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Post by Big Bee on Nov 12, 2023 17:41:03 GMT 9
Big Bee was on top of the world.
Well, he was on top of a ruined skyscraper, which was as close as the game would allow players to the sky box. The building had once had a pool on the roof, but time and negligence and some sort of disaster had cracked the edifice of this grand, granite giant, spilling the pool's sweet lifeblood down into the street below.
Then, local plants full of piss and vinegar had reclaimed the pool and stitched up the cracks enough that rainwater had filled it up again! Now it was a fragrant oasis full of terrible, brackish water. It was like a private swimming pool owned by the international spokesperson for Malaria. Or the Grinch.
"This place sucks," said Rian, tossing a length of rebar into the pool.
"Hey! What's with that sour attitude? You asked for sun and plants and fruit, and this has two of those!"
"I just wish you'd skimped on sun for fruit. I can eat a mango in the shade but I can't eat nothing on a bare patch of concrete now can I?"
"I'm telling you, orioncayge always delivers. He's like Domino's. Dependable and cheap. Wait. I mean 'not overpriced'. You know what I'm saying, right? He's Orion. He's priceless!"
"Whereas you're Di Giorno? Never deliver and you're worthless?"
"What the hell is with all this lip towards Di Giorno? I'm telling you right now either get a better attitude or Orion and I will be snacking on fresh fruit while you sulk in your Pokeball."
"This sucks!"
"I'm warning you!"
Rian crossed her arms and sat in silence while Bee sat on the edge of the building, kicking his legs and humming.
"This place rocks."
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orioncayge
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Post by orioncayge on Nov 13, 2023 10:48:24 GMT 9
"Did someone Uber Eats some Fresh Fruit?"
Orion called out kicking open the door to the top level of the ruined skyscraper with twin bundles of fruit, one in each hand. The wind shifted and the smell of rot and decay wafted over from the pool, causing Orion to retch slightly as he stepped forward, still brandishing fruit bags like he was the second coming of Billy Mays. Getting up to their meeting place had been a bit of an ass kicking, no elevator meant it was nothing but flights and flights of stairs between him and his bro. Normally this would be daunting to any regular person, but Orion was the motherfucking stair master, and nothing could come between him and broing down with Bee.
The venue kinda stank though.
He would set the two bags down, grapes spilling out over drooping cloth and Bananas hanging free for all to see. Smuggling fruit from one area to another was a complex task, but Orion was always up for the challenge. "So, what're we gonna be up to today homie? I was thinking about doing some house hunting, once I find the right place for a secret base I gotta drag my fucking coffin out here somehow, can't be caught lackin in the only region where I can be caught lacking, you know? Having an HP bar is for nerds."
He would brandish a mango and toss it to Bee's surly mon who looked like they needed a pick me up before tossing a bundle of grapes to Bee and pulling out a mandarin for himself. "I'm curious about hunting down more quests but I'm not quite sure what rocks I haven't kicked over yet."
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Nov 13, 2023 15:17:55 GMT 9
"Hell yeah man! What I tell you Rian? Orion is the fruit master, the stair master, the goddamn hype master!" Bee caught the grapes and had a little much. "Oh yeah, the water. Well don't worry about it man we're not going to be up here long. We just need to start here."
Bee ate half the grapes and, still chewing several, he opened his backpack. "See there's something I've always wanted to do, but can't do it irl for medical reasons," he said, pulling a huge bundle of orange cord from his bad. "I asked my medical provider once, and they said that your retinas can dislodge, and it can mess with your heart and stuff, honestly not worth the risk. But here?" He gestured over the broken edge and out across the city at large.
"Here we don't have to worry about consequences!"
He unspooled most of the cord and set to work tying one end of it to the concrete structure of the building. "I even researched proper knots before coming up here! We're going to be hella safe. Not to mention all our flying Pokemon can help out."
He spooled out the cable, heading towards the edge of the pool, where there was a jut of metal, once a lookout platform. He attached more rope to that, an anchor our over the void.
"I'm so psyched man. I've always wanted to go bungee jumping!"
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orioncayge
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Post by orioncayge on Nov 14, 2023 14:56:36 GMT 9
"Bungee Jumping?"
