Day Two

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#05 Gilgamesh, #26 Doomguy, #33 Jon Snow, #39 Victor Wolfe, #43 Sasuke Uchiha, #27 Deadpool, #30 Vincent Valentine & #35 Wartortle vs #23 Guu, #37 Desco, #21 Gildarts, & #38 Luffy vs #02 Cindy vs #41 Aero
Easter Egg - Furbie

The wooden crate with the shining panels was resting in the center of a park. It had been sitting here for a few minutes when the quartet made their way over the wooden bridge that spanned the quaint little pond and crowded around it. Even though Luffy didn’t seem quite himself, the other three were on edge as Guu made it to the box and started to undo the various latches that held its lid in place. As the lid fell onto the soft grass, the pink-haired ‘girl’ tilted her head as she looked at the inanimate object that rested inside the cocoon of packing peanuts.

Before Guu could collect the Furby, a burst of automatic fire stitched across the ground next to the crate, causing her to hop back. The trio behind her stiffened up as they searched the darkness for some sign of an attacker. Their answer came when the park’s various lampposts and ground lights flickered to life, revealing a megalomaniac in golden armor standing just ten yards away from the crate.

“Back away from the crate!” Gilgamesh sneered as he revved the chainsaw blade that served as the bayonet for the Lancer. “I won’t repeat the order.”

Guu shook her head as she reached for the shield. Behind her, the trio of Ambrosians armed themselves. A gunblade glistened as Gildarts freed it from its sheath. Desco’s double-lightsaber roared to life in the tiny hands of the Final Boss. And although he was just barely maintaining his composure, Luffy drew the giant hammer and grinned manically as he smacked it in his palm.

“Please,” Gilgamesh snickered. “You’re done.” He added as he gestured behind the group.

The Ambrosians looked to their flanks and their rear and saw a ring of other primes had surrounded them. A ninja, a walking turtle, a pale-skinned figure in ragged clothes, a soldier in heavy armor, a shifty-looking young man, someone in red spandex, and a dark-haired archer completed the circle around the quartet.

Eight on four.

“Fun time!” Luffy bellowed as he charged the nearest person. Victor Wolfe drew his powerpole and managed to deflect the first hammer swing before a rubbery fist snaked around his defenses and staggered him. As the pirate stalked in for another blow, he found himself tackled to the ground by the marine in enchanted armor.

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Desco turned from Luffy and barely managed to move out of the way as a boot crashed down into the ground. Looking up, she saw Vincent looming over her, his expression devoid of any kind of emotion as he slammed his other boot into her skull. As he tried to press the attack, a lightsaber blade cleaved through the air in front of him, forcing him to fall back or lose his nose. Feeling more confident, Desco pressed her attack, lashing out with a quick succession of swings. She hadn’t had the weapon for long, but for some reason, she felt adept at its use, regardless of how illogical it seemed to have such a lethal tool. Although the energy blade didn’t land a target, it forced Vincent into a retreat, but before she could capitalize on having the momentum in her favor, a nail plunged into her hand.

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Gildarts put himself between Guu and Gilgamesh just long enough to have a burst of fire nearly torch his face. White energy surged around the tall primes body as he tore off part of the crate and hurtled it at Sasuke Uchiha, catching the ninja in the side of the head. Instead of pressing that fight, GIldarts charged Gilgamesh, who tossed something to someone next to him. Before the attacking prime could check his peripherals, he was hit in the skull with a shovel, and Gilgamesh jumped over him and landed atop the crate, his focus going down to Guu. “Time to end this,” he replied as he shrugged off his armor and let the runes of Babylon empower him.

“You couldn’t beat me the first time,” Guu replied as she eyed the archer standing casually at the edge of battle. The man had an arrow in his bow already, and it wouldn’t be long before he tried to do something with it. With a grunt, the pink-haired girl ran forward, avoiding Gilgamesh as she hurtled the Vibranium shield, aiming to catch Jon Snow off guard.

Jon Snow frowned as he fell back and shifted his aim to the little creature charging at him. He let go of the arrow as the shield crashed into his chest and sent him backwards. His arrow, however, blew up midway to its target and released a giant, weighted net that collapsed onto Guu, pinning her to the ground. By the time she knew what had happened, Gilgamesh was already laying into her with thunderous kicks to her face and side.

“Mongrel,” the king shouted, letting out all his frustration about everything that had happened since he came across the little girl in the Tangled Green. He only relented when she seemed to stop moving, but rather than gun her skull apart, he simply flashed a smug grin and turned to deal with her outmatched allies.

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Desco retreated even as she lashed out at the two from a distance with Yog’s tentacles. While she had the range advantage against the one prime, the turtle with the nail gun knew he had the advantage as he shot at her and casually stayed outside the range of her strikes. Feeling somewhat frantic, the Final Boss slipped behind a tree as a line of nails slammed into the other side. Clearing her mind, she devised a plan and started to smile as two of her tentacles started to shimmer with energy. As the footsteps approached her hiding spot, the demon girl spun out and released the mixture of wind, fire, and ice at the pair of primes.

