TTC R3: Thoralax/Talizan vs Theraxis/NSG

[Omegarex24]

Thoralax

and

Talizan

vs

Theraxis

and

Neo-Spacegodzilla

ARENA: As per usual, the Colosseum is set up with a protective forcefield around the outer layer to keep the crowds safe. The interiro is a different matter. A number of deadly traps, ranging from buzzsaws and spikes, to acid spurts and high intensity plasma streams will periodically erupt from around the battlefield, allowing the combatants to use them to their advantage.

Once intros are posted, this match will be called once everyone has posted 6 times, for a total of 24 posts.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the main event! After months of intense buildup and six deadly matches, the Tag-Team Championship is finally upon us! Let's meet the combatants once more, shall we?"

"In this corner, weighing in at 70,000 tons and packing more weeds a drug cartel, here's the violent vegatative organism herself...THORALAX!"

"And partnered with our living tangle of vines is a mighty solar space-dragon. Spawned from the cells of King Ghidorah himself and weighing in at 75,000 tons of burning fury...heeere's TALIZAN!"

"In the opposite corner, weighing in at 63,000 tons of lean, mean fighting machine, the harbinger of death and chaos, bringer of the swarm herself, let's give it up for THERAXIS!"

"Finally, let's meet her partner! You've known him from day one and for his near victory in the Elimination chamber and his cruel streak a mile wide. Weighing in at 80,000 tons of teror, the crystal tyrant himself and the monster you've all been waiting to see...NEO-SPACEGODZILLA!"

"Monsters, let's make this epic shall we?"

[The Merry Lambfish]

No sooner had Talizan climbed out of his regeneration tank, when he was told to head back to the teleportation pad. The dragon growled under his breath. One more round... just one more... and this insipid Tag Team Championship would be over.

What if this match caused himself to bring out the worst in him again? He couldn't let that happen! Shutting his eyes for a brief moment, Talizan told himself to calm down. He may have been birthed by the cells of a Ghidorah, but that didn't mean that he was a Ghidorah. He was Talizan, the Guardian of the Sun, the protecter of light, the defender of peace! He was not a Ghidorah.

Climbing onto the teleportation pad, Talizan let himself be whisked away to his new arena.

He was in a huge, open clearing, bordered by walls. It was an arena, literally, and a giant one at that. Buzzsaws, spikes, and other assorted traps caught Talizan's eye. This was a place designed only for one thing: fighting.

And fighting was one thing that Talizan knew how to do, and do well.

[Blerhwave]

In her chambers (the outside wall marked "Specimen XV3"), Thoralax still hovers in her pure energy, original form. Below her are the decayed remains of her body (her corporeal form ravaged from the fight against Quetzar and Grimm); vines are dried out to the point of being just cracked remains and powder, her rock badly weathered...the only still-usable parts are her wings and the arthropod limb that works as her left arm. The debris that is-rather, was her vines, will naturally sink into the ground and flourish into new plants eventually. For now, she receives the call to battle.

"The final match of the UCA Tag Team Championship is beginning. Requesting the presence of Subject: Thoralax. Prepare for teleportation."

On cue, the three large energized spores/spheres joined by four small orbs begin by traveling around the room. They spin like a tornado above each respective crop growing in her chamber and gather materials from each growth; she assimilates vines as well as space rock. Once gathered, the "twister" made by the life essences gathers up the lavender arthropod appendage and the leaf wings in the cyclone. Now, at this point, the materials break rotation inside the hurricane and calculatingly piece themselves together in the twister. With reformation complete, the hurricane gusts stop and Thoralax moves her vine-made right arm, flexes her bladed vine fingers, moves her left arm and opens its pincer tip. Her tail wags behind her and opens its maw to hiss. Finally, the vegetative organism wiggles her "toes", moves her wings, and parts her jaws to emit a low hiss-like noise.

Her run-through of the new avatar is complete, which puts her at the ready and fresh for battle.

