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SWING!
GRAB!
"WHAT?!" The bandit leader exclaimed as he was halted from killing his nephew.
The person who grabbed his hand in the nick of time was a very angry AL.
"Let go." The bandit leader demanded in a deathly quiet voice.
"No." AL responded, equally as firm as he held his iron grip.
"I SAID LET GO OF ME!" The bandit boss roared as he attempted to wrestle his arm free.
GRIP!
"No." AL repeated, louder as he increased the grip.
SWING!
ICE!
"Tsk! LET GO OF ME YOU FLAMING FUCK! You deaf or something? Friggin' dumbass!" The bandit leader yelled as he balled his other fist before swinging it, coating it in ice.
SWING!
FIRE!
But AL reciprocated the action, by balling his own fist with some fire as he threw his own fist at the bandit leader in preemptive retaliation.
SWIVEL!-
CROSS COUNTER!
The two punches approached each other, appearing like they were about to connect, but AL moved his fist out of the way at the last second, before driving it into the bandit leader's jaw, as the ice punch struck him in the nose.
LET GO!
"Gh!" AL grunted as he was knocked, letting go of the bandit leader's arm as he was set off balance for a bit.
TUMBLE!
CLATTER!
"Argh!" The bandit leader cried out in pain as he was pelted by the punch as the dagger clattered on the floor.
CRASH!
STAGGER!
The uncle of Domio tumbled until he hit his desk, which rocked as he stopped tumbling. AL staggered before regaining his footing a second later.
SLIDE!
GRAB!
SNATCH!
Nebula quickly slid and picked up Domio's downed form as Gris picked up the gang leader's dagger.
They returned to their positions as the gang leader got back up. His hoodie would have been blown off from the punch, revealing his spiky brown hair, the resemblance being uncanny to Domio with the addition of bangs and a meaner demeanor.
His eyes were the same color brown as his relative as they were constricted due to the anger he felt from being hit.
"YOU... MOTHERFUCKER!" He swore as he spat out some blood on his floor.
AL simply wiped his nose as he saw some blood as well. He then looks at the shivering Domio, who was in shock from being stomped out like a cockroach, and somehow still surviving just like one too.
"Get him out of this place. Gris, follow him so you can use your temporal powers to revert him to before he went into shock." AL planned as he looked back at the bandit boss.
"I'll fuck him up myself." The flame user decided as he would send a sharp glare to the brunette bandit.
"You sure you can take him, matchstick?" Gris questioned the actions of the flame user.
"Bet your ass I can. Made him tumble like a weed. Now it's just to fold him like clothes." The flame user cracked his knuckles.
"Don't underestimate him." Nebula warned.
"If the ice powers are anything to go by, then I won't. Just means he'll be more of a disappointment when I overestimate him, if this is gonna go down like a Pocket Monsters battle." AL snarked.
"... I am going to freeze your balls off, before kicking them the exact second I thaw them, so that you feel the most excruciatingly painful 5 seconds of your life." The gang leader seethed.
"More like I'll turn you into a scorched corpse, your bones turning into a crisp as your screams fill the streets with the rightful agony you deserve." AL retorted.
"Got'cha."
PHASE!
Nebula responded to his friend as he phased with Domio.
"...Tch," Gris grunted before he decided to follow Nebula. But not before leaving a goodbye present for the bandit boss.
ZOOM!
ELBOW!
VANISH!
In the form of a swift elbow to the chest.
"Gak! THAT PIECE OF SHIT!" The gang leader growled as he held his stomach as he was pushed back.
"Heh. It's not cool when the abuse comes to you now, is it?" AL said as he rolled his shoulders.
"Well, there's a LOT more where that came from." The flame user finished as he lowered his arms again.
"I'll kill you a hundred times!... Know your place before I put you in it!" The man said as he looked around for his knife. When he didn't see it he scowled, sticking out his hand beside him as he used some magic to bring it back towards him.
The two CPUs were running back to the hotel where they stayed prior.
Domio was still in shock as he was twitching from the trauma that he had experienced.
Nebula dashed behind Gris with Domio in his arms, as he would have a secure hold of the child.
Gris observed the new weapon that he stole from the gang leader. It was sleek and had a permanent coldness to the blade as he ran.
...
...
...
WOBBLE!
"?!" Gris became surprised that the weapon began to move as if something were wrong with it.
WOBBLE!
WOBBLE!
...
UNSTABLE!!!
The blade began to go stupid as Gris was now struggling to hold it as he held it as hard as he could to keep it in his arms.
"Grr..!" He grunted as the blade would be fighting him.
"What the...?" Nebula questioned what was going on in front there as they ran.
NYOOM!
The blade fought its way out of Gris' hands as it flew back to the building.
"FUCK!" Gris swore as he lost a cool looking weapon as it whimsically flew over the city. "Damn magic weapons!..." He continued.
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"FUCK OFF!" Gris shouted at the fellow CPU as Nebula continued to laugh.
SHATTER!!!
CLUTCH!
GLOW...!
"!" AL was caught off guard as the blade crashed through the window as the bandit boss grabbed his dagger before it glowed once more.
DASH!
"I'll gut you like a prized swine!" The bandit leader threatened as he ran towards him.
RUN!
"Try me." Was all that AL responded with as he came closer as well.
SWIPE!
DODGE!
RETURN SLASH!
BLOCK!
STAB!
REDIRECT!
UPSLASH!
GRAB!
The fight began as the bandit leader went with some swipes and return slashes at AL. He weaved and blocked the blade hand as he moved to suit the direction of the blade for an effective counter maneuver.
GUT PUNCH!
SKID!...
AL grabbed the arm of the bandit boss before winding him as he slid back.
"Guh!"
DASH!
SLASH!-
BACKSTEP!
The bandit guttered before rushing at him again with a side swipe, coughing a few hacks of spit in the process.
FLY OFF!-
KNEE!
Which AL dodged, before kneeing the man in the ribs.
"Urgh!" The bandit grunted as he was hit again.
RIGHT HOOK!
AL followed up with a right hook as he slammed his fist into the shoulder of the gang leader.
ELBOW!
KICK!
This caused the man to be spun like a top, which left him open for a side elbow to the head, into a kick to the side.
SLAM!
"FUCK!"
The bandit boss was sent into another bookshelf as he slammed right into it.
ROLL!
FIREBALL!
But he had the hindsight to roll, dodging a fireball which AL had chucked at him.
ICE BLAST!
FIREBALL!
EVAPORATE!
ICE BLAST! ICE BLAST! ICE BLAST!
SIDESTEP!!!
He sent an ice blast at AL who countered with another fireball, canceling the two out. The fighter wouldn't see the other ice blasts that the gang leader sent out to counter those as well, making him move to the side to dodge them as a result.
SWEEPKICK!
STAB!
AL then did a sweep kick, but the bandit boss landed a slash at his arm by thrusting the blade forward when he got near him.
"Argh!" AL hissed in pain as he was stabbed in the shoulder.
YANK!
KICK!
THUD!!!
CRACK!
The bandit boss yanked him up before kicking him on his chest, and sending his back to the glass, making it crack.
THROW!!!-
STAB!!!
He soon threw his dagger after, and hit AL right in the same shoulder, smiling as he got it in the same wound twice in a row.
CLUTCH!
"Right in the same wound! Damnit!" AL shouted as he went to pull out the blade from his shoulder as he clutched the handle in pain.
He gritted his teeth as he started to dislodge the blade.
NYOOM!-
GRAB!
Only for the bandit boss to call back his blade as he grabbed it.
"Overheated Assault!"
