Final Battle vs Vinculum

[Nightmare]

After nearly a month and a half, the Genetic Research Facility comes to a close after an epic final battle with Vinculum, Nexus' father.

This battle was long, and had two phases, so I'm breaking it up into two posts.

Phase 1;

* Nexus approaches Vinculum, followed by Inari and Elna.
<Vinculum> So, Nexus.. My son... Do you fully realize the weight of your action?
<Vinculum> Put down your sword, and come to me. With our research here, we can be joined by your mother and Len, and become a family again.
* Nexus draws Quintessencial and points his blade at Vinculum. "I don't think you fully realize the weight of your own actions."
<Nexus> As much as it pains me to do this, you have to be stopped. And I will put an end to this madness. For mother. For Len. And for the father I lost to insanity all those years ago.
<Elna> Nexus...
<Inari> We're right behind you.
* Vinculum lets out a heavy sigh. "Very well. If that's how you feel... I'll just have to replace you along with the others..."
* Vinculum turns to Inari "Won't you reconsider at least...? You're welcome in our household as well. Just as you've always been."
<Inari> Ha. Don't make me laugh. Len wouldn't want to see you this way. He would want me to see to it that you were stopped. And that's exactly what I intend to do.
* Vinculum shakes his head "A damn shame..."
* Vinculum draws his sword and shield. "If this is how you want it, then so be it. Think of this not as an end to your lives... But as a new beginning. Because I will see to it that each of you are reborn by my side."
* Nexus removes the shield from his back "We'll see about that."
* Inari draws his sword "This is assuming that you can beat me."
* Elna removes an arrow from her quiver and takes aim at Vinculum "I... I won't let you lay a hand on Nexus! I'll stop you myself if i have to!"
* Vinculum dashes at Nexus, Inari, and Elna "I'll try to make this as painless as possible!" he said, stopping right in front of Nexus and powerfully swinging his sword horizontally, aiming to hack off Nexus' head.
* Nexus raises his shield and blocks the hack, skidding back a little from the force of the attack.
* Elna fires an arrow at Vinculum.
* Vinculum raises his shield to block the arrow.
* Inari dashes at Vinculum and stabs at his gut.
* Vinculum steps back to avoid the stab, and brings his sword down to cut off Inari's arm.
* Nexus steps forward and clashes swords with Vinculum to block his attack.
* Elna draws two arrows from her quiver and fires both at Vinculum.
* Vinculum jumps back after Nexus blocked his attack, then knocked the arrows away with his shield.
* Inari jumps back and lands next to Nexus "Thanks for that."
* Nexus removes a few Runic Seals from his pocket "Don't thank me. I wasn't protecting you, I was protecting our chances of winning..."
* Vinculum steps dashes toward Elna, raising his sword.
* Nexus runs to intercept Vinculum "Damnit..!"
* Inari scratches his head, then calls up his whisps.
* Elna takes a few steps back, removing a knife from her skirt and waits for Vinculum to approach.
* Vinculum swings at Elna once he gets close enough, coming down on her with a powerful vertical swing.
* Nexus gets between Vinculum and Elna and blocks the attack with his shield "I don't think so..!" in his other hand, he held several activated Runic Seals, which burned into a ball of energy in his hand. He then thrust it into Vinculum's gut, releasing a powerful burst of wind and electricity.
* Vinculum is thrown back through the air by the force of Nexus' attack "Grr..."
* Nexus looks over his shoulder at Elna "Are you okay?"
* Elna nods "U-umn.. Yes, I'm fine! Don't worry about me!" she dropped the knife and drew another arrow from her quiver.
* Inari stops Vinculum's flight with one finger "Don't forget about me just yet..."
* Inari slams Vinculum into the ground powerfully releasing the force of Vinculum's movement on him.
* Vinculum grunts as he's driven into the ground by Inari, but quickly pulls himself up to a kneel and spins around to leg sweep Inari.
* Inari jumps over the leg sweep "You'll have to try harder than that..." then dropped down, stabbing at Vinculum with his sword.
* Vinculum raises his shield and blocks the stab, then gets up and shoves Inari away with his shield.
