[Fanthes]

✧ THE RUMBLING ✧

A roar of cannon fire emanated from the golem’s body as the spikes flew out in almost all directions.

Who was safe? Who was going to die?

Shion and Retsu were already racing to get to safety, only to be stopped by the graphic imagery of a bloody arm. A grim reminder of where they found themselves. Thanks to the help of Claudio they managed to get out of the way of the spikes, making it into the golem’s blind spot.

Elijah and Emilia on the other hand, were not as lucky. While Eli successfully escaped the armor after executing his internal bomb attack, he was now left vulnerable to the golem’s spikes. In an attempt to shield him, the spike crumbled as it made contact with Emilia’s arm, doing major damage to her in the process. Then a fine mist spread over the battlefield.

How successful was my attack? The villain wondered as they loaded another set of spikes. Due to current weather conditions the status of their enemies was inconclusive. Although it was safe to say they hadn’t taken out all of them, especially those flying ones…

Cracks that had begun to form in the golem’s armor widened as a hand emerged gripping the armor from within as blue eyes glared out from the dark.



With a series of cracks, the golem broke right down the middle as a woman with long black hair emerged. The villain who had controlled the monstrosity from the beginning. Her eyes were wide and delirious as she scanned the area. Now that she had broken out of the shell she could see better again. It was exactly what she needed to kill this ragtag group of rebels for good. She looked down at her hand, small dust particles already falling from it. She had time. She still had time. With a casual wave of her hand, the golem arm that had once served as makeshift shelter crumbled into dust. Then, she dashed forward. It was time to kill.

Starting with the one that got under her armor.

Within seconds she stood before Emilia and Elijah, only looking at Emilia once before closing the gap between them at blinding speeds, grabbing the girl by her neck as she leaned in, letting a gray cloud of dust emerge from her mouth to cover the blonde. Although the pain would be agonizingly slow to Emilia, her petrification wasn’t. Gradually she would lose control of her limbs, her voice, then her vision and hearing faded. Finally, all she had left was her own thoughts.

Emilia had been turned to stone.

Looking past her newly sculpted statue, the villain stared down at Elijah and while she didn’t say anything, her murderous intent was palpable, as she raised her foot to try and stomp on and crush his neck then and there.

From within the mist, the stirring of rock rumbled as the shell of the golem put itself back together. Hardly as durable as it had once been, the husk was without a pilot, but it would be sufficient in killing those two that got away. Turning to face Shion and Retsu, the golem lifted its remaining arm, pointing the hole in its palm at them as another spike emerged and quickly fired, attempting to skewer them both in one go.
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TL;DR: Shion, Retsu and Claudio all avoid the spikes while Emilia sustains heavy damage while shielding Elijah. With Claudio’s mist obscuring the area, the villain who was controlling the golem all along emerges from within the armor. She turns the severed golem arm into dust, then turns Emilia into stone and attempts to crush Elijah’s neck with her foot.

Meanwhile, the big golem armor puts itself back together, the husk of the armor now targeting Shion and Retsu, taking aim at them specifically, firing a spike from its hand.

tag: Bakiri Retsu, Shion Utsui, Claudio Bernardo, Elijah, Emilia Hall

[Bakiri Retsu]

Retsu nearly tripped when Shion suddenly stopped in his tracks, a pained hiss escaping her lips when she put weight on the wrong leg to regain her balance. About to snap at him her gaze briefly flicked to the thing that had caught his eye and a different scene overlaid the 'object' in her mind. She cringed even as she squeezed his shoulder to get him to continue moving.

    "Dun' worry, ain't yours. Ya'd notice, trust me. Ah've been dere." She snorted. "Call mah drivin' shite all ya like but ah didna fook up as bad as whoeva the fook that was did ah?"

Noticing that Shion was still dragging his feet she pushed down an annoyed grumble. If she hadn't needed him to survive she'd have been tempted to just leave him to gawk at the thing. Unfortunately they were both racing against time and in a bit of an arms race so they didn't have time to look at that arm lest they fail to get behind the other arm in time.

...Sometimes she wondered what kind of sick joke her life was turning into.

Retsu was just eyeballing the distance between them and the giant golem's arm as well as the angle at which the spikes would fire to figure out if she could kick off hard enough to get them both into cover when she was struck in the back taking the problem out of her hands. Fortunately she didn't land too badly this time, managing to get her good leg under herself just in time to keep both herself and Shion from getting intimate with the asphalt. Even so she'd have been pissed about getting hit like that despite it saving her life if it hadn't been for the fact that she looked back just in time to see their rescuer get vaporized.

