Chapter 852: Stopping the baby/zako fight
[RAAAAAAH!]
[Huh?!]
When MarbleGal started her initial charge, SpikeBack assumed she had just gone nuts and was essentially throwing her self to the mercy of his spikes. As such, he opted to simply lob a huge chunk of them at her in hopes of piercing her like a pin cushion.
(Un)fortunately, that didn’t happen.
Through sheer instinct and tapping into her innate powers as a stone zako, MarbleGal managed to harden her skin to the point that the fossilized spikes simply bounced of her skin.
If SpikeBack was the cowardly type, he’d be panicking and cowering by now.
[Oh you wanna go?!]
But ala, he was not.
[Try taking this for a spin!]
Not one to back down from a fight, SpikeBack slammed his tail in challenge before swinging it with so much momentum that he started spinning like a top.
Before this moment, SpikeBack was merely launching everything through pure force and allowed his spikes to fly straight and true like a ballista bolt.
However, now that he added a spin to his attacks, the spikes were launched with significantly more momentum than before, with some of the spikes being flung off in random directions.
With the way the spin was directed, the spikes that were fired directly towards MarbleGal’s direction would hit the hardest and were more likely to embed themselves into her stone flesh. However, some of the spikes that were sent flying wildly to the sides also had a chance of embedding themselves due to unequal distribution of momentum, or do nothing at all.
This meant that no matter which direction MarbleGal opted to go, there were still chances for the spikes to cause some serious damage. All it would take is one good stray hit that could cause MarbleGal to falter, and the rest of the more powerful spikes would be sure to follow.
[BRING IT THE FUCK ON!]
Granted, that tidbit didn’t matter to her in the slightest, since she decided to charge forward anyways.
[COME ON, COME ON, COME ON!,] MarbleGal shouted as she forced her [Chaos] to go into overdrive and make her skin exceed the hardness she had already achieved up to this point. [It doesn’t matter how hard you go, I’ll just go even harder!]
Evidently, despite developing a libido around the same time as their sentience, MarbleGal failed to notice the obvious innuendo she just used as a retort. Then again, SpikeBack wasn’t bright enough to notice the wordplay either!
[You really think you can get hard enough to break me?!,] SpikeBack shouted as he opted to use the fact that he had a spiked tail to swing at the charging MarbleGal. Without even realizing it, SpikeBack began to infuse his tail with [Chaos], causing it to grow bigger, spikier and thicker, to the point that it resembled a Morningstar flail more so than anything else.
But MarbleGal didn’t give a shit about that.
[Yes, I do!]
In fact, she was almost excited about the challenge.
[COME ON!]
Noticing the spinning appendage, MarbleGal immediately put a stop to her run and took up a defensive pose with one of her arms raised like a shield.
Instinctually, MarbleGal began pumping [Chaos] into the raised arm, causing it grow and expand until it formed into a shield. The strange thing though was that little crystalline structures began to form on the surface of the shield, despite her materials not including such things in the past.
*DING!*
[Dammit!]*2
A crisp metallic sound rang out as MarbleGal’s shield collided with SpikeBack’s tail, and the concussive force produced knocked both zakos(?) to take back several steps.
(Un)surprisingly, they weren’t the only zakos locked in stalemate.
On different sides of the room, WoodGal, CopperGal, DomeHead and LongClaw were all having trouble defeating their respective opponent.
[Dammit! Stay still already!]
[Like, no.]
[Quiet down you clanging bell of a zako.]
[I’ll quiet down when you stop trying to slash me!]
[Never!]
It wasn’t that they were each other’s perfect counter right from the get-go, hell, the Gal-Em Force’s line up was to just mitigate their weaknesses as much as possible. During the course of the battles though, all members on both sides ended up growing in weirder and wilder ways as to keep up with their opponent.
For example…
…
*BANG!*
[Hey! Stop smashing my branches before they get close!]
[No way, this is fun!]
In retaliation to WoodGal’s ensnaring branches and vines, and not wanting to deal with the frustration of having to tear himself free every time he got caught, DomeHead developed the ability to release shockwaves with his fists that allowed him to smash any and all branches before they even had a chance of getting close to him.
Needless to say, WoodGal was upset that her new trick only lasted as long as it did.
[GRRR! What do I do now? He keeps destroying all of my snares before I can hit him with it!,] WoodGal growled in frustration. [How do I entangle someone without them knowing?! Wait…]
…
*CLANG!*
[Again with this?!]
