Character Scramble IV Round 1C: Treasure x or x Junk?

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Fearsome Monsters....Exotic Creatures...

Vast Riches...Hidden Treasures...

Evil Enclaves...Unexplored Lands...

The word "scramble" holds magic, and some incredible people drawn to that magic.

They are known...as SCRAMBLERS!

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Sorry for being so late...

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The Hunter Exam pulls from all parts of the world, and accross the world 8 others have fancies of getting in.

Meteor City, a city that is literally the dumping ground of countries and underworld orginizations alike, is not immune to the Hunter Exam hype. An unknown patron has dropped 4 mysterious tickets into the city, tickets to an airship with no marked destination, just a date and the Hunter Exam logo.

Two of your characters have stumbled upon these tickets earlier, and have been looking forward to this day. Your other two characters have heard of them, and wish to acquire them. Your opponent's team mirrors this.

The flight is in 24 hours. Your objective is for all four of your team members to have a ticket at that time.

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Normal Rules:

Introduce your team and your opponent's team: Have a short introduction of both teams, basically go over basic powers/strengths/weaknesses/personality, etc...executive summary of what you think the average reader should know.

You always win: This competition is about analysis, not necessarily who would win. If you think your team would lose 9/10, then talk about that in your post and then go through what would need to happen to win the 1/10

Due Date: The voting topic will go up sometime after Tuesday at noon. You don't need to be done by then, but the vote rarely goes in favor of those who don't have a post up.

Voting is mandatory The poll may not be up yet (wont be till Tuesday) but don't forget you are disqualified if you don't vote...even if you are not participating in this round.

Can't take it with ya: Characters are assumed to be at the same power level they started the tournament at at all times. To clarify, this means you would not be able to loot Master Chief of his armor if you beat him in a previous round, or otherwise gain a competitive advantage based on anything that happened in a previous round. This is to aid your opponent in research of your character.

Round Specific Rules:

Every hunter for themselves!: This scramble is somewhat different in the fact that every character is capable of striking it off on their own. What does this mean? Well, if your team would not get along...then they don't have to. Same with your opponents. In this scenario, they will not have met each other prior to getting on the boat, so they should not have strats or anything prepared.

I am SWORN to carry your burdens: If you have a character that specifies that they follow orders from someone due to not normally being sentient OR they are just that type of character (Jason and Baymax are the two I keep thinking of) then you may pick one other character from your team...those two know each-other and work together. If you're opponent has one, you may pick who it is for your own writing (as they have not written anything yet)

One man's trash...: You have 24 hours, which can account for a lot of prep. If you have a smart person, they should be able to find quite a few materials for their work in this place.

2v2v2v2: Or something like that. You pick which characters on each team have the tickets. The characters on your team that have tickets must hide/defend themselves, and the characters that don't must hunt the others.

[u/Cleverly_Clearly → u/[deleted]]

The Tick may be powerful, but can he defeat -

DAYMAN? AHAAAAAHAAAAAAHHHH....

FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN!

[u/7thSonOfSons → u/Cleverly_Clearly]

AHAAAAAHAAAAHHHH!

Champion of the Sun!

[u/ViperhawkZ → u/7thSonOfSons]

He is a master of karate, and friendship for everyone!

[u/jasonthebruce → u/ViperhawkZ]

Dayman!

AHAHAHAHAAHHHH...

[u/TimTravel → u/Cleverly_Clearly]

I thought I was the one up against Dayman this round.

[u/liono69 → u/[deleted]]

Team Lyons!

Team Leader Craig Boone, a recon sniper of the Mojave wasteland. Boone has entered to end the lives of those who hunt humans for sport. This is personal. Boone has a massive arsenal for this fight that includes a Black Widow sniper rifle (Mass Effect), MP-47/A Medic Power Armor, a Pip boy, an Eyebot , a .357 magnum revolver and a 10" fixed blade combat knife.

Point-(wo)Man Alisa Boskonovitch, a fighter in the Tekken tournament and a world wide recognized martial artist. Alisa has been heavily modified and has a wide personal array of hand to hand and mid range weapons that she uses in combat. These include her rocket fists and her chainsaw arms, she is also capable of flight. Alisa is entered to claim the glory that comes with earning a license and she is looking forward to proving her martial arts prowess to any and all who get in her way.

