Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
Bob kicked back and relaxed. He held up a hand and began to ramble nonchalantly.
"Hey there lady. I think the big lug here isn't out to get you. He seems pretty nice to... me?"
[XD. "to... me?" looks a bit odd when I read it over in my head for some reason]
Bob opened his eyes and looked at Sandra. The strange feeling he'd been having seemed to change a bit. His body started tingling. He really was beginning to doubt his health. Sandra looked up at him.
[Oh noes! Sandra is killing Bob with her mind!! D:]
"Do you realize who this is? This is NEBIROTH! NEB IR OTH! He's a vicious monster from the Phantom Zone!"
[Techincally Nebiroth is pronounced "Neb-bi-roth", but I digress. >.>]
"Me no mean no more. Me only hungry. Need food for tummy."
[For some reason I imagine Nebi talking with a sad, subdued tone when he says this line. XD]
Bob sat there, staring down at Sandra. He didn't know what to do. He started to clutch his head.
Agh! What is this strange feeling that envelops me? Why is it that I must be at a loss to explain it?
[Sandra, stop trying to kill him with your mind-bullets! D:]
It was as if he were burning up. He felt his heart rate skyrocketing. His blood was pumping faster than ever. Zac suddenly approached Bob with a strange look on his face.
"Hey, you okay over here?"
Bob grabbed Zac by the collar.
[Oh yes, this is a staple of Bob as well, the grab-someone-by-the-collar thing. :P]
"TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!!"
"Wrong?" questioned Zac. "You sure don't look like there's anything wrong with you."
"I feel so warm and tingly. And my heart feels like it's going to burst. It all started when I saw her."
[Sandra's mentally giving Bob a heart attack? :O]
Bob pointed at Sandra. Zac couldn't help but giggle. It broke out, and he began outwardly laughing.
"Bob, you dog, you!" he joked.
"Are you," questioned Bob angrily, "trying to pick a fight by calling me a dog?"
[Um.... *blink blink* >.>]
Zac's face suddenly went blank.
[Mirrors my thoughts completely, Zac. :P]
"Uh, Bob? You ever heard of a little thing called 'love?'"
"... L... ove? What is this... love?"
["is it another one of these powers I can't have?" :(]
Zac explained the whole thing as best as he could to Bob. Bob's face suddenly turned bright red and his muscles constricted. He fell off of Nebiroth's shoulder and several feet into the pavement. Sandra looked down at the lovestruck maniac.
"Wow, that looked like it hurt. You need any help getting up?"
Bob stood right up and dusted himself off, coughing up a few clots of blood and some dust.
[Ouch, what a fall. D:]
"No, no... I'll... be... fine..."
He started turning red. It was all he could do. This love thing sure did confuse him.
"Oh, heh, I forgot to ask... What's... uh... your name?"
"My name is Sandra, and you are?"
"Happy Bob... the uh... the Homicidal... Maniac."
[Yes, this is Bob's general full name: "Happy Bob the Homicidal Maniac". Also Zero swears up and down to me that Bob was conceived before the idea of JOHNNY the Homicidal Maniac came into existance. :o]
"Homicidal!?"
"Nonono... uh... not always. I tend to... be nicer... anymore..."
[Well, he does make a point there Sandra... he did help fight Smidgen, even if only because Smidgen pissed him off. :P]
Sandra just didn't get this guy. A homicidal maniac who is turning red and stuttering while talking to her. Oh well, she'd seen stranger, most of which during her stay in the Phantom Zone.
EDIT: Ugh, I hate it when someone posts while I'm writing...
[Yeah, DrAndonuts and ZXD were writing out their posts at the same time, and DrAndounts beat him to the post, and this ZXD had to rewrite some of his own post to make up for it. So this edit DOES have an explaination to it... for once. <_<]
[ June 15, 2002, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Zero X. Diamond ]
[Now to some big info. That "it" I kept refering to in ZXD's last posts is Bob beginning to understand the notion of positive emotions. More specfically, it lead to the beginning of Bob FALLING IN LOVE with Sandra, an extremely important plot point for both of them in this IF.
This is even more important though on a real life basis. This post was what inspired me to make more contact with ZXD in the overall of things, and thus leading to the birth of my 6-7 year job as Co-Webmaster at http://www.zxdware.net/, ZXD's webserver. I'll elaborate even more on other possible things that came out of this 'union' between me and ZXD later in more posts. :o]
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Post #53 [DrAndonuts]
Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
"Whoever isn't going with Nebiroth, Bob, or my brother, I suggest you come with me to my complex." Brett already started to head northeast into the dense forest seperating the Dusty Dunes Desert and Threed. Brett heard footsteps following him.
[DrAndonuts was doing a minor flashback to when Zac decided to join up with Bob and Nebiroth, as to 'fill in the gap', so to speak]
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Later
Zac, still smirking at the scene this big guy was making, started to think. Where are the Chosen Four? They should be unaffected by the field?
[Appearantly not, Zac. >.>]
Also, he took notice of the intense staring contest between Nebiroth and the "pink-haired brat."
"Nebiroth, we need to go and find the Chosen Four. They could help us find a way to break the stasis field around the planet." Stopping for a moment, Zac began to concentrate. Searching for their still energies was going to be tough. An intense debate started over what should be done about the situation.
[Hooray for the token big argument between ACs that ends up being slightly pointless in the end. XD]
"QUIET!" Zac shouted. "Please... I'm trying to see if I can find Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. I need silence." Everyone looked at Zac, not expecting him to shout.
[Well you guys didn't give him much choice, did you? :P]
Again, Zac started to concentrate. Faintly, he started to pick up a signal. Due to its strength, he couldn't locate specifically where they were. "Somewhere... northwest, but fairly close..."
"That's right!" Penelope chimed in. "I remember Paula say that she and her friends were going to Burglin Park to celebrate one year of freedom from Giygas."
["Freedom from Giygas"? Probably a better term should've been just mentioning of Giygas's defeat.
Also, another semi-important note. There will be no appearances or sightings of our friendly universal cosmic destroyer in this IF. That is all o.o]
"What are we waiting for?!" Sandra shouted, already taking off for the park. Hang on sis, I'm on my way... Zac was right behind her, almost matching her speed.
[In all fairness, Sandra nor Zac aren't moving at the fastest they've ever moved in this IF, since Burglin Park is like just up the street from Polestar Preschool in Earthbound. >.>]
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"Whoever isn't going with Nebiroth, Bob, or my brother, I suggest you come with me to my complex." Brett already started to head northeast into the dense forest seperating the Dusty Dunes Desert and Threed. Brett heard footsteps following him.
[DrAndonuts was doing a minor flashback to when Zac decided to join up with Bob and Nebiroth, as to 'fill in the gap', so to speak]
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Later
Zac, still smirking at the scene this big guy was making, started to think. Where are the Chosen Four? They should be unaffected by the field?
[Appearantly not, Zac. >.>]
Also, he took notice of the intense staring contest between Nebiroth and the "pink-haired brat."
"Nebiroth, we need to go and find the Chosen Four. They could help us find a way to break the stasis field around the planet." Stopping for a moment, Zac began to concentrate. Searching for their still energies was going to be tough. An intense debate started over what should be done about the situation.
[Hooray for the token big argument between ACs that ends up being slightly pointless in the end. XD]
"QUIET!" Zac shouted. "Please... I'm trying to see if I can find Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. I need silence." Everyone looked at Zac, not expecting him to shout.
[Well you guys didn't give him much choice, did you? :P]
Again, Zac started to concentrate. Faintly, he started to pick up a signal. Due to its strength, he couldn't locate specifically where they were. "Somewhere... northwest, but fairly close..."
"That's right!" Penelope chimed in. "I remember Paula say that she and her friends were going to Burglin Park to celebrate one year of freedom from Giygas."
["Freedom from Giygas"? Probably a better term should've been just mentioning of Giygas's defeat.
Also, another semi-important note. There will be no appearances or sightings of our friendly universal cosmic destroyer in this IF. That is all o.o]
"What are we waiting for?!" Sandra shouted, already taking off for the park. Hang on sis, I'm on my way... Zac was right behind her, almost matching her speed.
[In all fairness, Sandra nor Zac aren't moving at the fastest they've ever moved in this IF, since Burglin Park is like just up the street from Polestar Preschool in Earthbound. >.>]
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Post #52 [Cecil]
[hai guyz u miss mi? XD]
Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
After pressing a button on the wall, the kitchen shelf in the Polestar Preschool lowered down into the ground, and Sandra now saw back into the kitchern, still noting the frozen door that was open to the kitched from the front room.
[Yeah, cuz time's frozen and no one in the house could move before. :P]
She, James, Terrance, Lance and Johnson walked up and back into the kitchen, and then James gasped at the sight of his frozen wife Penelope, at the stove flipping pancakes when hit by the time field.
[I suppose seeing your wife frozen in time can make a man gasp. >.>]
"Penelope... hey... Sandra, could you... uh... well..."
Sandra was thinking the same thing now that she knew she could reverse the effects with Dispel, and promptly cast Dispel on her frozen mother. The spinning magic coins floated down onto Penelope and melted on her, and the Pink aura of Stop around her vanished. Penelope was suddenly free, but felt a wave of wear and tear, and fell backwards, luckily to be caught by James in time. Sandra noted that like her mother, Johnson had also fallen backwards when unfrozen. Perhaps the time field had some side effects to it she had overlooked.
[Yes, there is a pattern to unfreezing people via Sandra's dispel ability. They tend to get a bit dizzy and fall backwards, like they lost their balance briefly or something.]
"Er.... James... dear... why are you hold me this way?" Penelope asked her husband, who blushed and helped her back to her feet.
["why are you hold me" is supposed to be "why are you holding me". Yay for bad grammar again. :P]
"Dear, you were... frozen into place in time." James explain to her, "Look at your pancakes over the stove." He pointed to her pancakes she had been flipping. Penelope just looked at them with a shocked, yet surprisingly calm look in her eyes....
[Yeah, Penelope, I've always considered her to be the one with the most wits between the twins' parents. James freaks out over things a lot (Paula going missing in EB, her having to leave with Ness to save the world, etc), while Penelope is more understanding and supportive to it.]
"Um... I see." she stammered, "but... why was I?"
Sandra decided to make herself known again. She wondered if her mother would recognize her first sight, "I believe something has trapped the Earth in a time field, which is freezing a majority of the planet in place. Even inanimate objects seem affected." Another question struck Sandra in the head as Penelope looked at Sandra with an even more shocked expression. Penelope actually recognized her as she had been the one who held Sandra first in her life and had given her that name.
[Yeah, there's a minor story I wrote some time ago which gave some small insights of info to the twins' first 5 years in my own story universe. In said minor story, Penelope names Sandra and James names Paula. Paula is the daddy's girl, Sandra is the mommy's girl. >.>]
The purple eyes confirmed her thought. "Your... your okay!!" Penelope, unlike James, didn't hide her happiness, and hugged her 2nd daughter in a bear hug. Sandra didn't mind it much, however Johnson, Terrance and Lance raised their eyebrows and looked at their best friend. "James, you care to explain this to us?"
["Why u cheating on Penelope, James?!" D:]
James gulped, but Sandra defended him to an extent, "Hey, if you saw it from his view, you'd understand why he never mentioned of my existance!" The three friends looked at her with widening eyes, "And just to confirm it, your friend has a second daughter he didn't want to burden your minds about!"
[Looking back, I probably could've typed this out a little better than I did. :P]
"James, you have two daughters?!" Lance asked with a large dose of shock, "I thought only Paula was your only daughter."
"I'll explain it to you myself when this is over and passed!" Sandra replied in her father's place.
Sandra suddenly felt about hard thought whack her mentally.
[Dammit, Sandra's gonna give herself Brainshock at this rate! D:]
"Where is Paula?!" she chirped.
[Well FINALLY you actually ask about your only sister's whereabouts, even though you should've been able to find her near the beginning! >:P]
"Um..." James was about to respond, when Sandra heard a sound from in the sewers.
Who could that be? Nebiroth isn't big enough to walk through the sewers, or is he?
Suddenly, she felt the presense of someone else using magic: searching runes. "Someone using search magic? It must be another unfrozen person!" she ran back into the small hallway behind the shelf, spotting an equally shocked Glenn, who had followed her in regard for her safety by using a magical rune to follow her footsteps. When he saw Sandra he realized, This must be the girl, and that looks like Polestars' kitchen behind her!...
[And AGAIN with me typing "!..." in a post. Lawl aren't I smart? :P]
****
[Past me does mention this at the bottom of the post, but Zac is with Bob and Nebiroth because I spoke to DrAndonuts on AIM back when I was going to make this post to see if he wanted one of his characters to accompany us. I think it was that he wasn't quite ready to post his response to Nebiroth's offer for anyone to follow him and I wanted to move forward, so he gave me the permission to take Zac along ahead of time.]
Nebiroth was soon off on his journey to find Sandra, with Bob sitting on one of this shoulders, and Zac floating behind him. The journey Nebiroth was embarking on, he had expected it would be a long way to find his once-nemesis, however, he had little idea he would have a easy time.
Nebiroth was now trudging up the road towards the Preschool and it's intersection, thinking The Pink one could be anywhere around here. She could've even found a way around me while I was fighting Smidgen. I have no doubt she knows I'm here. I don't know why I do, but I just do.
[Yes, legitimately, Nebiroth does know a bit about Sandra's inquisitive nature, so he'd come to expect she'd discover he was following her eventually]
By this time, he had reached the preschool, and actually took notice of the broken down door this time. He hadn't even paid it any attention because of him being hungry. That very thought made his stomach growl, literally. The face on his stomach growled in an annoying high pitch. Nebiroth whined silently. Now his other face was going to blab until it was shut up by more food. The face on his stomach had a life of it's own when he was hungry. He didn't know why, but the same thing had applied to Austarouto as well.
[Yeah, one of MY attempts for a little extra humor was making it that the face on Nebi's stomach had a mind of it's own when it was hungry. >_>]
"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!" the small face on his stomach in fact began to chirp. "Argh! Stupid stomach! Quiet!" Nebiroth growled at his lower face. "Hungry! Want FOOD!!!" the lower face whined in a high pitch, making Bob raise his eyebrows.
Now I've seen everything about him! Bob thought to himself. Zac merely tried to ignore it.
[Meh Bob, you've seen nothing about Nebi yet! XD]
Back in the Polestar house, some of the people had caught sound of Nebiroth's hunger problems, and were curious as to see what was going on outside, leaving Sandra to talk with Glenn in the middle of the sewer's hallway for a moment.
"Hey, are you alright?" Glenn asked her, panting just a little. "I'm fine right now, unless Nebiroth finds me. But yes, I'm okay. Who are you?" Sandra asked him.
[It's probably my fault I made Sandra sound more like she was worried about her own welfare then she really was. >.>]
"My name is Glenn. I followed you because I saw magic foot prints you and him left behind, and trailed you here. I was trying to find out about his wereabouts, but I felt your safety was more important at the moment."
Sandra was a little wide-eyed. "You SAW him?!"
"Yep. He was last helping his fight a creature called Smidgen. I edged out of the battle because Nebiroth had appeared, and I never knew anything about his origin, and I was kinda useless during the battle anyways, so I went off on my own, and then found out about you. I followed you all the way to the cliffs on Onett, the sewers, and to here. I didn't even know the sewers had secrets like this in them!" Glenn answered.
[Yeah, in a sense, I made Glenn follow Sandra around for nothing, a point slightly made on in Losarian's next post from Glenn himself. :\]
"Nebiroth... helped you?"
"SANDRA!!!" she suddenly heard her parents shriek, and then she got that very sick feeling... Nebiroth had found them. "CRAP!! He's found us!" she said, bolting to the source of the sound. "Wait, I think he's still on our..." she was out of Glenn's rage, "...side." He decided to keep watching her for now.
["Glenn's rage" lol. It was supposed to be "Glenn's range". This is yet another example of "Cecil is typing way too freaking fast" :P]
****
Outside, Nebiroth held his throbbing ears, half-deafened by the screams of James and Penelope in addition to his stomach's face's cries of hunger.
"Ow! No scream loud! Hurt Nebiroth's ears!" he then suddenly realized exact WHAT they had screamed, "You... know pink-haired brat?"
James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson only gaped at him, also taking notice of Zac behind him, and Bob still on his shoulder.
[Yeah, they had no clue what to make of seeing a monster like Nebiroth, yet with two human[or human-enough] friends accompanying him. They probably assumed Bob and Zac were slaves or minions of Nebiroth on first site. XD]
It was then Sandra, closely followed by Glenn stepping out of the door, and both slayer of Sardius, and former head minion of Sardius once again stared at each other face to face. At first it looked like a stare-down contest between them, but they were brought out of it by a shrill sound, "FOOD!!!!"
