NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: Alright. I'm going away on a family vacation for 10 days, so in the meantime, 5CN has control of my characters. Knowing the pace at which this is going, I'm not too worried about missing too much. Just feel free to RP everything in the University over these 10 days, and when I get back, we'll get to the retreat of the villains and the last mission. 5CN, do please Rp my characters fairly, especially in the case of the Legends. Give them a small chance against Xuanyu, at least.

IC: At the Royal University of Atros

As Arashi, Shinji, and Michiko mowed their way through any Spetsnaz who tried to stop them, they stopped, and noticed a new power in the area.

Xuanyu.

They looked at each other, then agreeing without words, rushed back outside to confront Xuanyu.......

OOC: I'm, just going to let Henry sit for a bit. Hope nobody minds if I powermod a bit to keep Jimmy's story going.
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The first man fell under the weight of of Jimmy, and the other two staggered back in suprise at the swift blows being dealt them. He relaxed his leg halfway down, and did a backwards handspring off the terrorist's shoulders, kicking the other two in the face as he did. One more swift punch to the first one, and all three were out cold on the floor. Once again, he picked up his duffel and swiftly made his way out the door, and into the courtyard. And once again he was greeted with what seemed like mass confusion. A huge thunderstorm sprang up, only letting people see between the lightning flashes. Large helicopters sat on one side of the school, with little bands of the tactical squad guarding them, and a strange looking craft sat on the other side. People were running around like mad, shooting here and there, fireballs blazing, blades shining brightly in the flashing lightning. Holy stinkin' crap! It looks like somebody is fighting a full fledged war. Grabbing his camo jacket out of his pack before he slung it over his shoulder, he took cover behind a tree. He knew there was now way he could possibly speed straight through this mess, he would just have to take it slow, be carefull, and be sneaky. Bolting from one tree to another, he made his way from one tree to another. Then, strangely, he found a cell phone, just lying on the ground. Glancing around, he also noticed a guy frustratedly rummaging through a duffel bag. Dang. Just when I thougt I might be able to use it... Running to the tree nearest the guy, and girl he now noticed, he tossed the cellphone at the bag. Drawing his knife as he did so.

"You lose something?"

OOC: Grrr.. It doesn't really make much sense, but it will have to do.

OOC: No, Scots, no! Do NOT destroy the chips!!!

OOC: Bad Scotsnations, bad! Go lay down before I get the rolled up newspaper! :D And my obnoxious side shines brightly once again.

OOC: I said it before. Tala is "Grey". She's an Anti-Heroine. She's on the right side, but sometimes crosses the line. It's mostly the Lycan aggresion. You can't fight instinct. There's a chance that she might bust out and do the dangerous thing. who knows.

IC: Faolan turned to see some punk kid toss the missing phone at the duffel. Lan grabbed it and sneered at the kid. He wasn't in the mood. He needed to find Tala and finish his work. Lin was busy concerning herself with the liquid metal guy. Faolan saw the kid had a knife and he sighed.

'I don't have time for this.',Though Faolan, rolling his eyes.

"Nice knife kid. Thanks for finding my phone. Now why don't you run off and play with your street gang."

Faolan made a move to step past the kid. But he was stopped by the kid. If only he had looked up he would have seen something very interesting.
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Tala sat in the tree above Faolan and this new kid. She had changed back to her natural form and was watching them closely. Neither man noticed her, and she was glad for that. It seemed to her that they were both villans. She'd seen what the kid had done to the guards. She should deal with both off them. But if they destroyed each other, then there would be two less villans to worry about. She waited silently, seeing what was going to happen next.

OOC:Potty, do what you want. Just don't mess with my characters.

Solidifies behind Zell with swords instead of arms and decapitates a few hackers before going gaseous again.

Allan watched as Steve burned the Net... just what he thought would happen.

Steve ran into the University building, and he followed with Jezebel, sweeping bits of rubble out of the way with swipes of the OKTO's arms. They had to find a way to stop that psycho!

He sighted Steve running down the hallway, and reached out an arm, firing a pulse of energy. Steve, however, whipped around a corner with unnatural speed, and the pulse smashed through a wall, scattering rubble everywhere.

"Damn... How are we supposed to stop him if he can dodge everything we throw at him?"

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Lin had learned it was near-impossible to hurt the Blob. He was too fast, and her lightning had no effect on him, the bolts glancing off harmlessly.

It looked at her. It'd probably be smiling if it had a face. "Stop it! That tickles!" it said in a mocking voice. Lin seethed with anger. Then a sound caught her ears. Clanking. Coming their way.

Oh, goody. The Geek is back.

She pointed to the Blob. "I'll deal with you later. Right now I got a squid to squash."

She took off in the direction of the sound.

I hope he's learned how to fight. It'd be a shame to psych myself up for another fight, only to grind his face in the dirt again.

Jimmy looked up at Faolan, his slight figure seemingly dwarfed by the device laden man. Closing the knife with one hand, his body tensed as Faolan got nearer.

Jimmy: It may not be all that nice, but it gets the job done. Just an added precaution, a street gang did teach me never to trust anyone. It just so happens that I am trying to either get out of here fast, or find a job. As we seem to be on speaking terms, if you could help with either, I would gladly accept it. I also suggest that we get any transaction over with quickly, as we seem to be in the midst of a battle zone, and you, I'm sure, have work to do.

Lin had learned it was near-impossible to hurt the Blob. He was too fast, and her lightning had no effect on him, the bolts glancing off harmlessly.

It looked at her. It'd probably be smiling if it had a face. "Stop it! That tickles!" it said in a mocking voice. Lin seethed with anger. Then a sound caught her ears. Clanking. Coming their way.

Oh, goody. The Geek is back.

She pointed to the Blob. "I'll deal with you later. Right now I got a squid to squash."

She took off in the direction of the sound.

(ooc: by blob I assume you mean Mercury? OK, so I'm not allowed to stop them but I can slow them down...)
Deal with me LATER??? The arrogance never failed to amaze him....
While Zell stands cursing that two of the hackers are toast a couple of more goatee'd heads sail through the air in his general direction.
With that he goes gaseous again and follows Lin looking at either side of her head like a ghost. Ooooh goody, something worth watching

Jimmy looked up at Faolan, his slight figure seemingly dwarfed by the device laden man. Closing the knife with one hand, his body tensed as Faolan got nearer.

Jimmy: It may not be all that nice, but it gets the job done. Just an added precaution, a street gang did teach me never to trust anyone. It just so happens that I am trying to either get out of here fast, or find a job. As we seem to be on speaking terms, if you could help with either, I would gladly accept it. I also suggest that we get any transaction over with quickly, as we seem to be in the midst of a battle zone, and you, I'm sure, have work to do.

Faolan gave the kid a once over. He didn't appear to be much, but he might have some sort of skill. He might as well put a word in for the kid. They would probably need more people anyway.

"Look, kid,",Began Faolan.

"Jimmy.", Responded the kid.

"Yeah, right, Jimmy, whatever.",Muttered Faolan. "I'll talk to the higher ups about you and see what they can do. But right now I'm looking for a werewolf. She's about your age with white hair. Now, I'm going to go and if you follow me, you won't have to worry about finding a job. Dead guys don't need jobs."

Faolan tried not to snicker. The kid seemed to be trying to look tough, but he was obviously pissing himself. Faolan didn't blame him. If he was a little punk with a knife he wouldn't want to bump into a guy like himself either.

"I don't need you giving away my location. I want the element of surprise on my side."

Faolan could swear he had just hear a female laugh. He shook his head. 'I need to get more sleep.'

"We'll meet again if you're lucky."

Faolan then turned around and left Jimmy. Thinking that the boy was now alone.
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Tala giggled as she heard Faolan say he wanted the element of surprise. She'd already found him. She leaned up against the tree to make sure he didn't see her. Then he left.

'For a hunter, he really doesn't look does he?',She thought to herself.

She looked down to see that kid around her age was still there. She was almost positive he'd called himself Jimmy. What she was sure of was that he had just asked Faolan if he could join the villan's team. Tala looked to see that she'd lost Faolan. She shrugged. She could always track him down later. It would be much simpler to just take care of this Jimmy kid.

"You know, He should really learn to scan an area fully before leaving.", Commented Tala, making Jimmy look up.

Tala jumped out of the tree with a flip and landed in front of Jimmy who pulled his knife back out. Tala rolled her eyes.

"Would you put that away? I'm not joining to attack you.",Replied Tala in a bored voice.

"I just hopped down to tell you that should you join the villan team, I will have no choice to inflict severe bodily harm on yours. But if you come along with me peacefully, I won't have to kick your butt and I can find you a nice job. See everyone wins. You get a nice job and stay out of the ICU. And I don't have to waste my energy. SO what do you say?"

Tala smiled fangs showing.

OOC:okay Potts you can have your villan do what he wants. You can even use Tala to get a scene finished. But don't go against her character or have Jimmy like kick her butt. Cheap shots and fleeing are cool. Or a long battle whatever.

Lin peeked around a corner. Sure enough, there he was. And he had a girl with him. A girl with a big sword and lots of knives on her... Well, well... this would probably work to her advantage...

She decided against attacking immediately; they had their guards up. Instead, she elected to shadow them for a while and strike when they least expected it.

She disappeared around the corner again.

Jezebel
She thought she saw someone duck around a corner up ahead and listened intetly for breathing. She couldn't hear anything however, with the clatter of Allan's metal limbs.

But that's not his hero name, what was it? Kracker... Krispy... Kankersaur? No no, some kind of mythic monster... Oh, what was it?

"Hey MechaSquid," Allan turned, looking almost hurt. "Sorry, couldn't remember... Before we go charging in I should probably ask: do you have any friends here we should worry about?"

Allan turned to Jezebel.

"Yeah, actually. There's this Japanese kid, calls herself 'Livewire'. I don't know the full extent of what she can do, but I know she can create electromagnetic fields and electric currents. She's a good hand-to-hand fighter, too, so if we do see her here, watch yourself."

He decided to go on foot for a while. It'd make it a little easier to sneak around...

"And it's Kraken."

OOC: I think I have finally decided what would happen. Geez, you had to give him a job offer and confuse the kid, didn't you. :D And, if you don't mind taking the time, I would like a good hand to hand fight, properly roleplayed.

IC:
Jimmy slowly closed the knife and put it back in his pocket as his mind moved at blinding speed, considering all his options. On either hand, there was people he didn't know, and couldn't trust offering a way out of his current situation. Then he realized something, that he couldn't hold an honest job. Not with his history. As soon as he took a job, the Pottsylvainian would be able to track him down and arrest him. Besides, he knew how bad guys worked, and could be prepared to deal with any tricks they could pull.

Jimmy: Well, all things considered, I believe the villians life is much more up my alley. Besides, seems that he could use the help *snorts disgustedly*. But, I would appreciate your trying to do me severe bodily harm. I will need to make sure I'm still at the top of my game to make sure I can get into the bad guy team.

