[Lucille Arbogast]

She allowed herself a brief moment to relax, but even that was too long on the battlefield. The blood was draining fast from her body even though she was pressing a hand down on her wound. However, when Diego, her one and only love she had lost to villainy came out of the golem, rather than panic or doubt what she was seeing, she simply sighed and made her way up to her feet. ''I can't even rest for a few minutes, how cruel. ~'' She kept one hand on her wound as she stared him down. Fate had a way with playing the cruelest jokes on her.

''Don't try it.'' It wasn't so much her trying to negotiate as it was a warning. ''I'll do anything to protect my students.'' She transformed her free arm into a talon as the Diego clone charged at her. ''I'll even hurt you.'' She said coldly, charging at him to meet him in the middle. She was hurt, and she was scared, but she was also a hero and she knew that she couldn't give up until she took her dying breath. Too many people were relying on her. She thrust her talon at Diego, trying to impale him, but she was too slow for him in her current state. Instead, he retaliated by kicking into her wound, making her stumble and scream out in agony. As he tried to stomp on her head however, she quickly rolled out of the way. Giving up on suppressing her bleeding, she transformed her other arm too as she struggled to make her way up again. Maybe she had to go for the kill after all...

Just then, stray bullets that Retsu had fired from elsewhere flew past the mushroom platform and two of them connected with the Diego clone, one flying through his head, killing him right in front of her. She stared at him for another few seconds before deactivating her quirk, and for the first time in her life she understood what Diego must have felt when he watched her die in front of him.

How cruel...

She stood there for a moment, looking at the visage of her dead crush before collapsing on the spot.

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hards of the giant fell with Farrin as he descended onto the mushroom beside the others. Things were coming apart, monsters falling, others rising in their place. Only a short distance away, the tides washed and whirled together, forming another giant beside the last of the rooks, which swelled in size. Twin Titans now staring the conglomeration of student-heroes down. Who knew where Pinnacle and Haīroguma would have avoided the tides, but where were they now? And Apogee, too? He had to find them but couldn't until after the immediate threats were dealt with. 

Those were his thoughts, at least, until he saw her. An angel's face framed in pink and draconic scales. "Sada?" He blurted out, beaming forward to catch her. He hadn't seen her in months and rarely heard from her since she went digging into her family's past. It left a hollow in him, not knowing where she was or if she was safe, but she made him promise to see his journey through. He had to stay. Is this why he hadn't heard from her recently? Had these bastards, whoever they were, taken her? If they hurt her, the masterminds at play could only hope the pros found them first. 

He sped forward, his arms reaching for her. He was only inches away when his winged beauty split—and lunged. Her hands reached for his throat. "What the feck," he recoiled, latching onto her wrists. "Sada, luv', it's me," he said, wrestling her arms away as she continued to reach. Aggression and bared fangs were her only response. Not a word. The odd mix of sugar and spunk was absent, replaced entirely by an animalistic rage. 

"Yuh' need," he grunted, "ta' stop." 

She was stronger than the last they were together. Way stronger. Sada was always strong in spirit, more so than she ever gave herself credit for, but lifting weights wasn't her thing. Healing hands were still as stone, like wrestling with boulders for fists.

"What's goin' on, speak ta' me!"  

But still, there was nothing. He couldn't fight back——would never lay a hand on her in such a way. It didn't matter what she did. There was an immutable part of himself, no matter how deep that hollow went, that knew it couldn't hurt her. Instead, he redirected her forward momentum. "They've gotten in yer' head," he growled as she stumbled aside. 

Farrin unhooked his binding cloth and spun, launching it in her direction. The wrap lapped around her legs and torso, making a mummy of his loving dragonic queen. And that's when the rest of the battlefield became clear. He was so focused on trying to get through to one copy that he hadn't processed the others. Just what the hell was going on? 

One was charging Kikurage, and another had its hands on Masao. The calls for Enma, or Kikurage's father, fell limp against his tunnel vision. All that mattered was Sada; she was here, and if he didn't stop her, she might get hurt. Farrin primed the cannons on his wrists and dared to raise his arms. "I'm sorry," he said with both sorrow and reluctance weaved into his words. Concern was written across his face, but better a quick, debilitating shock than real potential injury. 

