((OOC: I know Burning, Im sorry, I'll tone em down a lot. Probaly kill off Bale. Hazthri and Illothlozabh will slowly lose power as time outside the ruby gets longer.))
Cortianna gasped as the Consumed flowed around her and tried to aborbe her. The feelings of the devouring triggered several things within her.
NO! I will not be chained again!
With a burst of psionically excited lights, the pyrokinetic let loose with a close range explosion of fire on her wouldbe attacker.
((Domination and Blaze in case it's not clear. 
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AJ kept her eyes on her own, while she did tend to rush into things, she did have a plan. Nothing could handle continued voltage like hers without it starting to affect their own systems. Be they organic or mechanical, all she had to do was out last them.
Firing off another active electrical drain, the reploid grabbed more of the Consumed's power. The problem with her stratagy, it was easier to say then to do. Those punches packed a lot of power!
Pinnacle
Heroes
When in danger, or in doubt; Run in circles, scream and shout.
"It appears they're not trying to actively fight at least some of us," Toy said as one of his Consumed's dodged a punch and slid off toward Hal. "I'd suggest we keep the little green kid from getting killed."
"Got it boss," Combat Toy said as it stumbled back from a hard punch. His return swing was dodged as the Consumed just melted into a puddle to avoid it.
"But these [censored] just won't stand still!" Combat Toy shouted angrily as it blasted the puddle with a plasma beam.
"Idea," Toy said and dropped a powerful detention field around Mini Bot's Consumed.
Lifting his hands up into the air, Toy caused the field, along with the Consumed trapped inside, to rise up into the air. After he reached a height of about thirty feet, Toy dropped the shield and sent out a command.
Those looking toward Toy's area of the fight might have been a bit blinded by the explosion of red light and blue fire that streaked up into the air at the falling Consumed.
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"Pitiful," Archlich said as he easily dodged a clumsy blow from his attacker. With his body chilled and slowed by Archlich's magics, the brute was easy prey to the energy blasts that slowly but surely eroded it into pieces.
"Just lay down and die," Archlich spat as he stepped forward and placed a hand on the Consumed's chest.
The resulting explosion would put a hole through someone's chest the size of a basketball and blow them about twenty feet back.
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.
"Ah, thank you sir!" Essex said to Acid with a little bow. Skimming over to Hallucinogen, she concentrated.
"Okay..." she barely breathed, releasing an energizing wave in the middle of the group - the polarity such that it would hit her allies, but not the Consumed copies. Hallucinogen felt her fingertips rest on one of his shoulders as she sped up his adrenalin a bit more, and she turned her attention to the more active fighters.
"...Okay..." she murmured to herself, beginning to augment the strength of her allies one after another, but staying near Hal just in case.
Japancakes.
Art - Theme 005 - Seeking Solace
((Hal like Essex's Adrenalin Boosts. XP))
Hal stopped rushing around so that Essex could reach him just as his Consumed attempted to intercept him.
His eyes flickered closed for a second as Essex touched him on the shoulder. Then they were open, and red flames burned inside them, his hands glowing brilliantly, the light almost blinding.
"Get AWAY," he said, his green smoke vanishing into a brilliant, pure glow spreading all over his body. Miniature wings were unfolding from the back of his head. "I don't have TIME for you!"
And he had leaped backwards into the air, and light shot from his hands as the Phantasm caught him, the air everywhere filled with blinding flashes.
"Showoff," Schizo muttered darkly, twiddling his thumbs.
When Darkstorms consumed jumped behind him, grabbed him, and grabed his neck, he grabbed the Consumeds head and started to sap its dark life force.
Hazthri, Bale, and Illothlzabh were now growing weak. Bale was the frist to return the the ruby. Illothlzabh dismissed his Phantom Army and returned to the ruby. Hazthri was the last to go, but before he went he trasnferd a good ammount of Dark Energy to Darkstorm. Hazthri was gone now. Just a voice once more. . .
Okay, this was bad. Acid hadn't expected the guy to willfully come apart when someone tried to blow him to smethereens.
Yeah, there was more than one thing fishy about this, and Acid had a good feeling he knew what it was.
