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--Zi-O Wizard Armor--
Interaction:@Thatguyinastore@Attesa@Second2Last

"Woah, a ghost!" Sougo yelped, seeing Lilith follow the group. "You must be with us then...You almost scared me there." He sighed, advancing through the building until...

"Well that's not right. Did we make a wrong turn somewhere?" Sougo asked as they reached what seems to be a luxurious looking hall, completely different from what would be the very place that Superman had destroyed. What is this?

As he pondered this, a manic laughter erupted out of nowhere, echoing through this lone, long hallway. This voice was rather scratchy, almost insane. Regardless, it explained that they're somewhere else entirely.

ZIKAN GIRADE! KEN!

Sougo materiliazed what seems to be a sword with a clockhand as its main motif. It has a large guard which seems to resemble a gun's hammer with a large slot as big as one of the watches in Sougo's belt.

"Everyone, be careful." Sougo says, advancing slowly after Joel. "Somehow, I've got a bad feeling about this."

...

He jinxed it, didn't he?

--Penny Polendina--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@Crow@SomeMekBoy

"...!" Penny gasped upon inspecting the situation through her infrared vision--it seems that there's a hostage situation at the same time as Superman's attack! There seems to be some gas seeping in where she detected these signatures. It was then that Amazo offered his services. "There seems to be a hostage situation occurring in this building." She turned to what seems to be a featureless humanoid robot, whom she thought she saw turn into a copy of herself before it smoothened itself out. Like clay being rolled back into a ball after it molded into something...That's a thought for another time. "We must free them posthaste!" She said, flying in front of the blocked window. From her back sprouted blades that seem to float. To the keen eye, there seems to be tiny strings attached to them, connecting the swords to its user.

The swords formed tiny groups as which beams of green Dust shot out, carving a hole large enough for the hostages to run through. The swords then shot towards the sides of the hole before pulling her arms back, pulling the wall off of the building, allowing the smoke the seep out and hopefully, no longer affect the hostages.

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--Zi-O Wizard Armor--
Interaction:@Thatguyinastore@Attesa

Sougo dropped the boulder and withdrew his arm from the circle as the girl was freed and ran out of the building. He nodded at the survivor as they moved deeper into the building, bracing themselves for more rescues and of course, the fight of their lives.

--Penny Polendina--
Interaction:@Thatguyinastore@Crow@ratking @Flybys

Hearing the coughs of those trapped within, Penny would approach the one that was the nearest, attempting to use infrared vision to detect human heat signatures within the building.

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--Zi-O Wizard Armor--
Interaction:[@Thatguyinatore]@Attesa

"Stand back!" Sougo says, raising his hand to the side as a magic circle appeared in front of him. "Big, please!" He chanted out as he put his arm through the circle, coming out as a giant fucking arm on the other side. This arm would easily lift the boulder, allowing the trapped girl to move as Sougo strained to hold it up. Even though his arm's now big, a boulder is still a boulder. Crushing it would risk her, too, so doing this should be enough for now.

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ACT 1

"Down and Dirty"

--Sougo Tokiwa || Penny Polendina--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@SomeMekBoy @StrikeTeam/CivilianRescueForce
Zi-O Wizard Armor Rescue Team: @Attesa

As everyone formed teams to combat the supposed alien threat, Sougo glanced at Luthor one more time--for someone who's supposed to be a concerned party, he seemed...Lax. Regardless, he didn't exactly have the time to chat with his new team as suddenly--a nearby building shook with a mighty explosion! At its epicenter was a floating figure, donning a bright red cape. A sinister S adorned its chest, its insignia--his symbol.

Superman.

Luthor then stood, seeing his sworn enemy fly away to destroy more.

"Right. Let's go!" Sougo nodded, soon taking out a white buckle with two jutting slots on it. He attached it onto his waist, a belt wrapping tightly around his body with a loud 'ZIKU DRIVER!'.

Led out of Luthor's company building, it's obvious to see how much terror Superman's doing. People running around in a panic--the building that blew up appeared to be on fire, too. Smoke rising through broken windows. There's still people in there!

It was there that the Emissary of Hell gave his next instruction--all those who can scale the building from the outside, do so and catch the civilians.

"Copy that! Beginning mission!" Penny nodded, as she started floating. Green flame spewing out of her soles as her long orange hair shook in the wind. It's then that she flew around the building, ascending bit by bit as she carefully inspected each window to ensure that no man was left stranded. Whenever she found one, she'd hold them in her arms until she reached the top.

ZI-O! WIZARD!

