Roleplay:Secret Discord/Part4

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Part 4: Recombination
"Don't think that taking out Kiko means that you have half a chance against either me or Tama. Instead of thinking positive, how about you try..." Without warning, Hikari disappeared, and reappeared to the left of the group. "Thinking fast!" Immediately upon his reappearance, he fired a blast of green fire directly at Reens to punctuate his shout.

In that same moment, a blast of red fire nearly overtook Hikari's green flames. Splice's fist collided with Hikari's wrist just in time to divert the assault, and expelled a massive burst of flames that nearly resembled an explosion. While the burns wouldn't necessarily hurt him, the sheer force of the attack would definitely hurt Hikari's arm. His green fire trailed off towards Static and Melissa. "That fast enough for you, Mirror Man?" He asked with a coy smirk. "I thought you'd aim for her once I realized you weren't talking to me." Splice returned to his battle stance, standing between him and Reens. "But don't think you can get the better of us with cheap shots like that! Not on my watch!"

"I have to say, you really are catching on to our powers quickly." Hikari chuckled. "I was wondering when it would be fair for me to stop holding back." It appeared that he was powering up for something, a faint aura surrounding him.

Melissa sensed the blast heading in her direction, and quickly raised a shadowy wall to block the attack. She and a small area around her became completely monochrome from the power she was outputting to hold the shield.

Meanwhile, Tama's immediate growth in power made Smash a bit uneasy. "Who and what is this person?" He asked, taking a defensive stance.

"A nu... a nuisance who's been... exponentially growing in power and that I can't... I can't touch..." Xavis answered. He was kneeling down on one knee and panting heavily, as his attack against Tama had taken quite a lot out of him. The energy within him was increasing rapidly, though, but also unusually fluctuating, and a dark, crystal-like substance was forming on the hedgehog's hands. "Where's... Melissa? Is she okay?"

"She's fine." He said. "Let us handle this. You look like you're about to have a meltdown or something." Smash stepped in front of the two, "You with me, Platinum?"

"Let's do this!" Platinum exclaimed. "No matter who my opponent is, I'll always be ready to stand and fight. Time to stop this girl, whoever she is!"

Right on cue, Tama rushed towards the group, appearing only a few yards away from Platinum in an instant. "I'm gonna get yooooouuuuuu~" She singsonged, powering up once more.

"Here she comes!" Smash exclaimed, getting into a defensive stance. Out of nowhere, a blue streak came crashing into Tama, leaving a young-looked blue-furred hedgehog with two droopy quills and a red-furred bat to tumble. For Tama, it would feel like getting into a car crash and getting hit by an incredibly large shuriken. "...There she goes." Smash stated flatly, looking dumbfounded.

"O-Ow..." Alexia said. "T-That hurt..."

Jewel was also banged up from the crash. "Ohhh... I agree... ow..."

"Thanks for the save, Splice," Reens said with a slight grin. She readied some more orbs of water and stayed behind him just in case. "I don't know what he's powering up for, but it doesn't look good."

"Stay behind me." Splice ordered cautiously. The ice on his arm began to melt away with billows of steam rising from it, while the fire on his other arm simply died out. "Get ready for anything. I'm gonna nip it in the bud!" With that, he broke into a short sprint towards Hikari with both daggers at the ready. He made a great leap halfway there, and with a couple aerial twirls, came down with a powerful vertical slash aimed at the agent's head.

Not even bothering to look above him, Hikari chuckled. "And with this... I return your attack threefold!" He vanished as the blade was about to make contact, reappearing a few paces back. However, he seemed to be tinted... Red? Immediately after, a second Hikari appeared to his left, tinted green. A third, blue, to his right. In perfect sync, the three shot jets of fire in their respective color directly at Splice.

Knocked a few more yards back, Tama somehow managed to get back on her feet. Despite both of the blows dealt to her, she only seemed to be slightly out of breath. "That tickled... Do you want to play with me too?" Her imposing mint-green aura hadn't even faded, still burning brightly. "Hehe... This is going to be fun~"

"For a creepy child, she's tough." Smash commented, his fists tightening. "She took two people slamming into her like friggin' rockets like they were as weak as nerf guns. It'll take more than a few good punches to knock her down for the count."