"Oh no you don't." he growled, even as the Consumed had just started to reatreat. His clawed hand shot towards the mass of shadows, and in less than half a second, a detention field mainfested.
Once something was inside, it was virtually impossible to break out again against Acid's will. However, if he'd miscalculated and missed the Consumed in the first place, that was really a moot point.
Acid just hoped he'd actually caught something...
"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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Bear's Consumed stood there, headless. It took a swipe at him before fading into darkness, and fleeing to the shadows.
Alpha's Consumed doubled over for a moment, but recovered quickly, swinging both hands up to strike him in the jaw.
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Burning let loose a large blast, turning the ice his Consumed was wrapped in to steam. He stared at the spot for a moment. Something wasn't right.
The Consumed sprang up from behind him, leaping into the air and falling fast to bash his head.
Burning whirled around and fired a large burst straight into his chest. The Consumed melted away mid-fall, and retreated. "I think they're getting weaker!" he called to the others.
One by one, The Consumeds were falling away as more of them were defeated. Soon, there were none.
Burning looked at the shadows warily, as did several others. Pstorm gasped and fell to her knee.
"Pstorm?" Danica said, quickly helping her to her feet. "What's the matter?"
Her question was soon answered, however, as the shadows all drained from the room, and converged into its center. They rose fast, and The Consumed reappeared, ten times the size of the largest of the group. The shadow Acid pursued almost escaped for the most part, however he did catch a piece of the darkness in his field.
"You shall feel my wrath this day, mortals!" he cried as he slammed his foot into the ground. Everyone could feel the shadows around him slowly draining away their life, their will to keep fighting. They would need to work fast before the hopelessness of eternal darkness consumed them all.
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
((Did I catch anything?))
"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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((Did I catch anything?))
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((edited))
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
Radiation poured out of Hallucinogen, strengthening all those gathered there for the coming battle, and cloaking them all from the Consumed's view.
((That's both Accelerate Metabolism and Group Invisibility.))
". . . Essex. . . careful. . ." he muttered, glancing at her invisible, as the Phantasm advanced, firing beams of light born of pure hope, and Schizo yelled "ALL RIGHT! We got to the next stage!" and thorns burst from the ground under the Consumed's feet, which would likely make it have difficulty moving at all. . .
Alpha threw his entire upper body backwards and riddled the area in front of him with bullets...
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Bear looked at Alpha's Consumed, sighing in great annoyance.
He fired a glue grenade at the ground near them, which he knew (Or hoped) Alpha's boots wouldn't stick to. However, it should slow the Consumed down...
Mearly feeling the Consumed's satisfaction was enough to galvinize Cortianna. She couldn't do anything to stop the draining however. So she did the next best thing.
The air in front of her rippled as a wave of telekinetic energy flowed from her, filling the corridor and applying a steady backwards pressure on the massive form. All that remained to be seen was if her mental strength was enough to overcome the Comsumeds physical one.
Pinnacle
Heroes
When in danger, or in doubt; Run in circles, scream and shout.
Acid grinned toothily as he compressed his detention field into a space the size of a marble. Letting it fall to the ground, he could keep the tiny thing up with barely any concentration at all.
Which was quite nice as the Consumed's wizard's-foot-knockoff suddenly appeared around Acid's feet. Last time the dark man had done this, he'd drained Acid's life energy in an attempt to age his body, to make him weaker - he'd ended up making him stronger instead.
But this time, in reflex, Acid teleported, though he didn't end up where he wanted to. Instead, he suddenly found himself on the Consumed's back. Connecting the dots, he figured he'd somehow tried to rematerialize inside the guy. Since it was a natural guideline of teleportation not to materialize where solid matter already occupied space, Acid had popped out at the closest available space instead.
He swore loudly, quite surprised at this. Hesitating not an instant after his sudden rerouting - for gravity was already yelling at him to come down to the ground again - he did the first thing that came to mind
His right hand stabbed the bladed weapon at the dark man's back while the claws of his left went for it too, as Acid tried to grab hold and not fall off...