FLARE!!!!!
BURN!
AL then used a move on the gang leader as he had some distance to maximize the effect.
The five streaks raced towards the gang leader, but he had a few tricks up his own sleeve as well.
"Frigid Cleaver!"
COLD SLICE!
FREEZE!
CLASH!!!
Yelled the bandit boss as he slashed his dagger, one large slash of pure ice magic escaped the magically enchanted weapon as the two attacks clashed.
MIST!...
The attacks quickly meshed as they canceled out, and the room would be covered in mist from the dissipation of the opposing elements as a result.
RUSH!
The bandit leader took advantage of the environmental change, as he rushed AL. As it became misty, he still retained his sight thanks to the blade being magical or something, and tracking enemies that it made bleed as he went for AL's throat.
"DIE!" The bandit leader yelled as he neared the blade to AL's jugular.
WEAVE!
SIDESTEP!
But AL had the aspect of KI sensing on his side and sidestepped as the blade missed.
"What?!" The bandit leader exclaimed as he missed.
HIGH KICK!
THUD!
AL punished the missed strike by high kicking him in his chin, which sent him on his back.
"Shit!" The gang leader cursed as he was struck.
GRIP!
SPIN...!
SPIN...!
SPIN!
SPIN!
SPIN!! SPIN!! SPIN!!
SPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPIN!!!
CRASH!
SMASH!
THROW DOWN!
SHATTER!
BREAK!
BOOM!
SPILL!
DISPERSE!
The bandit leader was then grabbed by his leg as AL swung him around his office, clearing the mist out the hole of the window as he would be spun.
He smashed into his table, chair, potted plant, and other valuables as the mist cleared.
"AAAAAARGH!" The bandit leader yelled as he was in irate anger that his belongings were being tarnished.
"RAAAAAAAH!" AL roared as he swung the man around. The bandit boss had different plans as he then used another move to get himself out of the predicament.
"Winter Wallop!"
ICE FIST!
ZOOM!
BOOM!
SHATTER!
He called as he encased his fist in ice before it shot out from his hand and land a direct hit onto AL.
FLING!
CRASH!
CRACK!
TUMBLE!
CRASH!
COLLAPSE!
AL was flung by the fist as he let go of the bandit boss with the cold blow. He was thrown into the wall which dented from the force which he was thrown and bounced off of it ad he landed on the bookshelf nearby, breaking it completely.
COLD SLASH!
FREEZE!
The bandit boss scrambled to get up as he took his dagger and release a silent Frigid Cleaver at AL.
BOOST!!!
SLICE!
CLEAVE!
But AL used his arm to blast himself out of the way as the wall behind the broken bookshelf was cut as the ice slash cleaved through it like butter, hence the name.
The flame fighter then retaliated with his own attack as he launched another move at the gang leader.
"Scorching Schneider!"
RUN!
He yelled as he leaped towards the bandit leader.
SLIDE!
SPRING OFF!
IGNITE!
HIGH KICK!
He slid before high kicking with his flaming foot which ignited as soon as he went up for a kick.
"Artic Axel!"
GLOW!
SWING!
The gang leader countered as he brought down the blade as the metal glowed as an icy blue trail of light and cold temperature was left behind as he swung it down.
CLASH!
WINDWAVE!
SHATTER!
Fire and ice met again as the SP Skills competed for dominance. AL grunted as the bandit leader snarled.
SHATTER!!!
RUMBLE!
The remaining windows intact from the fifth floor were shattered as the room reverberated a little.
"Icy Splinters!"
They separated as the bandit boss then pulled out another magical move.
CLUTCH!!!
ZOOM!
DODGE!
ZOOM!
WEAVE!
ZOOM!
SIDESTEP!
ZOOM!
BACKSTEP!
ZOOM!
DUCK!
ZOOM!
DUCK!
ZOOM!
JUMP!
ZOOM!
AERIAL TWIRL!
ZOOM!
HANDSTAND!
ZOOM!
STRIDE!
Knives identical to the one he held were formed in mid-air as they zoomed to AL as the fire user dodged and weaved the blades as they came, never missing a single movement as they appeared, while clutching his wounded shoulder no less.
APPROACH...!
DROP!-
ZOOM!!!
"Vulcan Knuckle!"
The fire user dodged many knives that came his way as he closed the gap between him and the bandit leader as he would go for a Vulcan Knuckle, from below as it was styled in an uppercut fashion.
'From below!' The gang leader recognized as he ceased his SP Skill.
TWIST!-
CLANG!!!
SHOCKWAVE!
The bandit boss wouldn't be able to dodge, so he used the knife to block the attack as he turned it to its flat side and pushed it downwards to subvert the damage.
FLING!
STAB!...
The recoil from the attack sent the knife right into a wall.
"My dagger-!" He yelled as he looked up for a split second, which was long enough for...
"VULCAN BARRAGE!"
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The spiky-haired gang leader tried to retrieve his knife but was stopped by a Vulcan Barrage, engulfing his fists in flame as he pummeled the distracted enemy.
"FUUUCK!!!" Cursed the kingpin as he was hit by a barrage of flaming knuckles.
HEAVY PUNCH!
"GWAH!"
CRASH!
The pyro warrior then finished with a reeled punch, sending him into his desk.
FALL!
...
CRASH!
ALARM SIREN!
The bandit leader flew into and destroyed his offset office table from before as he knocked his chair off the building and onto someone's car.
The fight continued as AL approached the brunette, and balled up his shirt.
PUNCH!
PUNCH!
PUNCH!
PUNCH!
PUNCH!
He then raised him before beginning to repeatedly sock him in the face over and over again.
The bandit leader received blow after blow, but once again found a way out of his situation by doing the one thing that only assholes and people defending themselves did.
KICK!!!
"!" AL became paralyzed with pain as a magically conjured ice foot kicked him in the family jewels. He dropped the gang leader as he crumpled to the floor.
"Right in the coconuts...!" The taller man wheezed.
STAB!!!
BLEED!
The bandit leader got to his feet and grabbed the dagger running it into AL, in his back.
"AUGH!" AL yelled as he felt the burning sensation of pain behind his back.
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BLOODSHED!
He was then slashed up by the bandit leader with surprising speed as he would slice and dice.
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CLUTCH!
Blood was spilled as the back and side of AL were covered in cuts. AL felt the pain from his nuts ebb away as he turned on his all fours and grab the wrist of the bandit.
FIREBALL!
EXPLODE!
AL quickly manifested a fireball and shot it right into the bandit's face, causing it to explode as he was pushed away, AL getting up as a result.
"SHIT!" The gang leader screamed in pain as he was sent away.
AL rose fully, being around 3 times as powerful from the damage he received as he closed the distance between him and the bandit.
ZOOM!
KICK!
ELBOW!
KNEE!
GROUNDSLAM!
He proceeded to kick him from his back into the air before elbowing him in the face, making him flip rapidly, into a knee to the back of the head, followed by a slam to the ground by grabbing both of his ankles and throwing him to the ground, before he flew fly back up into the air from the recoil.
SHOULDER!
CHOKEHOLD!
"Vulcan Knuckle!"
PUNCH!!!
BOOM!!!
Which left the bandit open for a shoulder to the back, sending him out of the window, and into the front of the bar with AL then grabbing onto him, and whilst grabbing his neck, timed a Vulcan Knuckle just right to piledrive his fist into his face the millisecond he hit the ground.
SCATTER!
Snow exploded from the impact as the mass of dead bodies was moved by the air pressure that was sent out from the impact of the blow.
"Vulcan Barrage!!!"