Farrin leaped up, then loosed a volley of shock rounds below. Each was of lower intensity acceleration. He couldn't risk the impact doing any lasting damage, and he aimed for each copy's arms or legs. There was no telling which shots might have landed. That tunnel vision stare narrowed further, locked onto one particular copy. 

The one Lucille was fighting before Retsu's shots landed. 

"No," Farrin whimpered rather than screamed. 

Farrin's heart stopped. The world, too. This was no temporal trickery, just a boy who saw the end of everything. Neither of the titans just a short distance away mattered because if that was her—if that was Sada's corpse slumped lifelessly against the mushroomed ground, there would be nothing left. No color. No sound. Nothing. 

Had he jumped? Ran? Teleported even? The last wasn't part of his quirk, but it seemed that way to him. One moment he was in the air, taking a shot at each of the copies, the next he was at her side, looping one arm beneath her upper back, lifting her. 

"Sada. Sada, please."

Fear, dread, misery. It was breaking through his walls, creeping into his visage, forcing his eyes to water. 

"This can't be real, this can't be real," he repeated, "c'mon, get up!" 

Anxiety had no time to set in; it was like a fear that the worst was coming, but the worst nightmare had been realized. "Please, please, please," he pleaded. Agony stretched its limbs and reached through him, occupying every cell, every iota of his being. And if he didn't see the truth soon, that agony would swiftly dry into kindling for a fury he hadn't ever experienced. 

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tldr: Farrin tries to catch the copycat he sees as Sada, but then she lunges for him. He subdues her in binding cloth, then fires a stun round for the other copies. He doesn't see if they're hit, though, because he's focused on the copy Retsu shot, which was fighting Lucille a moment prior. Now he's freaking out because he isn't being logical and thinks she could really be dead. 

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this is where the bruises come from
this is where the game gets ugly.

Here’s the thing about loving someone. When you really, really love them - when they make a home in your heart - it means that they leave a hollow space behind when they’re gone. A ruined, vulnerable mess. The perfect place for someone to harm you; to sink their claws in and tear. To love someone that much is to have them be your kryptonite. And as any old comic nerd worth their salt knows (or someone who just happens to be real close friends with such a nerd) kryptonite doesn’t just make you weak. It doesn’t just make you hurt. It’s agony. It hits you like a shock of ice water to the veins, and then it burns like acid going down.

And it just might make you look death in the face and accept it, just so long as it’s at that person’s hands

YAOYAO, NO!

There’s this strange distance to existence, when you’re a shadow and a thought. The world doesn’t disappear, no, she can still see, hear, think, feel. But it’s different. Muted. The colours are less bright, the sounds resonate like an echo in nonexistent ears, the smells are fainter, turning into subtle suggestions; joy, sorrow, frustration, excitement, all dialed down to the lowest possible setting before there’s nothing at all. It’s like living life through a grey veil that dilutes everything beyond it, or watching the world from beneath the surface of a lake. Of course, it’s a price she’s willing to pay for Yaoyao’s happiness - the least she can do, after all they’ve been through - and a fate she’s long since made her peace with, but it’s still not something Lili would wish on anyone if she could help it.

She’s never been so grateful for it, ever, in her life. Because as Yaoyao’s heart cracks open, and her mouth forms around the name of the person Lili knows Yaoyao loves more than life itself—

Lili’s mind is clear. Where there should be shock, and grief, and heartbreak, there is only the vague suggestion of emotions that (were she currently human) might just be enough to split her soul clean in two. Where there are hands wrapped around her other half’s throat, and she knows what Yaoyao is seeing — where Lili herself sees viridian eyes and sunset hair and another dear, beloved face — there is only the chilling knowledge that this cannot be real.

It cannot be true that the body attempting to drag them into the depths belongs to Kei and Jun simultaneously. Distant from the world and her heart, as if watching it from the other side of an screen on the other side of the world, she looks and knows only this: if it can’t be, it most likely isn’t.

