To anybody wondering, I'm inactive because I'm just waiting for Roamin11 to make a post to advance the plot. I would advance the plot but A.) I have no idea how this is supposed to go and B.) I don't really like controlling other characters that much. So that pretty much sums up why I've been inactive. Also I have quite enjoyed reading the heroes' storyline while waiting.
Time: Afternoon
Location: Dark Alley, New York City
Tomoya was in New York city, it was starting to get dark, it had taken him only thirty minutes to get there from Southern America, as he enters the city's sights he minimises the electricity coming from him so no one can see him, Tomoya lands in a dark alley, Tomoya then looks upwards and still sees the dark cloud above him, Tomoya mutters quietly to himself "Is it me or are the clouds following me", as Tomoya is about to exit the alley he finds two gangsters awaiting him, one was a short white man holding a knife casually in on hand and the other guy was a tall african american that was badly hiding a 9mm pistol in his front pocket, Tomoya sighs and asks "May I help you guys?", then the white shortie spits out "Give up your watch and wallet kid or we will both make sure that you wont get back home" Tomoya then says "Why do you wany my wallet, are you guys outta cash to go to a gay strip club or something" Tomoya then smirks as the shortie puts on a angry face and pulls the knife on Tomoya and his tall friend makes a fighting pose as they both draw closer to Tomoya.
Tomoya was thinking how to get out of the situation without violence, then Tomoya pulls out his trusty katana which was never seen because of the darkness but then a sudden glow comes out of the katana and suddenly the katana is swirling around with electricity and then he points it at the two men and says "I dont think you want to do that", but the two men arnt scared, the shortie attacks with the knife and Tomoya dodges it sideways and hits him on the head with the end of his blade and he hits a nearby garbage bin and get knocked out, Tomoya then speaks "Wow, that kinda sucked guys" as he turns to the next guy he notices that he holds his gun pointed towards Tomoya's head, then suddenly BANG a bullet gets fired but then Tomoya slices the gun with his electrified sword and slices the bullet in half and passes behind Tomoya, the tall mugger is shocked and is about to fire again until Tomoya clicks his fingers and bursts his guns, the man drops it in suprise, he turns to Tomoya who holds electricity within his palms,the man then puts on a terrified look on his face and gets down on his knees and pleads "Please dont kill me boss, I wont do it again" Tomoya then speaks "Get out of here you idiot and turn yourself and your buddy into the police" the man takes his advice and picks up his buddy and runs at top speed out of the alley with him. Tomoya then rids of the electricity within his palms to look normal once more and then exits the alley with a smile to buy some things.
Thirty minutes later
Tomoya exits another store within Times Square with a bag of clothes for his room, he turns into the next alley way and transforms the bag into electrons around him as well to all the other stuff he brought which include, weapons, clothes, funky furniture and some other fun things. Tomoya then exits the alley ways and passes a news stand but only to see a tv viewing the nowblown up DC and the Tomoya mutters to himself yet again "Oh no, not this again" then the camera vieiwng the area starts to shake and crashes into ground to only view a futureistic helicopter landing and then suddenly the camera views the emergency broadcast system, as this happens a building across on the other side of Time Square falls, a giant dust clouds flys out and then Tomoya suddenly looks at it more closely.
As Tomoya looks towards the cloud a giant being emerges from within, it was half the size of the building and steps on cars like lego underneath your feet, police were firing upon it and being destoryed, people were screaming and running away. The beast stood huge and wields a giant club as huge as two cars in his left hand, the giant was also collecting people and putting then in the cage attached to back that has a strange logo on it, his skin was yellow and pulsing and his face was mutated. Tomoya knew he could do only one thing and one thing only, he had to kill the giant and free the people in his cage.
Tomoya suddenly runs towards the monster and electricity starts to dance around him as he summons his bike and accelerates at top speed at the monster, he stops in front of the giants and summons a rocket launcher out of thin air and shouts in a thundering voice "STOP IN THE NAME OF GOOD AND LET THOSE PEOPLE GO" the beast grunts in returns, Tomoya sighs as he pulls the trigger of the launcher and a flaming missile flys out and hits the creature with little impact but still leaves the incredible sound of five grenades with it. Suddenly the creature roars and charges at Tomoya, "SHIT" Tomoya speaks out loud and reves the tires and speeds away at the bike's top speed, but Tomoya has no chance and the giant beast hits the bike with him into the air, Tomoya reveals his true power and asorbs the launcher and bike back and let his wing thunder out of his back.
It starts to rain, Tomoya still in flight dodges the beast to the side and pulls out his katana and puts enough power into it to affect the objects around him, at the sound of the first thunder clashing in the dakr cloud above his he charges the mutent with his sword of light but as Tomoya charges the beast is about to slam Tomoya to the ground but Tomoya dodges this and slashes his right arm and rises into the air and aims towards the wounds and launches a lighting blast to injure the beast more, as the beast roars due to his wound he goes into a freenzy and lunges towards Tomoya and manages to smack him further into the air, Tomoya then hovers in the air and holds his now broken ribs, Tomoya then summons his iconic gun in his left hand and summons a replica in his right hand and points to the beasts face and charges the gun with his power and pulls the trigger over one hundred time within five seconds, "Least their is no limited amount of bullets for my power" Tomoya then rids of the guns by asorbing them and creates a disk withing two of his hand trying to replicate the power he had created before in the jungle.
Tomoya then launches the disk towards the giant mutant and it hits him right in his right arm and saws through it, as the arm falls towards the ground the beast screams with such rage it creates a wind current within the air which forces Tomoya to land on a roof, but before Tomoya lands the beast grabs Tomoya, he climbed the buidling and grabbed Tomoya with such strength that he could not free himself from the beasts grasp, Tomoya then got launched into the nearby iconic tv screening of Times Square, Tomoya crashes into it and Tomoya screams pain which brakes nearby screens and summons thunder all around Tomoya within a hundered meters, Tomoya gets up from the crater and says "Well looks like I have to put alot of power into this next one", Tomoya raises high into the sky and screaming in rage so hard that a giant lightning bolt gets summoned right on top of the beast and everything turns bright. Next thing that happens is that a crater has appeared below Tomoya and the beast is dead but his body is still there, Tomoya looks around and only sees that the giant is dead and his captives are pouring out of his cage, "It seems everyone ran away, thats cool..." Tomoya then flys to the top of the nearest building and collapes on top. "Time to go to sleep" Tomoya mutters and then activates his beacon to let the other know that he is here.
