By this point, Tactical Triumvirate S.T.A.C.-Y.’s focused barrage was beginning to have a telling effect, so much so, in fact, that it had prompted the most extreme response from their foe yet. Morphing one of her mighty appendages into a massive, wickedly sharp cleaver, Oros the Savage swept it across the trio in an attempt to slice all three of them in two. Of course, the bioroids’ reflexes, coupled with the effects of Penny Prime’s gravity manipulation, meant that the deadly attack was easily avoided. The same, however, could not be said of the immediate follow up, a rapid flurry of strikes from the aptly-named Oros the Swift’s katana. The mystic blade bit deep into each of the artificial super soldiers’ various limbs even as they leapt out of the way of Savage’s own sweeping attack, in the process, placing themselves right in the path of the Nomad Magical Girl’s strikes. Normally, such attacks would be easily repelled by the bioroids’ Tealite Spectrumic Hybridium Powered Armor, but Oros the Swift’s katana was far more than a normal blade. It was a magic weapon, infused with Oriko’s ki, and wielded with superhuman speed. Thus, the strikes succeeded in throughly dismembering the three super soldiers, the vacuums left in the wake of the lightning fast blows sending armored arms and legs crashing into each other, leaving a pile of entangled limbs resting atop a trio of torsos.
Situation analysis: current tactical capabilities at 1.75 percent effectiveness. Response: engage restorative nanites. Complication: insufficient resources for nanite reconstruction. Revised response: await battlefield support or combat zone extraction.Nearby, Nomad Stacy was still locked in fierce combat with Oros the Shrewd.
“Like, OMG! So that’s, like, not your natural voice?!” Stacy marveled when Amber revealed she did, indeed, do character voices.
“I, like, never would have guessed!” the Kung Fu Corpse Girl added, right before a charred steak slammed into her face, knocking her over backwards.
“Holy freaking crap! Like, that must be some really tough meat if my crazy cool lightning didn’t, like, totally kerplode it!” Stacy remarked as she sat back up, the horribly burnt piece of meat having fallen to the ground beside her.
“Like, nothing that tough could, like, ever not taste, like, suuuper garbo!” she noted.
“Well, unless it’s, like, gum or something that you’re just meant to chew, but not actually, like, eat or whatever.” Jumping to her feet, she began blocking each additional culinary projectile sent her way with a flurry of crazy cool martial arts moves, at least until the gravity wave knocked her off her feet again. That same massive manipulation of gravitational forces also sent Oros the Shrewd flying towards her, with the pint-sized provisioner’s recently concocted all-natural stew-smoothie shooting even further forward to rain down over the undead Nomad.
“Ewww! Like, super gross!” Stacy cried in a mixture of disgust and horror as she saw how the thick amalgamation now coated her entire small form.
“Your disgusting slop just, like, totally ruined my super cool outfit! Okay, now I’m, like, super pissed off!” Charging up a massive concentration of lightning in both of her clenched fists as she got on one knee, Stacy pressed her two crackling fists together and thrust them toward her rapidly approaching opponent.
“CRAZY COOL SUPER MEGA ULTRA ZAPPY ZAP!!!”Elsewhere, Saw Blade Stacy’s duel with Oros the Inventive continued. Although Stacy had tried a tactic she’d hoped would come as a surprise to Lada, the false Ars Magi simply used her nanites to shield her from the blast of paint. Then the gravity pulse hit, sending the pair lurching one way, then the next in quick succession. This left Stacy sitting on top of Lada, but this wasn’t as much of an advantage as it might seem. The fake Ars Magi was now completely coated in nano armor, making her impervious to any harm a point blank attack might normally inflict. The same could not be said for Stacy, who quickly moved to pin down her opponent’s axe arm with the blade of her chainsaw.
“Every color of the rainbow,” she replied to her foe’s question.
“As long as that rainbow’s neon pink!” she added, firing an even bigger torrent of magic paint from her free hand. Stacy knew this was a terrible matchup for her, but she was determined to make the most of it. While her paint’s usual damaging properties wouldn’t have any effect on a non-Void, she was still able to alter its physical state. By coating Lada with paint, and then hardening it, she just might be able to paralyze the technopath.
