Break The Haughty

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(February 1st, early evening. Closed to myself, Dr. Insano, Black Lantern Spoony, and the Fabrication Machine until otherwise stated. Sorry about the time skip.)

The dragon’s ebony spine brushed against a cloud, causing her to shiver with delight. As she inhaled the fresh air, a single word repeated itself in her mind.

Freedom.
Maleficent hadn’t been in this form for pleasure since her death, and while she didn’t know for sure how long it had been, it felt like a century. The beast within craved the open sky, the chance to stretch her wings and be free of the troubles plaguing her allies. The events of the war – particularly Patch’s capture and Diablo’s sudden return – and her brush with the sickness had delayed this excursion for some time, but now everything had been set back in order. Well, almost everything – her mystery illness was still present, but it was weaker now than it had been before, so she wasn’t worried. Besides, she had never been seriously ill before.

Growing slightly tired now, Maleficent landed in the forest close to the Nostalgia Residence and moved to an area covered by a canopy of leaves tall enough to shelter her larger form. While waiting to catch her breath, she looked around, admiring the beauty the evening had given the forest. She would have to bring Diablo along with her tomorrow.

[Black Lantern Spoony]

A powerful dragon eh? Well let's see if she can deal with a powerful lantern

Black Lantern Spoony waited for a moment of revenge like this. The Critic's team had cost him a failure of not protecting his beloved Goggles and for that, they would not be forgiven. Dr. Insano had asked him to help damage, capture or kill the heroes. As the lantern walked carefully behind the dragon, Insano was near him with a special invention he was dying to try out. Insano gave a pointing signal as if to get ready and he activated his silent weapon, waiting for the right chance

BLS however was far less patient. He aimed his ring at a specific part of the dragon's wings, to make sure she wouldn't simply escape and gave a look to Insano which screamed out "I will shoot even if you won't allow me" and blasted the wings.

Insano glared at the lantern but blasted the other wing

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The Fabrication Machine was scouring the woodlands for spare mechanical parts. The pickings were slim in the organic wood, but it was pretty much the only place he could go where he wouldn't alert human citizens of his presence. The Machine could be gentle if he wanted and left no broken trees in his wake - only a mark left in the snow from his dragging tail. His long limbs almost made him look like a tree from a large distance. The Machine could hide like this from time to time if he wanted to rest.

His breif sleep was disturbed by the sound of something landing. It sounded even bigger than himself, but likely not heavier. The Machine's eye shot open and his lefted his head like a preditor that had smelled something. The eye was steady as he focused on the coal-colored reptile in the distance. He instantly decided he would eliminate the threat. The Machine was completely still. Only a breif spark illuminated his head as he saw two energy blasts strike the dragon's wings.

Without hesitation, the hulking mass of iorn pulled back and threw his body foreword, ramming into the trees and ripping their roots. The Machine plowed his claws into the snow and brought himself to a stop, making the ground rattle from his sheer weight. The head of the Machine became ingulfed with white-hot electristy and a mechanized roar rose from his speakers. He beat an arm against the ground, like a bull scuffing the ground before it charged.

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In an instant, the peace was shattered.

Four unexpected bursts of pain tore through Maleficent’s reptilian body, making her roar in agony. Her massive head swung around to see what had happened to her and found that her precious wings had been blasted. Large holes had appeared in the webbing, tattering it and making flight next to impossible.

Gold eyes narrowed as fury set in. Who dared come onto her territory? She whirled to face her attackers and felt those same eyes widen in surprise.

Three of Ask ThatGuy’s warriors stood before her. The humans, Dr. Insano and Black Lantern Spoony, they were called, were of little concern to her – she had conquered humans before. The metal monstrosity was the thing that caught and held her attention. It was as large as her – an impressive feat in and of itself – with a single, red eye. The sight of it caused the slightest bit of unease to creep over Maleficent.

“You poor fools,” she growled, trying to brush this aside. “You have made a fatal mistake.”

In a matter of seconds, green flames had begun to burn, each one aimed at her attackers.

[Black Lantern Spoony]

"This is going to be fun" BLS responded to himself as the flames came around the entire setting of the woods. Dr. Insano though dodged as good as he could and aimed his gun again, blasting the wings non-stop. He would get the other parts eventually. BLS however grinned as she was so distracted her neck was possibly able for the open. BLS aimed and fired his ring

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The Machine felt heat hit his eye and pulled his head back in, hissing. Some flames weren't going to damage him outside, but he was just being careful of overheating the processor in his head - that was how he reminded dieing. Drawing up to arms on his thorax to sheild his head, the Machine contined to drag himself foreword. Once it appeared the flames subsided, he pulled his arms away, electrical dicharge crackling around his eye.

Wasn't there a saying the human-beings used? Fight fire with fire?

He drew foreword one of the two of his unquie appendages, what looked to be a built in flame-thrower, a welding tool. If he had some gasoline around, he could further enhanse the effects, but he would have to make due with his natural power. The Machine set the flames to their highest intensity and let them blow out from the nozzle. An orange-and-red ball of flame emitted from the Machine's welding limb. He aimed high, looking to take out her eyes, as had nearly happened to him. One his flames subsided, he drew that arm away and leaned back to jump again.

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Maleficent’s elongated throat rattled with a reptilian hiss as she tried to hide her shock. How could this be? Her fire hardly seemed to have hurt them at all!

The sickness, she thought, dread filling her at last. The sickness must have weakened my magic.

More attacks were coming. While she just managed to fold her crippled wings against her back to prevent them from being damaged further, her neck wasn’t so lucky – the blast from Black Lantern Spoony’s ring hit the base of it, about where her collarbone would have been if she was still in her human form. For a moment, the pain was great enough to make her recoil, but she quickly straightened up and shot more flames from her mouth. Illness or no illness, she would not allow herself to be defeated.