Thoralax looks up to the ceiling and slowly roars her moan-like cry, while her corporeal-again form lights up with frosty white energy. The Great Space Dragon is teleported to the battlefield, which is a Colosseum that houses damaging traps and a [deadly] arsenal at either team's disposal. Newly-arrived, she wails and stomps over to Talizan, her teammate, greeting him and standing by his side. For now, Violent Vegetative Lifeform joins her heroic partner in waiting for the arrival of their opposing team for today's match.

This will be an epic fight; she can feel it down to/in her core...

[Blerhwave]

Enter the quarters marked, "Specimen 0XX00" on the outside wall next to the sliding door (which is locked right now/for now). Inside the containment chamber, in the projection of a city in ruins, burrowed underground is the Queen of the Theraxi- Theraxis. Since her last fight, alongside Neo SpaceGodzilla against the fellow space insect and brood Queen, Suzumebachi, and the vicious Hellhound, Fenris, she has healed her body with the help of her loyal children and periodically feeding on the blood-soaked chunks of skin and meat from various kaiju (mostly Baragons, some Mothras in their larva form, and the occasional Gorosaurus; though her favorite/preferred meal has been the remains of Rodans) to stay healthy and nourished; on her A-game should she be chosen for battle. Well, the moment [finally] comes where the UCA has arranged a fight for her, as well as her partner, the crystal saurian terror Neo SpaceGodzilla.

Announced through loudspeakers, a voice on the other end (the voice speaking through a/the microphone) announces, "The final match of the UCA Tag Team Championship is beginning. Requesting the presence of Subject: Theraxis. Prepare for teleportation."

Theraxis, unearthed after hearing the announcement (which was translated into the language she can understand), hisses in acknowledgement over her presence's invitation, while at the same time as she hisses, her head is turned back and looking up at the ceiling, looking towards the source of the communication- at the general presence of the physically-absent caller. The scorpion-like aliens' mother obeys the voice (only because doing so allows her to commence combat and heartwarming/fun slaughter) and starts by assembling a good majority of her numbers around her and inside her, followed by priming herself for teleportation. The familiar arctic white energy comes down in the shape of a large column and charges her (and her brood) with the energy.

Everyone's sight goes black. When their sight returns, the outer space species find themselves in a new setting. Theraxis looks around (while at the same time, she internally produces new/more Theraxi alongside the existing ones within her body), noticing this location as a replica of an ancient Roman Colosseum (like Thoralax had [noticed]). The teleported brood outside of her massive form scurry to different tactical spots to be able to assist their mother when necessary and/or called on. The scarlet arthropod is the first to arrive out of her and her partner. She notices and studies the two partners who have already arrived; they are fellow outer space monsters. The first. Talizan, is a Hero and the Guardian of the Sun, and the subsequent monster is Thoralax, the Great Space Dragon made of plant life. The two are intimidated by the Monarch's fixed toothy and eerie smile.

They brace themselves for combat against the Alien Agent of Chaos.


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and with that... both my monsters have been intro'd. Best of luck to KK, IR, and myself. This battle thats'uh brewin', it's sure gonna be a d00zy. been looking forward to this Final Round fight (and hoping for this lineup) since the beginning. Anyways.. LET'S DO THIS.

[Inferno Rodan]

Neo-Spacegodzilla sits on his crystal throne in the middle of his quarters, his wounds long healed from the combination of the regeneration tank and his own natural regenerative powers. Now he’s just waiting for the announcement of the final round.

“Neo-Spacegodzilla! Report to the Colosseum immediately for the final round of the Tag Team Championship tournament!”

And with that, the wait is over. The crystal tyrant stands up from his throne, absorbing energy from his crystals around the room, and particularly from the massive crystal formation that hangs from the ceiling, before walking toward the teleporter pad.

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A few moments later, NSG appears in the Colosseum. Theraxis is a couple dozen meters off to his right, and Talizan and Thoralax are a few hundred meters in front of them. He gives his partner a quick nod, which the insect returns, before turning his attention to their opponents. He eyes them for a few moments, then looks around the Colosseum. Seeing all the traps periodically going off all around, he grins and looks back at his opponents.

Oh yes, this will be very fun.

[Omegarex24]

Remember, 24 posts total...

