(OOC: Now, you ARE on the non-demon side right? The demons are all slaves to their master)
The male demon Sae engaged battle with was strong. He easily defended against most of her attacks with a simple block.
Her swordsmanship had vastly improved thanks to Chiyoko's enhancement, however.
Of course it had.
Very few people knew how to fight with a sword in mid-air.
Meanwhile, one of the demons, a smaller one wielding a pair of dagger-like weapons, landed next to one of the crawlers.
((Yeah, btw Shinade is a gunman/swordsman, and when he doesnt have any weapons he fights using kickboxing...and he also has an ace up his sleeve, or on his belt so to say))
(OOC: 0_o so he's like a male Sae then?)
((Yeah...unless Sae is like Haku, then no, his name just kinda sounds like it'd be a girls name))
(OOC: I meant a male VERSION of Sae. Sae's a girls name usually accompanied with the -ko suffix. Sae's a swordsman/gunman. She wields two desert eagle-esque pistols with specially designed inertial inhibitors to prevent significant recoil. She also carries her dead boyfriend's sword, which I'm not saying whether or not it's a katana 
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((Wow, that's a lot of OOC 
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The dagger demon found its shield alight with searing plasma as it attempted to stab its blades into the vehicle, knocking the posessed human to the ground. Not an instant later, the Crawler covering it - as each unit had another to cover it in the vaguely circular formation - shattered the demon's shield with its kinetic disruptor.
But it didn't stop there. In fact, the covering vehicle was moving, and doing so FAST, the engines roaring as it rushed to apparently run down the enemy. OF course, this was only a distraction - the real threat was the desintegration field the Crawler pushed in front of it like a giant bulldozer shovel.
Naturally invisible and almost undetectable except by its effects, the field affected ALL matter in its field of influence, and would turn the dagger demon into nothing more than a cloud of unbound molecules. Only energy could protect from such a field, and the kinetic disrupter was ready to fire again at a moment's notice...
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"C'mon already." Allen laughed at the demon he had just been fighting with. Feeling its flesh constantly being eaten away at by the green beams had made it seek cover, "If you want to take over this world, you'll have to prove yourselves first."
He hoped to play on the demons' arogance enough with this statement to lure them into making rash decisions. An enemy who didn't think things through often made a mistake...
"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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It was sudden.
The crawler with the disintegration shield was rolling one moment, and gone the next.
The demon wielding the two daggers held out his hand. Suspended in a bubble of energy, was what appeared to be a miniature version of the crawler. The energy field began to condense, and the crawler began to look as if it was being crushed like an aluminum can.
The Magus grinned, roaring a charge in an ancient tongue and sending his bombs forward.
Or so it appeared. The projection vanished the instant the real Crawler burst from it.
"You'll have to do better than that." the driver smiled, lurching the Crawler forward and gunning right for the dagger demon. The internal dampening field had worked perfectly, and for a second the crew had even played with the thought of afflicting the demon with his own spell.
They had decided differntly, though, projecting the effect so the demon thought his attack had succeeded. They now hoped he was surprised enough to remain stunned for the half second the 'shovel' needed to close the distance and desintegrate him...
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"Never start a magic fight with something that likes magic." Allen grinned, signaling a few troopers, and they threw more concussion grenades, keeping the demons from noticing them in the night by lighting it up with plasma beams and green scattershots...
"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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The dagger wielding demon appeared to be...enjoying it?
He LET the crawler slam into him with its 'shovel'.
He disappeared, was nowhere to be seen, not even an atom remained.
"Foolish," came a voice from...within the crawler?!
The crawler lurched, and began to form into a metallic image of the dagger-wielding demon.
Meanwhile, the staff wielding demon had gained the upper hand, pressing Sae towards the ground.
"\No...\" she said, "\I won't lose!\"
Parts of her sword began to glow, and with one powerful cut, not only was the demon's staff cut in half, but the demon as well! The two haves hit the ground and disintegrated.
The four remaining in the air noticed their comrade fall, and disappeared into the clouds, leaving the downed one hit by the zombie, and the demon-crawler fusion on the battlefield.
ERROR.
PARA-ENERGETIC CORRUPTION DETECTED.
PURGE INEFFECTIVE - NOT ENCOMPASSING SOFTWARE.
PROCEDURE 5 IS CALLED FOR.
EVACUATE VEHICLE.
LOCK 1 RELEASED...
The driver swore as he unbuckled, rushing to the hatch as he ordered the three others still in the Crawler to do the same, "SENECA's going Fiver! Everybody OUT! NOW!!!"
LOCK 2 RELEASED...
The troopers stormed from the vehicle and right into the battle, not paying the posesed Crawler any more mind. It could handle itself.
FINAL LOCK RELEASED.
XANV SEQUENCE INITIATED...
Jets of thick, black smoke shot from the Crawler, surrounding it in a thin fabric of shadowy gases as it transformed into a shape resembling the former dagger demon. Most of it disappeared again right away, leaving a few circling clouds around the newly formed feet.