Nebiroth's high-pitched sounding second face again had cut into their stare-down. "Geeze, Nebi! Turn the volume down on that thing!" she growled at him, still thinking he wanted to rip her limb for limb, not know of his reform. Zac and Bob could only muse at the two accquaintaces and smirk a little...
[Oh the hillarity... :P]
[DrAndonuts gave me permission to bring Zac with him ahead of time. If anyone else wanted to follow Nebiroth, they still can, but I wanted to post at least once on this IF today, so it wouldn't drop down on the list. Sorry to those like GMOE, Speedy, Ffish, etc if I jumped the gun.]
[Oh yeah, and Frozen also had this problem where there were other IFs constantly being posted on and if it fell off the first page of the IF forum it would likely not get posted on for a long time. You'll see examples of this later I believe.]
[ June 14, 2002, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]
[No clue what I edited on this post, either. :P]
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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
After pressing a button on the wall, the kitchen shelf in the Polestar Preschool lowered down into the ground, and Sandra now saw back into the kitchern, still noting the frozen door that was open to the kitched from the front room.
[Yeah, cuz time's frozen and no one in the house could move before. :P]
She, James, Terrance, Lance and Johnson walked up and back into the kitchen, and then James gasped at the sight of his frozen wife Penelope, at the stove flipping pancakes when hit by the time field.
[I suppose seeing your wife frozen in time can make a man gasp. >.>]
"Penelope... hey... Sandra, could you... uh... well..."
Sandra was thinking the same thing now that she knew she could reverse the effects with Dispel, and promptly cast Dispel on her frozen mother. The spinning magic coins floated down onto Penelope and melted on her, and the Pink aura of Stop around her vanished. Penelope was suddenly free, but felt a wave of wear and tear, and fell backwards, luckily to be caught by James in time. Sandra noted that like her mother, Johnson had also fallen backwards when unfrozen. Perhaps the time field had some side effects to it she had overlooked.
[Yes, there is a pattern to unfreezing people via Sandra's dispel ability. They tend to get a bit dizzy and fall backwards, like they lost their balance briefly or something.]
"Er.... James... dear... why are you hold me this way?" Penelope asked her husband, who blushed and helped her back to her feet.
["why are you hold me" is supposed to be "why are you holding me". Yay for bad grammar again. :P]
"Dear, you were... frozen into place in time." James explain to her, "Look at your pancakes over the stove." He pointed to her pancakes she had been flipping. Penelope just looked at them with a shocked, yet surprisingly calm look in her eyes....
[Yeah, Penelope, I've always considered her to be the one with the most wits between the twins' parents. James freaks out over things a lot (Paula going missing in EB, her having to leave with Ness to save the world, etc), while Penelope is more understanding and supportive to it.]
"Um... I see." she stammered, "but... why was I?"
Sandra decided to make herself known again. She wondered if her mother would recognize her first sight, "I believe something has trapped the Earth in a time field, which is freezing a majority of the planet in place. Even inanimate objects seem affected." Another question struck Sandra in the head as Penelope looked at Sandra with an even more shocked expression. Penelope actually recognized her as she had been the one who held Sandra first in her life and had given her that name.
[Yeah, there's a minor story I wrote some time ago which gave some small insights of info to the twins' first 5 years in my own story universe. In said minor story, Penelope names Sandra and James names Paula. Paula is the daddy's girl, Sandra is the mommy's girl. >.>]
The purple eyes confirmed her thought. "Your... your okay!!" Penelope, unlike James, didn't hide her happiness, and hugged her 2nd daughter in a bear hug. Sandra didn't mind it much, however Johnson, Terrance and Lance raised their eyebrows and looked at their best friend. "James, you care to explain this to us?"
["Why u cheating on Penelope, James?!" D:]
James gulped, but Sandra defended him to an extent, "Hey, if you saw it from his view, you'd understand why he never mentioned of my existance!" The three friends looked at her with widening eyes, "And just to confirm it, your friend has a second daughter he didn't want to burden your minds about!"
[Looking back, I probably could've typed this out a little better than I did. :P]
"James, you have two daughters?!" Lance asked with a large dose of shock, "I thought only Paula was your only daughter."
"I'll explain it to you myself when this is over and passed!" Sandra replied in her father's place.
Sandra suddenly felt about hard thought whack her mentally.
[Dammit, Sandra's gonna give herself Brainshock at this rate! D:]
"Where is Paula?!" she chirped.
[Well FINALLY you actually ask about your only sister's whereabouts, even though you should've been able to find her near the beginning! >:P]
"Um..." James was about to respond, when Sandra heard a sound from in the sewers.
Who could that be? Nebiroth isn't big enough to walk through the sewers, or is he?
Suddenly, she felt the presense of someone else using magic: searching runes. "Someone using search magic? It must be another unfrozen person!" she ran back into the small hallway behind the shelf, spotting an equally shocked Glenn, who had followed her in regard for her safety by using a magical rune to follow her footsteps. When he saw Sandra he realized, This must be the girl, and that looks like Polestars' kitchen behind her!...
[And AGAIN with me typing "!..." in a post. Lawl aren't I smart? :P]
****
[Past me does mention this at the bottom of the post, but Zac is with Bob and Nebiroth because I spoke to DrAndonuts on AIM back when I was going to make this post to see if he wanted one of his characters to accompany us. I think it was that he wasn't quite ready to post his response to Nebiroth's offer for anyone to follow him and I wanted to move forward, so he gave me the permission to take Zac along ahead of time.]
Nebiroth was soon off on his journey to find Sandra, with Bob sitting on one of this shoulders, and Zac floating behind him. The journey Nebiroth was embarking on, he had expected it would be a long way to find his once-nemesis, however, he had little idea he would have a easy time.
Nebiroth was now trudging up the road towards the Preschool and it's intersection, thinking The Pink one could be anywhere around here. She could've even found a way around me while I was fighting Smidgen. I have no doubt she knows I'm here. I don't know why I do, but I just do.
[Yes, legitimately, Nebiroth does know a bit about Sandra's inquisitive nature, so he'd come to expect she'd discover he was following her eventually]
By this time, he had reached the preschool, and actually took notice of the broken down door this time. He hadn't even paid it any attention because of him being hungry. That very thought made his stomach growl, literally. The face on his stomach growled in an annoying high pitch. Nebiroth whined silently. Now his other face was going to blab until it was shut up by more food. The face on his stomach had a life of it's own when he was hungry. He didn't know why, but the same thing had applied to Austarouto as well.
[Yeah, one of MY attempts for a little extra humor was making it that the face on Nebi's stomach had a mind of it's own when it was hungry. >_>]
"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!" the small face on his stomach in fact began to chirp. "Argh! Stupid stomach! Quiet!" Nebiroth growled at his lower face. "Hungry! Want FOOD!!!" the lower face whined in a high pitch, making Bob raise his eyebrows.
Now I've seen everything about him! Bob thought to himself. Zac merely tried to ignore it.
[Meh Bob, you've seen nothing about Nebi yet! XD]
Back in the Polestar house, some of the people had caught sound of Nebiroth's hunger problems, and were curious as to see what was going on outside, leaving Sandra to talk with Glenn in the middle of the sewer's hallway for a moment.
"Hey, are you alright?" Glenn asked her, panting just a little. "I'm fine right now, unless Nebiroth finds me. But yes, I'm okay. Who are you?" Sandra asked him.
[It's probably my fault I made Sandra sound more like she was worried about her own welfare then she really was. >.>]
"My name is Glenn. I followed you because I saw magic foot prints you and him left behind, and trailed you here. I was trying to find out about his wereabouts, but I felt your safety was more important at the moment."
Sandra was a little wide-eyed. "You SAW him?!"
"Yep. He was last helping his fight a creature called Smidgen. I edged out of the battle because Nebiroth had appeared, and I never knew anything about his origin, and I was kinda useless during the battle anyways, so I went off on my own, and then found out about you. I followed you all the way to the cliffs on Onett, the sewers, and to here. I didn't even know the sewers had secrets like this in them!" Glenn answered.
[Yeah, in a sense, I made Glenn follow Sandra around for nothing, a point slightly made on in Losarian's next post from Glenn himself. :\]
"Nebiroth... helped you?"
"SANDRA!!!" she suddenly heard her parents shriek, and then she got that very sick feeling... Nebiroth had found them. "CRAP!! He's found us!" she said, bolting to the source of the sound. "Wait, I think he's still on our..." she was out of Glenn's rage, "...side." He decided to keep watching her for now.
["Glenn's rage" lol. It was supposed to be "Glenn's range". This is yet another example of "Cecil is typing way too freaking fast" :P]
****
Outside, Nebiroth held his throbbing ears, half-deafened by the screams of James and Penelope in addition to his stomach's face's cries of hunger.
"Ow! No scream loud! Hurt Nebiroth's ears!" he then suddenly realized exact WHAT they had screamed, "You... know pink-haired brat?"
James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson only gaped at him, also taking notice of Zac behind him, and Bob still on his shoulder.
[Yeah, they had no clue what to make of seeing a monster like Nebiroth, yet with two human[or human-enough] friends accompanying him. They probably assumed Bob and Zac were slaves or minions of Nebiroth on first site. XD]
It was then Sandra, closely followed by Glenn stepping out of the door, and both slayer of Sardius, and former head minion of Sardius once again stared at each other face to face. At first it looked like a stare-down contest between them, but they were brought out of it by a shrill sound, "FOOD!!!!"
Nebiroth's high-pitched sounding second face again had cut into their stare-down. "Geeze, Nebi! Turn the volume down on that thing!" she growled at him, still thinking he wanted to rip her limb for limb, not know of his reform. Zac and Bob could only muse at the two accquaintaces and smirk a little...
[Oh the hillarity... :P]
[DrAndonuts gave me permission to bring Zac with him ahead of time. If anyone else wanted to follow Nebiroth, they still can, but I wanted to post at least once on this IF today, so it wouldn't drop down on the list. Sorry to those like GMOE, Speedy, Ffish, etc if I jumped the gun.]
[Oh yeah, and Frozen also had this problem where there were other IFs constantly being posted on and if it fell off the first page of the IF forum it would likely not get posted on for a long time. You'll see examples of this later I believe.]
[ June 14, 2002, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]
[No clue what I edited on this post, either. :P]
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Post #51 [PikaBot]
[FRESH MEAT! :D
Yes, PikaBot became another active poster on Frozen for a good while, and a lot more active than DrBoris or Ffish were. :P]
Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
The captain on the time freeze ship was not in a good mood. It had started when the scientists had told him that there were people moving on the planet. It had grown worse throughout the events of the day, and it was now peaking. The scientist really did not want to report this news to him. But he sighed and walked up to him.
"Captain...I have bad news. We just got a report from the surface team. Smidgen was defeated..." His voice faltered under the captains glare. Before the captain could say anything though, the tactical officer interrupted him:
[Random Scientist #173 you got lucky there. Cappy was probably about to have you executed too. :P]
"Sir! We've getting a hyperspace signal! Someone just jumped in system!"
The captain groaned as he went over to the Tac. console. Could this day get any worse?
[Yes, Cappy-boy. :D Indeed it can, and it WILL. >:D]
Adure watched as the lines of hyperspace receded. It had been a long time since he had been back to earth. For the past several years he'd been of with his crew on the space vessel Arconas on a patrol against smugglers. It had been a long time since he had seen Rosaline... I wonder if she still loves me... He thought, but he was cut off.
[Adure is PikaBot's central AC. And I assume that if Frozen had gone further than it did then Rosaline would've eventually popped up as his second AC, but alas we did not get that far. :(]
"Sir! We've got a temporal anomaly surrounding the planet. The entire planet seems to be frozen in time! The source of this disturbance seems to be coming from that ship there." Said Hir'Chin, his scan officer.
[At least PikaBot gave his crewmen names, unlike Mr. Uptight Time-Ship Captain. :P]
"Get me a line to that ship." He said as he examined the ship. It seemed fairly mauled. An image appeared on screen. It was a man in a captains uniform.
"I am the captain of the science vessel Nomad. I am proceeding with a weapons test in this system. Do not intefere."
[Important Note time: Nomad will be the main time-ship's name from here on out. PikaBot is credited with the name for it. He's also credited for another important developement later on in the IF, or maybe more than one other. >_>]
Adure called the captain a less than polite name."Thats my homeworld you just froze!" He shouted. Undo it now!"
"Not you too! We can't, the rebels..."
[Again with the Rebels... D:<]
"I don't care about your problems!" Shouted Adure. "Either you unfreeze that planet, or we blow you to space dust!" The captain responded by cutting off the link and powering up guns.
[Cappy-boy hates being threatened Adure. He shoots his own crew for giving him bad news. You don't mess with a short-fuse like that, man! :O]
"All right people, we've got a planet to save!" He shouted. "Shields up, we're going in hot!" He shouted and then the ship was moving, jetting towards the other vessel with amazing speed.
[Yeah, I guess in a sense Adure sorta replaces Boris in terms of attacking the Nomad from a galactic angle for now.]
Why is it I can never get a normal vacation? Adure wondered right before his crew fired the first shots.
[Lawl. Because you're 'fortunate' enough to be an AC. ACs always attract trouble, action, adventure, and emo kids. It's a general rule of ACs man. XD]
[ August 22, 2002, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: PikaBot ]
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Yes, PikaBot became another active poster on Frozen for a good while, and a lot more active than DrBoris or Ffish were. :P]
Posted by PikaBot (Member # 270) on :
The captain on the time freeze ship was not in a good mood. It had started when the scientists had told him that there were people moving on the planet. It had grown worse throughout the events of the day, and it was now peaking. The scientist really did not want to report this news to him. But he sighed and walked up to him.
"Captain...I have bad news. We just got a report from the surface team. Smidgen was defeated..." His voice faltered under the captains glare. Before the captain could say anything though, the tactical officer interrupted him:
[Random Scientist #173 you got lucky there. Cappy was probably about to have you executed too. :P]
"Sir! We've getting a hyperspace signal! Someone just jumped in system!"
The captain groaned as he went over to the Tac. console. Could this day get any worse?
[Yes, Cappy-boy. :D Indeed it can, and it WILL. >:D]
Adure watched as the lines of hyperspace receded. It had been a long time since he had been back to earth. For the past several years he'd been of with his crew on the space vessel Arconas on a patrol against smugglers. It had been a long time since he had seen Rosaline... I wonder if she still loves me... He thought, but he was cut off.
[Adure is PikaBot's central AC. And I assume that if Frozen had gone further than it did then Rosaline would've eventually popped up as his second AC, but alas we did not get that far. :(]
"Sir! We've got a temporal anomaly surrounding the planet. The entire planet seems to be frozen in time! The source of this disturbance seems to be coming from that ship there." Said Hir'Chin, his scan officer.
[At least PikaBot gave his crewmen names, unlike Mr. Uptight Time-Ship Captain. :P]
"Get me a line to that ship." He said as he examined the ship. It seemed fairly mauled. An image appeared on screen. It was a man in a captains uniform.
"I am the captain of the science vessel Nomad. I am proceeding with a weapons test in this system. Do not intefere."
[Important Note time: Nomad will be the main time-ship's name from here on out. PikaBot is credited with the name for it. He's also credited for another important developement later on in the IF, or maybe more than one other. >_>]
Adure called the captain a less than polite name."Thats my homeworld you just froze!" He shouted. Undo it now!"
"Not you too! We can't, the rebels..."
[Again with the Rebels... D:<]
"I don't care about your problems!" Shouted Adure. "Either you unfreeze that planet, or we blow you to space dust!" The captain responded by cutting off the link and powering up guns.
[Cappy-boy hates being threatened Adure. He shoots his own crew for giving him bad news. You don't mess with a short-fuse like that, man! :O]
"All right people, we've got a planet to save!" He shouted. "Shields up, we're going in hot!" He shouted and then the ship was moving, jetting towards the other vessel with amazing speed.
[Yeah, I guess in a sense Adure sorta replaces Boris in terms of attacking the Nomad from a galactic angle for now.]
Why is it I can never get a normal vacation? Adure wondered right before his crew fired the first shots.
[Lawl. Because you're 'fortunate' enough to be an AC. ACs always attract trouble, action, adventure, and emo kids. It's a general rule of ACs man. XD]
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Post #50 [Zero X. Diamond]
Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
By now, Bob had illustrated deaths for all his stick figures.
[XD]
He stood up and continued trying to sort out this feeling. It was kind of like he was empty inside, yet he still felt all his innards in their places. Then he thought of what Nebiroth said.
"Hey, Nebiroth, I'll go with you. Maybe this 'pink-haired brat' can help me figure out what this means."