But probably not.
While other intense combats were occurring around her, Stitch ‘Em Up Stacy was still tending to her
very friendly patient. Things were getting ever so slightly uncomfortable, until one of Stacy’s innocent comments sent Oros the Joyful’s nosebleed into overdrive. One moment, the zombie medic was holding Suki, while continuing to apply pressure to the ice pack on the girl’s nose, the next, and she was hurtling through the air, propelled by a torrent of high-pressure blood.
“WOAH!!!” she cried as she flew across the battlefield and back towards the other Stacys.
“Was it something I said?!” she wondered as the blood blast, coupled with the suddenly reduced gravity, continued to keep her airborne.
“Huh. Ya don’t don’t see that everyday,” Grimoiric Hearts Stacy noted as she watched the zombie medic fly overhead. Her attention was quickly brought back to her immediate vicinity when she heard the threefold roar of an exceptionally bizarre creature, a giant bear with shark head tipped arms.
“Wow, you’re all kinds of crazy!” she told the sharkenbear with an amused laugh as she rolled out of the way of its lunge.
“Y’know, you look really hungry,” she added, getting to her feet and charging twin balls of crackling energy.
“Here, have some lightning sandwiches on me!” she called, before shooting off the twin orbs of ball lightning into each of the shark heads’ toothy maws.
As that was taking place, Storm Witch Stacy and her companions were puzzled at why their crazy cool combo attack hadn’t seemed to effect their tooth-covered targets in the slightest. Their confusion wouldn’t last long, however, as the toothy masses darted forward with staggering speed and swallowed OG Stacy Stitches and Storm Witch Stacy in a single gulp before they, Staceella, or Cyberslime Stacy could even blink.
“W-What the half moon?!” Staceella cried, her eyes widening in horror as she watched her allies get gobbled up.
“Holy freaking crap, those toothy guys are fast!” Cyberslime Stacy marveled.
OG Stacy, having just used her Killing Blow, wasn’t really in any position to defend herself, but also wasn’t in any danger of coming to serious harm. Storm Witch Stacy’s predicament was far more dire, and in her frightened panic, she opened a portal and fell through it. Even under normal circumstances, her portals’ destinations were highly random, but now, without a destination in mind and cast on sheer reflex, her current portal was a bit more bizarre than usual. Thus, even as she fell out of the teeth mass’s mouth, one of the many Pennybots defending Penrose fell into it.
“W-Whew… T-That was crazy close!” Storm Witch Stacy stammered as she caught her breath. Looking around, she saw that she was still in the midst of a fierce battle, just not the one she’d been in moments before.
“Wow, you guys look kinda like that Penny girl!” Stacy told the group of Pennybots she’d found herself in the midst of.
“Are you fighting those crazy playing card guys?!” she inquired as a gauss cannon obliterated a Wonderland combat vehicle.
“Well, we Stacys were supposed to help ya, so I’ll, like, give you guys some backup until I figure out how to get back to that other battle!” she informed them cheerfully, before blasting a flying trooper out of the air with an arc of lightning.
“I mean, we magical girls are all about teamwork, right?!”Meanwhile, back at the other battle, Oros the Wise had begun a verbal assault on Staceella and Cyberslime Stacy designed to break their spirits.
“T-That’s, like, super mean!” Staceella shouted as she clenched her fists together, her voice and visage filled with indignation.
“A-And, like, you’re totally lying! N-None of that stuff is even remotely true!”However, while Staceella seemed able to resist the harsh words, their effect on Cyberslime Stacy was considerably greater…
“T-That can’t be t-true… C-Can it…?” she wondered, her body frozen and her eyes wide as horrifying possibilities manifested in her mind.
“R-Ramona doesn’t r-really hate me… D-Does she…?”“H-Hang in there, Stacy!” Staceella called.