Sougo, meanwhile, had decided to go inside and save those he can with the safety net now in place. He needed to suit up before going, though, and took out two pocketwatches of sorts, its faces appeared to be visors of mechanical helmets. One spelling RIDER in katakana while the other was simply a red gemstone of some kind.

Sougo shoved the watches on both ends of the Ziku Driver before pressing the top crown, causing the device to shift in weight on the Zi-O side. A giant clock face manifested behind Sougo, spinning counterclockwise as Sougo stretched his arms on his rightside before uttering that word once more.

"Henshin!" Sougo shouted, flicking his hands as his left arm turned, making the Driver spin with his hand. The clock behind him quickly shifted, rotating clockwise as its hand spun back wildly before stopping on a 12. A Grandfather's clock chimed as pink katakana spelling 'RIDER' appeared on the face, the hands now pointing on 2 and 10, long and short hands respectively.

RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER! ZI-O~

The clock broke apart as vintage watch-strap like rings formed around Sougo, orbiting around the young King as his suit manifested on his body. The pink letters shrinking and forming the visors on the clock-rider's face.

ARMOR TIME! PLEASE! WI!ZAR~D!

The Driver announced as Sougo rushed into the building with the others, a magic circle above the king, following him. As it came down on Zi-O, the magic circle transformed into a mechanical looking chestpiece, changing Zi-O's headplate to match the gemstone-like visor seen in the Wizardwatch. In this armor, Zi-O is granted Magical powers. From using Magic Circles as shields and portals, to creating magical binds and enlargening body parts. However, while he can only use pyrokinesis as a base, he can shout out other elemental spells--mostly the special rings like Lightning and Blizzard.

He worked alongside an anthropomorphic grey wolf with a blue sword of flames, with Sougo merely punching through the falling rubble instead.

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--Sougo Tokiwa--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@SomeMekBoy@ProfSpacecakes@RirisStride1 @EveryoneElse

"...I agree." Sougo nods, sighing as he hears Luthor's reasoning in doing this for him. They don't have much of a choice, do they? Even if they decided to just live here, there wouldn't be a place to live in if this place gets destroyed.

It was then that a man in a spider hero costume reminiscent of the Emissary of Hell, SUPAIDAH-MAN from that old 90s Hero Show, came forth and suggested splitting into teams. One for intel, one for tactics, and one for attacking. Sougo isn't smart, so the 1st one's out. However...

As Sougo was thinking about this, a blonde muscle man with a booming voice rallied the group, stating that Superman is indeed someone they must focus on if they were to even have a choice. This man then proceeded to ask about everyone's skills. I guess it's time.

Following that, there's that blue clad man's suggestion into splitting up into smaller groups to maximize efficiency.

"I'm Sougo Tokiwa--or I guess since we won't be needing secret identities, Kamen Rider Zi-O." Sougo stood up, introducing himself. "I can see into the future. Well, about a few seconds into it at most." Sougo stood up, facing the blonde leader. "I'll volunteer to be in the Strike Team. I think can fill in an all-rounder combat role there. I do have about 20 Powers I can use in my disposal--not counting my ability to summon the original users of those powers and their vast array of other powers and abilities, although a few at a time." He says, scratching his cheek. "I don't have any other suggestions that might work, so I'll be following your lead as to who else would be with me." He glanced at the blue clad man, seeing as he's the one who suggested the sub teams within the major teams.

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Name: Beri Anne Garrison

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Canon: God Eater 2 Rage Burst (Main Character OC)

Main Thread or Sandbox: Sandbox

Starting Location (SANDBOX ONLY): Gotham

Personality:

An overall stubborn, hard headed woman, who became a God Eater to make a living for herself. Despite this, Beri is seen as a kind and overall gentle person, always attempting to look out for her team. Beri is also a woman who finds humor in almost any situation to the point of being overly sarcastic despite not meaning to.

Beri is also an emotionally charged woman, giving into her emotions even in the midst of battle. During her encounter with the revived Rachel Claudius in the Spiral Tree, Beri attacked her without hesitation--wanting her gone after what she did to her superior and former Captain, Julius. In combat, Beri is reckless, charging in with little to no plan, which ends up with her being incapacitated most of the fight and having her companions help her up, despite being the leader of her squad. Despite this, Beri is a fighter who doesn't know when to back down, even if it costs her own life. Beri is known to cuss a lot during combat.

Equipment:




God Arc ~ Beri’s own personal weapon. A God Arc is essentially a living, non sentient weapon. It can only be held by its wielder. Anyone else, and they’ll get a veinful of Oracle Cells rejecting them--which would lead to infection, and mutation into an Aragami. Beri’s God Arc is a Buster Blade, a large sword which can increase and decrease its length by either retracting the blade onto itself, or by initiating a Charge Crush, which condenses Oracle Cells around the God Arc, creating a slightly longer blade. Its sides can enlarge into a shield, which, well, shields Beri from attacks.