Lavender shadows flower out around them in the depths, wisps shaping into hands and prying this person - this impostor — away. Yaoyao has gone numb, and Lili can feel the toll of her rage and the shock, the bruises forming around her neck and the pressure of the water all around them, how it creeps up the spine like a curse. They need to get out of the water. And Lili — Lili shouldn’t have sat back, shouldn’t have waited, shouldn’t have simply clung to the belief that Yaoyao would make sure things worked out no matter how lost in rage and fear she was. Shouldn’t have relied on her, still, to protect them both.

Perhaps… Perhaps Lili has become too comfortable in the passenger seat. Perhaps it’s time she protects Yaoyao back.

They break from the water, haloed by lavender shadows, Yaoyao’s stunned form cradled in one lilac arm and the doppelgänger bound and wrapped up in another, and find chaos.

Five more Jun lookalikes - to Lili at least - and five reasons for Yaoyao to jerk, briefly, just the once, before she shakes her head, coughs up water, and digs her hand into the lavender apparition holding her tight. Here above the water, high in the air, at least they have the distance to look, to see, and be out of reach. Just a moment to breathe. Lili lends Yaoyao her vision, shares what she sees:

A teacher collapsed, a time-turner cradling a ginger body but crying the wrong name, and, overlapping with Yaoyao’s own vision, more Juns (rather than Keis) than should be physically, scientifically, quirklessly possible.

And Yaoyao stills.

The rage is still pounding through her, but it’s - it’s easier now. To think. Funny to think that she hates being submerged so much, but getting dunked against her will actually helped clear her head.

That’s… ‘S not baobao.

No, jie. I don’t think it is. I’m sorry. But - we will find him, okay?

‘S not Juju either.

It can’t be, but… we can check. The radio, remember?

Yeah. Yeah, let’s - let’s radio.

Somewhere in the south, a radio clicks to life.

“Jun? It’s Lili. Are you there? Are you - okay? Please?”

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TL:DR;
— Yaoyao freezes when ‘Kei’ appears and lunges, and due to her state is in no way equipped to handle the shock or process it, and is successfully plunged into the water
— Lili has a clear head and is distanced from emotion since she’s a shadow rn, so she clocks that something can’t be right and kicks herself into gear — takes over the shadows (which makes them turn wispy lavender) and frees Yaoyao, then hauls both Yaoyao and the doppelgänger out of the water and high into the air for a vantage point/breather
— Lili sees what’s going on down below, namely Lucille being collapsed and Farrin knelt over what he thinks is Sada. Lili then shows Yaoyao, through their connection, how while Yaoyao sees Kei, Lili sees Jun.
— Yaoyao, having been snapped out of it enough to think thanks to the impromptu bath, though still slightly out of it from the shock, also realizes the Keis/Juns/Sadas can’t be real, but isn’t yet in any shape to do anything about it. Give her a sec 🫡
— Lili uses the radio to contact Jun, who’s in the South, to confirm her status.

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[Masao Ando]

''Enma... Stop...'' Maybe it was just the lack of oxygen getting to her brain as he was strangling her, but she could have sworn she was seeing multiple Enmas all going after different people. This whole scenario defied logic, it could only be the result of someone's quirk. Farrin's stun round was her saving grace, as when it connected with the clone that was on top of her it gave her the moment she needed to push it away and get back to her feet, gasping for air as she pulled her sword Rosaria, pointing it at the monster that masqueraded as her boyfriend. She reared her arm back to stab it, but hesitated.

Logically, she knew this wasn't the man she loved, but there was some secret, hidden part of her that illogically insisted she couldn't hurt it. She couldn't hurt him. ''Riis-san!'' She called out while she still had a moment to speak. ''What do you see? Wh-Who do you see standing in front of me?'' She pointed her sword at the clone, hoping that she wasn't making a grave mistake by hesitating to stab it to death. However, given Kiku's words moments prior and the name Farrin was calling out, maybe they weren't all seeing the same thing?

