Loa Blood

[DarkThoughts01]

Symphony
Symphony brought a hand to his face,eyes watering as he cautiosly felt what was surely a broken if not crushed nose.He slumped,gasping and choking for breath as the kid stumbled back,the sound loud in the still room.

"ugh....guess that wasnt so smart now was it? He thought,his whole body a mass of hurt. Dammit,this all because you have to play the hero he mentally scolded himself.

He slumped against the dented metal,groaning softly before reaching forward slowly with one hand,to the shock of the boy,and flicked him on the forehead with a finger,another tremble of sonic energy smacking the kid solidy in the head,dropping him on to his back,hopefully knocking him out cold.

I hope your worth it kid He thought to himself as he straightened slowly,gingerly running a hand through his hair and finding some blood there,thanks to being smashed against metal.

 

[SwampThing]

Aralia

Loki carries Valous away from the elevator just as the roof hatch bursts inward. His vision swims with overlay screens and diagrams. Floorplans show illuminated escape routes (stairs and elevators nearby leading down to distant ground level exits, pedways leading across the air to neighboring arcology complexes, hangar garages holding residents' aircars). Security cameras show their armored attackers upstairs (An Amunet man crawls out of the shorted out dog-head suit, the bird suit launching a grappling line into the elevator shaft and rappeling down after them), police barricading the arcology's exits with aircars and full-conversion cyborgs).

It bursts from the elevator hatch behind them, meat-pink and glistening wet, blubbery. The naked man-thing gurgles and hisses, landing in the corridor, snaking out a boneless, warty arm, reaching for the baby.

 

[SwampThing]

Bridges

Roza charms her way past Shockwave, the only one of the Gifted guards resembling a normal human male. The curly-haired Draconian becomes transfixed by her sinuous movements, allowing her to slip past him, and beyond the circle of floodlights to the unlit trainyard beyond. Before the fight, Leos had emerged from the back of a semi-trailer truck. Now that truck stands before her, it's heavy metal loading doors closed. Roza can just make out the silhouette of the driver sitting in the truck's cab.

The dancer hesitates, looking at the semi truck. Should she try the back door, or the cab where the driver is? Or should she look for the warehouse the truck came from? That six-armed bartender had said the fight clubs were based out of one of the warehouses around here, and Roza can dimly follow the trucks trail in the gravel of the train yard.

The truck shakes as the boy beats Symphony against it's metal side. The crowd gasps at the bloodied and broken challenger.

 

[SwampThing]

Bay City

Monolith moves through the earth, miles below the old Killer Bee tunnels and the ruins of Bay City, between and around the deepest antman tunnels. The rockman senses the vibrations of the colony, and flows towards the biggest concentration of the creatures. Monolith emerges from the cavern floor, bigger than ever, his features rounder, blander, less human.

"I COME FOR YOUR QUEEN, LITTLE ANTS!"

Monolith lays about him with huge stony fists, whirling, charging, crushing dozens, hundreds of the red-chitined creatures. Within seconds his giant body is swarmed with them, covered in crawling, clawing, acid-spitting antmen.

 

[cats]

Nia and Valous

IC: Nia: The small man was still standing despite his broken nose and an attack that must of drained a good deal of power. He made a hand gesture and the big boy whowas amazingly still standing had his head jerk backwards and then he fell onto his back.
'What in the world caused that?' I looked at the girl, was she serious? The battles are for those with Loa blood, I thought every one here knew that, so it was odviously a pwoer of one of the fighters. "You know the fighters aren't normal right?"

IC: Valous: We escaped the elevator and then Loki stopped for a second, I wasn't sure why, but he did. I quickly shut my eyes to see what was going on. I moved my vision into the shaft to look around but all I could see was darkness. There was a sound from higher in the shaft, and then I something cought my eye from bellow, a horible monster was moving up the shaft.

The pink skinned thing quickly got out of the shaft, and stretched a hidious hand towards my body. I moved beside it focused my body to be solid, and swung a fist of prue force at it. The fist landed with a sticky sound and the creature moved it's head slightly and looked at my older form with one eye. it then swung the wart covered fist, hiting my astral form, and shatering it.

I began to cry outloud in pain from the feed back to my mind. Loki clenched me tight to his chest and looked right back at the creature, hopefully with some sort of plan in mind.

