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The group of four appeared in the grassy meadow area of the Outerverse, from where Hikaru fell unconscious before. A few walks distance away from the Rip. Hikaru lay in the ground, still knocked out cold, and Inari looked around for Verrtsi.
"We have to stay with that jerk again." Inari groaned. "I just hope he doesn't get a temper with us again. He needs to lighten up."
"Should we try a healing potion on her?" Echo inquired.
"Does that work for being magically exhausted?" Inari asked. "I don't remember the lesson on healing."
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The Aralangs wondered why they came back. "Maybe the Special Forces are on their ass?" One wondered.
"Nah," another said. "It's a non-tech area. They probably figured this is the best place for Hikaru right now."
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Verrtsi, standing between them and the rip, is patting the shoulder of the massive, crystalline bear that Celestie left. "Get that uniform off her. Boy, come over here and keep the bear calm. Dark girl, figure out where the chip is, then teleport it out of Hikaru's body. Chatty girl, work a barrier around the bracelet. Once you're done, pour the water into the bed." He calls out, not turning around to face them as the bear growls at passing Aralangs.
"Oy, Aralangs! Tell your boss I wanna have a word with him." He shouts into the rip, erecting a large, opaque black barrier behind him so Hikaru can have at least some privacy.
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Inari look offended. She was NOT chatty. The nerve of this guy! "Helllooooo Strict Guy! Won't a healing potion just work? I mean Hikaru had some- er... right. We don't have those now. BUT STILL! Healing spell maybe?"
Echo looked skeptic. Dark Girl? "I can't sense the chip." She replied. "Nihil may be anti-magic. But it doesn't sense things not magic."
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The same Elite leader that has seen Hikaru past the rip came. He went to the edge of the Aralang territory, careful not to step into the Outerverse. "First you want us to go away, then you want us. Make up your bloody mind!" the Elite said to himself very quietly. He then cupped his mouth and shouted. "What is it?"
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"God damnit girl what do you think the water's for?! Now are you going to shut up and help your teacher or are you going to stand there bitching all day long?!" Verrtsi shouts, arcing a small, cherry-bomb sized explosive ball over the barrier to land several yards from Inari's side.
"You seem to be a higher authority than Leserlake, since you could control whether Hikaru got to leave or not. Tell the Special Forces to get the hell off our backs before they start a damn war that doesn't need to be started." He replies to the Aralang, keeping a tight hold on the bear.
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Inari stuck her tongue out, after jumping a few inches, from the shock of the blast. "Well SORRY! It's not every day regular water heals and all, you know. Regular water, healing. Not when you can just use a healing potion or healing spell." She gave a shifty gaze at Verrtsi. "Anyways, so I just throw these buckets of water on her, or what? AND! Can't we just force THOSE BOZOS TO TAKE IT OFF OF HER?" Inari raised her voice and spoke loudly on purpose, as she hoped the Elite dude would hear.
Echo just stood by looking clueless.
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"I can't do much, I'm afraid. If Leserlake can't help you, then get Gaserlake. I'm sure he can help you." He then heard Inari's words and smiled. "Oh, right," he yelled again. "The beacons. Yeah. We can help with that."
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"Oh? Glad you're being more cooperative than the Aralangs on Aralia. Honestly, you'd think the second in command would have the authority to call off his own damn troops. Now if only these two would be as helpful. Excuse me a moment." He replies to the Aralang, before turning to check on Hikaru.
"You mean you didn't bring the damn bed with you?! What the hell?!" He shouts, walking right through the barrier to stand before Inari and Echo. "There was kind of a reason why Celestie made that bed you know! For a student of one of the brightest and most powerful sages you certainly aren't very bright." He adds, scowling at her as he proceeds to summon the bed from Lesh, which lands between Verrtsi and Hikaru. "Lay her on that, ditch that ugly-ass uniform of theirs, pour the water on her and shut the hell up so she can get her strength back. By the gods girl. One would think I have to do everything myself." He says to her, before going back to hang with the bear.
"Sorry about that. Now, how do we get the bracelet off, and how do I get in contact with whoever's running the Special Forces?"
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"Uhhh, but if we take the uniform off she's gonna be...." Inari glanced up at Chal. "You know... I still say we just use a healing potion or spell. How does regular water help anyways?"
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"You're right," Chal agreed, "I remember learning this one spell when I was training..."
He paused. "It's white magic. Healing magic. It won't take care of her exhaustion, but it can help her cuts and bruises... Healing light!"
And so, Chal's hands lit with a white aura and he began to move his hands, hovering up and down Hikaru's body but not touching her, healing her cuts and bruises and such.
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"His own troops?" the Elite shouted. "You mean the Special Forces? No, you misunderstand. Once they're involved, they're involved. Takes a hell of a lot to get them out. They aren't under Leserlake's or even Gaserlake's command. You can see them as, uh, the higher-ups." After a moment, he yelled, "For the bracelet, we can get it off the quickest way. Without us, you would have to perform some, unusual ways to get it off, like, chopping off the arm and regrowing a new one, or you perform extensive surgery. Don't forget the chip in her, too. Without us, you would probably need surgery. Again, get Gaserlake. He might be able to get them to stop."
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"So what? You expect us to just hand her over to you so you can remove it? Nuh-uh! Not no way! Not no how! Under ANY condition! You could be lying as a way to get her back over to your side!" Inari shouted back, standing up. She hadn't noticed the rip before, taking it as second nature, but now she looked in shock. "Waaaait a minute... How are they over there anyways? I don't remember that in the Outerverse last time."
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"I've never heard about it when I was reading about the Outerverse... Wait, how DID she escape!?" Chal exclaimed.
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"Alright. Forget it, then. I was going to offer you help with the beacons, but forget about that." the Elite said, purposely ignoring the rest.
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"Ignore them, please. They aren't even trying to think about the situation. We can get it off, just tell me how." Verrtsi replies, waving off the other two even as Celestie teleports in next to them.
"You haven't even dealt with the beacons yet? What's taking so long Verrtsi?" She asks, seeing both the uniform and bracelet still on the sleeping woman.
"Those three friends of hers are being completely useless. Instead of trying to help they're bitching about it. And the kid is even trying to use a healing spell when there's no damn wounds to heal."
Celestie turns to face Inari and Echo. "Come on, Hikaru needs our help and this is no time to be messing around." She says, shaking her head as she lifts up the sand from the bed and the water. "Lesh water is unique, though the property's not completely returned yet. This sand acts as a catalyst, creating a sort of rejuvenation lotion. Add regular water, and it makes something drinkable, though it's got the consistency of a milkshake."
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"We're not being useless!"Inari shouted back to Verrtsi. "We just can't take her to their side. It's probably a setup, an ambush, a total lie! Are you TRYING to just hand her back over to them? Well you're not sages, so we probably can't trust you anyways." Inari gave another shifty gaze at him. "And how did they get there?!"
Hikaru twitched slightly, shuddering in the grass, she groaned a bit and dug her hands into the dirt, gripping it.. It almost looked like she was dreaming, but with the expression on her face, not a happy dream. "Not....going..to kill...anyone .....else.. you can't make me!... I won't, I won't, I won't....I.......will."
