Of heros and villians IC

[aires163]

Kevin heard Alice's moan of pain and seen her collapse. His first thought was to get her out of there, she was vulnerable and in great danger. Kevin rushed to her and lifted the top half of her body, he then stuck both of his hands under her arms and began to drag her into a nearby alleyway. As he pulled, her feet and legs dragged across the ground. But as he pulled her he manged to fire a few shots. He wasent even sure if they hit anything but he did not care. At that moment he was too concerned with getting Alice to safety.

Karl stood on one of the rooftop's, watching the fight below him. What he was mainly focused on though was one of the supers dragging another into an alleyway. His attention was redirected as he spotted a boy running out into the carnage to retrieve a sketch book. As far as Karl knew the boy was human, and it was in his directives to protect human's. That's why he was trying to kill the supers. He saw them as a threat to humanity. Wasting no time his hand transformed into a pickaxe, and he jumped from the roof, he then drove his pick into the side of the building to slow his fall. Upon reaching the ground he rushed forward at inhuman speed and with one hand he grabbed Riley, and with the other he managed to snatch the sketch book. He then proceed to rush him away from the fight, and without thinking he took him down an alleyway. The same alleyway Kevin had dragged Alice's unconscious body into.

"Please wake up! PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WA-" Kevin was interrupted mid sentence as he seen Karl rush down the alleyway with a another person slung over his shoulder.

"Are you alright? You're not hurt are you?" Karl asked Riley as he set him down and handed him his sketchbook. But before he could respond Karl noticed Kevin knelling beside Alice.

They both remained in silence as they attempted to stare each other down.

Alice's eye's opened just a tiny bit and she looked around. She saw Kevin in front of her, as well as a man and a young looking boy. She felt too weak and helpless to move. But she just barley managed to speak, and she said to Kevin. "I-I need...blood." Before Kevin was able to take notice of what she said to him she grabbed him, pulled him closer, and bit into his neck. Kevin screamed, but was too paralyzed by pain and fear to move, and what did Karl do? He simply stood there and watched.

"Good...let them kill each other." He thought. "It's just less I have to clean up."

[Black Garuga]

"We're here, I told you I knew a place"

Jack proclaimed quietly to Black in his head as he looked up at the wide building in front of him. The architectural structure from the outside seemed just like any other company building, boring and sterile, mostly concrete, but stood out more in a powerful sense unlike any skyscraper or city hall Jack had seen before, but yet, had a sinister feel to it.

"Jack, this seems a little...sterile, don't you think? like, a little too clinical for me. "

"What do you expect Black, a sterile environment gives a sterile mind, clean and free from emotion. They can possibly help us with our situation, otherwise I wouldn't have come here."

Jack stepped through the sleek reflective glass doors into a complex and grand entrance area, all in the same monotonous tone of white. Characters in white labcoats whisked by, either looking down reading a bit of paper on a clipboard, or, discussing work with others in labcoats. The entrance was alive with the sound of murmuring voices and black leather shoes moving across the glossy tiled floor.
The ceiling had in-built lights, shining down in a harsh haze across the whole of the hall, making the contrast of shadows on white more distinctive and defined.
The reception area was directly ahead of Jack, the white table had hardly any clutter of business on it that you would expect to see in a hospital or government building. Only a computer monitor stood on the counter along with a keyboard and a complacent receptionist sitting smugly in their padded chair attending to the computer. From the entrance to this facility, Jack noticed that it looked like a huge narrowing hallway, wide and large at the font, but as it ran along to the end length, it looked very small in comparison, and the black rug, which added a nice border to the hall, neatly lined up with the reception desk completing the illusion.

"You go first..."

"You fool, we are the same person, well, not for long hopefully"

Jack began to slowly make his way towards the reception area, stepping uncertainly across the black rug, until he reached the glossy white unit that awaited him at the end of the black path. The receptionist sat typing at the computer ignoring Jack's presence, the vixen paused only to adjust her minimalistic glasses before she began to type once more.

"Excuse me, I would like to speak to the head of this facility if you will please."

The vixen continued to type and seemed to look aggravated at Jack's request.

"Excuse me, I would like to speak to the head of this facility please!"

Still no answer

"I WISH TO SPEAK TO THE HEAD OF THIS ORGANIZATION!"
Black screamed at the receptionist, with a face brimming with fury and anger. The hall fell silent for a moment as everyone glanced at this stranger demanding to talk with the head of management, before they continued their everyday routine and rounds.
The vixen looked up with a facial expression of mild irritation, but mainly a cool disposition, Her red eyes flashed a more angry glare than she let on.

"Please"
Jack said sheepishly.

[Kohaku]

Riley had his eyes fixed on the sketchbook, even if he heard anything, he told himself, 'no, I need to get the book, that's it. I can't stay here long.' He then saw something had jumped straight down, he hadn't the time to react before he was quickly whisked up, the guy was fast. His first thought was 'I'm done for... I am going to be killed now...' His eyes had closed as he had cringed with fear. He then heard a voice. Was it from the same guy? He heard it asking his wellness. When he opened eyes. he saw the guy handing out the sketch book to him. He was about to say something when he saw the attention redirected to someone else. He followed the eyes to a girl and a guy, who he did not know either of them. Riley's stomach lurched when he saw the girl biting the boy's neck. Just what is she doing? He quickly got to his feet, feeling the need to leave. He turned and saw what was happening. It was an intense fight. One against the other. He didn't know which one was good or which one was 'bad'.

