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Have you done dune yet zoat? Orange catholic bible anybody? Is there something there?
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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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I haven't, but while I've read... Like, one and a half Dune books? I didn't think much of them.
It's like... Okay, there's been a major galactic invasion and Arrakis itself has been carpet nuked, and you had that happen off-page while we get multiple chapters of these numpties having sex. What are you even doing?
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"Classic sci-fi", I believe.
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19th November 1995
04:42 GMT
The cages clank open as I fabricate a fission grenade. I know that the Heavenly Duo said that the world's nuclear powers tried nuclear weapons, but I.C.B.M.s are a lot easier to intercept than they are to tank. I tran-.
The world around me turns white. A flare-? No, ice, suspended in the air. And not just particulates; multiple layers of ice film. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it does mean that transitioning is disabled until I can break it. The layers have enwrapped me too. They're not strong, I can still move, but if whichever Zombie Guardian made them can feel them-.
Fly up and sonic blast in all directions.
Ice shatters, and I hurl my grenade-.
A… Arrow made of blue/black fire hits it in midair, causing an uneven detonation of the plutonium which fails to reach critical mass. Railgun, target the source and fi-.
Leg!
My kinetic barrier flares as a… An under-aged zombified stripper axe kicks me? Her eyes are hollow pits of blackness and I'm trying to avoid looking at the rest of h-.
More burning arrows impact on my armour, but that's good at preventing penetration and absorbing heat. I just need to-.
The zombie-stripper's mouth distends as she howls!
G-ragh! It's bypassing-! My teeth are rattling, the-. Everything goes black as my eyes burst and I'm forced to rely on ring navigation move!
I stop in the far side of the… Still-functioning barrier, load railgun rounds, restore my eyes and scan-.
Just as every ice crystal swirls into the air and slams into me! My kinetic barrier prevents it doing much harm to me, but my construct is torn to pieces. Okay, manageable. I-.
With most of the ice… Ripped from the air I get a clear view of the Zombie Guardians. By the looks of it they're actually pretty fresh. Their blood has long since congealed but there's no rot in their death wounds. Too cold up here, I suppose. But whatever killed them wasn't gentle or delicate; their flesh is sliced from deep cuts or mangled from superstrength impacts, partially severed meat and broken limbs hanging from their reanimated bodies.
Wait, where's Berymove!
Another howling blast of-.
Agh! Right in the visor!
I swat what's left of the burning arrow away and raise a construct shield as the howling blast of dark energy slams into the ice where I was just standing, another explosion of ice erupting into the air. But I stay staring at them, and I can still see their glowing black eyes staring at me.
Right. Duplicate my armour, manufacture a shield with orange lights on it, drop it off behind me, stick a Construct Lantern inside it, activate stealth systems and slowly change locations.
I don't have anything that's good for demon-possessed zombies. And it looks like we're relying on the Plans Subsequent To A to deal with Beryltalia. But that's fine, I assumed that would be the case. I'm not going to try to consume that much dark energy unless I really have to.
Okay, they're still watching the decoy, x-ionised sword and-.
The world is consumed in films of ice-. Go!
Four sets of black eyes turn in my direction-. Construct boosters! Sword ready!
Beryl tries to conjure more dark energy but I reach her first, sword hitting her-.
CRACK!
And I'm knocked away again by-. A gold circlet? Beryl's got a gushing wound through the middle of her lungs, which-.
She grins at me as it knits itself together, and raises her hands to show that her finger grew back as well.
Regeneration, probably based on the availability of dark energy. I either find out how to one-hit-kill her or this isn't a winnable fight.
Have the Construct Lantern charge in as a distraction, because they've assumed that it's irrelevant. Use sonics to explode the ice and then fall in behind the Construct Lantern. Prepare a fission grenade, adding additional armour to the outer surface because I don't need an external fuse. Jab with construct crumbler rams like they're coming from the decoy-. Who eats a flaming arrow and a surge of ice crystals without flinching before ramming into the archer zombie. Sailor Mars, if I remember correctly.
"Lord Hades, please-"
We charge past Beryl as she builds up for another blast, and this time I slash her across the eyes rather than-
"Ah!"
-across the torso, dropping the fission grenade in a way which I hope doesn't draw attention to it.
"-return these accursed-"
With that done, I accelerate, charging past the zombies.
