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Ruby screamed in pain as she was caught off-guard by the Ultima attack. As she came to, the poor girl struggled to her feet, using Crescent Rose to get herself back on her feet. "P-Pyrrha? Are you okay?" she uttered. However, as she looked over, she noticed an object appearing in the dust - Pyrrha's form...

"P-Pyrrha...? No..." Ruby uttered, tears welling up as something snapped.

"PYRRHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Ruby's Limit Break, Semblance of Speed kicks in, leading to the young girl to slam into the core with a thunderous roar of speed, the power causing a gale force wind that will gladly pick up and slam any piece of debris into the core as she began slashing it with her scythe.

"GIVE ME BACK MY FRIEND! GIVE HER BACK!"

[Ruby's not alone in this reaction. The Pyramid helped Johnny survive the Ultima, but took Reno and half the party with it. At the end of his rope both mentally and emotionally, the Limit Break he had been desperately holding back finally takes over. A fierce, guttural roar comes from him as he darts off at what almost seems like super speed towards the Core. Stronger, faster and even more agile than before, nothing gets in his way, not even the debris flying from Ruby's attack. He tears into the arm with his bare hands with no regards to his own safety. His limit break has made him less vulnerable to attacks, but he was close to dead as it was. At this rate he might not last much longer, but he's not going without taking part of this damned machine with him.]

Edited 2016-08-08 11:18 (UTC)

[There's the problem with this Job set. Thanks to Desperation, Sparks is not only alive, but practically good as new - at the sacrifice of half the Heroes to do it. But now his attack and defense have been multiplied at an enormous rate. He might not be able to resurrect anyone, so he has to take out this Core as fast as he can instead. Hopping back into his damaged Magitek Armor, he opts to use Shock on it instead of one of the armor abilities.]

[If Selphie could have screamed, she would've done so but the effect of the Ultima spell hitting her didn't give her the opportunity to react. She was engulfed in the searing, painful energy of the attack and fell to the muddy ground on the right side. Everything hurt. Every muscle, fibre and nerve in her body was screaming in agony as she slowly staggered back to her feet.

Wiping the blood from her eyes, Selphie's eyes went wide with shock at the carnage the spell had caused. She grit her teeth to keep from crying out as she felt her Limit Break coming back up again. There was nothing she could do for those who had died in the battle until they were revived but there was something she could do for those closest to her. She gripped her nunchaku tightly before going through an intricate series of motions before a green light began emitting from the SeeD.]

Don't... give up... Full... Cure!

[The healing magic will fully restore those closest to Selphie as well as herself. The mana that it uses however is exhausting but the perky brunette manages to stay on her feet.]

We're not done yet!

[So much for managing to get the latest refresh of ShinRa Guard up before the whole world appeared to be enveloped in blue; the Ultima spell cleanly ripped through and although Sephiroth had been able to carry on through electrical discharges this is something else.

At first he grits teeth against it but as the magic continues to damage more-]

A-rgh! [His battle stance shudders as he feels every fiber of his whole being tense painfully with his failing will to stay standing and as the spell recedes it's as if the magic itself had been holding him up. Legs collapse in on themselves and there is only a moment spare for him to punch his offhand forwards into the mud in order to stop him from falling flat.

At the same time, energy is sparked within him as his own limit break immediately reacts and spills over across the entire outline of his frame. Wavy energy, similar to the way his arm looked when he'd charged Deathblow earlier, smokes violently out from him as Sephiroth forces himself to look up. The core-

-both arms are down! It's now or never-

LIMIT BREAK: SUPERNOVA

He's from the floor back in as close to the core as he can get from the ground, slashes arching up powerfully into the exposed centre as another rush of energy sparks as the limit is released. The Weapon is likely too large for it to be thrown into the air but that doesn't stop Sephiroth seemingly dashing up near-vertically and through his target.

Supernova itself forming somewhere behind him, quickly swelling and growing exponentially until it seems to engulf him, coming down onto the Weapon from above and somewhere behind it.

Once he comes crashing down to the ground again, he could sure use a Cure from someone-]

[Ira grunts in pain as Ultima hits. He knows this pain far too well, is far too accustomed to it having been on the brink time and time again. Yet when the magic fades, he's on his hands and knees, trying to push himself up from the ground.]