Matsu, Jinx, Ylva Riis, Farrin, 𝕐 + 𝕐, Bakiri Retsu, Arataki Noa

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Just as they were starting to rally, everything was beginning to fall apart. With the golems breaking apart and revealing people inside, Ylva's attention was elsewhere. Something caught her eye in the distance and when she tried to hone in with quirk it didn't register for her sensory abilities. Before she could share this, the golems changed, and the surge of water was almost sensory overload. With this much in one spot, it was hard to pick up on the others in the area, but there was a much bigger issue that popped. [break][break]

Extra Kikus? That wasn't right. "Hey I se-" before she could share this everyone was shouting different names with some leaping towards the Kiku's and the others were wrestling with them. Her Kiku was making a beeline for her with what she could only guess was lethal intent and Ylva didn't hesitate. She knew who the real one was. 'Sorry about this' She brought her fist back and hit the 'imposter' in the gut as hard as she could, sending it flying back as it crumbled. The gunshots from Retsu finished it off as Ylva turned to see that girl she now knew as Bakiri Retsu. A villain worth taking in but under the circumstances she didn't have time to split her focus - there were two idiots that were about to get themselves killed. [break][break]



She would take a moment before ultimately deciding that with Kiku being the physically weakest here, especially after her showing in the sparring class, she took priority over the others. "Deathcap, they're fake. Focus up!" She would leap towards her, missing because Kiku was faster, but would use her quirk to freeze the imposter in place. "It's not real. None of them are REAL." she practically shouted [break][break]

The appearance of Waterfall gave her hope that they would get through this with her control of water, she was already working on dismantling the Tide, when Andy pitifully caught her attention. As Ylva hobbled her way towards the Tide she called back to Masao without looking "ANDO! It doesn't matter who you see. You should know it's not real. If you want to live up to your family name, get your shit together and protect the others! If you really want to be Paragon, GET. UP." From there, as she clutched her side, she would work with Noa, slowly freezing the pieces she was able to rip away from the golem piece by piece. The pain she felt only dulled by the adrenaline from this life-or-death situation.

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this is where the bruises come from
this is where the game gets ugly.

“--No, I’m not. I'm dangling some ten-ish meters above a lake of acid, and my only anchor points are monsters that reflect quirks. Please tell me Yaoyao is okay, I have a lot to worry about right now.”

Oh, that’s not good.

No kidding.

Yaoyao hauls herself to her feet, using the shadow of Lili’s lavender form as an anchor. It takes a second to blink the water out of her eyes, wipe her dripping wet hair back out of her face (and to drag it back into a hair-tie, on second thought). Once that’s done, though, and she gets a grip on the situation around them with her own two eyes, Lili’s soothing, distanced calm is one hell of a boon. If it weren’t for that… in circumstances like these, even Yaoyao might panic. One thing’s for sure: they need a plan.

There’s a teacher down (and isn’t that a nice gut-punch of guilt right there), their fastest fighter’s bawling over what absolutely isn’t Kei’s dead body and sure as shit isn’t ‘Sada’’s (whoever that is), there’s somebody holding back a water giant on their own, and Ice Queen’s throwing her all into stopping them but there’s still more impostors trying to drag people into the deep.

And Jun.

Jun needs them. Needs someone, and whoever the hell is with her over there, they aren’t known to Yaoyao or Lili, which means there’s no one they can for sure count on to help her, put her first, keep her safe.

Shit.

I’ll help Jun.

Yaoyao tenses her jaw. That’s - far. Sure, Lili’s been testing the limits of their range on those walks she ’n Kei make her go on to stretch her legs, but this far? She doesn’t know if they’ve ever been that far apart before. Doesn’t know if they can get that far apart. If they can pull this off, it might mean - it might mean everything. Fuck it. Jun needs help now, and every split second wasted on what-ifs makes all the difference.

Alright. Go. But first: grab Teach, drop us by the exit ‘porter. I’ll. I’ll try to stop the bleeding. If I can.

God, she hopes she can. It’s the least Yaoyao can do. What an idiot, for losing it this early in the game; she should’ve waited til she had the bitch who stole Kei themselves in her sights. She can’t say sorry, not with this shitty metal bit in her mouth, but. She can try to fix what she broke. (Idiot, idiot, idiot.)