Yeah I wanted to make a giant action scean to show off his powers, so it would be good if you guys can come to New York to pick me up, because my guys is gonna be there for a long, long time. And sorry for the HUGE post. But it was worth it right?
Justin watched as Reginald Cuffberts head rolled past him, and sighed.
"Don't you every think you're a little overpowered?" Justin said tiredly "You know something don't bother answering that" Justin insticatvly walked over to the body and began to loot it. "I do this all the time in fallout, and it is so much diffrent in real life, I actully have to turn out their pockets, check their back pack, so much more time consuming" turning the back pack over, several stim packs, gun clips, and two frag mines came falling out.
Glados picked up the stims and put them in her pack, as well as picking up a few of the 10mm pistol rounds taking them out of the magazine for Justin to use.
"There we go here's the jack pot" Said Justin holding up a small leather bag.
"What's that?" Ken said taking a knee beside Justin
"His inventory"
"In that little bag, I thought you went through it already."
"That was just his hotkeys, nope this here is the magical tardis like inventory." Justin undid the leather cord that held it closed opened the bag wide and began to dump it on the ground.
A small mound of drugs, guns, armour, and miclnious junk (inculding 18 pencils) fell from the bag.
"Well we should really get to work on sorting this out, but that would be boring." Justin took a flamer from the pile, and burnt the mound, after taking a botttle of wine and a few brahmin steaks. "Let's set up, camp here tonight, and decide where to go tomorow. That should give the fan boys time to set up their own base of operations."
Between work and summer stuff my posts will be few and far between, Ken, get use to character control, if you don't want to wrong me, then just PM don't know what to do, if you haven't played fallout then, just do what you think you should do,
Ken took the empty leather pouch off the dead guy knowing that it would come in handy out here. "Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm probably going to raid the nearest military base for weapons and vehicles. See if I can get my hands on a tank," he said. "As for camping here, I suggest we take turns doing patrols throughout the night in case someone decides to slit our throats while we're asleep. Right now though I'm going to set up alarms and traps as a first defense against intruders," he added, recalling what they taught him at the secret military complex while he stayed there. With that out of the way he walked out into the wasteland to set up a defense for intruders. Maybe he would get lucky and find a cool weapon while he was out.
Then can you send me a PM suggesting what you would like for them to do in the next few posts?
While Ken was setting up his alarms and such a long mournful call tore at him. His heart filled with that uneasy fluctuation when something so horrible, so unbeknownst would be experienced.
Ken turned from his work and looked out toward the horizon of the ruined city. There was nothing to see, the rubble was still and air hot. The the world froze just for a mere moment again, another groan resonated through the Earth and air. Inhuman, frightening.
--
Blackharte's gait was slow and deliberate, parsing through the rubble that used to be D.C. he let go another long moan as he walked. Crying, distressed. A massive appendage formed itself on the right of his body and into a hand, it swept the ground for minerals, fuel, anything remotely flammable.
Another jolt of electricity shot from it's furnace, Blackharte dropped his pickings and continued onward to New York. He had not fed in days, but somehow he kept moving. Something was wrong, something did not let him eat, it confused him.
Soon Blackharte came across a small camp and let out another groan. He felt the clench in the furnace lighten and a single word come to mind: feed.
--
The Raiders had screamed if only marginally when the swarm of darkness engulfed their camp, devouring each in a swarm of fire so minuscule, but so hungry. Within moments the entire camp had been cleared of any parcel of organic matter and Blackharte walked on, growing larger with each meal.
Justin looked confused "Ken we are in the middle of a suburb, there is no military outposts for miles, and miles and miles, the closest thing to a intuition near here is a school over the hill."
"So, no tanks?"
"No tanks" Justin said patting Ken on the back to comfort his disappointed friend.
"Here sit" Said Justin gesturing to a tire that was by the fire Glados had started using kindling from a shattered house, and her laser rifle. "I have not really had a good chance to get to know each other. Tell me about yourself."
After her initial 'test run' with the Air Stone, Youmu had been keeping to her room, looking it over, not knowing exactly what she wanted to find on it. Perhaps a way ba--no. That was the last time, that she'd come into this world at random. This time, she had a purpose - or so Yukari had told her. Not that she ever made any sort of sense.
"(What are you looking for there?)" a voice asked her from what seemed to be nowhere. Youmu looked around and saw nothing. Except, something in the mirror--
She immediately felt compelled to answer. "(I...don't know. It's just...so...)"
"(Unfamiliar?)" the voice suggested. This time she definitely saw something; a black shape in the mirror. She turned around, and nothing was behind her. Back to the mirror...
"(Am I dreaming?)" she wondered out loud.
"(No,)" the voice told her. This time she could make it out very clearly - sort of a wild beast, except pitch-black all over. She also noticed something else: her own reflection was missing from the mirror. "(And if you want to know more...)"
Before it could even finish, Youmu was on her feet and walking towards the mirror, as if hypnotised. That wouldn't have been far from the truth, in fact. "(Yes...that's it,)" the beast droned. Youmu's finger brushed against the mirror--
Immediately, the beast grabbed the finger and pulled Youmu into the mirror. At the same time, it created a copy of Youmu's body and started to inhabit that. To the casual observer, it was exactly the same. Its eyes were the wrong colour, and it couldn't replicate the ghost part, but the beast was satisfied with its efforts. Inside the mirror, the real Youmu had started complaining loudly, but it ignored her.
Instead, it stared down at the stone that she'd been looking at earlier. She's barely scratched the surface of its powers, it thought. Let's see what it can really do... Focusing its energy into the stone, the beast started to create a tornado around the airship. Make peace with your gods, Ryan. And tell your friends to do the same. This will be the last chance you get!
