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Magda giggles, shifts into a cat, and stalks around the tree. She shrinks down to kitten-size and pounces his shoe ferociously! Gnawgnawgnaw, bat, bat... and then the pixie reappears sitting in mid-air.
"Kenning is easy. Just start with something small and make it something else. My kind used to do that to lure in the humans that fascinated us. But that food would be useless... like eating air. Good and filling while one was in the Mound, but poof! like air once you left. We could make it of sustaining stuff, but they thought it was a much better game if the food vanished from full tummies." She plucks a grass stem from the ground, and lets it hover between her outstretched hands. It swirls around, splitting and turning into two exquisitely decorated chocolate candies.
"Two is better than one!" she giggles merrily, her form shifting again into her usual shape sometime in the middle of her little speech. She deposits the large candies onto the plate with the rest of the food.
Looking up, she sees her friend, and flutters up, shifting to kitty form long enough to rub cheeks with Amerikatt before perching on another tree limb. She wraps her kitty arms and legs around the limb in a big hug, and shifts again to her usual shape.
"I like this one. She feels happy."
[color=blue]You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
[i]George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)[/i][/color]
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Holly felt a sense of hope in all her confusion, fear and uncertainty. Working with Lady Nova would not only allow her to improve herself, it might also help her find out more about herself, but before she could give her reply, she suddenly found her vision blurring and fading for a moment, signalling that her time was coming to an end, at least for now.
To Lady Nova's keen eyes, a dark, chilling mist, invisible to the eyes of common men and inorganic creatures began to slowly take over. It had a ruthless and powerful flow, like a spider trying to drag the kind butterfly away to be eaten. "Lady Nova, I'd love to take you up on your offer, but I'm afraid... that I must leave now," she replied.
Not wanting to lose her first superhero friend, at least she saw her as such, in this new city, she lowered her tone and spoke to her, "We may meet up again in the future, be it as friends or as foes. Unfortunately, I'm not the only facet of personality that exist in this body. Holly is but another side, a dissociated existence, if you will. If you see me again in a less amicable situation that necessitates you to fight, I sincerely hope that you don't hold back."
Feeling her own consciousness started to lose its grip on the flesh, Holly stood up and looked at Lady Nova. "Thank you for talking to me. I truly enjoy this short time we have," she said with a polite nod. "I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. May we both meet again at a better time."
As if prompted by something urgent, she turned back and made a mad dash into the inner, downtown suburbs, clutching desperately onto her consciousness. She ran and didn't stop until she found a small, dark alley, where she finally let her fatigue and slipping grip on reality set in. "Such a shame... And here I was hoping that I could talk to her for a bit longer..." she sadly mused to herself and leaned against a nearby trash dump, her consciousness gradually fading. She silently hoped that no innocent passerby or, in her worst case scenario, a hero would stumble upon her body.
"She was... such a nice woman too..."
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"Mrarara!" ((Hi, Magda! Here's the Matriarch Oak I was telling you about! I hope you enjoy it!))
"Mraaa!" ((Yay!)) Amerikatt says, gleefully!
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Noticing the mist, and the tone of genuine distress and longing in Holly's voice, along with her mention of alternate personalities, and not holding back in the event of a fight, Lady Nova would set after her, against her better judgement. Sighing, before pressing forward, she would briefly think out loud...
"She would do the same thing for me, and there has to be something I could do to help her..."
Tracking down a energy trail to an alley, she would allow her palm to glow, serving as a flashlight, searching the alleyway for her friend...
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He watches the two in the tree a moment. "Well I take it your not the kind of fae that would play such a cruel trick on a mortal. That feline there doesn't offer friendship to anyone." Then he begins to eat the offered sandwich as he returns to watch the comings and goings of the people at Phoenix Plaza. A slight tilt of the head as he spotted Lady Nova go into an alleyway.
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1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
"No, 'course not. 'Twould be intolerably cruel. I was once one'v those treated as nothing... so it's happened that I know something of pain." she shrugs a fuzzy shoulder, and gives a cheerful smile. "The last world, an' now this one are where I can spread joy and safety where I can."
She perches on the tree branch and inhales deeply, letting it out in a gusty sigh. She pulls a tiny spiderweb-woven something out of a fold in her clothes and whispers something to it, holding it cupped in her hands. She then drops it, and it grows as it falls. It thunks at the man's feet, turning into a backpack stuffed to the brim.
"Use what ya need, an' share out the rest with those ya can. When yer done with it, just toss it into the wind, and it'll go back to spiderwebs."
She purrs deeply toward Amerikatt, a gentle warmth and deep feeling of contentment wash from her in almost intoxicating waves. She hands over a tiny pouch of leaves to the kitty.
"If yer hungry, just tell it you want the food. It's got some'v the spiced fish we shared."
Turning to face the trunk, she settles herself comfortably and begins to concentrate. Slowly, a seam forms in the tree's trunk. Unlike a logger's axe, however, this splitting causes no pain, and Amerikatt might even feel the tree itself opening as if hands were parting the bark to meet Magda's urging it to open. Giggling, she slips inside the opening, looking at her friend as if to dare the kitty to follow.
[color=blue]You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
[i]George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)[/i][/color]
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"Mew-mew-maa!" ((Thank-you for the noms!))
*Amerikatt follows Magda into the tree, tail held high, the pouch of leaves in her mouth*
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Shen Zao continued moving towards the strange concentration of chi, the path continuing to lead him towards Phoenix Plaza.
However, as he drew closer, it began to change, growing dark and menacing. He stopped for a second and closed his eyes to refresh his chi sense, to make sure he hadn't latched on to a different focal point. But it was still the same one and he tracked it to an alley, just as a young woman with a glowing hand stepped into the alley. He landed lightly on the roof of the building that made up one wall of the alley. Dropping off the edge to hang by his hands and plant his feet, he navigated his way to ground level quickly with a graceful series of vaults, landing a few feet from Lady Nova. Though he could have done it quietly , he made sure to make enough noise on his trip down to draw her attention.
"Greetings, Living Light, I am Shen Zao. You must tread carefully here. I sense an unnatural focus of chi energy developing ahead."
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
The punk teen made his way through the lush expanse of Phoenix Park. He was headed back to the nearby univeristy. He felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. Slowing down, he fished it out to check the number. He had a new voice mail as he seemed to have missed a call while he was transformed. It still confused him how the magical transformation disrupted his phone. Giving a frustrated sigh as he saw a familiar number.
"Hey!" the blue wisp whispered to him, "Who is it?"
"It's my mum," he replied gesturing with the phone.
Flipping the phone open, he braced himself for the verbal tongue lashing that was about to happen. After only two rings he heard the tell-tale click of someone answering. He held the phone away from his ear in the expectation of hearing a tirade but it never happened. He warily eyed the phone as if it would leap out of his to bite his face. Slowly, he brought the phone back to his ear.
"Hello," he spoke softly into the reciever.
"Don't you hello me, Kael Brynn," an irate sounding female voice came from the other end, "I called you three times today and you only now decide to return my calls."
"Sor-"
"And what of your dear sweet sister? She tried to call you too. What could you be doing that is so important that you can't answer your phone?"
"It's not li-"
"I did not slave away all those years to send you to that university just so you could spend all your time partying."
This continued for several minutes; with the teen now identified as Kael trying to keep pace with his mother's rant while also trying to ignore the ruckus laughter of his erstwhile companion. Every so often, he tried to explain or even voice a retort but every time he would be interrupted. His companion's laughter only grew in volume after each such failed attempt. He gave the pixie his most withering glare only for it to have the opposite effect on the creature. Rolling his eyes at her antics, he returned his attention back to the phone. Just not in time.
"Are you even listening to me, young man?"
"Bwa- of course, mum," he tried to lie.
"Do not lie to me! I'll call back when you have the time to talk to your dear mother and sister." The rant ended with a final click before falling silent. A few seconds later, his phone buzzed letting him know he had a new text message. Flipping the phone open, he scanned the note. It was from his sister. It explained that their mother was simply messing with him and was not that mad. He smiled as he sent off a note of thanks before pocketing the phone. He glanced around, having stopped at a nearby tree until his mother was done. Shooting another glare at his still laughing pixie-ish companion, he remarked, "Glad I could entertain you, Ashling."
She stuck out her tongue at that; then returned to laughing.
Eating his sandwich as he enjoys the shade of the tree he couldn't help but over hear the teen on the phone nor the blue pixie. [I] you called those beings Fae, they seem to be common.[/i] he shrugs and softly "Not as common as one would think, only a handful interact with people and among them a very small few are friendly. Any other place I doubt you even see them."
[i] so this city special?[/i] "I don't know it's kind of a nexus forces tend to gravitate to here. For good or evil power attracts power."
[i] Like a Sun bringing life and death [/i] He looks around and to the Phoenix statue. "It's not perfect but it's home."
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Magda calls out to the man below her new tree-home, "Come up if you want, there's plenty of room!"
As she and Amerikatt crawl into the tree's opening, it expands out in all directions in a way that trees shouldn't be allowed to expand. There was a sourceless light that sent shafts along the floor and several railings like sunlight. In truth, it was sunlight, filtered in through the tree herself. Many rooms spread out along a spiral staircase that goes bottom to top, vines and flowers still spreading themselves over any surface they can cling to. Tiny arbors and little hidden gardens spring to life everywhere with hammocks strung between deeply overhanging vine curtains, and mossed-over platforms everywhere just in the right spots to catch the sunlight.
Magda purrs deeply, very satisfied with her work with the tree. Of course, like with all magic of this sort, there'd be no change in the outside of the tree but for a cleverly hidden opening in the trunk. She curls up on a mossy patch complete with vines and beautiful-smelling deep blue flowers.
[color=blue]You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
[i]George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)[/i][/color]
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When she opened her eyes, the first thing she noticed was that it was dark, dark and very much smelly. As she gathered her senses once more, the second thing she finally made note of was that she was no longer at the same place she was last time. Whereas she last recalled being on a concrete rooftop, she now found herself sitting beside a trash dump, her helmet being the only reason her face and head didn't smell like rotting food.
[i]'Okay... This is getting ridiculous,'[/i] she thought with no minor annoyance. [i]Of all the places I could wake up at, this is probably the worst place I've been dumped at so far.[/i]
Unfortunately for her, just as Sea Holly was about to stand up and have a better look of her surroundings, her hand happened to land on something soft, warm and furry, something humans called a rat. Being a physically trained and mentally conditioned woman didn't make her too different from many other women when it came to dealing with certain animals.
Naturally, the first thing that came out of her hidden mouth was a surprised shrill, followed by the rat's premortem shriek as she reached for the nearest knife she carried with her and stabbed the poor animal to death with a clean cut on its neck. "Tch! Just a damn rat..." she muttered as she examined the rat's bloody carcass, standing up with her back facing a light and two people who happened to be in that same alleyway.