* Elna lets the arrow fly at Vinculum's back while he's focusing on Inari.
* Vinculum turns around and hacks the arrow out of the air, to find Nexus following right behind it.
* Nexus stabs at Vinculum with Quintessencial, drawing the gladius from his back with his other hand.
* Vinculum is stabbed by Quintessencial, grunting in pain, but then grabs Nexus' arm with his shielded arm, and brings his sword down at his head.
* Nexus draws his gladius and blocks Vinculum's blade with it, then with his other hand, twists Quintessencial in Vinculum's wound to inflict more damage.
* Vinculum calls out "Gagh! You little brat..." he said, opening his mouth, revealing the runes drawn on his tongue, which lit up as he released a blast of fire at Nexus, point-blank range.
* Nexus is engulfed in the flames, calling out in pain.
* Elna ran toward Nexus and Vinculum, drawing Runic Seals from her belt "Nexus! Hang on!"
* Inari sends his whisps forward to intercept the attack, the whisps pulling the flames off of Nexus "Damnit..."
* Nexus steps back from the flames, his clothes a little charred with some bad burns on his face.
* Nexus falls to a kneel. "Ugh... Damnit..."
* Vinculum approaches Nexus "I'm sorry it had to come to this..." he said raising his sword.
* Elna runs up and kneels next to Nexus "Are you okay?!" she asked, then turned and looked up at Vinculum "Get away from him!"
* Vinculum smirks "Step aside, unless you wish to die as well..."
* Nexus coughs "Elna... Get away..."
* Elna grabbed Nexus "No! Not without you." she said trying to help Nexus to his feet.
* Vinculum brings his sword down at the two of them "Not so fast!"
* Inari gets between Vinculum and the others, blocking Vinculum's swing with his sword "I don't think so.." he then looked over his shoulder at Elna "Move."
* Elna nods "Come on..." she said moving Nexus away.
* Vinculum sneers "Inari... You really do have a death wish, don't you..?"
<Inari> Ha. Maybe I do. But I've got something that takes far higher priority over death that I need to accomplish first, so you're out of luck.
* Vinculum thrusts his blade forward to knock Inari back.
* Inari skids back a little, but lunges forward to stab Vinculum.
* Elna lays Nexus down and activates the seals she had "It's okay... Just hang in there... I'll heal you..." she said, as a white light eminated from her hand, which she placed on Nexus' chest.
* Nexus winces a little "Thank you..."
* Vinculum blocks Inari's stab with his shield "You'll have to try harder, Inari!" he said stepping forward, using his shield to obstruct Inari's movement, and spun around, digging his sword into Inari's side.
* Inari winces in pain "Grr.. You.." he said, grabbing the blade of Vinculum's sword with his hand.
* Elna helps Nexus up, after she's done healing his wounds.
* Nexus grasps his gladius "We have to wrap this up soon..."
* Elna nods "R-Right." she said, taking another seal out of her pocket, then removing another arrow from her quiver.
* Vinculum pulls his blade out of Inari's side, the blade cutting Inari's hand as he jerked it away, then kicked Inari in the chest, knocking him back. "Looks like you'll be dying a little sooner than you had planned..."
* Inari falls back and lands on his side, grasping his wound "Grr... Not like this... Not yet..."
* Vinculum walks up to Inari, raising his sword and flipping it around do an underhanded position, preparing to stab him while he's down.
* Nexus turns his gladius into a chain whip and swings it, the chain wrapping around Vinculum's blade.
* Nexus runs to the side, tugging on the chain, trying to pull Vinculum's weapon away.
* Vinculum firmly holds onto his sword "Such petty attempts to stop me... Have you learned nothing, Nexus...?"
* Elna fires an arrow at Vinculum's foot.
* Vinculum raises his leg, the arrow sticking into the ground where his foot was "Your aim's a little off, young lady..."
* Elna activates a seal on the arrow "Don't speak too soon!" the seal causes ice to spread out from the point where the arrow stuck in the ground, catching his other leg and freezing it to the ground.
<Vinculum> !?
* Nexus powerfully tugs on the chain, ripping Vinculum's sword from his hand.