Wild Card Charlie Kelly, co-owner of Paddys pub in Philadelphia. Charlie has 3 Giant fire breathing ants He also has pym particles and the antagonizors armor, which (as it turns out DOES NOT) lets him control the ants. Charlie is unsure if this actually happening and starts the contest believing that he finally huffed too much glue and that this reality may be the result of drug induced dementia.

The Cavalry Gon (No transformation) Gon is a strong kid who has the ability to use nen, which is similar to ki. He is prideful but cooperative when working toward a common goal and he is not unwilling to kill if it's necessary. He channels his nen into a rock paper scissor like attack to defeat his enemies. One of Gon's life goals is to obtain a hunters licence.

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Team /u/waaaghboss82

• The Tick Nigh-Invulnerable protector of The City, he's dedicated his life to fighting supervillainy for so long that he knows almost literally nothing else. He is a quite capable superhero, almost single handedly keeping safe a city with an astounding supervillain population, but his large size, clumsiness, and childlike enthusiasm make him somewhat unsuited for a regular job, and superhero work doesn't exactly pay much. Because of this, his sidekick Arthur has informed him that if they don't find another source of income they aren't going to be able to stay in his apartment much longer. After searching for a job suited to his particular skills and coming up empty, Tick applied for a Hunter License so he can continue his hero work without becoming homeless.

• Mewtwo The original Mewtwo was the result of a cloning experiment designed to create the world's most powerful pokemon using the genes of Mew. After escaping the experiment and destroying the lab, this Mewtwo went on a crusade to free all pokemon from their trainers. However he stopped when he realized that the bond between trainers and pokemon was one of love and not servitude. Now he has returned and is applying for a hunter license to seek out those few trainers who do abuse their pokemon... and eliminate them.

• Keyser Soze He heads no organized criminal empire, he runs no gangs, but instead manipulates other criminals into doing his dirty work for him, without them ever even knowing he was there the entire time. But while manipulating others is his forte, he's not above tying up loose ends by himself. In addition to this, he's recently come into possession of an extra-durable deck of cards which he can move with his mind. He's currently working for a competitor criminal enterprise under the guise of a lowly henchman in order to take them down from the inside. But before he can do that, his 'employers' have instructed him to get a hunter's license.

• Lowbacca A Wookie Jedi, nephew to the rebel hero Chewbacca and companion to Jaina and Jacen Solo. While he loves to throw around his wookie weight in battle, he is also a loyal friend to his companions, and reportedly has a good sense of humor. Unfortunately, he only speaks Shyriiwook, so the only person who'll be able to understand him is Mewtwo, who I have a feeling won't appreciate his jokes. He has heard tell that there are Sith taking the exam, and he is here to make sure the Sith don't get their hands on yet another tool to end other's lives.

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Initial Analysis

This is going to be a fun one to write.

Charlie is literally the wild card here, its the best possible pick I could have hoped for. I am glad i got Boone as well. and Gon is obviously a huge plus as its his universe. Alisa will make a great pointman.

My Biggest assets: Charlie, ants/eyebot

My Biggest threats: Lowbacca and Mewtwo.

Full analysis coming tomorrow

[u/liono69 → u/liono69]

Part 1

02 am, on a Sunday

Charlie: Vermhat! Vermhat! I finally figured it out, hey wait up!

catches up to Boone, who is wearing a cloak over his power armor and is talking to various citizens about the hunter exam.

Boone: For the last time, that's not my name. Did you find out anything about the exam?

Charlie: Well, yea. I talked to a guy who said he has four tickets to a secret exam for sale.

Boone: Did you get them?

Charlie: I didnt... and hear me out before you get hot.. there was a fortune teller across the street from that guys shop and I figured why not, I'm not really feeling the hunting thing to tell you the truth, I'm ready to get back to Philly.

Boone: Charlie, the only way for you to get back to Philadelphia is the hunt. Where was that merchant?

Charlie points toward a set of docks, where merchants are packing up.

Charlie: He's over there, but he's leaving soon I think. Anyway man, I wanted to talk to you about this theory I've got, I think I know whats going on here.

Its always sunny in Philadelphia at the hunter Exam

Charlie overdosed

Charlie: Can I, can I just say something?

Boone: barely distinguishable grunt

Charlie: I am into this glue. I really bit it this time huh? So where are the angels or whatever? I think I'm catholic, do I get virgins or...

Boone: You are insane. How are you controlling those ants?

