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"We're all trying to do what's right and I honestly think that's a question that you yourself can truly answer. Its pretty safe to say that we'll gladly stand by you in the long-term regardless of your decision. I will say however that you've shown a lot of courage during this not-so-little adventure."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
"Time is a wasting...We can have a proper vote or something later. Kitty cat leads for now, he's got at least two votes, anyone who has a problem with it can keep their yaps shut till after people are saved, then you can campaign for class president or whatever."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Kate hopped off her stool. "Hauntress is right. We shouldn't keep the good... err, bad doctor waiting. We should head out."
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Nagual nods, and with a final check on the comma and making sure they are synced up, he would turn to Broach.
“Would you like to do the honors? We should try for somewhere nearby but not close enough to risk an accidental sighting before we’re ready.”
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Broach plugged her phone into a monitor, using it to display a satellite view of the area from Google Maps. "There's the address we were given."
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*pulled her goggles down over her eyes and adjusted the communicator under the mask portion. She finished off the third bag of chips she had and brushed the crumbs and cheese dust off of her shirt as she stood up and started stretching* "ready when needed....hope you can open those portals fast."
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While the others discussed exactly where to put the portal, Broach opened a small one to her bedroom, pulled out a phone stand and let it close with a faint [I]pop![/I] She set the stand on a desk near the monitor and then put the phone against the magnet, locking it in place.
When a consensus had been reached, she turned the phone's camera on and opened a scouting portal, and the view was displayed on the monitor, showing the chosen exit point from a spot that could not be seen from the address where they were to meet. "Ready?" The monitor showed the scouting portal closing to reveal a corner of the monitor. Within a second, Broach had opened a portal three meters wide. "Fast enough, I hope. Good luck!"
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Kate nodded to Broach, grasped her sword hilt, and hopped through the portal. She immediately narrowed the focus of her blindsight to a 150 degree cone in front of her. This allowed her to push it out to a greater distance and she began 'pinging' the area, building a picture of it in her head. While moving forward quietly, she occasionally switched back to a 360 degree view, to make sure no one was trying to sneak up on her.
As Kate came around a corner, a light wind blew against her and she immediately froze, having smelled cigarette smoke. She elevated her view and got a sense of the building she was hugging the wall of. She crouched and then leapt upwards, grasping onto a pipe ten feet up. Planting her feet, she then levered herself upwards again, gaining purchase on the roof.
She moved forward steadily, tracking the foul smoke back to its source. Eventually, she found two guards huddled by a door, smoking and talking quietly. Kate crept past them a few feet, then did a handstand over the edge into a body hang. She dropped and landed with almost no sound, the guards seemingly oblivious. Drawing her sword and scabbard, she reversed the grip on her sword and lunged.
The first guard dropped like a sack of potatoes, victim of a swift pommel strike to the temple. As the second guard gaped, seeming to move in slow motion, Kate spun and drove her scabbard into his solar plexus. With a mighty WOOF, all of the air left his lungs. She spun around him again and locked her scabbard behind his neck, then pivoted and threw him head over heels. He hit the ground with a thud, wheezing and groaning, so she finished him off with a pressure point strike to the neck.
Tapping her communicator, Kate spoke quickly. "Blind Edge here. Two guards down. Tagging for later retrieval." She zip-cuffed them together, then applied a UHF RFID tag to each one of them. Then she moved off, prowling for more.
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Nagual would follow, and they would find upon entry an entire warehouse complex turned into an armed laboratory, with three levels, a floor full of armed guards, and a set of trip lasers near the doors with mounted turrets.
“Nagual to team, doors are trapped, extraction is safest on the roof or through a portal. Lovetap, maintain extra vigilance with running, mind your speed.” He would slink through a vent, and rather than walk the rafters, use his claws to crawl like a cat across the ceiling, dropping to ambush thugs from the shadows when possible.
Legs wrapped around a thug lifting him in the air, he would whisper to the comm after rendering him unconcisoh with a pull the to rafter by his feet.
“Hauntress, see if you can scope out and find our MVP’s, we need to know where our big bads and more importantly those kids are. I suspect they are on the top floor.”
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Following suit with the others, Scarlet would utilize the portal to enter the warehouse and go into 'stealth mode' upon entry into the building. Choosing to stick to the ceiling rafters, Scarlet would take advantage of whatever gadget he had on him to lure certain thugs away from their huddled up groups.
Drawing a ricochet disc from his costume's waistband, Scarlet would chuck it at a random location near a group of about three or so armed thugs. Once the group was split up to investigate the sound, Striker would make his move. Repelling down from the ceiling rafter via a grapnel tether, Scarlet would deliver a hard hand chop to one thug's neck, instantly knocking him unconscious. After this, Scarlet would lasso-tie the thug with a grapple cable and pull him up to the rafters.
"Now thats how you do it ninja style." Scarlet whispered into his own comm after a successful stealth takedown.
As for the other two thugs, Striker fires two miniature taser disks from his grapnel bracers into their necks, incapacitating them as well before later restraining and pulling them up to the ceiling with him.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
*she took a few deep breaths before tapping her goggles* "okay...hopefully I'll be quick enough I won't trip them. When hauntress finds the kids ill zoom in and yank the kids out....unless you want me to try to vibrate through the doors? I should be moving too fast to set off the traps."
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Hauntress glides through the portal and vannishes from sight before she gets to the building. After a moment those with communicators would hear a whispering quiet or far enough to not hear what was said then Hauntresses voice comes from behind, strangely on the opposite ear to where people's communicators are
"So, can you guys hear me when I'm ghosting or is me having one of these a waste of resources?"
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
"Uhh, I can hear you, and understand you, but I'm not sure about the waste yet. If I was hearing you in my left ear, I'd say your gear works great. But since I'm hearing you in my right ear, with no earpiece... it is, you should forgive the expression, spooky." Broach took out the earpiece, but left it turned on. "Try again?"
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"You come in a little staticy on my end... And incase you hadn't noticed almost everything I do is spooky."
Strangely enough without the earpiece in she can still he heard, though quieter, but it's much harder to tell from where.
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Nagual perks his head whilst upside down, whispering quietly.
“This is a good skill to have and know, but for now let’s use communicators, especially since I snagged enough to give to the kids potentially to help coordinate the escape.”
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*she looks to broach* "so uh...what happens if I miss a little and hit the edges of your portals?"