Post order:

Neo-spacegodzilla
Thoralax
Talizan
Theraxis

Monsters...FIGHT!

[Inferno Rodan]

As soon as the order to commence is given, Neo-Spacegodzilla makes his move. Thoralax is lifted into the air and, with a wave of NSG’s hand, slammed into Talizan. The plant and the dragon tumble across the floor a short distance before coming to a rest in a tangled mass. The blue saurian quickly fires on his opponents, splitting his Corona beam into several to strike both of them in multiple spots.

As both monsters are busy roaring in pain, NSG turns his attention to setting up some crystals. He begins forming orbs of white energy between his hands and launching them at various places all around the battle area. Just after he launches the fourth one, a blast of energy explodes across his side, making him stumble. He swings around to face the source of the attack, at which point he sees Talizan. He snarls. The dragon had recovered faster than he expected. Oh well, no matter. He’s set up enough crystals for the time being anyway.

Talizan fires another Solar Flare, only to have it harmlessly detonate across NSG’s shield. The instant the crystal tyrant lowers his shield, he fires his Corona beam again, striking Talizan in the shoulder. The dragon roars in pain, but despite that NSG notices the attack did less damage than it should have. He snorts with frustration as he realizes why Talizan recovered faster than he expected from his initial attack. So with that, the saurian grabs Talizan with his telekinesis and hurls the dragon at the forcefield surrounding the arena.

[Blerhwave]

Thoralax borrows vines making up her body to weave a net to catch her partner. Talizan softly hits the recovery tool and bounces off only to land nimbly on his feet. A growl for "thank you" is made to The Great Space Dragon. Now, first flapping her wings, Thoralax hovers up in the air. Behind her, a certain sadistically grinning arthropod takes a lunge for the earthy dragon, but Thoralax's core could sense the insect bitch's energy signature. Thoralax turns and launches a thick column of vines from her "right arm". They wrap around Theraxis' chest, shoulders, arms, and throat. Thoralax immediately injects powerful energy bolts into the Queen of the Swarm's carcass while helping her along with her descent, leading her hard into the ground with a "thud" upon the solid slam. The vines have been constricting, leading to the exoskeleton to cave in under all the extensive pressure where the vines have been violently pressing, and once they crack under pressure, a satisfying "crack" sound rings in Thoralax's ea-...well, whatever the dragon uses to hear. Theraxis squirms and writhes during the overall assault. Thick clear green liquids slowly ooze from the exo-armor's cracks.

Now, one attack down; a couple more to execute. Thoralax reforms her right arm and looks to Neo SpaceGodzilla for the next round of hurt (while Theraxis is temporarily stunned). Violent Vegetative Lifeform boosts forward at Mach 3. She passes over the crystal tyrant's head, causing no initial damage. The sonic boom trailing behind, that is where the damage comes from; the focused kinetic attack knocks Neo SpaceGodzilla through the air. He has the misfortune of landing on an active buzz-saw, and

side-first. The steel weapon thrusts deep into the side because the landing helps drive it in, and drive deep it does. For seconds, the extraterrestrial saurian roars while his blood sprays out of the point of penetration.

Thoralax spews a stream of her aging projectile, the Brimstone Beam, but Neo SpaceGodzilla is fortunate enough to gather his mind just in time to telekinetically peel himself from the butchering tool; the swirling beam strikes the buzz-saw and causes its steel coating to age rapidly and rust. The razor sharp edges are demoted to dull points; the buzz-saw appears to be aged hundreds of years in just a couple seconds! SpaceGodzilla counters with his Corona Beam, his main projectile that dances around Thoralax's body, slightly scorching the outer coating of the vines that are victim to the tyrant's merciless attack. Thoralax takes higher into the skies and flies around the arena in a circle, effectively dodging blasts not only from SpaceGodzilla's Corona Beam, but additionally from mounted turrets present in the Death Chamber. She picks a spot to safely come to a stop, but wastes no time in releasing pollen from inside her earthy avatar. She beats her wings to spread it, coating both Theraxis and Neo SpaceGodzilla, the team of violent life-enders, with Irritation Pollen. Theraxis' exoskeleton protects her insides from the effect of the spores, but SpaceGodzilla violently carves his front to combat the severe itching and irritation. The crystal overlord finds comfort among the sharp pain he unfortunately has to inflict unto himself to fight the allergen.