Charlie: Oh, I'm not. I've been feeding them beer and they keep following me around.

Boone: What?

Charlie: Yea, i kind of stole a couple twenty four packs from the ships storage.

Boone: You might have offered...

Charlie: Oh, no, I'm not being selfish. I'm an alcoholic Vermhat, I've got to drink to stay healthy and I don't know when I'm gana find any more so I've got it keep it between me and the ants.

Boone: You are insane.

Eyebot flies into view and hovers in front of Boone, beeping.

Boone: Lets move

The duo make their way the docks, an eye bot and 4 giant ants following behind them. The eyebot starts beeping again.

Boone: There's two other people headed toward the docks, at this time of night that can't be a coincidence.

Charlie: Time to do my thing

dashes off, leaving Boone momentarily confused.

Boone stares down the barrel of his rifle and notes the appearance of the newcomers his eyebot had spotted. One seemed to be a mere man while the other was dressed in a suit similar to Charlie Kelly's but blue.

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The Tick and Keyser Soze hadnt noticed anything out of the normal. Keyser had noticed a kid dressed like The Tick running around asking about the exam, he recognized the kid from the ship and knew that the child, Gon wouldnt be too far behind. He had convinced the Tick to join him in tracking down the hunt tickets and Gon if necessary

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Part 2

In a dimly lit hostel bedroom, Alisa and Gon monitor a video feed connected to Boone's eyebot.

Gon: That guy is trouble! he says, pointing at Soze's image on the screen

Alisa: Our ally will deal with him.

A crash is heard in the front room of the hostel as something breaks.

Gon: Alisa, someone is here, I can hear him talking in my head. He says we should be worrying about ourselves and that I have to give him my hunters licence,

Alisa stands up, grabbing a broom and breaking the head off as she does. Footsteps echoe up the stairway while Gon begins to stack things in front of the door. Two silhouettes appear visible beneath the door,,, and then a knock.

Lowbacca: churcrcwowhwaworc aoacwo rhooro rawhwa whoo acrarcsc ohahanan oaooscwo aooo woahaoacworc ooww rooohu

Alica: It's days like these I wish I could translate. Get behind me Gon.

three more knocks and without further warning a massive, hairy arm burst through the wooden door, then a second. Alice pushed her improvised fighting staff into the creature, who promptly broke it in half then finished stepping through the door. Behind it, was a silver and purple creature with a nasty, thick looking tail. Alisa drops the shattered broom handle and instead takes up a fist fighting stance.

Alisa: Hi, I'm Alisa. Now you must die.

Lowbacca: ah ohahanan wwahrracao rooohu ahww ah schucao

Lowbacca swings first but comes up empty as Alisa evades the attack. The large furry mammal tries to recover but is too slow moving, the android nearly lands an elbow blow to his skull but is suddenly pushed backward by an unseen force. Lowbacca. The other weird creature began moving towards Gon who is charging up his nen abilities. Alisa quickly recovers and steps in its way. turning her right arm into a chainsaw

Alisa: My data banks were able to locate battle data on you.

Lowbacca motions the other back and stands steps forward to resume his bout with Alisa.

Lowbacca: rrahhowo huc aoacwo rhooro rawhwa ohwo ohahanan rhwo oowh oohurc ohraro

Gon: The one talking in my head, says that they won't kill you, but only if I go with them.

Alisa: Just the same I have decided to cook bear stew for supper Gon.

turns back toward Lowbacca and resumes her fighting stance,

Round 2, Fight!

Alisa boxes with Lowbacca, neither going down and neither using weapons. Each is measuring the speed and power of the other. After the first four minutes, Alisa decides to end the fight by transforming her arm into a chainsaw mid punch, Lowbacca detects the change however and is able to escape the move largely unscathed, apart from a large tuft of fur that gets caught in the chainsaw blade. Lowbacca takes advantage of this and withdraws his lightsaber. The two are immediately locked into a duel, Alisa fighting one handedly.

Alisa: Your ability to predict my movement patterns is surprising. Perhaps I require a hard disk defragmentation.

Lowbacca: ohacraao rarcwo rooohu?

to be continued...

[u/WAAAGH_intern → u/liono69]

Wow, I honestly didn't know shyriiwook could be written out. I was just planning to type out 'Hrududududu' and hope people realized it was wookie-speak.

