The Mana-Verse

[Protoman Blues]

(Yeah don't know why that was plural. Only meant to be fighting one. Fixed)

[Sakura Leic]

(Maybe you confused the Shadow Blades and Clone somehow? )

[Protoman Blues]

(Probably just a typo)

[Sakura Leic]

(Actually I still see a few 'clones' still.)

[Quickman]

((The only one not fighting any Shadow Clones is the Prof.  The most he can do right now aside from kung fu is smear his bloody charred hands on their faces.  Maybe that'll squick them out.))

[Sakura Leic]

(Well I meant excluding the Prof and Aya obviously.)

[Dr. Wily II]

(And TENK. He gets 3!)

[Quickman]

((*Smears the Prof's bloody charred flesh on the Shadow Clones' faces*))

[Sakura Leic]

(Oops I accidentally removed  my previous comment, ugh. )

[Quickman]

((Restored it.))

[Sakura Leic]

(The powers of mods never cease to amaze me.)

[Fxeni]

Pema turned towards her neglected SMC, who tossed his arms up and tilted his head, "Hey, what gives?"

"I think he's feeling lonely..." Salem said bluntly.

"Oops, almost forgot about him!" Pema conjured a lightning spell, however, because lightning magic requires more mana than her other elements, she is open to attack due to the longer duration.

The SMC materialized three Shadow Blades and tossed them forward.

She deflected the blades with her staff, but when she looked back at him, he dashed at her, jabbing her in the gut with his knee. The impact sent Pema flying back, her body tumbling across the ground violently. Salem fell out of her grip and rolled away.

"Pema!" Fxeni exclaimed as she was sent flying. His dislodged his spear from the SMC on the ground and rushed over to Pema. He deflected Shadow Blades that were thrown at her, then rushed over to the SMC that was throwing them. It suddenly rushed at him and began to throw punches and kicks. Fxeni blocked and attacked back. Neither side could get a clean hit in.

[Mr. Haxwell]

Toshi - "Do you honestly believe that trick will work on the likes of me?" spinning her spear to deflect the oncoming Shadow blades, while channeling mana to her spear in for an electric attack. "Purazuma Kushizashi!" throwing her spear as it surges with plasma energy towards the Shadow Master in front of her.

Riyalie - "A cheap trick like this is nothing to me." she dodges the few shadow blades coming her way, "Eat Swift attack." she shot a barrage of stars countering the next barrage of shadow blades.

Grifter - "Why do I even bother..." he takes flight, effortlessly dodging the shadow blades coming his way. Then swooping down towards his target with his wings spread out, "Wing Attack!"

Toshi - "Got him!" as Toshi's spear hits the SMC, as it combusts in a plasmatic discharge...

SMC #1 - "You got who?" swooping from behind.

Toshi - "What?!" as the smoke clears her spear was suddenly stuck in a log; then as she turns around to face the clone, it lands a kick to her chest, knocking her back on the ground near her spear. "That's *cough* impossible his clones can use *coughKawarimi?"trying to catch her breath from the last attack. Pulling out her spear from the substitute log, she just barely deflected a few more shadow blades coming her way.

Hitting him clear in the chest, by Grifter's wing attack, the SMC was knocked aside but still able to get up.

Grifter - "Dang these clones are tough." he dodges some shadow blades thrown back at him, "If this is suppose to be 10% of that Shadow Moron's strength, how the hell do we fight the real thing?"

Riyalie - "Just hit them harder, I guess?" she chimed in, as she body slams her SMC to the ground, but not before the clone vanishes leaving a substitute log under her, rolling to the side just as a shadow blade grazes her shoulder from behind. "Ow! Damnit! I'm gonna get you for that. How 'bout some assurance, for your troubles." she counters.

[Phi]

Pema groaned in pain as she tightly clenched her stomach. Slowly, she crawled back onto her feet and began to cough rather harshly. However, as she attempted to stand, she fell to one knee, "Nngh!"

Salem floated from where he was sporadically discarded and glided towards her, "Pema, are you okay?!"

"My... My ankle..." She rubbed her ankle and gently prodded the flesh with her finger, "Why does it feel rubbery and, and squishy...?"

"Oh no..." He muttered, "Quick, show me where it hurts."

Pema partially rolled up the hem of her dress, revealing the area of concern; her ankle yielded a strange purple discoloration, "It feels funny."

"It's sprained," Salem spoke with contempt in his voice, "It's times like these that I wish I had my body back..."