[GAH, STOP USING THAT WHINING CLAW! IT’S HURTING MY NON-EXISTENT EARS!]
[Make me!]
After CopperGal learned that her body could make a ringing sound based on where and how hard she smacked her own body, she eventually learned that she could release sonic blasts of energy that sounded a lot like what happens when you attempt to weaponize a church bell or a gong. At which point, she used this new ability of hers to harass LongClaw with long ranged attacks.
However, this harassment of sound caused LongClaw to develop an entirely unexpected way of dealing with it.
Through some incredibly fine-tuned concentration of [Chaos] into his claws, he caused the fossilized talons to spin like a thousand tiny circular saws, allowing him to rip the air to such an extent that he could create literal vacuum spaces where the soundwaves would just die due to being unable to travel through them.
As time went on, LongClaw started to slowly realize he could use this vacuum tearing as a means of attacking.
[Once I figure out how to launch these tears, you are fucked!]
[GAH! I’m going to cause his skull to vibrate to pieces!,] CopperGal roared in frustration.[Wait a minute…what if I vibrate something else first…]
…
..however, despite everybody developing at an advanced rate, their ability to think and strategize eventually gave way to pure animalistic fury.
*BANG!*
Especially after MarbleGal and SpikeBack repelled off one another for the sixth time in a row.
[That’s it! No more tricks!,] MarbleGal and SpikeBack roared simultaneously. [We’re going to settle this one with giant bang! Ready?!]
[Yeah!,] four other modified zakos yelled in unison, immediately tossing out any ideas for complex strategy or tricks.
Despite having the realization that there were ways to get around their opponent’s defenses, the patience of both sides had whittle down to basically nothing. To give this an example, imagine telling a toddler to calm down after they spent ten minutes being frustrated and angry…then multiply that by six and give them all super strength.
[Come on girls/boys! Let’s show them what we’re made of]
[HELL YEAH!]
At this declaration of mutually assured destruction, the [Chaos] in the room became unstable as both sides started circulating their respective powers through their bodies and then some.
Needless to say, once these two unstoppable forces collided with one another, the results would be…pandemonium.
Thankfully, someone was going to stop it before it got to that point!
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‘Okay, time for me to get involved. I’d rather not have these literal demon babies make a mess of things. Probably gonna need a wall to physically separate them’
[Finally! I was waiting for you to do something,] Blazejudicator said with some annoyance. [Let me give you a boost so you can really make a statement!]
[What the-WHOA!]
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[COME ON!]
The two sides of modified zakos rushed at each other like mad berserkers, ready to rip the throat out of the other at a moment’s notice.
However, a third party observer with a vested interest in neither side dying suddenly intervened.
[Chaos Art: Flames of Chastity and Patience!]
[What?]
[Big Boss?!]
Before either side could cause harm to the other, a literal wall of blue and white flames manifested out of nowhere and put a stop to either side doing anything. Then again, it probably also helped that these flames caused both sides to simultaneously not want to touch each other and calm right the hell down.
To an outsider observer, it looked like the zakos had suddenly become drunk.
[Whoa…why do I feel…so calm…boss…?,] DomeHead asked while wobbling.
[I don’t know…but I like it…,] LongClaw managed to squeak out before needing to his claws as canes.
[That’s the big boss’s flames…it’s…affecting our existences…,] SpikeBack mumbled before falling over onto his belly. [This flame is like…the opposite of us.]
[Oh…]
Meanwhile on the other side…
[Hey..gals…I think…we can escape now! We can go get our…our hubbies now!,] WoodGal insisted.
[Nah…take a load off…] CopperGal said as she fell to the floor like a wind-up toy that ran out of juice. [Because, like…what would we even do when we found them?]
[Uh…sex?]
[Meh,] MarbleGal mumbled, having been laying face first on the ground for several minutes at this point. [Don’t feel like it.]
…
Off to the side of these drunken zakos, Zhen Liu simply watched on with shocked curiosity…moments before redirecting his gaze towards his hands that were still burning white and blue flames.
‘What the fuck…’
[You’re welcome, I defused the situation.]
‘Uh huh…’
Evidently, Zhen Liu needed to re-read what Blazejudicator was capable of doing.
[Now then, let’s go reprimand my daughters.]
‘Say what?’