* Inari raises his hand, causing his whisps to gather over Vinculum's head "Don't count us out just yet..." then thrusts his hand downward, causing the flames he pulled off of Nexus to spray fourth in a torrent of fire at point blank range, right onto Vinculum.
* Vinculum screams in pain, as the flames engulf his body. The fire quickly melts the ice on the floor, so Vinculum stumbles about, flames twisting around his body violently.
* Elna looks away, closing her eyes..
* Inari climbs to his feet.
* Nexus stares as his father burns before his eyes "..."
* Vinculum collapses, the flames dying down from around his body.
* Elna walks over to Nexus "Nexus... Are you okay..?"
* Nexus nods "I'm fine... Don't worry."
* Inari limps over to Nexus and pats him on the back "Good job, bro."
<Nexus> ...

[Nightmare]

Phase 2;

* Vinculum pulls himself up to a kneel "Haa... Y... You...."
<Nexus> !
<Inari> !
<Elna> !
* Vinculum stands up, his shirt was burned almost completely off, revealing chainmail beneath it. his chest was burned badly, from the hot chainmail on him. His pants charred and cape almost completely gone, and severe burns all over his body.
<Inari> Still alive..?!
<Elna> H-How can he still be alive?! That was a direct hit!
* Nexus steps forward, drawing Quintessencial. "..."
<Vinculum> I'm going to make the three of you pay for that... Synth! Meld! Hook!
* Unfortunately for Vinculum... Synth, Meld, and Hook were dead. The others had just finished up their battles with them.
* Crowe walks over, his mace resting on his shoulder victoriously "You need some more durable lackeys... Hehehe..."
* Reiko walks up alongside Nexus and the others "For sure, hun."
* Majeh glances over from where he was kneeling.
* Kuma stares at Vinculum, a new scythe forming in his hand.
* Silver walks up beside nexus in her dragon form, armor and all, with a snarled grin.
* Hyperion walks up "Your friend wasn't so tough. A bit ugly, but not tough."
* Majeh walks over, cracking his knuckles.
* Suprema walked over, "Decently tough, but nothing we couldn't handle." A smirk curled across his face.
* Rion and Exile head over, Rion carrying the chunk of armor that had been torn off.
* Vinculum looks around the room at everyone gathering around him "W-what?! Those stupid useless...!" he growled.
<Inari> I'll reiterate.. The odds aren't in your favor...
* Vinculum calms down, taking a deep breath, closing his eyes, and standing upright. He then laughs a little.
<Vinculum> In your own words, Inari... Don't count me out yet. You haven't beaten me...
<Reiko> I reckon we're about to, though.
* Vinculum laughs "Such insolence... Let me show you a weapon created through the combined efforts of the weapon, animal, and human research departments... Then you will know true power!"
* Vinculum reaches up and rips the eye patch off his face, revealing a strange device in place of his eye, which seems to instantly light up upon removing the eye patch.
* Rion and Exile look at each other, not amused by this bullcrap.
<Rion> He'd better not....
* Silver roars as lightning sparks on the ground beneath her paws.
* Suprema sighed, "Oh wow, a fake eye... What are you gonna do, glare at us to death?"
<Exile> For Pete's sake.....
* Vinculum grasps his head, roaring in pain as the device releases something into his body. His muscles began to buldge, his skin turned a deep red, with ferocious looking scales, his hands got larger, with long claws.
* Elna takes a couple steps back.
<Inari> ...
<Crowe> This just got a whole lot more interesting... Heheh...
<Reiko> Wowie, that's somethin' else. Looks like we're in for more of a fight than I first thought.
* Nexus stares at Vinculum, raising his sword and shield.
<Rion> .....
* Silver 's armor changes in to its blighted form once more, and she lashes her tail back and forth/
* Suprema draws his sword, still retaining his smirk.
<Rion> Please tell me I'm not the only one sick of all these assholes transforming into crap!
* Majeh forms a large axe in his hand and rests it on his shoulder.
* Rion draws his sword as well.
* Vinculum lets out a horrific roar.
* Vinculum leans forward, digging his claws into the ground in front of him.
<Rion> ......
<Rion> So he's a dragon now. Fun...
<Vinculum> THIS LAB WILL BE YOUR GRAVES!
