Deebs

wouldnt mind an art trade , but I wouldn't have free time until next weekend so no rush

Dragonberrys current costume
im the green one with the scarf

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Here ya go! One cute little radioactive bunny robot tanker!!!

Atomic Knight

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Love it Radey , very cute

big congrats to you guys its definitely something to be proud of

(( awwww poor Rakescar im going to feel miserable about lureing him to Bloody Bay and attacking him with superior numbers sorry Rakes ! ))

Dragonberry , Proud member of Teen Squadron

(( yay ! im getting my lunch date its so hard to gauge Noisemaze
when he's wearing the helmet and is in Private detective mode ))

Dragonberry

(( told you id finally finish our fight rakescar :P even if it did take me a bit longer than I thought hope you didn't mind me paraphrasing a lil bit and if you did you can always SMEEEEEEP !))

Dragonberry , who really hopes she didn't forget anything

(( Thanks again for the fight Rakescar its always a pleasure even if you kapowie me far to often . and thanks bradders for letting me play in your sandbox a bit . cant' t wait to see how everything ends up ))

Dragonberry sat on the coastline of Blood Bay waiting and wondering when Rakescar would show , her stomach currently a giant jumble of knots and filled with butterflys . She smoothed out the creases in her skirt as she watched a fieldmouse scamper thru the tall grass .somewhere nearby she heard a crash , likely some heroes or villians fighting for control of the meteors that dotted Bloody Bay .

krakkaboom !

"Hmmmmm sounds like someone is really tearing it up out there " she said to herself hoping that whomever was making the racket would take their fight elsewhere , she really really really did not need the distractions right now, right before she was to have her discussion with Rakescar .

she sat and pouted ,
wondering how once again her mouth had wrote a check she wasn't sure she'd be able to cash .
wondering how in a City of Heroes she had been unable to convince anyone to come and help her .
wondering if Rakescar was even going to show , and if he didn't show was that a good or bad thing ?

krwasssh thump crack

"geez whiz ! whomever those guys are they sure are getting close ! " she could almost swear she saw a tree in the distance fall "must be a pretty even fight tho if its gone on this long ,but whomever they are there attracting way too much attention , heck every sneaky backstabbin villian is probably zeroing in on their location now " she said to herself as she tried to coax the fieldmouse closer to her with a bit of bread left over from her lunch bag .

she looked at her watch again and sighed , "one minute left to go " she was positive he sent her out here to get her off his back and outta his hair and she felt a bit sheepish for rushing out here , it wasn't the first time a villian or even a hero had sent her on a wild goose chase just to try to get her out of their hair .

A happy smile crossed her face as she had finaly coaxed the small fieldmouse into her hand and watched as it hungrily ate the crumbs of bread "welp lil guy I guess its just you and me, I think my dance partner stood me up " and with that a few trees nearby fell over and she heard the loudest noise yet the sound of earth and stone grinding against each other of trees being uprooted and tossed about , as if the very earth itself was howling in anger !

KRARRRKATHOOM GWRARRRRRRR

several forms hurtled out of the forest at great speed smacking into trees and hitting the ground roughly when they landed .Dragonberry scrambled behind a rocky outcroping and peered around ,
The forms on the ground barely breathing where an assortment of Freakshow members who looked like they had been caught in a rockslide , their bodies were bruised ,battered and bloodied and their limbs seemed to be bent at odd angles like an old ragdoll left behind by a thoughtless child .

She made a nervous gulping noise and gave the field mouse a tiny kiss on its head " welp I think this is it lil guy, wish me luck "
she gently put the field mouse down on the ground and shooed it away before getting up , her attention was immediately drawn to the Large rocky form of Rakescar emerging from the woods.

He seemed filled with FURY and it was almost impossiable to tell where his legs stopped and the earth began , His massive stone mallet he had resting across his shoulder and in his other hand he carried a rather the worse for wear member of the Freakshow whom Dragonberry felt incrediably sorry for as she watched Rakescar toss him one handed into the air and then send him flying with a crashing blow from his mallet .

"Sorry kid I like to get worked up before the main event , hope I didn't keep you waiting too long !" he said nonchalantly .Rakescar amazingly seemed all bussiness today and she did not like the way things looked , espescially as she watched the poor freakshow bouce three times off the ground before finally coming to a stop .