With that, Jimmy fluidly slipped into a low fighting stance, his left side forward, his hands loosely fisted.

OOC: K, Potts you got it. But I think Tala's going to get "out-of-hand", with the hand to hand. She might get dangerous.

IC:Tala smiled at the kid. It wasn't sweet ,but it wasn't mocking. It was dark, predatory. Something about the way she glanced him over resembled a starving wolf staring down an injured deer. This was more Lycan then girl. It was more wolf then Tala. Like this, Tala would probably be unable to control herself. But by this point she wasn't human enough to care.

"Okay kid." Tala spoke growling at each breath. "I tried to offer you a way out. But it looks like you won't accept it. Oh well I need some one to focus my aggression on."

It was with that Tala attacked. Considering her rage you'd think she'd be clumsy, but her movements were swift and clean. Her first punch that connected was hard enough to break the ribs she'd just smashed her fist into. Tala continued to attack, missing until she knew she could get a clean hit in. Jimmy got some shots on her, but they didn't seem to affect her.

IC: And it begins. Faolan is still searching, and James is still on the Hoverbird.

Her first punch that connected was hard enough to break the ribs she'd just smashed her fist into. Tala continued to attack, missing until she knew she could get a clean hit in. Jimmy got some shots on her, but they didn't seem to affect her. OOC: C'mon Thrope, is this the best you can do? I would prefer this fight done move-by-move. In a shortened example, "Tala ducks the punch, and sweeps her leg under Jimmy." "Jimmy jumps straight up in the air, delivering a quick double scissor kick to Tala's face." "One kick glances off her face, but Tala catches the second, using her grip to throw the light figure of Jimmy." etc. etc. etc.. I find that it works better, the fight scenes are more dramatic, and there is less room for pging when you let the other person respond to each seperate move. But that is just me.

IC: Jimmy weaved in and out of the punches, choreographing his moves almost to the point where he looked like he was dancing. His own hits and kicks may not have been often, but almost every one hit where he wanted them to go. Every once in a while, she took him off balance with a glancing blow, or every once in a while, a good connection that would have broken bones except for the titanium alloy lacing. Then, when her nails actually made contact on his face, making two bleeding gouges, he decided that something had to be done. With a tremendously fast kata, he broke through her defenses and landed several hard blows to her head and chest, knocking her back. Quickly flipping back himself, he assumed a more erect fighting stance.

Jimmy: Before you come back for more, I would suggest you get a hold on yourself before doing so. I don't take to cheap shots, like the use of nails kindly.

OOC: And, I think I will just leave Henry suppressing the spetznatz for now.

Having been shadowing Lin already he finds it incredibly amusing that she's shadowing allan and that weird woman.
He floats around the corner and solidifies around the corner from Allan.
Giving him the heads up without being seen or heard by writing with mercury on th floor.
"Livewire. Behind you. Have fun"
He could see Allan's grin reflected in the mercury on the floor. Hell the mercury on the floor was his eyes too. He likes working with Allan and was looking forward to putting Lin out of the picture....

OOC: Alright, I'm now in Korea, looking at this for the first time. Potts, you RP well, I am impressed. Okay, i will allow limited powergaming, but only if both parties have agreed with each other beforehand as to what is to be done next.

That's all for now. Keep up the good work!

OOC: Okay Thrope. Let us get a few things straight. What you just did was called powergaming. Consider this. Jimmy back flipped/handspringed away from you, leaving him a minimum of six feet away from you. Second, Jimmy was in a ready stance, quite prepared for Tala's next move. Thirdly, Jimmy has super reflexes(hint, hint). So, you absolutely cannot assume that your move would hit, even if it were possible. But, should you feel like that playing that way, I am ready to oblige. :headbang: Don't assume Jimmy wouldn't win, his forte is in hand to hand fighting.

IC:
Jimmy's jaw was bleeding from Tala's boot. Now he was mad. And when Tala stood over his sloached figure, gloating, she signed his license to kill. His fist shot up, striking her throat, and crushing her windpipe. Even with super healing powers, she would have a hard time breathing for a long time. As she slumped, gasping, he lept up kicking her twice on the way up, almost as if he were climbing her, then half back flipping, he propelled himself off the tree, both feet planted on her face as she was thrown backwards to the ground, her face making a sickening crunch under the heels of his skater shoes. Grabbing her quickly by one shoulder and and one thigh, his thin muscles flexed and bulged as he bodily picked her up and slammed her over his knee, which would break a normal persons back. Dropping her crumpled body on the ground he leaned over her.

Jimmy: Lycan, sweetie*mocking Tala's own smile*, if you can hear me, I think you lost. Should you ever recover from that, remember something. Don't underestimate the little guy.

With that, Jimmy walked off to find Faolan.

OOC: Okay Thrope, last chance. Either you delete or fix the last post, or this is what you get. And believe me, this is only what Jimmy would do without you having a chance to block the first hit. So, take your pick. I am ready to delete this post as soon as Jimmy can fairly block your moves. I want a realistic, logical, fair fight. And, yes, if you couldn't tell, I'm a bit mad. :headbang:

OOC: I bit difficult is what you're being. Had you just gotten pissed I would have been like, "Oh shoot, I pissed Potts off." But you have to be difficult about it. I was super busy last night so I just did a rush reply. Sorry. I've never done a blow by blow fight. Well, I have but with a really out-lined ending. You and I can't seem to agree so I have a feeling we'll be playing the "Tala hits" "Jimmy jumps away and kicks" "He misses Tala she punches" etc game. So I'm just going to RP this blow for blow with you and pray this goes well.

Starting again from her being knocked down:
IC: Tala laughed up at Jimmy.

"My claws are not nails. I can use my Lycan abilities if I want."

With that Tala shifted her weight the her hands and back flipped into a standing position. She into fighting stance and added,

"And I don't pull cheap shots." She then did the two-fingered "C'mere" sign.

OOC: Okay so show me how it's done. And no more anger from either of us.

OOC: Thanks a lot Thrope, seriously. I tend to be kinda picky about that, just because that is how I learned to RP. It’s alright, I'm sure it will work out now that we have a good idea of what we are doing. And don't worry about rushing things, I have plenty of time.

IC:
Jimmy smirked a bit at Tala's reply.

"Well then, we should get along just dandy."

But now she was up and ready. And waiting for him to make the first move. He kept his stance as he walked slowly forward, approaching cautiously. Then, suddenly, the last step needed to bring him into range was quickly taken, helping to power his right fist steaming towards Tala’s face. As he was doing that, his left leg was also being brought forward, to snap kick her in the side.

OOC: Okay, that is kind of how it works. Notice that I never said that either move hits you. The trick to it is to visualize everything in your head before replying. Sometimes it even helps to draw it on paper, just so you have a visual image. Your post should include you blocking or dodging one or both moves, which should be easy, as it is kind of a one-two deal, and, if you aren't knocked down ar anything, you can throw your own punches/kicks/holds.

OOC: I got it. And it's cool. I get it now.

IC:Tala saw Jimmy's Leg coming toward her side. She grabbed it and pushed him away. But she did not notice his fist coming toward her face.

OOC:I think I get it.

Having been shadowing Lin already he finds it incredibly amusing that she's shadowing allan and that weird woman.
He floats around the corner and solidifies around the corner from Allan.
Giving him the heads up without being seen or heard by writing with mercury on th floor.
"Livewire. Behind you. Have fun"
He could see Allan's grin reflected in the mercury on the floor. Hell the mercury on the floor was his eyes too. He likes working with Allan and was looking forward to putting Lin out of the picture....
Jezebel
Seeing the silver writing, Jezebel drove her sword into the ground between her and the corner.

"Ground," She mouthed to Allan as she drew her silver guns. "Alright, Livewire, come out peacefully now."

Mercury
If he were solid right now he would slap his hand over his face in dismay.
Element of surprise gone, jeez, thanks dumbass
Alan feels the now familiar sensation of liquid mercury flowing up his ankles and solidifying into a suit of shiny armour until he is wearing a mask with eye and mouth holes. The outer shell starts to cool, very quickly to super cool 4 Kelvin at which point he becomes a super conductor on the outside and non conductive on the inside. Touching the ground behind his heels Mercury forms a perfect Earth Rod Armour

OOC: turn based with dice rolls solves a lot, does the hit connect? is a dodge successful? one character's stats v another. GU I can look up the old rules for Marvel and we could all have some fun fitting our characters into them?

OOC: That is a good start, but should you choose to take a hit, it is usually a good idea to describe your reaction. Whether your head bobbles, whether you are knocked over backwards, etc, etc. It helps me to figure out how I am gong to respond. This is where we once again count on honesty. You know the character better than anyone else, and how much it would take to take them out. It is also a good idea to describe how you block. Something like, “Her right hand shot out and caught Jimmy’s kick, shoving it up and away.”. I would also say that since the punch came first, and since it was directly in Tala’s line of sight(it is coming directly at her eyes), that it would be the first priority, but that is totally up to you. Lastly, after you block/dodge/take the hits, you usually have time to throw your own hits. So, feel free to do that. The most important parts of this whole deal is honesty and description.

IC:
Pushed a little off balance by Tala’s shove, Jimmy’s punch grazed by Tala’s head. Planting his left foot on the ground, his right foot came up like a(american) football punter‘s, aiming for Tala‘s jaw.

OOC: Okay, that should be easy enough to sidestep or block, with plenty of time to strike back.

A strange presence glided by Lin as she pressed her back against the wall. Then she heard the footsteps stop.

Dammit! The Blob had probably followed her! He'd just warned them she was there!
So much for the surprise attack... thought Lin as she heard the sword chunk into the floor and two pistols cock as the sound of clanking said the Geek was getting into a stance of some sort...

She heard the girl tell her to come out. An Idea flashed through her head.

She stepped out from around the corner, hands up.

"Alright. You got me. I surrender."
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Allan was now covered with Liquid Metal... it felt nice, really... cool. The OKTO's arms were at the ready when Livewire stepped out.

But something was wrong... he couldn't move them.

OOC: That is a good start, but should you choose to take a hit, it is usually a good idea to describe your reaction. Whether your head bobbles, whether you are knocked over backwards, etc, etc. It helps me to figure out how I am gong to respond. This is where we once again count on honesty. You know the character better than anyone else, and how much it would take to take them out. It is also a good idea to describe how you block. Something like, “Her right hand shot out and caught Jimmy’s kick, shoving it up and away.”. I would also say that since the punch came first, and since it was directly in Tala’s line of sight(it is coming directly at her eyes), that it would be the first priority, but that is totally up to you. Lastly, after you block/dodge/take the hits, you usually have time to throw your own hits. So, feel free to do that. The most important parts of this whole deal is honesty and description.

IC:
Pushed a little off balance by Tala’s shove, Jimmy’s punch grazed by Tala’s head. Planting his left foot on the ground, his right foot came up like a(american) football punter‘s, aiming for Tala‘s jaw.

