Woot! Great chapter. Cool how you incorperated all what we said before into the chapter
Mutate, Radiant aura, Accelerate Metabolism, repeat.
Oh, by the way Bloodwolffe, if you ever need a scout for the good guys. The Core Being is uniquely suited to that duty, since she has a habit of going out of phase with reality and being undetectable by any physical means. ;-)
**cheers the radiation squad**
**cheers Blood Wolffe... and his teeth**
Hooray! Neem hugs! 
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YEAH!!!!! ::closes my book and packs up my stuff:: Awesome stuff. Can't wait for another chapter, but I'll go occupy myself with my story until then.
Go Radiated Heros Unite!!!
Sweet! Its goitten to the point where i dont care if im in it anymore.....But i do still wanna be in it. Good Job!! Awesome!
I have tried to work as many people into the story as possible. I did not expect to get as many replies as I did when I started this. However I did say that huge roles were not guaranteed. I have plans for everyone who entrusted me with their character, which I consider a great privelage. Everybody has been at least gotten honorable mentions, and will be referred to at least once more later on. If you have ideas to further involve any your character(s) into the story please PM me. I have taken some suggestions from people and am open to them (I did this with one person in particular and it turned out to be one of my favorite parts of the story). That does not mean I WILL take them, it has to flow with the continuity. I will do my best to work with you until we reach an agreement. I do feel bad that not everybody is getting equal parts but I am not writing a book. Trust me, everyone will be at least referred to again. Just wanted to clarify.
Damn good chapter. Very much out of the frying pan and into the fire, on many vs. accounts. I like it!
Summer Heat
MMMMMMM........story.............MMMMMMMMMMM
*ahem*
Jolly go show old chap. Keep it up, what, what!
(was that british enough? People I am not British enough. It maybe because I talk normally and don't drink tea.......)
Now. I have a sniper aimed on each member of your family. As long as we get the next installment by the end of the day, no one gets a pie gun shot.
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Umm... lets see... 19 chapters, 119 pages in Microsoft word, 43,151 words, 1,801 paragraphs, and 5,402 lines.
I don't know what you call a book but thats pretty fraggin close I think. ;-)
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Umm... lets see... 19 chapters, 119 pages in Microsoft word, 43,151 words, 1,801 paragraphs, and 5,402 lines.
I don't know what you call a book but thats pretty fraggin close I think. ;-)
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Well when you put it that way...
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Umm... lets see... 19 chapters, 119 pages in Microsoft word, 43,151 words, 1,801 paragraphs, and 5,402 lines.
I don't know what you call a book but thats pretty fraggin close I think. ;-)
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are you afraid of success, Marc?.......Hehe. Your name isnt marc is it?
Sorry, no new chapter this time. Just wanted to point out another thread.
Scroll down to the second response. See if anything looks familiar in the quote box.
hey, i wanted to let you guys know. Im taking a shot at writing. Ilike all you guys characters. So tell me if you would like to be included, I know enough about you guys after reading this story. I wont be posting it, im still working on my guide.
You can include Shadez but I don't know if you know him at all 
Always welcome to make use of the Couragous Lord Raymond.
cool, youd be a good addition. BTW im also a houstonian.
No place like Houston.
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Thank God for that.
The [censored] thats supposed to mean?
Just a joke, I lived down near Houston all through my childhood... Not the nicest of cities, or the cleanest, and it stunk. Mostly though just some good natured ribbing.
Well, your just a little poor [censored].....Just kidding. You must not have lived in the better parts. I live in spring.
I lived a good ways out of it in a little slum called Bay City. But I have driven through and to houston a couple of times. There are nice places but they are far from consituting the majority of the metroplex.
Just my opinion.
I am in The Woodlands.
((Took some of the ideas from some of the posts. i.e. Techsupport's. I also like calling the Jadenium shards "Quills"))
XIX. Wounds, Old and New
Michael winced in pain. Helsinger's Jadenium quills seemed to burrow deeper into the muscle of his chest with every movement. He was also growing tired fast, he estimated he could go about another four minutes at the current pace, leaning on Captain Neem and Lord Raymond. Nausea was setting in too. Just as he was about to say he felt sick he collapsed. Lord Raymond and Captain Neem let him down easy on a grassy patch. Lord Raymond noticed that they were on the edge of the wilderness. Everything looked wild and overgrown.
The sounds of strange creatures howling from deep in the forest echoed in the night sky. It was a contrast to the Wasteland, which seemed alive but was devoid of all life.
Helen began barking frantic orders, "Nobody thats Invulnerable class hero touch his wounds. Get his shirt off and give me a knife!"
Michael was barely aware of his surroundings as he slipped into unconsciousness. Barely aware that they were cutting his shirt off of him. Barely aware of Eternal Twilight seeing what he hid all this time and what he said next.
"Is that a Council tattoo!?"
Then darkness washed over him.
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From his sealthed Hover Jet Requiem watched. He watched as the heroes fought the Captain and his experiment, Tick-Tok. Metal Wolffe stood next to him closely observing Requiem.
"You could have saved Captain Helsinger. Why didnt you." Metal Wolffe said.
He knew why he didnt, anyone could see Requiem's growing dislike for Helsinger.
Requiem spoke without turning away from the monitor with the image of the heroes. "The Captain had lost focus when he found Helen Markov and her son, spinning wildly out of control, doing anything he could to bring them misery no matter what it cost him or the Council. He became a liability when he told them of The Center's plans. Today they were my allies."
"Are you going to tell The Center about Tick-Tok? I hear that anyone that has ever spoken with him has either became frighteningly loyal or died. If that is true, then this anomaly would be some upsetting news for him."
