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Oct Event Log - Portal Chaos

The glowing portal shuddered before slamming shut behind them. It had seemed like a good idea at the time... go through the portal in order to close it from the other side. And it had worked! The portal was closed, the school was safe but the heroes who had worked together to close the portal were now trapped on the other side.

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Through the Portal
( Loki, Crowley, Alec, Beetlejuice, Sho )

Silence fell as soon as the portal closed leaving the small group standing in the middle of a crossroads. The ruined archway that ran along the top of the cliffs hinted that there might once have been more of a civilization in this world but now there were only the two pathways, one that ran down the hill into the face of the brilliant red glow that hinted at a flow of magma beyond and one that curved up a hastily cobbled together set of stairs. Of course they were free to stay right where they were as well, here in this craggy passage with the imps peering down at them from every rock and crevasse.

Rescuers
( Aziraphale, Harry, Lena, Eleven, Mal )

With the battle won most begin to relax. There was the wounded to see to and the damage to the school to repair... but gradually the more tuned in students start to notice the missing. Roll calls that were taken but never completed for some were not around to answer to their names. Then one of the injured students comes to and mentions having seen the missing students disappearing through the imp summoning portal. Clearly they were trapped on the other side and it was up to their fellow students to work out a way to bring them back!

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"Holy moly is that fella dense. Should we let nature take its course? I'm thinking we should let nature take its course."

Beetlejuice was frankly impressed at this level of delusion, and was hoping the large demon would use Sho as a toothpick.

He was thin enough to be a toothpick...

But Crowley was less focused on Sho than he was on the place Alec had once been standing. He had confessed recently about his lack of time. A few months and that was it. When Alec had been in hospital he couldn't have foreseen the giant demonic mountain he was about to attack or the whacking great fall he was bound to take... maybe he hadn't had months left, maybe Alec was dead already.

"I never asked him to come..." A harsh whisper gained a touch of heat, fear over what Alec's fate might have been flashed to rage, which was then directed to the only people nearby, "I never asked any of you to come!"

Sightseers in Hell! How could that ever have gone well?!

Crowley's anger began to build. His fury caused the magma to boil more intensely as the fires of Hell to rose up around them. But the mountain demon wasn't sitting still for this. The large demon on the mountain stretched his wings to send those attacking imps raining down around them like hail. Frozen in little balls of ice the imps hit the ground hard, some shattering out of their icy prisons to reach out and swap sides... clambering over which ever unlucky adventurer they happened to land on. Crowley was pulled to the ground by a horde of the creatures before whatever retribution he had been building up to could be unleashed.

Sho's Noise were taking care of most of the imps that fell on or around him. But letting them do that for him would be passive.

And boring.

And not his style.

"INFINITY!!!!!!" He yelled. His original power teamed with the adapted magic of Diatu doubled up as massive energy burst out from the ground behind him. Not only did it fry the imps imp-ressivly, but a bright light was beginning to glow from within his form...

"Look, pal, an open portal is a possibility of getting back home. You're great and all, but, I didn't come just for the charm of your company." Beetlejuice's hair shifted towards red with his annoyance at being yelled at.

Of course, now that there were imps trying to claw, bite, and maim him, conversation would have to wait. The first few imps Beetlejuice kicked towards Sho. The really determined ones that kept coming at him he grabbed and pinned to the ground with extra striped arms that sprung from his back, giving him an arachnid vibe.

The impressively large mountain demon held up his arm to shield his eyes from that horrible white light. It was too bright and entirely out of place in Hell! Sho became his soul focus as he picked up a boulder sitting beside him and chucked it at the annoying firefly like pest.

Meanwhile the imps that had dragged Crowley to the ground soon realized they had made a mistake. Many of their number ended up singed by Sho's light show and those that didn't ended up singed by Crowley's fire magic. Imps with scorched bottoms darted right and left, up over the cliffs and into those dark hidden recesses where they would be safe.

"Home? You actually wanted to come back here?"

That bolder was obliterated as the light surged one final time, hiding Sho at its center. When the light vanished he was... changed.

He howled in triumph. "SO ZETTA LAME!" He proclaimed moving with a flash step like technique, too fast for human eyes to follow, though the others here with him probably could if they put in the effort. Not being human and all. "You think you can subtract me?! DO THE MATH! Because that doesn't add up! I'll erase you, you factoring hectopascal!" And with that he, and a fair number of the odd monsters he summoned... attacked the big mountain demon.

In the school, he was... depressingly weak. But in a UG? This was what he was MADE FOR. Ever since he'd died he'd been getting steadily stronger for one purpose. One goal. Take over the UG and become the new Composer. And no mountain demon or smarmy brat was going to stand in his way this time! Erase or be Erased. He had no plans to survive this if he didn't win. Which meant he was going all out and barreling right at the danger.

Also helped that he naturally had a reckless streak a mile long. Which could explain how he died so young in the first place.

"Here? No--" Beetlejuice paused and snapped his fangs at an imp that got a little too close to his face. "But, a chance to get to the Netherworld is a chance to get back to the Upperworld."

Not that anyone there missed him. But, still. The demands were fewer and the chances of exploding randomly were even less.

He flicked a glance at Sho's transformation. "Do you think that cute headmaster will give us a reward if we come back without him?"

With Sho's attack the battle was officially on. The mountain demon who had been sleeping peacefully before they had arrived wasn't going to go down without a fight either. He roared from grumpy sleep interrupted and summoned up his magic to create a shield of ice between himself and the attacking army. Those small summoned creatures would find themselves corralled by a solid wall of ice while the main counterattack was directed at Sho himself. An ice spear big enough to skewer King Kong was crafted from thin air and launched at the reckless student.

"He's a werewolf?"

