Metheuzula flew through the air in his Bright Nova form. He had been sent to investigate a cave up by the Red River. As Metheuzula set down and changed to human form and unearthly light surrounded him. He made his way into this cave.
Talon raised an eyebrow as the sound of another hero passed by his small cave -- a kheldian had just landed outside it. A frown on his face.... What was he doing here?
Talon grabbed his polearm from the corner of his small cave, and sat just out of sight of the hero, behind the wall of his cave, his eyes turned to the side and his breathing silenced, two gauntlets gripped the javilin. Last hero that came through here nearly killed him, thinking he was the enemy. This time, however, he would be prepared.
A grey man stepped out of the river, he only wore a pair of green pants roled up to his knees. As he got out of the Red River he put a rebreather in his mouth. In a slightly muffled and with a barley noticable Australian accent he said, "Wait up Metheuzula." Storm Wright had been asked to asist the peacebringer, though he doubted the energy being would need it.
He looked up and down the bank of the river and walked up to the Metheuzula now in human form. We'll help you, but we may ask a few favors. Like exploring a cave, Dr. Ferman will pay for this one. He looked at the Peacebringer and then the cave and then he adjusted the long tube that reached around his neck and fitted back into the rebreather. He had to admit it was an amazing invention and pulled all the watr he needed out of the air.
The water was already drying off and he looked at the peacebringer again, "anyone else coming or should we head on in?"
Metheuzula looked at the person with a blank stare. He headed into the cave holding a ball of energy in his hand to light the way. Metheuzula noticed a person with a polearm and sent an energy blast towards him.
Tanner was living in a large abandoned building in the hollows this was his home. He lived in a rundown apartment and ate fish from the Red River. He was running low on batteries and lightbulbes and new a man that lived near the Red River.
He moved through the abondoned building scaring away any trolls that dare enter his domane. The trolls have made him bitter and twisted over the long time he had lived there. He had no perants they died in the sculls' death ritual and he escaped to the hollowes after that and through the bitternes in his heart toward the skulls became a strong behemoth.
He was nearly to the hermets cave when he saw a kheldian land near his cave. Tanner emidiatly went into attack mode...
Storm Wright sighed, few people liked him, it wasn't that he was a jerk or that poeple were. People naturaly choos e to ignore him. He followed the Kheldian up the towards the cave and pulled a pair of sandles out of his pockets and put them on as he walked up. Then the Kheldian attacked someone, The shoot first, ask questions later kind. I guess I should be thankful I'm still alive. Storm Wright hoped the cave dweller was alright, until he found out who he was atleast. Someone else was coming and fast, Wright doubted he was going to help them from the way he was charging. He stood his ground as the man attacked him. The blow would have put a normal man on the ground, but the grey skined Wirght was anything, but normal. His bones made of cartiledge took the blow without causing any of his bones to break. Wright caught the man's other wrist and stopped it and held it like an iron bar. Wright's body looked more like it was desinged for endurence and not strength, so the sudden show was enough to shock the man for maybe a moment. "You got five seconds to convince me your not affilated with any villian group before I fight back. 1..."
(OOC Note: ProfEinstien, I don't know what Tanner uses so I tried to leave it blank. So I leave the details up to you as to how the attacked happened. Even if Tanner is superstrong he is still shocked so he hasn't struggled out just yet. All up to you.)
Tanner then let out a howel that made the small grey man grit his teeth. "Just leav my home alone!" Then Tanner slamed the grey little man in the head and it twisted around like rubber. "What the hell! YOU DIE!!" Tanner then threw him to the ground and stomped on him threw him some more and then rann away.
He was nearly toward the cave when he saw the kheldian enter the cave firering large bolts of energy as he went...
Edit: I dident realy kill you I expect you to stand back up like you just fell over on somthing...
