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- Posted: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:18:46 +0000
•xx•xxT h e ► B l a z i n g ◄ M a d n e s sxx•xx•
♦ J a c e § V i s t u s
♦ J a c k § S a n g u i n e
♦ H a l e § S a v i t a t
♦ J a c k § S a n g u i n e
♦ H a l e § S a v i t a t
xxOnce blinded by light.
xxOnce lost in loneliness.
xxBut now, we can see clearly. We walk not as saviors.
xxBut as destroyers. With this power.
We will win.
[ Its a bit late, but imagine this taking place at the same time as when "Sorario Days" plays on Maki's epic post. ]
| Location - Adamitte / The City of Raine / Airship Dock |
Rumble... Rumble... CRASH !!
"... Oh come on. Does he seriously not know when to give up?" The answer came, apparently no, in the form of a final splitting crack from the roof of the thoroughly damaged Enfinitus as it burst outwards to give way to a a sprawling mass of grotesque darkness that first extended forth tendrils that covered the ship like a parasitic growth before revealing a disgusting maw lined with golden teeth that snapped out, bulging and growing by the second as if it were trying to devour the sky itself.
Jack's first thought was to run, of course that thought led him to glance backwards whereupon his eyes fell upon Shino's worldship... the two Shadowsili, his first thought was that he might be able to hitch a ride off the kid he'd recently formed a truce with but before he made his move but before he did, the mercenary realized why he had risked his life to rescue the two bounties in the first place with a rueful grin he turned back to the monstrous mutated form of Blank.
"Not thinking of running away are you... Ishida?" Jack called out to the Shadowsili behind him, not taking his eyes off the monstrous creature devouring Enfinitus in a sprawling inky mass, "If not... you know how to drive that thing right?" While battered and exhausted to the point where Jack shouldn't have normally been able to even stand, when he activated his Nexus, the explosive power of his aura seemed to have increased twin fold or more as a indomitable crimson flame covered both his hands.
A seething black mass of tendrils poured down from the sky towards the insignificant figures standing on the worldship docks, standing seemingly without care Jack began to walk slowly forward with a sense of fearless resolution as the darkness rained in from all around. Click! Snapping his fingers, the red head disappeared underneath the inky flood as it crashed down upon the worldship dock in a thundering impact, almost immediately after the impact however - a second ear splitting boom echoed through the city of Raine as a flash of crimson followed by a series of explosions rushing through the black mass twisting it's already grotesque shape and blasting a clear path through it.
Piercing through the darkness, leaving behind a trail of crimson aura and jet stream, the Vengeance sliced through the path carved by the explosions and out of the debris cloud left by the clash on the docks and into the air towards the now assimilated Enfinitus and the monstrous form of Blank that covered it. "Like that's going to stop us!" A wave of gigantic inky scythes and blades rose up from the repulsive body of the creature to meet the worldship, but were stopped short by a barrage of aura crimson that lanced out from the Vengeance in a series of explosions that blasted the attacks away into oblivion.
"Alright Mr. Merc. I see what you're playing at - and I think its just about crazy enough to work." Standing on the top of the Vengeance as it dodged this way and that through the tendrils towards the Enfinitus, using his aura to root himself in place and protect himself somewhat from the stinging wind, Jack grinned and nodded, "Good to see that you finally see things my way then. Alright then... LETS GO !!" With a burst of aura energy, the engines of the Vengeance blasted to a new level entirely as it danced a path through the tangle of tendrils seeking to impale and crush it in a blaze of crimson aura explosions and ammunition supplied from the ship itself.
Lancing through the air, inky tendrils attempted to take the ship out of the air, forcing the mercenary to continuously teleport as they also sought to impale him as he fired volley after volley of aura blasts into the mass attempting to swallow them up. Suddenly a stab of pain rushed through Jack's body extracting a cry of pain as the mercenary was torn from the top of the Vengeance by a tendril impaling him through the shoulder hurling him backwards and falling, a clipping blow upon the Vengeance caused the ship itself to buckle and lose momentum slightly allowing several more glancing blows to be landed by the swarm of bony appendages and tendrils, each blow unbalancing and slowing the craft further until it went under in a seething black mass.
