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Act 2!

Sixth Degree Ubercharge: 5/9

EVERYONE! TARGET THE CROWN/CENTRAL HOLDER NOW! THE RIGHT BEAM IS ALMOST CERTAINLY DEAD, AND THE SEEKERS ARE COMPLETELY GONE. I REPEAT, EVERYONE FIRE ON THE CENTRAL HOLDER/CROWN.

A public service announcement from your local Nonexistent Tazz.

Now, onto the show. I fire some Sixth Degree Ubering at the Tri-Mage Fighter before I start this.

"You know, looking at the field, I really doubt this is Checkmate, Godmodder, not even Check...So cocky. Victory, they claim! And then they forget about just OOOOOOOOONE detail that, in all reality, was pretty freaking huge, considering it's the intervention of one of the most powerful entities in all of the Multiverse and one of the Narrative's strongest allies! How stupid is that, to completely forget that? The alternative is that the Author was simply too-well hidden for the SUPPOSEDLY omniscient Project Binary to even know, but that's not even important. This isn't even hard. All they really did, in hindsight, was literally just save us any effort on the trip and make us feel a little depressed. YOU had us LEGITIMATELY SCARED. They don't hold a candle to you at all, but YOU hold the whole sun. These are useless assets that got cocky and THEY, morons that they are, think that they can eventually dispose of you. Godmodder Soul...LET EM' BUUUUUUUUUUUUURN!!!"

And with that, I certainly make sure they are burned. I draw the Infinity Blade. The weapon that killed the Godmodder. I give credits to those others who damaged the Godmodder before I could finish him off, but I'm still quite happy with getting the final blow. If the Right Beam is somehow still alive after all of this, I twirl my powerful Spoil around and execute a flashy finishing maneuver on it to secure the kill and gain another kill on the blade itself. If not, I do so on the Crown/Central Holder instead, as there's no point in just letting that go to waste while I have that time, slicing through large sections of it while I barrel around it.

Then, comes the fun part. I get back inside my ship and pull out a very fun surprise, the Divine Gate of Harmony and the Inky Door. I open both, and they both open to the same destination-the Inky Abyss, natch. Ink floods to the floor, and I give the Doors a bit of power to make it flood out faster and faster and faster. Pretty soon, the whole area at the bottom of the Moonbase Core is positively flooded with ink. I close both doors.

Silence, or at least as much silence as could be had on the battlefield. If anyone bothered to look, there seemed to be...Ripples. I seem to be aiming my guns at the ink below, despite no indication of me letting loose anything other than ink.

Naturally, a massive burst of tentacles suddenly erupts from the deep, rushing outwards and slamming themselves against the Crown, angry and livid, trying to do...Something. The kind of thing Erelye probably has horrendous nightmares about. It's safe to say that's not typically possible on a physical level, but this thing certainly isn't about to stop because of that. And aside from that something, more mundane methods of killing things make itself apparent-thrashing, bashing, crashing, and more. More...Exotic limbs start to approach from the depths as well, some horrendous mix of claw and tentacle, or hand and tentacle in some cases, and other things that I really don't have descriptive words for.

Ladies and gentlemen. A Juvenille Lesser Inkbeast.

You don't want to know what the adult one is like, or the average Inkbeast, or the greater Inkbeast, or the Champion Inkbeast, or, heavens forbid, the True Inkbeast.

In any case, the beast eventually raises up in all of its partially non-euclidean glory. The brains of all sapient entities nearby just comprehend parts of it as something a lot simpler, making the beast itself look like a Squid. It is certainly NOT a Squid, though the connection is reasonable all things considered, it's mostly tentacles with a head-analouge and a mouth pointed right where all those tentacles are coming from. IN any case, quite simpleminded at this stage of life, the Juvenille Lesser Inkbeast continues to wail upon the structure.

Now, Binary is bad, but I really don't want this thing maturing so close to a planet with life on it, and this is merely a prelude to a lot more of these guys. So many, so tough, so fast, so hard. The Moorblade's seen plenty of these in it's 1.0 version, though, and it's 2.0 version will probably fare a lot better. I whirr up the Crimson Minienders, the Laser Nerfers, and the Oblivionator, and open fire, positioning myself RIGHT behind it's skull-analogue and thus making any shots that over-penetrate nail the Crown.

