Hearing the gunfire in the distance, and watching the getaway car speed off from the bank, Lady Nova would streak after it at a astounding speed.She them one warning if they did not cease.....

"Pull over now or be detained!"

Stopping just ahead of it, planting herself firmly in the street ahead of it, before bringing her strength down on the hood of the car in one punch, presumably stopping it and sending it's occupants out through the windshield....

Lady Nova would instinctively erect a shield over herself, protecting herself and Rotten from the bullets that would follow. Already slightly ticked, she would grab the man's gun with surprising speed, and snap it in two apparently effortlessly, before grappling the thug and slamming him onto the hood of the car, with only enough force to knock him out....

"Thanks for the assist....and really..bullets...you guys aren't getting any smarter are you?"

(I got there at surprising speed, too. I walked... ;) )

Paul strolls over to the group looking to see if there's anything he could do; there wasn't so he hangs around for the flatbed tow truck to show up and gently lifts the car up onto the bed.
The tow truck driver comes up clearly impressed.."Hey, Thanks buddy! Saved me a lot o' work!" Smiling, they shake hands. "Ya know, you remind me of..." The big man interrupts him. "Yeah, I know...you read a lot, do you? Grinning, he turns back to the group.

Persona saw the group dash off down the block, but when she caught up, it was already over. "Well, I guess I spaced out a little too much there," She said once she'd caught her breath. "I really need to get a scanner or something to keep up..." She started to smile embarassedly, but just then her phone went off. She pulled it out of her pocket and answered it. "Yes Mariah? Wait, slow down...You're what?! Why didn't call the police first? Let me get this straight, you're hiding in a bathroom of the University museum because some freak with a Dracula cape is summoning undead? Ok, I'll get the police and the next cape I see to come help. Just keep that bathroom door locked and keep quiet, I don't think most undead have heat vision. They're mostly humans, not snakes right? Ok, I'll text your brother too. Conserve your battery then, I'll try to get over there as soon as I can. Bye."

She looked to the group, her look was one of worry and slight hardness. "That was my friend Mariah," She said, "She and I are both Egyptology majors. She said there was some Vampire attacking Titan City University's Museum. While it's a small one, we do have a few magical artifacts with extra protection on display, and a few that have just come up from a dig in Turkey that we're in the middle of processing. Mariah and I happen to be a couple of the graduate fellows that were working on processing that stuff. I think that the vampire guy might be after one of them." She looks to the cops. "Hey, could you send a unit over to the Titan City University Museum? I assume you heard what I told the supers here."

The one free police officer nodded and got on the radio, saying what was happening and that it was a citizen tip. Persona quickly texted Mariah's brother, then slid her phone back in her pocket. "So, anyone want to come with me? I may need the help on this." While awaiting a response, she chanted "Oh lady of ten thousand names, I implore you to change, my face, my form, into this, my chosen character. Wearing their mask I seek, in Ma'at, her balance to keep. May our souls shine as one in the service of the Netjeru! Aset, Weret-Hekau Shift!" As she was chanting this, the Amethyst d20 on her bracelet lit up, she reached back to her pouch, opened it, a clasped onto a character sheet she had in mind. Her glasses disappeared and a silver heart inside a peridot green star and a purple trailing ribbon line art appeared on her right cheek. Closing her eyes, she heard as the magical energy flow around her [i]Do you want me in my own form, or as the Herald?[/i] Taking a deep breath she thought [i]The Herald please, it's a long walk to the University and we've got a vampire to deal with.[/i] [i]Alright, Iryetra, Siwy! Khuwi muti iryetra, khuwi netyuwi iryetra! I am the Herald![/i] When she opened her eyes, the energy that had been gathering, released in a flash of light and changed her into the Herald. Her hair color was much the same and the sides were up in a gold Eye of Ra hairclip, but her eye color and skin color were green and tan respectively. She wore a ankle length white linen dress with the front of the sleeves cut out, showing a silver cat armband, and gold sandals. The dress was cinched by a gold and silver lotus drape belt with a silver Eye of Ra belt buckle. Upon the belt, there was a loop and a ankh sistrum with a Bast handle within the loop. She wore a golden collar with an Eye of Ra that had a malachite for an eye and the collar looked like a watchband. There was also a silver ankh necklace, silver Eyes of Heru dangle earrings, and the most peculiar gold ankh bindi with a malachite set in the loop that looked like it was implanted into her forehead.

As the light died down, she looked around the scene. "Well, let's get there, shall we? Nut's Gift!" she said in a slightly more gravelly alto and, upon saying the last part, started floating 6 inches off the pavement.

