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- !plot: at the mountains of madness,
- batman,
- billy cranston,
- brenda,
- dustin silver,
- erwin fischer,
- fate testarossa harlaown,
- fletcher tringham,
- hellion,
- jamie mccrimmon,
- kang,
- katara,
- kaylee frye,
- lash,
- lex luthor,
- loren,
- lyle norg,
- miku hinasaki,
- plays-in-traffic,
- renne,
- robert donovan,
- robin,
- rtas 'vadum,
- russel tringham,
- samus aran,
- sawyer,
- sheeana,
- sofia mantega,
- stature,
- steve burnside,
- supergirl,
- superman,
- toph,
- yoshimi ito
The Battle That Ended The Century
People say that war is hell. This looked it.
Buildings and cars and bodies are scattered like broken toys as far as the eye can see, stretching out toward a dirty horizon. Even the clouds seems streaked with mud and blood, and they're taking it out on everyone below with a constant stream of cold, soaking rain.
The sounds of fighting seem to come from all directions, but at this moment, there's no one else in sight.
A breather. The calm before the storm.
[[OOC: This is for everyone who was involved with "The Lurking Fear". Questions go to Milo or Kaylin.]]
Buildings and cars and bodies are scattered like broken toys as far as the eye can see, stretching out toward a dirty horizon. Even the clouds seems streaked with mud and blood, and they're taking it out on everyone below with a constant stream of cold, soaking rain.
The sounds of fighting seem to come from all directions, but at this moment, there's no one else in sight.
A breather. The calm before the storm.
[[OOC: This is for everyone who was involved with "The Lurking Fear". Questions go to Milo or Kaylin.]]
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There were passages, all right.
"Yes!" she called out to Sheeana. "A couple of them, right under us. Do you want me to open them up? It should be easy, I can --"
Then she felt something else. Distant vibrations in the ground, still a ways off, but all signs pointed to something big.
"Uh, guys? Something's coming..."
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"Something big? Like what?"
She didn't have to wait long for her answer. There was a roar that pierced the air, and now the group found themselves face to face with an entirely different and more deadly threat. Katara had spoken, and noted, Red Snout: he was clever, quick, and certainly an able warrior behind those eyes. What she saw towering over them looked like Red Snout, but bigger, dumber...and meaner. It did not mean to talk to them or to threaten them. No, its only mission was to kill them, and she could see that in its eyes.
She turned to Toph and Sheena. "You guys might want to start going underground, at least you'll be in a pair and Toph can help with the earth." She turned to the others. "I...REALLY think I could use your help here. Big ugly reptiles are kinda new."
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"I have to stay up here. Tauf, yes, please open one up and get everyone who doesn't have their abilities through..."
Bang, cronk, crank, roar, bang. An immense head poked through the doors like the 'HERE'S JOHNNY' moment in The Shining. Baleful, cold eyes regarded them the way a fat man regards a ham and cheetoh casserole. The mouth was filled with slobbery steak knives. The stench was like nothing any of them had ever experienced.
And the worm went slithering up to meet it. Sheeana could only exert limited control of it. The part that was Leto had ceded temporarily control to the part that was animal. Sheeana repeated the Litany Against Fear to herself.
"Sister, keep the rain off of shai-halud...We're about to be witness to a battle a hundred million years in the making."
And the worm was up against the door too, rearing up like an immense snake to present a faceless face, tripartite mouth that was just as big, a staredown between two ancient gargantuans that would make a pro wrestling promoter cream his suit.
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That wasn't good. Like, at all.
And there was no way for her to fly up and survey it from above before shooting back down like a comet and attacking what needed to be attacked.
So she did what anyone else would do in her situation.
She followed the orders of her teammates and hoped for the best.
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She saw the dinosaur nudge at the shelter covering her friends. She thought back to what had happened just before she came here. Taking on the Zodiac, getting shot for it, probably dying for it.
Her fingers tightened on her gun. It probably wasn't going to do any damage, not unless she got lucky. And at the very least she might help distract it- along with that giant worm thing. And maybe, just maybe, she wouldn't get killed.
"Well," She said softly in Spanish. "There are worse ways to die."
Sofia lifted her MP-40, aimed for the dinosaur's mouth, and pulled the trigger. And she didn't let up.
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Is that Sofia machine gunning a dinosaur?
...that was kinda hot, actually.
But he didn't have much time to gawk at her, though. What with the Dinosaur advancing despite being shot in the mouth.
"Katara! Kneecap the lizard!"
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"Toph! Get her underground!" She called at the earthbender, hoping for a last moment save.
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A giant, crumbling rush echoed through the place, and a tube of stone, complete with lid, formed around Sofia. Toph grunted from the exertion. She had to make the earth-tube strong enough that the lizard couldn't bite it, but move gingerly enough that Sofia would drop gently, unharmed into the cavern below.
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Katara gathered the water, and here she formed several circular discs: they were razor sharp, and Master Pakku would have remembered them well, as he narrowly avoided several of them when Katara challenged him the first time. Unlike her teacher, the Tyrannosaurus had limited vision and was still clumsy on his feet: that was going to hurt it all the more. Katara let loose four discs, and they left rather nasty cuts on the dinosaur, who responded with a loud roar that shook the ground a little. This, however, did little to deter Katara, who rushed to the worm and brought the water back, gathering it in her hands. With the dinosaur unfocused as he was, the worm could go to town on him.
Unfortunately, seeing the weakened dinosaur seemed to inspire a new bravery in the allied powers. They started to advance on them again, and Katara clicked her tongue impatiently.
"Sheeana, if you can get rid of the lizard thing, please get to Aang, he's going to need all the help he can get! We're going to have to stay here a bit longer: I don't want to leave these guys yet! I'll be there soon, I promise!"
She ducked a flurry of bullets from a nearby troop who yelled something like, "Sterben schlechte Wasserhexe!"
Katara responded with a BG inspired poke to the chest that sent him sprawling. "I don;t know what you said but it sounded mean!"
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"What?" At first she thought she was about to be buried alive but then she saw that the dirt wasn't closing in around her.
One thing was clear: she wasn't about to be eaten. At least, not yet.
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"C'mon. There's a tunnel here, we can get you back under cover. Big lizards... you don't want to mess with big lizards."
Whereas above ground it was patently obvious that Toph was blind, here underground she carried on as though this were a completely normal state of affairs.
"We need to get back up and help the others."
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Sheeana was flattened against the interior of the doorway. "Cover your ears for three seconds! After that, keep the water off the Worm and he will take care of the Dinosaur!"
And as soon as Katara did: "Gegenseitig umbringen!" Their attackers were abruptly much more easy to deal with as they fell upon each other in an orgy of bloody fratricide. This probably wouldn't have worked on such a large group of true people, but these were dream things, alive in only the most technical sense.