Dragonball M, Chapter 1: Silent Menace Aproaches!

[The Chou Lives]

IOC: Yay Falcon! Awesome team build!

As he then dodged some more as he rolls into a ball falling for the trees as he uses blades chains to pull himself along, instead of hiding in a branch, base of tree. Halo of blades stop dancing. He shook his hand but that was on the boat, the mamba aura is lost so no tk him.
Aside, what’s the fun in that? Training is supposed to be hard. He got a idea. He was far from others as he then mows down a tree with blade halo and lifts the damn thing up. Tk aura touched it to make it so. Still strains as he attempts to launch the tree and surf on it Tao style while thinking of how to ground him while distracting him towards ground. Given how he does not know how net worked. Too busy dodging. He got hit twice. Stung. But that was it.:

[Cyke]

As the “training” continues, a lone figure walks through the woods towards the arena area. Jinzi has recently called Adam and asked for his help, and now the Android was once again back at Capsule Corp and had been awaiting Jinzi’s signal to begin helping train the others. Equipped with a special band that prevented the gravity manipulation from working on him, Adam is not hindered.

Adam is now free to step in and help “train” the group alongside Jinzi.

Zaofan, in the trees, hidden by leaves and spying on top of some branches, saw the android down below. "Hnh. The game's afoot, eh?"

Zaofan, go up! Smack him back down to the ground!

Regardless, with the android walking through the woods, Zaofan thought it best not to be distracted. He moved back towards the front of the forest, still hidden in the trees. "Acknowledged, Chuan!"

Zaofan reasoned, if the trees are standing normally in this increased gravity, then surely they'll still be useable. He crouched to focus his weight towards the branch, then used used the branch as a springboard, launching himself even further up above the trees -- not as high as he would like with the gravity, but sufficiently up in the air that placed him above the speeding Mr. Pantaloon. His eyes charged up with ruby energy. "OPTIC BLAST!" he yelled, firing a barrage of 8 inch wide flat beams at and around Jinzi.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Melted cheese.

"Why would you thinking of food at a time like this?

Mmm, cheese...

No, focus! Now look at what you've done! Now I'm hungry again."

Ishtar blinked. It was ... Mozzarella. Maybe he meant Swiss.

"Perhaps he meant Swiss... Implying he meant to find a hole in his defenses?" It was a long shot, sure, but it made some kind of sense. And with the others piling on to obfuscate, the enemy, an opening would definitely be presenting itself shortly.

" Get ready. Our chance is upon us."

[Tami]

Many things happen at once. Those that attack Jinzi’s base and not himself find their attacks successful, with the ground erupting and the mechanoid falling back and shattering as dust and smoke cover the area. As others move in to attack, the dust and smoke blow away and reveal.........nothing.

Until the gravity increases again and, above them all, unperturbed by the increase, is Jinzi. He stands upon a hard light disc about thirty feet in the air, arms crossed and smirking.

“Gravity at 2.5 norm and holding. Phase 2 initialized: Mobile Combat!”

Jinzi, flying, or rather surfing almost upon his disc, dives down quicker then their gravity held limbs can react and lands between Sarada and Jack. With ease, he grabs both of them by their necks and with surprising strength, hurls them towards Ochazuke and Zaofan.

As the “training” continues, a lone figure walks through the woods towards the arena area. Jinzi has recently called Adam and asked for his help, and now the Android was once again back at Capsule Corp and had been awaiting Jinzi’s signal to begin helping train the others. Equipped with a special band that prevented the gravity manipulation from working on him, Adam is not hindered.

Adam is now free to step in and help “train” the group alongside Jinzi.

Staying close to the ground due to the increase in gravity, Meagan watched as the others started to join forces, then she noticed a new player joining the game. Only this one appeared to be on Pantaloon's side.

One thing that had her intrigued, was Jinzi's disc.

With her hands on the ground beneath her, she concentrated her Ki to consolidate her smaller discs into one large one. She then tried to will it to lift her up. That it actually worded surprised her, now the tricky part was to maneuver it. Remaining crouched low onto the now flying Ki Disc, she directed it to chase after their host.

