⇨ SPACE FIGHT

[ringleaders]

Who: Carnival members, athletes, and aliens.
When: Forward-dated to Day 44
Where: The carnival, Zargon, and Olympic Spaceship.
What: Whoops, it's an alien invasion.
Warnings: Cartoon violence, and an overabundance of Yakety Sax style shenanigans

THE ALIEN HORDES↴ On the morning of Day 44, things go a bit differently. The carnival opens it's doors and for an hour, things are going just fine...until the aliens attack, that is. ► ALIEN INVASION: The carnival, the athlete's village, and Olympic Spaceship will find themselves overrun by aliens: specifically, a race called the Greimen. The name's accurate: they look like stereotypical grey aliens, only 2-4 feet tall. They're invading the spaceship and the planet, trying to take control of Zargon and Olympic Spaceship for themselves. The main strength these aliens have is their numbers: there's literally thousands of them. Unfortunately for the aliens, they don't have many other strengths. They're easily punchable, kickable, ray guns permanently set to stun, and other amusing space weapons designed to minorly inconvenience people. ► FUCK THIS SHIT I'M OUT: The fighting lasts for a good half-hour or so before the Ringmaster decides no, this is dumb. Characters who aren't at the carnival will feel a compulsion to return to the carnival. Once everyone's there, the Ringmaster will magically eject the remaining aliens from carnival grounds and yank the carnival away from the Olympics themselves. ► OOC GUIDELINES: Despite the fact that this is a fight log, the carnage shouldn't be too excessive! No horribly mutilating the aliens, y'all. The aliens are only mildly better equipped than the Space Olympics themselves, so everything will be a bit comedic and light-hearted. Characters can get hurt, but the wounds should tend more towards 'amusing injuries' than 'someone losing a leg'. As the log's forward-dated, feel free to keep doing all your fun space olympics nonsense in the other logs!

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Tanyuu Karibusa | OTA

[fourthscribe]

This is, quite honestly, more ridiculous than Tanyuu really has the patience for. The swarm of Greimen had cut her off rather effectively from any retreat back to the carnival, and she's stuck swatting at the invaders with a 'commemorative' life preserver.

"Get back! What could you even want from this--ow!"

One of the Greimen fires it's stun ray at her, but seatroll biology is apparently pretty good at shrugging that off and she simply bonks it on it's head in retaliation.

"Would you stop that?!"

[dorkypantsuit]

The Psionic, still looking like the troll he is, is basically just walking around inside a forcefield of his own psychic energy. The greimen bounce off of it and go flying. It's almost entertaining, except for the part where the stupid things are trying to harm them.

He almost doesn't recognize Tanyuu when he sees her. He just sees a person that needs help. It's only when he comes closer that he realizes it's a sea troll, and then, all at once, realizes that it's actually Tanyuu. He stops short, his shield flickering and a Greiman hits him with one of it's ray gun blasts.

"Ow!" he shouts, before turning his attention towards the invaders. He just straight up kicks one away. It goes flying into the distance.

"Tanyuu is that you?!" he shouts, not looking at her, but eyeing up their enemies instead.

[fourthscribe]

"Psi?"

Tanyuu looks over, frozen mid-swing in surprise as the alien she had been about to hit is only lightly bonked on it's impressive noggin. One of the others zaps her again, causing her to jump and yelp.

"Ow! Yes, it's me--they won't let me out from here!" She winces as Psi sends one of them flying, but it's enough to bolster her resolve and start shoving at them with more force.

[scientificist]

With an awful squawking noise, a bird alien swoops low through the corridor, whacking a Greimen in the head with its wing before it flies up to land gripping Tanyuu's shoulders, out of the reach of the diminutive aliens.

"What are you doing?" asks Herbert, crankily. "Get back to the carnival!" He's leaned in, his long neck placing his head along near hers to face her from the side.