OOC: Okay, that should be easy enough to sidestep or block, with plenty of time to strike back.

OOC: Okay so I get it now. In that case where I didn't react to you hitting me, it was because I wasn't sure if Jimmy was still balanced enough to hit me. I get it now.

IC: Tala watched as Jimmy's fist grazed by her head. 'Damn', SHe thought leaning back a smidge so it didn't hit her. 'How did I not see that?' Tala then decided to try and keep Jimmy 100% in her sights. She then noticed that his right foot was coming up in a punter's kick. She dodged to the right and stepped up to his side. She then made a move to elbow him hard in the middle of his back with her left arm, hoping he would be knocked on his face.

OOC: Is that right? Still trying to get a hang of it.

Allan was now covered with Liquid Metal... it felt nice, really... cool. The OKTO's arms were at the ready when Livewire stepped out.
But something was wrong... he couldn't move them.
"sup dude?" (ooc: he isn't covering the arms)

Without changing her expression, Lin stretched out a small finger of control. It was foolish of the two to be together. They were both walking piles of metal. Oh, well.
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Allan didn't get a chance to respond. One of the OKTO's free arms suddenly lashed out and struck Jezebel hard in the back, knocking her down the hall, before joining the rest of its siblings and clamping onto the floor.Livewire held up her arms, and several of the knives Jezebel carried flew from their sheaths and whistled through the air, heading for Allan and Merc. Allan tried to move the arms, but Livewire was holding him in place, making him an easy target for the storm of metal flying at them.

"Merc! A little help!"

OOC: You are coming along great Thrope. And thank you, now I get to introduce the topic of great saves and Hong cong movie tricks.

IC:
There weren’t many ways to block or dodge the elbow, but he saw it coming. So, Jimmy caught the blow fully, and fell, but not as expected. He came down into a handspring. Then, he stopped in the middle, balancing in a handstand and lashing out with his feet, helicopter-ing like a break dancer.

OOC: Great.

IC: Tala watched as Jimmy spun his legs around like helocopter propellers. She hadn't seen it coming. She decided it best to Jump away. Unfortunatly, her timimg was off. His legs caught hers while she was in mid-air. She fell on her back and had the wind knocked out of her. It didn't matter how fast you could heal, if you were without oxygen, You can't fight.

OOC: the united trinity is the reason we aren't bothering to look for a cure for Cancer.

For those of you who missed it, some newbie called the united trinity posted 12 paragraphs of the same insult to someone called Myrth over and over again. It has been deleted without a trace. the united trinity has been owned.

OOC: Graz, was there any point that I should be extracting from that last statement, or is it just something I should store as pointless knowledge?

Mercury
The knives bounce off the hard cold metallic shell that is Mercury. While he spread out to control the flailing arms. Thinking... Knives? Against metal... HONESTLY...
Over Allan's face Mercury forms his face (obviously leaving a gap at the sides for him to breathe ;) ) his face looks sarcastic. With an eyebrow raised in a look that quite obviously says "what are you trying to do?" he says in a loud voice that is beginning to sound angry:
"AND???"
He pins four of the arms into the ground to act as stablisers. Now covered in a non magnetic metal (ooc: oh yeah, trust me: Check out the magnetism of Mercury (http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Electricity_and_Magnets/Magnets/20030131082446.htm) )
"You can control Krakken and his OKTO but you can't control me. And as this is now a test of your magnetic powers against my strength in controlling this element let's see how good you are!"
Alan isn't left without control as he starts advancing on Livewire.
He feels his fingers twitch with the move of the legs his 4 fingers on each side for 4 legs on each side, fore finger being topmost leg and so on downwards. Alan realises Mercury has just given him a way of telling him how to move the arms with his fingers like virtual reality gloves...
Mercury covered OKTO legs slamming into the floor and getting extra grip by the Mercury roots that grow into the concrete like drills, retracting before another step.

(OOC: Nice Graz, this is fun. I'd like to see Livewire go dahn, that's down in a cockney accent)

OOC: Nice going, dudes and dudettes. I'm back from Korea, and will reassume control of the RP on the morrow.

(OOC: Potts, I give you permission to file my last post under "useless knowledge".)

Lin tried desperately to push the Blob and "Kraken", as appeared to be the geek's name, back. Her efforts were fruitless.

Then she saw the knives and sword, and looked back to the Girl, who was trying to get back to her feet. She had an idea.

She concentrated, and an intense magnetic field was formed. The knives flew toward her, and even the sword dislodged itself from the floor.

Lin struck the Girl, knocking her to the floor again, and the knives and sword floated over her, points down, as Lin held out a palm toward Kraken.

"Make ONE more move, and I let go!"

Unfortunatly for Jimmy, he was also thrown off balance. His legs practically got tangled up in themselves as he clumsily fell, rolling as best as he could away from Tala. Finally getting himself unknotted, he sprang up, still a little clumsily.
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Henry pretty much had the Spetznatz under control. Making his way carefully to the building entrance, he saw the marks left by the OKTO. He was ready to follow it all the way, when a tear gas container came down the corridor. Dang persistent terrorists. Running to a stairwell, he placed his last explosive on the second story landing and set the detonater for 30 seconds. He then ran down the second floor hallway, looking for another stairway back down. Maybe that will slow the buggers down a bit.

Mercury
The legs not in the floor clang together into two giant loops.
He has had enough.
This freak thinks she an take on all three of them? This is stupid.
Jezebel has no contact with Merury and shouldn't be there in his opinion but she doesn't have to die...
Lin starts to feel the cold as he drops his temperature to the requires 4 degrees Kelvin.
"Kraken, zap me if you would please...."
"What?"
"Zap me."
"But... but I'm in contact with you... I'll be fried too..."
"No you won't, trust me. You're not in contact with conductive material. Just ZAP me!"
"Uhhh OK if you say so..." knowing this might hurt Merc Allan reluctantly fires off the OKTO power blasts into Mercury.
The external power supply into the two leg loops of super cooled mercury starts a powerful electromagnet with attracts the sword and knives long enough for Jezebel to spring to her feet.
The sharp implements of death hover, sparks and lightning bolts discharging between them, spinning between Merc/Allan and Livewire in a deadly lightning charged battle of mid air blender tug-o-war.
Realising his chance, as she is distracted and he doesn't actually have to put any effort into keeping the electromagnetic power flowing as it seems to sustain itself (ooc: yes, again check that magnetismof merury link ;) ) he can quickly work on something else.
Livewire has a fight or flight instinct, yes there are three of them but her confidence in her abilities is stronger. As she stand holding the knives and sword in mid air, Jezebel is weaponless, blob and nerd boy are stuck into the floor and can't move... what to do next?

When Mercury does as he did to Steve. Except this time instead of cuffs and restraining in mind the objects this time are bullets of solid mercury with death in mind. Not cold enough to be magnetised, 20 of them zip off the legs in the floor all aimed at her knees...

Lin knew she was outmatched.

She shifted with a crack of thunder, and fled past them, faster than the eye could see and faster than any bullet could follow. Kraken would not be so lucky next time. She had just appeared at Zell's side, doubled over and panting, when...

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An explosion rocked the building.

Allan looked at Jezebel, and at Merc, who was still all over him, and smirked.

"I know we're friends, Merc, but how about dinner, a movie and us getting the hell outta here first?" (OOC: :p)

Faolan had been searching around for that damn Lycan Girl and had yet to find her. He saw Zell and ran up to him to tell him about that Jimmy kid. He noticed that Lin had just reached Zell side when a explosion rocked the building. He reached them and yelled,

"What the hell was that?"

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Tala finally got her breath back just as that Jimmy kid got to his feet. Tala jumped up. The kid was looking a little disoriented and clumsy. Tala knew this was her shot. If she could get a few solid hit in, she could win. She got into fighting stance and was about to go for a kick when she heard it. An explosion. Tala screamed at the sound. Because of her super-sensitive hearing, the explosion sounded as though it was right next to her. She didn't want to end the fight. But the Sound had slightly damaged her inner ear. She'd probably heal up in a minute, but her balance was off now. It would be foolish to fight.

So, Tala hopped up into the tree. Then yelled down to Jimmy,

"Listen kid, I'm a little bored with this situation. So I'm going to leave. We can finish this up once you learn how to fight."

With that, Tala exited through the trees. No one could see where she went. She made her way toward the Hoverbird. She took a break halfway to ease her head. "Damn ears!"

(OOC: I'll be back...)

Jimmy was only slightly shaken by the explosion, but it was still a relief when Tala tactically retreated. Running in the direction of the building, he saw Faolan, the girl, and several others standing around through a window. Slipping past the ex-spetznatz as best as he could, he came up to the group, wiping some blood from his cheek.

Jimmy: *Directed at Faolan*Hey buddy! I found your werewolf friend, but I was a little busy to come and find you.
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Henry was expecting it, but he was still shaken off his feet. Rolling on his shoulder to soften the impact, he came up with his gun ready. Seeing no one in pursuit, he jumped down the first stairwell he could find, and cautiously made his way out of the building. Seeing Tala making her way back to the Hoverbird, he did his best to take out any ex-spetznatz that got near her, trying to time his shots to punch through multiple soldiers. He was still getting low on ammo though. Geez. I'm not set up to fight a full fledged war.

IC: At the control room of the supercomputer complex

Zell was gritting his teeth. So far, it had not gone well, this mission. Half his spetsnaz troops were gone, and his hacker team had also been decimated as well by the Mercury guy. He knew that it was partly his fault that he had hung back and let the rest do the fighting, but still.......he had to retake control of the situation.

"What's your status??!!", he practically screamed at the hackers

"Almost done, sir, we are at 80%", the head hacker reported.

"Make it fast!", Zell screamed again. Then, to the merceneries,

"Right, you guys. We have a backdoor out of here once we're done, and you are STILL getting pummelled by those asses from the Hero Team. You're lucky the Legends are distracted, otherwise who knows how badly you'll have died! Right, everyone stay here, they're coming this way! Defend this place to the last!"

Then, a soft voice piped up from behind Zell, "I'll handle them. Don't bother yourselves with them."

It was Mira, silent all this while.

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On the roof of the complex

Arashi, Shinji, and Michiko ran up the last flight of stairs up to the rooftop of the complex, to confront what they knew was there: the figure of the supernatural being Xuanyu.

Stepping up to Xuanyu, Arashi demanded, "So we meet again, Xuanyu."

Lin hated Mira with a burning passion. She'd been out there, busting her ass, and Mira had done jack-shit until this dramatic moment had come up!

Lin was dizzy and tired. Her vision began to blur and she struggled to stay upright... she'd overdone it with Kraken and the Blob... she leaned against a wall, wheezing and sweating, and shot Mira a look that oozed with contempt.

"What... the hell... have you been... doing... all this time?"

She couldn't hold on to consciousness anymore. She slid down the wall and hit the floor.

