"Excellent work, sir," Helper praised, reaching a hand out over the egg. Thin blue pearlescent lines issued from his fingertips, penetrating the egg and causing it to glow a faint yellow color. It grew rather heavy in Experiment's hand.
"There. If my calculations are correct, based on the destructive force of the previous explosions we've witnessed, the shell of this egg should remain intact even if the charge is ignited. The yolk and albumin will, unfortunately, be very badly scrambled. However, they, at least theoretically, should provide enough of a buffer to prevent the total destruction of the egg."
Lyden pressed the button again, and Kefetasura's efforts would be eclipsed by another three eggs going off:
2 went off with a belch in Kaloaten's hand, soaking his arm with goo. He yelped and fell to the sand.
14, the egg Stellarmare had taken as a backup and was now being fought over, broke and promptly splashed every which way. Kefeta could take the credit on that one, if he wanted.
4, the other egg Kaloaten had been holding, then exploded. Now soaked from three eggsplosions, he sat in the sand and looked at his hands in disbelief. He whimpered a bit.
"...What the hell! No fair!!"
"Ah yes, that is an excellent idea, Helper," Moonscribe said as Stellarmare's egg exploded. "I do wonder if it will work. . ."
Once again completely untouched by any yolk or shell, he sat in midair, apparently waiting for something. . .
Experiment smiled approvingy. "Great job, Helper. Now, all we have to do is somehow stop the big battle-bot thing, and we should be pretty much yoke-kay." He held out the egg for Helper to take. "You hold this. I will keep Combat Toy, Rosalind, and the other violent people from getting to you."
Helper nodded his acknowledgement, taking the egg in one giant hand. His massive fingers easily enshrouded the little egg completely.
Kefetasura decided now would be a good time to sneak off to the patio and see if any eggs were left. To his dismay, both cartons were empty. He slunk back down to the beach, looking for a good one to steal.
((For anyone like me that is scatter-brained and finds it hard to keep track of this sort of information over the course of several days: Eggs remaining, and their present holders; 3-Lily, 9-Pyro, 10-Cortianna, 11-Toy Dispenser, 12-Mini-Bot, 13-??? (Missing since the selection), 19-Helper & Experiment, 24-Morsko. Happy hunting! ^_^ ))
Lyden pressed the button on the remote once again. Only one egg would explode this time:
12, Mini Bot's secret egg, would be the victim. Lyden, however, saw number 12 fade on his remote but did not see the concealed egg burst- so he pressed the button once again. Three would pop, this time:
13, the egg that had mysteriously disappeared from the pile beforehand, was about to make its location known.
9, which had been held throughout the competition so far by Pyro-Technis, also popped.
24, which was way up in a palm tree tucked into Morsko's tail, would burst open and rain down onto the sand.
"Four eggs remaining", Lyden called out. 3, in Lily's posession, 10 in Cortianna's, 11 in Toy Dispenser's, and 19 which had slipped from Kaloaten's grasp and come to be held by Experiment and Helper.
Tomanton took a few steps back and took cover behind a rock, evidently planning to disappear..
Acid's eyes snapped open, but he still didn't move, sitting on the rock. He calculated. Chances, odds, probabailities...and then decided to heck with it.
Eenie meenie miney mo...
Each eg had about the same chance of exploding the next time. Could be one, could be three, but worst-case there would only be on left.
So he picked at random. The egss weren't hard to keep track of, and using Vern's method made it even easier. with the flick of a wrist, Acid focused in on egg 11 and called it across space and time - a really grandiose description for a few meters and zero seconds - teleporting it into the claws of his hand.
Morkso, meanwhile, had been quite disappointed as he sensed the signal, stuffing the egg into his mouth before it exploded.
A second later, he hacked a huge loogie at anyone blow the palmtree as he decided that was about the vilest thing he'd ever tasted. He also made a mental note of the same caliber that Acid had made earlier.
In less than a second, Morkso was down the tree, spiraling towards the ground like some deranged squirrel...
