Society of Justice 3: Crisis on the Earth

[socialtangent]

Victor rolled and was able to evade a majority of the spikes sent his way from Erebus, but several gashed his arms and legs. He moved his head out of the way in time for Tommy's powerful punch to miss and severely dent the ground. Victor caught the big man's fist and tossed him aside. At the same time, Alex's waves of ice and gray energy slammed into him, severing the vines and sending him airborne. Victor landed on his back, bloodied, and the wind knocked out of him. Despite this, he got to his feet again and started laughing. His hands began to crackle with electricity as he summoned a powerful charge into both of his hands. Throwing his hands in both directions, Victor unleashed a magnetic wave that caved in walls and broke windows. The force of the blast sent the team and the officers flying every which way, clearing the area around him.

Taking a moment to dust off his torn constable's coat, he grinned and snapped his fingers. Victor vanished once more, leaving behind his battered and torn coat. The officers also seemed to vanish with him, leaving no trace of their presence. With the battle suddenly over, the town square was quiet, save for the distant sound of industrial machinery and airship engines. Shattered windows, destroyed walls, and cracked pavement were the only signs that a fight had taken place.

 

[CounterAttack]

Rowan groaned a few times from between clenched teeth, but the pain subsided after a few seconds; as Brian's healing powers began their work, he could feel his nose reshape itself into the form he knew. The blood flow stopped almost immediately, but it had splashed across his face, leaving dried rivers across his mouth, cheeks and clothing.

Then Victor's blast attack sent him flying with everyone else; he flipped and spun a couple of times in midair before landing with enough force to wind him. "Son of a - " he gasped out, desperate for breath.

[hr]

When Victor tugged on the vines, it was with enough force to yank Katie off her feet and fly over his prone body for a second. She crashed into the ground and stayed down until Victor's blast, which merely buffeted her a few feet further away from their enemy.

She got to her feet slowly, leaning on a wooden post for support. "Dammit... he bugged out," she said quietly, knowing she had stated the obvious.

 

[NeoAC]

Brian had just finished healing up Rowan. "There. Now-" was all he got out before Victor Mary Sue'd his way out of the area. He was sent flying across the pavement, before crashing on top of Rowan. At least it broke his fall.

He sat up immediately, shaking his head to regain his senses. It didn't work. "Fucking hell! Ugh! Son of a *****, godmodding little....wanker! Fuck, next time I see Levi, I'm telling him to upgrade his mental prison into Guantanamo Bay for that bastard! Ugh! Is everyone else OK?" he asked, hoping successful answers would mean he wouldn't have to spend too much time healing everyone. The less time they spent here, the more time they could spend hunting that trenchcoating bugger down.

 

[blaze96]

"Has there ever been a more cliched little man?" Richard said as he got up and sheathed the sword back in his cane. He took stock of the world around him and it's somewhat ruined state.

"I must admit though, the man certainly leaves an impression." He leaned on the cane a bit as being thrown had injured his leg heavily. The nanites were starting to do their job but it would still take some time.

 

[Lizmichi]

The wall Alex was standing next to collapsed due to Victor's blast trapping her legs and lower body underneath it. She yelled out in pain. She tried to push a ton of rubble off her but failed to do so. She decided to try her water to push it off her but that also didn't work. She felt the pain of the rubble crushing on her legs and torso. "Owww oh god." Alex said feeling something sharp on her side and wetness pouring from it. "Please someone help me." Alex said coughing some.

Eric picked him self up but looked down seeing some glass in the side of his leg. "God this will hurt." Eric said slowly pulling the glass out and used his tie to make a bandage. He then looked up seeing Alex was stuck and limped over there as fast as he could but only took a few steps and feel from the pain on his leg making it impossible for Eric to get to Alex.

 

[RBMidknight]

Taryn stood up slowly as she removed glass from her jacket with one sleeve covered hand. 'Why must it always be glass' she grumbled silently. The officer she'd been fighting was unconscious on the ground, his uniform charred and his face sliced by pieces of glass from the window they'd both been slammed into. Luckily for Taryn the officer had taken the brute of the impact. She was bruised and her clothing was torn but otherwise she was unharmed. Well there was a twinge in her shoulder. She was ignoring that though. Taryn pulled her hands into her jacket sleeves and shook her arms to dislodge the remaining shards of glass. 'Good enough.' she thought. Stepping over the fallen policeman she made her way toward the rest of the group.