My smile is pretty obvious after a few seconds, and the Juvenille Lesser Inkbeast shrieks in rage and pain as it is promptly gunned down by a barrage of Oblivion and Reality Majjyks, the last two things it would want to deal with. It is torn to a near-skeleton within half a minute of firing, better than before, and sinks back into the Ink, dead.

The ink ripples again, the sign of worse approaching. I get out of the ship and draw Tetrixcalbur at this precise moment and let burning Charisma be known upon it. Oh, how I wished I had this earlier...I touch the blade to the very edge of the Ink. In that instant, the Ink is set on fire with a bright green flame, white at the edges and black near the core. The Inkbeasts have no greater hate, fear and/or weakness than the power of Pulchritude (what it is exactly to them could be debated), and they quickly retreat as I get ready for my REAL attack with all of this ink. The Ink coils up into a roughly cyndrilical shape on the floor, coiling into some kind of burning torus. I cut the torus in two, taper off one end and give the other end a maw, now making it a snake fasimilie. Irony, indeed.

I don't play fancy-this is kind of out of my powerset. I immediately and brutally slam this snake right into the crown, maw open. It connects quickly, wraps around it to the best of its ability, and then, I make the Pulchritude upon it explode violently.

The result is a massive, bright-green flare, burning and eating the Crown away for a while until that vanishes with no Ink nor effort to support it, which is nevertheless extremely damaging given the powerful nature of the energy itself.

So close to victory, so close I can taste it on the tip of my tongue...So clooooooooooooooooooose...

"Chances are godmodder, the Binaries will clone you at one health also and make you feel their pain. They'll then put the clones in boiling chocolate fondue and eat them while you are forced to feel their pain. Oh, they also put you in a tuba and eat your popcorn."

I drop a few bombs on the Crown/Central Holder. For good measure I shoot it a bit too.

Post III

V: So, let's board this thing.

I climb onto my new ship, giving the control panel a light poke. The orange sun at the pedestal's base dims out, taking with it the purple nebulas and the blue stardust. As the ship seems to partially phase out of reality, only vortex energy and nightmare fuel remains, giving the semitrensparent spaceship an eerie teal-green color.

Vortex Mode.

I raise The Stinger and fire it at The Crown.

00C: Are our side characters still in the TARDIS?

[MZ]: Once, there was a maiden...

[MZ]: ...Who was the living embodiment of everything right in the world.

The ID_ES shines with a bright internal light as vents open across the entire ship, releasing shining particles.

[MZ]: While she lived, no real harm could come to anyone.

[MZ]: Oh, wounds, disease, even death, sure.

The crystalline dragon takes a distinctive aiming stance towards the Central Holder. It's central heart visibly shining through to the rest of the battlefield.

[MZ]: But she stood between the world and anything worse.

[MZ]: “Except,” she said, “I’m going to die.” And no one listened.

Drops of molten diamond begin dripping from it's mouth as the light grows brighter.streamers of light pour from the vents, preparing to cancel the recoil of firing.

[MZ]: "I’m going to die tomorrow,” she said. And no one heard.

[MZ]: Into the silence, she said:

I activate the Dragons Breath Grimoire, a steam of molten diamond streaming from the ID_ES's mouth towards the Central Holder.

[MZ]: “There’s always an ending, after all.”

The light fades.

Post III

Galaxia Darkness fires a large, sawblade-like vortex at the Right Beam.

I'm just going to assume that the Right Beam is dead now. If not, Sunrise. It probably is though.

I shoot a flaming soccer ball at the Crown.

Space Octillery attacks the central holder.

I use the magma multiplier on the central holder.

The TARDIS spins around, continuing to open fire on any weapon on the Artemissile that has remaining health with a barrage of bullets and fireballs...

Eric is about to do something suicidal.

He lifts into the air, crackling with power, runes flowing around him. This manages to catch the godmodder's attention.

Mindbreaker

Eric suddenly dives forward, quick as a wink, his runic sword diving point-first into the godmodder's head.

Eric enters the godmodder's mindscape, a quick comb-rave empowered time stop giving him the ability to apply it even in here.

Even with that, he has roughly 1 minute to break as much as he can before getting forcibly ejected.

