Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27356783-20190908050449/@comment-26892768-20190908212739

"Sounds like it." Kotaro nods. "And apparently enough to be able to kick Sieg out...and, maybe I'm not remembering what gramps said in my time right here, but isn't he powerful enough to resist all four of you trying to force him out?"

Shantae, Sky, Bolo, and Rottytops are quick to deal with the Neoshadows around them.

At first, Shantae...uses her hair as a whip? Like, whipping her hair forward and hitting the Neoshadows with her ponytail. Surprisingly enough, this seems to actually deal some decent damage; after whipping the Neoshadows near her to get some space, Shantae leaps up - taking a breath as she does so - cocoons herself in water, and does a dance inside, which turns her into a green-scaled mermaid with a flash of purple light. Inside the bubble, Shantae starts to rapidly swim around in a circle, spitting out water bubbles at the Neoshadows below.

Sky grabs a hold of her cloak and holds it open, allowing some seagull-like birds to fly out and ram into the Neoshadows, returning to Sky after as another, more colorful bird flies out at the same time that Sky jumps - allowing it to serve as a mid-air platform for Sky to jump off to gain extra height. And once she's in the air, she pulls out what seem to be several small, sharp feathers, and tosses them at the Neoshadows like kunai.

Bolo opts for a simpler approach - punching and swinging his flail at any Neoshadow he sees. Simple, but effective, because that flail is heavy and hits hard.

Rottytops is fighting the Neoshadows with some tricks using her teleportation - throwing her head at a Neoshadow and then having her body uppercut it when it appears beneath her, for instance.

Meanwhile, back in the recently shredded part of the forest...

Weiss is hunkering down behind a stone wall, which is in the same state as the trees. When she saw the cutting beam coming for her, she'd quickly switched dust in her rapier, put up the wall, and ducked. The stone wall barely put up any more resistance than the trees, but...

Well. Now she's trying to come up with a plan.

However, unbeknownst to her, she's caught the eye of something else in the trees, completely hidden from sight.

...hmm. Last he checked, humans didn't have unique abilities like that. Sure, whatever was in the rapier clearly helped, but part of that was still the girl. Doesn't seem like a halfa, either - doesn't have the same glow as them. So...he's looking at a completely unique specimen.

The invisible figure grins. Just when he'd been thinking entering that portal and wandering this place had been a waste of time...

"Well, my summon barely had an effect on him, and my lightning wasn't very effective either, so clearly my own attacks won't work...maybe I can bounce his attacks back at him?" Weiss muses. "But how-"

Her train of thought is derailed when she hears something - sounds like some kind of launching mechanism - but by the time she whips her head around to see what it is, it's already around her: a glowing blue net with four green weights at each corner, effectively trapping the young woman.

"What in the..." Weiss gets out her rapier and tries to cut the net, but finds herself at a loss. Then the net (and herself) gets picked up by a black, metal hand, lifting her up until she's at eye level with what appears to be a grinning mechanical skull with glowing green eyes and a mohawk made of flame.

The grin fades for a moment as the mechanical figure looks over her a bit more closely. "You know, it was a bit hard to tell from where I was standing, but up close? You do have the same hair color as that ghost whelp..."

And the grin returns in full force.

"I think I'm going to have fun finding out what to do with your pelt." Skulker remarks, and as Weiss' eyes widen, a jetpack extends out from his back, and off he flies.

Also in the forest...

Yet another portal opens, and out of it drops a teenage girl who looks like she was on the wrong end of a mad scientist's operating table, who promptly gets up on all fours in a flurry of limbs and savage snarls, glowing red eyes glancing around the area while what seems to be some kind of buzzsaw on her back revs up.

"WHO..." She starts, skin seeming to get redder with her anger, but she trails off as she realizes that...no one's there to confront her. She didn't get pulled out for a fight, or for any purpose. She's just...alone. In a forest.

Seems relatively peaceful, actually.

"...what...happened?" The girl, Painwheel, mutters to herself, picking at the grass and holding a blade of it to inspection. It feels too good to be true. After long, agonizing months of being held underground, treated like some kind of weapon; a tool rather than a living being...could it really be over? Just like that?

And then she notices something. Her initial assumption was off; she's not alone. There's someone else, a black-haired girl around...she'd say fifteen feet away, looking away from her.

Painwheel backs up a bit, suddenly filled with dread. Maybe the girl didn't hear her initial outburst. Maybe she can get out of here before that girl notices her - finds her and reports her to someone, anyone, talking quickly and fearfully about how she found a monster and bringing her right back to him-