Faith: 6
Minato: 5
Noriko: 6, Hyper[3]
Shef: 5
Yoake: 5, Hyper[6]
Yuki: 6
Kung Führer: 1, Hyper[6]
Vape Knight A: 6
Vape Knight B: 6, Hyper[4]
A shimmering field of seven layered fields flashes out in front of Faith, but of course the field was to stop projectiles, and the Vape Knight was most certainly not a projectile. Faith grabs her potion and the Knight's staff slaps it right out of her grasp, but before it could seal the deal, a massive spear slams against its side. It's not a clean hit, blocked by the vape staff and mitigated by a quick turn on the part of the Knight, but it was enough to stop the attack, enough to buy the relieving trio time to close in-
Oh fuck.
Noriko
feels it, through her spear. The other Knight is soon to be dead, but it moved still, one final parting spell, and she had a feeling she knew where it was aimed. She hits the brakes and swerves behind Minato, and then comes the blast.
Now, here's the thing to remember, this psychedelic distortion Faith found herself in, it's not there for the feng shui, it's there because it hurts, because it murders people, so just being inside it was damaging her, this strange erosion upon her form. So she's not exactly feeling too well, even with Yuki helping counteract the damage to an extent. But that discomfort, that doesn't even begin to compare to having an explosion spawn right inside her chest. For a brief instant, the world burns neon, a flash of superluminality, nothingness, and assorted distorted disorienting sensations. And then, the distortion detonates, a gas leak lit by a single errant spark - that initial blast. What follows next, is much the same, but well, a fair bit bigger. The blast shatters the last vestiges of Rho Aias and tears through Minato's aegis, not that it stops him, Durandal striking through and running through A. Yuki and Noriko though, they find themselves being hurled backwards by the shockwave, back towards the whole Hitler situation.
How did that go anyway?
Well, Shef immediately shot the luger out of his hand, Satoshi sweeped his legs out from under him with her extending staff, and Yoake proceeded to just absolutely riddle the guy with machine gun fire before blowing off his arm, and really a good chunk of his shoulder and torso. But of course, things never are that easy, and it soon becomes apparent that what he was about to do, did not require him to shoot himself in the head. No, it simply required him to perish. Or at least for his body to. And as that fatal vacuum blast crashed into him, he cries out a single word:
"PERSONA!"Blood becomes light, and crimson fills the air. From crimson rises white, from white rises black, a grand swastika. White explodes outwards, as a shell of thunder and lightning, and the swastika twists into a silhouetted figure.
He is dressed in the robes of a shaolin monk, fortified with leather, trimmed with fur, and armored with steel. His beard is as red as blood and as wispy as the clouds, his eyes were focused, fierce, burning with intensity, and his hammer was the fury of the heavens themselves. There was no mistaking it, the phantom figure took the form of Thor.
Behind him, a heart-shaped lock opens, vanishing in a flash of light, and in the instant the Kung Führer regenerates, the ring now with only two heart floating faithfully behind him.
Yoake, you immediately take note of the aura you feel radiating from him, it's a sensory aura that feels the movement of spirit energy around him. Not something you use, but something you recognize, a defensive chi-based technique that grants the user improved reflexes and instinct at the cost of killing power. You also recognize what Thor's doing with Mjolnir right now, by detaching the head from the handle to reveal an extending chord, and swinging that around, he's wielding it as a meteor hammer, it's a kind of weapon that consists of a heavy weight attached to a long chord that can be swung, cast, and kicked often in a circular motion and often with each action complementing the others. Finicky to use, but potentially devastating and with good reach, and at times, speed. Combine that with the lightning coursing through it, and well, it becomes a lot harder to deal with, going to be difficult getting the chord in a tangle if it's a damn livewire. Well, for a person at least. But you? You're in a mech, and its armor sure as shit ain't conductive.
So here's how things go down.
With the swaying of a drunkard, Hitler sways and staggers side to side, aiming to stagger right into Shef, sway forwards into Satoshi with an explosive palm strike, and swerve around for a leg sweep on Yoake. Thor is covering him with a wipe aerial sweep of his hammer, aiming to catch both Yuki and Noriko before they recover, before kicking the hammer head and sending the whole damn thing extending at high speed and slamming into Faith's spine from afar, though he seems to also be eyeing Shef with murderous intent and no action.
Satoshi readies into stance, shrinking her Regalia into the dimensions of an eskrima stick.
