omnomsgods | rl w/ Jak

[Hey, it takes a while to get from Haven City to the Wasteland. Especially since Jak's doing it in style. The first thing Okuu probably sees is the dust cloud, coming from the direction of the large city. It looks like any of the others caused by Marauders' vehicles, but once the source comes into view it's recognizable as the big bulldozer-looking thing from the video. At least, if she was paying any attention to the vehicle.

So far it's moving at top speed across the dunes and shows no sign at all of slowing down - in fact, when one of the smaller rock formations gets in its way, it just busts right through it. Jak's eyesight might not be as great as Okuu's, but she may find a small red dot of light somewhere on her person once he's a bit closer - quickly followed by a crack and a streak of yellow as he fires.

This is Jak, working off the assumption that Okuu still regenerates.]

[ The speed of sound is much, much slower than the speed of light- but it's still faster than a gravity-bound bullet lugging its mass through the air. So when she hears that crack she doesn't even bother to move out of the way. It hits her right on the eye on her chest, where the bullet itself is immediately melted upon touching her. Not to mention, it's a god's eye- the most impervious part of her body. What is the bullet made out of, iron? 2750 degrees Celsius is its boiling point. What is he but life based on carbon? 4827 degrees Celsius is when carbon readily boils away. The mere surface of the small sun that dances in her palm is already 5800 degrees. Already the ground melts beneath her; it doesn't matter for she stays flying. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of other things. Surely the rubber tires and metal of his vehicle will be melting and breaking down even at this distance.

She merely lifts her finger to the sky, and white dwarf stars radiate in a continuous medium-paced stream from her hand. Even if they are arranged in a simple danmaku pattern, the fact that they're suns alone makes them incredibly dangerous to all surrounding materials, organic or otherwise. 5.79 x 10⁷ km is a good distance to ensure not melting in front of the sun... if you're the size of Mercury. For these little guys, the recommended distance is, well, at least a foot away. Of course that doesn't stop the excess heat and radiation from being given off. Naturally, what she expects to see in this attack's wake is nothing but ash and molten ground. ]

[The bullet's probably made out of Eco, actually - but at those temperatures, even Eco probably vaporizes, and Eco is barely even matter to start with. And the car is driving head-on into the attack; if she's paying attention, she might notice it ramping off a dune just before it's hit, and afterward a soft rain of molten metal.

But where's Jak? Well, there's something just barely eclipsing the desert sun; the soft white glow of the shimmering orb is probably lost entirely in the light of Utsuho's attacks. In the center is Jak's light form, wings streaming back.

Midway down, he transforms back to normal, but only for a split second before changing again, his skin and hair going an ashen white and horns growing out of his forehead. He lands as close as the heat will let him with a blast of dark energy, a violet wave crackling with power that radiates out from his landing - impact site, more like, considering how high he fell from.]

[ Encompassed in her own shell of power, she hardly noticed the vehicle as it crashes directly into her attacks. As it were, Utsuho's one of the few bosses who are impervious to hits while she's doing her own attack- and this clearly demonstrates one reason why. She stops for a moment, looking down at him. Her eyes feast on the destruction before her- large craters exist where the suns fell to the ground. What little vegetation is already in flames, and the sand of the desert turns molten. Throwing back her head, she cackles.

What's this...? Horns? Pale skin? Why, he looks just like a special breed of oni. ] Weak-! So very weak! Come at me!

[ Buuuut she's still getting used to her power, after all- so she simply repeats the same radiating attack as before. She's not about to use her arm cannon, not when she can merely stay up here and attack him from where she is. ]

[Shifting directly - or almost directly - from light to dark is exhausting, even as used to his powers as he is by now. Not to mention that he can't pull off more than one more big blast like that without running out of Dark Eco completely. Now that he's seen her fight, though, that isn't quite as much of a problem; dark Jak fights a lot better close up, and that's obviously not an option here.

