[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Keep going after Dandeer, in conjunction with Dandelor. She is as distracted as she is ever going to get. It'll mean getting past your father to do it, but you have the edge in speed; it should be doable.
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] The Senzus can't reach Jaffur right now without turning into collateral damage. Focus on getting him to them for healing.
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Try to get around your father and take down Vegeta before he returns to base form. If you can even the numbers, you can still salvage this.
My dog is a special-needs boy and he needed lots of attention today. So, late to the close, but whatever. Vote closed!
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[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Go for Dandeer's tail, using her as a flail to keep Berra at bay while Dandelor breaks the mind control. No. of Votes: 23
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Try to get around your father and take down Vegeta before he returns to base form. If you can even the numbers, you can still salvage this. No. of Votes: 18
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Keep going after Dandeer, in conjunction with Dandelor. She is as distracted as she is ever going to get. It'll mean getting past your father to do it, but you have the edge in speed; it should be doable. No. of Votes: 14
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] The Senzus can't reach Jaffur right now without turning into collateral damage. Focus on getting him to them for healing. No. of Votes: 13
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Try to break your Father out of his mind control.
--[X] Freeze in mid-air instead of dodging an incoming attack, and drop your Power Level to 80,000,000. Any attack from your father which connects will end you. You knowhe won't do that. No. of Votes: 5
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Raise fingers as if to use Instant Transmission, but actually use it as a decoy for Solar Flare. No. of Votes: 3
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Your father is powerful right now, but also slow. Just try to keep ahead of him, and focus on giving your Grandma fire support. Hopefully your interference will let her take him down quickly, and get her back in the fight. No. of Votes: 1
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Bait Berra into a beam struggle. Give it everything you have. Reflect on your mistakes. Create that need. No. of Votes: 1
None can truly know how much I actually needed The Flail (as it will be known from now on, the legends of it's glory passed down from generation to generation)!
New developments, while the update is in progress: I've threadmarked the Dandeer Negaverse comments as, "Official Compliant," under Apocrypha, and the Jaffur counterpart by @HoratioVonBecker is now Compliant, bonus to Jaffur recovery rolls.
Further updates: I have finished moving to threadmarks all canon, compliant, and non-canon omakes, along with fan art. Canon omakes now sit under, "Sidestory," Compliant and Non-Canon omakes share, "Apocrypha," and Fan Art occupies, "Media." Consequently, I have emptied the old indexes on the Lore Screen.
[X] Fight on. You can still win this.
-[X] Go for Dandeer's tail, using her as a flail to keep Berra at bay while Dandelor breaks the mind control.
Failsafes
After a moment of frenzied calculation, you're no closer to a decision. You need to even the numbers, you need to address Dandeer, you need to leverage Dandelor's skills, you need...so many things! You growl in frustration, head whipping back and forth. From Dandeer, to Vegeta, to Jaffur, to Dandeer, to Dad...to...
Your eyes widen. You settle down and look directly at your father, smirking. "Hey, dad! Watch your tail." You whip your fingers up to your forehead. Deceit [Kakara vs. Berra]: 72 vs. 54. Success.
Dad's eyes widen, and he begins whirling-
vip
-as your fingers wrap around Dandeer's tail.
Already reeling, the sorcerer collapses with a shrill scream, and you barely catch her before she hits the ground. Behind you, you hear your father roaring in fury, and you lift Dandeer by the back of her clothes while maintaining your grip on her tail, whirling to place her in between you and him. He drags himself to a halt mid-charge, snarling at you. He steps to the left, and you shift Dandeer to match. He steps right, and you keep her between you and him.
In your grip, Dandeer sobs. "Please let go it hurts let me go please-"
You shake her a little, scowling. "Shut up. You'll be fine. I can handle it."
She wails, "Please!"
With an annoyed grunt, you tighten your grip. She goes slack, with only trembling to tell you she's still conscious.
"You're hurting her, Kakara," says your father. "Listen to her. This isn't you-"
"How would you know?!" you snap, glaring at him. "You never understood how I think!" You shake Dandeer again. "She'll survive this! It's not permanent, it just really hurts! Trust me, I know! She's not going to die, and she's going to be able to use her tail again. She'll just cry a lot without being able to move. Compared to what she's done, this is nothing!"
He growls under his breath. Then, his eyes slide to the Senzus, dispersed at the other side of the Hall.
tsew
Before he can even contemplate it, you dash forward, around, and into his face, swinging Dandeer at him like a stick. She wails, the noise dopplering through your ears, and your father instinctively flinches back.
"Got something else to be doing?!" you demand, swinging again.