[Buzzwolf]

"Talk?! are you out of your peabrained mind!?" She growled at him, her arms laying still at her sides when she found them impossible to get free of. an audible hum began to fill the air as electricity bristled and cracked across her fur, a charge building in her body.

Then, she did the unthinkable. she Skull-cracked him. driving a staggering headbutt square into the boys hard light mask, Hard, cracking it as she immediately took advantage and twisted free, launching the boy, and the light wall prison to the side as she rolled and twistsed free.

She growled again as she stalked toward him, bolts of lightning arcing and destroying the landscape at random around her, her fur visibly bristling with the power. "You and I have Nothing to talk about"
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Dox yipes! at the unexpected slam against her seat before she smirks to Dracos chiding "Oh, sounds to me like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed" She giggles, slipping free of the shadowy grip like a solid spectre to sit on the edge of the seat staring over at Jazz "I think little fighter boy will work out juuuuust fine" she smirks

Jazz rolls her eyes and folds what had appeared to be a hard tablet and slips it under the seat "Good to know...now get ready, we're approaching the backside of the facility"
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A soft chill would roll through the air around the small group hidden away in the alley way, a white frost creeping along the buildings and ground, over and around the obstacles of the alleyway.

The blue furred vixen stepping into sight behind the wintery chill, a soft puff of fog slipping her lips and nose with each breath as her frozen eyes fell on the group, slowly passing between each of the individuals.

But one word slipped her lips "Supers" in her heavy russian accent before the howl of wind roared behind her, picking up and tearing down the alley way in the full freezing force of a relentless blizzard.
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Jenny cringed. Why...why must customers be so damn loud?! She threw him an icy stare with her deep red eyes. No one had any patience these days! but she must maintain her demeanor, regardless how unruly the customers were.

She backspaced a few keys silently, removing the errors from when the boy had destroyed her thought process, before she looked over at him and leaned on the counter with nothing but a professional smile, regardless of what her eyes would tell anyone else.

"I'm sorry, but the head of this facility is...unavailble at the moment. If you are looking to..." She looked him up and down once before her eyes returned to his, a nearly imperceptible grimace passing her expression before the neutral emotion returned "...rent some labratory space, I'm certain I can help you with that" She reached over to her computers display, and touched the power button for the monitor out of memory, the screen going dark as she laid her arm back on the counter

[Shade Leshyr]

Pain exploded in the back of Kazzra's skull as the vixen slammed her head into his mask, fractures racing across it from the impact. With a yell of pain, the vulpine stumbled back, his concentration broken enough for the vixen to get free. By now, Kazzra was pissed off: she was being stubborn, she was being cranky, and she was giving him a headache, not to mention that she looked like she was charging up to unload.

"Okay, I've had it with you missy! I try to be a gentleman and you go and make everything so freaking serious! Let's rumble, then you're gonna tell me where the big cat is!" Raising his arms, Kazzra started forming his own furious attack. His headache grew from a dull throb to an all out wracking pain as the sky seemed to ignite with nearly blinding light, though in truth, the large panel only extended the length of the sidewalk and halfway out into the street. Dots began to swarm over his vision as he tried to keep the vixen in sight through it all.

"Personally, I think this will hurt me more than it's going to hurt you..."

He brought his hands down, focusing the driving force of the panel straight down onto the vixen at the last second, the force causing the sidewalk beneath her to crumble and explode in every direction. Blinding pain passed through Kazzra and he fell to one knee, barely maintaining consciousness as he raised it back up and brought it down again for good measure. With the second strike, Kazzra could no longer sustain the attack and it faded as did a large portion of his armor as he collapsed to all fours, gasping for breath as the headache became a migraine and flared for several moments, immobilizing him.

For him it seemed like an eternity before the pain reduced enough for him to look up and try to see the vixen...

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Drake grumbled irritably before looking out the window in time to see a strange light flaring up from where the fighting was going on. Immediately interested, the lizard leaned a bit to get a better look, "What's that?"

[Black Garuga]

Jack knew his sudden outburst was uncalled for, but obviously Black was messing with him, and therefore he couldn't help the sudden compulsion. When the vixen began to speak, Jack detected an immediate subtle hostility toward him, he didn't blame her either, however, he also was sure that she was lying when she told him that the head of the facility was unavailable. It was quiet obvious when he came to think of it, the hostility, the slight hesitation when it came to the illusion of the word such as "unavailable", truly spiteful behavior.
He took a step backward before addressing the vixen in a more composed manner than earlier.

"Very well then, can you explain to me what these lab spaces are and what resources are available? And also I do apologize for that sudden outburst, I have a condition which is uncontrollable when I become enraged, let's just say that he doesn't like company."

Jack Glanced around the area, surveying it for a couple of seconds, scanning the detail in the walls and the colour before focusing his attention on the receptionist once more. He must have zoned out because when he refocused his mind on the receptionist again she stopped talking about something. This was clearly rude he thought, but oh well.

"What was that sorry? I kind of...drifted off there, Yet again, part of my wretched condition"

Hey, I'm not a condition! I am your guiding morale, your instinct, your SIN

"Yes, I know that but she doesn't does she!"

Realizing that he had blabbed out loud, Jack gave a sheepish grin at the receptionist, knowing that he had just looked like a total nut-job.

Oh well, let her think what she likes about me, when I get that space, we can be two and can excel in our powers

Yes, and then no one can tell us what to do...

