"Time foah a new tactic," Nyght muttered. "Ah'm OK, Ah'm OK," she added for Lilly's benefit. "Ah just need to get back oveh theah... back toward that bastard, and we'll try the next trick."

She still couldn't see, but her own hunger was growing sharp, and she could feel the pull of his life-force. She launched herself back in Jorortis' direction, and this time she did not try to drain him. Instead, she concentrated, attempting to fill his mind with dizzying disorientation, to disrupt his ability to focus or target anyone as perceptions of direction and distance spun, shrank and stretched within his mind.

Sighing in raw frustration, Lady Nova eyes Jatoris before hoping to heap on the damage by launching a volley of blinding spheres of heat and light, eight in all.

The blast of energy blew the small piece of meteor apart, but the rest of the pieces seemed to absorb the eerie blue flame left over, as they gained more speed.

The warp Beast Growled. "F****ing Broad... What's it F***ing look like I'm..." Between his irritation, the meteor started to split into numerous pieces. Well, at least he didn't waste the effort of ripping the portal the HARD way across. "You think that's going to stop me! You don't know who you're dealing with!" The reptile began straining himself, ripping another portal open perpendicular with this one. In an instant, he ran the portal along the larger, stretched portal. Yep. That just happened. He teleported a teleport. That's a thing now apparently. Moving a tear in space with another tear in space. He didn't have the strength to fully open the warp, but he could stretch it enough to catch one rock. An other portal cracked in the sky, a moment later, launching the captured meteorite into another one. He wouldn't be able to do anything else like that without a huge arcane infusion.

The teleporter landed on the ground, stepping from a small portal, panting a little bit from strain. "Okay... who's turn is it?"

Rotten got up still mentally out of it and went for the nearest source of fresh meat one that smelled bloodied the scent of Roxicon wounded leg to be precise. He charged at her arms extended drooling though his eyes were glazed and out of focus.

"Oh, Shugah," Nyght said coldly, "don't worry, Ah have no intention of lettin' up!" With that, she redoubled her efforts to try and force confusion on him, trying to disorient him totally and hopefully leave him open to attack from the others.

Lilly would have currently hit 3 of the remaining small meteors, as the two remaining ones absorb the blown up ones power to increase their speed of descent, they were 10 seconds from crashing into the ground.

Lady Nova hesitates for a second as she heard the human voice within, but nonetheless continues her assault if it means freeing the man inside as she moves to stand beside Nyghtshade.

After seeing him scream and tear at his own flesh, she stops entirely as she yells.

"You can do it, your almost free!"

Roxicon's efforts slowed down the remaining two rocks, but they proved to be magically potent, slowing them down to 15 seconds to impact.

One final rock remained as the reptile creature teleported the other one to the void. 8 seconds until impact.

The final rock had been blown apart by Lilly's lucky shot, but then a portal opens to the void as the left over eerie blue flame was sent to the stored meteorite piece to absorb, then the portal closed.

Jorotis was now free from what had plagued him ,and infection, coming out frail and weak he was soon starting to grow ,his mass and height starting to build until he was normal size ,the cybernetics on his body started to reappear , until he was back to his normal state , only this time there was no mask and his body language completely change as he collapsed onto his knees and buried his face into his palms.green energy was phasing all around him ,placing him in a hibernation like state.

Nyght, standing nearby, continued to focus on the red thing, working on projecting confusion into its mind - if it had anything recognizable as a mind.

From the combined assault, the reptile couldn't tell what state the viral behemoth was left in. Quickly, he raised his other foot, and planted it on the chest of the red thing, and, moving into a flip, rebounded off the being's torso. The teleporter was propelled backwards, flipping like a goddamn acrobat several times through the air, and landing 10 or so meters away. His eyes kept some sort of focus on the red thing as he bounded away, but internally, he cursed himself for putting too much force into the push. See, while spinning like that, there was no way he could react to anything coming at him. It was just a part of accidental flair and showmanship. But... It probably looked pretty cool, right? That is, unless something slammed into him before he could land.