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Name: Known as 'Mirror Beast'
Age: Old
Appearance: Inside a mirror, it looks like a snarling black beast. It can take the form of someone outside, but it's difficult to create a perfect copy of its victim, and moreso when they aren't human.
Powers: Aside from taking over the bodies of people and forcing them into the mirror, it's also nearly invulnerable to any sort of physical harm. It'll still flinch when hit hard enough, but not even Youmu's katana could cause permanent damage to its host body. The only way to defeat it is to have it break a mirror - but then the victim is lost into a 'limbo' world. It's also able to use all its host's powers, including any objects that only that person can use, like the Stones.
Alignment: Chaotic evil
Motivation: Killing everyone it can, starting with the current heroes.
Languages known: Every human language since the dawn of time, including all forms of sign language.
"Might as well start from the beginning. My parents were both in the military when I was born. My dad was a Major and my mother was a First Lieutenant in the US Army. We moved about twice when I was growing up but I didn't really care since I was basically that kid that liked to keep to himself. When I was about ten when I started to get interested in violence and chaos. I didn't cause them but I liked to watch it unfold," Ken started out with. Taking out a metal grate with legs, he put it over the fire to start cooking the steaks. He took the steaks from Justin and started to grill them.
Staring into the fire as he cooked, Ken went on with his story. "When I was 15, my powers started to appear for the first time. Knowing that I was a danger to everybody, my parents informed the government of what was happening. They quickly stuck me in a secret underground bunker, where I remained until I was 23," Ken said flipping the steaks over. "During my time there, they taught me how to control my powers through achieving a zen-like state of calmness. That is way I seem to be eerily calm all the time. If I let my emotions get the best of me, I fear my powers would go out of control. Anyway, they also taught me all the basics of survival like , scavenging, cooking, and fire-making. They also taught me how to setup traps and alarms in case of intruders during the night," said Ken while taking the perfectly grilled steaks off the fire and put them on a plate for dinner.
While eating dinner, Ken decided to finish up his story. "When I turned 18, they taught me how to kill. They let me decided what kind of training I would get and I choose melee weapons and firearms. They put me in various classes that taught me everything from advance sword techniques to basic gun care. When I turned 23, the higher ups saw that I was in complete control of my powers and decided to release me. Of course they would never let me out of their sight, so they had me watched at almost all times for the rest of my life. Of course, when I got out of the complex is when my love of violence and chaos came out again," he said while finishing up his meal. "For two years, my need for violence and chaos grew to almost unbearable levels. It was during a recent trip to Area 51 that I finally snapped. I was out there to help with a fusion reactor but they weren't able to control it for very long so it was aborted. While I was there, they let me test out some of my powers on their old nuclear test sites. When I created my first nuclear blast, it was then that I knew that I was going to cause great evil from now on. Getting back home from Area 51, I quickly bought a ticket to LA, and well you know the rest," he said, finally able to be done with the story.
I was so tired when I wrote this that I fell asleep while typing the first paragraph. Also, this took forever to type on my iPod touch since that's all I had access to at the time.
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: New York, Time Square Crater
Their was a blinding light when Tomoya wakes up, it was the sun, Tomoya hasnt seen it in a while, then suddenly Tomoya remembered the following battle that has taken place hours ago, as he looks at his watch it says 12 pm, "I slept for quite some time" Tomoya muttered to himself as he gets up from the now dry roof top.
Tomoya then creates a small ball of lightning within his palm "good thing I didnt lose these babies" Tomoya smirks, Tomoya looks over the edge of the building to only see that the crater he has created in Time Square surrounded by Police and civilains, "Well good thing none of them got hurt" but Tomoyas didnt see the disfigured body of the mutant he had just defeated, Tomoya frowns and mutters "Well it looks like the body was taken over night when the area was cleared" Tomoya then notices the whole Time Square area was pretty beaten up from their battle, giant feet markings, broken neon signs, smashed building, lightning marks and most of all the crater Tomoya had created to finish of the beast. Tomoya knew that the area was going to be blocked off and invaded by military so Tomoya hides his weapons and exits the rooftop via stairway and onto the steets of New York to find something to eat.
Time: 12:36 pm
Location: New york, Outside Hard Rock Cafe International
As Tomoya walked down the street by the infamous Hard Rock Cafe and wandered in and got a booth and was given a menu, but Tomoya noticed alot of people around him were talking about Counter Strike and adventures that have taken that were obvious bullshit, Tomoya ingores them and orders a steak from the money he had taken from the muggers, "Finaly my first american food" Tomoya had cut a piece of steak off and was about to take a bite of it until...SPLASH, Tomoya had gotten soaked from the booth across from him that were filled with Counter Strike fanboys and were laughing at him, Tomoya clenched his fist and then thought to himself "Calm down Tomoya, you dont want to hurt anyone innocent, espeically under these cercumstances.
Tomoya puts down his cutlery and eyes the people at the booth and asks "Who delightfully poured this sticky soda on me?", "Its Mountain Dew, dont you have that were you come from commie" everyone at their booth laughs, Tomoya replies "One im Japanese, two..." Tomoya then picks up another jug on their table and throws it all over them "Oi that was my coke you fuck face" one shouts "Do you know who we are" another one implies, "Ahh my Limited Editon Halo shirt" another sobs, "Thats for wasting soda" Tomoya says while smirking at them, "Well your gonna pay for that!" One fanboy shouts, the fanboy throws a punch at Tomoya but to only be introduced to the nearest glass jug to his face and shatters, the fanboys now lies on the floor with glass all over his face and trying to cover it from the pain, Tomoya then looks up from the soon to be corpse and sees the other three people at his booth have pulled out their weapons, "Wow you guys must be really devoted to CS".
