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- (1:27:18 PM) Reise: ACTION frowns as the patrols around Yu Shan walk past her hiding spot, not paying attention to her...yet. She'd gone in via the usual entrance in normal clothes, but the odd behavior of the locale had registered quickly, and she'd teleported to the top of a building and summoned her armor. Now she crouches on the edge of a building belonging to War, a metallic orange gargoyle of sorts keeping unmoving watch over the curious state of th
- (1:27:47 PM) Reise: >the realm of the gods (and those who fancy themselves gods).
- (1:28:45 PM) Ikiryo: ...there is almost no one on the streets other than the patrols. Either they are all staying indoors, or worse.
- (1:30:09 PM) Reise: She doesn't dare try to contact anybody. Even securely scrambled signals can be detected, if not decrypted, and the last thing she wants is to give any nosy sids a reason to use Fate-O-Vision in her direction.
- (1:31:55 PM) Ikiryo: ...and then she spots a massive, rainbow blast over by one of the gates...as a sudden stream of flamers of tzeench flow through them, setting everything about them on rainbow fire and biting everything in reach.
- (1:34:02 PM) Ikiryo: A patrol quickly moves in that direction...and the first jade-armoured guard to get close is suddenly eaten by a large white werewolf.
- (1:34:24 PM) Eir left the room (quit: Quit: ).
- (1:35:08 PM) ***Reise blinks behind her visor. As signals go, that's a hell of one, and she takes off across the skyline. Her destination is the point where Blue had prearranged for them to meet after leading the others in via her Sooper Seekrit tunnel.
- (1:36:00 PM) Ikiryo: More patrols move in, some bringing golem patrols with cannons rather than arms...that's going to be a hell of a fight soon...
- (1:37:53 PM) Reise: And here she is, gonna miss it because it's time to get to the others. On the other hand, it's a tradeoff between a big battle (which she's no Khorne freak so the draw isn't all that strong) and sneaking in to sabotage and end the project set to erase even the concept of free will (which she was made and raised and trained and, hell, probably even exalted to do).
- (1:38:54 PM) Reise: On the other hand, she does have one thing to do to help. [Attention all Galaxy Police forces. This is Lieutenant Reise Minkopy, inside Yu Shan where the fighting's begun. Any minute you guys want to come crash the party is fine by me.]
- (1:40:17 PM) Ikiryo: ...and then things get worse. A group of five figures start to head up the street...as liquid metal flows about them...forming up around them into smooth, armoured shapes. That's...not a style of warstrider Reise has seen before, moving as naturally as a person would.
- (1:43:52 PM) Ikiryo: One of them lashes out...the arm extending and forming a heavy scythe as it cuts through a rank of attacking demons...
- (1:45:17 PM) Reise: She frowns. At this rate the Chaos forces are going to be blunted before anything else hits the city. She doesn't even spare a thought for how Yu Shan could have caught wind of this--either the security was always planned, or their mind-reading has taken on new and even more invasive degrees.
- (1:46:00 PM) ***Reise turns from her chosen path and runs up behind the figures, analyzing them as best she can for how much they're tech vs. magic vs. Sidereal bullshit.
- (1:47:10 PM) Ikiryo: ...and then she hears a sudden cracking sound as the starry sky shatters...a hole blasted in it by the Galaxy Police S.W.A.T flyers, a wing of heavy, stubber fighters...the sight of Sigil visible through the hole in Yu Shan's barrier...
- (1:50:06 PM) Reise: She identifies what the walkers are made from, and her teeth grind in her helmet. It's on now. "You have a lot to answer for, Kejak," she spits to herself, "and after we kill you, I hope you rot in all the hells there ever were for the rest of time."
- (1:50:23 PM) Ikiryo: The Galaxy police reinforcements blast away at the forms...and they reform a moment later.
- (1:51:14 PM) Reise: [GP Fighters, steer clear of those walkers. They're starmetal. Unless you think you have a solid shot at the pilot you won't do shit. I'm going in.]
- (1:54:18 PM) Ikiryo: [SWAT 1: We can move in to support. Delta Command will need time to recharge after that shot into the barrier.]
- (1:55:11 PM) Reise: [As stupid as this sounds, you'll need to support the chaos types kicking down the door. My general area is going to get hairy in a few seconds but I'll buy Delta Command the time they need.]
- (1:56:58 PM) Reise: She flips a panel on her armor's forearm and inputs a code. A confirmation message displays on the HUD in her visor, which she confirms without looking at. Then she raises her other arm and a small launcher pops up from the other arm.