So he does so, conjuring massive storms of energy to whip around in the godmodder's mind, sending flashes of runes every which way.

He sweeps about, massive strikes with his sword destroying random objects in the godmodder's mind...

Nope, guess it was only 10 seconds.

Eric is forcibly ejected out of Godmodder Soul's mind, and then the runic sword explodes, forcibly ejecting Eric from the air.

He slams into the ground, stunned. My next action will only involve the TARDIS acting since Eric just got himself KOd.

That being said, eric DID manage to wreck one important thing...

The part of the godmodder's mind holding loyalty to the Binaries.

I launch a missile at the crown!

Godmodder FOOD! 2/4

Marinated in a sweet yet spicy sauce, and cooked medium rare...

When William joined the army he disliked the phrase 'fire at will'.

I relish the fact that you've mustard the strength to ketchup to me.

A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.

NO, I WILL NEVER STOP THESE PUNS

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I heal the hexahedron with healing blues.

Space Octillery uses hydro pump on the central holder.

Proof: It's time to face the music and change your tune on these puns, they're off-key. Did you lock up your pun dictionary before starting this battle? It looks like you're fighting for the simplest words. And frankly, that makes me want to punch something. Well, at least the fruit of MY labors will be sweet. I'm not, however, going to sugarcoat the explosions. Badabing badaBOOM, amateur.

Somehow this makes actual explosions hit the Crown/Central Holder.

Followed by Chaos Strike l10:Absolution.

And a burst of fire from the Lancer that is also explosive.

ACT 1 - DEPLOYMENT / FIRE

The Thaumic Beyond uses its special, Fighter Deployment, on the Central Holder.

As for my own action this post, I notice Eric's attack on the Godmodder's mind and decide to add to it with a lance of Indigo Flames from Cipher's Call, spearing into Godmodder Soul's mind and further destroying his loyalty to the Binaries. Final push, all, everyone try and hit his Allegiance! Just one more good action and I bet we'll have him on our side!

Suits
Myths (Spades, Ace - Wilson, King - Yin&Yang, Queen - Fayther, Jack - Miraj)
Gears (clubs, Ace - AXIS, King - CogWynd, Queen - the Trio, Jack - NanoBots)
Spells (hearts, Ace - Book, King - Deck, Queen - Finches, Jack - Void Rift)
Knights (diamonds, Ace - Relic, King - Alex & Ash, Queen - Justicar, Jack - FordWing)

All cards start in the deck and I draw 4 into my hand. I'll explain what having a card in my hand actually does later.

HP: 2 Att: 0 Def: 2 (yes, it totals to 4 because the passive and active are quite strong. I essentially fight via my abilities)
Passive: You play the cards... You play the memories...

At the start of every action, I draw 1 card, up to a maximum of 6 cards. Also, I can play up to 2 cards from my hand on any entity or pick 2 entities and play a card on each.

Any entity (except myself during Royal Flush, but more on that later) can have a maximum of 4 cards played on them at any time. Cards last until they are either discarded for various reasons or I use my active ability. There may be a maximum of 10 cards in play. If I try to play any more, I must force someone to discard a card.

Each card has various effects. And some cards are different based on who its played on. A passive card effect is... well... a passive ability.
A play effect activates the moment the card is played.
A discard effect activates when the card is... discarded. Big shock. The holder (even if they're an enemy) can discard one card per action for no cost of time or damage unless the card says otherwise. Cards without discard effects cannot be discarded. However, some cards may have painful effects when discarded.
Any cards that get discarded go into the discard pile. If there are no cards left in the deck, I resuffle the discard pile back into the deck.

Active ability: Royal Flush [IIII]

On activating this ability, I take all cards from all other entities and apply them to myself for the rest of this turn and all of the next. Play effects do not activate like this and taking the cards does not count as a discard. While this ability is in effect, during either turn, I can discard any number of cards to trigger their discard effects. However, my passive is disabled, so I do not draw new cards or play the ones I have. Once the effect ends, I remove all my cards (not triggering discard effects) and discard my entire hand before drawing back up to 4 cards and starting the cycle again.

Random thing: Turret. If anyone joins me as a turret, they have their own hand of 2 cards. They draw back up to 2 cards at the end of each turn. (I'll tell them which cards they draw). Once per turn, they can play one of the cards on an entity rather than attacking.