"That spectre has no life of its own. Damaging it will temporarily disrupt its functions, but you'll need to eliminate its master to keep it down."Knight A is dropping its staff and snapping its fingers, aiming to do one last parting blast on the already fucked up Faith before Minato explodes the construct out of existence, and Knight B is helping out by being a whole load of debris slowly sinking into the infinite depths of the abyss because right after it attacked Noriko tore it to pieces.
"Minato! Projectile coming from behind you!"Oh and uh Faith, on one hand, if seeing Evi getting her chest caved in has taught you anything other than that she might be a masochist, it's that Godslayers can take an awful lot of punishment and that you've probably can take a fair bit more of damage before you're at risk of kicking the bucket. On the other hand, that fucking hurt. Like okay, not as much as you expected (some kind of pain tolerance boost combined with adrenaline?) but you still did just take two explosions which don't exactly tickle.
Faith
Status: Critical, internal damage (going to be hard performing any particularly straining actions such as her spells and moving quickly, at least, without risking more internal damage), coughing up blood, exhausted, dizzy, disoriented, feeling faint, out of breath
World Line: 5 3 3 3 5 2 3 3 6 2
Alterations: 2
Resolve: 2
Minato
Status: Fine, Chou Henshin active for one more turn, Durandal, 15 stockpiled units, furious
World Line: 2 2 1 3 3 6 5 2 6 1
Alterations: 4
Resolve: 3
Noriko
Status: Fine, bit of shielding, careening through the air
World Line: 2 4 3 4 6 4 5 6 4 1
Alterations: 4
Resolve: 3
Shef
Status: Fine, slight shielding, 10x Cache
World Line: 5 2 5 3 6 2 3 4 5 5
Alterations: 4+
Resolve: 2
Yoake
Status: Fine, slight shielding, 9x Heat Butt, enhanced Requiem active for one more turn
World Line: 3 4 5 6 5 5 1 3 3 5
Alterations: 2
Resolve: 2
Yuki
Status: Fine, HEAVENLY AEGIS (Max), GUIDANCE OF THE MOON, careening through the air, berserk
World Line: 4 6 6 4 4 1 4 4 6 5
Alterations: 4
Resolve: 3
Satoshi
Status: Fine, slight shielding, 1x Spirit Injector
Kung Führer
Status: Fine, two locks remaining
Shaolin Thor
Status: Fine
Vape Knight A
Status: Stab wound to the gut, frontal armor is damaged and sparking, side armor has been smashed apart, left arm is missing
Vape Knight B
Status: Destroyed
SatoshiA highly technical close quarters specialist armed with rod of force that can alter its own dimensions and well-versed in multiple martial arts. She has immense amounts of willpower.
- Spirit Injector [4]: Satoshi conjures up a syringe of compressed spirit energy which may be injected into something. She can maintan three at the same time.
Yuki is now Berserk. She is considered to be under the effects of Determination, and can execute a slower less powerful Surprise Attack for free. Chain Lightning is disabled.
Minato is now Furious. His stockpiling rate is doubled and he can choose to double-cast Dai Henshin instead of a regular one (so a double Dai Henshin only costs a single [6] but he does take double damage from its recoil).
Remember how I kept on saying that item use wasn't a free action and enemies could attack or steal potions? Yup.
Thor's AoE upon summoning didn't do shit because Hitler was so focused on summoning him, he used a 1 to ensure that incoming attacks would 'kill' him, which came at the cost of the AoE failing to expand enough to actually reach anyone nearby. Trying to disarm him was pretty smart actually, didn't work in the end since Yoake's attacks had a little too much killing power, but you had no way of knowing that it was based on him 'dying'.
Faith while not at risk of dying (remember this is animu, injuries look super bad, people make a massive deal out of them, but then two minutes later (much less if count in-universe time rather than viewing time) they're back up like nothing even happened) did take a fair bit of damage. She ate a [5], a [4], and the special detonation effect that happens when those two particular hypers meet. The [4] is actually more damaging than the [5] normally since the [5] trades power for remaining on the battlefield as an area denial/battlefield control phenomenon.
Also just because Vape Knight A is trying to get a parting shot off doesn't mean it will. As long as Minato does like a blast or mass tendril stab instead of trying to fuck Faith back to full health it's gonna be dead before it can cast. It's armored but well, Minato's pretty fucking monstrous when he's well-stockpiled.
The careening through the air thing is way more an issue for Yuki than Noriko. Since Noriko y'know, controls air and can fly.
Yoake recovered from the recoil stun of her attack before the turn ended.
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