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Lady Nova would blink at being called 'Living Light', but nods anyway, before noticing Holly's form in the alley, not wasting any time, she would rush to the girl with surprising speed, lifting her out of the gunk of the alleyway, allowing a shield of light to envelop the helmeted girl, scraping off any other trash, before escorting her out of the alley.....
"Holly are you alright...?!"
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Melody was out well past curfew. She knew it. Her friends knew it, and she didn't care. School was boring anyway, she didn't care if they wouldn't let her back in. Some rule about zero tolerance for capes using their abilities on normies. It wasn't HER fault Jacob had broken her best friends heart.......... it might have been her fault his car melted.
Melody grinned at her friend across the table. Sammy had been down all day, she wasn't even very excited when Melody slag heaped the car. Sammy had long ago stopped getting mad at Melody for her impulsive nature. She didnt hide the fact she thought Melody fully deserved to be suspended.
"Sammy if you don't talk to me i will listen to music!" Melody put her earbuds near her head and stuck her tongue out. "And it's Imagine Dragons!"
Sammys eyes went wide. "noooooooo, not here, I LIKE this place. Fine I'll talk to you again." Sammy changed the subject. "So you need some sort of secret identity right?"
Melody nodded. The two had been cape watching from the coffee shop all day. The owner was some low level technical genius or something from some moon or another... The coffee shop projected a force field when violent activity approached it. It would not stop an act of chaos that started from inside though, so Sammy figured she would cater to her friends current concerns.
"Well yeah, and a costume. My boobs arn't nearly big enough for half the stuff I see the supers running around in. Do I have to hide my face? I think I look good dancing. Didn't you see how Rachel was looking at me?" Melody did have a point Sammy thought, and Rachel really did have a crush on Mel. Sammy got a wicked idea and grinned at Melody.
"We can call you A-minor!" The play on words refering to not only Melodys non existant chest, but her age and power at the same time. Melody scowled and half pouted.
"Shut up, I was thinking 'Quiet Riot'" Sammy made a gag face at the name. "How about ... Bass Line?" Melody thought for a minute then shook her head. "Someone might think I fish or something. What about Juke Box?" The girls looked at each other... Sam started to giggle.. "Yeah that would be good until people know you are a lesbian."
Melody face palmed and than laughed a bit. Sam always made everything so dirty. Sam sat up a bit. "Firebeat?" Melody shook her head no "Sounds like one of those stupid things in that game your brother plays.
The two girls kept discussing possible secret identities for Melody.
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Tyrian shook his head as he walked away from the two he had approached for help. He looked down at himself and thought he didn't look that scary. As he strode, he paused for a moment to once again take in his surroundings. Everything seemed so peaceful around him. Kids were playing, people moving about, coming and going without any look of fear or concern. Between the sound of the wind blowing, kids playing, and the occasional horn from a car, he could hear something. He listened intently and looked for the origin of the sound. After a minute, he could tell it was singing.
He moved toward the singing getting closer and closer he saw it was coming from a cathedral. The singing grew more and more beautiful as he could hear it better. He approached the steps and was so focused on the door he almost didn't notice the feeling of being watched. He paused and looked around, but nothing immediately stood out to him. Some of the parapets of the roof did seem ominous though. He never did understand why a place as beautiful as a church would have such hideous things like gargoyles and other monsters decorating the roof. Still, with nothing bearing down on him, he slowly opened the door and went in.
The inside was dimly lit with candles all around. It seemed almost a different world. He could see paintings and tapestries covering the walls. The walls and pillars where he could see, were a brilliant white and trimmed with gold. Some corners had bookshelves filled with old tomes. Incense filled the air and the singing echoed all around. Even the ceilings were painted in master works of art. A large altar was at the front with the group singing to the right side of it. There was a window up high at the back of entrance of the building with mirrors around it reflecting light towards the altar so that it was illuminated during all hours of daylight and was the brightest object in the room.
A monk, or at least he looked like a monk Tyrian thought, approached him and bowed slightly and said in a low voice "Welcome to the Cathedral of Light. We are always happy to have one of the titans come in for a visit. We offer only our best for those who bring peace to our city. Is there anything I can do for you sir?"
"Well met sir. My name is Tyrian and I am new to this city, I think. I awoke on the ground in the park just over there and I have no memory of how I got there. Could you help me?"
"No memory? Well, your not the first I've treated for loss of memory, though I admit, most people go to the hospital first. We have had a larger number of Titans as of late coming into the city. I have heard rumors, but nothing to be certain of."
"Just as well. I thank you for your help, but I will not trouble you further. I heard the singing and felt as if the singing was for me. Thank you again sir."
Tyrian turned to leave and the monk put his hand on him and said " Hold a minute if you would sir. The marking on your arms, it looks familiar." Two marks on Tyrians forearms were glowing brightly. "Let me get our head scribe, he should see this. Please just wait a moment."
The monk moved quickly to a winding staircase against the wall and descended out of sight. Tyrian looked at the marks glowing brightly as though a fire was burning them. He felt no pain and had not noticed them before. They must have started glowing once he had gone inside the cathedral. As he looked at them, they drew him in and suddenly his head began to split in pain. He dropped to his knees and held his head. His mind was filled with visions. He could see people running in panic, fire burning, buildings falling, the sound of a thousand thousand explosions filled his ears, then suddenly nothing.
Tyrian opened his eyes and say he was laying in a bed in a small room. He was dripping with sweat and his heart was pounding in his chest. "Calm down sir, calm down! Your alright. Its ok." A soft voice reassured him. A young woman was by his side with her hand on his shoulder.
looking up "We thank you kindly, but we like to feel the sun. Even in this shade we get enough light to ... I mean I like to be outside right now." He set the plate down beside him and looked about his eyes caught sight of an Air ship high up in the sky.
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1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Amerikatt frolicked inside the furnished tree, letting loose a kittenish squee of delight!
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Shen Zao rocked back on his heels as his warning was pretty much ignored by the other hero. Still, it was his duty to protect the people of the city, and he could still feel the way the chi around this "Holly" was being twisted unnaturally.
As Lady Nova helped the girl out of the alley, Zao took up a position on the street, quietly requesting that people stay clear when they walked near the two women.
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
Sea Holly wasn't happy about being touched by anyone she couldn't recognize, let alone being carried away to wherever this person felt like carrying her to. The moment she was put down, she slapped her hand away and, with a audibly disgruntled tone, retorted, "Keep your hands off me!" Her voice was callous and filled with pragmatic malice, like a spider lashing out at a threat.
Behind her helmet, her eyes finally had a good look at who was talking to her, a woman clad in a tight, body-hugging suit, and recalled her being amongst the heroes that mingled around when she last saw them. She felt a vibe of power as she touched her, one that she couldn't afford to underestimate.
She also saw another man some distance away from both of them, a bald man of Asian descent clad in a gi and what seemed to be white pants, although the lack of light was obscuring the color of his top garment. He was keeping people off from them and his back was turned to her, but his upright stance and, much like the woman, a jolt of vibe he gave off warned her that he may be able to back himself up.
She didn't know who they were and assumed that they were just doing the 'good guy' routine. Given that she was found in an alleyway, most likely when she was unconscious, she had assumed that they were patrolling the city, its name still fresh in her mind for reasons she couldn't pin on.
Then, there was also the fact that the woman was calling her with her codename, at least part of it.
"How did you know my codename? Who the hell are you?!" Now feeling threatened, her mind began to replay different possibilities on how she managed to learn that particular information, especially given the fact that she was in a completely new city with little to no connection. She slowly backed away towards a wall and clutched onto her bloody knife, her eyes keeping her full attention on both heroes.
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Melody elbowed for her friend to turn around. The whir noise of the coffee shop generator starting up meant their was the potential for trouble. It was sooooo hard to get good seats for a cape fight. Thats what made 'The window' such a great coffee shop. Middle of downtown and protected from harm. A bunch of normies shifted their seats.
The coffee shop was one of the few buildings in view of where some asain guy and spandex girls were talking. The outfits screamed that they were supers.
"Someday I will be more famous than anyone in this city. I bet I could scatter them with a firestorm!" Melody got... the look... Sammy grabbed her i-pod from her. "Nope, not your issue, look at them. They are clearly physical based Titans. You might have some control over the elements but you are built like... like a 17 year old girl."
Mel pouted... Sammy was right, one of those super punches so many Titans seemed to posses would send her lungs out her back and onto the pavement. Bullets... yeah those would kill as well.
"What the hell are you doing about that anyway? Didn't you promise me some of those fancy power suit part ideas of yours?" Melody glared at her friend. Sammy was one of those super geniuses. She had tried to explain the force field generator the coffee shop owner had built... but it all went over Melodys head.
"Well yeah, but I've been upset. I can't really invent when my ex is acting like a jerk and telling the whole school we did that stuff. We NEVER did that stuff."
"You still have to figure out how to make me fly."
"I know... it's an issue of preserving the energy of your wind dance and only releasing it when you trigger it. YOU tell me how to do it smartypants."
"Nope, not my job, my job is to look awesome and throw fire."
The two girls kept chatting as they watched the encounter between the three titans from the safety of the coffee shop.
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Lady Nova, immediately realizing what 'Holly' meant earlier about other possible personalities, would allow her body to blaze briefly, a short spectacle of radiating heat and light, a warning....
"My name is Lady Nova, I am a member of the Paragons, and you told me earlier, at least another personality or aspect of your's did.....I do NOT want to fight you, please lower the knife...."
She would gesture to Shen Zao....
"We can help you"
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Zao turned back towards the confrontation when he felt the heat on his back and heard Lady Nova say the word knife. He moved back to stand off to the side of Nova, but not so close that "Holly" could hit them both in the same attack.
"Indeed. Any peril you find yourself in will be of your own making." The statement was not made as a threat, but more as a statement of fact.
He bowed briefly, his closed left fist in his open right palm. "Greetings. In answer to your question, I am Shen Zao, Master of Chi. Do you have a name you wish to be called?"
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
Putting survival above her own personal feelings, Sea realized that, upon more thorough comprehension, that they, especially Lady Nova, had provided her with a breakthrough in her most recent priority problems. In her own predicament, she had stumbled upon an important discovery and it was enough to convince her not to act brashly. With a scoff of disdain, she put her knife away into the sheath beside her left thigh and looked at them with a suspicious and highly cautious gaze.
"'Another personality', you say?" she asked, her voice just slightly less hostile than it was before. Putting her hand on the chin of her helmet, she remained silent for sometime before finally speaking with a much calmer, but very much curt and straightforward tone.
"The codename's Sea Holly. If you're lazy, you can just call me Sea. You can help me by answering my questions." Looking at Lady Nova, whom she considered to be the biggest threat to her presently, and at Shen Zao she asked, "When you said that 'I told you earlier', what, exactly, did I tell you? From what I know, I've never met any of you good-two-shoes and I've only arrived at this town recently... Titan City, if my memory serves me right."
