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Post by Mizagium on Jun 24, 2013 0:50:29 GMT -5
GOLBEZ WOULD HAVE NONE OF THAT.
Neither would Stella.
"TEAM FRIENDSHIP POWERS ACTIVATE!" They shouted together, fist pumping. The fist bump was so powerful, the collision of cosmic energy and Dance powers created a swirling rift in spacetime. "LOOKS LIKE TEAM FRIENDSHIP IS STALKING OFF AGAIN!"
They grabbed Azzi and Cale and body-slammed through the portal.
Sarah barely blinked when Team Friendship appeared behind them. "So where's William?"
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Post by Myrdraxxis on Jun 24, 2013 18:39:40 GMT -5
Somewhere in Dynasty City, a shadow portal opened up, unleashing a cacophony of screams from within. SOme of those screams belonged to Sindri and Mista Jangles, who tore themselves from that wretched dimension of screaming turrets and back into Awesome Land.
"That...that was terrifying." Sindri gasped, leaning against a wall as he caught his breath. Jangles just grunted in response, though the daemon looked no less horrified.
"Oh....you guys are back." Sindri and Mista Jangles looked up to see Myrxxan watching them bemusedly. "Havoc Squad just got back too. Had some sort of cultist. A Xavian cultist." Myrxxan grimaced at the words. Out of anyone he had the best reason to despise the former Darkness Immortal.
Sindri collected himself and stood up. "Excellent. Then we can inform lord Zais that a prisoner needs interrogation."
"Zais isn't here."
Sindri blinked. "...pardon?"
"Yeah, he left somewhere. Don't know where but he's absent." Myrxxan shrugged. "Which means we can at least get some work done now that Dace has stopped beating a hole in his desk."
Sindri considered this. Zais wouldn't have left things as they were if it wasn't important.
...probably.
"Well...then just through the prisoner in a cell until Zais gets back. Xavian's followers are always quite fun to torment."
Myrxxan frowned but didn't say anything at that. He wasn't exactly for torture, but he did hate Xavian...
"Let's just head back to DCI headquarters for now." he said.
Sindri nodded and followed, thinking to himself. Did their mission still matter if Zais wasn't here? He'd told them to acquire the Scrolls before the others did, but that was when Zais was around to make sure they could hold on to them. As it stood Sindri wasn't sure he and Havoc Squad could fend off the "heroes" for all that long.
He glanced back at Jangles and nodded faintly. The daemon grunted and too flight, disappearing over the slowly reconstructed city.
"Where's he going?" Myrxxan asked.
Sindri didn't answer.
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Post by Sariel of Tevet on Jun 24, 2013 19:05:23 GMT -5
Professor Calamitous swaggered into the room where the others had just gotten left behind. He was casually munching on a chimichanga. He had no real reason to eat, other than the fact that it made him feel normal. His benevolent side had experienced quite a bad trip during the acid fiasco and was feeling very self-conscious right now. He ground up the text-mexy goodness in his boney jaws and is essentially slide down his spine and onto the floor, which delighted his evil half. Making messes in the palace was quite the offense. Something that GOLDBEZ surely knew quite a bit about.
"So uh...what's next?" He dusted the food off of his skeleton hands and watched the crumbs fall to the ground, where he saw the trail of spicy wonder he left behind, and remembered that he couldn't eat, and became very sad.
No one was int he room anymore, so he just walked through the still open portal and hoped the group would be on the other side.
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Post by Monika on Jun 26, 2013 1:03:03 GMT -5
"Like it's my job to keep up with the citizens," Aurora replied, taking a golden badge from her robe pocket. The Awesome Land insignia was engraved in its center. "That's what the Guardians are for, Sarah." She clicked the badge with her thumb a couple times and waited.
A few moments later, sound began to play from the badge.
"Yes, Aurora?" answered a voice. It was hard to make the words out clearly. The badges were state-of-the-art communicators resulting from a joint effort by Aurora's former second-in-command, Laurine, and her head of technology, Alastor. There was no way there could be signal interference...No, something big was happening in the background.
"Hey, Lex, you're in your District, right?" Aurora asked, pressing the badge closer to her ear.
"Uh-huh, as I'm supposed to be," Lex replied.
"Okay. Is William there right now?"