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Scarlet would crouch down into a perched position on one of the ceiling rafters, observing the activity of the rest of the room.
"Speaking of the kids, times like this would be really cool if we had a scanner or something to go off of. The stakes are far too high if we mess up at all."
Scarlet would speak in a hushed tone.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
"Scanner....Oh oh I can do that! They are probably scared! I can feel for that!!" *she was way to excited as she ran toward the building, moving too fast to be seen as she found a place to hide, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes trying to find an area that radiated with fear*
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"Oh, sorry, you weren't here for my portal safety lecture. Short answer, if you miss badly, we hope we can grab you and get you to the hospital before you bleed to death. Grabbing the parts that got cut off so the doctors can reattach them is next priority. That's why I make them big if folks are going to be walking through them, and why I check to make sure the other side is clear. That blue glow at the edge is from molecules that got electrons or atoms sliced off as they drift across the edge. If I make the portal extend into a floor or a wall, the atoms don't move much, so they're still in the same places when I close it, so the bonds get - Sorry, bit of a ramble there. Really short answer: don't miss."
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"Well shit....me and you should practice speed runs with aim later if this group hero thing becomes a legit thing" *she whispered into the comm as she felt out for the kids emotions*
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"Broach, not going to lie... That's pretty hardcore... Anyway I'm begining my search."
With that Hauntress invisibly enters the building searching for the missing people and trying to get an idea of where the bad guys are and what they have
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Kate continued moving methodically inwards, closing the perimeter and taking out thugs whenever she found them. Once inside the main building via a skylight, she began sniffing and soon found Nagual. The young cat-man was hanging upside down from the ceiling, tail lashing back and forth slowly as she snuck up on him while walking calmly along the rafters. She had the brief urge to poke him in the butt with her scabbard, but decided against it in case he reacted like an actual cat. "Nagual, Blind Edge approaching at your six."
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Nagual would note the movement near him, his senses having picked up on her arrival, responding with a quick whisper into the comm as he scampers along the walk without so much as a sound, approaching the freight elevator to the second and third floors.
“Acknowledged. I smell what seems to be burnt rubber and those pheromones but faintly, like it passed through here but is somewhere else in the building...up maybe? Scarlet, BE, you got anything?”
If fine tuning their senses, they would note that their abilities would point them indeed towards a source of smells that collect the strongest near the highest indoor point of the building, or the third floor.
As Lovetap reaches out, she would indeed sense fear, but also anger, confusion and drowsiness, a total of over 14 emotional signatures, with 8 being particularly strong or animated, the latter 6 in states of drowsiness or sleep.
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"I got nothing up here...but I do get a good view of looks to be dandruff in one of these guys' hair. Gotta say, he's got more frosted flakes than Tony the Tiger."
Picking up on Nagual's mentioning of pheromones and burned rubber. It gives Scarlet the idea to try putting his own sense of smell to the test and see if he can pick up anything.
Taking a moment to lift his mask just above the bridge of his nose, Scarlet would begin to filter out any excess scents he would be detecting and his attention would be drawn to a strong aroma emanating from the third floor.
"I think I got something. There's strong scent coming from one of the upper levels in the building. And for once this is the kinda smell thats not coming my sweaty gym bag at school."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
"I feel....fourteen....fourteen sets if fear...anger and....confusion...must be the kids. eight seem awake...alert...um...s-six? Yea six seem sedated..." *she mumbled into the comm, not entirely in her own head at the moment*
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"Practice would be good. We'll set up some time after school." Broach closed the portal after the last of her teammates had gone through, then adjusted the camera on her phone and opened a scouting portal under the nearest streetlamp, aimed at building. On the monitor, she looked for clues that would tell her the layout of the building, to find a good spot to portal in if things went sideways.
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The team would note that their assessments are correct, with radios to the thugs conveying to those that can hear that Keeling and his ‘two creepy assistants’ are awaiting the arrival of the team on the third floor.
Guard concentration seems to move to the second, which is where the emotional signatures Lovetap detected, which she would note that their statuses are being agitated, they are being moved.
Noting this, Nagual would whisper to the comms. “Broach, Lovetap, I think it’s time for rescues. Surprise them and move the thugs outside, then decide how best to move the kids. BE, Scarlet, I think it’s time to find our dance partners-ready?”
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Scarlet nods and cracks both of his knuckles.
"Hell yeah, I'm more than certain that ol' Blackout owes me a round 2 for standing me up during our last go-round."
After this, Scarlet preps himself to move forward with finding Keeling and his two lackeys.
"Time to deliver the coup de grace on this entire operation."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
"Broach...on my mark open a portal on the second floor....they are moving the kids....I'm going to round up the kids and push them through....seems like a good way to handle this right?" *she worked on running upto the second floor, trying to avoid as many guards as possible since she wasnt a fighter*
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"The portal will be just inside the middle window on the north side." The scene on the monitor changed as Broach opened the scouting portal to a point that should be just above the window and two meters inside, looking north toward the window. Then, after being sure that the space was clear of kids or fire hazards, she opened the wide portal. Inside the building, a bank of lights went out on the ground floor as the portal cut through its power line...
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Kate nodded at Nagual's question. "I think we've kept them waiting long enough, don't you?"
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*blinks as the power cuts* "that wasnt my mark but should make hauntress all the more spoOoOoky" *there was strange vibrating sounds every so often, once of the second floor she crouched down and felt out for the people, trying to keep herself as hidden as possible*
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Nagual nodded, and with that he would charge into the third floor, startled into stopping by the appearance of Dr. Keeling.
Rather than a imposing figure of a man, he seemed to be a slight, older man, red hair tinged with bits of grey, and a cold smile that cuts through the three like a scalpel.
“So glad to see you could join us, and you’ve brought friends. Immanuel will be so glad to see you, Diego.” Nagual stops, startled, before unleashing a inhuman roar as he rushes and charges the man with a leap-only to be caught in a single grip chokehold.
Lifted off the ground, the man’s strength seems shocking and inhuman, as he is brought close to the doctor’s face, as Blackout and Desire step out of the shadows.
“It’s time for your appointment.”
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Following behind Nagual as he lead the charge on to the third floor, Scarlet would be surprised to finally run into the famed Dr. Keeling. Readying himself for a fight, a feeling of shock would overwhelm Scarlet's person as well as his masked face as Keeling was able to successfully catch Nagual in a chokehold following his lunge attack.