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson was launched backwards by Victor's blast stopping his power instantly. Tucking his legs in and moving his arms up to cover his head Tyson was sent barreling into some police before being launched into a wall with them. Getting up from on top of a pile of dead police officers, Tyson found his left arm dislocated and a large gash across his right forearm. Tyson grabbed his left arm and relocated it with a loud snap. After he bent it a few times with intense pain Tyson ripped part of one of the constable's shirts off and rapped it around his arm. Looking back over to the previous spot the were fighting Tyson saw no one was there. Looking around Tyson saw most of the team scattered around among the new ruins, but no sign of Victor. Shit! Tyson then heard Alex call out for help and tried to walk over to her direction. As he moved his vision blurred and he started to dry heave. Fuck! I have a concussion.

 

[Lefthandofgod]

McPhearson crushed the first of the officers with ease. The ones following that began to take their tole. Thankfully, his armor protected him from superficial damage, but his powers were draining him. His hands and feet lost all feeling; His armor was the only reason he can still stand. Victor's fight with the others ended in a massive blast, sending him through a wall. "Shit. That's a broken rib for sure," he mumbled to himself, while climbing out quickly before the building collapsed around him.

"Please someone help me." Steven looked over to see Alex under a collapsed building. 'If only I could trap Victor or Levi under a fucking building,' He thought to himself. "I got you Alex," he called out to her. Concentrating, he conjoured a massive wedge and pushed the rubble off her. His arms fell limply by his side when he finished. "There. You. Go." he panted heavily. 'Shit! I'm starting to loose body functions,' He thought. 'I can't let them realize it! Not yet. We're so close to killing Victor!'

 

[Lizmichi]

Alex looked down at her side, seeing a huge shard of glass in her side. "Shit this is going to hurt like hell." Alex said putting her hand on the glass and started to pull it out yelling out in pain. "Fuck fuck fuck." she said crying some water rushing out of her wound. "I need to heal fast." Alex said uncorking her healing water running it over her wound.

She knew it would take a while to heal but it wasn't something she could ignore. "Guys I'll be ok once I heal my self up but someone please help Eric." Alex said running the water over her feeling it heal. She had other gashes on her body but none she'd die of.

 

[NeoAC]

The moans of all the people around him told Brian that he would indeed need to use his talents...a lot. "Holy shit guys! It was just a little shock wave! A bullshit overpowered shock wave, but still, sigh." He looked for Alex. Since she could heal too, she should be the first one brought back. If only to speed up this process. "Alex talk to me! Where are you?"

"Guys I'll be OK once I heal myself up but someone please help Eric."

He walked towards where he heard the voice and found Eric collapsed one the ground, clutching his leg. "OK, now that's actually bad," he said. "All right, you know the drill by now. Stay still." He put his hands down on the leg to start the healing process. "If anyone else needs anything, just line up."

 

[tsatoma]

Leland had enough time to brace himself from Victor's widespread attack and was only thrown to the ground and rolled into a small cart on the side of the street. His shoulders were bruised but other than that he seemed fine, and he quickly got up and started to hear the numerous calls for help and Brian.

"Jesus was I the only one that didn't get really hurt?" Leland asked, hearing some ticking behind him and seeing Ethan dusting himself off after being thrown a farther distance down the road.
"I'm fine too, just a lot of scrapes since I smashed into a window," Garrus called out, taking a few of the shards that were in his arms and had cut up his head out, "So not too bad over here, I'm more pissed off that Victor decided to fucking run away! Bastard..."

 

[CounterAttack]

"Yeah... he can't even stand and fight," Katie chipped in, carefully making her way over to Leland and Garrus. It didn't feel like anything had been broken or dislocated, which was both good and surprising after Victor had catapulted her into the ground thanks to the vines. She ached all over, though, like she'd been through a violent car wash without a car.

"But yeah. We're now zero for two after that fight. Third time's the charm?" she suggested, giving Leland a weak smile.

[hr]

Rowan groaned and rolled over onto his back, a sharp twinge of pain jabbing through his chest. Brian landing on him had just been adding injury to injury. And he had just had his nose fixed... that thought gave off a definite Michael Jackson vibe, and it wasn't something he enjoyed.

Figuring that he didn't need Brian's assistance to heal up, Rowan shifted into the form of the Canadian healer to fix up the injuries he had sustained from the blast. A minute later he shifted back, not caring about the flux stage, and got up, at 100 percent health. A little disoriented from the rapid shapeshifting, he leaned on the metal frame of a wrecked barrel to get his breath back.

 

[Lizmichi]

Eric sighed and looked at his leg. "Thanks Brian, I owe you." he said walking to Alex checking up on her. "damn that doesn't look good." he said to her worried.

"Meh it's not bad but still it hurts. I should be fine soon." Alex said running the water over her side for a bit then let it go back into it's gourd. "Now I'm fine." Alex said getting up. "Is anyone else hurt?" Alex called out.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Jason found himself head over heels from the blast, laying somewhat upside-down as he realized that the blast flipped him into a nearby lamppost. Feet dangling in the air, Jason looked to the skies to see Erebus barreling towards him. Jason let out a light 'eep!' before promptly rolling out of the way, leaving his armor to collide with the lamppost in his own special way. Sliding down the bronze post in a comedic fashion, Erebus came in contact with the ground, falling to his back.