Your father half-raises an arm to block the strike before grimacing and leaning back again. He can't block Dandeer. If he did, she'd be pulped. Exhilaration rushes through your veins; you have him.
Dandelor, now seems like it'd be a good time to try breaking Dandeer's compulsion spell on my father, you send, herding Dad back and away from your more vulnerable allies.
Agreed, says Grandma from up above, voice tight. Yammar is now trying to get past me. You spare her a glance, and see that she's had to close in to keep him at bay. Yammar is slowly pushing her back. She continues, I'd like to get my son back on our side, if you please.
Working on it now, replies Dandelor. Keep them off of me.
You hear him start chanting, and dash in to force your father a little back.
It is the most gloriously weird thing you've ever done in a fight, and it works. Step by step, you drive your father back, exploiting your relative speed and his inability to just take a shot without hurting his objective. He snarls in ever-mounting frustration as time goes on, unable either to break away or circumvent you.
Elsewhere, though, results are more mixed. Yammar appears to be far more capable in hand-to-hand than Grandma, and now that she's had to let him close, he's started to put the hurt on her. She's still holding out, but she's definitely losing now. Meanwhile, Vegeta is rapidly approaching normal size again, and he'll probably get back in the fight soon.
Meanwhile, Jaffur smolders in a corner, still unconscious.
Still, though, you don't have long to contemplate this before Dandelor contact you again. Scion...we have a problem.
You swear under your breath. What is it?
I can crack Dandeer's spell, but there's a failsafe. The spell is designed to fail destructively. When I dispel the mind control its fragments will overload your father's sense of pain. He'll be completely disabled, and in agony. Without spending time or resources we don't have, I can't get around it. Clearly, she wanted to be sure that even if we freed him, we couldn't use him. I can't keep track of everything that's happening. You tell me; do we need this badly enough?
Your eyes widen in shock and horror, and you give Dandeer's tail another squeeze, just because she clearly deserves it.
Your Dad's eyes narrow at you as he darts back from another swing. "What? Got some bad news?"
You glance left, to where Yammar is slowly battering his way past your grandmother. You glance right, to where Vegeta is nearly back to his base form. You glance past your father, to where Jaffur lies, on the floor.
Dandeer is thoroughly disabled, Vegeta is finishing his reversion to normal, Apra has had to close to hand-to-hand to prevent Yammar from assisting Berra in freeing Dandeer and is now losing, Jaffur is still out, Berra is fighting you and completely failing to deal with you, and Dandelor is ready to snap the mind control on your father. Problem is that doing so will put Berra in a living hell of agony thanks to the design of the spell.
Order Dandelor to snap the mind control?
[ ] ...you need to even the numbers. Sorry, Dad. "Dandelor, do it."
-[ ] Vegeta is getting back into base form, which puts him back in the fight. Wielding Dandeer against him like you did to Dad should work just as well, and you can't leave him unaddressed.
-[ ] Yammar is pressuring your grandmother badly right now. If you come in hard and fast, and use Dandeer like you just did against Dad, you can give Grandma an opening to take down Yammar before Vegeta gets back into this.
-[ ] Knock out Dandeer now.
-[ ] The Senzus have a better shot at Jaffur now, but there are still three -- soon to be four -- super saiyans shooting up the place. Use Dandeer as a saiyan shield to cover you while you run to get Jaffur to the Senzus.
[ ] That's a step too far. You can't do that to your own father.
-[ ] Dad's thoroughly on the back foot. If you flash over to Vegeta now to take him down after he reverts to base, but before he goes to super saiyan, maybe Dad won't react in time.
-[ ] You need to keep your focus on Dad, but Vegeta's almost up again. Switch to fighting defensively in anticipation of Vegeta joining the fight.
-[ ] You have seconds of space, and a saiyan shield. Use both, and get Jaffur back in the fight right the hell now.
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Not too much to say, here. I hope you all enjoy the update! It was fun to write!
...instead of breaking the compulsion, could Dandelor change who Berra is protecting? And would it be fast? I mean, we'd wanna break it when we have time, but that's a precious commodity right now...
Alternatively... Could Kakara Mind Delve Berra and share the pain so he remains motive? If she's focusing on keeping Dandeer immobilized as she is, it's fine if she's in pain as long as she's conscious; at worst, she'd grip Dandeer's tail harder.
...instead of breaking the compulsion, could Dandelor change who Berra is protecting? And would it be fast? I mean, we'd wanna break it when we have time, but that's a precious commodity right now...
Alternatively... Could Kakara Mind Delve Berra and share the pain so he remains motive? If she's focusing on keeping Dandeer immobilized as she is, it's fine if she's in pain as long as she's conscious; at worst, she'd grip Dandeer's tail harder.