It was good that she was wearing a helmet so no one could see the smile on her face.

"Roite." She hissed through gritted teeth, ignoring the pang of pain inhaling deeply enough to speak sent through her ribs. "That broom a' yours, ya ken control it remotely, roite? Reckon we can use it ta pull off some Divine Wind 'fore we get scattered ta the four winds?"

History had never been her strong point but she'd learned about kamikaze maneuvers either way. For some reason people kept bringing it up around her when she was younger. No time to think back on that though, even if it served as a neat distraction for how cringeworthy the pseudo-poetry bullshit she'd just spouted was. She wondered where that came from. Was the stress getting to her after all? No time to think about that either.

Shrugging her shoulder to get her bag's strap off it she reached in and messed with the handles of all but one grenade enough that she could tie a wire to the pins and pull them all off at once right before Shion's broom would take off.

"You still got y'r bag too roite? Now or nevah, let's send 'em all in!" She shouted to be heard over the launching spikes. Her decision to focus fully on offense was reaffirmed when their only defense suddenly turned to dust with a mere wave from the golem controller's hand. All or nothing, she'd send in every single grenade she could afford to use to take down the golem.

The one grenade she kept back however was different. It was one she always kept at the bottom of her bag, never in sight but always felt whenever she went out in force. Out of every single weapon she had it was the most destructive and the single one she was the most reluctant to expend. It had no timer. It would go off the moment it was used. There was but a single reason for the grenade's existence, a single thing that defined its very purpose.

It was there so that when the time came, she could go out on her own terms.

Her jaw clenched as she remembered the last time she'd been forced to take it out of her bag. She'd failed that time, the damage she'd incurred too heavy to allow her to decide her own future. Retsu had sworn that day she'd never let that happen again. Win or lose, she would decide her fate.

With some luck it wouldn't come to that. Taking a breath so deep her ribs hurt enough to cry she gulped down air as the broom began to fly before shouting as loud as she could.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

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TL;DR: Retsu spots the arm, had a flashback and decides sass is the solution. Gets hit and lands behind the bigger arm, explaining her plan and getting ready to send all but one of her explosives at the golem. Has a bit of an internal monologue before shoving her emotions back into a box and shouts her lungs out the moment's Shion's broom launches its kamikaze maneuver.

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Tags: Fanthes  Shion Utsui  Claudio Bernardo  Elijah  Emilia Hall

[Shion Utsui]

墜落。 Awakening from a winter of fear, Shion picked his injured, yet living self off the ground as he acknowledged the handprint left on his back. If Claudio hadn't acted just now, both him and Retsu would have been killed. The woman's suggestion was horrible to Shion, yet logical. Swallowing the bitterness of thinking what Toto would go through when the impact would occur, he gave his friend a knowing look before letting them stand on their own- their bag full of explosives being handed off to the creature. "Sorry Toto- I'll bake you a big cake after this! Promise!" His look was solemn. As opposed to Retsu's bravado, Shion only watched silently as the payload of explosives, enough to match the weight of a human being, flew like a guided missile towards the behemoth's blind spot. Toto had broken before, by accident of course. However, intentionally leading them to death in this way was a first. The creature was always apathetic, but would the friend hold a grudge against him for doing so? Though his eyes were still open, Shion's vision was focused on the perspective of Toto. Psychically, they steered the creature like an aircraft. Headed straight for the target. Will I. . . end this? Are we finally going to win? TLDR: Though reluctant, Shion complies with Retsu and sends the Toto-nuke towards the Rumbling's larger body. He stands by as he manipulates Toto's movements, being dead quiet and almost sad. Fanthes Bakiri Retsu Claudio Bernardo Elijah Emilia Hall

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[Claudio Bernardo]

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So many things pass through Claudio's cloudy form, but of them, the most important one is the sudden appearance of the true force behind the golem. With the sensation of Toto going through his mist, Claudio dedicates himself to stopping the new antagonist. He grasps the edges of the surrounding pathway, the underside of either building, and stretches his arm to build tension, releasing the force to send him foot first. With this, he attempts to bury the woman in a single kick — the Cloud-Cloud Crater!