Lili, bless her for being herself, does as Yaoyao asks without a word. Doesn’t try to make her feel better, doesn’t try to shift the blame. She knows well as Yaoyao does that nothing’d make this better right now and it’s not the time to try. Her goodbye, as she deposits Yaoyao ’n Phantasmagoria by the teleporter and gently ‘sends’ the doppelgänger in her grasp ‘to sleep’ (knows it out and binds it in metal cables), is just a gentle brush over Yaoyao’s wet hair; ‘cause it isn’t goodbye, not really, even if the anxiety Yaoyao’ll never admit to is already gnawing away at her stomach. It’s just a see you soon.

Alright. Here’s hopin’ the rest of the crew can handle their own for a sec, because first thing’s first: making sure Teach is still breathing. Then to get wrapping that wound… long as Teach doesn’t mind it’s tended to by the same wretched hands that caused it.

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TL:DR;
— Lili ties up the doppelganger they were dealing with, then drops Yaoyao and Lucille by the teleporter
— Lili leaves for the South Wing
— Yaoyao is trying to staunch the bleeding from Lucille’s wound that Yaoyao herself inflicted and feelin’ bad for causing, it gang!
— While Lili's in the south, Yaoyao will not post more + will make no new actions. About as functional as Rahul's bunnies <3

@ y'all

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[Kikurage Shimeiji]

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[Rui Matsui]

''Today must be my lucky day.'' She smiled as she skipped through the teleporter and sat down next to an unconscious Lucille. They had fought in the past and Rui had never been able to kill her then... This might be the best opportunity she was ever going to get to off one of the pro heroes. ''Hey bestie, do you fear death?'' She asked Lucille but got no response, so she decided to poke her face. ''It's rude not to answer me! Maybe I oughta kill you after all.'' But just as she was reaching for her knife she got a better idea.

Smiling gleefully, she unwrapped her bandage skin and healed the pro hero's injuries. ''Wake up! Wake up!'' She slapped Lucille a few times for good measure until she regained consciousness. ''I healed you so now you have to take me for a ride.'' Rui said confidently with her hands on her hips, but Lucille didn't look all too impressed with her idea. ''No? You're not as cool as Monsterbat Bestie, I should've just killed you.'' She frowned, before impulsively shoving Lucille through the teleporter.

''Okay then, with the hero gone how many people can I get away with killing here.'' She stood there for a moment and just took in the scenery. Pulling out her knife she made a mad dash for the doppelganger that was fighting Masao, sinking her knife into it without hesitation, taking it down and stabbing it a few more times before standing back up with a satisfied smile. ''That's funny, you don't spray me with acid when I hit you.'' She cocked her head at the sight of her sister bleeding out under her. ''I don't know why you look like Ume-chan, but I should be fine to kill all of you since she's back in Tokyo, right? I only have room for one sister in my life, don't take it personally. ~'' She stepped away from the clone and towards Ylva, amused that she was getting to reunite with so many of her past rivals today.

Sneaking up on the ice cold student, she would attempt to wrap her bandages around her and heal her before taking a seat next to her and admiring the flashy scenery Noa and Ylva were providing, manipulating all sorts of elements to create a magic show for her. ''Hey besties, are you losing to that thing?'' She smiled at Noa and Ylva while pointing at the water golem. ''I don't see any heroes here with ya. Wouldn't it be a real shame if I started killing your friends while you're busy?'' She looked over her shoulder at Kiku. ''She seems fun, maybe I should see if she's bestie material.'' She wasn't going to hurt Kiku, probably. She just liked messing with hero students. After all, she was here to join up with her fellow villain Retsu.

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[Farrin]

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H

e's a father. He's a murderer. He's homeless. He's a hero. He's a warrior. He's a thief. He's a villain. A thousand divergent realities flashed in Farrin's eyes in a single heartbeat. Emotions rend logic from reality, and words pass his ears entirely unnoticed.

Not her. Not like this. They were supposed to grow old together. 

Golden, chronokinetic eyes flared brighter, and a singular emerald wing slowly grew from his back before flickering out of existence, then the process repeated. But the display of temporal power was lost on Farrin. His attention was firmly fixed on the lifeless beauty in his arms. He ran his thumb across her cold cheek.

"Wake up. Wake up," he said, the words muddled by wept tears.

And the taunting. The goddamn taunting. Of course you failed. You always fail. Too slow. Not good enough. Never good enough. It was a voice he was well acquainted with. A distorted mimic of his own making, it spoke like a legion of Farrin all at once. And it haunted his dreams, made them into nightmares. Sleep did the body little good when the mind would never rest. He was always so tired. Would it be so wrong to find his final rest now? What else was there for him now?  

