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Schwa
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"Damn you, Grey..." AHS says quietly. "I will get my revenge on you for editing Schwa's profile. I will."
Schwa walks over. "What's the matter?"
"Nothing. You have done well today, Schwa and Allaura. You should both head home. Leave Grey to me. And remember..."
"What is it?" Schwa askes.
"Schwa is the LAW!" And after reciting his motto, AHS surrounds himself in a prism of Autistic energy and shrinks out of exsistance.
EPILOUGE:
As Schwa and Allaura head home, Allaura starts a conversation.
"Schwa, you didn't have to come to my rescue."
"It wasn't about you... It was a revenge thing."
"Schwa... Uh..."
Schwa lands on a nearby cliff for a moment. "What is it?"
"Do you... reaaaaally love me like you said?" Her voice isn't flirtatious, but kind of desperate.
"Allaura..."
Pause.
"Yes, Allaura. Ever since I met you. Now lets go home."
And he drops the subject as if it never happened. Allaura sighs and follows her home.
That night, Allaura can't sleep as she thinks about what happened that night...
And Aspie Hunter Schweitzer sits at a computer in another universe, thinking what an interesting addition to the Sim-Battle Arena Grey accidentally helped him introduce... and knowing that the battle against Tom is far from over.
THE END... ...or is it???
OOC: You and I are having another battle in a few weeks, Grey... Aspie Hunter Schweitzer vs. Tom "Grey". I can't let this twist to the role-playing universe go by so quickly. This is gonna LAST! |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2519/3770 |
OOC: Cool, but what's a Deep-Pressure ve--*GOOGLE'D!*-- Oh. Man, I could use one of those...
Grey snapped his fingers, and a rush of flames erupted from the ground, enveloping him and rising into the sky. When they cleared, Grey was still standing there, but he wasn't necessarily Grey. His clothes had changed. On his head was a puce baseball cap. He wore a simple white t-shirt, and tan pants. His form was assumed as it was then. The boy grinned when he saw Hunter's hostility, and looked from Allaura to Schwa with delight.
Tom: "Alright, Hunter, that's enough out of me. I got what I came for, and it didn't involve you as directly as you'd like to think. You really wanna go?"
He clapped his hands together and pressed them on the ground. Instantly, the entire scenery that he had spent so much time constructing was returned to normal. The Psi energy that had been imbued there, however, was even more intense than it was before, despite the rocky, barren terrain.
"Well, too bad. Not today. But soon, if you can think of a way to bring me."
His hands never left the ground, and more electricity crackled around him as a hole opened in the dirt that he fell into. Upon closer inspection, physically there was nothing but dirt and earth beneath the hole. He didn't fall into a cavern or anything. In fact, it seemed like he had fallen out of the world for the time being. The hole sealed itself up in seconds, and Tom was gone. |
Schwa
Posts: 1659/2214 |
OOC: Received PM. Thanks. BTW, I have the ultimate response to your move... 
"That's it! Grey..."
Allaura stands up, unable to find the words to her next sentence.
"I..."
She can't continue. She falls to a kneel, crying.
"I can't say..."
"I love you, Allaura!" (echo effects)
"What!!?"
The ether streak in the sky is finally noticed by her. It's Schwa! Though he didn't say the name of an attack, those words echoed epically to everyone around... and had a special meaning to Allaura. Allaura stares as Schwa lands a hoverdisc right in front of her, and takes an offensive stance toward Grey.
"You leave her alone. Period. I love her."
"And I love Schwa too!" Thinking, "There, I said it."
And Schwa adds, "If you have something against me, that's fine. But you don't play mind-games with my fellow Psi Warriors... especially the one I've had strong feelings for all the time. Not only does that f--kin' piss me off, it gets the attention of someone else I met recently... someone I dare say is twice as stong as you. You want to meet him? No? Too bad, here he comes!"
Schwa stands back as rainbow-colored crystals start forming in the arena about 12 feet to the right of Grey. These crytsals are peculiar, and very unnerving to look at... These kinds of crystals seem to strike anxiety in the hearts of normal people who stare right at them... and for a good reason, too, because there crystals are made out of the RAREST kind of energy that ever exists... an energy only present in the real world, where Grey comes from, only this time it has taken an actual form... Autistic energy!!!
The crystals form high, and shatter, revealing one figure. He's human, and he looks a lot like Schwa, only he's got huge sideburns and normal clothes, plus a heavy deep-pressure vest. He cracks his knuckles, staring at Grey hostily.
"Aspie Hunter Schweitzer, at your service. You were saying something about wiping some data? Interesting. Please continue."
