Log:Natasha's Spear

2020/06/02 	 Zephyr Radical Porter Grimm Natasha Overgirl Citlali Harlequin

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Natasha grins toothily as she flies upward again with HER spear, outmaneuvering the silly demon! But there's still the big machine blocking the top of the hole to get past. Stupid machine. She attacks the machine blocking her victorious escape with the spear!

The immobilized battletank is struck from beneath and tossed away off the top of the elevator shaft with s rent on the underside armor.

Zephyr watches Grimm fly past with the others and get shot at. She follows them through the door, trying not to get shot herself.

Grimm flies towards the tank, then pulls up and pulls up short as it gets wrecked. Her eyes widen. "Natasha's bringing the spear to us, but if we see it, we'll be tempted to take it, too," she warns. The tentacles lower Radical and Porter to the ground and loosen as they carefully unwind from them as Gabrielle lands amongst them and closes her eyes. "I really hope you two are pure enough in heart and soul to lay eyes on it," she says.

Porter isn't sure he's ever been really called that before. Except maybe in the context of acquiring potentially world-ending artifiacts. so... a few times, then. "Um... Ok. So, it's coming our way... but aren't we -supposed- to take it?"

Grimm starts getting some strange thoughts, even with her eyes closed. "Maybe you shouldn't touch it, Porter. We should get it from Natasha."

Radical settles into a fighting stance, ready to defend the group as need be. There will likely be some demons on their way shortly. Or something.

The Demon Lord starts flying up the shaft after Natasha but is slower and does not catch up.

Saha talks to the White army before starting to come this way.

 Natasha says, "I won't come out of the hole till you're clear! That way you won't want to take my spear!"

 Grimm says, "Natasha, the Demon is coming. He's the one who wants to take your spear."

Idle thoughts spring into Grimm's mind, thinking of the power the spear would give her. She'd never have to fear her dark powers or Lereau's machinations. She could do so much good with it.

 Grimm says, "And we can't let him or Halfdemon take it."

Natasha has the demon lord in the pit with her to contend with though. He's not getting her spear either! She stabs him!

Radical does have some thoughts...that the spear might make him safe from both Order or Chaos. He wouldn't be a pawn again. But he manages to push the thought aside for the time being.

Natasha hisses as she misses her target. Next time she'll put more effort into hitting and less into dodging!

Natasha knows exactly what to do with the spear: have it! Own it! It will be the prize treasure of her hoard!

Even though she's on the way to becoming a goddess, she knows that the spear isn't hers to take. Maybe Zeus should have it though...

Zephyr only knows that the Spear is coming up the shaft, and she shouldn't look at it. But she hasn't yet developed any godly senses, so her eyes are all she has to work with if there's a fight. So to minimize her chance of seeing the Spear, she flies over behind the tumbled tank.

Grimm sighs as Natasha stays back. "She's fighting the demon," she says as she fights off the thoughts invading her mind for now. She flickers out of sight as shadows consume her, reappearing above the hole. "Get away from her!" she yells as she holds out a hand towards the demon lord. A black portal opens up past Natasha and in front of the demon lord, and a large tentacle flows out of it with a flicking movement.

The Demon Lord is thrown back and slams into the side of the elevator shaft. He doesn't look that greatly affected though.

Porter can't fly. Well, not upwards. So, after Grimm vanishes and reappears, he almost does the same. FLASHTHUWMP. He just appears on the edge of the hole, rather than above it. Looking down he calls out and waves his arms, "Hurry! This way! I think it's still after you!"

Grimm's eyes begin to open as thoughts invade her mind. That little dragon is unfit to wield the spear in its tiny paws. Unworthy. She hardly has enough magical talent. It'd be safer if it were in her hands instead of that insignificant little dragon's.

While everyone else does their things, racing around with a pointystickofdoom(tm), Citlali has levitated herself up to a comm tower and accessed the systems therein. She calmly works the system, tracing the leads and then accessing the panel within her psi-HUD. A few connections bypassed, and protocols subverted, and the half dozen active war machines go dormant. Over the comm channel (if everyone has one) she transmits, "Machines offline. I will maintain my position in case someone attempts to reactivate them."

A dmensional rift opens the chamber at the top of the shaft. Amelia Half'demon's face can be seen through the rift for a few moments.. before a horde of undead DEMON members swarm in to start crossing over. To the side a dimensional eddy rips a hole in time and space, plucking Overgirl up from wherever she was and dropping her in the chamber.

The first to pass through the rift are a zombied Morbane and a Inferno Legion agent.