Farrin's eyes shut, and the world went silent. Sifting through the sands of time, a single second stretched into an hour. He needed that time and space away from the legion of "him," the voices that dared him to jump over the edge. The breath on his neck, the venom in his ears. He needed to go further, to a place where he could collect his thoughts because something wasn't right, but all the shouting walled him from any semblance of rational thought. 

So, Farrin dove deeper and plummeted into the abyss until he found himself in a place he hadn't seen since before moving to Japan. A place so devoid of sight and sound, all that remained was the profound apathy of a castle long ago crumbled. There was life here once, but it was gone now, and everything was taken with it. This was the risk you took letting people in. You invited weakness with strength, risk with reward. There was happiness here, pain too. Now, all that was left was numb. 

Right now, numb was useful. It wasn't blowing up and ready to break at the sight of her. Time, as always, was of the essence. Eventually, the distorted legion of those voices above would find him, but he had a moment to stop. To breathe. To focus. 

Words uttered by his allies boomed like thunder after the lightning strike. Deep below the layers of distortion and hurt, he could hear them—really hear them. He could piece them together, too. 

"What do you see?" "They're fake." "None of them are REAL" "Whoever did this to me... us."

He wasn't particularly close with any of them, but they were UA students like him. Whatever their motivations, they devoted themselves to helping people. And they were faced with something horrific, too. Something was being done to them—a trick. A knife stabbed into old wounds and turned to bleed them out before they ever had a chance to fight. 

Final rest? Fook that! And fook these bastards yelling in his ear that he wasn't enough. Enough? Farrin was the whole goddamn heroic package, and if the whole goddamn legion needed proof, well, it was time to open their eyes. His too. 

Farrin's eyes widened. He held Sada still, peering into the pink pools of her irises. A place where he would happily swim forever, but these weren't the real things. Still, he handled the copy's corpse with care and slowly lowered her. "I swear I'll find yuh' again," he whispered in her ear, then wiped the tears from his face and stood his height. The wing faded but Farrin's resolve firmed. 

Most of the copies appeared to be apprehended or otherwise dealt with. The thought of abandoning her here twisted the knife further, but it wasn't her. It couldn't be. Sada wouldn't have attacked him. She healed wounds; she didn't cause them. She would have said something the moment she saw him. And she certainly couldn't copy herself. 

Kikurage was right. The feckers pitting this shite against them had ta' pay. Many of the others focused their efforts on the Tides. But there was also the massive Rook lumbering just a short distance away. Someone had to keep that thing occupied lest it expose their focused attention. So, Farrin leaped back a few meters and leaned down. He forced his weight low, then burst forward at full speed. The air boomed in his wake, and the boy leaped. He did what he did best: mustering his strength, Farrin threw all he had forward into the cannonball of his right fist, which was aimed for the titan's chest. 

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tldr: Farrin was going crazy for a few, hearing some nasty voices in his head and such, then dug deep mentally, focused on what was being said around him, and pieced together that they were being tricked. The crazy little lad stood up and lobbed himself at the Rook for a big ol' PUNCH for center-mass, trying to damage it and keep it occupied until the others take down the Tide. 

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[attr="class","FarrinQuote"]Even if it's already been decided. Even if it's set in stone. I'll smash that future!

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[Arataki Noa]

To be honest, Noa had never worked with any of the people in this group before, so she personally had no clue about their skills and abilities or if anyone of them could even meaningfully follow-up after her attack on the Tide. When she saw that the first teammate to come over and help out was someone with a freezing quirk, she couldn't help but sigh in relief. The last time she faced this golem they also had an ice user on their side who proved pretty effective against the elemental. Barring any surprises, they should be able to settle this pretty quickly.

Of course the Tide wasn't the only threat. Someone else had shown up throwing explosives rather haphazardly at the rock golem. Noa didn't recognize them either but more helping hands were welcome. They were gonna make it out of this mess just fine. Or at least that's what she thought. She was oblivious to the doppelgangers giving the other people in this floor a hard time.