"Easy now, old-timer. I'm sure we can talk this whol-..."
His sentence would only be cut short after the reveal of Blackout and Desire who had been lurking not far behind Keeling.
"I am so scared I can't even finish my lame joke..."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
*Lovetap raced in grabbing and shoving kids out (? Depending on location) the window and through the portal to their safety, any guards she touched and tried to fill with terror* "kids incoming"
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Lovetap would note that six kids or teens rather, seem to be stuck in the same cryostatis pods as the one taken from the hospital earlier, however the others she retrieved were simply shaken and shackled.
In all, 8 of the 14 have been successfully retrieved.
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"Have a seat over there, as soon as we have everybody I'll open another portal to the hospital to get everybody checked out." [i]Over there[/i] was a couple couches and a bunch of chairs, out of line of sight from the interior of the bad guys' lair.
Over the comms, Broach asked, "Anyone have any plans for those freezers, or shall I just portal them individually to the EU Medical Center?"
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Hauntress radio's in "Moving the freezers might be a bad plan. We have no idea if they're doing something inportant like keeping their occupants alive."
Hauntress uses her spooky powers, the bad guys radios turn on and are whispering things, telling them to get out, that kind of thing. Despite the power cut lights sometimes flicker to reveal Hauntress's form, but it's gone the next moment. Bad guys might think they see her, or something from the corners of their eyes. Things move, fall over, usually behind people... And the whole building becomes a lot colder, and darker...
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
"Then what do we do? We cant just leave six people to be Guinea pigs....I'm not a scientist so I cant open these damn things." *she starts checking your see if they are self powered or plugged into something* "checking to see if they are powered on their own or if they are plugged in...if solo powered we SHOULD be able to move them safely?"
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It would appear that, if Lovetap takes the time to look at the power units, that they are actually attached to the warehouse’s medical lab floor and ripping it away may affect vitals and power system for the four trapped inside.
It appears that breaking them out and leading them through the hard way is nessecary.
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Upstairs, the trio of villlains advance on the heroes, with Keeling managing to dodge and evade Nagual’s every swipe, commenting with a cold bit of obsevational detachment with every breath.
“Interesting. Your physiology is altered but not by a mutation, something external perhaps? That gaudy talisman, I presume?” Catching his hand, the doctor would move in a white coated blur and toss Nagual through a crate.
“Perhaps when you are a corpse or strapped to my lab table, you will be more able to contribute to my thesis along with your friends.”
“Over my dead body.” Was all Nagual could growl out through now fanged teeth, as he rushes forward to pounce on Keeling, rolling forward to kip up and kick the doctor through manager office window.
Bolting up as if electrified, Doctor Keeling would jab his arm with a syringe of a strange amber color, as he stalks towards Nagual, glass shards falling from open wounds and cuts as he draws a scapel.
“That’s the idea.” With that cold utterance, they resume their fight.
Blackout, charging his hands with a meeting of his knuckles, would spin out and attempt to draw Scarlet in for a electrical bear hug, as he bellows.
“Third and last time we dance, glow stick! Doesn’t mean i can’t make our last time memorable and just as painful as the others!” He exclaims.
Desire would approach Kate like a cat examines a mouse, walking forward with power hidden in grace as her knives unsheathe, closing this distance quickly.
“I’m glad you made it out of the hospital sweetheart, means I get to have you all to myself for a bit. Throat in or out?” She winks, before unleashing a sudden barrage of knife katas and upper body strikes, hoping to cause a falter in BE’s guard and soften her up for a killing blow, fear pheromones drifting lightly around her.
The stakes were clear, and the battle was on.
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"Guys I'm going to have to break the containers and get them out that way...I'm not going to be able to run them if I do that...hauntress you can just phase them through the machines right??" *she sounded nervous as she looked around for a way to get the pods open the civilized way*
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"Theoretically... Yes... I phased you through a wall, but I didn't know I could at the time and don't really know how I did it... Like a lot of my powers, really... But I'll come over and give it a shot, I guess."
Moments later Lovetap would feel a tap on her shoulder, if she turns no one's there. But when she turns back Hauntress is there in front of her.
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Scarlet noticed that he had drawn the attention of his favorite, electrifying brute and would begin to charge his hands with his own signature red-colored energy and began to charge right for Blackout.
"You took the words right outta my mouth, Frankenstein!"
Following his quippy banter, Scarlet would pounce at Blackout only to do a kong-styled vault over the brute's head and land right behind him, landing a few punches and well-placed kicks in his lower back.
"So tell me Frankie, once I'm finished wiping the floor with you, what kinda batteries is it that you run on? Double or triple-A? Cause lord knows you're definitely going to need them once I short you out!"
While he was dishing out every bit of dialogue he possibly could, Scarlet was remembering remain on the defensive, Blackout's electric-based physiology made him dangerous in close-quarters combat so he was making sure that every attack was swift and quick while also baring in mind to remain out of reach.
"Also I hate to be the guy who has to pay the electric bill whenever you're around, it probably costs a fortune just to pay it all off."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
*she did turn...like a sucker. She turned bajc and shrieked jumping back* "God dang it! Give me a dang heart attack!" *she put her hand on her chest and tried to steady her heart* "worst case I'll break the cases...I just dont want to use all my kinetic energy and then suddenly be surrounded...I'll be a sitting duck. I dont have extra food to refuel."
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"You might have to... I'd have to get in there, become tangible, then phase me and the occupant out... And I don't think there's enough room. These things must have some sort of release mechanism... Probably password protected or some garbage... Think Broach could open a me-sized portal to inside the pod? Or you think that would wreck the thing... Also you'd think these would be better guarded."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
"I was fearing guards as I saw them....um...okay..." *her hand started to glow as she focused kinetic energy into it, walking up to one of the shells and punching it...aiming to do so just hard enough to get the door open*
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Popping out from the containment unit, Scarlet's missing person - Laura Bryant would hit the floor, dazed and disorientated from her long-term captivity.
"Wha...what...happened..? Please...s-stay a-away...N-no more....No more..."
Shaking and trembling at the sight of heroes, she'd clearly be uncertain whether they were her friend or foe.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Hauntress gives the girl an up nod
"...'sup, Podling? I'm bad with people... But you're mostly rescued now, so yay, or whatever... I'm probably the worst person to be here right now."
Hauntress gives a half-hearted shrug and talks over her communicator, the weird effects not happening this time.