The next spot to be assessed is his bloody side wound; his deadly razor sharp claws eviscerate the open site. No doubt it pains Neo SpaceGodzilla to slice open his own meat and skin and push his claws deeper and deeper inside himself because the damned itch compels him to. Supplemental blood squirts from the gouge in random spurts, Neo SpaceGodzilla's eyes clench shut as his body throbs with a pain that has the feel of a forest fire's temperature. It's one thing to take an attack, but to be forced by a lesser being to butcher himself? Neo SpaceGodzilla started plotting his revenge as soon as he started ripping blood-saturated groups of sapphire meat from the memento that one of the the arena's buzz-saws left; it is a reminder of how effective and lethal the colosseum's hazards are, a reason for any of the four kaiju to avoid contact with them-with any of them-as they freely can.

Thoralax is detecting mighty energy signatures from each of her present opponent's crystalline objects (the size of the crystal being irrelevant to the energy it holds). She plunges her Leech Seeds into the center of one next to where she has landed and siphons off the energy that would otherwise be transferred to the Godzilla variation. Neo SpaceGodzilla (finally free from the severe allergic reaction created by Thoralax's particular spores) growls with a pissed off demeanor. Now this creature DARES to harness my energy? What's meant for ME? I WILL KILL HER! UCA rules be damned! SpaceGodzilla lifts the harvested crystal with his mind's might and sends it at the violent vegetative lifeform (something she counters by unweaving her right leg and letting the crystal pass through the space). Talizan's partner takes to the air but hovers in place thousands of meters above ground; she makes no effort to move. How wonderful, thinks the crystal saurian. He sends a pair of long, thin and bony crystals heading for Thoralax. In all his arrogance, he hadn't thought the situation through, because when Thoralax dodges them...they instead impale a ceiling-mounted turret. It explodes due to severe damage to the weapon's internal workings. The arena reacts by dumping several nets on Neo SpaceGodzilla to trap him among entanglement, and each net is weighed down by solid steel balls that appropriately weigh enough to restrain a kaiju (even one as full of himself and big as the Godzilla variant). Step 2- a half dozen plasma cannons flash with activation and aim before successfully locking onto the restrained Ruler. It takes only two seconds for the plasma turrets to charge, and one second to unleash a payload of searing plasma orbs and concentrated plasma beams at the cerulean saurian...

[The Merry Lambfish]

Although the net was weighted down, Neo Spacegodzilla had one thing going for him, and that was telekinesis. Activating it as quickly as he could, the cosmic monster threw the net away, where it landed with a 'CLANG' on the hard floor. Neo Spacegodzilla raced into the air, avoiding most of the barrage. A few of the plasma orbs struck him around the lower leg areas, while a plasma beam raked across his abdomen. Spacegodzilla shrieked in pain, but never the less, flew higher into the air, trying to avoid the rest of the barrage.

it was here that most of the remaining plasma orbs froze in the air, redirecting towards Talizan. The dragon used his elemental powers to guide the plasma orbs into his stretched out wings, letting the membranes of energy swallow up the plasma energy.

It seemed as if someone in the UCA control room was upset that Talizan was using what was meant to be Spacegodzilla's punishment to power up his body, as a series of plasma turrets and acid sprayers turned towards the guardian. Seeing this, the dragon absorbed the last of the plasma orbs before taking to the air, dodging jets of acid and concentrated beams of plasma. A sting beam suddenly found it's way into the fire, narrowly missing Talizan's underside. The dragon glanced down for a split second to see Theraxis grinning up at him. Throwing his head back, the dragon concentrated on a nearby beam of plasma, causing some of the energy to break off from the beam and gravitate towards Talizan's outstretched hand. Catching the plasma energy, Talizan called upon his elemental forging powers.