"Cauldwell? Yea. Actually, he's holding a C.O.M.A.S rally as we speak. Shouting something about 'the day of reckoning' and 'laying his hands on the True Sword'."
Aurora frowned. "And you didn't think to tell me sooner?!"
"It's not a crime to hold a non-profit rally, Aurora." Lex paused. "Unless you changed the law within the past few days."
"Bah, never mind, Lex. I'll be over there in a second with some adventurers." She frantically shoved the badge in her pocket and summoned another portal. "Come on, everyone. Let's go take care of this before another crisis flares up." She and Chancellor Awesome walked through the portal, this time leaving it open for the others to follow.
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When Aurora and the Chancellor arrived in Awesome Land's Gamma District, the sect of the empire dedicated to sorcerers (and the occasional psychic), they were unpleasantly unsurprised. As Lex had warned, thousands of mages had gathered in the center of the district around an enormous stage, upon which stood the one and only William Cauldwell. His robes, thick by even Awesome Land's standards, flapped about wildly in the wind, which had obviously been magically conjured for dramatic effect. At William's side stood a shorter girl, silent and unmoving, concealed by her own set of robes that was probably one size too large.
"Warlocks and witches, sorcerers and enchantresses!" William called out, eliciting a chorus of cheers from the crowds. "We've had a number of setbacks and countless casualties, but our day is finally about to come! Any moment now, a group of people will be here to deliver the legendary True Sword to me! With that Artifact of Wisdom in my hands - in the hands of our committee - we will finally be able to destroy science once and for all!"
More cheers from the crowd.
Suddenly, William took on a solemn tone. "While my father, Richard Cauldwell, was a great man who laid the framework for this organization..."
A few people in the crowd bowed their heads and said a few words of condolence.
"...he was weak! He grew soft during the Imperatrix War and lost sight of our mission! It is with a heavy heart I took on the role of C.O.M.A.S' director. But rest assured, I shall not forget our group's true purpose! And in order to help me achieve it, I am proud to formally announce my successor - the next Co-Director of C.O.M.A.S: Artemis!" He motioned toward the girl next to him. She nodded her head, stepped forward and gave a slight, almost unnoticeable bow.
The crowd went into an uproar, chants and cheers and praise flying from their mouths. With two sorcerers as powerful as William and Artemis at the helm, The Committee of Magicians Against Science was finally poised to complete its ultimate goal.
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Post by Mizagium on Jun 26, 2013 1:08:49 GMT -5
Stella pouted. "I hate commas. It's a dumb punctuation mark. All confusing and whatnot. Hey comma-boy! You stink! I use periods like a normal human being!"
GOLBEZ SNEEZED WHICH CAUsed his narration to be shifted into normal case, instead of all-upper case. "Hey, at leas it's not a semi-colon! Those motherfizzers don't know WHAT they're doing! Are they commas? Colons? MAKE UP YOUR MIND!" HIS GRAMMAR RAGE SHIFTED IT BACK INTO ALL CAPS. CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
Sarah coughed awkwardly. "Right. All grammar points aside, William: I have the True Sword. I'm prepared to make a trade for the Scroll of Science." She flourished the blade.
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Post by Calefrun on Jun 26, 2013 1:49:56 GMT -5
"You know," Cale said, looking around, "maybe this isn't the best time to bring this up, but weren't we banished or something?"
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Post by Sariel of Tevet on Jun 26, 2013 15:33:00 GMT -5
Professor Calamitous followed the rest of the group into the C.O.M.A.S. rally and immediately began to draw strange looks from the amassed crowd. Being a skeleton covered in an exoskeleton, he was essentially a boney poster boy for science.
"WHAT IN BLAZES ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT? HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN A BONEY POSTER BOY FOR SCIENCE BEFORE?"
After the words escaped his mouth, his benevolent side shuttered and took a step back. Everyone just stared at him, seeing at he had no eye lids..or..eyes for that matter...they didn't understand that he was blinking furiously in shock and what his more evil half had just done.
"I..um...Chancellor what are we doing here?"
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Post by Monika on Jun 26, 2013 19:18:06 GMT -5
Aurora turned toward Cale and with her best smile replied, "Oh, that punishment has been suspended since we all had to take a trip back here." Her expression became much more serious. "Once we get through with this quest, though, you all are in for something much, much worse."