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Meanwhile high above Titan city an airship of the Aether pirates. "Ah there our target the Downtown Bank. Remember mates our goal is in safe deposit box 27. That priority one, anything else we grab is ours." A cheer from the other Pirates. "Now now we aren't doing this for the money." that got a confusing look. "We are doing it for a boar load of money!" More cheers. "Lets do this!"
With that the Airship air jet down to the Downtown blank. Hatches opened and the raid team of the Aether Pirates landed and rushed in. "Not again we been robbed once today!" yelled a clerk. The lead pirate removed his hat and made a bow "Sorry lady, if we have known we would have struck first. However we aren't here for petty cash." turning he faces his crew "Boiler-borgs if you be so kind as to open the Vault. Swab-bots watch the door last thing we need is the local heroes showing up. Move it people we are on the clock!."
Elsewhere a figure sits in a dark apartment. "Those Pirates better do this job right."
At Phoenix Plaza John Doe stands up seeing the Airship descend near the bank. "That doesn't look good."
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1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Blinking, Lady Nova would cautiously state.....
"You did, you mentioned it to me when we talked together...."
However, as the Aether Pirates began to descend on the bank, Lady Nova would offer Holly a rushed reply as she soars off towards their airship....
"We aren't finished speaking about this, and hopefully your other personality will take over before then!"
With that, Lady Nova would then streak into the bank, tossing about dazzling flashbangs and searing blasts to those careless enough to engage her, a golden spectacle of light as she fights...
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Melody booed loud enough for the majority of the normies in the coffee shop to look at her with a bit of disdain. The broad had flown off leaving the confused looking one alone with the Asian guy.
"Oh sure, SHE can fly."
"Of course she can thats.... Lady Nova I think. She has made the news a few times."
Melody scoffed at her friends reply.
"Yeah but bloody knife girl and Asian guy are left, lets hope they duke it out."
"Nuts and bolts Mel... why would you want that?"
"Why not?"
"They are like you.. us" Sammy spoke quieter when she said the word 'us'.
"No they arn't. I'm going to be a rock star! "
Sammy noticed the TV now playing live footage of an attempted bank heist. The recently departed Lady Nova on scene having attracted a news helicopters attention.
"Look Mel, Aethers"
"Don't they use steam n stuff to make things move?"
Sammy was one step ahead... She saw a solution to Mel being unable to fly.
"Mel you remember DDR... you know before you accidently burned down the arcade?"
"Yeah...."
"What if I made a board you could dance on that moved in the direction you wanted?"
"So flying while dancing?"
"Yeah, how much space would you need for wind production?"
"I don't know, like 8 feet by 3 feet for the right patterns."
"So a surf board?"
"Yeah, that could work."
"Well Mel... looks like we are going salvage hunting. Please don't get caught up trying to fight. I need some of the drives from those bots the Aethers use."
"Oh hell yeah!"
Melody practically dragged Sammy out of her chair and out the door. She had completely forgotten about the random capes in the alley, she was going to finally fly!
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"Hey! What's that?"
The rumble of the airship's engines brought the pairs attention to it. The blue pixie was ponting her tiny hand in the Aether Pirate's direction. Kael's eyes tracked several of the pirates descend from the ship using jetpack's before he scanned the area for an alley or deserted area to change. Making a snap decision, he dashed off into the nearest alley. He checked the alley once more to make sure he was alone before he began the transformation. His piercings began to flow and reform into the same dark green teardropped shape mask. His shirt vanished as his tattoos began to warp and glide across his torso and arms. They began to glow, as his pants repaired themselves and became dark green and metallic. A flick of the wrist later, a blue green blade of energy leapt into existence. He stepped out of the alley fully transformed and ready to go.
"Listen! Remember, just like we practiced," Ashling replied.
Kael gave a stiff nod before envisioning himself across the street. He felt the sensation of being drawn forward, and appeared in a pop of displaced air. Struggling not to pump his fist in the air in triumph, he settled for chuckling. Of course the real test was coming up, using it while fighting. He was only able to displace himself maybe fifty feet maximum. He popped forward several times, traversing to the bank rapidly.
Shen Zao bowed quickly to Holly. "Many apologies, Holly of the Seas. I must assist at the bank."
He centered himself and streaked across the park, not as fast as Lady Nova had, but still at a good pace. Channeling chi into his fists, he hardened them and proceeded to tear into one of the swab-bots guarding the front entrance. The swab-bot promptly grabbed him and tossed him across the street, where he crashed into a parked car. His chi had protected him but the force of the impact did knock him unconscious.
As the swab-bot advanced across the street to finish off the hero, it's audio pick-ups registered someone yelling and it looked to it's left.
"YAAAHOOOO!!!" The hero hollered as he swung into the swab-bot, both feet extended, the impact severely warping it's carriage and knocking it flying down the street. The hero did a neat flip and landed on the street, looking around. "Holy shit, I can't believe that worked..."
The hero was enshrouded in some sort of energy field which glowed a dull amber, with rippling sheens like oil on water running across it. He ran over and checked quickly on Shen Zao, making sure he was still breathing and getting him out of the car, depositing him behind it. Then he stood back up and shot two strands of the energy from his hands. They latched onto the other swab-bot as it turned and opened fire on him. He yanked it across the street, face-first, into the already ruined car and proceeded to pound on it, each punch landing with a burst of energy, quickly turning the robot into scrap.
Hurdling what remained of the car, he shot two more strands of the energy to either side of the front entrance and used them to catapult himself into the bank to assist Lady Nova.
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Noticing Shen Zao sent flying by a swab bot, Lady Nova would initially rush forward to intercept his attacker, before another energy manipulating hero beat her to the punch, quite literally. Clearing the entryway for him of scrap with a light push of energy, she would then shout a greeting towards him....
"Hey, nice moves out there, I'm Lady Nova, let's ground some pirates!"
Turning away from him, she would then find herself surrounded by a ring of said marauders, electrified rapiers cracking as the began to advance. Rather than release a repulse of some sort or blinding them with searing light, she would suddenly manifest a javelin of golden energy, swinging it in a wide circular arc above her head with shocking strength, sending her would be assaulters flying towards the ground, all expectedly unconscious...
She would then leave the hero with a teasing remark before taking off towards the vaults, gesturing to her Power Girl esque 'window of opportunity', she would smirk....
"By the way, eyes are up here, coming or not....?"
With that, she would leave him with a room full of shocked civilians and knocked out rejects from Neverland...
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The rookie crashed into one of the pirates upon entry and sent him skittering across the polished stone of the lobby. Just as the rookie scrambled to his feet, he heard Lady Nova say something, then she promptly dealt with the other five pirates in the room.
While the rookie would've liked to say he made a better impression of himself upon meeting his first famous hero, it was true that he was rather distracted by her uniform, or lack thereof. Hearing her teasing remark, he looked up quickly, the energy armor thankfully hiding the scarlet of his cheeks.
He cleared his throat, "Right, of course. I was just uh... checking you for injuries... yeah, that's it, injuries!"
But by then, she'd already moved out of the lobby and back towards the vault room. He followed, muttering to himself, "...good job, dumbass."
He shot a strand of energy at the door and swung through into the vault room to find Lady Nova engaging two boiler-borgs.
"Hey now, didn't ya know it's not polite to hit a lady?" he quipped as he swung over the head of the closest boiler-borg and reversed direction to land on it's back. He shot two energy strands to catch the hands of it's up-stretched arms and joined the strands together, hauling down on them and then sticking them to the borg's back, immobilizing it's arms. Then he formed the energy around his hands into wedges and started prying and punching at the seam in it's neck armor as it rampaged around the room.
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Melody rounded the corner. The bank was only a block away. TCPD was busy fighting bots and some Downtown located heroes were assisting with some of the bigger steam driven bots.
Not enough heroes were assisting yet to fully stop the flow of money exiting the bank. A few of the more seasoned Aether Pirates were avoiding the major combat zones and redirecting more expendable bots towards the heroes causing the most havoc.
Sammy pulled on Melodys arm. "We are close enough Mel, we can raid the parts after the fights over."
This time Mel did not want to listen. "Sing me a song, and i'll try not to sing out of key" Mels feet moved faster than the eye could follow. In a flash a small spark started on Sammys sleeve. Just enough to cause Sammy to let go to stop the fire.
Mel put in her earbuds... yeah singing the song would produce low level elements... Cranking the volume straight into her head... oh yeah!
"I'm the god damn avatar!" Mel hit play, letting shuffle decide her dance. Flight of the Valkyries started up. Mel smiled. With the grace of a ballerina and the speed of a crumper she hit a spinning pirouette landing into a graceful arc one leg extended behind her, arms outstretched. Just as her fingertips hit their line a massive gusting whirlwind erupted from her extended leg rocketing her forward. She couldn't fly, but this was like a red bull charged long jump.
As she came close to her landing she hit the shuffle.
Flame burst from Mels mouth as she spun into the landing zone. Mel was so into the music she didn't care if it was pirate or bot that she lit ablaze. She would ignite the entire area to keep the bots from closing in on her........
Sammy groaned as she watched. The entire block was going to look like an asteroid hit it.
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Blinking at the rookie's sudden arrival, along with another display of his abilities, she would coin him with a nickname...
"I had it covered Impact, but thank you regardless...and you missed some"
With that, she would launch three short streaking bolts of energy into pirates attempting to sneak behind him, joining their comrades in sweet unconsciousness. Smiling, she would give him a quick kiss, before heading further into the vault, taking down any pirate or bot that stands in her way with a searing blast or cosmic right hook. Before descending towards the perceived prize of the pirates, she would offer her new partner with a playful wink and equally rated response....
"Do try to keep up now?"
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"Bank?"
It was the very first word Sea could register before Lady Nova and Shen Zao left her field of vision, heading towards a particularly noisy direction. Said noisy direction led her to finally notice a ship flying up in the sky, right above a particularly drab and formal building she assumed to be the destination of both heroes. Her concerns about what was happening to herself was soon trumped by her desire to take the opportunity to see if she could grab some cash and find out more about the city, whichever came first.
"Might as well. Certainly better than being stuck here," she mused to herself. Making her way out of the alleyway, she found a trace of 'good fortune' in the form of a man with a motorbike. Not wanting to waste her time, she struck a quick, razor-sharp 'negotiation' with said man and left for the bank on the vehicle. Disregarding the obvious rule that was the traffic law, Sea weaved around the road towards the bank's side entrance and noticed that the door was guarded by several robots a steampunk fanatic would kill to get his hands on. Instead of, perhaps, stopping and seeking an alternative route or disembarking and going in on foot, she, as crazy as one would think, opened the cap to the motorbike's fuel tank, then revved up the engine and sent the motorbike, with her on it, charging towards one of the swab-bots like a mad bull.