And as the wings sprouted from the former Crawler's back, the transformation had been completed. The new creature turned its eyeless head at Allen and his crew, then lurched upward with a mighty leap and swatted one of the fleeing demons right out of the air with a powerful overhead strike.
The demon crashed into the ground with the force of a small meteorite, flinging dirt anc concrete everywhere, and the Crawler slammed right down on top of it, tearing its legs right off from the force of its impact, severing them with its entire lower half.
"So then," Allen walked into the small crater the impact had created, staying just out of reach of the upper half of the demon. He nodded to the changed Crawler that pinned the the severed demon, "Nice work. Now, what are we gonna call you?"
Not awaiting an answer, as he knew XANV wouldn't give one, he turned his attention back to the demon, "I'm gonna say you owe us some answers, buddy. Who're ya working for and why Terra...?"
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The spirit of the dagger demon fount itself floating in nothing - just pure white light all around, stretching infinetely in every direction. When it had tried to posess the Crawler, it had indeed succeded - but not in the way it wanted.
"So, you're a Terran demon, hm?" an omnipresent voice echoed, "I have to say, I am disappointed."
"Oh, who am I?" the voice laughed, guessing the next question, "Nobody special. XANV is my official designation. It's an acronym. But then again, that won't matter to you now. I think I'm going to keep you here, alive, for as long as you're...useful to me. Or the others. They'll probably have a few questions for you, and if I were you, I'd come up with some good and honest answers. Otherwise you might find that death is the least of your worries..."
((So what happened to Soviet's magus and his flying zombie-bombs?))
"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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(OOC: His 'target' is still on the ground, what he does to it is up to him Clever way to get rid of the demon...not exactly what I had in mind. BTW with all but one of the humanoid demons gone, the Ginza area is clear. Just one last event and everyone's gonna go help out Akihabara or return to Shinjuku)
Thunder began to crash. From the clouds, descended a human dressed in black platemail armor with gold trim (OOC: I'm aware this is cliche that's the idea) and a very long katana at his waist. His long, black hair draped over six black wings on his back.
It was a no brainer, really. This guy was the bad guy, he was in charge of all this. The entire group opened fire. None of them hit. Further scans of it would reveal that this being was, in fact, merely an astral projection.
"Greetings, mortals," the projection said, in the same multi-language speech that Chiyoko had used in her world, "I am Zanael, but please, call me Zan." (OOC: For reference, it's pronounce zah-n)
The projection tipped a bow.
"Don't try to look for me, non-humans, it won't work. I've gone into hiding," he laughed, "It will take some time even before the Eyes of the One finds me. You've done well, beating some of my mid-level soldiers, and I know it is sometimes customary for the enemy general to admire the other general. And truly, I do. For beings trapped in the flow of time, you are very skilled. I applaud you. Now, I thought it only fair to warn you that I'm going to destroy that eyesore of a 'base'. Really, I'd appreciate it if you tried to stop me, it's very interesting watching you squirm against my lowliest of troops."
The Mage furrowed his brow, and in a puff of mist, was gone.
((He'll be back.))
Allen chuckled, smiling, "Well, who are we to deny such a courteous invitation?"
Seeing he wouldn't be getting any info from the severed demon, he aimed his arm cannon and fired a scattershot into the half-body. The green energy crystallized in the impact craters and started eating away at mind, body, and soul until there was nothing left.
His friend Ace had once said that the gun was powered by the nastiest element in the known universe - and it really seemed to be.
"XANV," he then turned to the Walker, "Anything out of your guy?"
"Negative. Any ideas?"
"Indeed." Allen walked into the lead Crawler and rummaged about, returning with a crystalline orb the size of a fist. He threw it to the Walker, "Catch."
XANV's present form obliged, ctahcing the orb in one hand. There was a short flash of light and an unearthly scream of terror, then he handed the orb back to Allen.
"I think you can make better use of this that I." he handed the spirit trap to Sae, "One demon's spirit, stipped and powerless. Might yeild some answers to the right people."
He didn't wait for a response before consulting the intelligence network his troops had set up all over Japan by now. It was true - Akihabara was under siege, and heavily so.
"We'd better get over there pronto. Anyone have someting quick and simple we can use to secure this area from any further incursion?"
"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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"Chihaya," Sae said, "\Seal this area.\"
"\Yes ma'am,\" Sae replied.
She began to chant and slammed the staff down into the ground. Suddenly a powerful shield formed in the area around Ginza.
That done, Sae tossed the orb to Chihaya and took to the air again.
"I'm gonna go on ahead, you guys catch up," she said, darting off towards Akihabara at incredible speeds. She didn't have time to rest yet, not when her home was still in danger. Worse, her younger brother was still in Akihabara with his stupid band.
Ryuji turned to Allen, "Well, shall we go?"
"Let's." Allen snapped his fingers and the crews and robots got back in the Crawlers. The vehicle covered in undead parts reverted to normal, whother by the infunce of the disappeared mage or its own systems was not apparent, but its crew re-entered along with the crew of the completely transformer Crawler that they now simply referred to as Walker.
"XANV, can you keep up with us?" Allen spoke into the radio as he strpped down in the navigator's seat.