* Vinculum dashes forward at the group.
<Exile> I doubt that...
* Silver takes a few steps forward as blighted electricity consumes her body again, this time both eyes glowing a bright teal.
* Inari steps forward, holding out his hands.
* Vinculum rushes at Inari, but then disappears right before crashing into him.
* Inari looks around "What the!?"
* Nexus glances around the room.
* Suprema blinks, "The hell..?"
* Majeh 's eyes dart around.
* Rion and Exile look around the room, their backs to each other.
* Vinculum reappears behind Crowe and swipes him with his claw, sending him flying through the air, then lunges at Rion and Majeh.
* Crowe goes flying through the air and crashes into the wall, coughing up blood "Heh... Not bad..."
* Majeh spins around and brings his axe down towards Vinculum as he approches.
* Inari quickly turns around to face Vinculum.
* Suprema turns quickly at Vinculum and aims his left hand at him, a cannon forming over it. He fires a beam of ice at him.
* Rion jumps into the air, firing a blast of energy at Vinculum while Exile moved his sword in an attempt to slash at Vinculum as he passes by
* Vinculum lets Exile's slash hit him, the blade not doing much damage to his skin, then stops Majeh's axe with his hand. He opened his mouth and let loose a blast of flames on Majeh, while letting the ice hit him in the back and Rion's blast hit him in the head.
* Majeh holds up his hand to shield his face, then lets go of the axe, spinning around and forming a broadsword to stab at Vunculum's throat.
* Vinculum reaches to the side and grabs Hyperion with his massive hand and uses him as a shield against Majeh's attack.
* Inari rushes at Vinculum, drawing his sword.
* Nexus changes Quintessencial into it's earth form and strikes it against the ground, causing spikes to rip up at Vinculum.
* Majeh stops before he stabs HZ, then leaps up into the air and stabs at the back of Vinculum's head.
* Suprema dashes up behind Vinculum and slashed at his back.
* Vinculum jumps up into the air to avoid the spikes, avoiding Suprema and Majeh's attacks, then throws Hyperion at Exile.
* Elna fires a few electrically enhanced arrows at Vinculum while he's in the air.
* Rion lands, moving forward and aiming a Luminate Burst, firing at Vinculum as he jumps into the air.
* Exile catches Hyperion, skidding back a bit as he sets Hyperion down. "Tough sumbitch, huh?"
* Suprema jumps back, then swung his blade in the direction of Vinculum, letting loose a blade of green chi.
* The arrows just bounce off of Vinculum's skin, while he's struck with Rion and Suprema's blasts and roars in pain.
* Majeh throws his head towards Vinculum as he lets loose a blast of white fire.
* Vinculum dashes through the air at Reiko, Kuma, and Elna, dodging Majeh's attack as he flew.
* Nexus runs up in front of Elna, raising his shield.
* Reiko changes into her dragon form.
* Kuma throws two scythes like buzzsaws at Vinculum.
* Vinculum swings his claws to swat the scythes away, one being knocked away easily, but he hit the other awkwardly, causing it to cut his arm.
* Inari steps in front of Vinculum and catches him before he crashes into the others.
* Vinculum swings his claw at Inari, roaring.
* Inari blocks Vinculum's claw with his other hand, then delivers a powerful punch to Vinculum's gut, sending him flying across the room.
* Vinculum is sent flying back and crashes into the wall, letting out monsterous screams in the process.
<Rion> What a die-hard...
<Suprema> Seriously...
* Majeh flies at Vinculum, changing into his dragon form and trying to smash Vinculum futher into the wall.
* Vinculum leans forward and tries to grab Majeh, to stop him from crashing into him.
* Majeh opens his mouth and lets out a blast of fire at Vinculum, still trying to smash him.
* Vinculum roars, grabbing Majeh and digging his claws into him, trying to throw him aside.
* Crowe approaches, his maul in hand, waiting for a chance to get a shot in at this guy.
* Majeh bites at Vinculum's throat before getting thrown aside.
* Silver comes suddenly from the side of vinculum and aims a blast of what looks like neon green water at him.
* Vinculum 's throat gets torn a little, roars, and charges after Majeh, prepping another fireball in his mouth.
