The worm demon screamed in agony and began to writhe. It wasn't dead, but it was sure hurt.
This gave Sae an opening. She flew up above the worm and came down hard on its head, driving her sword into it like a spike.
It writhed a bit more, then began to disintegrate.
"Thanks mister, now let's get the other one!" she said.
"Mister? How old do you think I am?" Shinade said as he materialized his sword and charged at the demon. Shinade did a couple of quick strikes, hurting but not killing the demon.
((How old is Sae? btw im leaving for bout and hr in like 5 mins, sooo you can control shinade if need be))
(OOC: Sae's 18, a senior in high school. She'll be 19 when she graduates because she spent roughly a full school year fighting in the Rikti War)
Sae held up her hand and one of the 'pistols' manifested again, blasting the demon several times before it flopped over, screamed, and disintegrated.
Shiina, Pan, Shuji, and Kouhei ran up to Sae.
"Sugoi nee-chan!" Shuji said excitedly. Sae punched him.
"\What's wrong with you?! I told you to stay in Shinjuku! Yet here you are, running off with your band to Akihabara...you had me so worried," Sae began crying, "You're all I have left, Shuji, I don't want to lose you...\"
"\What about us?\" Kouhei asked, grinning mischieviously, "\You gonna hit us too Sae-chan?"
"\Go jump in a hole Kouhei\," Sae replied. She was glad to see them, but Kouhei and Pan were both frustrating to deal with. Pan because he was a complete idiot, and Kouhei because he was a playboy and the same age as Sae...which meant he was constantly trying to get into her pants.
After the group stopped conversing, Shinade reached out a hand to Sae and said, "/I'm Hinomu Shinade, nice to meet you, and you are? Oh before you answer, I'm only 19, but I guess it was more polite to call me mister./"
"\My name is Ukyo Sae. I call every guy 'mister', sorry. Guess I'll just call you Hinomu then\," she said, bowing, "By the way, are you related to Shinji?"
(OOC: Sae knows several of my other characters who have met Shinji, and Ryuji receives letters from Reishi.)
"Please, just call me Shinade...or Shin for short, but yeah I'm related to Shinji, how do you know him?"
"\Friend of a friend of mine\," she replied, "\Ah, and this is my kid brother, Ukyo Shuji, and his bandmates Pan, Takamura Kouhei, and Takamura Shiina. Yes they're twins\." (I'm not sure how this exact moment fits into continuity...for the sake of argument let's just say she knows Ryuji who knows Reishi who knows Asuka who always tells Reishi about jobs who always blabs to Ryuji. In my non-CoH/CoV stories the three of them are teammates)
"\Pleased to meet you sir! Thanks for the help!\" Shuji said.
"\We should get out of here before more demons show up\," Sae said, moving towards the exit.
"\Nee-chan, where did you get those weird clothes? You look like a cosplayer!\" Shuji asked bluntly.
"\A...friend,\" she said vaguely.
((Alright, I'll just have them continue mopping up stuff on the surface until something happens or they run into someone. *coughcoughEssexKhel* 
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"Team Bravo to Team Alpha. Sector two is clear, proceeding to next target zone."
"Roger that, Bravo." Allen replied through his mic, "Charlie's coming along a little slower, but should be moving on soon as well. We'll take care of the center."
Allen and the crew of the Lead Crwaler, along with the vehicle and XANV, now moved on foot, looking in the central regions of Akihabara for any signs of ongoing resistance...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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"Pan how old are you man? You look about my age...waaaait, I think I catch your drift already, from what I already see from Ms Ukyo here, if you dont watch your self, you'll wind up never being able to be a dad...if you catch my drift."
"MOST DELICIOUS EXCELLENCE!" Pan said (OOC: No typos, that was english 
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"\Don't mind Pan,\" Kouhei said, "\He's an outstanding drummer but he's a few notes short of a full song.\"
"\So my sources say you punks were arrested for disturbing the peace. Did Pan eat another old lady's cat again?\" Sae asked, desperate the change the subject.
