The Wizard's Army

[42zombies]

"Um... what?" 4 asked, confused. "I didn't know anything about an army." He looked at Edd, confused. "I-I just followed you guys here. Um... there's an army?"

Before 4 could act even more stoned, he was knocked aside by Shapeless. Shifter stood in front of Edd, staring down the young Super-Child with a sword piercing through his chest.

"Heh... gee, Double D, how'd you even find out about what the Wizard's up to?" He asked with a smile that was turning into something from a nightmare. "Did he tell you? Funny how he tells you so much but hardly tells us anyth--"

CYCLONE!
[glow=purple,2,300]JOKER![/glow]

The voice was accompanied by an armored figure jumping over Edd and his allied and landing, with a powerful kick, in Shifter's face. Staggering back, Shifter fell to the dirt as the mysterious figure landed in-between the two groups.

"Now..." the figure said, seemingly speaking in two voices, "... count up your sins."

[Felix Falora]

So many newcomers, Masahiro thought. The plan wasn't this complex. It involved my group and Edd's group, but now 4, that thing that Edd's holding, and this new guy is here... what's going on?

"Whatever's going on, I'm glad for the help," Trevor said to Felix when the other angel had vocalized Masahiro's mental question.

[ryocker]

Tina wiggled a bit angrily at what was going on. Wizard? Army? Cyclone Joker? All the goings on made her head hurt.

Sputtering an unknown form of speech (humans can't comprehand Mintral's speeking) she flew out a ton of mint crystals from her leafs, a few of the brighter ones saying "I TINA WHAT GO ON?" in horrible writing.

[42zombies]

(OOC: Try and wait for FF or gantz)

"Who... who the hell are you?" Shifter asked, confused.

The armored figure, colored black on his left side and black on the right side, looked at Shifter with his red eyes.

"Ž„‚͉½‚ª‹N‚±‚Á‚Ä‚¢‚é‚Æ•·‚«‚Ü‚µ‚½BŽ„‚Í‚±‚±‚ð’âŽ~‚·‚é‚æ." It said in Japanese. Shifter scoffed. "Yeah, well, good luck with that!"

"Gimme back my sword!" 4 ordered, leaning against a wall of rock. He held his head in pain.

The armored figure looked at the sword. "‚¦H‚¨‚¢A‚ ‚Ì’j‚É–ß‚Á‚ÄŒ•‚ð—^‚¦‚éI" It exclaimed, its Japanese entering a high-pitch scream.

"Uh... you understand this guy?" Shapeless asked, a bit surprised. "How come you can speak Japanese?"

Shifter simply shrugged, pulling the sword out of his chest. It dripped the same grey liquid that made up his entire being. "The Wizard probably installed it a while ago. Doesn't matter. I think this guy's just some costumed freak here for a fight."

Shapeless chuckled. The air began to suddenly heat up. "Well, let's oblige him..."

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There were footsteps from inside the cave, though it looked like nobody was inside. The footsteps were like thunder, echoing inside the cavern's spacious walls. Each impact sent a thousand more. It sounded like an entire planet was about to exit the portal.

Maybe that was true.

[gantzgun74]

Likely due to laziness from the author, a powerful kaboom eminated next to Shifter and Shapeless. It seemed to be primarily of Electrical energy.

Not too far off, Gantz grinned, Quetzalcoatl squawking in rage. "Sorry I took so long, but I was coming prepared!" A factor he quickly proved by throwing up to 14 giant Firaga spells at the scene before him, not one of them a stray shot.

"Take THIS YOU CREEPY B@$T@#DS!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tarosuke followed this up with a Rei-Gun, a powerful burst of spiritual energy that seemed almost as powerful as a certain spirit detective from a certain manga and anime.

(Cough)

ANYWAYS, as Tarosuke and Gantz (With Quetzalcoatl) covering them, Wally, Otto, Kosumu, and Misty zoomed forward, obviously under the effects of a Haste spell. Wally attacked first, sheathing his Broadsword, and charging magic. "'Step it up!!!!'" At that word, another light entered his friends, and their already powerful fighting potential seemed to increase.