 

[LadyRozes]

Roza watches symphony get slammed against the Truck and watches as the Boy comes towards him to finish symphony off. She knew she had to try something.

standing aside so the boy could see her she calls to him, and uses her body language hypnotize him. Slowly she tells him "into the truck now.. take him with you .. dont hurt him anymore.. " She whispers it and hopes that symphony was still contious enough to make sure it only went to the boy.

After she knew that the boy and Symphony were in the truck she slides into the cab with the driver and using her hypnotism and a little more than flashing of skin.. and promises of later if he would drive the truck out of the area slowly as if the match had been declared.

She was running out of places of where to take the two , but she figured that it would matter so much. As long as they got out of there. She hoped the crowd would just assume that Leos beat the living crap out of Symphony and won, and that was why the Truck was leaving.

Roza looked around and hoped that Olu would find her in time. She was definately going to need her driving skill to get out of this mess. Having never done anything this daring in her life. Roza was terrified of getting hurt. She hoped that the boy wouldnt keep beating on Symphony.

 

[Lady_Siren]

"Well yes I guessed they were abnormal but such a strong blast. Could that have come from that guy. He doesn't look to hold so much power." Nikki said innocently fishing for any info she could glean on the shockwave guy.

 

[SwampThing]

Bridges

The crowd is confused as Leos carries Symphony into the truck.

"Is it over?"
"The Crusher will kill him!"

Swinging in the scaffolding above the ring, mandrilman quickly gains control of the situation, and controls the crowd. "Leos, the Crusher is still reinging Champion! You saw it here, ladies and gentlemen!"

The winners in the crowd grin, and hurry to their bookies.

Nia and Nikki recognize the dancer who got into the truck with Leos and Symphony, and recognize her power that hypnotized the boy. Olu has disappeared in the crowd.

The Gifted guards look at each other, talk to Sejealan security men with dark suits and cellphones, and start moving after the semi truck, off into the trainyard.

Mark puts a hand on Nikki's arm. "We should go", he says. If they're going to break into Hass' Pier 12 warehouse, security is now distracted.

Olu steps out in front of the semi truck, waving to Roza. The Svetlan woman climbs quickly behind the wheel, and heads quickly out of the trainyard. "You go back and check on theose two. Make sure the boy is stable . . . and Symphony's alive. I'll try to get us to the plane, but we're going to have Gifted and ninjas, and the Loa only know what else on our tail."

 

[LadyRozes]

Roza climbed into the back of the truck hoping to see the two of them still alive and breathing. She looked over to the boy and turned to him. " Rest.. I think your tired.. its been a long day." She says emphasizing her suggestion to him.

She looked towards Symphony to see how bad the damage was.

 

[SwampThing]

Tiamat

The man walks calmly toward the Crusher. He's Draconian, thirty-ish, and of average build. He wears a T-shirt and jeans. Around him, the dust and sand swirl and eddy, the smoke and fumes in the air condense and blow around him as toxic snowflakes.

As he approaches the monster, he waves. He calls out, "We don't have to fight, but you can't be allowed to disturb the great project at the ground 0."

 

[Morgoth]

"I have no wish to fight you. But I would like to know what this project is. I have travelled quite a distance, and fought many battles in my search for this place. Perhaps I could even aid you in this project. Injured as I am, my goal remains, and while I do not wish to kill you, if I must, I must."

 

[DarkThoughts01]

Symphony

Symphony gave a ragged cough and struggled to sit up a bit more."Hello again Roza,glad you could make it"He chuckles dryly and hodls his side.

"I'll be fine until the good Doctor can patch me up,though he may not like what i have to say to him for lieing about this kid's power."

He stifled a groan and used a torn piece of his guady costume to wipe some of the blood from his broken nose.


"Well,at least the good Doctor came through with that promise of a pick up,though i would have prefered it be earlier"

Queen

She stomped back and forth angrily in front of a few soldiers,her young face creased into a frowning mask of impatience and anger.

She turned suddenly to the soldiers.

Destroy the Rock Creature her silent commanded rippled across her creatures,a few of them actually shivering at the anger in her words.