"\We were arrested for playing music,\" Shiina said matter-of-factly, "\But the head honcho...uh, that's the leader here, he literally calls himself 'head honcho'...said he wanted us to do public shows to raise morale. Guess that deal's out the window.\"
Sae smiled warmly. She admired Shiina and Shuji. Pan was passionate, sure, but he was just doing the only thing he was good at. Kouhei wanted to be a rockstar and get chicks. But Shiina and Shuji genuinely wanted to play music that people would love. Sae had no doubt in her mind that the two of them would end up married, they were just WAY too compatible.
"\I could talk to the council about getting you guys a concert in Shinjuku,\" she offered, "\But only if Pan promises not to eat anymore cats.\"
"CATS ARE EXCELSIOR!" Pan replied.
Crack!
"Hru-"
Snap.
And the mage was gone, another demon down.
Sae walked up to to the top of the staircase. Lo and behold, a group of hounds were waiting for them.
Materializing her sword, she sped into combat, dispatching three of the hounds before they even knew she was there.
Four more...
The other four wailed as they spontaneously combusted, the mage appearing from the dust kicked up.
He smiled under his dragon's skull.
"Ugh, you again," Sae said, grinning, "For a moment I was actually SCARED!"
She walked up to the mage, "You like the power Chiyoko gave you? Hm, actually what DID she give you?"
The mage lifted his Dragon's Skull, revealing a twisting mass of mists.
On where his forehead would be, there was a holy seal.
Toshio had stepped away from the mechas for the moment, rubbing a hand through his hair. What a mess this was. Bitten by a demon. Strange, dark power bubbling inside him. He could swear his eyes even -felt- the crimson glow that emanated from them.
Priestesses gasped at his approach, but a sharp word calmed them down - or at least got them to stop attacking.
He didn't even notice as he nearly brushed through the group of fighters from the other station. Toshio had to get that soul back. It was the 'how' that was complicated.
"Kuso. Konna de muzukashii wa mendokusei na..."
Japancakes.
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"A holy seal eh? Guess that's an interesting workaround for the barriers..." Sae remarked.
"Nee-chan! \He's a demon! Why isn't he attacking?!\" Shuji asked, scared out of his wits.
"\He's here to help...why I don't know but at this point I'd accept help from the devil himself. We're just lucky the 'other guy' decided to help us out\," she said, referring to Chiyoko being the Eyes of the One.
(OOC: BTW what soul are you talkin about Essex? I'm curious...)
At a lash from a large wrom deomon's tail, XANV's form went flying into a building close to Toshio, who didn't even seem to notice the 'demon' of dull black metal.
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"Kuso. Konna de muzukashii wa mendokusei na..."
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"Entry not found." XANV returned in his cold, mechanical voice, "Do you require assistance?"
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((From one of my first posts. When the demons smashed the woman-shaped statue in his apartment and stole the glowing marble from inside it. It's his girlfriend's soul. D:
EDIT: Oh, I thought Sae and the other kid were talking about Toshio, not Soviet's character. 9_9 DUH.))
"Eh?" Toshio glanced up at XANV. "<Oh. Sorry. Didn't notice you there>."
Turning his eyes back to the worm, he shrugged. "<Don't really need assistance, but wouldn't say no to it either. Let's teach this thing to eat dirt like its brothers.>"
With that, the now-demonic man flapped his wings once, hard, drawing back a fist to plunge an electricity-charged blow right into the worm's body.
Japancakes.
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(OOC: Sae and DeviousMe's characters are nowhere near each other. Sae and the band are still on the ground floor of the station with Soviet and Shinji's characters, and DeviousMe's guys are...elsewhere with the rest of my guys and Toshio)
"Translating from Japanese." XANV mumbled, turning to the enemy, "Yes, let's make them eat dirt."
The metallic 'dagger demon' plowed its sharp fingers into the concrete and ripped up a huge chunk of it, wasting no time to fling the massive patch of ground at the nearest attacker...
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Allen grolwed as he struck down another something and stepped in the remains of something else that he'd rather not look at. The dead were already more numerous than the living in this area, and there was no sign of that stopping anytime soon.
Still, something unnerved him - he hadn't seen any sort of leader at all. Either this wasn't a coordinated attack and there was no leader, or the guy had some serious defenses that hid him...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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Toshio grinned, goading on the worm demon. "Eigo ka... All right, I can deal with English."