No... Not yet.

[He promised to come back alive, damn it. He couldn't...fail to keep one of the few real promises he'd made. Yet as the pain was nearly too much, one look at Saori's body sent him off the edge. They may not have seen eye to eye all the time, he a troublemaker and she a former police officer, but she's a surrogate mother to him and Ven, and while he can't do anything to get her up on her feet again, there is one thing he can do. (And be grateful neither she nor Ven would see this.)

Blue and white played at his fingertips as the air around him began to sizzle and pop, whispers of the darkness inside ebbing its way through his armor as he used his sword to stand, ripping off a broken helm in the process. For a moment, someone could almost swear his eyes were gold as his feet left the ground, the replica taking sword in bot hands as the darkness lifted him up to initiate his Limit Break: Dark Aura.]

My turn!

[With that, he disappeared, first appearing behind theWeapon, then to it's right, to it's left, behind it to the left, behind it to the right, and finally in front of it, each time striking the core as if a man possessed. A growing smirk across his face as his blade sunk deep into the core again and again, before disappearing into the darkness itself until for a brief moment, he hovered in front of the Weapon itself for the final, downward strike down the front of the mechanical beast.]

Vanish.

[With that, he controlled falls, blade pointed down as he lands on his feet, jumping back as pillars of dark flame spew forth from the ground below and the limit break's effects on himself begin to wane. Luckily, the dark fires seem to miss any in range exempting their combined foe.]

[Having stood right next to Ultima WEAPON the entire time, the blast of the Ultima spell hits him full force. Ales is blown back from the explosion, his clock torn and revealing slivers of his bald blue head. He doesn't have any ears, but they're ringing.

Three times. Three times he had come face-first into an explosion. The first time, he fell out of the sky and woke up on Crystallis, unknowing whether he had lived or died. The second time, he crashed an airship into the enemies' killing himself and the crew aboard it. This, the third time, he survived at the cost of feeling the pain that such a violent experience grants.

And dear Polokus, it hurts.

Ales rolls over onto his front and pushes his arms against the soft ground. The Mega Regen helps reduce the worst of the pain, but he still feels like dying. Once in a sitting position, he flexes his fingers. Still working. That's what matters.

He crawls back closer to the WEAPON and covering himself in dirt in the process, manages to get within range to continue hacking.]

[ Another burst of light engulfs Ace's lifeless body as Last Breath activates, summoning a figure easily identifiable as the ice guardian, Shiva. There's no longer anything standing in the way of reaching the Weapon's center - extending one of her hands towards the machine, the Eidolon performs her signature Diamond Dust move. While it's unknown whether the core is susceptible to freezing, the ice damage dealt by a single snap of Shiva's fingers remains fairly powerful. ]

[Even inside the cockpit of the Magitek Armor, Cloud is forced to raise an arm to shroud himself from the light of Ultima. He can feel the full force of the attack shake the ground and nearly knock his mech over, but it stands against the attack. When it's all over he opens the hatch, watching with his own eyes as the smoke clears.

The ground is smoldering. Friends and allies lay prone or wounded or worse. Cloud's brow furrows and his lip quakes as he looks around and then up at the hulking presence before him. The Ultima WEAPON looms over this scene of destruction like an uncaring god and Cloud knows the name of the black heart at its core. There are many words he could use to describe her, but at this moment there is one that is ringing loud and clear in his mind.

Throwing off his helmet, Cloud stands up, bracing a foot on the edge of the Magitek Armor as he draws his gunblade. In his other hand, a tinsel trimmed red book manifests into existence in a flurry of snowflakes and the distant sound of jingling bells. He flips it open, a pop up moogle wearing a festive hat springs up in the middle, a present in one hand and a lump of coal in the other.]

Palitutu! I have here the All-Knowing List!! It tallies all your deeds and what you deserve to receive for them! PALITUTU! I DEEM YOU....NAUGHTY!

[And with that he leaps from the armor, driving his gunblade into the exposed core, pulling the trigger on it as he feels the impact!]

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[And in the back, Jade is taking all this in while calmly chugging down ~~popcorn~~ an Ether to replenish his MP.

Say what you want about the Heroes' competence, they never let things get boring.]