"Broach, we're going to need an exit portal..."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
*she attempted to place a gentle hand on the person's shoulder* "its okay... we are here to save you...." *if she could touch her she would feel a rush of calm*
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Wanting to crawl away from Lovetap at first when she would reach out for her shoulder, Laura ultimately is relieved of her panic and begins look at the two.
"T-thank you..Oh my god, my head. The room feels as if it's spinning. What happened? Where am I?"
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
"You were kidnapped...we are hear to save you. I have to get the others out...will you be okay alone for a minute?" *she smiled as she removed her hand and looked to the other five pods*
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"Oh... Nevermind, I somehow missed the giant hole in space... Exit is that-a way... Actually if you feel dizzy might not be a good time to go through it... What with the risk of dismemberment... So... I don't know, sit down or something."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Broach moved to the middle of the portal. "Come to me, I'll guide you through." She braced herself to expand the portal if the girl stumbled at just the wrong time...
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Somewhere, in the midst of her murky unconsciousness, Caitrin Carter began to stir in one of the nearby containment pods.
Sensation began to make its way back into her fingertips; it was one of chill, yet numbness all the same, as if blood and feeling alike had been drained from her farthest extremities. She felt her head next, dull and pained, her senses on the outskirts of a headache, feeling it from far away. Even her sense of hearing felt muffled, a subdued blaring sounding from just beyond her perception. A morning alarm? No; her's was far less severe. Far less dire. Far less...clinical.
It felt like she had forgotten how to move. No matter what she tried, not even a finger rose at her will, everything instead overcome by heaviness and creeping cold. An image came to her mind: waking up thanks to an aggressive air conditioner. Yet, the more time she spent attempting to force herself awake, the worse the cold became. No; this was more like waking up in the middle of a freezer.
A loud clack sounded as a red light illuminated the interior of her small space, prompting a weak, pained complaint as Caitrin finally managed to shift her arm. Despite her bewildered state, she could barely muster any vocalization greater than what one might have resisting the need to rise and shine. Immediately, she shivered, the high-schooler's body attempting to force a bit of warmth and feeling into itself. The cold virtually burned her eyes as their lids parted, everything before her resembling nothing more than a blurry, bloody soup as her eyes attempted to find some sort of focus. The noises outside grew no sharper, and Caitrin's surroundings revealed a space barely large enough for her to do so much as roll over.
She should have panicked, but her mind was not quite there yet. Instead, the only thing that she could manage was muddled punishment, her body's higher functions not yet within her grasp. Despite the frenzied, chill-induced itching in her lungs, she couldn't even cough, let alone call out in confusion. The blaring outside grew slightly louder, as if whatever now held her had begun mimicking the noise she had heard earlier. What that meant for the girl within, she could not say.
A space heater would be a good start, though.
[color=#ff0000]Composition Team[/color]
In the pods over, there would be similar stirring, the mergency release protocols triggered by Hauntress’s electrical disturbing presence.
In the pod immediately adjacent to Caitrin, a frenzied rumbling is generated from the pod, and nearly half a minute elapses as the movement increases before the lid is suddenly sent flying off in a burst of golden light. Revealed inside the pod is the boy kidnapped from the hospital earlier, with the teen racing out of the pod in a honey hued blur, in clear panic.
In the one next to it, no clear warning is given before a strong, dimly glowing fist punches through the lid, dark hands gripping and ripping through and out of the pod like a soda can, as a large male teen steps out.
Hair shaved close to his head/ single earring in his right ear, and clad in a similar bodysuit to the teen next to him but with dark blue as a dominant color, the nearly 6’4 teen barks out towards Lovetap and Broach.
“Help me get these open, we don’t have much time!” And with that he would move to open the one next to him, this time revealing a smaller framed but lean Asian girl, her appearance a bit more rough and tumble, hair cut close to her head, anda nose piercing visible upon a closer look.
Cradling her, the giant like boy holds her close, speaking softly.
“D, hey, Dara babe I need you to wake up, it’s time to go. Calm Eli down, we have to get out of here.” This rouses her from her stupor, and in an instant her eyes glow a piercing violet and she is suddenly reaching into a sliver of space with the same toned glow and a hand meets the boy’s vibrating form room’s length away.
Pulling him abruptly through and to them, she speaks, tired but firm. “Eli, chill the fuck out and focus. We’re getting out of this freak show. Where’s Immanuel??” She pauses as she asks, and then looks to the last pod.
In an instant, the speedster is there, frantically pressing buttons, before turning to look back at his friends and the others.
“His pod isn’t opening! Malik, somebody, we need help!” He looks to Hauntress and Lovetap, eyes widening. “I remember you-wait, it’ doesn’t matter. It’s in some kinda of lock, help me get it open, please!”
On the last pod, Lovetap would sense something interesting. Without much effort or reaching out, she would sense a sort of reflection of the calmness she is attempting to spread herself, empathically. Whoever is inside the last pod, may be like her too.
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"Okay...you need to back up." *she rubbed her hands together, the same purple glow from before flooding into her hands before she slammed her fists down into the lock on the pod, the energy bursting from her hands as it hit, she then worked on prying it open*
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Working together, Eli and Lovetap manage to pry open the lid, revealing a slender and slightly conscious Hispanic teenager, his description matching that of Diego’s friend, Immanuel.
Stumbling out of the pod, he is caught by the speedster, who thinks for a moment before vibrating carefully, placing his hands on the boy to warm him to a proper body temp. Startling awake, the boy would speak first in rushed Spanish, before slowly flowing back to English, standing and looking around, the calm aura Lovetap felt now clearly emanating from the boy.
“W-we’re free?? Then that means...wait, is anyone hurt? And where is the doctor?” He asks the final question with a bit of clear anger, and st that the other now free teens gather together, as the lead one, Malik, adds.
“We need to pay him a visit before we get out of here.” The piece of the lid still in his hands is crushed to bits as he says that, with the sound of fighting upstairs puncusted by the alarms blaring through the complex.
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Overwhelmed with all the excitement that was present, Laura gradually made her way to Broach's portal. Holding a hand to her head, she tried to regain her focus and ward off any lightheadedness that tried to consume her.
"Thank you, but I have to ask. What in the hell is going on?" She would look to Broach with a worried expression painted across her face.
Her attention then turned to the gathering other teens with meta-abilities of their own as they barked for the location of the so-called "doctor" that had held them in containment.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Simultaneously, Blackout would be battered by Scarlet’s kinetic barrage, his anger showing as he sparks and unleashes a localized burst of electricity.
