Once Upon a Shrine...!

[Carthrat]

"I can't just cart the bigger guns around Tokyo!" hisses Ritsuko. "I arrived wearing a freaking miniskirt!

Look. I can't hurt that thing. Celcia, can you cast a flight spell or something? I can get bigger stuff, but I'm useless as I am."

[Bean Bandit]

"Are you insane?" the little dog hisses at Ritsuko. "If we go up there, we'll have nowhere to hide! A flight spell isn't for use in combat, it takes too much concentration!"

Kurumi frowned at the little dog. "This isn't the time to shoot down ideas, desu." she snapped. "If it won't work, say no, and keep the insults to yourself. Now, do you have something...artillery like? I think I might be able to do something, but I need to get past the armour."

Celcia-inu put her hands on her hips. "And just who are you, Junpei's sister, or something? How dare you talk to that way?" she huffed.

[Carthrat]

"Now is not the time, you two!" blares Ritsuko. "Look, if you guys can keep that thing distracted, Celcia can maybe fly me out or fly herself, grab one of my *big guns that makes explosions*, fly back, and I can total this thing.

We might get lucky and it has no guns or something, but I ain't betting on it!

Anyone got any better ideas?"

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Kurumi body check! Roll 3d6! and gets...6 >_> This should be good. <_<

IC:

The discussion was interrupted by a frighteningly loud mettallic Roar, as the monstrous head drew level with the bickering group, despite the beast being only around halfway up the steps.

"AACK! No time!" Kurumi half shrieked, and ran to the torii pillar the pair were observing from...and grabbed the red pole at the base of the arch in a wide bear hug.

Celcia's fur was standing on end as she backed away from the monstrousity...when she caught sight of Kurumi...and gasped in surprise as the pink haired girl's finger tips were actually pushing INTO the hard surface, leaving spiderwebbing cracks...

Kurumi shivered, and pulled as hard as she could, praying she knew the strengths of the body she found herself in. With a thunderous crack, the giant pillar came free in her arms...

Rei, standing behind Motoko and Tsuruko, had her horrified attention drawn away from the beast by the deafening  crack of the torii being broken, and she stared at the pink haired girl gripping a pillar nearly twenty or thirty times her size with no more effort than it took to hold a baseball bat. "H-Holy shit..." the miko gasped, uncharacteristically. "We have -got- to make her a senshi..."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat backpedals something chronic, snapping up her probably-ineffectual pistol and firing a shot at the things 'eyes', or at least a suitably substitute.

She also takes note of any escape routes..

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: @_@ Ryder....May! POST!

IC:

At the same time that Ritsuko fired, Kurumi raised the pillar over her head, flinging it down the steps at the rapidly aproaching monstrosity.

The twin attacks seemed to force the metal monster to hesitate, and while the bullet did no damage, it froze the boomer to the spot, just in time for the giant pillar to smash into it, headfirst, and knock it back, into the street...

Despite the high velocity attack, the slightly battered beast began to stir, slowly pushing aside the pillar pinning it to the ground.

The tiny dog beside Ritsuko decided that she'd had enough fun for one day. "Eb sacreum Sadis. Malla tarshish hacate!" Celcia chanted, and slowly rose into the air, clamping onto Ritsuko's vest's collar with her teeth, and starting to lift the ponytailed red-head. "Whfr to?" she grunted.

[Carthrat]

"Uh, that way!" says Ritsuko, overcoming the embarrasment at being lifted in such a direction and pointing the place where she stashed her Armoured Explosion-Making Vehicle.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder glanced over at her two new friends of sort and said, "Well, if you guys can do something that you think will help in this situation, I believe NOW might be the good time to do so, since that smash didn't sound too good!  Sorry if I sound demanding, but sometimes you gotta act a little forceful..."

And with that, she started to run towards the disturbance at last...

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Okay. >_>;; Impromptu sabbatical over.

IC:

Kurumi stared hard at the monster as the gigantic wooden pillar was rolled off the revolting mechanical body with disturbing ease. With a thud that shook the street, the giant pillar fell off, and the revolting mechanical body  pulled itself to it's feet with Insectiod grace. "Well..." she murmured, loud enough for Tsuruko and Motoko to hear, as well as Minako and Rei, recently arriving up close, Rei looking disturbed and astonished at the shattered torii. "So much for that."

--

Even as she spoke, Ritsuko was picking up speed, flashing white cotton panties at the people still on the ground as Celcia picked up speed, and began arcing in the direction the red-headed girl had indicated, the ground flashing by with startling speed...

[RyderHakubi]

OOC: Good to have yah back...

IC: Ryder stopped and just stared at the boomer in front of her, her memories of Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 returning to her as she watched the fugly robot slither back together.

"Oh fuck... You hit it with a giant wooden pole and it still didn't keep it down?" Ryder began as she tried to figure out something to kill it, knowing how boomers work.

"Think we can weaken it enough to where I can ensnare the damn thing in a Love Chain?  Then one poor brave soul could rush up and grab the heart while it's bound..."

[Carthrat]

Completely unembarrased (hey, would *you* dare to laugh at someone armed to the teeth and with a temper to match?), Carthrat somehow manages to hang on (or be hung onto).

With any luck, she'll make it to the ground in one piece, preferably not shaped like a pizza.

[Asrana]

"You take left, I'll take right, try to stay out of melee," Tsuruko barked at Motoko, moving into place on the boomer's flank as fast as she could, and beginning the 'distraction effort' with something she hoped was going to work...

"Hiken Kirukarahirame!" Slashing, she let loose one of the Shinmei Ryu's ranged techniques, hoping Motoko would attack in time to keep it off her...

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: My GOD, I suck. -_-;;

IC:

Ritsuko, clutched tightly in Celcia's jaws, soared up and away from the field of combat. Fortunately for her, the boomer was far too busy extricating itself from under the shattered torii post to notice, and Ritsuko was winging her way back to her trusty tank unmolested...

Motoko nodded sharply, and dashed to the opposite side as her sister, a similar cry bursting from her own lips as she too slashed at the monstrosity in a ranged attack. "Hiken Kirukarahirame!"

Kurumi turned to Minako and grinned as the black-haired sisters lunged to the attack. "Looks like you got that distraction you wanted, 'neechan."

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Attack rolls! Tsuruko 7 (+3 pass) Motoko 5 (+4 pass)

IC:

Tsuruko's attack burst off her sword, slashing a coruscating blaze of energy at the beast, just as it rose up to it's legs again. The arc slammed into the metal, cutting partway through, a large, chunk coming off in a single swipe, along with most of it's arm.

Just as it was about to turn to attack Tsuruko, Motoko's attack followed instantly on it's heels, slamming into the beast's other side, causing a similar rip in the metal, which as they watched, was healing itself...but the beast was still as it worked, almost screaming...

[RyderHakubi]

OOC: Jumper cables ready... GO~!

IC: Ryder nodded as the beast was sent reeling a bit and focused a bit...

OK Magic... don't fail me now...

With a small look of concern about the possible failure of magic she hasn't had the opprotunity to really practice using, Ryder shouted, "VENUS LOVE CHAIN!!!! TIE HIM UP!!!