set and short." KnighTBM asked politely.

Pyros was quick to answer the call from the driver's seat, "Oh I love your suits. It must be a bitch finding a 64 Extra Fat, and a 12 Dwarf."

"Good work Michael!" The wheels screeched to a start and the car sprang forward looking to mow the two bears down in one vehicular manslaughter.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

The flaming thread collided powerfully into the back of Monty’s head and it snapped forward, throbbing with pain and heat. He whipped his head around, with a glare, to see who had done this, when he heard a snap behind him.

He turned his steely gaze towards Rhiya in time to see her swallow his claim. Rage boiled within him. First the one, and now the other... this was unfathomable. This could not be allowed!

“No one steals from Jörmungandr!” Monty roared, too angry to be bothered with serpentongue. At this, Monty dove quickly, sliding his hooded head under the diamond dragon and lifting up with all his strength. The Über-Longsnake lifted her longwise until she seemed to stand in the center of the Arena, flailing her wings uselessly until he pushed her over the edge of balance, and sent her reeling backwards.

“Now then...” he hissed, as he slithered back towards Pyros, intent on his next revenge.

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Raven watched Black’s transformation, dead set against stopping. Though, this might hurt a bit. She closed her eyes and waited... and waited some more...

Well, that wasn’t right. She opened her eyes just as she was about to hurtle into the stands. She maneuvered herself around in midair and began flapping her wings as fast as she could... which was pretty damned fast, if you wanted to get all technical, but it wasn't quite enough to stop her.

Fortunately, it was into this scene that Jane was about to 'respawn', as it were.

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Jane was just coming out of the bathroom. She couldn’t remember when she had gone in there, but that was pretty normal, right?

Right?

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Bjorn, who had been watching the fight silently for a while, rooting in particular for the death of that Raiden fellow, felt his ears perk up a bit. A mischievous smile formed on his face as he leaned over to whisper to the Murdochbot 9000.

He too smiled, and stood, rushing off with super-human speed.

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“Hay guyz!” Jane called down the stairs, waving as she descended.

She only made it down one-third steps when Raven slammed head-on into her, stopping Raven's flight. Jane flew backwards, against the stone steps, and Raven bounced forward and into the air, barely avoiding the ground.

Here, she caught herself and looked around in shock.

“Monty can talk?!”

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“Hi, Jane,” the Murdochbot 9000 yelled as he ducked quickly, under Raven and ran carelessly over the splattered remains of the woman he was greeting, and turned towards the press box.

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Raven watched Monty turn and make a mad dash, or, at least, as much a dash as a snake could make—though mad was assuredly correct—towards Pyros. Determined to help, Raven rose higher, and dove towards the flaming jerk.

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“Then I'll blame it on the FOX News girl.” Mauve’s words came just as the Murdochbot 9000, with his high speed and relative proximity, entered the doorway.

“Is that so?” he asked in an amused tone, determined to, if not accomplish anything, at least accomplish nothing.

[PyrosNine]

"Heh, seems like we've more than just a few things to bear for a while, huh KnighTBM?" Pyros pointed to the giant friggin snake and the angry girl who looked a bit like Rhiya, but didn't.

"Put her in gear and let's lead them on a wild ride! Also, don't call me Micheal. I'm not wearing a black leather jacket!"

Pyros stuck two fingers out of each of his hands and raised his thumbs out as well, to make them look like two guns.

Shooting out of the open window, he made potshots at the Bear, Smokey, Raven, and that damned snakey bastard child of Loki.*


*Facts about Pyros Nine: Aside from his hatred of Smokey the bear, Pyros also holds a deep grudge against Loki and his ilk, which Jörmungandr happened to be a part of due to a union of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. Pyros also dislikes Fenrir, and once nearly attacked Fenris for the similarity of their names. However, he didn't cause Fenris was a hobo and not a wolf, whom Pyros now calls affectionately "Fen-Fen."

[POS Industries]

...Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances; cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war;

His left paw is the Mudra of Comradely Display — indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma...

- The Sutra of Smokey the Bear

Readying the shovel in his right paw, Smokey negated the destructive shots fired at him and the bear behind him by Pyros with his left and waited for KnighTBM to get just close enough before swinging the shovel at the car's hood, revealing the truth of TBM's identity and cracking against the mime's skull, sending him flying.

The shape-change spell broken, Pyros was thrown by his own momentum at the anthropomorphic fire prevention icon as Smokey prepared to dig his shovel directly into the fire angel's gut.

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"Hey Pedro, want our help getting through this mob? We'll help if you give us our pants back."

Pedro continued to drag Jimmy the Scientist through the fembot masses, swing his costume cane about as he cleared a path. However, the deeper he got, the less room remained for him to swing. "Pants? I don't care about your pants.... Just bloody do something alre--"

"Pedro! Catch!"

Turning around to see what was coming his way, the brief distraction was enough for one of the fembots to land a solid tab to his chin, disorienting him enough for another droid to step between him and the airborne Irium, deflecting the projectile.

"I'm on it, boss!" Jimmy yelled as he dived after Irium, himself getting cut off from Pedro's protection.

"Oh... Fuck in a Ford Taurus!" Pedro groaned as he regained his senses and started beating his way back through the fembots to meet back up with Jimmy.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Rhiya suddenly felt a breeze on her draconic belly, and, flailing madly to gain any purchase or balance, toppled backwards, taking Krylo, Phoenixbot, Black, and whoever the fuck else was on her back down with her in a shuddering heap, either squashing them relatively flat or otherwise impaling them into the earth.

The force of the flip sent Rhiya's body skidding, sliding just to a halt near the edge of the ring.

Rhiya let loose a howl of anger. Blasting the nearby stands with chaotic breath energy (half the pews became melted jelly, while two seats were teleported instantly onto the moon. The others just turned into a dozen rainbow doves that exploded in bloody sprays), before rolling to her feet (and taking anybody gummed up beneath her with her). She'd just had her Pie feast interrupted by that strange, monstrous animate snake. But it wasn't that that pissed her off most. It was the fact that Black was probably still around, despite the fact that she may or may not have squashed him right into the ground and then some in her toppling. She didn't care.

Rhiya was going to find the damned mage and eat him again, this time taking care to chew.

The gigantic chaos-diamond dragon thundered across the arena, in search of her prey.

[Red Mage Black]

Having to delay again, Black jetted upwards and watched the chaos dragon fall to the ground. What was amazing to him was the breath spewed across the stands taking out whoever was in its path.

Black tried keeping above Rhiya as she rampaged around the arena, most likely looking for him.

'Plan of attack?'
"Not just yet but I'll figure one out."
'It won't take her too long to find you.'
"I know that. A minute is all I need."
'Your fire probably won't work, she is made of diamond.'
"I wonder if I can cause it to get hot enough to possibly melt or weaken it hard enough to shatter."
'Is that your plan?'
"After heating up the skin enough it should be weak enough for me to shatter it."
'Good luck.'

Black positioned himself over Rhiya and dispelled the fire. He enveloped his body in flames and came crashing do towards her like a meteor. On his way down Black rained fire on a concentrated area around Rhiya. He hoped to land straight on her head.