"-forms to rest."
Looking back-. Gold-. Shield! It-. The circlet hits my decoy, and does something to the Construct Lantern within which sends it back to my ring. I avoid the collapsing armour easily enough but the circlet rebounds and hits me directly in the helmet-!
And stays there?
Helmetoffhelmet-.
GAH!
My teeth clamp as the electricity surges through my body! My armour is insulated, but this thing's generating enough electricity that it's getting through-.
Demon Nabu.
Your own head? You-. AAAGH!
With the helmet taking the hits for me, the electricity stops flowing into my body and I can… Repair my electrical burns.
What IS this! Why can I feel PAIN?!
And then there's a bright flare of light as the fission grenade goes off.
And for a moment the ice stills and the unholy abominations pause. The one who was once Guardian Moon hesitates to leap. The one who was once Guardian Mars lets her bow of burning dark energy evaporate. The one who was once Guardian Mercury-. Is that a computer? That's-. Okay. And the one who was once Guardian Jupiter has electricity crackling around her hands -normal electricity- but it fades as we see if there's anything left of Beryl.
Railgun, because I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Crumbler rounds hit Guardian Moon and Guardian Mercury in the head, disintegrating their craniums completely before the rest think to evade. They're a little cooked along one side, but just because it's a fission blast that doesn't mean that it's super-destructive. It's just efficient. But Beryl…
Looks… Like I got-.
"RAAAAAGHHHH!"
Her.
Dark energy coagulates in the place where her incinerated body once stood, assuming her outline. It waves a hand and the still standing bodies of Moon and Mercury gain shadow heads to replace the ones I destroyed. And then I-.
Guh.
04:42 GMT
The cages clank open as I fabricate a fission grenade. I know that the Heavenly Duo said that the world's nuclear powers tried nuclear weapons, but I.C.B.M.s are a lot easier to intercept than they are to tank. I tran-.
The world around me turns white. A flare-? No, ice, suspended in the air. And not just particulates; multiple layers of ice film. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it does mean that transitioning is disabled until I can break it. The layers have enwrapped me too. They're not strong, I can still move, but if whichever Zombie Guardian made them can feel them-.
Fly up and sonic blast in all directions.
Ice shatters, and I hurl my grenade-.
A… Arrow made of blue/black fire hits it in midair, causing an uneven detonation of the plutonium which fails to reach critical mass. Railgun, target the source and fi-.
Leg!
My kinetic barrier flares as a… An under-aged zombified stripper axe kicks me? Her eyes are hollow pits of blackness and I'm trying to avoid looking at the rest of h-.
More burning arrows impact on my armour, but that's good at preventing penetration and absorbing heat. I just need to-.
The zombie-stripper's mouth distends as she howls!
G-ragh! It's bypassing-! My teeth are rattling, the-. Everything goes black as my eyes burst and I'm forced to rely on ring navigation move!
I stop in the far side of the… Still-functioning barrier, load railgun rounds, restore my eyes and scan-.
Just as every ice crystal swirls into the air and slams into me! My kinetic barrier prevents it doing much harm to me, but my construct is torn to pieces. Okay, manageable. I-.
With most of the ice… Ripped from the air I get a clear view of the Zombie Guardians. By the looks of it they're actually pretty fresh. Their blood has long since congealed but there's no rot in their death wounds. Too cold up here, I suppose. But whatever killed them wasn't gentle or delicate; their flesh is sliced from deep cuts or mangled from superstrength impacts, partially severed meat and broken limbs hanging from their reanimated bodies.
Wait, where's Berymove!
Another howling blast of-.
Agh! Right in the visor!
I swat what's left of the burning arrow away and raise a construct shield as the howling blast of dark energy slams into the ice where I was just standing, another explosion of ice erupting into the air. But I stay staring at them, and I can still see their glowing black eyes staring at me.
Right. Duplicate my armour, manufacture a shield with orange lights on it, drop it off behind me, stick a Construct Lantern inside it, activate stealth systems and slowly change locations.
I don't have anything that's good for demon-possessed zombies. And it looks like we're relying on the Plans Subsequent To A to deal with Beryltalia. But that's fine, I assumed that would be the case. I'm not going to try to consume that much dark energy unless I really have to.
Okay, they're still watching the decoy, x-ionised sword and-.
The world is consumed in films of ice-. Go!
