Cross Effects 3.0 - October 21, 2015—June 23, 2016

[Thedoctor]

Jin

He didn't give too much attention to the explenation Oka provided on Sylveon's abilities, Jin looked at the pokemon wondering if it actually could do what Oka said it could before deciding that trying couldn't hurt. "Okay Sylveon, use amnesia!"

[SINIB]

Sylveon and Oka

Sylveon braced himself on the ground, looking intently ahead as he cleared his mind of all outside thoughts, focusing on having an absolutely unbreakable mental fortress.

"Ok, he's using amnesia now, but that's a defensive move. It's not terribly impressive at all. Something like—Sylveon, use Hyper beam—!" Oka told Sylveon.

As soon as Sylveon heard his master's command, he acted. "Kyuu!" He yelled as a pure white beam burst out above his head and instantly slammed into the building, causing the old decaying wall to crumble, leaving a large hole and a cloud of dust to settle."

Oka blinked as Sylveon destroyed the wall. "Oh Right." She said quietly, unlike her normal, upbeat voice, this was more quiet and reserved, as if she was withdrawing into herself. "You just got a lot stronger."

"Oops."

She didn't fail to notice a small brown quadruped run out of the building in terror, however.

Almost as if by reflex, her hand went into her bag and pulled out a quick ball, and it was thrown flawlessly at incredible speed and with perfect form as a beam of light sucked the pokemon into it and feel to the ground, wiggling around for a few seconds before stopping.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Darcy Hugh

Darcy smiled smugly at the girl before bursting into laughter. Quite the feisty one… and yet she still didn’t get it.

“HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!! I see you both don’t understand a thing. Very well, let me enlighten you!!”

A blazing starfire lit in his eyes, manly passion that none could subdue. He posed dramatically and roared in defiance to the girl’s accusations with a blazing fire.

“YES, I AM A PERVERT!! WHEREVER THERE ARE PANTIES I WILL APPEAR!! BUT BEFORE THAT, I AM A MAN OF GOD!! AND AS A MAN, I CANNOT TOLERATE THAT A CREATURE SO VILE AND HEATHEN WOULD ENDANGER A DARLING, NOR CAN I IGNORE A PLEA FOR HELP!! BE IT BIG GIRLS, LITTLE GIRLS, SISTERS, NIECES, COUSINS, WIVES, WIDOWS, NUNS OR CELIBATES… I WILL SHIELD THEM WITH MY OWN BODY IF I MUST!!!! IT IS MY DUTY, NAY, MY CALLING TO PROTECT ALL CUTE GIRLS IN THIS CITY NO MATTER WHAT!! I SIMPLY CANNOT TOLERATE SUCH AN UNGODLY THING, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!”

Well, he didn't lie.


Theodore

“Actually yes. I knew there was something missing!” He exclaimed without a shred of expression before intercepting the anvil with the bowl of ramen. It seemed to fit perfectly, because a tiny splash later, the ramen was filled with tiny anvil broth flavored anvils made from the big anvil.

Then, Theodore proceeded to pull out a straw from his ear and stick it in his nose before snorting the ramen like it was cocaine. The noodles, meat, vegetables, broth and anvils seemed to be sucked in indiscriminately, and that despite them largely oversizing the tiny straw!

“Anvils are so amazing. Did you know the Greek goddess Hera caused a storm to impede Heracles after his siege on Troy? Why is this relevant? Well, they say her husband Zeus was so furious, he hung her from Olympus by attaching an anvil to both her feet! How interesting.” He said nonchalantly while enjoying his meal. Being able to share one with someone was….a pleasant experience.

Kinda.

[SINIB]

Sakura Matou

Sakura watched the movie intently, effortlessly following it, despite the language barrier. After the podrace though, she looked at Shirou, who looked fairly distressed. She smiled at him and climbed into his lap, wrapping her arm around him, leaning her head against his. She noticed he had an... interesting prediciment downstairs. "Just from this Senpai?" She giggled at him as her hand crept its way downstairs.

[Aiden]

Forest

I just literally got it like two hours ago.  He wanted me to be his guide to the Nexus.  He enchanted my duster and he thought my super excitement and thankfulness was me apparently coming onto him . . . But . . . he's literally a Skeleton Dude so . . .  And again, I'm inserting my foot into my head. 