OOC: And, of course, I have a new idea for a battle in mind. |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2518/3770 |
Grey got up from his lawn chair with a start and snapped his fingers. The skies darkened even further than they already were in the pitch of midnight, and clouds swirled around one single point in the sky, which suddenly turned a deep, blood-red color. Grey scowled, and his voice was suddenly deeper, more commanding and imposing.
Grey: "Leave you alone? That's strike 2. You're still not thinking with the right head. This is it, you've got one more chance to redeem yourself, or else Schwa's toast. You know that. What do you want more than anything else in the world right now? If you know the answer to that question, you can answer any other question I've asked you."
He snaps his fingers again, and a small screen appears in front of him, a la Washu's special laptop. On it is posted a picture of an internet browser. In the address bar? One single line that filled Allaura with an unknown fear...
http://board.acmlm.org/editpost.php?id=62337...
Grey: "This is it, Allaura. You have to answer now. Decide finally how you feel, find the strength within your heart to save Schwa, and I'll let him go. If you can't, then that's strike three...."
With the mouse he held in his hands earlier, Grey highlights all of the data on Schwa...
"....And he's out." |
Schwa
Posts: 1652/2214 |
"Schwa?"
Allaura's voice has a touch of tremble to it now.
"I... don't know if I can answer those questions, Grey... If I at least try, will you leave me alone?"
Thinking, "What is with me? Why can't I bring myself to talk about Schwa?"
Meanwhile, the blue ether streak in the night sky is coming closer... |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2504/3770 |
Grey: "You wanted a battle? You got one. But this isn't a battle of fists, it's a battle of wits. Again, think seriously about all that I've done to this point. It is a riddle, one that you need to solve in order to realize what to do. You asked what to do because you were rejected by someone you care about. I'm giving you an opportunity to find out."
He lays back and looks at his glass of lemonade, snapping his fingers and transforming it into a glass of orange juice. His attitude is strangely nonchalant, the evilness in his voice is completely gone, and the softness that Allaura first noted in his personality has returned.
"I can't just give you the answer, though. You know that. I can, however, give you the question. In fact, I already have. But, just for the purposes of reference, I'll ask you it again."
Grey sits up straight in his seat and leans toward Allaura, a sense of dignity and impose in his countenance.
"How do you feel about Schwa? Not just surface feelings, deep-seated feelings, thoughts about his actions, his needs, his involvement with you and with fighting the forces of what Psi Warriors consider evil. All of it. Only by realizing how you feel about all of it will you see the answer to this question."
"Schwa is a hero, no doubt about that, but there is another reason behind his heroism that you need to understand. It really isn't about power or beauty or grace, and you didn't pick up on that from the getgo, like I expected you to. It's about something else that Schwa has that you need to get, too. Maybe then he won't think you're so weak." |
Schwa
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Allaura is scooted towards the seat. "Hey! Watch it!"
She reluctantly sits down in the lawnchair, but doesn't drink any of the lemonade.
"Okay, another game... Just great. Grey, listen... I have no idea what you want anymore." She suddenly breaks down. "I'm serious! First you want me to follow you through the air, then you say you're going to kill Schwa, so I battle you like you wanted, then you bring out the dove personality and start flirting... I... can't... adapt!!! Too many adaptions!"
Barely noticeable in the distance, a blue streak of ether is on it's way to the colosseum. |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2501/3770 |
Grey: "Well, if I'm flirting with you, it's obviously not working."
He snaps his fingers and into being comes a pair of lawn chairs with a plastic table positioned between them and a pitcher of lemonade, despite it being 65 degrees out and somewhere around midnight. He sits back, relaxes, and pours himself a glass.
"Before you go off and buff yourself even further, let's have a chat. I really just wanted a change of scenery. I realize by doing this I'm altering the time stream drastically and will probably somehow affect the outcome of Janus and Schwa's battle 53 years from now that you don't know about and probably won't ever know about anyway, but I'll turn it back before they fight. I'd like to keep it like this for a few years."
He then points at Allaura, and curls his finger towards him, as an invisible hand wraps itself around her and pulls her closer to the lawn chair.
"Come on and sit down. And while you're sitting, have a drink and ask yourself a few questions. The first of which should be exactly why AM I flirting with you? Let's treat this objectively." |
Schwa
Posts: 1645/2214 |
"A few questions to ask you, Grey."
Allaura stops charging, once again ticked.
"First of all, why try to tense me for battle then play the dove? Second, are you flirting with me? First you kiss me and now a flower!"