Without much pre-planning, This was a bad maneuver. Sure, Jorortis was large, and strong enough to stop the teleporter mid flight, and give him another shot, but in actuality, it felt more like he was being attacked. That wasn't the intent, but to send someone who was retreating, BACK into the fray without their consent... That often gives the wrong impression. The moment, he was grabbed, the reptile resisted, turning the planned throw into something far-less-elegant. More like a flailing toss than a coordinated assault. "So you're still corrupted huh?!" He shouted angrily, ripping a hole in the air just shy of the virus, and popping out a short distance away, sliding to a halt so see both the cyborg and the red viral monstrosity. "You can never trust technology..." He muttered, sneering at Jorortis. "Touch me again you tin can, I dare you!" His anger was likely misdirected. In fact, it WAS misdirected. But then, you REALLY shouldn't try to do cool combination attacks unless you have practiced them.

A violet crackle started sparking around the tips of the reptile's right hand claws. I guess he didn't like being used as a projectile weapon.

The reptilian growled, balling his crackling hand into a fist. He wanted to shout something about not being told how to fight. Rather than shout though, He hefted up a manhole cover and whipped it like a frisby at the red entity. A 50 pound disc of steel flew through the air, careening to the side of the entity's head. How did they know if they were winning? This thing wasn't bleeding. Attacking it didn't seem to expend any energy from it. Were they just buying time? Okay-Okay... This thing possessed a cyborg. That meant it was technology based. Right? The only way The reptilian knew how to screw up something made with advanced tech was to get some elderly folk to try to use it correctly. They would naturally screw it up and run it into the ground. Lacking a senior citizen trying to log into AOL through internet explore with no anti-virus, and 30 toolbar downloads though, how were they planning on overloading this thing, or corrupting it, or just containing it in general? The reptilian could just send it to the void, but he'd rather not turn that into some mid-dimensional prison for everything he doesn't know how to, or have time to deal with.

Nyght couldn't get any kind of feel for the red thing's mind, so shifted tactics, trying to drain energy from it and thus slow it's reactions to the others.

Ro was still dead to the world. That odd given he should have reanimated by now, normally at least. Having been drained to zero funtionality twice in such a short time overwhelmed what ever magical system that restarts him. Those that can detect magic and spiritual energy would tell he wasn't lifeless. His soul was still trapped in his flesh. His body was still destroying microbs and any foren organic matter (bugs included) to magicalforce.

Jorortis Lunged into action once again Slamming his massive fist through the chest of the beast only to be scrubbed into the ground his metallic Arm still lodged In its chest." Hit it with anything metal!"

Shepherd could see he magic surrounding Nyght. there was a dark aura around her which he noticed during the game earlier but it seemed stronger now as she used her abilities. Shepherd transfered what ever energy he could to Ron. the Ghostwalker then went to help Nyght as he launched half a dozen cross blades made out of unstable explosive energy at their enemy. He watched as the spinning blue energy blades approached their target.

The hell does metal have to do with anything--Thought the reptilian, as he glanced around for something akin to a crowbar. Maybe an I-beam, or some pig-iron reinforcement, Scaffolding? Anything really. His eyes eventually fell to a Streetlight, snapped clean from it's base mount. With a heave and a ho, the 300 pound iron and aluminum object was hefted into the reptile's hip, then raised upwards into the air. He started running the pole over to the scuffle on the ground, and when close, gave a little hop and spin, bringing the pole down to slam on the red thing's back. If he had the time for a second hit, he'd start spinning about to bring the pole 270 degrees in a horizontal spin for a strike at the thing's head-shoulder area. He heard a plea for help with civilians, but, that's not what he was here for. He just wanted this fight.

((this kind of streetlight :3 http://www.tuscumbiaironworks.com/images/traditional_street_lamps/A1123_victorian_street_light_with_berlin_lamp_on_urn_base.jpg ))

The exploding blades likely connected while Jorortis made his way to the rubble, striking in volleyed succession during the pole-base assault. The reptile smirked as Jorortis fell back to take care of things a little less dangerous."Heh... Now he get's outta of the way-"

Don't distract yourself Mr. Teleporter. That's when you get decked in the face. And that's more or less what happened. A red arm flailed out into the reptile, sending him careening into a car. The passenger side door caved in from impact, and airbags deployed. Just to make things more annoying, the alarm started blaring. Just more noise to add to the brawl.