Meant to send Scarlet away from him, Blackout would follow this area attack with another attempt to drag Scarlet to him with his sparking chains, hoping to catch the hero slipping up on his dodging.
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In between his flurry of punches, Scarlet would keep up his usual banter of not-so-amusing humor.
"Awww, what the matter, Frankenberry? Did you actually [i][b]feel[/b][/i] one of those punches that time? I'll be sure to get you an ice-pack once this is all-..."
Actually hit by by the area-wide burst of electric energy, Scarlet's quip is cut short as he is sent flying backward and off his feet from this attack. Blackout's tactic would appear to have worked as with Scarlet airborne, it left vulnerable for the sparking chain attack Blackout was following up with. With most of Scarlet's costume tattered and ripped away from the explosion at the hospital and now this burst of electricity, his suit is left unable to fully negate another electric-based attack.
"Aaarrgghh!! Y-you kn-now...I....Y-yo-you...Ahhh screw...I can't think of anoth-anoth-another...jo-joke..."
It was clearly evident that the electricity had a taser-like effect on Scarlet as his speech pattern kept causing him to double-speak.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
[justify]There were others outside. She could hear them, now.
Who were they? They sounded so distant, yet the frenzy and panic in their voices managed to reach her ears. Whatever it was that took place outside spelled danger, an observation that should have already been made clear by the incessant screaming of the alarms--including one right outside of Caitrin's own pod.
Her heartbeat slowly began to quicken, though such was not due to her rising consciousness alone. Panic had finally begun to reach her, the threat of the unfamiliar prickling across her mind as she began to panic within the space of her box. There was a normal day, time spent at school, an afternoon with her friends, then--a long stretch of nothing.
Then now, the horrifying, entrapping Now. The others outside, were they still there? Had they left her behind? There was only so much the girl could possibly discern, and though her arms now followed her instructions, they were too weak, and the encircling space too small, for her to make enough noise over the din of the surrounding sirens. She banged, and banged, and banged, but the talking of the others never ceased. Their concerns were elsewhere.
Her eyes were now wide, and her mind was now awake. She shifted her posture, looking around the interior of her pod for anything that seemed to have the capability to trigger a way out. Up--nothing. Down--nothing; whatever this was, it was designed for keeping her [i]in[/i], but not necessarily of her own free will. The pounding in her chest now threatened to rip free, myriad sensations of danger and confusion clouding her thinking and accelerating her breath. Everyone who cared about their own safety in Titan City kept up with the news, but it was another thing entirely to have a story [i]happening[/i] to you, to [i]be[/i] one of those names in the papers. Whines of panic escaped her, both hands now reaching up to bang on the metal in front of her. Harder, [i]harder[/i], the continued numbness in her hands managed to mask the pain, but she was no closer to freedom.
She screamed. Nothing. It wasn't even enough to vent some of her panic, the sensation continuing to build. Her hands shook, even while pressed against the panel in front of her. But...she couldn't [i]feel[/i] them shaking. Not in her fingers, not even in her arms; they were still, completely still. Slowly, she pulled her hands away from the hatch, eyes widening further as she took stock of her own hands.
Caitrin wasn't shaking. The air--no, the [i]space[/i] around them was shaking, rippling in an aura of distortion around her as if her hands were pressed half-way into otherwise seamless water. Her mind went blank, and her heart skipped a beat.[/justify]
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[justify]In that very same second, the sound of screeching and tearing metal pierced the air, sparks and rent panels shot outward in all directions as the last containment pod practically exploded. Large metal slabs slammed against the rooftop and slid toward the far walls, the shockwave that forced them outward reverberating loudly and deeply as it dissipated near the edges of the room.[/justify]
[justify]A redheaded girl shivered in the twisted husk of the former containment pod, arms and legs curled inward upon her chest the moment they were given enough space to do so. Equal parts shock and fear twisted her features, her body quaking from some combination of the split-second experience and the sudden change in temperature. The space around her, too, seemed to shake, lighter echoes of the earlier shock rippling around her. Her arms curled around her legs, locking them in place tightly as she observed her hands and their unwanted emanations.[/justify]
[color=#ff0000]Composition Team[/color]
The group of powered teens jump at the explosion of the final pod, each wearing their own versions of shock and fear as it slowly settles that the girl is what made that happen. Stepping forward slowly however was Immanuel, with the Hispanic teen slowly stretching out a hand, as he speaks softly, like speaking to a wounded animal.
“You’re alright, you’re okay, you are free. Be calm, you’re free, there is no more pain. I can feel you.” With that last statement, Caitrin would feel as if a plug has suddenly been let free, as the fear and panic she is feeling is let go, and replaced with a sense of ease and calm.
His empathic ability rests over her like a blanket fresh out of the dryer, made stronger still be a soft hand taking her’s, and making to help lead her out of the ruined pod.
“My name is Immanuel, my friends and I are going to get you out of here.” He speaks, and she would feel the genuineness in his words like her own mouth has uttered them.
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*lovetap looked around at the group, she was looking a little worse for wear after that last punch* "look...my job is to get you people through THAT portal and to safety..." *points at the rip in space time, she leaned against the husk of a pod* "so...like...go through the portal please..."