Wright head was spinning, What just happened, one minute I was holding his hand and next thing I remeber is landing here. Storm Wright pulled himself up and looked at the man running towards the cave, Well I'm suppose to help the Kheldian. Wright got ready to run when he felt the pain in his cheast. He was use to being hurt, but he had never suffered such a blow. "Alright, the calm is over."
Wright launched himself foward with two jump and landed in front of the man and unleashed a punch with all of his might. Like a coiled spring he unleash more force than should be possible to pack into a small area. The punch took the man in the gut and stopped him for a moment. After the moment the man swung back but Wright stopped it with his arm, but he missed the follow-up from the other arm and took a hard hit in the side. Wright's body took the punch, but it knock the air right out of him. Wright backed up as he tried to take desperate breaths through his scrubber. Okay, he's strong and has a grasp of fighting stragey. Oh and he can take a punch that I've put down Trolls with. Oh yeah, I can pick my fights.
(OOC Note: Your move. And one question, what is Tanner, Storm Wright is a Dark Melee(with no negetive energy, he's suppose to box) and invun)
Tanner emidiatly headbutted the rubery man, grabed him by the neck and slamed a few punches to his side. Why is this man so persistant? I cannot let that kheldian harm my neighbor! But this rubery little man wont leve me be... Thats it he's going down!!! "Grrrrrrrr" Tanner growled like a lion and then pulled him along by his ankle and took off. "If you want to bother me you can do it on the way there!"
But as Tanner was running he could feel somthing near his shin. POW!!! Tanner triped and fell to the ground still gripping his victum by his ankle. He looked up to see that the kheldian was gone he either entered the cave or flew away. "NOOOOOO!!!" He stood back up and ran as fast as he could in a burning rage that could be described only as a hurricane of rage and muscle.
He finaly made it all the way to the cave when somthing was still tugging at his shin he looked down to see that the man he was holding was still kicking him in the shin with his remaining leg.
(My Tanner is an Invulnrabilaty/ Super Strength tanker. His powers originate from anger and a secret long forgotten exorsize techniqu that makes you larger and stronger than normaly possible.)
((Power back up for abit, enough time to post one last time))
Metheuzula looked behind him. A Large insane man was killing his "partner".
"Sorry I have to do this, but you are being very, very bad" Metheuzula said as he punched Tanner in the stomach with a shining punch. Metheuzula pushed the unconsious man over the hill and let him land in the banks of the river.
"Come along, we must look in this cave" Metheuzula said blankly as he entered the cave.
Storm Wright stood up on the second try. He looked at the Kheldian, then at the unconsious man, and then he rubbed his bald head where the man had headbutted him. "What took you so long to help?" He asked the air and followed the Kheldian into the cave. Not very social. Wright thought as he walked into the cave. He was also annoyed he had just fought that monster to help the Kheldian and not a word of thanks. He stepped into the cave.
Tanner waiking face up in the red river groand. He had never ben hit that hard befor. He looked down at his chest to see that his shirt had a whole blown in it. His stomach apeered to be unharmed so he charged after the kheldian.
He finaly made it up the hill following a trail of torn trees and crushed rocks where he probubly rolled down the hill. He must not have ben out for long becous he saw the kheldian staring down into the cave with the rubber man standing near him rubing his head.
Tanner snuck up behind the kheldian and threw his mightiest punch... But to his suprise his fis moved right through the kheldian and smashed into the ground leaving an enormous crater in the cavern floor.
The kheldian then released a bolt of energy at Tanner forsing him to bound out of the cave and then pounce on the kheldian. This time he hit the bieng of energy and he smashed to the floor crushed by the giant tanker elbow.
"Now do you mind telling me what your doing in my neighbores cave befor I snap your neck?" He said so coldly that if words were temperature he would have permenantly frozen somone...
It looked like Julius the troll was right about his "mixed info", that cave wasnt full of trolls, just a lone hero.
US. Avenger raced as fast as his super speed would carry him him, jumped over the fence in his way and flew over the gap that kept him from the red river and this "hero's" cave.
