by Whatevr89532 » Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:06 pm
"Sirn. Three rounds."
Ark's next opponent is a very thin-looking man with bug wings and a halo over his head; he floats up on stage on some sort of mystical power. His voice sounds distant, like someone in the middle of meditation. Ark moves as if he's going to attack at first, but it quickly becomes clear he's doing a kind of aggressive, yet somehow graceful, dance. His opponent has raised his arms in front of himself and there is a brief glimmer of a protective barrier around him, but it has nothing to protect against. Next, Sirn simply disappears from view. Ark's suit changes back to its original pure-white coloration, and one by one several apparent "copies" of him appear around the stage, both on the stage and floating at various elevations above it, each one in a brief upward rush of white energy.
A bunch of dark purplish energy bits appear throughout the stage, rushing straight through all of the Arks but just harmlessly phasing through them, before they all gather together and and reform into Sirn again. One of the numerous Arks higher up in the air suddenly turns into a small blurry streak of white directed at his opponent, and then a combo of some thirty or so blindingly fast slashes cut through Sirn, causing him to jerk around in the air repeatedly before being tossed out of the arena.
The round-announcing voice says, "Three...oh. Right."
"Sssilvera." The next person onstage looks like a lamia of some sort, with a purplish lower half strongly resembling an Arbok's. She looks briefly surprised at the multitude of Arks, but recomposes herself quickly. With an evil grin, her eyes light up strangely, and anyone looking directly at them finds it difficult to move all of a sudden, the effect worse for those closer to the arena. A gardevoir-woman quickly floats up from beneath the stage and spraying paralyze heals on any audience members who actually got paralayzed by it, but perhaps most surprising is that Ark--all of him--seems to have actually been hit. His suit shifts colors again, now to a dull, earthy brown, but he seems to have trouble actually moving.
Giving an evil-looking grin, Silvera opens her mouth and makes a loud, hissing sound, her strong lower body flailing her upper body around and allowing her to spray purple acid from her mouth all over the arena, some of it connecting with one Ark or another as it does so. There is a shield up around the stage which prevents any of this from reaching the audience, thankfully.
The Boss regains his ability to move, and now one of them places his hand on his forehead. Rings of psionic waves pulse outward from him, and despite her best attempts to outslither them they rush in on and connect with the Arbok-woman, resulting in Ark's paralysis disappearing and her getting a taste of her own medicine. Nevertheless, she raises her arms and throws out several globs of mud at as many of the Arks as she can manage, and one or two of these also connect. An Ark standing right next to her latest position makes a forceful gesture with his hand; nothing visible happens, but she suddenly clutches her head and screams as if experiencing excruciating pain.
She breathes heavily afterward, clearly hurt but not out. Letting out an enraged kind of yell, she suddenly charges forward along the stadium floor, tearing a rut through the floor itself and shaking the building slightly in the process. She goes straight through several apparent copies of Ark, causing them to simply disappear, but never quite finds the real thing. Another of him blinks into view just above her as soon as her attack stops; a bunch of purple energy flies out from him and strikes her full-force across the front, knocking her backwards a few yards and skipping her across the stadium floor a couple of times before landing her flat. Rather than getting she slowly curls into a ball, not fainting but going to sleep. Ark's response is to turn his suit solid pink and immediately make a drawing-forth motion at her. She floats up into the air and something resembling a ghost of her--perhaps her very soul--is suddenly torn out of her body and pulled toward him, yelling in pain the entire time. Once she's close he grabs the spectral snake-girl in his arms and there are a few audible snapping and tearing sounds before the ghostly image is returned to her body, which falls limply to the floor, properly fainted. Ark floats down and gently kicks her offstage.
The round-announcer states, "Five Rounds."
(((Shedinja) Swords Dance/Protect, Phantom Force (chargeup), Double Team, Phantom Force (attack), Aerial Ace
(Arbok) Glare, (paralyzed), Acid Spray, Psycho Shift, Mud Bomb, Psychic, Bulldoze, Psyshock, Rest, Dream Eater))