Crowley had not seen that one coming! But whatever, with Sho doing the distracting Crowley could gather himself off the ground, try to recollect whatever cool he had left (which he doubted was much at all), and then he just wandered off.

"I don't care about a reward or trying to find the underworld... Getting back to Earth would be fine, wouldn't mind a good movie or speeding down Oxford Street at ninety. I was just trying to get rid of those imps."

So he could find Aziraphale who had been missing since the start of the battle and who had better not be injured! There would be Hell to pay for anyone who had hurt his angel.

"Look there has to be a portal back some where. We couldn't have spent all these centuries tempting those up on the surface without one. Just... start opening doors and looking inside."

With that he took his own advice and started opening doors.

((For if you wanted to see how Sho fights. Spoilers, given he's a boss battle. Also he is using brightly coloured noise this time, not the grey scale ones.This one is actually better for how he fights, but the sound quality is wonky, which is why the other is listed first. Ease of watching. And again... MASSIVE spoilers.))

Sho didn't care what the others were up to, and he wasn't about to stop his battle to help. That would almost be like teamwork. But hey, at least he was diverting the local big bad for them.

"SO ZETTA SLOW!" he yelled as he flash stepped out of the line of fire. Or well, ice. He landed on what was now the upper tip of it and flung out a few more noise before jumping again, aiming to bring his power - and himself - down on the big beastie. "I AM THE TRUE BEAUTY OF THIS UG! I WILL REVERSE ENGINEER MY DREAMS!"

Edited 2021-10-27 07:54 (UTC)

"You've got this big guy!" Beetlejuice cheered the mountain demon on as he opened doors and peered inside.

He shut a door on what appeared to be a pool of sentient darkness that wailed in despair when the light hit it. "That guy? I'm not sure what he is, other than annoying. I'm pretty sure he's a dead guy, has that smell of someone who has been to a Netherworld, but, can't swear to it."

Beetlejuice tried another door, revealing a large amorphous blob that blinked at him with eyes that shifted, appeared, and vanished. "Dad?!" He paused peering again. "Oh. Nope. My bad. You look a lot like his picture. Later, fella."

The little pets Sho tossed at him were like mosquitos, easily smacked aside or crushed on his arms. The mountain demon focused on Sho himself. As the boy flew at him the demon summoned his magic into several thousand smaller ice needles. If one giant spear hadn't done any good than maybe many thousand smaller ones would. The icy needle barrage was unleashed on Sho.

While elsewhere the demons kept searching through doorways.

"They smell?"

The bodies of the dead could smell when they littered a battlefield for too long or weren't refrigerated properly but the thought that the soul of some one who had died might also smell was something that had never occurred to him.

"I've never noticed that. Then I mostly dealt with humans when they were alive."

The residents of his house screamed when their door popped open unexpectedly flew open, leaving Crowley to raise an eyebrow at the goings on in that room, before he fairly quickly shut the door again.

He flash stepped behind the demon, taking his mortal looking form long enough to summon his familiar. "GIVE ME REASON!" he yelled as the fractal falcon flew free of the pin on his shirt to harry the demon and keep it busy as he flash stepped away again and raised his bullhorn at the demon.

The one that served as his wand in Diatu, and as a focus of his in general.

"TIME 2 DIE!" he announced, flash stepping once more before launching a strong attack. "SOH! CAH! TOA!" he yelled as magic slammed into the demon once more.

"The recently deceased have this almost-still-alive kind of smell to 'em. It's cute!" Beetlejuice enthused, the same way a normal person might over a puppy or baby human.

He tilted his head at a door that merely lead to a 1960s protest singer, before flipping the guy off and continuing his search.

Unfortunately this was the sort of demon that lived off of energy in any form, so the magical attack had the exact opposite desired effect. Instead of blasting the demon mountain into particles he used the power of Sho's attack to cause a massive explosion trying to blast Sho into partials instead.

While the mountaintop behind them exploded Crowley opened yet another one of the many house doors... to find an empty room. But this was an empty room that smelled of cigar smoke and the faintest hint of portal magic. Also there was a rather large and suspicious looking mirror on the back wall.

"Right found one. Looks very 'Alice'... we might have to step through the looking glass."

Oddly, this seemed to thrill the reaper. "AN INVERSE MATRIX!!!!" He yelled, as if overjoyed.

He flipped two pin looking things at his familiar as they parted to dodge. They looked... a lot like the noise he created before they expanded out. The next time the demon opened its mouth, the Familiar's job was to launch them on in.

Was he planning to summon Dub Rhino INSIDE the demon? YES. Yes he was. And yes, it is as large as the name implies.

But that was a backup plan. Something for his familiar to see to. Sho himself planned to enjoy the inverse matrix of an energy draining foe. "Time for some negative numbers!"

He dodged away, got into position and then "INVERSE MATRIX!" Instead of blasting with energy his attack aimed to draw from the foe, to drain its energy and health. Well, health being a relative term among the dead and demons.

"Oh, hey! A mirror is great! I've used those before. A great way to stalk the living without being noticed, and a great way to get in in if you're noticed and invited!"

He sniffed around the room in an effort to find a cigar he could swipe, but to no avail.

Indigestion. For some reason having a magical creature summoned inside of him like that gave him the worst sort of indigestion. At least the mountain demon assumed that's what it was as he had never actually had indigestion before. He burped, slammed his fist across his stomach a few times... and thinking he might just grow ill he began to slide his way off the mountaintop.

Crowley meanwhile poked his head back out of the doorway of the house.

"Come on then people! You want to hang around here all day? We've found a way back!"

There was some lovely cigar ash in the ashtray if BJ needed a snack.

Sho landed where the demon had been, cheering his victory. He had no intention of going back. "THIS UG SHAL BE MINE FOR INFINITY!!!!!!"

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