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[justify]It took time for the red-headed girl to ease, yet as she did, the disturbances surrounding her slowly faded away, the rapid pulsing of disturbed space evening until they became nothingness. Though in greater control of her mind now than before, she still seemed a little loss, unclear as to what her direction was, or what was being asked of her for several moments. There were questions--so many questions--yet no time to truly ask.[/justify]
[justify]Even so, she tried. "Where are..." it was a question she was fated not to finish, now seeming somewhat exhausted as she looked around at the figures whom she had known solely by their muted voices mere moments before. She was offered a hand; while watching her own, eyeing it quietly for so much as the slightest disturbance, she took it, unsteadily pulling herself away from the metal wreckage and onto her feet, nearly stumbling as she regained her bearings. It took her time to process the command she had been given, looking to the girl that had instructed her blankly for several moments. Then, she scanned the faces of the others; some seemed to be in costume, others not so much, but they were all younger than she would have thought. If this wasn't some sort of professional operation, then why were they all here?[/justify]
[justify]She slowly forced her attention toward the portal, finally managing to speak again. "R-Right, I'm...sorry," she said, regaining her voice somewhat as she addressed the two. Her first few steps toward the gateway came clumsily, a wince betraying a sense of difficulty when it came to movement. As she went, however, her coordination improved, eventually allowing her to move mostly on her own. Sure, she still felt [i]awful[/i], and that probably wasn't a surprise, but the boy's calming nature managed to give her the wherewithal she needed to follow the others through the open gateway.[/justify]
[color=#ff0000]Composition Team[/color]
"We're just some people who heard about some missing kids. And if that's the last of you, I'm going to open another portal to a hospital, now." The portal closed, the lights on the first floor of the bad guy's lair stopped flickering. Another portal opened, this one leading to another hospital. It was across the Bay, and only a block away from a police station. Broach stepped through, and dialed nine-one-one on her phone. "I'm called Broach. We have rescued kidnapped kids arriving at this hospital. The kidnappers have powers and if any of them get away from us, they may come here." She turned off her phone. "I recommend letting the doctors check you guys out. If you don't want to do that, you can wait for the police or try to get home. I need to go back to a certain warehouse, good luck to you all. " again, after the last had come over to the hospital, she stepped back across, looking to see if anyone was following her through.
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Pouring more of his empathetic and healing power into his tactile contact with her, and again she would feel a surging force that accelerates her own natural healing and self righting.
Leading her to the portals, Immanuel would look back to the other teens, asking gently.
“Have you called the police or ambulances? People will need to be given medical treatment and looked over-I sense fear and unease.” He states matter of factly, before Malik, the lead teen turns to the others.
“We’re not leaving just yet, we’re helping you guys shut this place down. Understood?” He states rather than asks.
The powered teens, aside from Caitrin at the very least, are staying to finish this.
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*immanuel would get a lot of emotional feedback off of sam... since she felt everyone else and her own feelings just sort of turned to moosh within those other feelings. She was a beacon of fear, rage, surprise, and anything else being felt in the building* "Fine. Just...dont die. Pretty sure kitty boy wouldnt like that much." *she messed with the comms* "kids released and some are refusing to leave..they want to help shut this shit down." *she looked back to the group* "okay muscles...I'm going to need you to hit me...and then we need to head upstairs...im feeling a lot of pain and fear from that area."
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"Yeah, sure... Let a bunch of kids with no experience, possible new freaky powers, some of whom can't even stand with out swaying... Stay and fight... What could possibly go wrong?"
Hauntress rolls her eyes
"Pod people are leaving... If they stay they'll probably die... And I don't need anyone horning in on my shtick."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
"Can YOU force them through the portal? I sure as hell cant..." *she crossed her arms*
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"I could probably throw them... I was mostly trying to appeal to their common sense... But, you know, teenagers.... So that's probably a lost cause..."
Hauntress shrugs
"Broach, can you just open up holes under the podlings to get them out of the way?"
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Laughing at the sight of a once mobile Scarlet now tasered and near inert, Blackout would stalk forward with his steps shaking the floor as he approaches Arthur.
“Face it kid, you never had a chance. Now hold still, while I shock the life outta you.” He reaches down with an electrically charged grip for a chokehold.
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Downstairs, at the mention of them being sent away, the lead teen shakes his head firmly.
“No! Look, we may be new to having powers, but not to looking after ourselves. We’ve been held by these guys for weeks, tortured-we owe it to you guys, and the kids that didn’t make it to help you.” He looks towards the wall, and it would be visible that there is a line of long since empty pods, a grim marker for the warehouse complex that not everyone was so lucky.
He continues.
“From what I see, you guys aren’t even official anyway, but you’re here. Please, let us do this.” He pleads, as Immanuel would add, and no doubt as Lovetap would sense as well.
“They’re in pain, and scared and fighting...Diego is up there.” He starts, but stops himself. “Please.”
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The portal closed with - Broach hoped - everyone who just wanted out either at the hospital or headed to the TCT station a block away, and Broach in the warehouse with those too stubborn to leave. She opened a scouting portal, found Blackout, identified by the lightning running across his hands. "Yeah, I can force someone through a portal, but I'll only do it to bad guys." Unfortunately, fight was too tangled to drop only Blackout through a portal...
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"Immanual? Your with me. You can use me as a battery to change emotions easier and hopefully stronger...I'm not ranged with it...yet...but if I touch you you should be able to channel the emotions. We need to knock them out...I dont believe in killing....not unless it's a last resort. You can read my bio moms journals after this...she was an empath." *she looked to hauntress* "you guys let me fight and I had a broken nose and a broken wrist literally hours ago because I ran straight into a wall doing 60. I'm barely standing and yet here we are....so dont give me that crap about them being too new. They have a stake in this way more than I do." *she crossed her arms*
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As Blackout reached for Scarlet with his electrical fist of grabiness, Scarlet took advantage of the opportunity he had to finally get the drop he was hoping for on Blackout.
"Not this time, Frankenberry! For I have an ace up my sleeve...or what's left of any of my sleeves for that matter..."
Scarlet grabs Blackout's hand/arm that was extended toward him, enduring whatever electrical feedback he was bound to be bombarded with, and yanks his arm toward the ground, giving Scarlet enough leverage to use Blackout's arm as a pole and perform a down spin switch-kick across Blackout's face before landing beside him. Choosing to follow up his barrage of attacks, Scarlet decides to keep on his toes and strike hard and fast, hitting Blackout in the back of the knee hard enough to drop him to the floor, Scarlet would use said opportunity to deliver another flurry of punches to Blackout's ribs and abdomen in order to restrict his amount of movement. To finish off his combo, Scarlet would place himself in front of Blackout and, if he was tall enough to do so, Scarlet would ignite his right foot with his red energy and execute a 540 degree kick across Blackout's skull, using what he had hoped was enough force to stun-if-not-completely knock out the brute.
"Mess with the best, bleed the rest."
Scarlet said with the most smug face possible, part of his face actually capable of being seen this time due to some severe damage taken to his mask.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Caitrin paused just over the other side of the gateway. A few others had stated that they wish to say, an intention that was nothing if not pure insanity in the mind of someone who just wanted to get the hell out of there. The full extent of her opinion, however, did not register until the portal snapped shut, the display as a whole stunning some of the hospital patients and personnel moving up and down the hallway; the various soothing sensations she had been granted by the other boy up until that point had already begun to ebb away, leaving her alone with a maze of eyes and several other teenagers that had been brought beyond the portal.