"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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"Don't give up!" Essex's voice cried out invisibly from where Hal was protecting her.
Waves of regenerative energy exploded outward from her, refreshing and rejuvenating the group, even as her sonic energy generators hummed to life.
"Go AWAY!!" she screamed at the Consumed, a visible distortion int he air as she slammed him with a sonic blast.
Japancakes.
Art - Theme 005 - Seeking Solace
"[censored]," Darkstorm spoke to himself, dodgeing the Consumeds punches and grabs. He jumped backwards and landed on his back "little help here?"
The Consumed took tiny steps back with each of the blows, ripples of darkness running across his form whenever one of them struck.
Burning quickly flew around his head, throwing blast after blast at him while dipping under his swipes.
Pstorm tried to keep the group under cover. Her mists were beginning to help fight the effects of the shadows, but the darkness was still stronger. She tried to attack him psionically, but almost all her attempts were thwarted by the nether energies around him.
Danica silently crawled up Consumed's back, nodding to Acid as she did so.
The Consumed bent down and swung his hand at the heroes, then slammed a glowing red fist on the ground that sent shockwaves through the room.
((Think classic console boss battles))
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
"And up!" Toy had shouted when the first shockwave had come at them, prompting all of his bots to jump into the air, dodging it.
"And here comes the next one!" Toy shouted out as they all scattered from the hand sweep and then jumped over the shockwave.
"Let him have it, boys!" Toy ordered as they fell to the ground once more and opened fire with lasers and missiles, aiming for the head, while Toy pulled back slightly and began scanning the Consumed, searching for anything that looked like a weakspot.
Archlich, on the other hand, had weathered the first soul drain with some amount of agony. Thankfully, the same will that had kept him going for thousands of years also kept him from just giving up right now. The lich retaliated with a burst of energy but was unable to follow up before the second shockwave sent him sprawling to the ground.
"You shall die by my hand!" the lich shouted angrily as he stood back up and began slinging bolts of pure magic out of his hands at the Consumed like a pair of never ending six shooters.
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.
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((Think classic console boss battles))
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((Alpha: >_>
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"YEEHA" Alpha yelled, backflipping and dancing all around the shockwaves, seeming to enjoy himself immensely. What was scary about it was the fact that he was firing highly accurate shots, even mid-jump.
And he didn't look like he was about to run out of bullets.
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Bear rolled his eyes in annoyance and hit his Wyvern-Issue jetpack, bombarding the Consumed with freezing arrows to encase and slow him.
The Consumed took a few steps back until he was pressed against the wall. He swung at the ground, and accidentally stepped in the large hole, sinking his leg down into its never-ending depths.
He struggled, and seemed firmly stuck. Every shot against him caused dents in his seemingly more insubstantial form. He slammed his hand down towards the heroes and villains, but was doing so from an awkward angle.
Danica climbed to the top of his hooded head, and slowly made her way towards his face.
Burning saw what she was doing, and quickly worked harder to distract The Consumed, throwing fireballs while spinning through the air.
Pstorm sent a lightning bolt straight into the fiend's stomach, giving up the attempts to harm his mind.
The battle was going well. It seemed like any moment now they would have him.
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
Acid was quite surprised to find a hold on the Consumed's back so easily - not to mention the guy didn't even seem to notice Danica or him, and that was with his rifle stabbed ino his back.
Well, comme ci, comme ca. He'd just make the best of it, then worry about how things had happened later on.
As the dark giant stapped back towards the wall, Acid made his way up to his head as well, but took the time to discharge the chamber of his gun, then removed the bladed rifle from Consumed's back.
Nothing happened, but that didn't seem to bother Acid as he follwed Danica just before the dark man's back hit the wall.
As he climbed, he took the time to do this quite a few times. Not sure what Danica was up to, he decided it was good to have a backup plan, just in case...
"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 dark ones are always weak to fire..." Bear snorted as he brought up a grenade arrow. The sheer force of the firing would vent the explosion, and if he timed it right, it would release directly into the Consumed's face...
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"Noob." Was all Alpha said as he both ducked the boxing and brought the rifle-butt backwards into the Consumed's stomach with great force.