22 [Open Post] Cherry Blossoms and Fighting Tournaments, Oh My!

[stillnotretired]

Spring has come to City *****, and the Cherry Blossoms and other spring flowers are in bloom!

The parks and gardens of City ***** are having their Cherry Blossom Festivals, and are hosting Hanami Parties at night as well.

But wait - Something out of the ordinary does seem to be happening, as it so often does in the World Tree System.

A Big Holo Banner is floating right on top of City *****'s City Hall -

Welcome To City *****'s First Fighting Tournament In the World Tree System!

Tournament Entry Fee : 1000 Points

Stadium VR Seat Fees : 1000 Points ~

And we have all kinds of prizes for the Winners, too!

For more info, please see our handy site.

[A holo map is floating beneath the words, showing everybody where the Tournament is supposed to take place.]

[Yes, it's a Reality Wave. Most characters who enter the Tournament as Fighters will be doing so voluntarily, but some characters may find themselves just being teleported into the Combatants's Locker Rooms with a entry ticket, even though they had totally different plans for that day. Some characters may also find themselves being teleported into the Stadium Seats with a seat ticket, even though that wasn't what they'd planned to do, either.]

[The character's personalities and memories will not be affected for this particular Reality Wave. They will also be allowed to use whatever weapons, magic, superpowers and other things they want for the battle (with some limitations). World Tree will supply the things they want (with some limitaions) if they do not have them already on hand.]

[Whether the characters are affected or not by the Reality Waves are all up to their Muns. All the Reality Wave's effects will end in 3 days, or whenever the Muns want them to end.]

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The Tournament

[herebedragons11]

[Mayor Lina Inverse was standing near a very big Stadium with a smile on her face.]

[It was bright and warm, and the very big cherry tree she was standing beneath was full of flowers.]

[And she'd gotten used to making speechs, even before she'd become Mayor, so that part didn't bother her at all.]

[But on the other hand...]

[She looked to the side. A large horde of Incubators were just ambling around, eating the food, or just looking at all the people passing by.]

[And if she wasn't mistaken, those Incubators were from lots of "flocks", not one.]

[Hmmmmmmm???]

[dandeliongirl]

"Lina-sama!" Kotomi smiled and bowed to the Mayor in a greeting, as she brought over bags full of food to bring into the stadium, and sat beside her as an offer to eat if the Mayor wished, "I heard John-san was going to participate in this as well. I wanted to cheer him on for the competition. I wondered if you would be participating as well, Mayor Lina-sama."

But even among the joy and eagerness she had over watching friends of hers compete... she also did notice where Lina's eyes were focused. Incubators, twisted beings that at one point had offered a contract with her.

When Kotomi blinked, she saw the strings of fate pulling each of them, and then shut them. It was like watching instruments rot and burn when she saw them.

Then, by the side of the stadium, she saw a dropship, a UNSC D77-TC Pelican, hovering over a skypad, and slowly descending.

Kotomi leaned to quietly ask, "what are they all doing here?"

[aremadeof11]

[The Incubators, in the meanwhile, had frozen as they were one.]

...That's kind of creepy, Magical Girl. What did you just do?

[An AU Kyubey whose expressions were much more human-like then most of the others muttered, nad then came up to look at Kotomi.]

[And then, the Incubators took a collective breath, and started to move again.]

[And in the meanwhile...]

[Two young handsome men were staring at the tickets in their hands. One of them had white messy looking hair, while the other one's hair was cream-colored. They both had two long braids with shining round hair ornaments.]

...Yanno, Eight? I was almost a 100 percent sure that we'd bought tickets for the Stadium Seats, not to enter the Tournament itself!

[Lina stared at both of them, and blinked slowly. She'd never seen Incubators looking that comfortable in Humanoid guises, she did have to admit.]

[And then, she looked up at the approuching spaceship, and sighed.]

[Yep, even she could feel the lines of Fate and Destiny pulling things along, for better or for worse...]

[dandeliongirl]

Their approach felt like the screech of a pained string.

Kotomi took a single step back and slid out her violin's bow, snapping into self-defense. A kneejerk reaction. A warning to not let them come any closer.

She felt the things they did to a person's fate. It was like a string corroding, becoming decomposed, and turning into a piercing noise, before turning into silence. Kotomi's heart hammered over her chest as she remembered how the Vigil felt, vision tunneled...

