[Cielmira]

The dark dragon had been nearing the insect's left side when he invoked the power of Pyro Jack, the blaze of light seeming to sear that yellow head of Beelzebub's; the orange just didn't suit him in her opinion. The flutter of the giant's thin wings sent waves of air against the final stretch of the dragoness' approach, slowing her and allowing him to easily get away. Cynder hadn't been planning to take to the skies again so soon, but where your quarry goes you follow as a melee fighter. Thankfully she would be in his wake so as long as she didn't follow to close the fiery bursts would be easy to avoid; and this wouldn't be too much of a problem considering his head start. Not to mention should she find herself unexpectedly in their range she could use her shadow fire to suck away the air and at the very least prevent any fire damage.

She took to a run again, extending her wings and beginning the preliminary movements for a quick ascent after their enemy. When the ground rumbled beneath her and opened in wide cracks to release a group of minions she felt a bit anxious to leave the proximity immediately. Not so much because of the little bugs themselves... but she had an idea of how Skeith would deal with them having witnessed his previous actions against a small group. It was this feeling that left her ally in the unfortunate situation of being swarmed whilst she jumped into the air to flee his immediate vicinity in the chase of Beelzebub. However upon her glance back to the ground she wasn't sorry for her choice, and was instead glad she wasn't a popsicle right now. The cold and her didn't agree.

Now to focus on the big guy. Whilst moving the wings would be hard to hit except at their origin, though his eyes were rather large, and that staff... As a robot A.I.M. would likely have an easier time of dealing heavy damage to the beast so she would need to become very annoying. Beating harder, her wings continued to propel her upward after Beelzebub in combination with using her diminished wind abilities to counteract a small portion of any opposing currents created by the large insect. She kept to his back as best as possible and only came in close once she was halfway up his tail. Avoidance of his wings was key unless she wanted to be swatted, but being she practically lived in the skies she had faith in her piloting capabilities to adjust for Beelzebub's movements.

Once she was at the bulk of his body she dove in to latch onto the back of his upper 'tail' then proceeded to crawl around to the front. Cynder used the iron additions to her wings to aid in gripping his layered exoskeleton as she traveled. The dragon aimed to get to the softer underside of the tail and begin tearing into it.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

It was almost like a perfect battle simulation, the bug did exactly as the machine had strategized it to do. Enough bolts of laser energy was bound to upset the arrogant demon to the point he would pursue the machine. Its head morphed into a new colour which was an odd power, but it would no doubt entail some sort of new strength. Given that the insect had yet to display any of its abilities yet it would be hard to determine just what a new shade of head would allow. The robot wasn’t interested in learning, so hopefully they could get the bug out of the way quickly. If all played right, it was possible.

The ground of the stadium tore open with enormous tremors and revealed some sort of gas that quickly posed a threat to Skeith. A.I.M. was safely within the air, so whatever was going on down there was the golem problem, which he was able to wrap his giant horned head around in mere seconds. The epitaph was a dangerous thing to allow roam the Life Sphere and the robot would have to record and remember that the next time it encountered the being.

The little ROB copy continued to further itself into the sky as it targeted and locked onto the head of Beelzebub since it was one of the largest sectors of his body. It relentlessly fired both its Ray Gun and optical beams once more to allow the chase to rage on. The robot’s dragon ally seemed to be plotting to latch herself onto the beast’s abdomen and perhaps lay some more damage onto the being with her vicious range of attacks. As long as it didn’t slow the bug beast down or stop it completely, A.I.M. took no issue with whatever the dragoness was planning. If it took the insect down then and there that wouldn’t be bad either, but that was some wishful thinking regardless.

Just a little bit further.

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The prince of hell certainly wasnt finding aim's optical laser and ray gun fly around that amusing, neither was cynders climbing. The prince then started flying around at suprisingly fast speeds fro such a ungodly large creature, trying to swing off the dragon and dodge the fire from A.I.M's gun . Eventually beelzebub came up witha  great idea as he then spuna round, letting a laser AIM already fired hit cynder instead. Once beelzebub was sure that cynder was latched off, beelzebub then raised hsi staff, suddenly a whole cage of the same sort of orbs surrounded A.I.M in a cage of fiey land mines as they each shined, each exploding one by one. Beelzebub then decided to change tactics, his head shining as it wnet bakc to his yellow for a mkoment as the pyro essence retruned amongst its brthers as the bright blue one instead splashed amongst beelzebub, changing hsi head to bright blue to signify beelzebub was now in contol of frost.