What's more of a problem is the drain on his reserves of Light Eco, because he can already see he's going to have to have a shield up during her attacks even if he dodges the blasts themselves. He shifts back into light form as quickly as he can and constructs the shield again. Maybe if he's really lucky she'll strike deep enough to crack through to an Eco vent.

It'd be nice if he could Flash Freeze as well and have a little more margin to dodge the attacks, but that would drain his Eco even faster.]

[ So what is he doing, exactly- just standing there? She shifts ever so slightly, the magical glyph that floats behind her flaring up for a moment. Light gathers around her, and is soon absorbed into a concentrated handful. There it's energy increases under an intense pressure until it no longer can be contained. Suddenly, klaxons blare twice (don't ask where they came from- the gratuitous warning comes with her magic). How nice that opponents are given a warning before some attacks, right? Or wrong, for the weak and unsuspecting may know it signifies their impending doom. ] Atomic Fire- Nuclear Fusion!

[ The core of the star in her hand erupts into an enormous reaction, first spewing ultraviolet radiation out in a spherical wave. Six red giants then erupt into existence from the tiniest nuclear reaction, stabilizing into their current forms by her sheer will.

They orbit around her form, spreading out towards him ever so subtly. Needless to say these red giants pack a whole lot more of a punch and demand greater evasive skills. Meanwhile, the white dwarfs continue to emerge from her hand in a circular pattern. ]

[Time for some creative power combination here. Unlike his animalistic dark form, Light Jak can still fire guns. And right now he's got a rather interesting use for one. He activates the Wave Concussor and aims it right at his feet, using the shockwave to provide the boost he needs to take wing again. This at least takes him above the red giants, and lets him concentrate on dodging the white dwarfs like before.]

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[He calls out to her from up there, the searing air making his voice rougher than usual.]

Do you always announce your attacks like that?

[Okay, ow. Talking bad when the air's full of suns. But now he's got the gun out again, with yet a different attachment. If she just gives him the half a second he needs to charge it, she'll find that she's not the only one firing nuclear reactions around. The rocket from the Super Nova may only have the blast radius to equal one of those red giants, but he only needs one, because he can actually aim his.

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[ Aiming what is aiming Touhous rarely aim.

More importantly, she realizes that she doesn't have to call her attacks. ]

[ Actually- the rules of the spell cards and danmaku are specific to Gensokyo, to make battles more equal among the inhabitants. But Jak isn't using danmaku and this world isn't Gensokyo. She doesn't have to obey those rules. She can go all out here. ]

[ Hooooh, Jak- you probably shouldn't have said that. ]

[ Buuut as she's thinking about this the rocket hits her head on! Because thinking is very, very distracting for a bird-brain like Utsuho.

The suns continue to circle in the air for a little bit longer before they burst, releasing mighty shock waves in spherical brilliance. ]

[ She doesn't mind the fire and flames from the attack. She is impervious, as nuclear fission and fusion occur within her very veins. It's more of a nuisance because it blocks her field of vision. After all, manipulation of nuclear reactions are her specific ability. If she wanted to, she could have stopped the reaction for occurring in his gun. He used... some sort of projectile. A small bomb. (A part of her mind races- exactly how would someone design something like that?- and another part of her decides that yes a bullet instead of suns might be fun to try out.)]

[ The look of surprise and discomfort is gone. If it's an attack from a gun he wants, it's a bomb he'll get. His own was pitiful. She'll go back to danmaku after she experiments with this first. ]

[ A cannon materializes on her arm, and she points it out of the clearing smoke. Oh yes, she can aim- when not adhering to the ridiculous spell card system of her world. Birds are known for their accuracy, too.

Then, without saying a word she fires a beam of white hot solar plasma. ]

[And this is the part where Jak realizes two things.

First, that if he hadn't said anything she would have continued calling her attacks. And he could have kept dodging. Theoretically, anyway.

Second, that when someone has just demonstrated the ability to create stars, a nuke is probably not going to faze them much.