"Time to make a direct deposit."
With no heed to the vehicle she had 'borrowed', she rammed her motorbike straight into the robot's torso, jumping off the vehicle before she became a meat and carbon fiber salsa sauce with a dash of ignited fuel and metal scraps. Landing on four limbs like a cat, she ran into the building, making a quick survey of her surroundings. She could see civilians and unfortunate bank employees hunkering and fearing for their lives, along with many people she assumed had just left a local steampunk convention for aspiring evil people. She could hear noises further inside and noticed that most of the enemies' attention were either focused on keeping the civilian hostages in place or tackling whatever adversary they already had inside.
Knowing that Lady Nova would most likely be in the building already and that the robbers had strength in numbers, Sea quickly took to a stealth approach instead of a direct one. She hid behind a nearby pillar and carefully approached one marauder who was keeping a group of civilians, most likely the bank patrons, hostage. Seeing his back conveniently turned towards her and what looked like an electrified rapier in his hand, she cautiously placed one hand on his mouth, another holding his shoulder near his neck, and threw him onto the marble floor before giving the side of his head one hard punch, knocking the man out cold before he could alert anyone with his scream. Taking his stylized weapon, she examined the shape and function of the rapier before finally turning it off, claiming it as her first bounty. Looking at the frightened civilians from under her helmet, she silently gestured them to shut up and stay where they were while they waited for help. Sea then sneaked her way into the vault room with the marauder's electrified rapier in tow, stealthily taking down any marauders she could loot from and avoiding the bots to keep her presence hidden for as long as she could.
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Theodore Smith Turned around hearing the sounds from the lobby. "Damn Capes got here faster then I thought. You three Grab a hostage, You two over by the hall throw some gas grenades. Anything to slow them down!" Then he shoved a Borg out of his way. "Go run interference. We must not fail this job. Remember we getting hazard pay so don't chicken out!"
With that he drew his duel sabers and sliced the vault doors key locations then step aside as it fell to the floor with a loud bang. "Style over brawn. Don't just stand there Get going!" He rushed into the Vault and right for safe deposit box 27 as three Broiler Borgs charge into the lobby. "ARGGGGGGG"
"I swear they must replace some brain tissues in those guys. He then uses his swords to open the safety deposit box, then a second pirate came over getting out a black orb with red runes on it. "Sir... I think I can almos..." Theodore grabbed the orb and shoved it into a pouch. "FOOL! Remember our employer warned us about this thing!" He exited the Vault. "Okay Heroes out front... back probably have blockade or swat waiting. Heck maybe a sneaky type of hero coming in that way. Only way out is up and out." With that he pulled out a bomb and set the charge tossing it up when the electromagnetic generator activated sending the bomb up to where a supporting beam was located. Then the bomb blew raining debris down on those below. "Oh hell give those cape something else to slow them down." He tosses two more bombs to random walls.
That was when he turned and spotted Sea take down a Hostage Guard. "By Neptune harry beard." He slapped the bag with the orb to the other pirate and hit the jet ignition. "To the Airship and take off. Those Capes can't get that orb." With that the pirate flew up to the waiting air ship and Theodore hit his sabers power switch.
"Alright Heroes lets dance."
ELSEWHERE....
John Doe was running as fast as he could for the bank. "Okay we so need some kind of travel. We be getting nowhere as a real hero if we have to run all over." [i] Maybe the train?[/i] "you have no idea how trains work do you?" [i] Maybe not... but perhaps if we can get out of the common foot trafic...[/i] With that black ooze started seeping out of his pores and covering his body. At first one would think he was a Marvel Villain ripoff but soon the ooze took a more constructive shape forming armor plating. "WHAA" [i] Be to much time to explain but we have adapted for short term exposure to your worlds magnetic field. Now we are taking control. Hang on.[/i] with that Unknown Jumped up onto a building side and started crawling leaping and running along it's edge and walls. Leaping from building to building he moved faster then if on foot.
BOOOM "What was that? They blew the roof of the bank!" [i] Seems they taking another option to get away. [/i]
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2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
With a sharp crack, energy rapier met electrified one. Behind his mask, Kael was smiling. He was actually holding his own. He kept displacing around the battlefield; parry, riposte, feint and lunge fluidly into each other. Another set of displacements followed a trio of parries. His companion flitted around behind him, laughing and dancing in time with his movements. A swift kick to his gut after a successful parry wiped the smile from his face. The smirk on his lips was well hidden as he watched his attacker approach.
"Lookie, what we go here mates. Fancy yerself a swashbuckler then?" queried the tall form of a bearded Aether Pirate. Above his beard, the pirate wore a pair of steaming and sparking goggles. His azure jacket was closed, a clocklock pistol was strapped across his chest. His cutlass crackled with a terrifying amount of electricity. "What'd ya say, boy? Fancy a fight with yer better?"
"Sure," Kael replied with a noncommittal shrug.
The surrounding pirates barked out laughing at his comment. None more so than the one who kicked him. The boisterous laughter ceased for a moment, as the big guy commented, "Ya got guts, kid. I'll give ya that. Yer no match for me though. Name's Roger Jolly."
The pirate named Roger drew the 'lightning sabre' across the rooftop they were fighting on, cutting a line into it.
"Midnight Ace," Kael returned, "Tough luck."
They began to circle each other when a loud explosion close by knocked the gathered pirates and Midnight to the ground.
"Impact? Sure, why not." he said, turning to her after taking the Boiler-Borg down by tearing his back armor open and crossing a few wires, leaving him a twitching heap of muscle and brass on the ground.
After taking out a few more, Lady Nova turned to him and kissed him quickly on the "lips". Thankfully, due to the nature of his powers, he could still feel it. It took him a second to remember how to breath and he looked over at her as she teased him again about keeping up. "You betcha!"
As she flew around the corner, he jumped off the downed boiler-borg and shot a strand of energy up to the ceiling, swinging along just behind her... and directly into the path of three massive boiler-borgs.
"Dang! When'd The Captains get a new offensive line?" he asked rhetorically as the three of them sighted in on the two heroes and charged.
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The explosion was loud enough to stop Melody for a moment. She looked up towards the roof of the building and smiled. "They got style, I dig it."
Mel didn't notice as a row of gunners took their position from the airship.
The elemental field Mel had created was gone... The shots rang out. The suppressing fire from the gunners was aimed at anyone fighting and in view from the airship.
Mel looked down as a red rose formed on her shirt near her hip. "Fu..." Mel didn't even feel her head hit the pavement. A series of still images flashed before her eyes. Sammy was running towards her, closer, a second volley rang in the air. Before Melody blacked out the last thing she saw was Sammy fall over awash in red.
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Taking down a second hostage keeping marauder, Sea grunted when a few, powerful blasts rocked the building, followed with shockwaves that made it hard for her to move. Even with the protection of her helmet, she was forced to hunker down to keep herself from being thrown away by the sheer force of the explosions. Dust clouds started moving into the building as the explosions subsided and she found herself precariously navigating through the debris of the destroyed walls and roof. Through her helmet, she saw the remaining pirates, if their costumes were any indication, making their getaway, presumably with whatever loot they were looking for, back to their airship, the sounds of gunfire not far from its deck. Assessing her situations, Sea decided that she would like her boots to be on a solid ground due to many reasons, one of which being her current lack of accessible equipment and her usual weapons.
While trying to make her way into the vault room, it wasn't until she heard someone speak up that she finally realized that not all of the robbers had fled. From the arrogant and confident tone, this person was either trying to bluff his way out or was, indeed, a threat the heroes couldn't afford to ignore. Despite being unaffiliated, Sea was unwilling to leave her own investigation halfway done. If it meant working together with the spandex-wearing, cliche and lawful heroes, then she was willing to endure it.
"Alright, Heroes. Let's dance!"
Turning to the source of the voice, she saw a bright, crackling electricity, then noticed how said electricity was wrapped around two glinting sabers, held by a man who, judging from his appearance and the stylized sabers he wielded, was related to the escaping robbers. However, the one thing that quickly invited her ire was how he, confidently so, addressed her the same way he addressed the incoming respondents to the robbery.
"'Hero'? How amusing," she remarked. Having taken her time to loot another rapier from the second marauder she just decked, she kept one just in case and had her first looted rapier turned on. As much as she was tempted to show off, she knew that a rapier wasn't suited to be dually-wielded. She patiently stood her ground in a cautious, defensive position while the heroes gradually made their way in.
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Staggering from the shockwaves sent by the explosion, Lady Nova would punch through the chassis of yet another boiler Borg, before turning to witness both Holly begin to engage who she assumed was possibly the leader of the Pirates, and also Melody and Sam falling to the volley gunfire above them. Without hesitation, she would turn to 'Impact' and shout....
"Help her against the remaining pirates, then pursue if you can, I'm going to help others get to safety!"
With that, she would take off to where the girls had fallen, and not wasting time, would erect a shield over the two of them, protecting them from taking additional gunfire. She was buying time for them to recover....
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Theodore looked at sea and takes up a fighting pose. "Tell that to those hostages you freed. I doubt they call you a underhanded scum."
He did dress in a style much like his fellow pirates a red trench coat trimmed with bronze with a clockwork pattern. He was also sporting two of the standard aether pirate pistols. His boots black his pants brown and his button up shirt white (complete with lace ruffles). His electric swords however weren't standard issue they were designed for his two sword fighting style his left handed blade was short sword almost a dagger, and the right was in the style of a Repier. He also sported three gas grenades on his chest. His hair was black and his goatee beard was parted into two braids.
His eyes left her for a moment as he saw the Airship close it's shutters and doors and lift off rising into the air. "Doesn't matter anyway. Even if I loose and go to jail we won. The mission was successful." He then looks to Sea again "Thought to make it clear I have no desire to go to jail myself. I'm just a delaying measure to insure the Airship gets on it' sway." With that said he makes a charge and a testing Nimble slash at Sea. "Hero or not, It's my best guess you won't be letting me leave free."
OUTSIDE
Unknown finally arrived landing on the street as the Airship lifts off. He spots Lady Nova putting up the protective shield over the two. "Maybe we can help. At least we can seal the wounds." He said as he rushes over dodging the cover fire of the Airship.
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Lady Nova, still maintaining a shield over the two, would allow Unknown to enter the dome, shouting, her voice carrying an echo...
"Try to keep them stabilized until the paramedics arrive, I'll assist you as soon as the pirates are dealt with!"
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Unknown knelt down and tentacles of the black ooze leave his hands and enter the wounds in the two. "Hope this works. The lifeforms should be able to pull the damage tissue together and act as a bandage long enough for proper medical care." Inside the bodies of Melody and Sammy thousands of silicon based lifeforms swarm pulling cells back together and acting as glue closing blood vesicles and attempting to devolve the bullets. However as effective as the micro aliens were they weren't miracle workers. (This is basically Power Pool Aid Others. Up to you steam to say how effective they are.)