Beelzebub-FROST -x1

Items held-Staff of the flies, Rippr essence, Pyro essence

Reward for defeate-Hostage room key

HP: 20%

as for the minions, two of them froze over as one was still aiming at skeith's arm, not only biting the stone epitaph but also sending jolts of electricity through its teeth as well



Beelzebub servant's-x1

Items held-None

Reward for defeat-None

Hp-30%

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Skeith was still in his invulnrability mode and still charging up his Data Drain, the surviving bug summoned by Beelzebub wasn't even making him flinch. So skeith decided to cut the insect to tiny pieces with an invisible scythe, the telltale energy disk slaming into Beelzebub when his last servant was turned into the dusty gore on Skeith's Red Wand.

"You have to try better, for now the Terror of Death now proclaims your Condemnation!" Skeith said telepathically to the insect before him. Skeith's red wand then vanished from his hand, and suddenly appeared right behind and Crucified Beelzebub! skeith then revealed his ruse as he rose up to face the insect princeling, the Data Drain was fully charged and ready, and Beelzebub would soon become its first victim.

WARNING/!\
DATA DRAIN IN: 1 TURN

[Cielmira]

Cynder's travel to his front in an attempt to tear into the softer bits of the bugs body was interrupted as she slammed her iron claws and normal talons into the nooks of Beelzebub's scaled backside when the giant began to spin. Her own body swayed and threatened to detach but if that wasn't bad enough she noticed a green laser coming right at her. There was little time to do much about it other than release her hold on the prince and push off. The ray beam still connected though, burning a spot on the lower part of her front left leg. A danger she had anticipated but she had hoped she would have been able to do some damage beforehand. Alas, the bug seemed to be more sensitive through his exoskeleton than she had previously assumed.

The dragon continued to ascend with her initial momentum off of Beelzebub, only to find herself in near proximity to the outer edges of the new mine field that appeared around A.I.M. While she had no interest in doing anything rash she at the very least made an attempt to clear a few for him to make slightly less damaging path out. Taking a deep breath and raising her head to the orbs and ally above she released a wide stream of her shadow fire into the air as she flew. As these things were made of fire, and fire required air to breath, any that came into contact with her own blackened breath weapon would dissipate or at the very least shrink in size and effectiveness.

Cynder's stream was continual for about six seconds. The dragon flew a few seconds up into the field before changing directions to get herself back out as they began to explode. Her path was a loop starting from the bottom so her escape in the end would be aided by gravity in an already cleared path so she could avoid being hit by the orbs. The dark dragon managed to clear a few for her ally before retreating to focus back on their opponent. Of course, her luck continued its sour trend as she felt a very uncomfortable heat singe the end of her tail as she dove.

However it seemed Skeith was doing exceptionally well, this marked by his dispatch of the three lesser things below just in time to unleash what seemed like his ultimate on Beelzebub. How he managed to scale the height so quickly was beyond Cynder but she didn't really care as long as it would do away with Beelzebub. That in mind though the dragoness decided to climb higher into the air and position herself behind but far above Skeith. No point in getting his his way, but also she wanted to be in position for a strike.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

A.I.M. enacted a cease fire as soon as the bug-ish creature turned its giant thorax to reveal its ally on the battlefield. It was far too late to repel the shots fired, but it wasn’t like the bolts shot would do much damage to Cynder if any at all. The gun wasn’t being used for the purpose of damaging Beelzebub to begin with, if the sage synthetic wanted to do that it would use far more effective attacks in its arsenal. The bit of damage the Ray Gun brought was a little bit of a bonus though.

As the robot unequipped its weapon, it soon found itself trapped with a spherical grid of what looked to be explosives. The machine had to admit it, it didn’t predict that to be one of this creature’s abilities. A.I.M. had very little time to consider its options since the mines began blinking no doubt signalling that they were prepped and ready to blow within the second. No matter how the mechanism calculated it, it was going to take a heavy amount of damage even if it was able to escape the trap. With that, it had to move and collide with one of them so that it could add some distance from the others in the vicinity. It rocketed upward and took the mine above it straight to the cranium, but added to a mysterious flow of air arising from beneath its exhaust, it was able to boost itself further in less time. The flames flickered and charred a bit of its plastic exterior, while its head became a bit chipped and broken revealing its interior processors. Luckily, most of its vital hardware wasn’t located in its head.

The vision of the large-scaled toy was boggled for a good few second, but with a few minor adjustments to its optics it regained its sight. The revealed part of its head sparked a bit and caused an involuntary twitch. “Systems still functional” its internal computer notified. It returned to a steady balance in its flight mode and observed Skeith’s attempt to attack Beelzebub. It took this time to observe the golem’s strike as a stress test for just how resilient this being was. If all went well and it was defeated then that’d be a nice bonus, if not A.I.M. would resume its prior plans. Either way, the robot changed its point of view from the front of the being to the back, though distant so it didn’t intervene with the Data Drain.

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Beelzebub-FROST -x1



Items held-Staff of the flies, Rippr essence, Pyro essence



Reward for defeate-Hostage room key



HP: 35%


Beelzebub minion Defeated!