Echo looked to Celestie as Inari and her stared, "Uhh... I don't think that's a good sign."
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"The bracelet is basically attached to the body. You would need surgery to get it off. It's attached to the bones itself. The attachments are like tendons. For the microchip, you would need surgery on that, too. It's in her left shoulder."
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"Ah, easy enough to deal with the chip then. Bracelet's only marginally more difficult." He says, nodding before heading back to help. "Please excuse me." He adds, the bear stepping up to the rip.
"You two, take this. It'll bring you to my home. When you get there, go to the herb garden in the back and gather up some of the herbs you'd use to make a painkiller. When you're done, grind them up." Celestie says, tossing a pinkish crystal between the three. "Verrtsi, you ready?"
"Yes milady."
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Twisting in a flurry of shadow and light a small figure began to appear, one of a young boy with white hair and a severe lack of clothes. He held in his hand a lance that appeared to be made completely of iron, except that it was darker and slightly bent, as if he had been used for a very long time. "Is Hikaru alive?" As all the boy asked, although many of the people there might not know it, he was Ryt, Horseman of Death and the newly born son of Koty.
"I've been sent to make sure she is alive, and kill the ones responsible for her imprisonment." Ryt stated his reason for being here, looking at the body of Hikaru for a split second before turning the rip. "She's alive, and I assume the ones beyond that rip in the dimensional wall are her enemies?" Ryt questioned, gripping his lance tightly.
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Tristan appeared in the outerverse after tracking Hikaru's magical signature to there and then once he confirmed she was indeed there and comatose he teleported away again this time to the base of the special forces. This news would put him in good with the leader and set the Aralangs up for what he had planned namely their defeat.
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Great more company. This is attracting unwanted attention. "Well, the chip is as deep in as the bracelet's attachments," the Elite shouted, while taking note of two new visitors.
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"Y-yes," Chal confirmed to Ryt, a bit startled at his arrival, "Those are the Aralangs."
He stood, walking over to Tristan. "This is a private place. Please, leave."
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Both Inari and Echo nodded to Celestie and then started agape at Ryt's appearance. They wanted to stay, but they figured they mas as well listen to Celestie's orders. Especially with everyone appearing. Inari glanced to Chal. "Are you coming?" She asked, before her and Echo touched the crystal and teleported out.
Still mumbling gibberish, Hikaru gripped into the dirt more, as she turned her head ever so slightly back and forth like having a nightmare. "Enemies...? But then why... why...did I save them...? Why would my magic..."
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Chal quickly grabbed onto Echo, nodding at their question.
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The moment Inari, Echo and Chal left, Verrtsi sets up a magical AT/AP field around them all, accompanied by a black barrier-array box surrounding the three. Celestie turns to Ryt, just outside the fields. "There are extenuating circumstances around this. Go to Lesh, there Nisorin will explain what's going on."
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"Unable to, I was asked to make sure Hikaru is alive and if possible kill the ones who imprisoned her. The circumstances of her imprisonment are irrelevant." Ryt replied as he looks at the barrier around him. "This will not hold me." He states calmly, looking the empress in the eyes.
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"Nothing is so simple, Ryt. You're still young, so I'll try not to lose my patience with you. But, if you want Hikaru to be rid of this trouble, killing her captors is only going to make matters worse. Now, stay here. Help Verrtsi get ready to take the beacons off Hikaru." Celestie replies, looking over at him before stepping out of the AT field. "Those idiot kids took her with them, when it was only supposed to be them." She adds, before taking a second pink stone out. "Verrtsi, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid while I'm gone." She finishes, before using the stone to walk into her own home.
"You haven't been around long, so I'll fill you in. Nothing is so black and white as you seem to believe. There are always grey areas. Times when orders make no sense, and sometimes need to be disobeyed. The mark of loyalty isn't just being able to follow orders. It's knowing when to change what you do depending on the situation to best help those you're loyal to." He tries to explain, looking over at Ryt.
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"The situation and consequences are not relevant to my orders, I am to verify Hikaru's condition and to kill her captors. Why they captured and imprisoned her, and what would occur after I kill them are as I said, not relevant." Ryt replied, raising his lance and aiming the tip at Verrtsi's throat. "If you try to stop me I'll kill you, this is your one and only warning." He said blatantly as he turned towards the rip and walking towards it. Holding his lance at the ready.
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A NET Window opened and spat out Hikaru first, roughly, followed by Chal, landing near her. Next, Inari was spat out, landing on the ground near Chal, and Echo was spat out landing... directly on top of Inari. Finally, K2323 was spat out of the vortex, standing quickly upon arrival to the Outerverse.
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Thrown roughly to the ground, Hikaru groaned and opened her eyes, using a hand to roll herself over and sit up. The first things she noticed was Inari, okay familiar. Echo and Chal... not familiar. And then... her brother! Instantly jumping to her feet, a sword of Holy Fire appeared in her hand, as she looked back and forth to all the people, including Ryt, and Verrtsi. "What trick are they playing now? Huh, Aralang?!" She shouted, pointing the sword to each of them, not really sure which one to attack, finally leaving it pointing at K2.
"You tap into my mind, find memories and make me think I escaped? Is that it?! Well I'm not buying it!!"
Echo got off Inari, and the two helped each other up, speechless and unsure of what to say to Hikaru's accusation.
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Chal also stood, in awe at the seemingly-crazy Hikaru.
"Hikaru... Fuck you, you made me go through some serious shit trying to get you out of that prison. Try not to get arrested again," K2323 said, laughing.
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Hikaru didn't move the sword even an inch, as she glared at him. "Is that the best you can do? You must not have access to all my memories then. Because my brother would never try getting me out of prison. So this is a failed attempt at fooling me into trying not to escape. DROP THE ACT! I'm not falling for your games."
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"K2 attempted to get you released from captivity as an order from my Father, but if you wish to kill your brother I do not suggest now as a time to attempt such a thing. You're are weakened." Ryt states as he reaches the rip and looks at the Aralang on the other side. "I don't want this to be easy.. You have five minutes to prepare a defense."
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"Maybe we should try dumping hot water over her head," K2323 suggested as a bucket of hot water appeared, floating above Hikaru before quickly tipping, pouring onto her figure.
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Inari gasped as her and Echo watched Hikaru get soaked. They were both holding back silent laughter, but didn't make a sound in fear of the repercussions. Hikaru on the other hand.... didn't find it quite so funny.
"I'll kill you for that.... I'll so totally kill you!" She let the sword disperse then snapped her fingers, and a pile of french fries fell on K2. Wait? That worked? Hikaru glanced to the spell, then took another look around, just now noticing the rip. "Oh, so you are real. In that case..." She snapped her fingers, and another pile fell on him.
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"AAAAAAAH! HOLY SHIT! THE FRENCH FRIES! THEY'RE EA..."
By now, K2323's form was literally being absorbed by French Fries. A few moments later, they were gone, K2323 having consumed them. "So... So scary! But so delicious!"