Four sets of black eyes turn in my direction-. Construct boosters! Sword ready!
Beryl tries to conjure more dark energy but I reach her first, sword hitting her-.
CRACK!
And I'm knocked away again by-. A gold circlet? Beryl's got a gushing wound through the middle of her lungs, which-.
She grins at me as it knits itself together, and raises her hands to show that her finger grew back as well.
Regeneration, probably based on the availability of dark energy. I either find out how to one-hit-kill her or this isn't a winnable fight.
Have the Construct Lantern charge in as a distraction, because they've assumed that it's irrelevant. Use sonics to explode the ice and then fall in behind the Construct Lantern. Prepare a fission grenade, adding additional armour to the outer surface because I don't need an external fuse. Jab with construct crumbler rams like they're coming from the decoy-. Who eats a flaming arrow and a surge of ice crystals without flinching before ramming into the archer zombie. Sailor Mars, if I remember correctly.
"Lord Hades, please-"
We charge past Beryl as she builds up for another blast, and this time I slash her across the eyes rather than-
"Ah!"
-across the torso, dropping the fission grenade in a way which I hope doesn't draw attention to it.
"-return these accursed-"
With that done, I accelerate, charging past the zombies.
"-forms to rest."
Looking back-. Gold-. Shield! It-. The circlet hits my decoy, and does something to the Construct Lantern within which sends it back to my ring. I avoid the collapsing armour easily enough but the circlet rebounds and hits me directly in the helmet-!
And stays there?
Helmetoffhelmet-.
GAH!
My teeth clamp as the electricity surges through my body! My armour is insulated, but this thing's generating enough electricity that it's getting through-.
Demon Nabu.
Your own head? You-. AAAGH!
With the helmet taking the hits for me, the electricity stops flowing into my body and I can… Repair my electrical burns.
What IS this! Why can I feel PAIN?!
And then there's a bright flare of light as the fission grenade goes off.
And for a moment the ice stills and the unholy abominations pause. The one who was once Guardian Moon hesitates to leap. The one who was once Guardian Mars lets her bow of burning dark energy evaporate. The one who was once Guardian Mercury-. Is that a computer? That's-. Okay. And the one who was once Guardian Jupiter has electricity crackling around her hands -normal electricity- but it fades as we see if there's anything left of Beryl.
Railgun, because I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Crumbler rounds hit Guardian Moon and Guardian Mercury in the head, disintegrating their craniums completely before the rest think to evade. They're a little cooked along one side, but just because it's a fission blast that doesn't mean that it's super-destructive. It's just efficient. But Beryl…
Looks… Like I got-.
"RAAAAAGHHHH!"
Her.
Dark energy coagulates in the place where her incinerated body once stood, assuming her outline. It waves a hand and the still standing bodies of Moon and Mercury gain shadow heads to replace the ones I destroyed. And then I-.
Guh.
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This is a very amusing way to use Demon Nabu. I hope to see him used as a shield more in the future.
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"the fingers"
If he knew the situation on this Earth then he'd probably have bad flashbacks to his own Earth.
Honestly, he may be more useful in figuring out how to get rid of the Dark Energy infection.
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Thank you, corrected.
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To quote Uncle.
"Magic must defeat Magic!"
You're up against a fragment of a being capable of making a bitch out of the Ophidian, this is not a fight you can brute force your way into winning.
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Mercury making her move. As 'Guardian of the Water Star', she can control ice and cold water. Admittedly, up till this point, she mostly just used it as a distracting fog. Guess dying gave her some upgrades to her casting skill.
drawback of widespread elemental ice effects against someone basically immune to most of them: They give that person plenty of shrapnel to throw around.
Mars, using something akin to her Flame Sniper skill from a later season. Probably infused with dark energy, though.
Going for melee? Jupiter, most likely. Despite commanding lightning, she often used martial arts just as much thanks to enhanced strength.
...Or not Jupiter. Moon, then. Which is amusing, as this sonic attack was only used a handful of time. No doubt greatly enhanced by dark energy as well.
Right, ice controller. The manga Senshi were a lot stronger than their 90's anime counterparts, mostly because the weekly formula meant that only Sailor Moon could beat the enemy of the week properly, and the rest of them were just there to pin them down.
Eww. Hardly living up to their 'bishoujo' moniker right now.
