[RP][Day one, Tournament.] Dimension Veil's

[GoldForge]

With a series of clicks, the twin drones ended their shooting, tilting up to look at Alexa intently, and whistling as they waited for their next command. Though, she said nothing as the bullet-ridden mare's body dissolved into wisps of energy. The she stood, watching them waft up, up, up into the sky, fading into nothingness. However, just as she saluted up to the sky, she became aware of the roaring flames once more. Unaware what her drones were fireproof, she swooped up once under each arm, making a dash off into the... non-flame-riddled woods. With fire licking at her heels, she zig-zagged through the woods until she came across a rocky clearing. Here, she hoped would be safe from the blaze for a while. "Well I'll be..." she huffed, setting the twin drones down. They scuttled about for a few moments, before going into what seemed to be a wee bit of a 'standby' mode. "How many bullets even are in these things?" Alexa kneeled down to one of the drones, attempting to pry a plate to see what was inside. The drone kicked about and hissed in disapproval, squirming away from her mighty grasp and heading back to patrolling the area.

When she least expected it, a mighty boom shook the earth, a buzz of shattered energy hummed through her mind, gargantuan claws clutching at the earth in an attempt to keep herself from toppling over, she looked over to see more wisps of energy curling up into the sky from the treeline. Yet, the buzz that signified the enemy was still there, which meant-- "FRIEND!!" she cried out, only to clap a hand over her mouth as the massive cloud of dust settled upon her... and so did the realization... the monkey man was still alive. Sure, her antennae weren't entirely accurate on that monkey man's current location... but, why not? It was all a game after all, right? Shrugging her shoulders, she followed the buzz inside of her cranium towards the monkey man's location. She thought back to when the flames touched her heels yet didn't sting whatsoever.. maybe...she was..fireproof?

Just then, she pulled something... a little crazy. You could slap 'Stayin' Alive' over this next scene as she strolled though the forest to a funky beat in her head, slashing her arms left and right and deliberately throwing fire in the direction of random trees once she felt the buzz inside her head get at its loudest, meaning that Aaron's astral was nearby. Next, the two drones hopped up onto her shoulders, staying put like two perched birds. With a whistle, she waved towards Wukong. "OY! Monkey butt!" She hollered towards the weakened astral. "How well can you...dance?" curling her fingers to beckon her opponent forward, her drones hopped down from her shoulders, skittering about rapidly into the bushes, moving about in erratic patterns. Occasionally, one or two would leap upwards from the bush, as if trying to taunt Aaron. "Because... baby, I'm on FIRE!" Alexa grinned as she held her arms out to the sides, jets of fire shooting up like blowtorches from the vents on her forearms.

[The-Blades-slave]

Wukong forced himself to a standing position, coated in a thick layer of dust, and spit at Crab. "It is cowardice to fight a wounded enemy!" His eyes widened slightly when she started shooting fire, everything around her blazing up instantly. He jumped backwards and took shelter in the crater of Nimbus Strike, safely tucked away from the forest fire raging around him. The crab would have to follow him to defeat him.

[GoldForge]

"I've already made my move on the lil' blue dude, and I ain't afraid to make my mark again!" She smugly remarked, beginning to follow the monkey through the blazing trees. 'Do the crab thing.' ...The voice had returned. At the edge of the crater, she screeched to a halt. "The what?" 'Do the crab thing.' "Wh--" 'w h i s t l e .' The tugging sensation on her mind returned once more-- a dizzying, sickening feeling. Groaning in irritation at the maddening voice inside her head, she decided to go to heck with it, and whistled as loud as she could manage.

Somewhere off nearby, the twin fidget drones perked up and whistled in reply, bursting into flame... great. Just as Alexa was rubbing at her temples and ready to accept a bloody defeat, the blazing spheres rose into the hair, making a cloud clattering noise as they shot into the shell compartment on her backside. With a yelp of shock, she stumbled a few steps forward, only to find her feet touching... air...? Indeed, she was floating, and the whistling of the drones did not cease, changing in pitch as though they were singing a strange alien song. The scrap metal automatons suddenly split up into bands of pure energy, whistling...singing... they spread out, surrounding her body in an endless white void for what felt like forever...

CLUNK.

When she opened her eyes, she was met with a three-panel screen, a helmet upon her head... and a leather seat.. sweeet! But, uh-- just where was she, exactly? She looked up to find a fourth screen above the others, noticing that it was a nifty third person view that shifted about the scene.. was this the live view of what others were seeing right now? She clenched and unclenched her fists, a loud clatter followed. She did it again whilst looking up at the screen, noticing that her hands were controlling...claws... She leaned a little forward in her chair, six spindly legs trudged forth through the trees... "The crab thing..." She whispered under her breath in awe. She couldn't believe it, she was controlling a giant freakin' metal crab right now! "Uh-...Ok! Um-....move forward and-... find the monkey!" She hollered to nobody in particular. With a lurch, the hulking metal behemoth walked over to the pit. However, much too big to scuttle inside, it halted, experimentally jabbing a massive metal leg down into the depths.