There had been versions of herself that had fallen to these monsters.

Kotomi turned to her side, seeing Lina once again -someone that could vaporize them in an instant if they so much as presented a threat to anyone-... and... and Kotomi slowed down her own breathing by force, closed her eyes, breathed deep... breathed out... feeling her heart continue to hammer, but pumping instead towards loose muscles. Her hand kept gripping on her violin's bow.

They moved away. But even among the populace, she still saw some of those strings. She looked at the starport. Some of those strings looked familiar, sounding in a symphony with Master Chief John. But others...

She hadn't felt those before. These ones cut strings with the precision of a surgeon.

Kotomi tugged onto Lina's arm, "could we see Master Chief John, and everyone participating?" She asks, "I know this tournament was organized willingly by most of the heroes. But..."

Some of the people that had taken an interest had become concerning.

"... just to see if they are well."

vehicle combat tournament

[puellamagia]

[There's also a tournament with vehicle combat, if your character battle with a plane,car, tank, mech, whichever!


And this happens to catch the eyes of some certain groups of school girls of various nations whose world have been brought into the Infitiy tree world recently and just recently they got settled in.
Noticably,they notice the part about tank competition.)

Re: vehicle combat tournament

[badassbooksnake]

[James faceplamed.]

[One minute he'd been standing in his flying van, which he'd turned into a flying restaurant for the Tournament, and now, he was in a Locker Room, holding a ticket in his hands.]

[...Oh, and he was also a young woman for now, it seems.]

...I am not at all sure this is better then being turned into a Chihuahua, or a Chihuahua Person, to be honest...

[James groaned.]

[red_devil]

Asuka Langley Soryu slammed her hand against the locker next to James.

"You are still a person, and you should be proud you can still act and fight!" She pointed her finger in accusation towards him, "you are who you choose to be, so stop moping about it!"

She then grinned with a leer, and bent down, "unless you are willing to let me and the Evangelion unit two take the price? In which case, there will not be any problem with it from my part, so long as you allow the best one to win."

[badassbooksnake]

...I am who I chose to be? Realllly?

[Currently Female James groaned.]

- Well, I don't know about you, Young Miss, but for me, trying to be the me I want to be is like...like...

[And then, he thought about this awhile.]

...Hmmmm. That's weird. Since when did I decide that...being me actually was...acceptable?

[James looked around inside his mindspace. Most of his self hatred had now been tossed into boxes and put in a storage room, and his working spaces were now much less cluttered.]

(You didn't seem to be thinking about how worthless you were anymore, well, not as much, anyway, so we put most of that stuff away! That's OK, right?)

[One of the Mini-James inside his mindspace chirped up, snickering.]

[James shrugged, then, and looked up at Asuka - The red haired girl was still a bit taller then him (her?), after all.]

...We should first make sure we know why we've been brought here, don't you think?

[And then, he paused for a bit, and then put his (hers?) hand out.]

- Oh. My name is James Mordecai, and I'm not usually a woman, by the way. And you?

Tank Fight

[aceshighsniper]

A German Sd.Kfz. 171 Panther tank roared as it crossed through the streets of the World Tree, with an irregular peace of mind as it obeyed traffic laws, moved only when allowed to do so, and never went a milimeter above the speed limit.

This is because the one speed maniac inside of the tank screamed bloody murder as her fellow witches bound and gagged her so she had no ability to drive while on a public street. It was that, or a court martial.

It proceeded all the way to the coliseum. Then, it stopped in front of the rest of the vehicles hailing from all sorts of eras, its roaring and movement slowing down as the engine was suddenly killed.

A hatch screeched open, and from it emerged a british girl with sandy hair and a long braid behind her. Wearing a thick jacket, and absolutely no pants.

"Hello! Is this the tank competence area? We were told to be ready for this hour."

Re: Tank Fight

[puellamagia]

( there are already a few other tanks there, including an american Sherman, aBritish Churchhill vii, an ItalianP40, and a Russian t30. The girls of various nationslities manning said tanks are hanging out and mingling. lunette’s arrival earns her friendly waves of greetings, and plenty of stares at the lack of pants)
“ hey there! Yeah, this is it! Welcome!” The American girl with wavy blond hair and a fridly smile, wearing a brown bomber jacket with a lightning bolt and star emblem waved “ you girls ready? Though, uh, seems you forgot something.” She gestured to their bare legs

[aceshighsniper]

Flight Sergeant Lynette Bishop had meticulously read through the Field Manual regarding the multiverse, that some social customs would be different, depending on the outcome. To quote the improvised manual Erica Hartmann got for the rest of the witches:

"You're never sure where you'll end up or even what species you'll be when you get there. It's therefore important to dress accordingly."