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"You! Me! Here and Now! Rematch! Fuck the tournament. Now that I don't have to worry about those infidels, we have a fight to finish." Hikaru demanded looking furious. She had been through hell getting out of that place. And now here brother was just being.... well, himself. Which just served to piss her off further and make her forget everything else, but beating his brains out and burning him alive.
Inari and Echo just looked on in shock, watching the crazy sibling fight.
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"In case you haven't noticed," K2323 said, pointing to his android form, "I'm not at full fighting force. And neither are you. You'll get your rematch soon enough, but not today."
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"Grrrr. Fine." Hikaru grudingly dropped the threat, then took the time to really survey the scene. Realizing quite quickly, she didn't know what the hell was going on. "Why ARE you here, anyways?" She inquired, "And how dare you bring technology into the Outerverse! And who are they?" She pointed at Echo, Chal, and Verrtsi. "And.... Why aren't they attacking? I would figure they could throw stuff at least." She pointed at the Aralang side. "In fact...Just WHAT THE HELL is going on here?! Stronger mind trick?!"
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Verrtsi steps between the two siblings, crouching before Hikaru. "Milady Tyris. My name is Verrtsi Trolec, Relorian spiritual leader and personal friend to Celestie Lertis. She has asked me to protect you and help you recover until she returns. Aralangs are attacking her home, and so she brought you back here. Though, your student and her two friends were not supposed to bring you to Celestie's home in the first place. Celestie is currently at her home, repelling the attacking Aralangs while her husband is in orbit over Aralia." He explains, pointing at the Aralangs. "They are workers at the place you were imprisoned, but through negotiations they have seen their mistakes and seem to be willing to work things out. The Aralang's Special Forces, however, don't. They only want your head."
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"Um.." K2323 paused, observing the scene for the first time himself. "Well, I rescued you from Celestie's home, but -"
"I can explain," Chal said, speaking up as he got off the ground. "I'm Chal. That over there is Echo, I guess she's a friend of Inari. And Verrtsi just introduced himself, of course. We, along with K2323, were making plans to break you out of your prison, but you seemed to have done that yourself. I don't know how, though-"
"I think I know the answer to that. Hikaru... Did you really master that technique? Though how you could do that under an AM Field, I have no idea... But you did. And you might want to disconnect the energies now, to move the Outerverse back to its place. And sister, I wouldn't have used technology to get here if I had any other choice... The Aralangs were after us. Here's the only place we're safe for right now," K2323 explained.
"S-so? Does this mean war against the Aralangs?" Chal questioned.
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The Aralangs nodded at Ryt and quickly formed a defense. Automatic defense systems were standing by. Machine gun and rocket launcher emplacements have been made. Tanks and Fighters were ready for combat. Other types of defenses have also been made.
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"That appears to be sufficient." Ryt announced as he momentarily disappeared and reappeared next to the farthest machine-gun emplacement, he hadn't teleported, terrifying he had only ran. Without wasting a second he impaled the Aralang that was stationed there and hurled it at the nearest tank, surprisingly the corpse was going faster then it should. It had enough force that it literally exploded in a gore-strewn paste when it hit the tanks armor, enough to at least rattle the driver. But he didn't stay to watch it happen, after throwing it he disappeared again and Aralang started dropping like flies, he wasn't stopping as he moved, giving them little to no chance to actual target him. Seeing as he actual running much, much faster then a bullet.
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"I can't, it's permanent. Just like yours was." Hikaru snapped back to K2323, taking in everything she was told. The Aralangs had given up...? Why? And just who were the Special Forces? As she tried to make sense of everything that was going on, she answered the only parts she could. "If I wasn't spiritually exhausted at the time, I'd have only made it a temporary rip until I was out. But this called for going further. I had to thread and even knot the dimensions together. Not even both of us combined would be able to....Not that I'd work with you anyways. But whether I like it or not, we're stuck with them. Such is the price to pay for escape. Now if you'll excuse me..."
Hikaru had just caught sight of the threat, Ryt was getting ready to unleash upon her captors. Waving her hand, a semi-transparent golden barrier of Holy Fire appeared in front of Ryt, covering the Outerverse side of the rip, and thus preventing access to the Aralang side, it was a barrier to disallow teleportation and portals. Teleporting in front of Ryt, she glared at him. "You may inform your father, that if he was concerned for my well being, then he should have came, himself, when I sent the signal. Not when I've already risked my life escaping. If that is his rescue plan, then inform him to stop interfering. Stand down, their atrocities were against me, and me alone, and therefore are mine to kill, no one else."
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"The girlfriend's mad, Koty's in the doghouse," K2323 whispered to Inari, laughing.
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Verrtsi shakes his head and sighs, glancing through the rip. "We should at least put one hell of a barricade on that rip."
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"Perhaps a spell like the spells on the land that Hikaru once owned. I read about it somewhere," Chal explained, "You've got to tie in with the existence of the place. Its called uh... Astabbergonazin.. No, Asscakes... No, As-"
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The Aralangs were confused. They want us to prepare defenses, only for them to put up defenses? When Hikaru spoke to Ryt, they knew this is personal. This should be fun. People killing each other over people they want to kill.
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K2323 sighed, teleporting next to Hikaru, who was next to Ryt. "You really can't mean that you don't want to get back at those attackers, can you... Onee-chan?"
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Hikaru paused and twitched for a moment, as if thinking of something. She then replied to K2323, keeping the barrier up. "Of course I want to get back at them, but that's my revenge to take. Not Koty who can't even rescue at the right time, or his son. They will die, just not now. Just like I can only kill YOU, I can only kill THEM. Understand?"
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"Whatever you say, Onee-Chan," K2323 replied, materializing some pocky to eat. "Of course, it seems that a lot of others want to get their hands around the throats of the Aralangs as well. Whoever these special forces are, they just nearly melted me with plasma, so I'm right with you."
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Celestie, teleporting in and getting filled in on the missed conversation by Verrtsi, shakes her head with a bit of a growl. "They invaded my home and shot at me. I'm taking at least a few of those fucking Keepers down if it comes to it."
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"Cease and desist for a moment!" Hikaru shouted, holding up a hand to silence them all. "Just who are the Special Forces? And if they did all that, why didn't you attack them when I was out? Instead of now? And even then, if Koty's son kills them, there will be none left for any of us."
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"No idea," replied K2323, "But either they're not some of Gaserlake's buddies or the Aralangs picked a funny way of telling me they didn't want to be allies. And they're not pushovers, either, these guys fired at us first thing."
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"The Special Forces are the elite forces. They don't mess around when it comes to business. Until you take the beacons out, the Outerverse is her only safe place," said an Aralang. "The only reason we're helping you out is because Leserlake wants us to."
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"Like I asked for your help." Hikaru growled, obviously not happy with the current news and what was going on. "And I'm RIGHT HERE, either you talk TO me, or don't answer at all. Don't talk around me. Now.. What damn beacons are you talking about? And if it comes to it, I'll just destroy these forces. Just like I broke out of your oh so secure facility. You fell, they'll fall." Hikaru smirked when saying this.
