Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe)

Captain Kabe
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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
Restrained Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 10, 2024 2:58:51 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 10, 2024 2:58:51 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

"Is he going to eat that?" it asked, using Kabe's voice as they moved his eyes, from muscle wrapped in armor like meat in a can, to the dry heap of fabric Vocado had unclasped and let fall. They looked back to Vocado, ignoring his question and demand of introduction. It didn't owe this heap of meat any explanation just because the meat was genealogically related to the vessel. And they wouldn't answer.

Kabe's tail wrapped around his chest, and they dropped low to the ground, red eyes looking up before they bolted, muscles bounding at angles and in ways that were completely unlike any way a saiyan should move, before one hand gripped the fabric of the cape and snatched it to their mouth. It tasted like war. Worn and dry but they could tell it had been soaked in blood and caked in dirt enough that even cleaned they could savor the undertones. "We like you. You're not fake, like others. You're the same kind of animal we are. A hunter."

They needed to test it's strength.

As they ate the fabric, they inhaled, drawing in all the light they could. Oh how delicious that golden light was. His blood must have that strong a taste...

They brought their foot up from behind and throw their bodyweight up the wrong way around, aiming to drive Kabe's sneakers straight into Vocado's jaw. If they made him bleed, they could taste him. If they didn't, they could hunt. How excited it was, raking and scratching at Kabe's brainstem, as they moved to hurt his uncle.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 0% | KP 5 MP 2]

Kabe uses [Light] Nuclear Knockout for 1 KP!
20% is 396,000 DMG headed at Vocado!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Tactician, Mimicry]
/WORDS [WC 315 | TWC 2522]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
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PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 10, 2024 3:14:09 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 10, 2024 3:14:09 GMT -5

Vocado watched. Waiting. Strange as Kabe's movements had become, they wouldn't rattle him. He'd faced Destron-mutated Saiyans, Tuffle monstrosities, and torn through endless swathes of soldiers. One wild animal was nothing. Even if it did wear his nephew's face...

It came at him with a wild recklessness. So intense, but still, in its own way, measured. It was testing, too, Vocado noted. How curious, and very concerning. This thing, whatever it was, was blessed with intelligence not found in even the most bravado-laden of Saiyan soldiers. Maybe Kabe was right to feel concerned.

With a quick reflex, Vocado brought his forearm up to block, which brought with it a thin-sounding crack. Kabe's boot had cracked the armguard on Vocado's wrist, splintering the armor with a single blow. Not uncommon for titanic warriors, but frustrating nonetheless.

"Hunter I may be, we are not alike. I needn't use another's skin for my quarry."

Bringing his free arm down, Vocado laced his fist with Ki and thrust it outward, loosing a point-blank bullet of energy. The resulting shockwave would, regardless of success, tear through the wall behind Kabe, letting in a harsh gust of artificial air and a beam of supernova-sunlight. The android bartdender near the back of the room rattled and shook to life, but could do nothing about the new entryway.

"Do you have a skin of your own, beast? Or have you always scurried away beneath the comfort of someone else's shoes?"

Vocado uses [Item] Battle Armor!
20% Power = 360,000 Defensive power!
Armor vs Knockout = FIZZLE!

Vocado uses [Light] Machine-Gun Salvo!
40% Power = 720,000 Damage headed for Kabe!

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 4/6
MP: 3/6
HP 0/280

Resources: Arm Blaster, Sage Staff, Dyno Cap, Charged Blood Ruby, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery
USED Resources: Battle Armor

Last Edit: Sept 10, 2024 3:14:24 GMT -5 by Vocado

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Captain Kabe
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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
Restrained Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 12, 2024 1:24:27 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 12, 2024 1:24:27 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

"This is our skin." they replied, after Vocado had blocked the strike. Fast. The golden haired beast was always a fast one. Lottus had been fast. Dion had been fast. Zhalla- it shook his head at the thought of the name, but how fast she was lived in Kabe's thoughts, where it swam and feasted. But this one was weaker, too. Reliant. It had blocked their blow not with flesh but with metal, plastoid alloy or... what was it?

Curiosity was the secondmost thought they had, when they were together. Hunger, and curiosity. And they reached now to snatch at shards that had come from the crack, chewing on them. There was a crunch to it. It tasted chemical, with the faintest tones of something like iron... definitely plastoid.

"This is our skin," the tones in Kabe's voice sounded more sure this time, as they pressed a hand onto the top of Vocado's wrist as he punched forward, springing overhead and landing on all fours behind him. "We don't scurry beneath anybody. We are Hoshikui, and we hunt."

