Cywhite's massive form lurched as the cat woman's dark energy became the catalyst for a reaction already under way in his power cells, stirring rapidly building plasma into a fury of energy the droid could barely contain.
Online came his full range of secondary systems followed quickly by his primary and combat. His safety mechenisms shot into effect as his hands became enveloped in glowing energy, venting the energy buildup.
His senses were lightning fast, capable of calculating movement and timing reactions faster then any human possibly could. It hadn't even been a second since the cat woman put her hand to the robot's chest that he sprang in to life.
He looked to the woman who had previously been identified as Morningstar and he knew that she used an alias. For both her safety and his he remained quiet.
"Somebody may want to help the female." he said.
Morningstar glared violently at the robot.
Nevur took the offered hand,getting slowly to his feet.
"I'm okay, Car.... I mean, I'm fine." Carly was already concentrating hard, repairing the damage that he had taken. He'd be back up to speed in a minute.
"Looks like they didn't need our help anyway," he joked, gesturing to the defeated monk.
OOC: for the RPers in the forum
Where is all of this taking place.
Standing over the bodies I looked into the city it is
such a strange place. I walked out into the city because of
the crime here I met a police man who got me aquainted
with a strange young man by the name of Adam Vetta. Adam
was an extremely bright engineer he said his primary skills
were that of weapon design. I showed Adam my gun and he
immediately told me that it was completely outdated. I took
a gun he made for me and began practicing with it he called it
a slug gun it seemed very effective and with that and these
incredible web grenades it made fighting the foes of this world
much easier. He introduced me to an officer flint they both
showed me where to register and I began my life as a crime
fighter still looking for Allan I decided that fighting for this
government which looked a lot like that of my world. (to be continued)
Cyberjack reanimates with a snap, his internal diagnostics had run and rearranged certain processes to deal with future surprise overloads. His visor switches on with a snap just in time to see one of the Circle fall to the enraged Lobe. In is peripheral vision he see's Nevur helped to his feet by a woman he had not seen before.
Assessing the situation and seeing no current threat he assumes a relaxed stances and begins monitering the area. Movement registers all around, the normal bustle of city life. Then just at the edge of his audio enhanced perceptions a large, organized movement registers. Too distant to identify with any accuracy he turns in the direction and reroutes some power to boost his audio. With a start he takes a step back.
Turning to the recovering heroes. "Ladies, Gentlemen, we have a decision to make. There is a very large group of individuals heading towards us. I cannot determine the origins of those approaching, but the speed indicates unfriendlies."
ooc - leaving it up to you guys who is showing up, but if it turns into a fight could we avoid having one person wipe out all the bad guys with one super explosion this time?
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OOC: for the RPers in the forum
Where is all of this taking place.
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OCC: Steel Canyon... and with all the newcomers and posts, I'm getting LOST! 
ooc-sorry bout that, kinda got carried away.
"God DAMN it!!" Sly exclaims to the world in general. He is beginning to regret ever taking the damned idol from the poor old man. He has never in his life been beset again and again by so many enemies wanting a piece of him and his friends...
... now, to top it all off, an explosion has blasted him away from the side of Deth into a nearby apartment building. brushing glass off his chest, and shaking himself off, he takes a step forward and realizes that his mind is finally catching up to his body. He trips from pain and exhaustion, and catches himself on the edge of the broken window he flew through. Reaching into his pocket he removes his last catch of breathe, slaps it on his arm, and waits a moment for it to take effect.
It's hard to make sense of anything on the ground below him, with the influx of new arrivals, conversations, and mixed fighting going on, but he remembered seeing a woman limping before he heard a name... Morningstar... maybe he could finally get this damned Indiana Jones prop piece off his hands!
But first, Sly sees Deth sprawled on the ground, obviously severely wounded. Without a pause he uses his last bit of energy to teleport to her location.
Checking his pack, he sees only one awaken and one stim pack left...Oh well, I'll have to rely on my own luck from here on in He thinks, as he whips out both and slaps them on Deth's chest.
As the two liquids mix and become absorbed by her body, Fox checks her pulse. When Deth's eyes flutter open Sly grins at her and says, "Trust me, I would never lay a hand on your chest if it wasn't critical... that is, without your permission first, I mean."