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Dragon's fire, prayer and thunder will not change my mind

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heheThe golem split itself in two, and from its core, came another being. Smaller than the titan, much more like a human from the sensation of its... flesh? Against his gaseous form; or, rather, her presence pushed him apart as she moved through him, wading through even easier than she would through water. Much like the golem at the center of this storm, their passing shifted within him, and thus, their sudden disappearance had an eye train down on them toward their target.

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heheThen came another feeling. No, it wasn't just one feeling — it was a pair of them, moving through his forms in their own methods. The first was no doubt the golem, whose shifting clenched itself back together into what remained of its mighty form. Though it shifted further, its counterpart was of more interest. It was something small, darting through his form up and towards the titan — its shape didn't remind him of a person, but there he could only recall one other thing on the battlefield capable of flight. Certainly, whatever it was Shion had planned, it would best serve to deal with the machine.

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heheThe clouds above shifted, howling as its circling tendrils passed through the sky. At either ends of the street block, grabbing at the underside of the ledges as they took shape, the shape condensed its form further and further up into the air. The higher it went, the more solid the arms became, stretching higher until, finally, the shape of a man took its place in the sky.

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heheHis arms, stretched and rubbery, resisted with all their might the tension filling them. A strained choke came from Claudio's throat as he pulled against himself, storing all that he could into his position atop the sky.

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heheWith a quiet laugh to himself, Claudio murmured, "Cloud-Cloud..."

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heheClaudio shot down from the sky, the tension forced into his arms suddenly freed as the Brazilian plunged toward the earth, a blur of a cloud that disappeared from its apex just as quickly as it appeared. And below him, as his foot's main target, remained the terror and its leg looming over Elijah — though, in his path, he wouldn't let them be for long.

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hehe"CRATER!"

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[Elijah]

So much was happening.

Elijah could still hear explosions around him. Which was weird- surely they would've run out of bombs by now. Just how many did that biker have on them? Were they still attacking the thing? And there was that boom - sounding much closer than the others, to the point it was practically right by his ear - that made him cover his head on instinct. It reminded him that he still wasn't safe. That none of them were safe.

He needed to get up. Now.

Elijah blinked his eyes open, trying to clear his vision so he could see around him for the first time since he'd been inside the golem. By shifting his head he saw the damaged behemoth, holding its arm up as if to aim something. Not at him however- it pointed at some other people he wouldn't be able to get to on time, not from where he laid. He thought he saw something flying towards it though, so he could only hope that would stop its assault.

Turning his head more, he eyed a smaller statue, tensing at first as he assumed it was another henchman of the titan, only to realize it was something else. Someone else. The hair. Her clothes.

Lodestar? Wasn't she dead?

A shadow in his peripheral pulled his attention away from her though, his focus now on the figure looming over him. Her foot was in the air; her eyes wide in fury. His own widened as well, realizing what her goal was. She was moments from killing him outright, aiming to end his life with a snap of his neck.

But he saw something else too. An incoming force, fast as a bullet heading towards the woman herself instead of the golem. It had to mean she was as much of a threat as the golem was surely? Was she the mastermind behind the whole thing?

That didn't matter though did it? He'll be dead if he didn't do something.

Elijah rolled sideways out of the leg's path and tapped his hand on the Lodestar statue's ankle, sinking into the stone as a result. It was a protective barrier; something to take the brunt of the blow should the woman try to hit it next. What he didn't expect was his legs shifting to balance the sculpture before it fell over. Because he had no legs of his own to move. He moved hers. A curl of his - her - fingers confirmed it- he was controlling the statue itself.

Which meant he could do more than just shield himself against the woman.

He could ensure she didn't get away from Claudio's hit.

With nothing but his memory to guide him, Elijah turned and ran towards the woman with his stone arms out, hoping to grasp some part of her to lock her in place, or at the very least distract her long enough to not notice the real attack planned for her. It had to work. It had to.

He wasn't sure how much longer anyone could last if it didn't.

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OOC: Elijah sees the woman about to kill him and Claudio coming in with a kick of his own, so he used his Quirk on the Emilia statue to shield himself. When he realized he could control the statue though, he shifted tactics to make sure Claudio's attack hits by trying to grab the woman with his newfound strength.