[Eh? What would Sandra be able to do to help Bob? O_o]
With that, Bob crawled up onto Nebiroth's shoulder and struck a pose. He truly was a mental case.
[And Nebi probably thought the same thing in his mind while mentally laughing his big ass off. XD]
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By now, Bob had illustrated deaths for all his stick figures.
[XD]
He stood up and continued trying to sort out this feeling. It was kind of like he was empty inside, yet he still felt all his innards in their places. Then he thought of what Nebiroth said.
"Hey, Nebiroth, I'll go with you. Maybe this 'pink-haired brat' can help me figure out what this means."
[Eh? What would Sandra be able to do to help Bob? O_o]
With that, Bob crawled up onto Nebiroth's shoulder and struck a pose. He truly was a mental case.
[And Nebi probably thought the same thing in his mind while mentally laughing his big ass off. XD]
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Post #49 [Cecil]
[lol hi, I'm posting AGAIN. Geez did I have a drive to post in this IF in the earliest days of it. XD]
Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Nebiroth panted from his use of energy. He had to really charge that last Body Laser up for Smidgen's demise. He silently thanked Bob for being the one to distract him. Perhaps he truly underestimated the humans in general, and their imbitions.
[Never EVER underestimate humans. That goes to any non-human species. You'll get your asses kicked if you do. :P]
Nebiroth had in his past been told by his master Sardius that humans were disgusting little creatures with too much arrogance and no remorse for even their own kind. Of course, until Sandra arrived in the Phantom Zone, Nebiroth had never actually seen a human, so he had to believe Sardius back then.
[Yeah, people in the Phantom Zone tried to pass their hatred onto their children just like human on Earth did. :P]
It was also then he lost some of his motivation to even fight Sandra. He didn't care of avenging Sardius, and only of recovering the cape of his slain friend. However he also thought back to the tri-elemental serpent Hydra and the ice golem Freon, two other former minions of Sardius, both turned to the light side upon Sandra's freeing of their souls. Nebiroth recalled of her ability to summon them specfically during battle.
[Sandra-skill-note: Sandra canz summonz the guyz that makez the other guyz falls down. :P]
He remembered Austorouto's death wasn't truly at Sandra's own hands, but that of a Delta-elemental attack of the summoned spirit of Hydra. It was then he understood why they turned to the light: the same reason he was now, because they also were under the influence of Sardius, merely his SLAVES.
[All evil overlords gain slaves from subjegation or raising them from infancy. It's a known fact on TVTropes. :P]
Nebiroth growled out loud primatively without even caring at the thought: "Master lie to Nebiroth about humans!!" and stomped the ground in anger at his former, now dead master, catching some uneasy eyes from Bob, Breet, Zac, GMOE, and Kyle.
[Yeah, because they can't tell what your inner angsting's all about, Nebi. :P
Oh and Super-Lawls for accidentally calling Brett "Breet". XD]
Nebiroth!! Stop! I know you wish to avenge me! But Sandra's intentions were right. She fought us to protect the world that in returned helped her in settling into her respective role when she was barely out of a toddler state! echoed a voice in his head, not his own.
[Bolded italized text was my way of using telepathy between two characters, while normal italized text is generally just one's thoughts.]
Aust... Austarouto?! Nebiroth was shocked at the sound of his friend's voice from the great beyond.
Yes... it is me. I am sorry I wasn't able to tell you before Sandra fought you, but my soul was already out of the Phantom Zone when she reached you. I couldn't speak to you then. Only now, that you are on Earth, as your new human friends call this world, was I able to reach you. I know you are saddened by my death, but we did work for the wrong side. Cockatrice, Barnacla, Mongoliow, Hydra, Freon, I, and even you were deceived by Sardius. He deserved everything he got from that girl. Do you understand?"
[LOL at the " at the end. I have no clue why I didn't catch and remove this. >.>]
Nebiroth could only nod mentally in agreement.
[Interesting choice of words, past-me.]
Good. The Phantom Zone's time has come and also passed. You are the sole survivor of the realm, and it is up to you to live on in our legacy, the legacy of the TRUE beings of the Phantom Zone, before the coming of Sardius.
[Note the following line is Nebiroth speaking back now]
You're right, old friend. I still wish to face the Pink-Haired monster, but now only for the purpose of curiosity. I still wish to know if she has changed.
[Now Austrouto speaks back...]
Nebiroth... be warned... the people who have frozen Earth in time. They are aliens from the depths of space, in that "star" you shot at earlier. They have most likely found out about you and are wondering what and who you are. Please, be careful, good luck... and take care of yourself. If you should survive this, we'll talk later. and the voice of Austorouto, friend of Nebiroth, had vanished back to the land of wind and ghosts.
[Okay, long walls of mental text are done folks. No more running in terror now, please. :P]
Nebiroth now felt he had to find Sandra, not only so he could challenge her to a match later, but for some odd reason, he felt the secret knack, to watch her... watch the savior of the souls of the old Phantom Zone, slayer of Sardius, and heroine of Santranus.
[Okay, so this is a time for another important note: Nebiroth was originally added to the IF as a Neutral-Evil type character who I had not fully decided on a path for. Losarian's decision to have Kyle be trusting to Nebi is part of the reason his original destiny I had for him altered. Originally Nebiroth wasn't going to be a full-bore hero, but that changed because of Smidgen's presense and the fight. This was the other reason I realized why I didn't send Sandra to toll the bell of Smidgen's doom herself. :P
In other words Baron von Awesome, I actually let someone else's suggestions change the major course of one of MY ACs for once. Instead of the other way around like in the Tenguian era. >.>]
However, he also couldn't help leaving Zac, Brett, Bob, GMOE, Kyle and... then he noticed. The one named Glenn had edged away during his clash with Smidgen earlier. He had some feeling he wasn't the only one looking for Sandra now, as the boy had going into the Two-Three tunnel, the same way he came into Threed in the first place.
[Nothing gets past good ol' Nebiroth. XD]
Nebiroth decided to speak again, but to assure the other he hadn't going crazy.
[Dammit, past-me! You did it again with the "other" mispelling. >:P]
"Thank you. Many friends unfrozen here. However, Nebiroth must find Pink-Haired Brat still." he decided in front of them he was still going to refer to Sandra by that name. He didn't want them to totally think he went soft on her or them.
[Cuz Nebiroth has stolen Pictos' place as the badass of the IF. :P]
"May also be in danger. If you want follow Nebiroth, your choice. Nebiroth not encourage you. Nebiroth not discourage you either." he said, and looked to the Two-Three tunnel, wondering the answer from his friends.
[I.E. Me giving people an option instead of choosing for them, a la my Tenguian personas. <.<]
Meanwhile, a single and VERY tiny piece of the late Smidgen uttered a final desperate death plea to his creator through telepathy.
Master. Been defeated... Avenge... av..enge... and then the final drop of Smidgen vanished into the dusts of time...
[Oh yeah, I forgot Smidgen was ALMOST dead. However he still needed most of his body to regenerate, and he still dies here anyways.]
****
In the sewers, Sandra, James, Johnson, and Terrance and Lance[the two friends of James from the room he was trapped in] were trudging through the Onett sewer system. "Hey, how is this going to get us to your home?" Sandra asked her father, who still didn't know who she was yet.
"Well, the Onett Sewers connect to the sewers under Twoson, and those are connected to the Threed sewers, and so on." James answered.
Why does she seem familar to me. It's as if I've seen her before!
James was still unable to put his finger on the dillema at hand, and the problems with the stasis field were his primary concern at the moment. "But... how will we get into your house without being spotted?" she asked more. "Well, when we get there.. I'll show you." he put a nitch of pause in his voice as to make Sandra eagar to find out. "Um, okay." Sandra said with a bit of wonder.
Dad, when are you going to realize it's me, Sandra?! she thought to herself.
[When you stop angsting about it, Sandra! :P]
She was hoping he hadn't totally forgotten about her, although she knew to think of her fate 10 years ago was also hard on him, her mother and Paula.
Soon afterwhich, they came to a wall in which the bricks seemed slightly out of place in alignment. Sandra raised an eyebrow at this. James walked up and pushed on the wall, but then remembered that the time freeze most likely held it in a strong grip, he turned to ask her for help due to her strength, but then he remember a small detail, "Uh, excuse me." he said to her, "I never did catch your name."
[Oh James you poor sap, you're asking for it, aren't you? XD]
Sandra for some reason was grinning mentally. She thought of the shock on his face when she told him her name.
"Name's Sandra, my friend. What is your name anyways, now that you remind me?" James's heart almost stopped at the name of the girl in front of her.
[Oh noes, don't haz a heart attak now! :o]
She did in fact look like a teenager of 15 years, and she DID sport that even-so-familar look. It then whacked him in the head like a slab of concrete. This young girl was in fact Sandra Polestar, his 10-year lost 2nd daughter.
[Wow James, are you dense. :P]
He almost felt like breaking down in happy tears there, but Terrence, Lance and Johnson had no clue that Sandra even existed. No one outside of Twoson the very year of her disappearance knew she even existed. Paula had never told her friends, Ness, Jeff, Poo, or even the Mr. Saturn tribes of her existance. It was because she and her family didn't wish for pity and sympathy from others, and wanted to mourn Sandra's disappearence in peace.
[Yeah, this is the reason by IF knowledge that no one else really knows about Sandra, such as Ness, Jeff, Poo, or the other people who know the Polestar family. They wanted to mourn her disappearance in peace without the pity of others. A bit sad, but... :\]
Sandra realized her father had gotten the clue by his reaction, even if his friends hadn't noticed. She had read his mind to find his reaction, and caught the part about no one outside Twoson knowing about her or her disappearence, and understood his knack to keep his shock a secret, but it would have to public be annouced soon enough.
[Need to make another note. Sandra shares similar telepathic abilties to Paula, but as far as actual PSI/PK is concerned, she has next to NOTHING in that respect. Sandra is the magic-sister, Paula would be the PSI-sister. :P]
"Anyways," she piped up again, asking her dad, "You needed my help again?" "Ye.. yeah... thanks." James half studdered, as his 2nd daughter, one of his two prides of joy had began pushing against the wall, soon unlatching it from it's frozen position, but not breaking it down. It was a wall that rotated on a middle pivot, revealing a secret hallway and some steps leading up.
[Ancient Chinese Secret? :o]
There was something familar looking at the top of the steps. Then she realized it. The sewers! She remembered it perfectly now. Twoson in the old old days had been stage for some mobsters and gangsters. They had used secret passageways in the sewers to elude the cops, and the Polestar house had unknowningly until a year before Sandra's disappearance, had a passage of it's own hidden behind a large shelf in the kitchen that could lower to reveal the stairway and the rotating wall in the sewers.
[Yeah, I'll explain the whole premise I came up with for the 'sewers' some time later. Let's just say I used the same concept in an older IF that I actually STARTED during the late Tenguian era.]
Ah, yes. Memories Sandra thought to herself, as they approached the back of the kitchen shelf...
[So yeah... >.>]
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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Nebiroth panted from his use of energy. He had to really charge that last Body Laser up for Smidgen's demise. He silently thanked Bob for being the one to distract him. Perhaps he truly underestimated the humans in general, and their imbitions.
[Never EVER underestimate humans. That goes to any non-human species. You'll get your asses kicked if you do. :P]
Nebiroth had in his past been told by his master Sardius that humans were disgusting little creatures with too much arrogance and no remorse for even their own kind. Of course, until Sandra arrived in the Phantom Zone, Nebiroth had never actually seen a human, so he had to believe Sardius back then.
[Yeah, people in the Phantom Zone tried to pass their hatred onto their children just like human on Earth did. :P]
It was also then he lost some of his motivation to even fight Sandra. He didn't care of avenging Sardius, and only of recovering the cape of his slain friend. However he also thought back to the tri-elemental serpent Hydra and the ice golem Freon, two other former minions of Sardius, both turned to the light side upon Sandra's freeing of their souls. Nebiroth recalled of her ability to summon them specfically during battle.
[Sandra-skill-note: Sandra canz summonz the guyz that makez the other guyz falls down. :P]
He remembered Austorouto's death wasn't truly at Sandra's own hands, but that of a Delta-elemental attack of the summoned spirit of Hydra. It was then he understood why they turned to the light: the same reason he was now, because they also were under the influence of Sardius, merely his SLAVES.
[All evil overlords gain slaves from subjegation or raising them from infancy. It's a known fact on TVTropes. :P]
Nebiroth growled out loud primatively without even caring at the thought: "Master lie to Nebiroth about humans!!" and stomped the ground in anger at his former, now dead master, catching some uneasy eyes from Bob, Breet, Zac, GMOE, and Kyle.
[Yeah, because they can't tell what your inner angsting's all about, Nebi. :P
Oh and Super-Lawls for accidentally calling Brett "Breet". XD]
Nebiroth!! Stop! I know you wish to avenge me! But Sandra's intentions were right. She fought us to protect the world that in returned helped her in settling into her respective role when she was barely out of a toddler state! echoed a voice in his head, not his own.
[Bolded italized text was my way of using telepathy between two characters, while normal italized text is generally just one's thoughts.]
Aust... Austarouto?! Nebiroth was shocked at the sound of his friend's voice from the great beyond.
Yes... it is me. I am sorry I wasn't able to tell you before Sandra fought you, but my soul was already out of the Phantom Zone when she reached you. I couldn't speak to you then. Only now, that you are on Earth, as your new human friends call this world, was I able to reach you. I know you are saddened by my death, but we did work for the wrong side. Cockatrice, Barnacla, Mongoliow, Hydra, Freon, I, and even you were deceived by Sardius. He deserved everything he got from that girl. Do you understand?"
[LOL at the " at the end. I have no clue why I didn't catch and remove this. >.>]
Nebiroth could only nod mentally in agreement.
[Interesting choice of words, past-me.]
Good. The Phantom Zone's time has come and also passed. You are the sole survivor of the realm, and it is up to you to live on in our legacy, the legacy of the TRUE beings of the Phantom Zone, before the coming of Sardius.
[Note the following line is Nebiroth speaking back now]
You're right, old friend. I still wish to face the Pink-Haired monster, but now only for the purpose of curiosity. I still wish to know if she has changed.
[Now Austrouto speaks back...]
Nebiroth... be warned... the people who have frozen Earth in time. They are aliens from the depths of space, in that "star" you shot at earlier. They have most likely found out about you and are wondering what and who you are. Please, be careful, good luck... and take care of yourself. If you should survive this, we'll talk later. and the voice of Austorouto, friend of Nebiroth, had vanished back to the land of wind and ghosts.
[Okay, long walls of mental text are done folks. No more running in terror now, please. :P]
Nebiroth now felt he had to find Sandra, not only so he could challenge her to a match later, but for some odd reason, he felt the secret knack, to watch her... watch the savior of the souls of the old Phantom Zone, slayer of Sardius, and heroine of Santranus.
[Okay, so this is a time for another important note: Nebiroth was originally added to the IF as a Neutral-Evil type character who I had not fully decided on a path for. Losarian's decision to have Kyle be trusting to Nebi is part of the reason his original destiny I had for him altered. Originally Nebiroth wasn't going to be a full-bore hero, but that changed because of Smidgen's presense and the fight. This was the other reason I realized why I didn't send Sandra to toll the bell of Smidgen's doom herself. :P
In other words Baron von Awesome, I actually let someone else's suggestions change the major course of one of MY ACs for once. Instead of the other way around like in the Tenguian era. >.>]
However, he also couldn't help leaving Zac, Brett, Bob, GMOE, Kyle and... then he noticed. The one named Glenn had edged away during his clash with Smidgen earlier. He had some feeling he wasn't the only one looking for Sandra now, as the boy had going into the Two-Three tunnel, the same way he came into Threed in the first place.
[Nothing gets past good ol' Nebiroth. XD]
Nebiroth decided to speak again, but to assure the other he hadn't going crazy.
[Dammit, past-me! You did it again with the "other" mispelling. >:P]
"Thank you. Many friends unfrozen here. However, Nebiroth must find Pink-Haired Brat still." he decided in front of them he was still going to refer to Sandra by that name. He didn't want them to totally think he went soft on her or them.
[Cuz Nebiroth has stolen Pictos' place as the badass of the IF. :P]
"May also be in danger. If you want follow Nebiroth, your choice. Nebiroth not encourage you. Nebiroth not discourage you either." he said, and looked to the Two-Three tunnel, wondering the answer from his friends.
[I.E. Me giving people an option instead of choosing for them, a la my Tenguian personas. <.<]
Meanwhile, a single and VERY tiny piece of the late Smidgen uttered a final desperate death plea to his creator through telepathy.
Master. Been defeated... Avenge... av..enge... and then the final drop of Smidgen vanished into the dusts of time...