They lunged forward, fist aimed at Vocado's back. There was no real force to their shove, no meaningful energy poured into it. This was conservation. They were still testing him. Teasing was part of the hunt. Prodding made the meal more tender in the end.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 0% | KP 3 MP 4]

Kabe uses [Light] Subsonic Slide for 2 KP!
1,188,000 dodging vs 720,000! 0% DMG taken.

+2 MP.

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Tactician, Mimicry]
/WORDS [WC 223 | TWC 2745]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
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PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 12, 2024 2:10:49 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 12, 2024 2:10:49 GMT -5

So the thing had a name. An old-sounding thing, too. Something beyond his understanding. Vocado clicked his tongue in frustration as his blast was evaded, but kept himself on high-alert as the thing darted up and behind.

Wheeling around, he had turned halfway before he felt the shove connect. It tossed him off-balance, but he finished his turn mid-fall, giving him a good angle to level his blaster at the beast. With a click of his device, the blaster bullet hissed forward, aiming to punt Kabe’s chest and wind him for a moment.

His other hand came down behind him, loosing a shockwave of Ki to slow his fall. It gave him time to catch himself before he hit the peeling hardwood, and Kip-up quickly.

”So what was it then? A birthing ritual? Some sort of demonic deal my sister made? Why do you call him your skin, parasite?”

His knowledge of the dark arts was limited, but something about this thing felt like it was of that realm. A shame, then, that he had nobody to call on that could help. Nobody with that realm of expertise. Surely he’d reach a conclusion somehow. There was no other choice.

Another defensive stance came from the soldier, and with it came a goad. ”The boy tells me you tasted the world-ender, and yet I stay uninjured. Your supposed skill has yet to be seen.”

Vocado uses [Item] Arm Blaster!
20% Power = 360,000 Damage headed for Kabe!

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 6/6
MP: 4/6
HP 0/280

Resources: Sage Staff, Dyno Cap, Charged Blood Ruby, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery
USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster

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Captain Kabe
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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
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Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 12, 2024 2:56:18 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 12, 2024 2:56:18 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

They had knocked him off balance, and for this they grinned, though quickly that grin became a growl of disapproval. Once again, it was using a tool. Why? Did their prey lack confidence in the strength of his own bones? They knew that Vocado was strong. Confident and strong were the two words that had circled Kabe's thoughts of his uncle in the long time he'd missed him.

But they didn't need tools. They were stronger than them.

The beast in saiyan guise made no movement to avoid the bullet, the energy hitting them in the shoulder. The shoulder guard was durable, made from the same gold-katchin alloy that Perilla's belt was forged from, yet it was restricting. It didn't like when the vessel was restricted, they itched. As if they had only just realized they were wearing anything at all, Kabe's jacket was ripped off and thrown to the ground, the welt on his shoulder now plainly in view.

"The world-ender didn't hide behind toys." It had figured out how to inflect tone with purpose, and it had made Kabe sound disgusted. And it was disgusted, to see the primality of the saiyan in front of them squeezed into the facade of something civilized, something that used tools and fought wars and followed rules. "And we are no demon. No ritual birth or parasite. We are hunger."

For the first time since it had started it's attack, the beast simply paced around Vocado. The heat of the supernova was started to leak into the room, as critical systems struggled to maintain the air inside after the hole Vocado had blown in it's side, yet Kabe's body did not break a sweat. Red eyes watched, head tilted curiously. "Can you break us? Your own flesh? The world-ender failed."

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 18% | KP 5 MP 5]

Kabe takes 360,000 (18%) DMG!

+1 MP.
+2 KP.

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Tactician, Mimicry]
/WORDS [WC 299 | TWC 3044]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
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PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 12, 2024 3:10:02 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 12, 2024 3:10:02 GMT -5

”Toys, are they? Funny, these playthings seem to be keeping you at bay quite well. A hunter with a gun can fell a beast ten times his own size, isn’t that right?”

Vocado fiddled with his arm cannon, and ejected the Ki cartridge. It hissed, and Vocado sighed. Hoshikui gave a typical reply for a rabid animal. Always trying to find some way to belittle the idea of progress. Vocado had strength in leaps and bounds, but he would be a shallow grave in a wasteland without having recognized his faults. Tools, armor, weaponry— all of it was necessary if you wanted to win a war.

”Find a better excuse for your ineptitude. One I haven’t heard a thousand times.”

