Battle of the Prospectives Pt 1.
Raieon simply watched the scene unfold beside Jason, but not only was he listening and watching...
He was planning...
As he did, the man had been shot, but then rose up again. Jason had been commenting, but Raieon wasn't paying so much attention. The body of the man began to disintigrate and burn to ashes. Suddenly it stopped and began to regenerate an change. In a few minutes, no longer did a corpse stand but a gargantuan beast with fangs, wings and monstrous figure. Raieon drew his pistol afterwards and raised it up in both hands, Jason too readying himself for an inevitable battle.
Suddenly there was clapping and a finely dressed figure unlike the other man appeared on a balcony platform. The man began into the traditional omniscient villain monologue like usual. Raieon had his gun raised, but he didn't point it at the man, still focused on the larger foe. Jason then raised his weapons and chose to aim at the man instead. He muttered something and then fired a shot, but the man did not fall. Instead he laughed and looked at Jason and spoke to him as if he knew him. But even if they did know each other, Raieon could care less. He was more focused on taking down the monster before them.
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Reks and Zackary simply watched and waited for the man to continue his monologue, not really wishing to piss the man off if he had a temper and value for his know-it-all-speech.
"And now th-" The slender man was then cut off by gunshot and in that instant he bent over and clenched his stomach. "Agh..!" Reks looked behind the man and saw that it was Taylor again, to his surprise.
'So much that weirdo and his know-it-all speech.' Zackary muttered. Reks laughed a little before realizing he sounded abnormal. His cousin looked at him with a tilted head.
'Pfft, what are you looking at?' Reks asked fiercely. Zackary just smiled, rolled his eyes and looked back to the Valkyrie with his arms folded behind his head.
'Nothing!' They then sat there for a few moments before Zackary broke the silence. 'So... Is that it or...' Suddenly the answer to his question came around in the form of the slender man standing back up all of a sudden and Zackary rubbed his neck. 'What the hell...?'
Everyone that was watching then saw that the body was disintegrating, the clothing, skin and flesh began to dissolve into black ash as it revealed the interior of the slender madman's body, muscles and organs displayed as if it was some science gist. The hole in the man's lower torso was particularly obvious, making the bullet seem powerful. Zackary looked like he was going to puke on so many levels, whilst Reks just stood there and shrugged. There was an ear-piercing scream as the body ceased disintegrating and a distorted voice could be heard.
"Shin luka'foi, quin iulq'nr coitt wjur'ta miut!" And suddenly, what was left of the corpse began to change. In a sequence of transformation, it became a monstrous fiend. It smiled sickeningly."I have to admit, I am at the end of my fervor of toying with you all... Time to die, morsels. I will feed on your flesh for many coming days." Out of the pit of its gaping mouth, a tongue almost as black as the void inside lashed out and licked its fangs.
Zackary looked at the monster in both disgust and terror and then he looked at Reks, who was as calm as ever.
'How can you just stand there?' Zackary whispered. Reks didn't answer. Zackary then sighed in amazement. This was another part of his cousin that he admired. Suddenly, loud clapping could be heard from above. Reks and Zackary both turned around and looked upwards to see another slightly slender but also athletic man standing on a balcony platform, high above over looking the Valkyrie and nearly everybody else. The man wore a fine black coat that swayed on a gentle breeze as he clapped his gloved hands, his fine blond hair blowing gently in the soft wind. The upper part of his face was obscured by a silver mask. The man chuckled, its sound reaching everywhere in the chamber.
'I find myself in a bewilderment, that all you meaningless little people are fighting a great monstrocity.' He announced in a majestic voice to the many below as he leaned on the railing. 'Oh don't mind me! I only came for the view of this magnificent ship. Tales have I heard of its great deeds far and wide throughout the cosmos, legends have I heard of its part in the grand acts it has played host too. Up until a fair amount of years ago, anyhow.' The man chuckled a little more. 'So tell me, little dumplings, why have you bothered so much to band together and fight? I find it rather curious that so many unique and different people and Anthromorians would group together. I find this mingling rather, exquisite.' Reks looked at the man passively with no emotional look at all. Zackary folded his arms behind his head again.
Suddenly there was a single gunshot and the bullet richocheted off the walls of the chamber, clearly missing. The man turned his head to Valkyrie and then Reks and Zackary followed his gaze. There they saw Jason with his katana and pistol battle ready, who had obviously taken a shot at the man for some reason.
'Jason Nero, we all play our parts for fate's grand design.' Masquerade began in a musing wise tone. 'Our roles are intertwined, so you cannot escape destiny's firm hand. Your time will come.' He finished. There were more gunshots and Reks saw that the blonde marine human had took out his guns and took a few shots at the man as well. The bullets all went through the man, but he did not fall. Reks concluded it was just a hologram as the man ignored the shots. He then raised his hands up and bowed. 'People of Earth, Anthromoria and meaningless magicks, I bid you all farewell! Cheerio!' The hologram finally disappeared, the cue for the battle to resume again. Reks looked at Zackary for the moment and they both nodded as they grabbed the other's hand in a brotherly handshake.
'Ready?' Reks asked. Zackary nodded.
'Ready! Let's go!' Zackary said as he faded into camouflage, the cocking of his rifle could be heard. Reks then looked up and drew his pistols.
Reks ran to the left side of the monster and Zackary took the left. As they both ran, they took multiple rapid shots at the monster in the burst of two minutes. After that, the both of climbed up onto the Valkyrie and took positions near Jason and Raieon, firing at the monster with all they got. Zackary was more to the right of the monster as he took a plasma grenade out and clenched it so that it triggered. He then tossed it in the air once and caught it again before lobbing it at the fugly beast. The grenade attatched itself to the monster as the hail of bullets and beam projectiles ensued. Zackary aimed and shot the grenade for a bigger blast than normal. He then smiled and kept on firing, looking for any key weaknesses in the monster's armour like skin. Reks suddenly had to stop firing his beam pistols and let them cool down. As they did, he drew one of his beam blades and threw it like a boomerang at the beast before starting to fire his single pistol again. Raieon had begun firing on the beast as well.