Beelzebub had seemed to put up no seeming surprise when he was attached and bound into the  red want of Skeith, his eyes whining as he wand began to shake. "Almighty....War..." He said, as the skull on his staff opened up wide, the mouth glowing white as he began firing bright white spheres of energy at Skeith, Cynder and A.I.M. Beelzebub seemed to be awaiting skeith's ultimate attack with some form of eagerness. "Go ahead. I want to zee thiz"

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Skeith was perplexed, but shifted to an almost direct approach, placing his left hand directly on the face of Beelzebub, the Force field deflecting the white energy spheres away from the Epitaph.

"Trust me, you would be in a coma faster than your million eyes could blink." Skeith said telapathically, the eye of his Data Drain appearing as one large cornea with a cat-like slit for a pupil, eight sword-like prongs surrounding it with a form that made the appearence of the final stage of the attack more demonic than the princeling could immagine.

"YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO ALL OF GOD'S CREATIONS! SAY GOOD-BYE!!! DATA DRAIN!!!!!" the epitaph roared telepathically, blasting Beelzebub point-blank at full blast, the attack would become near lethal to the Jack Trio despite being essence items that were equiped to the bug prince, not only that, Beelzebub would be forced back into his normal state.

[Cielmira]

With Skeith seeming to have this under control Cynder couldn't help but notice the burns and damage inflicted onto A.I.M. as he hovered across from her. An annoyed smirk crossed her face, she thought she had cleared enough that he would maybe take a couple but that... that looked bad. A thought of A.I.M. suicidally gunning upward instead of dropping into her cleared path through the air mines crossed her mind but she shook her head in defiance of the possibility. She just must not have been paying enough attention.

Cynder's attention returned to the bug prince just in time to see the resulting action of his murmured words. The dragoness was met with the fast approach of a foreign ball of light. She ducked, cursing her lack of attention as she plummeted downward in an attempt to avoid it.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The robot’s optics were peeled onto that of its insectoid foe, watching and waiting for the result of the epitaph’s finishing move. That is, finishing move if it would truly finish off the beast once and for all. A.I.M. was designed to calculate each equal opportunity and if it wasn’t mistaken, the creature denoted itself as god-like. Whether it was pure arrogance or held true was remained to be seen, but it was entirely possible that Beelzebub could be of god status and in that case they shouldn’t let their guard down just yet.

The thing attempted to gun the three of them down with glowing orbs once again, luckily it wasn’t the minefield like last time and were easily dodge-able considering that A.I.M. was both ready and quick to move. It couldn’t possibly handle another equally striking attack such as the minefield one, so it chose to avoid anything at all costs. It switched off its thrusters to duck under its approach and reignited once it passed overhead. The machine returned to its post shortly afterward to continue its observation of the large bug’s probable demise. If it somehow survived, it readied its optics to take out the creature’s wings. There was no doubt that wings of that structure would fall under a simple laser blast.

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Beelzebub's eyes shined, all of his irises reflecting the shine of the data drain as it fired onto him. Beelzebub's skin began to change to a static, Beelzebub trying to break out of his grasp as the large orb surrounded him, draining him back to his normal form before there very eyes inside the or the data drain created. "zzzzzzzZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Soon, he was blasted away, skidding across the ground with his staff beginning to crack and the orbs that were the jack brothers had been reverted back to normal, flying and crashing into the stands, some of the very few remaining and living viewers of this battle had helped them up only saying "So worth the money." to the brothers as they continued to watch.



Beelzebub-x1

Items held-Cracked staff of the flies

Defeat Reward- Hostage room key

Hp-210%


Beelzebub wheezed, beginning to rise up slowly as  he looked at the three. "Y...you...c..couldn't of...A...arm...armagedd." Beelzebub had trouble speaking the word for his final attack before he eventually stopped in his track, from bottom to top, beginning to evaporate into a black and red mist.

BOSS: BEELZEBUB DEFEATED!

As beelzebub faded, the hostage room key tapped along the ground, as the jack brothers climbed up onto the stage, tired and exhausted "We....SURRENDER!!" Jack frost said, stopping and bowing with his brothers to all three of the allies that had defeated one of the prince's of hell itself. "WHEERE SORRY WHEE TOOK HOSTAGES WHERE SORRY WHEE DID STUFF BAD JUST PLEASE HAVE MERCHEEEEEE-HO!".

The remaining crowd clapped and cheered the hero's on, some even holding up rewritten signs that said "KILL THEM ALL BEELZ!" to things like "YOU ROCK A.I.M" or "GIVE EM HELL SKEITH" or of course "BURN EM CYNDER!" The jack brothers mumbled as they were the ones who arranged this whole shindig to begin with, and yet there not the ones getting any applause.