Now armed with a sword of highly concentrated plasma, the dragon swerved in the air, retracting his wings as he did so. He fell through the air, sword pointed down as if he was some human warrior. Soon, the dragon met his target: Theraxis.

The plasma blade sliced into Theraxis's back, right between the dorsal stacks. Talizan followed after, landing on his hind legs upon Theraxis's back. He moved the plasma sword from side to side to make a steaming gash that stretched from Theraxis's left shoulder to her left hip. Positioning the sword back in the center of the gash, Talizan pressed down on the elemental weapon as if it was a lever! The alien insect screamed as her carapace was peeled outward by the makeshift lever. The solar dragon moved the plasma weapon to the other side and pressed down, ripping up the other side as well! Finally, when the large gash on Theraxis's back was twenty meters at it's widest, Talizan ended his combo attack, tearing his plasma sword free and flipping off the predator's back.

As he absorbed the plasma sword into his body, the Guardian of the Sun suddenly felt sharp, stinging pains around his lower body. Looking down at his legs, he saw, with disgust, a few Theraxi tearing at his skin. The dragon ignored the insects, however, leaping on their mother before she could recover. Unleashing a howling roar, Talizan plunged his narrow head into the wound he had created, his mouth already heating up. His head still burrowed into Theraxis's flesh, the dragon unleashed a mighty fireball.

Theraxis's carapace proved to hinder her this time. It's durable frame kept a good portion of the explosion inside, the rest escaping through her wound as Talizan quickly pulled his head out. The queen shrieked, her insides burning and flesh around her hip torn apart. A column of flame erupted from her wound, along with a spray of blood. Luckily, the blast was not strong enough to be fatal or crippling.

With the crimson menace stunned, Talizan flew off towards his second opponent. The Theraxi that had been assaulting his flesh had already been taken care of, thanks to his molten blood.

Neo Spacegodzilla was concentrated on Thoralax, and failed to see the fiery reptile charging from behind, flying only meters from the ground. As he approached, Talizan extended his left hand, and then extended his bladed claws. He passed the crystal saurian in a blur, but along with that blur came a spurt of blood as Talizan's claws left behind three deep gashes in Spacegodzilla's thigh. As Spacegodzilla cried out, Talizan turned on a dime, flying right past Spacegodzilla's head. But the real danger was the pointed, clubbed tail aiming to smash his skull...

[Blerhwave]

Talizan snarls as he readies to pass over the extraterrestrial Godzilla variant. The club tip makes a satisfying "crack" sound as the solid weapon impacts Neo SpaceGodzilla's head. Talizan circles around the arena and avoids a Corona Beam hot on his tail. Through some fancy flight work, Talizan stays clear of energy-based damage and prepares to fight back with his own oral weapons, when a gold stream of energy that makes a cackling sound interrupts Neo SpaceGodzilla, the Tyrant of the Crystals and Talizan, the Warrior of the Sun. The beam incites a spray of sparks as it focuses on the protective barrier some meters away and separates the dragon and the saurian . The two power down their impending attacks to look at the source of the weapon.

Standing a couple hundred meters away is Theraxis. Steam releases from the clenched "mouth" that is her tail tip, from just firing off a volley of the Sting Beam to get the two combating creature's attention. Despite her physical injuries, the ardent arthropod faces her teammate and her opponent with her eerie grin that is suspended in that smile. The buildup of saliva around her fangs drips from the pearly whites and the upper and lower jaws; the building up saliva against the ground sizzles while invoking steam to rise out of the corrosive fluids dissolving a small part of the very ground that her and her fellow giant kaiju stand on. Her tail sluggishly flails from left to right and back from the right to the left again, and repeats, all while straightened horizontally behind her (not curled above her back). Neo SpaceGodzilla searches his partner's mind for the purpose of the interruption, and he finds it without having to look for long- Theraxis wants to reap her vengeance on the Solar Dragon. With a nod, SpaceGodzilla takes a step back and relinquishes combat with the heroic Talizan. He gives focus on the solar dragon to his partner, and shifts his efforts on the second dragon present in the battlefield for the time being.