To say Orion raised an eyebrow would be accurate, but an understatement. It would really mute the sheer befuddlement that crossed across his face as the dial tones beeped and booped, and the hellacious siren sound of 90's internet blasted across his mind palace. Bee wanted to go bungee jumping, okay, that much tracked. But here? In the land of Tetanus Shots and Existential dread? He could think of half a dozen sketchy bridges he would sooner leap off with no rope attached to his legs.
But of course he didn't want Bee to think he was bitchmade now did he?
He opened his mouth to reply, unsure of what was about to leave his lips, but he didn't really know what he was about to say eighty percent of the time, spitting straight bars freestyle was his life, and sometimes shit was fire and sometimes it was flat. A veritable fifty fifty toss up of feast of famine, cool or uncouth.
But, luckily (or unluckily) for him, destiny had drawn different cards from the Tarot Deck today. There would be no hanged men just...gigantic muscular flyboys flexing on them instead. All he heard was a light buzz and then WHAM! A blur of red and black came out of nowhere, breaking through what remained of the metal fencing that enclosed the pool. The wind left Orion's lungs as a fist found itself slammed into his gut.
"Fuh-huck!"
Fighter and fly tumbled forwards(backwards?) through the debris of the platform, Buzzswole still in the air, Orion scraping against concrete as his struggled to his feet to face the flying foe and his flurry of fists. His foe wasn't taking it easy on him, it had the advantage and very much felt like keeping it. Fortunately for team Cayge, Orion was just as used to taking punches as he was with handing them out, and soon, like Carl Douglas had once famously sung.
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Nov 15, 2023 8:48:29 GMT 9
All Big Bee saw was a flash of red and black.
The thing shot through the humid air it was elasticised to every enemy on the rooftop. It shot between Rian and Orion like a single-axis tetherball, richocheting between the pair fast enough that Bee couldn't follow the action with any sense of cohesion. It was like watching a tennis patch playing at double speed. It was like watching someone play a video game while you were drunk. It was like watching Tenet. Just at all.
The blur hit Orion, then back to Rian, then Orion, then Rian. The Thwackey smacked against concrete, tumbling back covered in fruit and flashing red damage indicators. She jumped back up only to get smacked back down again and again. Chips of concrete and chunks of foliage flew like the building was being demolished.
Rian struggled to her feet and swung at the monster. It was like trying to swat a pterodactyl with a toothpick. Her sticks both shattered on impact, leaving her holding broken shards of weapons. "Hey! That thing broke my-" her snarl was smeared off her face by a high-speed fist, and then a follow-up to the gut left her heaving on the ground.
"Rian!" Bee shouted, untangling his foot from the cord. He hadn't seen what happened, but the aftermath made it pretty clear.
"I'm gonna bite his-" SMACK! WHAM! THUD! Rian collapsed, only to pull herself up by on one elbow. She growled.
The creature zipped away from Rian to focus purely on Orion. It was a whirlwind of jabbing fists and stabbing faces. The thing may not have much in the leg department, but it sure as hell never missed proboscis day.
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Post by orioncayge on Nov 19, 2023 11:21:52 GMT 9
"God fucking-" Orion ducked under a left hook and countered with a jab, making sure to bob and weave as the assault came at him with blinding speed. He was used to throwing hands with mon at this point, but he'd cut his teeth in a region in which he didn't really need to worry about his HP which had led to him forming bad habits. Plus, most Mon didn't know the basics of CQC, this fucking thing definitely knew what the fuck he was doing. Gritting his teeth, Orion would do his best to block, parry, and dodge as many of the blows as he could, judging when and where he could afford to let a strike slip in.
"DAMNIT!" Orion hissed, feeling his anger build up inside him, he wasn't used to being on the backfoot, especially not in this game. With a grunt he managed to plant his right foot on the swole bugs chest firmly, and with a mighty kick sent it backwards. Behind it, Rian and Bee were in the process of getting back into the game after a brutal assault. In theory this should be easy, it was two one and they had it flanked, but Orion knew better than to think this was clinched. He was going to take the momentum back from this flyboy and knock his ass into the ground. The thing flexed it's rippling muscles, almost as if to taunt Orion, before dashing forward.
It knew who the threat was.
Orion let his anger well up, and then channeled that fiery passion into raw energy that seared through his veins. He dropped into a stance, a small ball of flame appearing over his right palm before his clenched his hand into a fist and charged to meet the creature, a flaming fist met the creatures strike and sparks literally flew as the force of their clash blew them apart again.
