Reality's Bane (IC/Open)

[Widgetalia]

"This puny organic is going to regret facing Red Baron!" Red Baron shouted in an insane tone as he fired his machine gun at Goku, knowing that his superhuman opponent would have to pull punches in order to avoid hurting the hostages, laughing manically as the armor piercing rounds flew through the air.

[Slenderman The CreepyPasta King]

Beach City, Ground
Bombshock looked at the new hero arrivals "Well, well, well. What do we have here? A bunch of little heroes here to save the day by the looks of it. Well you're too late, it's only gonna get worse from here." Meanwhile, Goku came face to face with Dropshot, who was going to take care of Sans and Papyrus "Get outta my face, ugly. I have a job to do." Growl then came upon Red Baron "What are you doing, you cog? We're not taking any prisoners. This is a genocide we're doing. Wait, who the scrap are you anyways?" he then turned to Tatsumaki "Hah, you fools are too late. Crankcase and Ruckus are probably destroying the artifact as we speak!

Beach City, Temple
The Triggercons emerged from the hole in the temple, now carrying everything useful they found in the temple. Ruckus set down his stuff "THAT WAS FUN, NOW WE BLOW IT UP AND THE REAL PARTY STARTS!" Crankcase also set down the stolen items "That's right, we slag the place and go now. Ready?" the two readied themselves "Three. Two. One. FIRE!" the two Triggercons flipped out their shoulder cannons and fired at the temple, causing a loud and bright explosion which could be seen all around.

"Ugly? My name is Son Goku, not ugly?" Goku said before it slowly clicked in his mind. "Ohh that ugly-HEY! I'M NOT UGLY!!!" That is when tue bullets just hit him, not injuring him in the slightest. Turning to red barron he said,"hey, that's not fair, I'm not using any weapons." Now he didn't really care about the hostages but he didn't want anyone to get hurt in his fight so he said,"Kioken," a red aura flaring up and doubling his speed, power, strength, and ki attacks. Then he rushed red Barron and punched the hand holding the cage as hard as he could.

[Widgetalia]

"Look at that. The telepath did the job for me! I would love to stay and chat, but I got a date with the City Treasury!" Red Baron said in a jovial tone as he ran towards the vault where the treasury would be held, a blob-like pile of blood and torn flesh began forming a puddle on the ground.

[Naval Monte]

Earth Prime

"You're in luck mate, I've been to New York plenty of time to be familiar with the place." Elizabeth said to Tads as she blew out smoke from her cigarette. "I know where the UN headquarters is, depending on which street we're in we may need to call up a taxi or use a bus to get there." Elizabeth began to walk through the derelict building to find the exit. Eventually the chain smoking witch found her way out of the building and looking around the other skyscrapers and tall apartment buildings she knew she was down town.

Elizabeth knew that her idea of getting either a taxi or bus would have the issue of money which with her British pound would be useless. The mage walked into a large crowd of people and with her hands began to skillfully pickpocket from random people.

---

Beach City

"papyrus you go after the artifact, i'll stay here and deal with these losers." Papyrus agreed and made a bone platform and flew off to find the artifact while Sans stayed behind. "funny, you are starting to remind me of someone who i knew a long time ago. you know what i always did to that person?" Sans eye flashed and Bombshock was soon surrounded by blasters and they all fired at the same time at him.

He would soon find that each time he dodged more blasters would appear firing at him along with a barrage of bones being fired from Sans.

[Petrokovia]

Earth Prime

"You're in luck mate, I've been to New York plenty of time to be familiar with the place." Elizabeth said to Tads as she blew out smoke from her cigarette. "I know where the UN headquarters is, depending on which street we're in we may need to call up a taxi or use a bus to get there." Elizabeth began to walk through the derelict building to find the exit. Eventually the chain smoking witch found her way out of the building and looking around the other skyscrapers and tall apartment buildings she knew she was down town.

Elizabeth knew that her idea of getting either a taxi or bus would have the issue of money which with her British pound would be useless. The mage walked into a large crowd of people and with her hands began to skillfully pickpocket from random people.

---

Beach City

"papyrus you go after the artifact, i'll stay here and deal with these losers." Papyrus agreed and made a bone platform and flew off to find the artifact while Sans stayed behind. "funny, you are starting to remind me of someone who i knew a long time ago. you know what i always did to that person?" Sans eye flashed and Bombshock was soon surrounded by blasters and they all fired at the same time at him.