"last chance kid ! walk away , go home and forget all this heroeing crap. in the end your only going to get hurt " he said as he strode forward and absently kicked a prone freaksow out of his path

"I-its not that easy Rakescar , I gave my word I would help out so im in this to the end ....and im going to w-win !" she said as long spines emerged from her body and hands , she took a step back trying to formulate a battle plan .

"Ill make sure to send you flowers in the hospital kid " he said as he raced forward stone mallet already arcing forward to meet Dragonberry .

DB dropped low as she ran forward ,throwing small spines at Rakescar as she ran forward barely dodging the mallet which seemed to crack the very ground sending small stones spaying everywhere.

It seemed to her that the spines where either having no effect or that Rakescar just didn't care , she danced around just outside his range throwing spines but was getting nowhere except extremely tired and she knew it would just be a matter of time before she made a mistake and the fight would be over .

Rakescar lunged forward with a rocky punch and she stumbled back to avoid it loosing her footing , she knew instantly that this was it , his next blow would connect and the fight would be over .She gently closed her eyes and fell back hoping that his finishing strike would be painless .

a second passed and nothing happened , she opened up one eye and peered upwards to see that a Womans hand had caught the Mallet mere inches from Dragonberrys face , Dragonberry opened the other eye and looked both startled and amazed to find a friend straining to keep the mallet at bay

"TINA !!" she yelled at the top of her lungs , suddenly feeling a sliver of hope that the tide was turning "you got my message "

Tina turned to look at Dragonberry with a bemused expression
"Hon , The note you left on the refridgerator was a lil hard to decipher ! in the future you may simply want to write it down in pen next time as opposed to glueing macarooni noodles and glitter to form words on brightly colored construction paper. "

A second form arrived from the sky and stared at the conflict with a cold analytical eye . Dragonberry waved at the robotic form of James , knowing full well if he had shown up it meant that she was likely to get heavily lectured for going off half cocked ...again .

James disdainfully intoned "secondly Dragonberry writing a message in a coherent fashion may actually allow us to figure out what the heck your doing ...writing down " Please please please helpy help me fight the super mega mean Rakescar so I can get huggles from Noisemaze and so Rakescar dosn't KAPOWIE me in the Bloody Bay of blood ....Mucho Hugs and Luvs Dragonberry " Is not an acceptable way to leave an urgent message asking for help

Rakescar seemed annoyed ,even more so then before "Its like an after school special here today , If you kids are finished with your romper room antics its time for some SMeeeeep ! " he yelled as he tore his stone mallet loose from Tinas hands and Immediately turned on James .

It looked at first that James had the fight well in hand with a series of fast and powerful Martial arts maneuvers and he seemed to actually push Rakescar back but apparently Rakescar was just feeling out his opponent as he quickly countered with several massive blows from his stone mallet leaving large dents in his metal opponets body

"you guys can jump in at anytime ....now would be a really good time to help out " james shouted at us

in our defense I think me and Tina where just awestruck at the show of force both men where throwing at each other , but of us two Tina was the quicker to jump to Jame's aid and attack Rakescar but it was still too late as a final earth shattering blow from his mallet knocked James prone.
Both Tina and Rakescar intesified their attacks neither giving ground as I shakily got to my feat and used the last bit of my streangth to run foward and jab a Three foot long spine into the small of his back which allowed Tina a golden oppurtunity to deliver a powerful punch to Rakescars chin while his attention was turned to me .

It was like the world around us slowed down as I watched Rakescar stagger , take three steps and fall and I swear the very earth shook when his massive body hit the ground , ID like to say I was overjoyed at his defeat but I was feeling awfully bad and less than Heroic for attacking him from behind and tried to convince myself that a guy like Rakescar would be fine with a tactic like that ...I tried to convince myself of that but I wasn't doing a very good job .

Me and Tina helped James up and after making sure none of us were any the worse for our ordeal we trussed up Rakescar and made our way to Longbow Headquarters to drop him off , I had to listen to a very long lecture from James on what teamwork means , how I really need to start getting on the ball in regards to my heroing and how I seem to cause myself alot of unneeded troubles .

Tina gave me a series of smaller friendlier lectures explaining the need to avoid getting myself into these predicaments as well as how to use my comm to call for help when needed , she also gave me a hug and a band aid for my scraped knee .

after James and Tina left I hung around Longbows base for a bit to check in on Rakescar as I WAS determined to be around when he woke up. mainly so I could apologize for attacking him from behind , but also so I could find something out about where he had delivered Clobber-Girl .