Misty growled, noticing that none of the opponents ahead seemed to be intangible. "You guys go and fight!!!" She suddenly morphed, her physical form taking on a form similar though it now looked little more then a plume of purple mist. "I'll see if I can find a weakness on them!!"

"Got it!!!" Kosumu lifted up into the air, at a breakneck pace, before he started firing off cosmos based beams of light, that'd likely hurt anything it'd hit. "'POLARIS LASER!!!'" With that said, he followed up these smaller bursts with a cosmos created ball of energy which he threw down onto the scene...

Like a bomb, the ball exploded outward once it connected with the ground.

[42zombies]

Shapeless' attack was cut short by the electric attack. Shifter tried to get away by shape-shifting into a smaller, quicker form, but his bottom half was singed by the attack. He tumbled to the ground in a ruined heap.

"Damn... how'd they get that much power in one attack?" Shifter muttered. There was no time for an answer, however, as the Reigun fired and hit both him and Shapeless. Shapeless was scattered around the battlefield like a cloud of pollen, but Shifter was badly mutilated before reforming himself into something more presentable.

"Damn... we're getting screwed." Shifter muttered. He barely noticed Kosumu gathering the cosmic energy. He didn't have time to react when the idiot screamed his attack out loud and tossed it to the ground, detonating it like an atomic bomb.

Shifter closed his eyes, expecting to be blown into billions of atoms.

To his surprise, he was shielded by... something. To his horror, that something was someone. It looked like a statue and it moved like a tank-- slow and without elegance, and with only the vague form of a human. It seemed impossibly bulky like something inspired by Leifeld.

But, as smoke billowed off its armor and it stood up from defending Shifter, it stared at its opponents with a blank stare.

"Oh, no... Edd, you didn't..." Shifter muttered, horrified. "Not him... anyone but him..."

[nintendonut1]

"What... Tina?" Double D grew confused as the creature in his hands tried communication. "I-I don't--"

He then stumbled off his feet at the great tremor of the explosion, sheilding himself (and Tina in his arms) and whoever was close by. Thankfully, he manged to grab Ed and Eddy in one bubble as they tumbled about and bumped into each other rather comically. It almost lightened his developing dislike for massive explosions.

"HOLY MOTHER OF![/i]"

Edd's first thought at Eddy's unfinished exclamation was 'of what?' Then he looked up at the behemoth that had entered the battlefield.

".....oh........ my."

[42zombies]

The figure stood still for what seemed like hours. Then, with no warning, its two red eyes lit up like coals and it began to march towards the Wizard's enemies. The giant was incredibly slow, taking a great ammount of time simply to lift one foot into the air. However, when it brought that foot down, the earth shook with each step.

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<<(StrengthRunningAt1.5%))
<<(ProtectTheArmy._STOP._DestroyAllOpposition))
>>(ATTACK))

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The giant stopped in its tracks. Still severaly yards away from Edd and his gand, it pulled its left arm back as if preparing for a punch. Fist clenched, the figure held that pose for several seconds.

4 stared at the armored figure in confusion. "What is he--"

With stone plates scraping against each other, the figure punched the air with such force that a ball of air was sent flying towards Edd and his group. It was like a cannonball, no larger than the figure's fist, but travelling impossibly fast and packing incredibly power. The ground cracked beneath it as it flew; the clouds above it were scattered.

[ryocker]

Tina began to whimper at the sight of the behemoth in front of her little group. Several yards away, but still a massive being. Compared to the just over a foot tall Tina, at least.

When the shaking hit the ground, she pulled herself from Edd's arms, using her large leafs to float gently downward, just in time to feel another quake. That's just about when he pulled his arm back, and that was something she's seen all her short life back home.

