PRINCESSES OF POWER! • Is that blood? "If [she] bleeds we can kill [her]!"

Nice move, George, but I don’t think that’s going to do much, either. We can see the ward absorbing the impact. Perhaps Team Annie can overwhelm it if they all strike together? Or Ayilu can break out an illusion to keep Noa occupied while they sneak past, which (no pun intended) is probably the best bet here anyway.

STILL looks like it didn't do anything, although, turning the head is not nothing, really. So, marginal progress there! But also, HELL YEAH nice attack speed there, Parley!! Certainly looks like it packs a wallop, despite Noa's impressive wallop-absorption skills. Also is that stuff by Parley's boot part of her attack, or is that like, a rotational block? I think we're meant to think the former but I'm not sure?? I like how the 'BOOM' itself is cracked, almost as if the shield is shattering the impact of the offense. Well then

I wouldn't so much say it didn't do anything as it was redirected elsewhere. Now as to where that elsewhere is... I suppose we will find out really soon.

You know, I don't think that she's even flesh and blood anymore, just a solid mass of congealed magic.

Why do I have a sinking feeling that the 'crack' in the boom is referring to her knee?

go into the ether. whatever she’s doing probably has a cool visual and i want to see it

The distraction caused by Annie's fireball has allowed Parley to approach, but will there be any effect of her hit at all? Perhaps knocking Noa's glasses off will accomplish something, while it has at least moved her head slightly from the impact. But they're in close-quarters now, so what will happen to Parley? Has she at least provided another distraction for the NEXT attack?

Well their head moved

Now I begin to wonder if she's really there, or just some holographic projection?

Immune to fire AND to blunt force trauma? Well I'm out of ideas.

Physically impervious characters are often weakest to mental or psychic fronts. Someone suggested the blue ex-fairy, perhaps that is the right track. Or maybe just... run around her? (Scarper!)

Should'a brought Jones for this kinda deal.

This won't be won by force.

bip boom her, parley!!!

Just realized they both have hime cuts lol.

Parley is gonna taste a bit of the Worg effect. She is gonna get destroyed.

Trauma as blunt as their fringes.

Well, Parley, it was nice knowing you...

I think I see what's going on here. There's some redirecting rune shenanigans going on here perhaps where all the energy/effects of our unknown opponent is being moved away.

It looks like everything that tries to deal damage to her or impacts or whatever just sort of freeze and turn white- is she siphoning the energy of the impact to feel her symbol?

Wobbuffet!

Yay Parley though that looks just about as effective... perhaps the need to edit her runes...

So focus seems to be a requirement, we shall see if there is a tipping point where Noa starts have some difficulty despite her powers.

We'd really be wondering WTF if we hadn't seen that flashback. Thanks tom!

What's that quote again? "I fear no man, but that thing, it terrifies me."

Parley needs the Soulfire Blade. Just holding it will prevent those telekinetic attacks, and will break any magical shield. Then stick it in Noa’s ‘heart’, and she’sent to Hell where she belongs.

Parley is frkkn hot. ._.

She had to tilt her head! That’s… something!

It looks like Noa is pretty heavily shielded against both Annie's beam weapon as well as Parley's ethereally-enhanced kinetic strike. They need a new attack method that Noa didn't think of when she wrote up her glyphs.

Noa your enemy.

Beast. Earn it indeed.

It's all going into the glyph! The glyph known as Noa...

NIIIIICE! Damn. Nice lettering.

Parley's knee just liquefies into jelly

There goes the kneecap...

Oh, right. This is going to be a case where the frontal assault is impossible and they need to use Aikido, Tai Chi or the art of throwing themselves at the ground but missing in order to use the attackers energy against them. Also, glad Red is not so much worried as just angry about it, lol.

Changing the Vegeta background music to the Cell Torunament one...

Time for Super Saiyan.

Parley has graduated from the Captain Falcon school of Smash

She probably wears the glasses to hide that there's no more human behind her eyes.

nora! nora! nora!