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Celestie, giving Hikaru the familiar telepathic knock, kindly reminds her about just how close she came to not making it out.
"The beacons are what they're using to track you. That bracelet, your clothing, and a very small object implanted into your left shoulder." Verrtsi explains, looking over at the Aralangs and shaking his head. "And please, I understand neither of you are entirely thrilled about this situation, but let's at least try to be civil with each other so it ends faster."
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"Well, if you didn't notice, the bracelet on your right hand is attached to your wrist, and a microchip is in your left shoulder. They are both beacons. Your prisoner uniform is also a beacon. They don't work in the Outerverse, but if you go out of the Outerverse, they would become active, and would immediately notify the Special Forces. If you can brake through the prison, you would be able to remove the bracelet and the microchip," the Aralang said, ignoring Hikaru's anger. "The Special Forces want you dead. They won't stop until you're dead, until Gaserlake talks them out of it. Gaserlake's your best bet."
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Almost immediately Hikaru held her wrist up so she could examine it, seeing the ID bracelet settled there. She hadn't noticed it before, having been too busy getting over the shock of being in prison, and then the commotion of breaking out. Now, however, all she could do was glare at it, wanting to just rip it off and strangle the Aralang with it. "Soo... you invade my privacy and strip search me, you take my clothes even though the likely hood of them having magic is next to none... What else did you do?! RAPE ME?!" She scolded right at the Aralang.
"But no.. that's not the worst, no, not by a long shot!" Her hand quivered, causing the barrier to blink out for a split second before blinking back in. "You also had to go and put technology on, and IN ME! Oh you'll die, you'll definitely die for this. But by MY HAND, ALONE!!!" With that, she turned around to face Ryt straight in his eyes. "You! STAND THE FUCK DOWN! And make sure to tell Koty!! That he lost his chance to play the chivalry game. Now it's my vendetta to throw against them, NOT HIS! And if he fucking interferes, I will personally make sure he gets his ass sealed back in a rebuilt Erebus, sons and all!!!!!"
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"D...Did she just say a-alone?" K2323 asked, looking at the others around him.
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"Uh, rape?" the Aralang asked, as he looked at the others in awkwardness. He turned back to Hikaru. "No. We definitely didn't do that. We told you about the beacons, and without us telling, you wouldn't have known about the chip in you, and you would still kill us?"
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"YES!" Hikaru snapped back, instantly. "For the simple damn reason that you would even dare, and did dare do such a thing. As well as the other points I made. I was going to kill you for even imprisoning me to begin with. But you just sped your demise up by half. And as for these beacons..." She suddenly disappeared.
Then a minute later, Hikaru reappeared, having teleported to Starania, Lesh, Aralia, Earth, Terraguove, and all the planets of Elmora, for a split second each before returning. "That should throw them off. Now...." She glared back at the Aralang. "How the hell do you remove them?!"
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"A simply phasing should work. They are not naturally of your body, and if you don't have them phase with you.. They'll fall right out." Ryt suggested, still eying the rip. And with an audible laugh he turned to look at her while she had her little outburst. "My Father as I said, is busy preparing a war with embodiments and something that could kill him with a mere thought. Unsealed or not. So, I insist that you kindly, shut the fuck up." Ryt replied, his first own exhibit of actual emotion.
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Using a shadow travel spell Tristan arrived in the outerverse for a few moments and noticed Hikaru was there. Upon verifying that he did the spell again allowing him to get away. He had gathered the required information that he needed and therefore could report it to the Special Forces right after a bit of a detour.
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"The chip we could probably just teleport, with Verrtsi here to help take care of healing the wound left over. The bracelet's too tied into your arm for that to be safe. Could lose your hand." Celestie muses, glancing at the bracelet. "You Aralangs either know or care little about a sage's sensibilities, huh? Possibly even both." She adds, a bit louder to make sure they hear across the rip.
Verrtsi, noticing the newcomer, promptly encases him in a form-fitting barrier, preventing any movement so tightly it's even marginally difficult to breathe. He walks over, shaking his head as he readies a few different spells. "Enough eavesdropping, boy. I think it's time you stayed still. After all, you wanted to see this. So, now you get to stay and watch. The Special Forces can't come here, and soon, you won't be leaving." He says, smiling as he pokes Tristan in the shoulder.
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"They would phase with her. It won't work. They're bio-mechanical. To get it off, you would need surgery on that arm and the shoulder to get it out." He then looked at Tristan, as he appeared. "That's the second time that happened. Who is he?"
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Hikaru clenched her fists and gave a death glare at the Aralang, signaling that he was coming so very close to dying. Surgery? How DARE they do surgery on her! "Fine. I don't even want my items back, then. You probably filled those with beacons as well. EXCEPT!" She paused and held up her finger in a gesture of annoyance. "The Katana and the cross, hand them over or go get them, NOW!"
With that done, she spun around to face Ryt again. "As for you! He still should have sent you when it was needed, not after. If he can't even get that right, then he shouldn't even try. Now, either you'll leave, and leave them to being my kill. Or you'll be forced to fight me, and if you kill me, ..... Well I don't advise doing that, at all. Leave"
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"Nope. The only thing that has beacons are our prisoners." At Hikaru's demand, the Aralangs looked at each other.
"Should we?" asked one Aralang
"Eh. Leserlake wants us to help. I guess so. I'll get the katana," the Aralang replied.
The Aralang went away from the rip. He was beamed onto the crashed Keeper, that's getting repaired. The Keeper then beamed him to another Keeper, which beamed him to a lab in the storage station. There, a scientist awaited him. "Just in time," he said. "We're just done."
"You learned anything about it?"
"Yes. It can cut through our toughest armor. The chemical type is like no other. We're able to mass-produce it and apply it to our armor."
"Wow," said the soldier, astonished. "And the cross?"
"We've found some activity with the cross. The cross is not as stable. It can just turn into a pile of wood. The activity is not because of the instability. It's like it's alive."
"Huh. Interesting," he said. "So, where are the two right now?"
"They are coming out now," the scientist said. Right after, another scientist, holding the inverted cross and the sheathed katana, came into the room. The scientist handed the two to the soldier.
"So, you sure you've finished all the testing?"
"I'm sure."
"Alright then. Thanks for the info. Anyway, I'll be giving these to her."
The Aralang did the same trip back to the rip. "Here's the two." He threw them to the other side. "Since we didn't attach your stuff with beacons, you want the rest back?"
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Turning back around, Hikaru caught the katana and cross, flicking the barrier out of existence long enough to do so, then putting it back up. Quickly unsheathing the katana, Hikaru glanced to the blade and held a hand over it, doing what looked like a quick scrying spell for anything out of the ordinary. When she was done, she stuck the blade back in the sheath and glared once more at the Aralang. She still didn't trust it, for all she knew they could have implanted the blade with more technological chips."No, I have all I want, and wouldn't trust you anyways." At that, she snapped her finger and the prisoner uniform she was wearing turned black. Another snap, and another maroon cloak was materialized. It wasn't her regular attire, but she didn't trust hers back, so it would have to do.