Emilia Hall Fanthes Bakiri Retsu Shion Utsui Claudio Bernardo

[Emilia Hall]

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Emi was truly falling apart. The sensation of her shattered arm was only dulled by the adrenaline rush through her body, even masking the blood dripping from her forehead and over her eye. All that was running through her mind at the moment was protecting and saving, which Eli was on the receiving end. It was due to this that she didn't have time to react when the golem rider shot out of the Rumbling Golem and made a beeline for her and Elijah. She went to go swing at the would-be assailant, unfortunately, with the same arm she had shattered previously with middling results.

Then it went dark.

Emi, for all intents and purposes, was unconscious, but even still she could feel a faint presence moments after she went down. It was as if she could hear someone from far away. It wasn't as many words as it was...thoughts? feelings? Either way, she couldn't make out anything more than these faint whispers of thought.

Either way, she had gone as far as she could. With that, her consciousness fully faded and it was up to the rest of them to get out of this alive.

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[Fanthes]

✧ THE RUMBLING ✧

Shaky was the giant golem's movements as the husk tried to line up the shot that would kill Shion and Retsu. Before it could fire however, a loud explosion rung through the streets as the golem caught the brunt of Toto's kamikaze charge, the giant golem armor staggering for a brief moment, before crumbling into dust all together. The armor, at the very least, had been defeated. Now all that was left was the woman who had been piloting and controlling it.

She growled something feral when Elijah narrowly avoided having his neck crushed, suddenly heaving before she could throw out a follow-up attack. Putting her hand over her heart, the villain grimaced as a sharp pain pierced her chest just as the giant golem collapsed. Determined to finish the job, she was ready to continue with Elijah, but got distracted seeing Claudio diving towards her. Opening her mouth, she attempted to douse the area in more petrifying mist, but coughed as her ability failed her. Not that it mattered, she was fast, faster than even a student diving towards her at high speeds. What she didn't account for, was that statue Emi moved to grasp her and hold her in place. She looked back in a panic, her eyes growing more and more desperate until she turned to look at Claudio moments before impact.

And impact he did.

Her body was surprisingly frail, her being vanishing into dust as she was skewered by the attack. Claudio and Elijah might be able to notice this if they looked at her face, but for the first time, the frenzied bloodlust that had been present in her eyes all but dissipated. For the first time, she looked aware of what was going on. Her eyes said it all. She was scared, she wanted to cry, but she couldn't. She was...

''..I'm sorry.'' Her voice was hoarse, then in the blink of an eye her entire body turned into a million specks of dust and disappeared with the wind. The remnants of the Rumbling Golem disappeared with her, and so did the petrifying spell that had been placed on Emilia. There was no sign or trace that the Rumbling Golem had ever even existed, except for the carnage and trauma it had left in its wake.

The elemental crisis in Nerima had been averted with much fewer casualties, all thanks to the makeshift group of allies. They were now left to pick up the pieces. To help others, help themselves. To deal with what they had experienced and seen on this day and somehow push on in spite of it.

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TL;DR: Shion and Retsu's plan go off without a hitch and the Rumbling Golem is blown to smithereens. In her final moments, the villain who was controlling the Golem finally becomes free from some kind of spell she was put under. She apologizes to Claudio and Elijah as she is turned to dust following the Cloud Cloud Crater attack and subsequently dies, ending the fight for good.

tag: Bakiri Retsu, Shion Utsui, Claudio Bernardo, Elijah, Emilia Hall

[Bakiri Retsu]

Operation Boomstick was a resounding success. It almost made the loss of her fancy new bike bearable. Almost. She still wasn't quite happy about that but hey, instant gratification on her revenge meant there was little more she felt like doing about it. 

"Welp, it's been a blast but ah've gotta git goin'. Catch ya round, Broo- hmm, dat nickname don't work no more does it?" She snorted. "Whatevs, ah'll treat ya to that drink when ah'm not fooked up six ways ta Sunday."

Retsu considered asking Shion for a hand for the briefest moment but she'd seen how he reacted to those and the last thing she needed was for someone to raise a fuzz before she got clear of the scene. The helmet would only stop people from figuring out who she was for so long.

Casting a look around she found the nearest object that vaguely resembled a cane and used it to hobble away, hoping everyone was too busy dealing with the aftermath to bother coming after her. Damn it, she'd be owing Rui another favor after this. As she navigated her way through ENKI's interace the moment she made it into the next street over she supposed it beat spending weeks if not months recovering, not to mention finding a doctor that wouldn't sell her out.