These realizations hit him a moment before the smoke clears. Thankfully his goggles protected his eyes from the blast and the smoke, and with the ranging, he might just be as good a shot as Okuu, at least at this range. So he sees a beam of plasma heading right for him and drops.]

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[He isn't faster than that blast, though, and while most of him gets out of the way, the beam clips his wing. As close as it comes, the searing heat does more than a little damage all on its own; convection's a bitch.

He shifts back to normal, so now he doesn't have a wing with a hole in it. Unfortunately, he's still burned badly and falling. Burns he can deal with later, falling not so much.]

[Keira's gonna kill him for this.]

[He pulls out his Jetboard. He's used to flipping onto it in midair, but it's not going to last very long in this environment. He has to keep moving; if Okuu's going to snipe him, he needs to make it as difficult as possible, and he needs to get down close enough and slow enough that he doesn't break every bone in his body when he lands.

That doesn't stop him from trying something very risky. He flies in as close as he can and pulses the Jetboard's engine. With any luck he can hit her with the shockwave before the thing overheats.]

[After the pulse, he flips off, sending the thing right at her mostly by accident. Not like he can expect it to accomplish much. Keira's really going to kill him.]

[Now he has to think. How is he going to stop her if the Super Nova didn't scratch her? It's the most powerful weapon he's got, aside from maybe the sort of Dark Blast he generally uses to take out walls. And he's only got one of those.

He doesn't have anything that can touch her. Unless...]

[Jak doesn't know much about science. But he heard somewhere that stars are nuclear. Maybe that's why the Super Nova didn't work.

He flips the Morph Gun over to the Peace Maker. Maybe electricity can do what radiation couldn't. He fires the charged particles at her as he lands again, even knowing he's risking the radiation. He can't shift back to Light Form right now, it'd take too much concentration even if the wing wasn't still blasted away.

Of course, the thing about all the radiation she's firing around is that the air is that it leaves a lot of ions hanging around. So this is going to be a bigger blast than Jak is expecting.]

[ First thing's first. The attack from the hoveboard is nothing to her. It short circuits and melts before it gets close, and she merely the molten steel it away. ]

[ But as he's fleeing she's right behind him by a meter or so; he should feel the heat increase dramatically with his back turned; the fabric no doubt would be beginning to catch fire by shear heat. This act makes her right there when he turns to take aim. ]

[ In tandem she points his cannon at his. Clearly this is another ~brilliant~ idea by one Utsuho Reiuji. His puny gun doesn't stand a chance against hers! She fires at the exact same time he does. The lightning will affect her, certainly, but it should be known that eletricity is quite indiscriminate in what it attacks within proximity. In other words, there's a high chance he will be effected by both the electricity and her attack by the time this is over. ]

[ But yes, she is affected by the lightening. She grits her teeth in annoyance- lighting isn't so bad to a youkai from hell; at least it does more to her than a simple bullet- standing her ground and continuing her attack. ]

[Of course, the thing about the Peacemaker is that once it's fired, he can turn and run - but of course this means he's struck full in the back by the time her blast hits him. His jacket is incinerated instantly. Amazingly, the bronze-colored metal beneath it somehow holds up; even for Precursor metal, the Armor of Mar is incredibly tough.

This doesn't stop it conducting every ounce of heat to him, though, and he actually cries out in pain. He somehow keeps his grip on the Morph Gun, even if the Peacemaker attachment is melted into uselessness.]

[But melting the Peacemaker might not be as smart a move as one might think. Something or other about the gun protects its wielder from the electricity it fires - Jak doesn't know how it works, but he's thankful for it.

More importantly, when her shot hit the Peacemaker, it ruptured the ammunition - and Peacemaker clips contain concentrated Dark Eco. Jak feels a rush of strength from somewhere as he absorbs some of it - hurt as he is, it takes a massive effort not to give in to his dark side. The rest of it is left where he was standing a few moments ago, a malevolent glowing mass hovering in midair. Who knows what that would do to Utsuho - or what her weapon hitting it might do?]

