Rebel_Scum

There is that, yes.

Both Ildelas quietly went through the portal, the one who'd moments ago been made of lightning still a little unsteady on her feet even with the help from the dragon. "Thanks", she commented to said dragon just before disappearing. Once on the other side she would place her hand on the scanner to get in and then go straight to the nearest sofa and lie down on it. Moments later, if nothing distracted her, she'd be asleep.

The other meanwhile, paused a moment to wait for Ethan to come through since she'd sort of taken charge of him for now. She wasn't quite sure why she did that, but figured the reason would come to her in time. Like the first, she placed her hand on the scanner and went through after instructing Ethan to do the same. If anyone happened to be looking at the scans from that device, though, they might notice something strange if they were paying attention. The DNA looked normal enough, perfectly human with minor discrepancies that would account for her powers. If however one looked away and back again, the readings would have changed as if it was a different person entirely who'd placed their hand on the scanner. And if they looked away a second time, they'd change again to a third distinct reading. And so on and so forth, different every time they were looked at and never repeating.

Ildela meanwhile proceeded through the door and immediately over to the bar, intending to test the claim of the drinks being better than those at the D. "Anyone want a drink?", she asked as she crossed the room, loud enough for everyone present to hear.

Hmm. Well stuff that, hers does cause I say so. At least this once.

Both Ildelas aren't native to this dimension. One's from a different version of primal earth, and the other is praetorian.

Just a heads up for all of you, I'm currently busy cramming for a math test on Wednesday so I might not post much for the next couple of days if I do at all.

Ildela stood very still, almost in shock as quite suddenly all hell seemed to break loose as everyone present aside from her acted at once and several others showed up besides. Most of whom she recognised as being among those who'd been pulled here from other dimensions. Let's see... Her alternate self and two others appeared through some sort of teleport. The crazy fire man tried to attack again and promptly had half an ocean plus one very surprised fish and after a slight delay a similarly surprised Mirel dropped on him, by a dragon of all things. Fire guy ran off and apparently teleported to Atlas Park of all places, as told by the policeman who arrived just after him. Even the guy she'd been talking to in the D showed up, suddenly clad in ******* power armor as if that was perfectly normal. Which in Paragon it was, but in his dimension slightly less so.

Regardless, she brushed his attempts at checking her condition off. "Don't worry, it looks worse than it is", she assured him, before the aforementioned dragon took it upon himself to give her some sort of healing effect. "Thanks, I think", she told him, still sounding a little shocked.

To be fair this is Paragon City, not real life. Ingame they don't even have helicopters, they have robots, dudes in powersuits, kheldians and psychics instead.

Proverbial unstoppable force vs immovable object? Hmm....

I'm gonna side with Blue Steel on that one.

Ildela stopped as the guy she'd been about to backstab rather abruptly turned and fled. "Coward!", she yelled after him, before taking off in pursuit. Aside from the yell she remained all but undetectable to normal senses, so while she probably tipped him off to someone following him he still wouldn't be able to see her and thus deterring her pursuit would be reasonably unlikely if he tried at all. If his hearing was any good though he might hear the stalker's irritable mutterings about his lack of conviction and other such failings.

The other Ildela on the other hand stayed right where she was, trying to pursue the fleeing Jacub in her current condition would be suicide. Almost unkillable she might be at present, but in about a minute and a half this was going to wear off and if she happened to be flying when it did she'd face a long fall and a very sudden stop. So instead she turned to the Outsider, who she suspected might already have had the same idea she was about to suggest but she'd suggest it anyway just in case. "Hey, that thing teleports, right?", she asked in a decidedly different voice. Like an old record that plays more static than actual sound, it was just barely understandable. "Think you could teleport that cop he ran off with back here?"

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Meanwhile back with the pursuit, Ildela pulled up sharply as she very nearly ran into a rapidly ascending helicopter after Jacub stopped for whatever reason and she went back to the original plan of stabbing him, repeatedly as necessary. The chopper it seemed was on her side, so to speak, as it opened fire on the flaming man the instant it had a clear shot. Figuring there wasn't much support she could give to the fight with that hail of bullets in the way of her getting close without being seen, she instead focused on the detective he'd carelessly thrown aside.