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Alice pulled herself away from Kevin as she realized what she had just done. Drops of blood fell from her mouth, and oozed from the wound on Kevin's neck. He had lost consciousness but his heart was still beating. Alice just was not sure how much longer. That's when she felt a burst of ice cold wind and seen the women walk by.

"Another super!? What the hell is she doing? Who am I kidding, I dont have time for questions! I need to get Kevin out of the cold, He's already hurt because of me. Oh no what do I do? I could run, but I wont be able to fight back if that guy who came in here with the kid attacks me while im carrying Kevin." Alice thought to herself as she sat next to Kevin's body.

"Why is it that whenever an ample opportunity roles into my lap another one of you scum bags wander in and ruin it!?" Karl shouted at the women who had strolled into the alleyway. "Im gona gut you like a farm animal!" Karl shouted as he charged at the ice woman. The tool he had selected his arm to become this time? A long, sharp blade.

"I should go now! But wait what about the boy? I cant just leave him here. Maybe I can end this quick if I help her." Alice thought as she charged at Karl and Decked him in the face, causing him to stagger.

"Oh so you want to die to you bloodthirsty beast? I'LL BE HAPPY TO OBLIGE!!!" Karl screamed as he swung his blade towards Alice's neck. But just then the strangest thing happened, she felt a sudden itch in both of her hands as her fingernails grew and turned into sharp, hard claws

'WHAT!? HOW DID YO- GAAAAAAAAH" Karl shouted at Alice drove one of her hands through his torso. In response he decked her in the face with his free hand, causing her to fall back. But before he could finish her a flashing warning sing invaded his vision.

Alert! Unit is critically damaged! Seek repairs immediately!

NO! Dammit! I was so close! Karl thought to himself as his hand automatically turned back to normal. All he could do was run. "I'll Kill you later you abomination!" Karl shouted as he turned and fled. He simply ignored the person who he had saved.

Alice raised her head after finally recovering from the brutal hit she suffered, and crawled over to Kevin's unconscious body. "What have I done?" She asked herself out loud before taking notice of the other's person still standing in the alleyway. "Hey you, you guys alright?" Alice asked.

[Buzzwolf]

Crystal moved as fluidly as water as Karl took a swipe at her, simply moving to the side and letting the strike go sailing past, hard crystal already beginning to form around her hand and along her arm. but a curious thing happened as she did this. The child threw herself at the tin man, driving her fist into the tin mans jaw before she was able to return the blow herself.

The battle between the two went back and forth fairly quick as she stood and watched, a flat expression as her eyes watched curiously. the tin man cursed and yelled, such brutish behavior for a mechanical man, before something drew his attention and fled after throwing off another threat to the group.

Her ice eyes roved back to the female crawling toward the boy she'd bitten, words of regret slipping her lips.

She'd risked everything when she attacked the tin man, all in the hopes the vixen might help her instead of try to kill her.

She found herself simply watching the scene unfold before her, the chilling ice and howling winds falling slowly silent around her, the snow settling softly around the alleyway as the faint of crunch of snow to the vixens footsteps slowly approaching behind the girl.
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Jennifer lifted an eyebrow as her half hearted explaination of the facilities was interrupted by the kid talking and arguing with himself.

"Riiiiight then..." she turns and swipes a hand over the gloss black, featureless surface of the desk where a keyboard might normally be, a screen set into the counter in front of her flickering to life, lines of text appearing in a strong blue glow on black backdrop. all the rules of acceptance, details about various projects and routes to be taken in aqusition of tools and utensils, as well as the fine print of Neosuns Corp., beneath is all, a single line with an 'X' beside it for the scientist in question to sign

"I'm sure the facility will be more than suiting to...whatever project it is you intend to perform" how much of a mess could a school science project make anyway? "Just sign on the dotted line, and I'll show you to your lab to get you situated" she holds out what appears to be nothing more than a computer stylus, A pair of nearly identical, white clad foxes stepped from the hallway, both female, both with tight pulled back hair styles, and wearing a pair of black lensed classes, the lenses hiding their eyes entirely as their dark furred faces remained emotionless, each stepping over the the side of the desk, waiting patiently.
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Jazz looked up with a curious "hmmm?" to drakes inquiry and smirked "That, would be our distraction playing their part, and our que to move in" she tapped on the glass divider, a mechanical whirring as the window lowered and the tigress cocked her head to listen "Take us in Jade, we're good to move" She nodded silently and the glass rose back into place as the car made an early turn, pulling to a stop a short distance later, the tigress stepping out and striding elegantly to the rear door before it clicked and she pulled it open for the passengers to step out

Jazz slid off the seat and ducked from the door, out into the alleyway behind the buildings, a small set of stone steps leading up to what appeared to be a vault door with a rather powerful security system wired to it "Alex! you're up"

The feline stepped from the car with a measured step, catching himself as he stumbled while staring at the tigress driver "I'm good, I'm good...I meant to do that" he chuckles nervously before darting up the stairs, cracking his knuckles as he steps up to the door and starts running his routine as he taps his knuckles against the door in various spots as he got his marks.
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"You and that fucking cat!" she growled out, holding her hands up before her as she let arcs of energy crackle wildly "You're focusing on the wrong target boy, worry about the one that's about to fry your ass that could care less about your existance!" She stalked slowly toward him, ripples and arcs of energy crackling into the street, just smirking as he raised his hands, nothing appearing to happen

"You heroes are all alike, thinking you're just gonna be the big victor because you're the 'goooood guy'" she mocked him, a street lamp exploding into a million pieces as the lightning overloaded it, She smirked as she stepped up onto the sidewalk, the concrete cracking and exploding around her, watching with a laugh as he made his threat, putting her hands on her hips as she mocked him "Ooo...jedi's gonna bring me to his knees...mm?" a brighter light than her own had her looking curiously to the sky, her eyes going wide as the words 'oh shit' slipped her lips as she dove, attempting to get clear of the wall of light, managing only to dampen the blow as it slammed into her, letting out a yell of pain as it comes down a second time on her, bolts of electricity exploding out in every direction as she collapses.

