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Skew Plot End Post

Who: [open to all]
What: Closing Pandora's Box
Where: The city park
When: August 11th

The Gem of Pandora had been teleporting around the city willy nilly. Causing havoc, turning good guys evil and bad guys guys good. But no one had been able to put a handle on it.

Until now.

A small army of badniks had amassed in the park, as Eggman studied the gem... safely contained behind a, err, containment field. This way he could study it without touching it or having it warp away. Of course, he knew heroes would be around before long, so he'd invited the villain community to come and help him defend it.

In any case, even if no one came, the heroes would have a horde of badniks to contend with.

[ooc: you can try to get to the gem, or you can be a villain and help Eggman contain the gem. Either way, this is the finale of the personality skew plot and it will be destroyed by the end of this thread]

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The knight flipped elegantly into the air, dropping down to hover a foot off the ground behind her. "So eager to cut to the chase! Poor form for both of us."

Without touching the ground, he gave a theatrical bow. "I am Propeller Knight of the Order of No Quarter. My master has decided that the Gem is more useful to him intact and in business."

Poor form, indeed. But Blake isn't a knight and she definitely wasn't trained to believe in a fair fight.

So as Propeller Knight does his bowing thing, it ends up presenting a great target for a ninja to strike as Blake rushes in with a flash of speed to strike at him from behind.

"... Yeah, you kind of asked for that," Yang said, staring as Yang made her attack, hands on both her hips.

Propeller Knight whirls around at the last second, his blade clashing against Gambol Shroud in a spray of sparks.

"Two at once, is it? I welcome the challenge!" As they clash, the flying knight leans in towards Blake, his propeller spinning towards her like a buzzsaw.

Okay, he's good. Blake narrows her eyes as her attack is blocked, then quickly splits her weapon. The thinner blade catches the edge of the spinning propeller, holding it off just long enough for her to disengage leaving behind a Shadow for the blades to cut through harmlessly as she dodges back out of reach.

She tosses a look across to Yang and brings her weapons up, settling into a ready stance. Two on one it is.

Yang rushed up to Blake's side, assuming a defensive stance in case the knight rushed at her partner again.

"You hit 'em high, I hit 'em low?" she suggested. "Let's take this guy for a spin!"

Yang. No.

"Hah!" As a be-helmeted jester of the Order of No Quarter, Propeller Knight is no stranger to the impact of a good pun. "If you wish for me to spin, then I will be happy to oblige!"

Once again hovering a few inches off the ground, Propeller Knight literally spins, blade extended, coming at the two young heroes like a deadly top!

Yang just grinned wider. "I'll give it a whirl!"

And she charged right in... attempting to use her prodigious strength, durability, and metal gauntlets to grab the knight's proppeller blades as they spun, all the while attempting to use her leg to kick the sword out of his hand.

Well, simple rules of chance would dictate that somebody would have to like them eventually.

That spin attack sure looked dangerous though, but... maybe there's a way to exploit that. They just need to play this right and... and... and there goes Yang.

"Wait!" Too late. She's already diving in. Blake frowns slightly then dashes off to the side to move into a position to strike if this crazy idea of Yang's actually pays off.

Both of Yang's attacks connect... but you don't get into the Order of No Quarter if you go down that easily!

His propeller is stopped for the moment, but that force all has to go somewhere. Instead of the blades spinning, Propeller Knight himself spins - as the sword flies from his right hand, he catches it in his left, whirling back round for a kick to Yang's stomach, followed by a thrust of the rapier aimed at her heart!

Okay, WOAH. Yang forcefully tilts to the side, letting go. She narrowly dodges... save for a strand of yellow hair that ends up being sliced off by the rapier.

Yang's eyes turn blood red the moment she realizes, her lips curling into a sneer as her aura begins to flare up. Her snapping hasn't quite happened yet, but hopefully she's given Blake an opening...

That was more or less exactly what she was afraid would happen with Yang closing in so fast. Nonetheless, she sees an opening and she takes it.

Moving in quickly, she comes at Propeller Knight from his unarmed side striking at the ridiculous looking helmet of his and trying to disconnect his propellers from the rest of him.

That propeller is attached damn well, but a blow to the head is still a blow to the head. While he's distracted by Yang's berserk overdrive, Propeller Knight is sent tumbling away by Blake's attack!

But quickly, he rights himself. His movements a little less precise than before, he rises a few feet and adopts his fencing stance. Your move, girls.

If you thought that was "berserk overdrive", Propeller Knight, you haven't seen anything yet. Yang unloads a cartridge from both gauntlets, expelling force and literally exploding forward like a living bullet, swinging for the knight's stomach. Her speed? Much greater than before, and her punch has the benefit of being wreathed in golden flames.

That helmet is made of tough stuff, to be sure and once again it looks like this fight is shaping up into a keep up with Yang fest.

That suits Blake just fine though. As Yang barrels in for the direct attack again, she vanishes in a flash, moving around for a more indirect follow-up.

The combination of berserk strength and uncanny precision is simply too much for Propeller Knight to keep up with. Already on the defensive from Yang's onslaught, his rhythm is thrown off by the addition of Blake, and the two strike simultaneously, sending him careening through the air and into a nearby statue in a heap of limbs and armor.

After a moment's staggering, his propeller putters back to live, and he launches himself skyward unsteadily, looking much more disheveled than he was when he got here and trying to ignore the fact that his rapier's blade is now bent at a sharp angle. "My congratulations to you both for a fine battle - even two against one, to be able to best me is a fine feat. I shall disgracefully leave you to your gem."

"Tell the young man in shining armor that the Order of No Quarter send their regards." The knight flees into the sky, dropping behind a pair of roses for the victors.

Blake lands lightly on the ground after the combo attack hits home, sending their enemy careening through the air. She considers pressing the attack for a second but... no, he's done.

Her stance relaxes as Propeller Knight takes to the air again and she watches the rose drop from the sky to land at her feet. She eyes the flower for a second, an expression of... something flickering through her eyes before she turns away.

"... That spun out of control fast." She says. Totally deadpan. And then she's off again, continuing toward the Gem's location. "Come on, we're not finished yet."

"'Spun out of control'..." Yang replied, as her eyes turned to normal and her flaming aura died down. Then, she grinned. "I'm so proud of you, Blake!"

And with that, she took off to follow her.

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