Big obvious weak point there, after all. Surprised Jupiter hasn't thrown a lightning attack in. Maybe her moves are a little too indiscriminate at this power level.
Fortunately, they can't fly under their own power, and their jumping ability probably doesn't have the reach to get at him while airborne.
Good. Remember what happened to the local Paul? Even if that's less likely to happen to you, that much dark energy is gonna give you serious indigestion...
I bet Mercury detected the real him moving. She'd still have her visor and computer, damaged as they might be.
A remarkably old-school method of dealign with her, and probably one to give the mortal part flashbacks to Venus doing the same.
Sailor Moon's Tiara Magic, of all things. To quote a Marvel character: 'That thing just does not obey the laws of physics.'
And even then, that won't kill the parasite riding her, merely the human host. But it should weaken Metalia...
He does indeed remember correctly. Though I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't missing her iconic curtain of hair by now.
Tit for tat, given she had Sailor Moon tag his eyes. And if she's used to seeing through human eyes, she can't command the Senshi to...
...Do anything about that. That's gonna be a big bang when it pops, even for that small a device.
I don't know if Hades is listening, but if it makes you feel better for fighting them, go for it.
At which point, it can start carving, because that thing is like a buzzsaw.
Ah, there's Jupiter's lightning. I guess they figured he'd be resistant to electrical attacks until they breached his armour.
Yeah, no possession for you, you over-achieving dunce cap.
Heh. Fair punishment for the things Demon-Nabu did in 'life'.
Only on the periphery of the blast, so not much damage there to them. Good, the less patching up needed, the better.
...What did I just say? Ugh, let's hope necromancy can fix that up or things are really gonna be screwed.
Sounds like you pissed Metalia off. A tiny nuclear blast to the face would sting something fierce, even if it could absorb part of the energy.
A combined barrage? At least Metalia won't have as much potency now without a human host...
Let's hope that wasn't Metalia deciding to grab him for a new host body. Not that I expect something like that to work how it thinks it would. OL's soul isn't a pleasant thing for invading energy creatures, not with a big old snake already curled up there. Still, attempting it would pin him down for the zombie Senshi to wail on...
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It is absolutely a fight that can be brute forced, it just needs the right kind of brute force.
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I was using "you" to refer directly to Orange Lantern.
He can't use regular magic, let alone the specific type of reality bending purification magic needed to actually defeat Metalia.
Really, the only being left on the planet that might have a ghost of a chance against Metalia is Mazikeen. And that would just be delaying the ineviatable for a year or so untill the next more powerful fragment of Chaos shows up.
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Where did this one come from? when did it become a demon?
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Don't remember the specific chapter, but there was an alternate universe where a demon possessed Superman and unleashed Hell on Earth.
That version of Nabu wasn't turned into a demon, but he was driven insane.
His Helm showed up on Earth 16 where he killed a child. Paul later assimilated him.
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'I.C.B.M.s'?
And also, due to the inverse square law a nuclear explosion is far less energetic if you're 100 metres away than if you're 1 metre away. Doesn't matter much to a normal person, but it's important when it comes to greatly superhuman durability. Though I'm not sure this applies here, since I assume the fission grenade has a far lower total energy than a strategic nuclear weapon.
'return'?
or
'aid me in returning'?
Is this him trying to do magic, or actually praying, or hoping against hope that Hades can somehow intervene in a battle in another universe, or hoping that there's a local analogue who is friendly?
Hahaha, clever and funny. I'm happy that he's using construct lanterns, they're perhaps my favourite part of the power set.
'then'
I didn't remember that he's normally immune to pain. I guess this is the dark energy bypassing that?
'crackling'
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Earth 666, some time after Superman got possessed.
Thank you, corrected.
He's actually praying, because he doesn't want the Guardians to suffer for what Berly/Metalia are putting their bodies through.
He's a helmet with no nerve endings. It's really more a combination of dark energy magic and the normal thing that Sailor Moon's tiara does to evil things.
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Whenever we get a fight like this I'm reminded of all the fights where the SI did impressive things.
Like doing more than one thing at a time. Using multiple construct railguns. Using Construct Lanterns as more than brief distractions. Big brute force constructs like the fleet shield. Phasing. Rapid automated transitioning. FEED ME. Just filling the whole area with filaments and dropping bombs all over.
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Episode with earth 666.