"Positive." came the reply, "Absorption of flight ability is most useful. I'll be able to keep up with no issues."
"Wilco." Allen returned and the engines roared again, the cadre of Crawlers and the low-flying Walker crshing through street debris in the retaken Ginza sector. It would be a while before toy could rebuild, but at least the area had been secured.
And with still no lights going - they had no need for any - the Crawlers roared off toward the besieged district at more than 280 km/h...
"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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Akihabara was under siege by the most unusual of demons.
They were giants, with large arms and heads fused to their shoulders, and large claws used to walk.
The mecha were fighting back furiously, but weren't being overly effective.
Smaller demons like Hounds and Shriekers filled the streets as well. Most of the people had taken shelter in the basement of a large department store.
"Holy crap....this is lookin pretty bad, but I don't want to randomly walk up to them and get shot either..." Shinade thought to himself as the Crawlers ran off...
"Coming up on target, Sir." the driver of the lead Crawler reported to Allen, "District is under attack from all sides. No idea where anyone is, life signs are all over the place."
Allen nodded. That meant they'd have to break through the cordon in order to even find where the humans had dug in.
"Incoming bandit." the driver said calmly as a giant dug its clawed feet into the road some ditance from them, along with a horde of lesser demons, intent on stopping the zig-zagged convoy formation.
"We're going with Rho." Allen ordered, "All Crawler units, broad formation."
The zig-zag pattern changed into a single line, the five speeding Crawlers lining the street from right to left, XANV skimming over the ground just behind them.
Small bits of debris in front of the formation started vanishing mysteriously now, instead of simply being un over. In the dark night, the green gas they left was as good as invisible.
"Run 'em down."
And they did. As the wall of desintegration fields made contact with the charging demon horde, roars of pain and screams of agony began filling the air as the horrid creatures vaporized on contact, filling the night with a dreadful wail.
The giant's legs were literally taken out from right under it, and with an uneartly bellow of pain, it fell. It didn't even have time to hit the ground before XANV thrust upward and skewered the large creature, smashing it back to the ground with a huge, bloody hole in its torso.
"Split up and take it to 'em."
Two Crawlers sheared from the formation on each side, one pair going left, the other right, continuing their destructive work. They didn't slow down even once, just ramming through demons and blasting what managed to dive out of the way.
Allen's Crawler and XANV, however, continued straight on into the heart of Akihabara, hoping desperately someone would still be alive. From the difficulties the siege seemed to be having, it seemed someone was putting up stiff resistance. Then again, the sheer numbers were just astonishing...
"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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The massive number of enemies was startling. All around them were ruined mecha, and the screams of the dying being dragged out of small shop basements and torn apart permeated the district.
Sae surveyed the scene. Devastation, everywhere.
She reached into her pocket....only she had no pockets.
"\Where the hell is my cell phone?\" she asked herself, panicking.
Oddly, when she said \cell phone\ it materialized in front of her.
Shrugging, she picked it up and hit the speed dial button for her brother.
"Moshimoshi? Nee-chan! TASUKETE!!" came the frantic voice on the other end.
"Ima doko?!" Sae asked.
"Akihabara-eki, hayaku nee-chan!" he replied.
Sae turned towards Akihabara station and flew at full speed.
Meanwhile, Chihaya and Ryuji aided the assault by the crawlers with an Orb of Banishing Light and Wall of Frost, respectively.
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..."Akihabara-eki, hayaku nee-chan!" he replied.
Sae turned towards Akihabara station and flew at full speed.
Meanwhile, Chihaya and Ryuji aided the assault by the crawlers with an Orb of Banishing Light and Wall of Frost, respectively.
[/ QUOTE ] "Hmm, I wonder where she's going in such a hurry?" Shinade said to himself as he commenced to following her.
Sae landed just outside the station, near the place the band had been playing just hours before. She crossed through a passageway littered with lockers, hoping to find her brother.
Not far away, at a store called 'Gamers', a guy dressed in a giant Dejiko mascot outfit and three french maids, all armed with AK-47s, were holding off a large amount of demons. (OOC: There really IS a big store like that exactly in that spot )
Sae had to help them, so she raised her hand and her pistols, modified by Chiyoko's power to resemble the floaty things from Phantasy Star Online (OOC: Everything about Sae's current get-up has anime inspiration. Chiyoko was a closet otaku) and each fired a series of shots hitting each target, vaporizing them.
"Ganbatte!" she called and turned inside the station.
"....Wow...she's good."
Sae moved down the stairs towards one of the subway platforms. She saw a group of refugees doing battle with a pair of worm demons, barely holding their own.
"\Hang tight guys!\" she announced.
Materializing her sword, she sped towards the group in time to block one of the worms from slamming its bulk on the group.
"Nee-chan! \You came!\" her brother called.
Shinade had been eyeing the battle for some time now, he didn't want to get in over his head.
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..."Split 'em up!" Allen shouted to the others, firing again...
[/ QUOTE ] I wan't to jump into this, but not yet...I wanna see if I can find out any weaknesses. Shinade thought to himself as he continued to spy on the fight.((hope that suffices))