He would soon find that each time he dodged more blasters would appear firing at him along with a barrage of bones being fired from Sans.

Tadayoshi followed Elizabeth outside.
"If we could find an ATM, we wouldn't need to do that, you know."

---

Bloodfyre and Gold decided to help Sans with Bombshock.
"Ty, try a fire blast attack!"
Ty unleashed a fire blast towards Bombshock, and Bloodfyre followed it up with another electrical attack.

Meanwhile, Tatsumaki followed Red Baron, and used her telekinesis to raise two chunks of rock out of the ground, and smash them together on either side of his head.
"You should stop this now. If I have to put effort into this fight I'd wind up destroying the city."

---

Fox McCloud looked out of the bridge of the Great Fox, having heard the discussions from the rest of the group.
"R.O.B., are repairs finished?"
"Yes. The Great Fox is ready for its next mission."
"Great! Now we can get back into the action!" Falco piped up.

Soon, the Great Fox took off, appearing in the skies above Beach City. The launch sequence started, with everyone aboard (minus R.O.B. 64) getting into their Arwings and flying out in formation. Soon, they picked up familiar signatures on their radars.

"Oh, great..."
Fox opened the free communications channels, and spoke to all pilots.
"Wolf? What are you doing here?" he asked, already tired of Wolf's appearance before even interacting with him.

[Widgetalia]

"I'll get Goku for scratching my paint job, but I need to get as much loot as I can out of the city before Skyquake exterminates the survivors!" Red Baron shouted in an angry tone as he tore open the bank vault, ignoring the massive dent in his armor. "He may have been holding back this time, but neither on of us will be pulling punches the next time we meet." Red baron said as he took what little loot he could carry in his condition and burned the rest, guaranteeing that even if the attack was repelled, the city government would not be able to pay for the repairs. He then headed to the city limits, a look of anger on his face as he realized that he still could not afford the black market fusion cannon. "Forget about that telepath. I don't have time to squash every single gnat under the sun, even if they hurl all the rocks they want at me." He whispered to himself as he passed the ruins.

[Flarbinia]

"I better head down there. Red Baron may be insane, but he is Skyquake's underling to punish, not a target for some filthy organic to destroy." Sasha said as she broke off her attack and headed for the city center, the ruins devoid of life. She saw an energon cage full of blood, a sign that Red baron had been there. "I thought I had to wait until the battle was over before I got to torture some organics to death! They may not reveal any valuable information, but I haven't had this much fun since Utah!" She shouted as she opened fire on Goku and Bloodfyre, unleashing her full payload on the two warriors. "Bombshock, I presume? If any of these organics survive this confrontation, I am going to torture them into revealing Red Baron's location." She said in a friendly tone to Bombshock as she transformed, picked up a street lamp, charged at Sans, and swung it at his head like a golf club.

[Naval Monte]

Beach City

Sans teleported away from Sasha's attack. When he appeared he was on her head. Before Sasha can react a blaster hit her on her face and others fired on both the sides and back of her head. "heads up killbot, this ride isn't over." more bones emerged from the ground and flew towards her. Papyrus was still on his bone platform and he can see a house by the cliff, he hoped that it was an important building and not just a normal house that looked seemingly important but wasn't.

---

Earth Prime

After swiping some money from her victims Elizabeth stealthy hide the money in her pockets. "True but I felt like having a bit of fun before we get down to business. I think I have enough to treat ourselves to lunch if we ever get hungry." she told them. She gestured the group to follow her as she walked to the closest bank they can find. Once they reached their location Elizabeth turned to Tadayoshi. "I can try to hack into it but I have a feeling that hacking may be your thing."

[Petrokovia]

Earth Prime

After swiping some money from her victims Elizabeth stealthy hide the money in her pockets. "True but I felt like having a bit of fun before we get down to business. I think I have enough to treat ourselves to lunch if we ever get hungry." she told them. She gestured the group to follow her as she walked to the closest bank they can find. Once they reached their location Elizabeth turned to Tadayoshi. "I can try to hack into it but I have a feeling that hacking may be your thing."