To Kazzra, his victory seems sound as she lays limp on the ground, a soft rain beginning to come down between the buildings, slowly soaking the ground and the people still gawking outside.

I crack of thunder in the sky sounds overhead, a small yellow flash of electricity arcing in time over the wet ground around the yellow vixen, her fingers slowly curling as she lets out a soft groan, pulling her hands under her slowly as she gets her feet under her, staggering as she grabs a lightpole, her water drenched fur shining in the low lights around her, a furious anger in her eyes as she growls at Kazzra, coughing and wiping a trickle of blood from her lip to a crackle going up her arm as she clenches her fist and takes a few staggering steps toward him, lining up a hard kick into his side and sending him sprawling through the mud.

"Life ain't like the movies kid...the good guy...doesn't win" She grunted out before dropping to a knee as she stepped toward him, coughing violently and leaving a red spatter of blood staining the puddle of water beside her, again wiping it away as she gave the vulpine a death stare and levered herself up again, practically falling on him as she drove her fist down into his jaw, landing on her knees on the ground in a splash of mud and blood. she pushed herself up on her hands and knees beside her, coughing up another spray of blood, letting the red stain her fur as she looked again to the vulpine, twisting and driving her fist into his nose, over and over again "they...never...win" she forced out with each blow, each coming weaker and weaker till it was little more than her pushing his nose aside, the malovence slowly draining from her face as they subsided "...no one...wins..." she collapses beside him with a splash in the mud as her eyes flutter and shut as her body gives out to the strain.

The thunder roars out over head again as the small crackle of electricity dances one last time over the vixens body before falling silent, a small trickle of blood joining a puddle and pooling along her side as the rain beats down on her soft leather jacket and pinging off the lenses of her goggles with a sense of finality.

for a few short moments, the small square is still but for the pouring of the rain, and the flowing of water, onlookers holding a hand to their mouths as they watch the scene, awestruck, the fires of the chaos sizzling and fading to the torrents of the rain.

Through all the renewal, the chaos, a single form strides, onlookers ducking and vanishing from sight of the towering feline, water rolling off the metallic fur as he moved through the scene like a spectre of death, standing like a wraith over the two bodies, a flash of lightning in the sky lighting up the felines soft golden eyes, eyes not filled with hate, but instead sorrow, of loss.

Taking a slow knee in the mud seemed to bother him as little as the rain did, the felines powerful arms slipping beneath the vixens limp form, her ears dragging through the mud as her head hung like a ragdoll over his arm before he adjusted his lift, gently cradling her in his arms as he stood, holding her gently against him as he pressed his head sadly against hers before looking to the vulpine, still laying in the mud "And it is then..." his deep bass of a voice rang clear and deep through the rain sodden air "...when enough men have died, perhaps then, you will have your freedom"

Without another word, the feline stood, his powerful frame dwarfing the vixen held in his arms as if a child, turning and striding silently back the same way he had come.

[Shade Leshyr]

Kazzra almost let out a relieved sigh when he saw the deranged vixen simply laying where his attack had smashed her. He relaxed, panting for breath in hopes of getting a little bit of strength left to fight the big metal creature that had accompanied the vixens, but what he heard next chilled his bones worse than any storm could have. The fallen vixen took a gasping breath. Eyes wide in disbelief and building terror, Kazzra couldn't will his body to move, frozen in shock as the vixen struggled to her feet, spitting up blood and pissed as hell. Every instinct in his brain screamed at him to move, to run, but his muscles didn't respond, didn't react in any way as Volt approached him...

His breath escaped him as her sharp kick twisted his healing ribs out of place, stabbing painfully into his body. Gasping for breath, he could only manage to lift a hand feebly, too slow to stop her fist as it connected with his face. Her words pounded into his ears like the rumble of thunder far overhead was voicing itself through her. Each punch made it harder to breath, dots swarming in his vision as blissful unconsciousness threatened to take him... then her punches slowed... eased...and stopped all together, her last words ringing in Kazzra's ears as more of a despairing plea with a meaning that eluded him... then she fell beside him and was still...

Half-conscious, and surprised as hell to be alive, Kazzra craned his neck, still panting for breath, and looked at the vixen's face... it nearly rent his heart in two... Despite trying to kill him... despite working for King... despite it all... laying there, so still, she was nothing more than someone like him. A fox, searching for something more in the world... and he had ended her search... so violently. Good guy... bad guy... in the end, they all looked the same... For a moment, Kazzra wondered... if their positions had been switched... if he had died here... would she see the same thing? Or would she see simply one less problem to deal with?