While fastening on the cloak, she continued to glare, muttering. "You're just lucky I had another one of these, or you'd die for that too. NOW, what did you do to the two things you returned. I know you did something." Hikaru accused.
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Of course, she's not going to like this part. "Well, we tested it. We didn't alter it in any way, though. We just wanted to know why your katana is able to cut through our material, and if the cross is something more than just a cross. We didn't put anything on it, no beacons, no trickery, or anything like that."
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Tristan concentrated however and rather than lower the barrier, he merely faded into darkness and disappeared to appear elsewhere. His information having been gathered he could now report to the Special Forces.
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"Not so fast, little boy," K2323 commented on Tristan's fading into the shadows, quickly recognizing the technique and grabbing onto those shadows. In front of K2323, a visible rope of darkness appeared and he gave a great tug on it, pulling Tristan back to the Outerverse, into the barrier, as K2323 began to raise an anti-teleportation barrier around the Aralang loyalist.
"Who do you work for?"
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Looking at K2323 and sensing the AT field rising around him he laughed. “Like I would ever tell you who I work for.†He said to him. “Dispaeus Shatter!†When he said those words the AT field around him began to fall.
He looked at K2323 and since K2 had grabbed onto some of the dark energy well some of it had entered his body. It became a void spell when Tristan commanded for it to become a void spell.
"You know k2, you quite are dense." He vanished in a brilliant flash of light.
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Too bad for Tristan he didn't take in account the other AT field around the barrier, from when Hikaru first put it up. When stopped by that, Hikaru quickly took the chance and in a flash unsheathed the katana, and pointed it at his throat, but then decided against the action and lowered it to even lower, if you catch my drift. "Explain who you're working for, or have it tortured out of you, brat. I don't care what your orders are or who gave them, either talk, or you face a very painful and humiliating death."
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OOC: Dispeaus Shatter only works in pocket dimensions lol.
"I wouldn't mind getting inside his head if he won't talk," Chal spoke up.
"You know mind techniques, boy?" K2323 asked.
"Y-yes, it's one of the first things I studied. I admired great leaders like Hikaru and their skills at social engineering, so I tried to master it myself, but.. I'm not THAT good."
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Tristan looked at Hikaru with disgust. How dare she put her sword up against that particular area and so he would handle it. “Torture me or not. Your choice. I will not tell you anything. But I will grant you a present.†His entire body began to glow with magical energy and he was about to release it all.
“KYAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!†He shouted and the energy intesified in strength before he exploded releasing a very very powerful blast of magic that if they didn't have shields up, they would be unlikely to survive his attack. The blast killed him, but it would likely take them down as well hopefully. His brother's life was safe.
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Except, by the time Tristan, was glowing, Hikaru had already taken notice that he was about to do something and stabbed inward, letting blood and fluid gush from Tristan's peanut sized manhood. Before he could blow himself up, she flung her arm up and tossed him off the katana and out of the barrier, allowing him to finish his explosion outside. When that was over, she wiped the katana on the grass, carefully cleaning off the disgusting substances at the tip. "Idiot."
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Being tossed out of the barrier by Hikaru and about to die due to the explosive energies he had gathered he sent a mental transmission containing all the memories of the people that were there including K2323. He also sent an image of Ryt, and Chal, Inari and Echo as well. The mental thought wave went straight to Aralia guided by what magic he hadn't added to the blast.
He then let himself die, his mission accomplished.
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The Aralang watched in awkwardness. "Ok. Well, I guess that's done with."
Soon after, after they got Tristan's message, the Special Forces arrived in the prison dimension, and they came to the rip. At the rip are six Elite Fighters and 30 SF troops. One of them came up and told the regular Aralangs via telepathy, with an angry face, look at them, "What? You're just standing there?"
"Leserlake wants us to have Hikaru as an exception," an Aralang telepathically replied.
"Dammit! I need to have a talk with him, then. First, though, we need to attack. Take her down, guys."
The Elite Fighters then shot at Hikaru, while the regular Fighters did nothing. The plasma became much more powerful when it went through the Holy Fire barrier, equivalent to a Keeper's plasma. The SF soldiers also shot at her, while the regular soldiers didn't.
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Unfortunately for the Elites, their plasma simply hits the barrier-array box that Celestie'd set up quite a fair while ago. The plasma disperses around it as she forces more energy into it, keeping it up even as the plasma burns at it. Smirking at them, she uses the leftover dispersed energy from the plasma for a spell of her own creation.
"To the ends of the realm let my voice be heard.
To the lair of the snake,
The den of the bear,
The pridelands of the lion,
And the clifftop nests of the gryphon.
I call upon you all, to aid me in the crafting of this wall!
Green strand, brown hide, tan claws, white bolt
Form together, First Gate of the Four Beastly Court Guardians!"
With her voice quickened through the Sierrensa arts, her fingers etching tribal depictions of the four beasts, their bodies oriented and posed to create a solid wall, her body pulses as the energy from the plasma moves and reforms. Coating the wall of the box facing the rip, a grand gate of shimmering crystal forms, completely identical to the etched design.
((Forbidden Gate of the Thirteen Court Guardians: Incantation 1 of 4 complete))
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"So these must be the Special Forces then...." The instant she saw the plasma begin to fire, Hikaru dropped her barrier and teleported to the sky, staying far out of reach from the plasma and shots. Raising another barrier of Revelation magic just around herself, she sent a telepathic message to just the ones fireing, closing out anyone else from hearing. "I'm the one you're after. So answer then, what must I do to gain amnesty from your attacks? Turn myself in? Or what? At least do me the honor of answering that."
Meanwhile, Inari and Echo who had been silent all this time, ducked behind K2323. They may have been sages, but that didn't stop shock and fear.
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Seeing that Hikaru is out of reach, they turned their attention to the forming crystal. Since the Holy Fire barrier is gone, the plasma's strength is back to normal, yet it's still powerful. They shot at the crystal, melting it. The pulses from the soldiers' guns having some effect when it is melted. The kinetic and thermal energy of the plasma created forces that would cause the crystal to expand and weaken, and move away from the impacts, unable to be an effective barrier.
One of the Elite Fighters began to read Hikaru's memories. It telepathically said, "Turning yourself in would make it easier for us to... well... kill you. It is not negotiable. We won't stop until you are dead."
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The barrier, almost immediately upon being hit, starts to funnel the plasma's energy, preparing it for use by Celestie once again. Her voice rings out clear, the energy once again forming on that wall of her original barrier-array, within the First Gate.
"Blade of the South
Hammer of the North
Pike of the West
Bow of the East
Come together and protect your charge!
Disintegrate those red lovers of Therosaine!
Sprinkle upon your weapons the bones of the four Beasts!
Stand against your foes, Second Gate of the Four Honorable Court Guardians!"