The blast caught both of them off-guard and drilled them into the ground, but Desco’s attack had come a moment too late to stop the mid-air Molotov cocktail from crashing against her head and bursting into flames all over her body. Even as her foes writhed in pain, the Final Boss crashed to the ground and struggled to extinguish herself.

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Luffy attacked like an uncontrolled animal. Each time he missed hitting Victor with a powerful hammer swing, he wound up murdering a tree or a lamppost or something else stupid enough to be in his way. Victor, for all his training, managed to evade the blows for a while until one of them caught the side of his head, splintering his skull and drilling him into the grass. “Hehehe,” Luffy rasped as he turned to glare at his other adversary. “Next.” The rubber pirate barked as he came running at the marine.

“Really?” Doomguy snickered as he motioned for the elastic prime to bring the fight. “Is your spine an elastic band? I hope I get to find out!” With that, the marine lunged and tackled Luffy to the ground and started to smash his face with his elbow and fists.

“Heh,” Luffy snarled as the blunt wounds dented his rubber flesh but didn’t seem to break his demented spirit.

Doomguy scowled as he shoved a hand against Luffy’s upper jaw and used his other fist to grab the pirate’s mandible. With a grunt, the marine tried to tear off the elastic man’s lower jaw, but before he could get anywhere, a foot caught him in the back of the head. A beat later, Luffy’s body started to expand beneath Doomguy. The lithe form of the pirate vanished as he swelled up into some sort of Frankenstein monster.

Now blue-skinned and a few times larger than he had any right to be, Luffy shoved Doomguy to the ground. The marine immediately scrambled for the hammer the pirate had dropped during their first scuffle. Before the two could have at it, a gunshot ran through the air, and the ground in front of Luffy, causing the Nightmare Pirate to let out a guttural roar as his eyes moved beyond Doomguy to the woman at the edge of the park.

Knowing she’d missed, Cindy tried to steady herself for another shot when the massive blue hand stretched out and closed around her head. A second hand grabbed the rifle causing it to discharge up into the sky as Luffy jerked his first massive fist, snapping the Monster Hunter’s neck.

As Luffy reeled back his limbs, Doomguy took that moment to grab a nearby lamppost that had fallen during the pirate’s initial hammer rampage. With a scowl, the marine wrenched away the post from its broken base, spun it around, and slammed the jagged end through Luffy’s shoulder, twisting and jerking the rod of steel from side to side.

The nightmare pirate growled as he managed to smack away Doomguy with a foot. As Luffy’s left arm fell limp as his side, his right hand reoriented the fifty cal to face its intended target. The marine let out a growl and grabbed hold the weapon as it discharged. Weakened as he was, Luffy let go as the force of the bullet threw Doomguy onto a patch of rosebushes.

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Gildarts avoided another burst of fire. A beat later, an amped-up Deadpool rushed in and nearly tore his head off with a shovel swing. The bandaged prime ducked away and caught the mercenary in the arm with his gunblade, tearing through his suit and tearing the flesh and muscle below. Deadpool let out a yelp and pulled away as Gildarts turned to try and quickly deal with Sasuke.

Unfortunately for the mighty prime, the numbers were not in his favor, and as he turned to try and cut down the ninja, he was smashed in the face by the barrel of the flamethrower. Gildarts fell backwards and hit the ground long enough to let Deadpool swing his shovel down onto his opponent’s hand, crushing the other prime’s good hand into the grass. Screaming out in pain, Gildarts lashed out wildly with the blade. He missed, but it gave him the breathing room to make it to his feet and fall back into a place where he could prevent the pair from circling around him again.

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Victor Wolfe limped from the park. The wound to his head was making him see double, and he was having a problem navigate. He didn’t want to be a burden to his group of allies, so he decided to remove himself from the equation. As he stumbled out of the park and onto the street, he clutched at his head to make the bleeding stop.

From somewhere behind him, he heard a man singing.

“Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag… drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?”

“Who is that?” Victor muttered, unable to figure out who was singing as he turned and tried to see. Now that he was in the street, the lights from the park weren’t helping him quite as much.

“Do you ever feel… feel so paper thin. Just like a house of cards, one blow from cavin’ in.”

An elbow crushed into the prime’s skull. He stumbled forward as a foot slammed into the back of his knee. The second low dropped him to his knees. Before he could figure out what was going on, the bag slid over his head and was pulled taut, cutting off his ability to breathe. The prime tried to fight back, his fingers grabbing at the muscular arms that held the bag in place over his head, but he had been dizzy before all of this had happened.

Victor Wolfe would be famous for many things in the Abyss. He’d sent a woman to hell as part of an elaborate tale of treachery and deceit.

And now he would be famous for being killed by a plastic bag.

As Victor slipped into death, the bag slid off his head.

“Do you ever feel already buried deep… six feet under, screams but no one seems to hear a thing?”

With a smirk, Aero took Victor’s Power Pole and sauntered off into the city, continuing to sing the song as he vanished into the night.