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Pyro chuckled as his egg exploded, a small orb of fire keeping the sticky substance inside from flying everywhere. He then lowered it, the fire orb leaving, and the egg began to scramble on his armor. "Mmm... Scrambled eggs..." he muttered quietly, looking up at the lowering Morsko. His smile grew, as he aimed his right hand at the creature, and fired.
The white-hot egg flew directly at Morsko, and propelling flame behind it.
Kefetasura had a look on his face as he stalked back down the patio path to the beach. It was a strange look, the look of a man who knew he was defeated, and was resolved to take as many people down with him as he could.
The demon turned his attention to egg number 10, in the possession of Cortianna. If Kefetasura wasn't going to win, he damn well wasn't going to let that annoying brat beat him! He blasted the egg with every telekinetic attack he could, barraging it with forces from every direction.
Cortianna's eyes narrowed as she felt the psionic waves coverge. Dropping Combat Toy from her own telekinetic grasp, she wrapped her egg in a field of energy while flinging a bolt of fire at Kefetasura.
"Get one from the others freak job."
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"Awww man," Mini Bot whined as one of its tentacles reached down and popped open a panel in the drone's back. Yellow egg yolk started dripping out as both tentacles dove in and started scooping the mess out as best they could.
"This sucks," the drone sighed as it craned its head back to try and see how the excavation was going.
"No, this is quite interesting," Toy said as he watched the shield around his egg flare brightly for a moment. A brief analysis indicated that someone had tried to teleport the egg away from him. Good thing it was in a detention field then. The only thing getting inside there would be the code to destruct the egg and only even that because Toy felt like being fair.
"Now what, boss?" Combat Toy asked as it stomped back over to the mastermind. "I don't see any more eggs."
"Go knock over Acid's tree," Toy instructed, waving his hand in the direction of the lizardman.
"Sweet," Combat Toy said as it turned around and lined up for its charge.
"CHOO FRIGGIN' CHOO!" Combat Toy shouted as it hit its bootjets and shot forward at the tree that Acid and Morsko were in.
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Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
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A second later, he hacked a huge loogie at anyone blow the palmtree as he decided that was about the vilest thing he'd ever tasted. He also made a mental note of the same caliber that Acid had made earlier.
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That anyone happened to be Kaloaten. Squatting under the tree he had been watching the crowd, trying to best see how he could wrestle back an egg, when the egg spit splattered on him.
"Ackpth! Heeey!" Frowning at Morsko, he vowed to teach that thing a lesson. Stomping over to the other side of the tree to get a better footing to try and climb it, he had no idea what he was putting himself in the way of...
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The white-hot egg flew directly at Morsko, and propelling flame behind it.
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Splat. Kaloaten yelped loudly as the piping-hot egg smacked against the back of his cowl, leaving a yellow and white smudge on it as it shattered and fell to pieces in the sand. After leaping around a bit to shake off the heat, Kaloa fell into the sand and realized something- he was now covered in the debris of five different eggs, and had nothing to show for it.
((And since it'd be no good to keep someone who's sort of away with an egg..))
Tomanton quickly reappeared behind Lily, thrusting his arms upwards at her wrists to try and snatch egg 3. His aim was a bit off, though- knocking it from her and his hands, the egg was sent up quite a few feet in the air. It stopped and curled back down toward the beach in a lazy arc, and if nobody did anything it would land in the sand closest to Rosalind.
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Cortianna's eyes narrowed as she felt the psionic waves coverge. Dropping Combat Toy from her own telekinetic grasp, she wrapped her egg in a field of energy while flinging a bolt of fire at Kefetasura.
"Get one from the others freak job."
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The flame struck the demon squarely in the shoulder, causing a good portion of the front of his colorful shirt to smolder. He glanced down at his ruined shirt, and back at Cortianna.
"Ok, two things. Number one; Ouch! And, Number Two; You want to play rough, you little misanthrope? Fine by me!"