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As the light died down, she looked around the scene. "Well, let's get there, shall we? Nut's Gift!" she said in a slightly more gravelly alto and, upon saying the last part, started floating 6 inches off the pavement.

Amerikatt watches in amazement as a startling metamorphosis occurs to the female Furless One. She tilts her head as she takes note of The Great Mother's sigil and a brief brushing of Her power.

*Amerikatt draws closer to Persona*

"Mrara!" ((Okay. I'm with you!))

Lady Nova would be streaking behind Persona/Herald, also noting the zombies that swarm the campus....

"Why is it ALWAYS zombies....regardless, we have students to save, I'll begin to clear a path through the museum, GO!"

Without warning she would dive at escape velocity into a mass of zombies at the entrance to the University Museum, detonating in a repulse of energy, sending them flying, clearing a path for Persona

"Yeah yeah yeah it's always the Zombies fault. Not like we normally have a choice." Muscling his way past some of the Zombies shoving them aside with out a care in the world. "These are differently the mindless kind. The question is what triggered it. Magic, Virus, Evil science, or Night of the living dead radiation?" He stops his advance and looks to a Zombie biting his shoulder. "sorry buddy I don't swing that way." Then punches the undead fellow in the face.

"Why thank you kindly, Overdrive, but I can manage. ;) ", whereupon the large man takes off running and with a couple of preliminary bounds, leaps into the air.

Shepherd looked at the zombies and as he scanned for an aura. they didn't have souls so only thing he could go by were their auras in which he seen dark magic, most likely from one of the artifacts the vampire came to get. The Ghostwalker looked at Rotten.

"There is definitely some dark magic involved most likely from one of the artifacts the Vampire came for in the Egyptian exibit. Since it was Egyptian artifacts the vampire came for, Was there anything that was taken that may have had some connection to Anubis, the Egyptian god of death?"

Shepherd couldn't help but feel for Rotten. He tangled with a few necromancers in his time. There was one that kept coming up i his memory. One in particular that became a high ranking demon of hell after slaying his master. He was as evil as they came. The dark Savior summoned his guns the twins, as he began to fire at the zombies, killing them with headshots.

Well if this was done with an artifact, we need to get it back pronto."

A spear of light would pierce a zombie near Shepherd, before Lady Nova herself would appear behind it's crumpling form, before launching the same spear like a javelin into a zombie that shuffled before her, taking it down, the constructed weapon dissipating into fizzles of energy...

"Or destroy it if necessary, however with magic....is it ever that simple? Regardless, we have some citizens in danger to save, and the zombies are merely a distraction so the big bad can make off with or gain access to the artifact in question...."

She would begin to walk up the steps to the museum, blasting zombies out of the way without breaking stride, before punting one through the door with a bone shattering crack, leaving it open. Turning back them both, she would smile and muse...

"Try to keep up boys"

With that, she would slip inside...

He looked over to Persona. For a moment he wondered if she had the power to stop these Zombies if he should just stand there perhaps she could put him out of his misery. Then again the magic binding him was much more powerful and of an unknown origin then these shambling undead. If she didn't have the power to brake the spells on him then he will reanimate a supercharge hunger driven monster. He bolts to a tree and jumps grabbing hold of a branch as she hits the ground sending the energy wave over the corpses.

A normal human body under stress can do amazing things. Lift cars move boulders... however a normal body has tissue that suffer if that kind of stress lasts to long, tendons snap muscles rip.. Rotten don't have those limits. He rips the 4 inch around branch off the tree "Sorry" he mumbled to the tree. Then uses it as a club smashing his way to the students near the music hall. "Hey Someone better get over to those students before the chick with the sword think I'm one of these horde."

As the goul approached he students as a couple of cross shaped blades made of energy appeared in front of the goul and zombies that exploded. Shepherd appeared in front of the students as he teleported from the museum his mask disappeared from his face. He looked at the pile of ash left by Amerikatt as she blasted alot of the zombies that were there. The creatures had to be coming from somewhere since more kept appearing on the university grounds. He then looked at the students.

"The names Gideon, think of me as your Guardian Angel."

Shepherd's memory had started returning in this encounter. he remembered who he was. Gideon The Dark Savior. The Ghostwalker waved his hand in front of his nose as the smell of the burnt zombies hit him. With all his experience, he still couldn't get used to the smell of rotting flesh.

Upon reaching the foyer and hearing Persona's reply, Lady Nova would begin blasting away zombies left and right, vaporizing them, as she clears the way for fleeing students, while making her way downstairs..

"Any idea on who this guy might be...?!"

