6th Cooking Attempt [Accidental Video] *Forward dated to the 13th Hour*

[gigglesnortpriestess]

*Failed Filter to the IT*

[The COMP turns on to show Yukiko looking less than specatular; she's been letting out some pent up frustration on some monsters around the Virgo District and she may have bitten off more than she could chew. Needless to say, there is a beaten up and bloodied priestess on the network.]

I'm sorry...but if anyone was wondering where I've...been...I'm okay. Just a little...

[She stops and the device falls from her hand, landing on the ground. Not even a second after that, she too collapses and blacks out. The feed is still going but Yukiko isn't moving an inch. Someone might wanna stop by Virgo before the monsters see her.]




((OOC: No responses will come from her obviously so if anyone wants to talk with her, they need to see her in person.))

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[tyrantball]

By now, Desco's tentacles have reunited with her, so instead of running she's flying towards the scene, Dragonlord trailing behind her.

It doesn't take her long to get there now that she's no longer relying on her fairly unimpressive footspeed, and the first thing she does is frantically scrabble through the remains of the robots, stuffing the largest pieces into her drooling tentacle maws.

She sighs in bliss as she waves her arms around, scanning the area with the eyes set on the back of her hands.

"Are there more of them? Desco is still hungry!"

(Un)Intentionally alerting others tagging this post, so you guys know!

[strangerfromthedesert]

The fallen girl seems alive, though unconscious. He doesn't like the sight of blood on her. Where to take her to? His eyes spot the COMP device nearby and picks it up, deciding to check it non-intrusively before shutting it off and putting it back on her person. Feeling the passcard in the process, he takes it out to look at it. "... Amagi Inn, huh?" ... Ugh, Zero thinks to himself while putting it back. That's two Wards away. This will be a problem. Caduceus is closer, though it might be better off to wait either way until the hour is over before taking her over. But her condition...

Upon hearing the new voice, Zero rises to his feet to look at the source, likely to be the one that initially attacked the Pantheons. "..." If Reploids could visibly sweatdrop, now would be a perfect time for it. "I think the more important goal is to get this girl to safety, not satisfying your hunger." He doesn't know what to make of this being in front of him, gobbling up the robot pieces like it was an all-you-can-eat metal-parts-bar. The questions would have to wait though: the back line of the group arrived, three shooters. Great, Zero grimaced.

The blonde-haired Reploid took the Z-Saber in his hand and locked the hilt into a small protrusion on his forearm, making sure it was set in place before spinning it, holding his arm out to project a large plasma shield from the momentum. It was too dangerous to transport her right now, but...

"If it's a feast you want, there's some more." He took out his Buster Shot, aiming it at the Hunters' heads and firing off a few shots to halt their advances, weakening them in the process.

[tyrantball]

Desco grins broadly at the sight of the reinforcements, running her tongue over her shark-like teeth. Behind her, one of her tentacles finishes chewing and swallows, causing a shiver of pleasure to run through her body.

"They will all fall before the might of the Final Boss! Desco is a battle vixen!"

With that, she flies toward them at top speed, directing Dragonlord to unleash a Twin Shot on the closest one, angling the paired blows to smash the robot into the pavement.

And we have someone new joining soon...!

[strangerfromthedesert]

The one Desco targeted attempts to take aim, but doesn't even bring the arm to height in time before it gets flattened, Goomba-style, by the first attack, and then pressed into itself like layered tinfoil by the second.

Meanwhile, one of them attempts to attack Desco by firing a number of round, yellow plasma bullet shots. Paying attention still, oh battle vixen?

The other remaining one demonstrates their (lack of) A.I. too well: They fire their own shots towards Zero, but with his Shield Boomerang still active, the shots bounce right back and hurt the Pantheon even more. Still, it remains standing.

Zero decides not to attack for now while he has that one occupied with defeating itself, but to instead scan his surroundings for a possible route out of the area. More are in one direction, that's a problem. Enough of a problem that he's distracted by them, not noticing a stray Hunter take aim some distance behind him.

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

[risingshepard]

To say it was a huge mistake for them to keep their guns trained on the people guarding Yukiko was an understatement.

Not a minute later, one of them, that poor bot trying to shoot Zero in the back, is telekinetically lifted off the ground and subsequently smashed into the pavement, knocking the hapless machine right on its side if not outright destroying it, and the person responsible for it -- a redhead armed to the teeth with guns -- reveals herself a modest distance behind the enemy group.

"They made such a tactically sound move today by letting themselves get surrounded like this." She couldn't help the sarcasm, not in the least.

[tyrantball]

As the plasma shots streak towards Desco, she doesn't even bother dodging them, instead opting to just cross her arms over the point of impact with her palms facing outwards. As the blasts crash into her arms, she snorts derisively and shakes her claws like she's flicking off water.

"Is that the best you can do?! Desco barely felt that!"

Behind her, Dragonlord raises his staff and swings it like a mace, unleashing an Atom Smasher.