UNLIMITED PAWAAHHH

Ok, but we know she deals with things like that by redirecting them somewhere else. So I want to know where the energy is going!!!

Okay Annie, slag the floor underneath her. Trap her feet in molten rock. Make her into one of those bop-it clowns for kids.

So "stress" (by the physics definition) gets added to her Symbol. Can it be bled off? Or added in the negative?

Are the glasses that strong too? He he I suppose Parley tried this because of a lack of a better move. Otherwise why bother? Anyway, I'm curios what Kat will do :)

You know... I can't help but think that pulling out your team illusionist might be the play here. Like... against a threat that you can not fight, illusions and subterfuge are the key.

Holy crap, Parley launched that attack before the smoke from Annie's attack even disappeared. Insane. Please tell me Parley did not just break her knee... ._.

Took your eye off the ball, Noa

Calling it now- this is Jones. Somehow this is how she starts and she gets sent back to the beginning of time.

If she takes anything you can dish, drop her in pit of sap and GET MOVING. She absorbs energy? Then FREEZE HER. She able to wield the energy she's absorbed? (which we haven't seen, but I'd be surprised otherwise) Then stick her in zero gravity or suspend her in magnets. Non-damaging Status Debuffs people! We want sleep, we want confusion, we want freeze, we want stun, we want petrified, prone, mirrored vision, illusions, WHATEVER! The answer isn't always to punch it harder.

...Shit. She's an energy/damage absorber. All they're doing is making her stronger.

I just now realized Kat is wearing a Goku-style shirt(s). Ready for battle!

hey daisho, her names parley. you should use it.

Two strong GALS wearing their black undersuits and TUNICS

Where's Saitama when you need him? Or Kenshiro? Or Goku? Or Jotaro? Hell, I'd take even Krillin at this point!

See if you can teleport her to Outer Mongolia or something and leave her there.

noa is so badass

also i bet the ending is gonna be like heathers where jack sacrifices himself because he's so damaged and annie should just stick around and make things better and she realizes she likes him a lot but he dies so they cant be together and it'd be like yknow so awesome and cool

UHM. What is this girl, immortal or something?? ????

Go Parley!

That will probably work though.

I hate Jenny and Jack, but man the rest of the witches are so COOL. Jenny is a fraud, but even without Zimmy’s power, Noa was so completely dedicated to her work, to make something bigger than herself. She’s a total psychopath, but at least she’s legit a WITCH. This whole chapter revealing that not only is Jenny nothing without Zimmy’s power, she’s nothing without Noa’s contributions either.

From everything I have seen Noa operates through rituals and runes. Annie needs to examine this from the etheric. Find that one load-bearing thread and *yoink!*

...that's probably just the red magic, darn it. • "Could this be Ayilu's illusion?" That's a good idea, send Ayilu first and see what the target can do to them. • "There goes her knee!" If 14 year old human Teen Titans Robin's knees can survive going into a roof at full force with almost no cushion then a magically enhanced 17-18 year old will be just fine. Probably.

This might be a case for Kat, then! I dunno, reroute her connection to Zimmy or sth, so that it gets ever more exhausting for her to keep up her power level? Or just put the living fear into her by appearing as the machine god?

Love the implication that Annie was fully ready to kill this girl by shooting her right in the stomach

Ohmygod. It's the absorbing man from marvel.

Use coyote’s tooth! I like the idea of melting the ground under her too. Also, what weapon is Civet holding?

I find it very interesting that Noa’s not fighting here. She’s TANKING. She’s absorbing damage and holding attention. Note how everyone on Team Annie has decided that none of them will approach, they’re going to fight one at a time. Noa knows she’s limited, the e site ce of limitations is what broke her in the first place. She’s not trying to fight or win. Dollars to donuts, her actual role here is ‘delay tactics’ for whatever Jenny and/or Jack have up next. It’s to her benefit (well, Jenny’s) if Annie et al consider her a Must Defeat. Because she can make that take a LONG time.