- (1:57:43 PM) Reise: The missile there, all motor but for the brass-powder warhead around a shaped charge, fires off toward the walkers. Mid flight she slams her fists together, then thrusts one arm in the air. "HEY! SIDEREAL ASSHOLES!" she yells, voice enhanced with her suit's systems to cut through the fighting.
- (1:57:54 PM) Reise: The ground begins to shake around her.
- (1:58:33 PM) Reise: "You picked the wrong fucking existence to mess around with! This ends here!"
- (1:58:42 PM) Ikiryo: The flyers wing over and strafe the golems and jade armoured guards...and the chaos forces vanish into the city with the distraction.
- (1:58:45 PM) Ikiryo: A laughing witch gasps as a black pajamas wearing sidereal appears out of nowhere and impales her...and then explodes in warpfire that consumes the fate ninja and leaves her standing. She vanishes into the city with the other chaos forces...the sound of fighting spilling through the city.
- (1:59:42 PM) Reise: And the streets and shops around her erupt in debris and explosions as Leoric's warstrider plows up through the ground immediately behind her. Reise doesn't lose her footing even as it sweeps a hand under her, carrying her up as it climbs out of the rubble, allowing her to enter the pilot's chamber.
- (2:01:19 PM) Ikiryo: The five starmetal figures turn to look at the warstrider...and with nods, they all start to warp and shift, joining together...growing larger until the metal figure before her stands towering over even her warstrider. "You die here, Solar."
- (2:02:24 PM) Ikiryo: The figure speaks with five voices, all speaking as one.
- (2:02:52 PM) Reise: "You guys tried that ten thousand years ago," she grins viciously. "It didn't stick then, and it sure as hell won't now." She swings her mace, giving a satisfied nod as it thuds into the strider's other palm.
- (2:04:08 PM) Ikiryo: [SWAT 1: Moving in to assist. Keep their eyes on you, if you can?]
- (2:04:31 PM) Reise: [Oh no problem. They want to kill me first~]
- (2:08:07 PM) Ikiryo: The SWAT Fliers form up...and then start to unfold and shift, joining together...though the Sid Warstrider is turning to look in that direction...
- (2:09:26 PM) Reise: "Ah ah ah, losers, you still have me. Unless you want a free shot to the pilots." She twirls the mace effortlessly.
- (2:10:31 PM) Reise: Then she jabs it for the taller thing's center-of-mass, figuring that's where the pilots would logically be.
- (2:13:05 PM) Ikiryo: They avoid the strike...but it keeps them busy. A moment later, a heavy mech slams into the ground on the other side of it. Less graceful than Reise's warstrider but with a lot of bulk and high techology, including heavy laser cannons.
- (2:13:31 PM) Ikiryo: [SWAT 1: S.W.A.T Enforcer is ready to assist.]
- (2:13:31 PM) Ikiryo: [SWAT 4: I'm a leg!]
- (2:14:49 PM) Ikiryo: ...and then reality shatters, the world splitting up like a broken mirror...leaving the mech and two warstriders in a large shard as the city falls apart around them...
- (2:16:12 PM) Reise: The momentary disorientation throws her off quite well, almost inviting a free shot in return. But then she recovers, snarling. "Fucking Sidereals. Reality is *not* your plaything."
- (11:31:41 AM) ***Reise has recovered quickly from all of reality going to pieces around her. She glares hatefully at the taller agglomeration of sidereal starmetal through the cockpit of her warstrider and quickly assumes a heavy combat stance.
- (11:39:26 AM) Ikiryo: The liquid metal warstrider shifts...and one arm lashes out around it as a whip-like blade...
- (11:41:19 AM) Ikiryo: Where it impacts, it latches on...trying to eat away at the warstrider like acid...
- (11:42:44 AM) Ikiryo: The SWAT mech lunges backwards, not quite fast enough to avoid the impact but mostly avoiding harm as the ground shakes with it's sudden movement...
- (11:42:49 AM) Reise: Reise gets out of the way of the brunt of the strike, but some of the outer plating is eaten away.
- (11:52:49 AM) ***Reise flips on a subsystem she'd put into the warstrider and brandishes its mace in a two-handed swing. Microresonators through the weapon hum to life and as she smashes it against the amalgamated mecha the precise frequency attack begins to rattle the very starmetal that it's made from.
- (11:53:40 AM) Ikiryo: The mech just flows about her hit, the mace moving through it like water...but the resonance affects it even if the force doesn't.