A shadow fell over him and he looked up out of the corner of his eye, fear freezing him again as the titanic figure of the metal beast that had come with them loomed over him like the Grim Reaper. Surely he was going to crush Kazzra like a bug, end him while he couldn't fight back? However, to Kazzra's surprise, the metal beast simply lowered itself to one knee and scooped up its fallen ally, looking at him with a sense of... loss? Regret? Something of that nature? Then it spoke in a voice unlike any Kazzra had ever heard and the words fell on ears that heard only as someone so close to death can.

Then it rose, turning and walking away, but as he lay there, Kazzra felt a burning sensation rise up inside him. It reeked of anger, but it steamed with regret and moaned through his head with sorrow, forging itself into a single bar of hate and the smug, insane face of King filled his mind. Kazzra forced his head to raise, forced himself to open his mouth and call out "Hey... tinhead...," he waited for the creature to turn and look at him before he continued, blood pooling at the edge of his mouth, "t...tell King...give that... bastard... my regards..." weakly he raised one hand and flipped the titan the bird, "and tell him... her death is on his hands... and in her name... I'll come collect... his miserable... arrogant... screwed up head... and bury it so far in shit that... his shitty ideas will fit right in..."

With that, Kazzra fell back, staring at the slowly clearing sky and focused on breathing even as he slipped into the darkness...

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A few blocks away, a single figure stood perched on the highest building she could find, staring through her scope solemnly as she watched the scene play out. She cursed herself for being able to do nothing, cursed her maternal instinct to protect these kids, and cursed King for making it all come to this. Tears streamed from her eyes, blurring her vision as she watched the electrical vixen brutally slam her fist into the younger vulpine again and again. She couldn't take it anymore!

Activating her com, she cried into it hysterically "One, we have to do something!! These kids are in way over their heads! They are going to DIE!"

Negative Gold Five... they are collateral damage, and if I'm not mistaken, the one just scored a kill.
Gold One? This is Gold Two a second female voice broke out With all due respect sir, our main priority is to protect the innocent. By my calculations, just because they have powers doesn't mean they know how to use them. going up against trained supers makes them innocent in comparison...
Gold Three 'ere, I'm inclined to agree sah...
Damn it Gold Team, I said stand down!
"You wouldn't be telling us to stand down if it was your son that had just gotten hurt, or who was in danger of being fried..." Gold Five snapped icily. There was a long pause in which the tension in the air was so palpable, Five felt like she could cut it with a knife. Then her HUD flashed and the young supers were tagged with green markers and the remaining vixens and the titan of living metal with red ones.

Gold Team, engage! Take foes alive if possible for interrogation!

In a flash, Gold Team revealed itself. As Crystal approached Alice, a figure dropped from the nearest fire escape. The lithe, feminine figure gave of a definite feline presence, even through the strange armor that covered her from head to toe, a pistol in each hand. A definitely more masculine figure approached her from behind, wearing similar, bulkier armor and bearing the walk and stature of a reptile, hefting a light machine gun in his hands. The armor they wore looked almost like tight chainmail armor with a dark coating of kevlar beneath and plates over the chest, back, thighs, shins, and forearms. Sci-fi looking helmets covered their heads, each crested with a number standing out in bright gold, the female bearing the number 2 and the male behind Crystal bearing the number 4. Two raised one pistol, pointing it at Crystal, "Surrender. Only warning" she stated flatly...

At the same time, with a whoosh of air, a sniper round found it's way through one of Ember's ears. As the vixen reacted, a tall wolf wearing armor similar to Two and Four's stepped out from a nearby alley, a shotgun resting in his arms as he took a stance between Riot and Ember, "That was your warning shot," he stated in a voice like iron that made Riot feel more confident and seemed to unnerve the vixen, "get on the ground. Now."

Finally, as Animas strode away from Kazzra yet again, a titan of a bear stepped out in his path, seeming to almost be made of metal himself from the sheer amount of overlapping plate armor he wore. Three stared at Animas for several moments, arms at his sides in an imitation of a standoff, but his minigun was strapped firmly to his back, "Aigh, look pal, you put the lady down and give up an' I'll see tuit that she gets a decent burial or you put the lady down and I scrap ya. Either way, ya put the lady down. Whassit gonna be metalhead?"

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"Finally" Drake muttered under his breath as he stepped out of the car, stretching to keep his limbs ready to go. Excitement boiled in his veins and his shadow writhed with his anticipation as he waited for Alex to do whatever it was he was doing...

[Black Garuga]

Jack looked at the vixen at the desk with a blank expression which quickly became a slight scowl.

She can think what she wants but, the last laugh will be from me.

He took the stylus and signed the dotted line on what he thought to be a binding contract, he hadn't much time to read the thing because he just wanted to get on with this project. once Jack had finished writing his full name along the dotted line, he gently placed the stylus back down on the black glossy surface.

Now project nightmare can begin
he thought to himself, for once black was quiet, and this made Jack grin only slightly from the thought of this being a successful venture.
He looked at both the female foxes in the labcoats before saying

"Please, show me to my room"

[Buzzwolf]

The ice eyes of the vixen paused on the feline, just as her step did, a single, last crunch of snow as she placed her foot gently down, an unconcerned glance over her shoulder found the reptile approaching behind. Fools. both of them.

The soft settling of snow around the alley suddenly kicked up in full force, blasting against the armored combatants and roaring around the vixen. her poise remaining still and controlled as the hard winds whipped about her, her icey gaze never leaving the feline as her hair was tossed about in the wind. a thin frost slowly starting to creep over the lenses of the soldiers helmets, obscuring their vision further as gusts buffetted against the armor, pushing them around with gale force.

