Dawn of Champions [IC Thread]

[Skyhooked]

Team Skyhooked had good news and bad news. Good news, that one of the enemy gladiators was taken down. As Bjorn retracted his sword back from Demoman's chest, he said to his dying enemy: "We'll meet in Valhalla, pict warrior.", and started to look for anything helpful. A stickybomb launcher and targe shield proved to be valuable assets for viking warrior, so he took them, and decided to rush to aid his comrades.

But instad of running in an orderly fasion, he decided to utilize Demoman's explosives for transportation, for his constitution and armor, plus shield allowed him to do so without serious risk, so he fires one of the few lefotver stickies under his feet, steps into a fitting distance, and detonates it, while he jumps.

Bomb goes off and sends him into the air, also putting a few dents on his armor. Explosion also makes him lose one of it's smaller plates. But the price wasn't too high for a tactical opportunity of temporary flight. During his flight, he saw Soldier one one of the crates. Two sticky bombs were shot at him. Then Bjorn shoots the rest of them at Heavy, Medic and Pyro, who were making run for their weapons, and when he ran our of ammo, he threw the weapon itself at Medic, and landed near Pyro, rolling to prevent damage from fall. For Stan Dixon, who was surrounded by angry russian merc, ruthless stealth killer, pyromaniac and the Patient X, his arrival to the scene was a significant relief.

However, there were also bad news. Casey's fireball was deflected by Pyro's compression blast, but luckily Casey James and John Walker AI were far away already, as they were running at full speed to save their comrades. They managed to arrive to the crates, but still they had yet to get to the scene, besides, Casey James was fatigued after long running at full speed, and will have to rest for a while before he can fight at full power again. Also, John Walker AI was hit by a bullet from sniper instead of Casey, as he was near. The bullet put a large dent on his head plate.

As for Seth, his wounds got worse, and he collapsed from pain for a while, and when got up, he started to feel weakness from wounds. Old wounds started aching too. He tore a few pieces of cloth from his clothes to stop bleeding, but he still needs some sort of medic. Despite that, he will still try to fight...

Meanwhile, Stan quickly reacted to hydra's head lunging at him, and stepped back, while casting a frostbite spell from both hands, which amplifed it's effect, with jet of ice of extremely low temperature became even colder. It froze the acidic poison and hopefully caused it to fall back. The spell burned through Stan's mana pretty quickly however, rendering his magicka pool empty for a while.

[Low bloods]

Low was headed to towards a tower. He had atleast a dozen necromorph dozen blades hanging from his hip and a severed head that was still screeching. He put his hand over the face, draining it to a husk.

Meanwhile Oni slashed between the skyhook team, team fortress group, and patient X.
Unsure if he hit anyone he skidded on the ground and spun around in a defense stance holding his hand out causing a ripple through the air to catch any stray bullets. His eyes dart from left to right as he analyzed the battle. Keeping quiet for now he split his greatsword in two causing a loud metallic snapping sound. His tail started to sway as his ears tilted back and he readied a pouncing stance.
He briefly glanced at Pyro and widely grins

[Veise]

"One," counted Astre at the destruction of the first tower. He began diving down at the tower closest to the legionnaires and waited for the swarm to strike. He devised a technique to deal with the swarm and turned his sword sideways.

[The Chuck]

As Daniel and Erika rode down the volcanic land bridge back towards the loading bay area he stopped momentarily to let Erika dismount Bonnie. Handing her her weapons he also dismounted for a moment to prepare himself for the battle. Leaning against Bonnie to support his weight he went over a quick checklist. Spitting again on his bandana he tied it over his face and checked to make sure his Marlin was fully loaded. This time around he loaded it with .45-70-305 XTreme Penetrator ammunition. With his rifle loaded, he checked to make sure his bandoleer was fully filled with ammunition and his Schofield revolver and the speed loaders were on his gun belt. Satisfied with his preparations he remounted Bonnie and they galloped down the volcanic sand dunes into the fight.

As they galloped towards the fight Daniel left his rifle in the saddle scabbard and instead pulled his Schofield out. Keeping an eye on the other contestants he figured that the biggest threat to all of them was Patient X. Luckily his attention was focused on the being known as Stan Dixon from Skyhooked and the French looking Spy in a snazzy suit. Swapping his revolver to his left hand, Daniel uncoiled his lasso as he rode nearer and nearer. Thankfully for the heat of the battle, many of the fighters didn't hear the galloping hooves of Bonnie as they neared the fight. Before they were upon them, Daniel tied one end of the lasso to Bonnie's saddle pummel and started whirling it around to build up momentum. As they galloped by, he let go of his lasso and sent the noose section around Patient X and shouted.

"Yippee Ki Yay ya grass bellied bastard!"

With the momentum of Bonnie, Patient X was yanked off his feet and dragged behind as they galloped around the loading bay. Daniel made sure to also go and drag Patient X along the sharp pieces of obsidian and pumice that were prominent on this planet. As they rode Daniel made sure to not direct Bonnie into any areas they had been previously since he wasn't sure of Patient X was releasing any poison.