"Well, that was fun." Erebus said lowly, briefly observing the newly formed cracks on himself as Jason helped him to his feet.

"Yeah, in retrospect, jumping that high doesn't really help when the opponent you're fighting can blast you back in the direction you came, all without you even touching the ground." He replied simply.

"Duly noted." Erebus nodded, the two making their way back towards the others.

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson stopped dry heaving and heard Alex call out for whether or not anyone else was injured. "A few gashes, an arm I'm not sure I relocated properly, and a concussion." Tyson called out holding himself up against a wall because he was getting dizzy. The blood from the cut on his cheek was still running down his face painting a quarter of it red and the make shift wrap was soaked in blood as well. "I'd walk over but I have a feeling that it would result in several meetings between my face and the ground. This concussion is messing up my bearings a little to much." Tyson finished the sentence and his vision started to become blurred.

 

[Captainguy42]

Tommy stood up and dusted himself. "Right, that was kinda annoying," Tommy muttered nonchalantly. Before checking his vest, "Ah god, dammit, the little watch on my vest broke, come to think about why does a vest need a watch? Honestly I don't get steam-punk sometimes. But still, kinda looks crappy now," Tommy let out and irritated sigh.

 

[NeoAC]

"Well, there's the answer," Brian stated as he went over to Tyson. He was going to make a quip about Tyson's state, but after looking at him he decided it was best not to in this case. "Since this is multiple injuries, this is going to take a bit longer. So just lie down on the ground. You'll feel a bit dizzy, but it's the only way I can make sure you stay still."

He got Tyson onto the ground and placed his right hand on Tyson's head. "Which arm is dislocated?" Tyson indicated the left one, so Brian's left hand went onto it. "OK, hold on." He started channeling the energy as the healing process began.

 

[tsatoma]

"Hopefully we'll get him this time...though we also better be prepared in case this keeps happening where Victor runs away or summons things you wouldn't normally fight against us," Leland replied to Katie before telling Tommy, "Hey if you want a new watch you can always go to Ethan! Ow, stop poking me with that gun Ethan! It was a joke, for the most part..."

"Anyways, once all of us are healed up and no longer dying we need to come up with a plan. Did anyone see where Levi went? Perhaps we can follow him since the only other lead is that Victor likes dressing up as the police force here," Garrus said aloud as he thought over what they could do, somewhat happy that they at least have a break from Victor instead of him assaulting them while weak.

 

[socialtangent]

As the team licked their wounds and talked amongst themselves, a faint image of Levi began to appear in the middle of the group. Judging from the look of suppressed strain, making this appearance was very difficult. Levi cleared his throat, but the sound was as if it was coming from a great distance. "Hello, all..." he started. "I don't have much time, so I'll make this quick. Victor and I are still fighting for control, but I've been trying my best to keep him from interfering with you guys," he said, frowning when he saw the extent of the group's injuries.

"Obviously, he can do much more than I can. The images you've been seeing of myself and Victor have been from devoting a fraction of our mental faculties to manifesting a physical form in the Mindscape". Levi paused, keeping himself from launching into an even more technical explanation. "So, basically, I'm diverting a bit of myself from the fight to personally address all of you. It's dangerous, but I think it's necessary". He paused again to let what he had just said digest. "The entrance to the next..."level", so to speak, was originally in a much more dangerous place. When you guys managed to get some hurt on Victor, I was able to change its location..." Levi gestured to the stage. "...to right underneath the stage. You'll find it as a wooden trap door. Victor has much worse plans for all of you, but I've been foiling him whenever possible".

"If you guys head out through that trap door now, I'll see what I can do about keeping him from vanishing on you again. If I can keep him pinned, then you all can finish him off. I can't do it on my own, and we'll only have one shot. Make it count". With that, he stepped towards Taryn and placed a transparent hand on Taryn's cheek. "I'm sorry it has to be like this again," he said quietly before he faded out of existence once again.

 

[RBMidknight]

Taryn let out a shuddering breath and reached forward even as Levi vanished...again. Again he was gone. But he'd given them a path, some guidance. Though Victor having 'plans' did not sound good. Taryn looked up at the 'sky'. Airships still flew in separate patterns.

'Keep fighting.' she thought fiercely as she looking past the ships to the clouds. She pictured Levi as he had been for the past year, free of the stress and strain of Victor. Free. If only for a short while. She tried to imagine that being the standard. No more damn British specter. 'Hang in there, Levi. I'll see you soon.' With renewed determination the technopath began taking long strides toward the stage. Halfway to her destination she caught Garrus' gaze and pointed to the wooden construct.