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“Pathetic creature, isn’t she?” Gilgamesh asked Jon Snow as the gilded king grabbed a handful of Guu’s hair and wrenched her head back so he could look her in the eyes. “You’re not so tough now, are you?”

Although she had been beaten and bludgeoned to the brink of unconsciousness, the pink-haired girl found the gall to snicker, prompting an irate Gilgamesh to slap her in the face. “What’s so funny?” Gilgamesh roared as he picked her up and threw her like a rag doll. The king turned the safety off on his assault rifle as Guu rose to wobbly legs.

“I’m going to kill you,” Guu whispered as purple tentacles suddenly tore through the girl’s back. Her eyes started to glow a dark shade of red as she lunged at Gilgamesh like some sort of demon creature. The gilded king fired a series of well-aimed bursts, but Guu evaded, hopping left and right as she closed to space. Guu lunged, but she went over Gilgamesh and landed on Jon Snow’s chest. The archer winced as she bit down onto his scalp, trying to rip into his skull.

“Off of him!” Gilgamesh roared as smashed the gun against Guu’s back, knocking her to the ground as a pale-faced Jon Snow collapsed. Using her tentacles like spider legs, Guu scampered at Gilgamesh and lunged, landing on his chest as her tendrils started to rip at his face and chest. He caught a glimpse of the bloodlust in her eyes and knew that this creature was something altogether unholy.

With a grunt, Gilgamesh managed to jam an elbow against Guu’s chin and shove her off of him. Even so, the king was now bleeding from dozens of places on his chest and face, and Guu showed no signs of relenting on her savage assault.

“Little Demon Bitch!” A gruff voice shouted, prompting Guu to turn around to see a smiling marine holding a BFG. “Go to hell.” He said as he pulled the trigger, releasing a concentrated burst of plasma into Guu as she tried to lunge at him. There was vibrant explosion of light as the pink-haired girl was hurtled through the air and into the dark.

“Thanks,” Gilgamesh replied as he turned to see that Deadpool had grabbed the Furby from the box. “What are you doing?” The king demanded as the mercenary started to gleefully poke at the furry animatronic animal.

“It’s so cute,” Deadpool cooed as the Furby spat out some gibberish in Furbish. As the merc with a mouth was about to say something else, the Furby started to wiggle in his hands, and its eyes began to glow. “Oh, well that’s weird.” He muttered as everyone’s collars started to flicker.

Just like that, everyone was gone from the park in the blink of an eye.


[spoiler]

#39 Victor Wolfe DEAD
#02 Cindy DEAD

27 Primes Remain

Gildarts used Tier 1 Transformation Tier 1 Transformation! (-1 SP)
Vincent Valentine used Tier 1 Transformation (-1 SP)
Gilgamesh used Tier 1 Transformation Runes of Babylon (-1 SP)
Guu used Tier 2 Transformation Spawn of the Elders (-2 SP)
Desco used Tier 1 Power Up Battle Aura! (-1 SP)
Luffy used Tier 1 Power Up Nightmare Luffy! (-1 SP)
Sasuke Uchiha has used Tier 1 Transformation Cursed Seal of the Heavens (-1 SP)
Deadpool has used Tier 1 Transformation An End to an Overture (-1 SP)

Desco Used Tier 1 Super Move A Final Boss Arises! (-2 SP)
Doomguy used Tier 2 Super Move BFG9000 (-4 SP)

Desco has been shot by a few nails and has extensive burning… she will be in extreme agony – Major Injury and Minor Injury (+10 Damage)
Vincent has a mixture of burns and cuts from being ice-burned (Yea, deal with it) – Major Injury (+6 Damage)
Wartortle has suffered the same injuries as Vincent!!! (because yes, sometimes AoE attacks can be useful) – Major Injury (+8 Damage)
Luffy has a stab wound completely through his left shoulder that will render that limb pretty much useless – Major Injury (+8 Damage)
Doomguy’s armor seems less shiny
Gildarts’ good hand is smashed – Major Injury (+6 Damage)
Deadpool has a nasty cut on his arm – Minor Injury (+2 Damage)
Sasuke has a gash across his chest— Minor Injury (+2 Damage)
Guu will have horrifying burns all over her body. Everywhere. Her limbs will ache and throb and she’ll hate everything about being alive for a little while – Major Injury (+8 Damage)
Gilgamesh has some extensive cuts and tears on his chest and face – Minor Injury (+4 Damage)
Jon Snow has a bloody bite across half his scalp because someone tried to eat him – Minor Injury (+2 Damage)
Gilgamesh and Jon are mortified and will probably have nightmares about Elder Ones Guu – Story Injury (+5 years of therapy)
Doomguy doesn’t give a fuck – Story Injury (+0 Shits)

Vincent has used 1 Molotov Cocktail (1 remains)
Deadpool received the Survival Shovel from Gilgamesh
Luffy received the Sniper Rifle from Cindy
Doomguy stole the Hammer from Luffy
Deadpool received Furbie
Gilgamesh gets the Gold Rathian Egg
Aero gets the Power Pole

Furbie activates secondary power[/spoiler]