Looks like we're still okay~ [Nevermind that a dozen Heroes are dead and another dozen are critically injured. Jade cheerfully tosses the empty Ether bottle over his shoulder and gets to work. Pyrrha and Ace are the first to get revived.]

Just as quickly as she hit the ground after that enormous explosion of light and sound, Pyrrha feels life flooding back into her body as she wakes up with a gasp. No time to question it, though - their enemy is still up. Kicking up to her feet, the young huntress sheathes her weapon and raises her hands instead, glowing with red light as she channels her semblance. After Mary's last attack there's plenty of metal lying around, after all, and it quickly lifts up and off the ground in a great tornado of razor sharp jagged blades. Concentrating as hard as she can, she directs the storm of metal with pinpoint accuracy toward the WEAPON's core, hoping to drive a victory home at last.

When Ultima went off Mary dove to cover Saori, but it clearly wasn't enough. She knew how all of this worked. She knew what the Jobs and the Crystals and everything else in this world did in their favor. She also knew it was something that couldn't be counted on, and that is where the seed of worry bloomed in her gut.

She cradled Saori's limp body as the two of them smoldered from the WEAPON's attack. She glowered up at the beast, knowing what she had to do. Gently setting Saori down, she then turned and stood to face the WEAPON. One hand went up to draw her hood from her pirate garb. The other flexed its wrist, the hidden blade springing out and back again.

"I'm takin' you out of this. Once and for all." She murmured to herself before taking three strides and seemingly vanished from the field.

[Tsubomi couldn't understand why her Onion Knoght job had Desperation as one of its choices, but she now understood why as she suddenly found herself boosted massively by the deaths of so many Heroes as she found her power increasing tremendously. She let out a pained roar as she pulled out her Gunblade.]

Palitutu! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! CLIMHAZZARD!

[And with her increased strength, she let the Core have it!]

Gods, she is practically is in so much pain right now that she cannot focus on attacking the exposed core right now. Getting hit with the Ultima spell freaking hurt and Minfilia felt like she would collapse at any moment, her sword being slammed into the muddy dirt is the one thing keeping her from falling. She is still conscious therefore can do something at least. With shaky legs, the young Crystal Knight slowly stands up and stares at the WEAPON, feeling an intense emotion that she can recall after someone dear was taken from her as a child. She's furious without a doubt but unlike her twelve year old self, there is no urge to kill. She just wants this to stop.

Breathing deeply, Minfilia holds out her arms...and flings them to each of her sides, mimicking Y'shtola's movements when she would activate her shield. But that isn't the case now as her own Limit Break activates. With Seventh Dawn activated, the entire party gets a TEN SECOND INVINCIBILITY BUFF thanks to her hitting the target low health.

But she may need a healing spell because she may go down in one hit after this despite Desperation kicking in.

[She's still in shock at the impact with the ground and just who had grabbed her from the rope when everything goes blue and then white. Yet as it fades, she doesn't notice the agony she's in. She notices the limp arm beneath her, and that she no longer senses someone else's breath on the back of her neck. She tries to roll out from under the corpse of her ex boyfriend, but he's so heavy that she is currently trapped. Instead, she maneuvers to pull out a few bottles from her satchel, pulling out the computer first. Quickly from her position, she types one-handed and summons a Healing Program on Minfilia, before struggling once again to reach for something in her pack.]

No... Not again...

[She is no soldier, no Turk. This was not the field she ever studied or prepared for. Even the months fighting alongside others did not fully prepare her for this. In her grief, she activates her Limit Break: Calamitous Stagnation. The wave of energy from the attack hopefully inflicts Calamitous Ruin upon the Ultima Weapon, reducing action speed and acting as a poison. If it works, it will slow it down to grant the others time to recover and revive. If not, well... She tried.

Fighting back tears, she reaches into her satchel for a Phoenix Down and uses it on her savior before using another Healing Program on herself.]

[Sonic was blown away by the Ultima attack, however, he quickly righted himself, landed on his feet and charged at the core, unleashing another Excalibur Sonic attack on the core.]