Note: Having the 'Court of X' means you have all 4 cards of that suit played on you at once. Doesn't apply for me having them in my hand.

Ace of Myths (Wilson) - If on an enemy... Passive: Your attacks deal a little less damage. Discard: Your next attack deals a lot less damage.
If on an ally... Play: The next attack against the holder deals 30% less damage. Passive: restore a little health at the start of each turn. Discard: If the holder is above 50% hp, Talist draws a card. If the holder is below 50% hp, they gain +1 defense until the end of next turn.
King of Myths (Yin&Yang) - Play: The holder gains +1 attack for their next attack. Passive: The holder has +1 defense against the first attack each turn. Discard: The holder gains +1 attack until the end of the turn.
Queen of Myths (Fayther) - Passive: Heal for a little every time you deal damage. Discard: Gain +1 attack until the end of the turn.
Jack of Myths (Miraj) - Play: The holder is healed for a modest amount
Court Synergy: If one entity has the entire Court of Myths, the entity has +1 defense and heals a modest amount of hp every turn. They may discard the entire court to gain a 50% damage resistance for this turn and the next.

Ace of Gears (AXIS) - Play: Grants a shield to absorb some damage. Passive: Your attacks have a 20% chance to crit. Discard: The holder may reduce any stat by 1 in order to raise a different one by 2 until the end of next turn.
King of Gears (CogWynd) - If on an enemy... Passive: You take 20% more damage from other player's active abilities. Discard: Inflict lots of damage.
If on an ally... Play: Gain +1 attack this turn. Discard: Gain +1 attack this turn.
Queen of Gears (The Trio) - Passive: Your active ability is 20% more effective. Discard: Charge your active ability by 1
Jack of Gears (Nanobots) - Passive: Any ship minions you have deal 20% more damage. Discard: Gain +1 attack until the end of the turn.
Court of Gears Synergy: If one entity has the entire Court of Gears, they may lower any stat by 1 to raise another stat by 2 and can change which stat is lowered/raised at any time. They may discard the entire Court of Gears to charge their active ability by 3.

Ace of Spells (Book) - If on an enemy... Play: applies an irradiated effect, dealing modest damage per turn for 4 turns. Passive: The irradiated effect is reapplied each turn. Discard: Talist draws a card. If on an ally... Passive: When any player lands a kill, Talist draws a card. Discard: Talist draws a card.
King of Spells (Deck) - Play: Restore a modest amount of HP. Passive: Restore a little HP each turn. Discard: Talist looks at the top 3 cards in his deck, picks one and discards the other two.
Queen of Spells (Finches) - If on an enemy... Passive: Deals a little damage per turn.
If on an ally... Passive: Take a little less damage from all attacks. Cannot be discarded.
Jack of Spells (Void Rift) - Passive: If the holder dies while holding this card, Talist draws 2 cards.
Court of Spells Synergy: If any entity has the entire Court of Spells, they have +1 defense per two cards in Talist's hand. The can discard the entire Court of Spells to make Talist draw 2 cards and pick one to instantly play on the holder.

Ace of Knights (Relic) - If on an enemy... Passive: Any entity you attack gains +20% damage next turn. Discard: The holder and one of your allies take a lot of damage. If on an ally... Discard: Your next action effects 2 targets instead.
King of Knights (Alex&Ash) - If on an enemy... Play: The next attack against you minicrits. Passive: attacks against you have a 20% chance to minicrit. Discard: The next attack against you minicrits. If on an ally... Passive: Your attacks have a 20% chance to minicrit. Discard: Gain +1 attack and defense this turn and the next.
Queen of Knights (Justicar) -Passive: Take 20% less damage from all attacks. Discard: Ignore the next attack against you.
Jack of Knights (FordWing) - Passive: If on The MoorBlade 2.1 and Master Orders activates AND it happens to pick Lucario, then the MoorBlade gains +3 to attack and defense rather than just +1 for the duration of Master Orders. But that has a one in several thousand chance of happening. Discard: Gain +1 attack for this turn and the next for each other card you have. Maximum of +2.
Court of Knights Synergy: If an entity has the entire Court of Knights, they gain +1 attack and defense. Every turn they spend without attacking gives +1 attack, up to a maximum of +3. They may discard the entire Court of Knights to make their attacks for this turn and the next crit.