The jack brothers immediately ran off, throwing off curtains to reveal the secret hostage room. "GO AHEAD AND TAKE THEM!" jack frost said, laughing excitedly in a worried tone.

[Cielmira]

She had to admit Skeith sure was handy in a fight even if his style required her own distance. Not that that was a bad thing either as it means less cleaning for her later on. Perhaps she should consider sticking around him more often. The dragoness glided to the key shortly after it had clattered to the ground with thoughts of missions of which she would barely have to get her hands dirty. She set down and snatched the object in her claws, taking a moment to inspect it before looking to the panicking troublemakers.

The enticement and roars from the crowd were rather intoxicating. Cynder stood stoically, as if she had done more than she actually had during this encounter. Ideas flew through her head about what should be done with the three faeries but they scuttled off to reveal the doorway before anything she deemed suitable to voice crossed her mind.
"I hope you boys like the service industry," she teased once she had arrived by the door. The dragon flicked her tail back and forth a few times whilst staring pompously down at the three in turn, a large smirk across her face. She figured once these three were back in the sphere they wouldn't be receiving anything but a ten by ten barred room and the watch of someone like A.I.M.

Cynder refrained from actually opening the door until the others were close, not wanting to put herself in a vulnerable position when surrounded; even if it was just the Jack brothers. She kept up her proud posture and smug expression though, despite the ebbing pain that was beginning to grow from her wounds now that the adrenaline was finishing its course. Putting the key into the door she turned and made to open. The slight creak from it was strangely satisfying. Now they just needed to grab the hostages, nab the three brothers, and get back home.

(Unless there's more of course..?)

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Skeith had done his civic duty in rescuing the hostages, even with his defeat of Beelzebub garnering cheers from those remaining. Those who fell victim to electrocution from Beelzebub's attack would be buried in the graveyard upon returning to the Life Sphere.

"I agree with Cynder on this... Community Service and probation seem likely and highly probable as it was also the same fate handed to another person you would be working alongside. It eould also help you to better know people and build up a better reputation in life. Despite me being the First Phase of the Cursed Wave and a symbolic being created by a malevolent AI, I choose to keep myself busy by helping people like a good samaritan should, even if I have to send those who are dead or dying to the next life when opritunity should present itself." Skeith said, his socketless eyes showing both pity and pleasure at seeing the Jack Trio feeling their first bout of shame.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

With the defeat of the insectiod monstrosity, the crowd seemed to alter their tone and began to root the trio on. Of course this was after the clear defeat of Beelzebub, so A.I.M. didn’t exactly feel as though it was any sense of reward and more so a cowardice change of stance so that they could protect their own hides. Even then A.I.M. didn’t exactly have ill will toward the audience, pity or shame perhaps since they were so weak willed but the machine wasn’t one to judge on that spectrum.

The mangled machine followed in suit with its other allies as it descended back to the set that the Jack trio had put in place. The three hardly posed as much of a threat at the moment and seemed more on the defeated side, but these fairy creatures were well known to be tricksters so there was no doubt in A.I.M.’s processor that the three might pull something once again. Whether or not Jack Frost was legitimate with his guise didn’t matter since the other two could easily have something up their sleeve. No doubt they would need to be monitored regardless of what their punishment was. Though they could easily run with an insanity clause.

“Community service would be lowest ranking punishment for their crimes. Kidnapping, demonic summoning, and the organization of blood sport are not subjects to be overlooked. It would be more likely for them to be sentenced to permanent trophy lock, but that has yet to be ruled” the machine calculated. It turned back to the crowd as Cynder began to investigate the unlocked room. It scanned for civilians that hadn’t been reduced to trophies and began to process the amount needed to carry them back. Two per conscious person seemed quite fitting. “All crimes held against every unit in this area for this particular case shall be deleted if you lend your aid in returning the trophies of the fallen to the Life Sphere” A.I.M. loudly announced to the crowd.

-End Presence?-

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The jack brothers nodded as the huddled together quickly. "Ok ok....rock, paper, scheessors for whoever is cleaning up this mess ho!" said Jack frost as he plotted with his brothers. Though, it seemed the one with a clear pumpkin on his head, pyro jack just grabbed them by there ears and forced them to start working. Pyro then unlocked the door to the hostage room, letting there hostage's go as they started running out and back to li sphere with quick "Thank you's" to the hero's of this little story.

Though, after gathering up the trophies jack frost smiled as he laughed. "Hee-ho! You all think this is the end, but it aint! We promise this to you all, THIS SHOWS FAR FROM CANCHEELED HO!" They said as soon jack frost blasted a bufu on the ground as pyro jack fired a agi onto the snowflake making a deep mist as they ran back to the li  sphere after there foreboding message... 


[HEE-HOSTAGE SITUATION MISSION COMPLETE!]