Tadayoshi took out his wallet, and then took a card out of it, sticking it into the ATM. Soon, he realized than Earth Prime did, in fact, have a TD Bank. However, after putting in the pin he then realized that he didn't exist in Earth Prime, and could not get money.
Or so he thought.
"Wait, I'm in? Wow, lucky..." he said, honestly impressed at the situation.
"Huh. Well, I guess what I'm doing is technically illegal, huh? But whatever. Higher stakes."
He got a receipt first, so he knew how much was in the account, then picked out enough money so as not to overdraw. He tore up the receipt and threw it in the trash, and pocketed the money.
"Got like, $200. That'll probably be enough. So, who wants to hail a cab?" He joked. "They never stop anyway."

---

Bloodfyre took a knee, and brought up his shield. His armor and shield would protect him from the attacks. He then brought out a bow-Not just any bow, but a bow enchanted to put out the force of an 800 pound draw, with steel arrows. If Bloodfyre, a notable archer in his world, hit his mark, the steel arrow could go through several inches of steel.

Tatsumaki flew in front of Red Baron, arms crossed
"Okay, this is far enough." she said. She lifted him with her telekinetic powers once again, before throwing him backwards. She then lifted several cars into the air and made her way towards her opponent.

[Naval Monte]

As Tads worked on the ATM Elizabeth lean on the wall next to him and the machine, watching the people walking by. She knew very well that this was not her world and that she would not anything strange in this world like how she would in her world. There would be no flying creatures and spirits who only she can see, no strange beings walking on the sidewalks either invisible and intangible to humans or look like humans to everyone out on the streets, no other supernatural and arcane phenomena, beings and events in this world.

A world that was completely normal. I suppose if you look at it in terms of safety this place is a paradise when compared to back home. But for me the luxury of this world will quickly become stale and boring." the mage thought, she accepted the fact that she gets a rush from dealing with the strangeness and mysteries of her world and sure this world will have it's own share of strange and mysterious events but knowing that it won't have the ones she is use too sort of kills any incentive on her ever staying in this world for long.

Elizabeth mused on how she, Tadz and Clover are the only odd balls around, funny enough she felt even more of an outsider in here than in her own world. Back home she walked the line between the mundane and the strange, but she was not the only one on that twilight path of existence. Yet in here she was the only mage around, the only source of magic and the supernatural as her other partners are both byproducts of science and tech far ahead of everyone here... well Clover may be magical but she wasn't sure.

Once Tadz was done and got two hundred dollars from the machine she turn her attention back to him. While the occultists was people watching she still heard what he said to her. "It's only illegal if you get caught. But you are right that right now petty theft is the least of our and this world's problem." Elizabeth moved away from the wall and walked forward. Taking out her smartphone she began to type down a number that she remembered and soon her phone was ringing.

"Good that taxi services exists in this world." Soon Elizabeth got someone from the taxi services on the other line and called for one to come by her street. A few minutes will pass and soon a bright yellow car would drive up to them. "Cheers mate. Take us to the UN headquarters." the driver agreed as Elizabeth got inside the taxi.

[Flarbinia]

"You think those cheap pyrotechnics can intimidate a Decepticon? They couldn't hurt a fly!" Sasha said as she activated her force field, the bones bouncing off harmlessly as she fired her null ray at Sans. "My armor can withstand a direct hit from a fusion cannon and my force field has withstood a barrage of high yield disrupter blasts! What makes you think a puny arrow can do any better?" She said as she spotted Bloodfyre pulling back his bow, the only words that could describe the look in her eyes were "bring it on".

[Widgetalia]

"Ha! Ha! Ha! You are either as high as a kite or retarded if you assume that I will fall for the same trick twice, especially when your boyfriend ain't around to save you this time." Red Baron laughed as the holographic doppelganger dissipated, the so-called telepath falling for the oldest and easiest trick in Decepticon history like a world class sucker. "Tell your ancestors I said Guten Tag if there is anything left for your friends to bury!" Red Baron said as he fired his remaining missiles at the vehicles before switching back to his machine gun and opening fire on the telepath, laughing maniacally as the armor piercing rounds flew through the air.

[Aeternabilis]

New York
As the trio of heroes got closer the United Nations, things would become obviously wrong. An unnatural air of unease settled in on everyone. The grounds around the building seemed to be completely deserted, and the people of New York looked to go out of their way to avoid the place. However, their expressions gave no indication as to the reason. The taxi driver stopped a full block away from the grounds and asked for the fare, also not giving a reason for letting them off that far away.