She waved her hand imperiously and the soldiers trooped off.She stood at the deepest cave the colony had as of yet,and the walls crawled with the largest of Her guards.

Once again a camera was turned on and focused on to the Queen,looking out of place and unimportant compared to teh huge creatures around her.To the uninformed eye,to see her on a normal sunny day she would appear to be a girl in her mid to late teens,pretty but not glaringly so,her only noticeable fault red marks and raised chitin,scars or burns one would guess from afar.

In really She was the Queen,and all the large Creatures would and did expends their lives to protect Her.

She smiled slowly at the camera.

"Hello humans,I am glad to talk with you again,I have yet another announcement.I am glad you have sent your Rock Man down to fight me,it gives Me more of a challenge,your other attempts have proven....pitiful,at best."
She laughed softly,then gestured.The camera tilted and turned sideways,showing the hgue Guards and Soldiers,interspersed with the Tank like ants and a few workers."Behold my Inner chambers,this is the only way you will get to view it,through this camera.But that is not the only thing i wished to show you."
The camera swung back again,this time to show holes cut into the wall behind her.In each one a large,fat looking Ant creature rested,workers scrambling over them.The creatures were shadowed so it was hard to make out details,but the workers were shipping out something more important.Small cream-colored, transparent eggs could be seen,being carried from the small caves by workers.

A worker,humanlike except for chitin completly covering half of his face,approached,placing an egg gently down in frotn of Her.

"This is our next stage,we no longer need humans like this one"She gestured at the worker,who merely bowed slightly nad retreated into teh ordered chaos around them."to expand,we can now make workers on our own."

She grinned and crouched inf ront of the egg,which slowly split apart at one end,a small worker,humanlike but covered in red and brown chitin.She gently picked it up,wiping the nutrient fluids off its form,lifting it up and coo'ing to it like a baby.She then handed the creature to the Worker,who dissapeared with it.

"Now we are self sufficient,we do not need you human's to create Workers from."She chuckled and gave a small wave to the camera.

The camera shut off,the view dimming and turning off.

Him

He ground two pincers togethor and waved his ahdn forward,anotehr wave of Soldiers rushing into the huge melee with Monolith.They had stopped him three caverns from the Queen's personal chambers,mostly because there were so many of them that the Rock Creature could not take the time to dissolve into the rock without beign killed.The rock throwers continued to fire,the lumped metal and rock breaking shards off the enemy.A few of them had been working and soon pitfalls and criss crosses of shifted earht and layered metal lay across teh battelfield,tripping and harrying the Monolith.Hundreds of Soldiers flooded into the room,the cavern actually being enlarged by workers as the fight goes on,providing more room for the fighters.
He ducked as a Soldier pinwheeled past him,its legs and body crushed and leaking blood over the ground and wall.

He merely shifted and orders another wave forward.

The Ants swarmed the monolith,pincers and mandibles and spikes driving into the creature,tearing chunks out of him as their mouths drooled acid,which hissed and melted into teh creature.

A new ant type stepped into the fighting,this one the same as a soldier but with a hollow tubed tail and a thicker middle.the new ants lined up as a hole in the ants appeared on the creatures chest.They tensed and streams of rock clearing acid was sprayed out of their aimed tails,arching up and landing on the Monolith,hissing and burning as stone slwoly hisses and bubbles,broken down by the acid.

 

[LadyRozes]

Roza looked confused. " Um.. I dunno anything about a getaway vehicle for you.. I just saw you down in the pit .. and I about flipped .. I couldnt understand why you were fighting and risking your life like that .. when I saw you get pummeled I knew .. that I had to do something.. this way now we are on our way. ... ohh. here let me help you with that "

She tore a piece of cloth off her outfit and to staunch one of the many wounds on symphony.

After she was done binding symphony's ribs with half her skirt, she looked to the boy and asked him, "Are you hurt ? Do you need any help?" She tried to emphasize that she wasnt going to hurt him by using more nurturing body language.

 

[Morgoth]

Leos

He looked at the new woman, and the fighter next to him. "No, I think I'm good. But why did you take me in this truck, lady? Isn't that what bad people do? Take people away?"