"No idea..Ra aha!" Herald said and blasted yet another zombie. "The museum did a news article in the Daily Titan about the dig, so anyone with a internet connection or that picked up a paper could be the culprit," Persona said. "Damn it, I don't want to use another Tayet's blessing yet! It taxes me a lot more than you think it does." Herald said. "Fine," Persona said with a huff, "I'll try and up the collar's energy allotment next time I've got the character points for it, if Max doesn't make me want to dump all of them in healing again. Woah, Ra aha!" Persona said as a zombie jumped out at her as she was heading downstairs and vaporized it with a Ra's Wrath.

The flames of Amerikat went around him. Yeah he was undead but what ever power that little feline has seems to see Rotten as a good undead instead of one of the "Nasty ones". He didn't know to react to that. One side he almost wished he was destroyed on the other he wonders if deep down he was a good guy. Sure he was helping out saving the day all that stuff. However he doesn't feel it not really the other heroes have passion, he didn't even try to enter the burning building earlier till the flames were already under controlled. Then at the bank robbery and now here he was more interested in hitting things then saving the students.

He shifted the Branch/club onto his shoulder and looked around. A smile came to his lips as he spy the Goul "Lunch time." Then he charged and starts swinging the club for the beasts head.

A large group of the undead suddenly erupted in a flash of blue light, flying backwards as their flesh singed and burnt from the energy which impacted them. Blasts of blue eldritch energy flew from where they once stood, impacting and burning more of the foul creatures with some being cut by it. In the midst of the ensuing devastation was a man garbed in red robes with bluish arcane designs decorating a few areas, most of his face covered in a black mask. He spied Rotten and began to cast in his direction, bolts of magick flying at the unfortunate one.

The man drops to his knees as the air gets thinner, wheezing out his next few words.

"What you're doing.. is an.. error."

And with that, he uses what strength he has to conjure a wall of energy in the speedster's path, imagining the unfortunate man would slam into it comically like in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Getting up from being pushed down by Overdrive. "Relax Speedy. He most lightly thought I was one of these Mindless Zombies. He was blasting the others and we need all the help we can..." That was when he heard Overdrives cry for help.

"Crap speeders act first think 10 seconds to late." He looked at mage "Hey Look I'm not one of the Mindless hordes. I'm fighting these things." Then he charges swinging his club at the Zombies attacking Overdrive. "Okay People game plan Melee folk stick together, Range damage focus attacks to the left and right of the Melee group. Anyone got support powers of any kind start laying them down. Remember these things are empty shells. If some of you magic users can figure out a way to neutralize the magic animating them... Do it!"

The red-robed mage stands slowly, coughing and sputtering as he tries to catch his breath. He hears Overdrive's cries and shakes his head a little, thinking [i]Idiot.. should have seen that coming[/i]. He shrugs and begins an eldritch assault once more, flinging the magic bolts at the zombies attacking the speedster. Any undead that tried to catch him off guard would suddenly burst into holy flames upon contact with his body before being kicked away.

"Just an Idea, get the civilians inside. Second story we can use the steps as a choke point... or even better destroy the steps once the civilians are up there!"

Shepherd follows suite as he has the students hold on to him as he begins teleporting them to a safer location, away from the zombies' reach. While do so he would summon then launch some of his crossblades, creating distance between the zombies and the students as he teleported them.

Lady Nova would appear as a blinding streak of light as she bombards clusters of zombies, one group after another, only stopping to scoop and deposit unfortunate students who managed to get caught in the fray, into safe areas.

Stopping near the heroine known as Galaxy Gal, she would calmly face plant two zombies who manage to sneak up behind the two through concrete, and would greet her between tossing disintegrating blasts at zombies who manage to stray too close..

"Hey, aren't you Galaxy Gal, I'm Lady Nova, welcome to Titan City....stuff like this tends to happen often!"

*Amerikatt flies into the heart of where the undead hordes are heaviest and, a moment later, she is swallowed by a deluge of undead flesh*

[size=24][color=green][b]KA-BOOM![/b][/color][/size]

*Amerikatt falls to the ground unconscious as scores of undead, including a few of the more powerful ones, are consumed in the Sacred Green Flame*

After the civilians were safe, Shepherds saw what Galaxy Girl was attempting. The mystic gunslinger teleported in front of Rotten to shield him as he looked down at the Heroine

"He's not one of them, he's with us!"

Shepherd nodded as he summoned some crossblades made of unstable energy and launched them at rthe steps, destroying the stairs as they exploded on impact. That should keep the students safe while they took care of the undead horde. As all that was happening Shepherd saw Amerikatt lying in a crater. He had been so busy with making sure the students were safe that he didn't have time to check on the explosion. The Ghostwalker teleported to where the blue cat was laying and picked her up before teleporting back up the top of the stairs with the cat in his arms.