Meanwhile, Chancellor Awesome tried to avoid noticing that several C.O.M.A.S members were zeroing in on Professor Calamitous. By the time he decided to say something, the professor was surrounded by a few dozen, at the very least. "Professor," Chancellor Awesome sighed, "You really should be more careful about what you say around here..."
"Well, well, well!" William vanished from his place onstage and reappeared directly in front of Sarah. The C.O.M.A.S members all followed him with their eyes, never missing a beat. "Would you look at this!" he cried. "The Princess of Really Cool Land herself has come to deliver to me the True Sword personally!" William bent down slightly, picked up Sarah's free hand and kissed it. "Enchanted, Princess." Then, in an even greater display of charm, he greedily snatched the blade and waved it high in the air for all his members to see. "AT LONG LAST! THE SWORD IS MINE!"
The crowd gave their cheers of approval.
"And, since I'm a director of my word..." With a snap of his fingers, William summoned Awesome Land's Scroll of Science and watched it with a hint of distaste as it floated above Sarah's hands. "I never was a fan of science..."
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Post by Myrdraxxis on Jun 26, 2013 21:54:20 GMT -5
An ear-splitting roar shook the ground as Mista Jangels dove from his hiding place atop a nearby building.
"Oh hey, that guy." Azzi said, watching as the daemon swooped low....towards them. "Uh...what's he doing?"
Without another word (roar), Jangles swooped past Sarah, the Scroll of Science clutched in one claw. He roared loudly again and disappeared over the rooftops.
"....did that just happen?"
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Luckily, Zais had left his Fortress of Darkness in Dynasty City when he left for...wherever it was that he'd gone. Sindri shuddered to think that he'd have to live out among the regular citizens. Currently Sindri was in his office, one of the very few perks that came with his station. Along with a guacamole bar that he hadn't gotten to use in a while.
Enjoying a delicious chip dip, Sindri leaned back in his chair, finally relaxing. Until a knock on his door. "Enter."
A nameless shadow mook appeared. "Sir, Mista Jangles has returned."
Sindri grinned. "Excellent. Show him in."
"'kay."
The mook closed the door....and then the wall blew apart as the daemon stepped through it into the room. Sindri didn't even blink. "So you have it then?"
Jangles showed him the Scroll.
"Excellent."
They stared at each other for a moment. "....well I suppose we should...do something with it. I dunno. Put it in Zais' office. There's plenty of traps there."
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Post by Mizagium on Jun 27, 2013 0:03:16 GMT -5
LUCKILY FOR OUR PROTAGONISTS, GOLBEZ WAS ON THE CASE. AS SOON AS JANGLES WAS OUT OF SIGHT, GOLDBEZ BACKFLIPPED INTO THE AIR AND SWUNG HIS HIPS AROUND AND AROOOOUUND AND ARROOOOOUUUUNNNND AND THEN ZOOM! HE WAS FLYING AT THE SPEED OF FIZZ (approximately 196.4 vpm)HOT ON THE TRAIL OF THE DAEMON.
"GOLDEN PIROUETTE!" HE RIGHTED HIMSELF IN THE AIR SO THAT HE WAS FLYING FEET FIRST, POINTED THEM, AND BEGAN TO SPIN. HE SPUN AND SPUN AND SPUN UNTIL HE WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A WHIRRLING GOLDEN DRILL. AND THAT DRILL STRUCK THE SAME WALL AS JANGLES BURST THROUGH, BUT IN A DIFFERENT AREA SO THAT THERE WERE TWO HOLES NOW, ONE JANGLES-SHAPED, AND ONE IN THE SHAPE OF GOLBEZ GRABBING HIS CROTCH, MICHAEL JACKSON STYLE.
"WHOA THERE, BUCKAROO. IMMA BE NEEDING THAT SCROLL THERE BACK. NOT THAT I READ OF COURSE, BUT TEAM FRIENDSHIP IN ON A QUEST TO...YOU KNOW WHAT. HOW 'BOUT I JUST DO THIS!"
BEFORE SINDRI COULD STORE THE SCROLL AWAY, GOLBEZ DID THE POINT, CAUSING A SECTION OF THE ROOF TO COLLAPSE ON EVERYONE. HE WAS ABLE TO SWIPE THE SCROLL BACK AND TOOK OFF RUNNING AT THE SPEED OF FIZZ BACK TO WHERE AURORA'S PARTY REMAINED.