[fourthscribe]

Well, that's...happening. Tanyuu staggers slightly under Herbert's weight when he lands on her, but troll biology once again keeps her from toppling entirely. She glances sideways at him, reluctant to turn in case she smacks him with a horn, and tries to shove the aliens away again.

"What do you think I'm trying to do? Not all of us were given wings!"

One of the Greimen toward the back of the crowd shouts something and throws what seems to be a grenade at the pair, which explodes into a sticky mess that clearly was intended to keep someone in place, but...apparently it's a bit past the sell-by date. Tanyuu yelps and tries to peel the goop off her face, but it's pretty well stuck into her hair.

"Oh for goodness--could you just stop this! This is ridiculous, there's nothing here for you to take!"

[scientificist]

As the goop hits, Herbert makes a sound like two angry balloons deflating simultaneously and shifts his balance to try and swipe the goop off his glasses. It's half on the inside of the lenses, it turns out. Now everything is blurry and more terrible. He tries to carefully scrape it off of Tanyuu instead with the tip of his beak and is marginally successful.

"Run through them," he demands, and tries to wipe his beak off on the back of Tanyuu's kimono, "you have horns!" He returns to gripping her with both hands, a little lower down her back with one in case she takes his advice. "My wings are useless when they keep...shooting those laser pistols at me."

[fourthscribe]

"My horns--I don't want to hurt them!" Still, Tanyuu has to block another shot of stun-raying with a wince, and reasoning with them seems to be getting nowhere...

The apparent success of the sticky bomb has emboldened the little aliens, and several of them start trying to climb up Tanyuu's robes in an attempt to pull Herbert down, making Tanyuu shout in alarm and start shoving them back down.

[scientificist]

"They want to hurt you," argues Herbert and then squawks again as one of the Greimen manages to yank his tail before he flips it up out of the way. "Us! They want to hurt us!" He turns himself around slightly on Tanyuu's back to try and give the bolder aliens a kick with his right wing-foot and regrets it immediately as one of them grabs it and pulls.

"Tanyuuuuuu..." he whines, protesting, before a tiny alien fist yanks out one of his feathers and he yells, his fists tightening in Tanyuu's kimono. The back is going to have to be replaced, at this rate.

[fourthscribe]

With her own ears being yanked and her balance nearly completely thrown, even Tanyuu's patience is starting to wear thin. She grits her teeth and pushes two of the little invaders off before running forward and shoving through the crowd, pushing the Greimen aside with...actually impressive ease. It's enough to actually leave a wake behind them, but once Tanyuu breaks past the edge of the mob they've already started to regroup and make chase.

[scientificist]

Honestly, Herbert is actually a little impressed. He obviously made the correct decision landing on Tanyuu as a protector, even if she is shorter than he is in his usual body and a female makeup...professional(?).

He pulls himself back up a little higher on her shoulders and yells: "Left at the end of this hall!"

[fourthscribe]

It's not much more than luck, Herbert--any troll would be able to handle something like this, provided they aren't a staunch pacifist. also what is with that question mark u dick

Some stun shots fly past the two of them, several coming dangerously close to catching Herbert's feathers, and Tanyuu nods, turning the corner--

And stumbling on the edge of her robes, falling to the ground with a yelp.

[scientificist]

Precisely. Luck, in that he found someone transformed into a useful alien species, as opposed to, for instance, his only remaining employee who's even smaller than he is right now.

Herbert has himself plastered as close to Tanyuu as he can manage while she runs, head jouncing slightly with her pace, but he loses his grip when she topples and he shoots sideways over her shoulder onto the ground. "No!" he yells, non-specifically at anyone as he tries to scramble up to his feet and hide behind Tanyuu even as she's on the ground. He absolutely won't stand up to a stunning shot.

[fourthscribe]

"Damn--!" Tanyuu scrambles to get her feet back under her, but when the shots start coming in harder she moves to shield Herbert's smaller frame. She only has a few moments to figure out how to get out of this, and...

"Sorry!"

She scoops Herbert up under one arm, and gathers up as much of her robes as she can in the other before taking off again.