With a sigh she pushed herself off the wall she was leaning against -couldn't hold her cane and phone at the same time after all, not with one arm out of the commision- and continued on step by step, one foot in front of... well, an improvised cane, the other wasn't exactly capable of bearing her weight. She'd grumble about it but that'd involve taking a deeper breath and her ribs weren't exactly hyped to go through with that.

Luckily Retsu had plenty of ways to keep her mind distracted from the pain as she limped away from Nerima's latest disaster. Operation Boomstick had gone really well. Surprisingly so. Maybe she should find some time hit up Facade about that collaborative workshop. If she could get her hands on drones that could do something like that...

Her lips curled into a smile.

Yeah, the very thought made her so giddy she was convinced nothing could ruin her day. Of course that's when her phone went off.

"What?"

"Gutentag Valkyrie, ze clients are vondering why you're so late to ze meeting?"

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Tags: Fanthes Shion Utsui Claudio Bernardo Elijah Emilia Hall

[Shion Utsui]

戦いの果て。 Toto struck true, and the noise of both their destruction could be heard for miles around. Shion doubled over as the alien's body crumbled to dust, a dull pain reverbing through his nervous system as traces of both Toto and the behemoth disappeared. ". . ." His ears ringing, the youth supported themselves on their knees as the gray concrete dust began to fade, settling on their nose and shoulders like snow. Dried blood from their cuts left streaks of dark red among the sea of gray powder, forcing them to close one eye. Victory. This was it. After countless explosions, cuts, bruises, stumbles, and casualties- it was finally over. The battle against the great foe had been won. But there was no celebration in sight. No rejoicing and crowning of the heroes that had fought so hard to make this possible. Despite the spring sun peering through the clouds and shining down on him, Shion felt no warmth. All that draped his emotion was the cold reality of destruction. The rubble that was around him had doubtlessly taken years to build up in its entirety, and all it took was a few hours to bring that all down. Taking a breath, he stood up and began walking through the clouds to reunite with whoever had survived. . . if anything, he knew that Claudio was probably still kicking with that quirk of his. Soon, he'd be back at U.A. Away from the scene of carnage. It was known to everyone from the beginning that this was how things often ended in fights for glory, even if seeing it up close made you realize how bad it really was. They'd all have to get over this if they wanted to be heroes. Fanthes Bakiri Retsu Claudio Bernardo Elijah Emilia Hall

MADE BY NIGHTBLOOM

[Claudio Bernardo]

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It's time for the Cloud-Cloud Constrictor! Lovingly, of course!

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heheHis features disappeared. In the bomb's overwhelming flash, Claudio's form dissolved as its own entity. The only hint of its existence came in the faint shadows seen at his outer edge, his furthest point away from the light; it wasn't a man's form that stared the woman back. Though the spear was, shaped in shadows by a calf, shin, and underfoot; his entirety wasn't. Pieces of a human form drifted into a mist, the sky's gaps becoming his form. The shapes of arms curled and twisted, crooked and pitted of flesh; his chest burst, gushing out like an X-ed grave at its center; and his face was half lost to the smoke, with only the faintest trace of a single eye staring down.

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heheThe gap between the two inched closer. In the descending creature's silhouette, hung above their shoulders and encircling the head, the trace ends of Playful Cloud's scar framed its gaze. The empty sky vanished in the light, but the umbrage of the being remained.

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heheThe leg passed through her body. At every fraction of the second, Playful Cloud's foot sank another layer deeper. First, a centimeter. Then, another centimeter. And then another. And then another, and then another, and then another further through — with each pass, her dust flowed up. Grainy, metallic, dust fell over his foot, over his leg, until there was nothing more to pass through.

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hehePlayful Cloud met her gaze for the first time.

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heheStone and asphalt erupted from beneath Claudio's foot. In the wake of its destruction and the piercing of the woman's form, both she and her golem's body dissolved. In the torrent of explosions, his own impact included, her voice carried past him and through the air, following alongside and dispersing with the dust.

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heheClaudio stood there, his foot still plunged into the street, panting. His body seemed as it always had; made of flesh and bones, with the only exception coming from his hair, he stood there as a man. Claudio pulled his foot up from the rubble, bits of debris and chunks of road falling off his sandaled foot, and coughed. His smile trembled at either curled end, and his hands quivered as they now rested at his sides.