Pema looked at Fxeni, who was fighting her opponent, "Mr. Fxeni... is fighting for me..." she smiled softly and tried to stand back up, but failed, crumpling onto her knees.

"Don't try to stand! I'll retrieve assistance," He floated to Sakura and Calien, "We have a little problem, here! Pema sprained her ankle from fighting that clone. I need one of you to take her to safety."

"N-No, Salem, I can still fight! I can... I can help!" She protested.

"Not in that condition, you can't!" He yelled, then turned to them, "Needless to say, I'll stay with her."

(I guess have her rest behind the door at the top of the spiraling staircase, out of sight. Can't really think of any other safe places.)

[Quickman]

Albertus, still on the ground, began to laugh.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! ZE ORDER!? ZHEY FEARED CHANGE!! I VILL BRING ABOUT CHANGE TO THIZ VORLD!!" *grabbing his face again* "I waz caught off guard... Perhapz even undereztimated joo... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

The Professor regarded Albertus's ranting with a raised eyebrow.  He relaxed his stance and looked over to Aya.  Limping over to her prone form, he knelt by her head and removed the half-mask and ear pieces. "Aya... Aya, listen... listen to m-me...  I, I, I know you're in there.  Listen to me."

He stroked her forehead with one hand, smearing it with blood and charred detritus.  "Don't, don't fall, don't fall to the darkness, Aya...  The last Guardian must prevail.  Listen to me, Aya.  Listen to m-my voice.  Follow my voice."

[Blue Valkyrie]

As if in response the rampaging aura begins to calm but remains visible. Clearly the professor's words are having effect.

[Sakura Leic]

(Phi I honestly have to thank you for that last post you made since I didn't have to retype the other one I made but make an entirely new one that I think is way better.  Seriously I deeply appreciate it.)

"....Sakura can you hold these guys off until I get back?" Calien asked her.

"You didn't even need to ask that Father, I got your back, just go!" Sakura replied with utmost seriousness.

"Thanks, I know I can count on you." Calien nodded as he started to run off with a Clone trying to pursue him.

Sakura intercepted one clone with a swipe of her sword that it was forced to dodge while she hit the other in the leg with a Darkness enchanted Kunai when it tried to break through to stop Calien. 

As the clones recovered they noticed that Sakura wasn't moving and her expression was not that of her usual self, she wasn't wearing one of disgust or rage, but of tempered, controlled, and ruthless, fury.

"You know I never did have a high opinion of you and each atrocious action you've taken makes me think less of you more and more." Sakura started with a notable coldness in her voice as she also enchanted her sword with the element of Darkness "The way you belittle and underestimate anyone other than yourself, how you harmed Aya in such a ruthless manner, murdering Riagan's Dwarven brethren with no remorse, your hand in Aya's abduction which you took such sick and demented pleasure in, and of course the fact that you work for someone who doesn't even deserve to be called a Pig.

I honestly didn't think you could sink any lower, but you just did right now with what you did to Pema.  In the name of my Father's people....no.....in the name of the bloodline of the sacred line of our Matriarchs that runs in my veins I will make sure you answer for this, maybe not today.....but I promise you, from this point on your days are numbered."

Sakura took out another nut like the one Calien used and threw it to the ground disappearing in a flash.  The Clones quickly went into a back to back position to see where she could have gone only to be caught off guard with a downward stab that forced them to separate and hit by a shock wave that forced some debris to hit them and the roof to become slightly cracked. 

The Clones then tried to throw a flurry of Shadow Blades at her since her previous attack put her in the middle of them and while some of them hit Sakura, causing a slight delay in her next course of attack, the others were deflected with a powerful Spin Attack of great force.  With no time to prepare for such a measure the majority of the deflected Shadow Blades impaled themselves into the Clones causing them to winch and even make them stop in their tracks, as if paralyzed in fear.

"Don't think that was even an 8th of what I can do to you pathetic scum." Sakura stated with a stoic tone as she wiped some blood off her cheek from a cut one of the Shadow Blades made and prepared her next attack "I hardly even started."

Calien made a beeline for Pema carefully maneuvering himself to avoid getting hit by any attacks his allies made trying to get the Clones and making a few quick strikes if a Clone tried to stop him without breaking his pace.  When he was about 10 feet away from reaching Pema his leg was grabbed by the Clone that was downed by Fxeni but not quite finished off.  Its grip was weak and shaky at best but it tried to do whatever it could to make Calien not reach his destination.