* Suprema swings his sword again, loosing another chi blade at Vinculum.
* Vinculum suddenly turns to fire the blast at Silver instead, hoping to stop her attack.
* Nexus runs toward Vinculum, Quintessencial in it's earth shape still, and slams it into the ground, creating a stone pillar beneath him, which lifts him up and flows in an arc toward Vinculum.
* Crowe jumps up and brings his maul down at Vinculum's head "HAHAHA!"
* Vinculum lets Suprema's attack hit him, causing him to wince in pain, then Crowe hits him in the back, knocking him to a kneel.
* The water is stopped just short of hitting him. Silver jumps up from the ground and rockets towards the ceiling of the room.
* Nexus jumps off the pillar at the last second, letting the stone arch crash into Vinculum.
* Vinculum is slammed into the ground by Nexus' attack.
* Vinculum rips up from the stone pillar, roaring.
* Rion runs toward Vinculum, forming the Prism Force and aiming a powerful uppercut at his chin in an attempt to send him into the air.
* Vinculum is punched by Rion, and sent flying into the air.
* Silver clings to the ceiling, then blasts off of it, blighted electricity trailing behind her, intending to smash vinculum in the ground, and hard.
* Vinculum spins around and grabs hold of Silver as she collides with him, being sent to the ground, but landing on his feet and keeping his hold on Silver, getting shocked by her electricity and roaring in pain.
* Vinculum charges a fireball in his mouth, aimed at Silver.
* Inari appears behind Vinculum, and delivers a punch with the force of Vinculum's last attack toward him, knocking him loose from Silver.
* Vinculum 's attack is interrupted and sent flying through the air. He lands on the ground and fires the attack at Nexus.
* Nexus backs up and raises his shield.
* Suprema dashed at Vinculum, and leaped into the air as he drew close and slashed at his throat.
* Reiko flies by in her dragon form and scoops up Nexus, moving him away from the fireball.
* Majeh returns to human form and charges at Vinculum and throws a naginata at his eye.
* Silver rolls across the ground and flips to her feet with a growl, then sends another blast of green liquid at vinculum.
* Vinculum looked up and swipes at Suprema, knocking him aside, but then Majeh's naginata sticks in his chest, and Silver's attack hits him in the back.
* Rion sends out the blade of his sword at Vinculum, aiming to impale his throat with the blade.
* Reiko sets Nexus down "You okay?"
* Suprema was knocked to the side, slamming into the ground on his back.
* Nexus nods "I"m fine. Thank you."
* Silver then quickly follows up with an electric blast, hoping it would connect.
* Majeh flips into the air and forms a broadsword, stabbing at the top of Vinculum's skull.
* Vinculum roars and catches Rion's blade, then swings him into the path of Silver's attack, before moving his hand up to block Majeh, the broadsword sticking through his hand.
* Vinculum howls in pain, and grabs Majeh in his massive hand, then slams him into the ground.
* Elna changes the tips of her arrows into a drill-bit kind of deal, then attaches seals to them and fires at Vinculum.
* Majeh is slammed into the ground and coughs out blood.
* Suprema leans up, then aims his cannon at Vinculum and fires a large beam of lightning-type energy at him.
* Vinculum uses Majeh as a shield to block Suprema's attack.
* Crowe strikes Vinculum's wrist with his maul, causing him to drop Majeh.
* Majeh lands and forms a giant axe, spinning around and trying to slash at Vinculum's legs.
* Vinculum lets go of Majeh, then strikes Crowe, knocking him across the room.
* Vinculum hops over the axe and kicks at Majeh mid-air.
* The arrows Elna fired then stick into Vinculum's back, and his body begins to get envoloped in ice.
* Silver lands on the ground and smashes a paw down, sending a streamlined wave of electricity right at him.
* Vinculum falls to the ground, the ice spreading over his body from his back.
* Majeh gets knocked back.
* Vinculum is shocked by Silver's attack as he lay on the ground, then jumps up, breaking free from the ice, then charges at Silver.
* Rion is hit by the electric blast, but fortunately his attunement to electricity kept it from doing a lot more damage.... though landing on the ground wasn't so pleasant.