Sly's voice is fading, so he quickly pulls out the idol, waves it at Rebecca Morningstar to catch her attention, and yells, "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS AND WHY DID YOUR FATHER DIE GIVING IT TO ME!!!"
Sorry for the harsh news given so abruptly, Fox expects the woman's look of shock as she rushes over to him.
"I am sorry..." Sly says... "But... theres... not much... time... and..."
With a final slump Fox falls forward onto the idol he was displaying, his body finally telling his mind to quit being such a "hero."
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ooc-sorry bout that, kinda got carried away.
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OCC: I didn't mind, with all the villains non stop without a breather we could use a quick "kill all"
Deth sits up feeling somewhat refreshed. Looking herself over, she knows that she is nearly healed and after few moments of rest she will be full up. She decides that everything is in hand and assumes the Lotus position to meditate.
Concentrating a few moments muttering in that Ancient gibberish again, her shades appear in her hads, newly reformed and emitting that smouldering smoke that she and Neko seem to emit like pheremones. She places them over her eyes again, sighing in pleasure.
'Better, the light always burns....' even softer 'just like the truth'
Seeing that Slyfox is again in need of her aid, 'Will that boy ever learn,' she claps her hands together, concentrating hard, she says 'By your will Masters' and Slyfox is brought to her, his head cradling in her lap. She produces a wetnap and begins to bathe his forehead. 'It would seem Slyfox-san, we shall forever be in each others debt. Perhaps I shall name you friend if that is to be true.' Seeing that the Idol is still in the street, she yells to Lobe ' Lobe, a careful look by your feet is important before you move...' thinking better of it ' Lobe, watch your step.'
However Lobe, already moving, barely catches himself and the edge of his heel catches the idol. Amazingly, it is not crushed but it pops out from underneath his foot and shoots out like a cannon. It whizzes passed Kate's head, narrowly missing her temple blowing her hair up and imbeds itself deep in the wall. Kate seems to react strangely to the prescence but Deth has other things on her mind.
Lobe,'Oops.'
Deth chuckles ' Its ok, I am sure someone will get it out'
As she strokes Slyfox's hair, she leans over and mumbles in his ear 'By the way, Slyfox-san, if you ever touch me in a compromising way again, without my permission, the jewels that you derive so much pleasure in owning, will be removed from your possession by ancient, primitive means and presented to my Masters as a treat for their pets. However, if you are good, we can remain friends.' In his mind, he sees almost a schoolgirl smile on her face, however, outwardly to the others, her face shows a slight smirk.
Now seeing that many of the heroes have awoken. He quickly put his gun away. "Hey guys, sorry about the mess. Agh, I killed another without asking any questions. Any of u got a wetnap?" he asked the heroes. "Ya here u go, Reckless One," said Deth handing him a wetnap. "Ya man u gotta learn some control," said Sly. "Thanks, not the first time a heard that. Hey Deth, can I ask u a question?" he said, wiping the liquid off him self. "Go ahead, shoot," she responded. "Ok, when I colapsed, I heard a voice. It said some creepy things. It said its name was Him, and he said he was the one who needed me dead and alive. You know who that could be?"
(ooc: Shoot? Ah down't sae shute! )
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'Yes, I do have an extra that you may have. Here.' Handing him the wetnap, she continues to tend the hallucinating Slyfox.
'Ya man u gotta learn some control,' said Sly.
'Thanks, not the first time a heard that. Hey Deth, can I ask u a question?'
'Of course, you may, Helsing - san,' Deth responded.
'Ok, when I colapsed, I heard a voice. It said some creepy things. It said its name was Him, and he said he was the one who needed me dead and alive. You know who that could be?'
Concerned invaded Deth's exquisite coutenance, 'I do not have a clue although there are many forces that can invade our minds.' Rubbing her temple remembering, she began looking around at the faces of her new friends, 'Can anyone answer that question? My sources are not available at the moment.'
