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Air Superiority; The Murakumo stretches out her wings.
Topic Started: Aug 27 2012, 08:14 PM (487 Views)
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Nu takes deep breaths, steadying the Murakumo armor as it glows, star-bright, on her body. The swords vibrate in their sheathes, and energy percolates through her veins like natural gases, seeking a place to erupt. The air tingles with seithr as her visor sets down and seals off her sight, exchanging it for the collated data HUD she is so familiar with.

"Wooooow, Nu's all really glowy and stuff." She says, awed, and glances herself over, rolling her shoulders and turning about. "It's like I'm a lightbulb, or a natural fusion star! Really spacey. Gauges at full!"

She giggles, and gives Ragna a thumbs-up from where he stands nearby.

Rachel, behind her in the great hall of the mansion, applies her hand to her forehead.
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.

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Ragna rolls his eyes. "Great. Our super-powered asskicker of a chick is a giggling fangirl when it comes to her power. We're fucked if you don't get over it."

With an elbow to the ribs, Tsubaki gives him a warning glance. "Ragna..."

"What? Look at her! 'Bubbly' is not exactly a great attitude to have if you wanna live through something like this. Seriously, what if-"

"Ragna."

"Okay, okay, fine." Ragna forces a smile. "That's absolutely wonderful Nu, now let's go kick some ass."
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Nu frowns at Ragna. Then she sticks out her tongue at him. "Nyeeeh, Tsubaki's making you sleep on the couch tonight." She turns to Rachel and smiles at the pale-looking vampiress. "Okay, you can open the portal now, Miss Rachel. I'm ready to go!"

Rachel lowers her hand from her forehead, nods slightly, and extends a hand. A portal opens up before Nu and the Murakumo immediately dashes through it, expression going flat as steel as she blurs. Rachel glances over at the last two and scowls. "Get going. I am unable to hold this forever, and there is much left to do yet this day."

On the other side, a faint iron blur traverses an empty main street, up towards the giant gleaming sphere that is Arcturus, hanging high in the noon-day sun.


Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.

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"The couch? Tch, try the floor." Ragna's smirk fades as he grasps Tsubaki's hand and leads her toward the portal. "Right then. You ready, Tsu?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." Even though it was little more than protecting Nu, Tsubaki is still beyond nervous. This superweapon... She readies Izayoi. "Let's go."

"Yeah..." They both follow Nu through the portal.
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Nu rises to three dozen feet in the air as target locks ping on her sensors, the enormous space station locating her almost immediately. Ponderously, the girdling ring rotates to face down towards the Murakumo, as she summons up the seithr for her first purposeful attack since her rescue from the Wadatsumi Cauldron, and all the events intervening.

"Calamity Sword." she calls.

And the sky splits as a flash of light like a bolt of lightning smashes down into Arcturus, colliding with some kind of coherent energy shield. Even so, the sheer force bobs the station downwards in the air, the shockwave brushing them by a moment later, rattling windows in their frames.

The shield coruscates, and Nu blurs out of the way in an Act Parser as Arcturus retaliates with the searing beam of energy now familiar to Ragna - but in the bright light of noon it endures, following Nu's dash like the finger of God, erasing entire streets and replacing them with glassed, smoking wastelands.
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.

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Tsubaki mutters an incantation with her sword held over her head. The magic of Izayoi acted, scrambling the signals of the airship in an attempt to render its weapon useless, or at least unable to track Nu. Ragna just watches for any soldiers, Blood-Scythe at the ready.
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Arcturus's beam abruptly cants to the side, annihilating an entire district as the collated light refracts and spreads. Then it ceases and fizzles out. There is a moment of silence as the aerial fortress takes in this development. Then Nu hammers the shield with a quick series of eight sword bolts, and secondary offenses begin to unfold. Dots begin to spread like mothdust as the Shebalve fleet deploys, and a cannon flickers before another series of drop pods slam around the attacker's feet.

Unfortunately, these are twice the height of a man, and as they begin to hiss and open, they reveal something entirely different then soldiers - giant, golem-like machines, armored in steel, with a single cyclopean eye and a heavy sword and shield.
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.

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Tsubaki eyes the golems for a moment before turning to Ragna. "Odds you can take them?"

Ragna lets his arm erupt into darkness and grins at her. "Pretty good. You gonna screw with their communications and light them up?"

"Naturally. It's the best way to deal with Shebalves. And if these things are controlled from the ship... Nu, close your eyes and look away." Tsubaki focuses a moment. A moment later, a brilliant white flare explodes in the sky, blinding everyone who sees it. A moment later, Izayoi creates its radio jam. Tsubaki winces as pain floods her eyes.
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The Shebalves shudder in the air as they slam headlong into the jamming field, their paths distorted. Still, they have a visual target, so instead of launching their array of missiles - now worthless thanks to the guidance jam - they open fire with chin-mounted autocannons, hurling dozens of rounds a second towards the cluster of figures. The fire is inaccurate so far, thanks to the flashbang, at least, and what fire is accurate is repelled by a whirling sheathe of Murakumo blades.

Nu spares a moment to slam two of the planes out of the air with Rift Swords, shattering them upon the concrete streets, and then produces some new, unnamed technique: a wordless shriek that brings a monstrous falcata down upon Arcturus's shields, the inverse-curved blade fitting around the sphere of dominion and tearing a visual gap in the shields, which quickly repairs.

The golems stomp out, unfolding their armanents, and fit quickly into a phalanx position, advancing on Ragna and Tsubaki slowly. The second rank draws javelins set into the shields and aims them - then the end of the javelins discharge a streaking energy bolt that crackles across the intervening space in an instant.
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.

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Ragna roars in pain as an energy bolt burns into him, but snarls and charges forward. His sword shifts into its scythe form and he slashes at the offending cyclops, sending a surge of darkness through it.

Tsubaki retreats to an alley and concentrates. A wide veil of darkness sprouts around a cluster of three golems to blind them and keep them from attacking.
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