“I’m gonna put this meanie to sleep! Then she’ll stop saying such horrible things!” Retrieving her student’s moonstone wand from the folds of her shimmering robe, she began reciting a basic lunar magic spell designed to induce swift and peaceful slumber.
“Shining stars, glowing moon, restful times are coming soon. Soft pillow, fluffy sheep, now I’ll… send you… off to… *Yaaawn*… sleeeeeeeeeeeeee…” Staceella’s voice trailed off as her wobbling body crumpled into a contented ball. Yes, it seemed that, due to her profound ineptitude, she had cast the spell on herself instead of Miss Fang, and the antenna-headed girl began to snore loudly as she drifted off to dreamland.
Back in the ruins of Axis Mundai, the now once again corporeal Scylla lay unmoving as its anti-viral systems struggled to dislodge MONIKA. Ironically, they would receive some help with that task in the form of B@B’s next attack, which thoroughly fried Scylla’s electronics, obliterating the so-called “infinite hacker’s virus” in the process. This was followed up by the largest outpouring of destructive force B@B had yet displayed, a veritable smorgasbord of culinary-themed attacks. Bereft of nearly all its defenses, Scylla’s hull was savagely pounded until it was little more than a lump of punctured, scorched, mangled, and partially melted metal. And, as if this wasn’t enough, B@B went on to prepare its
true finishing move, although Shark Tooth Stacy couldn’t see it from her darkened cockpit.
“WHAT THE HECKIN’ HECK ARE YA DOIN’ TO MY FRAMEWERK, YA FRIGGIN’ JERK FACE?!!!” Stacy roared as she was rattled around by the force of the bombardment, even knowing full-well that her foe wasn’t able to hear her, despite her volume.
However, B@B’s unseen final course was never served, thanks to Penny Prime’s planetary-scale gravity pulse knocking the toaster-esque framewerk wildly off course. Right into what little of Axis Mundai remained standing. Rather than remaining on board to crash into the ruined spires, whose interiors were already in the process of being kerploded (a technical term) by two
other ultimate attacks, Thalia chose to dramatically eject from her doomed framewerk and plummet down upon the wrecked Scylla Carbonox blade tip-first. Such was the multi-headed machine’s lack of hull integrity, that it took only a single swing to penetrate it, granting Thalia access to the cockpit, where Stacy wouldn’t be expecting her.
“W-What the…?!” the golden toothed girl exclaimed when the front casing of her cockpit was suddenly torn open.
However, the Oros of Shock and Awe had slightly miscalculated, so instead of charging into her surprised foe head on, she shot past her before slamming into the cockpit’s rear wall, prompting Stacy to give voice to an amused cackle.
“Hahahaha! Nice landing, ding dong!” she told her uninvited guest as she turned to give Thalia a big shark-toothed grin.
“Yeah, well, ya know what they say,” she replied when the fox girl commented on her appearance.
“A pair of eyes’re worth a thousand ears, or whatever.” Rising to her feet, she gave her knuckles a crack.
“Speakin’ of, after ya finish your little snack there, how about we start round two?!”Meanwhile, the second (or was it the first?) quartet of Stacys had just finished off three of the Carnage Sisters assaulting them. However, the fourth used the distraction her compatriots had provided to transform her robotic steed into a giant energy cannon, which seemed to be charging up a shot that promised to be devastating in the extreme.
“Jumpin’ jackrabbits!” Stampede Stacy exclaimed.
“That there’s one mighty powerful lookin’ peashooter!”An instant later, it fired off a massive beam of incandescent annihilation, and the undead cowgirl knew she had less than a second to act. An instant before the blinding lance of energy struck, she gave her lighting lasso a sharp crack, and suddenly, the beam was struck by a thundering herd of giant, spectral cattle. An instant after that, and the ghost herd began forcing the torrent of destruction back towards its source with all the inexorability of death itself.
“Don’t ya worry yer pretty lil’ heads, darlins,” Stacy reassured her allies with a wink.
“Mah signature Ghost Herd Stampede’ll take care o’ that there nasty ol’ cannon fine as a fiddle!”
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