#[bringing the spark back! (kul fyra)]

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Happy trans visibility day! And time sure does fly, huh?

Audio by Luke Cordelia on YouTube. The song is 1010’s rock cover!

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I can recommend Cyborgs Vs Robots (By Ludo) as a duet between Sayu and Fyra at Neon J. Either way, Speakers need a little re convincing. Just don't wreck them.

“If you want a duet with her, we’ll have to overpower 1010’s music!”

“Why don’t we kill three birds with one stone? Get 1010 distracted, get more powerful, and get this duet started!!”

Kul Fyra turns to Xiāngsī, and both nod in understanding. Time to show Neon J that they’ve taken his advice.

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Did it work?

There is a flaming tree in the middle of the stage with branches reaching all of the levels. 1010 are slightly taken aback, all glancing at each other in surprise and concern.

“What in the blazes!?”

Xiāngsī takes initiative, controlling the burning branches of her creation to lash out at the bots. Rin, in a panic, rockets up to avoid being caught. Haym and Purl-Hew aren’t so lucky.

“Kul, you’re immune to fire, right? You can help keep the others off Kliff’s back by traveling up an down the tree, I can handle these two!”

“Got it - are you sure you can handle them?”

“For about a minute or so before the fire starts getting to the branches — this means get GOING! Now!!”

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Kul,kliff is Volcano your dog or Someone else’s dog

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DJ-SS is staring up, standing in the shadow of an emerging figure.

They were going to be crushed.

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Poor Kliff...

Does he do well with hugs? I wanna give him one.

“Kliff’s a big fan of hugs.”

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These are the virtual avatars of Neo NSR.

These are made up of primitives — simple 3D shapes — rigged on a basic skeleton. They were then given textures by the data of a scanner, or by hand.

Kliff: His was scanned and customized slightly. It is the most basic in structure and texture. It is lacking in certain degrees (lacking visible material on the middle where certain joints connect) but it’s functional. It’s the smallest model created.

DJ-SS: this was created by him, and modified by a scanner and has a custom texture. It features a slightly opaque picture of NGC 6946, also known as the Fireworks Galaxy on the torso and arms. The gloves are of Kliff’s design.

His skeleton is not like the others. The arms seem to [̷͉͚̩̓̎̈́Ṙ̴̢̨̥͓̭̙͈̰̫̰̭̠̙͒̽̊̓̈́e̸̡̨̛̮̰͕̱̤̲͖̼̬͉̯̪͐̅̀́̒̀͐̑͆̔̚͝ͅd̶̛̛̗̙̭̮͗͆̂͌͗̍a̵̧͕̜̹͈̜̰̞̫̰̼̫͒̉̍͛͑̄̍͜͜͠cte̴̢̟͙̘̺̼̰̟͇̬̙̠̯̳̪̾͂̏̓̽͆̂͐̍̎͠͠d̵̮͙̹͎̙̿͒̅̾́̆̇̊̌̔̊͠]̷̨̢̗̝̠̱͉̳̆̀̍̈́͌̑̌̚ be custom made.

Kul Fyra: She didn’t express interest in creating her own avatar, and the scanner had difficulties picking up her features. DJ-SS and Kliff worked together to create a 3D model of her likeness. It features glowing, effects, renders, and moving textures appearing to look like molten lava or flames. Creative liberties were taken.

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Neo NSR has learned how to work as a group. Their abilities can now be combined on the battlefield!

DJ-SS:

DJ-SS + Kliff: Star Map - Kliff will predict incoming attacks, and DJ-SS can remix them.

• This weakens the enemy’s attack and increases Collab Synergy. Grants extra ammo and energy if remixed successfully.

DJ-SS + Kul Fyra: Solar Flair - DJ-SS will prompt Kul Fyra to play a solo, and will create a literal flaming mix to amplify her power. Kul Fyra will return the excess energy to DJ-SS.

• Kul Fyra’s attack and DJ-SS’s defense increases greatly, and DJ-SS can use his old helmet for Kul Fyra to hit as a projectile for massive damage.

DJ-SS + Nature Duet: Plan(e)t -

[Xiāngsī] DJ-SS will use his turntables to create a holographic solar system, and vines will sprout where the planets are fired.

[Bìng] DJ-SS will use his turntables to create a holographic solar system, and vines will sprout where the planets are placed.

• Enemies that come into contact with the vines will become caught, receive constant damage until freed, and will be open to attack.