"Never let go of the hostage, that's just asking them to shoot you...", she muttered as she flew in to land right beside the guy. Her cloak of course failed the instant she tried to pick him up, she could only keep herself invisible and another person in direct contact inevitably caused problems with that. Should Jacub happen to glance over in that direction, he might very well recognise the woman attempting to make off with his hostage while he wasn't looking as the same one who killed his brother. Or at least as the one who delivered the final blow.

I dunno, I kinda like that as battle music. It's even from a batle scene!

Ildela paused in the doorway, looking out from inside the truck at the scene outside. She debated for a moment what to do, absently twirling one of her swords around in her hand before deciding she should probably lend a hand. Or more precisely, a blade. A devious grin spread across her face as she slipped unseen from the back of the truck and out into the inferno, safe inside her shield for the most part. Given half a chance, she intented to do what stalkers did best - apply swords to back for massive damage.

Her dimensional not-quite-duplicate, on the other hand, was far less safe. Having one's foe just arbitrarily negate one's powers and then start throwing fireballs tends to be an indication of imminent pain, not to mention mildly irritating besides. At least the fire crews had arrived and seemed to be having more luck with the flames than she was with him. "So going to regret this...", she muttered, forced into what was usually a last resort she never had to use. Raising both hands to the sky, she silently called down a massive lightning bolt of that same dark blue energy from within or above the rising smoke cloud from the fire. Screaming incoherently as it hit (Useful or not, being hit by lightning hurts!) and was transformed into what appeared to be living energy, upon which Jacub's thrown fireballs splashed to nearly no effect.

Thus protected at least until the transformation wore off, and it would eventually, she proceeded to do something possibly quite unexpected. She discarded her advantage of range, landing beside Jacub and tearing at his energy source with renewed purpose. What he could restore, she could just as easily take away again. And being right next to him she could even use the released energy to heal any damage he might do to her in the meantime.

Perhaps the worst part was unlike Jacub and his unrestrained rage, she remained perfectly calm about the whole thing. Either she really was that jaded or she was just as crazy as he was, only in a different way.

Personally I thought this WAS the OOC thread for the Crossing. Guess I was wrong?

As for the need for lots of water, the fire crews will provide that if/when they show up. Magical fire not so much, though. Hence the desire to drain all his endurance (something elec/kin is pretty good at) so all they'll have to put out is ordinary fire without the magic keeping it burning.

Ok, so caging him didn't work... why was it that the only ones she actually wanted to do that to were always the ones it didn't work on? No time to wonder about that now. What she needed was a plan. Of course, plans weren't exactly her strong point. She tended to make them up as she went along, as she was doing now as she launched herself into the air. Staying on the ground would be suicide - even as it was, her armor was smoking from the assault and as she rose, her cape trailed cinders from where the flames had caught it. On the bright side though, unless the guy could throw his flames at her she'd be safe up there.

The others still on the ground, not so much. She needed to put those flames out, and she had no fire extinguisher. Not that it'd work on a magically-fuelled inferno like this but it'd be better than throwing lightning at it. So she went back to her original plan, that of draining his energy. If she could weaken him enough that he couldn't sustain his powers, the fire crews would be able to put out the blaze when they got here. She could already hear their sirens in the distance.

Raising both hands, she began methodically draining his energy. Or lifeforce, or magic, or whatever you wanted to call it. He was channelling something to produce that inferno, and she intended to deny him access to it. Derek (And the Outsider too, if she was close enough) would feel an amazing surge of strength and energy as some of the drained power transferred to them.

(( She's using the various kinetics powers - transfusion, transference, siphon power, siphon speed and fulcrum shift. ))

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Ildela was actually starting to wonder if the guy was just misguided and she'd hurt his feelings when he suddenly burst into flames. Now, most people would think something along the lines of 'oh god fire bad' and freeze for long enough that the guy would easily incinerate them before they reacted, as it appeared the police officer. Ildela however was experienced enough as a hero in Paragon that her reactions were somewhat faster, and her first response to a guy holding her tended to be getting the hell out of Dodge. Sadly that too was out as she had a duty to protect the defenseless detective the guy was also holding.

