Kamacite glanced warily at the civilian, already not sure why he was bothering to help him, other than the fact that he’d probably accidentally knocked a creature out of the way of hurting him.
“I don’t even know what that thing is. You should try to get to one of the openings,” he suggested.
But it didn’t seem as though the young man was going anywhere. Not when another young man with dark curly hair ran up to him to fuss over him.
Well good, at least there was someone else that could worry about the blond. That meant Kamacite could try and see if he recognized anyone else there, and try to get them to safety.
Sunshine Alouette
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:34 pm
Corporal Aliez Aliez winced a little when Andreiya snapped at him. He didn’t mean it, Aliez knew! He was just stressed and this place was weird and scary. He kept his shield up around them as long as he could, locking his arm with Andreiya’s, but he nodded to his friend in agreement.
This world was the worst, and he would be happy to go home.
What if they all were stuck there and then let the Commodore down? What if they couldn’t find a way to save Velencya? Oh, that would be horrible. They couldn’t do that. They needed to find a way to get out as soon as they could.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Vyn calling to them. And it looked like Tenoch and Nessaela and Vaylin were over there as well.
“Andreiya look,” he nodded, and then winced as his shield sputtered out and they were on their own--
“Run!” because the sooner they were there with the group, the safer they were. They just needed to avoid everything else around them, and fight the wind. “Try shooting the creature?” he suggested, although since he didn’t have a blaster, he probably didn’t have any right to make those suggestions.
Honestly, Beira hadn’t known what he was doing. He was desperate and not thinking clearly and–
Now they were in some strange, dark, electric Hellscape surrounded by swarms of gargoyles and the overwhelming sensation of energy signatures on all sides of them. Never mind the oversaturated energy or the electricity pulsing across the field–
Helena was yelling. Helena was attacking him.
He grabbed her fist just before it made contact with his face.
“Knock it off,” he said harshly. He didn’t like how badly he wanted to shake her, or use his magic on her. “I don’t know where we are, but I don’t think you should be focusing on trying to hit me right now.”
They had bigger things to worry about.
Literally.
He glanced at the monster they were being pushed towards still and then back at her quickly. “I don’t want to be her and I don’t think you do, either. If you want to fight about this, let’s do it later. When we’re out of here.”
Orangeish Sherbert
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:00 am
Mu Arae, Super Senshi of Brutality "If I knew I would be gone already.....I thought you would know." Mu looked at the tall redhead in disbelief, "Wait.....HOW did YOU get here?! Don't you have a newborn to cuddle?" She said that with a tinge of jealousy. She loved her boys but what she wouldn't give to have one of them to be a girl....A cute baby girl she could dress in pretty clothes.
Oh hubby, why did you have to be a boy factory?
Either way, Mu gently tugged Rhea to the front, "This is my cousin....Rhea, this is my boss, Shangri-la. Now that we have that out of the way, how are we getting out of here? That thing looks scary and frankly I dont think me using my powers would do any good here. "
once she was loaded onto the senshi's back, she held on for dear life as it seemed like everything was in a bit of a blur. She almost fell when her rescuer bumped into something or some one, shouting the name of another...Senshi? Before grabbing onto her and taking off again. This would've been fun if the world wasn't spinning and they weren't in some sort of killer death pocket dimension that belonged in the game Prey.
When she felt the senshi stop, she looked in the direction she was looking, eyes widening with fear at what the lightening brought to light. She didn't understand what was going on, but that thing did look...Pained. She agreed with the other senshi on that one, but how would you heal something so big? "I can use my bubbles to keep some of the things in place?"
She wanted to help, her injuries weren't that bad!
The hug, he'd expected. Toppling through empty space, he hadn't.
Thankfully, the distance between the tear he and Tristan had been sucked through wasn't too far off of the ground but it was still uncomfortable to land in a tangle of limbs only to immediately be buffeted by powerful winds. Something hit him flying overhead and he thought he felt a warm wetness on his arm.
It was dark, and he was so confused that it didn't even register that one of the gargoyles had scratched his arm open as it flew over him.
"Tristan," he blurted, and hooked his arm around her to make sure that they weren't separated. The only thing worse than being trapped in a strange, unfriendly, monster filled environment was being trapped there alone. "Are you okay?"
He didn't ask her if she knew what had happened, or if she knew where they were--judging by how many energy signatures were around, and how many monsters were here, he had the distinct impression this was just one of Destiny City's regularly oddities.
...The absolute monstrosity of a creature standing too close for comfort, swiping its great claws at the nearest crowd, was proof enough to him that this was probably nothing she did.