Metaphorically speaking.  Even though I can get my foot behind my head.

"What can I say, the 80's were probably my favorite decade of the 20th century.  However, I've never been really good at being subtle," Forest replied with a shrug before taking another sip of her confection.

Gadreel

"For me, to select  a favorite is to imply that there was not something incredible and terrible in every decade to pass," the exile said, shaking his head and then going back to slurping at his milkshake.

Wait, was he the strangely handsome tree man from the jewelry store during our initial encounter? he couldn't help but think where Forest could hear it. How... strange.

[Cherry Lover]

Rider

Rider smiled as she heard the exchange between Sakura and Jeanne, the innocent servant taking Sakura's jokey comment to her beloved far more seriously than Rider knew it had been made. She could tell even from this distance that the new servant's enthusiasm had not abated one bit, and the two of them both remained seated, waiting in anticipation for the movie to begin. Finally, after a few more rounds of trailers for new movies and adverts for various products, the familiar music came on, Rider's smile noticably widening as the movie began.

Then, the story began, the plot now familiar to Rider. But, as much as she liked the movie in general, she was mostly waiting for the podracing scene. As the story built up to it, Rider's excitement increased until, finally, it reached the scene she had been waiting for. Midway through the exciting race, with Rider's eyes glued to the screen, she noticed Sakura suddenly climb out of her seat and onto Shirou's lap, grabbing hold of his head and leaning in lovingly.

Not wanting to be distracted from the exciting race that was unfolding on-screen, Rider paid them little attention. Nevertheless, she couldn't help but notice from Sakura's words that Shirou seemed to have gotten aroused from her actions and, in turn, Sakura seemed to be reaching down to pleasure him. Rolling her eyes at their antics, Rider returned to watching the film, far more interested in the race than in her master's sexual escapades.

[SINIB]

Shirou Emiya

"Sakura—" He quietly protested, before she put a finger over his mouth.

She shook her head at him with a disapproving look. "No talking during the movie." She mouthed at him. He looked around. They were literally the only ones in the theater right now, other than some blond haired woman and another couple making out in the front. He felt his legs get wrapped up by what he assumed was a shadow tendril. "Sakura, stop, you're going too far." He told her off with a frown. She just scowled and released him, still holding her arms around him and watching the movie.

[Elf]

Gabriel

"Ah," Gabriel said as he lifted a finger, "Physical attraction plays a good deal of how love starts at least.  There has to be that spark that creates the interest.  Now, something that creates that spark can be as simple as hair or eye color."

He took a sip of his coffee and shrugged.  "Even though my knowledge of matters of the heart is lacking compared to my knowledge about lust."


Forest

The vampire chuckled and sent back, Oh that "handsome tree man" is literally just bones.  A woman who we just met gave him that cover so he wouldn't stand out as badly as a living skeleton with a voice from a Saturday Morning Cartoon.  You know, back when they showed Saturday morning cartoons.  Super sweet though, and very excitable and adorable because of it.

"Well, I'm not discounting every other decade that came before and after it, just some of my favorite things happened during the 80's.  Like Evil Dead 2.  Don't get me wrong, there was a bunch of hogwash happening as well.  Reganomics was all sorts of special.  The less said about what happened in the Balkens the better.  Oh, and day-glo, but there was a lot of good to be had too," Forest said with a shrug.

[Kat]

Mordred

"Even if they are only few, I keep running into them. Such is my life." The changeling had a lot to grumble about, it seems. "But maybe I shouldn't worry too much, maybe there will be brighter future ahead of me. See, I don't think I reached my limits yet. I will train, and I will be the one who will have the last laugh. All monsters that prowl the night should better watch themselves!" She raised her fist into the air.

"Not that I'm doing particularly bad at it now, I've eradicated my fair share of human eating corpses and goddamn leeches. Just call me if you need help, I'll handle it like a pro." Mordred got so enthusiastic about the topic that she didn't even register what those other guys were talking about. The changeling even ignored that the brat in front of her called her a blondie. She wasn't exactly yelling out of loud, but observant people who paid attention could probably notice that she probably meant zombies and vampires as when she bragged about her results so far. And that she didn't like them much. Well, that was a healthy response to the prospect of a monster preying exclusively on humans.