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AL continued to pummel the gang leader with a Vulcan Barrage as he buried the gang leader into the snow with each consecutive hit.
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!!!
The floor rumbled from the might of the punches as the snow melted from the heat being exerted from the attacks as they landed.
"Vulcan Hammer!"
SLEDGEHAMMER!
GUARD!
AL continued the onslaught with a fire-enhanced sledgehammer, fittingly named as well as the bandit leader barely been blocked the next attack as it was brought down upon him.
EXPLOSION!
JUMP!
FLIPFLIPFLIPFLIPFLUPFLIPFLIPFLIPFLIP!
CROUCH!
HANDSTAND FLIP!
SLIDE!
The force of the explosion sent AL back into the air as he was been shot up by the momentum of the explosion, and flipped rapidly into a crouch some meters away before doing a backward handstand flip and sliding a bit more.
AL bear witness to the result of his attacks as there was once again be a large amount of smoke present as it billowed up to the fifth floor of the building.
But he could still sense the bandit boss being alive, which meant two things. He couldn't be charged with murder, and the fucker was stronger than he had originally thought.
And he overestimated him too. How lucky.
FORCE PALM!
AL wouldn't be one to wait, and using KI, blew away the smoke with a force palm, pushing the air to blow away the smoke.
And he saw the bandit boss, still in one piece, with a battered face and burnt clothes.
He was down his parka sleeves and some of his pants as he stood there, shaking. He still gripped his dagger as he had murder in his eyes.
"I'LL BREAK YOUR FUCKING LEGS BEFORE I CUT THEM OFF YOU FUCKING MATCHSTICK PRICK!!! " He screeched as he got even more pissed.
Like he had an indefinite capacity for anger.
"Dumbassbanditsaywhat?" AL ran his mouth as the bandit leader tiles his head in unstable confusion.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" He asked, before catching the trap as AL laughed.
"Gotcha, bitch!" The flame user pointed as he laughed.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!" The bandit leader let out a throaty, disturbing roar as he began to undergo a terrifying transformation.
CLEAR!
S-S-SHAKE!...
PRESSURE!!!...
Snow being pushed away from his feet, the slight shaking of the ground and suspense becoming apparent as the pressure could be felt all the way where AL was standing, it was by no means a small increase.
AL ceased his laughing as his eyes widened at the scene that took place before him.
The muscles of the bandit leader bulked and veined as he became an interesting shade of lagoon blue as his body grew an extra 3 inches as he matched AL's height.
RIP...!
The shirt and parka of the bandit leader were literally flexed off as he made sounds akin to a beast as he transformed.
Both of his entire eyes became bright red as his hair turned to a light bluish grey, akin to ice as it spiked up even more alongside his bangs.
His dagger elongated into a 4 and a half foot scimitar as it too took on a more intimidating appearance.
"GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!!!!!" The bandit leader roared in rage as he had finished his odd and blue transformation.
"In hindsight, that was something that I did not want, nor should have asked for. Fuck" AL regretted as he saw the blue brute rush with his sword.
BLUR!
SWING!
SLIDE!...
SLICE!-
SLIDE!
CUT!!!
RUMBLE!!!...
"RAAAAGH!" He yelled as he swung his blade at AL, who slid underneath it, but the blade cut right into the wall, shaking the entire building as it did.
BLAST!
EXPLODE!
"Shaking a building?! He sure stepped up." AL muttered as he then went for a KI blast, switching up his moveset.
THROW!
WOOSH!!!
It causee Domio's blue uncle to stager before he turned around and threw his sword at the man.
CUT!
CRASH!!!
"Holy shit!" AL cursed as he managed to weave in time, moving out of the way of the sword as it cut his face from the wind pressure alone.
It crashed into the ground floor of the bar, destroying some furniture as AL ran towards the opponent.
FIRE FIST!
SWING!
CLASH!
It cocked back its fist as AL enhanced his own with flames as it went with it's magic blade winding up a powerful swing.
WINDWAVE!
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
CLASH!...
The punches caused the snow to be blown back as the two of them continued to exchange slow but fearsome blows, the contest not being about speed, but rather might as knuckle and blade collided.
SHOCKWAVES!!!...
The two fought like something out of a manime, with each consecutive punch being thrown causing wind pressure to project, mini-shockwaves resounding as they clashed over and over again.
ICE FIST!
The gang leader then covered his fist in ice as he went for another punch.
"Vulcan Knuckle!"
AL soon realized that, before reinforcing his fist, and ended up going for a Vulcan Knuckle, to challenge the attack once more.
SHOCKWAVE!!!
SLIDE!
"Shitshitshitshit!-"
CRASH!
That clash caused AL to be blown black by the force, as they canceled out once more as he was thrown into the bar, and slid on the blood of Makarov, before crashing into a wall on the other side of the bar.
NYOOM!
CRASH!
The flame user looked to the side and observed the sword that had been thrown into the bar be ripped out of the wall. It soon began to shake returned to the gang leader as he busted through the wall.
He then raised his blade, cutting into the ceiling as he would use an SP Skill.
"FRIGID... CLEAVER!!!"
COLD SLASH!
SLASH!
The gang leader screamed at the top of his lungs as a larger and deeper colored blue of ice magic would eject itself from the sword.
EVADE!ICE SPIKE!
AL moved out of the way as it destroyed the remaining furniture io the ground floor and caused a big ice spike to appear after it hit the ground.
"Flaring Blazer!"
BLAST!!!!
AL then pulled out some of his bigger attacks as he generated a large yellow orb of energy as he yelled out before firing it at the opponent.
SLASH!
EXPLOSION!!!
The yellow orb of energy quickly shot out zoomed towards the bandit leader as he used his sword and slashed right through the orb as the blade glowed, causing an explosion that rocked the bar.
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COLD SLICE!!!
The flame user widened his eyes in shock as he then fired many small blasts in the direction where the blast detonated in an attempt to overwhelm the opponent but only succeeded in hearing the sounds of slashing as the brute then chopped every last one of his fireballs like it was nothing before firing another Frigid Cleaver.
BOOST!!!
SLICE!
CRASH!
ICE SPIKE!
AL boosted out of the way, with the second blast knocking down the wall behind him as a new ice wall sprouted in its place, retroactively replacing the wall.
AL came up for a close-up assault as he closed the gap, roaring.
"RAAAAAAAH! Scorching Schneider!-"
HIGH KICK!
GRAB!
NUT PUNCH!
The flame user yelled before he saw the bandit leader ignore the attack grabbed his leg before clocking him in the testicles.
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
GROUNDSLAM!
GROUNDSLAM!
GROUNDSLAM!
GROUNDSLAM!!
GROUNDSLAM!!
GROUNDSLAM!!!...
GROUNDSLAM!!!...
GROUNDSLAM!!!!!
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THROW!
SHATTER!
"FRIGID CLEAVER!!!"
COLD SLICE!
FREEZE!
The roided gang leader then slammed him on the ground repeatedly, each time harder than the next as a dent in the wooden floor appearing, then turning into a full-blown crater as he was slammed over and over, followed by a lateral spin into the ice wall that shattered on impact, then by a Frigid Cleaver that finally connected, freezing him on the spot.
AL was now flash-frozen as he was in the middle of a lonely street.
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...
...
'That shit... Hurted...' The pyro warrior mentally memed.
He was smarting all over, but would now be 6 times stronger than how he originally was as he was frozen in exchange.
He couldn't stay stagnant in a battle like this, so he powered through the pain and began to break out of the ice he was in as he struggled.
CRACK!...