[Eodor]

The Black Guard took charge, casting his voice, dripping with malice and righteous fury, to his fellows, "advance! Through the first gate! In Irenton's name!" The two Spire Guard slammed their fists against their chests, whilst the Heavy Fusiliers yelled a battle cry. Fusilier Cobalt Tylia, wearing the Indomitable pattern power armour, activated the propaganda speakers on his armour, blaring various military speeches from Emperor Nicholas before his demise.

"The Irenton people are unconquered!"

The team caught sight of the numerous battles occuring through the gate, the two Fusiliers taking stock of the situation as the guards charged in. The Black Guard yelled various incantations whilst the Spire Guard remained silent, save the thumping of their boots on the rock. The two Fusiliers looked to each other, knowing they were entirely out of their depth. There was only so much conventional weaponry could do when compared to the magically enhanced.

A sniper shot pinged off Tylia's pauldron, causing both the Fusiliers to accept their relative worthlessness when compared to the more powerful enemies and focus instead on what they did best: killing normals.

"Glory to the Irenton Military! Defenders of justice!"

Tylia levelled his rotary cannon and laid down suppressive fire towards the shot, hundreds of explosive rounds flying in a seemingly random pattern. For every shot fired, Reran Yul advanced, his lighter armour allowing him to sprint at a decent speed into an area closer to the sniper where he could fire more accurate shots from his heavy cannon.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Erika crouched and loaded her M82, before training her rifle on Patient X as he was being dragged and firing a few armor-piercing gyrojet rounds. With that done, she whirled around to see...something that wasn't too far off from that tabletop game she used to play.
'Think it was called 'Warhammer 40k...yeah, it was'...' she thought to herself, as she adjusted her scope, before firing another AP-Gyrojet round at one of the Fusiliers.

[Greater South]

Team Skyhooked had good news and bad news. Good news, that one of the enemy gladiators was taken down. As Bjorn retracted his sword back from Demoman's chest, he said to his dying enemy: "We'll meet in Valhalla, pict warrior.", and started to look for anything helpful. A stickybomb launcher and targe shield proved to be valuable assets for viking warrior, so he took them, and decided to rush to aid his comrades.

But instad of running in an orderly fasion, he decided to utilize Demoman's explosives for transportation, for his constitution and armor, plus shield allowed him to do so without serious risk, so he fires one of the few lefotver stickies under his feet, steps into a fitting distance, and detonates it, while he jumps.

Bomb goes off and sends him into the air, also putting a few dents on his armor. Explosion also makes him lose one of it's smaller plates. But the price wasn't too high for a tactical opportunity of temporary flight. During his flight, he saw Soldier one one of the crates. Two sticky bombs were shot at him. Then Bjorn shoots the rest of them at Heavy, Medic and Pyro, who were making run for their weapons, and when he ran our of ammo, he threw the weapon itself at Medic, and landed near Pyro, rolling to prevent damage from fall. For Stan Dixon, who was surrounded by angry russian merc, ruthless stealth killer, pyromaniac and the Patient X, his arrival to the scene was a significant relief.

However, there were also bad news. Casey's fireball was deflected by Pyro's compression blast, but luckily Casey James and John Walker AI were far away already, as they were running at full speed to save their comrades. They managed to arrive to the crates, but still they had yet to get to the scene, besides, Casey James was fatigued after long running at full speed, and will have to rest for a while before he can fight at full power again. Also, John Walker AI was hit by a bullet from sniper instead of Casey, as he was near. The bullet put a large dent on his head plate.

As for Seth, his wounds got worse, and he collapsed from pain for a while, and when got up, he started to feel weakness from wounds. Old wounds started aching too. He tore a few pieces of cloth from his clothes to stop bleeding, but he still needs some sort of medic. Despite that, he will still try to fight...

Meanwhile, Stan quickly reacted to hydra's head lunging at him, and stepped back, while casting a frostbite spell from both hands, which amplifed it's effect, with jet of ice of extremely low temperature became even colder. It froze the acidic poison and hopefully caused it to fall back. The spell burned through Stan's mana pretty quickly however, rendering his magicka pool empty for a while.

With Patient X hopefully out of the picture and their heavy weaponry retrieved, the three-man crew of Heavy, Medic and Pyro went back to the standoff as Heavy revved up his minigun, Medic's gun was sparking as he was nearly ready to UberCharge, and Pyro has his flamethrower pointed right at Bjorn. Soldier also managed to slinky his way down, falling off the 10-foot-tall cube as he laid on the floor and groaning weakly, the Medic sighing as he shot him with the crossbow, bringing him back to health, the Soldier perking up as he smiled.

"Ahh, much better. Anyways, maggots, it seems your little pagan commie friend over here has forgotten to detonate the sticky bombs using the button on the side of the gun, which means it'll be far easier for us to kick your respective asses! So surrender now, and you will not be harmed!" Soldier commanded.