[Yun Lao]

The increase in gravity was familiar, as it was also the tactic used by the Vitalmancer back in Dusk City. Of course, it didn't make things easier for him, but at least he knew the deal. His moves were sluggish as he did his best to dodge the various projectiles being fired on the group and while others were already going in for the attack, Charco spent his time getting used to the changes in his timing. As useful as it was, the Carnotaurus Charge would take a lot more out of him than the ground he would cover, so he would have to use that technique sparingly.

A brief moment of peace had him fish out his communicator and withdrew the built in ear buds before inserting them into his ears.

"Charco, have you ever wonder why I've never made you meditate? Besides the fact that you'd fall asleep during it."

"You see, although we often come to the same results, the Dino school does things differently than the other schools of martial arts. We do not seek to find peace and balance within ourselves because we rely on the chaotic nature of our instincts to guide us. Sitting a tyrannosaurus down and trying to calm it does not affect its performance for it always performing at its peak just to survive.

So, if you find yourself in a chaotic situation, never forget that it is in that environment that we thrive."

"Sure is a mess out there." He said to himself with a growing smile, the next song beginning to stream over his ear buds.

Like a sprint runner, his fingertips touched the floor and pushed him forward as he broke out into a considerable slower but otherwise a respectable dash towards Jinzi, his body swaying side to side like a cobra in order to dodge a majority of the blasts without sacrificing his growing speed.

He jumped towards it, feet first, kicking off of it with his legs.

Unicorns Gallop!

In an explosion of energy, he ascended skyward, the tree kicked over from the sheer force of his jump.

As his momentum flung him towards the sadistic scientist, he reared back his right hand, preparing a palm strike at the center of Jinzi's chest.

Ahead of him, Charco watched as Held galloped into the air, and with it, an idea was born. "Brace yourself, Held!" He cried out, jetting into the air with a Carnotaurus Charge. Twisting his body around, the back of his shoulders bumped into Held's back, driving more force and momentum behind the Nevadian's palm strike.

[KingofPie]

Ishtar blinked. It was ... Mozzarella. Maybe he meant Swiss.

"Perhaps he meant Swiss... Implying he meant to find a hole in his defenses?" It was a long shot, sure, but it made some kind of sense. And with the others piling on to obfuscate, the enemy, an opening would definitely be presenting itself shortly.

" Get ready. Our chance is upon us."

Sasheem gritted his teeth. It was incredibly simple! How could they...maybe he should attempt to speak.
"Pants...move much," Sasheem relayed to the others connected in the same telepathic threads, referring to Jinzi. "Cheese...stuck! Ig!" he continued, accompanied with another image. Of a combatant admitting a ki blast.

"Ook! Badaba!" he relayed as Asha'rah had appeared to corner Jinzi. Sasheem glanced near the spot where Jinzi fell near the Oni, which wasn't too close to Sasheem, but there were many trees nearby. Trees that if chopped down could fall towards Jinzi's direction. Looking at the nearby trees, Sasheem attempted to find the biggest one.

Sasheem began to charge up his ki. In his current state he only had enough power to use this attack only a few times in a row before it needed to recharge. Three pips, you could say. A large target like this tree would take up two.

Ki flowing around him, steam shooting out of his pores, Sasheem charged his energy before transferring it all to his antennae, which now sparked with electricity that bounced between them.

"CHEEEEEEEESSSSSSSEEEEEEE!" Sasheem shouted as the beam of electricity shot forth and hit the largest tree he had spotted. Soon enough, where the tree once stood was a giant slice of cheese, currently unmelted. Mozarella, of course.

[Tami]

Sasheem gritted his teeth. It was incredibly simple! How could they...maybe he should attempt to speak.
"Pants...move much," Sasheem relayed to the others connected in the same telepathic threads, referring to Jinzi. "Cheese...stuck! Ig!" he continued, accompanied with another image. Of a combatant admitting a ki blast.

"Ook! Badaba!" he relayed as Asha'rah had appeared to corner Jinzi. Sasheem glanced near the spot where Jinzi fell near the Oni, which wasn't too close to Sasheem, but there were many trees nearby. Trees that if chopped down could fall towards Jinzi's direction. Looking at the nearby trees, Sasheem attempted to find the biggest one.

Sasheem began to charge up his ki. In his current state he only had enough power to use this attack only a few times in a row before it needed to recharge. Three pips, you could say. A large target like this tree would take up two.

Ki flowing around him, steam shooting out of his pores, Sasheem charged his energy before transferring it all to his antennae, which now sparked with electricity that bounced between them.