All of this went through her mind in no more than a second before she abruptly launched herself backwards, away from the truck in front of them and quite probably into a wall. As she did, she grabbed hold of the arm the guy was in turn holding her with, hoping to pull him away from the detective before his flames could do more than superficial damage. If however he remained stubbornly where he was, her next act would be to simply point a hand at him, as if throwing something. Of course she wasn't throwing anything. What she was doing was draining some of his energy and channeling it into the friendlies around him, in this case the detective. If he was still alive it'd have a restorative effect, healing his burns seemingly by magic.

"No downside", Ildela replied with a laugh. "Sometimes things just are that good. Not often though." The stalker had refrained from having a drink of her own, for no real reason. She just didn't feel like one right now, instead choosing to plop herself down on a barstool and watch the people going past. Some of them even looked familiar to her, though she knew they wouldn't know her.

Hmm, let's see...

- Ahh yes. Lightning Rod. There's nothing quite like dissolving into a bolt of lightning and teleporting into the middle of a spawn to lay waste to them in the mere act of reappearing. Especially if you can follow it up with Shield Charge for the added bugs on windshield effect.
- Also, Shadow Meld. Because what sneaky villainous type doesn't like being able to turn into a cloud of creepy black stuff at will.
- And from the same pool, Soul Storm. For much the same reasons as has already been mentioned.
- Staying with patron pools, Mu Lightning or Mu Bolts depending on AT. Because bzzzap.
- Hmm, what else... Oh yes. Static Shield, from elec armor. Just cause when set to dark colours and coloured right it looks really damn creepy.
- Wormhole. That's really all that needs to be said. Also, if you drop them high enough they'll actually bounce when they hit the ground.
- Full Auto and to a lesser extent the spider's Heavy Burst, for when you absolutely must throw as many bullets in one general direction as possible in short order.
- Rain of Arrows for much the same reason, although has the added awesome of somehow penetrating walls, ceilings, etc to fire. I always wondered how my archery blaster does that. Then I remembered she's magic origin and that explained it.
- All three pets in the Robotics set, because two of them enter and all three of them will leave by punching holes through whatever obstacle might happen to be above you.
- Staying with masterminds for a second, the Thugs Bruiser pet cause he cruises up to you on a motorcycle which then proceeds to poof into thin air somehow.
- Fallout, obviously. Because what else are you going to do with the corpse of a teammate if not use them as a thermonuclear weapon.
- Dark Extraction, because using it on AVs provokes hilarious reactions from unsuspecting teammates on occasion.
- Recall Friend, for the exact same reason. Though that's usually reserved for people who annoyed me first.
- Black and White Dwarf, because who doesn't like being a big stompy alien monster.
- Rise of the Phoenix, because my blaster once killed someone with it in a pvp arena match and the reaction over skype was priceless. Also general boominess and the whole getting back up from the dead thing. Soul Transfer for much the same reason, minus the pvp kill.
- Ice Slick and to a lesser extent Ice Patch, becau- *slips and falls over* Bonus awesome against Clockwork (The primal ones, that is.) cause instead of knocking them over it flings them in all directions for no apparent reason.
- Boost Range, because nothing beats sniping a guy from so far away you need a second player to spot for you as they aren't targettable on your screen. Note: requires range slotting in the snipe or huge recharge buffs to stack it twice. Possibly both. Minus the IOs or buffs there's still being able to shoot something from snipe range with a normal power.
- Cosmic Burst, because it's a mez and a kickass attack in the same power. With HOs and IOs combined you can even slot it effectively for both. Also Total Focus. Knockout Blow, Seismic Smash (Which is also mag 4 and all, unless you're a Dominator.) and Incandescent Strike for the same reason.
- Jolting Chain, because watching enemies flop over in succession is hilarious.
- Crane Kick, because boot to the head. Or the nuts, or the chest, or the kneecaps... depending on relative size. Actually most of the martial arts set for this reason.
- Placate, because some part of all of us secretly wants to be a Jedi.

...ok, I think I'm done. And I think I understand why I'm still here after four years, now.

"Aliens?" Ildela repeated, surprised for once. "Nope, don't think I ever saw any aliens... just a heap of post-apocalyptic wasteland." She paused, either thinking about it or just for effect. "That and a lot of people who always wanted to shoot me for some reason."