[The-Blades-slave]

Just when he thought he was safe, an enormous metal leg destroyed the ground directly beside Sun Wukong, sending him flying. He recovered midair, landing safely a good ten feet away, and stared in amazement at the monstrosity above him. It towered over trees, and the ground trembled when it moved. Without his staff, he stood no chance of fighting it directly. He had to find some other way, and he only had one way of going about it. He plucked a strand of his hair and dropped it. It immediately took on his image, right down to the shattered armor and wounded shoulder. "Go up there and distract!" The clone saluted and jumped out of the pit, charging the crab and swinging his fake staff wildly.

The real Monkey King shifted into an eagle and flew high above the robot, hiding himself within the dust and smoke. His vision was highly obstructed, and he was forced to swoop dangerously low to get a good view of the robot, but he found what he was looking for: A hatch on the top of it which, if he pried it open, would presumably give him access to his opponent within. He made one more round to make sure what he had seen was corrected, then landed on top of the crab and shifted back into his normal form. It was abnormally smooth, and he struggled to maintain his balance while he held onto the hatch. He pulled with all his considerable strength, hoping to tear it open.

[GoldForge]

Ha! Oh, what a show! The tiny monkey dancing about caused her to roar into laughter, nearly enough to rock her straight out of her chair. Carcinus swayed left and right, before wildly jabbing its front set of legs about in hopes to hit the target...that she did not yet know was the right target "Oh--...Good god, you're so tiny!" Alexa snorted. Though, on the upper screen, she soon squinted her eyes once she caught sight of...a bird? The scritching of the metal roof above her head was nearly too much to bear. However, was she was NOT expecting was for the hatch to suddenly fly open. Whipping about in her chair, she got up to her feet, trying to catch sight of the intruder through the dim red light of the room. "Oh, COME ON!"

[The-Blades-slave]

Wukong grinned down at Crab, eyes glowing through the smoke. "Nothing stops the handsome monkey kin-" The enormous mech shook suddenly, and the monkey fell down into the cockpit with a screech. He landed hard and flailed out wildly, striking out at anything that seemed like his opponent. His heavy blows shattered anything they touched, be it wires or radars, and it continued until he finally found his opponent.

The Great Sage reeled back a punch with all his remaining strength, which indefinitely packed enough force to rip clean through her unprotected stomach. The punch flew, a blur that the crab would have no time to stop... and then Aaron woke up, panting heavily and covered in sweat. "Gah, close!" He offered one hand to each of his opponents, smiling. "Good game! Was it anything like what you expected, Alexa?"

[Lunartic]

Without warning or hesitation, Scarlet ran up to Aaron and shook him by his shoulders. "You were so freakin' close!" she said, half-yelling, half-laughing. "We almost beat them, aaa-haaa-haaaaa!!" She laid her head on his chest and laughed hysterically. After almost half a minute she finally settled down to light-hearted chuckling. She pulled back from him, smiling ear to ear, and wiped her eyes. "That was the most fun I've ever had in my entire life."

[Desbear]

Gragas continued to soak hits, pain coursing through his body as he did so, but he still kept on trucking. If it wasn't for his size, the electricity might have done him in, but, luckily for him, he was a big man, and the electricity didn't make it to his heart. The drunkard contemplated smashing his keg into them, but hen he realized that he was still able to contemplate, and wasn't drunk enough yet... He instead, sluggishly turned to his opponent and threw one of his arms at his opponent, grunting as he did so.

[Yume Tsuki]

Akumu reacted too late when the arm came swinging her way. She had just enough time to block it with the scales growing on her back which broke on the impact and sent her flying against a tree. She breathed heavily. Regretting she put put full force into her blows. The crystals on her claws stopped glowing, depleted from their magic. Along with that the whispers had become louder. Almost deafening. Combined with the pain in her back which started bleeding.
"N-no..."
She cried weakly while forcing herself not to cringe. She knew she had no chance anymore with the lack of lightning her movements would be too slow to dodge, but she wasn't going to give in she would never want to die without having atleast try to prevent it. Crawling back up she stood her ground, beckoning her opponent to try and finish her off taking a fighting stance.

[GoldForge]

Shock jolted into Alexa's heart as the intruder stormed in, the emerald orbs beaming through the shadows being the herald to her death. "B-..Wha.. but you were right there-!!" She looked over to the screens, screaming in disbelief. Before she knew it, her equipment was smashed left and right. Control sticks snapped, beautiful decorative orange glass panels obliterated into a fine powder, even her precious leather chair torn to bits! Anger swelled up faster than the flames coursing through the forest, anger equivalent to two people in a fiery rage screaming at once. Carcinus's stance wavered, legs giving away as circuits ripped out. Her gut pulled as the floor fell with her beneath her jet-black boots... WHAM! Before she knew it, she had rolled across the ground smacked directly into a wall, right into the path of the monkey king's next swing. Her livid demeanor swiftly dissolved into an expression of helpless horror as the fist swung down...