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2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Having finished off the three Boiler-Borgs with Lady Nova, Impact was about to head up through the hole in the roof when he saw the two bombs and the fight that was about to happen between Sea Holly and the pirate leader. Both of the bombs were lying on piles of rubble, so he shot out strands of energy and latched onto both of them, then whiplashed the strands so that the bombs popped up into the air. From there, he shot high-impact strands that shoved the bombs up and out the hole in the roof, where they detonated in mid-air.
He turned to face the sword fight just as the leader taunted Sea Holly about the Aethers still winning and the leader just being a delaying tactic. Impact looked up at the accelerating airship.
"Not if I've got anything to say about it." he said grimly to himself.
He started by firing off a strand of energy that whipped around the pirate leader's ankle and giving it a mighty tug, yanking his leg out from under him.
He tossed a quick wave to Sea Holly, then turned and shot two strands of energy to either side of the hole in the roof and locked his feet down on the floor. Taking one step back at a time, he stretched the strands backwards so that they would act like rubber bands, then released his feet and CATAPULTED himself skyward, out of the hole in the roof and upwards at great velocity towards the airship. Just as he was starting to slow down, he threw out a strand in an attempt to latch onto part of the airship.
The strand snagged the lowermost fin, yanking Impact from a dead stop to the airship's top speed in less than a second.
"SHIIIIIIITTTTT!!!" was all he could get out as he was hauled skyward by the rapidly retreating airship.
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Whipping her head back at the sight of Impact being dragged away by the airship, and the explosions shortly before, would cause her to lose her concentration, allowing her shield to falter. As it briefly dissipates, a few gunners would take the opportunity to fire upon her, a clockwork rifle's energy burst managing to hit her in the right shoulder.
Growling, she would turn to her attackers, and without hesitation, would launch volleys of energy bolts, presumably taking them down, leaving the area clear for medical personnel. Eyes blazing, she would turn to unknown, and shout...
"Rally other injured civilians to this point, as well as available medics, I'm heading after the airship!"
With that, she would streak off after the said vehicle, hot on it's trail...
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[i][b]Initiating start up procedure[/b][/i]
[i][b]Weapons systems online...[/b][/i]
[i][b]Targeting program online...[/b][/i]
[i][b]Shields online...[/b][/i]
[i][b]Welcome to the NBS-MKIII. [/b][/i]
[i][b]Impact Mode[/b][/i]
[i][b]Select a target.[/b][/i]
[i][b]Target selected. Aether Pirate Sky Vessel targeted.[/b][/i]
Suddenly a sonic boom rips across the Downtown area (and probably audible across Titan City) as a dark blue blur tears across the sky racing towards the Aether Pirate's ship, steadily approaching Mach 1.
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Pursuing the Airship, Lady Nova would launch bolts of energy towards the vessel, careful not to hit the engine or balloon, to avoid causing a no doubt catastrophic explosion. Noticing and slightly thrown off by shockwave as is traveled across the area, she would ponder and think out loud for a second....
"What could have done that, did another bomb go off...did we miss one?!"
She would then begin to streak after the source of the shockwave, determined to figure out what that was, confidant Impact can handle the Airship....hopefully...
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"So much for that 'delaying measure' part," Sea said with a deadpanned toned as one hero she didn't know waved at her and went in pursuit of the ship which, if his scream was any indication, seemed to have taken a speedy turn.
Already up and alert, Sea swiftly dodged Theodore by jumping backwards to avoid the incoming slash. She then stepped back in with a piercing thrust aimed at his chest, but fighting with a new, lethal weapon made her more cautious and she was evidently less skilled with it, although a combination of her prior physical conditioning allowed to gradually adapt her fighting style to her new weapon.
However, she was forced to brace again as another shockwave sent the ground into a brief, shaking frenzy. Although taken by surprise, she quickly braced for another attack from her opponent. "Feels just like home," she muttered as her opponent, due to her being forced to brace, was inadvertently given the opportunity to come in with another attack. She couldn't give a rat's ass about what was going on outside, her focus now pinned on the pirate in front of her.
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Melody sucked in a breath. Eyes fluttering open.
Crawling with desperation she reached her friend and shook her.
"Sam, Sam.. Sam stop it... Sa....s." Melody began to sob over the body of her friend. Many of the wounds had closed but no life had returned to her body. It was simply to late.
Melody began to hyper-ventilate as she clawed at Sams rapidly cooling body.
A primal scream erupted from the small frame of the girl. Clutching the body of her friend the ground shot up from under her, launching her holding her friend up over the the top of the bank and into the hole with the dual wielding pirate.
The sky boiled overhead with the elements fighting to dominate the scene. The weather spill over hampering the heroes in pursuit of the airship.
"Watch this Sam... Watch what I do."
Melody gently laid the body of her friend against the wall and turned towards the pirate who was locked in combat with two supers.
With broken blood vessels in her face and red eyes she hit play.
A tempest of fire sprung to life inside the vault.
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He looks up, seeing the sky above in a smaller screen to the upper left. A fanged grin forms, the mixed feelings of rage, sadness and fear overflowing.. oh the fear. Delicious.. so sweet.. He knew where it came from, the bank below, he knew who it came from, a woman, and he knew why, loss. He'd have to come back to her once he was done here. Now his mission was more interesting and as his suit SLAMMED into the side of the pirate vessel, he formulated how he'd coerce her...
The ship lurched to the side and rocked as it stabilized, pirates scrambling to starboard bow to see what had impacted them.
[i][b]Impact Successful. Target Hit.[/b][/i]
[i][b]Switching to Mobile Mode.[/b][/i]
He rose slowly in the air up the side of the ship with arms crossed and cape flapping a little in the wind. His voice had the eerie roboticism to it with a ghastly echo, his tone clearly displeased.
"Hello, Aethers. You have something that belongs to me."
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Noticing the plume of flame expanding from the gaping hole in the bank, Lady Nova would race towards the source, fearing she was too late to stop an additional explosion. Reaching the maw of fire, she would allow her enhanced senses to take over for a moment, gauging the situation. She would peer further, her eyes first highlighting the figure of Melody, one of the two girl's she shielded...but where was the other...
Straining to peruse through the tempest of flame, she would finally see the prone and lifeless form of Sam against the wall...her next thoughts materialized as tears of anger and desperation racing down her face.
SHE was supposed to protect them until help arrived, yet she left them to pursue mindless steampunk IDIOTS. She didn't see what was important, and someone died because of it...just like her mother, just like that poor girl SHE should have helped....but someone else needed that now...
Erecting a shield over herself against the fires of heat and rage, she approached it's summoner, and shouted in her own grief ridden words...
"Listen, I know how you feel, I felt what you feel now, and I know I failed to protect you both, and I am sorry..I am so sorry...but you need to calm down...!"
The pain in her voice despite the circumstances had nothing to do with her shoulder wound...her emotions were genuine...
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((my last post till rotten does something with the baddies))
The earbuds blared. Mel couldn't hear anything even if she wanted to. The left and right channels playing separate tracks. Her twirls and spins an elegant twisting motion that almost looked like a one person mosh pit. Gale force winds pushing everything away from her and twisting the raining fire causing it to whip around the room. Opening her mouth she let loose another scream, this time a gout of flame spewing forth propelled like napalm by the gale winds outwards.
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Noticing how Melody is effectively tuning her out via headphones, and after dodging a nice gust of fire, would calmly yank them from her ears, emotion still visible on her face and soaking through the words that follow...
"Listen to me, I know how you feel, and I have felt that before when my mother was murdered right in front of me, and I am sorry I didn't protect you.....I failed you both...but you need to calm down...please!"
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Sea was now dealing with a situation that was spiraling out of control. One moment, she was dealing with a pirate with electrified weapon. The next thing she knew, the entire vault room turned into a blazing grill pit with her and the pirate at the epicenter. A look around allowed her to see the person, a young woman just older than teen years with her ears plugged, that was most likely the cause of the inferno and Lady Nova, faintly hearing her shout amidst the crackling flame. Although she was unhappy about having to flee, she still preferred keeping her life with her rather than dying from bravado.
Not caring about what would happen to the pirate, she made a hasty exit, letting the inferno lick her body suit as she made her way out through an emergency exit with her weapons in tow. She breathed heavily once she was outside the cesspool of fire and strong gale that was the vault room. "Nothing good ever comes from heroics," she hissed as she leaned against a nearby chunk of wall, nursing her burns and cuts with her black body suit ripped open in some areas of her body.
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((Same here.))
He felt another surge of emotions during his fun with the Aethers, this one of anger, regret, and fear.. mmm.. there it was again, more of the delectable fear... He couldn't wait for later and sent out a message to Melody, speaking in her head with a soothing voice.
"It's all their fault, isn't it? The Aethers.. and the ones who failed to protect her.. They need to pay, don't they.."
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Thankful that his energy armor gave his body some protection from the wind blast, Impact began working at drawing himself towards the airship by drawing the energy of the strand back into the armor. He'd found that, for whatever reason, this was a much slower process than summoning the energy strands and had sworn to practice it further. That had been his intention when he got up that morning, but then the Aethers had hit the bank and he was nearby, so he'd decided it was his responsibility to help.
He'd manage to pull himself within thirty feet of the airship when he spotted something approaching at ridiculous speed. It wasn't until he'd watched it for a few seconds that he realized it was going to hit the airship.
"Ohhh boy. "
BOOOOM!!!
The object hit with such force that the airship was actually thrown sideways several feet and the resulting motion had a whip cracking effect on Impact's strand, breaking it and sending him flying across the sky. Fortunately, in that single moment of calm before utter panic sets in, he shot off another strand that latched onto the hull of the airship. He then began alternately firing strands from each hand, drawing himself along the hull of the airship while also bringing himself closer.
Finally, he was able to stick one hand, then the other, and finally both feet to the hull. He stopped then to take a few seconds, just to gather his breath.
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
Tyrian opened his eyes. The unmistakable sound of explosions could be heard echoing in the cathedral. Gunfire, screams, sirens, and horns all blaring awoke that fuel inside his chest. He ran outside just in time to see the last explosion in the bank, and the flames starting to creep out the windows. A giant airship was slowly moving away as several energy bolts blasted into its side and he could see someone climbing towards the airship on strands of energy.
A second later he saw something blast into the side of the ship which sent the person beneath the ship falling for a second before he could regain his anchor on the ship. The energy in his chest became uncontrollable. With all his might he leaped high into the air on the nearest building then charged the ship bounding from building top to building top getting higher each time and closer to the ship.
Finally, one more jump, and he would be on the ship. He could see as he got closer the man hanging below the ship getting closer and closer, then finally securing himself on the hull.