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Allan reached out one of the OKTO's arms toward Jezebel's fallen sword as Merc oozed off of him and went about reabsorbing the "bullets". He activated the mag clamps, and picked up the heavy piece of steel. He looked to Jezebel, who was dusting herself off and sheathing her knives.
He held out the sword, handle first.

"You ok?"

(OOC: DP, sorry about the powermoding back there...)

He laughs at the dinner joke.
Collects the bullets and then goes gas and flies back to where the hackers are getting one head lopped off before standing in a ready to fight stance fists curled, asrms at sides.
He spots Lin on the floor unconsious but barely raises an eyebrow before looking at mira and Zell...
"Awright tosspots. Who wants some?"

IC: Zell was gritting his teeth, ready to swear at the loss of one more hacker, but to his surprise, Mira, who totally ignored Lin's tirade, merely stepped up to face Merc.

"I will accept your challenge, Mercury", she spoke softly, and held up her mirror. As she did so, an image appeared.......a figure materialized out of nowhere, in front of her, and everyone gasped at what she had created. It was Mercury.......but in a darker shade, and with eyes that glowed red with evil. The pseudo-Merc grinned.

"Attack", Mira whispered, her eyes and her mirror glowing.

And with that, "Black Merc" went for the real Merc........

OOC: Right, Mira is going to singlehandedly hold up any Heroes that comes into the control room, understood?

On the roof of the complex

Arashi, Shinji, and Michiko ran up the last flight of stairs up to the rooftop of the complex, to confront what they knew was there: the figure of the supernatural being Xuanyu.

Stepping up to Xuanyu, Arashi demanded, "So we meet again, Xuanyu."

(OOC: Xuanyu is hovering amongst the clouds in the sky...)

"You ok?"

(OOC: DP, sorry about the powermoding back there...)
ooc: Don't worry about it, I've been unable to post for a couple days.
IC:
Jezebel
Jezebel looked up at Alan, her eyes seeming a sharper violet, and grabbed her sword. She gathered up her other weapons and spoke with an almost hissing voice.

"Just a little angry." She stormed down the hall to the computer lab.

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Steve/Kayla
A blue and purple fireball smashed through the computer lab's window. It shout to itself, alternating between Steve and Kayla's voices:

"Foolish girl, give up!"

"Get out of my body!"

"Not until my mission is complete!"

The spiritflames turned all purple and Steve's eyes locked with Zell's.

"I need this damn computer. Now."

Sufficiently weirded out by the actions of both Mira and Steve, Jimmy decided the best thing to do right now was to find a dark corner and stay out of the way. So, he picked up Lin, and made his way to the nearest "non fighting zone", and began trying to revive her.
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Henry had finally run down to his last of five clips for his rifle, and decided it was time to switch to his pistol. Switching on his camo, he made his way silently to the nearest group of three terrorists and took one pot shot before drawing his knife and rushing them. Taking down the other two, he grabbed all their guns and ammo. Now being sufficiently supplied with small caliber weaponry(OOC: and not being quite sure what all they are carrying, probably MP5's), he made his way around the campus, back to where he had last spotted Allan's "footprints".

OOC: I may not be posting much in the next two or three days, and I most definitely will not be posting after that until after New Years, being as I will somewhere in Texas, Wisconsin, or on the road somewhere in between. Have a Merry Christmas all, and feel free to move my characters along should things get boring.

(OOC: Xuanyu is hovering amongst the clouds in the sky...)

OOC: Wait. I thought he's just hovering above the complex? Oh well, never mind, i can whiff it through........

IC: No reply came from Xuanyu, as the storm continued to howl. The three Legends stared upwards, straining to see any sign of Xuanyu's acknowledgement after Arashi's proclamation, but......nothing.

With a barely audible sigh, Michiko closed her eyes. Her sixth sense kicked in, and she knew where Xuanyu was, although they couldn't see him. She softly said, "Watch my fire. Aim at it."

And with that, with a wave of her shawl, an icy-cold Fireball was fired by Michiko, heading straight into the sky. Arashi and Shinji followed suit, shooting Fireballs into the roiling sky after Michiko's. The three fiery projectiles climbed into the night sky, all three aimed at the airborne figure of Xuanyu.........

Cool. Someone he can fight.
There is a blur of slashing swords, sparks fly, changing shapes and the sound sof metal on metal.
When he goes gaseous he realises the stalemate.
Then leaves.
He zips out of the room the dark mercury unable to stop all the atoms moving around his own.
He needs backup and fast he also has to test how far this mirror can chase him, he hopes out of sight is out of mind...

(ooc: ok how far does it extend?)

OOC: You're quite right, Scots, the mirror's line-of-sight. But the "Dark Mercury" will still stay until dissipated.......somehow.

IC: Mira looked on impassively as Mercury retreated from the battle, while the "evil Mercury" still stood there, dark, and grinning mindlessly. She continued to wait, waiting for the next of her opponents to arrive.

Meanwhile, Zell, having left the fighting to Mira, was over at Jimmy and the unconscious Lin, checking her vital signs. Shaking his head, he called, "Medic!", and at once, a medic from RV's troops came over to tend to her.

Zell then turned to "Steve", his eyes glaring.

"My hackers are still busy with the data download, and they're working as fast as they can, considering they've been decimated by that damnable Blob-man! Either you think up a better idea, or you wait until they're done!", he hissed, irritated. Then, he turned to the hackers.

"What's the status?!"
"85% complete, sir. We require just a bit more time."
"Damned", Zell swore. The Spetsnaz were doing their jobs keeping back the police and Special Ops arrayed against them, but their numbers were getting decimated, by the Heroes as well as the police. Zell swore again. What was RV thinking.......?

(ooc: so Dark Merc doesn't go gaseous and match him in that form?)
Can't leave the room huh?
Well well well...
He solidifies in front of Allan and Jezebel and gives them the lowdown.

"Allan, kitchen knives, get the gang together, rush that control room in a group one after the other, see how many mirror puppets that chick can throw into the mix. I've got an idea that just might work, or not."
Just then Simon walks casually around the corner carrying two of the spetnatz snub nosed automatics and smoking a cigarette. He simply nods to Mercury and lines up beside Allan.
"What's cookin?"
Mercury goes gaseous again and heads back to the room, what she can't see eh?
(ooc: oh I assume she is breathing?)

OOC: Okay, Scots, before you get any overly bright ideas (that's a compliment :p), yes, Dark Merc is waiting for Merc back in the control room. Second, don't try to choke Mira or something, Dark Merc'll just stop your Merc, and she can sense what she cannot see, so don't try that way as well. I'll tell you what to do later, but first, all the heroes are to battle their worst sides, literally :p

Tala dragged herself back to the Hoverbird with her head hanging down. James saw her and frowned.

"What's wrong cub?",He asked helping her on the craft.

"There was an explosion.",Responded Tala.

"Ouch, poor tala.",Muttered James. "Just lay down."

So Tala did.
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Meanwhile, Faolan sat by Lin as the medic tended to her. He muttered words of encouragement he prayed she'd hear in her uncouncious state. A few moments after the medic left to get something, Faolan turned to Jimmy.

"Why the hell didn't you get me the moment you saw the wolf girl? She's my quary!"

Faolan then returned his attention's to Lin.

IC: No reply came from Xuanyu, as the storm continued to howl. The three Legends stared upwards, straining to see any sign of Xuanyu's acknowledgement after Arashi's proclamation, but......nothing.

With a barely audible sigh, Michiko closed her eyes. Her sixth sense kicked in, and she knew where Xuanyu was, although they couldn't see him. She softly said, "Watch my fire. Aim at it."

And with that, with a wave of her shawl, an icy-cold Fireball was fired by Michiko, heading straight into the sky. Arashi and Shinji followed suit, shooting Fireballs into the roiling sky after Michiko's. The three fiery projectiles climbed into the night sky, all three aimed at the airborne figure of Xuanyu.........

Xuanyu smirked confidently, as he ascended higher into the sky, his powerful form hidden and obscured by the dark clouds and deadly miasma of death. As the three fiery projectiles climbed into the sky, the clouds dissipated, dissolving into nothingness as the sky returned to normal, as the stars and the night sky returned to view. However, the deadly miasma remained. As the fireballs touched the miasma, they exploded, as a massive ball of deadly destruction expanded through the night sky, illuminating the landscape. In the center of the explosion, Xuanyu continued to hover, his dark armor carapace protecting him from the flames.

With a roar of anger, Xuanyu unleashed the full fury of his power. Once more the darkness shrouded the landscape, Xuanyu's power extinguishing the fire...

In a thunderous voice that exploded through the night air, Xuanyu challenged his three youthful opponents. "COME YOU YOUNG FOOLS! COME AND FACE ME, THE ENTITY THAT DEFIES HEAVEN...!"

Steve
"Sorry to be grouchy," Steve replied, "It''s just that the accursed girl got back into this body. I could use the Hellkey to get her out permeantly..." Suddenly, he had an idea.

"Does the computer need to be here for the download," he asked, his hand filling with purple flame.

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Jezebel
"So she creates duplicates of our power..." Jezebel chuckled slightly. "You know what? I almost went about this all wrong." She unhooked all of her weapons, leaving only the huge sword. She turned to Simon and Allan.

"Reporter guy? Leave the guns here. And Kraklin? Leave the OKTO here." The two men looked at her like she was nuts. "Look, the thing in there produces copies of us, right? So the more powerful we are, the stronger our copies. If we go in there with less power..." She couldn't tell if they understood or agreed, but she saw Simon gripping his guns tighter.

"You won't be going in weapon less, I just don't think we want to go against bullets. Take your pick," She gestured to the pile of knives. "Oh, and Allan," She handed the scientist the silver guns. "Sorry if I'm wrong, but I don't take you for the melee type. These guns fire UV-based bolts of light. When they hit exposed flesh they cause the skin to blister like a nasty sunburn. Each gun has about twenty shots in it. Are you with me?"

Backing off Lin to give the medic some room, Jimmy turned to Faolan, obviously a bit annoyed.

Jim: She may be your quarry, but she is my problem when she starts taking potshots at me. What would you have liked me to do, ask her to 'please wait here a minute, there is someone I would like you to meet.'? If you really want her, she went that way*points* towards the crazy vehicle that the Heros probably rode in on.
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OOC: Snubnosed automatics? Sucks. That leaves me most likely with MP5k's, and 9mm ballistics. Bleh. :D Not like it makes much difference, but that means he would have to shoot for the head, as the ex-spetznatz are likely wearing bullet proof vests... In other words, things would be a lot harder in real life. So, I am just going to power in an assault rifle, and assume that your guys are using the newest stuff, of which most is now bullpup rifles. Oh, and I think it would have been interesting to hear how Simon aqcuired his guns. Although I suppose he could have just picked them up off the numerous dead guys...

Henry had settled on one of the small caliber bullpup assault rifles as his weapon of choice from what he had gotten off the terrorists. He had also collected about a hundred rounds of ammunition for it. Using accurate three shot bursts, he fought his way to where the others were.

Henry: Howdy.