This wasn't safety at all; she [i]still[/i] didn't know where she was, how to get home, how long it had been since the last day of school she could remember, and what exactly had...[i]happened[/i], back in that dark and cluttered warehouse. It was a separate shade of panic, what she now felt, and she had yet to figure out how to deal with it.
Again, her hands began to tremble, responding to the prickling fears running up and down her mind. Glancing down, she could once again make out the subtle rippling of whatever horrid ability had been bestowed upon her, breath quickening as the mere sight of a brewing, potential disaster manifested around her palms, slowly spreading up her arms. Lacking pockets, she held both limbs tight to her chest, the pulsing vibrations digging deeper into her psyche as she turned her attention outward. No one seemed to have noticed anything out of the ordinary, at least not yet, though standing in a group of several others likely helped with that. With nothing but a jumpsuit on, there wasn't much standing in the way of attempts at identification.
She took breaths, quietly attempting to steady her breathing; years spent on cheerleading and gymnastics teams had granted her a few decent techniques when it came to staying calm right before a big performance, but this was something else entirely, and her usual methods didn't seem to be working. Quickly, Caitrin stepped away from the larger group, pressing her hands as close to her chest as she possibly could, despite their discomforting reactions. [i]No eye contact, no prolonged acknowledgement[/i], she repeated over and over to herself, keeping her exit as quick as it could be without breaking out into a run.
"Excuse me, miss," came the voice of one of the doctors that had approached the group earlier, "do you need--"
"I'm [i]fine![/i]" she nearly shouted; the girl could feel the pulses against her chest amplifying, more than a match for the sensation of her beating heart. Even without looking at anyone, she could tell that eyes were on her as she passed down the hallway, looks of concern and confusion alike marking the edges of her vision even as she attempted to avoid them. Unable to remain calm, she broke out into a light run, attention locking onto every sign she could as she puzzled her way to the staircase. Emergency exits were off-limits; the last thing she wanted was to cause even more of a scene.
Or for anyone to stop her.
"Deep breaths," she muttered, picking up her pace as she threw open the nearest stairwell door. "Deep breaths..."
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Immanuel would nod, adding gently as Lovetap speaks.
“I think I can do more than just feel emotions-if I concentrate, I can search for pain and heal or ease it, but I have to be touching them.” He reveals, and would watch as Blackout is struck with Rio’s bokken, and the combo begun by Scarlet Striker is witness.
“Whoa.” He suppresses a slight smile, focusing his hardest to try to emotionally and physically reassure Scarlet from a floor away, before locking eyes with the other powered teens and racing upstairs to join the fight in earnest.
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Sent reeling and stunned by the energy laiden combo, Blackout would nurse a bleeding and evidently broken nose as he sets it back in place with a grunt.
“Y-you are going to fry for that! I’m going to light you up so bad your folks won’t even bother with an open casket. The Doc wanted you guys intact for his experiments, but now he gets to work with ashes!” With every word his tone grows sharper, more angry and guttural, as he literally begins to arc and glow with cracking energy, stomping forward to meet Arthur....
Only to be met with a sailing piece of pod, as Malik and the other teens have reached the third floor, the super strong teen charging towards the brute with a football tackle that rocks the room.
Zipping in a golden blur, Eli would take pot shots of golden energy at Keeling, who responds to the new attack with ripping out a piece of a crate and tossing it like a disc at the speedster to trip and send him crashing, intercepting him mid speed.
The last teen, the teleporting brawler Dara, would instead focus on and make sudden strikes at Desire, attempting to strike a blow whenever Kate leaves an opening or seems like she might be vulnerable.
The combined might of their attacks, save for the ones against the doctor, seem to be forcing them back, they’re losing ground.
Nagual has since fallen back to look at the now freed teens, his eyes widening with a smile as he spies Immanuel, before shifting back to cold focus as he puts the Doctor on the defensive.
It looks like they’re winning.
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Hauntress shrugs
"Whatever."
And with that she falls backwards vanishing before she hits the floor.
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
Scarlet puts up his fists ready to go another mano y mano with Blackout.
"You're really talking about me not having an open casket? Dude, have you looked in the mirror lately? I don't even think [i][b]you[/i][/b] would have an open casket funeral, let alone fit in one!"
However, the fight between Blackout and Scarlet Striker is cut short by the arrival of the new metahuman teens. By this point Arthur is just providing unnecessary commentary to the fight between Blackout and some of the other teens.
"Oh...uhm...just for the record, Blackout. I definitely did [i][b]not[/i][/b] call back up. But what do you care? You're getting your ass kicked by the very people you helped abduct."
After taking a few moments to gather some of his strength, Scarlet heads back into the fray and help out where he can.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Changing her plan, Broach opened a portal from below herself to above Keeling, dropping onto the third floor behind him and striking with her [i]bokken[/i] at his back.
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LoveTap ran upstairs at a normal human speed, she focused on channeling confusion and used some of her last burst of kinetic energy she had in reserve to sprint at super human speeds, a boom audible as she suddenly took off...she then would drop down to slide along the floor like she was sliding into home base and aim to grab desire by her ankle to pump her full of the confusing emotion.
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Keeling would stumble forward as the bokken connects with his back, the distraction setting him up enough for a bicycle kick from Nagual that sends him crashing through an office window, as their fight as moved towards the overseeing manager office within the third floor.
“Nice timing!” The Jaguar themed hero would announce to Broach, before they are cut off by the cold monotone of a glass punctured but very alive and creepily still standing Keeling.
“Interesting, your transpiration ability would be a treasure to harvest and replicate, but a idea for another time. Diego, do give my warm regards to Immanuel.” Without warning, the Doctor would reveal and fire two rounds from a Glock 45, with Diego moving fast enough to throw Rio to the side, but not fast enough to stop two bullets from sailing into his chest and shoulder, sending him tumbling over the railing and into a heap of boxes below with a too loud crash.
The Doctor would then turn back to Broach, with a cold calmness as he eyed her, stalking forward like a specter.
“Now, where were we my dear? Ah yes, harvesting your DNA from your corpse.” He emphasized as he fired.
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Broach opened another portal, right in front of her, as the gun fired. There was a flare as a sliver was shaved off of the bullet by the expanding edge of the portal, the remainder (a bit over two thirds of the mass, now much pointier) passing through the portal, emerging two feet behind Keeling. Velocity and vector were unchanged, only now that path lead into Keeling's back. The sliver, tumbling, cut into Broach's shoulder. "Not fast enough yet, but I'm getting better."