Tomoya jumps back and takes cover at his booth from the fire and summon his magnum and clone magnum and wait for the perfect moment to strike, Tomoya then hears "reloading!" and jumps out of the booth and shoot two out of the three guys in the head and asborbs his two magnums and grab the last guys head and hears a "Please dont kill me" coming from the fanboy's mouth, "ugh, this again...hmmm...fine...but" Tomoya then knees the guy in the head and leaves him unconscious, Tomoya then eyes the two corpses, the unconscious guy and man with glass in his face and ignores them as he heads for the counter, while everyone stares at him he eyes the counter waitress and says "This should cover the fee for the damage and steak", the waitress gladly accepts it, Tomoya was about to leave and them returns to his booth and grabs his plate with steak on it and leaves, as Tomoya leaves the cafe everyone hears "Awww they got a bullet in it...oh well!".
No one bothered to call the police after what Tomoya did, Tomoya now sits on a bench at the park in the center of the city and eats his steak in piece while looking at the sky and thinking "When the hell will they get here...oh well I can always shop more, those muggers kindly gave me all their money that they got from their victims" Tomya then smirked as he ate his steak in peace.
Okay im just making a bit more story for my guy since he cant be sleeping all the time while you guys are getting your stones, so im just passing time until we all meet in New York, and oh looky a new villains, character and etc, cant wait what happens next.
The small cruiser finally slowed to a crawl near the airship and the drop door opened, allowing Zero to safely park it. When he reached the lobby, he saw that Ryan, Jack, Farrago and Youmu were talking about something and showing off their new powers.
"Hey guys. Good to see you got your stones. Did something happen to the ship? It looks like there was a scuffle outside..."
"Eh, just a small skirmish with some fanboys. Took care of 'em easily." Jack grinned, holding out his hand, where it swirled with fire for a bit. Next to him Ryan sniffed the air, then held his nose. "Eugh, boy! You smell like you slept with a fish!"
Zero looked at himself, then smirked. "Oh, this? Sorry 'bout that. Retrieving the stone was a little harder than I thought..."
"(I can imagine.)" Said Youmu. She looked at him expectantly "(Sooo? Are you gonna show us or what?)"
"What?"
"(Your stone...? Duh.)"
"Oh, right. I haven't really tried it yet. Let's see..." Zero focused for a second, then his head gem glowed as a small glob of water materialized in front of his hands. He toyed with it a bit, forming it into different shapes and swirling it around until he threw it at Jack's face. Everyone chuckled for a bit, except Jack, who fumed at wiped his face, trying to control his anger. Ryan raised an eyebrow. "I was expecting the generic 'pull water out of another place' or something. How did you do that?"
"I can do that too. But I think..." Zero replied, looking at his hands. "I can pull molecules out of the moisture in the air and use that. So I don't really need a source of water to use it."
"Ah." Ryan finished. He waved them off, turning back to the cockpit. "Well, I'm done. Go wash up, boy. I can't stand the smell of ya."
"Yes sir." Zero said, the group breaking off and walking back to their rooms. Zero trudged into his and flopped onto his bed and closed his eyes, not caring that his sheets would smell like fish after. He tried to find the cable to plug himself in when his hand bumped against a small can. Bringing it back to him, he turned it and raised an eyebrow. It was an E-tank.
"Huh. How'd this get here? Ah well." Zero downed the drink, immediately feeling recharged as he finished, and removing the fish smell as well. Putting the can back on his desk, he stared at the ceiling and moved his hands above him, water appearing in front of him as he toyed with it some more. So much potential... he thought, If the villains got a hold of these stones, we'd all be screw--
Suddenly the ship tanked, throwing Zero off the bed. He shakily stood up as the ship pitched, trying to anchor himself onto something as he moved towards the door. Throwing it open, he clamored towards the lobby, where Farrago was having less trouble balancing but more trouble understanding what was going on.
"What's happening?!" Zero yelled to her. She helped him up, indicating the window. "We just got caught in a tornado for some reason!"
"What? Why would there be a--YOUMU!" Both realized this at the same time. Zero and Farrago looked at each other, then bolted towards Youmu's room. Zero threw the door open, the duo immediately spotting her. But something was wrong. Besides the ship whirling around, she stood in the center of the room as if nothing was happening. Farrago drew her pistols and Zero readied his saber. "Who are you and what did you do with Youmu?!"
'Youmu' slowly turned her head and glared at them with one cold eye, then grinned wickedly. "I'm your worst nightmare..."
Time and Location: Almost exactly the same as above
Immediately, Zero charged forward, but the...thing inside Youmu was faster. Parrying the Z-Saber with little effort, it threw him off-balance. Farrago took the opportunity to take a non-lethal shot at 'her'. But that didn't work either: it seemed visibly affected by the shot in that it jerked its leg upwards, but the bullet hadn't wounded it at all. It waggled a finger in her face, taunting: "Is that your best?" in a voice that sounded like an older Youmu. Suddenly, it jerked Zero off the ground and threw him into the angel. As they pulled themselves up, it started speaking again, losing some of the voice it had used earlier. "You'll have to try harder than that to beat me!"
A banging noise on the nearby mirror caught everyone's attention, including that of the Mirror Beast. Youmu's muffled voice called out to the others: "(You can't hurt it like that! It needs to break a mirror!)" Zero charged forward again with the intention of enacting Youmu's idea, but he was stopped cold again. Not just by its parry, but also by its words.
When it spoke this third time, the voice had become so distorted as to sound nothing like that of its host. "Ah, ah, ah. If you kill me, then you'll never see her again. Are you really willing to let her go quite that easily?" The comment stunned Zero long enough for 'Youmu' to cut open the recently-repaired hole in her room and dive out. Farrago jumped out almost immediately afterwards. Zero hesitated for a second, then realised what she was trying to do: There must be at least one mirror in Nairobi. And if it means this thing is gone... He decided to teleport down to the ground, hoping he'd have time to prepare down there.
He came down in the middle of a touring circus. Everyone was staring, but he didn't notice. Instead, he was looking at the building right in front of him, trying to translate the Swahili on the sign. Eventually, though, it clicked: Hall of Mirrors. Smiling to himself, he charged inside, just before Farrago and 'Youmu' crashed into the ground, still intertwined. "Get her in here!" he yelled out before running back inside to prepare.