"Erm... Soldier, you do realise this is about killing everyone, right? Chances are the last thing we want for them!" Medic said.

"Oh. Well, in any case, I hope you've contacted your insurance companies, because the costs of finding what's left of your bodies will be at an all time high!" Soldier yelled as he readied his rocket launcher and aimed it at Oni. As soon as someone made a move or started firing, the crew would start firing.

Meanwhile, as Sniper stupidly took a potshot at Tylia, he gradually bunkered down as several explosive shots went off around him, calling to the Engineer as he slung his rifle and drew his Huntsman bow, readying an explosive tipped arrow, while Engineer upgraded his sentry to Level 3, with double minigun barrels and a quad-rocket launcher, ready to lock on to any enemies.

Back in the bunker, in the Greater South.

"Aw,c'mon, camper! Ya know you can't take that guy on, leave it to Engi if anythin'! Besides, you have bigger problems, like that sword wieldin' guy with the subamckeens..." The Scout said, munching on some potato chips as suddenly Demoman came through the respawn.

"Auuggh... that was an experience and a half..." The Demoman said, staggering back and rubbing his head as he strided towards the Scout. "Aye, they got you too, mate?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Infact, I was only just able to get to the part where you got stabbed by that Viking guy. I mean, that was pretty tense and all, real awesome, but really, I woulda thought you'd just use those bombs of yours." Scout said as Demoman sat down next to him.

"Aw, who do you think I am? Junkrat?" Demoman joked as he had a swig of his drink before laughing. "Sometimes, ya gotta be an honorable man, ya know? Sword-to-sword isn't much of a thing these days, and frankly, it ain't no fun."

"Whatever, c'mon, watch this. That little poison guy jus' got lassoed up by McCree over there, and I think Doc's about to drop it." Scout said, sharing the bag of chips with the Demo.

[The Chuck]

As Daniel dragged Patient X around the the area he let go the of lasso since it was securely fastened to the pummel of the saddle. Reaching down, he holstered his revolver and grabbed his rifle from its saddle scabbard. As he grabbed his rifle he heard the distinctive crack and whoosh of Erika's rifle as she shot at something. Pulling a mirror out of one of the saddle bags he used it to aim over his shoulder at Patient X and pulled the trigger. Without slowing down he continued to drag Patient X since he didn't know if he hit him or not. Continuing to drag Patient X, Daniel started to head towards one of the lava rivers that flowed across the planet.

Shooting something similar to this but while riding a horse on a volcanic wasteland.

[The Legion of the Shadow]

Armine saw Astre and manipulated the shadows to make it seem as if a giant swarm was coming from behind Astre, and Jana jumped at him, her sword thrusting out to impale the Prince through the chest.

[Veise]

Unfortunately, as Astre was already flying, the shadow did very little to distract him. He saw her coming bright as day and shot one of his grappling hooks -- made of a piercing, thick needle and then four, razor sharp clamps, all shot at a speed of several hundred miles per hour -- at her, attempting to impale her with spot-on timing and aim. Were her to be successful, he'd clutch the thick wire of the hook and almost immediately use it to swing Jana in a giant, perhaps sonic-speed arc that would end with her hitting the next turret.

//I imagine Astre's a good hundred or more feet in the air, by the way

[Skyhooked]

Looks like the fight becoame more epic, as Oni and Soldeir arived to the scene. Bjorn barely managed to dodge Oni's slash, and when he heared an offer of surrender, he refused: "Surrender? Ha! I am not defeated yet!"-He shouts, as he runs towards Pyro, covering behind his new shield, which probably may protect him from at least some fire, as he gets close enough, he quickly strikes at the flamethrower with his sword, hoping to damage it, or even beat it out of Pyro's hands.

First Leader Seth, fighting his pain, slowly approached the scene and shot a few long bursts at Medic. Due to his wounds, his accuracy was reduced. Then he attempts to get back to cover, hoping, that he will make it in time.

As for Casey and John Walker AI, looks like the relief in form of them had arrived just in time. The first was John Walker AI, who reloaded his assault rifle and fired a long burst at Medic, defining him as the weakest, but important target. Then, instead of reloading, he choose to go melee, and switched to the Eyelander, which he found near fallen Demoman. With that, he looked like a classical knight in shining armor, who came to rescue: "Activating protocol "Deus Vult", he said in robotic tone and made a run to the Oni, hoping, that his hull is hard enough to deflect a few Heavy's bullets delivered from Motherland by Sasha the Minigun.

Then came Casey James, that stoner with UZI, who stopped for a while to catch his breath. He was more than happy to add some awesomeness to an already awesome show, and decided to spice up things with a casual quick spray from his UZI at general direction of Heavy, before launching a firebolt, a small non-explosive fire projectile at Medic. -"I am spicing things up, dudes!"-He shouted, hoping to distract at least some of the foes.