* Suprema stood up and ran at Vinculum again, slashing as he got close, loosing a blade of green chi at close range.
* Reiko lands next to Silver in her dragon form and charges a fire ball in her mouth.
* Silver nods at reiko, and takes a deep breath in..
* Vinculum grunts in pain as Suprema's attack crashes into him.
* Silver then sends a blast of green electricity at vinculum, with teal-colored water spiraling around it.
* Nexus changes Quintessencial to it's water form and sends a torrent of water after Vinculum.
<Rion> O-ow....
* Reiko lets loose a powerful blast of fire with Silver's attack, transforming the attack into an awesome tempest of flames and electricity, the fire only boiling the water, rather than evaporating it.
* Rion pulls himself back up to his feet, before sending a wave of lightning energy at Vinculum.
* Suprema backstepped away from Vinculum after attacking then aiming his cannon and firing a beam of green chi at him.
* Vinculum reaches around and grabs Nexus and turned him as a shield to block Reiko and Silver's attack.
* Inari lets loose his whisps which block Silver and Reiko's attack, absorbing the energy and protecting Nexus.
* Vinculum drops Nexus as he's shot by Suprema.
* Majeh forms his wings and flies above Vinculum, pulling his head back and firing a beam of white fire at Vinculum from above.
* Silver laughs a bit to herself after inari absorbs that attack..
* Nexus slams Quintessencial's earth form onto the ground, causing a stone spike to erupt from the ground below Vinculum.
* Vinculum jumps to avoid the stone spike, flying right through the fire and punching at Majeh.
* Suprema ran in an arc around Vinculum, charging his cannon and searching for a better angle to shoot from.
* Majeh flips around the punch and throws a kick at the back of Vinculum's head.
* Vinculum grabs Majeh's leg and swings him around and prepares to piledrive him.
* Reiko dives through the air and knockes Vinculum off of Majeh.
* Vinculum is sent flying aside and crashes into the ground next to Kuma, and releases a fireball from his mouth at him.
* Majeh roars loudly as he engulfs himself in flames, fliping back and then flying straight at Vinculum and trying to knock him into the wall.
* Silver follows through with her own dive, trying to interupt his attack.
* Kuma swings a scythe through the fire, splitting it in half.
* Elna fires a few more ice arrows at Vinculum.
* Vinculum is struck by Majeh and Silver, and is slammed into the wall behind him.
* Inari sends his whisps, that were glowing bright yellow, so that they're hovering behind Majeh and Silver "Stand back!"
* Silver jumps up on the wall and climbs up it to get away.
* Majeh flips off of Vinculum and flies back.
* Vinculum roars and pulls himself out of the dent in the wall he was lodged in.
* Inari unleashes Silver and Reiko's previous large scale attack from his whisps onto Vinculum at point-blank range.
* A large explosion is formed as the attack crashes into him and rips up the wall, Vinculum's pained roar can be heard echoing over the raging flames and crackling electricity.
* Inari falls to a kneel.
* Silver dives off the wall and makes a not-so-graceful landing behind inari, then jumps to her feet.
* Reiko changes back into her human form.
* Majeh lands next to Silver and breathes heavily.
* Crowe cautiously approaches the others.
* Nexus steps forward, toward the point of the explosion, watching the flames burn.
* Suprema discharges the energy he charged in his cannon, staring intently at the explosion.
* Elna walks up beside Nexus "Is... Is it over...?"
* Silver walks up behind nexus slowly, still in her electrified state, watching him.
* There were no sounds other than the remaining flames crackling at the point of impact... No movements, as everyone cautiously stared at the remnants of the explosion.
* Kuma stared into the flames with his glowing red eyes.
* Nexus stepped closer, staring at the flames. "Your debt has finally been paid... Rest in peace... Father..." he said, as he turned around to face Elna.
<Elna> Nexus...
* Just then, Vinculum burst from the rubble, his body ripped up and badly burnt. He let out a monsterous roar.
* Nexus quickly turned back around.
* Vinculum swiped Nexus across the face with his claw, ripping him up, and sending a horrific blood splatter across the room.
* Silver growls and spreads her wings wide.
* Nexus falls back onto the ground, screaming in pain.