"CHEEEEEEEESSSSSSSEEEEEEE!" Sasheem shouted as the beam of electricity shot forth and hit the largest tree he had spotted. Soon enough, where the tree once stood was a giant slice of cheese, currently unmelted. Mozarella, of course.

Quickly tilting her disc away, the distraction was enough for Meagan to lose concentration and falter. Her low flying disc dissipated, causing her to land back on the ground. "What the seven seals..." she excalimed at the sight of it.

Turning away, she again sought out Pantaloon while once again focusing her Ki into another disc.

[rhyvurg]

As the “training” continues, a lone figure walks through the woods towards the arena area. Jinzi has recently called Adam and asked for his help, and now the Android was once again back at Capsule Corp and had been awaiting Jinzi’s signal to begin helping train the others. Equipped with a special band that prevented the gravity manipulation from working on him, Adam is not hindered.

Adam is now free to step in and help “train” the group alongside Jinzi.

As Adam walks, it evaluates the combatants, examining their energy output, tactics, and cohesiveness as a unit. Some were patient, some were raw, there seemed to be no prevailing theme, no trend to follow and adapt to himself. Organics were so frustrating, how could it learn what was most efficient when they themselves could not decide? It was regrettable that it could be necessary to damage some of them, in order to weed out the ones who had nothing to teach it. But Jinzi had praised their potential, so perhaps there ere elements to them that Adam could not perceive yet. An intriguing proposition.

Zaofan, in the trees, hidden by leaves and spying on top of some branches, saw the android down below. "Hnh. The game's afoot, eh?"

A face, Zaofon's own face, forms on the top of Adam's head as the android passed under him. It spoke with a rough, digitalized version of his voice. "Insufficient." But there was another that would do nicely for an initial encounter. Adam's body morphs into that of a snake and swiftly coils up another tree, unhindered by the gravity.

For the second time in mere minutes, someone else butted their way into Sarada's head. This time, it was Ishtar. "I might as well get used to it."

Who knew; maybe this could serve as anti-mind reading training. What was that called? Telephony? No, wait; telepathy. Yeah, that was it. This could serve as anti-telepathy training.

"I think the mutt's bitch is going to try something. I'll jump in after her."



Suddenly, an image of melted cheese probed her mind. What? It must have been that stupid toilet thing. She noticed him climbing one of the trees near her -- while still in his toilet, mind -- and lying in wait.

"Why would you thinking of food at a time like this?

Mmm, cheese...

No, focus! Now look at what you've done! Now I'm hungry again."

Silvery-steel coils rise around the saiyan as she crouches in the tree, one of them forming her own face. "Aggression, excessive. Bioenergy density, sufficient. Calorie consumption, gluttonous. You will be first. Show me your power, saiyan."

[The Chou Lives]

: As the Android did that the Chou made note of the Robo liquid metal snake, as he tk tosses one of his blades into his face. To get its attention. As he then smashes the tree in a way to shower Honzi in needles in attempt to jam his guns as he falls. Grabbing a blade to slow it down. Mary Poppins style.:
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He was really, really tired now. The wind dragon against the mecha was the main factor here. If not used Construct. Would have spam more but now hovering. As the results? Who knows?

[KamenRaida]

"...It's worth a try. I'm cutting the mental link for now to concentrate on them."

The psychic link severed, Koorimaru returned his attention to Jinzi. Truth told, there was no guarantee that Karine’s psychic counter would tilt things dramatically in their favour, though her efforts were no less important for the purpose of drawing as much information as could be drawn of Jinzi’s current abilities.

The presence of a new player on the field only complicated matters further as it meant that any attempt to distract Jinzi would be further compromised. And with as total a control over the field as Jinzi did, only negating would provide them the means to make further ground.

That was when Koorimaru remembered that Pantaloon had already pointed out how he brought the arena under its heel.

Jinzi gestures to his neck, where a glowing circular patch could be seen suddenly.

Small a target as it was, attempting to destroy the control patch was as untenable response. But if it was what was allowing Jinzi’s mind to affect the arena, then the arena had to have some way of receiving the transmissions the patch was signalling.

Unfortunately, sensing energy had never been one of his fortes... and worse yet, he knew of only one man here who claimed proficiency in such a matter.