 

[LadyRozes]

Roza looked at the boy and gave him a very sweet and caring smile. "Honey.. we are taking you from the really bad people... we are trying to help you.. I promise .. we will never hurt you.. we want to take care of you. " She put a little nurture suggestion in the way she spoke the words.. simply because she didnt wish him to get angry.

"This man is my friend.. He cannot fight.. you fight really well, but is that all you wish to do is fight?" She sighed she was tired and she wouldnt know how to answer all these boy's questions, so she made the suggestion to fall asleep. "I think your tired now.. you should sleep.. both of you are ... I will watch over you until we are safe..."

as soon as she knew her suggestion held, "She slipped her head through the window and asked Olu, "How much longer till we are out of the way and heading towards a safe house ... or whereever we can get in touch with our.. people. "

 

[DarkThoughts01]

Symphony

Symphony groaned and sat up a bit,staritng to portest as her suggestion took hold.

"Remind me...to have a Discussion with the good Doctor Roz..and thanks"He mutters softly and slumps back,falling asleep wiht a shuddering breath,head lolled back and eyes closed in peaceful slumber.

 

[Lady_Siren]

Nikki nodded accepting Mark's arm and slipped away with him. "Where would the best way to enter be? first let me change into my uniform. I don't want any chances that I will be recognized. I've worked to hard for my cover to be blown now."

 

[cats]

IC: The truck sped off with both of the fighters. Okay so either these fights do this to prevent the fighters from getting killed for the audiences pleasure or they do this for the fighters to be killed and discarded out of the public eye. In any case every one seems to be surprised.

I looked back to my companion to see that was gone. I wounder where she has gone to, and with out even saying good bye thats very in formal. I walked out, and something occurred to me. If every one is surprised then, this couldn't of been planed. I stepped up my pace and reached a fair distance from the crowd. I heard a faint noise and glanced up to see a shadow vanish on top of a train car. Ninjas, obviously not a greatly skilled one. Although with a crowd like this it is a great deal easier to stay out of sight, and with Loa body guards this must of come as a complete surprise.

Oh well, I know who to call for more information now. I don't want to be left out of the loop.

 

[SwampThing]

Bridges

The semi truck barrels out of the trainyard and through the streets of the filthy factory district. Olu expertly dodges between slower moving trucks and industrial machinery. The huge semi knocks over crates and garbage bins, crashes through chain link fences, desperately moving for theop of the airport.

The dark figure on top of the van is no ninja. Nightlife is a jet black silhouette sprinkled with glowing stars, a man-shaped hole cut in the city and smog to the night sky. The Gifted fighter guard flies after the truck, trailing darkness and points of light. Green clad ninjas and the hairy Gibbon leap along the rooftops after the kidnappers' truck, but only Nightlife was able to fly after it.

He lands on the heavy steal roof of the truck, and tears it off. The jagged piece of sheet metal crashes through a factory window. Workers scream.

Nightlife hovers above the jagged metal hole, keeping pace with the erratically swerving truck. He looks down at Roza, battered Symphony, and the boy.

"Leos, I'm here to take you home, where you belong."

 

[SwampThing]

Bridges

Mark and Nikki retreive the package they'd left on the way to the fight. The train lot is frantic with patrons rushing for their cars, Gifted guards chasing after the truck. Mark and Nikki don their battle armor, his the standard yellow and black Killer Bee Agent uniform, hers the sleeker, blacker costume of the Queen Bee. Nikki's silver hair flows freely around her armor, after a year of posing as a Sejealan.

Mark crouches, drawing his Buzzgun. He leads Nikki through the storage lots around to the river. They approach Pier 12 from the dock side. The agents and bee-droids circling in the fog above track their progress, and radio down for orders. Mark tells them to wait. The two armored figures crouch among crates on the dock. Mark turns to Nikki.

"There's the big main loading doors, or those air ducts. Or we could get in through the ventilation on the roof, or go under the dock and in through the drains. Even with that shitstorm back at the fight, there are still going to be some guards posted. Ninjas and Gifted. I want you to take point. With your power, it's safest for you to go in first. I'll be right behind you, covering you with the Buzzgun . . . and a few other surprises.

"Or we could just call the robots in to open the place up for us and see what's inside. Your call."