I know you can hear us, but you're trying to block us out, but I'm going to talk anyway! I've figured you out - your plan, your reasons, why today! You learned about what we're all for and what we're supposed to do and it sent you on a spiral. You couldn't think but feel helpless at the idea that your world was feeding on other worlds. So, you decided to keep going! What's one or two worlds when yours is needed more? So, you started to bring us in, one by one, and hoped we would be stupid enough not to question things, that the more calmer people like Zelda would rein us in.

You wanted to kill us in the aftermath of the invasion - tired and not even mastered a few jobs. But, Kalki's time travel shenanigans messed that up. You panicked and threw a hissy fit - so you took the Weapon and ran off. And while you were hiding, you opted to drive us with fear, worry and belittlement! Threatening that town, threatening Aqures Ixen, having your Moogle lackey yell at us for having the Diamond Weapon - you wanted more advantages for this day!

And why today? Today's the last day of the Festival of Light. What better why to shatter the entire world's idea of the Heroes of Light than to do it at the end of their celebration!

Guess what, you little creep - today's not that day! We're going to win and we're going to make you a laughingstock! When they have their play next year, they're going to tell the story of how the Heroes of Light triumphed over the Ultima Weapon and while I might look like an alligator, you're going to be nothing but a footnote in our history!

Edited 2016-08-08 16:54 (UTC)

[Though Rukia's wounds are minor compared to the others, she might not be so lucky with the next attack, so she's grateful for Selphie's healing. She moves to shield her housemate, sword drawn, stance defensive, so she won't be interrupted in her work. She glances back at Selphie only briefly, keeping her eye on the Ultima Weapon.]

Oi! Are you all right?

[Next round she'll heal Selphie in return if the wash of cure magic hasn't wiped away Selphie's wounds. For now, she places her palm against the blunt edge of her blade, summoning Kashikoiko. And Yuki. And Kokuyo, the black chocobo. And Chappopo. And friggin' Hades. All set their eyes on the target.]

Now, while it's exposed! Bestial Assault!

[Warks and kupos and skrees and '...'s ring out on the battlefield as all of Rukia's summoned creatures rush at the weapon for one massive attack.]

[ Sheena had expected to hit the ground when she had reappeared--not a body--so imagine her surprise when she sees Albel hovering over her. He should have been fighting... That's the last thing she remembers before a blue light coming from behind him engulfs them, and she closes her eyes against the glare while reflexively gripping his arm.

When she opens them, she gets a couple more surprises. One, she's alive, but not hurt seriously, and two...

Albel...alive but not as lucky. ]

Albel? [ She looks around for a healer, but can only feel her anger rising at the sight before her--friends and allies seriously hurt or worse. And while she's angry that again someone else she cares about has been struck down instead of her, it's the "or worse" that really sets her off. ] Stay here.

[ The command is terse and calm, but anyone who knows Sheena knows that she's beyond her regular level of anger. Rising, she approaches the rest of the debris of the airship lying about. She had been trained to use whatever she could as a weapon, and by Martel, she's going to do just that.

Picking up those things that she can, she casts Shunshin before using the longer debris as spears as she uses Throw with them. ]

The attack had been about the level that Kaji had been expecting. The number of Heroes that didn't make it through that, on the other hand? Not what he'd been counting on. That is- about a third of their forces.

"Ib!" Among those dead bodies isn't one of a very little girl, so Kaji has to believe that his daughter is safe.

Keep up the assault. Kaji can keep this up all day. Another arrow, another Heavy Shot, fired towards the Core now, since that's where everyone else is concentrating their fire.

[Rialynn's head is ringing. That spell ripped right over the lot of them, tearing up the earth and sending them flying in the sheer force of the magic blast. She picks herself up slowly, carefully, trying not to yelp at the numerous cuts and bruises she'd sustained. Immediately her eyes track for the people that matter most to her. Barkeep. Duster. Ramza. Vincent. Barkeep is on his feet, she sees. But there's an egregious lack of stone-flinging freelancers.]

[Maybe it's not tactically sound, but she owes him. She owes him everything. Gritting her teeth, Rialynn pulls herself upright, hugging her wounded arm as a new power flares up inside of her. She doesn't know what she's doing, but she needs to do it. Her Limit Break, Happily Ever After, kicks right in.]