To ensure that her stripping down of the Tide was effective, Noa was keeping a close eye on the movements of water in the area. After all, if the water elemental simply sucked up the water again then her efforts would be useless. Apart from the ice user freezing the water she pulled away from the golem, she could also sense that the water on the floor itself was slowly but surely being drained in the direction of a large mushroom on the other side of the battlefield. That must be someone else's quirk at work too.

It eventually reached a point where the mass of the Tide became small enough that Noa felt her water manipulation would have no trouble moving them around directly if she pushed herself just a bit. There was no hard hitter here to smash the water golem into a million droplets so she would have to take care of that bit herself.

Focusing her power, she would use her water control to launch the Tide up into the air, with the goal of smashing it against the ceiling. If it somehow managed to maintain its form even after that impact, then part two of Noa's attack was to send it back crashing down to the ground, this time with her own force aided by gravity.

It was only after this that Noa noticed Rui move close to them, saying something outrageous about killing their friends. Their friends? Noa didn't know anyone in this team but she resisted the urge to mention that detail. Of course, she didn't recognize this person either. She had heard in the briefing that villains might show up here but were they actually a villain or just some troublemaker? Noa was still a little out of breath after that big attack so it would be bad if they suddenly attacked.

"This isn't the time or place to be playing games! But if you really can't help it, then it's more fun to pick on someone who can actually put up a fight right?"

As far as taunts go, Noa could have probably done better. But if she could keep the villain's attention from anyone who wasn't in good shape, then even keeping them occupied for a few seconds was not the worst effort she could make.

TLDR: Noa is too focused on her target to notice the other enemies in the room but acknowledges those helping her. Once enough water is stripped away from the Tide, Noa attempts to use water manipulation to slam it up into the ceiling and then crash it back down to the ground with the goal of breaking its body apart with force. Noa notices Rui nearby and attempts to keep their attention on her.

Farrin, Ylva Riis,Rui Matsui,Kikurage Shimeiji,Masao Ando,Bakiri Retsu

[Kikurage Shimeiji]

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[attr="class","really"] [attr="class","exhausted"]Food for Fungi [attr="class","rhythm"] Having controlled the giant Mushroom to focus on absorbing more and more of the still water, Kikurage felt confident that she could leave it alone and let this giant mushroom do its duty.  She couldn't stay still, her hands were still shaking with absolute fury.  Deathcap wanted to make her Hero Alias become a reality to whomever caused this illusion, and waiting on the back end wouldn't resolve this issue.  The waters were slowly but surely draining, turning a pseudo ocean to nothing more than light flooding at most by this point, as she looked over the horizon to view the current fights.  That was when something...  Odd, happened.  From atop the platform a newcomer had arrived, some horned devil looking brat who was talking quite casually with Lucille.  She appeared from out of nowhere, similar to how the heroes camp had arrived, but the slaps and vocabulary seemed childish at best.  "Hey, what are you-," Kiku asked in absolute shock, scrambling to try and get to her feet upon hearing the KILL word being uttered.  But soon she was kicked off the mushroom platform and fizzled through some teleportation method. "Devil brat, who the hell are you?" Kiku stammered out, probably being ignored at the moment as she sprinted by and sliced up another doppelganger, Kiku stopping as she felt her heart skip a beat as another visage of her father was killed.  A fake.  That was a fake.  Kiku had to keep reminding herself that he was dead...  Nothing was going to change that, no matter how much she wanted it. Kiku tried to give chase, but this Devil Chick just never stood in one place as she launched herself towards Ylva and wrapped her in bandages.  Stumbling a little, she was finding herself quite agitated upon listening to this girl talking quite lightly about killing other.  Talking quite lightly about Killing this, and Killing that. "Killing isn't something to take so lightly, Devil," Kiku would admonish with a cold anger in her tone.  Deathcap held both her arms forward, one with the palm open towards Rui with black spores practically dripping down from her left hand, the spores dripping down would grow a variety of fungi atop the Mushroom Platform.  Her right arm as aimed at the Golem that Noa and Ylva were attempting to take down, sending more of her spores to grow shrooms across its body in order to debilitate and advance the decay of its sturdy body. "I'm not in a good mood.  Either assist us or get lost; if not I'll feed you to the fungi," Kiku's voice went deadpan upon serving this threat towards Rui, standing several meters away from this Devil.  She couldn't help from feeling eager to have a reason to vent her anger and frustration, just ready to completely coat this girl in a variety of flesh eating fungi. >> Kiku manipulates the Mushroom, essentially giving it a command to keep absorbing water even while taking her hands off of it >> Rui teleports and abuses Lucille, much to Kiku's bewilderment >> Kiku tries to make sense of it, but Rui's bouncing around like a Parkour Gremlin devil ninja thing. >> Feels slighted by Rui's eagerness to 'kill' in such a light manner, and follows her to Ylva >> Fungal blasts the Golem that Nuo and Ylva are fighting, helping debiltate it and make it weaker to their attacks >> In the same motion threatens Rui, telling her either to help or get lost. (tagged)⏤ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐲,Lucille Arbogast,Matsu,Jinx,🆁🅴🅼,Ylva Riis,Farrin,𝕐 + 𝕐,Stellar,