He let out a cough, apparently winded or something. His eyes looked out in time to see the monstrosity charging him down once more. A loud crack, and he slipped out of harms way, appearing on the car's roof the moment the virus plunged his fist through the passenger door to where the teleporter had been just a moment before. The reptile spun in place, sending a talon-toting roundhouse kick into the thing's head, then hopped onto it's back, gripping around it's trunk of a neck as best he could. The claws of his right hand crackled like a little lightning storm, and once again gave of purple sparks. "I've had it with you!" He yelled over it's loud, unrecognizable protests. Something which may have sounded like a dial-tone and whale calls perhaps? A sudden thrust of the hand dug the claws deep into the creature's "skull". Bits and pieces of it were teleported just a foot or so away, a lethal strike to anything organic. To this thing? Probably not.

The thing would rear up, lifting the car with it, flailing to try to remove the painful thing from its back. All the while, it's strange protesting sounds made it almost seem... sad? Like, they were putting down an elephant that wandered into a city and got itself tangled in something... Come on now, no time to grow a conscience. Between continued assaults and Nyght's energy drain, the creature looked like it was slowing down. It's flailing becoming less and less effective, more and more exhausted.

[I]Events circa posts 210-240[/I]

Jorortis wrote:

He slammed his open palm towards the ground ,not only did the force blast a gigantic crater where it struck but it also raised a a protective shield of his red energy around 10 feet of his body ,just as the laser slammed into his protective shielding he curled the shield upwards and sent it flying towards Tinkerbell along with the laser she had blasted towards him , letting up a slight grunt as he hoped to sent this nuisance dropping from the sky.

While her shields held, Tinker Belle realized that heavier weapons would be needed than her experimental teleporter could get to her. She contacted Marianne and [font=lucida bright]AIko[/font]...

Faceless in the OOC Thread wrote:

*snip* Marianne was left unharmed nearby the area and the ooze had escaped, because you had to go. *snip* I couldn't post about the ooze leaving Marianne and escaping because of some site error.

Gasping for breath, Marianne watched as the ooze retreated from the heroes who had gathered. Turning off her force field, she picked up her plasma pistol, turning it off and holstering it as her phone rang...

[font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] led the children huddled with her sisters in the force bubble towards shelter. She never saw the aircraft or the bomb it dropped, though the actions of the heroes around her made it clear they perceived some threat. As she approached the line of rubble created by Jorortis, she found a basement entrance and they all went in. There she remained, reinforcing the basement's structure with her force fields, checking news reports to learn when it was safe for the children to emerge...

Having confirmed that their daughters were all safe, at least for the moment, the Duchess and Tinker Belle quickly went back to their lab...

Ron stood "Oh god it happened again... did I hurt anyone" He knelt down and lifted a big chunk of concrete. "Where is that rampaging cyborg! I kill the bastard!" Looking around "I see him." He tosses the chunk at Jorortis.

Okay Ron was now confused "DUCK!" What was the red thing and why was it fighting Jorortis "Would someone Please bring me up dot speed!"

The reptile fell from the red thing's back, regaining a little bit of distance and a moment to think. His favorite battery probably only needed the simplest of explanations to be brought up to speed really. The reptile shrugged, shouting out a short little line that would probably make tons of sense to any super powered being who's field literally was this kind of crazy shenanigans. "Mind control!" He hollered, his tone half in jest, half tired. Did anything else even need to be explained? Probably not. Hopefully. "Just beat the thing with metal. Apparently that messes with it." The teleporter added, scrounging up a pipe likely from the insides of a destroyed vehicle. He flung it towards the zombie with only a brief "Catch!"

The reptile stood baffled for a moment however, as Jorortis started pulling the red thing into himself again. "He's going to try that? well... Guess we're holding off on beating it down." The reptillian didn't take this as a meaning to stop though. He found himself a nice heavy chunk of reinforcing re-bar to use should this absorption fail.

"Ah don't know about this..." Nyght muttered, watching Jorortis re-absorb the thing that had already possessed him once. She shifted her mental focus to Jorortis again, ready to strike with another round of confusion, if he began attacking the others once more.

Jorortis was just standing there fists clenched and his shoulders raising a lowering from his deep breaths his hood blocking off his face, his arm started to jolt with red energy ,but he was doing noting with it it was just surging through him.