"YOUR MAJESTY!" HE CAME TO A SCREECHING AND SEXY HALT. ALL THE LADIES THEIR COLLECTIVE BREATH. AND THEIR PANTIES. ALL THE PANTIES. "I HAVE THE SCROLL." HE PRESENTED THE SCROLL TO AURORA. "NOW HOW ABOUT A KISS?"
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Post by Myrdraxxis on Jun 27, 2013 0:11:08 GMT -5
Sindri, after a moment, finally stopped hyperventilating and began to take charge of the situation. He began pacing.
"Okay..okay no need to panic. We can still do this. We HAD it, at least for a moment." he said to himself. Jangle just nodded in agreement, pausing every so often to pick something out of his teeth. "We can get it back. just as long as lord Zais doesn't find out-"
A Darkness Portal opened up in the room. "Heyo~ minions!" a wild Zais appeared. "I thought I'd take a break from warmongering to see how things were going!"
The hyperventilating began anew.
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Post by Monika on Jun 27, 2013 0:17:59 GMT -5
Aurora turned toward GOLDBEZ, pulled down her hood, puckered her lips and...spat a wave of blue fire at his face. And the rest of his body. His golden armor turned white from the superheating. Turning back to Sarah, she whispered "Now might be a good time to take the Sword back before any more unnecessary setbacks happen..."
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Post by Mizagium on Jun 27, 2013 0:21:40 GMT -5
"Right. Sorry." Jangles and Goldbez had distracted her, which was hard to do these days. "William! I'm going to need that back!" She retrieved the hair clip and flourished it, the disguise breaking away like glass, revealing the True Sword in all it's splendor.
The "True Sword" in William's hands wavered and became the False Shield.
"If you don't mind."
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Post by Monika on Jun 27, 2013 0:59:27 GMT -5
William, still giddily waving the True Sword around like a child with a new toy, took a while to notice that what he was holding was actually the False Shield. The opposite of what he wanted. When he finally did notice, however, he was furious. Snarling, he spoke through clenched teeth, "It would appear...that I've been tricked." Tossing the Shield behind him toward Artemis (who caught it quite expertly, I might add), he turned to Sarah and brandished his staff.
"What a shame, Princess." William shook his head. "Here I was, hoping that I wouldn't have to spill any innocent blood today. Committee, attack! Deadly force has been authorized!"
All sorts of magical spells, from lightning bolts to fire balls to a gaunt, eerie CGI King Ramses, graced the protagonists.
"Oh, dear. And I thought getting my own country's Scroll would be easiest..." Chancellor Awesome began to unenthusiastically smack around a few C.O.M.A.S members with his own staff. "Please avoid using any more force than necessary," he spoke. "They are still Awesome Land citizens, after all..."
"Nah, forget that!" Aurora was casually breathing fire toward any C.O.M.A.S member that got too close to her. "They're pretty much traitors now, attacking the Grand Imperatrix and her official guests. Do what you want."
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Post by Myrdraxxis on Jun 27, 2013 1:05:59 GMT -5
And then Vanguard appeared with Havoc Squad in tow. "I've been waiting for a chance to fight these assholes!" Myrxxan cheered.
"he's literally been watching this entire time waiting for a chance." Konnig deadpanned as the members of the DCI group prepared their various weapons and let the C.O.M.A.S members have at it.
Havoc Squad open fired. Technically as soldiers of Zais they were members of Homeland Security.
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Post by Calefrun on Jun 27, 2013 3:17:06 GMT -5
Confronted by various, likely deadly magical attacks, Cale did the only logical thing he could at the time. He danced. It was a beautiful dance, and reasonably sensual. Any of the spells that Cale wouldn't have avoided with his dance halted in sheer reverence of the magnificence before them. It was not a particularly girly dance that Cale performed, but there was something about it that looked rather... regal, and as Cale fluidly maneuvered his way about he seemed to become something surreal; like a phantom or an illusion.
As he danced, a change occurred. His katanas began to glow, and in a bright flash of light transformed into a pair of fake-looking pistols. Cale grabbed his weapons and began to fire real-looking bullets in every direction, and C.O.M.A.S. members began to drop like puny, danceless flies.