I am attempting to sense a weakness in the structure of this construct, perhaps seize an opening.

Koorimaru gritted his teeth. He was the last man he had any intention of approaching. But it took only a glance at the havoc Jinzi was raining upon them for Koorimaru to swallow his pride and approach his former adversary.

“That control Pantaloon is wearing is what gives him control of the field. It must have a way of sending commands to the arena. Focus your efforts on locating where it is transmitting Pantaloon’s commands.”

[Cyke]

The psychic link severed, Koorimaru returned his attention to Jinzi. Truth told, there was no guarantee that Karine’s psychic counter would tilt things dramatically in their favour, though her efforts were no less important for the purpose of drawing as much information as could be drawn of Jinzi’s current abilities.

The presence of a new player on the field only complicated matters further as it meant that any attempt to distract Jinzi would be further compromised. And with as total a control over the field as Jinzi did, only negating would provide them the means to make further ground.

That was when Koorimaru remembered that Pantaloon had already pointed out how he brought the arena under its heel.



Small a target as it was, attempting to destroy the control patch was as untenable response. But if it was what was allowing Jinzi’s mind to affect the arena, then the arena had to have some way of receiving the transmissions the patch was signalling.

Unfortunately, sensing energy had never been one of his fortes... and worse yet, he knew of only one man here who claimed proficiency in such a matter.



Koorimaru gritted his teeth. He was the last man he had any intention of approaching. But it took only a glance at the havoc Jinzi was raining upon them for Koorimaru to swallow his pride and approach his former adversary.

“That control Pantaloon is wearing is what gives him control of the field. It must have a way of sending commands to the arena. Focus your efforts on locating where it is transmitting Pantaloon’s commands.”

After his mighty leap, Zaofan managed to land on a branch (rather than straight to the ground, which would have been risky given the 2.5x gravity), and then dropped from the branch, using his bo staff to brace his impact to the ground. "We're scattered, disorganized. This is disastrous."

Zaofan ran over to Koorimaru and Ochazuke as best he could, under the strain. "Good observation, though. If Ochazuke focuses on detecting the receiver, a couple of us can do a pincer attack in the mean time. I can try a wide angle blast to get the transmitter on his neck, but there's a good chance that he can block or dodge it, even if I tag him. So we would need another fighter or two who can do the something similar from the other side simultaneously."

[Sub-Zero MKA]

Silvery-steel coils rise around the saiyan as she crouches in the tree, one of them forming her own face. "Aggression, excessive. Bioenergy density, sufficient. Calorie consumption, gluttonous. You will be first. Show me your power, saiyan."

"What the hell?!" One moment, she was waiting for an opening to pounce on Jinzi from above, the next, she was surrounded by a series of metal tendril things. One of them shape-shifted into her face and started talking to her. Something about her being a glutton and showing it her power.

Serious bad timing.

If it was here doing this, then Jinzi must have had something to do with it. An attempt to divert and divide their attention between him and this newcomer. Very well; if it wanted to fight, she would be more than happy to oblige.

Diving off the branch like she normally would have could only end with her possibly hurting herself, so she hung down by her tail, then dropped and rolled to a safe landing. From there, she quickly checked on Jinzi's location, then turned her full attention to the newcomer. "Alright. You want a fight? You came to the right saiyan." She fell into a defense stance of Saiyan-Do and waited for it to make its move.

[KingofPie]

"What the hell?!" One moment, she was waiting for an opening to pounce on Jinzi from above, the next, she was surrounded by a series of metal tendril things. One of them shape-shifted into her face and started talking to her. Something about her being a glutton and showing it her power.

Serious bad timing.

If it was here doing this, then Jinzi must have had something to do with it. An attempt to divert and divide their attention between him and this newcomer. Very well; if it wanted to fight, she would be more than happy to oblige.

Diving off the branch like she normally would have could only end with her possibly hurting herself, so she hung down by her tail, then dropped and rolled to a safe landing. From there, she quickly checked on Jinzi's location, then turned her full attention to the newcomer. "Alright. You want a fight? You came to the right saiyan." She fell into a defense stance of Saiyan-Do and waited for it to make its move.

Sasheem glanced towards the monkey's direction. She was being attacked by....some weird thing. Sasheem had no idea who that was, but now it was apparent there was another challenger on Jinzi's side.