In the meantime, Stan Dixon fired a few shots from revolver at Soldier and Oni, then tried to throw an ice spike, but failed to do so, as his magicka still wasn't sufficient for that. Instead, he took out his bowie knife and attempted to backstab Heavy, hoping, that this bear from Russia will be too preoccupied with his other folks, and thinking, that he, the drunken cowboy can backstab people like the Spy, just because on one hunt, he managed to kill a large wild boar with it, when his old rifle jammed despite all the extensive care, he gave it.

*Team Fortress 3, the crazy edition.*

[The Chuck]

As Daniel neared the cliff leading into the volcanic river that ran through this section of the map he spoke up so that Patient X could hear him.

"I'm sorry pardner but y'all be standing in between me and my family. If there was a way I could let you live and return to my time, I'd take it but you're straight up dangerous. I can't risk letting you live. I hope you understand son. I'll make sure to make you a good grave marker with an epitaph though. Unfortunately last words are a bit overrated, I hope you understand."

Reaching the cliff edge, Bonnie turned and ran along it while Patient X was still being dragged along.

[The Rapture Republic]

”Attention everyone! Especially you, Daniel! Patient Zero inbound! I have lost all cameras on his his whereabouts and all contestants maintain a safe distance of ten miles! His body temperature is reportedly quickly raising! Bahaha! This is getting explosive!” Announced, the Chancellor from the intercom.


While the whereabouts of Patient Zero were unknown this would be a signal and an danger to all gladiators as the infamous Vonstein was the strongest of them all. Who was known to destroy entire civilizations within five hundred years, which was short compared to other walking terminators. Daniel would notice the bullet simply melting into the skull of Patient D with the rope around being absorbed with a sudden tung as Patient X began to stand followed by the ground turned into molten rock at 560 degree Celsius and only getter hotter and hotter with venomous steam raising from his body, transforming into a crimson red venom demon-like abomination towering 600 stories, blasting a burst of immense heat capable of burning the flesh right from the bone. ”Thank you....Daniel. I needed a rest. Now pardon me, my brother is about to tear this realm apart.” Groaned the Demonic Hellion. Temperature now was 600 kelvins, he would cross the volcanic rivers as if they were just water, heading bask towards the Cargo docks. Roaring and screeching along the way. With one target on his mind, Stan Dixon.

[The Chuck]

Swearing as he looked over at Patient X transforming, Daniel spoke,

"What in damnation? I thought this was supposed to be a fair fight while you're a God Damn shape shifting green horn sonuvabitch!"

Cutting the lasso loose, Daniel spurred Bonnie on towards the loading area. It was his hope that he could reach Erika and help her since he knew that she didn't have a quick method of transportation.

[The Legion of the Shadow]

Unfortunately, as Astre was already flying, the shadow did very little to distract him. He saw her coming bright as day and shot one of his grappling hooks -- made of a piercing, thick needle and then four, razor sharp clamps, all shot at a speed of several hundred miles per hour -- at her, attempting to impale her with spot-on timing and aim. Were her to be successful, he'd clutch the thick wire of the hook and almost immediately use it to swing Jana in a giant, perhaps sonic-speed arc that would end with her hitting the next turret.

//I imagine Astre's a good hundred or more feet in the air, by the way

Jana smashed through the turret, disabling it and leaving her heavily damaged with several broken bones and large amounts of cuts, but luckily Gilebertus ran up to heal them with his magic, but he yelled "Johamma, cover me while I heal Jana!". Johamma grabbed some large rocks and began hammering them at Astre, the rocks going faster then fighter jets, while Jana got healed by Gilebertus.

[Veise]

Astre whirled out of the way of the rocks with a quick-spin maneuver, and cursed under his breath as he had underestimated the speed of the rocks. He blasted out his grappling hook and lined up a grappling hook shot at the Medic in a way that would mean Jana would be hit if he were to dodge. He wondered why the turret wasn't gunning him down, and began flying around the turret away from Johamma. In his head, he began doing the math on how to cut down the tower in a certain way...

[The Zeonic Imperium]

Having kept out of the limelight throughout the sky and the like, not wanting to cause themselves to be a large target, the Zeonic team had diverged into three units: the lower powered mobile suits led by Luger Lugh would scout about the scene and eventually pick off a target on the ground, while the second team of Angelo Sauper and Banagher Links would fly on at a closer range to Zoltan and Titania in case allied support is needed. The final team of Zoltan and the mysterious mobile suit pilot known as Titania had guided the rest of the team easily past the obstacles, Newtype ingenuity allowing them to see and predict through oncoming threats before they manage to make contact.

"Lugh to Sauper, contestent numbers are slowly dwindling; readying to make a move with you if you'd like: best leave the top two to fight the top two." The Rebawoo pilot spoke, the Attacker and Nutter of her machine zooning about as they watched on the combat from above, with Erika and Zechst following behind her armor.