He droped from his flight and landed with a loud THUD. "HEY! STOP! ALL OF YOU! NOW!" but the fighting was already too deep all Avenger could hope was that they heard him. Just then a hero that had apparently fallen from another hero's attack (tanner) spotted him and charged. The hero started to swing his fist, He must be a tanker , Avenger thought. US. Avenger ducked and pushed his own fist up in a sucker punch, sending the hero flying into the air and landing on his back. The hero let out a deep "HOUGH" as he landed. "I dont want to fight you! Stop now!" but the hero wasnt interested in his story. He got up and charged again, Avenger braced himself and raised his arms in a defensive stance, but the hero never attacked him. US. Avenger looked next to himself and saw a troll on his back, heaving for air.
(by the way, US. Avenger is a tanker with super strength and fire armor)
"The Hollows was a cover up; it was really caused by Blue Steel experimenting with Foot Stomp." - Steelclaw
<-- boy
Storm Wright was about to stop Tanner, persistant little bugger, when someone had done it for him. He watch the mad man get back up. "What does it take to keep you on the ground?" The mad man charged again and it was Wright's turn. He drove his fist right into the enraged man's gut and then followed up with an uppercut onthat connected with the mans chin. He acctualy stumbled backwards and Wright backed up abit putting his hands in a classic boxing gaurd postion.
"What was that about stopping you were yelling earlier?" He asked the new fighter. "If this guys a hero then I gave him a chance to tell me." He had heard someting of what the enraged man had said earlier, something about his neighbor. Wright had to wonder why he cared so much if he was a villian of any kind and the only role he could see someone like this filling was a thug. But he wasn't about to take to many more hits while they sorted it all out.
(OOC Note: I don't know why Tanner would have stopped in your post Marksman, so I filled it in. And Storm Wright hasn't seen the Troll yet, he isn't about to take his eyes off of Tanner.)
Tanner finaly sieng the troll was filled with awful memories... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" He howled and everyone grabed their ears even the troll. Tanner turned burning red and grew in size completely forgeting about his neighbor.
He grabed the unsuspecting troll and thre him to the ground in a creater rocks flew everywhere and hit the onlooking tresspassers on their heads. Tanner began stomping the troll over and over and over. Then he threw the screaming troll into the air and slaped him to the ground like a tennes player. Then Tanner pumbled him and began scraping up dust, infact to much dust no one could see what was happening. When the dust cleared up Tanner was still holding the troll in his hand punching it in the head and then throwing it to the ground... The troll wasent breathing.
"WHY!!!! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME!!!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Tanner began returning to his ghostly white color and his remaining eye no longer looked like it was about to explode.
US Avenger backed away and looked on in astonishment. "STOP!! YOUR KILLING HIM!!" Avenger yelled, he dived for the rouge "hero" and tore his hands off of the nearly dead troll. The hero refused to give up his victim, Avenger did the only thing he could think of, he used his fist.
US Avenger balled his hand and slammed it into the hero's gut. The hero backed off just long ehough for Avenger to pull the troll away and slap an arrest teleport device on him, the troll faded away, reasurrance that the teleport device had worked and saved the nearly dead troll.
((i think you meant the troll to be dead at the end of your post but i wasnt sure))
"The Hollows was a cover up; it was really caused by Blue Steel experimenting with Foot Stomp." - Steelclaw
<-- boy
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US Avenger backed away and looked on in astonishment. "STOP!! YOUR KILLING HIM!!" Avenger yelled, he dived for the rouge "hero" and tore his hands off of the nearly dead troll. The hero refused to give up his victim, Avenger did the only thing he could think of, he used his fist.
US Avenger balled his hand and slammed it into the hero's gut. The hero backed off just long ehough for Avenger to pull the troll away and slap an arrest teleport device on him, the troll faded away, reasurrance that the teleport device had worked and saved the nearly dead troll.
((i think you meant the troll to be dead at the end of your post but i wasnt sure))
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(Actualy I did and in my last post no one stoped me. But....)