In a split moment, as a strong blast of snow and wind buffeted, the vixen vanished, the suits motion sensors going wild to the snow whipping around them, loosing the vixen in a blink, the heat sensors finding nothing but the small group of children now also being blasted by the torrents of snow and icey wind.

As the two soldiers looked around, fighting the gale and trying to find the vixen among the snowstorm, a single blow, hard and precise, came to the back of the felines neck, sending her sprawling nose first into the snow, before she could even get her hands under her, a foot was pressing hard on her neck, positioned perfectly to keep the feline from gaining any leverage against her.

A voice, clear and hard, and tainted with a heavy russian accent, came beside the felines helmet, slicing through the torrents of wind and snow with ease "I will pull you from your little tin suits, piece by fucking piece if you do not listen carefully" the pressure on the felines back eased up ever so slightly "As you've probably noticed, I am not new to this little game you americans choose to play. you will not leave this storm without my help, and neither will the children" a thin patch in the wind showed the small group as the wind eased for but a moment, the sister over her brothers body, the young boy that carried the scketch book, each slowly getting covered in the freezing snow before the image vanished among the snowstorm again "The children will not last as long as you and your friend with your nice tin suits," The voice paused a moment before continuing "Now here's the deal. You and your reptillian comrade, stand down, you leave your weapons laying in the snow, all of them, not just what's in your hands. All of them. The blizzard will thin enough for you to find the children, and you get them out." the voice paused again, a harsh whisper as it was closer to the helmet "You make one move against me, and I will peel you from your tin suits piece by fucking piece, then I will kill each of the children while I make you watch, before I come for you and slowly remove the life from you and your comrade."

"You have one chance, and one chance only, I will release you, and count to ten, if I reach ten before your weapons, and your comrades, hit the ground, I will consider your decision made, and paint the walls and stain the snow with yours, your comrades, and the childrens blood" The pressure was suddenly gone from the felines back "Make you choice...One....Two...Three..." the count slowly continued as the voice stepped back into the winds, if the feline had looked back, but for a moment would she see the pair of icey eyes staring back before they vanished into the blizzard.
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Ember twisted and dropped low as the round seared through her ear, taking one of her many earrings with it. A thin growl coursed her lips as she watched the white earring go bouncing across the wet concrete "My Earring!" she growled, a fire in her eyes as she looked up at the man before her, her firey eyes locking onto the shotgun leveled at her.

Her mind moved quick as she ran over her options, small flames building around her feet, slowly spreading in a circle around her. "You're on my list Wolf" A blast of flame suddenly shrouded her as she twisted and kicked off the ground, a jet of fire trailing behind her as she launched clear, the flames charing the wolfs boot plates as the jet of flame tore out of the square and out over the bay, weaving and twisting till she was clear of the snipers range before vanishing entirely in the down town district.
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Anima nodded imperceptibly as Kazzra made his retort for his boss, getting only a few steps before the bear stepped out in front of him. standing in a silent stand off with the bear

His deep rumble of a voice cut through the slowing drizzle of the rain "Has there not been enough death to sate you're hunger, that you must have more? I have no reason to fight you, but if you give one, you will not walk away"
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Alex hummed to himself out of habit as he ran his paws over the surface of the door, the surface loosing it's reflective surface as his powers etched into it. slowly the outline of a door formed, easily doubly wide enough for King to fit through, setting his hands in the center, the entire surface lost it's gloss before he pushed easily through it, the metal turning to a fine powder as it fell to a pile around him.

As the last of the door was cut through, Alex stood to the side, letting the rest fall gently away to make way for King. The vault was open.

A man in a white lab coat dropped a stack of papers, making Alex turn with an 'oh shit' moment of staredown, a number of others in the stark white hallway staring wide eyed at the scene before them, a couple taking a tenitive step back as King stepped through the doorway, setting a paw on Alexs shoulder in a 'Well done' as he silently moved past, Alex flinching as an unfamiliar feeling coursed his shoulder, and he was rubbing it awkwardly as king strode past. Jazz snickered as she stepped by him, "Don't worry, ya get used to it" Alex just shook his head and rubbed his shoulder before following.

The small Ocelot slipped past with ease, one of the scientists plastering himself against the wall to get out of the Ocelots way, clearly recognising him more than anyone else in the facility. He moved past king, running a paw along the wall as he searched for a hidden panel, stopping and tapping against it, pulling it open to get at an access panel just before an open area of connecting corridors, his fingers moving over the interface expertly over it.

Scientists scrambled out of the corridor as the intersect suddenly dropped a few inches as the locks disengaged "there's our ride" the ocelots voice was deep and hard for his size as he turned from teh panel

Dox giggled as she brushed past Drake "Come on!" she pulled on his arm with a playful smirk, letting her tail brush against him as she darted past into the building

As they stepped onto the lift the ocelot keyed in another command and a heavy door sealed around each of the corridors, keeping the normal staff from falling down what was quickly becoming a deep shaft as the lift decended deeper, the walls of the shaft marking lower and lower levels till the shaft opened up, a line of light creeping up slowly till view of the entire lower facility was seen, the cavern stretching out beneath the city, the subway, everything.