Kul Fyra:

Kul Fyra + Kliff: The Rock Era - Kliff uses sparks of the future to ignite the flames of the past that Kul Fyra brings.

• The duo will increase their own energy, increasing everyone’s abilities and temporarily boosting their Synergy. This does not increase Collab Synergy.

Kyl Fyra + DJ-SS: Solar Flair - DJ-SS will prompt Kul Fyra to play a solo, and will create a literal flaming mix to amplify her power. Kul Fyra will return the excess energy to DJ-SS

• Kul Fyra’s attack and DJ-SS’s defense increases greatly, and DJ-SS can use his old helmet for Kul Fyra to hit as a projectile for massive damage.

Kul Fyra + Nature Duet: Forest Fires -

[Xiāngsī] Vines will burst from the stage and Kul Fyra uses a wave of flames to light them all on fire. Xiāngsī can control these vines to attack an enemy out of range.

[Bìng] Vines will burst from the stage and Kul Fyra uses a wave of flames to light them all on fire. Pixies around Bìng will aim the fire at enemies out of range.

• Enemies hit with the flaming vines will receive fire damage over time. Bìng can control the fire, and Xiāngsī can confirm the vines.

Nature Duet:

Nature Duet + Kliff: Butterfae Effect -

A swarm of fae are summoned and latch onto an enemy of choice, making any of their attacks parriable until the fae is called off. Kliff uses his abilities to attack with the force of the former parries.

• No ammo is gained from parrying, but soon as the fae is called off the damage all the ammo would inflict happens instantly. There is no ammo limit.

Nature Duet + Kul Fyra: Forest Fires -

[Xiāngsī] Vines will burst from the stage and Kul Fyra uses a wave of flames to light them all on fire. Xiāngsī can control these vines to attack an enemy out of range.

[Bìng] Vines will burst from the stage and Kul Fyra uses a wave of flames to light them all on fire. Pixies around Bìng will aim the fire at enemies out of range.

• Enemies hit with the flaming vines will receive fire damage over time. Bìng can control the fire, and Xiāngsī can control the vines.

Nature Duet + DJ-SS: Plan(e)t —

[Xiāngsī] DJ-SS will use his turntables to create a holographic solar system, and vines will sprout where the planets are fired.

[Bìng] DJ-SS will use his turntables to create a holographic solar system, and vines will sprout where the planets are placed.

• Enemies that come into contact with the vines will become caught, receive constant damage until freed, and will be open to attack.

Sayu:

Sayu + Kliff: Sea the Song - Sayu can sing up to three powerful verses wherever she is, and a Kliff can delay the powerful voice if need be.

• The verses are held in place and move in the direction Sayu sang when let go by either Kliff choosing to, or losing energy to from holding back. They do damage to any enemies in path of the attack.

Kliff’s ability to delay it can let Sayu sing at an area an enemy may appear or move to without being there.

Sayu + Kul Fyra: Heat Wave - Sayu summons a wave that Kul Fyra will use her flames to bring to a boil. Sayu can control the wave to held her friends and send the scalding water to enemies.

• All allies hit by the wave are healed, all enemies hit by the wave receive damage.

Sayu + DJ-SS: Seastar - DJ-SS can summon stars that Sayu can control with her trident. She can hit enemies, allies, and objects with the sea star and they will receive an effect until the seastar falls off. Sayu can sing to amplify the effect.

• A ranged ability. Any allies given the seastar will be healed. Enemies hit with the sea star will take damage. Objects with the seastar will have a small radius of effect depending on what is closest.

Sayu + Nature Duet: Siren Song - Nature Duet will play with Sayu, making her voice charming enough to any nearby water entity to help.

• Water fae are summoned to protect the group, boosting everyone’s damage or healing. Dolphins may also answer to the call.

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Oh dear this looks bad.

“Pluto are you okay?”

“I think I’m panicking.”

“Oh no. Hey, hey, I’m right here buddy. Look at me, I’m right here. Try and ground yourself. Keep your focus on me.”

“This is a lot to take on; I don’t want to fight again! Why did this have to happen?”

She takes a deep sigh, and presses her head against his.

“I can’t do much but I’ll be here.”

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It’s ok kul just take a break you earned it.

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“What are you doing?”

“I’m practicing playing along to whatever song 1010 might have. It’s pretty easy to work with their songs since — they — well Kliff is right. They do sound the same.”

“And there’s that old rock bias.”

“No, not at all! I don’t know the technical words for everything but they have the same pace, the same tempo. It’s constant too, it doesn’t change. So you could just pick up any part of the song and then— okay, I’ll show you.”