"If we run into one this night, I can show you how it's done, Kuro. Undead are after all one of my two specialties after all." The other was Fae, but they weren't exactly common in comparison to blood junkies. "No matter if it's arcade game or reality, I have knack for beating their sorry asses."

[Kotomine_Rin]

GAROU XIII

Tch. He should’ve known better, there was no way she’d understand. Spouting all this goody good nonsense about justice and shit, that was his idea of a perfectly happy person. That pissed him off more than anything, but it’s not like he could do anything about it.

Not because she saved him or anything mind you, but because he didn’t have much fight left in him. It just wasn’t worth the trouble, that’s all. He wasn’t feeling indebted or anything.

“Let’s just go.” He said sourly with a sprinkle of salt.

[Thedoctor]

Kuro

Blondie just kept on talking, it was almost like she fancied herself a hero. The leeches hah, is she talking about dead apostles now? As she finished her burger the blonde confirmed her thoughts by saying undead was one of her two specialities. The white haired girl didn't miss that she had left out what the second one was supposed to be. Is she hiding something? Or is the second one something embarrassing. That wouldn't be surprising with how much she was bragging.

Kuro narrowed her eyes and stood up as she asked the blonde a question that was on her mind. "Do you even know how to fight blondie? With how much you're bragging I'm having doubts here."


Jeanne

The Blonde was fidgeting in her seat as the movie continued, almost bouncing from excitement. The party had arrived at the planet called Coruscant and Qui-Gon was getting told off by the old green creature. Jeanne had some trouble figuring out what he was saying at first due to his strange speech pattern, on the other hand almost everything that came from him was a word of wisdom, so she got the feeling that he was the leader of the order. The debate they were having was on whether or not they should train the boy in the ways of the force, a debate that Qui-Gon eventually lost. While this was going she lost some interest in what was going on in the movie and noticed that Sakura had climbed onto Shirou's lap.

"Are you two having fun?" She asked them, her excitement having gone down a bit now.


Jin

He watched on almost lazily as Oka gave an explanation about how the move he had ordered had been a defensive one. She then ordered Sylveon to perform a hyper beam. The effect was rather surprising to say the least. A large energy beam appeared above it's head and slammed into the building causing an old wall to collapse. Jin shook his head at her antics as she tried to cover it up with what sounded like a lame excuse. He almost missed the small qaudroped that came out from the building after the beam had hit it, it looked like Oka had seen it too as she quickly grabbed a ball from the bag and threw it at the creature. The ball hit it and sucked the being into it in a beam of ligth and then rolled around on the ground for a few seconds before stopping.

"Did you just capture one?" He asked her a bit unsure of what just had happened.


Shinobu

Suddenly the blonde Kyuketsuki's fist came flying towards his face without warning at an incredible speed. It was almost like the fist wasn't moving and it was instead his face being drawn towards it, as if the meeting of them was an ineviteble fate that couldn't be escaped nor denied. There was only the fist.

[Kotomine_Rin]

Theodore

The demon didn't even see the fist coming as it smashed his face mercilessly, launching him back and spilling his precious ramen. Jeez, 3D girls were so difficult. Was this his bad luck or something? This had to be what they called a tsundere. Well, he was falling now, so he didn't see much point in trying to get back up.

The only sound that followed was a gruesome cracking as his neck snapped on the cold, hard ground. He simply laid there lifeless and dead, not bothering to move.

Ow.

[Kat]

Shiro

Shiro reached into her bag and threw a handful of petals at Rikuyo, all of them sticking to her. Not a single one hit the ground. "Hey, hey, no need for violence!" She smiled cheerfully, but exuding an intense presence that anyone even slightly sensitive to spirits would be able to feel instantly. She rushed over and grabbed Rikuyo faster than a human being could possibly move. 

"You're drained, there's no way you're beating her like this. I'll bet you couldn't even hit me!" She flightily retreated, petals daintily drifting around her as if there was a cool breeze blowing them slowly through the air.