C-CRACK!...
CRACK...!
He made progress but it was not quick enough.
ENGULF!
MELT!
ZOOM!
REEL!!!
NEAR MISS!
DISPERSE!
So to compensate, he used his flame armor within then ice to thaw himself out as he then saw a flying schimitar zoom towards him, narrowly bending back in time as it flew past him once more.
TURN!
He quickly ran towards the gang leader as he reeled back for another attack as he dissipated his armor. But he saw that the man outstretched his hand, meaning that he was calling back the sword as it would stop in midair, and turn around, blade front to attempt to stab AL in the back once more.
NYOOM!!!
AL felt the wind coming from behind as he rolled when he felt the blade right behind him and dodged the blade for it to stab its owner instead as blood exploded from the wound it created as it impaled the bandit leader.
ROLL!!!
PIERCE!
IMPALE!
SPPATTER!
HANDSTAND!
BOOST!
HEELKICK!
"Volcanic Piston!"
BOOM!!!!!!
But AL wasn't finished as mid-roll, he did a handstand as he boosted with his hands and delivered a flaming heel kick to the chin of the bandit leader as he yelled out the name of the attack to the wounded blue opponent.
The force of the kick sent the impaled bandit lord up the first, second, and third floor. He hit his back on the fourth as AL boosted his way up at Mach 12, and delivered a fierce Scorching Schneider to the bandit leader, sending through the fourth floor as well.
CRASH!
CRASH!!
CRASH!!!
SLAM!
FALL!!
BOOST!
AL ended the chain attack when he used a Flaring Blazer to blast the man through the roof of the building and into the sky.
"SCORCHING SCHNEIDER!"
HIGH KICK!!!!
CRASH!!!
AL yelled as he struck him into the fourth floor.
"FLARING BLAZER!"
EXPLOSION!!
CRASH!!!
The flame fighter roared, blasting him into the night sky.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
WHOOSH!
The blue bandit leader screamed as he had been hit through the entire building in one multi-hit combo.
"...?"
BOOST!
"!"
The bandit leader looked down in abject pain as he saw the flame user approaching him as he was being flung up.
THUNDERCLAP!!!
SHOCKWAVE!
DESCEND!!!
Domio's blue brilliant bastard of an uncle then turned around and thunderclapped in the air, sending a shockwave that sent him back down at blinding speeds.
"?!" AL was surprised that he was still able to move after all that, and would have sent himself back down no less.
The brute then wounded up a powerful punch as he would materialize a large ice fist the size of a car as he zoomed down.
ICE FIST!
ZOOM-!
PHASE!
"WHAT!"
P U N C H!!!
SHOCKWAVE!!!
He was moving so fast from the force of his thunderclap, that he successfully bypassed the perception of AL as he went invisible and slammed the large black of ice into the man as he roared.
"UWAGH!" AL roared in agony from the force of the punch.
CRASH!
CRASH!!
CRASH!!!
CRASH!!!!
CRASH!!!!!...
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!!!...
AL was bulleted down, crashing down through the floors as he slammed back into the ground, shaking the entire city block, notifying the nearby establishments of something afoot.
The blue brute pulled his scimitar out of his stomach, blood spilling as he did with a painful wince. He then raised the sword high in the air as he channeled all of his available SP into the blade.
PULL!
CHANNEL...!
CHANNEL...!
The blade glowed as the brute underwent another, yes another transformation while he fell.
He grew to an unnerving 6'6'', and became even veinier as he bulked again like a SARMs-addicted bodybuilder, becoming more jacked than how evenly balanced he was at first, his pants becoming more ripped as they resembled shorts now. His hair turned white as his eyes became a venomous yellow, skin deepening to an admiral blue.
The blade then shined as he would bring it down as it became even longer.
Talk about a spontaneous power up-
"DIE, YOU LITTLE FUCKER!" The bandit leader spoke, seeming to have surpassed animalistic intelligence in that state, regaining human sentience as his voice was gruff and heavy.
"Glacier Meltdown!" He yelled as the blade carried him down faster as he channeled into it. He then disappeared again as he moved at hypersonic speeds.
Very terrifying for the equivalent of a giant mutant Smurf.
VANISH!
AL may have not been able to see him and may have died, were it not for the boost he gained from that really solid punch that the bandit leader gave him.
He felt eightfold as strong as he saw an incoming object zooming towards him.
ENGULF!
FLARE!!
BURST!!!
CROSS GUARD!
The fire user then put all of his energy into his defense as he would make his flame armor glow bright as he manifested and reinforced the armor with KI, giving it a bright orange-yellow glow as he cross guarded.
'Here he comes!' AL readied internally as he braced himself.
SLASH!!!
BOOM!!!
COLLAPSE!...
The bandit leader finally reached the ground floor as the blade connected with AL. The slash caused the building to completely collapse on itself as its very foundations were destroyed from the pressure alone as the blade hit AL.
SKID!
DEPRESS!!!
The flame warrior was pushed into the ground once more as he felt the brunt of the attack as he was depressed into the floor, the bricks and foundations coming down on them.
EXPLOSION!!!!!!
SCATTER!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE...!
CRATER!!!
SKID!!!
TUMBLE!
FLYING DEBRIS!
A large blue vertical explosion would occur as it would cause the area to glow a soft blue for a bit as the bricks and debris were scattered from the explosion yield as they were thrown from the force in an omnidirectional fashion, and the two being knocked away by the explosion itself as AL slid into the alleyway while the bandit leader onto the street as chunks of debris fell as a result.
BOOST!
SLAM!
CRACK...!
AL slammed into an adjacent wall, but it stopped his slide, only cracking it rather than going through it. His boosting to slow his slide also helped in that regard.
DISPERSE!
He looked ahead at the collapsed building that the gang leader and he both caused as he deactivated his flame armor.
"Well, it's not quite 8 city blocks, but it's still tens of thousands of dollars in property damage. Would hate to be Domio's uncle right about now." AL said half concerned, half impressed.
He got up as he was now tenfold, feeling the power coursing through him as he moved to where the bandit leader was. His chest flame appeared as it burned brightly as a signification of the peak of his power.
"YOU BLEW UP MY CASINO AND BAR! YOU FUCKING MONGREL!!!" He heard the low-pitched cursing of the gang leader as he walked forward towards his voice.
"Actually, we did that. But you actually brought it down. I just put some holes in the floor-" AL was cut off.
"WHO FUCKING CARES! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! JUST A BIG SCREW-UP, JUST LIKE THAT LITTLE SHIT! I BET YOUR FATHER FORGOT TO PULL OUT, HOW MUCH OF A FUCK UP YOU ARE!" The gang leader insulted, inciting a furious snarl from AL as the cause of the building to collapse made the lights of the lonely street he was on turn on as the citizens were scared at the loud noise and shaking.
"What was that?!" One voice asked.
"Mommy, I'm scared!" A younger one cried in fright.
"Those kids and their damn world-ending battles!" An older, grouchy voice would say as the owner balled their fist.
"SHUT YOUR TRAPS, YOU BITCHES!"
SWING!
SLICESLICESLICESLICESLICESLICE!
COLLAPSE!
The bandit leader shouted as he slashed his sword, the wind pressure cutting into some of the houses, causing property damage galore as the walls were brought down.
The screams of the citizens caused the bandit leader to yell once more.
"Oh boy, Kei would blue screen from pure financial ruin if all this property damage was in Lastation..." AL looked around concerned at the cries of the innocent.
"DON'T YOU FUCKERS HAVE EARS?! I SAID BE QUIET!"
SWING!