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Post by Mizagium on Jun 27, 2013 8:34:18 GMT -5
"YEAH SON!" GOLDBEZ DECLARED, TAPPING HIS FOOT. "OTHER GUY HAS THE RIGHT IDEA." GOLDBEZ SNAPPED HIS FINGERS AND THE BADGER/DARK FLOWER DANCE TEAMS TWIRLED BACK INTO EXISTENCE. "ALRIGHT LITTLE BUDDIES, TIME TO RUMBLE." THEN GOLDBEZ AND HIS WEIRD DANCE MEMBERS DID THE THE WEST SIDE STORY DANCE. YOU KNOW THE ONE. THIS ONE. Elsewhere, Stella grinned the biggest, widest, toothiest grin imaginable. It was extra toothy today because she had taken some of the cultist/hippies' teeth, so there were a few more teeth than normal shoved in there. The rest she just tossed up in the air like confetti. Hard, blood and gum encrusted confetti. But confetti nevertheless. "Down with commas!" She declared, drawing her neon katana. "Down with the false punctuation!" Stella drove her foot right into the face of the nearest C.O.M.A.S. member, sending her crashing to the ground, then she leaped forward and spun in the air. "Great Red Spot...strike!" When she crashed to the ground, she sent out a shockwave, knocking more magicians over. In the process, she lost the extra teeth she had shoved into her mouth. "Get back here, commas! I need more teeth!" She chased after the nearest few, who turned and fled. Sarah, wielding the True Sword, pushed past most of the rumble, heading straight for Artemis and William. She kicked down the CGI Ramses along the way, and charged William. "Return the Shield! |
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Post by Monika on Jun 27, 2013 13:16:06 GMT -5
William swept his staff in a wide, arcing motion in front of him, the space in the arc distorting as he did so. "Ah ah ah, Princess." He wagged his finger condescendingly at Sarah. "One step closer and you'll be walking right back into the Null-Void." He snapped his fingers; dozens of almost-but-not-quite-dead C.O.M.A.S members levitated through the sky and into the pocket of space he had just opened, disappearing entirely.
"I was a fan of Leon's before he got all soft, you know. I heard all about how he banished you to the Veral Dimension and how you almost faded from existence. Don't think for a second that I won't perform a little reenactment for our wonderful audience." Laughing maniacally, William wiggled the fingers on his right hand until sparks started dancing around them. "Magic lightning, make my monster grow!" Streams of electricity shot out from his hand, arcing around Sarah and striking the CGI King Ramses squarely in the chest. As one might expect, it grew to ridiculous proportions.
"rETUUUrrrN ThE sWOOoOrD!" the creature moaned, sending dozens of filthy bandages from its decayed body to wrap around Sarah.
"Now, Princess, is double crossing your partners really the way to get what you want in life?" William asked. "Rhetorical question. It's not. It only serves to make your allies into enemies and your enemies into monsters. Since I'm still in the 'enemy' phase, I won't wipe you from existence. No...Return the True Sword immediately and I'll leave you and your little friends in peace."
Artemis wrapped the False Shield tightly around her arm, using it to deflect stray magical attacks. All the while, she was neutrally staring at Sarah, her expression saying something along the lines of 'Let's not have any more unnecessary casualties'.
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Post by Myrdraxxis on Jun 27, 2013 14:14:59 GMT -5
"Soooooo seems I missed quite a party huh?" A voice said from behind William.
Zais was suddenly standing there, arms crossed in a "serious" manner and an eyebrow raised as he took in the violent scene before him.
"Unfortunately for you, I am the Director of Homeland Security here, William-what's-your-face. And I take that job very seriously."
'Since when?' was the general question on everyone's mind.
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Post by Calefrun on Jun 27, 2013 14:43:02 GMT -5
In the blink of an eye, the bandages that wrapping around the Really Cool princess were all severed. Atop the CGI King Ramses stood a hooded Xanthos.
"Man," he laughed, "Looks like I'm doing Cha Cha's job for him these days." He held his sword in front of him, and it shifted into a weapon oddly reminiscent of the Buster Sword. He turned the blade downward, and planted it in CGI Ramses' head. "Can this thing even be killed..." he mused, "oh, what am I saying? Of course it can! Anything can be killed if you stab it hard enough!"
Cale kept shooting things.
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