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Ravenna added a fifty dollar bill to her plate , " no mind i have some willing hands to carry for me , just leave it by the door .. now may i have some more of these scrummy bites ..and prehaps a top up ..." offering up her glass towards the now busy barman ....

she peers at the newcomers with a bland bored face ....

...the voice of Ravenna Krone call across to the barman ...
"your not going to waste that fresh flesh i hope , i could see my way to taking it off your hands ...."
..dressed in grey blood smeared medical scrubs the young woman lounged in one of the bars corners , sipping a clear fluid from a brandy glass , and , with seeming relish , crunching on some small black bar snacks ....

" hmm what oh ya just say when Sean " ..Rik pulls a strange dark green lumpy sphere about 15cm across , from his pocket ..it has one medium size blue button ...

If you need some SG team bots i have a good connection , a second account and spare slots ..i could make you a doorman style toon who can just stand there and make team invites for base access

Hellskeeper looked at the distant fortress , " you said there was a gap in the walls ...which side .."
... she drop her flames ..but dressed a skintight brilliant white costume ,she still stood out in the blackness of the void ...

Rik stepped in to helicopter , draging his odd looking flying pack with him ...
" may as well travel there in comfort ..."
he muted the head sets mic to avoid the rotor roar and flopped back in his seat and appeared to rapidly doze off ....

(( please note .. this is a side shoot from the Party Time thread .. It occurs the following morning at 5:55am in Atlas Park ....anyone can jump in it is NOT limited to those involved in the Party Time events ... i have done this as a open RP thread as other may wish to follow up on the fall out from Party Time ...))

Malc's phone made its insistent whining sound , pitched , just right to drag him form sleep...”

“ ya wha... oh Sally whaaz time ..., 5:20am .. but , but we are not on till 3:00pm ..message what message “

Sally Travalli's tone of voice slowly got through to Malc , a mix of fear and hunger..” Some one left me a message “.. she repeated in sharp spat out words ...Malc by now was tuned in ..this was Sally's deep poo voice ...

“....the message says be at the intersection of 14th and Park in Atlas by 5:55am .... no I have no idea what's going on ....yes I think its worth checking out ... Why ! Why! .. because the f'King message was carved in to the armoured steel plated door of my apartment , ! that's why ...now get the van and the gear and pick me up .....”

Malc already had one leg of his trousers on before Sally had stopped talking ... he remembered that door , the security firm had demmo'ed it firing at it point blank , barely a mark made .. who ever cut into it had some power.....


By 5:53am the crossroad junction at 14th and Park was full of cars at the start of Atlas Parks morning rush hour ... Sally and Malc where grabbing camera and sound gear from the TV Stations van , which Malc had pulled up on the grass on the Park side of the street , he hoped the Press Badge would ward off any traffic cops .....

“Well what now ..” Malc voice had picked up the emotion of Sally's ....”its 5:55am now and nothings happened ..” he continued half hoping nothing would ...

“ look “ Sally pointed to the junction ...the centre was empty .. all the four sets of light had stayed Red and no one was moving .....car drivers where already peering and frowning at the lights ....

Malc's camera man instincts cut in , he had the camera focused on the crossroad ,in wide angle , tracking back ..all with out concious though ... , his left thumb clicked on the sound recorder ...

Just as the first car horns sounded the still empty intersection filled with a glowing ball of brilliant white light ...Malc's camera's flare compensator when into over drive ....

The ball became some 15 feet across , flared brighter still , and vanished ...in its place hung a winged humanoid ....

As Sally's pupils recovered from the flare she beheld him , Justice Delivered , floating some 4 feet from the ground ..his feathered wing stretched out wide , slowly , very slowly making slight but powerful strokes in the morning air ....if seeing this creature again shocked Sally ..it was what was in its arms that held her attention ...

the figure of Justice looked , as always ,the same , a bald , naked but for a cloth kilt ,winged human with cloth and silver chain bound eyes , but this time ,in his out stretched arms , he carried something...

...over his long muscled arms was draped a great cloth ..black as midnight , it hung to within a foot of the road surface ... laid upon the cloth was a bed of flowers , white and gold lilies....