Kabe paced, and Vocado reciprocated. Alarms began to blare, bathing the room in a sea of red-gold light. A glare from the exploding star leaked into the room as the pressure began to stabilize. Somehow, somewhere, a repair droid was affixing new boards to the wall.

A futile effort.

”Hunger incarnate graces my presence. Such an honor.” His glare hardened. ”I am eager to see your gnashing teeth shatter and fall from your maw.”

Stopping his stride, Vocado leveled a hand toward Kabe, his palm alight with Ki. Crimson energy pooled in his limb, and with a sharp thrust, he fired. Dozens of Ki bullets erupted outward, dancing across the space between the two fighters. His goal was to overwhelm his foe. Force him to make a serious play, or be done in.

Vocado uses [Medium] Shotgun Salvo!
80% Power = 1,440,000 damage headed your way!

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 2/6
MP: 6/6
HP 0/280

Resources: Sage Staff, Dyno Cap, Charged Blood Ruby, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery
USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster

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Captain Kabe
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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
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Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 14, 2024 11:14:02 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 14, 2024 11:14:02 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

"We don't make excuses. We are what we are." it retorted as Vocado chided for ineptitude while they both paced around eachother in circles. There was a weight to each movement, limbs thrown forward rather than simply stepped into, over and over as red eyes examined Vocado. The way he moved, which muscles must be tightening and releasing with each step and movement. They still hadn't tasted him yet.

They needed to.

So when his stride stopped and his hand trained onto them to shoot, they didn't contort or dodge away. They could take it. It had chosen this vessel so perfectly for how easily it took to injury. How well it handled pushing forward. He was so eager to die and yet so unable to accept death no matter the maiming he recieved, and they loved it. Ki burned in such a raw way as it washed over skin, blistering and peeling away across his chest like the scalding heat of flame or boiling water.

"If you are eager, we will indulge." they said as they lunged forward, teeth trained to bust straight through that purple plastoid canning that stood between them and their prize. A meal that could hurt them like this was always so much sweeter to taste.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 18% | KP 1 MP 1]

KABE tanks 72% damage from the attack!
New total 90%!

KABE uses [M.SPARKING] Visceral Bleedout for 4 KP and 4 MP!
60% = 1,188,000 DMG!
It has bleed, bleed+ and pressure.
It can only be reduced to a minimum of 40% of its original power in clashes.
If it hits 20% or more, bleed for 15% for four turns!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Tactician, Mimicry]
/WORDS [WC 211 | TWC 3255]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
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SIDES

PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 14, 2024 12:19:59 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 14, 2024 12:19:59 GMT -5

For the first time since the fight began, Vocado hesitated. Watching his nephew take such a debilitating blow head-on without so much as a hitch in his step? It was haunting. His expression, once stern, faltered. His brows softened, and his gaze weakened. Could he really do this? Could he find a way to push Kabe back to the forefront and conquer this power?

Vocado’s energy flared in response to the beast’s approach. He had no choice. He had to save the boy! For Perilla’s memory, there was no alternative. His gaze turned steel-sharp once more, as an outpouring of Ki erupted from his body! Burning through his reserves with reckless abandon, he heightened his strength beyond its limits. The room buckled from his power, and the repair droid was flung from his work.

With a swift motion, Vocado leaned back from the biting jaws and lashed out, grasping as Kabe’s throat and clenching tight. Lightning danced between his fingertips, and a thrum of purpose emanated from his Ki.

”You BORE me, beast!”

A harsh, empowered fist found its way toward the boy’s chest, intending to knock the wind clean from his lungs. Soon after, he’d toss him away. Holding a proud, superior pose, he looked down his nose at the boy’s captor.

”Your hunger means nothing. Your strength means nothing. You are NOTHING! You call this skin yours? You think yourself worthy of owning him? PROVE IT!”

His voice boomed. Taunting the creature gave him an exhilarating energy. Despite his sudden expulsion of Ki, he was alight with passion and fervor. Kabe’s puppeteered body hadn’t harmed him yet, and if he could keep the tempo like this, he might never manage.

”The boy’s body is his own. Your parasitic reign ends with me.”

Momentum BOOST!
6 MP used to reduce the cost of the next technique by -2 KP!

[ITEM] Charged Blood Ruby Used in conjunction with [UT] Commanding Presence to embolden himself to save Kabe!
10% Power to the next technique AND +1 KP!

Used [Medium] Falter Point!
70% Power = 1,260,000 Block strength!