"Again, it's Kraken. Would a 'Hi! My Name Is...' sticker help?" Allan said with a smile. He slipped off his coat and set the guns on top of it. Then he clamped the OKTO's arms to the wall behind him. He opened the hidden chest panel and punched a few buttons.

He went through the process of taking off the OKTO, and after closing the harness, punched a few more buttons on the keypad before closing the panel.

There. He'd cranked the Security measures up to Full Power. Nothing could get into that harness but him.

He slipped on his coat, buttoning it up, and quickly came up with a plan to get an edge over his soon-to-be Shadow counterpart.

He turned to Jezebel and said with a smile, "I can hold my own in Melee, but I have an idea for these little guys." He flipped the guns around on his fingers.
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Lin floated in a peaceful, sleepy haze... she heard Lan's voice, whispering words of encouragement... She wanted to get up, but she couldn't. The strain on her mind and body had been too great.

OOC: Right. Glad to see the pace is picking up. Right, a few things.

5CN, an idea of the extent of my Legends' powers. They may be only 20 years old, but they come of a lineage that accumulates the years of training and power dating from the rise of their Clans. In effect, while they are mere fledglings, their 2000-year history of their Clans in effect means that Xuanyu is fighting against warriors with the potential of 2000-year entities. Considering that even Lance is only 3500 years, and that there's 3 of them, they should have a fair chance against Xuanyu. However, they can't fly, and that means Xuanyu would have to come down to them, otherwise it'll just be a boring projectile fight.

DP, you party-pooper :p Now the Heroes are underpowered, it means things aren't quite so....interesting, anymore :p. Not saying i object, but well.

IC: Rooftop of the complex

Xuanyu's booming voice hit down on the Legends like a shockwave nearly sending them to the ground, but they held their feet, and stared up defiantly.

"Well, that's got his attention", Arashi quipped.
"With a sneer, if i may add", Shinji added, a frown creasing his face.
"Nothing we can do about that, if Xuanyu looks down on us. We'll just have to show him some", Michiko butted in, ending the argument prematurely. Her eyes narrowed to slits, as she knew what had to be done.

"Only I can reach him at his height now", Michiko stated calmly, her limbs loosening for the effort she was getting ready to exert. With a breath, she felt the power of her Clan accumulating within herself, 2000 years of the advancement of her clan accumulating within her person. Arashi and Shinji sensed this, and promptly moved aside.

Michiko, with a wind blowing through her evening gown, walked to a spot on the rooftop, where she sensed she was directly below Xuanyu. With a sigh, she kneeled down. The wind blew faster through her gown, her hair, and her whole self seemed to swirl with power.

With a scream, she stood up, held up her hands skyward, and let out a scream. And in an instant, with a huge pillar of glacial fire that surrounded her, and shot up like lightning into the sky, the full force of the Hikoori Clan's penultimate move, the Forbidden Style was revealed in its entirety.

The pillar of icy fire shot up, with an intent to engulf Xuanyu in a power that would be a challenge even for a semi-godly being like himself to shunt aside.....

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Inside the complex

When the Heroes busted in, all they saw.......was the villains, and Mira in particular, with the evil doppelganger of Mercury standing behind her, grinning.

"Welcome", Mira said quietly. "I have been expecting you."

And with that, her eyes glowed, as did her mirror. Before everyone's eyes, figures made out of darkness started to develop. Gradually, the shapes took the form of a lithe woman, in dark leather, with dark skin and glaring red eyes; a buff commando with weapons at hand and the same dark skin and glowing red eyes, and finally a Russian-looking stout man with a scholarly look, with dark skin, and the glow of his red eyes obscured behind dark glasses.

It was Dark Jezebel, Dark Henry, and Dark Kraken respectively. Dark Mercury stepped up besides them, grinning evilly.

"Attack", was Mira's command. And the specters reacted with alacrity, each leaping forward, to attack their true-life selves........

OOC: Alright, those whose Heroes are fighting their Dark selfs, i expect you know your characters best, so feel free to use these Dark selfs for your own benefit. But don't go for Mira yet, do a post on fighting the Dark selves first.

OOC: Snubnosed automatics? Sucks. That leaves me most likely with MP5k's, and 9mm ballistics. Bleh. :D Not like it makes much difference, but that means he would have to shoot for the head, as the ex-spetznatz are likely wearing bullet proof vests... In other words, things would be a lot harder in real life. So, I am just going to power in an assault rifle, and assume that your guys are using the newest stuff, of which most is now bullpup rifles. Oh, and I think it would have been interesting to hear how Simon aqcuired his guns. Although I suppose he could have just picked them up off the numerous dead guys...

Yes Potts. Dead guys and guys who's bullet proof jackets were no match for a bowel disruptor. Also, he is very human, his only power is a stupidly huge good luck. So he manages to keep out of sight taking photos and moves in when the outside gets boring
As for the guns, whatever I'm not a gun nut OOC, I know next to nothing about guns except which way to point then and where the trigger is. I'm not an American so... Headshots = luck once again.

DP: What? Sunburn guns? Would that not need to hit skin? So we're fighting spetnatx in bikinis now? :P


I'll tell you what to do later, but first, all the heroes are to battle their worst sides, literally

You'll tell me what to do? Oh that's good GMing. Why bother having me play my character at all? Any other GM I've had would let me try and make me fail and effectively herd me into the line of the idea. As it is Mercury has no desire to fight a pointless stalemate battle. But since he has been created his friends are outnumbered so...
By the way how many hackers are left? 2?

Mercury He drifts into the room as a gas and solidifies around the dark mercury figure as it is about to raise a sword to Allan. As he envelops the dark one completely he quickly solidifies and seals it in using his strength matched by the dark one as an unmoving statue.

Simon follows suit by dropping the guns behind him and pulling out his bowel disruptor. He'd been hit by it once before so he wasn't afraid if his luck ran out and his mirror got a shot in, he was going for anyone else in the room anyway and once in the door as the dark images were forming fires off several rounds in Zell's direction....

You'll tell me what to do? Oh that's good GMing. Why bother having me play my character at all? Any other GM I've had would let me try and make me fail and effectively herd me into the line of the idea. As it is Mercury has no desire to fight a pointless stalemate battle. But since he has been created his friends are outnumbered so...
By the way how many hackers are left? 2?

OOC: Whoa, chill there Scots. I mean i'll just tell you when, and not how, to deal with Mira later, and just make a post concentrating on the double-fight now. Sorry i wasn't too clear :p

And BTW, the hackers still number quite a few. But try not to kill too many more if you can help it.

Mercury He drifts into the room as a gas and solidifies around the dark mercury figure as it is about to raise a sword to Allan. As he envelops the dark one completely he quickly solidifies and seals it in using his strength matched by the dark one as an unmoving statue.

Simon follows suit by dropping the guns behind him and pulling out his bowel disruptor. He'd been hit by it once before so he wasn't afraid if his luck ran out and his mirror got a shot in, he was going for anyone else in the room anyway and once in the door as the dark images were forming fires off several rounds in Zell's direction....


IC: Shocked out of his stupor, a surprised Zell was still quite a match, as Simon soon learned. Diving out of the way, Zell flicked his hands, and a flurry of cards shot out, flying towards Simon.......

OOC: Right. Glad to see the pace is picking up. Right, a few things.

5CN, an idea of the extent of my Legends' powers. They may be only 20 years old, but they come of a lineage that accumulates the years of training and power dating from the rise of their Clans. In effect, while they are mere fledglings, their 2000-year history of their Clans in effect means that Xuanyu is fighting against warriors with the potential of 2000-year entities. Considering that even Lance is only 3500 years, and that there's 3 of them, they should have a fair chance against Xuanyu. However, they can't fly, and that means Xuanyu would have to come down to them, otherwise it'll just be a boring projectile fight.

(OOC: Um... He's actually a couple of billion years old... He's been trapped within a sword for most of the time, so he hasn't grown in power for some time, but he is very, very powerful... However, I will make it so that your characters will fight your character last...)

Simon
Dodges the cards while dropping a source gas capsule from his free hand, his laptop would gather all the images he could need and he didn't have to be in that melee, a copy of him wouldn't do too well either he guessed, and flips backwards out of the room wondering what mischief he could get up to outside now there are no Spetsnatz guards to stop him screwing with the bad guys transport (ooc: or is there?)

OOC: Gun nut? Yeah. Except more of a weapons nut in general. The kind that makes chain and ball maces out of old pool balls in his basement, and strives to be able to make good usable knives and swords. :D Just for referance, I am considered weird by most of the Americans that I know, so don't blame America, blame the want of knowledge(because, even though I know a lot about weapons, to fully understand a lot weapons, you end up picking up a lot of ballistics/applied force/mechanical engineering, with some history and tactics thrown in for good measure). Oh, and if you are using submachine guns, you might also want to learn where the selector switch is atleast. :mp5:

IC: As the real Henry didn't have to wait to be created, he got the first shots off. 5.56mm ammo ricocheted off the walls as the Dark Henry ducked out of the way, one of the three shot burst grazing his shoulder , before letting off his own. But the real Henry was already moving, ducking behind a heavy duty printer table. Dark Henry generously donated another three shot burst into the table, as he moved around to try and flank the real Henry. But he was a little late, because the real Henry was already creeping around the edge of the table to outflank the dark Henry. Meeting on the other side, more shots were exchanged, and the Dark Henry came out, once again, the lesser, as he was fully hit in the knee, while his own bullets buzzed by the real Henry’s head, one taking a good bit of skin off his shoulder. Deciding he had had enough, he popped back around the other end of the table, and let off a three shot burst at the nearest other doppelganger, which happened to be Jezebel’s. Just then, the dark Henry came around the opposite end of the table, where Henry had just come from, strafing full auto across the section as he ran across, trying to get a good cover angle on the real Henry. Henry dove around the corner just in time to take only one shot in his calf. Grimacing at the wound, he returned with his own fire, then yelled out his idea.

Henry: We need to take out each others doppelgangers! Otherwise we are just fighting even matches!
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Jimmy ducked as the heroes came into the room. Grabbing a backup pistol off of one of the few dead spezntaz that were in the room, Jimmy took a position next to Faolan.

Jimmy: Well, since we have most of the heroes already here, now might be a good time to find your werewolf for yourself. And don’t worry about your girlfriend there,*gesturing at Lin* I’ll take care of her.

OOC: Hey, Allan isn't "stout!" lol.

Allan, in an unusual burst of daring, rushed at his counterpart and buried his fist in Dark Kraken's stomach.

Dark Kraken, having as much knowledge of Commando Sambo as Allan, let himself be knocked backward, and placed one leg behind Allan's knees and the other on the fronts of his calves, then scissor-tripped Allan onto his face. He then quickly rolled onto Allan's back and tried to grab him by the neck, but Allan jammed an elbow into Dark Kraken's face and rolled to his feet. He then realized that Dark Kraken did not have six Mechanical limbs.

But he did. All he had to do was get to them.