The Harbinger of Wrath makes "clicks" with her mouth and cheek-mandibles. The field is full of Theraxi. There's quite a few taking refuge on SpaceGodzilla's crystals, ordered to help protect their Mother's partner's power source should Talizan and/or Thoralax try to physically take them out. Right now, Theraxis and Talizan are territorially studying each other and circling. Finally, one of the two act- without so much as a warning, Theraxis lunges forward with the intent to viciously pounce of Talizan. The Solar Dragon dashes backwards with more than enough time to dodge the insectoid product of a planet's anger, but the Alien Agent of Chaos had other plans. Her tail curls around in mid-air to point forward, and the tip opens to unleash a blast of oscillatory physical punishment. Theraxis' Crimson Power Blast splashes against Talizan's front and drives the dragon back-first against the electrical barrier in place to protect the spectators. As energy pours into his chest to simulate being non-stop battered, his back burns from electrical damage and has electrical shocks stimulating the dragon's nerves. Theraxis takes great enjoyment in her target's anguish and keeps him pinned against her projectile and the barrier for an extended number of moments than she needed to. But the seconds run out, and she lets her opponent drop to the ground. As he stands, it is shown that no burns are left on his back, for he absorbed any heat-based damage. His back is sore, though; his front is much worse-off. His chest is one big splotch of purple and blue, and even the slightest movement catalyzes sore stimulation. Pain is present down in his very ribs. But Theraxis is not done yet.

Theraxis braces herself to leap again; she bends her knees then pushes off the ground with her clawed feet. All her weight comes down on Talizan's front and knocks him to the ground. The two roll around, but Theraxis comes out on top and with raw emotion taking over, she furiously digs and tears into the leathery skin. The most pain comes from her pointed, almost scythe-like claws with mauling nails sheltered in the hollowed-out "scythes" digging out chunks of bruised skin, meat, and uncovering a geyser of blood. The molten blood spurts on Theraxis' exoskeleton, and when the two come in contact, the cooling lava hisses like the arthropod does. Her armor-like coating protects her insides from coming in contact with the blood and dealing serious, harmful damage, so the only damage is eating away at the grainy coating. In her fit of animosity, Theraxis' senses are numb. Her logic, is numb. The only thing she's conscious of is skinning Talizan.

Theraxis continues to drag her claws down, rake her claw spikes slowly down skin and brutalizing the dragon. Her tail meets with Talizan's every time he tries to ward off the hellish bug with it. Talizan summons his element in his mouth and expels a fireball that blasts Alien Agent of Chaos' chest. The flames seep through the armor breaches to lick the insides, and overall snap Theraxis back into her senses. She scurries off the dragon, and he's free to get back to his feet (which he does). Talizan fires off another fireball, but Theraxis whips around and disperses it into embers with a whip of her tail (exoskeleton receiving light burns). Talizan's chest has been carved ferociously. Bruised flesh no longer rests against him. It has been ripped off brutally, and now torturous sensations throb outward from his chest's center.

Theraxis speaks in a shriek, which ends in clicking sounds created by her maw's mandibles. Her claws are stained black from burns received when goring Talizan. She feels satisfied with her dragon attacker being payed back in full-with interest-from his prior attack. SpaceGodzilla and Thoralax are still brawling off in the corner. Suddenly, the oversized bug hears the mechanical sound of a turret taking aim. The turret spews a torrent of acid, which Theraxis nimbly dodges. While in mid-air, a scheme hatches in her mind. She starts running, acid following behind. She leaps over Talizan, who curiously watches as his attacker skates by without paying the slightest attention to him (at least in his eyes), when the stream of acid following in pursuit soaks Talizan. It isn't personal, heck, the turret is locked on Theraxis! Talizan just got in the line of fire, exactly how Theraxis planned it. The corrosive liquid burns the exposed meat of his chest, inflicting a lot of pain- too much pain. The rest of his body sizzles and boils as his skin is cosmetically damaged, and some pain throbs on site. Theraxis launches a couple of her spawn from the shoulder orifices. They land on the turrent and dismantle it with spikes, claws, and stingers. Now, Theraxis commands some of her children to swarm along the dragon's body, and that, they do. Now they start to excavate all along his body for The Queen's fourth attack...

