The Battle of Death Mountain: Gamma

[Tearen Wover]

They were on their own now.

Ever since the other Primes had dashed off, the constant wailing howls of the dragons had continued unabated. Everyone spoke of Alpha Squad as if they had the most grueling, dangerous job, but no one exactly knew how many broodlings Volvagia had spawned over the past decade. Sure she wasn't responsible for EVERY dragon in the Steppes, but being the de facto leader of all dragon-kind, she had likely drawn the groveling of more than a few different strains.

Suddenly, a momentous explosion sounded from the top of the Caldera. Had it begun? A nearby stream of lava began frothing and undulating unnaturally, and the collected Primes readied themselves for the onslaught. Harry was half-expecting some sort of bemusing anticlimax, but no, hundreds of slithering, crawling wyrms began to pour out of the molten notch like bats from a cave. Some had wings, some had horns, and some even walked upright with a humanoid gaite, but they all did possess one single defining characteristic.

Their eyes, those gleaming, aqeuous lenses, glinted with a fierce blue-green that marked them as one of Volvagia's kind. The Gorons in the clearing did not hesitate, and immediately started chucking explosive bulbs at the encroaching swarm. Another nearby crack in the mountain began spewing the draconic vermin, and in short enough order, hundreds of barking, hissing dragons were closing on Gamma.

"Well." Miranda said, bashing her steel knuckles together in a shower of sparks. "Shall we?" In response, Colonel and Connor immediately opened fire...

Objective: Fend off Volvagia's horde until either it disperses or Alpha Squad completes their objective.

Players can take four different actions:

Attack- Focus on directly damaging the horde, dealing equal points of damage to your ATK, or 10 dmg per tier of supermove. Power Ups and Forms give the normal ATL and DEF bonuses

Defend- Forgo dealing damage and avoid taking any damage, at the expense of either another Prime or the Gorons

Pull- Call the attention of the horde for an extra amount of damage you decide.

No Action- Deal no Damage and take full damage, with any defended damage automatically being alloted to you. (In other words, don't miss a round)

The Horde deals 16 damage each round, distributed evenly among Primes unless someone defends or pulls. Damage only hurts Primes when the amount alloted to them overcomes their defense, i.e., A 5 DEF Prime who draws 5 damage is unharmed.

There are 20 Gorons, which can serve two functions. Either they can each individually deal the horde 1 point of damage per round, or, you can use them as meat shields to block 2 damage per Goron used. Using them in this way obviously kills them.

The Horde has 1,000 HP, each HP representing one dragon. Extra damage may be granted for outstanding writing. 

Word limit is 800.