Quickly, he ducked under a roundhouse kick from Dark Kraken, and, grabbing a chair leg, swung it with all his strength and blew Dark Kraken's other leg out from under him, knocking him to the floor. He then stepped back, shouting "Come and get me, you ugly piece of shit!"

Lan sneered at Jimmy.

"No thanks kid. I'm getting Lin out of here."

Lan picked up Lin and craddled her like a baby. He then sneaked her out through the back. He then laid her on the grass and watched over her. He was going to leave her side, no matter how much He wanted to get even with Lycan Girl.

OOC: Heheh, sorry Graz. Whenever i think of Kraken, i think of the original Doc Ock, and to me, Doc Ock is stout :p Anyway, ignore my description if you so wish. Oh yes, remember Graz, the mirror is line-of-sight, which means Dark Kraken is not gonna take his bait, and if you have Kraken run out and come back with his OKTO, Dark Kraken would just sprout an OKTO of his own, that's what Mira's powers are all about. Scots, wrong direction, the transports are inside the complex, in an open area of the complex, and yes, there are guards there, since there was no fighting there as yet. And yeah, 5CN, I know what you mean, it's just that when i said 'a fair chance', i meant, as good a chance as Lance might have against Xuanyu, maybe somewhat less, but around there. I'm not too entirely clear about the extent of Lance's powers as yet, I'm just using the number of years of training in my reckoning.

Right, all the villains are to follow Zell's instructions in this post, with the exception of Mira. After that is done, and after we have an extended fight between the Dark copies and the real deals, this is what is to be done. Graz, DP, Potts, as your characters are fighting their Dark sides, once you've had enough, choose between yourselves which of your characters is to break through the barricade of Darks, and knock Mira unconscious. I'll RP what happens from there on.

Jimmy sloppily snapped a salute as Faolan left him.

Jimmy: *Sarcastically* Yes, sir. Thank you sir. *Goes back to watching the fight, and making sure that the medic can get out safely*
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Henry had fought himself into a quick stalemate. Meaning the he had 10 seconds to figure something out. Like, finishing his doppelganger off. Putting out another burst to make sure that his Dark self stayed put, he dropped his newly aqcuired assault rifle and unslung his sniper rifle. This should suprise him. With that thought in mind, he put a round comepletely through the computer desk that his evil double was behind, his doppelganger's shoulder, and two walls. Even broken by the compensator, the muzzle blast and noise shook the room. The evil twin was thrown spinning across the room as the real Henry picked up the assault rifle and finished off his evil look-a-like with the last three shots in the magazine. Hastily popping in a fresh magazine, he turned to see how the others were doing.

OOC: My doubles fight probably took quite a while, so you guys can go ahead with your own fights without worrying about Henry interrupting you.
EDIT: Oh, nice. I just saw your post GU. Cool. All good. And, how many aspects of your nefarious plot would it ruin if I broke her mirror?

IC: As Zell regained his footing, he saw Simon rush out of the room, apparently not wishing to push it further. "Coward", he thought. Then, one of the hackers stood up and yelled at Zell,

"Sir! We are done with the data download! Let's get out of here, sir!"

Nodding at the hackers, Zell relayed his message,

"Right! All of you, we've gotten what we've come for! Clear out!"

And with that, Zell ran with the hackers out of the back door of the control room with the hackers, towards their transports.......

OOC: In reply to your question, Potts, zilch. I intend to have her captured......eventually :p

Faolan heard Zell call out to the villan's to retreat. So, he picked up Lin and brought her back to the Chopper. He laid her on a cot in there and continued to watch over her.
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James checked over Tala as she laid in wait.

"This sucks!",She muttered.

"No one's invincible T."

"Yeah, I know. But my assets is a weakness. That sucks."

"Sure does.", Muttered James removing the necklace from Tala's neck. "I wonder how the others are doing?"

OOC: WARNING! STUPIDLY LONG POST AHEAD!
Allan had been locked in a stalemate fight with Dark Kraken for a few minutes now. Punch after kick after throw was countered and blocked and dodged on both sides, and Allan began to grow tired. Fortunately, so was Dark Kraken.

Then Allan remembered something. The Guns.

When Dark Kraken rushed him again, before he could react, Allan whipped one of the guns out, and pulled the trigger, shooting Dark Kraken dead in the face, causing him to stumble back with a cry of pain and surprise.

Allan saw his chance and ran for the OKTO, strapping himself in and activating it with a speed he did not previously think possible.

He rushed back into the room, and saw the girl with the Mirror simply standing there. He shot out an arm to try to smash the mirror, when the arm was knocked out of the way by another. He looked to where it had come from.

Six mechanical arms of black metal had sprouted from Dark Kraken's back, waving and undulating.

"Aw, no..." This would make things--

Before he could finish the thought, one of Dark Kraken's arms had snaked behind his legs and knocked him to the floor. He swiped 2 arms across the floor in a scissor-trip, then slammed a third down onto his doppelganger's back as he hit the floor.

Allan quickly got to his feet, and brought all the OKTO's arms to bear. He fired a barrage of stun blasts, but Dark Kraken projected a shield and blocked them. However... Allan noticed the shield was weaker in a few places...

He shot out an arm, overturning a desk to distract the copy, and let loose with a barrage of Power Blasts. The Copy put up his shield, but it only was able to take a few hits before 3 of the shield emitters blew out and died. His plan had worked!

However, he did not have time to congratulate himself. Dark Kraken let off a blast of his own, which just grazed by Allan, hitting the gun, which was still in his hand, melting it into a twisted lump of metal, which was then knocked from his hand.

Allan felt a claw wrap around his throat and hoist him off the ground. Dark Kraken sneered, then took off his glasses, and looked directly into his eyes.
Then he leveled another claw at Allan's chest, and began to charge a blast.

Clear your head! Don't Panic! Allan thought, while trying to take his own advice. He reviewed what he knew.

He was 3 feet off the ground, about to have his chest blown open by a copy of himself made by a kid with a mirror who seemed to be too busy looking angsty to even move. She was still right behind him, for Chrissa-

That was it! The Mirror Girl! She was behind him! But he didn't have time to move! The Copy was about to fire! He shut his eyes and waited for the blast.

Instead, the claw overloaded and blew up with a shower of sparks and smoke.

Seeing his chance, Allan punched Dark Kraken in the jaw, knocking him backward, then quickly reached an arm behind him and fired off a Flashbang.

Lin stirred, and her eyes opened weakly. She felt tired and sore. Her head throbbed with pain, and she winced.

She looked up, and saw Lan, sitting close by.

"Where am I? How'd I... get here?"

OOC: Stupidly long post, Graz? Not IMO. That was a wonderful effort there! Keep it up and you could find yourself with an invitation to Fatal Terrain!

IC: The Dark specters of Mira seemed to be keeping away the Heroes they were based on most efficiently, and the rest of the merceneries had already retreated. Mira knew all she had to do was to keep this up a little longer, and then she could follow the rest back to their escapes too.

Just then, Kraken somehow got past his Dark counterpart, and fired off a Flashbang grenade, which blew in Mira's face.

With a shriek, Mira fell to the ground, unconscious, her mirror dropping to the floor and shattering in a million pieces. And with that, the Dark specters, bereft of their controller, merely......disappeared into thin air.

Mira lay on the ground, out cold, and out for the count.

Dark Kraken was picking himself up when he saw Mistress Mira fall. Kraken had hurt her! That bastard would Pay! Then he heard it. The sound of shattering glass. He saw the pieces for one brief moment before--

Allan stood, and limped over to the girl. He picked her up, cradling her in his arms, and headed for the Bird. They might be able to get information from her...

As he walked, he couldn't help but notice that the girl was... very pretty. It was a pity someone so young had ended up with such a bad crowd...

He climbed down the side of a building, and saw the Bird land. He headed for the hatch and stepped inside, holding up the girl.

"Anyone want this? Found it lyin' around, thought it'd be useful..."

Lan smiled down and Lin.

"Good your awake. You're in one of the choppers. You passed out a second after Mira showed up. None of us are sure why. How do you feel?"

Lan's black eyes flicked over Lin's body. He seemed immensely concerned.
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Tala sat talking to James when she heard the familiar song of her ringtone.

"You take that everywhere with you?",Questioned James as Tala pulled the phone out from her bra. "Nice hiding spot."

"Haha. Very funny." Tala stuck her tongue out then answered the phone. "Tala Wolf.....Woah slow down.....where are you?.....why....YOU DID WHAT?....Okay calm down I'll be there. YOu want me or my alter ego?....You got it." Tala turned off her phone and slipped it back into her bra.

"Listen, I have to go. It's an emergancy I'll be back at the Dojo later. And I'll have company."

Tala then turned into here wolf form and began to run quickly away.

OOC: No one stop Tala. She's picking up a new character. Also Tala left just before Allan got there.

Lin was genuinely touched that Lan cared enough about her to get her out of there. This was followed by a wave of regret. Lan had probably missed Lycan Girl again because of her...

She sat up. The pain had lessened a little.

"I'm fine... just a little tired."

Lin summed up her fight with Kraken, the Blob and the Girl, and Lan understood why she'd passed out; She'd worn herself out.

She felt dizzy, and had to lie back again.

"What happened while I was out?"

Lan smiled at Lin and eased her back.

"Lay down. You should rest. Basically, you passed out just as Mira showed up. Then Kraken and the others started fighting their copies from Mira's mirror. I don't know how the fight ended though. I took you here the moment Zell said we were leaving."

Lan looked down and saw some guilt in Lin's eyes.

"Hey don't worry about it Lin, you didn't make me miss Lycan Girl. That brat Jimmy, he was fighting her and didn't even come to find me. She'd already fled by the time he got to where we all were. Damn that kid."

OOC: Merry Xmas, everyone! :D

IC: In the villains' chopper

Zell watched with not a little anxiety, his eyes searching for the figure of Mira. Then, a Spetsnaz captain came up to him, and whispered in his ear. His eyes widened, then he closed them with a sigh. Finally, he turned to the pilot.

"That's it. Let's go!", Zell ordered.

"But what about Mira?", someone asked, and for a reply, he got,

"She's lost to us. Let's go!!!"

With that, the fleet of RV's choppers started to take off........

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Inside the Hoverbird

The Sensei, in the pilot's seat, turned around to look at Kraken, and then at the figure in his arms. At that, his eyes widened considerably.

"Ilumna", he whispered. Then, he started giving orders to Kraken and James.

"Right, the both of you! We have a situation right here! Kraken, you find something to tie this little girl up with. Make sure she has no hands free, and above all, make sure she's blindfolded! James, search the interior of the Bird! Find every piece of reflective surface you can, hide those you can remove, and cover those you can't! This Ilumna will be trouble if she finds anything even resembling a mirror! Afterwards, tend to her, and give her something, ANYTHING, to make sure she doesn't wake up until after we get back!"

With that, the Sensei got to work, helping James with his task. As he did so, his eyes met Kraken's, and he spoke.