Due to the previous difficulties with the Madness Mage, Deth has heard Cyberjack, but it had not registered. She was not even concerned when in the distance she saw what seemed a large black cloud. It vaguely reminded her of a movie she had once seen, 'The Swarm. The cloud looked like a large grouping of flies. There were only a few places or things that the flies swarmed to. What were they? She could not remember. She only remembered to say ' Look.' She pointed towards the swarm.
::Neko looked up at the fly swarm and was imediaty crestfallen, her dark energy still charging her expression was visible from the next section over.::
"Zombies...again."
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Sly couldn't even notice the swarm, his head could remain craddled in the "lap of luxary" all day...
For some reason when he saw Helsing asking the Dark Angel above him for a wetnap, he mumbled something incoherently about using control... but then it was back to pure bliss... and HE had thought this was turning out to be a BAD day!
So Sly sighed a contented sigh, his eye not noticing the sky...
ooc - Not going to be able to post until sometime monday evening, so you all can move around Cyberjack to your hearts content to keep up with the story. Just don't kill 'im off pretty please 
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Trying to gather his bearings after coming out of his rage, Lobe stumbles over the dropped idol, sending it into the wall of a nearby building. "Oops!" he says and runs over to the wall. He grasps the portion of the idol protruding from its surface and begins to twist. A look of suprise, which turns into concentration, crosses Lobe's face as a simple application of casual strength doesn't suffice to remove the implanted object. Soon Lobe's enourmous muscles are visibly straining and beads of sweat start to form on his forehead. Then, as his grunts of effort grab the attention of the nearest heroes, the idol turns. Lobe, surprised by the sudden release of the embedded idol, didn't try pulling it out but kept turning it.
When the Idol had turned 90 degrees the wall it was stuck in, blinked out with an audible *POP!* and Lobe was left with the idol in his hands, free, staring at a bustling street complete with cars driving by and pedestrians dealing with vendors. "Oops," was all he could think to say.
Something small flew past Nevur's head, imbedding itself in a wall beyond him. He noticed Kate looking pensively at the thing as if she were almost afraid of it. He took a moment to glance around and get his bearings.
The giant, Lobe, was quickly headed to retreive the idol while the well-dressed teleporter was currently being tended by the lady with the "dead eyes", as Carly put it earlier. Another man with a rifle, he thought he heard the name Helsing or something, was talking to her about mysterious voices.
"Ah, more dark spiritual stuff," he thought. He hated magical problems. Too hard to get his head around, which was kind of ironic given his origins. He and Carly preferred the more straight forward problems. Easier to handle.
His attention was attracted to his right when the wall the small object had stuck in suddenly disappeared. He started to move toward Lobe, who now held the thing, but was brought up short at a sound. He looked over towards it and noticed a dense cloud of blackness swirling toward them, looking almost like a giant swarm of flies. It was still several blocks away, but moving towards their location steadily.
"Yep," he sighed, "I REALLY hate magic."
"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly," was all Helsing could say. He had seen many swarms of flies in his job, but this was ridiculous. He saw that that Sly was lookin a little out of it, so he slaped him upside the head and yelled in his ear, "DEMONS BE GONE!" He laughed as Sly jumped up. "Sorry, always wanted to say that." Sly didn't awake from his hallucinations. "Crap," he said as looked to the air again.
Lobe was still holding the statue, looking from it to where the wall used to be with a confused look on his face. Rebecca Morningstar looked up, seeing the black swarm for the first time. She suddenly ran over to Lobe, grabbing the idol before he could react. Running into the middle of the heroes she raised the idol over her head.
The swarm suddenly shot down from the sky, flying towards the statue at a tremendous speed. As the darkness hit the idol a shockwave spread out from it. The gathered heroes were suddenly engulfed in blackness. Nevur couldn't tell which way was up.
Then, suddenly, the darkness was gone. Looking around he found they were standing on a mirrored floor that seemed to stretch as far as he could see in every direction. But as he looked he noticed something else. The heroes around him were different.
They were the same ones he had tried to help out, but they all looked different. Some only slightly and some looked radically different. The woman named Kate who had been standing beside him now had some dark evil thing standing behind her that seemed to be chained to her wrist.
Nevur brought his hands up to rub his eyes, but stopped when he saw them. His hands were not the large metal gauntlets he was used to, but small bare hands. Now that he thought of it, all the heroes seemed taller as well.