A God Arc can transform from a Melee weapon to a Ranged Weapon. Beri's ranged weapon is the Blast Gun, which specializes in explosives. Using Oracle Cells, Beri can load her weapon to fire 6 types of bullets. Normal type, which has no attributes. Healing Bullets, which heals and/or repairs allies. Divine, Fire, Ice, and Spark, which are elemental bullets.

Bias Factor Kit ~ A Kit of Bias Factors. Allows God Eaters like Beri to keep functioning without becoming infected themselves. These Bias Factors are usually injected directly onto their bracelets. God Eaters need this to survive.

Attributes:

God Eater Physiology ~ As a God Eater, Beri is someone that’s...Sort of human. A God Eater is essentially one that’s been injected with Oracle Cells to wield a God Arc. Oracle Cells are destructive cells that devour just about anything--like a living nanomite built to demolish, but on a more biological scale. Beri comes from a world where Oracle Cells are able to be researched and weaponized. In anycase, as a God Eater, Beri is granted enhanced jumping ability, strength to lift her God Arc, and of course, enhanced durability.

Blood Rage ~ As the only God Eater outfitted with Resonance Control, Beri is able to become completely invincible and enhance their strength and speed tenfold. However, it doesn’t last very long as Blood Rage only has 2 minutes of active time.(3 to 5 posts tops), and it causes Beri to become berserk. It’s time limit can apparently be increased depending on Beri’s emotional state. Beri had reportedly gone Blood Rage for over 5 minutes when one of her ‘students’, Kanon Daiba became injured during a large scale defense operation and went unconscious. Beri activated Blood Rage in an instant without initiating Resonance Control and annihilated her targets that day and went off to ensure Kanon’s survival before passing out herself.

Evoke ~ Beri’s Blood Power. Constantly active, it allows Beri to essentially unlock latent abilities hidden within one’s God Arc by communicating with its oracle cells. Evoke may also work for other powered individuals by inciting a subtle reaction that would lead to unlocking a new power..

Biography:

Beri enlisted as a God Eater, with the potential to become a Blood member and wield a 3rd generation God Arc. After passing the test s/he is admitted to the Blood unit for the potential of their dormant "Power of Blood" joining at the same moment as Nana Kozuki. After gaining experience as God Eater and become more acquainted with fellow Blood members Julius and Romeo, during a mission Beri is assaulted by an aragami known as Marduk, she awakens her blood power while scarring its left eye, which earns them the position of vice-captain. Beri's Blood Power is to evoke the usage of dormant powers in others, especially non-Blood members, and the ability to amplify power of will. After being appointed as vice-captain, she becomes friends with Blood's newcomer Ciel Alencon at her request. When finding that Ciel was in danger during a mission, she decided to ignore orders, climbing into a God Arc Soldier to save thier friend. This results in her getting locked up for disobeying orders, for an unknown amount of time.

When moved to the Far East Branch, Beri meets many new God Eaters, helps taking down psions and helps their fellow Blood member with some of their own personal struggles. The poeple of the Far East Branch also mentioned how she acts very similar to a certain person they know. After the Romeo's death and Julius' depart from the Blood Team, she becomes the new captain at Julius request. They hear the truth of the current happenings at Friar from Leah, she along with their fellow Blood members, Yuno and other God Eater situated at the Far East at the time, decided to stop Rachel's plans and save Julius. Reaching Friar they were too late as Julius already became a singularity and the however she uses their evoke blood power to amplify with yuno's song to counter Julius' singularity power. They manage to avert the devouring apocalypse but fail in retrieving Julius. They continue to work with their remaining Blood colleagues in the fight against the aragami and protect the Spiral Tree where Juulius resides in.

Some time has passed since the fight against the Singularity, when oned day the Far East is visited by Isaac Feldman and his subordinate Livie who temporarily joins Blood to investigate the current situation of the Spiral Tree which had been contaminated. During this time Licca was able to develop a unique ability known as Blood Rage which serves as a power-up during battle and only Beri can able to use. Blood, along with a few members of Cradle and Units from the Far East Branch all took part in the later investigations that would take place, until Blood found that the cause of all the issues as Rachel. In a last effort to stop her Blood heads into the spiral tree in a last effort to stop her. They manage to defeat her, but Rachel is able to restrain the team and heads to Julius to begin the devouring apocalypse. With sheer determination Beri breaks free of Rachel's control and rescues Julius taking down Rachel before she starts the devouring apocalypse.