Falter Vs Bleedout = Falter Point wins!
Falter Point has the Taunt Variant, giving Vocado a stack of EMBOLDENED!

[UT] Commanding Presence used to terrify Hoshikui, OR Inspire Kabe!

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 1/6
MP: 0/6
HP 0/280

Resources: Sage Staff, Dyno Cap, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery

USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster, Charged Blood Ruby

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Captain Kabe
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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
Restrained Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 14, 2024 20:54:17 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 14, 2024 20:54:17 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

"YOU ARE FRUSTRATING," the beast yelled, raising it's voice to shout in a way that Kabe's vocal chords clearly didn't like, clipping at just how loud they'd gone. "SHUT UP. SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" it screamed in a wheeze as they clamored for breath, as they snapped their neck and arms up and back into place after having been tossed back.

It didn't like this. Why was this thing's voice like hers?

Why did it worm inside the vessel and shake it's grip on him? Was the voice of blood so inspiring? How pathetic, how sickening. They needed to shut him up. He didn't want to hurt Vocado at all, and he shook his head. It raised a hand and slapped him, Kabe feeling the ache of his own fist against his own jaw. He didn't want to! But it didn't care. Eyes that were red dimmed to blue and looked for help at their uncle, before the red reclaimed them.

"THIS BODY IS OURS. SHUT UP!" they shouted and they lunged forward, another desperate bite, another waste of energy. This attack would exhaust them, make them need to recover. They knew Vocado could defend against it. But part of them didn't care, and part of them was relying on that.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 90% | KP 0 MP 3]

KABE uses [Light] Nuclear Knockout for 1 KP!
20% = 396,000 DMG for Vocado!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Vampiric, Sadist, Zenkai (0)]
/WORDS [WC 211 | TWC 3466]

Last Edit: Sept 14, 2024 21:05:13 GMT -5 by Captain Kabe

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
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PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 15, 2024 3:27:24 GMT -5 Captain Kabe likes this

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Post by Vocado on Sept 15, 2024 3:27:24 GMT -5

"Chittering oaf."

The thing grumbled incessantly. It's grip was loosening. Vocado's stern glare was unbroken, though, he began to find it hard to hide the smile that yearned to crawl upon his face. Despite the elation, Vocado only had so much time left to solve this conundrum. The Supernova stretched ever closer. They'd need to evacuate soon.

"You twist and bend. Snap and contort. All of this for show. Who are you trying to impress, beast? It certainly hasn't worked on me."

Vocado slipped the lunging strike, allowing Kabe's body to smash through the table behind him, and, inadvertently, destroying the repair droid who'd been trying desperately to save the asteroid from extinction. Splintered steel and frayed wires spilled across the hardwood.

"Trying to instill fear? Strangle Kabe's resolve? You're failing. Slipping." Vocado cracked his knuckles. "Let it fall away. You can't win, not against a Bonewood."

Ki crackled across his golden hair, and his gaze glanced away from Kabe's visage toward the ever-widening crack in the wall. Pressure dropped further. Heat rose. The floor buckled.

"Kabe!" He snapped suddenly. "Wake up, kiddo! Take the reigns and show me your true power!"

A demanding finger pointed out toward him, and he waited.

Used [Item] Dyno Capsule to refresh and use [Item] Battle Armor!
20% Power = 360,000 Defense!
Knockout vs Armor = FIZZLE!

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 3/6
MP: 1/6
HP 0/280

Status Effects: EMBOLDENED (+20% To next technique)

Resources: Sage Staff, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery, Sparking

USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster, Charged Blood Ruby, Dyno Cap

Last Edit: Sept 15, 2024 3:27:58 GMT -5 by Vocado

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PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
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Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 15, 2024 4:47:04 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 15, 2024 4:47:04 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

Kabe felt it as they tabled through the tumble, an embarassment more than any real injury as circuitry and splintered plastic and ceramium jabbed into their back. It didn't care, but he did, and they rubbed at their spine as they flipped over. They didn't both standing back up, remaining on all fours and staring up as Vocado tauned it. "Such scolding words for us," they whispered watching him crack his knuckles as the heat in the room was hot enough that all their insides itched all over. "but we are not letting the vessel go to you."

The body went tight, muscles drawing in on themselves like a taut spring and ready to pounce. Attack. The thought moved across minds. Was it his, or it's? Were they thinking it? He was angry. He was angry, wasn't he? Punish him. Another thought, tangled across lines. Vocado had left him. Vocado was taunting them. Vocado had threatened their cohesion. But still, the body held still.