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Caitrin instinctively pulled her hands away from her chest, one reaching for the handrail as the other waved outward into the air to ensure her balance as she ran as quickly as she could down the stairs. Her palm could barely grasp the metal, the ringing pipes echoing throughout the stairway. She eventually pulled her hand away lest the metal snap, the ringing in her ears worsening her sense of control. Yet, even with both hands in the air, the sounds did not cease, the glass of each window buzzing dangerously as she passed by. She forced her mind into auto-pilot, focusing on nothing but balance and running, taking the steps two at a time to the best of her ability, and swinging around the stairwell corners with as much speed as she could muster. Blanking out the sounds and the sensations was the only mechanism she had left, and the line between herself and the edge of control was a thin one, slimmed by fear and a lack of understanding of this new self.
A surprised shout threw her from her thoughts as she accidentally checked a passing blue-garbed woman in the shoulder. The sudden shock brought everything flooding back, spearheaded by the fear of having acknowledged someone. Someone who could see her. Someone who could [i]remember[/i] her.
A loud, deep, reverberating burst. The hospital caretaker screamed as glass went flying through the air. The momentary pang of fright had thrown her against a nearby wall, and shattered the stairwell's windows and lightbulbs several stories in both directions. Caitrin didn't look back; the woman's screams were of fright, not of pain, yet even if they were, she couldn't let herself be seen. Not like this. Would people know? Would they want her to register? Would they see her differently? She didn't want this; she didn't want these questions. She hadn't asked for this, and what could she have possibly done to deserve it? What did her position at school matter? What did [i]anything[/i] matter? The universe didn't operate on karma, and even if it did, teasings, disdain, dismissal--they were all natural products of high-school, of filling the role that was given to her. That's what the squad would say, would think.
Wasn't it?
Even after that initial outburst, she could already feel another outlash welling up from somewhere within. It felt like an eternity before she finally reached the ground floor, reaching out for the doorway in front of her to brace herself for impact against the handlebar. She didn't have to; distorted space and rumbling sound washed outward from her hands with surprising suddenness, like rippling waves of hot air impacting against the door. It flew from the hinges, dented inward, screeching across the hallway as the linoleum brought it to a painful stop. In another state of mind, she might have been thankful that no one in the hallway, let alone the pathway of the door. She ran right over it, nearly falling to her face as the uneven metal rocked forward and back in tandem with her shifting weight.
Tears filled her eyes, yet her fear of her own hands kept her from raising them to her face to unblur her vision. She didn't mean it. She really didn't.
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After hearing the sounds of gunshots fill the room and watch as a body tumbled over the handrail, Scarlet instantly knew that it was Nagual who went 'overboard', crashing into a pile of boxes below. Choosing to abandon the fight with Blackout, feeling that the newly-powered teen might just have it under control, Scarlet fires a grapple cable to the ceiling and swings over to the railing that overlooked the two other floor levels below. Perching himself on said railing Scarlet calls out for Diego to see if he's okay...
"Nagual! Can you hear me?! You can't be dead because you still have another 8 lives left if you lost this one."
Needing to investigate further, Scarlet decides to leap from off the railing and land on the warehouse floor. Brushing the inside of his arms across the underarm areas of his costume, Scarlet activates his glider wings to slow his descend mid-fall, landing safely upon making contact with the ground.
"Glad to know that those are still fully operational..."
Rummaging through the heap of boxes that were laid out across the floor, Scarlet desperately searched for a body, in high hopes that this mission did not suffer a casualty to one of it's heroes.
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Scarlet would find a barely conscious Diego in the pile of boxes, blood pooling at the corner of his mouth and looking up with a pair of nearly glazed eyes, claws gripping in and out of the concrete from his outstretched hands in clear pain.
Taking a bullet in his shoulder with no more than a grunt, Dr Keeling would eye Broach with clear contempt, before looking down to Nagual, and making a choice.
“Blackout! Desire! It’s time to go.” With that simple command, both lieutenants disengaging from their respective fights, and moving as quickly as the can to his side.
Once there, Blackout and Desire immediately move into action, with the brute arcing with electricity before expending it in a large explosion, causing a literal Blackout as Desire, battered from her fight with BE, releases a cloud of confounding pheromones in the area there were in.
When the lights flicker back to life, the trio of super villains are gone.
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Broach held her breath as Desire released her pheromones, trying to spot an opening. When the lights came back and showed no villains, she ran to the railing, looking for Nagual, finding him by looking where Scarlet was. "Portal behind you to the hospital, watch your step!" She opened the portal in the nearest clear space, leading back to the same hospital where the kidnaps teens had gone. "Anyone else hurt?"
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The sudden literal blackout in the warehouse was enough to put Scarlet back on high alert for any surprise attacks that were to be made without warning. Upon the lights turning back and learning that nothing dire had happened at all, Scarlet would refocus his attention on helping Nagual off the ground. Reaching down to carefully help Nagual get back on his feet, Scarlet would look to the portal Broach made and proceed with transporting the feline hero.
"C'mon buddy, get up! Normally when cats are injured, they go someplace quiet where they can lick their wounds...this wound in particular might just require more than a couple of tongue strokes."
Gradually making their way to the portal, Scarlet would safely escort Nagual to the hospital and answer back to Broach in response to anyone else being injured.
"I don't think so. Nearly everyone seems to be in rather okay conditions apart from our fearless leader. Wouldn't hurt to do a roll call though just to be sure."
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Nagual would almost immediately recoil at the sight of the portal and the word hospital, finding some sort of strength to almost send himself back, as he utters out, nearly yelling.
“N-No! No hospital, p-parents can’t no! Please!” He looks to both Broach and Scarlet, shaking his head, as Immanuel would speak up from near Broach.
“Let me help, this is what I am able to do. You helped us.”
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Scarlet would look back in shock of Nagual's decision.
"Nagual, for Christ's sake there's a bullet in your shoulder, dude! You need medical attention! What else could we possibly do?!"
"If I am to die in battle, Remember me for who I was and not what I've become..."
Lovetap went over to him and tore off chunks of her tank top and started applying pressure to the wound "he said no...we can't force him. Immanual you cant HEAL him if the bullet is still in there..." she reached around to feel if there was an exit wound, if there was she would not to immanual to do his thing
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