Soon the red started rapidly changing hues, from the bright crimson to a more faded green..soon it was yellow ,all of this was happening on a large scale as more energy was surging as fasts rates as he was going through some kind of change ,but soon all stopped and it was a simple white hue that was seen a dark black lightning surged around him before it all stopped and Jorortis uttered a few words."I did it." He pressed his back to the wall of a building sliding down it as his body was cooling down.

Jorortis body temperature was finally back to normal as he stood up and walked toward the zombie ,his large hand almost engulfing rottens shoulder as he rested it there."Well ,I was in my lab and I was making some improvements to my system ,but then I noticed something ,while I am strong against mental attacks ,I have a pretty bad time with things that attack me on my more cybernetic side.

So I created a virus and slowly applied it to my system every so often ,hoping that I could build up some kind of immunity to it , but it went wrong ,very wrong. The virus grew strong and soon took control over all my cybernetics and I was trapped ,then It sent me hear and made me do all those bad things.

Jorortis started walking around ,standing at the giant pile of rubble that had buried the hero and many other people ,and walked the path of the pipe ,stopping for only a few moments as he raised both of his large hands into the air and sent them crashing down onto the ground ,letting out grunts and he repeatedly slammed his fists into the hard concrete ,continuing until hitting the giant pipe that held all the people in it ,he fell into the wide path and fallowed until he saw nothing but an open door with a rusted wheel handle.
"Hello?"

[font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] dropped that portion of her force field, repositioning it to stabilize the bricks at the top. Jackie and Diana and several other children recognized Whipcrack, and they moved out of the way to let the hero and the folks following him through.

"I was just about to check this door, myself," said [font=lucida bright]AIko[/font]. "The latest Tweets seem to agree that the fighting is over."

He whispered to rotten "Tell them the situation ,they wont believe me if I did."

He was standing behind the zombie ,his arms folded as he let out a sigh."alright then."

Jorortis barely made it out of the way in time for the door to get blasted off its hinges ,and slam into the zombie man ,he looked back for only a moment ,but he looked back towards Whipcrack "Hey ,look I need to tell you something...."

Nyght had not idea whether Jorortis was truly in charge now, or once again under the thrall of the red thing. For that matter, she'd no idea yet whether Jorortis-in-Charge was any better. He was certainly strong, and apparently resistant to whatever she could dish out. She had the feeling of being a very little fish trying to fight a Great White shark -- although, truth be told, a little fish would have had far too much sense to have anything to do with a Great White.

Still, whether Jorortis was in control now or not, he'd blasted a entryway down beneath the field, to where the civilians had fled, and Nyght was darned if she was just going to wrap up in her cloak and hurry back to her rented room to await the evening's darkness.

Besides, it looked plenty dark down there, she thought, as she approached the new-formed crater and peered in, blessed relief from the cruel sun. And she still might be able to help.

Nyght was nothing if not an eternal optimist.

So, scraping up her courage, she dropped gracefully down into the tunnel below, and followed along behind Jorortis and Rotten.

At hearing voices near the basement entrance, Lady Nova races towards the door after hearing a woman scream, relaxing as she witnesses Rotten Luck and Alko. Stepping forward swiftly, she raises her hand to illuminate the area in golden light, beaming with equal radiance as she spies Sam and the civilians alive and relatively well.

"The situation has been handled and the threat has been neutralized." If there was an award offered for packing unmatched caring in a single businesslike sentence, she just won a grand prize.

[font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] relaxed as Lady Nova's voice came down the tunnel. "All clear, then. This door gets you to fresh air faster, no pushing and shoving please."

Jackie and Diana were on their best behavior as they came out of the basement, as it would not have looked good for their baby sister to be better behaved than they were.

Sarah smiles as she hears the relaxation in the voices around her before kneeling down to swiftly lift the door off Ron before replying with a grin.

"You too Bones, and don't worry Ron, you didn't hurt anyone."

Lady Nova smiles brightly at Nyghtshade as she responds.

"Certainly, and that was excellent work out there, my only regret is that I hadn't met you earlier. You kept a level head while I lost mine and I couldn't have asked for finer allies today." She addresses to every hero gathered, before turning back to Nyghtshade as she offers.

"And perhaps after we get out of here and begin some clean up, would you like to join our Q&A panel, among other events?"

Jorortis was standing looking at whipcrack ,his hands held at his side but still anticipating a violent outburst from him ,his arms soon folding up again as he pulled is hood down a bit.