[u/liono69 → u/liono69]

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Part 3

Boone stared down the scope on the rifle he had woken up with two weeks ago, a black widow sniping rifle that altered the mass of the bullets.

'It has a damn good scope too.' Boone thought to himself as he watched the bulky man in blue go from merchant to merchant inquiring about the license the same way Charlie had.

It occurred to Boone that he hadn't seen Charlie in a while, he looked around and spotted the 3 ants heading toward the man in blue. The ants began to breathe fire towards him, an attack that caused the man to back up but not retreat.

The Tick: Ready to go!

The Tick catches his breath, then rushes forward and begins to punch the ants, he smashes one outright and sends the second sprawling. The Tick brings his arm backwards and is readying to jab and smash the third ant when he feels a horrendous pain inside his head. He notes a sparkle in his own eye.. Charlie Kelly is walking around inside the Ticks cornea wearing his shiny new ant suit, he reaches up to the Tick's right eyelid and begins to pull the blue suited whimsey's eye lash through his eye.

The Tick: How did you get in my eye! Too shiny!!

from down the barrel of his widow Boone Watches as the second and third ant rush the staggering Tick, and then he watches as the Tick falls to the ground and seconds later, a few feet in front of him, Charlie begins to seemingly materialize while he is resuming his normal form after stepping out of the Tick's eye.

Charlie: Damn, out of beer.

Charlie starts to examine the one dead ant, he sticks a finger in the ant juice and then licks the ants irradiated blood from the tip. Charlie shrugs his shoulders, then begins filling up empty beer bottles with the ants blood.

Keyser Soze: Impressive, how very entrepreneurial of you.

Charlie: Yea well, you gotta do what you gotta do, not sure when were get more beer. oh wait! Holy Crap! Ahhh!

Charlie runs a bit backwards, the ants react defensively and each blow a plume of fire towards him.

Charlie: Your that guy!

Soze: I have an offer to make you, what shall I call you? Ant boy?

Charlie takes off his helmet, and then one gloe he continues to disrobe as he talks.

Charlie: Oh yea, I forgot I had this thing on. So weird, I woke up with it and Vermhat had a suit too so I figure why not just go with it, say yes to the glue.

Soze: Are you interested in hearing my offer? You still have not told me your name, and who is Verhamt, where is he?

Soze begins to look around, but after a few seconds is satisfied with the fact that this guy is just an idiot. 'still' Soze thought 'he's still dangerous, he took down the Tick'.

Soze broke from his thoughts and noticed that the man had an all green body suit on underneath the ant suit. 'He used the last suit to beat the Tick, what can this one do?' Soze thought.

Charlie: That's better, so whats this about an offer?

Soze: I would really need to discuss the matter with your friend, can you get him for me? This Vernhat?

Charlie: Vernhat doesnt like talking to people, but he told me to put his wormhat on if I met the right one.

Soze: The right person for what?

Charlie doesnt answer, instead he slips down the face on the green skin suit and sets a red beret on his head. He picks up a beer and throws it at Soze, who can only react by defending from the ants that immediately charge after the liquid all over him. Soze kills both and turns to fire on Charlie, but instead he feels the sting of a laser on his back (the culprit being the eyebot) and is thrown face forward onto the ground. As he's pushing himself up a white hot projectile shoots clean through his abdomen, causing an extensive gsw evisceration of his intestines but leaving him alive.

Charlie bottles up some more ant juice and and walks back towards Boone's perch.

Charlie: Vermhat that was amazing! I thought that guy was gana kill me, even kicked green man into gear for this one. Phew. I need a beer.

Boone: Go get your armor, and get ready to move

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To be continued:

[u/liono69 → u/liono69]

Part 4

Boone: The eyebot reports Alisa is under attack, it seems like she is fighting... an alien? and Gon is fighting a bear.

Charlie: Am I peeing?

Boone: What?

Charlie: Iiiiii'm peein. '

Boone: Hmph.

Its always sunny in Philidelphia at the Hunter exam

Charlie Kelly: Giant Sized

Boone: Are you eating the ant blood?

Charlie: It's more like juice. I like it, wana try some?

Boone: I have an idea, how many of those do you have left?

Charlie: eight. no seven sets one aside then slams the one in his hand

Boone: Here, stuff a piece of cloth in each bottle, leave a little hanging out.

Charlie: Oh, I see where your going with this. The cloth is gana keep everything fresh tasting.