[Jak doesn't look back at her, and he zig-zags more out of an inability to run straight at the moment than by design. All he can concentrate on is making it over the next dune and throwing himself behind it, just to give himself half a moment.

He doesn't have any illusions about her finding him - even if she didn't see where he went, his next action produces a flash of light as he returns to light form. He uses the last of his reserves of Light Eco to heal himself; that's the end of his ability to fly or shield himself, barring a miracle, but at least he's not cooking alive anymore. For the moment.]

[ She's momentarily distracted by the dark energy that floats before her- and she can allow herself the distraction as the last of electricity pulses through her bones. The energy is curious, indeed- and it seems that Jak gains something from it. Huh- she might have to disperse it later. ]

[ More importantly, she expects a severely wounded Jak by now, so he couldn't have run far off. She takes flight again. She's a bird of prey; of course she would be able to find her target quickly...

And then she sees the flash of light that signifies he had transformed. A dune? Really? It's insulting, bringing her here and not putting up a fight like she expected.

Two sirens blare furiously: another warning. ]

[ Unlike him, she has much more energy to spare. In reality she needs and outlet for her power. Keeping a sun under a pressure cooker wouldn't do much good- unless you wish to make the eruption all the more intense. ] Haaaa!

[ She yells out, pointing her cannon right at the dune itself. If he is expecting another sun or blast, she has something else in mind. Suddenly she strikes the ground, sending a nuclear reaction under the sand towards him. Of course the earth cannot contain that energy, so as soon as it gets close to him- doesn't have to be right next to him as sheer proximity would do enough damage- it will erupt into a geyser of white-hot energy. A dune of loose sand and dry rock would collapse into magma and glass in the path of its energy. ]

[Those sirens are enough to set Jak off running again, moving faster now that the worst of his burns are healed. Of course, most of his clothes are still burned away, and his armor is rubbing directly against his skin in spots - not ideal even when it isn't conducting all the heat around him right into his body.

As a result, he's only at the very edge of the damage radius for the eruption, so it hurts, but just for the moment he's not much worse off than he was. But at this point he's nearly bursting with dark energy, and with the light almost completely drained. Time to turn and fight.]

[He shifts back into dark form with a snarl and twists around, aiming a dark strike right at her. It's not the radius of destruction he uses to clear rooms; it's more like the blast he's occasionally used to break through walls. This is a rush of energy that can break down buildings, and unlike the bombing attack he used before, he can use it more than once before running down.]

[ She thinks he would be vaporized if he came any closer. Guess she is wrong- and how surprised she is! Whatever that energy he uses to transform himself shouldn't be underestimated. The hit throws her back, plummeting her into the molten ground- not that it effects her. The youkai of the Underworld are said to bathe in magma.

...But what this means is that he's definitely within her hit box. Hopefully he's impervious to molten rock in this form, because that's what everything seems to be developing in a 3km radius around her. Even if she's down for the moment as the battle continues, the temperature and pressure of the area steadily increases. In the presence of left over suns, the air must be around 1000 degrees celcius. What that means, of course, is sublimation of blood should he revert. Some sort of attack seems to be building up. ]

[He's not completely impervious - and while Dark Jak's instinct is always to attack, even he's forced back by the building heat. He risks some bad burns by executing a series of rolling leaps, hopping his way toward the edge of the growing caldera in hopes of getting close enough to the border to at least survive what's coming.

He hurls another dark strike over his shoulder back at her. He definitely has to get away before he reverts, and of course he uses up Eco faster when he attacks.]

[ A chain reaction occurs within her, something high energy and incredible- all of herself becomes encased in light, her whole body glowing at an unimaginable magnitude. It's as if all the darkness of Hell within her vaporizes and she channels the untainted power of a sun onto herself. Indeed, the light and energy radiating from her now is practically holy, yet it is far from actual benevolence. She gasps out, light emitting from her eyes and mouth in a spectacular display. Compared to her light, everything else looks like mere shadows.