My patience was rewarded as I saw his eyes flicker and partly open, I mumbled out a sincere but sheepish apalogy for attacking him from behind and how sorry I was he was gonna spend the rest of his life caged up .I sorta expected him to yell or scream but he looked at me for a second and sorta half smiled and mumbled out a few words and a string of numbers before passing out again . I felt much better knowing he was okay and gave him a quick hug before rushing off to phone Noisemaze using the number on the card he had given me and left a quick explanation of what had transpired on his answering machine as well as Rakescar's mumbled words and the string of numbers .

Afterwards I dozed off in a chair in one of Longbows waiting rooms both mentally and physically exhausted from the last few hours ordeal and dreamed of cute boys , playing on the beach and being a really great hero someday .

(( Yay ! another Global Friend ,
Ive got one last post to make later on tonight and then I think my part in this incrediably fun romp is done pvp=easy
writing anything=hard . Thanks alot for letting me play with you guys tho ! ))

Dragonberry ,Proud Member of Teen Squadron

ps

never pick a fight with a villian thats going to make you write about it later Love you Rakescar !

Dragonberry had spent the better part of the day asking villians questions in the disputed areas . Sometimes the folks she'd meet would nicely answer her questions ,sometimes she would have to let loose with Kapowies and sometimes she would have to fly like a bat out of heck to avoid someone she had just kapowied whom had returned with a small army of friends !

she had almost given up hope when she lucked upon a meaney head nogoodnick villianous type only too happy to point Dragonberry in the right direction provided it would cause Clobber-Girls kidnapper trouble and that DB let the villian she currently had pinned to a wall with spines go his merry way with the knowledge that she would owe him a favor at a future time .

She weighed the options in her head for quite awhile. lil angelic goodberry wispering in her ear that it was a no-no for her to ummm make deals with bad guys ,meanwhile devilishly mischevious bloodberry whispered that if she found out something usefull Noisemaze would likely be happy with her !

The villian apparently thought she was taking far too long to decide as he attempted to blast her with a burst of force ,which barely dented her armored scales but did awaken her from her moral quandry daydream and apparently killed off her common sense .

"Okies , so who was the kidnapper ?" she asked trying to give the villian her best tough guy look , which caused a hearty chuckle to emerge from the villian .

" His name is Rakescar and if you hurry you can find him at Pocket D's , im sure he will be quite happy to see you ! always a pleasure doing bussiness with you heroes . Im sure i'll find a good use for your favor at some point Dragonberry " The villian laughed as he walked right past her . she was about to follow him but the forces of Longbow and Arachnos chose that moment to engage each other in a firefight and the villian quickly disapeered from sight .

Later that Evening

She sat outside the entrance to Pocket D's and breathed heavily into a brown paper bag multiple times trying to get her nerves calmed. she had fought Rakescar numerous times and while he's always been a nice enough guy for a self styled professional villian he did have a bit of a temper and add to that the fact that the last time they fought atop that abandonded skyscraper in Sirens Call he had hit her so hard with that hammer of his she had woken later in the day on the first floor admisdt the debis of sevral floors worth of rubble .

she sighed a long sigh and wandered in , she waved at various club goers as she made her way to the bar . she already could see Rakescars large orange rocky frame dominating a section of the bar , for some reason the chairs on either side of him were vacant .

she padded up to the bar and plopped down on the vacant barstool next to Rakescar and ordered up a tall glass of milk in a frosted mug , she could already feel his gaze upon her for invading his personal space and she tried hard to ignore it and hoped he didn't notice the beads of swet on her brow .

she turned to him and gave a weak smile and waved at him trying to strike up a conversation or at least get a response from the big guy .
He looked at her for a few moments seemed to roll his eyes and simply stated "A little late for a school night isn't it ?" before turning back to his drink .

no smeeps , gorbbles or rock lyrics peppered his speech , which was odd to Dragonberry as she always found the way Rakescar talked very amusing and in odd oposition to the way he looked .

she attempted a second time to get his attention and began to lightly tug on Rakescars tattered orange cape "Rakescar ! rakey rake rake Rakescar , c'mon talk to me for five minutes and i'll stop annoying you " she said in a whiney voice .The orange rocky brute raised an eyebrow or whatever passed for one on his face as he turned and looked at , she smiled and tried to hide the fact that a small "eeeep!" had likely just escaped from her mouth .

