Week 5

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Week 5

[In a tragic yet seemingly inevitable turn of fate, the Champions have lost Zombina this week. OsoKaramatsu and Korra, too, are gone, both having fallen in their attempts to help their fellow Champions out of terrible circumstances.

Again, the Champions will find themselves experiencing strange dreams on Sunday night, until they're awakened by C.E.C.E.'s announcement. This is all starting to become routine.]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your third trial, you have unlocked the fourth floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.!

[The trash compactor is completely shiny and new again. In addition, the profiles on the P.I.P.s still inticate that Karamatsu is dead. Because of course he is, right?

Fuck you.]


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(( Welcome to Week 5! Don't forget to check in and submit your memory regains! Turn in your benefactor threads for sweet loot, too! ))

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[playthedamncard]

Then it's the hard way? Boring. And here I thought we could negotiate like adults, but over and over again, you want us to act like animals.

[His heel clicks sharply on the floor when he's finally stopped moving and circling around.]

Don't go poking dragons with sticks, honey.

[roll for initiative]

[theoverseeing]

[That's cute.

taptaptaptap]

[le_mat]

[that's all the cue he needs- Kaiba used that same phrase with him, and it's as good as a pre-planned code word.

He tenses, moves to lunge-]

[playthedamncard]

[And like hell is he letting Akira do this alone--one of them has to get this right. She can't get them both. They could always take out the Overseers both, her and Dudely when he returns from his grim duty. Besides. He's a god damn dragon.

At the same time as Akira, Kaiba makes his own move to lunge--]

[theoverseeing]

["She can't take them both."

She swipes her finger across her phone, taking a step back out of the path of the two boys.

One major thing happens: electric, white-hot pain shoots up both of their arms from their PIPs, enough to throw them both completely off from their plan to double-team her, enough to drive them to their knees, enough to leave their non-dominant hand probably numb for the next couple of days, but not enough to kill them.

They might have a hard time stopping their momentum, though.]

[le_mat]

[it's like being hit by a million zios. It's sudden and burning and akira is pretty sure he blacks out for second as his body tangles in itself, carried by the force of his leap]

[playthedamncard]

[The PIPs.

Since that first day, playing around with it and getting a jolt to wake him up more than ten black coffees, they had theorized that the PIPs could be used against them. But they never knew. It had never happened. She'd been so eager to make them slaughter each other, to brandish her gun, they hadn't realized she could do whatever she pleased with her god damn phone.

This is so much worse than when he tried to pry it open. This is blinding pain, from his fingertips to his shoulder, a hundred thousand pokers sliding under his skin, mouth opening to yell but finding he can't produce a sound as he stumbles ever forward, and now downward to his knees, right past the spot where Petuu had been standing not moments before-

-and crashing instead into Akira.]

[theoverseeing]

[When they crash into each other, obviously incapacitated, she swipes her finger again and the electricity subsides into a tingling numbness that probably means nerve damage and will almost definitely linger for a while.

She wasn't trying to kill them, after all, just teach them a lesson.]

Are you boys through playing around?

[le_mat]

[akira hacks, spiting out a little blood, only managing to half untangle himself from Kaiba before his limbs decide "no not today". His glasses are smashed.]

...not my worst first kiss, honestly.

[he glares up at Petuu, eyes blurry]

Fuck. You.

[playthedamncard]

[In spite of tangled limbs and his body doing a good imitation of when an explosion leaves a ringing sound in your ears but just...for the whole body instead, he can see his own fingers twitching. He sure can't feel them doing that, though.

That they're still alive is either a miracle or just drawing out the inevitable. But he is the Champion of Denial. He refuses that Yuri's sacrifice was for nothing.

He tries to raise himself up, but he can't even move his arms. He can raise his head, and he's pretty sure his nose is going to be deeply unhappy with the abuse of smashing face-first into another human being. Despite it all, Akira jokes, and Kaiba can at least feel his chest heave out something like a laugh.

Or it starts as a laugh, then builds to something slightly more manic. Well, as much as it can with his lungs wheezing as he even tries to catch his breath at all. He can barely glimpse her as he cranes his neck, but his grin is sharp as dragon's teeth.]

You're going to lose. You're going to lose. Maybe not here. Maybe not now. Someday. You lose.

[theoverseeing]

Mmhm.

Oh, dear, did I go too far? I might have to have Dudely carry you two back to the cafeteria once he gets back from dealing with our little tiger cub.

[As if on cue, the door to the overseers' side opens and closes. The footfalls that come are slow and heavy, and Blaze Dudely comes around the corner, trailing blood behind him. He has a strip of the bottom of his shirt ripped off and tied tightly over his eye, the white fabric already soaked through with blood.]