Lady Nova would smirk at Galaxy Gal before frying several more zombies casually....

"It's fine, mistakes happen...I may have made they same mistake if I hadn't seen him with us earlier...no offense Rotten or GG..."

Shepherd looked at Rotten as he set Amerikatt down.

"I found her in a crater I assume she was the reason for the explosion earlier"

"Vamps..." Rotten takes off his glasses and slips them in his pocket. "Well you hearrd the lady the conserrvatory. There people to save, a vampire to stop, and zzombies to rreturn to theirr peace." He turned and barged for the conservatory if people notice there was a slight slur to his voice. His actions were more wild then the controlled fighting style he had before. Then there was his eyes they had a look of hunger within them the kind of look a lion would have seeing a meal for the first time in weeks.

People call Zombies monsters, but living as one Rotten knew the truth. They weren't different then any other humans. All the horror of a Zombie was the horror humanity can cause reflected. Hunters of old could stalk their prey for days, people can shrug off pain that would put other animals into shock. So much so they can cut off their own arm if they needed too. They could summon huge amount of might and strength to lift cars or boulders. They can tap into echo location, a form of sensory awareness people call ESP. All that humanity could do, it just humanity have safeguards build in means to limit how much force they can muster at one time, or become reliant on one or two senses..

Rotten has no such limits. That monstrous predator was now on the hunt using every sense functioning in full operation. After all there was a reason Zombies swarm they pick up on the faint traces a human might skip. Traces like the smell of sweat, blood, a yell. Or in this case the different scent of a Vampire. Faintly in the back of his mind he wondered how he missed it. But then that when his brain was in full operation, now the hunter was setting in. The Hunger of an animal, one would have to wonder if it was still controlled.

Much like a rampaging beast he only slowed down to smash at a door, or throw a table out of his way, as he made his way. A beastly growl was released as he locked on to his first moving blockade a Goul. Unlike the other reanimated bodies Rotten still does have that human edge. His movements were faster more focused then the mindless husks of the Necromancer Vampire. He also wasn't bothering with controlled kills, slamming heads with enough force to brake and disconnect spines, smashing skulls to splatter what remains of the brains. Rotten was showing no mercy and taking no prisoner... well not that he was before either. Just now it seemed less of a Hero fighting a horde and more like a Monster fighting Monsters.

Herald wrote:

"We've found the vampire. He's down in the conservatory and he's got some hostages. I can't take him and his...honor guard on alone. Please send help,"

Amerikatt limply picked her head up. Re's revitalizing rays were recharging her solar cells. Weakly, she lifted herself off the ground and attempted to fly, but only accomplished a pitiful hop. It would be a few minutes more before she was herself again.

Lady Nova would silently land behind the robed mage, noticing his attempts at knocking, and would gently brush past him, before punting the door with the force of a howitzer shell, muttering something about sparkling monstrosities before charging forward.

Entering the room, she would toss a localized flash bang towards the khaki Dracula, hoping to size him up before engaging him, attempting to distract him, shouting...

"Twilight sucked ass and you know it, Taylor Lautner chugged roids!!"

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Shepherd ... took one look back to check on Amerikatt before putting his hand over her and transfering some spiritual energy into her body to help her recover quicker.

"Mew-mew!" Amerikatt said to Shepherd moments before he teleported.

Feeling a bit friskier, Amerikatt pounced into the air and joined the Furless Ones at the museum.

Shepherd scanned his spiritual signature for an aura and all he saw was darkness which is what he always saw when looking at a vampire, but it could hae ben the amulet a he saw the magic that amulet was releasing. He then turned to Lady Nova.

"I see the same type of aura I see when looking at a vampire but there is also magic coming out of that amulet, so that may be the cause. Only way to find out is to remove the amulet."

Standing somewhat to the side of the others, Rose frowns. "Is he gonna eat us when he's done with them?" Shrugging, she moves to a good vantage point, fingering her cards. She frowns, and holds a card up between herself and the supposed Vampire. Closing her eyes to concentrate, she curls the card up in her hand. A few moments go by before it bursts into golden light. The card's energy flares out, and would attempt to form runed 'boots' around the monster's feet, rooting him to the spot.

She kept her fingers crossed...

The mage stands there with wide-eyes as he watches Nova huff her way past, just speechless at the sight, though something else threw him off. He muses aloud as he makes his way to the room with the others, any undead remains being lit ablaze as he passes by them.