"Careful Bee!" Orion called out. "This guy knows what the fuck is good. We should try and strike his weaknesses where we can!"
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Dec 1, 2023 21:06:24 GMT 9
"Weaknesses? Yes. Okay. Its weaknesses. Easy, well Rian can just," Bee looked over to where Rian had abandones the fight at was struggling to climb a single concrete step and reach a nearby bunch of bananas.
"Well that's not great. What are bugs weak against? Bug spray, uh-" the creature launched a haymaker that was strong enough to do a whole field in one hit. The concrete underfoot leapt a foot in the air and Bee staggered backwards. "Holy crap. Bugs hate...stronger bugs? Female bugs of the same species? Birds? Fire?" His eyes lit up. "Orange!"
A blur of saffron light blasted from his hip and Blaziken tore across the open rooftop. She smacked into the side of the beast, taking the heat off Orion and adding a heart-sized blaze of her own as she landed like two hundred kidney shots into the carapace of the beast.
The mosquito spun on her, but she grabbed it by the proboscis and headbutted it under the chin. "IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?" she screamed, grabbing the stinger with both hands and hauling herself up so that she could kick it in the face with both flaming legs. "THEN HAVE A TASTE OF MY BLAAAAA-ZIIII-KICKKICKKICKKICKKICKKICKICK!!" Blazing kicks burst against the body of the creature, surging through the cracks in its plating son that it looked like the bug was bleeding fire.
"Yeah! Get him!" Bee shouted, holding onto the building as the roof shook underfoot.
"Kick his ass!" screamed Rian, banana in her mouth.
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Post by orioncayge on Dec 2, 2023 18:43:47 GMT 9
Finally, with the blaziken joining the fight they were cooking with cook stuff, and Orion charged forward to capitalize on this new developement. He'd been many fights in his life, and the general rule of thumb is more dudes on your side means your more likely to win. He was pretty sure Sun Tzu had said something like that, or something. The flyboi was busy getting some Kentucky fried kickins, sure he didn't have the time, attention, or ability to possibly block Orion's pu-
The moment he swung, the muscularito raised an arm to block the oncoming attack with a level of ease that would have made fucking Goku blush. It was like punching a brick wall, and Orion could feel his knuckles crack slightly the force of the blocked blow shuddered up his arm and wrenched into his shoulder. Orange was still doing their thing, and instead of some sick recreation of that one scene in civil war where bucky and Cap kicked the living shit out of Iron man it was starting to feel a lot like they were dealing with Thanos here. After a barrage of blows that would knock the jorts off a DBZ fan, the big bug decided it was done playing defense. While still blocking Orange's kicks it parried one of Orion's oncoming jabs with it's oversized elbow before quickly pivoting into a chop into the fighters gut.
"Pha-huck!" Orion gasped as the wind left his lungs, doubled over with pain. Like lightning the creature grabbed Orion's face and proceeded to swing him like a meaty flail, beating a motherfucker with another motherfucker as he sent Orion flying into the bird, who in turn was sent flying back to their trainer causing a three man pileup that would surely delay someone's commute to a pokeball real fucking quick.
"I think..." Orion groaned as he scrambled to his feet off of Bee and Orange. "That you need to have a talk with the devs about the fucking difficulty scaling of wild encounters." Spitting out a globule of blood he dove back into the fray before the beast could get any ideas about bringing Bee into the brawl.
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Dec 3, 2023 10:18:19 GMT 9
Several HP bars flashed on Bee's screen. Rian the green monkey was well into the red, Orange was on the wrong side of yellow, and the giant red mosquito was "STILL GREEN? What the hell!" Bee said, shaking his head as the muscular mosquito took a second to flex. "The devs said they scaled this area to be a challenge for two max level players," Bee said, rubbing his plate-sized bruises. "...do you feel challenged? Because I sure do."
He pulled Orion and Orange into a huddle. "Okay. I have a plan. We run back in, guns blazing, and if we get knocked out we just regroup at the bottom of the building, okay? The advantage we have here is that we can heal and come back, and as far as I know-"
The mosquito grabbed Bee and hurled him off the building.
"AHHHHHHHH!" he screamed, as the plummeted past floor after floor of cracked glass windows. The bungee cord unspooled behind him, providing negligible emotional support.