What in the galaxy happened to you?

[theoversaw]

[Blaze manages a withering look with his one good eye, and then looks down at the boys tangled up on the floor, his one visible eyebrow shooting up underneath the bandage.]

What the funnel cake are you doing?

[le_mat]

Wha...

Yuri.

[tears start flowing, cuz if blaze is hurt but alive, then Yuri is dead. Yuri who was just a kid. Yuri who Zombina told him to look after.

But he's laughing, too. Wild and heartbroken]

That beautiful little bastard got you!

[playthedamncard]

[Make it count. It's proof enough that Yuri got himself killed doing something wild and stupid, but he sure as hell made it count. Is it enough? No. It will never truly be enough. But it's the smallest fraction of a win they've gotten since this whole thing began.]

I hope it was an ice skate. Imagine, imagine if he kicked right up into his face.

[theoversaw]

[y'all are cute are you like drunk or something]

...Ya better get back over there, boys. Mourn 'im, before he's gone in the morning.

[theoverseeing]

[Mmmkay, now that the boys are in hysterics her attention is on Blaze.]

I can't believe you let yourself get sliced by an infant. Just exaggerated is your reputation as a notorious space pirate?

[theoversaw]

Oh, well if ya coulda done better why didn't you go out there and do it?

[theoverseeing]

Because I took care of the last punishment. You were due to actually do something for once. [She squints at him and lifts her phone to his level, tapping the screen with a soft click.] You should really put some ice on that.

[theoversaw]

[Blaze scowled.]

How about ya mind your business. What're these kids doin back here?

[theoverseeing]

You tell me. They came in after you left, we had a little talk and they tried to double team me before I had to give them a little warning shock.

["Little warning shock".]

[playthedamncard]

[That's funny. That's just too funny. While they're bickering like they're in a sitcom, Kaiba's twisting himself into something more along the lines of upright. His arms are still uncomfortably in the numb area, but he manages something, even better once he's able to get his legs under him. He nearly topples over again, but he's on his knees, glaring up from under long bangs. Akira manages the same, and they share a wild smirk between them.]

That's right. Blame the little guy for your incompetence. While you sent him off to do the dirty work, what exactly were you doing except letting us meek little rats run around? Glued to your phone, as always, like a little kid. Things don't go your way, shoot them. Someone says something you don't like, shock them into submission. Like throwing a tantrum.

We're not scared of someone who can't keep their employees in line or their secrets safely locked away or take any responsibility for their own ineptitude.

cw: eye gore just to be safe

[theoverseeing]

[Rox has been downright genial this entire time but something in Kaiba's words makes the smile drop from her face. She looks from the boys smirking on their knees, to Blaze clutching the bloody scrap of material against his destroyed eye in one hand and the hilt of his sword in the other then back to the boys.]

You just don't know when to shut your mouth and leave when given the chance, do you? [Rox drops her phone, letting it clatter to the floor while she takes a few quick steps and snatches the saber from Blaze's hand. She grips it tightly in both of her hands and the golden blade activates in her hands. She grits her teeth and swings, catching both Kaiba and Akira across the faces.]

[le_mat]

[he had been greatly enjoying Kaiba's little speech- the other teen much better with words then he'd ever be.

If he wasn't giddy with half victories or a concussion or the fact that half the nerves in his brain were firing off randomly from the electricity... Maybe he would have seen it coming.

The tazing was kinder.

There was also no blood, thanks to the heat, but the pain was visceral and deeper then anything he'd ever felt. And worse yet was how bright everything was suddenly.

He howled, couching his face and thinking wildly "at least my glasses are gone or they'd melt to my face"

But other then that, he didn't think much. ]

[playthedamncard]

[A step too far, then. But it's provoking a reaction. Which is something they haven't seen out of her since Chloe. When the phone goes, his instinct is to reach for it, but his arms are prickly little noodles, and before he can even go for it--

The blow lances Akira across the face and into his. The heat first, and then the literally blinding pain comes shooting after. He can hear his own skin crackling, instantly cauterized. His breath catches in his throat, whatever's left of it, leaving him hiccuping a few shocked noises before he screams, howling pain ripped out of him as he keels over. He can't tell his own cries from Akira's, but he knows, even through the insane pain. This is his fault.]

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[theoverseeing]

[Rox lets out an animalistic snarl, one the teenagers at her feet probably can't even hear over their own howls of pain, and pulls back for one more swing. Just one and they'll be out of her hair and she'll be one step closer to leading this round to an Ultimate Champion. She swings down-]