Lumen

Lumen gently waved her hand towards the kitsune in a placating gesture. While she could sense whatever pressure the girl was exerting it wasn't anything to be worried about. Probably. "Don't worry about it so much, Shiro. This isn't really a fight. It's not like I want to hurt her. The challenge is just to see if she can hurt me, and there aren't a lot of things that arethat dangerous to me. It'll be fine."

Rikuyo

Right, she was fucking hopeless right now if she got immobilized by some petals. The former her wouldn't get caught so easily.

"Huh, so what? I don't really care about defeat or victory. I just try my best. If she wants a fight, then whatever. If I lose I will just mug someone even weaker then me out of grub."

The stronger took what what the weaker owned, that's how the world worked after all.

"Oi, just release me and I'll fight her. I don't need ya bailing me out or anything. Maybe I'm weaker, but the struggle only makes me feel more alive!"

[Kaze]

BRIGIDA DOENCA

The older woman nodded at Fiona, a disappointed look on her face. She appeared to be close with the dragon, so it was quite likely that it would act to defend the woman in red. Fighting such a great serpent while having not yet fully recovered from the previous night’s catastrophe was far from ideal, but at the same time, could she risk letting her go?

“That’s unfortunate, but not truly unexpected, I suppose,” Brigida said, taking out a notebook and pen, scribbling down the address to the park where Mordred had almost been captured before tearing the page off and handing it to Fiona. “When you’re ready, head here. I always have someone there 24/7, so don’t worry about regular business hours.” To her own surprise, she gave the other woman a warm smile. “I hope you won’t make me wait too long.”

At that, she turned and started making her way back to Nexus city. She blamed her own personality for allowing this, only halfheartedly wishing she was someone more ruthless.

[Kat]

EMIYA SHIROU

“You’re sure?” He asked the priest, a skeptical look on his face. “You’re not going to try to find Forest?”

Before Darcy had a chance to answer, Mitsuba chewed him out. Shirou couldn’t decide if their mutual irritation was actual hate or if they were tsundere as fuck. Either way, he could definitely live without the distraction.

“I appreciate the thought, but I can handle myself. You don’t have to look out for me.”

Darcy Hugh

Darcy smiled smugly at the girl before bursting into laughter. Quite the feisty one… and yet she still didn’t get it.

“HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!! I see you both don’t understand a thing. Very well, let me enlighten you!!”

A blazing starfire lit in his eyes, manly passion that none could subdue. He posed dramatically and roared in defiance to the girl’s accusations with a blazing fire.

“YES, I AM A PERVERT!! WHEREVER THERE ARE PANTIES I WILL APPEAR!! BUT BEFORE THAT, I AM A MAN OF GOD!! AND AS A MAN, I CANNOT TOLERATE THAT A CREATURE SO VILE AND HEATHEN WOULD ENDANGER A DARLING, NOR CAN I IGNORE A PLEA FOR HELP!! BE IT BIG GIRLS, LITTLE GIRLS, SISTERS, NIECES, COUSINS, WIVES, WIDOWS, NUNS OR CELIBATES… I WILL SHIELD THEM WITH MY OWN BODY IF I MUST!!!! IT IS MY DUTY, NAY, MY CALLING TO PROTECT ALL CUTE GIRLS IN THIS CITY NO MATTER WHAT!! I SIMPLY CANNOT TOLERATE SUCH AN UNGODLY THING, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!”

Well, he didn't lie.

Mitsuba

"No, you're just an idiot." Her brows didn't twitch nervously in response to his idiocy. She wouldn't give the idiot pleasure about making her reach such inner state of mind. Oh, how she wanted that something bad would happen to him. She could've used her Exploit to murder him, but that moron wasn't worth the risk. Shendu's minions would do the job for her. She only needed to weather out the storm inevitably caused by someone making Shendu's organisation pissed off.

"I'm not joining that hopeless and foolish crusade, forget about it."

At least this wasn't total waste. She could have put the knowledge that the vigilante called Forest is a vampire to some use. Vampires tended to attract enemies, and maybe even somebody roped that fool into delivering a bomb or something. Pity they hired an idiot. If somebody paid her to erase her, she wouldn't give a shit if it was worth the risk. Especially if she tailored a Cover for such a mission. Or she could just blackmail her about her little secret.