Sorry for the delay!

[strangerfromthedesert]

Of course, with Hunters not being as durable as their Guardian variants, the one affected by telekinesis is roughly handled, its neck snapping off from the force of impact and the body itself breaking apart immediately into a mess of junk and limbs. Zero briefly turns around when he hears this before looking forward again and giving a measured nod to the newcomer.

The hapless shooter that assaulted Desco is met with the shine of a million slices over a large area, its form lifting up into the air ever so slightly in staggered reaction to the unrelenting onslaught, before it falls to the ground in a shower of minutely-sliced metal. The spectacle is certainly a sight to see, despite it being used against only one enemy. Oh, wait, it caught the one trying to kill itself attack Zero, so that's two down.

The new group nearby is another formation, this time of four Guardians and four Hunters. The Hunters in the back ready themselves to fire, two aimed at Shepard and the other two aiming towards Desco and Zero. The Guardians advance, their electric rods readied in the air while they advance forward with similar targeting.

The Reploid glances behind him once more to observe the girl he's standing guard near. Her injured state continues to bother him, though he's not entirely certain why right now. All he knows is a mixed feeling of wanting to get her out of here and wanting to terminate the robots. Of course, he's done the latter before, but this time it feels different somehow, an anger rising under his self-control.

He fires off a few more rounds to halt the Guardians moving toward Shepard after he refocuses. By that point the Hunters are already firing, a crossfire beginning to emerge on the street. "We have an injured here, we can't stay for long!" Zero shouts over to the one not so interested in having pure iron being a balanced part of their diet. He charges his Buster Shot as he does so, his eyes rapidly skimming through the battlefield to set his sights on his next target.

[tyrantball]

Desco clicks her tongue in annoyance at Zero's exclamation, and proceeds to de-summon Dragonlord. As a pair of her secondary tentacles extend to snap up the fragments of the robots she's just consumed, Desco glows blue as she summons a different persona - Kikimora.

"Here's some service from the Final Boss! Media!"

With that, Desco places the tips of two claws to her mouth and blows a kiss in an exaggerated fashion that suggests she's mimicking something she's seen before, as her secondary Persona releases a wave of healing magic.

"You had better appreciate Desco's amazing kindness!"

[risingshepard]

Well, that was definitely effective--they were somewhat reminiscent of those droids she'd had to fight through now and then. Definitely a reason to do it more often against these scrap heaps... Shepard quickly turns her attention to the next group, backing her way towards the people surrounding Yukiko. As she goes, she summons up another Heavy Slam for the Guardian closest to her, surely resulting in its end as well.

"I'll appreciate it when we're not at risk of getting the kid killed!" Shepard looks to Zero once she's close enough. "Hate to ask a fresh face for this, but is there any clear way out you can see from here?" Not that she hadn't gotten used to the contours of the districts yet, but something about him just screamed synthetic--he might be able to figure out a better route than she could under the circumstances.

[strangerfromthedesert]

Zero was paying little attention to Desco somewhere along the way for awhile until the wave of healing hit him and everyone else. A number of shifted glances between her and Yukiko however made it clear to him that even if it was effective, it wouldn't be enough to wake the fallen girl from her state.

As expected, the Guardian Shepard attacks with the Heavy Slam is met with apparently fatal injury — the body snaps jaggedly in two from its sudden momentum meeting the ground, and lays still there.

He looks toward Shepard with a raised lean of his head as he continued to keep an eye on the battlefield. Her bets were right-on: His midnight-blue eyes couldn't easily be mistaken for a human's irises at this close distance by now. "With how these machines act, we'll have to fight out way through." The green glow of his body escapes him finally when he releases his charge from his Buster Shot, knocking out the lower torso region entirely from the other Guardian nearing Shepard, it falling down in a similar state.

The other two Guardians march their way over towards Desco, and if they're close enough they'll attempt to stab or thwack at her with their electric rods.

Continuing to keep the shield active to block any shots from the outlaying Hunters from hurting the girl behind him, he returns to the conversation with a question of his own. "Think you can keep up?" It's not spoken with a cocky attitude, far from it; the tone carries almost nothing in his voice, aside from a stressed urgency that tells on its own he's going to decide what to do if the Commander doesn't.

[tyrantball]

Desco eyes the Guardians marching towards her and smiles, her shark-like teeth glowing pink with the reflected light spilling from her red eyes. Kikimora dissolves back into blue light as Desco extends all of her tentacles towards the robots, fully opening each of her dozen maws.

Her two primary tentacles close over the heads of the Guardians, while four more of her secondary tentacles encase each arm up to the elbow joints, with the remaining six simply fastening themselves onto whatever part is convenient. With very little visible effort, the tentacles bite through the robots and retract, making sounds like an industrial metal grinder as they chew.

Desco's childlike body has a look of supreme bliss on her face, soft red light spilling out from behind her closed eyelids as she gasps in delight.

"Ohhh...Desco can't believe she ate the whole thing..."