Attack! They needed to attack! And yet red eyes turned purple, and coiled muscles twitched like a bowman's arm after drawing too long. It was angry. It was clawing, thrashing inside of the vessel for control, raking at his mind. But Kabe was determined. It didn't matter how angry he was. When they pounced, blue eyes passed as they moved straight past Vocado, the attack misdirected to air.

When they hit the ground, his eyes were red again. It was frustrated. They were uncertain, yet once again they moved, lips curling. "Vocado," they spoke, strain in the voice, something desperate before harsher words. "We will die here. This vessel will burn. We will make you watch us perish." they growled, and they wiped a single bead of sweat from their brow as they stood up, shoulder limp backwards and ready to strike.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 90% | KP 2 MP 4]

+2 KP!
+1 MP!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Vampiric, Sadist, Zenkai (0)]
/WORDS [WC 305 | TWC 3771]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
STUFF
SIDES

PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 15, 2024 12:32:44 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 15, 2024 12:32:44 GMT -5

Something was changing. He could see it, despite its subtlety. The creature was losing grip, and fast. Despite its taunts. Despite its insistence that they would burn here, Vocado’s demeanor was resolute.

”If the boy burns, it’s because my body has turned to cinders protecting him.” He stepped forward, slow and relaxed. Defenses lowered. ”Hunger incarnate, and yet you offer to throw yourself and your vessel away the moment you slip up. You really are a parasite.”

Vocado made no move to defend himself, nor strike at the boy. Instead, he raised his arms, opening himself up for attack. His eyes glared daggers, and Ki crackled yet more.

”Is that survival instinct, parasite? Am I so far above you that your only thought is to burn yourself to save me the trouble? It’s very thoughtful of you, beast. But I’m afraid I prefer handling pests with my own hands.”

The asteroid buckled again, and pieces of its outermost crust fell away. A warning sign blared from Vocado’s scouter, and he ignored it. This was more important than his life. More important than the Kingdom. More important than Super Saiyan’s and supremacy.

Somewhere, in the distance, Vocado’s space pod activated its emergency takeoff procedures, and made toward the Warmaster’s location.

”I’m wide open, Hoshikui. And yet you hesitate.”

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 5/6
MP: 2/6
HP 0/280

Status Effects: EMBOLDENED (+20% To next technique)

Resources: Sage Staff, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery, Sparking

USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster, Charged Blood Ruby, Dyno Cap

Last Edit: Sept 15, 2024 12:33:44 GMT -5 by Vocado

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Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 18, 2024 18:30:47 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 18, 2024 18:30:47 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

It didn't like this. It shook Kabe's head at Vocado's taunts. Survival instinct. Survival instinct. What did this moving flesh know of that? Was he there at the beginning, when all there was were shapes, and thoughts, and things to consome for simple sake of survival? No. He was nothing more than a meat sack conflating the conscious desire to live as something similar.

"No. We burn to make you suffer. If you die to stop that we achieve our goal." It spat back in retort. It was angry. It was always angry, under Kabe's skin, boiling and desperate and hungry, and furious at all the world around it for existing. But it had a special anger, they had a special frustration for Vocado, for his taunts, for his honor, for his toying brashness.

But inside, Kabe scratched back. Clawed with real intention in the scape of his own mind in a way that left him reeling with agony. Because yes, he was furious with Vocado. Yes he felt betrayed. But he loved that man more than he hated him, and this thing inside him was trying to use that fact against them both.

And it could get fucked.

"Fuck yoU!" they shouted, voice trembing at the end. Sweat was dripping from their brow now, Kabe's hair greasy in the slick dry heat of the nearly vaccumous space as he levelled his hand and shot a manageable blast of energy at Vocado.

/KABE [1,980,000 | DMG 90% | KP 1 MP 6]

KABE uses [Light] Nuclear Knockout for 1 KP!
20% = 396,000 DMG!

+2 MP!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Vampiric, Sadist, Zenkai (0)]
/WORDS [WC 241 | TWC 4012]

The 10,000,000,000,000z Man

Vocado
Indomitable Force

STATS
STUFF
SIDES

PL: 111,000
XP: 605
Oozaru (x5)
Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @shredvoc
Posts: 730 Male

Item Malus: 21,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 18, 2024 19:05:51 GMT -5

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Post by Vocado on Sept 18, 2024 19:05:51 GMT -5

Vocado made no move to defend himself, instead allowing the energy beam to swallow him whole. A mighty explosion rocked the bar, sending glasses flying and allowed dust to upturn from the floor and tabletops. Smoke plumed, and was summarily sucked out of the hole in the wall. Vocado was revealed, scuffed, but undeterred.