"It is... was true. He dominates their minds. Crushing all their will until it is a blank slate to rebuild as he sees fit. Be a willing servant, or be made a willing servant. He will certainly feel the ripple from Tick-Tok's mind."
The Center certainly could feel the ripple too. Just for a brief moment, before he felt the one who's mind he touched dissappear forever. Controlling him like a puppet would have failed even faster. The will overcomes it much easier than making something a temptation to them.
Requiem contacted Black Sky and Metal Tooth from his jet, "Metal Tooth. You are to go to the Wilderness and intercept the heroes. Bring the "pets".
Metal Tooth had been waiting for some real prey. Hunting down the pockets of resistance all around the country had not been a challenge. The last good prey he caught the scent of back at the abandoned warehouse was with them. It peaked his interest.
"Yes Requiem." He said in a gravelly voice. His teeth that dwarfed him in his human form clanked shut at the end of his sentence.
"Black Sky, you start heading towards Metal Tooth."
"Yes Requiem."
She too, grew weary of cleaning up the heroes around the empire. These ones seemed to be a bit more of a challenge. They had killed Sonic Boom. Not the hardest task in her mind but proof of their worthiness. Hopefully there would be something left. Hopefully she could meet Metal Tooth before he met them.
Metal Wolffe watched the heroes on the screen. He would get his revenge. But he would be smart about it. He would use the assassins to distract the rest of the group to get his target.
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"Michael WAKE UP!" Helen said.
She pulled the quills out that were sticking out. But the little pieces were the dangerous ones. They were the ones that hid.
"I dont know if I got them all." She said desperately.
Blood Wolffe came to him and leaned over Michael, smelling the wound. Helen watched with a worried expression, not sure what he was doing. Before long he lunged down biting deep into the wound. Helen made a dive to protect her son, but Tigonus stopped her, he knew what Wolffe was trying to do. It was enough to wake Michael up screaming and trying to push Wolffe away. Blood Wolffe winced in pain and pulled up his head, and spit out a small chunk of flesh and green slivers, then pulled the ones out of his mouth that stabbed him. He sniffed the wound again, and repeated the process.
"That should be all of them."
Tigonus let Helen go. She would have to slap Blood Wolffe when this was done. Maybe Tigonus too. Right now she had to focus on Michael, there was still the allergic reaction to worry about. The green tint in his veins told her that it was pretty severe. It had spread chest to his neck, and was still in his hands and arms. It was quickly working towards his heart, brain, and lungs. The allergic reaction was too far along for removal of the quills to mean anything. Helen was going to lose her son because of her own creation.
"I cant help him." She said beginning to cry, "Im sorry Michael."
Techsupport looked at the ground for a moment, thinking furiously, "Everybody get back." Techsupport said. No more time to think.
"What?" Helen said. Everyone looked at him confused.
"Get back! Trust me. Etherburn, Pandora, Core Being, help me." He said as a hum started to grow from his suit.
Everyone backed away, getting out of range of the trio of radioactive heroes. The hum grew louder until it vibrated the ground and the four were glowing.
"I hope this works." Techsupport thought. The alarm in his helmet beeped displaying the words "APPROACHING CRITICAL LEVELS!"
The other three were breathing heavily as the expenditure of radiation began draining them.
Focusing it all into Michael they all flooded him with waves of regenerative radiation. They would change the way his body worked so there would be no more allergic reaction. Or he would grow another leg.
Slowly the wound began to close up until it dissappeared completely. The other three kneeled to rest up. Techsupport was literally steaming now. His suit shut down, leaving him to carry its weight himself without the help of servo motors.
He clunked over to a rock and dropped to the ground.
"He'll be okay."
Helen sighed with relief, then turned and slapped Blood Wolffe.
"Dont you EVER bite my son again."
She decided just to glare at Tigonus, which made him look down to the ground and nervously hold his tail in front of him. Before she could change her mind Captain Neem pulled her away to talk in private.
"Everybody find some place out of sight to camp until morning." He said as he walked off.
He led her into the treeline until they could barely hear the others.
"Helen. Why does Michael have a Council tattoo?" Captain Neem said.
"It was from when he was a child Neem. He hasnt been Council for over twelve years."
"You still could have told me. I know he is a good kid. Dont you trust me?" Neem said.
She wanted to trust him. The others. She did with her own life, but She already lost so much of her family.
"You have to understand, protecting him is more important than my life." Helen said.
"You can trust me Helen. You can always trust me." Captain Neem said, "I will explain to them about his past."
"Thank you Neem." She said hugging him.
He hugged her back. She had been through so much. He wanted to help her, to keep her safe from everything. But the more help she needed, the more she shielded herself away from everybody, including him.
"It isnt fair." He thought.
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The cargo helicopter arrived early. Still Metal Tooth was waiting. It lowered a giant reinforced metal box with small holes in it to the ground. On its way down growling could be heard from the inside, then the loud crash of something getting anxious inside. Several dents could be seen around the box. Metal Wolffe chuckled. More deep growls came from inside and another louder crash that rocked the helicopter a little.
"They know the hunt is about to begin." He turned to an assistant, "Smithers, release the hounds."
((Couldnt resist the reference. Im sure you know what it is. "What are you going to do? Send the dogs after me? Or the bees? Or the dogs with the bees in their mouths that when they bark they shoot bees at you?" To clarify on The Center's powers in case you didnt get it. He can increase your desire to do one thing, decrease it to do another. Instead of playing puppet master he changes your desires, ambitions, and dreams. The personality remains, just changes the affected persons alignment. Much harder to resist than puppet control."))