She smiled at the view of another Liberian ('American', as another book warned), then nodded... then turned to each of the girls that stare at her as if she had indeed been transformed.

Maybe it had been a transformation? Lynette blinked, glanced down at her body to see if she had changed, but she only saw her black jacket and vest with her shirt and tie. Then she looked down at her long striped socks, and at the part where there was nothing covering her between them and her trousers. Then at the rest of the girls.

Lynette frowned in confusion, and pulled up a worn-out book to read line by line. Apparently, women in most worlds did wear pants. She quickly put the book back down on the hatch, and gently slid her legs a little further less out of embarrassment and more so as not to offend the rest of the girls.

"Ah! I'm sorry for the confusion," Lynette says as she rests her hands over the sides of the tank, "we come from a world where we need our legs bare in order to pilot our engines. We still thought this could be a chance to compete and-- AAAH!"

A red-haired girl smacked her head against Lynette's butt and forced her out of the tank! She emerged from the hatch, gagged with a white cloth around her mouth and ropes binding her hands to her back. Showing a red jacket and a prodigious chest, she shuffled the gag away from her mouth.

"YOU GET TO MEET THE COMPETENCE AND YOU DON'T ALLOW ME TO SHOW OFF MY DRIVING SKILLS!?" Charlotte Yeager grinned far too much for someone that was forcibly tied up. Or that made Lynette slam her face against the plating of the Panther tank.

A blond girl with glasses pushed her out of the hatch! "Charlotte, we were in a public street! It wouldn't have been allowed, and Squadron Leader Sakamoto would not allow you that!" Perrine Clostermann angrily called out.

These were only three of the five witches operating the tank.

Lynette rubbed her nose, "hnnnf... we are ready..."

Swordfighting and Magic

[flowergarden11]

[Utena blinked, slowly, and then looked at Anthy, who was waving a ticket back at her, a soft smile on her face.]

[And then, she looked at the ticket in her own hand.]

...I don't remember either of us entering in this competition at all, but on the other hand...

[Utena said with a smile. Anthy grinned back.]

- I know.

[And then, she looked at the ticket again, and then patted Utena's arm.]

[Utena was now wearing her old high school uniform, which was technically a boy's uniform, not that she looked like a boy at all while she was wearing it, ha ha ha - ]

[And Anthy herself was now wearing a green and white Ohtori High School Girl's Uniform, except is seemed slightly different from what she remembered. Hmmm...]

...I dream of Ohtori sometimes, even now - And most of the time, it's a nightmare, but sometimes, it's just a nice dream, oddly enough.

[Utena nodded.]

- The food was really good, and your rose gardens were beautiful. I also had a good friend there - Wakaba. Do you remember her?

[Anthy nodded.]

- Yes, of course!

[And then, she patted Chuchu, who chuu'd back.]

...And I always had Chuchu, of course.

[Utena and Anthy both held each other's hands, then.

And Ohtori was where I met you.

[They both said in unison, smiling.]

Re: Swordfighting and Magic

[puellamagia]

[Meanwhile Sayaka and Kyouko were on their way to sign up for the fighting tournament themselves!]
"this is gonna be exciting!" [Kyouko said with a smile] "I don't think we've had a chance to show our skills outside of battling darkness crime and training!"
"Right! I'm sure we're strong enough to handle it! " [Sayaka nodded] "but remember, we're not here to show off our anything, our skills are for the sacred duty of being a magical girl!"
"Yeah, that old speech. I know, Sayaka."[Kyouko sniggered and kissed her cheek]

Re: Swordfighting and Magic

[flowergarden11]

[Anthy and Utena smiled as they saw the blue haired girl and the red haired girl.]

...Hello, both of you!

Have you come to enter the Tournament, too?

[Anthy called out.]

- We can already tell you're both pretty powerful Magical Girls already, by the way!

[Utena added with a grin.]