SLICESLICESLICESLICESLICESLICE SLICESLICESLICESLICESLICESLICE!
COLLAPSE! COLLAPSE!
Domio's uncle roared as he slashed again at some more houses, causing some more walls to fall down as he scowled at the noise they continued to make out of fear.
AL wouldn't waste any more time as a third slash from him might kill someone.
"ALRIGHT! YOU ALL WANT TO DO IT THE HARD WAY?! THEN BURN IN HELL!"
CHANNEL...!
He decided as he charged up his sword this time.
HYBRID FIREBALL!
VANISH!
AL vanished as he opened his hand and conjured an orb of fire mixed with KI as he rushed to the scene.
"FRIGID CLEAVER!!!"
SWING!
The bandit leader shouted as he swung his sword, the blade glowing as he fired the attack.
But AL appeared with a Rasen- I mean fireball and would slam it into the blade.
COLLIDE!
SHOCKWAVE!!!
TREMOR!
SKID!!!
The resulting collision again blew both of the fighters back as AL skidded on his feet and the gang leader had his sword arm flung into the air as he slid back.
There was a shockwave that caused more panic as the ground made a tremor.
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
SLASH!
DODGE!!!
LIVER PUNCH!
AL then vanished and reappeared in front of the swordsman, before the bandit leader brought down his sword. The flame user dodged skillfully as he leaned into a liver punch.
GUT BLOW!
ROCKET ELBOW!!!
The opponent grunted as AL followed up with an uppercut to the abdomen followed by some payback by elbowing the brute in his scaffolding and using his hands as extra propulsion to add in that extra oomph so that the blue bitch could really feel the pain.
"Gah!..." The bandit leader ironically froze as he was struck in the walnuts.
HEADBUTT!
"VULCAN BARRAGE!"
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!!!
LEAP!
SLEDGEHAMMER!
FLING!...
...STAB!
CRASH!
AL continued with a flaming barrage including a headbutt to the chin, followed by a Vulcan Barrage, and ending with a jump and sledgehammer to the back that sent him down as his sword was flung and planted into the ground behind them.
Once the sword was gone, AL really cut loose with some Vulcan moves.
"SCORCHING SCHNEIDER!"
HIGH KICK!
"VULCAN HAMMER!"
SLEDGEHAMMER!
"VULCAN KNUCKLE!"
UPPERCUT!
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
"OVERHEATED ASSAULT!"
FLARE!!!
BURN!
BOOST!!!
"FLARING BLAZER!"
EXPLOSION!!!
"VOLCANIC PISTON!!"
HEELKICK!
PHASE!
REAPPEAR!
HEELKICK!!!
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!!!
BOOST!!!
The fire user went for a Scorching Schneider, into Vulcan Hammer, into a Vulcan Knuckle in the form of an uppercut then sending the bandit back down with an Overheated Assault which was then reciprocated by a Flaring Blazer that blasted him upwards again into the down air variant of the Volcanic Piston before vanishing and repeating the Volcanic Piston to volley him back up, and sending multiple KI and flame infused fireballs as he was rocketed upwards before the human fireman raced after him.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" The bandit leader swore extremely loud as he was flung into the air. The pain from the beating would be unbearable as he continued to ascend.
The people from their houses that were nearly chopped down were in awe as they had seen the person who they had once associated with invading deities had just saved them all from potentially death as they stood in the middle of the battle.
From the sidelines.
"He's... helping us?" A man asked as he looked to the sky where they two would be.
"So he wasn't an invader after all?" Another asked.
"Maybe we were wrong...!" A third second-guessed their judgment as the fight continued.
WOBBLE!
WOOSH!!
The fight went on as the bandit leader had the pain settle as he reached out for his sword. It wobbled and flew towards him as it was uprooted from the ground.
GRAB!
PUNCH!
CLANG!
The bandit then grabbed his sword as he managed to block a punch from AL with the two clashing in the air.
The bandit leader was blocking as he would guard and counter the punches and kick of AL as he slashed at him once they were, prompting the fire user to block as they exchanged blows in the air.
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
The force from the blows of the two kept the gang leader suspended as sparks flew from the fists of AL and the blade of the gangster leader... Somehow.
The bandit leader then swung his blade as he froze the blade itself before clashing with AL, who engulfed his fists in flames to counter the move as he noticed the maneuver.
FREEZE!
SWING!
CLUTCH!
SHATTER!
He grabbed the frosty blade and crushed it in his hands as the blade came down on him.
"YOU FU-"
"VULCAN KNUCKLE: OVERDRIVE!!!"
POWERFUL UPPERCUT!!!!!
EXPLOSION!
The bandit leader wouldn't have time to finish as he was punched further into the air by AL with another SP Skill.
"GUAAGH!" The bulky blue boi yelled in agonizing pain. Again-
The bandit was sent further into the air as AL uppercut the bandit as he now down a weapon and was getting his ass handed to him as he was dazed.
The bandit boss looked at AL and his flame powers, his anger finally finding its peak as he would have had enough, snapping from his stupor from his weapon being destroyed.
"I'M SICK AND TIRED OF THIS BACK AND FORTH SHIT!" He yelled as he called out to AL, who would squint his eyes at him, hardening his gaze.
"You and me too." AL clenched his fist in suspense.
"I'M GONNA DO TO YOU WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE TO DOMIO!"
THUNDERCLAP!!!
THUNDERCLAP!!!
THUNDERCLAP!!!
He foreshadowed as the kingpin began to glow as he was still flying upwards, clapping to increase his height.
He stopped about 5,000 meters above as he looked down at AL and the populous of Lowee.
Well, a good chunk of it, anyway.
"I CALL UPON THE FROZEN DEPTHS AND THE FRIGID LAIRS! TO SHOW THOSE WHO OPPOSE ME UTTER DESPAIR! LEAVE NOTHING BUT STRIFE IN YOUR WAKE FOR IT WILL BE THE WORLD THAT WILL SHAKE!" He began his cryptic chant as his body developed a form of ice armor, that covered his entire body as the temperature dropped within the skies and began to form clouds that came closer.
SNOW...!
The snowflakes that fell took part in forming his armor. It was spiky and very menacing as there would be no headpiece to show the pure fury on the man's face.
DARKEN!..
DARKEN!..
DARKEN!..
SNOW!...
SNOW!...
SNOW!...
Kind of a major design flaw to not have a helmet in a battle where your face got punched a lot, but eh.
"THOSE BELOW WILL KNOW PURE TORMENT FOR IT SHALL BE DONE IN MERE MOMENTS! THE FOOLISH HEROES WHO DARE OPPOSED WITH THE SAME FERVOR WILL BE DISPOSED!" He continued as after the ice armor would be completed, he was now suspended in the air due to the magic around him keeping him up there.
MAGIC!..
ICE!
ICE!!
ICE!!!
ENLARGEN!!!
ドドドド!!!
His fist then had ice swirl around it as the replica of his arm would grow and grow to be the size of a small house.
"Holy..." AL was stunned before he shook his awe as he knew he had no other choice but to challenge the attack.
Like always.
IGNITE!!!
He quickly channeled the fire into his left hand and made it burn, as he put most of the remaining amount of his available SP into it, just to give it more power.
The flame was now very bright as it could be seen as a glimmer in the sky of Lowee compared to the more vibrant light blue one of the ice fist.
BURST!
GLOW!!!
He then used the KI component of his moveset to enhance his flames as they caused the heat to spike as the color changed from its normal orange to a bright yellow, akin to his Flaring Blazer.
ENGULF!
BURST!!!
ドドドド!!!