The energy forms in the same space as the First Gate, merging with it to depict four warriors, garbed in full armor. One, a muscled swordsman with his shield held at the ready. Another a massive man holding a hammer with a head bigger than his own, ready to smash away attacks. The third, crouched between the swordsman and hammer with his pike poised to impale oncoming soldiers. The final one, standing 'behind' the pikeman, holds a bow at the ready, arrow knocked and aimed with deadly precision. The new plasma shots accumulate at the tip of the arrow, ten at a time before firing back at the Aralang Elites with the precision of a sniper.
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All of a sudden, Hikaru could feel the familiar presence of someone trying to break into her mind. When she was without this perception was gone, but now, if they read something, she would know it. But it wasn't like she could close it off now. They'd know something was up, they'd know was hiding something... "You claim it's not negotiable, and yet you found it hard to say kill, just now. With that, there must be something I can do!"
Closing off the telepathic connection with the Special Forces Aralang, Hikaru then opened a new one to Celestie as she continued to hover out of the way. "I Apologize for not knocking first, but this is urgent. They're not going to stop until I'm dead, even if I turn myself in, they won't stop. If you can, I need you to hold things off here. With my memory, they now have access to the Outerverse's secrets. And in that, they know that if they attack it, because of Kai being the owner, the Outerverse will take that as an attempted takeover and thus throw anyone who's not Kai off of the land. I need enough time bought to get to Kai. But if I leave, they'll chase after unless distracted."
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K2323, who had been observing the scene quietly, had been formulating a plan. He looked behind to Inari and Echo, as well as Chal. "You three... We're going to have to work together here. Boy, go with Hikaru... I just picked up a message she was sending telepathically to..." He put a displacement field up around the four. "To Celestie. She's going to find my brother, Kai. I need you to use your mind techniques to throw off any Aralangs who might be tracking you... You're going to want to travel to Hell."
He turned to the other two. "Inari... Perhaps Celestie could use your help fending off the Aralangs. You're trained for this. You're ready... Echo, was it? I sense something different about you... Its almost as if you're void of magic, but... It's different at the same time. What does this mean?"
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The Aralangs may have knowledge about advanced technology. but it doesn't mean they don't know anything about the weapons and armor the four warriors are wearing. Then the archer pointed its arrows at the Aralangs, they knew what was coming. They went for cover, dodging the arrows. The ones who aren't being aimed at still shot at the four. 4 anti-tank crews came, rockets already loaded. While the archer is busy shooting at the other Aralangs, they shot at the four, one rocket for each warrior.
The Elite Fighters shot at the ground at the four. The grass around the area quickly caught on fire from the intense heat, and quickly melted, becoming something similar to quicksand. The fire, however, would spread faster than the melting, though the melting eventually covered the entire area. Everyone on the Outerverse side of the rip would slowly sink into the hot ground below. The surface would soon cover a big gap, void of any dirt or ground or anything. The ground below would become liquid and would flow to the big holes caused by the plasma impacts. Pretty quickly, the entire area will become a giant sinkhole.
Indeed, the Elite Fighter read enough to know what Hikaru knew about the Outerverse, among many other things, and continued reading more until there is nothing else to read, including what Hikaru telepathically said to Celestie. The Elite Fighter spread what it has read from Hikaru to the other Special Forces. This encouraged them to cause as much damage to the Outerverse as possible to flush them out.
(1 of 3 posts until sinkhole, and most likely triggers the Outerverse to kick everyone out.)
Edit: Fixing spelling errors. Meh.
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But as the Aralangs fired through the rip it stopped mid-flight, redirecting and shooting back towards their respective origins, telekinesis was always a useful tool, no matter how strong you were. Sighing Ryt gave one last look at Hikaru and aimed his lance at the rip, a portal the exact size of the rip appeared, the exit portal was in a far place in the Outerverse.
"Initiating a battle between our two sides will not end well, not in this area at least. To successfully harm them we'd have to invade, and all of you rely on magic far to much to go in there. I'm capable of entering their compound and destroying their various AM generators, once I'm finished a full scale attack can begin immediately." Ryt announced.
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K2323 appeared next to Hikaru, looking dead at her. "We have to separate the Outerverse. I don't care if it can't be done, we can find a way... You probably tied the energies of the dimensions together, right? I remember... Konjan, years ago, he came up with a spell which won him tons of awards. That's what we did, you know. The Guardians studied the dimensions... And Konjan made a spell to sever ties between things on a dimensional level. But he never got to test it, obviously, thanks to you."
He sighed, concentrating deep in his mind. "There's two problems. One, the caster, in this case me, will end up on the other side... In the Aralang dimension. Two, both dimensions will be exposed to whatever is between dimensions. I don't know what that is, but it probably can't be too good, and your barrier won't last you long... You're going to have to create a dimensional wall. Now, the only way I see to do that would be to get Kai here, fast, before the barrier fades. He can do it, no problem... It's your call. Do I do the spell or not?"
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Unfortunately for the Elites, no one had ever said the weapons would act as normal. After a few normal arrow shots, the bow begins to glow brighter than the rest, and the arrows now begin to explode in a shower of plasma the moment it passes within five feet of an Elite Aralang. The Archer absorbs the impact force and uses it to fuel more shots at the Aralangs, while the swordsman's shield curves outwards, spreading the impact force out over a larger area, minimizing the damage done while giving the Archer more energy to fuel his attacks. Verrtsi smirks at the Elites, even as the Pikeman's pike swings out, hooking onto a missile and, quite literally, swinging it back around while emitting a localized EMP pulse to the guidance system, effectively turning it into a straight-fire rocket as it turns back on its creators. Interestingly enough, the Hammer, literally, smashes the missile coming for him with the head of his hammer, which is now mostly separate from the rest of the wall.
"You'll never get through by doing that. Firing your plasma and rockets, you're only fueling both the Second Gate, and the creation of the Third!" Verrtsi calls out to them, magically amplifying his voice to sound over the gunfire and explosions even as he creates new portals to circumvent Ryt's. Just afterwards, he leans up to the Son of Koty, whispering into his ear just loud enough for him to hear. "We're not intending to invade. We're buying time for Hikaru to take ownership of the Outerverse. Please do not interfere."
Celestie, on the other hand, closes her eyes in concentration as she raises the heat around them to swirl like a whirlwind. Converting the heat into a 'heavier,' cooler energy, she begins work on the Third Forbidden Gate, infusing a small amount of her own spirit energy into the ongoing spell."Ye Knights!
Don your masks of Magic and Spirit!
Flutter your wings to harness the whirlwinding power!
Ye who bears the name of Life on the wall of blue flame!
Ye who bears the name of Love inscribe a twin lotus!
Ye who bears the name of Guardian, raise your shields!
Ye who bears the name of Orion cast your hands to the stars and call unto them!
Protect those you have given your hearts unto, Third Gate of the Four Court Guardian Knights!"