Re: Swordfighting and Magic

[puellamagia]

"Oh, hey there!" [Kyouko waved] "Yeah, we're gonna try out the tournament!"
"How can you tell we're magical girls?" [Sayakaa asked. have they seen them in action around town?? She didn't see the Puella Magia mark on these girls hands. Though she did have to admire the gallant looking beauty the pink haired girl was]

The Game Field Creating Game!

[badassbooksnake]

[Female James groaned.]

[Yes, James was still a woman, and now, he (she) had been suddenly teleported to one of the Arenas.]

Welcome, Valient Warriors!

[James sighed, and then blinked. Wait, what was this?]

[The robot in front of him did look familiar, but on the other hand...]

...Is that you, Robinson?

[His (her) robot bleeped back, looking happy indeed.]

...This makes no sense - You're not really a combat robot at all!

[But then, the AI cleared it's non-existant throat.]

Welcome, Valient Warriors, to the Game Field Creating Game!

[James blinked, and then looked at the Robinson, his (her) eyes narrowing.]

...Ohhhhhh.

[red_devil]

It was Asuka's first time being teleported. Some of the Doctors described the initial feeling of relocation as 'translocation sickness', where Asuka's body would suddenly feel the shift of gravity and atmosphere in a blink. She lurched forward by instincts, looking around and feeling the familiar bodily pressure, smell, and windows of her...

... of her Evangelion Unit 02. She realized the scent was the familiar smell of transparent LCL filling her lungs yet again.

The feeling of safety.

Just outside, the sound amplifiers of the Evangelion, designed around and operated by the beast's own hearing, overheard the cheers around her, the spectators protected by a techno-thaumaturgic barrier from which they could oversee everything happening around her.

This was her place.

This was where she would compete.

Asuka's hands tensed against the triggers of her piloting unit, and lurched the colossal Evangelion forward.

[badassbooksnake]

[A few minutes before Asuka and the Eva-2 were teleported...

[Female James rubbed his (her) face as the AI announcers made their speeches.]

Ladies, Gentlemen and Otherwise! We are about to start - The Game Field Creating Event!

Starring Mr James Mordecai, currently female -

[FemaleJames grroaned at that. Well, it was true, and being physically female wasn't as disorienting as he thought it would be, strangely enough, but - ]

And Miss Asuka Langley Soryu - Ahh, excuse me, where is Miss Soryu?

[James blinked at that, and then snickered. Wait, so his (her) opponent was actually That Annoying Redhead? Ha ha ha!]

[Aand that was when a extremaly large organic-looking red robot was teleported into the Game Field Creating Area, looking very annoyed indeed!]

[James clapped his (her) hands over her ears as it roared - And then, he (she) stared at the robot again, his (her) eyes wide.]

[...Yes, the robot was connected to be big think cord, and that cord was leading into a socket in a square stone on the ground.]

[.......Who the heck had designed anything like this, anyway!?]

[............But no. Considering that organic look, and the definitely organic sounding roaring...]

[Hmmmmmm. Interesting indeed.]

[The AI announcer, in the meanwhile, sounded chipper indeed.]

Ahh, there you are, Miss Soryu!

[Ahh, so the redhead was inside the robot already? Oookay...]

[And then, the AI cleared it's throat.]

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Otherwise - Please let us introduce Miss Asuka Langley Soryu and the 2nd Evangelion Unit-02, also known as "Kyoko"!

1/2

[red_devil]

Kyouko...

It was a story Asuka constantly repeated to others and herself in pride. Alone, terrified, and broken, her mother's hand reached out, pulled her back from the brink, and rained hell over everyone that had tried ending her and the world. And her moment of glory, when they brought all of the mass-series Eva, they took the lances of longinus from the beasts, and destroyed all of their cores -- just as time ran out.

And the moment they tried killing her in her capsule, her mother awoke, and protected her yet again.

She saved the world. But ever since she triumphed years ago, she had desperately craved to continue having a purpose and a reason to wake up, a way to stave off the nightmares. This was the reason she volunteered.

2/2

[red_devil]

The Evangelion Unit 02 lifted her arm along Asuka's in perfect synchrony, a hundred percent movement. Preserving Asuka's mind, allowing her to be well and safe, but moving as one.

The steps the gigantic beast took that shook the ground, were the steps that Asuka felt and motioned by herself. Even the ground beneath the Eva's feet felt just as fresh to her as she prepared, feeling even the umbilical cable connected behind it.