For a deathly silent moment, it seemed that the motley group of Shadowsilis and Mercenary had been defeated - until a series of explosions rippled underneath the black mass that had swallowed the Vengeance. At first, small pinpricks seemed to open up underneath the darkness revealing a searing light emanating from within, opening further, the wall of darkness that continued to crash down upon the ship was pushed further back and back until finally a complete gaping hole was torn through the center of the mass by the attacks of the Vengeance and as the hole opened, a final volley was fired in a flashing spear of ammunition and aura by the Vengeance.
"Alright. There's your ride. Don't screw this up Mr. Merc." Shino's voice crackled over the makeshift headset that Jack had passed Shino before they had launched themselves at Blank, the falling mercenary seemingly lost to the maw that was Blank's oozing monstrous form suddenly jerked back into action, opening his eyes and with a fierce cry; the redhead tore the tendril running through his shoulder out from his body and blasted it into tiny scraps of goo with a well placed blast of aura before disappearing in a flash of crimson as two more tendrils sliced through the air where he was seconds ago.
"This!" Appearing atop the tendril, and sliding down it further into Blank's gaping "core" maw whereupon the core of the Enfinitus worldship's remains were also located, the Jack materialized the Crimson Cannon with the swipe of his hand, his aura gathering itself to fire as the volley fired by Shino soared through the air behind him. A scythe formed of darkness tore itself from the mass of dark aura, attempting to separate the mercenary in two but only managing to slice through thin air as the redhead disappeared again, appearing on one of the aura bullets fired by Vengeance itself as it sped towards the very core of Blank's being.
"This is my message! No - OUR message!" Jack's aura rushed to gather itself around his right arm, bulging to an ambiguous shape to begin with but as more and more of his aura gathered, it began to force itself into the shape of... a rifle? Teleporting again as tendrils shot through the space he occupied only a split second ago - the round that he was "riding" slammed into a tendril with a thundering impact of aura energy, Jack appeared on another aura round, this time with the "weapon" on his hand formed completely as an antique looking rifle that crackled with unstable aura power as a huge amount of crimson aura was fed into it's chambers.
"We're tired of running away..." The mercenary flashed out of sight again and again as Jack rode the rounds closer and closer to Blank's maw disappearing as each round crashed into an obstacle with a resounding explosion. "Its about time to stand and fight..." The Vengeance rushed out from the hole it had created in the blanket of darkness, tearing it's way upwards and seemingly past the Enfinitus, while Jack teleported one last time to the last remaining round fired by the Vengeance as it closed the final stretch of distance between the mercenary and Blank's core... and the core of the Enfinitus.
" So ... FUCK YOU ASSHOLE !! "
Erupting forth in a blast that was probably about three or four times larger than a grown man in height, the beam of crimson energy disintegrated anything in it's path despite the the veritable wall of tendrils that attempted to block it's path as it ripped through everything Blank threw at it and alongside the final round fired by the Vengeance, flew home into the core maw of the monstrous creature. For a moment, it seemed like the blast had simply been devoured or absorbed, or hadn't even had an effect at all but as Jack teleported away, for good reason apparently, to be caught by the Vengeance as it rushed by overhead and away from Blank - a thundering boom that could probably be heard by every person in Raine sounded as Blank's body bulged from the inside out as if trying to hold something in.
Inside Blank's core, the blast had reached and pierced the reactors of the Enfinitus itself, causing an explosion from the inside out that would have been enough to tear up a quarter of the city if it hadn't been contained by Blank's body as a blast of aura energy lit up the sky, and could probably be seen by every resident in the city, detonated from inside the creature; tearing the monstrous Shadowsili apart once and for all and completely annihilating the worldship dock that the battle had taken place over along with a good deal of the buildings around it in an astounding display of explosions and collateral damage overkill.
Inside, the rather cramped now, cockpit of the Vengeance, Jack unformed his Nexus and collapsed against the co-pilot's seat - half on the seat and half on the ground with a satisfied grin. "You know. I don't know if its just coincidence but you and I don't make a bad combination Ishida." Flinching slightly as the final set of explosions went off behind them with an earsplitting blast, Jack attempted to whistle through a hoarse throat and curtains of exhaustion, "Also, we probably shouldn't come back to Adamite anytime soon... even with the money I got from your bounties... I don't think I'd be able to pay off that damage."