[Oh yeah, I forgot Smidgen was ALMOST dead. However he still needed most of his body to regenerate, and he still dies here anyways.]
****
In the sewers, Sandra, James, Johnson, and Terrance and Lance[the two friends of James from the room he was trapped in] were trudging through the Onett sewer system. "Hey, how is this going to get us to your home?" Sandra asked her father, who still didn't know who she was yet.
"Well, the Onett Sewers connect to the sewers under Twoson, and those are connected to the Threed sewers, and so on." James answered.
Why does she seem familar to me. It's as if I've seen her before!
James was still unable to put his finger on the dillema at hand, and the problems with the stasis field were his primary concern at the moment. "But... how will we get into your house without being spotted?" she asked more. "Well, when we get there.. I'll show you." he put a nitch of pause in his voice as to make Sandra eagar to find out. "Um, okay." Sandra said with a bit of wonder.
Dad, when are you going to realize it's me, Sandra?! she thought to herself.
[When you stop angsting about it, Sandra! :P]
She was hoping he hadn't totally forgotten about her, although she knew to think of her fate 10 years ago was also hard on him, her mother and Paula.
Soon afterwhich, they came to a wall in which the bricks seemed slightly out of place in alignment. Sandra raised an eyebrow at this. James walked up and pushed on the wall, but then remembered that the time freeze most likely held it in a strong grip, he turned to ask her for help due to her strength, but then he remember a small detail, "Uh, excuse me." he said to her, "I never did catch your name."
[Oh James you poor sap, you're asking for it, aren't you? XD]
Sandra for some reason was grinning mentally. She thought of the shock on his face when she told him her name.
"Name's Sandra, my friend. What is your name anyways, now that you remind me?" James's heart almost stopped at the name of the girl in front of her.
[Oh noes, don't haz a heart attak now! :o]
She did in fact look like a teenager of 15 years, and she DID sport that even-so-familar look. It then whacked him in the head like a slab of concrete. This young girl was in fact Sandra Polestar, his 10-year lost 2nd daughter.
[Wow James, are you dense. :P]
He almost felt like breaking down in happy tears there, but Terrence, Lance and Johnson had no clue that Sandra even existed. No one outside of Twoson the very year of her disappearance knew she even existed. Paula had never told her friends, Ness, Jeff, Poo, or even the Mr. Saturn tribes of her existance. It was because she and her family didn't wish for pity and sympathy from others, and wanted to mourn Sandra's disappearence in peace.
[Yeah, this is the reason by IF knowledge that no one else really knows about Sandra, such as Ness, Jeff, Poo, or the other people who know the Polestar family. They wanted to mourn her disappearance in peace without the pity of others. A bit sad, but... :\]
Sandra realized her father had gotten the clue by his reaction, even if his friends hadn't noticed. She had read his mind to find his reaction, and caught the part about no one outside Twoson knowing about her or her disappearence, and understood his knack to keep his shock a secret, but it would have to public be annouced soon enough.
[Need to make another note. Sandra shares similar telepathic abilties to Paula, but as far as actual PSI/PK is concerned, she has next to NOTHING in that respect. Sandra is the magic-sister, Paula would be the PSI-sister. :P]
"Anyways," she piped up again, asking her dad, "You needed my help again?" "Ye.. yeah... thanks." James half studdered, as his 2nd daughter, one of his two prides of joy had began pushing against the wall, soon unlatching it from it's frozen position, but not breaking it down. It was a wall that rotated on a middle pivot, revealing a secret hallway and some steps leading up.
[Ancient Chinese Secret? :o]
There was something familar looking at the top of the steps. Then she realized it. The sewers! She remembered it perfectly now. Twoson in the old old days had been stage for some mobsters and gangsters. They had used secret passageways in the sewers to elude the cops, and the Polestar house had unknowningly until a year before Sandra's disappearance, had a passage of it's own hidden behind a large shelf in the kitchen that could lower to reveal the stairway and the rotating wall in the sewers.
[Yeah, I'll explain the whole premise I came up with for the 'sewers' some time later. Let's just say I used the same concept in an older IF that I actually STARTED during the late Tenguian era.]
Ah, yes. Memories Sandra thought to herself, as they approached the back of the kitchen shelf...
[So yeah... >.>]
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Post #48 [Zero X. Diamond]
Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
Bob was hearing a voice in his head. Not too strange, considering him, but this was different. It wasn't one he'd heard before. But the one thing that stood out most was the word "distract."
[You mean "kill" doesn't stand out as much? :P]
"Hey everyone, I can take care of this one myself!" said Bob with a wink. (Or was that just a twitch?)
[Probably a twitch and a wink, knowing Bob. XD]
Yes, that he could. He could distract the entire Eagleland Military for at least an hour. He knew that one from experience. Bob began to walk over to the shivering pieces of Smidgen flesh. He simply sat there playing with a piece of string while the creature rebuilt itself.
[Wow, Bob's faced off with Eagleland's military?! O.O]
By the time the creature was done, he'd already made a cute little noose out of it. And that's when he started the diversion.
"Hey there tall, dark and tubby! You want a piece of this? Grade A meat, kiddo!"
[XD]
Smidgen's memory wasn't so good, and it once again attempted to eat Bob.
GULP!!! ..... SPIT!
"Yucky! You no have powers! Me not like powerless slob!"
[Smidgen old buddy, you're much more a slob than Bob. Hey that rhymed! :D]
"Aw, shut up. You're so ugly that when you were born, the doctor committed suicide!"
"You no smart. You make Smidgen MAD!"
["You make Buu mad! Buu make you DEAD!!" :P]
Smidgen lunged for Bob, attempting to body slam him. He completely missed, landing against a brick wall. The texture of the wall pushed into his skin.
[ROFFLES]
"What's the matter? Can the fat, ugly mutant not catch the scrawny, weak, powerless little human?"
Smidgen now gave chase, Bob leading him around in circles, giggling like a school girl. He hadn't had this much fun since he fell in the alligator pit at the zoo!
[Bob's not a rational kid, that's for sure. Alligators are mean customers!]
Suddenly, a voice echoed through his head.
Foolish one! it blared. Get out of the way, make haste! My attack is ready!
He took this opportunity to push a stick through Smidgen's head.
[I don't see why Bob needed to do this, but oh well. :P]
"Bye now, you stupid ball of lard!"
He dove aside, seconds before a humongous, Nebiroth shaped beam pierced the air. It hit Smidgen and blasted the flesh clean off of its host. The attack pulverised Smidgen into nothingness. Finally there would be peace again.
[Yes, Smidgen is truly DEAD now. The concept of Nebiroth using the Body Laser is to take advantage of his sheer size to engulf Smidgen with a continuous, powerful beam of non-elemental energy. I saw it that Smidgen had to be destroyed in a similar way to how Kid Buu had to be completely vaporized in DBZ, hence the idea to use the Body Laser. This is one case size DID matter in battle. :D]
"So... that's it, I guess." said Brett.
"Yeah, all we can do now is wait for something else to happen." added Zac.
[Like what, the ship sending ChaosDu... I mean something else down to fight you? :o]
Bob was currently sitting upon a large rock, drawing stick pictures in the dirt with a stick. He just couldn't place the feeling he was experiencing. He'd never felt it before. It was an odd feeling, it made him long for something better in his life. But he just couldn't put his finger on it.
[More references to it. Don't worry, you'll find out what it is soon enough. :P]
[AC/Post Ratio: 17:48. Major Enemies Introduced: 3. Major Enemies Killed: 2)
Bob was hearing a voice in his head. Not too strange, considering him, but this was different. It wasn't one he'd heard before. But the one thing that stood out most was the word "distract."
[You mean "kill" doesn't stand out as much? :P]
"Hey everyone, I can take care of this one myself!" said Bob with a wink. (Or was that just a twitch?)
[Probably a twitch and a wink, knowing Bob. XD]
Yes, that he could. He could distract the entire Eagleland Military for at least an hour. He knew that one from experience. Bob began to walk over to the shivering pieces of Smidgen flesh. He simply sat there playing with a piece of string while the creature rebuilt itself.
[Wow, Bob's faced off with Eagleland's military?! O.O]
By the time the creature was done, he'd already made a cute little noose out of it. And that's when he started the diversion.
"Hey there tall, dark and tubby! You want a piece of this? Grade A meat, kiddo!"
[XD]
Smidgen's memory wasn't so good, and it once again attempted to eat Bob.
GULP!!! ..... SPIT!
"Yucky! You no have powers! Me not like powerless slob!"
[Smidgen old buddy, you're much more a slob than Bob. Hey that rhymed! :D]
"Aw, shut up. You're so ugly that when you were born, the doctor committed suicide!"
"You no smart. You make Smidgen MAD!"
["You make Buu mad! Buu make you DEAD!!" :P]
Smidgen lunged for Bob, attempting to body slam him. He completely missed, landing against a brick wall. The texture of the wall pushed into his skin.
[ROFFLES]
"What's the matter? Can the fat, ugly mutant not catch the scrawny, weak, powerless little human?"
Smidgen now gave chase, Bob leading him around in circles, giggling like a school girl. He hadn't had this much fun since he fell in the alligator pit at the zoo!
[Bob's not a rational kid, that's for sure. Alligators are mean customers!]
Suddenly, a voice echoed through his head.
Foolish one! it blared. Get out of the way, make haste! My attack is ready!
He took this opportunity to push a stick through Smidgen's head.
[I don't see why Bob needed to do this, but oh well. :P]
"Bye now, you stupid ball of lard!"
He dove aside, seconds before a humongous, Nebiroth shaped beam pierced the air. It hit Smidgen and blasted the flesh clean off of its host. The attack pulverised Smidgen into nothingness. Finally there would be peace again.
[Yes, Smidgen is truly DEAD now. The concept of Nebiroth using the Body Laser is to take advantage of his sheer size to engulf Smidgen with a continuous, powerful beam of non-elemental energy. I saw it that Smidgen had to be destroyed in a similar way to how Kid Buu had to be completely vaporized in DBZ, hence the idea to use the Body Laser. This is one case size DID matter in battle. :D]
"So... that's it, I guess." said Brett.
"Yeah, all we can do now is wait for something else to happen." added Zac.
[Like what, the ship sending ChaosDu... I mean something else down to fight you? :o]
Bob was currently sitting upon a large rock, drawing stick pictures in the dirt with a stick. He just couldn't place the feeling he was experiencing. He'd never felt it before. It was an odd feeling, it made him long for something better in his life. But he just couldn't put his finger on it.
[More references to it. Don't worry, you'll find out what it is soon enough. :P]
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Post #47 [Cecil]
[First note, a bit of a pointless one, as you'll see below, I was member #47 on the fudforums, and I also somehow ended up posting the 47th post of the IF. @_@
Second, this is the first of the "longer" posts I make. Not the longest, but one of the more wordy ones. It happens when you write super-detailed for two ACs on different paths I guess. :P]
Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Sandra decided to go with her curious instinct, and with a breath of caution, grabbed the door by it's vault like wheel, and attempted to see if she could open the door without ripping it right off. The handle however, couldn't handle the eventual pressure she put on it, and broke off the door.
[Actually, in hindsight with the strength I mention Sandra has, I should've had it the handle popped out almost immediately. :P]
Sandra scowled at the door, and screamed "Blizzaga!!", hammering the door with an icy blast of magic, freezing part of the door.
[Useless Skill-name note: Blizzaga is the Japanese name for "Ice 3" in FF6. >.> I figure the Japanese names sound better to say then just saying "Ice3" outloud or something. :P And yes Baron von Awesome, if you're looking over this post, I was a lot more 'Japanified' by now compared to in "The Gathering". >.>]
Sandra then heard something faintly behind the door, a muffled voice. It sounded much like a cry for help. Sandra, happy to find people not appearantly frozen, quickly took action and screamed, "If you can hear me in there, back away from the door!!! I'm going to kick it down!!!"
[Of course, most people think you'd sound crazy if you said that to them. :P]
After waiting for about 10 seconds, she jumped at the door, and spin kicked it. It didn't have an immediate effect, but then a crack formed in the frozen door, which then expanded until it was all the way across the door from top to bottom, and left to right.
[Yeah, note the reason I didn't have her instantly break the door to pieces was fear of striking whoever was behind the door with sharp ice pellets.]
"Hi-yah!!!" Sandra shrieked and kicked the door once again, shattering it into thousands of small and frozen fragments. Sandra looked into the room beyond, and her mind suddenly give a huge mental gasp at what she saw.
["Jesus, is that you?" :o]
There, along with two other men inside, was none other than James Polestar, Sandra's father.
[So THAT'S where he was! I knew something was off when he wasn't at the preschool! :O
Also, I forgot to mention when I first wrote this annotation, but James is the main reason the lab underneath the meteorite exists. Since Paula is his daughter, who traveled with Ness during Earthbound, who told her about the meteorite (probably in a sense to tell her why he was on his adventure in the first place), and from the Onett news, James eventually decided to reveal what he was told about the meteorite and it's properties. Originally the idea in my head is that James was doing military study on the meteorite to learn about how it was able to move Buzz Buzz through time.]
She could remember his face from anywhere. And he and his two colleges was completely unaffected by the time anomoly, as they sported no auras of anything around them, and they were staring back at her, wide-eyed at her feat, and at the fact they were now free of their time induced prison room.
[Yeah, James and his friends aren't affected at all by the time freeze either. OMG are they ACs too? o_O]
Sandra had no doubt that her father probably wouldn't recognize her at first glance, but it didn't matter to her at the moment. At least one person in her family other than herself was unaffected by the time anomoly.
It... must have been the door they were behind. It's... the only explanation.
[Another important note: This was going to be eventually explained upon as well. The vault door James and his friends were behind is made of an unknown material [potentially it might have been Zeonxyte or some other name], which somehow blocks the effects of the time-stop ray.]
She then decided to speak again, "Are you three alright? Are you totally unfrozen?"
[Duh Sandra, they're MOVING, aren't they? XD]
"We're fine." one of the other men answered her, "But what do you mean by Frozen?"
James had during that time walked by his 2nd daughter, not knowing who she was, and examining the other man in the room that was frozen. "I think she means like Johnson here!" he spoke to his friends, pointing their frozen comrade out. "Johnson? Is he... dead?" asked the other of the unknown unfrozen men.
"No... I don't think he's dead, just... frozen in time." Sandra answered in an almost absentminded tone, as if it was nothing new to her.
[Do note, Sandra's seen freakier things than people frozen in time, hence her "almost absentminded tone".]
James and his two other friends gaped at her like she was crazy. "Frozen in time? Are you crazy or something?" James asked her. "That's what I thought too at first, but if you look outside, there's some kind of red field in the sky, covering the area, and probably the whole planet as well. I believe that's what may be freezing the Earth in time." Sandra replied to his question.
The three recently freed men did just that, walking outside along the cliffside, looking into the sky at the red field. Sandra had decided to follow them out. It was a good thing, at least in her case, that she did. Her eyes went wide as she noticed a familar looking shape in the distance, headed towards a bright red star. She didn't realize it just yet, but it was Nebiroth's beam that he had shot towards it minutes ago.
[Yep, THIS is why I had Nebiroth attack the time-ship a post or two ago. The beam would be visible enough for Sandra to spot it, to realize something was up a good distance away... a beacon of sorts. :P]
It couldn't be... could it?!
Sandra decided to use her aura search to scan the planet for the aura she was thinking of.
[Skill note: Sandra can sense magicial energy auras in a similar to DBZ characters sensing ki signatures. :P]
Sure enough, to her utter shock, she sensed her old enemy's primary minion's energy, coming from the other direction that she came.
[The way I said that sounds oddly redundant for some reason. o.o]
Crud!! How did Nebiroth find a gate to here?! I thought the Bourdon gate closed after I went through it!
She knew Nebiroth was looking for her to try and avenge Sardius' death at her hands, and to recover the cape of his slain friend Austorouto, but it still puzzled her how he found the gate she went though. She also didn't want her father, or anyone else to be found by that thing. She had no idea of his attitude around people.
[Yes, to clear it up, Sandra has no fear of Nebiroth at all. She's not fleeing from him or anything. Her concerns about him are more involving innocent people getting caught up in a battle between them. As said in the last annotation of Losarian's post, she can bench-press Nebiroth if she got her hands on him. >_>]
"We gotta get home now you guys!!" she shouted to James and his two friends. "Wait! We gotta at least bring Johnson back with us!" James's second friend replied. "Yeah, we... we can't leave him here. Something could happen to him." James agreed. Sandra thought for a minute as she followed them back to were Johnson was frozen in time.
That means we have to carry him all that way.
[Maybe. o.o]
Sandra looked at Johnson, still able to see the Stop aura that no one else could. Then it hit her like another slap on the head.