"That all?"

Another wall buckled and fell away, but Vocado ignored it, stepping forward with a menace about him. Each step was slow. Deliberate. His body thrummed with a surge of Ki.

"Burn the boy. Burn me. You claim so much, and yet you accomplish none. You can't harm the boy even if you reached out from within and snapped his neck yourself. Do you know why?"

Vocado loomed over Kabe's pupetted body.

"Because you are nothing. A stomach bug. A pest. A parasite. When faced with a modicum of strength, you buckle. When faced with me? You shiver."

A furious strike aimed itself right for Kabe's stomach. Laced with Ki and imbued with pride and hate, he aimed to shatter Hoshikui's last vestiges of hope. If the punch didn't do it, the spinning side kick that followed would certainly help. If both strikes landed flush, Kabe would find himself skidding back across the hardwood.

He could have continued the assault, but he relented. Instead, he dropped his Super Saiyan state, his hair falling gently back to its normal messy self. A show of force in itself, if the beast understood that much.

"Scurry away, beast. Hide behind his soul where I can't reach. Hurry now. Before I change my mind."

Vocado takes FULL Damage (22%)

Vocado uses Momentum BOOST!
10% Power to next technique!

Vocado uses [Medium] Armor Piercing Blow!
60% + 20% + 10% = 90% Power = 1,620,000 Damage headed for Kabe!

Used [UT] Commanding Presence to instill terror in Hoshikui

Returned to Base Form

PL: 1,800,000 (Base: 100,000)

KP: 1/6
MP: 0/6
HP 0/280

Status Effects: EMBOLDENED (used up this turn)

Resources: Sage Staff, Zenkai, Saiyan Pride, Impossible Recovery, Sparking

USED Resources: Battle Armor, Arm Blaster, Charged Blood Ruby, Dyno Cap

PLOTTER
LORE

Captain Kabe
Renowned Power

STATS
STUFF
SIDES

PL: 130,000
XP: 1,303
Oozaru (x5)
Restrained Super Saiyan (x18)

Tag: @kabe
Posts: 424 Male

Item Malus: 6,750

Minion PL: 39,000

Before The Blood Runs Dry (Kabe) Sept 24, 2024 3:23:12 GMT -5

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Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 24, 2024 3:23:12 GMT -5

BEFORE THE BLOOD RUNS DRY

There was a tear, forming inside the vessel. When mixed like this, in the stewing pot of his mind, Kabe and his captor rarely disagreed on a course of action. But as Vocado spat his harsh words at them, Kabe resisted that feeling, that crawling need to keep this up. His own thoughts were untangled as he heard the man he respected most in all the galaxy make out this awful living feeling inside him to be nothing. He didn't want to keep fighting.

So when it beckoned and screamed for any defense to be made, to strike and claw and bite as Vocado struck them, Kabe held his body still with all the control he could muster.

Vocado's fist slapped against flesh, a collision that sent force through skin and meat to rupture something on the inside that definitely should not be ruptured. Kabe dropped to one knee, spitting blood. They looked up at him and watched as the gold light emanating withered away until black hair and terrifying confidence loomed over them instead.

Scurry away, beast.

Betrayed by it's own instinct, survival above all else, it obeyed. For the first time the beast in Kabe showed genuine fear. The recklessness that had been their shared calling card discarded in the face of someone more ruthless and brutal than even the world-ender. The red light left Kabe's eyes, and the his gold withered, too.

Kabe stared up, whincing in pain as he looked to his uncle with a mixture of awe, fear and pride. How had he done that? Driven away the Devourer so easily? It took everything Kabe had in him, every single time, just to make sure he didn't lose control of his body forever. And yet Vocado...

He bowed his head. He'd attacked his uncle so viciously, and it didn't matter to him that it had been the other guy, or that Vocado was unscathed. "Vocado, I... forgive me. Please. That wasn't me." he whispered, and it was clear whatever feelings had erupted inside him in that moment were now filling him up with shame.

/KABE [110,000 | DMG 172/270 | KP 3 MP 6]

KABE takes 82% damage!
New total 172%

KABE detransforms, back to 110,000 BASE PL.

+2 KP!
+2 MP!

//ITEMS [Wedding Ring, Scouter, Healthy Beet, Sparking Water]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Vampiric, Sadist, Zenkai (0)]
/WORDS [WC 348 | TWC 4360]