..and on the bed of lilies was a body , it worn the torn , burnt, blood stained uniform of the New Heroes Union ....

Justice's arms where angled so all could clearly see the body , as he hovered .
Slowly he rotated a full 360 degrees , letting all the car drivers see the head wound that had felled this now dead hero ....and giving Malc one of the best shots of his life , so far ...Was that tears on the face of Justice seeping from behind the eye covering ??

The car horns grew in volume .. and then faded and stopped ..as more and more drivers saw what the winged man carried ...

..with out any sudden movement Justice started to float along the road , meeting the line of stopped traffic on the Park road south ... he floated just high enough to clear the vehicles , the black cloth dragging over their windscreens ......

Sally and Malc kept pace .....Sally just controlling her breathing so that she could provided a commentary to this bizarre sight ....

.... the small section of Atlas has fallen silent .. drivers had got out and where standing watching , foot traffic to had stopped in awe .. and even the local gangers had silently slipped away ...

..Justice turned right and entered the great park by one of the gates in its metal fence ....

..people followed , adding to those already crossing the park to work ....

Justice reached the steps up to the massive statue of Atlas .. by now the crowd had grown and grown , PPD officers moved to try to impose some order , but where out numbered ...

..reaching the spot centred directly below the statues globe , Justice , gave a massive flap of his wings and in a swift movement lay the body on to the ground , some how the black cloth had spread itself fully out , making a perfect circle .......

....anyone and everyone pushed forward to see , only the unearthly presence of the winged man kept a open space around the body ...Malc's skills had found him a spot half way up one of the statues legs , his camera was locked onto the unfolding scene ....

Justice turned to face the City Hall Building both arms raised he set off a fire ball just clear of the dome .. the crowd gasped and cowered .....
“ You , You are to blame “ his ever powerful voice boomed out across the throng “ You who are meant to defend this city , You who sit in your offices and cut the funding to law enforcement , You who let the Zig become a joke ..”

the voice drove out its message ...” You who should have ensured that the criminal Dr Mechano was never free to terrorise this city again ... Well here is the price of your failures ...”

“here lays the body one one who tried and gave his all , one who has paid the ultimate price of devotion to his fellow man ...cut down , Murdered !, by Mechano's robotic legions .....”

“his name was Pious ..You will remember it ! ... I lay the blame at your door City Hall ...if there are any more I will show you what suffering is .......”

Justice's right arm came up and bolts of fire struck the shrubs and bushes around the statue , a pair of them struck the city hall sign above the buildings door scaring and melting it beyond legibility ...
“ Citizens morn this day for Pious has give his all for you ......who will they let be next “

Justice floated upward some 20 feet , and was enveloped in a ball of brilliant white light .. and was gone ......

Smoke from the burning bushes chokes the area around the statue and the silent form of Pious .....

and Malc's camera looks on ....

Thank you Z for all your time and effort

How about a Pocket D version of second life or sims online ...

you could have a Pocket D web site .. to book tables , fight facilities , see what DJ's are in the club , the fashion and gosip pages..

and then say it has a online chat room with avatars where people go to arrange meets and party detail ...

that way you can have both Heroes and Villians in the debate ....

Justice spun sharply at the Doctors words , his head swept from side to side , as if the cloth covered eyes where scanning the whole warehouse ...

..his wings unfurled and beat down with a thrust of speed , moving like a hawk he crossed the warehouse floor and landed at Pious's body ....

...Justice's constant muttering flowed seamlessly into a incantation ... a vast white light surrounded him as he picked up the slain heroes body... and both are teleported ....

Hellskeeper let the flames come .. and became a blazing humanoid form , then she stepped into the opening ...

i have copied out all i did around those dates ...

Seeing the ladies ignore his words , Justice swept into action , fireballs and bolt started to rain down on Mechano's robot legion ..the warehouse filling with flames and heat ....(( note nothing is aimed at Edward ))

“ poor mindless mechanoids .. and still you enslave them Edward , made to serve your evil designs , is there no end to your perversions Mechano ...”

Justice's powerful voice called out across the warehouse ...