Aebrenata
Zarall doubled over and screamed in pain at his artifact being destroyed. As Celestials rushed to tend to their leader, he sent a pained telepathic message to the heroes in Beach City.
"The temple is lost. Your mission now is solely to drive off the invaders. Protect the civilians. Save the world."

Beach City
"Wwoww, wwhat a shitshoww." Eridan said loudly as the trolls surveyed the chaos of Beach City. "I bet our invvasion forces wwere nevver this disorganized. This is just shameful." "Critique their battle strategy later, Eridan," Kanaya replied. "Instead I suggest that we-" A massive explosion on the beach distracted her, and a few moments later Zarall's telepathic message hit. "Never mind I guess."
"Now what do we do?"
"You heard Zarall," Equius said, setting his sights on Growl. "Destroy them all." He jumped forward and punched Growl in the chest, denting his metal body horrendously and launching him backwards. Nepeta ran after him, saying, "I think he just meant make them retreat!"
"I think we should find survivors and help them get to Aebrenata," Kanaya said, turning to Eridan, only to find that he was already flying into battle. "Or just me then." Not looking particularly enthused, she began searching for survivors.
Meanwhile, Eridan flew over and landed near Bloodfyre. He ripped out his wand, said "Howw about you try this then, you giant metal sack of swill!", and shot a powerful beam of Hope magic at Sasha.

[Slenderman The CreepyPasta King]

"Got it." Goku said before flying towards the nearest decepticon, this time it was Sasha. When he saw here put up a forcefield he cupped his hands and started saying the words all his enemies feat. "KAME-HAME-----HAAAAAAAAAA" unleashing the turtle destruction wave, his hair flew back in the wind tha was created as the beam hit the forcefield full force. If that didn't work he always had the spirit bomb, but that would require someone to stall for time while he collected enough energy.

[Flarbinia]

"Skyquake will not be pleased! You'll pay for this the next time we meet, you spiky haired freak show!" Sasha said as she transformed and flew towards the enemy fighters, her force field having dissipated after taking the full brunt of Goku's energy blast while her armor only took a small fraction of that power. "The foolish human, powerful as he can be, is no Seal Team Six. I would not be able to retreat had he aimed little more to the right. Eridan, on the other hand, has aim that would get him laughed off the Stormtrooper firing range." Sasha thought as she continued her ascent, Her null rays firing at the Arwing.

[Naval Monte]

Beach City

Sans vanished as Sasha tried to fire him off her head. When he appeared he saw the force field around her so he experimented with his soul manipulation powers to lift her up in the air and to be in the center of a gaster blaster ambush. With the artifact destroyed Papyrus felt bad for failing but once he heard Zarall's voice to protect the civilians Papyrus summon a swarm of bones and attacked the invading robots, to make himself a perfect distraction to let the civilians leave this doomed town alive.

---

New York

Elizabeth felt the uneasy tension in the air, her body and instincts telling her that the pleasant normal facade that the world had was now slowly being peeled away. The occultist made a small smirk, on one hand she hated the fact that this universe which was very important for the fabric of reality was in danger but at the same time she was glad that no things were going to her level of work.

Elizabeth looked outside and can see everyone walking by acting like everything was normal but her aura sight told her enough, the colors of the people's auras were all in the color of unease and fear, whatever is waiting for them on the UN was something that even normal people can tell was wrong. When the driver stopped a full block the mage sighed. "Thanks mate, keep the tip." she told him as she got up. Putting her hands in her pants pocket she walked her to the building.

[Flarbinia]

The Skies Over Beach City
"Pathetic little runt actually thought that his cheap pyrotechnics would penetrate my Force field. If it wasn't for the organic designated as Goku, I would have crushed him like a bug. However, there are bigger fish to fry. I got to take out these puny organics and their pathetic little jets before they cause anymore problems." Sasha said as she continued her assault on the Arwings that were still flying over Beach City. The "trickster god" had proven to be an ineffective foe that posed no real threat, so she ignored his presence for the moment, focusing her efforts on destroying the Arwings.

[Slenderman The CreepyPasta King]

Goku flew after Sasha, quickly catching up and said,"hi." Before flying ahead of her and blocking her path. When she got close enough he kneed her where the gut would be before spiking her to the ground.