...Nngh...the spell went off. There was no time to prepare. Ramza raised his arms, bracing himself, thinking that there was nothing else to do. But just when it all seemed...hahhh...hopeless...something happened. Something wondrous. The full might of the spell was turned away by the purity of his heart, instead slamming into the pilot of the Ultima Weapon. The gods...th-the gods smiled in his favor...for they would never allow someone so good to suffer such a cruel fate.

[Rialynn sags to one knee as the power leaks out of her, using her power as best she could to alter the events to affect their enemy and spare Ramza.]

[It's a strange thing, to see one's end directly in front of one's self, and know it cannot be stopped. It brings an odd peace instead of panic, and a calmness of the mind once fate has been accepted. Chrom knows he's not going to survive this, he's just too close. Even if he does, his injuries will be too severe for him to keep up the fight.]

[He braces himself, gripping Falchion with both hands as he closes his eyes and bows his head.]

Sacrifice.

[He isn't sure if evoking the power through word is enough, but the willpower to exchange his life in exchange for a grievous blow against the Ultima Weapon is definitely there.]

[Whether it works, or if the Ultima spell claims him too swiftly, the ending is the same. Chrom lies in a still heap upon the ground, the tattered white cloak a funeral shroud as crystal starts to collect around his lifeless body.]

[The spell tears through them violently, and Bartz only just barely hangs on. The cacophony of other heroes acting and reacting to the carnage echoes around him is deafening. He's more focused on pulling himself back up though. Just a little more. They can still win this.

Just a little more.]

It's not... over yet.

[Once he gets to his feet, he faces the weapon and activates his ~~EX burst~~ limit break, Master Mime. It is a succession of strikes with different weapons, each one connected to a memory of a precious friend.

He also may have said something about a shining world... or a shiny squirrel. It's hard to tell.]

[ Tear's first instinct was to try and use her own body as a shield to protect Ace, just as she had so often used it to protect others from danger. But when the blue light fades and her eyes open again, it became all too clear that it hadn't been enough.

Pale white and silent, she could only stare at her partner as memories of a future neither had lived flooded her mind, the same feelings of then twisting her stomach painfully and forcing her throat to go dry. It's only when she recognises the light of Life surrounding his body that she fully snaps out of it, holding back a sharp gasp.

Still hovering over him protectively, fierce determination pushed past terror and reflected in her eyes, fists clenching before she reached to take his hand in hers and began to try singing again. Her voice was choked, but she kept trying until Boss Theme came forth with the same vigour as before, no matter how much it was straining her.

Unfortunately she would have to abandon Soul Voice for the time being, replacing it with The Final Fantasy. No matter what her heart demanded her to do, she had to keep focus and ensure that no one else died. ]

[The last thing he clearly remembers was pain and a semi-controlled fall, holding Lucrecia tightly and trying to turn so he'd take more of the impact that she would. Then everything went blindingly blue and white and agonizing and then nothing more.

Red-and-golden sparkles from the Phoenix Down rain down around him, and Vincent awakes to pain. This is nothing new--nor is the feeling of mounting rage and anger from the back of his mind signifying Chaos is awake. What IS new, is the awareness they're on the ground, and he still has Lucrecia held against him protectively.

Tuning out the roaring in the back of his mind, both arms curl more around his ex (so complicated, but he wasn't letting her die yet). A Smoke bomb moves them away and back towards the farther reaches of the field. Then Vincent is shoving away from her, curling in on himself as his Limit Break fully activates. Painful even more, and his form is shimmering in hints of white, fading as wings uncurl from his back and his whole body shifts.

Uncurling from the stance, great bat wings unfurl as red eyes narrow. It is not the Chaos Lucrecia recognizes as the being takes to the air and heads to attack the Core of the Weapon.]

Edited 2016-08-08 21:53 (UTC)

[Levy isn't sure how she survived that, but she's not about to waste the opportunity. Though her body is weak, she can feel the power of her Limit Break surging through her, making her magic stronger than ever. Taking a breath, she gestures toward the Ultima WEAPON, once again channeling her script magic.]

Solid Script: Lava!

[Bolstered by the Limit Break's energy, the word 'LAVA' appears above the WEAPON before melting and flowing down over it, burning red hot.]

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Full cure anyone? (those closest to Selphie)

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