The ground quakes beneath her, capable of creating deep fissures along the earth's surface. ]

[ She spreads her wings- which now appear more like solar flares than anything else. The only form that can be seen is of some bird-like being-- and right now, the figure flies straight towards Jak, destroying anything in its path. Ravens aren't known for their particularly fast dives, but with the added power of a sun she will be upon him in a single second.

She feels... light, as if she is energy itself, and as if it is infinite. She is a sun itself, but she bends its reactions to something she can easily use. This power becomes easy to handle is she simply gives it its nature. Little thought goes through her head. All she wishes for is his and this world's destruction.

She extends a clawed hand out towards the fleeing figure. It doesn't matter if she actually reaches him, for the energy radiating about her extends at least two meters beyond her reach. ]

[He's cornered now; even without having anything blocking his path, he can't escape her fiery presence, and there's nothing he can do but turn and fight back. He throws another building-killing blast of energy at her, even as her light sears him - this light isn't energy he can use, just pure sunfire. It looks like this is as far as he goes; one clawed hand is scrabbling for something even as he holds up the other in a vain attempt to ward the piercing light off.]

[But suddenly that clutching hand finds something, and his claws rip it open - and then he's back to normal and crackling with blue energy as he dashes away, faster than before. Jak hasn't channeled Blue Eco in a long time, but the reserves in the Vulcan Fury ammo are enough to give him a burst of speed, trying to escape the reach of her destruction. He's aimed himself toward the ocean, away from Haven and Spargus, trying to keep her attention on him even as he races to escape before his blood boils.

Chunks of the glassy surface, all that's left of the desert floor after the heat of her attacks and cracked free by the fissures she created, float in his wake. Projectiles that will melt before they reach her won't do much good, but he's hoping they might slow her down just a little.]

[ Still encased and protected by pure radiation, she beats her wings once, twice, giving her more speed. Flying is always faster than running- less friction and things to slow her down. Slowly her attack takes a more definite pattern, one that she will home in on him. The powerful solar flares naturally lash out extensively before her and even past him, already making it to the sea and boiling water away.

This attack will not stop until he's hit. If he doesn't vaporize by a first touch, she'll double back again and again until there's nothing more left of him. ]

[The Blue Eco speed lets him dodge for a while, but by the time she reaches him, it's run out - there's only so much Eco in one clip. Instead, he turns the gun on her, switching to the Needle Lazer - a stream of electricity fired straight into the heart of the burning figure bearing down on him. With how fast it burns through ammo, the beam only lasts a few seconds - but it's not like she isn't on him by then.

Somehow, he digs up reserves of Light Eco from somewhere deep inside him, managing to throw up a shield - and as much as it might shine, it's a blot of darkness in the middle of the inferno. It won't last long, but it's enough that she'll need one more pass, even if he's forced to his knees when the shield shatters and feels his skin beginning to blacken and crack.]

[ To her he is just another object on this world, yet another manifestation of what stars already created billions of years ago. He and everything else is ready to be turned back into dust to fuel more of her energy- yes, that's all that's on her mind.

The shield only makes her press her attack harder. She bypasses him then, flying upward and arcing dramatically in the air, releasing some excess subs, before plummeting down towards him. The impact itself causes a massive shockwave of flares and fire, causing a ripple of small earthquakes. The inferno now spreads miles across the land, and both the sea and the salt within it are boiling away, making the air poisonous to breathe for any creature. ]

[This is why Jak picked the Wasteland - there's nothing for miles except Metal Heads, Marauders, and the occasional errant leaper lizard.

Not that he has even the minimal control over her actions that her chasing him granted anymore. By the time of the impact, he's already burned to a cinder, and the collision itself just atomizes whatever was left of him, driving it down into the molten bedrock. Hopefully she'll be bored with it now and leave; if he managed to keep her from vaporizing Haven and Spargus, he'll be happy.

His only regret is dying on his knees.]

rl w/ Jak

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Finished, finally. I am so sorry.

don't be. this is beautiful.

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