She turns to a radio next to her starting a 1010 song, and starts playing along on her guitar. She smiles, looking at the radio and her guitar.

“It’s easy! Pick up your violin, try it! Pluto, Pluto! Over here!”

Kul Fyra waves at Pluto, catching his attention. He turns as she starts amplifying her performance, changing to the beat with the playing song.

“Can you remix this on the spot a little? We can call it practice!”

“Oh! Uh, sure. This sounds familiar.”

“It’s a 1010 song, so maybe!”

“I used to mix those at the planetarium! Wait, I have an idea, how good at you at improvising?”

“Have you seen me?”

“Fair, fair, let me pull something up and...”

Pluto activates his turntables and pulls up another 1010 song, pulling what parts he thought fit most with the current song. It syncs. Kul Fyra doesn’t hesitate to play along and Xiāngsī joins, supporting.

“That’s what I’m talking about, baby! We should share this — WE SHOULD SHARE THIS!”

“On it!”

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How are you doing neo NSR?

“We were going to legitimately get into the concert but turns out, I’m banned. Kul thinks it’s funny.”

“I tried to give him my hoodie for a disguise but... he’s tiny.”

“Kliff reminded us oh so kindly that we were broke after we tried to buy the tickets. That was evil, Kliff.”

“It wasn’t evil, it was petty. There’s a difference. Besides. We still managed to get to the security system.”

“I threw rocks at security cameras so we wouldn’t be caught. Now I’m throwing rockers at robots. This is fun.”

“I got the last picture.”

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All right rockstars play loud and proud!

“We’ll be loud and proud all right! Hey SAYU! CATCH THIS BEAT!!”

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The planetarium is busy, with people crowded inside. There are several posters of different artists, and most have posters of newer artists plastered on them.

It looks likes it used to be a variety, but the newest posters are uncovered and star one person: DJ Subatomic Supernova.

“Tech: ready. Front door: unguarded. Kul, how are you handing that guitar?”

They’re right in front of the planetarium. Kul Fura is holding an aged guitar with a faded signature.

“She’s gotten a little worn down, but she’ll do. I’d test her but I don’t want to blow anything else up, at least until we get inside.”

“Then let’s go!!”

And with that, Kliff runs right into the planetarium. Kul rushes in on his heels.

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How is everyone?

“I don’t think very well— I’m stressed for sure, but trying to stay optimistic! Which isn’t too easy at the moment—“

“Aaand I’m up, ow, why am I on the floor? Freakin’ — did you just yank me from my desk?”

“Not me! It was Pluto. The coffee, however...”

“Augh, do you have any idea how hard it is to clean my jacket? It’s probably stained now. And my scarf too! OW, mind helping getting the cables off? Just rip off the jacket’s sleeves...”

“How are you?”

“I’m drenched in stale and now dried coffee, my glasses are spotty, I’m emotionally drained, and I have bruises all over. I could use a shower, or three. How long was I out?”

“With me here? A couple of hours.”

Pluto and Kul Fyra run in, and Kul Fyra runs and swoops up Kliff in her arms. He lets out a squeak.

“Kliff! What did you do— oh wow you REEK.”

“The stale coffee smell is Bìng’s fault.”

“Sorry.”

“Mind getting the cables off first? Then we can hug? I think you’re burning the coffee too.”

“What is all of this!?”

“Just a little something. Wanted to experiment with our old equipment we made for Sayu for interacting with the virtual world and may have forgotten to... wake up?”

“You are a genius and an absolute idiot. Tell me how to do that.”

“After I get cleaned up and eat something. I’m starving. What time is it?”

“Uhhh, before it’s before 6 AM so I can’t tell you if it’s early or late.”

“Did you get woken up?”

“The forgot to cherish alarm went off.”

“Are you all okay? I know I must’ve scared you all, sorry about that.”

“I’m fine; I’m glad you’re okay and not-dead or missing. I’m on a bit of an adrenaline high.”

“I was stressed but now I’m very curious about what your little project was.”

“That’s good, that’s good.”

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I’m voting both as well, gotta respect the effort.

“Looks like Neo NSR is winning..”

There are several cheers from the crowd and the group. The Nature Duet turn away.

“Looks like you’ve bested us. Take care of Natura for us—“

“You can join us!”

“Excuse me?”

“We didn’t want to overthrow you, just have you join us. It feels like you could use some friends. I know how that feels.”

“And a break! Besides, we worked great together and the power is what matters, right?”

“And the people.”