He jumped! Time seemed to slow as he drew his sword and shield midair. He slammed down on the aft deck, cracking the deck as he hit. He rose slowly ready for battle.
As the mighty airship continued it upward lift hatches opened on it side and plasma cannons extended out. One of these targeted Lord Nightmare (Don't know what character your using) and opened fire sending a charge of super heated blast at his direction. At the same time the hanger bay doors open and out flew 20 jetpack armed pirates and 5 one man assault gliders. Two gliders and 5 pirates headed for Impact taking careful aim not to damage their ship.
Down below in the bank Theodore got hit by the raging infernal of Melody's emotional outburst his clothing started to burn as well as his skin and hair. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" In desperation he grabbed one of the gas grenades and threw it then hit his jet pack rocketing into the air where it explodes due to the damage it taken sending his burning body to a nearby roof top. One of the other pirates saw this and flew down and lifted him up.
On the street Unknown looked up at the Airship then at the flaming destruction of the bank. "I think this is out of our league." [i] We did what we could. The flesh was mended but one of the wounded didn't recover.[/i] "We did what we could. Lets try to help stop that before it gets worst." With that Unknown went into the bank and the maelstrom of elemental furry of Melody's loss. The exo-armor absorbing the heat of the blaze repairing the damage it couldn't divert.
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
The wind tempest raged around Melody as one of her earbuds was torn from her ear by the heroine.
Snarling at the interruption Mel clenched her fist and drew it down while popping into a crouch. "Sink!"
Melody only had one element to control at the moment. The fires around raged freely but earth was hers to control. A five foot deep hole sprang into existence under the bubbled hero. At the same time the ceiling above caved down. A calm Melody would be rather assured that Nova wouldn't be hurt due to her field and overall durable nature, but this wasn't a calm Melody.
Now that she was separated from her immediate danger (Nova). She quickly jammed the other earbud back in. Earth and water... It would work...
Twirling as she rose she brought her hands up her hips grazing her fingers along her lines as she raised them above her. "I WILL END YOU!" Her words in stark contrast the the overly sensual movement she just finished. The ground beneath Mel shooting her into the air like a rocket after the escaping pirate.
Spinning in a graceful arc her arms came together in front of her chest. She shot her hands forwards towards the pirate supporting Theodore. A bowling ball sized piece of hail shot from the sky caving the unnamed pirates head in.
As Theodore went into free fall Melody tucked into a ball preparing to change tracks based on how Theo ... or anyone trying to stop her from killing him, moved. Her survival didn't matter, so long as this pirate didn't make it either.
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Recovering quickly from Melody's rebuff, Lady Nova would take a second to marvel at the young girl's impressive abilities, and would sigh wistfully as she realized that Melody is acting out on pure rage...she knew that getting her attention...stopping this...would require a more direct method of communication, but first she had Aether pirate scum to rescue...
Before Melody could hopefully finish off Theodore, Lady Nova would appear as a golden blur, whisking the man to safety....by dumping unarmed him in the lobby of presumably angry hostages and ticked police officers, from a safe height of course. Then, again hopefully before Melody could counter this, she would fly towards her with startling force, and ripping her headphones away for the last time, would envelop the both of them in a single force field, and without hesitation, would launch them skyward, up to where they are far enough away from outside influence, but to where she can see the results of her destruction.
Not giving Mel time to reply or even react, she would allow her eyes to blaze, her following words displaying equal fury....
"What was that back there, not only did you endanger innocent people, but your display almost destroyed the bank, which would have killed any more then the pirates could have hoped! And I understand how you feel, I felt like that when I watched my mother die right in front of my eyes....but blind vengeance and murder will only make you worse than the scum you just tried to murder!"
She would then drop her skin line shield, her now usually protected flesh is exposed...she is vulnerable. She would then rest her hands against her hips, and state dryly...
"Go ahead, you want to kill someone so badly, kill me...prove that you are just as bad as men you tired to murder just now, to me....to your friend who would never dream of you doing this.."
She would sigh, and visibly tense...a mighty paragon is now exposed...emotionally and physically...
"Your move"
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*While Theo was being whisked away*
"Yes they do need to pay."
Mel addressed the voice that had spoken in her head. She had heard the words, but didn't really register them till now.
*As Nova returned*
"Get me out of this bubble, I have something to finish." Mel spoke aloud, but not directing the comment towards Nova.
Mel began to hum, a complex noise from her throat, something her father had taught her. Her body making tiny slow adjustments... almost like a person standing idle, but something was off. The bubble began to fog on the inside and frost over on the outside... leaving the two blind to anything that might happen. Mel simmered as the fog built.
"Count again lady, I DID get one of them. You can get out of my way or be their accomplice. Why don't you go after that airship... or better yet drop me on it."
Mels rage had settled into something dark, something broken, something primal. It was fresh, she was young, and her best friend of twelve years was dead....
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And far below Unknown stood there looking up. The battle had became air born and he couldn't fly. However he heard whispers the microscopic lifeforms that even now were floating in Melody's blood was reacting to the same mental transition to her. They will be dead soon they were sent because they weren't able to reproduce anymore so limited risk of spreading. He turned to look at Lord Nightmare. "Interesting"
Theodore was being loaded into an ambulance with police guard. They didn't expect the servery burned man to get up but didn't want to risk other pirates coming to get him.
On the air ship Tyrian had landed in the open hanger and faced about 10 armed pirates who were in the middle of preparing to launch to give the ones already flew out backup. At the control room of the airship the Captain slammed his fist on the console. "THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A SMASH AND GRAB! That Raid... Theodore leave him. It was his failure we are being assaulted! Get those cannons firing! Aim..." He looked to the monitors and pointed to the one showing Melody and Nova. "There Open fire starboard side! NOW!"
And so the 10 plasma canons moved taking aim on the two and open fired. "BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM"
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Sea walked away just in time to see Theodore being dropped amidst a crowd of furious former hostages and law enforcement officers, all vying for his head. "That's one problem out of the way," she mused and noticed the wreckage of the burning bank. Shaking her head, she noticed one of the pirates with a jetpack on him made a freefall, presumably after being a victim of whoever had called in the inferno, judging from the bloody chunk of hail nesting on his head.
Once he hit the ground, Sea wasted no time and ran towards the man, pretending to check him. In reality, however, she was taking away his jetpack and, noticing it was still functional, chuckled and turned to him. "I'll take this, thank you very much," she said and took flight straight for the drifting ship. Not too far, she noticed a foggy sphere up in the sky, but couldn't be bothered to find out what it was. Her focus was now put on the Aether Pirates' ship and she was dead set on raiding the raiders. Turning the jetpack's thrust to its maximum speed, she made a beeline for the ship and landed on the deck where the battle was already raging. With the pirates already occupied and a few more people she didn't recognize jumping into the fray, she tried to sneak her way into the ship, this time with the intent to kill and loot.
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((Edited to reflect your post Rotten))
Before she would reply however, she would raise the bubble containing them both, presumably out of range of the energy cannons
Lady Nova would growl in her throat...not something feral, but a sign of anger none the less...at the pirates, the situation...herself....shaking her head, she would calmly state...
"And killing them will do what, just going to stop after you slaughter the rest....how about you bury the friend I know you could have done anything for if she was still alive....but taking out her killers will only send you down a darker path...."
She would then state an oddly grim ultimatum...
"And let you out of here...I don't think so, NOT if you are going to harm anyone, innocents or not!"
She would then allow her eyes to blaze, energy gathering in her palms....while it is clear she doesn't want to, she is prepared to subdue her if she has to...
"Because if you do....your just another villainess to put away"
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Nightmare landed on the deck, and gave a low growl as his head turned to scan the pirates aboard. He was clearly pissed, both hands squeezing at the air while he stood there in silence before barking his next orders.
"Captain... Where is your captain, you incompetent swine?!"
He didn't waver at all as the ship rumbled upon firing the cannons, the weight of the suit covering any balance issues. He heard the response of Mel and grinned a bit to himself as he responded to her, reeling in the fish.
"Yes.. they do. What should happen to them? Arrests? No.. they'll just escape. You know they will. They've lost their privilege to live. End them. And anyone trying to stop you from what is right is just as bad.. but don't focus on them, focus only on the true targets."
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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"You know lady, we showed up to pick up the scraps from your fight. I was going to fly, really fly. You let those live that will use whatever force is necessary to steal and rob."
The fog was so thick in the confined bubble it was like breathing soup. Mel wouldn't kill a Titan City hero, she wasn't that far gone. Thats when the airship volley struck the bubble. ((I dont want to control your character, not my style... just a blip to let Mel go freefall))
Mel saw the inferno of an explosion engulf the field. The power of the blast had to be greater than anything she could produce yet by at least a power of 3. ... Thats how Sam would have said it.
Mel felt herself slip into the sky. Whatever had happened to the bubble, well Mel didn't have time to look.
Nova might be faster than a plane and as strong as most of the monstrous freaks that made the news... but Nova would either go after Mel... or try to stop the airship from gunning down entire skyscrapers during its ill fated escape attempt. Mel banked on nova having to 'do the greater good'
Mel looked at the ground and smiled coldly. "Smoke on the water.........FIRE IN THE SKY!"
Mels body had the familiar cyclone of wind around it. It was slowing her decent enough for her to aim. A rain of fire kissed the asphalt melting it with a small series of hisses. It was a very concentrated storm, directly in front of the ambulance. The ambulance came to a screeching halt... No way they could drive through that.
Mel continued to fall, her body twisting like an aerial silk performer mid routine. Her landing on top of the ambulance would hurt, but nothing would get broken.
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As her bubble briefly dissolved, Lady Nova began to soar after the rapidly plummeting Melody, determined not to let someone else die on her watch, but relented as she saw her somewhat safe descent. Turning her attention back to the Airship, the source of the infestation of the pirates, she would then utter five words that dictates it's fate...
"No one else dies today!"
With that, Lady Nova's radiant form would burst alight, gathering power, as she soars into the deck of the vessel with titanic force, presumably knocking it out of it's intended path into numerous swathes of skyscrapers. Rising quickly, she would have landed before Lord Nightmare himself, and without hesitation would gather her energy in her hands, her eyes blazing with golden, unearthly fury...she would be a sight to behold...
Turning to the reaper of terror, she would utter cold words with no fear and no doubt, only power and conviction...
"Whatever game you playing, or angle your plotting ends now Nightmare!"
And then she would charge, leaping into the fray with a cosmic punch, following with discs of explosive energy....Nightmare's world just got a lot brighter..
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He casts a glance to Nova, unseen face glaring into her eyes behind that helmet.
"FOOLISH WOMAN! You know not what you're dealing with, do you?"