Back on the roof, Orange echoed his shout "AHHHHHHHTACKK!" she screamed, kicking off the concrete in a spray of dust and sparks. "Orion you go for the legs," she said, between roaring kicks that met punched shin to knuckle. She was going high and taking the heat off the lower limbs. As fast and hard as the battle went, the creature never tried to kick. It was definitely more of an upper-body kinda monster.
Rian stumbled to the edge of the building. "I gotchu!" she yelled through a mouthful of fruit. The lush pond burst with slick growth, and the vines cascaded down the outside of the building like dreadlocks, searching for Bee to try and haul him back up.
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Post by orioncayge on Dec 3, 2023 12:26:45 GMT 9
"YOU BUGGY BITCH!" Orion howled as Bee went over the edge, sure he wasn't going to experience any lasting harm, but the fact remained that he'd beat down his bro. Orange made her call and Orion followed through, letting out an almost inhuman roar of rage as he dove for the beasts legs and slammed his shoulder into one of the creature's four bulging thighs. The Buzzswole took quick notice of Orion's attempt and began to beat on him like a drum, slamming fists down on Orion's back like he was a burly bongo. Orion did his best to resist the pain as he heaved and hefted, and before the creature knew what was happening, he lifted it up with a mighty howl and suplexed it into the fetid and pungent pool, watching Orange fade to the tellale red flash of a fainted mon.
Shit.
Both he and the overgrown beast tumbled into the water, and hopefully here where the beast had less leverage Orion could pummel onto it while it tried to recover. His fists crackled with electricity as he did his best to imitate a toaster in a bathtub. Any reprieve he'd hoped his tactics would have earned him were quickly smashed as the pummels came flying back at him.
Orion didn't stand a chance as the beast left him stunned. To add insult to injury the creature grabbed him and flew out of the pool, dropping him headfirst onto the concrete and earning him a fastpass back to the thunderfall shrine as he whited out.
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Dec 3, 2023 13:16:30 GMT 9
"Okay. Last time was a shitshow," Bee said to the assembled Pokemon. They were getting in a quick pep talk before Orion arrived.
"So that's different this time?" Orange asked, as she stretched out her legs.
"I'm glad you asked! This time we're going to cheat," Bee said, sending out four other Pokemon. Taka the Blastoise, Jam the Groudon, Nacho the Heracross, and Jaws the Granbull. All consummate fighters in their own right (or at least pretty decent at brawling). "See, we lost the 4v1. I can accept that. Happens to the best of us. But if we pump that up to a 13v1? Well I like those odds a bit more, don't you?"
"Ayo boss," asked Jaws, who was chewing on a piece of rebar like a toothpick, "where's this guy we's gonna rough up?"
"He'll be around, and he's faster than a red-shifted Bruce Lee, so keep your eyes peeled." The group turned outwards, surveying the bottom floor of the busted-up building. No demonic mosquito was going to get past them.
In fact, the creature was so strong and massive that it felt wrong calling it a mosquito. After all, 'ito' meant little in Spanish. If anything, it would be some sort of 'el mosco'.
Rian bared her teeth and growled, slamming the ground with her sticks. "This guy is a crazy strong. He even beat me!"
Orange snorted.
"You want to go bird?"
"Ayo broads, chill it with tha hysterics," said Jaws.
Rian headbutted him, sending damage numbers spraying through the air. "You want more? I'm not afraid to take you out!"
"Ayo where we goin', huh?" asked Jaws, one hand on his bruised face, "out to a nice seafood dinner huh?" He tried to roll up his tank top sleeve. "If you tha one payin' then who am I to stand up such a pretty lady?"
Were the flirting? Were they about to kill each other? Both? Both probably? Bee could only watch in odd fascination as the pair got closer and closer.
And then Rian burst with light, grew four feet tall, and let out a bellowing, primal roar. Her sticks transformed into massive drumsticks, and she hefted a drumset over her head.
Jaws blanched. "Dinner and a show?" he said, voice a little dry, "well ain't I the lucky-"
Rian hit him with the drum set, and his HP bar dropped straight to zero.
"You're much stronger now," commented Orange.
Bee sighed and returned Jaws. He sent out TKO as a replacement. "No more fighting, okay? Save it for when Orion gets here, okay?"