"Sauper to Lugh, we're only ordered to aid you in combat till Zoltan needs assistance: make it quick." The two other mobile suits who were under Zoltan and Titania's aid boosted on above them as they all began to cut their engines, the Rebawoo reforming into one piece, and the group slowly descending down into the factory's ground level, the weapons arming and readying for combat. "A shame we're going dark for this one: I don't want anything else to dirty the paint job: the ash is already enough fuss to clean out."

And soon, they were on the prowl: as a precaution, Luger raises her arms up and fires a barrage of 4 mortar-like grenades into the sky where they heard and saw combat erupting, which exploded on into the air! Raining on down above the other competitors, came a heavy rainfall of MIRV-like grenades, hailing down and exploding as soon as the made contact with the ground. Banagher, Erika and Zechst had aimed their beam rifles out to the engagement, ready to fire their gigantic weaponry off into the conflict as Angelo armed his INCOM weaponry to extend off, making sure to watch for any sneak attacks against them.

[Cossack Khanate]

Via was basically out of the fight. She had bandaged her leg, but it still hurt too much to walk on. She had been observing the Swarm and the clowns, now Patient X.

Veil reloaded his Uzi, drew his katana, and leaped from spot to spot, ready to pounce on his target, Casey James. Never let a target go, he thought. He leaped down from a roof to land behind Casey, who was oblivious and was shooting bursts with his Uzi at heavy and Medic. Veil slashed with his katana, slicing open Casey’s back, but was immediately hit by a blast out of nowhere that knocked him to the ground. Casey turned to shoot with his Uzi, but was hit by a bullet from Heavy. Heavy kept firing at Veil, which forced him to turn and run.

Kirve was still well in the fight, albeit fazed by Scout’s bat. He fired a burst at a small bit of Sniper that was poking out of cover. He didn’t hit him, and almost got a bullet to the knee in return, had he not fled. He then caught a good sight of Seth, who was slowly walking on a crate to move to cover. . Too slowly. Kirve fired a whole mag at him, knocking him down on the crate. Kirve assumed he was either dead or would be dead soon. Kirve went on a rampage mode, firing bursts at Medic and John Walker AI. He would be bound to hit someone soon.

Veil picked up a modern crossbow, perhaps a present left in the building by the Factory creators. Loading it, Veil aimed it out the window at Medic, who was trying to heal himself after being hit by Kirve’s volleys. Veil centered over his head and pulled the trigger...

[The Rapture Republic]

Having kept out of the limelight throughout the sky and the like, not wanting to cause themselves to be a large target, the Zeonic team had diverged into three units: the lower powered mobile suits led by Luger Lugh would scout about the scene and eventually pick off a target on the ground, while the second team of Angelo Sauper and Banagher Links would fly on at a closer range to Zoltan and Titania in case allied support is needed. The final team of Zoltan and the mysterious mobile suit pilot known as Titania had guided the rest of the team easily past the obstacles, Newtype ingenuity allowing them to see and predict through oncoming threats before they manage to make contact.

"Lugh to Sauper, contestent numbers are slowly dwindling; readying to make a move with you if you'd like: best leave the top two to fight the top two." The Rebawoo pilot spoke, the Attacker and Nutter of her machine zooming about as they watched on the combat from above, with Erika and Zechst following behind her armor.

"Sauper to Lugh, we're only ordered to aid you in combat till Zoltan needs assistance: make it quick." The two other mobile suits who were under Zoltan and Titania's aid boosted on above them as they all began to cut their engines, the Rebawoo reforming into one piece, and the group slowly descending down into the factory's ground level, the weapons arming and readying for combat. "A shame we're going dark for this one: I don't want anything else to dirty the paint job: the ash is already enough fuss to clean out."

And soon, they were on the prowl: as a precaution, Luger raises her arms up and fires a barrage of 4 mortar-like grenades into the sky where they heard and saw combat erupting, which exploded on into the air! Raining on down above the other competitors, came a heavy rainfall of MIRV-like grenades, hailing down and exploding as soon as the made contact with the ground. Banagher, Erika and Zechst had aimed their beam rifles out to the engagement, ready to fire their gigantic weaponry off into the conflict as Angelo armed his INCOM weaponry to extend off, making sure to watch for any sneak attacks against them.

The ground quaked beneath the competitors, bridges tore from the island the large complex was constructed on; electromagnetic lightning storms bombarded the factorium with 60m megawatts blowing holes and chucks from the complex, the bombardment was like rapid fire from a semi-automatic assault rifle ricocheting at the ripping surfaces. A ten thousand tendrils, no two hundred million tendrils shot up from between the feet of the gladiators grabbing the ground and anyone that was unfortunate enough get caught; the factorium was witnessed with more springs of tendrils shooting from all other the place pushing the factorium upwards, raising from two hundred feet to eight hundred feet and eventually nine thousand stories above the surface; the area was Gate two was; snapped! As the bridge connected to the artificial island could no longer withstand the weight and broke, causing the Mountain of Madness to fall to the ground. Thankfully causing Blackwell to avoid embarrassment from his enemy, who was definitely more experienced than a scientist in the field of aerial combat with controlling a swarm of drones.