"I am very impressed, Dr. Fisher", the Sensei said. "Few can defeat the wiles of an Ilumna. The family of mirror-summoners are resourceful, and even the best fighters have a hard time against them. I remember how an Ilumna was my last test to prove my worth as a Hiyuuki warrior, and how I set an Ilumna as my son Arashi's last test. We both had trouble then. Tell me, Dr. Fisher, how did you do it?"

Allan looked sheepishly at Hiyuuki-Sensei.

"Well, I have to give the girl some credit. She copied me and the OKTO... right down to the last bug in the system."

The Sensei smiled knowingly, and nodded to Allan to get to work.

He looked around, dodging James as he scurried about covering and removing everything shiny, and managed to dig up a length of spare wires. With these and a few minutes, the Girl's hands were bound securely behind her. He bound her ankles as well, and searched around for something to blindfold her with.

A few minutes passed and Allan found a scarf someone had left onboard.

His duties finished, he looked to James covering and hiding mirrors... then looked to the OKTO. It wasn't much, but there was a dull reflectiveness to the metal limbs and harness...

"James."

James looked up as Allan deactivated and removed the harness, then held it up.

"We'd better hide this, too."

It probably wouldn't matter, but every little bit helped...

Earlier
As soon as Jezebel saw her clone appear, she lunged. She unhooked her bade and swung in low, at the kneecaps. She was not surprised when her stoke was countered by Dark Jezebel's sword. She was startled when that counterstroke arched upward, nearly splitting her face into. Jezebel jumped back, a nasty gash on her chin. The two circled, neither daring to look away.

The real Jezebel darted in with a deadly slash. Dark Jezebel blocked it and fired a powerful uppercut which lifted the real Jezebel off the ground. The mirror-clone plowed a booted foot into its advisory's gut before she returned to the ground.

Jezebel flipped, hitting a window and pushing off as it shattered. The clone pushed off from the ground and real and fake sword met in the air. Both sides held and the momentum brought their foreheads together with a fleshy thud. They fell to the ground and rolled away from one another. Dark Jezebel recovered faster and stood over the still dazed real Jezebel, ready to deliver the fatal blow. Then, the small explosion from Dark Kraken caught her attention, only for a moment.

That moment was all the real Jezebel needed. She drove the spiked end of her sword into her clone's chest and, with strength born of demon blood and adrenaline, hoisted the phony into the air and flinging her toward her creator. The flash bang got there first and the clone unraveled, smearing through the air and disappearing.

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Jezebel sulked into the bird behind Kraken, blood still trickling from her chin. Steve had gotten away... again.

James finished getting rid of and covering up all the reflective things. Then Allan asked him to hid the harness.

"No prob." James tossed the harness into his bag and shut it tight. Once he had nothing left to do, his thoughts drifted to Tala. He began to wonder who she had been talking to. He tried to think of the people who knew he secret. He mentally checked off everyone, then it hit him.

"OH god! it was Vex"

James pulled out his phone and dialed Tala. He got her voice mail. He yelled in frustration and threw his phone out of the window.

"Damn that girl! She's too loyal!"

OOC: What time of the year is it?

OOC: Why, Thrope? Is it important?

Allan looked at James. She'd seen Tala leaving shortly before he'd gotten to the Bird, but he'd thought she was going for a fight again...

"Who's Vex? What's going on?"

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Lin clenched her fists in anger. She wanted a chance at Kraken, alone, without that goddamn Blob spouting one-liners at her...

He needed to find his own enemy. Someone with powers like his--

It hit her. Shard!

...but where was she? She'd disappeared shortly after Mira had shown up...

She tried to ask if anyone had seen her, but Lan shushed her and told her to get some rest.

Sleep came easily, even over the commotion of the choppers lifting off.

James sighed and turned to Allan.

"Vex is a friend of Tala's. She's a professional theif. Tala and Vex are totally loyal to each other. A few years back, Vex was in a bind and Tala got her out. Basically, Vex actually got caught and Tala had to BS her out of it. Vex gets the worst out Tala. But T insists that Vex is a good person."

James scoffed.

"That girl is no good!"

ooc: I'm gonna be gone until the 29th. Anyone can RP my characters if they really need to.

Allan felt a slight twinge of nervousness when he heard the words "Professional thief". He'd have to watch the OKTO very carefully...
He shook it off, smiled and patted James on the back.

"Kids. What can ya do?"

He headed up to the front of the Bird and sat down in the Copilot's seat, turning to Hiyuuki-Sensei.

"So, what do we do now?"

OOC: Sorry for the long absence, i have no excuse..........

IC: On board the Hoverbird

The Sensei stared at Allan for a while, pondering his question. Then, he finally looked at Allan again, and gave his verdict.

"There's no point going after those choppers. They'll probably just shoot the Bird down. My son and the other 2 kids are still out there fighting the being Xuanyu, so we'll have to fly around to see how they are doing. What we have to do later, is to take the Ilumna back to the Dojo. I have a good mind to enquire of her her reasons for being with RV's minions..............."

The Sensei then turned to James.

"Well? Aren't you giving her a sedative or anything? I don't want her awake in the Bird, you know!"

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On the rooftop

The force of Michiko's Forbidden Style continued to climb higher in the sky, and finally, the entire flaming pillar of death engulfed the area where Xuanyu was. On the rooftop, Michiko endured for a little while longer, and then finally desisted, tired out from the effort.

Suddenly, Xuanyu landed on the rooftop, looking apparently unscathed for all of Michiko's effort, and incensed.

"You are fools to challenge me!", Xuanyu roared out. "You, all three of you, are mere fledglings compared to me!"

But the Legends wasted no time, charging at Xuanyu, their hands flaming with the fire of their Clans. With a roar, Xuanyu shot bolts of power at them, which all three swerved and dodged like acrobats, all their skill employed in this moment.

But it couldn't last, and it was Michiko who first caught one of Xuanyu's blasts, falling back. Only Shinji and Arashi were left, and swerving in and out of each other's paths, creating difficult targets in a formation that seemed almost natural to them.

Finally, Shinji rushed past Arashi in front.........and took a shot from Xuanyu, falling back. But this gave Arashi the chance to dive under Xuanyu's guard, and he did so, sending a flaming punch to Xuanyu's gut, a punch that would have downed a mortal man.........but Xuanyu merely grabbed Arashi, and threw him back to where Shinji and Michiko was.

The three Legends stood up shakily, nursing their wounds. But Xuanyu did not go unscathed either, from the way he held his gut where Arashi had punched him..............

James nodded and dug in his bag. He tied a rubber band around her arm and searced for a vein. Once he found one he took at seringe and pushed the sedative into her system.

"Done." He said packing up his bag. Yet again his thoughts travelled to Tala.

OOC: That should be enough to satisfy for a bit, as I venture off once again. :p

Jimmy:
Jimmy covered the leaving hackers as they ran for the choppers. The gun was still in his hand as he ran half-sideways, his eyes and the muzzle of the pistol strafing back and forth, looking for any signs abnormal movements. Hopping into a chopper after the last medic, he spotted Zell. Making his way near him, he shouted over the roar of the helicopter engines:

"Can I have a job, or should I be jumping off right now?"
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Henry:
Looking up from the swiftly dissolving corpse of his doppelganger, Henry found everything under control. The mirror of the mysterious woman was shattered and she herself lay unconcious on the floor. He used his sleeve to wipe a trickle of sweat from his brow as he made a final survey of the situation. Noting, obviously, that all of the other villians had abandoned the scene though, his thoughts came out in a murmer. "Not again..."

Hearing the sounds of helicopters lifting off the ground, he gave the thought of pursuit up for lost, especially considering his ammunition condition. With that in mind, he trooped out to the hoverbird. Making himself comfortable in a seat, he heard the sensai and checked himself for reflective items. Finding none,(reflective items and snipers don't go together. :D ) he did notice that he was still hanging on to the assault rifle. Considering the work lately, I think I will just keep this around.

IC: As the helicopter was taking off, Zell looked back at Jimmy, pondering whether RV would appreciate the stowaway. As his representative for the missions, Zell knew he had to make decisions on RV's behalf, and this was a hard one to make. The boy seemed eager though........making his decision, Zell reached over, and pulled Jimmy up by his jacket into the chopper.

"Hang on, lad, we're going for a ride!" Zell announced.

That was mere minutes ago, and right now, Jimmy was buckled in with the rest of the merceneries, now a part of them...........


OOC: Where is everyone?

OOC: Probably battling a hangover or two. Happy New Year!

Allan nodded to Henry, and leaned back in the Copilot's seat.

"Yep... doesn't get much better than this..."

Michiko, Arashi and Shinji were battling a semideity, and here he was. Bored. He then remembered something. He stood up, took out the silver pistol, and, not able to look her in the eyes, handed it back to Jezebel, handle-first.

"The other one was destroyed. I'll reimburse you for it later..."

The thing had probably cost several thousand dollars. As he walked back to the Copilot's seat, a thought flicked through Allan's head.

Jarikos Industries... For once, I'm glad I worked for those bastards...

OOC: Yeah where is everyone? I can't DO anything because no one's talking to my character. And Tala and Vex aren't coming into play again until they arrive at the Dojo.

OOC: If no-one's talking to your character, that doesn't mean you can't say anything.

IC: Bored...Bored...Bored...Bored... Nothing was happening. At all. It was driving Allan crazy!

He turned to James. "So... Is Tala coming back here?"

James shook his head. "No. She said she'd meet us back at the Dojo."

Allan nodded and began to slump back into his chair. But then he had an Idea. He looked among the flashing lights, buttons and dials for the Comm line. Finding it, he opened a channel and contacted the Dojo. Perhaps Tala and her friend would already be there... if not, he could at least tell them someone was coming.

"Bird to Nest, do you copy? Reiko, how's things over there?"

OOC: Don't split hairs. I meant I can't type because I can't use my characters.

OOC: Alright, sorry all.

IC: At the Hiyuuki Dojo

The flashing light startled Reiko, who had not expected any call of distress. It was not more startling however, to see that Tala had returned by herself with another girl Reiko didn't know. As Tala didn't seem to want to talk much, Reiko decided to keep quiet as well. Toggling the Comm. line, Reiko heard,

"Bird to Nest, do you copy? Reiko, how's things over there?"

Dr. Allan Fisher, Reiko thought with a smile. Perhaps this would be a time to get cheeky.

"Nest to Bird, nothing at the moment. However, I'll have to ask you the meaning of sending a lone wolf back to the Nest by herself, Bird."

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On the rooftop

The Legends were about to start another attack, when Xuanyu merely raised a palm outward, indicating they should stop.

"You are but mere kids compared to me", Xuanyu announced solemnly. "I will not fight you." And with that, Xuanyu wafted away like the breeze, out of their reach.

Arashi, Shinji, and Michiko relaxed, and watched Xuanyu fly away.