Taunting the beast so it lunged at him again and again, he drew it to strike at him, his wings extended to the side to block its view. At the last minute, he snapped his wings closed and dropped, letting the huge chunk of concrete impact with the worm's face.
The drunken master didn't waste any time, pummelling the soft midsection with violently sparking fists.
Japancakes.
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As she and her little group began skirting the edge of the battle, she began to notice that the demons were, in fact, focused on one particular area: One of the shrines located in Ochanomizu.
The mecha and the barrier had managed to hold them off, but things were looking grim. From the looks of things, the man-hound demons were totally ravaging the mecha. It was as if they were bred for this battle.
Fighting her way through the throng of enemies, Sae finally made it to one of Allen's crawlers. (OOC: Not XANV or the lead one tho)
"\OK, you guys stay here, I'm gonna go even the odds a bit,\" she told the band members, "Mage, Hinomu-san, you guys should try to meet up with the lead crawler. It's probably the one covered in ice."
She turned away and took flight again.
Meanwhile, ZERO was having problems of her own. A short while ago she had separated from the lead crawler, and had gotten caught up in the throng of battle. It wasn't long before she found herself stuck. Her retreat by air was cut off by a group of demons prepared to take her apart, and hounds had surrounded her on the ground.
Chihaya and Ryuji had problems of their own. Chihaya had a plethora of powerful spells at her disposal, but thanks to the virtually unlimited horde of demons attacking, she had to completely focus on her shield and light-ball to keep demons from wrecking the crawler. Ryuji was, of course, in the same boat.
Sae flew high above the battle, dispatching any demons that came her way. Below she saw the demons focusing on areas with high population: a few department stores, a hotel, the crawlers, and ZERO's location.
I hope this works... she thought to herself.
"\Command Line: Transmit Ten Thousand Lights of Heaven. RELEASE!\" she called to her armor.
All around her dozens of the modified, floating pistols formed, each one taking targets.
"IIIKEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" she screamed, and all the pistols fired at once in volley after volley.
Chaos rained down upon the demon hordes. The shots were carefully aimed, and avoided humans and mecha alike with ease.
Sae's attack virtually decimated almost half the demons Allen could see. Some of the stronger ones survived, and were now even angrier than before, but their numbers had certainly gone down.
This gave Allen the opportunity to punch his way through to ZERO - sometimes literally.
"Sorry if this seems condescending to you." he told her as he finally got through the now very diminished cordon of demons around her, "But I don't leave anyone behind."
They were now gaining the upper hand, and finally the ned of the long, drawn-out battle seemed to come to a close as demons fell left and right.
Then things grew silent around Allen and ZERO - and he knew it shouldn't be so.
Footsteps echied throuhg the night, neither light nor heavy, and on the way back to the Crawler, Allen and ZERO were approached by a figure clad in a slick, all-gray Gucci suit, and a matching Duster.
"Not bad," the figure said in a stern, yet not unfriendly voice as it clapped its black-gloved hands together slowly, "Not bad at all. Then again, I suppose I should expect this of you..."
"Tommy Oblivion." Allen almost spat the name, "Why am I not surprised? How'd you get out of your rat hole this time?"
"With a little help of my new master. Sure, there was a bit of dealing, but nothing I wouldn't agree to to get back at you for what you did to me, General Fang!"
"You did it all to yourself. No fault of mine. Now get out of here before I think of something amusing to do to you."
The figure just laughed, "Mister Fang, I know you're all bluff and bad reputation. Only reason you got me last time was because I gut careless."
His fists clecnhed at his sides now, as he looked up. The had a youthful face, but there were no eyes where they should be - just plain, black emptiness, "And I'll be sure to not make that mistake again."
Oh, great. Nothing like having an old enemy join an even older enemy to kick the tar out of you. This just isn't my day.
"Careful." Allen said to ZERO and the others near them as he changed his suit's right arm into a cannon again, "This guy's existential..."
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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"I hope these'll take em out." Shinade said as he fired two armored piercing rounds at what seemed to be the demons head's...