I have to agree with Vaermina on this one, people often complain about Dragon Ball breaking the scales and allowing people to blow up planets too early, but Sailor moon is a significantly worse offender (as often happens with the magical girl genre), its all cute girls in frills taking on stuff that could bitch slap the chaos gods.
That is why this crossover baffles me in its purpose, I could understand the one with the JDF propaganda piece or the one with Avatar the last Air bender (that Paul being our guy and probably a result of this jump chain like episode), but getting Anime like Sailor moon involved just attacks my SoD like you wouldn't believe.
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DC Comics is not the place to stand when making that criticism, is all I can say. This adventure started when the SI poked at a random cabin in a swamp that a minor supervillain used to use, and look what happened.
Eh, he's having a good fight out of it with a foe he can't just easily overpower.
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Tell that to Batman, Green Arrow, Cyborg, and literally every non-magical DC hero who has fought and defeated magical villains with science.
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Some of these seem viable, but I think he's trying to conserve power since his goal here is not just to actually win but also to occupy the enemy for long enough that B Team can get the magic crystal, plus he can't just recharge mid-fight (or can he?).
I have the impression that auto-transition is prevented by the ice enclosure spell, maybe I'm misreading it but it seemed to auto-cast when he tried to transition. That spell also seems to make the filament plan much more difficult. And seemingly he still doesn't have subspace, so dropping bombs everywhere isn't a trivial power expense since he'd have to transmute all of them. He could maybe substitute transitioning with avarice teleportation? Can't remember if he has tried it yet.
He already tried feeding on the dark energy as a whole. He could feed on individual attacks but from what I remember that was a major power hog.
I wouldn't trust phasing to work against magic, and sometimes getting hit while phasing is a crit.
He has some Construct Lanterns that might be useful (Nabu 666, that Rhea-descendant New God(?), ghost hydra heads), but most of them are basically normal people unless he spends ring power to buff them. And he doesn't want to use Nabu 666 too much in case he manages to free himself.
From what I remember the fleet shield took a lot of focus and a lot of ring power. Seems a little risky in this situation.
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Keep in mind that Orange Lantern doesn't have access to his subspace storage since he's no longer in the universe it exists in.
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Yes he does? He only loses access if he doesn't have his ring or if something is blocking his ability to access it.
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Forgot that part.
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19th November 1995
Where did he go?
I'm looking at Kun-. Sebastian, but it doesn't look like he's got any idea either.
"Can he teleport?"
Sebastian nods. "We all can, but that was just an illusion. He's close."
I look around-. Right, the knives. "Can you feel anywhere the dark energy is doing anything weird? Orange Lantern's elf wizard could do stuff with it. Even if he's been captured-."
"Alright." Black energy crackles around him for a moment, and then he gasps, looking upwards.
"What? Is it above us?"
"No. But I-." He looks down at me. "Orange Lantern's plan to get her full attention has worked. Beryl is drawing on vast amounts of dark energy, but there's an eddy forming below us. I don't know what it is, but other than searching this-."
Great. "Down?"
"Yes. The quickest way-."
I grab my compact and point it at the ground. A direct line between two places might only be the second shortest route, but we can't all teleport! "Furious Crescent Beam!"
Golden light smashes into the floor and blasts through, and-.
And then it cuts out no!
We both stare at my compact, and Sebastian shakes his head. "You're out of power. You can't-."
I pull Paul's emergency nuclear grenade off my belt and remember his instructions. "Pull the pin." I pull it. "Toss." I toss. "And hope being a Sailor Guardian makes you immune to gamma radiation."
I turn away from the hole, and hope really hard.
Sebastian blinks, then copies me, throwing his cloak over us as the fission grenade goes off. Most of the blast goes upwards, but it still ruffles my skirt and Sebastian's cloak.
I wish the armour he made for me was still in one piece.
"What?"
I pull my chain off my belt as I turn, throwing it up into the air as I leap towards the hole. The top part of the hole where my beam blasted it is neat, before it ran out of power. The bottom part is red hot, melted-.
I form my chain into a drill-
"Venus… Rock-Breaking Chain!"
-and slam it down, boring through the soft rock and-.
Crunch!
And I fall through into the level below us, landing in a crouch and lashing out with my chain scything through the youma clustered below! Most of them were facing the door, and the rest weren't prepared. I swing-.