The infrastructure of the factorium was found to lay in ruins, when the ascent finally ended and from afar, it was magnificent looking like a colossal hand holding the remains of the competitors and the base by the palm of its hand, admittedly. With growing spiked tendrils growing from the “arm” of the hand pointing down at the contestants. Zero stood atop at the index “finger” of the hand, squatting and spanning off the singular tendril, which was used to create this ghoulish structure. Zero remained silent, as his thoughts begin detailing his next motivation. Emanating his oppressive aura with malicious intention.

VictorNet knocked over a wall that fallen over him in the control room of the factorium, he’d waved a white flag. Signaling to the contestants, they were forbidden to fight him. VictorNet found his mic and used the five remaining intercoms still operable.

”Attention! My friends! Your new target is still one another. However! Watch out, Zero is here and preparing to kill!” The Chancellor did not laugh, as his feet with shaking and swiftly got the fuck outta there.


(The majority of gladiators are located at the hand. Except for Denial and Erika completely going off the map and Astre who will join shortly.)

(Everyone please start practicing posting at a slower pace, because not everyone can respond and post at your nonhuman speeds. Which causes them or me to resort to drastic measures, becsyse there waaay too many things happening to my character as I can’t post anything until after 3 or 4 PM EST standard time US. )

[Veise]

The sudden destruction had deflected Astre's hook way off, and he had it reel itself back in. A bead of sweat ran down the Prince's head as he watched the entirety of his battlefield cease to exist. Regaining his composure, the flying Prince went in for a landing on what remained of the bridge in order to face the Legion on foot.

"Greetings." Astre pulled his hood down. "My name Prince Astre Crestet. I am your enemy. Prepare to die." he said quite robotically. He entered a balanced-defense-offense swords stance.

[The Chuck]

Riding fast and hard Daniel approached the land bridge back over to the loading bay area. As he approached on Bonnie, he felt the ground start to shake beneath them. Pushing Bonnie faster they moved on to the land bridge while it shook and groaned beneath them. As they started to traverse over it, chunks fell from beneath it into a river of molten lava. Suddenly before they were half way across, Bonnie turned on her own and started galloping back to the solid ground they had come from. However, before they could reach the solid ground, they both saw a crack appear at the lip of the bridge. As Daniel tried to urge Bonnie to go faster, she stumbled and bucked him head first with enough force to break the saddle straps. As Daniel flew through the air, time seemed to slow down as he watched Bonnie stumble and the bridge collapse from beneath them. As Bonnie and the bridge fell into the molten rock he continued forward with the momentum and landed on the cliff edge opposite to the loading area. With a cry he ran to the edge and looked over for any sign of his horse. Unfortunately a moment before he looked over the remains of the bridge had landed in the lava and he couldn't see his horse anywhere. At that moment the color started to drain from Daniel's face as he looked up with a blank, almost somber expression on his face. Without saying anything he got up and walked over to where the saddle laid nearby. Picking it up, he grabbed his rifle from the scabbard and checked the saddle bags for materials. After taking quick stock of what he had, he shouldered the saddle and started walking in the direction of VictorNet who was trying to slink away.

VictorNet meanwhile was busy attempting to get the hell out of Dodge when he heard the sound of leather and metal hitting the floor and the click of a hammer. Behind him stood Daniel who had just dropped Bonnie's saddle and his rifle and was unbuckling his gun belt. As the belt fell he addressed VictorNet in a soft but hardened voice.

"You maggot ridden filthy, son of a bitch! A man can die and no one will care. A man's cattle can die and it will be a travesty but still a man will pick himself up and keep going. A man's family or horse can die from disease and the man will cry but he'll bury them and carry on. But when a man's family or horse dies by the hands of another being, than that man will exact vengeance or die trying! You, me, fist fight, right now!"

With that he took a fighter's stance and waited for VictorNet's response.

[The Legion of the Shadow]

The sudden destruction had deflected Astre's hook way off, and he had it reel itself back in. A bead of sweat ran down the Prince's head as he watched the entirety of his battlefield cease to exist. Regaining his composure, the flying Prince went in for a landing on what remained of the bridge in order to face the Legion on foot.

"Greetings." Astre pulled his hood down. "My name Prince Astre Crestet. I am your enemy. Prepare to die." he said quite robotically. He entered a balanced-defense-offense swords stance.

Armine took his helmet off and said to Astre, "I return your greetings, Prince Astre Crestet. I am Paladin-Commander Armine the Phantom of House Ignis. I offer you a proposal; you fight my second, Johamma the Colossus, in single combat. I swear on my honor that none of my men will interfere, and if you win you have one less of us to fight when we meet again. If you lose, well, i don't really need to explain what happens if you lose." Armine watched the Prince, just in case he decided to try and kill them while he was waiting.