Allaura releases the charged-up energy. "Determined Core!" (echo effects)
Allaura creates a vortex of ether around her, brilliant but a small beauty compared to the massive tree. In 8 seconds, a small diamond-shaped prism has formed above the area, maybe 20 feet off the ground, emitting rainbow light.
"Third question. What was the point of that... attack, uh, just... a moment ago?" She tenses again, wondering what kind of mind-game Grey will think of next. |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2497/3770 |
Grey: "Finally! The science of magic is complete!"
In a rapid series of frontflips, Grey lands outside his gigantic transmutation circle, ready and waiting to shock and awe Allaura with his next move...
Grey closes his eyes, kneels to the ground, and lays his hands on the southern border of the circle, as the skies darken, and light glows from the deepest trenches of the engraved design.
The ground opens up, and the same electricity that surrounded Grey earlier arcs to and fro from point to point on the circle, and from the ground begins to rise something... amazing...
Its thick, bushy head came first... Nothing more than a mould of dirt and rock, it suddenly transformed into what appeared to be lush, green leaves. The mass of leaves eventually gave way to a thick, healthy trunk that branched out into the skies, a grand, majestic tree of life. As the mighty redwood finished rising from the ground, around the base of its trunk came several other changes in the environment. Flowers began to sprout as rich, green grass grew all around them, and the field of life extended ever further from the tree's bottom. Soon, it covered the transmutation circle entirely, but the circle was hardly the limit of Grey's magic. Eventually, what was once a rocky, desolate wasteland turned into a rolling, beautiful plainsland, as rivers that never before flowed were able to roll their currents alongside tracts of wildflowers.
Grey opened his eyes, released a long-held breath of air, and smiled.
Grey: "There, that's so much more beautiful..."
He eyes a particularly rich honeysuckle near the tree, and extends his hand, picking the flower and inhaling its sweet aroma. He blinks his eyes, and rises slowly into the air, turning toward Allaura and making an out-of-place walking motion as he floats toward her. He hands her the flower and grins.
"Wouldn't you agree?" |
Schwa
Posts: 1643/2214 |
"What IS he doing!?"
Allaura stares at the solidified rings, tenses, and slips between them, barely avoiding them.
She charges up energy in her hands, a new idea present in her mind... |
Grey the Stampede
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Grey looks up from his work, snaps his fingers, and the rings convert from energy to solid matter, turning to stone and slamming into the ground around him, adding even more to the circle's engravements. Catching a sleight of overconfidence in his work, Grey is suddenly beaned on the head by one of the stone rings and is knocked flat to the ground, caught off-guard by his own counterattack.
Grey: "OW! Argh.... that hurt, but it'll all be worth it in the end. Just a few more adjustments...."
To keep Allaura in check, Grey hefts the stone rings onto his staff, and while they're all packed onto it, swings the tool at Allaura, throwing the solid rings back at her. He then continues his design, going from running to jumping now, as he leaps around and draws octagram, pentagram, hexagram, and diagonal line after line around the circle. This was gonna be big. He just hoped it wouldn't hurt, too... |
Schwa
Posts: 1640/2214 |
As Allaura flies behind Grey, she fires a barrage of energy rings at Grey from behind him. He'll have to be quick to avoid the rings right after attacking.
Allaura gains aerial control and manages to land on her feet. She notices the big circle.
"Interesting... What's he doing now?" |
Grey the Stampede
Posts: 2490/3770 |
Grey: "Careful, my pretty friend..."
As Allaura crashed toward him, Grey reached up from his work, grabbed her fist, and spun around. He took her with him as he whirled and hurled her away from him, then followed up by pressing both of his hands in a symmetrical pattern into his transmutation circle, adding further to the intricacy of the patterns he was drawing into the dirt. A few scribbles with his fingers here and there, and he slapped his palm down on it as more electricity swirled around him and spread all around the field, replicating the pattern of his circle and engraving a much, much, MUCH larger version of it into the area in which he and Allaura were fighting.
He wasn't done yet, though. Grey then clapped his hands together and took his baseball bat in his hands, thinning it from its wide bat-like appearance to a longer, staff-like shape. With his new tool, he began to run around to random points on the giant circle, adding lines and designs unknown to Allaura at mentally calculated points on the field.
There's a slight chance Allaura may know what he's doing, if she's knowledgeable about that sort of thing. |
Schwa
Posts: 1634/2214 |
Each rock connects with a sphere, and the physical objects are just powerful enough to destroy them.
"Ah, I was going to use the Strike Tower trick next... Urgh! Well, I'm not done yet... Now for melee."