- (11:56:06 AM) Ikiryo: The SWAT mech raises a heavy pistol and unleases lasblasts at the sidereal warstrider...which flows around the shots like water. However, that seems to be a distraction from the main objective as data starts to flow into Reise's viewscreen...structural weaknesses.
- (12:01:04 PM) Ikiryo: It keeps up the assault as a heavy baton extends from one hand. The impact seems to do little to the flowing sidereal mech...but the hundreds of thousands of volts running through into the pilots very clearly did work as the warstrider hardens and staggers...
- (12:03:59 PM) Ikiryo: The sidereal warstriker lashes out, each arm lancing out at one of the attackers in a thin spike...
- (12:06:25 PM) Ikiryo: It punches through the armour of her warstrider, into the internals...
- (12:14:15 PM) Reise: She seizes onto the offensive arm and drives a jab into the flowing body. It leaves a little present, a khorne-approved grenade of approximately anti-magic brass, effective even against the sidereal's awful, bizarre creations. The weapon explodes--not for the shockwave, but for contaminating the shell with the atomized metal.
- (12:16:17 PM) Ikiryo: The warstrider shifts, showing that sidereal ability to reset fate...but it's not fully effective against the brass...
- (12:25:59 PM) Ikiryo: The sidereal warstrider lashes out, wrapping around the SWAT Mech...and driving it into theh ground, before lassoing a passing floating building...and smashing it right down on top of it.
- (12:32:21 PM) ***Reise takes advantage of the focus to land a crushing vertical smash on the sidereal mecha with her mace, driving the brass-stilled portion of starmetal deeper into the body of the larger robot. "Get the hells out of our way, you fucking speed bumps," she growls.
- (12:35:56 PM) Ikiryo: The building rumbles as the SWAT mech smashes it's way out...and brings the baton down again on the warstrider. It keeps moving...but the movement is now uneven, like a boxer who's punchdrunk. It's likely one or two of the sidereals were knocked out by the sheer amount of electricity running through the liquid metal.
- (12:39:12 PM) Ikiryo: The liquid metal reforms...moving unsteadily still but more smoothly as it recovers from the first baton hit...
- (12:42:48 PM) Reise: Down pilots, contaminated, suffering from repeated massive shocks...Reise grins viciously and swings for the fences this time, a huge lateral attack that it can't dance around in time...
- (12:48:21 PM) Ikiryo: The warstrider staggers...reforming more slowly this time...and unevenly...
- (12:54:43 PM) Ikiryo: Runes form up around the mech...as phantasmal threads become visible for a moment. The mech reaches out, grabbing one connected to Reise...and yanks it, hard.
- (12:56:14 PM) Reise: She staggers in the mech, but recovers, glaring hateful daggers. "Tch. Fuckin morons. Thinkin pullin a bit of ethereal thread's gonna mess with ME?" She jabs a finger at her own chest, and the warstrider mimes spitting. "Gonna take more'n *that* to put *me* down, bitches."
- (12:58:06 PM) Ikiryo: The SWAT mech uses the distraction to drive the baton into the back of the warstrider...the movement becoming jagged again...
- (1:03:45 PM) Ikiryo: The Sidereal warstrider smashes into the thread of fate again...
- (1:09:05 PM) ***Reise growls. "I told ya, jackasses, ya need more than that!"
- (1:20:20 PM) Reise: She responds by swiping her mace through where they're toying with those strands, hoping to take off an arm.
- (1:23:15 PM) Ikiryo: The arm deforms but soon reforms...and then the warstrider staggers as the mech lines up the heavy pistol...and punches a trio of shots through the center of mass of it. [From: SWAT 1 - Confinement beam success. We've got 4 in holding.]
- (1:23:33 PM) Ikiryo: The warstrider is deforming...only barely able to maintain the most basically humanoid form...
- (1:51:13 PM) Reise: Reise hits it again with the resonant frequency amplifiers turned on and watches with undisguised satisfaction as the starmetal mech instead begins to shake itself to pieces before her. "Yeah, that's right, bitch, just like your precious Zabotnik plans, it's all gonna fuckin fall apart!"
- (1:55:54 PM) Ikiryo: It makes a shuddering lunge at the threads, grabbing them willy nilly and ripping at them in a desperate frenzy...
- (1:57:29 PM) Ikiryo: The SWAT mech releases a few drones over the area. [From: SWAT 1 - Reality Stablizers finally online. Took forever getting the uplink in here.]
- (1:57:40 PM) Ikiryo: The threads of fate seem to fade as the drones power up...