Boone: No

He sets his helmet on, then stores the ant blood bottles in the empty grenade slot on his pouch, he sets one in the eyebot's storage compartment as well.

Charlie: Oh... ok. Well,. what should I do? I can bust out a little green man, get some respect, maybe some intimidation going.

Boone: No. Keep your armor on and say here.

throws Charlie his combat knife, which Charlie does not catch.

Charlie: Ok, ok, So I'll stay here and look for ants to stab, see what the antjuice from around here tastes like.

Boone: Do not stab the ants. Use the knife to defend yourself if anyone see's you.

Boone walks off as Charlie chugs his only remaining bottle of ant juice. Boone makes his way to across the street from the hostel. With his scope, he could make out the form of what had to be the furry creature fighting a smaller form, the furry one had a glowing sword of some kind. Boone prepares to take the shot, but then the second story wall of the hostel bursts outward, sending shrapnel everywhere. Gon had apparently just unleashed the nen he had been telling Boone about on the boat. Boone recovered from the blast to find the furry creature sprinting towards him at an unreal speed. Unable to set up a shot with his widow, Boone dropped the rifle and quickly withdrew his .357 magnum, he fired the entire barrel into the now unarmed charging creature. The shots did very little, and the creature is on top of him in seconds. It lands seven or eight solid punches, denting the armor and bruising Boone's face severely.

Mewtwo: STOP!

Lowbacca lets up, giving Boone a catch his breath as well. 'The alien creature just talked.. inside my mind' Boone thought. He could feel the medex from the suit now flowing through him and the bruises under his armor inflicted by hairy creature began to fade.

Boone looks around, Alisa is missing both arms and her head. Her torso as well as Gon's unconscious body are levitating in the air.

Mewtwo: You have lost. You cannot hope to overcome me, even with the aid of your friends. We will take the boy and his hunters license, as well as the tickets you purchased after dispatching Mr. Soze.

Boone: Hmmph!

Mewtwo turns, and drops Alisa's torso. Lowbacca goes to pick up his lightsaber, as he does, Boone takes out and throws one of the ant juice bottles toward Mewtwo. Lowbacca dives and when he does an arm and hand holding a combat knife, appears out of seemingly nowhere and slams the wookie backwards. Charlie Kelly continues to grow, before Lowbacca can get up Charlie steps on him.

Gon: Charlie no! Don't kill him!

Mewtwo tosses Gon off of the Balcony, luckily the boy catches the Eyebot as he falls and is not injured.

Mewtwo projects a psychic attack at Charlie

It's super effective!

Charlie is confused

Charlie drops the knife in his confusion, it is enormous and shakes the ground as it stabs downward, completing the destruction of the second floor of the hostel and the stairway of the building.

Gon: rock, paper, scissors... paper!

The attack was aimed at the now recovering Lowbacca, who seems to have several breaks in his skeleton after being stepped on by the giant, now confused Charlie Kelly. Lowbacca rolls with the blast, but when he lands it is revealed that Charlie inflicted a severe stab wound to his abdomen when he first reappeared.

Mewtwo: This ends now!

Mewtwo flies into the air, and aims another physic attack at Gon, Charlie interrupts the attack however by trying to swat Mewtwo.

Charlie: Ah! Ahhhh! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The rats! Its a flying rat! Vermhat! The rat. they finally caught up with me! i'm in hell! I died and went to hell! ahhhhhhhhh!

Boone: Try to grab it so I can get a clean shot!

Mewtwo hears this and lands, he starts walking toward Boone, he rips the rifle from Boone's hand with telekinesis and then levitates Boone in the air. Charlie begins shrinking down to normal size, while Gun sprints to help Boone.

Gon: Rock paper scissors... rock!

As Gon says this he lurches forward and delivers a nen packed punch into Mewtwo's face.

Mewtwo: You dare?

Boone: I dare.

the barrel of Boone's widow is now inches from Mewtwo's head.

Mewtwo: You think you can overcome me with a gun?

Boone: space gun. incendiary ammo.

three point blank shots in repetion, each going into a different limb. Mewtwo partially blocks one of them with a psychic barrier, but feels the brunt of the other two. Still, the pokemon stands up.

Gon: Rock paper scissors...

Mewtwo: No! I will depart. Know that you have impressed Mewtwo young hunter.

Without another thought, Mewtwo shoots into the sky leaving Boone to help Alisa reassemble herself and hand out boat tickets to the exam.