[Inferno Rodan]

Ugh. Sorry for the delay, guys. Working on a bigass research paper, and it's both devouring my free time and killing my creative writing ability. I won't be able to post again until at least next Thursday (when the paper's due), so everyone take your time in posting.

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The Theraxi begin tearing into the stunned Talizan, but quickly find themselves getting scorched by his by his molten blood.

Neo-Spacegodzilla, meanwhile, is dealing with Thoralax. He fires his Corona beam, the twisting projectile lancing into the plant monster’s flank and exploding. Thoralax howls in pain as a spray of sap and chunks of plant material fly from the wound. A second beam follows immediately after, this time tearing into her thigh, with similar results.

Before NSG can fire a third time, Thoralax lashes out with her right arm, extending her vine fingers and wrapping them around the saurian’s torso. NSG snarls in pain as energy discharges through the vines, but he quickly retaliates with his own energy surge. Thoralax retracts her vines, smoke trailing from them. NSG, meanwhile, stumbles, suffering from the aftereffects of the plant monster’s discharge.

Fighting through the pain, NSG manages to fire off another Corona beam at Thoralax.

[The Merry Lambfish]

Apr 18, 2012 21:28:30 GMT -5 Inferno Rodan said:

Ugh. Sorry for the delay, guys. Working on a bigass research paper, and it's both devouring my free time and killing my creative writing ability. I won't be able to post again until at least next Thursday (when the paper's due), so everyone take your time in posting.

Don't worry about it, man. I've been in the same boat before. I know exactly how you feel.

[Blerhwave]

Thoralax spews her Negative Energy Beam (same beam, new name)[/size] to meet with the Corona Beam. Everytime it swirls and angles itself to get by Thoralax's own beam defending her, she strafes it. In the end, the Corona Beam is a bust. The arrogant tyrant grunts in displeasure that his mighty attack was evaded. Theraxis and Talizan are meanwhile engaged. Talizan is on all fours against the ground, playing defensively, while the insect critter is on the offensive. Her tail is curled around, and she repetitively snaps it forward trying to nail Talizan. SpaceGodzilla dashes forward and rams Thoralax and takes a nice bite out of some of her vines. He tears his head furiously, shredding the mouthful of vines and letting pieces of them drop to the ground. His orifice fills with her "blood", and he swallows it up. Delicious; at first...

Violent Vegetative Organism's chlorophyll/"blood" deceives the mighty Tyrant of the galaxies. After coating all of the saurian's mouth and seeping down his throat, into his stomach, the harmful effects of the milky green liquid show their faces; Neo SpaceGodzilla's eyes bulge open and he backs away (but not quick enough). The sticky sap deals a corrosive feeling, evident by the steam pouring out of SpaceGodzilla's clamped jaws (he tries to roar, but the sap has his jaws glued shut). Thoralax cocks her head whilst staring, watching as Neo SpaceGodzilla's lips start to bubble with puss. An infection forms, but not just outside on the lips, it's the roof of the saurian emperor's mouth; it is his tongue, his gums, the lining of his throat, and down in his stomach, where a small amount of sap traveled to and lightly coated some intestines. Back in the UCA headquarters, a subordinate turns a turret to Thoralax and readies his hand to come down on the "fire button" like Zeus' hammer in judgement, as he asks, "Sir? Shall I punish the plant organism for attacking an off-limits part?"

"No, no... As much as I'd like to, my monitors show that a small amount entered the stomach cavern, and only minor infection is evident. But for Neo SpaceGodzilla, minor means nothing, because an infection of the organs is still very painful indeed. I myself just suffered from one two weeks ago. Very painful, but not life threatening. So no, let the match continue. Not to say we won't intervene with our turrets, mind you... Just giving it some time, Jacob."

"Yes sir!" The turret takes its gaze of Thoralax, and ol' SporeCore watches as it does, feeling very inquisitive.