Radical sees the rift open...and in an attempt to limit how many folks come through...he extends a hand and start to warp the nature of space and reality...extending distances and making it harder to move. Or shoot.

Valaria was not exactly expecting to arrive here and now...wherever and whenever that may be. As such, she is currently in her civilian clothing. She has the parts of her costume that she is not wearing folded in her purse (she wears the black pants and boots, those look normal enough, but the top, mask, and cape are not). She drops lithely to the ground and looks around.

The first to pass through the rift are a zombied Morbane and a Inferno Legion agent. They only just manage to pass through and block any others from following at this point.

Valerie fortunately appeared in a place with limited lines of sight, though these do not block her ability to hear what is going on. She quickly changes to her costume and prepares to figure out who in this mess is allies.

Sasha closes the Gate behind him cutting off view of the White Army. He then sighs heavily as he murmurs, "Retro me Satanas," for no apparent reason.

The mage then lifts his hands as his defenses swirl into existence around himself. "Now then, I think we need to put a cork in that, yes?" he states as he summons a barrier of perfectly interlocking octagons to attempt to block the mouth of Amelia Halfdemon's rift. "Sorry, we have a strict No Undead Visitors policy."

Radical nods to Sasha. "Thanks. She might just open another gate soemplace else, though. I suspect that's likely."

The barrier does block the Gate despite Radical's bending of time and space. Harlequin murmurs, "Well, it's not a perfect solution, but buys us time."

The masked mage then calls out, "Oh dear, I hope someone is careful! Don't know how you ended up here but it's not safe so be careful, OK?"

"And don;t whatever you do look at the spear! Got it!" he then adds. "It's cursed!"

Now in costume, Overgirl responds with a sigh, "It never is when I drop in like this." She should be pretty close to the undead Morbane, and will attack it with her cape after getting close enough to do so.

The zombie Morbane shows no sign of pain but the arm he lifted to try and deflect the blow snaps with a dull crack.

Zephyr steps out from behind the tank and sends an Air Blast at the Inferno Legion Agent.

Natasha, angry though she is at the demon, realises that even more people who want to take her spear are arriving. It must be time to leave! She flies up out of the hole, trying to put as much distance as possible between herself and anyone who might want to steal HER spear!

"Somehow I expected it to be shinier..." murmurs Harlequin.

Porter watches as the dragon and the prize exit the shaft and zip away. "Great! Ok, we got it! We're done. Let's get out of here! C'mon!" Well, they did get it, and it's already got a head start. The quicker they get back out to... how'd they get here again? Well, the quicker they get back there, the quicker they can get back home.

As the spear, carried by Natasha, gets more distant the lust to possess it diminishes.

 Grimm says, "Natasha, Halfdemon is after you! We can't protect the spear--or you--if you run from us!"

 Natasha says, "I'm not running from you, I'm fleeing the demons and zombies!"

Grimm hovers and looks down the hole towards the demon, then at the gate. "Shick. He's right. She may just open another gate. We got to go," she says out loud for the benefit of those not mindlinked with her. She vanishes and appears next to Natasha, still in some control of her urges. But she knows Natasha isn't. "Natasha, I can get us out of here faster. Don't fight us," she tries to use reason as a tentacle snakes out of her field to try and restrain the dragon and grab her to gate away.

The tentacle winds gently around Natasha to support her and keep the spear clutched to Natasha, but it's also being restrained by Grimm's shadow tendril.

Amelia Half-demon lets the blocked rift close and opens another. A Infrno Legion agent throws a grenade through the rift. The grenade explodes and shoots out a cloud of gray power that envelops everyone left in the building.

Radical grimaces. "I think...this stuff can be used to track us. And it might keep us from crossing dimensions. It looks like something I ran across on another dimension."

The dust settles on the outside of the mystical defenses that swirl around Harlequin. "Really Amelia! As if this world isn't dusty enough already?" shouts Harlequin.

The dusts starts to slide off Harlequin's swirling defenses like water off of treated glass. In a moment, it's all off him.

Ovegirl responds, "Makes sense, they do not want something getting away, and figure the one who has it will rejoin us and not leave without us."

Zephyr says, "So all we have to do is blow these guys away, and then we can get out of here?"

Radical lets the distortion field drop, and he steps to the side, getting a clear line of sight at the Morbane. He then raises his arms. A shockwave travels outward as a singularity is launched at his target.

The Zombie Morbane is slammed back into the hardened wall of the building with the cracking and snapping of multiple bones. Normally protected by an enchanted robe, the robe is torn and tattered and no longer enchanted. It's a broken pile of bones that drops to the floor.