Allaura's fists flare brilliantly with red ether as she dashes to Grey, leaps up and comes down with a diagonal down-left hook from the sky to Grey's face. It should be quite stronger than Schwa's melee attack, but given the circumstances it shouldn't be hard to dodge. If Allaura were to miss, though, she'd charge forward and try striking with a frontal assult to the chest, an even stronger attack and harder to dodge in succession with the first move. |
Grey the Stampede
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Naturally, Grey can't see the spheres coming, and they each pass straight through him as he is burnt, blown, and shocked at the same time. Pain surges through his body and he quickly snaps his fingers, shutting down his brain's amygdala and removing all sense of fear of the attack he had as it flew toward him. As soon as he stopped twitching from the massive electrical shock he recieved, Grey turned his amygdala back on and waves his hand through the cloud of dust he's formed. Immediately, they form themselves into a trio of large rocks that are sent flying at the three psi spheres. Assuming they connect, the energy Grey is using to hold them together should temporarily cancel out those spheres of ether.
Grey: "This next one won't be so easy..."
He kneels to the ground, and begins his next move by drawing a circle... |
Schwa
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Allaura motions again as the spheres move-- al three of them this time, and form a wide ring above Grey. They then fly at him from different angles, all at the same time. The red one would hit for fire damage, white for air, and yellow for electricity.
As the spheres attack, Allaura uses another technique. "Diminishing Aura!" (echo effects)
When this move is cast, three 12-feet-diameter circles of haze-colored ether lights up on random spots in the ground. As long as Grey stands in the circles, all his stats will be lowered by 10% (except HP and Mana) until he moves out. Grey isn't in them right now, but he'll have to watch his step or suffer a stat penalty. |
Grey the Stampede
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Grey: "Heh, girl's got a good hook... For all the pain though..."
After a few seconds of rubbing his jaw, Grey notes the balls coming toward him and claps his hands together. He then drops to his knees and presses his hands to the ground as electricity swirls around them. From the earth he raises a long, wooden shaft that widens as it approaches its tip, ending up about two and one half-feet long. He takes the baseball bat and smacks the red beachball of ether away, following through on his swing by turning a full circle and allowing the second ball to pass by him. Finally, he drops down, picks up a rock, immediately gets back to his feet, and hurls it at Allaura. As it flies toward her, Grey snaps his fingers and the rock explodes into a gigantic cloud of dust. Obviously, vision cover is useless against Psi Warriors, but Grey's got a few other things planned...
"I'd have to say it was pretty worth doing." |
Schwa
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Grey kisses Allaura. Allaura's eyes widen. Then, Allaura's ether-coated fist goes up at 80 MPH into Grey's face.
"Don't you do that! You're going to kill Schwa and I'm going to stop you!"
She actually says that with a hint of smile. Yes, she has fully been integrated into Grey's game. She has forgotten to think, though not to reason, and has put all her mind and soul into the battle, just like Grey wanted.
"And I ain't gonna hold back. Divine Summoning!" (echo effects)
On the ground appear three circles of ether; white, red and yellow. Spheres of those colors then come out of the circles as if the rings were portals-- because they ARE portals. But they all close as soon as the spheres appear. Now, a red, a white and a yellow sphere, each twice the size of a cannonball, hover over Allaura.
"Take this, Grey!"
Confident and full of courage again, Alluara thrusts her hand out, and immediately the red and white sphere fly in a volley toward Grey. If they both hit, Grey will receive high Fire and Wind damage, but if even one of them misses, the damage will be very low. (Red = fire, white = wind.) The best part about the spheres, however, is that Allaura can pull off a special technique AND attack with the spheres on the same turn each turn. |
Grey the Stampede
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Grey: "Hah! Now THAT's power!"
Allaura slams into Grey, and though she bounces right off, Grey is thrown backward by the blow and falls to the ground, skidding on his feet toward his mana pool. Now was probably the time. Forgetting about his Magic cards for the time being, Grey waved his hand, dispersed his mana pool, and put the deck back in his pocket. No sense in using that stuff now.
Grey: "And of course, you've already shown me..."
Assuming she's back on the ground at this point, Grey dashes toward Allaura, and looks quite like he's about to hit her with a ground-splitting earthquake punch that should hurt a heck of a lot when it hits (and it will), until he gets about two inches from her, and Allaura realizes he's not going to hit her.
"....beauty."
Hoping she's put up some kind of defense at this point, Grey penetrates it by completely blowing away any intent he had of hurting her with one single action.
A kiss. |
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