"....I know you're not the real deal and your extermination would not mean much in the long run....." Calien said as he picked up the Clone by its arm who was too weaken by Fxeni's last attack to resist or try to break away though it did try to struggle fruitlessly "But you just made your last mistake....SAY GOODBYE!"

With that Calien hoisted the Clone over his shoulder and slammed it into the ground.  The blow was enough to cause the Clone to disappear in smoke and cease to exist.

With the last thing standing in his way erased he walked over to Pema and kneeled down to her.

"Don't worry Pema, I'll get you out of here and take care of you so you can rest." Calien told her gently.

([spoiler]As I implied before Calien and Sakura are descendants of the Impa line with Sakura's Grandma being the Impa from A Link Between Worlds.  No I am not making that their last name, not that I had a last name planned anyway, because Impa Impa just sounds stupid unlike Mario Mario.[/spoiler]

Sakura's Downward Stab Attack is a Darkness Elemental Hyouretsuzan though being more like Aile's Energy Fissure attack in Megaman ZX Advent plus a minor shockwave due to the force of the impact.

And I hope you don't mind me taking out the Clone Fxeni downed.)

[Phi]

Pema nodded weakly, her stomach still in pain from the harsh jab, "Th-Thank you... and sorry... for slowing you guys down..." Her gaze drifted from Calien and off into the distance, her hands trembling.

[Sakura Leic]

"Don't say that." Calien shook his head as he picked her up and carried her towards the door they came through "You never slow us down."


Sakura performed a Darkness elemental Rising Slash on one Clone bringing it to the air and bringing it back down with a Darkness elemental Spin Slash before landing without losing her footing.  The other Clone threw a Shadow Blade which, having no time to dodge stuck itself in her shoulder.  With a winch Sakura removed the Shadow Blade and threw it at the downed Clone without even looking at it and countering the other with a Demon Fang when it tried to rush her.

(So a Dark variation of Ryuujin, Dark Kuuenzan, and for the hell of it a Demon Fang from the Tales series.)

[Phi]

(To be frank, I have absolutely no idea what these techniques are... )

[Sakura Leic]

(Most of them are Zero's attacks from Megaman X and Megaman Zero, though a lot of them are very similar and sometimes come in different elements, Demon Fang is from the Tales of Series performed by various swordsmen like Lloyd, Kratos, and Zelos from Symphonia and Guy from Tales of the Abyss among many others.)

[Fxeni]

Fxeni dodged and weaved as best as he could, managing to evade the various attacks thrown at him by the SMC. He couldn't get close enough to get a direct hit though, each attack barely missed or was parried away.

"Enough of this," Fxeni said as he spun his spear above his head. The SMC jumped in to slice him, but was too late. Fxeni slammed the spear into the ground beneath him, sending a sharp gust of wind upwards. The SMC is destabilized by this, which Fxeni takes advantage of.

"Feel lightning! Lightning Tempest!"

Fxeni stabs the SMC and lifts it off the ground, and a vortex of lightning engulfs around it. As the lightning subsides, the SMC drops to the ground charred over and dissipates into smoke. Fxeni pants slightly, feeling somewhat drained from the mana use.

[Dr. Wily II]

The Professor regarded Albertus's ranting with a raised eyebrow.  He relaxed his stance and looked over to Aya.  Limping over to her prone form, he knelt by her head and removed the half-mask and ear pieces. "Aya... Aya, listen... listen to m-me...  I, I, I know you're in there.  Listen to me."

He stroked her forehead with one hand, smearing it with blood and charred detritus.  "Don't, don't fall, don't fall to the darkness, Aya...  The last Guardian must prevail.  Listen to me, Aya.  Listen to m-my voice.  Follow my voice."

Albertus was still laughing. Did he break?

"Joo zeriouzly thought that ze half-mazk and ear-piecez were the culpritz? FOOL! All I did waz awaken vhat waz already inzide of her!!"

Regaining some strength, Albertus stood up, although still clearly wobbling.

"Joo vill not halt her destiny!! Zhe vill bring forth ze new vorld!!"

(Alright, you all can finish off your SMCs, and advance to bonus battle Aya!)

[Quickman]

Thr Professor ignored Albertus's rambling and continued to speak to Aya. "Listen to my voice... follow my voice.  I know, I know you're still in there.  Follow my voice, Aya.  Follow my voice.  Come back to m-me, Aya."

[Phi]

(Is Calien staying with Pema, or did he just drop her off?)