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hehePulling himself out from the crash and surveying what he could see through the smoke, Claudio found both the crippled Loadstar and the freed Trailblazer; the former covered in blood and the latter back to his material state. With a leap, the Brazilian's arms sprung towards the two, wrapping around them and pulling them close. In the case of Emilia, he offered a more careful grip.

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hehe"You had a qui'k, and you didn't even tell me, you je'k!" Claudio laughed as he pulled Elijah and Emilia in, keeping his hands hidden at their backs. "You and her–" he'd tilt his head towards Emilia– "gave me a heart attack! Each!" Going from Emilia to Elijah, Claudio would playfully bump his head against Trailblazer's; nothing substantial enough to even cease his quieted laughs.

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heheHis laughing persisted, in fact. With them still close at his sides, Claudio placed himself between the two, hanging his head and continuing to laugh. Longer and longer he did, his once quiet cheer fading further and further into silence, settling still like the dust clouding the street. Eventually, he would cease it altogether.

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hehe"Hey, Elijah?" His words came at last, pitched like a chirp. "At the sta't, I called that big thing 'Mr. Earth.' It wash funny, you should've been there. No, it washn't just funny; it was hilarious. Yeah, supe' hilarioush. But, well... do you think maybe I should've called them 'Ms. Earth,' leasht once, before... y'know?"

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Elijah couldn't hear anything.

It was a consequence of his Quirk. Once he merged with whatever it was he decided to merge with, all parts of him became one with that thing. No more eyes nor ears, so he couldn't count on either to inform him on what's happening in the outside world. All he had going for him was the pressure on the fingers of the statue he controlled. A weight pushed against them, meaning they've hit something solid.

He caught her. He actually caught her.

His grip was tight then, further locking the aggressor in place by wrapping his arms around her. He didn't care what part of the woman he was holding; didn't care how much it hurt. What mattered was that he couldn't let go of her at all costs.

Then there was more pressure. Claudio's hit must've connected. Elijah kept his hold just in case it was something else. He'd miss the humanity in the woman's features as she came to her senses. He would never have picked up on the apology that fell from her lips. All she'd receive in response other than the Cloud's glare was an impassive face from the statue she herself created.

The pressure soon faded away until it was gone; with the woman disintegrating into nothing. Elijah got ejected from the statue then, though it was gentle compared to when he left the golem's armour. He slid to the floor simply because the figure he was piloting was no longer made of stone.

Elijah thought he would just lie there until paramedics arrived but it turned out that fate wasn't meant for him today. Instead he would feel his body be pulled until he was laying against someone. Then came the chastising, followed by a soft hit on the head which prompted his eyes to close. Once again he was admonished for his actions, just like that day when every villain decided at once that they ruled the city. He had half a mind to click his tongue in preparation for a rebuttal.

But then the laughter came in. Claudio was a cheery person, that much he knew, but something about this instance seemed too loud for his ears. It was almost strained, even. Like he was forcing the situation to be joyous. They should celebrate after all. They lived to see another day. But it only made Elijah remember that the Cloud saw the golem's fist hit the ground despite his trying to stop it. That he wouldn't have seen him after the titan pulled away its arm.

From Claudio's perspective, he thought he failed to save him.

So the rebuttal never came, nor did Elijah call him out on the use of his first name. It was as much of an apology as any. He replied to the lighter topic instead. "Your first mistake was assuming their gender. You should've gone with something neutral." He paused. "Like Tin Can." Name-calling wasn't his forté evidently, only made worse by the fading adrenaline. But it was all he could focus on when he could do nothing about the woman they've essentially killed, nor for the girl Claudio's supporting who, while not dead, seemed in critical health.

So Elijah just let the boy ramble on, adding his own quips as best as he could before exhaustion eventually took him too.

Emilia Hall Fanthes Bakiri Retsu Shion Utsui Claudio Bernardo

[Emilia Hall]

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Unfortunately Emi wasn't in much of a talking move. Once the woman who had turned her to stone faded away, the shell surrounding her would crack and then split open. Emi was in the worst condition of her life. Her shattered arm was black and blue, and blood dripped from her forehead. With the few milliseconds she was conscious, the last thing she would see was the destroyed area and Claudio coming towards her before she spit up an obscene amount of blood, and then she fell. Whether caught or otherwise, there was one thing certain-

She needed immediate medical care, or she would die.

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