He grabs her fist in mid punch and simply casts her aside, his bracer deflecting most of the damage of the explosive discs though they do dent the metal just a bit. He then stares at Nova once more, fist clenched tightly
"Listen here, hero," The word "hero" being said with extreme distaste, "Were this another day, I'd crush your very soul out of that pathetic body. Lucky for you, I'm after a bigger goal, one that we might share. So either you get off this damn ship and go back to your friends, or you stop being a problem and shut the hell up, understand?"
He returns his glance to the Pirates.
"NOW YOU LISTEN! Either this vessel's commanding officer shows himself right now, or I'll tear it apart bolt by bolt trying to find him and rip the limbs off anyone trying to stop me. Understand?"
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Another shake of the airship and Sea found herself walking on eggshells. Between the pirates, the incoming and audibly furious Lady Nova and a threatening 'Nightmare', from what Nova called him, she found herself regretting every minute she had spent being involved with the superheroine in the first place. "I don't have time to deal with them," she told herself and was about to move on when a brief flash interrupted her train of thought, followed by a faded voices of Lady Nova and what sounded like that of her own echoing inside her head.
[i]"I'm Lady Nova, by the way. Welcome to Titan City."[/i]
[i]"I would like to be a heroine like you..."[/i]
Stunned into silence, Sea looked back at Lady Nova's figure and noticed a pirate with a fusion weapon that looked like a steampunk saw. Her mind told her to ignore her, knowing that Lady Nova would most likely be able to handle herself just fine. However, she felt a nagging feeling in her gut, one that was being persistent and was slowly grating on her nerves. She wanted to ignore it, but the longer she let it persist, the more she became unwilling to leave Nova on her own. She couldn't explain it, but she had a feeling that it had something to do with the 'other personality' she previously talked about.
Groaning and shaking her head, she took a stealth detour and muttered,
"Sea, since when did you grow a conscience?"
Sneaking up to the pirate that was sneaking up on Lady Nova, she grabbed him with a choke hold and, no longer bothering to play nice now that she knew what situation she was in, stabbed her dagger into his chest and pulled it out, letting him die a painful death.
"I know you don't have eyes at the back of your head, heroine," she said to her, "but try to stay on your toes if you want to live and be a hero for another day." One hand on the hilt of the compact assassin dagger, she looked at Lady Nova and Nightmare from under her own helmet, her face all but obscured. The only piece of her appearance would be cuts on her body suit that would reveal a shade of light peach skin, bruised and burned after escaping the bank inferno.
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Impact found himself dancing like a spider in its web to avoid the attacks of the jet-pack and glider pirates. As he scrambled up the side of the airship, his head crested the rail and he spied Lady Nova confronting someone in a dark blue mechsuit and he realized that that was the dumbass whose kamikaze first sent him flying.
He eyeballed the position of the dark blue guy and the opposite railing, then looked down to see several gliders flying beneath the keel of the airship and he grinned, "Perfect."
And with that one word, he released his grip on the side of the now-stalled airship and plummeted straight down.
As he fell, he waited for the keel of the airship to become visible and as soon as it did, he fired a strand of energy to latch onto it, arresting his freefall and transferring his momentum into a pendulum effect. As he swung rapidly underneath the airship, he approached the gliders, his angle perfect for zipping right over them. However, as he passed over the vehicles, he let loose bursts of energy against the wings that accelerated him further, sending him whipping up along the side of the airship and over the rail, his feet pointed directly at Nightmare's back.
A second before impact, he reinforced the energy armor around his feet and legs and prepared to release a burst of energy directly into Nightmare's backside.
"Hey big blue, HEADS UP!"
WHAM!!!
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
The pirates where startled by Tyrians entrance, but quickly regained their composure and rushed forward to attack. Tyrian met the rush with his own. Putting his full weight behind his shield and slamming into to first line of his foes. The distinctive CLANG of shield on there metal armor was ear piercing and sent the three flying back. They are not as foolish as they look, Tyrian thought and the pirates attempted to flank him.
Armed with an assortment of weapons, the pirates to the front were firing their steam powered guns in attempt to keep the focus of this unwanted intruder. He had his shield raised deflecting their fire, but they knew this would keep him opened for the others. The pirates on the flanks were bearing cutlasses of heated iron glowing red, and rushed in to overwhelm him.
Surrounded on three sides, with open air to his back, there was only one option. Tyrian was no fool either. He knew when you are surrounded you look for the weakest man, and there he was! His right flank reached him first. They attacked with clumsiness and committed to much of their power in their swing. Tyrian spun left, now putting the wall to his back and his right flank attackers masking the fire of their guns. His heavy sword came around to meet his off-balance opponents incapacitating two of them.
The left flank closed the distance to now form one line. They swung their cutlasses down at Tyrian with the same clumsiness and over commitment of power. The gunners yelled at the line to move out of the way.
Despite his size, Tyrians movements were lightning fast. The swings of the pirates met his shield and were deflected. Though clumsy, their attacks were furious and quick, but not quick enough. Their every mistake was exploited, and here comes another one. To quick for their own good their swords would meet before their target setting the attack off balance. Tyrian spun into the air using his shield to clear his path and brought his sword around again. He landed with shield raised against attack and he lept again, only his targets this time were the two gunners.
The last two pirates turned and ran for help.
He could hear fighting and voices on another part of the ship. Who else is up here? Where is the man that was clinging to the side of the hull?
Rearing from Nightmare's counter, Lady Nova would simply leap back, before responding with equal annoyance in her tone....
"You weren't loved as a child were you....?"
Shaking her head, she would turn to the sound of a dagger piercing flesh and clothing behind her, witnessing 'Holly' killing a man who was presumably trying to sneak up on her....
Turning back to the chaos before her, Lady Nova would peer around the scenes of battle across the vessel, and deciding that Nightmare wasn't worth fighting at the moment, and that the battles raging were pointless, as well as her own...she would instantly think of a solution...
Bringing her arms to her sides, she would allow energy to gather and pool inside of her, her aura of power bringing the air to a hum, before she would suddenly slam her golden bracers together with cosmic force, dwarfing the power and shockwave of her initial impact, pirates around her would be strewn across the deck, as well as those around her who are not grounded...
((Not to control any of your characters of course, just now that this would at least take out the remaining pirates near her))
The sound would be brief, but unimaginably deafening, pirates around her which are not thrown would collapse unconcious from the sheer volume and power of the noise, glass widows and such presumably shattering as well...
With her trite yet powerful display over, Lady Nova would then turn to Nightmare once more, and utter...
"Care to find out of that suit can take the pressure of space, 'M'lord'?"
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Nightmare is put off balance but catches himself after a few steps, turning to face Impact with a not-too-happy look.
"What you did was an error.."
He simply turns back around and grabs the closest pirate to him by the neck, staring right into the man's eyes.
"Bring. Him. Out. Now. Or should I drop you over the side?"
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Well the Captain wasn't going to stand around on the bridge for long. Sure enough a door opened and out he came. Much like the standard Broiler Borgs Captain Magnus Hellson appeared cased in the bronze alloy. [b]"Ya Land Lubbers are Wrecking my Ship!"[/b] At first it seemed he makes a battle stance ready to throw a punch, but then a steam jet released sending him charging at top speed slamming that armored fist into Nightmare. The pirate Nightmare had hold off scrambled away. "No Hazard pay worth this." He then jumped off the ship and used the jetpack to get away.
Below Unknown moves shifting his from so he could sprint faster. Looking less and less like a human in a suit and more like an alien even his head shifted and a second set of eyes opened. Within John Doe comes to the understanding that the lifeforms were absorbing him making him part of the collective. This however had little effect on Unknown as it raced at the ambulance that Melody was falling to.
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Hearing a massive blast, Tyrian decided that he need to move towards the upper deck of the ship. As he drew closer he heard someone yell "Ya Land Lubbers are Wrecking my Ship!" followed by the sound of steam being released and a thud.
Tyrian burst on the deck and saw four characters in front of him. Two were men and had very ominous looks about them and one was regaining his composure, he guessed from a hit. It seemed a match between old and new tech. Maybe there was some bad blood he thought.
The other two were women on guard for the fight. They both had a certain fury in their eyes, which seemed to be directed at the steampunk captain.
Tyrian raised his sword and pointed it at the captain. "Sir, you will surrender yourself and this ship immediately!"
Nightmare's pushed backwards by the punch, planting his feet firmly on the ground after regaining composure. He cracks his knuckles and steps inward to deliver a crushing blow to the bronze-clad captain, every joint of the suit causing an audible whirring as they move. The same action gets repeated with the other fist, each step he takes being paired with a hard punch to the pirate.
"You have something that belongs to me, boy. Hand it over or I'll let you experience the Hindenburg firsthand."
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Watching Lord Nightmare and the Captain square off, Lady Nova would turn to Impact and Tyrian, shouting....
"Time to disable the engines, and their weapons, if you two can handle that, I'll take care of of our cyber rejects here!"
With that, she would launch a localized flashbang towards that two villains in question, before leaping in with an equally blinding flash, before she begins to engage them both using while not expert, but extremely competent martial skills, notably Savate, further served by her considerable strength and durability...
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Melody landed with a loud thud onto the roof of the ambulance. Hitting the next button one of the two tracks provided her with earth again. A series of spikes shot up out of the ground piercing the underside of the ambulance disabling it.
As the TCPD officers in the back got out Mel unleashed her other element currently available. The two officers took the windblast full on getting sent sprawling 25 feet away. They would be fine when they woke up.
Ducking her head in Mel grinned wickedly at the captive Theodore. "Sadly you won't be the first, but rest assure, you won't be the last."
Mel stood on the roof and changed both tracks to earth. Cranking the volume she added her own voice to it.
Mels body fell into a broken puppet pose. Her arm swung around grabbed her collar and pulled her up. With movements that would rival any pop locker Mel put her hands into a Tut pose. "If Sam can't be here... neither can you." Mel slammed her hands together. Two pillars of earth erupted at angles crushing the sides of the ambulance in like a soda can.
Mel stood on top of the wreckage and finally started to cry. She was sobbing by the time some odd looking shifted super approached her. She had fallen to her knees as her body heaved up and down with each wail.
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Unknown came to a halt looking at Melody. Somewhere within what remained of John Doe informed the collective of the concept of grief. "Does his death ease your suffering?" There wasn't any note of anger if anything the voice sounded curious.
High above Captain Magnus Hellson turned his head hearing "Sir, you will surrender yourself and this ship immediately!" He laughed "Boy I swoop the poop-deck with you." Just then he gets hit by Nightmares repeating punches forcing him to take a step back as his armor dents. He shifts his arms and two pipes extend then release a blast of super heated steam in Nightmare's face. "What ever you think we have you can get back on E-bay!... Unless you talking about that Orb we were hired to retrieve it. Don't recall your name even being mentioned as the current holder."
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Melody looked at the person, heard his question... and stood up.