She sings, the whirlwind blowing to the center of the four Honorable Court Guardians as they step aside and curve to wrap around the rip, revealing the ornately-armored Knights. The First, garbed in massive bone plates with skull pauldrons covered in vines and leaves that glow as bright as the plasma, his weapons massive claws extending from the fingertips of his gauntlets, with razors protruding from side of the bone vambraces. The second, taking position to Life's right, is a woman garbed in a pink crystalline plate mail, rose quartz heart embedded just above the chest like a pendant. She holds two rather strange weapons; small chakrams with no handles, four in each hand and each inscribed with a multitude of glyphs and runes of binding and peaceful sleep. The third takes up position in the middle, a beast of a man with hair reaching halfway down his back. His face covered in scars, he stands at point, twin tower shields extending to cover Life and Love both. His armor, biggest of the Four, shines brilliantly in the starlight.
As the Guardian takes his place, a massive wall of specialized Curicite-Curinote isotope crystal forms behind the Court Guardians, the Beasts rising from the barrier to form into their own, 3D bodies created utilizing the Lisael isotope. They charge through the rip, using the wall's AAM field and their own amplifying properties to survive as they charge the Elites and fighters, the Bear quite literally leaping atop one, creating its own barrier beneath it to forcefully rip open its shields while the Gryphon soars about, picking up Elites before tossing them nearly a thousand yards upwards into the Outerverse's atmosphere, causing them to fall to the ground, flattened by the impact force as Verrtsi hardens the ground beneath their shadows into titanium. The Snake sneaks about on its own, lunging out of the shadows to grab Elites by surprise before swallowing them whole and moving on to the next meal. The Lion takes a much more straightforward approach. Darting around the weapons fire, he leaps atop an Elite and starts tearing away at him with his claws, front and hind while gnawing viciously at his neck.
Finally, as the rest of the Twelve Court Guardians step forwards from the wall, Orion takes his place atop it. Garbed in armor seemingly made from the night sky itself, the man silently pulls back on the empty bowstring before firing at the rip. As the twang of the string echoes about the area, both inside the Outerverse and the prison dimension, a tiny projectiles looking like a shooting star soars from the bow, landing in the center of one Elite's chest, blowing a hole straight through his armor, and him, to blow through the floor and halfway through the floor of the next level down.
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Knowing that everyone seemed to have broke her private telepathic connection. Hikaru gave up on telepathy and looked K2323 straight in the eyes. "The Dimensions are tied with Revelation and Genesis Magic together, do you REALLY think you can separate them? Even with Kai, the task would be impossible as neither of you have the Revelation part or have the means to get it. The Book is gone. Besides..." She went quieter. "You helped me. If you get stuck on the other side it's instant jail or kill, and you're NOT allowed to die until we get the chance to finish our fight. Yes, we need Kai. But not for that reason."
Hikaru began to assess the situation further, thinking of someway to get out of it. "If we have the Outerverse they can't get us out of it. Just keep them busy for the time being." She was about to teleport but before going, averted her eyes, attempting to no longer look at him as she quietly whispered, "As for the Guardians......I.." Struggling with what she wanted to say, Hikaru's expression softened as she seemed to be fighting an inner conflict with herself. After a few seconds silence, she finally barely worded in whisper, "I'm ...sorry..... " She closed her eyes, and sighed." .....For everything..." Then she was gone.
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K2323 hovered in the air, mouth wide opened at what he'd just heard... Had Hikaru just said she was SORRY!? That was impossible, Hikaru didn't have emotion, much less conscious... Did she? As K2323 thought about it, she obviously capable of more emotions than... whatever her usual emotion was, but she now had guilt too? What was going on?
Shrugging it off, K2323 remembered some of her last words. Keep them busy. He decided to not get in the way of the Relorians, and instead figured he'd be more useful elsewhere. He teleported back to Inari, Echo, and Chal quickly.
"Inari, Echo... If you can't be of assistance, either come with me or stay behind. Chal, you need to sta-"
He paused, a ton of bricks hitting him. He realized now that that place... Somebody had escaped from it. It could have been moments ago or years ago that it happened, but he was just now realizing it. He had escaped his prison. How, K2323 would never know. He wasn't capable of that kind of power. He was human... His magic had always been weak, like most humans who had magic.... Where was he?
K2323 opened a portal to the dimension that he called home, the kingdoms as he still called it, and began to search the dimension for one signature in particular. After practically exhausting himself searching, he found who he was looking for. Luckily, his portal, which had opened to the K Lab, was not far away from the person, so he had sensed them. He closed that portal and opened a new one to Magimeta.
"Chal, you're coming with me. Inari and Echo, follow if you'd like... It'll be safe where we're going. The Aralangs won't be able to get us. Nobody will."
K2323 stepped through, dragging a confused Chal with him but leaving his portal open for Inari and Echo to follow. To follow to Magimeta.
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The conventional Aralangs evacuated the area, except for the Keeper. The Special Forces started to take over.
The SF troops took for cover when their own shots have been sent back at them, only just dodging the shots. The arrows only burnt the affected soldiers. More Elite Fighters have been beamed into the battlefield and covered the portals with their own shields.
The other Elite Fighters stopped shooting at the Outerverse, and started to ram their shields into the Beasts, their shields disintegrating them rather quickly, with not much damage to the shields. They even used tractor beams on them, throwing them around like rag dolls, crashing them into the walls and ceilings.
Even more Elite Fighters have been beamed into the area. The ones already at the portals went kamikaze into the Outerverse, trying to make it throw everyone out of it. The Fighters' shields went down, leaving the Fighter itself dead, dissolving. Yet, it's fast enough to make it to the ground. The remnants of the crash dissolved into the ground, left with large craters.
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The Bear beast, using its own barrier to counteract the effects of the fighter's shield, tears open a hole in its shield large enough for it to fit through. The enraged bear, now inside, begins to pull at any edge it can get, tearing open ASF armor to get to the pilot inside. The Snake, seeing another fighter charging it, covers it in a AP barrier, using the fighter's own momentum against it to punch through the shield. The snake opens it's mouth impossibly wide, starting to gobble up the fighter.
The Gryphon, encasing itself in a similar barrier to the Bear, dive bombs a fighter, talons ripping away at the shield as it fires sharpened crystal feathers at the ship and surrounding ASF infantry with every beat of its wings.
The Lion, now finished with the ASF person he'd begun with, jumps onto another, wrestling him to the ground and biting at his throat.
The Court Guardians charge the suicidal fighters, the Hammer quite literally smashing them back through the portal like baseballs as the Pikeman hooks his pike into the shields of the fighters, swinging them back through the portals before the Swordsman steps right up to the portal, supported by the Guardian as their bodies and shields grow to cover the entirety of the portals. Life, Love and Orion simply stand their ground, prepared for any ASF people who decide to run out and try to punch the Court Guardians to death.
Nisorin, having brought the Blade Chord back to its home, teleports in and instantly starts supporting Celestie, putting up a powerful barrier-array over the ground so any fighters that do make it through can't harm the Outerverse. "You'll not win, Aralangs. You'll not take this place, nor shall you be allowed to so much as walk about here. This is a place of magic, and those who forsake it do not belong!"
Together, Nisorin and Celestie begin to sing while Verrtsi gathers about all the energy he can manage, readying it for the couple as they begin what is, so far, the most powerful casting of their lives.