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Post by orioncayge on Dec 3, 2023 15:53:53 GMT 9
Orion's feet pounded pavement as he ran up to catch with Bee and his posse. He was salty and ready for a runback. He raised a hand and called out to Bee, letting him know it was go time. "Y-"
THWOOM.
Their foe seemed impatient, not ready for them to scale the tower and come back, and thusly dove to the road below, smashing into a wrecked car and sending a cloud of shrapnel and dust into the air. Orion quickly hit the deck, diving beneath the dust and taking cover. When he returned, he wasn't alone. The buzzswole was barraged with a trio of attackers. On Orion's left was Ares, who came out the gate flinging several discarded tires at the flyboi from a vantage point. Orion came swinging from the dust, leaping into the air and starting with a roundhouse kick to the torso before pivoting into another to the head. The Buzzswole blocked the first one, but in the process of batting away a tire took the second kick to the jaw. Then, out of the shadows came Achilles with a shadow sneak swinging a steel pipe and cracking it across the beasts back.
The beast released Orion's leg and he managed to land on his feet and throwing several punches.
"PLAYTIME IS OVER CHUCKLEFUCK, IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR SHIT KICKED IN"
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Big Bee
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Post by Big Bee on Dec 3, 2023 18:16:58 GMT 9
Bee popped out of a doorway, his arms waving wildly in some sort of signal. "GO GO GO!" he shouted, as his team burst from their hiding places.
Lines of Primal Power snaked across the concrete flooring, as if the city itself was powering up. The ground ruptured, spraying blasts of burning steam across the fighters. And from the steam came vines as thick as water pipes. They whipped through the air and wrapped around Buzzwole. The creature vibrated in place with anger, its fists a blur as it fought off Orion, Ares, and Achilles.
But the cavalry was incoming. High-powered cannons doused El Mosco, power-washing it backwards, at the same time as Nacho and TKO threw themselves into bodily combat.
TKO latched on, his tiny fists working like a shake weight, gaining rubbery power as the battle happened beneath him. "Curious," he said, fists smacking back and forth with elastic momentum.
Nacho charged in and got his horn underneath the pile of fighters. Smack, slam crunch, and now HEAVE! He hurled the whole group skywards, smashing half of them through the ceiling and up into the next floor of the building.
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Post by orioncayge on Dec 4, 2023 4:27:08 GMT 9
The Buzzswole fought till the bitter end, eating knuckle sandwiches like it was a competition, and dishing them out like he worked at a fucked up Jimmy Johns. Still, despite the mighty power of his rippling muscles, and his intense speed, he was no match for a 6v1. His movements began to slow from exertion, his senses dulled by the deluge of high powered water blasting into it, and while he'd proven a 2v1 was nothing for him, the combined pummeling of four mighty brawlers left him sorely at a loss for this arms race. First TKO thwapped him across the back of the head, and he started wobbling, which led to Achilles and Nacho going for his legs while Orion shot for the sky with an uppercut. He practically heard the bell ring as his knuckles smashed into the beasts jaw, and WHAM, he fell backwards, out like a light.
"WE DID IT!" Orion hooted as he landed on his feet, wiping a bead of sweat from his brow. "Fucking whooped our ass but we did it!"
Ares let out a loud guttural screech as he slammed a tire down into the ground and started doing a touchdown dance, while Achilles simply helped Nacho back to his feet and let out a mighty roar in triumph. Part of Orion was worried that this would turn into another fight if they made too much noise, but another part of him wished a motherfucker would try something now that the whole squad was here.
Without a second thought Orion tossed a ball to the beast, keen to add him to the team and work on unraveling whatever mystery was afoot with these creatures. They seemed to be a key to whatever phenomenon was keeping this place free of corruption, and he was dying to figure out a way to forge his way further into Mystra and poke that monster Bee and he had found in the water plant in the eye.
"You uh, still up for trying to bungee jump?" Orion would ask Bee with a raised eyebrow. "Or did you get that out of your system when he threw you off the roof?"
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Post by Algorithm on Dec 13, 2023 3:57:25 GMT 9
CAPTURE COMPLETE!ል ሸልጊሁ ዒክዘክጋዐጠሠ ዐኗቿሸጎቻዪዕ
BUZZWOLE has been added to Big Bee and orioncayge's box!
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