He then engulfed himself with KI as he summoned his flame armor, to brace himself for any ramifications that may happen because of the attacks colliding.
AL then kept channeling the KI and remaining SP into his fist as he had the temperature increase around him as the opposite happened further up in the sky.
The tension was becoming thicc as the buildup between the two was reaching the brim.
The bandit leader after a bit more charging up his oversized winter glove then uttered the third verse of his incantation as he was raring to smash the fiery upstart into the ground for daring to pick a fight with him.
"THE TIME FOR DEATH HAS ARRIVED! THE COLD SCYTHE HE WIELDS ALL DESPISE! THE END OF DAYS FOR THIS FOOL IS DUE, AND THE NAME OF HIS KILLER IS HYUZU!"
FREEZE!!!
The bandit leader known as Hyuzu finished as he now completed manifesting his fist as he looked down at the twinkle that was AL's attack compared to his fist.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?! A NIGHTLIGHT?! I WISH DOMIO WERE HERE TO SEE ME GRIND YOUR BONES INTO SAWDUST! ANOTHER THING TO TAKE AWAY FROM HIM BEFORE HE SUFFERS THE SAME FATE!" Hyuzu brought up his nephew as AL would glare at the man.
"This nightlight is going to make you go night-night, you BLUE BLUBBERING BITCH!"
B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BOOST!!!
CROUCH!!
REEL!
He hollered back as he then got ready to charge as his boosters were revving as he slightly crouched as he cocked back his fist, stretching his right hand to aim directly for the face of Hyuzu.
"I'M GONNA SHOW YOU THE BITCH, BITCH! " Hyuzu retorted with a voice so loud that it could wake up heavy sleepers as he used the ice to push himself down from his feet as he roared out his move.
"Burn in a hell that's frozen over! Cold Calamity! "
VOOM!!
The head gangster yelled as he descended upon the nation with his giant fist as he screamed at the flame user as he descended from the skies the air parting for his oversized fist.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
"I'll incinerate your bones to ashes! Vulcan Knuckle: Cremation! "
BOOST!!!
SONICBOOM!
The flame user roared as he boosted himself up, using the boosters as he zoomed at hypersonic speeds.
"ORYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
CLASH!!!!!
BOOM!!!!!
EXPAND!!!
SHOCKWAVE!!!
The two elemental users collided in the air as they met, their fists meeting as the force of their collision caused a shockwave mixed with a red-orange orb of energy to be pushed out from the point of contact as the two fighters were covered as it lit the sky.
The fist of Hyuzu overpowered AL at first, but the sheer speed and less contact area mixed with the power that had built up over time had proved the icy appendage ultimately useless as it immediately shattered after about 5 seconds of contact time.
The bandit boss was shocked as his attack had been completely overwhelmed by the twinkle that was AL as his armor underwent the same fate as it to would have been shattered within the sphere as he would have been left defenseless.
The pure energy from the explosion stripped Hyuzu of his transformations, reducing him from his blue stage to his semi-blue phase and back to normal by the time 20 seconds had passed.
AL held back once he had been reduced to his human state as they still needed him to be alive as the orb cleared the clouds formed and was visible to the entire country as a small blip in the sky.
"DIE!" Hyuzu yelled as he pressed his fist forward
"RAAAAAAAH!" AL roared from the depth of his lungs as he pushed back, the giant fist getting the better of him at first.
STRUGGLE!!
STRUGGLE!!..
STRUGGLE!!...
...
...
...
CRACK!
But to the bandit leader's surprise, he realized that his fist was beginning to fissure under the pressure.
CRACK!...
"What...?!" Hyuzu questioned in shock.
How could this be! Monotonous villain monologue 101!
CRACK!!
"No!"
PUSH!-
SHATTER!
He denied, pushing back on AL, but felt his fist being resisted, and his arm was shoved back towards him right before it completely shattered.
"NO!" Hyuzu cried in outrage, as he saw the ice gauntlet end up completely destroyed as they contested. His arm was blown back by the force as well as AL rocketing forward, hitting him square in the chest next, aiming for his armor.
BOOM!!!
SHATTER!
His armor would be next on the demolition list as he felt an incredibly hot sensation on his chest as the armor was shattered instantly.
"GUAK!" Hyuzu vomited blood as he was hit out of Big Boy Smurf (It's not Big Boy Smurf, but it's funny so...).
CAUTERIZED!
REVERT!
He vomited as he had been hit right in his impaled stomach as it was cauterized from the intense heat.
But the punch itself hit him at such a level of intensity, that it had hit him right out of his form.
He reverted to his previous state, as AL continued to push.
REVERT!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!"
PUNCH!
EXPAND!
The bandit leader screamed in anguish as he reverted again as he further shrunk back to his original size and power.
AL launched him away as he drove his fist into his stomach as he leaned in before pushing him with his fist, sending him flying as the orb expanded due to the clash finishing.
He withheld some power, to make sure he'd survive the fall, with incapacity being his biggest instead of death by fire punch.
The orb grew as it went from a blip in the sky to a somewhat sizeable orb. The light could now be seen from the outskirts of Lowee as the clash had ended, energy escaping it.
SHINE!
WINDWAVE!
EXPAND!...
The force of the orb would cause dust to be blown back from below as it was thousands of meters in the air. Citizens held on to something as the wind pressure raged on before subsiding as the battle came to a close.
Domio had been brought to the apartment that the trio originally booked as he would have been reverted to a state before his mental shock as he was on the balcony of the hotel room, Gris begrudgingly buying an extra night.
EXPAND!...
He stood in between Nebula and Gris who was also by the balcony, as they watched the large explosion that was on the air as the fight had ended.
"W-What was that?!" Domio asked, the big explosion terrifying him.
"That was your ticket to freedom, Domio." Nebula responded as he looked at the explosion within the air.
AL had succeeded in defending the bandit boss just like he knew he would.
"Think he killed him?" Gris asked, a raised brow as he admired the explosion in the sky.
Domio was scared that his uncle might have died, being the last person he knew that was related to him, even if he was abusive.
Maybe it was Stockholm syndrome? Or that his last blood relative is dead, and that Domio was the last person in his family alive?
Who knew.
"I'm still sensing his energy, so no. But he is out of the fight." Nebula pointed out as he saw the explosion subside. "Now let's go meet AL. If tropes move like they always do, he might collapse as soon as he takes a few steps." The blue-haired deity guessed as he put Domio on his shoulders and disappeared in a blur with Gris.
"Giddy up, kiddo!" The god riled up the boy as he put his new companion on his shoulders.
"W-Whoa!" Domio yelled as he was now put on his new friend's shoulders.
"Hold on tight!" He instructed the boy.
"Y-Yessir!" Adhered the orphan.
VANISH!
Domio complied as they vanished.
VANISH!
Gris simply rolled his eyes before following suit.
WINDWAVE!!!
SMASH!
BREAK!
CRACK!
SLAM!-
As they vanished, the wind waves reached their hotel room, blowing inside as it would slam the doors open and throw things down inside.
Nepgear and the others were trekking back from their close encounter with the Killachine as they braved the wilderness.
They were close to Loewe as they had left with much speed and would be seeing the city, not being too far from the nation.
"Almost there... Shouldn't be too far now." IF told the other party members as they walked back.
"I can already see Basilicom from here!" Ram pointed out as she saw the well-lit city.
"We're almost home..." Rom spoke softly as she too looked at the nightly nation.
"I can't believe we couldn't even dent that robot!" Nisa recalled as she would kick some rocks.