All around men and women in white lab jackets worked and moved about, some in large mechanical suits moving machinery and equipment from one place to another. a red light suddenly dropped from the ceiling, others dropping across the ceiling of the facility. "They have a fucking alarm for that?!" the ocelot grumbled "They know who's here, we hit the bottom, we need to move fast, they have an alarm specifically for Kings return, who knows what other safe guards they've been putting in place"
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Jennifer looked up as a red light strip lit along the inner edge of her desk, her optical implants allowing her to read the message as it ticked across Fuck. she glanced up to the pair of vixens, then to Jack "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to wait here for the moment, there seems to be a problem in back" She nodded to the two vixens as she got up "We'll have you in a lab as soon as possible, Neosuns apologises for the inconvience" she gets up and steps off at an even pace down one of the two hallways, the pair of vixens taking up a position in front of each hallway, denying anyone access that tried to enter the now restricted facility

[Shade Leshyr]

"GODDAMNIT," the lizard shouted above the howling of the storm to the feline, "why can't it ever just go as planned? I swear to God they all have an issue with just surviving the damned encounter!" Grumbling, he flashed several hand gestures to the feline, who nodded bluntly, tail flicking back and forth in agitation. The lizard then held up a fist, curling all but his central finger into a fist, "Or we take option three," he called out, "and put you down!" Twisting around, he focused on his suit's heat sensors, lining up with the three blips symbolizing the children in the alley. Looking around, he waved two fingers from his forehead to the air in a mock salute before stepping forward... and vanishing with a loud POP!

Meanwhile, the feline turned slow circles, dropping her pistols into the snow and reaching into her gauntlets to draw two slim long-knives, twisting them in her hands to ready them. She stood still for a moment, not moving an inch, then, with a slow, almost dramatic air, she lifted her hand to remove her helmet, letting it fall into the snow beside her pistols. Her features revealed, it was obvious that Two was a snow leopard, but her fur was almost whiter than the snow except for the block spots across her head. Medium length blonde hair flapped about in the gusting wind as the feline's ears quivered and turned ever so slightly.

Opening her mouth, Two began to sing, her gray eyes focused on some point far out in the blizzard...

"Hills covered in blankets of snow~ will I survive, I do not know~ Old man winter has eyes on me~ All I do is his right to see~"

Her ears gently rotated, homing in on something through the gale...

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With a strange chiming sound, the reptillian solider burst out in front of Alice, Kevin, and Riley. He froze for a fraction of a second, then without any kind of explanation, he reached out, tearing Kevin out of Alice's arms to throw him up over his shoulder before grabbing both the conscious supers by the back of their shirts and forcing them to take one step forward, the world vanishing with a hollow draining sound. Pure white light surrounded them, blinding them and all they could really feel was the tight grip the reptillian had on the back of their shirts. They'd slowly become aware of the air rapidly leaving their lungs and the inability to draw a breath. Struggling would only make them aware of the fact that there was no solid mass anywhere but at the point where the soldier gripped their clothing.

Just as the last of their breath threatened to fade away, a dark slit appeared before them, widening and encircling them before air rushed in at them and solid ground found its way under their feet. A deep sense of nausea would overwhelm them, the world spinning to them enough to send them teetering to all fours. A limp thud sounded Kevin's connection with the ground as the soldier dumped him off none too gently, "If you don't throw up, the disorientation should pass quickly. Don't expect us to save your asses again." Another loud POP! symbolized the rude soldier's departure...

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...Two stopped singing.

Gripping her blades tightly, she moved. Snow kicked up around the afterimage of the female soldier before Crystal would feel a sharp glancing pain along her right side just before the gust of air passed her and drew her attention to the feline standing a few feet behind her, one blade held with the blade sideways, blood covering just the edge, "The snow can not hide you from me..."

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One didn't even flinch as the pyromaniac blew past him, only stomping his boots to keep the heat from melting them, "Do not pursue. King already knows we're hear, let's deal with what we can Five." Silently, he turned toward Animas, walking in his direction at a measured pace, arriving in time to hear the last bit of the titan's words, "If you don't want to fight, then answer our questions," One's voice carried across the air with the feeling of almost being fluid, weighing down on Animas' mind, "where is King and what is his plan?"

Three simply watched, standing resolute and unmoving, but curious to see if the creature would answer that easily.

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Drake tapped his finger to his side impatiently, fighting back the urge to hiss at Alex to get on with whatever he was doing. Seconds passed, feeling like hours to the edgy lizard, his shadow shifting back and forth behind him in response. Finally, the door crumbled into powder before them, revealing the scientists gawking at them. Drake's first instinct was to leap in and incapacitate them all, but as King strode in, they backed away like cowards, earning them Drake's disgust.

Drake hissed angrily as Dox pulled him into the building after her. After this was all over, he was going to have to teach her to keep her hands to herself if she wanted to keep them, but at the moment, a bunch of panicking scientists would just get in the way. Stepping onto the platform that had been indicated by the presence of the rest of the group, Drake waited... again... he was doing a lot of that lately.

The alarm caught his attention and he smiled broadly with a crazed look. Good. Alarms brought security. Security would fight... and die if he had his way. Excited, Drake decided it was better to prepare for nothing than sit still for quick thinkers. His shadow rose and separated into several tentacles that snaked their way into each team members shadow, bringing the inanimate forms to life as several smaller tentacles, writhing in anticipation as they waited to attack and defend...

The far reaching effects of his new found power made the lizard feel like a god...

[Black Garuga]

"Fine, I'll just wait...in the waiting area..."