But Maleficent had forgotten about the Fabrication Machine, a mistake that could cost her dearly. The fireball seemed to come out of nowhere, and before she could try to move away, it struck her face, landing mere centimeters from her right eye. Though the tough black scales were able to smother the flames, several peeled away on impact, and she screamed, blindly lashing out at them with her powerful tail.

[Black Lantern Spoony]

Black Lantern Spoony smirked. Good. The so-called mistress of ALL evil, was blindly lashing out. BLS couldn't help but loose slight intimidation from the patheticness of it all. He observed that there had to be one more place to aim so she stayed AWAY from the battles ahead for sometime. He then noticed that her wings were still able to fly, maybe just one more shot would force her to run? BLS aimed at the already damaged wing and blasted it all over again
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"Ah science. What a perfect counterpart of magic" Insano evilly sneered as he saw Maleficent go down. He was fortunate enough to dodge the tail that was trying to beat them down. He would make sure to destroy the creature or at least injure her enough to be out of their hair for a while. He aimed the gun at her tail, blasting it as much as he could

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The beast of metal started to jump again but his processor was smacked with the tail, causing all the energy from his jump to be redirected away. The Machine fumbled to one side, the cyclops head still turned away from the hit. A low grumble came from the monster's speakers. After slamming his claws into the snow again, the Fabrication Machine whipped his head around, a trial of white sparkles following. His shutter squeezed shut as he shook his head great head quickly to subdue the lingering effects of the hit.

Red light emmited from the friece machine's optic and he let out a gutteral, drone. The Machine's tail pushed into the ground and he lifted his upper body into the air, like a bear standing on its hind legs. The spider-line monster splayed six arms on his front and tilted his head at the black dragon. One limb lifted up above the rest and at its end was a massive cricular saw - with all the bone-cutting power of a surgical tool. The teeth of the blade began spinning.

With a mechanized bellow, the Machine swung the cutting saw out toward the dragon's flank. He poised his other arms to defend himself.

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Amid repeated blasts to her body – including her tail, which cost her a few more scales – a sudden burst of pain in a particular region made itself known. Smoke floated up from the dragon’s back, causing golden eyes to widen.

Her wings, her wings!

They must have come unfurled while she was attacking, and now they were being blasted to bits! With a low cry of pain, Maleficent twisted her head around to look for herself. The delicate webbing had been shot full of so many holes there were barely any left, leaving charred edges in their wake. It would take weeks to heal, if she was lucky.

Upsetting though this was, Maleficent had other things to worry about. Namely the fact that the Fabrication Machine was sawing at her flank. Dark blood spilled from the fresh wound, staining black scales red.

Agony. Maleficent aimed another blast of fire at her opponents and turned her attention to the throbbing laceration, running her forked tongue over it as quickly as she could. Though she forced herself to be silent (she would not give them the satisfaction of knowing how badly they had injured her), in her mind she cursed Ma-Ti and their deal, cursed the brief but devastating illness, cursed everything that was preventing her from achieving the victory that under normal circumstances would come easily.

She was brought back to her current situation quickly, and her eyes narrowed. Although she hated to admit it, even to herself, Maleficent knew she couldn’t stand much more of this. She would have to get away, quickly, if she wanted to come away from this battle at all.

Pulling herself to her full height (although doing so made her entire body ache and agitated the cut on her flank), she prepared herself to deliver a final assault.

(OOC: I just need you two to blast her at or near the heart, please)

[Black Lantern Spoony]

"Oh no you don't. Tell your precious Nostalgia Critic, this is what happens when you mess with our leader" BLS snapped. Seeing that maleficent was trying to escape and was successfully getting more and more injured. He called to Insano "Fire your weapons doctor!" BLS then saw her chest, wide open and ready for attack. He snarled with a pleased notion and blasted right at it
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Insano, despite himself, didn't snap back at BLS and simply aimed near Maleficent's sides. While BLS blasted at her heart area, he felt that the fabrication machine could handle more damage with BLS' magic. Insano looked up seeing that the pain was so unbearable for the dragon, she wouldn't speak and didn't. He smirked, glad the sneak attack was working

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The great machine removed the blood-coated saw from the monster's body. He continue to remain leaning upright. He admired the flesh-and-blood creature's bravery and hardiness. If it were a machine, he would have consitered making allies. The Fabrication Machine turned his eye toward the two humans, blinking once and shrinking his shutters. He could have handled this himself. White sparks signified his displeasure and he swung his round head back at the dragon and saw it rearing up. His dull and powerful claws splayed as he readied to catch any phyisical retailiation that may occur. Something instead wounded the black reptilian.

The Machine hissed and dropped back lower to the ground, making a great thud under his weight. Long arms gripped the ground and began to balance the metal beast as he powled to the side, waiting for an opportunity to deliver his brute strength onto the creature. The humans might be able to weaken the black animal with unnatural abilities, but the Machine was confidant in his ability to kill with merciless raw power if he needed. He waited for an opportunity to pin the dragon under his weight.

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Two things of note happened in quick succession.

The first was the sudden impact to her chest, close to her heart. Involuntarily, Maleficent let out a pained shriek that echoed throughout the otherwise strangely silent forest. Memories of her defeat at the hands of Phillip and the fairies swirled within her mind, and she felt herself begin to sink to the ground, a thin stream of blood oozing from the new wound.

No! NO! This couldn’t be happening again! She was Maleficent, she was the Mistress of All Evil, she was… exhausted.

It was here she felt herself being pinned to the ground by the Fabrication Machine. Maleficent’s snaps and struggles, while as fierce as she could muster, were merely instinctive by this point – the Machine weighed about the same as her dragon form, but the injuries she had sustained kept her from throwing it off.