He didn't have time to look for long but the creature seemed to be attacking indiscriminately, and that meant--for the time being--that he had to trust that everyone was just going to try and get out and not worry about attacking each other. He kept his arm around Tristan and stumbled to his feet, pulling her with him.
Sometimes, he could see places he recognized through the little tears in--space? In reality? He couldn't tell. There were ragged holes that appeared and disappeared and it looked like you could see pieces of Destiny City through them.
The wind was pushing them, pushing him almost off balance. "--We have to get out of here, can you walk?"
Tristan knew that she should be upset that something had happened. Knew that she should be jumping to conclusions of kidnapping and all sorts of evil brought on by this Squire she had been so quick to trust but…
Starlight wasn’t like that…and even if he was…this didn’t seem like a place that he would want to visit…or have any kind of access to.
Unfortunately, those thoughts were far from the corrupt’s mind, and she gave a pitiful sigh. “...I dropped my eclair, Starlight…I’m so upset right now.”
It was stupid, and ther were far more things to be upset about but.
It had been so delicious.
“I can walk, yeah. Don’t worry about me, I–” She cut off as one of the creatures came at them, right at Starlight’s side, and Tristan acted without thinking, drawing the Squire behind her and punching the thing squarely in the face. “Yeah. Yeah um. I think it might be great to get out of here. I can always get more eclairs but…I’m not really a fan of whatever this place is. You're okay, right?” Not that Tristan knew what she would do if the answer wasn’t a yes but…she could improvise. Would improvise.
…If she were being honest though, she wished that Gwen was here with her. That would make all of this ******** so much easier to stomach.
Anniliese looked at the other Senshi. "I don't know what to do. The exit is black by the giant monster and the wind is so harsh it is going to eventually bring us closer to it." Anniliese looked at the giant monster. "I don't want the smaller ones to get out into Destiny City who knows what havoc they can do. Seems like fighting might be the only option."
Tenoch heard the corporal's voice before he saw him, and in that instant? Oh, the smile he felt crawl over his face for seeing Vyn alive, well, and with Aliez and Andreiya of all people, calling out unto the rest!
In all his haste to move - over congealed messes and through buffeting winds that threatened to take his feet from under him - Tenoch nearly collided with Nessaela; suffered unbidden shock and awe as he snatched at her weaving form -- he was so happy!
"Nessa!"
Where had she been!?Not that it mattered right then. She was there, and safe; her hair amess in her face and uniform scuffed, but otherwise unharmed. At least as far as he could tell between a glimpse and touch -- what with the world becoming vividly tumultuous around them -- someone shouting to fight or flee - the portals snapping open to close faster than he could track in an instant.
Were they going to be trapped forever?
Were they going to *die*.
Tenoch greatly disliked the frantic bit of fear that spiked through his mind. Found it ugly and unwanted, a fluttering thing that he would've quashed if he had his wits about him. In that instant, he didn't. The erratic need to do something, drove him to reach for his blaster even as he reached the others at Nessa's side. Like he felt the great beasts attention on himself and wanted absolutely none of it --
Tenoch took aim, and fired at the monster beyond; if it did a damned thing or not? He didn't care. Hoped, only, that if his attacks didn't do damage, then they'd at least pull the otherworldly ichor-beasts off aim from the overcrowded exits from the place.
Cadet Weapon: Blinding Bubble Blaster: Capable of firing once every 10 seconds. Shoots a small bubble of light at the target - causing the target to see spots for 5 seconds upon contact. As though they got caught by a camera flash or stared at a lightbulb for too long.
The cat had been out for a night on the town.... weeeeelllll every night was a night on the town for the cat since he got back. He honestly didn't remember where he needed to go, although he felt like he did have a place to go back to. It had just been so long! A nice fluffy bed, good food without needing to scrounge it up from the trash, no nasty dogs chasing him away from a warm spot, no rotten rats fighting him for a dry corner. It just wasn't fair! He wanted to go home but he didn't remember where home was. There were too many thoughts and memories that jumbled up in his brain. Did he live with an old lady? A trucker? A kid with a lisp or was it in a penthouse way up in the sky? Maybe all of them or none of them. Not that it mattered now since he was on his own. All by his self. Don't wanna be... all by his seeeellllffff.
ANnnnnnnYyyyyyyWAY
Mel had been out hunting, stalking the alleys of little Italy hopping to get some poor sucker's 'its wrong make it again!' tossed out meal and not end up in a scuffle with other stray cats. When much to his surprise, a magical worm hole appeared!
NAH! That showed up latter.
