Build

((I know Dax wasn't in any danger, but Dax didn't. Sorry for any unintentional confusion))

((Gonna hold off on posting again till either the group forms or Diov advances the findings with Build))

Dax shifted as Bladewing's sword swung through his body toward the archons. At the same time he heard E-X shout "I really hate boomers" Dax thought as he summoned all of his considerable mass of microscopic crystals from the air and formed them into a wall around the side of the scrapper that was facing the direction the explosion was coming from.

"Friggin shrapnel. Friggin boomer not likin using his fist, going kablooey in the middle of a group with two fisticuffs in the middle, doing just fine on their own. Friggin boomer trying to prove how strong he is in the dumbest way. I swear if I gotta pull any more shrapnel outa me because of him, we're gonna have words" Dax thought angrily.

*Crunch* *Crunch* *Thunk*

What the HELL? Dax thought as he felt the three blows rain into him. When Dax had to release his energy field earlier he had to decrease his density to maintain his size, so as the blows hit they sank into his crystaline structure until the hit the harder center.

Dax stumbled forward out from the cover the hut and turned to the three archons. "Oh it's you flip kick dudes. . . . .any of you gotta light?" Dax asked as the density of his chest increased then exploded outward in a cone of crystals.

Dax smiled. His crystaline structure dissipated and flowed along the cooridors. He flowed past Martin and the others into the room, he continued to flow past the Council soldiers till the majority of the soldiers were infront of him still blasting away at the group of metas.

He began to become humanoid behind one of the firing huts. He noticed one of the soldiers were crouched at the opposite end of the building firing around the corner at the now locked down metas. He silently walked up behind the soldier, stooped down, and said, "Hey bud, gotta light?" right before he sank a crystal into "bud's" back.

"Now the fun starts." Dax said as he began firing crystals at the soldier's backs from the cover of the hut.

((Possibility of edit storms in the forecast?))

"I'll take that bet," Dax said

"Comeon guys after 30 minutes the pizza is free and my boss said that if I don't get paid again he's gonna fire me. I got eighteen kids and seven alamonies. THINK ABOUT THE STARVING KIDS!" Dax said trying to keep from bursting out with laughter.

Dax looked over at Bladewing with a look of worry crossing his face, "Do you also got a bad feeling about this?" he said meaning the lack of Council, "Two to One bet they've set up an ambush."

Dax walked up to the next door in the hallway, Knocking loudly he vibrated the crystals that passed as a mouth projecting the sound straight through the door, "Pizza Guy! It's $13.95 plus tip"

"Bet one of 'em opens the door." Dax said with laughter

Build opened his wrist panel, "Hey Shaakti, I ain't feelin so well"

Shaakti's heavily tanned face appeared on the screen, "Do you think it may have been the weird mixture of foods you ate? Or maybe it's because you zapped yourself in the stomach with a lazer."

"I'm not jokin'. I'm really feeling sick here. I think that goo crap I drank is gonna kill me." Build said a little worried

"It's not like it would be the first time you died. You want me to send a magic user down there to see if they can help?" Shaakti asked clearly becoming tired of the robotics mastermind's complaining.

"Who is the mage we got on call?" Build asked apprehensively

"Your favorite necromancer." Shaakti said trying in no way to veil the laughter in her voice

"It would have to be Conlin wouldn't it. You know I can't stand him." Build said as a look of dread appeared on his face

"That's the best we can do for now. If you don't want it, suffer in silence." Shaakti said

"Fine, but if the guy tries to disect me we're gonna be one member down"

"Ok I'll alert him now." the screen shut down

Build shook his head roughly from side to side, "Man Conlin freaks me out."

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20 minutes later

"I SAID STOP FIDGETTING!" The dark eyed necromancer shouted as Build tried to wriggle out of his grasp.

Build stopped moving long enough for Conlin to finish painting symbols over Build's body and face.

"How long is this gonna take? This crap itches!" Build said making the necromancer glare at him.

"The more you move around, the greater the chance I'm going to make a mistake. If that happens, neither of us will make it out of here unscathed." The necromancer said before he started speaking incantations in a language forgotten even in the Dark World. If nothing else this should give us a few more clues, and at best it can decipher the ooze Build thought as his head began to droop from the melodic quality of Conlin's voice.

Dax rounded the corner and watched as Bladewing went low He's learning quickly Dax threw up his arms sending cascading crystals toward the monsters faces.

"You ever see a Warwolf box a vampire?" Dax asked as his crystals dissipated and reconstituted between one of the Vampyri and a Warwolf. He punched the wolf in the face and then ducked as the return blow struck the vampire on the chin.

"If you haven't you will now!"

The crystals retracted back into Dax's arms as he walked through the door. "You think the others are still kicking?. . . .Bah who cares. They'll be fine." Dax walked forward lazily tossing a spike over his shoulder hitting one of the still moving soldiers in the back.

"These guys just keep coming, you'd think they'd have learned by now. But NOOOO they just keep coming and we keep knocking em down. I ain't complaining it's just that these villain groups have gone down the drain in the past few years." Dax said haphazardly making six crystals circled each other a few inches over his out streched hand.