"Coward", Shinji muttered, leading the way to the Bird. Arashi and Michiko looked at each other, then followed him back, and strapped themselves in. What must be said could be said later, as the Hoverbird made its way back to the Dojo.

OOC: Alright, you may feel free to RP the return to the Dojo.

"Had nothing to do with it, Rei. Tala left on her own. S'good to see she's safe."

He turned to see Michiko, Shinji and Arashi boarding the Bird, and started locking in a course back to the Dojo as the Bird started to lift off.

"Bird to Nest, We're headed home, see you shortly. Oh, and," he looked at the Illumna, "we have a present for you, too. Bird out," he turned to James, "unless someone else wants to talk."

Jezebel
"I don't suppose we have any idea where our villains are headed?" Jezebel asked no one and everyone, "Because the current strategy of waiting for them to strike isn't working so well."

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Steve
Steve flew along ahead of the choppers. Just before landing, he was besieged by a series of spasms. Standing with a sly smile, the capped form retreated into the airship.

After he had strapped himself in securely, Jimmy settled himself as comfortably as he could into the hard helicopter seat. Looking around at the left over hackers and ex-spetnatz that occupied most of the chopper’s available space, he thought to himself:
Well, it’s nice to be working again, whoever I am working with.

Then, speaking to Zell,
“You have quite a well organized operation going.”
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Henry watched in agony as the Flamethrowers battled the demi-god creature. He was about ready to jump out to try and help them, when Xuanyu took off for parts unknown. Relieved that the whole team was still in one piece, he strapped himself in for the ride back to the dojo. Running a bore cleaner through his rifle, he pointed out a few, what seemed to him, obvious facts to Jezebel.

“Considering that they are probably headed back to a heavily armed home base, and those of our forces that are actually present are hardly in their best condition, besides being hindered by the girl there *gesturing at Mira*, I would think that doing anything that would discover their next destination would be getting ourselves in for more crap then we can handle.

OOC: Yay, I am back for a while, and should be able to post regularly again.

IC: In the Hoverbird

Everyone else seemed to be ignoring what Henry and Jezebel were arguing about. At length though, the Sensei spoke.

"Perhaps the two of you do not have the full situation in your grasp. I shall tell all then. RV has gotten everything he needs, and he'll be making his move quite soon. Henry is right when he pointed out that RV's unknown homebase is probably heavily defended. But Jezebel is also right when she pointed out that we have got to make our move real soon."

He sighed. "For all we know, we could be going for our final battle, anytime soon."

The Hoverbird disembarked back at the Dojo garage. As everyone disembarked, the Sensei landed a hand on Allan's shoulder.

"Dr. Fisher. Since you have extra arms, I suppose you wouldn't mind using them to help me carry Miss Ilumna to a room, would you?"

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On board the Vengeance

The hold yawned open like a monster's mouth, gorging on the choppers that flew into it. As the choppers landed, the hacker team, or whatever was left of it, wasted no time in getting to the HellKey and the Ultima Cannon, while Zell Celdarin was a little less rushed.

Stretching his limbs, Zell figured to himself that he had better be getting good pay from RV for doing all this shit........

OOC: I may have changed her looks a bit GU.

Tala sat in her room glaring darkly at the women sitting in front of her.

"Aww, C'mon T. How many times to I have to say sorry?"

"This was no pety theift. Madison you stole a whole floor of the Art Museum."

The other girl sighed. She got up and walked around. Madison had long light brown hair, braided to her lower back. Her eyes were as glowing as Tala's, but Madison's were jade green. Her skin was more tanned and was taller then Tala. Other then that she looked very much like Tala, minus the wolfie features. Both girls had changed out of their "work" clothes and into jeans and hoodies. Tala glared at the pacing Madison until she spoke.

"I still don't get how i was caught", She murmured offhandedly.

"You.stole.a. whole. floor."

"Got a little sloppy, right?"

Tala didn't answer, she just got up and Muttered, "Come on."

"Where are we going?", Questioned Madison warily.

"You have to meet the team. They'll figure out what to do with you."

"Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?"

"Fox caught in a chicken coop", Replied Tala.

"Right.",Replied Madison as though she understood the riddle.

Tala walked with Madison following for a while, then she bumped into the three legends.

"Those guys are cute.",Whispered Madison in Tala's ear.

Tala rolled her eyes. "Madison Andrews, May I present Arashi, Michiko, and Shinji. They are the Legends a mentioned earlier."

Madison didn't seem to be listening. She was too busy checking out Shinji and Arashi. Tala completed the introductions.

"Arashi, Michiko, and Shiji. This is Madison Andrews. Proffesional theif. But everyone just calls her Vex."

OOC: SO Vex is there now. OOO

Jezebel
She hoped off the bird, still arguing with the Sensei and Henry. "How will we know when and were this battle will be? The next sign I can think of is Hell opening up and demons surging forth from the depts. Steve's not gonna wait forever." She stopped as she entered a room to hear Tala explain that her friend was a "professional theif."

"Pardon me, but what made you think it was a good idea to bring a criminal here? And, if you know she's a theif, why isn't she in prison?"

Allan nodded to Hiyuuki-Sensei. "Not at all." He quickly donned and activated the OKTO, and the arms whirred to life. He stretched four of them toward the bench where Illumna lay.

The cold metal claws were surprisingly gentle as they gathered up the girl's unconscious, frail form. Allan stepped out of the Bird, and headed inside.

He looked to Hiyuuki-Sensei. "Should I put her in a Guest room, or do you have something else in mind?"

Jimmy stopped and gaped for a moment as he got down from the helicopter. Whoever his new boss was must have extremely large resources. Then, regaining his composure he rushed down to catch up with Zell.

"You may think me stupid, but I have come this far, and I still don't know how to adress my teamates and commander. So, to start things off, my name is James, or Jimmy, McFarland, but I respond just as readily to Sticks."
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Henry had the presence of mind not to engage in a heated discussion with the sensai or Jezebel until he was back out of the combat mindset. Nodding to Tala's friend, and politely excusing himself from the rest, he made his way to his room. He took off his combat wear, going back to the normal dark t-shirt and jeans. Comepletely disassembling all of his weapons, including the newly acquired assault rifle, he went about cleaning them slowly and methodically. The movements came automatically, and the work helped loosen nerves. As his subconcious cleaned firearms, the rest of his brain debriefed himself.

Mercury
flies alongside the HoverBird back to the Dojo having missed the departure of the villains' choppers.
(OOC: since I'm not allowed to follow them...)

Madison made a loud gulping noise. She turned to Tala looking desperate.

"You wouldn't do that to me would you T? Send me up river."

"I should!",Snarled Tala. Then she calmed down and patted Madison's back. "But I won't. I'd hate to see you suffer."

Tala turned to Jezebel. "Maddi, here has a life debt to me. She has to do what I say. Besides, I have a plan for her that I wanted to talk to these three about."

Tala nodded to the legends, and yet again Maddison was captivated into checking out the two young men.

OOC: Alright guys, I'm sorry about this, but as of Jan 8, this RP will be postponed for a tentative 3 weeks until I say otherwise, or unless Tarlachia is good enough to continue this thread for me. Sorry, this is due to circumstances beyond my control.

OOC: I can deal with a 3 week hiatus. I can work on other stuff I need to do. Besides, it's almost time for my exams I must study. See you all in 3 weeks!

OOC: Okee dokee. One less thing to worry about for a bit. Although I will probably have to write something on the calander so I can remember this thread at that time. :D Stupid ADD. Or some other convienently named problem to blame my problems with remembering things on. :p Take care y'all.

ooc: no problem. send me a tg on nationstates when you get back. Hope evertying goes OK GU, take it easy.

OOC: Yeah, things'll probably be stressful for a while here, too. Exams are coming up... but anyway, send a telegram when you get back, and I hope things go well.

Okay so I was just talking to GU. And he says this if off for another 2 weeks. Of course he has military training for another 7 weeks so who knows.

I think this means we'll be waiting another 5 weeks!

First week of March-ish then?

*Bumps thread with head.*
Ouch.

*bumps thread with a kick*

*Kicks F.C.N.*
Yeah, I'm bored.

Okay so I was just talking to GU. And he says this if off for another 2 weeks. Of course he has military training for another 7 weeks so who knows.

I would guess military training. Which is cool. If I trusted the army not to mess with my head, I would probably be doing the same thing.

OOC: From my calculations he should be done this weekend. Last time i saw him on MSN, I tried to talk to him but got no response. Here's praying he comes back soon.

Okay, I was just talking to GU. He says he'll be free for 12 days starting Wednesday. He'll probably restart then.

I'm glad for it. From what I have heard from reserve or ex-military friends, boot camp and basic training(or whatever you happen to have where you are) can be pretty rough.

The thread isn't on the front page anymore.

Bump it, then.

WHUMP!

I said "bump", not "whump"!

Who cares? It worked!

We'll have to delete all this extra stuff once GU gets back...

OOC: GU is retiring from NS. This is over and done with. sorry all.

WHAT!?!?!... damn...

OOC: GU is retiring from NS. This is over and done with. sorry all.
Uh... He's still doing other threads and even signed up for Assington's AV4...

Ah well, cool by me. 'Tis been nice playing with you guys, but now is the time for me to conveniently disappear from nationstates myself.

What the hell!? You're saying I've been waiting to restart for nearly 3 months, enduring delay after delay, just to have GU quit?

Doesn't bother me. System-less RP is not for me, people can't agree on actions without some dice or something to determine who wins.
Later all. Feel free to drop into the Scotland region sometime if you still play NS.

Uh... He's still doing other threads and even signed up for Assington's AV4...
*shrugs* We were talking on MSN and he told me that he would not be continuing this particular RP.

why not make your own? It seemed fairly popular to reach 40 pages....

OOC:

To all. I am terribly sorry.

Unfortunately, as Thrope may have told you all, I'm retiring from NS. The truth is, I'm only semi-retiring from NS, as in addition to military service, I also now have to cope with the demands of another RP site that I joined near the end of last year. In effect, this means I will only be RPing in some of Fatal Terrain's RPs, and will no longer be as active as before.

To that effect, I thank you all for giving us all such a good time. It's a shame to leave a story like this unfinished, but unfortunately, sacrifices have to be made. And this is mine. Sorry to all.

On a final note.......Graz. PM an NS RPer whose nation name is "Tarlachia". Tell him you have my special endorsement for future RPs, and ask him for an invitation to Fatal Terrain. Congratulations :)

Are you in Singapore or Taiwan? They're the only Asian countries that I know that mandate compulsory military training...

On a final note.......Graz. PM an NS RPer whose nation name is "Tarlachia". Tell him you have my special endorsement for future RPs, and ask him for an invitation to Fatal Terrain. Congratulations :)

Thanks, GU. I'm sad that we left the story like this... I can honestly say it was my favorite. God speed your way, and I hope I'll get the chance to RP with you again.

Thank you, Graz. Good luck in your future endeavours as well :)

5CN, I'm in Singapore, just so you know.