[Widgetalia]

"Sorry, little girl but, unfortunately for us, my teammate's survival is higher on my priority list than your death. If you are grateful for your life being spared, you will not pursue me or encumber my path." Red Baron said to the telepath before he painfully transformed into his ALT Mode and flew towards Goku, the scar from Goku's punch still showing on the side of the F-84. When he got within range, he fired everything he still had at Goku, knowing that his opponent would attack the more immediate threat.

[Flarbinia]

"Thanks for the support, Red baron!" Sasha said as she took off and came in for a pass, knowing that her damaged T-Cog made her useless on the ground. She then collided into a building, causing the damaged structure to land on Goku's head. "Leave him, we need to assist Skyquake in eliminating the enemy air force." She shouted as she moved towards the Arwings.

[Petrokovia]

Tatsumaki regrouped with Bloodfyre, Gold, and Sans.

Music
Meanwhile, Fay spoke to the rest of Star Fox on their closed communcation channel.
"Enemy fighters incoming, ten o'clock."
Slippy scrolled through some menus on the touch screen interface in his Arwing, and soon, several specs of the enemy transformers, including possible weak points, were sent to the rest of the group.
"Enemy shields analyzed."
"Good work, Slip. All wings, enter all range mode. Falco, you're leader of Squad Two for this run. Miyu and Peppy, you're on Squad Two. You guys will break off and climb. Come at the enemy from above while Slippy, Fay, and I take them head-on."
"Got it, Fox."

Falco lead his detachment in breaking away and climbing, while Fox's group turned to come nose-to-nose with Sasha.
"Squad One, prep aerial torpedos and tracking missiles."

---

Tadayoshi looked around.
"Huh. Tall place. So, should we go in?"

[Widgetalia]

"There is nothing more we can do to Goku with our ammunition exhausted on insignificant gnats. Let him live long enough to watch Beach City to the ground. Shame I can't bring the loot with me, though." Red Baron said in a grief stricken tone as followed Sasha into the sky, realizing that he needed to prove to Skyquake that he was worth more online than rusting in the scrap heap to stay alive long enough to loot again. He immediately opened fire on the Arwings, laughing maniacally as he imagined the look on their faces.

[Petrokovia]

"There is nothing more we can do to Goku with our ammunition exhausted on insignificant gnats. Let him live long enough to watch Beach City to the ground. Shame I can't bring the loot with me, though." Red Baron said in a grief stricken tone as followed Sasha into the sky, realizing that he needed to prove to Skyquake that he was worth more online than rusting in the scrap heap to stay alive long enough to loot again. He immediately opened fire on the Arwings, laughing maniacally as he imagined the look on their faces.

"Do a barrel roll!" Peppy shouted. The squad immediately did an aileron roll, knowing what Peppy meant, despite his possible slight dementia.
When the Arwings did this, the G-Diffusers were kicked into overdrive, bringing up powerful shields which reflected the projectiles, leaving the Arwings without a scratch.
"Open fire at will."
"Firing 1 & 2" Fay said, firing two torpedoes towards Red Baron.
Fox fired two tracking missiles at Sasha and Red Baron each.

[Flarbinia]

"Dasvidaniya, puny organics!" Sasha said as she fired her null rays, dodging the missiles. "Lord Skyquake, enemy reinforcements have arrived! I am engaging who I assume to be their leader and Red Baron has opened fire on the fighters that broke off from the main group." Sasha said to her commander as she fired continued to fire on Fox, knowing that all it would take was a direct hit from her null rays to take down his Arwing.

[Petrokovia]

"Dasvidaniya, puny organics!" Sasha said as she fired her null rays, dodging the missiles. "Lord Skyquake, enemy reinforcements have arrived! I am engaging who I assume to be their leader and Red Baron has opened fire on the fighters that broke off from the main group." Sasha said to her commander as she fired continued to fire on Fox, knowing that all it would take was a direct hit from her null rays to take down his Arwing.

"Squad One, break formation. Cut her options off, I'm going to try to take her down." Fox said, calmly. He then dove down, and used Gravity Diffusion to pull his Arwing out of the dive and line it up behind Sasha immediately. He fired his lasers at her, making sure to match her speed.
Fay and Slippy flew in different directions. Fay pulled up wing-to-wing with Sasha on her left, and Slippy did the same on her right side, cutting off some of her options for mobility.

Meanwhile, Falco, Peppy, and Miyu kept a tight formation, flying back around for another pass at Red Baron.

Meanwhile, the missiles Sasha had dodged began their arc around to reacquire her as a target.