“ fight not Edward my dearest ladies, for it will bring you only woe , he is accursed , he is the sinner eternal , and his downward spiral will drag you in to the sphere of his doom ....”

pausing for effect , Justice continued ..

“ and what brought you here today Edward .. pride and arrogance ..and what have you archived ..another death ..” Justice points to Pious's broken body ....” how many is that Doctor , do you still keep count....and look what you have created in the hearts of these heroic women ...hate , pure hate , can you not taste it Mechano , is it not a sweet liquor to your lips ...does it not feed your darkness ..”

turning to face Autumnfox and Calm , his voice raising in pitch ....” flee , flee , there is no victory to be had here , the demon rides the flesh now ......”

remaining , hovering , in the hole the roof Justice started to mumble once more .....

Justice halted his departure , hovering in the hole , the voice of Calm seemed to draw his attention ...

Perchance there was more blood to see this day ....

Justice turned slowly and seem to peer unknowingly at Holly , them he looked across at the hostages.” I can not claim them ..”

Wiping the ash from his mouth and hands , Justice surveyed the warehouse , seemingly seeking something ......and he spotted it , laying in the pool of Holly's blood ..Maniacal's knife.

Suddenly moving inhumanly fast he moved, bent and picked up the knife...turning over the blade in his hands he hunched over as if to seek the smallest detail ...he wiped the blood from is ..and then plunged the blade into his left hand ...his face remained passive despite the clear wound ...

Casually he let the knife drop back to the warehouse floor , his interest now focus on the wounded hand .....

“ Red , blood , life ...so sweet ...so bitter to see it lost .....”

his wings spanned open and with a whoosh soars up to the hole in the warehouse roof ...

Justice did not respond to Jakes words , he stood unmoving for a full minute then bend down a scooped up a hand full of Mr Maniacal's ashes , and slowly and deliberately eat them , chewing each mouthful.....

“death is only the beginning for some ... “

Hellskeeper smiled ..".a lot better than much i have bumped into around this place .." " so we going in cape style or is it casual dress " she continued , looking down at her worn jeans and nikes....

Justice dropped from the roof beams, landing lightly on the floor , his wings folding back ...he moves slowly towards Dr Mechano ...his hands still blazing with fire...


" you see Edward , truth will out , you are a deathbringer , the focus of destruction ..."

at the last moment he turns and walks over to the fallen Villian , and unleashes the fire from his handds ...a bolt of incandesent flame strikes at the body ....

" and in the end all is ashes and dust..."

Hellskeeper flashed a smile at Richie .." call me a fuss-pot but this guardian ..what sort of guardian are we talking about ..man with gun ..demonic hellhound ..trippleheaded ice breathing dragon..or what ? "

Peering down the emotionless face of Justice seemed to drink deep of the unfolding drama ..still the mumbling sliped from his lips ...

slowly he stood , blanced on the roof beam ...his wings snapped open to keep him stable ..and around his hands a masses of flames started to form ....

Rik wandered back in carring what looked like a small jet engine and a few harness straps .." wel that me sorted ..what time is blast off ? "

"well every thing sounded fine..up to the point you said Rich was casting something .. do we have any saftey gear " spoke a grinning Hellskeeper ...

"sure always up for a rescue .."

From above Justice watched the unfolding battle , the mental message had failed to find Justices mind as he lacked one .....
the mumbling halted as real words tumbled from his lips ...
"Time to stir the pot and see what surfaces "

a downward thrusted right arm spat a small ball of fire ..with exquisite aim he exploded the fire ball so that its base was seven feet above the warehouse floor .....

light fittings exploded , the deep dust layers covering the warehouses pillars and roof beams ignite like photo flashes , years of spiders webs flare away ..and the collapsing ball sucks the air upward ...

under cover of this Justice swings through the Holly sized hole and flys to hide amidst the roof beams , off to the right of the action below ..

.. the mumblinbg restarts ....

having seen that all the heroes had entered the warehouse ,Justice moved out of cover and hurled himself across the gap to the warehouse's roof , his great wing snapping open and gliding him across to the opening made by Holly's attemped landing , hovering above the hole he peered down to see what he might see ...

all the time he kept up him mumbling , pitched at the lowest level of human hearing .....