"I know, right?" Max said, still in his super form with his hair and aura glowing. He dropped Clock-Watch and Transford onto the ground before smiling. "I watched the whole thing. This cupcake isn't going down." Max's grin grew even larger, and his aura even more fiery. "The Preteen Punisher here is about to change that."

Clock raised his hand. "Maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to try and rush in, then-"

Max quickly put his arm out and created a transparent yellow blade on it, similar to the move he'd used earlier on Splice. Oh yeah, that dude exists! Max then called out to the multi-colored hedgehog, completely oblivious to the fact he was busy. "Hey, Splice! Think we could try to rush Cupcake?"

Cupcake? Reens thought, slightly amused. She focused more, the orbs of water solidifying. They weren't orbs of ice, since she was unable to do that, but they were getting stronger. "He's a little busy at the moment!" she yelled to Max, shaking her head. "Just stay there for now, okay?"

Clock spoke up once more. "That really would be the best course of action-"

"What a bore! You really expect me to do that? I have better things to do!" Max said, groaning before smiling. "Why do I need him, anyway? I'll save the world from this pushover freak by myself! It's time to show you what the Irvaron can do!" Not waiting for Splice, Max blasted forward in a rush of speed, disappearing when he was a meter away from her. If Tama looked up around her area, she'd find yellow Super Chaos Spears and green Super Chaos Arrows (Chaos Spears but more powerful) surrounding her. Then, she'd see Max in the air, levitating with his legs crossed. "Impressive, am I right? Now, should I have them all explode or should they all close in on you? Decisions, decisions!"

Platinum simply stared at the scene unfolding in front of her. After a moment, she turned to Smash. "Am I the only one who thinks that this is going to end incredibly badly for all of us, or am I just crazy?"

Smash however, was grimacing in annoyance. His eye twitched involuntarily as he listened to him run his mouth and try to steal the show before it even began. "Trust me, it's not just you." He responded without even glancing in Platinum's direction. Smash wasn't too thrilled to see Max again, but this kid's hyperactive overconfidence was grating on his nerves real fast. "I have so many questions right now that all begin with "why the hell". But on the other hand, this is an opportunity to learn our opponent. Let's leave Max in the spotlight for a while longer...and see if he doesn't get stage fright."

"As long as your not expecting him to watch where he aiming, I think he'll do OK." Transford said as he took a spot between Platinum and Smash. He twirled his guns around for a moment, ready to unload a storm of bullets at either Tama or Hikari at a moments notice.

Tama stared at Max. "I don't like the rules of this game." In a flash, she flew directly towards Max, willingly flying into the energy blasts to move towards him. Her arm clenched, she would throw a punch charged with her strange energy as soon as she got close enough to him. "Let's use my rules instead~"

Max started laughing as he tried to catch Tama's fist with his arm-sword, which would stab through her arms. "You act like a kid! Well, I guess if you are... I'm like the recess aid, telling you that you're not allowed to play tag because of stupid safety reasons." Max growled, "Elementary school..." before speaking again. "Anyway, how's life going with you? Proud that you're working for a boatload of idiots? Cool. My name's Max Irvaron, B T dubs. I bet you'll remember it after you're locked up."

The sword cut straight through her arm, but the strange misty energy leaking from her quickly appeared to patch her arm back up. Tama didn't even appear to be in pain. She was giggling. "You have a stupid-sounding name." With her other arm, she fired a blast of her mint-green energy directly at Max's chest. "You'll go to time-out if you keep being so violent~"

Max was hit, being blasted downwards to a tree. When he hit it, there was an explosion, but when all of the smoke was gone, a bright, yellow light flashed. With a hole through his shirt but his skin unscathed, Max rose into the air and laughed. "Lame! Using 'play-time' quotes to scare me? Like, kid, do you even know who you're up against?" Max kept laughing before looking at Tama and smiling. "You look you have a decent healing factor. I guess that's the government's problem to deal with."

Max created a red lance out of Chaos Energy before twirling it around and pointing at everyone with it. "I hope you guys have some decent acrobatics, 'cuz this is about to get crazy! Disco Dome!" Max threw three yellow orbs into the air, and they fired three types of lasers - red fast but weak ones, silver normal ones, and blue slow but powerful ones - in all directions. Then, Max flew around to dodge the lasers before trying to stab Tama into the leg. If he succeeded, he'd flip over while in the air and try to hit her back down with it.