Neo SpaceGodzilla clenches his stomach in heaps of pain, like the high-ranking officer predicted (and experienced). The Godzilla doppelganger has had enough. Stomach acid floods his mouth. In order to vomit, he claws his lips free of the binding substance (scratching off skin flakes in the process, some tucked under his nails) and vomits the stomach fluids along with puss from his infected maw. Neo SpaceGodzilla hovers up before coming down like a wrathful hammer, but Thoralax hovers up to avoid. His sapphire feet penetrate the concrete-like floor tens upon tens of meters; but without missing a beat, the crystal harbinger flies up and rams his crystal-shoulder into Thoralax. Luckily, her chest's space rock suffers the blow, and the result is a shallow horizontal scrape. SporeCore floats back, in control of her movement with flaps of her leaf wings. Her body's chewed through and blasted shrubbery take the time to finally weave themselves into the center of the appendages. Fresh, healthy vines snake out and weave into the pattern to take the place of the resting damaged plants.

Thoralax separates her needle-like teeth-laced jaws to reveal a gathered mass of death-themed colors. Black, gray, tannish, pale yellow. The colors of decay (and for a reason). The particular oral projectile shoots forward on Thoralax's command and strikes Neo SpaceGodzilla's

shoulder crystal; not avoided, because he knows full-well his crystals can absorb the plasma in heat-based beams. But this is not your average beam. After a half dozen seconds, Neo SpaceGodzilla makes the observation that his crystal is not absorbing a thing. In fact, it's taking damage! A particular one, at that; the saurian feels his link to his power-supplying crystals being attacked and weakened. What kind of beam can DO this? crosses his mind. His body starts to undergo the beginning of an energy drought. In order to break the assault, a swirly Corona Beam is unleashed. The Great Space Dragon leaps up to take to the air, successfully dodging the first time. Neo SpaceGodzilla trails the beam right after her, and after one more successful dodge, Thoralax's right wing is struck. Lucky for her, her Negative Energy Beam's offensive assault on her enemy's power source and power absorbing beacon meant the Corona Beam was not full strength, or near it. It was at about 48% power, not enough to call off the aging-inducing beam. Thoralax circles the Godzilla variant, starting with flying behind him. As she dashes, her beam (having not relented) strafes along his back and focuses on the opposite crystal for seconds and seconds. Neo SpaceGodzilla's initial arrogance has cost him dearly.

A blast from a turret calls off the beam. Neo SpaceGodzilla is forced to crouch due to an interruption in his power. His first crystal (having taken the beam longer than the other) looks like a wreck. In a short period of time, the energy beacon has been aged considerably; now, it is riddled with cracks and fragmentation. Parts of the gem fractures and falls to the ground by themselves. The other crystal does not crack off and/or fall apart, but shares the same discoloration of its mate and faces difficulties with harnessing energy from the field of crystals that have invaded the field. By aging the crystals, Neo SpaceGodzilla's power reserves have taken a hit- but it's worth noting that it is a small hit.

The saurian victim staggers in unfixed directions without his sense of balance, and tries to fix his blurred vision while mentally warring with a headache. This feeling is new for him, because no monster has EVER been able to do to him what Thoralax just has. His most important weakness, should it ever be successfully exploited, has just been exploited. Thoralax wails a war cry, then lands. She rushes in like Neo SpaceGodzilla did prior, but with her right fist clenched tight and reared back. She enters her enemy's immediate proximity, then delivers an extroardinary amount-of strength-packed punch to the right crystal. Thoralax's vine-arm can lift kaiju twice her size at least with ease, so one can imagine how strong the punch was. In fact, the large fracture in the front of the crystal can aid one's imagination. The shoulder crystal flashes with light at first, but dims back down. Neo SpaceGodzilla vomits up blood and feels a flooding sense of temporary weakness. Thoralax floats above Neo SpaceGodzilla and dispatches her right arm into several vines. They wrap around the right crystal and start constricting as forcefully as they are violently. Neo SpaceGodzilla must shake off his weakened state and fast if he wants to keep the cracking crystal intact...

[The Merry Lambfish]

I realize the amount of time I have left to post is quickly disappearing, so could I just have a few more days? I'm really sick at the moment.

[Blerhwave]

when you let the ref know that, it's okay ^.^