"Mina might have some answer, so bear with it, for now, Nisa." Nepgear tried to console the blue-haired girl.
"She's smart, so I believe in her," Ram added, with Rom agreeing with her statement.
"Really smart." She backed up.
"I hope we get there soon, I wouldn't want to run into any scary Mister Monsters right about now." Compa said as she looked rather spooked.
"We'll get there soon enough. Just a few more-"
EXPAND!!!
IF was cut off as there was a red-orange blip that grew grown bigger right over Lowee.
"What the..?!" She asked as the others would have seen it as well.
WINDWAVE!
"What was that?!" Nepgear frantically questioned as they then felt some wind, from all the way by the outskirts.
"Eek!" Compa shouted as she covered her eyes.
"Woah!" Nisa exclaimed as she braced herself as well.
"Eep!" Rom squeaked as she too covered her face.
"Hold on, Rom!" Ram shouted as she shielded her eyes and held on to her sister as they held each other as they braved the winds.
"Goodness!" Nepgear yelled as she braced.
"Holy crap!" IF censored as she blocked the strong breeze with her arms.
The party shielded themselves as the wind-wave would die down quickly.
WOOSH!...
...
...
...
"What happened there?!" Compa asked as she turned to IF.
"I dunno, but we won't find out if we stay here." The Guild Agent responded as she looked to the others. "We have to make that ASIC isn't using the Killachines to invade already!" IF explained as the others nodded.
"Right!" Nepgear nodded as she gained a determined look.
"We gotta save Lowee!" Ram said as she ran forward, her sister close behind.
The others followed suit as they rushed to the nation, unsure of what caused the aerial explosion.
Kars was walking with some texts on a quiet street as he had borrowed them from the library, a library card with his face and basic information on it.
He studied the language and learned it in seconds, so he was putting his newfound knowledge to use by borrowing notes about the history, social structures, terminologies, cultures, other key components of not only Lowee but the world that went by the name Gamindustri.
He felt as if it was supposed to be some kind of wordplay, but relinquished his opinion until further studies were made.
Magic was a topic was focused upon with equal importance to the others as Kars had finally developed his skills in the medium where his hand no longer managed to become encased in ice.
Embarrassing as it was, it was his starting point and the important thing was that he no longer turned into an artistic interpretation made from ice when he tried to use the spell.
He even researched some ways to create magical items such as tomes, spells, and runes. Even the more intermediate spells were in his mind as he used a spell to completely mask his presence as he was walking down the street.
This was made present as people were not aware of his presence as he walked by, the masses more focused on what was currently happening above them as the skies were darkened.
Kars took note as well and chalked it up to being some sort of high-level confrontation between two warriors, not something that was uncommon in the days of old back on his home planet. However, it did not concern him, so he left it at that for now.
Once he was more knowledgeable on the inner workings and societal queues were tried and true, he'll be the first one to see anything that seems extraordinary in this world, which was just about everything.
Moving on, he was very content with the materials he had managed to grab and was walking towards a wooden cabin that he had built during the course of the day after he had left the city after his run-in with Gris.
"These texts should help me to better understand the inner workings of this 'Gamindustri'. Now to return to my abode and study the contents of these-" The Ultimate Life Form was interrupted.
EXPAND!!!
"Hm?!" Kars looked up as he saw a large explosion in the sky as he saw the surrounding brighten up to match the intensity of the orb.
WINDWAVE!
GRAB!
He was then blasted by the wind pressure, clutching onto his books as he had just borrowed them.
IMPLANT!
"Tsk!" Kars grunted as he held his materials tightly, standing in place as he would root his feet into the ground.
The wind pressure subsided as he saw the orb expand as it became more and more transparent.
EXPAND...!
He gazed at the dispersing explosion before deciding to get back to his work.
"Not my concern, I have information to gather," Kars said as he was interested, but wouldn't get involved before he understood more of the strange new world he lived in, for all he knew it could have been what the humans here called fireworks or a natural phenomenon.
PLUMMET!
BOOM!
SLIDE...!
That was until the battered figure of Hyuzu was sent towards him as he landed and slid right next to Kars.
Kars then looked at the groaning mess that was someone he didn't know before deciding to leave them there with a disgusted grimace of how weak he was.
If he was weak enough to die by his feet, then so be it.
Kars walked away as he moved out of frame, unnoticed by all.
WALK...!
...
Hyuzu then opened his eyes slowly as his everywhere hurt.
"Uhh..." He groaned as he would barely be able to move.
He slowly propped himself up on one arm as he looked around.
BOOST!
His situation then got worse as he saw the figure that was AL approach him.
"...F-Fuck... M-My life... This... I-Is bullshit..."
LAND!
He cursed in exasperation as he saw the fire user land right in front of him as he touched down.
AL dispersed his flame armor as the fight had been decided. He lost his jacket as his torn undershirt was all that remained, his pants being pretty busted up.
GRAB!
He walked towards the bandit leader as he grabbed him by the neck.
"Urk!" Hyuzu choked as he was grabbed and lifted.
"I got one question before I punch your lights out." He told the gang leader as he looked him dead in the eyes.
"W-What is... I-It... Bitch... B-Boy..." the gang leader breathed out.
"Who sent you to rob us." He asked, as he waited for an answer.
"Like... I-I'd tell a-a fuckface l-like you-"
WRANGLE!
He has his neck wrangled as AL would shake him.
Hyuzu choked and hacked as he felt the life wither for a bit as he was shaken. He was still as AL stopped and looked at him again.
"One more chance." The friend of Nebula told him. "Who. Sent. You." He would ask as he flexed and relaxed his grip with each word.
"...A-ASIC. T-Those fuckers s-sent us. I-It was an easy job they said! T-They would roll over and die t-they said! A-And now look at us... Bloodied, battered, bodied and bent over by fuckers like y-you...!" Hyuzu closed his eyes as he sighed tiredly.
"One more thing." AL spoke as he got Hyuzu's attention again.
"Do you regret what you did to Domio?" He asked.
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For a second, it looked as if genuine thought went into the gang leader's eyes as he closed his eyes with his brows fur rowing in deep thought.
But his eyes opened, eyes filled with unnerving joy as he laughed a very dry cackle.
"Heh.. N-Not one f-fucking bit. The pain on his face w-was eu-FUCKING-phoric! I-I'd do it all over if I could! M-My only regret was that I didn't kill him myself!" Hyuzu admitted before he laughed, the anger on AL's face only making him cackle more.
JAB!!!
THUD!
So he stopped cackling when a swift jab sent him flat on his back as he was knocked out.
AL stood there as he breathed in and out slowly, the people around him as silent as he was.
"Hah... Hah... Hah...'' He breathed out, his breathing hitched from strain.
The fire user quickly became the center of attention as citizens who were peeking outside their houses from since the building had exploded looked at the warrior as he panted.
"He... He did it..." A man whispered.
"He defeated him!" A woman would shout out.
"WE defeated them." Nebula clarified as he reappeared next to AL with Gris and Domio.
He did sound awfully similar to a glory hog, though.
"Neb..?" AL asked as he looked to his friend.
"But this guy defeated the big bad, so yeah. He did it." Nebula pat AL's shoulder as Gris folded his arms and Domio looked around. The blue CPU put down Domio as more citizens came out of hiding.
The guards of the Loweean Basilicom arrived as they were the same male and female who tasked them with defeating the gang leader, as well as the other one who thought that they were invaders.
"There they are, they just killed that man as a way of showing their true intent!" The male guard would point out, spooked.
"No, they didn't, you dolt. They just captured Hyuzu Gefrierschrank, leader of the Wretched Wolves." The female guard corrected as the other male guard walked up to the 4.