Kefetasura made a powerful slashing gesture with his arm, a telekinetic wave sliced through the air, cutting into the sand at Cortianna's feet at an extreme angle. Naturally, the sand flew everywhere. The demon made a circular motion with his other hand, and the flying sand began to spin around Cortianna in a minature sandstorm.
Though the destructive capability of sandstorms was well known, that wasn't what he was after. A beam of sickly red force shot forth from his eyes, surrounding the storm in a pulsating red ring. Kefetasura reached his hand up, and closed it with a quick snap, and a pantomine of tugging backwards. The ring imploded, cutting through everything inside before the force returned to his hand to be absorbed.
((Ok, it sounds really weird, but this is just a different aesthetic for a ball lightning type of attack.))
Lyden, seeing how Kefetasura had chosen to react, was somewhat disappointed. He glanced up to both of them and spoke in a voice that was stern, but not paricularly directed at either:
"Violent uses of powers are to be ceased immediately. Failure to comply will result in invocation of the dampening field."
He pressed the button again, and 3 would pop in midair- anyone who had attempted to get beneath it for the catch would get white and yellow rained all over them.
Acid smirked as he felt the resistance of Toy's detention field. Cocking an 'eyebrow' at Combat Toy barreling toward the tree that Morkso had just left, he shrugged as he focused again on Toy's egg.
Alright, he couldn't teleport the egg through the detention field, so he did the next-best thing: he snatched the whole field, contents and all. Acid loved being a cosmic engineer. Energy was such a compliant thing.
At that instant, he spotted Kaloaten - and the large assault bot barreling for the tree re-entered his mind. The Kosunn was right in its path.
Time seemed to freeze. Acid's eyes snapped back and forth...
Heartbeat.
The disappearing detention field...
Heartbeat.
Kaloaten about to get squashed...
Heartbeat.
The detention field vanishing in a flash...
Heartbeat.
Combat Toy's roaring rockets...
Acid winced.
Aw, HELL!
As suddenly as time seemed to freeze for his perception, it sped back up, and kaloaten vanished in a flash of light at the same instant as the detention-fielded egg appaeared about a third of the way between Toy and Acid, landing in the soft sand.
Kaloaten, in the same instant, felt himself pulled across space and time whether he wanted to or not, being dumped in a dune right beside Acid.
The reptilian sighed, egg 11 now out of reach to him, even as Morsko rushed by Experiment and Helper, looking like some sort of black streak. He was vaery careful as his jaws closed on egg 19, his razor-sharp teeth taking it without so much as a scratch to either the egg or its holder.
His prey in his maw, he tried to jet away acros the sands...
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If Toy Dispenser could have blinked, he would have right at the moment when his egg, shield and all, vanished and reappeared about a dozen feet away.
"Mini Bot, go get it," Toy said as he crossed his arms and waited.
"On it!" Mini Bot chirped, it's acknowledgement coinciding with Combat Toy slamming into the tree with a horrendous bang.
The tree fell over with yet another loud noise, giving Mini Bot ample distraction to dart forward and retrieve Toy's egg.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
((*hides the mangled remains of Real Life and nonchalantly rejoins the RP*))
"Aw....gross!" CC ran to the water to try to wash off her hands. She understood playing Hot Potato, but why did they have to explode?
Lily grinned, watching the chaos around her. She was enjoying this. Holding the egg lightly, she chuckled at Cortianna and Pyro-Technis' methods. Realizing that she was about to end up with one of the last eggs, she was turning to head up to the patio when she felt someone behind her.
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Tomanton quickly reappeared behind Lily, thrusting his arms upwards at her wrists to try and snatch egg 3. His aim was a bit off, though- knocking it from her and his hands, the egg was sent up quite a few feet in the air.
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"HEY!" Lily instinctively shoved her elbow back into Tomanton, hoping to stun him. As she spun around to see her attacker, she noticed the egg explode out of the corner of her eye. "Hmm...well, guess you saved me from an egging. Next time though, you buy me dinner first." Smirking, she took a step back and glanced around for a quick inventory.