- (2:09:39 PM) Reise: Reise takes one last, desperate action, and cranks a lever on her controls. A panel pops open and displays what look like launch tubes; this confirms a moment later when a score of micro-missiles swarm out and dapple the sidereal mech with explosions...all lined up using the targeting data provided by the SWAT mecha, and taking into account the resonant building she'd inflicted.
- (2:09:40 PM) Reise: The sidereal mech literally falls apart at the seams, insofar as it had any, and the final pilot lies groaning amid piles of tech and puddles of eroded starmetal as she pirouettes and points the mace at it. There's now what seems to be a giant lipstick kiss mark on the very top of the mace's head.
- (2:11:49 PM) Ikiryo: The SWAT mech levels the pistol at the single pilot and shoots them, the figure shimmering and vanishing. [From: SWAT 1 - Last pilot confined. Thank you.]
- (2:13:26 PM) Reise: [Get those shitheads out of my sight, guys, I got bigger fish ta fry. Thanks for the assist.]
- (2:14:36 PM) Ikiryo: [We'll provide crowd control here while Galaxy police moves in]
- (2:20:09 PM) Ikiryo: ...Serenity is getting rather close. If she made a leap, she might be able to get her warstrider there...
- (2:42:33 PM) Reise: The warstrider...struts...to a different spot, not too far. Then she stops and turns over her shoulder to address the SWAT team. "...You guys say one word about that..." she trails off, without needing to finish the threat. Then the giant warstrider crouches and flings itself into the air.
- (2:48:53 PM) Reise: It lands among pink...rubble, but still pink. Between both her own landing and the assault on Yu Shan's early stages, Serenity has suffered a lot, but its headquarters is still...mostly...intact--a situation Reise remedies by smashing her mace through a wall, emerging from the cockpit, and stalking down the mech's extended arm and into the hole she'd smashed.
- (2:49:59 PM) Ikiryo: A very shocked looking Britney is standing there. "...Reise? Umm...I think you flattened my favorite soy non-sugar latte stall..."
- (2:55:08 PM) Reise: "Bout to flatten a whole lot more. Where's the fuckin entrance to that Loom thingy?"
- (2:55:39 PM) Reise: She pulls a splinter of wood from the building wreckage and sticks it in her mouth, already chewing on it.
- (2:55:44 PM) Ikiryo: "Oh...ah...are you alright?"
- (2:56:05 PM) Reise: "I had my fuckin fate fucked with six ways from Sunday, ya think I'm alright, eh?!"
- (2:57:04 PM) Ikiryo: "Oh...I could try to help?" She shrinks back a bit from Reise.
- (2:57:56 PM) Reise: "We got time for that bullshit?"
- (2:58:35 PM) Ikiryo: "I-I don't know...maybe?" She looks a bit afraid of Reise acting like that.
- (3:00:25 PM) Reise: "Then I tell you what. You get to try, 'cause I like ya, but the real business is in that Loom thingy, before Carjack fucks the entire multiverse over and removes all free will."
- (3:00:49 PM) Ikiryo: "R-Right...umm...my lab is near..."
- (3:01:30 PM) Reise: "Lead on, toots."
- (3:02:07 PM) Ikiryo: They head on...past a lot of passed out Sidereals in pink outfits...
- (3:03:47 PM) Reise: "Dju knock all these guys out or somethin?"
- (3:04:39 PM) Ikiryo: "Umm...I wanted to help so I kinda um...drugged the food in the cafeteria."
- (3:05:10 PM) ***Reise bellows a laugh, a real knee-slapper.
- (3:06:45 PM) Ikiryo: Britney recoils and leads into her labs, bringing up AR displays...
- (3:08:34 PM) ***Reise finds a place to sit and forces herself to sit quietly for now.
- (3:09:18 PM) Ikiryo: "Umm...alright...this is all sorts of messed up but I can help it maybe?"
- (3:10:12 PM) Ikiryo: She reaches out and Reise feels a more gentle hand this time playing over her fate...
- (3:14:06 PM) Reise: The blonde visibly relaxes as Britney works. By the time she's done, Reise is practically lying down from sheer relief.
- (3:15:22 PM) Ikiryo: "Is that alright? It's not perfect but...well, the loom is pretty strong. The rest should fix itself...you know, assuming everything doesn't fall apart."
- (3:42:44 PM) Reise: "It's sooooooo much better," she gushes, hopping back upright. The hop and other sudden movement makes her bounce a little excessively.