"I take it he's... Alive?" The guard asked as he went to check on his pulse."
"Yeah. He still has to answer for his crimes or whatever, so AL made sure he's still breathing." Nebula explained as he looked at the downed gang leader. He felt his energy, so he could vouch for his tired friend.
"Right. Since you managed to bring him in, we are indebted to you. Thank you for helping us in these uncertain times, heroes." The guard bowed as he thanked the trio.
"No problem. Anything to say, bud?" He nudged his flame friend who would stand up tall and explain something.
"He was also working with ASIC, abuses his nephew and killed his nephew's father and had his mother drugged and gang-raped before killing her as well, so put that on the list of charges alongside the casino building that he also destroyed alongside the 50 fellow gang members that he crushed. The ones outside also were crushed by debris as well from the resulting collapse." AL covered for himself and Gris as the assassin slightly widened his eyes alongside the guards and citizens as they were revealed a surplus of information in one sentence.
"He worked with ASIC!?"
"He killed 50 of his own members? How inhumane!"
"He beat his nephew and murdered his nephew's parents? How cruel!"
"With all this information, we'll have him in prison for the rest of his life! A kingpin brought down!" The female guard noted as the male guard who accused them became shell-shocked.
The guard was wide-eyed as he ordered two more guards to lug his body into custody.
"Fuck you all..." Hyuzu muttered as he was dragged away along with some other guards as he would be pulled away, still somehow conscious.
Domio gave his uncle one last look of familial sorrow before sticking his tongue out at him, as he would most likely never see him again.
Plus, he still did all those heinous things to him, so he got no sympathy from the boy.
"You little SHIT!" He made his final swear out the boy before he was manhandled by the guards as they yanked him to shut him up.
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The guard then turned to the trio as he would now be looking rather bad for pointing fingers preemptively.
"I... I'm truly sorry for falsely accusing you three... Could you maybe... Look over this...?" He asked as Gris would look up in thought.
"Hm... No." The assassin responded as he looked back down, causing the guard to go white with fear."
"Come on, dude. Don't be a-" Nebula tried to reason with the assassin.
"Unless..." The hitman continued.
"Unless?" The guard asked.
"Unless you drop and give me 150 push-ups..." Gris said with a finger pointed at him.
"And if you miss one, I'm suing for abuse of rank. And believe in White Heart when you're done or something. That goes for everyone around us...!"
ゴゴゴゴ..!
He shouted as they would nod in agreement with some fear as the menacing aura was radiating from him again.
The guard immediately dropped to the floor and begin to do the push-ups. The citizens watched with morbid curiosity as the guard would have the fear of his deity put into him by a deity.
EXTINGUISH!
Nebula just laugh at the awkwardness as AL fell back, as his Burning Fever mode would extinguish-
GRAB!
-To be grabbed by Nebula before he hit the ground.
"Oops. Looks like the flame went cold. Well, I'll let him get some rest in his room." He said as he looked at Domio after slinging his friend on his shoulder.
He was staring at the place where he last saw his uncle. The boy was happy, that the man would never harm him again, but sad at the same time since his last remaining family member was gone.
His eyes were empty and watery, as he stared and wondered what it would have been like if he were never subjected to all that torment.
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That was until the boy felt a hand on his shoulder.
"You alright, Domio?" Nebula asked as he called the boy.
"U-Uh, me? I-I'm..." He looked for an answer but found nothing as the situation for him was just... bizarre.
"I-I... I don't know what I feel like right now. My uncle's gone b-but now I have nowhere to s-stay..." He explained as he looked down.
Nebula would look at the boy as he did have a point.
His previous 'home', if you could even call a single game room with a bed a home as nice as it sounded at first, was completely destroyed, and his last family member was now incarcerated.
He would most likely be put for adoption in an orphanage, but Nebula knew that the environment that he would be put in there was just a catalyst for loneliness and bullying if Lady Luck was on her period.
So he then decided to do something that might have sounded dumb at first, but would finally spark a definite bond.
"Then stay with us." He offered.
Domio turned to him.
"W-What?!" He surprisingly shouted.
"?!" Gris turned to him.
"I know that you and your uncle weren't on the best terms at all, and you never got to meet your parents. And now that you have nowhere to stay, I might as well take you with me. Can't leave those gaming skills behind, and I'll teach you how to fight so that you won't have to get beat up by anyone and you'll make a good fighter! And adoption sucks, so I'm not gonna leave you the Loweean government." He explained with a bright expression.
"F-Fighter?! I-I'm not sure if I want to fight, let alone if I can." Domio protested. All the times that his uncle and his goons beat him left him nervous and stuttering all the time.
"But you've got spirit. I saw when you rushed your uncle. You even made your hand glow for a bit when you got ready to deck him. It was only because he was so much stronger, and had already beat the fear into you that you were taken out so easily." Nebula explained as he crouched to his level, the citizens and guards counting the push-ups that the other guard did as Gris had a look of relish on his face.
"R-Really? Then I g-guess I could give it a shot..." Domio would say as he would look to Nebula.
He really didn't have anywhere to stay, and he was the first person not to beat the crap out of him on sight. So, why not? Too many bad memories there anyway.
"Good. And before I forget. We're traveling around Gamindustri. You can see the entire world if you come with us. How does that sound?" Nebula proposed as Domio widened his eyes.
"All of G-Gamindustri?! Like the adventurers in those games I play?!" Domio asked as he had excitement fill his eyes. He always wanted to get out of the hotel, and now that it was gone, he could travel the world!
ZA WAAARUDO-
"What do you think I was doing this whole time?" Nebula asked with a reassuring grin. "Now are you with us?" He outstretched his hand.
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Domio gazed at the hand that was offered to him.
It would be just like in the hotel, except that it meant much more. If he took that hand, then he'd get to see the world, as he learned how to defend himself.
He had nowhere else to go, and if it was being offered by someone who helped him when he needed it, and got him away from that abusive environment, then without question, he would take the hand.
And he was also trying not to think about his progress in all his video games being destroyed-
And he did.
GRASP!
"Glad to have you on the team, kiddo." Nebula welcomed as he nodded.
They were then interrupted by the girls returning.
"What's happening?!" Nepgear asked as she along with the rest of the girls arrived, only to see Nebula shaking hands with a kid, Gris laughing menacingly at a guard doing push-ups, and AL unconscious over the foremost's shoulders.
"What the..." IF questioned with a raised brow as Nebula would look over to the girls
"Hey, ladies. Uh... Let's discuss all the questions at the Basilicom." He said as he grinned widely, signaling the author to end the chapter-
A/N:
Heya there, reader!
If you're seeing this, this is a rewrite of the chapter, just to correct some repetition, fix some spelling errors, and improve the spelling quality, especially in the earlier chapters.
So remember, italics and bold is going for gold.
And another one out the chamber! A fight scene, a new character, and a conclusion to the mini-arc. Phew.
Now, if you're concerned about the amount of OCs, just know that the amount of associates Nebula with gather is nearing the cap. One more and that should be it for the blue-haired adventurer's squad.
In terms of Domio's character development? Well, he does exhibit some latent power timid time-bomb tropes but, it'll be different compared to people like Kid Gohan or something. His introduction was rather spontaneous but then again, this is Neptunia. If I just give him enough depth, I can pad out the backstory later on.
Meanwhile, the fight with AL and Hyuzu was just me testing out how writing a fight between two non CPU characters would go. It seemed good enough to me.
But hey, that's just my opinion.
Arrivederci.
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