Jack moved along the glossy floor until he reached a chair, and sat down on it in a heap. He was clearly irritated because of the inconvenice, not at the people, but at the universe itself.
A magazine flopped onto the floor, the way that occasionally inanimate objects move without warning, and landed on the front cover. Intruigued, Jack picked it up, scanning the title and what it was advertising. 'Scientist Weekly' the title read, not a very exciting title but it WAS aimed at scientists after all.
Page one seemed interesting, about cloning, current reasearch, viruses...blah...blah...blah...but then something caught Jack's attention, it was on page 53 and it was an article on split personalitys, curiosity caught grip of his mind and he began to read...

[aires163]

Kevin had finally regained consciousness,and upon examining his surroundings he was highly confused. Then he began to remember what had happened just before he had passed out. He remembered experiencing pain, fear, confusion, and a pair of sharp, ice cold fangs. He tried to sit up, only to be assaulted by a massive headache that caused him to groan a little in pain.

"Edge! Oh thank god you're ok!" Alice exclaimed using Kevin's super hero name. She rushed over to help him get up, Only to find herself supporting a majority of his weight.

"Mind telling me just what the hell is going on, and why is it so cold Scarlet?" Kevin asked using Alice's super hero name.

"I can tell you later, right now we need to get you and the kid over there warmed up, lets see...It look like were in a warehouse. The floor is cement, the shelves are metallic, and so are the walls, We could empty the boxes and then burn them for warmth." Alice said as she examined the surroundings. It was cold and very dark, the only source of light was the still slightly open garage door that the soldier brought them through.

"But how would we ignite the boxes?...Oh wait, sorry stupid question." Kevin said as he snapped the fingers on his left hand. "So...who's the kid over there?" Kevin asked pointing at Riley.

"I dont know, hey kid, What's your name? and...did you know who that man was? The one that ran into the alleyway with you slung over his shoulder." Alice asked as she left Kevin leaning against a wall. "I suppose it does not matter right now. Could you help me empty some of these boxes so we can get a fire going?" She did not give him time to answer.

But, little did they all know. Someone or something was watching them.

She is lucky she managed to wound me earlier. Otherwise I could just drop down and finish her here and now! Wait a second, that boy is with them. I think i'll just wait and see what they do. Karl thought to himself as he watched the group from atop one of the many shelves.

[Buzzwolf]

As the felines blade was withdrawn, the thin dribble of blood did an odd thing, even as the first drop fell from the blade, it was but a frozen red crystal before it had buried itself in the deepening snow, the thin red blood along the blade freezing and crystalizing, a sharp crack sounding from the blade as the freezing blood cracked the blade right along with it before metal and ice alike fell into the soft snow.

The Vixen stood motionless not more than a few arms distance from where the feline stood, a similar ice creeping from the cut along her arm, creeping upward and out, forming tight crystal patterns as the ice aligned and formed what seemed to be a frozen plate of armor over the section of her arm where the cut was, elaborate patterns etching themselves over the surface.

Suddenly, the vixen moved, fast and precise she got inside the felines guard, naught but two fingers touching the feline, her middle and ring fingers pressed gently beneath the felines jawline against her throat, one to each side of her voicebox. A pair of icy pricks would be felt before the vixen withdrew, smooth and untouchable as the wind around her, but the icy numbness remained, a sensation that grew slowly around her throat, numbing her vocal cords, chilling and slowly freezing her throat, disabling her voice and slowly making it difficult to breathe, even as her suit tried desperately to compensate for the rapid temprature drop.

The vixens icy voice cut through the howling winds beside feline, a pair of long thin frozen blades forming in her hands, slowly reaching for the snow, the edges sharp and precise "I wish no death on you, soldier, but this is your final warning...I will kill you if I must to ensure my survival."
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Anima barely turned as the Wolf approached, his stance remaining a relaxed poise, clearly far from worried about the situation. "Where King is, and what it is he plans, are beyond what instructions I have been given, my task was simple, to look after the elementals should they run into trouble..." he looked down at the vixen in his arms, a hint of sadness crossing the metallic muscles of his face "...something that I have failed this night" he suddenly directly at the bear, a solum determination in his eyes "Allow me passage on neutral terms, and your comrades will not carry you out as I now carry mine"
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A strong paw comes down heavy on Drakes shoulder, the single gold ring on the felines finger seeming to light up in intense lighting of the sublevels, holding the reptile back "Patience boy...we let the pawns move first" his voice even, clear and harsh and calm all at once, though his expression never left that of a static neutral.

Even as he spoke, the mechanized units below began to organize themselves, alarms going off setting gears into motion, preorganized routines beginning to fall into place at the presence of their worst nightmare. Around King and the small group on the lift, suddenly, the small army swarmed, sliding down the lifts rails and launching out into open space, light, rock, fire and every other of the powers coming to life as Kings men dove into the fray, Tearing their way into the mechanized units, and some being torn apart in turn as heavy guns shredded them before they even touched the ground, others vanishing in plumes of fire as mass produced supers began to show themselves to the attacking army, clad in armor and enhancments to make up for their lower natural power levels due to their mass production.

Jazz threw a few commands about and King removed his massive paw from the reptiles shoulder "Now, the Knights attack"
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The twin vixens stood silently as if living statues, motionless in the hallways entrance, the gloss black lenses over their eyes not betraying a hint of emotion or seeming to care about anything happening in the waiting room or beyond, simply that none passed their doorway