- (3:43:10 PM) Ikiryo: Britney gives her a hug. "Thank goodness...you were kinda scary before."
- (1:32:21 AM) Reise: "Yeah...sorry about that, totally not my fault. That was that group of jerks messing around with stuff they really shouldn't be. Like the guys who broke the world." She sweeps an arm around, indicating the shards.
- (1:33:23 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh yeah...that's not good." She nods. "Umm...I'm not much of a fighter, so I can't fix it. Sorry, I'm scientist..." Says the girl in the pink and white, rather too small kimono
- (1:34:39 AM) Reise: "It's alright." She puts her hands on Britney's shoulders. "As long as you're safe, it's fine. I gotta find the others, though--Serenity's got an entrance to the big loom thing, right?"
- (1:35:31 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, yeah. It's in Venus' office..." She nods.
- (1:36:47 AM) Reise: "...Isn't she kinda the lady who's all your guys' patron?"
- (1:38:01 AM) Ikiryo: She nods. "Yeah, she's the big boss of everyone here."
- (1:38:23 AM) Reise: "...Think she'd let us through?"
- (1:38:41 AM) Ikiryo: "Umm...if you asked nicely maybe?"
- (1:39:28 AM) Reise: "Let's go, then. I think I can manage that."
- (1:40:24 AM) Ikiryo: She gives Reise another hug, leading on past quite a few unconsious sidereals to an elevator.
- (1:41:35 AM) Reise: Something inside of Reise quails at the thought of working amid so much pink every day for her entire life.
- (1:42:44 AM) Ikiryo: It's rather...overwhelming.
- (1:43:11 AM) Ikiryo: Eventually they head up to the top floor, where a pair of fountains and a whole heap of potted plants lead to a large office...
- (1:51:29 AM) Ikiryo: ...suddenly Reise finds herself being hugged, someone kissing both her cheeks. "Oh, darling! It's so good to see you!"
- (1:55:34 AM) Reise: Their whole route she's been stomping around like every inch of floor is a catwalk, messing with her hair to get it in good shape, using her ring to change her outfit half a dozen times. Now she's in a dark blue sheath dress with a square-cut neckline that drops down...kinda far--which flees from her mind as she's taken aback by the sudden friendly assault.
- (1:55:34 AM) Reise: She sputters a little incoherently--whoever this is, it's not Britney.
- (1:56:57 AM) Ikiryo: The woman hugging and kissing her is a tall, utterly inhumanly pretty woman in a slinky blue dress that sparkles with stars...her dark blue hair having matching glints of starlight in it.
- (1:58:40 AM) Ikiryo: Wait..she recognises this woman. Didn't she drop South off one day when they were talking about West's issues with magic?
- (2:00:42 AM) ***Reise gives her a tentative pat on the back by way of a return hug. "It's...good to see you too?"
- (2:01:23 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, how have you been? That wedding of yours was just lovely!" She breaks the hug, giving a shocked looking Britney a hug and kisses too.
- (2:04:39 AM) Reise: "Uh...busy. A lot of busy and a lot of angry and some determined for good measure."
- (2:05:00 AM) Reise: "Thanks for the compliment, though...I...didn't realize you were there?"
- (2:05:38 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, it's my job! As a goddess of love, I'm at most weddings. Less so noble ones but that's thier choice not to marry for love. Your wife had the most darling dress!"
- (2:10:16 AM) Reise: "She did, didn't she?" Caught in the flow, Reise smiles dreamily. "Moriko is such a knockout. All my girls are."
- (2:10:48 AM) Ikiryo: "I look foward to seeing how the other weddings go! Uytana seems like she'll be flustered the entire way!"
- (2:15:51 AM) Reise: "Probably, but the fun part is helping her get unflustered~"
- (2:17:24 AM) Ikiryo: "She is so very cute!" She pauses. "Oh...right. You should go save everything now, I'm not allowed to interfere with fate and such so I can't directly help but I'll be rooting for you!"
- (2:20:37 AM) ***Reise sobers back to resting mission face. "That means a lot. Keep Britney safe for me, would you?"
- (2:22:04 AM) Ikiryo: "Sure thing. We've been hoping someone would work out what is going on for ages! Jupi has been SOOO worried but she's not allowed to share secrets that only she knows." She leans in and kisses Reise on the lips. "Now, off you go!'
- (2:23:07 AM) ***Reise blinks at the smooch and shakes herself. "Right. Which door?"
- (2:23:52 AM) Ikiryo: "Big one at the back of the office!"
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