[Greater South]

Looks like the fight becoame more epic, as Oni and Soldeir arived to the scene. Bjorn barely managed to dodge Oni's slash, and when he heared an offer of surrender, he refused: "Surrender? Ha! I am not defeated yet!"-He shouts, as he runs towards Pyro, covering behind his new shield, which probably may protect him from at least some fire, as he gets close enough, he quickly strikes at the flamethrower with his sword, hoping to damage it, or even beat it out of Pyro's hands.

First Leader Seth, fighting his pain, slowly approached the scene and shot a few long bursts at Medic. Due to his wounds, his accuracy was reduced. Then he attempts to get back to cover, hoping, that he will make it in time.

As for Casey and John Walker AI, looks like the relief in form of them had arrived just in time. The first was John Walker AI, who reloaded his assault rifle and fired a long burst at Medic, defining him as the weakest, but important target. Then, instead of reloading, he choose to go melee, and switched to the Eyelander, which he found near fallen Demoman. With that, he looked like a classical knight in shining armor, who came to rescue: "Activating protocol "Deus Vult", he said in robotic tone and made a run to the Oni, hoping, that his hull is hard enough to deflect a few Heavy's bullets delivered from Motherland by Sasha the Minigun.

Then came Casey James, that stoner with UZI, who stopped for a while to catch his breath. He was more than happy to add some awesomeness to an already awesome show, and decided to spice up things with a casual quick spray from his UZI at general direction of Heavy, before launching a firebolt, a small non-explosive fire projectile at Medic. -"I am spicing things up, dudes!"-He shouted, hoping to distract at least some of the foes.

In the meantime, Stan Dixon fired a few shots from revolver at Soldier and Oni, then tried to throw an ice spike, but failed to do so, as his magicka still wasn't sufficient for that. Instead, he took out his bowie knife and attempted to backstab Heavy, hoping, that this bear from Russia will be too preoccupied with his other folks, and thinking, that he, the drunken cowboy can backstab people like the Spy, just because on one hunt, he managed to kill a large wild boar with it, when his old rifle jammed despite all the extensive care, he gave it.

*Team Fortress 3, the crazy edition.*

As Pyro attempted to spray the crazy Nord, he backpetaled away from him as he did so to get enough time to burn him up before he stopped after Bjorn knocked his flamethrower away, causing him to pull out a flare gun and shoot him point-blank in the face, hoping this'd be enough to deterr him until he went back to his flamethrower to 'spray him with more happiness'

While Seth's assault rifle fire managed to hit Heavy instead of Medic as he was able to heal it off, one of the crossbow bolts piecered his own crossbow, rendering it useless. Medic looked at the arrowed weapon and hissed in anger as he threw it. The firebolt also got Medic on his leg and coat, setting it on fire, the Medic panicking as he tried slapping it out. Luckily, in the direction he was facing, the doctor managed to catch Stan trying to backstab Heavy while he was firing at, and tapped the big Russian on the back, allowing him to turn for a moment as he dropped his minigun and cracked his knuckles as he went to grab him once more and pin him to the ground to punch him up. Soldier would cover Heavy's ground as he let Medic on him, firing off four rockets at John Walker and Casey, before looking above him and seeing the Zeonic mechs flying about as he reloaded his gun.

"Doc, you stay down." Soldier said as Medic pleaded for him to not leave him alone, as Soldier didn't listen, rocket jumping up into the area and ricocheting off a crate, firing a couple of rockets at the mechs before landing on another one as he reloaded. Medic was left all by himself in that moment, vulnerable, as he held out his syringe gun in one hand and bonesaw in the other, visibly scared. Sniper saw this, and decided to take his eyes off Tylia and fired a normal arrow at Veil before drawing his Sniper Rifle and taking shots at Casey and Walker.

Meanwhile, seeing as Veil was in a nearby tower, Spy took the moment as he made his way across, uncloaking as he pulled his revolver out after seeing his katana, knowing that if something went wrong he'd fail in close quarters combat. He quickly disguised as Via once more, even accurately mimicking her limp as he went into the same room as him, waiting for a time to strike.

[Skyhooked]

Seth was wounded already, and taking another mag was just too much for him. He got a lethal wound, which was boung to kill him soon, but before dying for the second time, Seth managed to fire the last his burst back at whoever fired at him. Only four team members left, and they will have to double efforts to win this tournament, while Seth will be revived at home and then watch the rest of the tournament back in Skyhooked.

Meanwhile, Casey took a katana slash at his back and a bullet from Heavy. Two light wounds added to his collection of scars. Sniper's bullet narrowly missed him, when he turned around to retalitate to katana attack. That wasn't a thing he exactly liked, so in responce, he reloaded his UZI, came closer to Heavy, who had already switched to his fists and fired at least half of mag at him at almost point blank range. Then he goes scout and tries to bonk him with a sledgehammer. He ended up out of rockets explosion range, lucky fella.