However, when her eyes cracked back open, she felt nothing. There she stood again, among the endless white void... no-- she was falling. She opened her mouth to scream, yet let out no sound fell out as she plummeted down...down...down... The invisible blaze roared into her eardrums as memories of the battlefield swirled through the air like frameless TV screens. The lake, the boy with the portals, the pony, the monkey, the fire, the fog, the mech...the falling...falling... She looked down at her hands to find that they were claws no more, the sight of pale flesh reaching her eyes instead of the powerful sheen of metal she had expected. The roar grew, the roar grew... Alexa snapped her gaze upwards to meet with one final scene-- The clawed girl from the forge. Illuminated by the torrents of magma oozing down the walls of the cave, she stood, hunched over with her head jerkily moving in her palms as she stood at the sight of the shattered gargantuan crab. Was she...weeping...? She reached a hand up to the screen, out to the girl in desperation for reasons she did not know why... her heart hurt, her chest stung... or-- were these feelings not her own... Perhaps... did astrals feel the same emotions that humans did--?

Thoughts fading away into nothing, her vision flashed white before she finally met with the floor, the silence suddenly cutting away into the usual chatter of the sparring room. The surge of energy and the rush of confidence was gone. She was no longer the girl from the fire, just plain ol' Alexa...and nothing more. She slowly looked down towards her quivering hands, taking a moment to clench and unclench them, pinching her arm to check both that she was still alive and that it wasn't a dream. At the sharp jolt of pain that followed, she said nothing, only looked up to see the screen that flashed [WINNER!] before her eyes. "Did I--?" Still getting used to hearing her own voice again, she silenced. God, everything was just too surreal for her... Despite the hooping and hollering of the crowd cheering around her, Alexa did not seem to be amused in the slightest. Stumbling her way back over to Aaron and the others in a lazy fashion, she narrowed her eyes with a groan as the rumble in her stomach returned. Although reluctant on doing so, she reached the hand with her astral mark forward to accept the shake, quickly taking notice that the flamelike flicker of the seal was... much more... tame, was that the word sye was looking for?

"...I have so many questions."

[Desbear]

Gragas began to laugh as the other slammed into the tree, sure, he would normally feel bad, but right now, he felt victory was within his grasp. He began to take a sip-Or rather, a few large gulps from the keg, his mind getting blurrier and blurrier as the seconds went by... And then, he did it. He did the one thing he had to not be thinking, to do. He threw his cask at his opponent with all his might. He began to speak after he did so, his drunken words coming out rather loudly. " 'Ave a drink!"

[Yume Tsuki]

"Tch..."
With firm movement she smashed the barrel with one claw, tearing through the wood like paper. The contents splashed over the humanoid dragon drenching her in alcohol. The strong smell already made her head spin and the alcohol felt like burning agony on her wounds. She still attempted to stand her ground. But her concentration was off due to the many different senses invading her mind.
"No good..."
She growled.

[Desbear]

Gragas began to laugh, and then go to get a sip of his cask. But there was one problem with that, you see, because he had thrown his cask at his opponent. Upon realizing this, he made a bit of a low grunt, realizing what he had done. He seemed to go into a rage, his strength and defense increasing a bit. He arched his shoulder down, And began to charge at his opponent, as if in an attempt to end the battle.

[Yume Tsuki]

Akumu held her ground as she saw the big man rushing for her. She did a last attempt to stop him, breaking her arms in the process getting forced into the tree which groaned and splintered on the impact. The astral dissolved after she gasped her last breath.

Yui opened her eyes. The feeling of pain was so real, but it disappeared so fast when she synced out. She was kind of happy she could fight someone beforehand. Realizing she had some serious flaws in her strategy which she needed to fix up.
"Thanks for the opportunity to practice. I learned a lot from that."
She said with a smile.

[LunarOrbiter]

As most of the battles were now coming to an end, Rika was stunned. Everyone here seemed to be amazing fighters. To say she was impressed would be an understatement. From start to finish of the first sparring match, Rika's eyes were glued to the screen. Subconsciously, she began to study their movements to try and figure out their strengths and weaknesses alike. One of the scenes in particular stood out to Rika - the battle between what seemed to be a pony and a humanoid crab. In the end, the latter won due her quick-thinking but she couldn't help but feel threatened by these people. Both of them were...dangerous. Just watching them 'practice' made Rika feel uneasy. Could she really fight these people? Did she possess a talent for fighting?

Snapping back to reality, she realised now that she could finally meet her opponents. It would be wishful thinking to believe that they could all get along but it couldn't hurt to try, right? Rika sprung to her feet with new confidence in her heart. Hopefully this would outshine the rest of the depressing thoughts that seemed to plague her as of recent. "It shouldn't be too far from here now. I've walked all this way, so I should be close!" With that proclamation, she continued to march forward towards the gym, at which she'd be arriving very soon.

Perhaps there, she may find what she's been looking for - a sparring partner.