Re: The Phenomenal Fracas! (GBS2G6): [Round One: Afterparty]
09-18-2010, 01:02 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by MalkyTop.
Blackmask recovered quickly from the surprise attack and barked out a "'ey!" before running after Tamerlane. Dammit, this was what he got for being merciful.
He tried tackling the sandman from behind, but Tamerlane threw him off. This gave enough time for Syvex to headbutt him from the front and the two humans toppled over, a confused tangle. The pirate pushed the other man off just in time for the shadow snake to thrash at him with his thick tail. Ripper rolled backwards and onto his feet so that the blow bounced harmlessly off the floor. He looked up to see where Syvex had gone only to find that he had slithered quickly away towards the wall and was now climbing upwards easily with the Core in hand. He started towards him, getting his jetpack ready, but was hit on the head by Tamerlane once again and fell to the floor. The merenary didn't seem to have much of a way of walking up walls, but as he ran to the wall, the sand around him coalesced into a platform that he hopped off of, dispersed and coalesced again into another platform for him to land and jump off of. And in this way, he created a sort of 'one stair stairway' that constantly led up to wherever Syvex tried to go.
Blackmask would have gone after them as soon as he got up, but then the fight between Eureka and the crazy horned woman thing caught up with him.
As he dodged a glowing hand, the cloth mage said, "Finally. Is someone actually going to help me with this crazy thing?! There's a limit to what these bandages can do!"
"Apologies, mate, gotta run an' grab me Core. Why don'cha jus' strangle 'er or somethin'?" The jetpack activated and he was flying after the battling Syvex and Tamerlane, completely unaware of Eureka shouting behind him, "SHE HAS NO MOUTH, YOU AAASSSSSSS!"
Tamerlane was balanced precarioiusly on an unstable platform of sand, trying to slice at Syvex as he slithered around and shot back weak blasts of dark energy desperately. The blade was short, as the mercenary was not quite confident that he couldn't take much sand away from the makeshift platform without sinking right through, but he could still manage to get some slashes in.
In fact, he had gotten in a sizeable gash on Syvex's flank when Blackmask rammed into him from behind.
"Righ' 'en," Ripper roared, but was interrupted by Tamerlane suddenly stabbing the back of his jetpack with a cutlass.
"Christ, mother o' God!" the pirate cried out as the flight path wavered erratically and the two started downwards to a swift date with the floor. "The 'ell 're ya doin'! Gerroff!"
The pirate struggled, but it was hard trying to shake an unwelcome hitchhiker while maintaining some semblance of control over the jetpack. Which was why it was a relief when a bandage wrapped itself around the mercenary's foot and tugged. For a moment, the two drifted directly to the floor, but then Tamerlane lost his grip and fell to earth, letting Blackmask go with a more-or-less intact jetpack. Sure, it had a sword stuck in it and it was sort of sparking wildly, but it seemed to be still flying fine. He pushed off a wall and sped back towards Syvex, who had been trying to get even higher.
Tamerlane, meanwhile, had managed to fall right on the horned woman, followed quickly by a large pile of sand. Eureka took the chance to escape the fight and ran right up to the wall as well. She hesitated for a moment, having really not much of an idea how to climb walls, but clenched her fists in determination. It was probably better up there than back with glowy-hand girl.
The bandages around her hands unwrapped slightly and she toughened the ends to a razor sharpness. After another moment, the bandage around her head was torn in two, wrapped around her shoes, and also sharpened. Then the bandages punshed the wall and she started pulling herself upwards. She had a long way to go, but soon she got the hang of climbing and was reaching her destination quickly.
Down at the ground, Tamerlane stared up at the fight in the air with some frustration before blocking another swipe from a clawed hand. He retaliated with a sand blade, but it was blocked by her other hand.
He couln't waste time down here with this insane broad.
Throwing caution into the air with aggravation, the mercenary thrust almost all the sand at the woman in a thick sand wall that pushed her across the room and onto the floor. He quickly recalled his sand and started the long trip back up again, but the woman apparently could fly and was doing so right now, easily catching up with him. Hearing her come, he turned and swiped at her again as he jumped upwards, but it didn't deter her. He continued up in this manner, creating platforms as he fended off attacks from the horned woman, but with all this multitasking, it was inevitable he would make a mistake. He missed the next platform.
