Face-off
#015 Chaos Agent Rory VS #016 Five & #017 Eddie the Head
#015 Chaos Agent Rory VS #016 Five & #017 Eddie the Head
"D00d, this sucks," the businesspenguin lamented as he waddled, scrambled, flopped and slid his way among the rocky plateau-ettes. This was no place for a fine, upstanding gentlebird like himself to be. He should've stayed in the water, mang.
Then he heard the magic words, from just up ahead. Someone lamenting about not having a decent cup of coffee, and willing to kill to get one. The non-euclidian gears began to oscillate in his fishy brain as a scheme of magnificent scheminess began to fabricate into. Yeah. Yeeeaaah. This could work.
Shuffling forward, the penguin threw himself down onto his belly and zipped his way down the thankfully fairly smooth and sandy incline, and with an angry bellowing squawk he crashed right into the terribly unfortunately-placed shins of a rotting cadaver, with all the force and fury of a runaway tricycle packed with bricks.
Eddie let out a startled grunt as his legs decided to renounce their friendship with the ground, flipping him around so that his chin met the ground with an unpleasant-sounding crunch. The rest of his body followed shortly thereafter, leaving him momentarily dazed as he tried to scramble back upright.
"'Sup, d00ds?" Rory said simply as he hopped back up to his feet, turning about face to look at these strange new d00ds. Some kid in a school outfit and...great mother of Koscot, what was that?! His beady little penguin eyes stared uneasily at the rotted visage of Eddie the Head, trying to process just what, exactly, he was seeing. "....yo, mang, you probably used the wrong kind of facewash," was his eventual conclusion.
"Shut up, you stupid flightless bird!" Five seethed, lunging for Rory with his sword. The hapless penguin honked in surprise, frantically waddling for his life and evading the first strike at least.
But he quite literally walked right into the crackling smack of the energy shield on Eddie's arm as he was caught broadside, launched clear into the air. "Not cool, d00d; he just said I'm a flightless bird!" Rory squawked petulantly. This was NOT the way he had ever really wanted to fly: asshole-powered flight wasn't even real flight anyway!
His midair jaunt was cut tragically short as Five leaped up on a burst of wingpower, prompting Rory to let out a "oh, come on" before he was promptly sent crashing back to earth by an overhead strike from the Zenithian Sword.
As he roused himself from the penguin-shaped crater he had left, Rory was...miraculously not sliced in half. Largely thanks to the oscillating aura of violet and black energy now roaring around him. "Alright, d00ds, now you really messed up." And he spun in place, letting loose a positively...mediocre volley of flashing purple and gold energy in a random shotgun-dome around him.
Several of the energy bolts hit nothing, but a few found their mark; crashing against Five and Eddie (and his shield). A continued, viciously flapping and slapping onslaught of grape-flavored death was let loose as the penguin hopped to and fro, squawking and honking like some deranged hobo pelting a rusted van with expired tomatoes because it was going to steal his dog.
Typical Tuesday, really.
Five scowled, dipping and dodging between the hail of energy as best he could, before taking cover behind his corpse-y ally for momentary cover. "Alright...enough of that, buzz off!" Stepping out of cover, he swung the sword in his hands, releasing a wave of biting cold and ice forward. Frost and rime covered everything in a rapidly expanding cone, washing over Rory and leaving him a wide-eyed penguin-sicle.
"Good riddance," the old boy huffed, wiping a stray bot of soot and blood from his face.
Rory suffers some heavy bludgeoning from blunted sword attacks and crashing into the ground (Minor Injury) and will be frozen solid for a few hours (Story Injury)
Eddie suffers from a face-meet-ground injury, likely cracking his jaw (Minor Injury) and a scattering of ki-bolt related damage across his everything (Minor Injury altogether)
Five suffers from a horribly bruised ego from almost being overwhelmed by these penguin-related shenanigans (Story Injury) and a few nasty ki burns (Minor Injury altogether)
Eddie suffers from a face-meet-ground injury, likely cracking his jaw (Minor Injury) and a scattering of ki-bolt related damage across his everything (Minor Injury altogether)
Five suffers from a horribly bruised ego from almost being overwhelmed by these penguin-related shenanigans (Story Injury) and a few nasty ki burns (Minor Injury altogether)
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