A mangy dog came barreling out of a knocked over trashcan, where it presumably was sleeping since it smelled to high heaven... how high was heaven really? But that was neither here nor there. The dog, a slobbering trash covered mess, came roaring after the large guardian cat, causing said cat to book it like his tail was on fire, or he was being chased by a dog that was three times his size... you know. What ever works for you. Mel just ran for it, not paying any attention to what was in front of him. This was, fundamentally, a bad idea for three reasons.
First, because he didn't see the end of the alley rapidly approaching, along with the subsequent road right in front of it. Second, he didn't realize that said road was rather busy for the time of night it was. Third, there was something rather ominous brewing right in the middle of the road. Ok, so maybe that last one wasn't so noticeable but it didn't change the fact that the guardian ran right out into the street without realizing it. Promptly tripped when he fell off the curb, nearly jumped out of his skin when the sound of a truck horn informed him that he was about to become a flat kitty, and then tumbled into a newly ripped hole into another dimension. A dimension that was currently full of people, creatures, monsters, and one HUGE a** fellow.
And not a damn single slice of pizza anywhere.
He of course had no clue what was going on, one might be snarky and ask if he ever did... he never did really. BUT that is besides the point! How dare the universe dump this poor kitty into this mayhem and not even bother to tell him what was going on! Shame universe! Shame!
"What the ever loving crap is going on here!" The savannah cat yowled as he tried to get his feet under him only to be bowled over by the wind, or maybe it was one of the monsters, or one of the myriad of people. It ultimately didn't matter since he still ended up tail over ears, yowling the entire way.
Sometimes it just didn't pay to be late to the party.
Where did all the food go?!?
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For all that Zultanite could hardly see --- as the urge to 'go', built, and built, and built unto nothing -- He caught a glimpse of sunshine, another of black-star hole, center of the head; all accompanied by an aura that screamed relative safety.
Finally, an Eternal to hide behind, thank ******** a man finding a life line while well outta his depth, Zultanite made for the bright bit of color moored amongst swirling black monsters n sizzling portals. He hadn't meant to be handsy, when he snatched for a swath of orange while skidding to a rough halt behind star-spangled kimono and pair of civilians -- ended up offering some wind-snatched apology with a wince and a smile even as he tried to right himself.
Triton had people to get home to. He didn't care how, anymore, just needed a hand and a direction to orient himself in.
One that increasingly seemed to be giant monster facing -- much to his chagrin.
Cryolite came in like an icy wave, all crash, no saving grace. Just, the titanic going under; bloody, bruised, and down to his final sizzling snap of magic. He glared up from his oil-slick stained a** to -- green curls, a civilian who seemed to be having the exact kind of 'time' that Cryolite could sympathize with in that instant; feeling like he'd stepped onto the B-side of a Beetles album set in the middle of a an indi-pop-horror-show, sightlines full of lavender curls and kaleidoscope eyes; edged up by a backsplash of black ooze.
Though, it was the screaming-behemoth in the background that really strung the whole 'have a bad time' motif together. Just, made everything sync up, beautifully!
"Asking for a friend, do either of you know the way out? Preferably, a way that isn't through that thing?" gritty sarcasm, while he searched for his legs again, and wound up more baby-deer-waddling than strong-senshi-stance, not ideal, but? What else could he do!
Cryolite wondered, distantly, if riding coat-tails on her bat-wings meant he might survive; and he supposed they'd pull a few civilians with them, if they had the means to manage it.
Thalia – Thalia needed his sister. He needed to find Michelle, and the thought of her being trapped in this place made him feel sick. Sick and determined, gritting his teeth as he remained oddly light on his feet given his size, up on the balls of his feet as he tried to get in, closer and closer and closer–
But he wasn’t the only one getting in closer, so many people were converging on one spot – converging, hurting, all being shoved into one location that couldn’t hold all of them, surely it couldn’t, especially with the low flying gargoyles that were trying their best and failing all the same, on the ground as often as not even as they swarmed, though he couldn’t tell if they were trying to prevent anyone from getting whatever was in the middle of this storm, or trying to get to it first.
Thalia didn’t care, he had more important things to do, he needed to find his sister, make sure she was safe and keep her safe and happy and he would kill anyone who tried to do anything to her, human or youma or alien or anything else in between because she was his sister and that was his right as the little sibling, wasn’t it? To do whatever it took to keep her safe?
And it didn’t help matters at all that the other senshi he’d been patrolling with had also vanished into what seemed to be nothing around the same time. If he didn’t know better, he’d think…
No. No time for thinking now, now is a time for acting, and he was not hesitating to throw his weight into things and barrel on through, trying to take down as many as he could without veering from his chosen path. He couldn’t let others get hurt for this, either.