* Majeh threw out both his hands, forming several blades in the air and sending them in a hail at Vinculum.
<Inari> Nexus!
* Vinculum gets hit by the blades Majeh flung at his body, screaming.
<Elna> Nexus, no!
* Suprema aimed his cannon at Vinculum and fired, using whatever energy he had left inside his body.
* Elna knelt beside him.
* Vinculum is hit by Suprema's blast and stumbles forward, then raises his claw at Nexus and Elna.
* Silver roars in utter anger and flings herself at vinculum violently.
* Vinculum is tacked to the ground by Silver.
* Nexus with all of his strength, pulls himself to his feet "Elna..." then turns to Vinculum "Don't you dare touch her!" he said, drawing Quintessencial and raising it over his head underhandedly in both hands.
* Inari pulls Silver off of Vinculum.
* Nexus drives Quintessencial down into Vinculum's heart with all of his might.
* Silver coils behind inari, her eyes taking on a tinge of red for a moment.
* Vinculum flails about, blood coming from every opening in his body, before finally the thrashing stopped, and his body seemed to freeze, before falling limp.
* Nexus rips Quintessencial from Vinculum's body, and stumbles backward, before collapsing.
<Elna> Nexus!
* Elna runs over and kneels beside him, resting his head in her lap. There was blood coming from his face. the whole upper left side of his face was torn up, and it looked like his left eye was badly damaged.
* Crowe walks over and looks down at Nexus. "..."
* Reiko walks over and kneels down next to Nexus "Oh man, this is bad..."
* Silver watches from behind inari, glancing at the body occasionally.
* Inari rests his hand on Silver's neck, watching silently.
* Suprema runs over to Nexus, "Dammit man, Don't die on us, Y'hear."
* The flames from the battle seemed so spread through the building, and various explosions could be heard, which caused the room to shake.
* Silver 's electricty fades off as inari does so. She just stares, in utter shock, panting heavily.
* Exile heads over to Nexus. "Don't worry.. you'll be all right.... RION! GET OVER HERE!" He yells over to Rion.
* Inari looks up as the ceiling begins to crumble. "We need to get out of here..."
* Majeh walks over to Silver, glancing up at the ceiling.
* Crowe picks up Nexus, Elna standing as he does so, reluctant to let him go.
* Silver nods absentmindedly, still staring.
* Reiko puts her hand on Elna's shoulder
* Rion hurries over, surveying the damage done to Nexus, then nodding. "I can do this..." He said, before noticing the explosions. "Start getting out of here, I'll catch up." He says as he holds out his arm, the crystals of the Prism Force forming around his arm. He closed his eyes, the white crystal beginning to glow brightly, as if becoming energy itself, before it condensed and solidified once more....
* The shape of the new crystal would be easily identifiable by anyone in the group... it was an Aura Stone.
<Rion> Here we go.....
* Reiko looks over at Rion "Think you can do that on the move hun? We gotta split."
* Rion looks over at Reiko. "I'll try..." He says, as he places the Aura Stone over Nexus' wounds before helping him up with his other arm. "Feeling better yet?" He asks Nexus as the power of the White Aura Stone begins healing him.
* Nexus moans slightly, not giving much of a real response.
* Elna begins to tear up a little.
<Rion> ....Well, better than nothing. Let's move.
* Kuma closes his eyes and nods.
* Crowe rushes out with the others, carrying Nexus.
* Reiko and Elna follow close behind.
* Suprema follows as well.
* Inari looks to Silver and nods, then heads out.
* Kuma follows after the others.
* Rion begins heading toward the exit, handing Crowe the White Aura Stone as he takes Nexus, before following the others. Exile follows close behind
* Silver stands still for a moment, looking around, then jumps up and flies behind the others.
* Majeh spins around and flies out just behind silver, glancing back at the corpse of Vinculum.
* As the others head out of the facility, they see smoke rising from the mountain the labs were built into, and several explosions, causing rock slides from all over the mountain to cave in on the facility. The Ion Cannon on the top of the mountain was blown to bits, thanks to Tau's intervention earlier.

Tune in for tomarrow's RP for the final conclusions of this arc. =D