Farrago and EvilYoumu hit the ground together, hard. EvilYoumu jumped straight back up and so did Farrago. ?Get her in here!? Zero shouted and Farrago nodded, charging at EvilYoumu and tackling her. EvilYoumu countergrabbed and flipped Farrago off her back, spinning round for a roundhouse kick but Farrago wasn?t there. EvilYoumu looked up to see Farrago?s boot descending to meet her face. ?THERE?RE CALLED WINGS, *****!? Farrago spat as she flykicked EvilYoumu across the pavement.
?(You think... that you can best me with that?!?)? EvilYoumu spat back as she got back up and unleashed a flurry of punches at Farrago.
Farrago blocked each punch and even began to work in several of her own, evening the fight. A large crowd had gathered on the streets of Nairobi, because let?s face it, an all out fistfight between a young ghost girl and an angel weren?t seen everyday! As the fight continued, EvilYoumu threw a late punch and Farrago grabbed it and twisted, dropping her to her knees in a lockgrip. EvilYoumu kicked her legs around in a lowsweep and knocked Farrago?s feet from under her, forcing her to release the lockgrip and fall over. In an instant EvilYoumu was on top of the Angel and grabbed a wing in each hand and planted her foot firmly in between Farrago?s shoulderblades.
?(Let us see how well you can fly without your precious wings!)?
Farrago?s shriek of pain was heard for many miles. All the onlookers began to weep and cry in a terrible chorus of sadness and suffering.
?(Hmph. What to do with a pair of angel?s wings? Who cares?)?
A firebolt descended from the sky and struck the earth right in front of EvilYoumu, sending a dustcloud billowing. ?I care.? Growled the soft and deadly voice of Jack. Flames covered his entire body in rage. With one swift fire punch he knocked EvilYoumu flat, then grabbed her by the throat and flung her bodily at the entrance to the hall of mirrors. To Jack, it was the closest building, and he knew being thrown into buildings hurts. At that exact moment, Zero moved a man sized mirror on wheels to the doorway. EvilYoumu simply laughed and stopped herself midair.
?(I HAVE CONTROL OVER THE AIR! I will destroy you all with it!)? EvilYoumu laughed, until she saw Jack again. Then, her face simply dropped.
?FIREDOKEN!!!!!!!!!!!? Jack roared in pure Wrath, sending a massive plume of pure, raging, FIRE at her.
The Firedoken hit EvilYoumu dead on and blasted her back into the mirror, shattering it on impact and defeating the vile creature. Jack never stopped to see the results, he simply stepped over to Farrago and swept her up in his arms, taking off for the sunset over the western plains. He knew of a small healing temple and a shaman that owed him a favour.
In the battlefield, the feathers had already begun to fray and scatter from Farrago?s broken wings. The wind picked them up and sent them to the four corners of the world, as it always does with the feathers of Broken and One Winged Angels.
<spoiler=OOC>Hey guys, I got knocked over by a really bad cold thats been running around out here. My next post will be Farrago getting her stone at the healing/earth temple. Then, I'm not sure what after that. Meet up in New York and onto the next crazy story arc!
"Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no..." Zero said while putting a hand to his head, the monster's words running through his head for the eleventh time:
Ah, ah, ah. If you kill me, then you'll never see her again. Are you really willing to let her go quite that easily?
He looked around, trying to find anyone who at least looked like they could help, but only got stares in return. Then he radioed Ryan onboard the ship.
"Ryan! It's Zero. Farrago and I were trying to stop a monster that possessed Youmu and Jack intervened and killed it, and, I think, her. Then he took off with Farrago and now I'm stuck here. Contact me as soon as possible and help me figure out how to get Youmu back."
With that, he searched around for the biggest piece of glass and carefully picked it up, trying to peer inside to see if he could see Youmu. "Please don't be dead..."
Like I said, I'm just kinda...stumped on what I should do next. If you guys wanna control 'im for a bit and move the plot along, go ahead.
"I thought you handled that rather well," a woman's voice told him from behind. Zero spun around to face her. "Your friend certainly came up with a solution, but yours, if they'd followed it, would have worked better...that's assuming you could have gotten behind her." Zero looked her over once. Like the voice told him, it was a woman, probably about forty years old, although a closer scan told him otherwise. "Did I forget to introduce myself? How rude of me. My name's Yukari."
"How do you know all this...'Violet'?" he asked, his voice showing his obvious distrust.
"I don't believe that matters right now. What matters is that Jack's solution wasn't quite the best one. He tried to destroy its body, and although he succeeded, but the beast is still around to inhabit another. And you still lost your friend, and the stone..." She shook her head slowly. "If you want my advice, you'll try to forget about her. There is a way to rescue her from limbo, but it should be left to someone who knows what they're doing. In the meantime, I heard a rumour that the Earth Stone's temple is about two hundred kilometres south of here..." Having nothing else to say, Yukari turned and walked away behind a wall.
"Hey, wait up! I wasn't--" Zero started, trying to follow her. When he got around the corner, though, she was gone without a trace. Why does everyone have to talk in riddles? Shaking his head, he walked outside. 200 kilometres south, huh? Let's see if she's reliable.
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Basically, I'd already intended Yukari to appear in front of Zero and anyone else in the hall of mirrors, but I had to change her exact words because of the way you handled it.
In his rage, Jack tried to outright destroy the Beast in the physical world, but his method meant that it could simply return to the mirror realm and inhabit someone else. In the meantime, he didn't know that destroying the fake body, by any method - be it mirrors or hellfire - means that Youmu has to be sacrificed. And she was. Jack's fire also destroyed the Air Stone, so nobody else can use it. (Don't worry, though - both her swords are safe.)
That means that while Youmu's in limbo, I'll have to use a different avatar. I'll give it a while, though. No point in her 'replacement' coming in too soon and rubbing everyone else up the wrong way for it. It'd be a good source of conflict, sure, but I'd just rather not do it. Alternatively, I could try and play out what happens there, but it wouldn't be very much at all.