He felt the panic that came when one misses a step, but didn't waste much time. Forming a sand blade, he stuck it into the wall and slid down. The horned woman was there already, readying an attack while he was vulnerable, but he formed the missed platform into a sand wave that whamed itself into her side and sent her careening away. He kicked off the wall and landed on the large wave and carried himself to the chaotic three-way fight starting above.
Sytex hissed at the light from the jetpack. As Blackmask prepared a kick to the head, a scarf wrapped itself around his leg and pulled him down. He kicked it off as Eureka finally finished the climb.
"Shoulda stayed down, girlie," the pirate snarled, but still went for the Core; he was just so close, the prize was right there...
His arm was knocked aside by the scarf again. As he turned, Eureka held out an arm and shot the sharpened bandage towards him. It tore his collar.
It was at this moment that Tamerlane came from below. Jumping off the last sand platform, he grabbed onto Eureka's leg to pull himself up (and therefore drag her down), then grabbed her head and forcibly pushed her away from the wall so that she would fall. As Blackmask stared, stunned, he jumped off the wall and headbutted him in the chest.
Eureka fell. She fell and fell. Unlike Tamerlane, she panicked for much longer before finally coming to her senses and throwing her hand bandages at the wall desperately. She swung right into the wall, her arms feeling as though they would be pulled out of their sockets. She kicked her shoe bandages into the wall and she slowed down. She might have even gotten to the ground safely if she had not met the horned lady coming up.
She felt a hand around her shoulder before she was spun around and pushed up against the wall. The horned woman had the glowing red hand at her chest and was holding up her blue hand, ready to claw her face off no doubt.
Eureka blinked and squinted. Everything seemed to be getting bright for some reason. She could vaguely make out a blue glow speeding towards her. She winced in anticipation.
And opened them again.
A scarf was wrapped around the arm and holding it away from her face. The cloth mage was just as about as surprised as the horned woman was. But she shook it off and raised her hands to grab a hold of the arm as well. She could feel the crazy horned lady pushing against her, straining to reach her face, but she pushed back as much as she could. Her arms were shaking.
And then suddenly the claws at her chest were digging into her and she screamed.
Her grip loosened.
Blackmask recovered quickly from the surprise attack and barked out a "'ey!" before running after Tamerlane. Dammit, this was what he got for being merciful.
He tried tackling the sandman from behind, but Tamerlane threw him off. This gave enough time for Syvex to headbutt him from the front and the two humans toppled over, a confused tangle. The pirate pushed the other man off just in time for the shadow snake to thrash at him with his thick tail. Ripper rolled backwards and onto his feet so that the blow bounced harmlessly off the floor. He looked up to see where Syvex had gone only to find that he had slithered quickly away towards the wall and was now climbing upwards easily with the Core in hand. He started towards him, getting his jetpack ready, but was hit on the head by Tamerlane once again and fell to the floor. The merenary didn't seem to have much of a way of walking up walls, but as he ran to the wall, the sand around him coalesced into a platform that he hopped off of, dispersed and coalesced again into another platform for him to land and jump off of. And in this way, he created a sort of 'one stair stairway' that constantly led up to wherever Syvex tried to go.
Blackmask would have gone after them as soon as he got up, but then the fight between Eureka and the crazy horned woman thing caught up with him.
As he dodged a glowing hand, the cloth mage said, "Finally. Is someone actually going to help me with this crazy thing?! There's a limit to what these bandages can do!"
"Apologies, mate, gotta run an' grab me Core. Why don'cha jus' strangle 'er or somethin'?" The jetpack activated and he was flying after the battling Syvex and Tamerlane, completely unaware of Eureka shouting behind him, "SHE HAS NO MOUTH, YOU AAASSSSSSS!"
Tamerlane was balanced precarioiusly on an unstable platform of sand, trying to slice at Syvex as he slithered around and shot back weak blasts of dark energy desperately. The blade was short, as the mercenary was not quite confident that he couldn't take much sand away from the makeshift platform without sinking right through, but he could still manage to get some slashes in.
In fact, he had gotten in a sizeable gash on Syvex's flank when Blackmask rammed into him from behind.
"Righ' 'en," Ripper roared, but was interrupted by Tamerlane suddenly stabbing the back of his jetpack with a cutlass.