[Stop trying to give yourself Brainshock, Sandra!]
Maybe if I...
She trailed off mentally as she walked up to Johnson, and looked up, chanting a small bit to herself, and then screaming out "DISPEL!!"
Three magical coins suddenly appeared above the head of Johnson, and circled down around him, and then melted onto him for a short time, then fading away. After this was done, the Pink aura of Stop had vanished around Johnson, who had fell down on his back from the aftereffects, but was now unfrozen.
[Yes, the same way I recall Dispel looks in FF3/6 when used. And yes, it does remove "Stop" which is counted as being frozen, away from individual people. Sandra is one of the few characters in the IF who can actually unfreeze other time-frozen characters. Important to note for later. :o]
Sandra soon gained a glimmer of hope.
Dispel can counteract the effects of the anomoly!
But she looked down as she realized one problem.
It's only a short-term answer though. I can't unfreeze the entire planet one-by-one, no matter how much magic I can use on one reserve. There are simply too many people. I'm still gonna have to try and find the source of this.
[Of course Sandra. You're an AC, stopping the source of the beam is a big adventure. It calls to you like a flame calling to a moth. :P]
Meanwhile, James and his other two friends were shocked stiff at the fact this girl had just freed Johnson from his time-incuded capture. "How did you... do that?" James asked Sandra, still unaware of the fact he was talking to his lost daughter from a decade ago. "Magic... no time to explain now! I gotta get you guys outta here before Nebiroth finds us. I can probably handle him, but he might use you as bait for me if he finds us all together!"
['Probably' is an understatement. She would've drilled Nebiroth into the ground if she was facing him with no one to get in the way. :P]
Johnson regained his senses, although he was stunned by the recent events. "What happened? Why was I passed out on the floor?" "No time to explain. This girl says some monster is looking for her, and if it finds us, it might use us as bait against her." James's first friend said to him.
"Alrightly then." James said, "We're gonna take the sewer path to the house." James said.
[Sewer path?! Ewww... D:
Oh and a late 'lawl' at typing "James said" TWICE in the same sentence. XD]
"Sewer path?" Sandra asked. "Just follow us." Johnson advised her. James ducked down, and picked up a large tile from the floor, revealing a sewer grate. He couldn't budge it. "Um, could you..." James couldn't finish as Sandra ducked down and punched the grate, shattering it into small pieces. "No problem!" Sandra said, a bit embarrased with a ^_^; on her face.
[Do NOT ask me WHY in heaven's name I did the "^_^" face in this part. I do it AGAIN at least one other time in this IF too. :P]
They couldn't help smiling back just a bit, especially James for some odd reason, as they all climbed than the ladder beyond, and into the sewers.
Meanwhile, Glenn was still using his rune to follow the foorsteps of Sandra, and managed to find the ladder down to the cliffside. With a sense of urgency to protect her, not even knowing who she was, he slowly climbed down the ladder to the cliffside...
[I wanted to make sure Glenn didn't look track of Sandra's movements. However I didn't too much else with him out of concern I'd make him do something Losarian didn't want me to do. :\]
*****
Back at the battle against Smidgen, Nebiroth no longer cared about food, or the destruction of any living thing in his path. He was angered outgoingly at Smidgen for trying to eat him, but allowed Kyle to have space for his Shadow Beam Gamma, and then Brett and Zac for what he called their "Spiritual Antipodial Beam Attack".
[Even Nebiroth like that name better than "Omega Beam", but bleh. :P]
Smidgen was now in pieces again, but Nebiroth not only knew better than to rely on him being dead, but he had also caught notice of Smidgen beginning to reform.
Ah poo. I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this attack until I found the Pink-Haired brat again. I was originally saving this for her, but this Smidgen creature is going too far. Forget eating and destroying these humans. They tried to help me. Perhaps master Sardius was somewhat wrong about the human race and it's intentions. I still want to fight that brat though at least one more time.
[Again, to remind you, Nebi's mental speak is much more normal than his speech patterns. He also does a decent amount of inner monolouges later. :P]
Nebiroth suddenly formed himself into a pose, crossing his arms and leaning forward, and began to glow a faint bluish-white color. To Brett and Zac, who especially understood energy well, he was charging his power up for a big attack.
Friends! He spoke into their minds with a small hint of telepathy, using his intelligent voice, shocking them to realize he was no longer going to be hostile towards them, When he regenerates, if you could, try to distract them. I'm charging up for my 'Body Laser' attack. It might just be strong enough to wipe him out with no trace of him leftover, but I'm not sure. I've never done this before to any specific target. All I know is that the attack is a continuous laser in the shape of my own body, so if it works, it should completely disintergrate him, and he'll be unable to put himself back together.
[I forget what made me come up with the concept of a BODY-shaped beam attack in the first place, but for a huge being like Nebiroth, it's actually a frighteningly effective attack. >_>]
The other stared at him, wondering if they should trust him.
[LOL, "other". I sucked at grammar at times. >_>]
As his energy began to grow, Nebiroth thought to himself Pink-haired slayer of Sardius. I am still searching for you, so do not think you are totally out of this one yet!...
[Again I lol at my "!..." this time. Man I knew how to bat a thousand, didn't I? :P]
[AC/Post Ratio: 17:47.]
Second, this is the first of the "longer" posts I make. Not the longest, but one of the more wordy ones. It happens when you write super-detailed for two ACs on different paths I guess. :P]
Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Sandra decided to go with her curious instinct, and with a breath of caution, grabbed the door by it's vault like wheel, and attempted to see if she could open the door without ripping it right off. The handle however, couldn't handle the eventual pressure she put on it, and broke off the door.
[Actually, in hindsight with the strength I mention Sandra has, I should've had it the handle popped out almost immediately. :P]
Sandra scowled at the door, and screamed "Blizzaga!!", hammering the door with an icy blast of magic, freezing part of the door.
[Useless Skill-name note: Blizzaga is the Japanese name for "Ice 3" in FF6. >.> I figure the Japanese names sound better to say then just saying "Ice3" outloud or something. :P And yes Baron von Awesome, if you're looking over this post, I was a lot more 'Japanified' by now compared to in "The Gathering". >.>]
Sandra then heard something faintly behind the door, a muffled voice. It sounded much like a cry for help. Sandra, happy to find people not appearantly frozen, quickly took action and screamed, "If you can hear me in there, back away from the door!!! I'm going to kick it down!!!"
[Of course, most people think you'd sound crazy if you said that to them. :P]
After waiting for about 10 seconds, she jumped at the door, and spin kicked it. It didn't have an immediate effect, but then a crack formed in the frozen door, which then expanded until it was all the way across the door from top to bottom, and left to right.
[Yeah, note the reason I didn't have her instantly break the door to pieces was fear of striking whoever was behind the door with sharp ice pellets.]
"Hi-yah!!!" Sandra shrieked and kicked the door once again, shattering it into thousands of small and frozen fragments. Sandra looked into the room beyond, and her mind suddenly give a huge mental gasp at what she saw.
["Jesus, is that you?" :o]
There, along with two other men inside, was none other than James Polestar, Sandra's father.
[So THAT'S where he was! I knew something was off when he wasn't at the preschool! :O
Also, I forgot to mention when I first wrote this annotation, but James is the main reason the lab underneath the meteorite exists. Since Paula is his daughter, who traveled with Ness during Earthbound, who told her about the meteorite (probably in a sense to tell her why he was on his adventure in the first place), and from the Onett news, James eventually decided to reveal what he was told about the meteorite and it's properties. Originally the idea in my head is that James was doing military study on the meteorite to learn about how it was able to move Buzz Buzz through time.]
She could remember his face from anywhere. And he and his two colleges was completely unaffected by the time anomoly, as they sported no auras of anything around them, and they were staring back at her, wide-eyed at her feat, and at the fact they were now free of their time induced prison room.
[Yeah, James and his friends aren't affected at all by the time freeze either. OMG are they ACs too? o_O]
Sandra had no doubt that her father probably wouldn't recognize her at first glance, but it didn't matter to her at the moment. At least one person in her family other than herself was unaffected by the time anomoly.
It... must have been the door they were behind. It's... the only explanation.
[Another important note: This was going to be eventually explained upon as well. The vault door James and his friends were behind is made of an unknown material [potentially it might have been Zeonxyte or some other name], which somehow blocks the effects of the time-stop ray.]
She then decided to speak again, "Are you three alright? Are you totally unfrozen?"
[Duh Sandra, they're MOVING, aren't they? XD]
"We're fine." one of the other men answered her, "But what do you mean by Frozen?"
James had during that time walked by his 2nd daughter, not knowing who she was, and examining the other man in the room that was frozen. "I think she means like Johnson here!" he spoke to his friends, pointing their frozen comrade out. "Johnson? Is he... dead?" asked the other of the unknown unfrozen men.
"No... I don't think he's dead, just... frozen in time." Sandra answered in an almost absentminded tone, as if it was nothing new to her.
[Do note, Sandra's seen freakier things than people frozen in time, hence her "almost absentminded tone".]
James and his two other friends gaped at her like she was crazy. "Frozen in time? Are you crazy or something?" James asked her. "That's what I thought too at first, but if you look outside, there's some kind of red field in the sky, covering the area, and probably the whole planet as well. I believe that's what may be freezing the Earth in time." Sandra replied to his question.
The three recently freed men did just that, walking outside along the cliffside, looking into the sky at the red field. Sandra had decided to follow them out. It was a good thing, at least in her case, that she did. Her eyes went wide as she noticed a familar looking shape in the distance, headed towards a bright red star. She didn't realize it just yet, but it was Nebiroth's beam that he had shot towards it minutes ago.
[Yep, THIS is why I had Nebiroth attack the time-ship a post or two ago. The beam would be visible enough for Sandra to spot it, to realize something was up a good distance away... a beacon of sorts. :P]
It couldn't be... could it?!
Sandra decided to use her aura search to scan the planet for the aura she was thinking of.
[Skill note: Sandra can sense magicial energy auras in a similar to DBZ characters sensing ki signatures. :P]
Sure enough, to her utter shock, she sensed her old enemy's primary minion's energy, coming from the other direction that she came.
[The way I said that sounds oddly redundant for some reason. o.o]
Crud!! How did Nebiroth find a gate to here?! I thought the Bourdon gate closed after I went through it!
She knew Nebiroth was looking for her to try and avenge Sardius' death at her hands, and to recover the cape of his slain friend Austorouto, but it still puzzled her how he found the gate she went though. She also didn't want her father, or anyone else to be found by that thing. She had no idea of his attitude around people.
[Yes, to clear it up, Sandra has no fear of Nebiroth at all. She's not fleeing from him or anything. Her concerns about him are more involving innocent people getting caught up in a battle between them. As said in the last annotation of Losarian's post, she can bench-press Nebiroth if she got her hands on him. >_>]
"We gotta get home now you guys!!" she shouted to James and his two friends. "Wait! We gotta at least bring Johnson back with us!" James's second friend replied. "Yeah, we... we can't leave him here. Something could happen to him." James agreed. Sandra thought for a minute as she followed them back to were Johnson was frozen in time.
That means we have to carry him all that way.
[Maybe. o.o]
Sandra looked at Johnson, still able to see the Stop aura that no one else could. Then it hit her like another slap on the head.
[Stop trying to give yourself Brainshock, Sandra!]
Maybe if I...
She trailed off mentally as she walked up to Johnson, and looked up, chanting a small bit to herself, and then screaming out "DISPEL!!"
Three magical coins suddenly appeared above the head of Johnson, and circled down around him, and then melted onto him for a short time, then fading away. After this was done, the Pink aura of Stop had vanished around Johnson, who had fell down on his back from the aftereffects, but was now unfrozen.
[Yes, the same way I recall Dispel looks in FF3/6 when used. And yes, it does remove "Stop" which is counted as being frozen, away from individual people. Sandra is one of the few characters in the IF who can actually unfreeze other time-frozen characters. Important to note for later. :o]
Sandra soon gained a glimmer of hope.
Dispel can counteract the effects of the anomoly!
But she looked down as she realized one problem.
It's only a short-term answer though. I can't unfreeze the entire planet one-by-one, no matter how much magic I can use on one reserve. There are simply too many people. I'm still gonna have to try and find the source of this.
[Of course Sandra. You're an AC, stopping the source of the beam is a big adventure. It calls to you like a flame calling to a moth. :P]
Meanwhile, James and his other two friends were shocked stiff at the fact this girl had just freed Johnson from his time-incuded capture. "How did you... do that?" James asked Sandra, still unaware of the fact he was talking to his lost daughter from a decade ago. "Magic... no time to explain now! I gotta get you guys outta here before Nebiroth finds us. I can probably handle him, but he might use you as bait for me if he finds us all together!"
['Probably' is an understatement. She would've drilled Nebiroth into the ground if she was facing him with no one to get in the way. :P]
Johnson regained his senses, although he was stunned by the recent events. "What happened? Why was I passed out on the floor?" "No time to explain. This girl says some monster is looking for her, and if it finds us, it might use us as bait against her." James's first friend said to him.
"Alrightly then." James said, "We're gonna take the sewer path to the house." James said.
[Sewer path?! Ewww... D:
Oh and a late 'lawl' at typing "James said" TWICE in the same sentence. XD]
"Sewer path?" Sandra asked. "Just follow us." Johnson advised her. James ducked down, and picked up a large tile from the floor, revealing a sewer grate. He couldn't budge it. "Um, could you..." James couldn't finish as Sandra ducked down and punched the grate, shattering it into small pieces. "No problem!" Sandra said, a bit embarrased with a ^_^; on her face.
[Do NOT ask me WHY in heaven's name I did the "^_^" face in this part. I do it AGAIN at least one other time in this IF too. :P]
They couldn't help smiling back just a bit, especially James for some odd reason, as they all climbed than the ladder beyond, and into the sewers.
Meanwhile, Glenn was still using his rune to follow the foorsteps of Sandra, and managed to find the ladder down to the cliffside. With a sense of urgency to protect her, not even knowing who she was, he slowly climbed down the ladder to the cliffside...
[I wanted to make sure Glenn didn't look track of Sandra's movements. However I didn't too much else with him out of concern I'd make him do something Losarian didn't want me to do. :\]
*****
Back at the battle against Smidgen, Nebiroth no longer cared about food, or the destruction of any living thing in his path. He was angered outgoingly at Smidgen for trying to eat him, but allowed Kyle to have space for his Shadow Beam Gamma, and then Brett and Zac for what he called their "Spiritual Antipodial Beam Attack".
[Even Nebiroth like that name better than "Omega Beam", but bleh. :P]
Smidgen was now in pieces again, but Nebiroth not only knew better than to rely on him being dead, but he had also caught notice of Smidgen beginning to reform.
Ah poo. I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this attack until I found the Pink-Haired brat again. I was originally saving this for her, but this Smidgen creature is going too far. Forget eating and destroying these humans. They tried to help me. Perhaps master Sardius was somewhat wrong about the human race and it's intentions. I still want to fight that brat though at least one more time.
[Again, to remind you, Nebi's mental speak is much more normal than his speech patterns. He also does a decent amount of inner monolouges later. :P]
Nebiroth suddenly formed himself into a pose, crossing his arms and leaning forward, and began to glow a faint bluish-white color. To Brett and Zac, who especially understood energy well, he was charging his power up for a big attack.
Friends! He spoke into their minds with a small hint of telepathy, using his intelligent voice, shocking them to realize he was no longer going to be hostile towards them, When he regenerates, if you could, try to distract them. I'm charging up for my 'Body Laser' attack. It might just be strong enough to wipe him out with no trace of him leftover, but I'm not sure. I've never done this before to any specific target. All I know is that the attack is a continuous laser in the shape of my own body, so if it works, it should completely disintergrate him, and he'll be unable to put himself back together.
[I forget what made me come up with the concept of a BODY-shaped beam attack in the first place, but for a huge being like Nebiroth, it's actually a frighteningly effective attack. >_>]
The other stared at him, wondering if they should trust him.
[LOL, "other". I sucked at grammar at times. >_>]
As his energy began to grow, Nebiroth thought to himself Pink-haired slayer of Sardius. I am still searching for you, so do not think you are totally out of this one yet!...
[Again I lol at my "!..." this time. Man I knew how to bat a thousand, didn't I? :P]
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Post #46 [DrAndonuts]
Posted by DrAndounts (Member # 168) on :
(Cecil, that's fine. I agree with both you and LP. Plus this is IF, so I'm going with the flow.)
[Well that's cool and all, but past-me was just making sure people remembered something you yourself stated. XD]
Smidgen was contemplating on how to absorb Nebiroth's powers. Doing this, Brett and Zac exploited this moment and attacked.
