Post #44 [Cecil]

[Yeah, I was a bit eager to post again.]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Nebiroth stomped into the distinctly more lit areas of Threed. It was only when he emerged from the tunnel, oblivious to the group and Smidgen ahead of him, that he took notice of the redness in the sky above. "Sky red... Why sky red?! This not home! Place is not allowed to have red light!!"

[Geez, Nebi! Take a chill pill! :P]

Nebiroth had lost his craving for food at the moment, wondering what was causing the red light. He felt the red light to be a mockery of the Phantom Zone's skies, which were crimson red, like blood.

[You may or may not hear more information of specfic properties of the "Phantom Zone" later.]

Nebiroth suddenly saw a red sparkling speck in the sky, which was actually the ship of the time beam, however Nebiroth thought it was a star responsible for the skies over this world.

Nebiroth began concentrating his energy into his hands, and growled up towards the star "Red star... BAD!!!" and shot his huge tri-stacked beam towards the star. He felt a lot better assuming the star wasn't just going to move and dodge it. It was a star after all, wasn't it?

[Yeah, Nebiroth might have fired towards the time-ship, but I wrote this with the assumption his beam would miss the ship. I had a slightly different reason for having him shoot at the ship you'll find out about later.]

He turned his attention to the group ahead of him not even expecting anything from the star, soon realizing that Bob was staring at him.

That human probably thinks I'm ugly. Humans... so vain about their looks and that of others. his more intelligent sounding mind said to himself.

He then caught sight of a delicious looking source, a source with Neo Green blood leaking from it: Smidgen. "Nebiroth hungry!!" Nebiroth suddenly remembered his hunger, and stomped past Bob, and towards Smidgen.

[Uh lawl for misspelling "Neon" as "Neo". More grammar mistakes will come folks. :P]

However, unbeknownst to all of them, Smidgen was far from defeated. He was designed to put himself back together from strong attacks, and not just via regeneration. Smidgen had the ability to put himself back together, even if in many pieces.

[The crap, I just noticed I said "to put himself back together" twice. >__>; I iz so smart, aren'tz I? :P]

Smidgen wasn't able to notice the new arrival known as Nebiroth, but he was still planning his vengence strike, and now deliberating his former weakness. When he fully recovered, that weakness they used against him would be gone, and he would be free to roam again and to eat more people, and to get stronger. He didn't notice Nebiroth picking him up, thinking him to be dead.

[Yeah, I basically eliminated the "fold" weakpoint on Smidgen, and reliterated the whole point of Smidgen being like Majin Buu to a degree that he could regenerate himself from 'death' as long as his body was intact.

Also "deliberating" is actually a bad spelling for me to say "rehabilitating". Again, I iz smartz. XD]

Nebiroth was just about to devour Smidgen when the thing's eyes opened with a malicous glee, and the rest of the group jumped back in shock, and perhaps fear. Smidgen noticed Nebiroth about to eat him like some slain deer. Smidgen decided to turn the tables and see what this guy's powers could do and lashed out...

["I gonna eat you, bitch!" :P]

However Smidgen hadn't taken time to calculate Nebiroth's size, and was unable to open his mouth enough to complete swallow the large minion of Sardius, and was stuck with his mouth over and around Nebiroth's shoulders.

What the heck!? Nebiroth growled mentally, and with the face on his stomach, uncovered by Smidgen, blew a blast of continuous fire into the creature making a failed attempt to swallow him. Smidgen couldn't resist the effects of the fire long, and released his grip on Nebiroth, howling in pain, and jumping up and down.

[This was Smidgen's second, more fatal weakness. Unlike Majin Buu, he could not expand himself to infinite sizes to devour and absorb his enemies, and Nebiroth is a VERY BIG creature. Not just tall, but very broad in size as well. I need to pull up the sprite of him as a reference so you understand what I mean sometime. >.>]

"Nebiroth eat you! Not other way around!!" the large troll-faced demon bared his fangs, and Smidgen just growled back, prepared to strike...

[Yay for epic tension. :P]

***

Sandra's trek through the caves within the cliff, leading her through a couple of small intersections, and it made her wonder why such a place even existed under the cliffs. Soon, she came to a place reinforced by steel walls. "Could there be some installation hidden within the cliffs? If so, could this also the be the source of the time anomoly?" She asked herself.

[Looks like it, Sandra. >.>]

She found a door in the middle of these steel walls, and opened it, walking inside.

Inside the room was a basic shaped room with a circular hole in the ceiling, and a single person, trapped in the time field as well, indicated by the Pink aura representing Stop, but when she looked up at the ceiling, she saw a shocking sight: the bottom of the very meteor that crashed into Onett a while back.

[Yeah, this location is basically a lab where they're studying the meterorite Buzz Buzz arrived in during the original Earthbound. The reason this place exists and is being studied will be revealed partially soon enough. >.>]

"They must be using this place to gather samples from the meteorite and study them." She also noticed another door on the other side of the room, a much bigger door than the other that she went through. Oddly enough, it seemed to be made out of something she hadn't seen before. She wondered if she should rip the door off or not...

[Yeah, I need to clear up something I've been vauge about on Sandra. Her physical strength is monsterous compared to near about any other character: official, AC, villain or random character alike during the IF. She could likely rip a damn mountain in half at this point without any ki/energy amplification in Frozen. However I rarely showed off these feats from her because I wanted to express the point of teamwork with my fellow writers, and I didn't want to pass Sandra off as a "AC God Mode" character so much as a character who's strong but still accepts help from her allies and friends.]

(Smidgen is supposed to be harder to stop than that I would think, since the scientest said he could pull himself back together from about any attack, and was almost totally indestrucible. If you didn't want him coming back, sorry about that, DrAndonuts. -_-; )

[Yeah, some who know or recall my 'Tenguian' methods of writing MIGHT assume this is an instance of me wanting to 'control' the IF too much or bitching at people for doing something wrong, but it was more that I was trying to reinforce a point DrAndonuts made about Smidgen's capability to deal with attacks.]

[ June 13, 2002, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]

[I don't honestly remember what the heck I edited my post for, which is sad since I'M the one annotating this for you. :(]

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