Dragonberry had planned this conversation out much better in her head , she had rehearsed it several times in fact in the hallyway outside Pocket D's elevator . Unfortunetly what came out of her mouth was something of a rushed nervous spastic string of words "IheardfromafriendthatyouhadahandinClobber-Girlsdissaperanceandyoubettertellmewheresheisorthe rewillbetrouble"

She felt better having said it and took a deep breath before looking Rakescar in the eyes , his glare had become a hardened steely glare and his face had become an impassive mask displaying no hint of emotion .He quietly but firmly asked "what exactly did you just say ?" and I repeated my self a lot slower as some of the nervousness had left already "I said , that I heard from a friend that you had a hand in Clobber-Girls dissaperance and you better tell me where she is or there will be trouble !"

"Who said that ? " he asked in a flat even voice .

"can't tell you I promised to keep it a secret nyah !" I smirked feeling a bit braver then I had earlier

"WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS " he yelled in a loud angry voice as he slammed his fist into the bar's tabletop causing me to attempt to leap back away from him ....unfortunetly all I managed to do was to fall off my bar stool onto my bum .

"y-you better tell me where she is before I ummm err have to umm beat it out of you." I looked around to see who had said that and it slowly dawned on me that those words had actually come from my lips .

"you really really do not want to get involved in this , this is your last chance to back off and leave kid !" he glared at me as I scrambled to regain my footing .

I couldn't belive my luck I had just called him out in front of a bar full of people and he was going to let me walk away , I almost turned and sulked away until I noticed all the faces watching our conversation and silently gulped ...their was no way the villians would ever let me live it down if I had run away like a whipped dog as soon as Rakescar raised his voice to me

"u-ummm im not leaving until you t-tell me what I need to know and if you won't tell me now ill follow you untill you leave Pocket D's and then ill kapowie you until you tell me !" I hoped hoped hoped that Rakescar wouldn't be able to let me keep on challangeing him without accepting a showdown , His reputation as one of the toughest fighters in the contested areas wouldn't hold a whole lot of water if he backed down from a girl in a school uniform.

"your choice kid , Bloody Bay in 10 minutes ill meet you there " He said loudly alerting the whole bar to his intent as he walked away and headed to the Exit of Pocket D's . I stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds before racing to the Ladies room and hurled the contents of my stomach into a sink before wondering what I had just gotten myself involved in .

Dragonberry sat quietly at the bar within Poket D's lazily sipping on a tall frothy vanilla milkshake that she had bought with the last of her lunch money . Her tall frame , long legs and serpentine tail made sitting at the bar a bit of a chore but she was currently too preoccupied dreamily looking over a recently aquired autographed picture of her favorite rockstar "Axl Von Haggar "

A sound from behind her interrupted a perfectly good daydream with a poof ! and with a quick swivel of her bar stool she spun around to face a rather curious fellow bedecked in a rumbled suit and strange helmet .

He apparently already knew Dragonberrys name , which she considered odd as she was positive they had never met before it also made her very wary as most folks that walk up to her and call her by her name are angry teachers whom classes she had skipped at school or folks in the contested areas trying to pick a fight with her , luckily he proved to be neither .

He introduced himself as Noisemaze and seemed friendly which immediately set Dragonberrys mind at ease and she regarded him with a warm friendly smile (( as warm a smile as she could give , most seemed to find a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth unsettling )) he asked her if in all her travels thru and battles in the contested lands weather she had ever encountered any operatives of a group known as FUTURE , whom he mentioned had something to do with the disaperance of Clobber-Girl .

Dragonberry sadly didn't think she could help out or had anything to contribute but Noisemaze used the one attack ((other than cute boys )) that DB had no defense against ...Flattery .

Noisemaze mentioned how well regarded her fighting skills were and how folks did not do her justice in their descriptions of her , he even said she was attractive . For a young girl with few friends and saddled with a number of genetic mutations a warm smile and a few compliments are all it takes to make her cheeks burn a bright green and she quickly found herself agreeing to help out in any way she could .

Noisemaze suggested she might be most usefull by questioning the villians whom frequented the various contested areas , an idea DB was only too happy to agree to . After Noisemaze departed to question a few more folks around the club Dragonberry slipped off her stool and raced to the elevator her serpentine tail happily wagging as she made her way across the floor , knocking over several villians drinks accidently .

she'd happily kapowie all the nogoodnicks in Sirens Call if it would make Noisemaze happy .