Meanwhile, CC had noticed Morsko start to head down the beach. Her hands now clean of egg yolk, she splashed out of the water and took off after the creature, hands reaching out for his tail. "C'mere you!"
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Seeing the egg burst broke Tomanton out of battle quick enough- he sighed, backed off, shrugged, and gave a smirk.
"Naturally. At this point, it's best to just not step on anyone's toes and see what happens. Wouldn't want to draw ire."
After a brief glance into her eyes, Tomanton's attention was now on his charge, Kaloaten- who was sitting by the dune with Acid. His wordless thanks was fairly clear in his eyes, understanding quite well that Acid had very likely saved him from a painful trip into Medicom-land. With this, he was determined to get the egg back. Yolk dripping off of him as he got to his feet, Kaloaten made a mad dash along the beach to Mini Bot- diving at the egg just as Mini was reaching for it..
Lyden turned down a dial on the remote to make sure the next charge would only take away a maximum of two of the remaining three eggs- he had been instructed to get a good struggle on camera before letting the randomizer make its final judgement.
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Seeing the egg burst broke Tomanton out of battle quick enough- he sighed, backed off, shrugged, and gave a smirk.
"Naturally. At this point, it's best to just not step on anyone's toes and see what happens. Wouldn't want to draw ire."
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Lily peered at him briefly over the top of her sunglasses. "Alright. It's a date." Turning back towards the beach, she crossed her arms over her chest and watched CC running down the beach. Barely giving it a moment's thought, Lily encouraged some seaweed in CC's path to stand on end and try to grab whatever ran through the patch. It would be amusing, at the least.
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Essex had quietly slipped off to clean up, and Rosalind was watching the whole thing in excitement.
"This is the freakin' coolest thing I have ever seen, EVER!" she gaped. At Lyden's admonishment, she scoffed.
"Listen, Ly, it was your boss' idea to drag all the superpowered ones here in the first place. What the hell did you EXPECT to happen?"
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"Ah, hello, Pharaoh," said Moonscribe, appearing directly in front of Morsko, some sort of invisible force field in front of him. If Morsko kept going, he would be sent flying backwards, but not before Moonscribe's contingency function caused egg #19 to disappear and reappear in his hands. . .
"I'm out of here," Hal said, and looked suddenly guilty. "And NO, it is NOT just because Essex left!" He ran off to clean up himself.
Morkso seemed to have a preternatural sense for the field, as he twisted right and inland again just moments before contact.
At the same time, Moonscribe's contingency function found a sudden discontinuity. All the mathematician got was a large clamshell.
There was a reason Acid hadn't already tried teleporting the egg from Morsko's jaws - well, except for that it would be covered in drool, anyway...
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Helper examined his hand in something like confusion. It seemed fully intact, but Morsko had taken the egg from inside his hand without touching him.
"Interesting," he noted.
"Mine!" Mini Bot shouted, both tentacles lashing out with force belying their apparent fragility and knocking Kaloaten off course, sending him tumbling into the sand while the battle drone carefully snatched up the egg with its hands and dashed back to Toy Dispenser, also careful not to trip over anything.
Combat Toy, senses still a bit addled from running into the tree but still reacting to Toy's commands, picked up the tree in its hands and wielded it like a massive broom, sweeping the tree in front of it. Of course, in front of it happened to be Acid, but that was probably the point.
"Distraction is quite important to keep your enemy off-balance," Toy said to himself as his sensors worked overtime.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Experiment caught sight of the egg when Helper mentioned it, and nodded.
He took off toward the sand quickly, but slowed before he reached it. He carefully reached down, plucked egg 19 from the sand, and held it close, not close enough to crack it, but close enough for it not to be too affected by the speed he was now running.
He dashed off back to Helper, and uncovered the egg. "Here you go, one delivery of egg for Helper."