Just keep the card on the ship I guess. Although, it doesn't really matter because I'm pulling them all to myself anyway with Royal Flush.

I draw the King of Knights. Good. It was either that or the Jack of Spells, which is useless here. I play the King of Knights on the Space Octilliery, overwriting the Queen of Knights. And as soon as I play it, I use Royal Flush to take it back.

Green light streaks off every ship with a card and starts funneling into the top of the DreamSail's sail, coursing down the ship and lighting all the wires aglow with crackling emerald energy. Back in the control room, the 10 cards currently in use are all lined up, each one opening a tiny portal to the Dream and siphoning power from it. The dreams, hopes, and memories of my entities empowering this ship. Now... for the first time, my ship can actually attack.

I immediately discard the Ace, King, and Jack of Gears. I also discard the Jack of Knights and King of Knights. Now I only have the Court of Myths and the Queen of Gears. Let me tally up the total stats...

my stats for this turn:
HP: 2
Attack: 0 + 2 (AXIS) + 1 (Cogwynd) + 1 (Nanobots) + 2 (Fordwing) + 1 (Alex & Ash) = 7
Defense: 2 - 1 (AXIS) + 1 (Court of Myths) + 1 (Alex & Ash) = 3
Passives: + 1 defense vs first attack of round (Yin&Yang), Lots of hp regen (Wilson + Court of Myths), hp regen on dealing damage (Fayther), + 20% active ability power (whatever that means here. From the Trio)

Now, with 7 attack power, I electrozap the Crown Shield/Central Holder Emperor style. Except, with green lightning.

Hand: nada
Played cards: Court of Myths on myself. Queen of Gears on myself.
Discard pile: Ace of Spells. Queen of Spells. King of Spells. Ace of Knights. Queen of Knights. Jack of Knights. King of Knights. Ace of Gears. King of Gears. Jack of Gears.

I force the Binaries to listen to an endless stream of Fawful Quotes. As they listen to this, they are annoyed and incensed by the horrible grammar of his Engrish for Funny. In order to stop listening, they must jettison the Central Holder. Because I installed audio inputs on the central holder. And they cannot be removed without jettisoning the Holder because raisins.

I continue with my attack buildup:

Drawing the Priestess, I recite,

"The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed...
The silent voice within one's heart whispers the most profound wisdom."

In case you cannot tell, I am riding high after 100% Persona 3 FES and beating its superboss.

I repair the return with builder united.

Space Octillery uses hyper beam on the central holder.

I continue spamming attacks against the Artemissile with more Corrosive Lightning.

I call upon the ghosts of all the dead side characters killed when the TARDIS was destroyed, and use an awesome attack to overwhelm Godmodder Soul with whatever.

I decide to continue repairing my craft.

I also decide to analyse the Binary Turrets for any way i could disable or hinder it. (Its not technically destroying it right?)

ACT 2 - AGITPROP

A touch of magic washes over the battlefield, revealing orchid tendrils leading from the Artemissile straight to Godmodder Soul's head. (They're faked, of course, but I don't need to tell him that.) I gasp (in an overblown fashion) and point to the tendrils. "Look at that! Binary's been using his mental powers on you..." A blast of mind-adjusting blue magic washes over Godmodder Soul from the just-retrieved Rod of Phyrexia, the orchid tendrils dissipating as Godmodder Soul's loyalty to the Binaries decreases once again. "There we go, I think I got some of it. But you'll have to break the last bits yourself, and the best way to do that is by completely breaking your alliance with them. Best thing to do, really. Haven't you heard enough reasons already? Spotlight-stealing, taking Psi-status from you, orchestrating the Arrival and the Homestuck Invasion, and even stealing the Incarnate's position as the final boss. Don't you want to get those snakes back for all the times they stole the spotlight from you, attacked you, even trapped you in a tuba by using Doc Scratch? Well, go get them!"

I spend time contemplating the best ship ever, and I finally realize it.

The forbidden love, of Richard and a Tuba.

Kawaii.

The Canon nearly breaks from firing the amount of power it fires at the Central Holder, due to how kawaii Tubard is. The most kawaii.