The two stood about five feet apart, side by side. Both crossed their arms over their chests. This is where the similarities in the attacks end. Brett's body started to glow pure white; Zac became illuminated by darkness. A few seconds later, faint waves of energy spewed forth from a recently created dome of energy surrounding the two, Brett's dome being white and Zac's black. As "time" progressed, the waves became stronger. As the attacks developed, the two floated closer together, the opposing energies causing sparks to fly in random locations.
[One of the most prominent times Brett's Light and Zac's Dark attacks is elaborated upon. In fact, this move inspired a technique of sorts I'll be exploiting SOMEDAY in "The Misfits" >.>]
"I suggest all but one of us move. Someone needs to keep Smidgen occupied until those two can attack," Matt said.
"I'll keep him busy," Kyle volunteered. The rest of the group took cover, sensing the strength of both attacks. Kyle leapt forward and started to slash away with Excalabur, forcing Smidgen to dodge in place.
[I know for some characters in a DBZ-style form, it is possible to "dodge in place" (think what Goku did with Jeice and Burter on Namek if you watched DBZ), but in Frozen I suppose it sounds odd to me to read. :o]
"Ready?" Brett asked his twin.
"Yeah, sure." Zac had already started to prepare to fire.
"Instead of having two seperate attacks, let's combine them."
"Sounds good." Zac turned his cupped hands towards Brett. Brett did the same, turning towards Zac. Between their four hands, a good sized ball of light and dark energy formed, sparks flying from the clash in energies. Focusing all of the energy the two gathered into that one spot caused the orb to quadruple in size.
[I still like to call it the "Spiritual Antipodic Blast", since the combined opposing elements remind me heavily of "Antipode" in Chrono Trigger. :P]
"Omega Beam!" The two shouted. Using a lot of their strength, Brett and Zac managed to swing their arms out to the front and fired the attack. A huge beam of holy and shadow/dark energy shot out towards Smidgen and Kyle. Kyle gave one more slash and jumped out of the way as quickly as he could, barely dodging the attack. Smidgen turned to see the beam flying at him. Instead of being scared, the monster lit up with joy as a huge source of energy came at him. Opening wide, the attack flowed right down to his stomach. As soon as the beam stopped, Smidgen licked his lips happily.
[The hell!? How could he eat such a chaotic-natured attack like that?! O_O]
"What the-" Matt looked in shock. "He should have went 'boom' by now." As soon as he was done speaking, Smidgen exploded, sending pink globs everywhere.
[Spoke too soon. :P]
"I guess I spoke too soon..."
[Matt, are you reading my mind? o_O]
Unbenowst to the group, Smidgen was already starting to pull himself back together.
[Majin Buu would be proud. XD]
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(Cecil, that's fine. I agree with both you and LP. Plus this is IF, so I'm going with the flow.)
[Well that's cool and all, but past-me was just making sure people remembered something you yourself stated. XD]
Smidgen was contemplating on how to absorb Nebiroth's powers. Doing this, Brett and Zac exploited this moment and attacked.
The two stood about five feet apart, side by side. Both crossed their arms over their chests. This is where the similarities in the attacks end. Brett's body started to glow pure white; Zac became illuminated by darkness. A few seconds later, faint waves of energy spewed forth from a recently created dome of energy surrounding the two, Brett's dome being white and Zac's black. As "time" progressed, the waves became stronger. As the attacks developed, the two floated closer together, the opposing energies causing sparks to fly in random locations.
[One of the most prominent times Brett's Light and Zac's Dark attacks is elaborated upon. In fact, this move inspired a technique of sorts I'll be exploiting SOMEDAY in "The Misfits" >.>]
"I suggest all but one of us move. Someone needs to keep Smidgen occupied until those two can attack," Matt said.
"I'll keep him busy," Kyle volunteered. The rest of the group took cover, sensing the strength of both attacks. Kyle leapt forward and started to slash away with Excalabur, forcing Smidgen to dodge in place.
[I know for some characters in a DBZ-style form, it is possible to "dodge in place" (think what Goku did with Jeice and Burter on Namek if you watched DBZ), but in Frozen I suppose it sounds odd to me to read. :o]
"Ready?" Brett asked his twin.
"Yeah, sure." Zac had already started to prepare to fire.
"Instead of having two seperate attacks, let's combine them."
"Sounds good." Zac turned his cupped hands towards Brett. Brett did the same, turning towards Zac. Between their four hands, a good sized ball of light and dark energy formed, sparks flying from the clash in energies. Focusing all of the energy the two gathered into that one spot caused the orb to quadruple in size.
[I still like to call it the "Spiritual Antipodic Blast", since the combined opposing elements remind me heavily of "Antipode" in Chrono Trigger. :P]
"Omega Beam!" The two shouted. Using a lot of their strength, Brett and Zac managed to swing their arms out to the front and fired the attack. A huge beam of holy and shadow/dark energy shot out towards Smidgen and Kyle. Kyle gave one more slash and jumped out of the way as quickly as he could, barely dodging the attack. Smidgen turned to see the beam flying at him. Instead of being scared, the monster lit up with joy as a huge source of energy came at him. Opening wide, the attack flowed right down to his stomach. As soon as the beam stopped, Smidgen licked his lips happily.
[The hell!? How could he eat such a chaotic-natured attack like that?! O_O]
"What the-" Matt looked in shock. "He should have went 'boom' by now." As soon as he was done speaking, Smidgen exploded, sending pink globs everywhere.
[Spoke too soon. :P]
"I guess I spoke too soon..."
[Matt, are you reading my mind? o_O]
Unbenowst to the group, Smidgen was already starting to pull himself back together.
[Majin Buu would be proud. XD]
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Post #45 [Losarian Prodigy]
Posted by Losarian Prodigy (Member # 361) on :
(No, I think you're right.)
[He was responding to my last post about Smidgen's capability to withstand attacks]
Most of the rest of the group could only stare at Nebiroth, as he struggled with Smidgen.
Glenn, who had been feeling more or less useless since his sword broke, looked at Nebiroth, cringed, and tried to edge away from the battle.
"Whare'd THAT come from?" said Glenn. "I wonder..." He headed for Two-Three Tunnel.
[To clarify, Glenn's not trying to run away from the battle, but figure out where the frack Nebiroth came from.]
Meanwhile, Kyle's opinion of Nebiroth was different. He had a natural attraction to evil things, being a creature of darkness himself (to an extent), and if something showed the slightest hint of being good, regardless of what it looks like, he gave it a chance.
[Which is actually vital to Nebi's overall development. You'll see why eventually.]
"What are we waiting for? Let's help it!" he said.
"What is it?" asked Weregrowlithmon.
"What are you?" asked Kyle.
"..."
[Basically, Kyle telling WGM that he and Nebi don't appear human, and thus why it's not polite to assume something that LOOKS evil or "not-human" automatically IS evil. :P]
Kyle shook his head and got closer to the two battling monsters. He didn't want to get close... it looked a bit dangerous, getting between the two. So, Kyle decided to use PSI. It had been a while, since he basically stopped using it when he got Excalabur and its abilities. Now... how'd it go?
"Er... PSI Shadow Beam Gamma!" Kyle pointed at Smidgen and multiple large beams of dark energy shot at Smidgen.
[Just a techincal gripe from personal preference. I know SSB's been out for some time by this point, possibly SSBM too, but I think I can blame it for a lot of this idea that PSI/PK attacks HAVE to be called out to fire them. In my honest, logical opinion, PSI/PK is summoned from the mind, and therefore there's no real reason to call out PSI attacks. Magic is one thing due to some magic requiring chants and releases, and Ki attacks I can understand on the shonen-premise of calling out those kinds of attacks, but PSI/PK attacks are NEVER called out by characters when I write with them. It actually makes fighting characters who use them more dangerous and tricky. :P]
Nebiroth noticed Kyle's attack and took advantage of it, making sure not to get into the way of the beams. Something's not right about that human, thought Nebiroth. But I think I'll let it help me... for now.
[Good thinking Nebiroth. :P]
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Glenn arrived in Twoson, and looked around for a clue as to where that monster came from. Near Polestar Preschool, Glenn gave up on obvious clues. Instead he decided to cast of one is more practical rune spells. He drew the rune and spoke it. It split into two and attached themselves to his eyes. Glenn gazed upon the ground and saw large footsteps glowing. But he also saw recently made footsteps of something else. A human, a girl by the shape and size.
The monster's origin could wait. Glenn had to find this girl! With the way the mysterious enemy was sending monsters to take care of the people who resisted the freeze, she might be in danger! he followed the footsteps toward Onett.
[In all honesty, it's very nice of Losarian to have Glenn be caring enough to chase after Sandra, even though she was probably in little real danger and could bench-press Nebiroth if she got her hands on him. It still shows our ACs tried to look after each other, like in the mafia. :D]
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(No, I think you're right.)
[He was responding to my last post about Smidgen's capability to withstand attacks]
Most of the rest of the group could only stare at Nebiroth, as he struggled with Smidgen.
Glenn, who had been feeling more or less useless since his sword broke, looked at Nebiroth, cringed, and tried to edge away from the battle.
"Whare'd THAT come from?" said Glenn. "I wonder..." He headed for Two-Three Tunnel.
[To clarify, Glenn's not trying to run away from the battle, but figure out where the frack Nebiroth came from.]
Meanwhile, Kyle's opinion of Nebiroth was different. He had a natural attraction to evil things, being a creature of darkness himself (to an extent), and if something showed the slightest hint of being good, regardless of what it looks like, he gave it a chance.
[Which is actually vital to Nebi's overall development. You'll see why eventually.]
"What are we waiting for? Let's help it!" he said.
"What is it?" asked Weregrowlithmon.
"What are you?" asked Kyle.
"..."
[Basically, Kyle telling WGM that he and Nebi don't appear human, and thus why it's not polite to assume something that LOOKS evil or "not-human" automatically IS evil. :P]
Kyle shook his head and got closer to the two battling monsters. He didn't want to get close... it looked a bit dangerous, getting between the two. So, Kyle decided to use PSI. It had been a while, since he basically stopped using it when he got Excalabur and its abilities. Now... how'd it go?
"Er... PSI Shadow Beam Gamma!" Kyle pointed at Smidgen and multiple large beams of dark energy shot at Smidgen.
[Just a techincal gripe from personal preference. I know SSB's been out for some time by this point, possibly SSBM too, but I think I can blame it for a lot of this idea that PSI/PK attacks HAVE to be called out to fire them. In my honest, logical opinion, PSI/PK is summoned from the mind, and therefore there's no real reason to call out PSI attacks. Magic is one thing due to some magic requiring chants and releases, and Ki attacks I can understand on the shonen-premise of calling out those kinds of attacks, but PSI/PK attacks are NEVER called out by characters when I write with them. It actually makes fighting characters who use them more dangerous and tricky. :P]
Nebiroth noticed Kyle's attack and took advantage of it, making sure not to get into the way of the beams. Something's not right about that human, thought Nebiroth. But I think I'll let it help me... for now.
[Good thinking Nebiroth. :P]
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Glenn arrived in Twoson, and looked around for a clue as to where that monster came from. Near Polestar Preschool, Glenn gave up on obvious clues. Instead he decided to cast of one is more practical rune spells. He drew the rune and spoke it. It split into two and attached themselves to his eyes. Glenn gazed upon the ground and saw large footsteps glowing. But he also saw recently made footsteps of something else. A human, a girl by the shape and size.
The monster's origin could wait. Glenn had to find this girl! With the way the mysterious enemy was sending monsters to take care of the people who resisted the freeze, she might be in danger! he followed the footsteps toward Onett.
[In all honesty, it's very nice of Losarian to have Glenn be caring enough to chase after Sandra, even though she was probably in little real danger and could bench-press Nebiroth if she got her hands on him. It still shows our ACs tried to look after each other, like in the mafia. :D]
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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.]
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[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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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.]
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[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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Post #43 [Zero X. Diamond]
Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
Bob stood there, feeling quite strange. Never before had he felt so good! He had once again laughed in the face of death.
[I think this is where it started. I'm not quite sure or so. I'll explain "it" eventually. >.>]
"Well," he said. "That was neat. Can you show me how to do that?"
[Again, Bob didn't shun mystical powers, it's just either he couldn't learn them, or ZXD intentionally kept him as normal as possible in that respect.]
GMOE blinked. He blinked again, much harder.
"Uhhh... right."
Bob didn't feel right suddenly. His eyes were like pools of water. He'd never remembered feeling quite this way. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. Flipping through the numerous pictures of corpses, he discovered one that made him do something he'd never done before.
Cry.
[Bob can.. cry? O_O Oh god the world's ending! :O]
It was a picture of his parents. His parents who had been killed god knows how. He didn't know because he was always left at home, and noone cared that his parents were gone. Most people didn't even know they existed.
[Actually, it gets revealed in some detail exactly how Bob's parents got killed/died down the road. But I'll say this in the overall, poor Bob has a very messed up childhood. :\]
Looking upon that picture made him feel lonely. Made him feel a longing for something else in his miserable life. He thought at first it may just be hunger, but then he realized it was something far different. For once, he was longing for something other than killing.
[Yes, this is where it beings. Again, I'll explain more details on this eventually. <.<]
But he had no time to think about this peculiar feeling. He had to get back to being a complete goofball. Happy Bob just couldn't shake the feeling. He didn't know why.
[Because being a goofball is a defense mechanism? :o]
"I'm hungry," complained Bob, "for some meat."
"Well, there's quite obviously nowhere open, as time is frozen."
"But I'm starving!"
[Yeah, I hate not being able to eat when I'm hungry too. You're not alone Bob. :(]
Bob clenched his stomach muscles hard. He was so hungry. He could have even ate GMOE at that moment, but he decided not to chance getting shunned. Before he could make another complaint, a large crumbling sound could be heard.
[UH OH. O.O]
Out of Two-Three tunnel burst the most hideous thing Bob had ever seen. Its name was Nebiroth. And its objective, like Bob's currently was, was to eat.
[dun dunn DUNN.]
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Bob stood there, feeling quite strange. Never before had he felt so good! He had once again laughed in the face of death.
[I think this is where it started. I'm not quite sure or so. I'll explain "it" eventually. >.>]
"Well," he said. "That was neat. Can you show me how to do that?"
[Again, Bob didn't shun mystical powers, it's just either he couldn't learn them, or ZXD intentionally kept him as normal as possible in that respect.]
GMOE blinked. He blinked again, much harder.
"Uhhh... right."
Bob didn't feel right suddenly. His eyes were like pools of water. He'd never remembered feeling quite this way. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. Flipping through the numerous pictures of corpses, he discovered one that made him do something he'd never done before.
Cry.
[Bob can.. cry? O_O Oh god the world's ending! :O]
It was a picture of his parents. His parents who had been killed god knows how. He didn't know because he was always left at home, and noone cared that his parents were gone. Most people didn't even know they existed.
[Actually, it gets revealed in some detail exactly how Bob's parents got killed/died down the road. But I'll say this in the overall, poor Bob has a very messed up childhood. :\]
Looking upon that picture made him feel lonely. Made him feel a longing for something else in his miserable life. He thought at first it may just be hunger, but then he realized it was something far different. For once, he was longing for something other than killing.
[Yes, this is where it beings. Again, I'll explain more details on this eventually. <.<]
But he had no time to think about this peculiar feeling. He had to get back to being a complete goofball. Happy Bob just couldn't shake the feeling. He didn't know why.
[Because being a goofball is a defense mechanism? :o]
"I'm hungry," complained Bob, "for some meat."
"Well, there's quite obviously nowhere open, as time is frozen."
"But I'm starving!"
[Yeah, I hate not being able to eat when I'm hungry too. You're not alone Bob. :(]
Bob clenched his stomach muscles hard. He was so hungry. He could have even ate GMOE at that moment, but he decided not to chance getting shunned. Before he could make another complaint, a large crumbling sound could be heard.
[UH OH. O.O]
Out of Two-Three tunnel burst the most hideous thing Bob had ever seen. Its name was Nebiroth. And its objective, like Bob's currently was, was to eat.
[dun dunn DUNN.]
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Post #42 [Cecil]
[More Cecil-goodness, or something. :P]
Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Sandra continued up the path to the cliffs of Onett, wondering who could've caused that common. She was soon at the northern cliff. Sandra then caught her first site of the meteorite that fell on the clifftop, the very same one Buzz Buzz came from. She studied it for a second, and put her hand near it. It was still heated to an extent, despite being there for some time now.
[Yeah, I have it in my personal opinion that the meteorite never did fully 'cool off' from it's impact at the hilltop.]