"Christ, mother o' God!" the pirate cried out as the flight path wavered erratically and the two started downwards to a swift date with the floor. "The 'ell 're ya doin'! Gerroff!"
The pirate struggled, but it was hard trying to shake an unwelcome hitchhiker while maintaining some semblance of control over the jetpack. Which was why it was a relief when a bandage wrapped itself around the mercenary's foot and tugged. For a moment, the two drifted directly to the floor, but then Tamerlane lost his grip and fell to earth, letting Blackmask go with a more-or-less intact jetpack. Sure, it had a sword stuck in it and it was sort of sparking wildly, but it seemed to be still flying fine. He pushed off a wall and sped back towards Syvex, who had been trying to get even higher.
Tamerlane, meanwhile, had managed to fall right on the horned woman, followed quickly by a large pile of sand. Eureka took the chance to escape the fight and ran right up to the wall as well. She hesitated for a moment, having really not much of an idea how to climb walls, but clenched her fists in determination. It was probably better up there than back with glowy-hand girl.
The bandages around her hands unwrapped slightly and she toughened the ends to a razor sharpness. After another moment, the bandage around her head was torn in two, wrapped around her shoes, and also sharpened. Then the bandages punshed the wall and she started pulling herself upwards. She had a long way to go, but soon she got the hang of climbing and was reaching her destination quickly.
Down at the ground, Tamerlane stared up at the fight in the air with some frustration before blocking another swipe from a clawed hand. He retaliated with a sand blade, but it was blocked by her other hand.
He couln't waste time down here with this insane broad.
Throwing caution into the air with aggravation, the mercenary thrust almost all the sand at the woman in a thick sand wall that pushed her across the room and onto the floor. He quickly recalled his sand and started the long trip back up again, but the woman apparently could fly and was doing so right now, easily catching up with him. Hearing her come, he turned and swiped at her again as he jumped upwards, but it didn't deter her. He continued up in this manner, creating platforms as he fended off attacks from the horned woman, but with all this multitasking, it was inevitable he would make a mistake. He missed the next platform.
He felt the panic that came when one misses a step, but didn't waste much time. Forming a sand blade, he stuck it into the wall and slid down. The horned woman was there already, readying an attack while he was vulnerable, but he formed the missed platform into a sand wave that whamed itself into her side and sent her careening away. He kicked off the wall and landed on the large wave and carried himself to the chaotic three-way fight starting above.
Sytex hissed at the light from the jetpack. As Blackmask prepared a kick to the head, a scarf wrapped itself around his leg and pulled him down. He kicked it off as Eureka finally finished the climb.
"Shoulda stayed down, girlie," the pirate snarled, but still went for the Core; he was just so close, the prize was right there...
His arm was knocked aside by the scarf again. As he turned, Eureka held out an arm and shot the sharpened bandage towards him. It tore his collar.
It was at this moment that Tamerlane came from below. Jumping off the last sand platform, he grabbed onto Eureka's leg to pull himself up (and therefore drag her down), then grabbed her head and forcibly pushed her away from the wall so that she would fall. As Blackmask stared, stunned, he jumped off the wall and headbutted him in the chest.
Eureka fell. She fell and fell. Unlike Tamerlane, she panicked for much longer before finally coming to her senses and throwing her hand bandages at the wall desperately. She swung right into the wall, her arms feeling as though they would be pulled out of their sockets. She kicked her shoe bandages into the wall and she slowed down. She might have even gotten to the ground safely if she had not met the horned lady coming up.
She felt a hand around her shoulder before she was spun around and pushed up against the wall. The horned woman had the glowing red hand at her chest and was holding up her blue hand, ready to claw her face off no doubt.
Eureka blinked and squinted. Everything seemed to be getting bright for some reason. She could vaguely make out a blue glow speeding towards her. She winced in anticipation.
And opened them again.
A scarf was wrapped around the arm and holding it away from her face. The cloth mage was just as about as surprised as the horned woman was. But she shook it off and raised her hands to grab a hold of the arm as well. She could feel the crazy horned lady pushing against her, straining to reach her face, but she pushed back as much as she could. Her arms were shaking.
And then suddenly the claws at her chest were digging into her and she screamed.
Her grip loosened.