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[Masao Ando]

Her sword hand was shaking uncontrollably. What was this fear that was welling up inside of her? Ylva was over it, she shouted something at her probably to try and help, but she could hardly make out the message as the whole world was a blur. How was Kikurage just getting back to her duties? How was everyone managing to stay focused? ''I-I...'' She stammered at Ylva. This was all too much. ''I don't know what to do they... They need our help.'' She took a careful step forward, ready to fight the clone of Enma only to witness it get gutted right in front of her by some villain she didn't recognize. Unsheathing her sword, she immediately ran to the copy's side and took its hand.

''You're going to be okay! Stay with me!'' She knew it wasn't Enma. She knew for sure now, but that didn't change the fact that this was still a living being. Whoever or whatever this was, it probably wasn't fighting out of its own volition. The Elementalist twisted and tormented people. She still remembered how Vox had mentioned that some if not all of the Nomu had been human once. The thought made her stomach turn. ''You're going to live, you're going to make it out of here!'' She pressed a firm hand down on the wound to stop the bleeding, staining her hand in the process. In the chaos she looked up again, Farrin had been out of his mind earlier, but he was somehow managing to fight all this too. How did he do it? How could they fight through an emotional pain that was so paralyzing she could barely breathe?

Matsu, Jinx, Ylva Riis, Farrin, 𝕐 + 𝕐, Kikurage Shimeiji, Rin, Bakiri Retsu

[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

The Ruis she'd been shooting at didn't get back up. That confirmed it then. They weren't actually Rui. Score one for shooting first, asking questions never. With some luck that'd allow more of the brats on their high-and-mighty platform of 'I'm above you' to go deal with the watery fook. So long as they stayed out of her way that'd be-

Oh great, Oberon was coming her way. She’d only had a run-in with him once so far but the feelers she’d put out after had let her find out some basic facts. That guy was on way too many people’s watchlists to go down without her having to expend some serious effort. As always Retsu had the self-confidence to assume she’d come out on top but she didn’t have the time to expend the effort right now.

Besides.

Another sharp spike of pain shot through her head and neck at the thought. She couldn’t afford to waste too much of her arsenal or take too many injuries here. Not this early. There were heads yet to be put on spikes. Not to mention she still needed the clarity afterwards to search this place. A pained hiss wretched its way out of her mouth. No, further thinking about what could or could not be was pointless. That would have to wait until the fighting was over. Her lips curled into a sardonic, almost sad smile. One that was as morose as it was empty, for it surely did not reach her eyes.

With Oberon striking roughly the same area three of her thermite grenades had been aimed at Retsu shifted to targeting the helmet, squeezing the trigger of her rifle three times in succession. She had no clue whether it did anything but if that bucket of a head contained anything it might just split the thing’s focus long enough for them to win before it struck out with any of its nastier shit. A girl could dream.

TL;DR:
>> Retsu fires three bullets at the empowered Rook/Rumbling Golem's head.

tagged: Farrin ,Ylva Riis ,Rui Matsui ,Kikurage Shimeiji ,Masao Ando ,Arataki Noa ,Matsu || word count: 363 || notes: x

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