The end of the chain stops moving about an inch from Jadeite's raised hand. "Still not enough."
Okay, ah… I pull my chain back and look around. The youma are moving around and trying to surround me, but I can deal with that. Jadeite's just standing there, and just behind him-.
Lushun is chained up to a bench. He doesn't look too good; half the time it's like I can see his skeleton! They must be doing something to him with dark energy. Trying to turn him into a skeleton youma, maybe? And there's a woman tied to another bench next to him with half her face missing! And past them there's a stone archway with-. The crystal! It's embedded in the stone, and in front of the archway there's an altar with Lushun's staff on it.
Sebastian lands next to me. "Get the crystal. Nothing else matters."
I nod. "Right."
I run, swinging my chain in an arc to smash through the youma guarding the crystal. "Definite Kill Venus Chain!"
Chain links of burning gold disintegrate gargoyles and pigmen, and a couple who look like cavemen try scrabbling out of the way. They don't make it. I can hear Sebastian's footsteps behind me as he guards my-. My back, and I reel in my chain to take another swing at Jadeite, who's just smiling-.
Wait.
I swing my chain around me in a tight arc, like one of those ribbon dancers-.
The chain stop in thin air, and Jadeite appears as his illusion fades. "Do you understand? With the crystal, we can spread dark energy all across the world. But with this staff and these off-worlders, we can spread it to infinite worlds! All will be one in Met-."
I leap- "Sailor V kick!" -and hit him right in the jaw! He staggers backwards, losing his magic grip on my chain which I pull back towards me before lashing it forwards!
I swing my chain again, but he's already recovered. It stops still in the air and he looks behind me-.
I pull on my end of my chain as hard as I can, pulling myself off my feet and sending me flying towards him! His eyes widen and he catches me with his magic, but he loses control of my chain so I pull and wrap it around his legs!
"What?"
Pull!
"Oof!"
He's on his back and I'm free and I swing my chain while he's stunned-
"Get the Crystal!"
-and I start running past him, not really getting a full-on hit but just sort of flicking him away, and that'll have to do. There's nothing between me and the crystal-.
The arch flickers, and the space inside it-.
Oh that's what Hell looks like.
And it looks like Paul made himself at home, because he actually looks pretty calm as he walks back through..
And then he sees me. And I wish I could do banishment like Mars or healing like Moon, because-.
I throw myself right as he lunges towards me, his claws -ah- gashing my left cheek. But I don't have time to fight him! What do I-?
Yes! I throw my chain forwards, wrapping the end around the archway and pulling! I don't know if it's the chain's magic or my magic, or maybe it's all that physical training Paul made me do, but I'm a lot stronger than I used to be! Paul-. The youma lunges at me again but I'm already out of the way, flying towards the arch-.
Too far! Too far! I went through and some flying red demon face is looking at me-. Pull back! Good! And reach up and grab the crystal-! Yes! Got it! I-.
Paul body slams me through the arch, and I-. I can't feel my legs. They should hurt, but-.
Agh!
He's-.
Hitting-.
I can't-.
I'm sorry.
Where did he go?
I'm looking at Kun-. Sebastian, but it doesn't look like he's got any idea either.
"Can he teleport?"
Sebastian nods. "We all can, but that was just an illusion. He's close."
I look around-. Right, the knives. "Can you feel anywhere the dark energy is doing anything weird? Orange Lantern's elf wizard could do stuff with it. Even if he's been captured-."
"Alright." Black energy crackles around him for a moment, and then he gasps, looking upwards.
"What? Is it above us?"
"No. But I-." He looks down at me. "Orange Lantern's plan to get her full attention has worked. Beryl is drawing on vast amounts of dark energy, but there's an eddy forming below us. I don't know what it is, but other than searching this-."
Great. "Down?"
"Yes. The quickest way-."
I grab my compact and point it at the ground. A direct line between two places might only be the second shortest route, but we can't all teleport! "Furious Crescent Beam!"
Golden light smashes into the floor and blasts through, and-.
And then it cuts out no!
We both stare at my compact, and Sebastian shakes his head. "You're out of power. You can't-."
I pull Paul's emergency nuclear grenade off my belt and remember his instructions. "Pull the pin." I pull it. "Toss." I toss. "And hope being a Sailor Guardian makes you immune to gamma radiation."