As for John Walker AI, he indeed got to know, what Sniper has to offer. One of the bullets fired at him hit right in an unarmored spot and damaged one of the circuits, forcing the machine to reroute power and stagger for a second. That's where Soldier's rockets do harm, as the synth gets caught in explosion and crashes into the nearest crate. That resulted in losing a few hull plates and a minor short circuit in one of his servomotors, which luckily didn't cause much damage. Also, some sparks were coming out of his arm. His response was pretty unorthodox, as he grabbed a barely hanging plate on his left leg, and threw it at Soldier as shuriken. The enxt step was to spray at medic with an assault rifle.

In his part of this saga, Bjorn narrowly saved his pretty face by covering behind his newly acquired shield. Then he tried to bash Pyro and slash him with a sword. One thing however... despite blocking the flare, it still fell near Bjorn's feet, and after his attack, set one of his boots on fire, causing him to forget about other things for a while and put off the fire just in time it won't cause him bad burns.

And here comes the turn for Stan Dixon, who may soon become Heavy's new, fancy cowboy themed punching bag. Despite this being a great honor, Stan had to decline it and politely respond with another ice spike, directed right to the head and jumping back. Then he realized, that there are more thing to deal with, when he too saw the Zeonic mechs above and prepared to dodge bombing from above. he knew, that mechs can do this. They do bomb things from above, right? Right?

[Greater South]

Seth was wounded already, and taking another mag was just too much for him. He got a lethal wound, which was boung to kill him soon, but before dying for the second time, Seth managed to fire the last his burst back at whoever fired at him. Only four team members left, and they will have to double efforts to win this tournament, while Seth will be revived at home and then watch the rest of the tournament back in Skyhooked.

Meanwhile, Casey took a katana slash at his back and a bullet from Heavy. Two light wounds added to his collection of scars. Sniper's bullet narrowly missed him, when he turned around to retalitate to katana attack. That wasn't a thing he exactly liked, so in responce, he reloaded his UZI, came closer to Heavy, who had already switched to his fists and fired at least half of mag at him at almost point blank range. Then he goes scout and tries to bonk him with a sledgehammer. He ended up out of rockets explosion range, lucky fella.

As for John Walker AI, he indeed got to know, what Sniper has to offer. One of the bullets fired at him hit right in an unarmored spot and damaged one of the circuits, forcing the machine to reroute power and stagger for a second. That's where Soldier's rockets do harm, as the synth gets caught in explosion and crashes into the nearest crate. That resulted in losing a few hull plates and a minor short circuit in one of his servomotors, which luckily didn't cause much damage. Also, some sparks were coming out of his arm. His response was pretty unorthodox, as he grabbed a barely hanging plate on his left leg, and threw it at Soldier as shuriken. The enxt step was to spray at medic with an assault rifle.

In his part of this saga, Bjorn narrowly saved his pretty face by covering behind his newly acquired shield. Then he tried to bash Pyro and slash him with a sword. One thing however... despite blocking the flare, it still fell near Bjorn's feet, and after his attack, set one of his boots on fire, causing him to forget about other things for a while and put off the fire just in time it won't cause him bad burns.

And here comes the turn for Stan Dixon, who may soon become Heavy's new, fancy cowboy themed punching bag. Despite this being a great honor, Stan had to decline it and politely respond with another ice spike, directed right to the head and jumping back. Then he realized, that there are more thing to deal with, when he too saw the Zeonic mechs above and prepared to dodge bombing from above. he knew, that mechs can do this. They do bomb things from above, right? Right?

As the ice spike blasted Heavy, it luckily didn't hit his brain, but much rather his face, causing the giant to let go as he staggered back, brushing the ice off his face. It had given him a broken nose, sharp icy sharps cutting all over his face, and also a swollen eye, not to mention the pain from the cold. Looking at the blood dripping to his hand, he started roaring angrily, getting louder as he screamed before Casey popped with with the Uzi, the Russian weakening but not feeling any pain as the adrenaline from his anger masked it up, but still managing to grab Casey's sledgehammer as he then proceeded to try and swing him around like a hammer throw before tossing him into Stan, charging forward at the drunken cowboy until he got into optimal range and attempted to deliver a series of rapid punches

The Medic ran back as he was being aimed at by the Walker AI, luckily having a few shots miss him before Spy attempted to save the day by uncloaked behind him and attaching a sapper, the doctor rushing to help the Pyro as he held his Medigun out on him, while taking out his syringe gun and firing at Bjorn. Pyro, in the meantime, was knocked down by the shield bash before narrowly ducking the swipe, and in the meantime, reloaded his flaregun as he fired another shot off at him before getting back up as he drew his fireman's axe.

The Soldier in the meantime had finished reloading his rockets as he jumped up from another crate with his launcher, firing off another rocket at the mechs and one at the ground near Casey and Seth before he rolled and landed on the ground behind Bjorn, firing at him at point-blank range.