"Oh crap," he thought. Falling to his knees he looked at his reflection in the mirrored floor. Looking back at him was not the robotic looking hero 'Nevur', but a skinny 5 year-old girl, her black hair growing in random tufts about her head.
"Carly," he said to the familiar face. His voice was still his own, deep and metallic, but he looked like Carly.
"No, I don't no why I look like you," he answered to Carly's question. Then he heard the one who called herself Deth.
"It's a 'mindscape'," she said, "we are seeing physical representations of our very minds."
Nevur looked down at himself in the floor again.
"Crap."
Helsing looked at his hands. The were his but they were smaller. He looked at the mirrored floor and saw him self, only it was him from high school. He was also covered in blood. He crawled into a ball and sobbed as if he was terrified of something. The little one called Carly came over to him, but when she spoke it was her voice, it was Nevur's. "What is happening with him?" she said to the heroes. Helsing had closed his eyes at this point so he only heard vioces. "You think I know?" Deth's voice rang out. Helsing had started mumbling something. "Get away from me, u saw what I did to ur friend, so u better run...."
Nevur sighed. He knew this would happen. Whenever you got mixed up in magic, things started unraveling rather quickly.
::The result of the mindscape on Neko was quite stark, shfting between 2 form she resebled a shouded dark female blue steel one moment and an tinger the next. And was left quite disconcerted::
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The change in perception form real world to mindscape briefly disorientated Contact, but he quickly adapted. He was used to shifting his perception quickly, but was surprised by how suddenly it was forced.
Out of those heroes pulled into the 'scape, he was one of the only to appear exactly as he had in the outside world.
Contact took note of Neko's shifting and approached. Accustomed as he was to poking around in her mind by now, he quickly and carefully worked towards stabalizing her, bleeding off some of his own strength and lending it to her in hopes of mending the two conflicting forms.
Cywhite watched the landscape melt around him. His mind may be different, but it was still generating "real" thoughts. In theory, the psychic Contact could read his mind however the pure torrent of constant information may be hard to sort through. As he entered the mind scape he emerged exactly as he was: every specification was firmly known and represented.
He understood what had happened and began to initialise his systems, nothin would work if it wasn't activated properly. As soon as his sensory equipment came online he looked for the figure of Morningstar and found her, taller, firmer and with longer hair.
"An interesting choice, Morningstar. You realize you cannot harm me here, your secrets are free for me to tell. Without the element of suprise we both knw I have the upper hand and th triad will fall hard onto you." Cywhite strung his words quickly. He had little to fear here.
Rebecca glared and snapped back, "Hold your tounge you thief. Put me away and so goes your brother and that two faced Ivory you call a friend."
Cywhite was quiet. His brother he cared little for, but although he wasn't sure what she coudl do to Isaac, there were lines he wasn't willing to cross.
What did she know about Ivory, or perhaps, what had Ivory kept from his friends? Cywhite wondered, but he was more worried aout exiting, or where his physical body was held. He had catalogued thousands of magical artifacts but this was one he was unfamiliar with.
Juat let me take it Kate...give up, that was a clever trick you pulled, but you can't win again.
Will you cut this out, now look we're both helpless and there's a fight going on, do you want to get us both killed?
I can not die, I can find a new body..like that man right there, who looks like he's foolish enough to help us up.
Man? wh...
Kate lost her train of though as a feeling of great warmth and strength overcame her. She suddenly felt revived. With a great push she catches Zull off guard.
What what is this? how did..Nooooo don't put me back in there! I will make that Man pay for this!
Darkness lept from Kate's Hand towards Nevur, the form of a skull took shape and lept at him with evil intents. Nevur reacting quickly and the form broke upon the hastely constructed stone prison destroying it and knocking Nevur to the ground.
Kate concentrated and took the upper hand when Zull let down his defense in order to attack Nevur. She sent the spirit into the memories of her eairly childhood. That ought to keep him busy for awhile she thought to herself. She then got up to her feet and looked around for the man that gave her the strength to overcome the evil again. The very man it would seem she lashed out at for helping her.
"Are you ok?" she asked as she reached out her hand to help him up.