"For those thousand hands,
Disrespectful hands
Unable to touch the Love.
For those thousand hands,
Shooting hands,
Unable to touch the midnight sky.
The Road ends for you here.
No more shall you terrorize,
No more shall you look down upon the masses.
Here you shall be taught humility
Here you shall be taught respect.
Rise, and bring forth the power of Orion, of Arisei!
Soar unto the heavens, crush those who seek to destroy her/him ((her/him said simultaneously, her by Nisorin, him by Celestie.)
Strike out and protect your Love! Forbidden Gate of the Thirteen Court Guardians!"
As their voice echoes about the battlefield, a single, small twinkle forms before the Aralangs, dispelling the portals entirely as it grows, pulsing with a heartbeat matching that of the Relorian couple. That twinkle starts to grow quicker and quicker, growing to become as tall as the rip. A body without a gender forms, the color of rose petals as four arms form from its sides, a tail extends from the bottom of its spine and great wings, translucent and exuding power, burst forth from its shoulder blades. With the unified voice of Nisorin and Celestie, it calls out to the ASF.
"You no longer pose a threat. Leave, and stop throwing your lives away pointlessly. Listen to reason, and allow war to be avoided." They call out, reaching out to grab an errant fighter and whip it violently back into the station to crash through multiple walls.
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Before appearing on the Outerverse, Hikaru B cast a shield of Revelation magic over her mind. Her orders had been the worst of the two clones, turn herself in. As a clone with a bit more brains than the first, due to needing to have it, she knew having her mind unshielded would ruin the entire thing, but she also knew she was basically sentencing herself to die. Her original knew what she was doing, right? Hikaru B quickly shook her head at the thought. No doubts, doubts would come later. Though try as she might, the doubts still came. And being a clone of Hikaru, that was typical, as Hikaru barely trusted anyone.
With her mind shielded, Hikaru B appeared in the air near the rip, taking the exact position the real Hikaru had been. Now the waiting began...
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The shields are resistant to anything, but the Bear Beast eventually managed to open up the shields.
For the Gryphon, the talons evaporate when it comes into contact with the shields.
For the Pikeman, there was no shield, as the shields were dead as soon as it entered the Outerverse. Seeing that there is nothing to grip onto, the kamikaze pilots managed to impact the ground.
More Elite Fighters have been beamed in, replacing destroyed ones. This time, they used tractor breams, slamming them against the floor, the ceilings and the walls, creating holes, disabling the Beasts.
A deep, male's voice bellowed in everyone's mind. "We don't want war! Just Hikaru Tyris!"
There was a low, but loud humming sound. It rose up in pitch. The pitch went high enough to be inaudible. Then, WHOOSH! There was a blinding light, covering the entire battlefield. Everything in the Aralang side of the battlefield was quickly incinerated. What was left was a huge hole, showing the Keeper in front of the rip. Anything that didn't get incinerated was thrown miles back into the Outerverse. Any attempts of absorbing Saraton Energy would result in being incinerated from the inside.
Two Elite Keepers came, and the conventional Keeper left. The hole left by the Keeper rammed in was enough for more ships to come through. The Elite Keepers then emitted their own AM fields, and combined the two together to form one, strong AM field. The AM field went through the rip and into the Outerverse. It worked as AM fields doesn't necessarily have to come from a technological source and can indeed come from a magical source. They then sprayed very strong AME. The same thing applies to AME: it isn't necessarily technology, so it can exist in the Outerverse. There's a cloud of AME, which filled the entire battlefield, and spread even more. The two Keepers then directed their AM fields into the rip, as well as closing in on it, expanding it more into the Outerverse. If this continues, this would trigger the Outerverse into forcing everyone out of it.
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The newly-beamed fighters are only able to smash uselessly into the giant's body, and are promptly spit back out into the Aralang dimension. The Snake, even while being thrown about by tractor beams, starts violently regurgitating its meals, half-digested Aralangs and fighters shooting out at the offending fighters like missiles. The bear simply grabs onto the closest heavy object it can get: the remains of one of the destroyed AM generators. He uses the momentum of being swung about to add more force behind his throw, whipping the generator fragment at a fighter. The Gryphon does much the same thing, using its wings to add even more force, while using them to counter the tractor beam's effects once it throws.
"Seeking the death of Hikaru Tyris will bring war. Cease your assaults, or cause that which you wish to avoid." It says, the spirit energy fused into the giant's creation making the giant's magic insusceptible to the AM attributes. The Giant merely ignores the AM field and AME spray, since they're not an offensive weapon and thus cannot threaten the Outerverse. What it does do, however, is plant both hands against the foremost Keeper, partially through the rip already and thus susceptible to the Outerverse's tech-disabling effects. Since its shield is already gone, the Giant starts literally pushing the Keeper back into the Aralang dimension, all the while creating tiny punctures in the hull and injecting an airborne pathogen created using miniscule amounts of spirit energy tied together with magic. The pathogens, unlike many the Aralangs had seen, invade the victim's body and begin creating internal lacerations and cancerous tumors, which quickly burst and hemorrhage, causing internal bleeding. If not given immediate medical attention, nearly all infected are due to die, literally being cut up from the inside out, while bodily functions shut down from the tumors.
"You have forced us to resort to over-the-top measures. We ask that you call a cease fire, so that this situation may be discussed, and you can be reasoned with before further actions are required."
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The Elite Keepers were never in the Outerverse, only merely went up to the rip, but never through it, making it out of reach of the Giant, and the pathogen would have never made it into the Elite Keepers. If the Beast were to go after the Elite Keepers in the Aralang dimension, their powerful shields would stop it from reaching the hull. They would also shoot at the Beast, while backing away from it, the Beast were ever to step foot into the Aralang dimension.
"You hardly know us," one Elite Keeper said telepathically, while the two continue to spew out AME. "Hikaru Tyris would most likely cause a war anyway, as she resisted and broke out of prison. What you are about to witness is what happens when you mess with us."
The Outerverse doesn't recognize the AM and the AME, allowing the AM and the AME to exist. The AM and the AME has spread far into the Outerverse, and because of their AM properties, the connection with Kai's magic signature began to fade and gets overpowered as the AM and the AME began to ever spread into the OV. This triggered the Outerverse into thinking that an attempt of a takeover is taking place. Suddenly, everyone was force-teleported back to the last place they were before they came to the Outerverse. For Hikaru B, since she came from a negative dimension, she was teleported to a random location, which would happen to the the SP dimension, in deep space.
Because the Elite Keepers weren't in the Outerverse, they kept pouring AME into the Outerverse. So far, so good. The next step, if Hikaru's memories are correct, would be to completely remove Kai's signature, from the Outerverse, and to replace it with another.
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And they all get teleported out because the Aralangs are too chicken to drop their guns and fight with real weapons, and too stupid and stubborn to listen to perfectly good reason. Now, the Aralangs are taking Outerverse, and have officially destroyed any and all possible positive ties they may have had with the Relorians. They wanted to avoid war? They just started one.
Don't you love hypocrites?