An awakened Julius apologises for his mistakes, when the protagonist reasurres him that he's not alone and that blood including Romeo will alwyas be together. To stop the apocalypse, everyone uses their blood power to amplify Romeo's with Beri's, using her Rage Burst ability to strengthen it managing to not stop it, but slow down the apocalypse and prevent the destruction of the world. Because of this Blood also lost their armlet's becoming humans again, though with a choice to become God Eaters once more. After a talk with her colleagues Blood, everyone concluded that they all still wish to become God Eaters once more as Beri leads a newly Blood, with the return of Romeo, Julius and a permanent inclusion of Livie.

Months later, Beri passes on leadership to Romeo and joins Cradle, where she bounces from Satellite Base to Satellite Base as a guard.

Other: Beri is under a constant time limit. If she doesn’t take a Bias Factor to keep her Oracle Cells in check, an Aragami infection will occur, which will gradually transform her into an Aragmi. There were rare cases where the Aragmi Infection didn't fully transform her into a monster, but that is mostly up to chance.

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--Sougo Tokiwa--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@cadesmith

Before Sougo could even ask what Luthor meant by his answer, the room darkened, with the sole light being a holographic image emitted from the table. Sougo had seen this sort of tech before--it's from the future! At least, on his world it would be.

Finally, Luthor revealed their location; Metropolis. Sougo hadn't heard of such a place before, which confirmed his suspicions that he was indeed in another world. Insert Onore Decado joke here. In anycase, it seems that this city, Metropolis, had an alien protector--Superman of Krypton. From the video, it seems that he can fly. Not to mention...His strength. Brutally demonstrated as him flying through buildings, lasers beaming out of his eyes, melting mere innocents--misusing the strength to kill, not save. This made Sougo a bit uncomfortable.

It reminded him too much of his future self, Ohma. Revered as a hero by some, yet at the same time, cruel and tyrannical in nature.

As the lights turned back on, Luthor had a face full of someone's fist. An angry father, demanding an explanation as to why he and his daughter were dragged into a seemingly unwinnable fight. By the looks of things, yes, he is strong. But judging by Luthor's ways...He may have found a way to defeat him.

Luthor then explained that with the Justice League busy on another planet, he needed to drag people in. His explanation was sound...But something about this whole situation feels off. As Fret was panicking about making everyone calm for now, Sougo felt something pierce through his head--a migraine, as images of costumed heroes flashed through his mind. Sougo's Retrocognition activated again without his consent, allowing him to see glimpses into Superman's past. These memories...Were of Superman working with the League.

"Nngh..." Sougo groaned, rubbing his temple. A side effect of this ability which activated on fate's whims. Sougo couldn't master this ability, as he didn't even know what triggered it in the first place. He wasn't sure if what he saw is true, but...He might as well ask. "H...How do we know the League wouldn't come to his aid during all this?" Sougo asked, raising a hand. "I, uh...Had a vision that this Superman had deep ties with the Justice League, and was wondering if that's gonna be a problem if we don't manage to finish this in time."

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--Sougo Tokiwa || Penny Polendina--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@cadesmith@ClownTown

So they're here to take care of something for him? Seems...Strange to drag away a group of powered misfits just for a hit. Although it might be worrisome enough that maybe Sougo should hear him out--that's what a King would do, I think.

"Um..." Sougo raised his hand, as if to ask a question. "What exactly do you want us to take care of, exactly?" Sougo asks, "If you have to gather this many for just one 'bounty', it sounds like it'll be extremely dangerous. Not that anything isn't, really..." He wanted to know why they were gathered. Listening in from the others, it seems they were meticulously selected only by combat standards, but by other standards as well. This made him glance at Fret--who had sat beside him. At first glance, Tousai Furesawa seems like an ordinary, popular kid. Stylish hair, piercings, trendy clothes...It's hard to imagine that he'll be a part of the combat standard.

Then again, his personality suggests otherwise. While amiable and friendly, Tousai's hardheaded--much like a friend of him, Geiz...Tousai already saw one of his weapons, the Faizphone X, when he saved him from getting hit by The Delinquent. Even then, Sougo believed that it's still far too early to show off his actual gear. Meaning, it's still too early to pry on what Tousai can do, exactly.

Penny, meanwhile, overheard that a fellow robot had attempted to make a connection to this area's network, which, Penny didn't even know it had. She couldn't connect to any of Atlas' networks before, nor can she seem to contact anyone she knows. Still, Penny herself can't exactly view anything other than messages and video files. Surfing the Internet is a new concept to her.