Neckar looked at the other senshi and balled his fist up looking at the monster. His magic he didn't think would help against that monster; he was even 100 percent sure what people saw when he used it. He was going to have to do some experimenting as far as that was concerned.
Things were simply going downhill by the moment and all Neckar could think was fight or die. He didn't want to die and his brain was screaming at him to fight or die, so he looked to the other senshi and said, "we stick together and we fight then. You watch my back and I'll watch yours yeah?"
He didnt know how he was going to do this, but he was going to try, even with the monster freaking out and have to avoid showers of sparks and burst of wind pushing you about and this energy?
Pharos looked at the creature who was wreaking havoc on wherever they were and shook her head sadly. "It almost never works out like that. I think the crystal might be the issue, but at the same time I dont think its going to let us near it. We are likely going to have to fight and probably kill it." Thats was unfortunately always the way with went with these things. Pharos had seen and been apart of it many times, even fought a space whale before she was even a knight.
"If you don't want to fight, we can try too..." she started before the storm seemed to pick up and was only pushing them closer to the beast. She gripped her staff tighter and dodging as the monster claws came a little too close for comfort. She smack on the flying monster with the staff away that was brought to close by the monsters slashing.
"What do you want to do, I'll try to help you the best I can. If you want to try to get out or if you want to fight or even trying to get the crystal." Oddly that was the thought that seemed the loudest and most prominent, feeling like something she had to do even though she didn't really want to be near the creature.
Y'know... Arsenolite really seemed to be having a lot of bad days, recently. What with his brother disappearing, his suspected group being the White Moon, and trying really hard to keep it together while looking for him and laying low and quietly sniffing out information was driving him literally insane. He wasn't cut out for this; not when it involved someone so near and dear to his heart. Which was, of course, the problem: that was when you most needed to be calm and level headed, lest you make every wrong decision possible and let them get further and further from your grasp. It was just... so, so friggin' difficult. He couldn't handle it well, despite all his efforts, so he was just... trying to avoid being involved in the problem, but desperate for details.
It really, really ******** sucked.
And then, of course, a freaky portal opened up and sucked him in without even a quarter of a second to get the chance to process what was happening and dumped him right on top of a monster.
Oh. My. God.
No. Nope. Nopeity nopeity no! Big fat no! What the ********, even! What the biggest absolute ******** was all of this?! He exhaled sharply, rolling off the back of the thrashing monster and taking his surroundings in in a quick glance. Tagame! Spotting the familiar face, he sprinted away from the monster that was trying to get after him and ran up, needing to be with someone he could trust to watch his back.
"Tagame, hey!" he shouted, spinning around to keep his eye out, back to relative back to Tagame, "I'm on your six. Any idea what kind of hell we've been pulled into?"
He had no idea who'd been here longer, who had any kind of idea what they were really up against, and he really hoped Tagame would have some kind of answer.
Something... Some great need was clawing at the back of his throat, in his chest, in his arms and legs and bones, deep and dark, screaming at him to fight. They needed to fight to get out of this, and somehow he knew this, bone-deep. s**t. This was gonna suck. That real giant monster, like some kind of bee queen, made his heart hammer in his chest, but he had to keep his cool.
Volterra still wasn't really sure about the whole magical person thing. Ne wasn't very good at this whole thing, and nis magic was... so sparkly it made nem nauseous. It didn't seem to be anything very good, so the dream of helping protect nis cousin from his own idiocy seemed to be... a really stupid one, now. And... ne was upset with nemself for ever thinking ne could do anything good and smart for nemself and nis cousin. When did hope decide to sneak into nis heart? Ne wasn't a person who inspired hope and good feelings, that was definitely Bélénos whose spell literally had "hopes and dreams" in it for Pete's sake! That was her whole thing! And Volterra...
Ne had never felt so stupid and small in nis life. Even the silly little things that sometimes kept nem up at night from their civ life of just being a younger, less mature person seemed really, really insignificant compared to this whole ridiculous decision and problem ne'd gotten nemself into in the name of being good or ******** then, while ne was just trying to collect energy to feed the... the thing that was Mirrorspace, that thing that terrified the pants off nem, ne was kidnapped by some kind of crazy a** portal that dumped nem on the really gross ground of some strange, weird place filled with horrible monsters and a bunch of people just like nem, all shouting and screaming and fighting and just... Holy absolute s**t, this was a shitshow.
Ne groaned painfully before standing up, rubbing nis face and then spotting Murikabushi and... someone else that ne guessed was Negaverse near nem and made nis way over.
"Hey! What the hell is all this?" ne shouted, heart feeling like it was going to explode out of nis chest. Nis very blood was screaming at nem to fight, fighting was the only way to win, to get home, so fight, but ne was too scared to think.