It was then when she noticed the oddity behind James' robot. An independent power source. The Evangelion Unit 01 had one late in its life, that Asuka hated... wishing she could have it. If she won this tournament, she could get one herself.

She opened a communication channel, "even if it is a building contest, I will still perform to the best of my ability. I can move with the Eva as one, so I will not lose this!"

The Tank Duel with the Outers, Kotomi's Friends, and more!

[moondreamteam11]

- Wheee!

[Haruka grinned, driving her Tank over the ground.]

...I never thought I would get to join in a actual Sensha-Do bout!

[Michiru groaned at that.]

- And I never thought I would end up in any kind of Tank at all, to be honest...

[Haruka grinned at that, and reached back to pat Michiru's head.]

...I can't think of a better person to do this with, though - And it's not even a life or death situation this time, oddly enough!

[Michiru sighed at that.]

- Haruka, please stop mussing my hair.

[And then, she smiled.]

Oh, well - I can't let you fight a Tank Match by yourself, I suppose. I mean - What if you lost because you didn't know the rules or something? You would never live that down, after all!

[And then, Michiru leaned over, and hugged Haruka from behind.]

[And in the meanwhile...]

[Hotaru and Setsuna were eating some rice crackers together at the back of the Tank.]

...You know, sometimes I think Haruka-Nee and Michiru-Nee actually forget we exist or something. I mean, we're right in the same room, right?

[Hotaru said, sounding puzzled indeed.]

[Setsuna grinned at that.]

- It's either that, or -

[Hotaru snickered at that.]

...Or?

[And now it was Setsuna's turn to snicker.]

- Or we're supposed to be the audience, maybe? Ha ha ha!

1/2

[aceshighsniper]

The second the Strike Witches allowed their driver to actually drive, their goddamned Panther tank flew over a ramp with a collective scream of the girls inside. One of them tried to write her last will and testament.

The Panther slammed against the ground, not so much parking on its intended spot, but slamming against it in a bullseye.

Its hatch slammed open to Yoshika Miyafuji, looking like a ghost. She stared at Haruka and Michuru on the other end. Theoretically the opponent they should fear.

"Team... Team Strikes Witches is ready..."

2/2

[clannadcrew]

In contrast, the japanese tank that parked close to that of Haruka and Michiru drove more politely, and slowed down until it parked on the precise point in which they were supposed to be.

The hatch opened to reveal Kyou Fujibayashi, "oi," she waved her hand with a smile, "you Usagi's friends? I think we're going to be on the same team. I'm Kyou! Nice to meet you all."

[moondreamteam11]

[Haruka grinned at that, looking utterly charmed as she saw a large amount of attractive girls and women heading their way.]

- Welcome, Team Strike Witches!

[She said, and gave the whole team a wink and a grin.]

[And then, she turned toward the girl with lavender hair.]

...Oh, so you know Usagi-chan? Yes, we're friends with her all right...

[And then, Haruka posed, and gave all the girls and women a bow.]

- My name is Tennou Haruka, and I race cars when I'm not being the captain of the Outers Team!

It's good to meet you, everybody!

[Aand Michiru posed right next to her!]

- Hello everybody - My name is Kaiou Michiru, and I'm a violinist when I'm not involved in driving very large tanks around a gaming field.

It is truly a pleasure to meet you, Ladies!

[Hotaru and Setsuna sweatdropped a bit, wondering how the girls and women in the other Teams would react.]

[Most girls and women seemed to like it when Haruka and Michiru put on a performance like this, but sometimes, the reactions could be...pretty odd, frankly.]

1/2

[aceshighsniper]

"Aaaaaaaah~"

Charlotte, Lynette, and Yoshika all daydreamed as soon as Haruka flirted with their crew, wiggling over the hatch of their tank. Boys were nearly completely absent from the Witches' base, hence why sexuality became flexible for all of them.

Major Sakamoto and Perrine pulled the witches down, and shut the hatch. Their Panther tank still wiggled with the dreamy whines of the girls. To close ears, one would listen to their dialogue muffled from inside the tank.

'Why should we compete against that one? She is cute.' 'We can challenge her so we get a date with her!' 'Focus, everyone!'

Above them, a countdown hovered downwards with triumphant music.

Koto and Juri leaned forward, "get ready, girls! Match begins in five... four... three... two... one..."