The mist blocked the lance before it could make contact. Something about the collision between the two energies seemed unnatural, and it seemed like they were negating each other on contact. Tama grinned madly, attempting to punch Max in the gut with a fist charged with energy. "Your Chaos doesn't scare me. I have something just as strong~" If the attack connected, she would follow up with an axe kick to send him crashing back into the ground.

As soon as Max's hit missed, he flew backwards, causing Tama's punch to miss, also. Then, Max flew around, trying to dodge more lasers shooting around everywhere. Three lasers - one red, one blue, and one silver - were shot at Tama, and to add insult to injury, Max threw three red discs of Chaos Energy at Tama. "Eat this, kid!" Max's eyes widened before shrinking back and he spoke again. "What is a weird kid like you doing here, anyway? Did you get bullied so much you went evil?"

With jet streams of fire pushing him from three different sides, Splice held up his arms to guard his face after hitting the ground. The pressure was uncomfortable, but strangely he felt alright. '' ' There's...there's nothing special about this fire after all? Geez, was I worried over nothing? ' '' He thought to himself as he began to stand in the flames. "Now, Reens! Give us a big ol' splash!" He shouted.

Alexia, meanwhile, left Jewel to approach the battle between Splice, Reens and Hikari. Desperate to help, she tried to freeze Hikari in place, so that when they made an attack, the chances of it landing were higher.

Jewel stumbled off the snowflake, very disoriented. As she stumbled around, she asked, "Anyone... g-g-got the number... o-of that elephant we hit?" Then she flopped onto the ground unconscious.

"Thanks for the assist, snowball!" Reens said, joking. "Now why don't you go help Jewel, okay? I think Splice and I have it here." She drew her sword again, focusing the two water orbs with one hand and holding her sword with the other. Alexia nodded and ran to Jewel, trying to carry the bat up.

"S-Sorry, ma'am.... I was a fool to crash like th-that...." Alexia said, berating herself even though she knew Jewel couldn't hear her.

Jewel let out a groan. "... feels like I got hit by a... flying... ice cream truck..." She sank back into unconsciousness.

Meanwhile, Xavis had snuck away from the battles to Melissa, who laid on the ground, exhausted from the shield she had created earlier. "Melissa?" The hedgehog asked.

"Xa... Xavis?" she asked between breaths.

"Melissa, are you okay?" He helped prop her up to a sitting position.

"I... I can't... I can't see..." she answered. Reality seem5d t₤_cr°ck ar÷und the hedgehog for a second. "H... he blinded me..."

He gently lowered her to the ground and stood up. The air was getting warm.

"Xavis? I know what you're feeling... please don't."

He closed his eyes. The dark crystals forming on his hands raised up to his elbows. He was visibly shaking. The air started getting hot.

"Xavis?"

He opened his eyes, now a vibrant, blood red, and turned to Hikari. He let out a war scream and rushed towards the cat with his arms ablaze, and was going to punch him hard with a flaming, crystallized fist, unaware of the others' plan.

"You got it, Splice!" Reens yelled in return after Alexia's help, combining her water orbs and adding more water, but struggling slightly. "Tidal Wave!" The wave crashed down over the flames, dousing as much of them as she could. She panted and wiped her forehead free of sweat. "Um, Splice, I don't know if I can do that more than once. With the temperature rising I can't keep getting water out of the air. Unless you and Frosty can keep giving me melted icicles."

Alexia came to Reens and Splice again, carrying Jewel on her back. "If y-you're referring t-to me, I-I would help... but this ma'am doesn't look so good. If o-o-only we had a healer..." Alexia said before gently putting Jewel onto the ground and sighing. "I-I could try helping you from a distance, I suppose..." Alexia created ten sharp ice shards in the air.

Reens smiled kindly at Alexia, trying to ease her nerves despite her fatigue. "You scratch my back I'll scratch yours. Lucky for you I'm a bit of a healer, but it might take me a little bit to get her back to a full state. Just keep doing what you're doing and I'll handle the rest, okay?"