I'm the mental conversation, he once again shared the image of melted cheese to the oni. "Pants...slow......cheese!" He explained, walking through his plan once more, hoping they hurry before Jinzi has a chance to react.

[IGee]

This time when Ajna felt Jinzi Pantaloon increase the pressure forcing them toward the ground, he didn't even have to think as his body reflexively increased the amount of energy concentrated in his body. His muscles didn't even have a chance to flex under its strain! Though the Vitalmancer fight had been the only time before this that he'd run into it, he found he was quickly acclimating to it.

The whole fight, for him, had been waiting for this moment.

Well, that and a whole lot of "duck and cover" performed in a erratic fashion as that friendly force, Gravity, that normally kept him on the face of this planet became uncharacteristically unpredictable.

Now was the time to attack, though, before he had the chance to turn the pressure up so high he couldn't increase his ki flow to compensate for it any longer. No longer would he have to actively think to push his body beyond its physical limits, it'd come naturally again, like it had back in the old days.

Ajna sought out that well of emotion he had felt link to his mind earlier, tempering his mental "voice" in a manner he wished people would their emotions around him at times. No need to blow any one's eardrums out so to speak. Formulating his "thoughts", he. . .

"...It's worth a try. I'm cutting the mental link for now to concentrate on them."

She would be lying to say she was among the most powerful of mental prowess, there were people of her kind and not which were much more powerful and skilled in that area. With that being said she could certainly attempt to be sufficiently annoying to throw them off. Even if it was only a second, even if only caused a slight blink in a real fight that's all it took for a battle to lead to defeat or success.

Karine stretched her powers, establishing the 'link' with their opponent in her attempt to distract them.

Though with what?

Ah. Of course. Annoying, cliche jokes may do the trick.

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

. . . found the link vanishing from his mental "grasp" just as quickly as it had appeared, and was a bit flummoxed by having the rug pulled out from underneath him so swiftly. Gritting his teeth, he rolled with it. Spotting a small group, Ajna darted their way.

After his mighty leap, Zaofan managed to land on a branch (rather than straight to the ground, which would have been risky given the 2.5x gravity), and then dropped from the branch, using his bo staff to brace his impact to the ground. "We're scattered, disorganized. This is disastrous."

Zaofan ran over to Koorimaru and Ochazuke as best he could, under the strain. "Good observation, though. If Ochazuke focuses on detecting the receiver, a couple of us can do a pincer attack in the mean time. I can try a wide angle blast to get the transmitter on his neck, but there's a good chance that he can block or dodge it, even if I tag him. So we would need another fighter or two who can do the something similar from the other side simultaneously."

Arriving in time to catch the tail end of what Zaofan had said and waved to them all in greeting. One of them looked very.. alien? Foreign was probably the right word to use instead.

"Sorry if I'm interrupting; I'm Ajna. I'm.. uh, not sure if I met any of you earlier," here Ajna had to pause as he slapped a clot of dirt away from his face that came flying his way, kicked up from somewhere or other. In doing so he created a cloud of dust that made him sneeze hard in the middle of his sentence. He continued shortly after, looking apologetic, "Looks like yall have plan. I'm onboard if you'll have me."

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Sasheem glanced towards the monkey's direction. She was being attacked by....some weird thing. Sasheem had no idea who that was, but now it was apparent there was another challenger on Jinzi's side.

I'm the mental conversation, he once again shared the image of melted cheese to the oni. "Pants...slow......cheese!" He explained, walking through his plan once more, hoping they hurry before Jinzi has a chance to react.

Ishtar thought she understood. Sasheem wished to use the melted cheese as a way to slow, and potentially trap, Jinzi. It made a kind of sense, the Oni reasoned. Albeit it was an... Unconventional tactic.

"Cover him in melted cheese, got it."

Melting the cheese was another matter. Though her fires if Truth might prove sufficient... Re-angling herself, Ishtar quickly launches off- the strain of the increased gravity offset by the force of the energy expelled from her legs. Hurtling towards the Mozzarella Tree, she quickly summons her roaring Ki, and with horns ablaze she strikes the base of the cheesy pillar.

"This seems like a waste of cheese." She comments, as her Ki quickly melts the mozzarella mass, as it topples down towards, and hopefully onto, Mr. Pantaloon. The enhanced gravity enhancing the speed at which the mild Italian cheese plummets.