 

[SwampThing]

Aralia

The fleshy pink Biomass grins at Valous, his crooked teeth swimming in his liquid, shifting gums. Bulging, lidless eyes stare at the infant girl. Then he snakes out that warty, boneless arm and touches her.

Valous feels her skin crawl, merging with Biomass. His hand passes right into her, becoming fatter, absorbing her. She feels herself traveling down his arm, into his body. In seconds, all Loki is holding is Biomass' bloated pink hand. Then Loki drops to the floor, nerves on fire. Biomass steps back toward the elevator, still grinning, his hand shrinking as Valous' mass is spread throughout his grotesque, naked body.

Loki is still on the floor, wracked with pain, when the bird-headed Amun suit rappels down the elevater shaft, smashing the elevaator. The armored figure grabs Biomass, sprays the hallway between Loki and the elevator with napalm, and raises away on his grappling line.

Loki gains control of his body as the implant flashes escape routes at him, tracing the armoured agent's trail through the arcology blueprints inmprinted in Loki's mind. The police are sealing the exits.
_____________________

Valous is held suspended in warm living darkness. She can't feel any of her limbs, or her face. But she can dream, and she can send her astral form out of Biomass' body, where she is trapped.

 

[LadyRozes]

Roza looks up at the nightlife guard and speaks in a very suggestive voice standing and swaying with the movement of the truck, "Why do you come down and come with us, Tell us where Leos's home is .. we can help him and you.. dont you want to have a home?.. PLease.. dont take him away.. come down and talk with me.."

 

[Lady_Siren]

The two armored figures crouch among crates on the dock. Mark turns to Nikki.

"There's the big main loading doors, or those air ducts. Or we could get in through the ventilation on the roof, or go under the dock and in through the drains. Even with that shitstorm back at the fight, there are still going to be some guards posted. Ninjas and Gifted. I want you to take point. With your power, it's safest for you to go in first. I'll be right behind you, covering you with the Buzzgun . . . and a few other surprises.

"Or we could just call the robots in to open the place up for us and see what's inside. Your call." Nikki Shook her head "no I don't want whatevers in there damaged by bursting in like that. Lets go through the ventilation. It will be the easiest way in. I can direct the gaurds away from the shaft with a little mind push. This is what I have been practicing for. It won't buy us much time but enough that we can get in unnoticed."

 

[cats]

Valous and Nia

IC: Nia: I was heading toward the lake shore from there I'd get into the ferry boat and ride it back to where my apartment was. Although I wanted to call Otto and ask about these gifted fights and what he knew about them, I'd have to be patient. Tonight I needed to get some rest that way I could get and work tomorrow at the store. After that I would begin to find out what was going on here.

IC: Valous: Loki didn't know what to do, and his body froze like a computer confused by to many orders. He gripped me tight in either fear or a defiant last struggle to keep me as the slithering arm moved forward.

The pain of the creature overloading my second form made me cry, I cried from the fear, and I cried from knowing, knowing I will not see Loki again. The long pink arm touched me, but yet it didn't seem solid, but instead liquid. The touch was embracing, and although I did not want to, I found my body welcoming it. Drawing me within, as if I was simply another drop of this liquid.

Loki gave a final squeeze and I slipped from his embrace like a bar of soap. My vision already blurred from the tears was darkened and then finally gone. I found myself being touched all around and then my sense of touch was gone and became like my sense of sight, completely blank. "Mommy, Daddy, help." Perhaps the sound was made an unheard or perhaps it was not heard because it was never made, but it scared me more then anything else.

Nia: I turned around curious about a strange feeling. I found nothing and simply moved on.

 

[DarkThoughts01]

Loki

A few moments after the...the Thing had grabbed Valous Loki struggled to hsi feet,wheezing raggedly from teh pain,every nerve protesting its orders.

"dammit...."He muttered as the bird suit apporaches.

He glares at it and feels something click in his mind,the suit sparking all along its length,sending it crashing into a wall,shorted out completly.

He rested a hand on teh wall,though even the nerves in his hand screamed at the touch.

He tottered after Biomass,his body slowly regaining control,his nerves dampening to a tolerable level,though he still shook a bit from the aftereffects,but whatever was in his head mapped out the floor level,a marker showing Biomass's route.

"I'm coming..."He muttered and continued after Biomass,not even sure what he was going to do.