Still sobbing she got off the roof of the ambulance and walked towards the now destroyed bank. A light rain of fire surrounding her to keep the TCPD from approaching her. She walked into the vault and grabbed the body of her friend. Mel wasn't very strong so she lacked the dignity to carry her in front of her. Hoisting the body over her shoulder she stumbled out of the bank.
Looking at the symbiotic super through the light rain of fire she smiled with tear streaked cheeks. "No, but it will stop someone elses Sam from dying" Mel stumbled down the road. Her usual grace gone under the weight of grief, exhaustion, her barely healed gunshot wound, and the weight of her friends body.
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The Creature for now that the best way to describe Unknown for he was now something like the Xenomorphs from Aliens but sleek and reptilian a smooth shimmer something built for speed. As well as a face that had four eyes and a normal like mouth. "We may be new to this world, but even we know there been death by others long before your kind started broadcasting radio signals." The rain of fire didn't seem to bother him. Fire of this kind was mostly energy anyway and for a being that evolved to absorb energy it was a light snack then a bother. "There are predators among your kind. They will hunt it's their nature. You are such a predator just you see those that harm as your prey." He looked to the airship now high above the city so high a cloud was now passing under it. "We can animate her flesh, make her breath but ... the life energy in her mind is gone. There was nothing we could do to rekindle that spark."
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
"Not yet.. Once I squeeze the life out of your feeble body, though, it WILL be mine."
He takes the steam-blast full force and fires off a brutal gutpunch to the Captain's stomach, laughing to himself maniacally.
"Aww.. going to have to try harder than that. This suit is built to take heat up to twelve-hundred degrees Kelvin. All you are to me is a small sauna."
He spins to block Nova's attacks, giving out another mechanized growl to her.
"DAMMIT WOMAN, He's your enemy today, not me!"
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Impact shook his head as he climbed to his feet woozily.
"What the hell are you made of, big blue? I hit you with the force of a wrecking ball. How the hell are you still standing?!" he hollered as he turned to face Nightmare, only to see the mech-suited man now fighting what could only be the captain of the vessel, judging by the fancy garb over his brass shell.
"Oh, maybe he is on our side..."
Seeing several Aethers closing on Lady Nova, he moved to attack them, then reckoned she could handle them. Scratching his head, he looked around for a second and spotted some lightly armored Aethers working on the engines.
"Engineers. Ain't happening, boys!"
With that, he shot an energy strand up to the mast and kicked off from the rail, swinging towards the rear of the airship.
[color=#FF7F50]Putting yourself in another persons shoes emotionally is something that everyone has to experience eventually. It's part of learning to be a human being. Roleplayers do it for fun.[/color]
Regaining her feet after receiving another shockwave, courtesy of Lady Nova, Sea realized that everyone, including the captain of the ship, were too busy fighting one another and she was completely ignored. She didn't know if she should be relieved or upset, but settled to lean towards the former.
Shaking her helmet-covered head, she left the supers' fray and, noticing the open door where the captain had entered from, ran inside to reach the airship's inner area. The death thralls of the Aether Pirates, the sharp noise of snapping spines and gunfire echoed inside the ship as Sea upped her casualty counter slowly and steadily.
"Poor pirates. I almost feel sorry for them," she mused while holding one pirate in a choke hold, waiting until his last breath left him before dropping his lifeless body onto the ground. "Keyword being [i]almost[/i]."
Leaving the dead bodies as a warning, Sea decided to return to her original plan of plundering the plundering pirates. Not knowing the interior of the airship, however, she settled to patiently sneaking and killing her way to wherever they had kept their valuable items.
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Tyrian moved without hesitation. The starboard cannons were being controller remotely, but from where? His eyes traced the piping and wiring running to the guns and backtracked them to the hatch the captain just cam through. The cannons were firing on all the boarders now. He dove into the hatch.
There was a large command room inside. Monitors showing the action on the different decks were on one side of the room, gauges and indicators were on the other side. Technicians were scrambling at each of their stations as Theodore barked orders to the different stations.
"Your not leading your targets men!" He slapped on of the techs on the back of the head. "Engineering, I need those engines running at 110%! Ballast, Get us more altitude!" He stopped when Tyrian barged in. "Seriously!! You worthless swill need to get off our ship!" Drawing his swords and lunging at Tyrian, he wasted no time in his attack.
Surprised at the speed of his new enemy, Tyrian was caught off guard for a moment and barely managed to avoid rapiers swinging by his head. The room made it more difficult to maneuver as he stepped back to regain his footing and parry each attack. His shield became invaluable as he slammed himself into Theodore pressing him into the wall.
"Get back to firing!" he yelled at the gunners. "GET THIS SHIP MOVING TOWARDS SAFE HAVEN NOW!!" He yelled as he pushed Tyrian off him.
Tyrian followed with several powerful swings each leading into the next. He covered each opening he presented with his shield and pressed his attack. As he gained ground with his flurry of attacks he bashed techs, monitors, and gauges wherever he could.
Halting her attack briefly, Lady Nova would take a countering stance...before realizing that at least for the moment, Lord Nightmare was right, and that she had other priorities to attend to...but first....
She would turn to Nightmare, and seeming like she was going to assualt him further, would actually begin to engage the Aether Pirates surrounding them, keeping them away from his flank, before suddenly running into the interior of the Airship, leaving him free to deal with the captain unhidered...for now...
Heating inside, she would hear the sickening signs of snapping bone and the familiar sound of gunfire further in, before finding a bloody trail of dead pirates indicating their murderer is further in. Not wasting time, she would take down any other living pirates that stand in her with quick punches and powerful kicks, not wanting to alert others to her presence by using her powers...
Suddenly, Lady Nova would suddenly come across 'Holly', and remembering how she is not as of yet within her right mind, would circle her cautiously, taking her Savate stance just to be safe...
((Not to control your character of course, if they didn't meet up simply say so...))
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Lady Nova and Sea Holly would have rounded up in the cargo hold the lowest part of the ship. It be set up in different classes of cargo, food, supplies, weapons, ammo, and finally in a room that locked the loot. Between them and the loot chamber however was ten armed Pirates who just came out of the Weapons locker. Lord Nightmare was now alone on the hanger when the pirates that were flying outside came in. The Captain looked at Lord Nightmare and take a few steps back "Ya want it fine the blasted thing already costing me more then the offered price. Just help get those Land Lubber off this ship." Then a cruel smile came to his face "Think I know how."
Then the Captain moved to the intercom system broadcasting his voice to every chamber "Here this! All port-side guns fire on the Whitehold Apartment building. Max spread I want that place ablaze. Attention Heroes it's your choice. Continue fighting us.. or save those people."
Tyrian who found the weapons control room would see the operators aim the plasma cannons at the building. The Technician smiled and prepared to fight to keep Tyrian from stopping the firing.
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Personal rules of good roleplay
1.) Nothing goes as planned.
2.) If it goes as planned it's not good RP
Nightmare's eyes widen as he hears the captain's orders, causing him to let out another snarl before snapping his hand out and grabbing the now off-guard pirate's neck, beginning to tighten his grip.
"I'm no butcher and I certainly won't let you harm innocents. Call it off before I squeeze the life out of you."
[B]Revenge is motivation enough. At least it's honest...[/B]
Roleplayer; Esteemed Villain
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Wasting no time, after hearing the Captain's orders, Lady Nova would appear as a golden blur as she reaches the deck, using her Paragon communicator, patching into the police radio....
"This is Lady Nova, the Aether Pirates are preparing to fire upon the Whitehold Apartment building, order emergency evacuations and prepare medical personnel!"
With that, Lady Nova would streak along the sides of the airship, blasting and hopefully destroying any gun preparing to fire that happen to be exposed...
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Sea and Lady Nova met just as she had finished adding one more count to her casualty tally and the latter began circling her cautiously, much to her annoyance. She had clearly seen her trail of death along the way and, from the look in the super's eyes, it's clear that Lady Nova was convinced Sea had a few screws loose from her head, recalling how she had previously talked about her having an alternate personality, but then she suddenly left when the captain gave out his orders to fire on a civilian building, leaving Sea on her own again. "I don't know what the hell she is after," she muttered and headed to the opposite direction from Lady Nova towards the loot storage.
"So... Either the pirates' flank or the lives of the innocent," she mused.
"Thankfully, I have no such qualms."
Looking back, she saw ten pirates, guns blazing and blades crackling with electricity, coming out of a locker. From a gap of the open door, she saw a plethora of weapons stored inside. Underneath her black helmet, she smirked, pulled out the rapier she had stolen and turned it on, feeling a faint, electrifying crackle along her exposed skin. Without any words from her mouth, she set her sights on the prize, reducing ten armed pirates into ten mangled corpses as she made her way into the cargo area.
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Melody would continue her walk towards the district Sam and her lived in. The rain of fire seeming to stay in place keeping TCPD from following her. Melody would remain out of jail at least long enough to bring her friend home..
Meanwhile.......
Three kids ran up to him. "Sticks! Sticks! Downtown is in trouble! Don't you walk Downtown?" The kids hammered on Arch until he paid attention to what they were saying. Arch bent down to listen again. His giant frame wider than the three kids if they had been touching fingertip to fingertip. "Stickers, Downtown, they are destroying it!" The natives knew, The construct would protect the young, and the property of the neighborhoods he patrolled. It had always been this way.
Arch let out a small burst of electrical energy and stood up. Arch must stop the destruction of Titan City......
Slowly and very lightly Arch patted the three on the head. A small crafting arm depositing a sticker onto the face of each, their reward. Arch lightly pushed the three back. He was not fast, but he had power. Gears clanking Arches knees bent. Hatches on the side of his thighs and shins opening to allow pistons to cycle further in his legs.
Arch sprang up and forward. Each leap roughly 10 stories up and 2 blocks forward. His landings lacked grace but were cushioned enough not to damage the pavement. Arch would come back later and make sure.
Arch saw the airship ahead. They had been around for a few years, normally only removing things that didn't originate in Titan City, so he tended to leave them alone. This one was smoking, with fire pouring out of several locations, organics flying into and out of it. So much chaos. Its weapons were training on a complex of buildings.
If Arch could have gritted his teeth he would have. Arches legs bent low. The gears screaming as they locked. Coils deep in his core wound tight, the pistons in his legs all preparing to fire at once. Arch released............. With an audible Boom he lept. 1200 lbs of metal rocketed at the airship.
Arch had no issues demolishing non organics that did not belong to Titan City. ((which includes anything not from the older areas of Titan City)) Instead of landing on the deck Arch had aimed for the cannons themselves. His weight momentarily causing the ship to tilt as he gripped the over sized gun. Hanging from one arm he swung the other up. The dent nearly buckling the barrel in half.
One cannon down, and Arch on the scene. The lumbering hero had been awoken from his endless patrol.
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