I turn away from the hole, and hope really hard.
Sebastian blinks, then copies me, throwing his cloak over us as the fission grenade goes off. Most of the blast goes upwards, but it still ruffles my skirt and Sebastian's cloak.
I wish the armour he made for me was still in one piece.
"What?"
I pull my chain off my belt as I turn, throwing it up into the air as I leap towards the hole. The top part of the hole where my beam blasted it is neat, before it ran out of power. The bottom part is red hot, melted-.
I form my chain into a drill-
"Venus… Rock-Breaking Chain!"
-and slam it down, boring through the soft rock and-.
Crunch!
And I fall through into the level below us, landing in a crouch and lashing out with my chain scything through the youma clustered below! Most of them were facing the door, and the rest weren't prepared. I swing-.
The end of the chain stops moving about an inch from Jadeite's raised hand. "Still not enough."
Okay, ah… I pull my chain back and look around. The youma are moving around and trying to surround me, but I can deal with that. Jadeite's just standing there, and just behind him-.
Lushun is chained up to a bench. He doesn't look too good; half the time it's like I can see his skeleton! They must be doing something to him with dark energy. Trying to turn him into a skeleton youma, maybe? And there's a woman tied to another bench next to him with half her face missing! And past them there's a stone archway with-. The crystal! It's embedded in the stone, and in front of the archway there's an altar with Lushun's staff on it.
Sebastian lands next to me. "Get the crystal. Nothing else matters."
I nod. "Right."
I run, swinging my chain in an arc to smash through the youma guarding the crystal. "Definite Kill Venus Chain!"
Chain links of burning gold disintegrate gargoyles and pigmen, and a couple who look like cavemen try scrabbling out of the way. They don't make it. I can hear Sebastian's footsteps behind me as he guards my-. My back, and I reel in my chain to take another swing at Jadeite, who's just smiling-.
Wait.
I swing my chain around me in a tight arc, like one of those ribbon dancers-.
The chain stop in thin air, and Jadeite appears as his illusion fades. "Do you understand? With the crystal, we can spread dark energy all across the world. But with this staff and these off-worlders, we can spread it to infinite worlds! All will be one in Met-."
I leap- "Sailor V kick!" -and hit him right in the jaw! He staggers backwards, losing his magic grip on my chain which I pull back towards me before lashing it forwards!
I swing my chain again, but he's already recovered. It stops still in the air and he looks behind me-.
I pull on my end of my chain as hard as I can, pulling myself off my feet and sending me flying towards him! His eyes widen and he catches me with his magic, but he loses control of my chain so I pull and wrap it around his legs!
"What?"
Pull!
"Oof!"
He's on his back and I'm free and I swing my chain while he's stunned-
"Get the Crystal!"
-and I start running past him, not really getting a full-on hit but just sort of flicking him away, and that'll have to do. There's nothing between me and the crystal-.
The arch flickers, and the space inside it-.
Oh that's what Hell looks like.
And it looks like Paul made himself at home, because he actually looks pretty calm as he walks back through..
And then he sees me. And I wish I could do banishment like Mars or healing like Moon, because-.
I throw myself right as he lunges towards me, his claws -ah- gashing my left cheek. But I don't have time to fight him! What do I-?
Yes! I throw my chain forwards, wrapping the end around the archway and pulling! I don't know if it's the chain's magic or my magic, or maybe it's all that physical training Paul made me do, but I'm a lot stronger than I used to be! Paul-. The youma lunges at me again but I'm already out of the way, flying towards the arch-.
Too far! Too far! I went through and some flying red demon face is looking at me-. Pull back! Good! And reach up and grab the crystal-! Yes! Got it! I-.
Paul body slams me through the arch, and I-. I can't feel my legs. They should hurt, but-.
Agh!
He's-.
Hitting-.
I can't-.
I'm sorry.
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CrazyNoVa
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Wait, so was that our Paul, or this world's Paul? The text's not really clear. I don't think our Paul's been mind-controlled by Metalia, but still.
If it's the latter, what's his new name? Has he been renamed Citrine after Metalia resurrected him?
If it's the latter, what's his new name? Has he been renamed Citrine after Metalia resurrected him?
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The local one.
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It makes you immune to all radiation.
Shouldn't do anything, but I'm guessing Zoat's going to rewrite things to give her the win.