Dax tossed the crystal's over his should were they reacted like pressure mines when they hit the ground and walls. They burst into jagged groups of spikes, effectively blocking one of the hallways, "If they are sticking to the 'Feeble Minded Villains Handbook' they'll send an ambush up behind us. Hopefully they'll be moving to fast to notice the crystals before they hit em."

Dax smiled, "I gotta few tricks." Dax stabbed his crystal arms into the ground and let his crystals create a gleaming green trail that cracked the steel floor. The crystals made a line under the titanium door. Dax poured more of his body into the foundation.

The engines that had dropped the door began to screach as he made his crystals become twin pillars holding up the door about 3 1/2 feet from the floor. "Pull a tuck and roll psycho."

"Are you sure you're a hero? Cause that woulda made a stalker blush with envy." Dax said as he repeatedly punched a soldier in the head.

Dax stopped for a second and looked down at the soldier, "Hey man, you okay?"

The soldier looked around with a dazed expression on his face, "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"

Dax stopped for a second and got a very thoughful expression on his face, "You know. . . .I'm bored."

The soldier's jaw dropped, "You're bored!? You rampage into our base decimating our forces because your bored?"

Dax looked back at the guy, "Well yeah. It's kinda what I do."

The soldier's jaw closed with an audible *Clack* "Oh, Okay."

Dax looked around for a second then returned to beating the soldier over the head.

((OK lets see
Jonas
Kaega
Breaker
Bladewing
Inky
E-X are all going after Poe
Briggs and Horrowits are still in the D
I'm probably forgetting a few, just add em on))

Dax let out a laugh, "50? That's it? You're slowing down in your old age, I lost count after 70."

Dax lurched forward as a grenade hit him in the black and exploded by his rear. "Who ever just tried to give me a colonoscopy is about to get a crystal colostomy bag coming out of their throat" He said as he turned throwing an 18 inch spike toward a soldier who had a shocked look on his face. The spike hit the soldier in the chest and erupted into several smaller ones that flew toward the other soldier's, who were currently taking pot shots at Dax, faces.

"Hey Bladewing. You ever seen a Roman nose lock?" Dax asked as he picked up one of the soldiers. He ran a crystal through the soldiers nose. . .then through another soldiers nose. . . .then another's nose. He took the sharper end of the spike and planted it in the wall. "You do that and they are never gonna be right for the rest of their lives, but they will think twice about messing with you the next time they see you."

Dax hacked and slashed at more of the coucil soldiers. He looked to his right at Bladewing, "Don't tell no body, man. That was all just an act. . . .*Crunch* I got bored standing around. . .*Crack* I tried to tell you guys when this all got started I'm dangerous when I'm bored"

Dax brought his fist back and turned it into a pillar of bladed spikes before he jabbed it into one of the soldiers stomach. He looked over and saw a red light floating between Bladewings eyes. Dax roughly threw an arm up in front of Bladewings face and heard a satisfying TINK! as the bullet bounced off his arm. "You owe me a coke for that one."

((alright guys, I'm outie for the night gotta long day of drinkin and whorin and drinkin and whorin. . .and you know more drinkin ahead of me tomorrow. It's my bro's wedding the idiot's gettin married))

((It's cool if we got left behind, I'll do the whole walk out of thin air thing that I do. Other than that I do believe you are gonna like Kaega.))

Yes I'm legally insane. MPS(multiple personality schizo)

So lets tally, or dillydally, this.

Diov
Devious
and myself are the only normal people here, the rest of you go away

((Grey completely missed my introduction of Kaega, so !!!!11!!))

((Sorry man, things just kinda happened that way. Anybody else thinking Diov is gonna put me through the wringer?))

*Slash* *Slash* *Parry* *Crunch* *Slash* Dax laughed as the ice bullets the counsil fired smacked into his chest making him frost covered. He roughly jerked one of the soldiers forward and planted a foot into his chin snapping his head back.

The crystals retracted themselves, whether they had hit Martin was unknown, as Dax turned toward the now open door. He smiled once again, "BATTLE!"

Dax charged through the door flinging crystals with his left hand while slashing at the enemies with his right. The energy around him interfered with their energy weapons and their dampening armor.

Dax smiled as his head pulled a full 180 degree turn and stared into Martin's face, "Battle?" was all that was said before dozens of crystaline spikes erupted toward Martin's chest and stomach. "Allies?" If Martin had taken the time to look closer he would have realized Dax had completely changed from earlier. He was now a war machine without a foe. Oh well at least he has allies to break.

"Retreat?" Dax laughed (which sounded like thousands of peices of glass breaking) at Dennis. Dax took another step forward.

((gonna finish here for tonight, give the others time to catch up and place bets.))

His teeth seemed to lengthen as his smile broadened more "Battle?" The energy surrounding Dax seemed to hum into life.

((ooc: Dax went bishop, he isn't exactly picking a fight. More along the lines of varifying comrades. Consider him a blank slate, or a two year old with lotsa knives and weapons.))