In the meantime...I believe Yukari's last appearance was in Brisbane, which Jack or Farrago ought to remember if Zero brings her appearance up with the others. Also, I've already established that the Beast spoke English...just because Youmu doesn't know it doesn't mean her vocal chords cannot ever constrict in the right ways...
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Name: Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World)
Age: 22
Species: Human
Race: Canadian
Personality: A nerd to the core, Scott tends to be rather erratic and somewhat immature, but he's a good person at heart.
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Powers: Extreme combat prowess (can charge into armed mobs and beat them up with his fists), anyone he defeats turns into coins (which then explode outwards and shower the area)
Inventory: Bass guitar, a bit of cash (CAN$), some snacks to replenish HP
Backstory: Watch the film or read the books, if you haven't already. Seriously. Do it.
Justin nodded, "Seems like a pretty lonely story if you ask me, never really had any constant companionship."
"Well no asked you" Said Ken realizing that fact. "I should get back to setting up a good perimeter, eat up and get some sleep, I'll wake you in three hours." Said Ken walking out of the island of light made by the camp fire.
Justin reached over, pulling Mrs. Glados towards him till she was sitting on his lap. Spearing a piece of steak on her spork she fed it to Justin, both laughing and smiling as they enjoyed the bland tasteless meal together.
"Why did you have Ken prepare the meal? You are able to make anything out of nothing after all." Glados said after finishing the last of the brahmin steak.
"It really wouldn't be fair for this adventure for me to make chicken Alfredo, for this adventure dear I'm putting my culinary powers on the back burner."
"Good point." Glados threw the plate into the fire watching the flames burn the fat that was on the plate. "So what do you think of Ken and his story?"
"Its kind of sad as I said before, he may not think about it because he has to keep a lot of his emotions in check but inside of him is probably someone very lonely, who is craving for friends and acceptance but really never learned how to ask, or even receive such things." Justin concluded by grabbing a beer that he salvaged from the dead mad mans bag. "You know you look very cute in the vault suit" grinning he gave his lover a tight squeeze.
"You better watch yourself, because I took the black widow perk"
"That's alright, because I chose lady killer" the couple crawled into their tent to get some sleep, but it would be unlikely they'd get a "well rested" perk.
Meanwhile
A group of Fallout3/New Vegas raider fan boys were patrolling an old grave yard where they had decided to set up their base of operations, adorning their armor with human skulls and bones.
"So, did you ever figure out the one quest for the white glove society, I have a problem doing the pro cannibalism line."
"Dude, did you go up to Mortimer saying you were a cannibal?"
"Duh, how else is he suppose to know I'm on his side?"
"Bad karma dude, or I think you need bad karma"
"Seriously? I was a good karma canni- What the hell is that?" the fan boy said pointing up into the air at the incoming helicopter.
"I thought the vertibirds returned to base when they dropped us off, and only the brother hood kept one, and I doubt they'd do a raid on small band like ours."
The vertibird did a wide swing and landed on the outskirts of the grave yard. The two fan boys crouched and began to move from tombstone to tombstone getting closer to the landing zone. Peeping over one low but wide grave marker they watched as the vertibird unloaded three power armored soldiers with glowing weapons, two robots, and one uniformed officer, and one person clad in a rad suit. The power armored soldiers unloaded crates of supplies and panels for make shift barricade and perimeters.
"What are they doing?" Said one fan boy to the other.
"I don't know, we should head back and tell the boss." But before they could move they saw the scientist gesture over to where they were hiding and they watched as two troopers ran off out of sight, and one soldier plus the larger of the two robots walked straight towards them.
"Shit man what do we do?" Said fan boy one reaching for his sawed off shotgun.
"Dude they have power armor, if you even fire that you'll just tickle them. We run now!" With that he stood up and began to make a mad dash away from the approaching danger. Before he could make any distance between him and the aproaching trooper he was shot in the back with a blue light which made his body freeze up and drop, the other fan boy paniced standing up and firing both barrels at the robot. He heard the buckshot clang uselessly off the robots carapace, and before he could reload was also shot, his vision went blurry then faded to black.
I'm dead, I'm dead, I am sooo dead that I'm not even going anywhere I'm just stuck in black limbo, and not even the cool limbo where there is platforming, just bleak dark limbo.. Well that limbo is also dark and bleak but at least there was platforming
"Wake the hell up maggot" the fan boy who sadly wasn't dead heard opening his eyes he looked around. There was a bright light shining in his eyes and he couldn't see the person who had commanded him to wake up.
"Wh-where am I?"
"Your in the custody of the New American government. Now tell me boy, where are you from?"
"I'm from Vermont, what do you want with me?"
"Shut up" the man struck the fan boy, "I'll be asking the questions, who do you work for?"
"What do you mean?"
"I said!" The fan boy felt a hard gun stock bash him in the ribs, his chest now in terrible pain. "Who do you work for?"
"Just let me go, I'll do anything if you let me go! I'll tell you everything, just let me go"
"Fine... We'll...Let you go if you tell us who you are working for."
"I work for the villains, who are in association with Aperture Science, my bosses name is Justin, just Justin. Will you let me go now?"
"Of course, private, let the boy go"
The fan boy smiled weakly, as he saw a large black silhouette approach him, blocking out the light. The smile faded instantly as he saw the black silhouette raise a glowing gun barrel.
A rift loudly opened up, and people jumped out of the way as Scott landed on the ground, hard. He'd never been forcibly shoved out of the Subspace Highway before... Who could possibly have been that powerful? And where was Ramona?
"Ramona?" he called out, turning around in circles. "Ramona! Where are you?"
A nasal voice behind him said, "Your little ***** is gone." Scott whirled around to see a teenage boy wearing a Naruto T-shirt and a bandana. There were several others in the area just like him. "Serves her right from coming from a crappy series like yours."
Scott cocked his head. "What are you talking about?" Without saying anything else, the first fanboy walked up and threw a punch at Scott. Instinctively, he pulled his arm up to block, quickly countering the fanboy's weak attack with a kick to the sternum. As he flew back, the others started to mob Scott, all easily getting pushed off.
