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Everything gets slower. Slower. Silver eyes watch on, at the madness that was to come. Yet it happens fast, as Isaac fights on, and all Ashley can do is watch. Mind to the whetstone, he thinks of a way out of this. Bongo? In pain, but still up. Sunny? He was so tiny, Ash can't risk him. Salem? She might have a way to turn this around. Jelly? No chance, types won't mesh. Toothless? Golurks are immune to his stronger strikes. Bass? That's a war of attrition.[break][break]
Sweat begins to pour down his face. But he's frozen, and he watches Isaac fight. Isaac was strong, he would persevere, right? He was doing work, striking back against the Golurk, and as Ashley spins around on a heel, he looks back to Kep. He was crying.[break][break]
"Kep..."[break][break]
Which meant there was only one way this could end.[break][break]
The Grim Reaper would find his dues, but Ashley turns back around, resolve pushing through him. Throwing two balls up, Salem and Sunny hit the field. All of his but Jelly are on the field now. The Umbreon and the Scorbunny sit on reserve, as Bongo wipes the blood from his head, Toothless still coils his neck, and Bass surveys from above. His hand clinches into a fist.[break][break]
What happens next is like a scene from a nightmare.[break][break]
Isaac is doing well to fight on, to fight strong, and pushing back against the Grim Reaper Golurk, it seems things will go well. He's buying time. Time for Ashley to think of how to get out. But it's when Ashley sees the hand from behind Isaac, that it's too late.[break][break]
"ISAAC!" He cries out.[break][break]
A sickening crunch... and in a flash, with a palm to the spikes, Isaac was gone.[break][break]
"ISAAAAAAAAAAC!" His voice was hoarse, his pupils shrunken, as he stares at the beast now, the body tossed away like a broken toy as it stares down at them. Pluto does her best to keep the beast at bay, with Hagakure matching the energy, and awaiting him. But as all of Ashley's team sits at the ready, all he can do is cry out.[break][break]
In sadness. In mourning. In fury. In anger. His tears fuel him, his teeth grit.[break][break]
The Golurk scoffs at them. It reduced one of them to dust. The
lesser Golurk. And now it took the most able fighter of them down. What could humans do?[break][break]
"NO MORE. NO MORE BLOOD. DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU OVERSIZED BUCKET OF SHIT?" Ashley declares, and taking a step forward, Bongo, Sunny, Salem, and Toothless prepare, with Bass landing nearby. His five are at the ready, his anger their anger, pulsating through them.[break][break]
And the strategy begins. Now it's no longer about getting out alive. It's about punching the Grim Reaper in the dick as many times as he can.
"I WILL KILL YOU AS MANY TIMES AS I HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU STAY BURIED!" His pistol is out, and he fires every round in his mag, until pulling it empties it.
"DISAPPEAR!"[break][break]
With it, Bongo slams the drums in a
DRUM BEATING to surround their cage match, to keep the bastard Golurk and all of them here in the vines. Sunny shifts types with
LIBERO by utilizing
AGILITY, while Toothless racing forward with a slam of his
AQUA TAIL to this beast's face. Salem pulses with dark energy, a
DARK PULSE intent to push this bastard to their knees, while Bass moves back to Kepler, to protect him.[break][break]
Ashley stood with their forces, at the ready to protect Kepler completely. No one else dies today. Not a one.[break][break]
Not as long as Ashley yet draws breath.[break][break]
"GIVE HIM BACK." He roars.
Isaac Merlo,
kepler brueshaber[break][break]
NOTES
- Can you feel the intensity? After seeing Isaac die, and how Kep is... Ashley steps up.[break]
- Time to beat the Grim Reaper within an inch of their unlife.[break]
- Ashley fires every bullet he has in his magazine to off the Golurk Grim Reaper.[break]
- Bongo
DRUM BEATING, Sunny
AGILITY-LIBERO, Toothless
AQUA TAIL, Salem
DARK PULSE. Bass protects Kepler.[break]
- No more blood.