Penny stands beside the couch as she listens in to what was essentially a briefing, wondering the reason for her abduction.

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--Sougo Tokiwa || Penny Polendina--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@YamperZZZ@cadesmith[@NotJeff]@GaaraoftheSand

As much as Sougo wouldn't want to admit, the Delinquent, while in direct bladepoint from the bichromal man he spoke to first, raised a good point. If Luthor didn't want them all dying, then why would he even bring them here in the first place?

Before Sougo could truly give his thoughts, a woman clad in what seems to be a one piece dress coat complete with a military cap one would see in nazi cosplays appeared in front of the cage yet again. Her gaze...Was terrifying, but felt rather homey to the bizarre King of Time. It reminded him of Tsukuyomi, who used to glare at him that way when they first met.

Honestly, this whole situation felt a tad nostalgic with Sougo's memories intact.

In anycase, the woman held a remote, pressing a button which opened a door in front of the cage--their freedom, with the reminder that Luthor is about to meet them. Seems rather formal. Sougo can't help but feel as if he's about to meet the Principal--despite not doing anything except maybe failing algebra a couple of times. He walked along with Fret, whom he trusts as his friend for now.

"It seems it's time, sir." Penny spoke to Gaara, whom she briefly conversed. She gave a courteous bow, "I'm afraid I must proceed. Farewell." She said, rather awkwardly. Usually Ruby...No, Ruby would've fumbled that conversation as well. Penny was just more awkward. A lot has been going through the android's mind. From the fact that she's now the Winter Maiden, to Salem's sudden appearance, to...Well, her being ousted from the Atlas Military due to becoming the Maiden instead of Winter Schnee. She's still processing all of this, it seems.

As she walked towards the opened elevator, Penny bumped into a brown haired man clad in a simple shirt and brown slacks--topped with a pink cardigan coat. Sougo Tokiwa, who was walking along with his newfound allies.

"Oh, sorry!" Penny apologized as Sougo winced, rubbing his shoulder. Somehow, he felt as if something incredibly hard had bumped into him--like a bat of some kind. "I wasn't looking where I was going."

"It's fine." Sougo nodded, chuckling a bit. "This day has been weird for all of us." He said, as Penny walked alongside Sougo and his friend.

There was very little time to converse though, as they reached the top floor in mere moments, granting them entry to what seems to be a fancy looking office. Sitting on the desk across the elevator entrance was a bald man with a stern glare, yet his voice was oddly...Calm. He's like a business man, judging by the suit and tie he sported, as well as his nigh stone faced demeanor, fingers interlocking.

This man introduced himself as Lex Luthor--the man who brought them here.

Sougo cautiously stepped forth, eyes glancing all over this fancy room. The air is heavy here. It could be cut open with a knife--probably due to the prior scuffle between most of them, but rather...It's Luthor. For a businessman, he seems to know how Multiverses works--and managed to drag them onto this one. Not to mention, he'd captured some improbable individuals--almost as if he's forming an army of some kind. It didn't take long for Sougo to piece together that Luthor holds a vast networth and, true to corruption in its core, holds great power over...Wherever this is.

Sougo slowly sat on the couch nearby, seeing as this is one of those situations where the people he's meeting are supposed to sit on the couch...Although there's way too many people for this couch.

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--Sougo Tokiwa--
Interaction: @Thatguyinastore@cadesmith@ClownTown@SomeMekBoy@YamperZZZ@TheRealMonaMona

Listening to the Delinquent's status, it seems that he's fine--save for the fact that appearently, there's a feud going on at the opposite side of the cage, caused by some metal person. A robot? Sougo hasn't seen one of those in a good while.

"Yeah, that's me. Good thing I remembered it can do that, too. I didn't wanna resort to using something lethal to innocents...Which hardly describes you, I guess." Sougo sighs as he got up, letting out a nervous chuckle as he is asked by the Delinquent if he was the one who shot him. Before he could answer and say that he's forgiven though, Fret stepped in this time, stepping between the two. Oh dear. "H-hey, he's not threatening us this time, Tousai-kun. I'm pretty sure he's the victim here." Sougo tried to calm Fret down and hopefully not escalate the situation any further.

Sougo's curiosity made him glance to where the Delinquent was thrown from. There were a LOT of people in armor, but one of them stood out the most--a silver robot with glowing red features. It appeared like a bulky skeleton, with horns on the side of its head--like a demon of some kind. People are gathering around him, and it seems like he's making quite a stir. "Geez...He looks like a comic book villain, that guy." Sougo says, "Is he the one who threw you?" He asked, wanting to both steer away from trouble for now, and of course, prepare himself for it.