Not waiting for an answer, she began to glow bright blue, from her toes to her leaves, and that energy came off her and swirled into a ball of freezing energy quite a bit bigger than herself. Taking a deep breath, she blasted her cold, icy breath at the sphere mere seconds after the forceful ball of air left it's owner's fist, resulting in a clash btween the two forces. Mere seconds away from them, Tina was all alone in trying to break up the windy orb.

If she coulden't stop it, she at least needed to weaken it!

[nintendonut1]

The Eds, at least, gaped. That was... a VERY powerful attack on its way over~

Only Eddy was fast enough to dodge it, and Ed was high enough up in the air to swerve out of the way. Double D, with no such option, air-braked, brought up a sheild, and braced for impact.

Needless to say, the force field may have lessened it to a less-than-fatal force, but it shattered nonetheless, and the Angel of Light was sent tumbling across the canyon landscape, hitting a cliff wall painfully.

[Felix Falora]

"Abandon the plan!" Masahiro called to Trevor, King, and Felix. "Abort, abort, get the fuck away from that thing now!" What do I do now?! What the hell do I...?!

"EDWARD!" As Felix went smashing across the wall, Felix flew over to him. "Edward! Edward!"

"SHIT!" Masahiro looked up and noticed the glowing red eyes... wait a minute... "TREVOR! WITH ME!" Masahiro flew towards the tiger boy and grabbed him by the wast. "Start shifting!" As Masahiro flew up, Trevor's form began shifting. His ears moved to the top of his head and his hair began to sink into his scalp. His eyes began to deform until they turned into slits and his body began to become furry and striped, his clothes also seeming to sink into his skin. A tail sprouted, pertruding from his back from where the spine would be, and his arms and legs turned into paws. In the end, Masahiro was carrying a tiger up and up, but as the weight began to build on, Masahiro began to lose grip. He made his way over the giant's eyes and felt it become too much.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Masahiro dropped Trevor and let the tiger fall towards the giant's eyes. In one swipe, the boy aimed to disarm the giant's sight and prevent further calamity.

"Edward. Hold on," Felix said and began to try and heal his lover of his injuries. "Come on, come on...!"

[42zombies]

Edd wasn't the only one who was hit by the attack. 4 and the stranger were both knocked backward into a nearby rock wall. The half-and-half stranger staggered, but slowly got up.

4, however, wasn't moving.

The giant seemed like it would have attacked again if not for Masahiro and Trevor's quick thinking. Slowly, it lifted its hand towards its face and began to grope around for the tiger. It seemed that, even with the enemy literally right in front of it, it couldn't tell where it was.

"Shitshitshitshitshit!" A voice screamed. It was Shapeless. His jacket and had flew towards Felix and Eddward and filled themselves up, taking the form of an invisible man.

"You two need to get out of here!" He practically screamed. "I don't know why Edd brought Prawda down, but it can't be good!"

[ryocker]

Needless to say, Tina's attack was smashed in an instant, and she was tossed aside as well, landing smack into a tree. She slowly peeled off, landing on the ground with a thump.

How could she help if she couldn't even stop ONE of their attacks?! It looked hopless for her... but not for the others. Speed, shields, flight, she couldn't compare to them at all.

[nintendonut1]

"P...ngh.. Prawda?" Double D grunted as he sat up, letting the effects of the healing cycle through.

"THAT'S its name!?" Eddy hollared right back. "What the hell IS it!?!"

Double D took a moment to assess the situation. It was stunned, for now, but practically unbeatable in this stage. He spotted both Tina and 4 injured. This wasn't looking good.

"Are you suggesting... a retreat?" He disliked the proposition, but they may have been out of options at the moment.

[42zombies]

"Prawda is practically unstoppable." Shapeless explained. "And, even then... I don't think you'd want to hurt him."

On the other side of the battlefield, Prawda struggled while Trevor clawed at him. After a few minutes, the giant's hand finally found the tiger. It tried to grab Trevor by the scruff of his neck and pull him off of its face.