Finally, the leader stood up again. "I'm going to rub your stupid, Canadian face into the ground!" he yelled, charging forward again. Scott bent his knees for the impact, then rolled the fanboy over his shoulder. As he hit the ground, the other kid exploded into small American coins. Seeing this, the other Naruto fanboys made a break for it.
While Scott was grabbing the money off the ground, grateful that he now had some American cash, another young boy walked up to him. "I saw what happened there," the new guy told Scott. "Those fanboys work for a villain named Justin, who I think is down in DC right now."
"Who are you?" Scott asked, confused.
"My name's Tomoya. I've been waiting here for a few friends for a while now, so we can all go down and deal with the bad guys. Want to wait with me?"
Scott looked around. "Yeah, all right," he agreed. Smiling, Tomoya led the Canadian to a nearby coffee shop.
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Time: Unknown
Location: Between worlds (limbo)
Ramona hit the ground just as hard as her boyfriend had. Only this time, the ground wasn't there. Or rather, it was, but she couldn't see it. "What's going on?" she called out, hoping to find someone else.
She listened to the echo, thinking that nobody else was--hold on. Aside from the echo, there was another voice, calling back in a language she didn't know. Hoping it was nobody evil, she slowly walked towards the second voice, which seemed to be coming from a floating white light...
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Ramona Flowers is Scott Pilgrim's current girlfriend, and also who introduced him to a travel method called the Subspace Highway. But you really should know this, because the books, movie and game are all pretty cool.
Scott intoduces himself to Tomoya and they both walk into the nearest Starbucks and Scott comments "Starbucks...eww" and Tomoya replies "Well this is my first time trying it...I wonder if its better then the coffee vending machines in Japan?" Scott's eyes lit up as they both got in line "They, have them there" "Yeah, they are also pretty good" Tomoya responds, when they both got to the front of the line Tomoya was looking at the menu and ordered a black coffee and Scott just ordered a Mountain Dew, Scott was about to pay for the drinks but Tomoya says "Hey let me pay, I got quite alot of american dollers" Tomoya then sticks his hand in his pocket and makes an american fifty doller bill with his electricity powers and Scott takes notices "Holy crap what did you do their!" "shhhhhh" Tomoya whispers to Scott.
As they both sit down Tomoya expalins the situation with the heroes and the villains and whats happend in DC and how he got his powers, Scott's eyes still glow after hearing everything "I cant believe you an angel and created that crater outside" Scott whispers to Tomoya "Well tell me about you Scott-kun, whats happend to you?" "Well im trying to find my girlfriend, Ramona Flowers..." Tomoya interrupts Scott with "And what can you do, as in what powers do you have" Scott pondered for a bit and replies " Well I can beat the shit out of anyone and when they run out of health they turn into coins and shower the area" Scott explains, Tomoya then questions while he drinks his coffee "What do you mean" Scott then points to his health bar at the top of his head "Huh, I was wondering why that was their, can anyone see it" Tomoya says while finishing his coffee "Nope only heroes and villians" Scott says that while finishing his Mountain Dew.
As they step out of the shop they spot a sudden massive airship flying over Times Square and over the NOW military controlled crater that Tomoya created, and on the side of the ship was the Aperture science logo.
Jack set Farrago down at the entrance to the Earth Temple, 200 kilometres due south of Nairobi. She had blacked out from the pain and blood loss, even though Jack had covered the distance in only 10 minutes. The giant stone door to the temple was worn by the sands of time, and Jack knocked on it three times. It opened slowly, swinging inwards on unseen hinges. Jack returned for Farrago and entered with her, the door closing behind him. The entry chamber was huge and lined with a double row of stone pillars. Jack ignored it all and walked off to the side where a small antechamber sat. As he stepped over the threshold, the voice of a wizened old man greeted him.
?I am not yet ready, Death. My time has certainly not come. For what reason are you here??
Jack laid Farrago on the only bed in the small antechamber. ?She needs your help. You are the only mortal that can heal her, and you owe me a debt.?
The old wizard rose from his position of Zen to stand before Jack. ?Was it your doing?? He asked simply. Jack looked away.
?No. It was a dark spirit, filled with destruction. I saw it rip her wings clean off. Then I blasted it into oblivion. Can you help her??
The old wizard nodded and moved to Farrago. He rolled her over and muttered arcane words whilst moving his hands over the stumps of her wings. When he finished he turned to Jack. ?She is sleeping now, and I have healed over her wing roots. She will never fly again, but at least the bleeding is stopped. The emotional damage, I cannot heal. For someone as flighty and airbound as her, she will need a strong shock to function again. But for now, she will need to adapt to her attachment to the earth.? He stated.
?She was going to try and get the Earth Stone for that exact reason. It will have much greater meaning now that she is grounded.? Jack replied.
At that moment, Farrago stirred. She sat up and hugged herself, missing her wings and wincing. ?Wh..Where am I?? She asked. The old wizard smiled and replied.
?The Earth Temple. Get up, walk out that door and turn right and go get it. I will not take no for an answer.? He said. Farrago began to protest but he cut her off with a wave of his hand. ?Go now! Trust me, you need it! Go!? Farrago got up and walked out, unsure and unsteady without her wings.
As the three walked into the entrance chamber, an explosion rocked the chamber. They turned and heard muffled voices from outside. ?Use more C4!? one could be heard. Jack turned to Farrago and nudged her towards the temple chambers. ?Go, I?ll cover the entrance. Get the Stone!? Farrago and the old wizard entered the temple proper and sealed the door behind them, just as Justin?s Counterstrike Fanboys blew the main door clean off its hinges. 4 Heavily armed counter terrorists entered the chamber and assumed formation. ?Take him down, then spread out and search each room!? one of them ordered, then raised his rifle and fired at Jack. Jack sidestepped the bullets, leaving a line of holes in the ancient stone floor before drawing his katana and charging. ?First Rage, Line of Flame!? Jack shouted as he swung his katana, sending a line of ragged flames towards the CS fanboy. He screamed as he was cut down by the flames.