"Odd." Sandra chirped, not knowing what to do now. There was no sign of unfrozen life at the cliff, though. Sandra did however find the spot were the rock had fallen to the oceans below, as there were still some ripples in the water. Sandra caught notice of some paths along the cliffside that she didn't notice before, and where there was a ladder going to one of them. She looked over towards the hills behind the Minch house, and found that the ladder was connected to that hill, and jumped across to the hills behind the Minch house, wondering what was down that ladder.
[Oh and yes quick note, since 'Minch' gets mentioned. There's only a single cameo of Pokey or any member of the Minch family in the entire IF. :P]
Since the world was frozen, she might as well get a small headstart of some of the changes in her world within the last 10 years.
[Yeah, the mysteries don't solve themselves, Sandra. :P]
At the bottom of the ladder, the paths along the cliffside were pretty straight forward and sturdy looking. Good. At least she wouldn't have to worry about falling off and into the sea below. She looked over again at the water, and then a thought suddenly mentally smacked her upside the head.
[Mentally smacking yourself upside the head might give you Brainshock, don't do that. :(]
The water doesn't seem frozen like everything else is. Of course, it could just be my not knowing time anomolies very well. Not important, at the moment anyways.
[And to the plot point Ffish unintentionally referenced in his first post. One thing that was going to get revealed outright at some point in Frozen was that water and anything IN the water would remain unfrozen. The time-beam can't pierce the surface of the water.]
She walked along, soon finding a small opening in the cliff side which looked it, it would lead to somewhere under the meteorite. As she walked in, she didn't notice some of the fish flopping in and out of the water like normal, appearantly unaffected by the time freeze...
[Again, reliterated. Anything underwater is unaffected by the time beam. And yes, the beam does have an official name, but it's not been revealed as of this point in the story, and I don't want to spoil too many things ahead of time, folks. :P]
****
[Now, without further ado... >_>]
Back in Twoson, another gate materialized within the Twoson forests where Sandra was about an hour ago. The gate was a lot bigger though than the one Sandra went through, about 12 feet to be exact.
[Oh just to clarify: Sandra's about 5'10" to 6' in Frozen. Yes, she's a tall one. However I also have always considered Paula to be equally tall, since both are 'twins' in Frozen. :P]
As the gate stabilized, a deafening roar was heard, and then HE stepped out of it. He was a large 11 foot creature that had the face of a blue-eyed troll, along with white hair and beard hair, wore an opened blue overcoat studded with spikes over the back, a large center-studded crown on his head, had green skin, golden boots, and among the most surprising of features, he had a another face, a sinister looking one, in the MIDDLE of his stomach.
[He's the troll equalvalent of Two-Face! XD]
Nebiroth stared around at his surroundings. This had to be the world his master's slayer had been trying to reach since his defeat. Nebiroth had been a lot smarter than the other underlings of Sardius, and staged his death at Sandra's hands during the battle almost 1 year ago.
[Uh ohes. :o]
He had been quietly trailing the pink-haired girl since she destroyed his master. He liked his master! He allowed Nebiroth to destroy whatever he wanted, and eat whatever he wanted. He was also mad at another dilliema that the cursed Pink-haired monster caused. She had killed his best friend Austorouto, and taken his cape, and she... she wanted to use the material for a wedding dress!
[Hey, what's wrong with wanting to get married someday? :P]
Pitiful humans. Nebiroth thought to himself. Nebiroth was primitive in his vocal speech, but he possessed the mind of a tactical genius. Only problem was because of his primitive tounge, only Nebiroth himself could take advantage of his own cunning.
[Eh, I kinda disprove my own words here a lot later on, but more on that THEN.]
His attacks in comparison with Sandra's were also not much to awe at: a triple stacked beam that was about as big as he was. Sure it was powerful, but it was somewhat slow and easy to dodge if prepared, as well as the fire his other face on his stomach could breathe like a trailing flamethrower. Powerful, but easy to avoid. He didn't think he'd have much chance against that Pink haired thing, but he might as well at least try to avenge his master and Austorouto while he still could.
[Eh, at least Nebiroth's not a coward. Even for an 11-foot monster, it takes guts to confront an AC like Sandra, with prior knowledge of what she can do. :P]
Roaring out "Nebiroth destroy Pink brat!" in his primative tounge, he dreadfully stomped his way out into the streets of Twoson. He took note of the Tour Guide of Twoson, frozen into position by the time freeze. "Nebiroth EAT!!" the monster shouted happy, and open his big mouth to chomp the tour guide, but her being frozen in time foiled the creatures plans for lunch. *CRACK!* Nebiroth whimpered as he realized the frozen tour guide was harder than titanium and totally unfased by his bite, as one of his teeth were now loose from the failed attempt to eat her.
[LAWL. Again reliterating the point that frozen people are "invulnerable" to most conventional damage. Even the towering and monsterous Nebiroth, likely more than twice the tour guide's size, hurts HIMSELF trying to eat her. XD]
"This insane!! People here are made of rock!" he growled half primatively, and stomped down the street angrily, leaving minor tremors in his anger induced marches. Nebiroth noticed the elderly woman, Mr. T-look-a-like, and the taxi cab in the middle of the streets, and noticed they also weren't moving like the tour guide. He cautiously walked up to the elderly woman, and half attempted a bite on her. No effect. She was also as hard as titanium, or so it seemed. Nebiroth decided to not even chance loosing his already loose tooth on the Mr. T-look-a-like, and stomped ahead.
[I pity da' foo' who tries to chomp Mr. T!]
"Nebiroth MAD! Whole world seems frozen!! No eat!! Mad!!" he stomped up and down like a child with a temper tantrum.
[You can see maturity comes naturally to our friend Nebiroth... :P Actually in fairness, this is an uncommon emotion for him to be so angry. >.>]
Of course, being a LOT bigger than most children, he shook the ground considerably. He then noticed something on the ground nearby were some concrete had been blown out. Shrapnel of a rocket-propelled grenade lay on the ground. Nebiroth picked the shrapnel up, and held it up to his nose, and smelled it, and then opened his mouth and tossed it into it, eating the sharpnel.
[Yeah, a sense of acknowledging ZXD's last post and of the RPG blast that ended up in Twoson. And Nebiroth has a strong stomach, so RPG shrapnel doesn't bother him in the slighest. :P]
"Hmm... not bad! *burp*" Nebiroth said. Hey, shrapnel was better than going hungry, he would say. He decided to continue following the street, until he came at an intersection at the Polestar preschool, taking note every person in his path was frozen into place.
[Yeah, your 'tactial' mind should take in all that information, else you'll starve yourself of knowledge as well as real food, Nebi. :P]
Something in his mind told him going towards Threed might get him more food, so he slowly stomped his way down the road, and then within 2 more minutes, into the Two-Three tunnel.
[So yeah, instead of Sandra going to Threed and inevitably getting wrapped up in the Smidgen battle, Nebiroth sorta takes her place here.
Also, from here on out, I generally write both their actions in the same post, so the post size will understandibly increase to accomedate this, and thus the posts get much much bigger for me over the course of this IF. :P]
(Nebiroth is my other AC. He will be revealed more in later posts. Yes he is sorta a bad guy, but he's not working for the people with the time ray, and he's just as confused as everyone else)
[Oh yes, Nebiroth is a special type of AC, known as a "gamer AC", or an AC heavily based off a character from an existing series/franchise. In this case, he's from "Super Ghouls N' Ghosts", as the second to last boss in that game. Yes, THAT Nebiroth. >_>
Also: picture of Nebiroth here.]
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Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :
Sandra continued up the path to the cliffs of Onett, wondering who could've caused that common. She was soon at the northern cliff. Sandra then caught her first site of the meteorite that fell on the clifftop, the very same one Buzz Buzz came from. She studied it for a second, and put her hand near it. It was still heated to an extent, despite being there for some time now.
[Yeah, I have it in my personal opinion that the meteorite never did fully 'cool off' from it's impact at the hilltop.]
"Odd." Sandra chirped, not knowing what to do now. There was no sign of unfrozen life at the cliff, though. Sandra did however find the spot were the rock had fallen to the oceans below, as there were still some ripples in the water. Sandra caught notice of some paths along the cliffside that she didn't notice before, and where there was a ladder going to one of them. She looked over towards the hills behind the Minch house, and found that the ladder was connected to that hill, and jumped across to the hills behind the Minch house, wondering what was down that ladder.
[Oh and yes quick note, since 'Minch' gets mentioned. There's only a single cameo of Pokey or any member of the Minch family in the entire IF. :P]
Since the world was frozen, she might as well get a small headstart of some of the changes in her world within the last 10 years.
[Yeah, the mysteries don't solve themselves, Sandra. :P]
At the bottom of the ladder, the paths along the cliffside were pretty straight forward and sturdy looking. Good. At least she wouldn't have to worry about falling off and into the sea below. She looked over again at the water, and then a thought suddenly mentally smacked her upside the head.
[Mentally smacking yourself upside the head might give you Brainshock, don't do that. :(]
The water doesn't seem frozen like everything else is. Of course, it could just be my not knowing time anomolies very well. Not important, at the moment anyways.
[And to the plot point Ffish unintentionally referenced in his first post. One thing that was going to get revealed outright at some point in Frozen was that water and anything IN the water would remain unfrozen. The time-beam can't pierce the surface of the water.]
She walked along, soon finding a small opening in the cliff side which looked it, it would lead to somewhere under the meteorite. As she walked in, she didn't notice some of the fish flopping in and out of the water like normal, appearantly unaffected by the time freeze...
[Again, reliterated. Anything underwater is unaffected by the time beam. And yes, the beam does have an official name, but it's not been revealed as of this point in the story, and I don't want to spoil too many things ahead of time, folks. :P]
****
[Now, without further ado... >_>]
Back in Twoson, another gate materialized within the Twoson forests where Sandra was about an hour ago. The gate was a lot bigger though than the one Sandra went through, about 12 feet to be exact.
[Oh just to clarify: Sandra's about 5'10" to 6' in Frozen. Yes, she's a tall one. However I also have always considered Paula to be equally tall, since both are 'twins' in Frozen. :P]
As the gate stabilized, a deafening roar was heard, and then HE stepped out of it. He was a large 11 foot creature that had the face of a blue-eyed troll, along with white hair and beard hair, wore an opened blue overcoat studded with spikes over the back, a large center-studded crown on his head, had green skin, golden boots, and among the most surprising of features, he had a another face, a sinister looking one, in the MIDDLE of his stomach.
[He's the troll equalvalent of Two-Face! XD]
Nebiroth stared around at his surroundings. This had to be the world his master's slayer had been trying to reach since his defeat. Nebiroth had been a lot smarter than the other underlings of Sardius, and staged his death at Sandra's hands during the battle almost 1 year ago.
[Uh ohes. :o]
He had been quietly trailing the pink-haired girl since she destroyed his master. He liked his master! He allowed Nebiroth to destroy whatever he wanted, and eat whatever he wanted. He was also mad at another dilliema that the cursed Pink-haired monster caused. She had killed his best friend Austorouto, and taken his cape, and she... she wanted to use the material for a wedding dress!
[Hey, what's wrong with wanting to get married someday? :P]
Pitiful humans. Nebiroth thought to himself. Nebiroth was primitive in his vocal speech, but he possessed the mind of a tactical genius. Only problem was because of his primitive tounge, only Nebiroth himself could take advantage of his own cunning.
[Eh, I kinda disprove my own words here a lot later on, but more on that THEN.]
His attacks in comparison with Sandra's were also not much to awe at: a triple stacked beam that was about as big as he was. Sure it was powerful, but it was somewhat slow and easy to dodge if prepared, as well as the fire his other face on his stomach could breathe like a trailing flamethrower. Powerful, but easy to avoid. He didn't think he'd have much chance against that Pink haired thing, but he might as well at least try to avenge his master and Austorouto while he still could.
[Eh, at least Nebiroth's not a coward. Even for an 11-foot monster, it takes guts to confront an AC like Sandra, with prior knowledge of what she can do. :P]
Roaring out "Nebiroth destroy Pink brat!" in his primative tounge, he dreadfully stomped his way out into the streets of Twoson. He took note of the Tour Guide of Twoson, frozen into position by the time freeze. "Nebiroth EAT!!" the monster shouted happy, and open his big mouth to chomp the tour guide, but her being frozen in time foiled the creatures plans for lunch. *CRACK!* Nebiroth whimpered as he realized the frozen tour guide was harder than titanium and totally unfased by his bite, as one of his teeth were now loose from the failed attempt to eat her.
[LAWL. Again reliterating the point that frozen people are "invulnerable" to most conventional damage. Even the towering and monsterous Nebiroth, likely more than twice the tour guide's size, hurts HIMSELF trying to eat her. XD]
"This insane!! People here are made of rock!" he growled half primatively, and stomped down the street angrily, leaving minor tremors in his anger induced marches. Nebiroth noticed the elderly woman, Mr. T-look-a-like, and the taxi cab in the middle of the streets, and noticed they also weren't moving like the tour guide. He cautiously walked up to the elderly woman, and half attempted a bite on her. No effect. She was also as hard as titanium, or so it seemed. Nebiroth decided to not even chance loosing his already loose tooth on the Mr. T-look-a-like, and stomped ahead.
[I pity da' foo' who tries to chomp Mr. T!]
"Nebiroth MAD! Whole world seems frozen!! No eat!! Mad!!" he stomped up and down like a child with a temper tantrum.
[You can see maturity comes naturally to our friend Nebiroth... :P Actually in fairness, this is an uncommon emotion for him to be so angry. >.>]
Of course, being a LOT bigger than most children, he shook the ground considerably. He then noticed something on the ground nearby were some concrete had been blown out. Shrapnel of a rocket-propelled grenade lay on the ground. Nebiroth picked the shrapnel up, and held it up to his nose, and smelled it, and then opened his mouth and tossed it into it, eating the sharpnel.
[Yeah, a sense of acknowledging ZXD's last post and of the RPG blast that ended up in Twoson. And Nebiroth has a strong stomach, so RPG shrapnel doesn't bother him in the slighest. :P]
"Hmm... not bad! *burp*" Nebiroth said. Hey, shrapnel was better than going hungry, he would say. He decided to continue following the street, until he came at an intersection at the Polestar preschool, taking note every person in his path was frozen into place.
[Yeah, your 'tactial' mind should take in all that information, else you'll starve yourself of knowledge as well as real food, Nebi. :P]
Something in his mind told him going towards Threed might get him more food, so he slowly stomped his way down the road, and then within 2 more minutes, into the Two-Three tunnel.
[So yeah, instead of Sandra going to Threed and inevitably getting wrapped up in the Smidgen battle, Nebiroth sorta takes her place here.
Also, from here on out, I generally write both their actions in the same post, so the post size will understandibly increase to accomedate this, and thus the posts get much much bigger for me over the course of this IF. :P]
(Nebiroth is my other AC. He will be revealed more in later posts. Yes he is sorta a bad guy, but he's not working for the people with the time ray, and he's just as confused as everyone else)
[Oh yes, Nebiroth is a special type of AC, known as a "gamer AC", or an AC heavily based off a character from an existing series/franchise. In this case, he's from "Super Ghouls N' Ghosts", as the second to last boss in that game. Yes, THAT Nebiroth. >_>
Also: picture of Nebiroth here.]
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Post #41 [Greatest Mog on Earth]
Posted by Greatest Mog On Earth (Member # 309) on :
The dark shadow of Smidgen passed over Bob. Bob stared up in absolute horror.
"Well, It looks like this is the end of me. Hey, I wonder if they have donuts in heaven." Thought Bob, although he doubted if he was going to go there.
[Yeah, its a damn good thing you DON'T die here Bob. :P]
Of course, Bob didn't die, because we're not allowed to kill each other's ACs, so instead, I'll have Brett attack Smidgen's flap of skin in a nick of time.
[XD. I kinda like the oddness of how this was worded, and how it mentions of the "No killing each others' ACs without permission" thing. At least most of we 'Frozenites' tried to follow the rules to our best knowledge, unlike many Tenguian-era writers (or people when they were still in the Tenguian era anyways).]
"Well, I'm glad I'm not dead, but my leg still hurts. Stupid broken leg. Hey, I wonder how much money I got." He thought, and his thoughts turned to The money he had so unfairly stolen from the guy at the ATM.
[One thing GMOE did really well was getting some of Bob's thought processes down, despite not know likely TOO much about Bob at this point. Bob indeed had a lot of chemical inbalances and is one of my favorite ACs in this IF who wasn't one of mine. >.>]
Meanwhile, the battle raged on. "PYROWAVE!" Shouted WareGrowlithemon, And a huge blast of fire shot at Smidgen's flap of skin.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Screamed Smidgen, beginning regeneration and turning around to face it's assaillant, which was stupid, as at that time, Zac used his Ion Cannon on the weak flap of skin.