"..What the hell is 'Twilight'? And who is this Taylor Lautner woman?"

When he reaches the conservatory, his eyes set upon the now-rooted bloodsucker and begin to lightly glow blue as well.

"Servant of the night.. I come for thee."

Herald would be amazed at the swiftness of the backup that had been called for, if she wasn't busy shooting at ghasts. "These things are a lot harder to kill than those fodder you summoned," she commented, flying around trying to avoid the ghasts' jump attacks.

"They're meant to be," Anemiator said, and was not impressed by the banter of the other heroes. "My dear, I can assure you that I've been of the vampire race since the nineteen-twenties." He dodged Rotten gracefully before being rooted down. "Oh, so a mage is in your midst? I'll have to add your power to my own then." He countered Rotten's charge with a vampiric claw attack, the light javelin just barely severing the chain of his cloak's chain, which did look like an amulet. He twisted a bit then, trying to break free of the boots, and that's when the others would be able to see the out of place armlet on his left arm. It was definitely Hittite, and had some dirt and sand upon it still, like it wasn't yet ready for display. He growled at Lady Nova. "That was my favorite cape brooch chain! I do not care for your holiness weapon, but it will take more than a magical tie down and a sunlight weapon to destroy me." He paused a moment, and a few of the ghasts came rushing at the heroes, attempting to claw and gnaw them. One was up in Rose's face, another was in Amerikatt's, the last was in Shepard's face.

That just left a pair of ghasts and the mummy going after Herald/Persona. One of them finally went down to a Ra's Wrath when she noticed the tattered writings on the mummy's bandages. "Hey, that's Wadjheru! That fucker animated our resident Late Period mummy!" Persona said. "Oh he's so paying for that!"

"I doubt the akh was pulled from Amenti, so no need to get too worked up about it," Herald said.

"Yeah, but still...the anthropology department would raise hell if it were made to dust. It took them several years to procure him for study."

Herald nodded. "I'll do what I can."

He turned as the pack of hotdogs entered his view of vision. In hindsight it might not have been a good idea to distract the unkillable meat shield. The ghasts flew past him to attack the others. For a moment it seemed he was fighting with himself looking from the hotdogs to Anemiator then back. The Hunger won and he did a diving leap for the dogs gripping them he didn't even bother removing the wrapper biting into them.

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"Oh, so a mage is in your midst? I'll have to add your power to my own then."

The mage scoffs at this before giving a grin hidden behind his mask, hand waving in a "c'mon!" gesture to the taunting Vamp.

"Really now? Then come on, show me what you have. Although, having to summon help must mean you're a weak one."

One of the ghasts ran to him and dropped to its knees in burning agony, writhing in pain as holy fire engulfed its body making the already putrid smell of the ghast even worse. This warranted another smirk from him.

"Oh.. wait. You wouldn't happen to be one of those 'undead' vampyres, would you? See, I'm your worst enemy then cause.. you know.." he points to the burning ghast "Holy aura."

With that, he slings magical bolts at the vamp, aiming mainly for the artifact in its hand.

Startled by the ghast in her face, Rose nearly dropped her cards in haste to make room between her and the undead critter.

"Oh [i]hell[/i] no!" she yelled, three cards hovering around her now, only to slam into the creature with enough force to stagger the beast. One erupted into a golden-runed net that slowly encircled it, the second giving a hot burst of light to the beast's face. The third bounced back at her, a protective shield crawling slowly around her body. Amerikatt's work singed the edges of her beast, helping the fiery runes to burn away at the thing.

Stumbling against a pillar, nose leaking blood, she tries to hide herself as well as she can. From the glazed look in her eyes it was clear she wouldn't be in the fight much longer...

Still with a hot dog in his mouth Rotten stood up and looked at the Vampire. He takes the hot dog out and grins "Hot dogs are fine but I think I go for some steak how about you?" Then he smashes a table nearby and grabs the leg snapping it so it formed a point.

The Deadman was back in the game and he thew the stake right for him. But then instead of charging he rushed for the Ghasts "ROAR yourselves you floating balls of snot! COME AT ME!" Taunt power activate! He just charged punching the Ghasts or in the case of the One attacking Rose just ran right into it.

Before the vampire could do any more damage, he was met with a couple of cross shaped energy blades in his path to create some separation as Shepherd launched his crossblades Shepherd looked at the vampire then smirked

"Hey Edward! Let's see how well you fare against someone who has experience with your kind."

The Ghostwalker then pulled down his hood revealing his angelic features with his silvery white hair and glowing electric blue eyes. Lady Nova was the only one to see his face along with the mother and child he saved.