?Second Rage, Burning Triple Pillars!? Jack called out, stabbing his katana into the ground. Three giant pillars of flame shut up from underneath the three remaining CS fanboys, roasting them. Jack sheathed his sword, and then out of nowhere a whole company of CS fanboys made it to the doorway. Jack raised one hand towards them.
?Third Rage, Ash Wall.?
A massive wall of blue flame erupted from his hand and immolated every CS fanboy in its path, turning them into ash where they stood. Jack lowered his hand and sat down, his work done. He waited patiently for Farrago and the old wizard to find the stone and return as the cool night air blew into the temple.
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Farrago looked at the rest of the temple. It was a single room, set up as if it was a fighting dojo. The old wizard spoke up, startling her. ?This temple takes what you are the most attached to, and makes you defeat it. Earth is all about attachment, solidity, trust. You were most attached to your wings, your ability to fly. So, you must defeat Yourself from the past, to become the you of the future. And I know that you lost your wings in a fight just like this. It does not matter. Now, begin!?
Just like that, a Ghost copy of Farrago appeared, complete with wings. ?Wha-! I can?t do this!? Farrago spluttered. The old wizard ignored her. Ghost Farrago didn?t. The Ghost floored Farrago with a kick to the guts, sending her sprawling. Farrago got up and assumed a fighting pose. ?Okay, just breathe in and out, and you can do this. Then you can find out what the hell is going on!? she said to herself as she dodged the next few punches from the Ghost. Gaining confidence in herself, trust in herself and a solid feeling in her guts, Farrago parried the next attack and counter grabbed the Ghost. She turned and threw the Ghost down, backing away and letting the Ghost rise again. The Ghost charged, leading with a low kick into a rolling reversal. Farrago saw and jumped over it, then delivered a harrowing punch to the Ghost?s face.
?Good!? The old wizard called from the side. ?Keep yourself grounded and only strike when you are ready! Trust in yourself!?
Farrago nodded and continued to fight against the Ghost, gaining the upper hand in the fight even though the Ghost could recover in mid air from throws and knockbacks, and retreat skyward when threatened. Farrago felt different, as if she completely trusted herself in every action, sure of the outcome. The Ghost swooped in for a flying punch and Farrago sidestepped and grabbed her, slamming the Ghost into the ground and falling on top of her. Instead of inflicting pain, Farrago and Ghost Farrago merged as one. Farrago?s wings became real once more, and in her hand was a small Stone, the Earth Stone.
?Well Done. You have completed the challenge, and the temple has yielded the Earth Stone to you. The stone will grant you earth elemental powers. Use them wisely.? The old wizard said as he opened the door to reveal Jack meditating in the main chamber. Farrago walked out a much different person than she had been going in. ?Thank you.? She said to the old wizard as she grabbed Jack and left. She felt safe in herself, and knew what she had to do. ?Jack, we have to find Youmu.?
?I fear that may not be possible. I used a Firedoken on her after she ripped your wings off. Which I see you now have again.?
?As long as I?m sure of myself, I?ll always have them. That?s why I lost them, I was unsure. And that wasn?t Youmu we were fighting, it was a dark copy of her! A mirror beast that imprisoned her, and if you killed it, she?s lost to a limbo world! We have to get back to the others, then figure out a way to rescue her!?
Ryan?s airship appeared above them at the moment, with Zero at the helm. Jack motioned towards it. ?There?s our ride to New York. Let?s go pick up Tomoya and then we?ll go rescue her. I?m guilty of trapping her there after all then.? Jack said. The two Heroes flew up to the airship and told Ryan to set a course for New York. The Airship set off towards the US of A, due west.
Ken was glad that the suit came with night vision otherwise he would have to give his position away with a light source. He was able to make the traps in relative darkness with the abundance of useful junk scattered all around. While making a particularly nasty trap designed to cut off the victim's legs, he heard a long and deep moan come from somewhere to the north. Knowing that no living creature made that noise, he quickly prepared for any encounter that might happen. When none came he went back to making his traps but while being on high alert. After setting up traps and alarms all around the camp, he started walking around and began to think about his plans.
He still wanted to acquire a tank during this adventure but knew that that was going to be difficult now. All of them were probably wiped out in the destruction of DC. His new plan was to raid the Pentagon to see if he could find anything experimental in there. It was the heart of the military after all, there was bound to be something there. After walking awhile, Ken decided to search a nearby building that was missing a large portion of it. Not finding anything upstairs, he went downstairs to search the basement.
Much to Ken's surprise, he found an entire armory of the latest military weapons. He quickly started to fill his leather pouch with as much as it could carry which was surprisingly a lot. After 3/4ths of the armory was in his pouch he found that it could not carry anymore. Luckily he had found a dead body with one of these pouches and stuffed the rest of the guns as well as all the ammo in it. When Ken brought up the HUD on his visor he found that his three hours were up and quickly headed back towards the camp to get some sleep.
Did I miss something about the fanboys attacking all over the world or something?
Having just fallen asleep, Justin wasn't surprised at all when Ken woke him up for his shift.
"Did you get any sleep?"
"Of course" Justin lied trying his best not to yawn.
"Good, while I was scouting, I found a small armoury, look through the leather bag if you need some guns."
"Nah, I'd rather keep my equipment in character with the current plot arc" Justin said, Ken looking confused at this answer. "You know, cuz guns and ammo, and med supplies, and well everything is scarce because of the bomb detonation?"
"Oh.. Well they are there if you want them"
Justin sighed and decided to cheat a little too, using his culinary powers he created a mocha latte with half foam double whip. Pulling up the scorched lawn chair Justin sat atop a small mound of rubble having a good view of the wastes. The clouds had parted but still the dust in the air made the moon light dim, but still bright enough to see silhouettes if there was any to see.
Listening to the wind sing the sad song of the wasteland, Justin settled into his chair, expecting an eventless shift.
No they are still in DC... DUN DUN DUUUUN!!! But I get the strong feeling now you may not have played a fallout game in your life which is something I should have asked before I started this plot....
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