Yes, things were looking bad for Smidgen. They had discovered his weak point and were doing a good job at exploiting it. The battle raged on, and finally, Kyle grabbed Excalabur, lifted it above Smidgen, drove it deep into that weak flap of skin, defeating Smidgen.
As smidgen lay on the ground, colored with neon green blood, Greatest Mog On Earth took notice Homicidal Bob, lying on the ground with a broken leg.
[Neon-green blood? o.O Well, that's one thing Kirby and Buu really DIDN'T do, which was bleed.]
"Hey, it's a Teddy Bear!" said Bob, as GMOE flew over him. He said "I wonder if it can-" "Hold still, this might hurt." GMOE cut him off as he grabbed Bob's broken leg and began to glow.
"Well, what did that do except hurt me!?" Demanded Bob.
GMOE just grinned and said "Stand up."
"What?! You've gottat be crazy! I'll just hurt myself more! Crazy cat thing..."
[GMOE is still getting called "Teddy-Cat" sometimes. XD And it's even more obvious Bob never played many video games since he doesn't recognize GMOE as a Moogle.]
GMOE lifted Bob to his feet, and, to Bob's delight, it didn't hurt any more. GMOE had healed his wounds.
[Second instance of someone using healing powers in the IF. Still far from the last. :P]
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The dark shadow of Smidgen passed over Bob. Bob stared up in absolute horror.
"Well, It looks like this is the end of me. Hey, I wonder if they have donuts in heaven." Thought Bob, although he doubted if he was going to go there.
[Yeah, its a damn good thing you DON'T die here Bob. :P]
Of course, Bob didn't die, because we're not allowed to kill each other's ACs, so instead, I'll have Brett attack Smidgen's flap of skin in a nick of time.
[XD. I kinda like the oddness of how this was worded, and how it mentions of the "No killing each others' ACs without permission" thing. At least most of we 'Frozenites' tried to follow the rules to our best knowledge, unlike many Tenguian-era writers (or people when they were still in the Tenguian era anyways).]
"Well, I'm glad I'm not dead, but my leg still hurts. Stupid broken leg. Hey, I wonder how much money I got." He thought, and his thoughts turned to The money he had so unfairly stolen from the guy at the ATM.
[One thing GMOE did really well was getting some of Bob's thought processes down, despite not know likely TOO much about Bob at this point. Bob indeed had a lot of chemical inbalances and is one of my favorite ACs in this IF who wasn't one of mine. >.>]
Meanwhile, the battle raged on. "PYROWAVE!" Shouted WareGrowlithemon, And a huge blast of fire shot at Smidgen's flap of skin.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Screamed Smidgen, beginning regeneration and turning around to face it's assaillant, which was stupid, as at that time, Zac used his Ion Cannon on the weak flap of skin.
Yes, things were looking bad for Smidgen. They had discovered his weak point and were doing a good job at exploiting it. The battle raged on, and finally, Kyle grabbed Excalabur, lifted it above Smidgen, drove it deep into that weak flap of skin, defeating Smidgen.
As smidgen lay on the ground, colored with neon green blood, Greatest Mog On Earth took notice Homicidal Bob, lying on the ground with a broken leg.
[Neon-green blood? o.O Well, that's one thing Kirby and Buu really DIDN'T do, which was bleed.]
"Hey, it's a Teddy Bear!" said Bob, as GMOE flew over him. He said "I wonder if it can-" "Hold still, this might hurt." GMOE cut him off as he grabbed Bob's broken leg and began to glow.
"Well, what did that do except hurt me!?" Demanded Bob.
GMOE just grinned and said "Stand up."
"What?! You've gottat be crazy! I'll just hurt myself more! Crazy cat thing..."
[GMOE is still getting called "Teddy-Cat" sometimes. XD And it's even more obvious Bob never played many video games since he doesn't recognize GMOE as a Moogle.]
GMOE lifted Bob to his feet, and, to Bob's delight, it didn't hurt any more. GMOE had healed his wounds.
[Second instance of someone using healing powers in the IF. Still far from the last. :P]
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Post #40 [Zero X. Diamond]
Posted by Zero X. Diamond (Member # 654) on :
Bob was lying on the ground, appearing to be shocked. He was flopping about on the ground like a dying fish. He finally managed to take a deep breath.
"Man, this sucks! I'm covered in drool!" he shouted angrily.
[Yeah, few people would like getting eaten and spit out. x.x]
He leapt screaming through the air. Poor Smidgen didn't figure on this one being so much trouble.
"YOU'RE GONNA FRIGGIN' PAY FOR THIS!"
[Another famous Happy Bob quote. :P]
A knife landed in Smidgen's forehead. The force knocked the creature back a little. It seemed to be confused.
"How you hurt me like that when you no have power?"
["Also me talk like Buu!" :P]
"I have power beyond your comprehension. I have the power of HOMICIDE!"
[What kind of mystical energy is this "HOMICIDE"? :o]
He pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and stuck it under a fold of skin in the back of his neck. The trigger pulled and a shower of innards came out of Smidgen, along with the afformentioned "pearl." This time, WereGrowlithmon was too fast for Smidgen.
[Ouch. Sawed-off is nasty in close range, since it's meant to be spread out over a long distance. Take it from an avid FPS player. :P]
"You want this? Huh? You want this?"
Smidgen was too busy regenerating to care. The blast from the shotgun was pretty nasty. Yet, how come the other, much stronger attacks made on him hadn't done so much damage? Perhaps he had found a weak spot.
[Yeah, there's a weak point for Smidgen in this half of the battle. It won't stick around forever though. >_>]
Now Bob pulled out a much stronger weapon, the RPG Launcher.
[LOL. Now another Bob tidbit. Bob might have lacked mystical powers, but he had a large arsenal of conventional melee and gun-type weapons, as noted by the RPG Launcher, Sawed-Off Shotgun and his big knife. He'll also pull out another 'famous' weapon in a latter fight. :P]
He once again stuck it under the fold in the skin. By now, the fur was completely gone from Smidgen, and he was ready to get it back. He easily threw Bob off, who fired the grenade into the air. It came down quite a ways away, blowing chunks of pavement everywhere in Twoson. (Yes, it went rather far. It was a ROCKET Propelled Grenade.)
[Yeah... I'll go into it more when I get around to it. >.>]
Bob was lying there on the ground, a little blood dripping out of his nose. He laughed a bit.
"Wow, now that's the kind of challenge I've been waiting for!"
[Yeah, Bob was very loose up in the head for quite some time. But this is sanity compared to his appearance in the IF "Foppy's Day Out", which sorta precedes this IF in a chronological sense, but yet not.]
He stood up with ease. But then he screamed in pain and fell down. Apparently, he'd been thrown down harder than he had thought. His leg was broken.
[I don't get how you'd not notice your leg being broken BEFORE you get up. Of course, I've never broken a limb in my life, so I can't say this is accurate complaining. :P]
"Argh... stupid mother... if anyone cares to take my word for it, aim for the fold of skin in his back!"
[Yeah, we had some creative ways of 'cursing' in Frozen. XD]
He slouched over, holding his leg in pain. He couldn't move; the pain was actually too much for him. It looked rather bleak for Bob today...
[When does it NOT look bleak for poor Bobby-boy? :(]
[AC/Post Ratio: 16:40(2:5).]
Bob was lying on the ground, appearing to be shocked. He was flopping about on the ground like a dying fish. He finally managed to take a deep breath.
"Man, this sucks! I'm covered in drool!" he shouted angrily.
[Yeah, few people would like getting eaten and spit out. x.x]
He leapt screaming through the air. Poor Smidgen didn't figure on this one being so much trouble.
"YOU'RE GONNA FRIGGIN' PAY FOR THIS!"
[Another famous Happy Bob quote. :P]
A knife landed in Smidgen's forehead. The force knocked the creature back a little. It seemed to be confused.
"How you hurt me like that when you no have power?"
["Also me talk like Buu!" :P]
"I have power beyond your comprehension. I have the power of HOMICIDE!"
[What kind of mystical energy is this "HOMICIDE"? :o]
He pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and stuck it under a fold of skin in the back of his neck. The trigger pulled and a shower of innards came out of Smidgen, along with the afformentioned "pearl." This time, WereGrowlithmon was too fast for Smidgen.
[Ouch. Sawed-off is nasty in close range, since it's meant to be spread out over a long distance. Take it from an avid FPS player. :P]
"You want this? Huh? You want this?"
Smidgen was too busy regenerating to care. The blast from the shotgun was pretty nasty. Yet, how come the other, much stronger attacks made on him hadn't done so much damage? Perhaps he had found a weak spot.
[Yeah, there's a weak point for Smidgen in this half of the battle. It won't stick around forever though. >_>]
Now Bob pulled out a much stronger weapon, the RPG Launcher.
[LOL. Now another Bob tidbit. Bob might have lacked mystical powers, but he had a large arsenal of conventional melee and gun-type weapons, as noted by the RPG Launcher, Sawed-Off Shotgun and his big knife. He'll also pull out another 'famous' weapon in a latter fight. :P]
He once again stuck it under the fold in the skin. By now, the fur was completely gone from Smidgen, and he was ready to get it back. He easily threw Bob off, who fired the grenade into the air. It came down quite a ways away, blowing chunks of pavement everywhere in Twoson. (Yes, it went rather far. It was a ROCKET Propelled Grenade.)
[Yeah... I'll go into it more when I get around to it. >.>]
Bob was lying there on the ground, a little blood dripping out of his nose. He laughed a bit.
"Wow, now that's the kind of challenge I've been waiting for!"
[Yeah, Bob was very loose up in the head for quite some time. But this is sanity compared to his appearance in the IF "Foppy's Day Out", which sorta precedes this IF in a chronological sense, but yet not.]
He stood up with ease. But then he screamed in pain and fell down. Apparently, he'd been thrown down harder than he had thought. His leg was broken.
[I don't get how you'd not notice your leg being broken BEFORE you get up. Of course, I've never broken a limb in my life, so I can't say this is accurate complaining. :P]
"Argh... stupid mother... if anyone cares to take my word for it, aim for the fold of skin in his back!"
[Yeah, we had some creative ways of 'cursing' in Frozen. XD]
He slouched over, holding his leg in pain. He couldn't move; the pain was actually too much for him. It looked rather bleak for Bob today...
[When does it NOT look bleak for poor Bobby-boy? :(]
[AC/Post Ratio: 16:40(2:5).]
Post #39 [SuperSpeedy]
Posted by Happy Noodle Boy isn't SuperSpeedy (Member # 350) on :
"FLAMING SWORD OF BATTLE" shouted Smidgen and WereGrrowlithmon. The two were duking it out like crazy.
Suddenly, someone just drop-kicked Smidgen out of nowhere! Smidgen spit out a glowing, orange-and-black pearl. WereGrowlithmon picked it up to examine it.
[Yeah, I'm not fully sure myself what the "pearl" was meant to represent. Maybe it was something akin to Majin Buu's "people pods" that he drew on to absorb the powers from his enemies in Dragonball Z.]
"This is really odd," said WereGrowlithmon.
Smidgen quickly grabbed it and pressed it deep into his skin. When WereGrowlithmon looked at Smidgen, his orange-and-black fur was a bit thin. Suddenly, it was bad into a thick and glossy state.
GULP! SPEW!
"YUCKY!" shouted Smidgen, upon spitting out a saliva covered Happy Bob. "Nothing from you? I pity that, foo'!"
[I pity tha' foo' who talks like Mr. T! XD]
~~~~the now dubbed "EVIL" spacestation~~~~
[lol. "EVIL" spacestation. :D]
"I've got it!" shouted the lead scientist. "I've got the perfect back-up weapon!" shouted the lead scientist. He grabbed the captain and started to drag him to the lab.
"I'm kinda busy!" shouted the captain.
[Yeah, he could shoot you dead just for dragging him along like you are. :P]
At the lab, the scientist showed him a computer screen. It showed a knight in black armor.
"A knight?" said the captain. "That's what you drag me down here for?"
"Have you heard of Digimon?" asked the scientist.
"Yeah," said the captain. "Some stupid merchandising chain aimed at kids. Why? Are they real? Did you make one?"
[Okay, this might sound a bit cheesy of a concept to some. You might think, "how can aliens know about Digimon/other-series/etc?" Well, remember television and radio waves eventually leave Earth's atmosphere and spread outwards, so theoretically, alien species do eventually receive these, and it's established later these aliens do have something akin to TVs and Radios, so it's not as far-fetched as you think. >.>]
"Yes, and yes," said the scientist. "That is ChaosDukemon, the unholy knight. Mega level."
"That's not bad," said the captain. "But why a Digimon? We could make better creatures!"
"Because I've noticed that the group of fighters resistant to the field has two Mega-level Digimon fighting with them. Eliminate them, and we vastly weaken the group."
[Yes, it's actually a pretty solid plan there. It's best to know your enemies and their nature. Having something that can work to counter those enemies is always helpful. You get my point. :P]
"Great!" shouted the captain. "Send him immediately!"
"Actually, I need to modify the *coughcough* control device. This may take an hour."
"Fine. Call me when it's done."
(I used ChaosDukemon as his name, because I wasn't sure what his American name would be. And that's his name in Japan. Want a picture? Clickie!)
[First note: "Clickie" was a link to a picture of the aformented ChaosDukemon, but it was on a geocities site, and geocities went down for good a couple of months before this blog was started. :\
Secondly, ChaosDukemon [or ChaosGallentmon as he'd be more well known as later] is actually our THIRD major enemy of the story. Even though he's not made yet, this is basically his introduction. :P]
[AC/Post Ratio: 16:39. Major Enemies Introduced: 3. Major Enemies Killed: 1]
"FLAMING SWORD OF BATTLE" shouted Smidgen and WereGrrowlithmon. The two were duking it out like crazy.
Suddenly, someone just drop-kicked Smidgen out of nowhere! Smidgen spit out a glowing, orange-and-black pearl. WereGrowlithmon picked it up to examine it.
[Yeah, I'm not fully sure myself what the "pearl" was meant to represent. Maybe it was something akin to Majin Buu's "people pods" that he drew on to absorb the powers from his enemies in Dragonball Z.]
"This is really odd," said WereGrowlithmon.
Smidgen quickly grabbed it and pressed it deep into his skin. When WereGrowlithmon looked at Smidgen, his orange-and-black fur was a bit thin. Suddenly, it was bad into a thick and glossy state.
GULP! SPEW!
"YUCKY!" shouted Smidgen, upon spitting out a saliva covered Happy Bob. "Nothing from you? I pity that, foo'!"
[I pity tha' foo' who talks like Mr. T! XD]
~~~~the now dubbed "EVIL" spacestation~~~~
[lol. "EVIL" spacestation. :D]
"I've got it!" shouted the lead scientist. "I've got the perfect back-up weapon!" shouted the lead scientist. He grabbed the captain and started to drag him to the lab.
"I'm kinda busy!" shouted the captain.
[Yeah, he could shoot you dead just for dragging him along like you are. :P]
At the lab, the scientist showed him a computer screen. It showed a knight in black armor.
"A knight?" said the captain. "That's what you drag me down here for?"
"Have you heard of Digimon?" asked the scientist.
"Yeah," said the captain. "Some stupid merchandising chain aimed at kids. Why? Are they real? Did you make one?"
[Okay, this might sound a bit cheesy of a concept to some. You might think, "how can aliens know about Digimon/other-series/etc?" Well, remember television and radio waves eventually leave Earth's atmosphere and spread outwards, so theoretically, alien species do eventually receive these, and it's established later these aliens do have something akin to TVs and Radios, so it's not as far-fetched as you think. >.>]
"Yes, and yes," said the scientist. "That is ChaosDukemon, the unholy knight. Mega level."
"That's not bad," said the captain. "But why a Digimon? We could make better creatures!"
"Because I've noticed that the group of fighters resistant to the field has two Mega-level Digimon fighting with them. Eliminate them, and we vastly weaken the group."
[Yes, it's actually a pretty solid plan there. It's best to know your enemies and their nature. Having something that can work to counter those enemies is always helpful. You get my point. :P]
"Great!" shouted the captain. "Send him immediately!"
"Actually, I need to modify the *coughcough* control device. This may take an hour."
"Fine. Call me when it's done."
(I used ChaosDukemon as his name, because I wasn't sure what his American name would be. And that's his name in Japan. Want a picture? Clickie!)
[First note: "Clickie" was a link to a picture of the aformented ChaosDukemon, but it was on a geocities site, and geocities went down for good a couple of months before this blog was started. :\
Secondly, ChaosDukemon [or ChaosGallentmon as he'd be more well known as later] is actually our THIRD major enemy of the story. Even though he's not made yet, this is basically his introduction. :P]
[AC/Post Ratio: 16:39. Major Enemies Introduced: 3. Major Enemies Killed: 1]
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