One moment, he’d been facing off against some random senshi, and the next, he’d been pulled through a portal ripped out of space. Weissite may have thought it was some effect of the unknown senshi’s magic, but… How could it last so long? More than just hours, it seemed like. It felt like days had passed already. Days of bumbling through the darkness, stumbling into things that weren’t really there, but having to move anyway because something else was here, some creature out of his vision, chasing after him.
There was no way to escape, no way to call for help, no way to even know if anyone knew he was missing. No way to communicate that he was gone… That was the worst of it. It wasn’t not eating or sleeping for what felt like days, it wasn’t being alone and being chased, it was just thinking of how hopeless it seemed, and how he wished he could just let someone else know.
Weissite could go mad here, trapped with just his thoughts.
But at least it seemed like he didn’t have to.
Trapped in a tumultuous sea of despair, Weissite was suddenly and unceremoniously ripped through another portal and spat out into a scene of Chaos. Some ghastly gargoyle creatures whizzed around, ripping into and out of space as they charged each other and some monstrous giant that swung its arms to keep everyone at bay. Electricity crackled in the air, setting Weissite’s hair on end. He didn’t know where this was. Better or worse than where he had been before?
But at least there were other people here. Other people fighting the various monsters to keep them from…
It was disorienting to be here so suddenly. He didn’t understand fully what was going on or what to do about it, but he could see the fight that was taking place. Take out the monsters so they wouldn’t fly through the portals into Destiny City. And then, once they were gone… Maybe Weissite could use one of those portals to get home. It was all he was thinking about was just not being here, of being back with his friends- and a cheeseburger. A cheeseburger sounded ******** fantastic.
“Vasiiiiiii!” Tarra screeched as she reached for Vasiliki as the girl was ripped off the sidewalk and sucked through some tear in the fabric of the universe. It happened so quickly- she was there, and then she was gone. How? And why? Was it something to do with Vasi’s world? Had it, like, come back for her, or something? Could it do that?
No, right? No?
Vasi probably would’ve known if Liriope could just snap her back to her planet without the senshi’s permission. …But she hadn’t been on Earth for that long, so maybe she didn’t know? Maybe Chaos planets really could just reach out and take their senshi back, without warning… Maybe not, though! Maybe not! Tarra just had to find her! She had to find where Vasi had been ejected- somewhere around here, probably!
“Vasi! Vasi, hello, come out!” Tarra called as she was suddenly sprinting down the sidewalk like an insane person, shouting for a girl she’d watched be taken away. But her friend would be so scared. She would be ruined if she was sent back to Liriope, and if something bad had caught here here on Earth too, like it had on her own planet, then…
But Tarra would find her, no matter how long it took or how tired she got!
It was simple moments of running, of diving through the streets screaming her friend’s name that a rift ripped open right in front of her. Fear lurched up Tarra’s heart, but if it would take her to where Vasiliki was… And it seemed like she hardly had a choice, regardless. It sucked her in like a magnetic pull, and spat her out onto some… blackened, tar-slicked platform amidst a swarm of absolute ********. Tornadoes of gargoyle creatures and swarms of crackling energy. Where the ******** was this- Why were they here.
But at the sound of a familiar scream, Tarra saw her. A rush of relief flooded her bones, even through all this madness as Tarra bolted toward the other girl, vaulting over monsters and strangers because she didn’t care what was between her and Vasiliki, she had to get to her friend’s side!
If they hadn’t been out together, this would be really bad!
Zero clung to the heavy denim fabric of her Papa’s coat, peering out from behind him at a sky(?) swarming with scary dragon-monsters. Because she didn’t get to be Zero very often, she usually liked it when they were able to power up together… But not this time. This time, they’d just been snatched right up and thrown into some creepy creature world. If she squinted through the portals opening and closing around her, she thought she could still see home, though. So at least it wasn’t far away. And she had both daddies with her now, so it could be much worse! They would be okay!
And maybe she could use her magic to help them, too…
So, despite it being scary, Zero still tugged on Daddy’s pink coat and shot a little smile up at him. She was a magical girl, and she had to defend their home, now! “Let me help too, okay?” She prompted of Regal. It wasn’t very often Zero got to help! But it would be good to use her magic on her daddies. It would make them stronger!
“Okay, so here I go!” She held a hand out in front of her, and by this point, it didn’t matter what Regal or Sawtooth said to dissuade her, because the glow of Zero’s magic formed at her fingertips and pulsed out into a shimmery hexagonal glyph glowing in the air. Anyone who ran through it would find themselves moving a little faster. That should help get to these monsters before they could get away!