"YOU FOOL DO YOU NOT KNOW OF THE CONSIQUENCES FOR WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE!!!!???!!!!" Tanner then slaped the fool with the back of his hand and he went flieng toward the Red River.
Then he turned on his first targets. "INTRUDERS!!!! YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO PROVE YOU ARE NO THREAT AND THEN YOU ALL DIE!!!!!!" He was serious...
(this time I want you to answer becous I think the combat is getting a little out of hand)
Talon jumped back in surpise at the heros innititave with his attack, but grin as he saw the blast heading towards him, and twirled his weapon around him, and struck the blast head on. Twirling the weapon around and striking the back of his cave, he transfered its energy into the earth, and blew open an entrance to a bunch of underground caves, one path he took was paticuarly worn an used, and machines were stacked on either side, random stuff he dug up from the red river. Hopping down a hole and dissapearing from sight, the hero took his excape
Talon heard the voice of the warrior outside... he met him once before, another like him, but chose his home in a lofty building rather than a cave like him. He knew he was interested in the small things he would find here and there, some machines that washed down from the red river, and some times even artifacts that defeated Circle left before they were teleported tot he hospital, in hopes that one of their brethren would use it to help them. A slight shrug though as he heard the voice echoing through his cave, a slight grin on his face. Apparently he was about to end the battle. But no matter, He thought to himself as he made his way down the dark cave, or rather up, as the floor was ascending.
He looked up at a small light ahead, and smiled to himself. This cave path would take him just a bit north of where he was orginally attacked.
Tanner could see his neighbor Talon from the corner of his only eye. He gave him a quick jerk of the head signifiying him to duck a little while longer befor somone saw him and wired everyone up again.
"You tresspassers best leav me and anyone else who lives here be." He spoke as if he had calmed down some... SOME. Talon aperantly hadent seen him becous he still aproached the mouth of the cave.
Everyone was still pretty tense and the tensity could be felt in the air. "You best leav now. And dont come back! Or you are telling me you have a death wish?" He was serious he simply wanted some batteries and lightbulbes to power his newest find. Life in the Hollows was llike that you couldent walk 2 feet without wasting the entire day fighting somone...
(Hmm.... A little slow past week no posts lately...)
Storm Wright stared at the mad man and shook his head. I don't have time for this. He thought. He walked back to the Red River and dove in. In the water he took off his rebreather and breathed in the water and swum out to sea again. Where he ended up noone realy knows, but a grey skined man has been seen on Striga Isle not long ago. He was seen fleeing a lab and documents by a man named Dr. Joseph Deringer. To date this theft has remained a mystery.
(OOC Note: As per your request Prof, see ya.)
((Heh heh heh ok that'le do))
"Ok atleast explain what your doing here! I have to get those batteries and lightbulbes or my new gadget will never work." Tanner was becoming bored from the silence and wanted an explenation for why this kheldian and the missing shark man were there.
The hollows has been a desolate place for the past few months, buildings had collapsed into the once hollow caves under ground, pumicites, outcasts, and trolls ran through the wrecked zone of the city. Heros came and went keeping their numbers at bay, and while some entered never to be seen again, others prevailed.
None of this worried Talon, though, the warrior thought as he grabbed his water pitcher. Heros will be heros, and villans will be villans.
Moving down the rocks and dirt that was near the red river, he dipped his container into the water and slowly filled it up. Circle of thorn fanatics were constantly a pain around here, but luckly they hadn't come this far down the river.... To many trolls there. Which was a good thing. Trolls were stupid, and as long as he didn't bother them, they wouldn't bother him.
Pitcher fulled, he stood up and placed the cap on it, turning around and heading back the way he came, towards some rocks and a bit of broken concrete. It was all pretty normal, if the result of the hollowing was now normal, and not many people visited his place. If so, it was just a bound between a leap, before they soared out into the sky again.
But it was much more than it appeared.
Moving underneath two slabs of concrete, which beneath them formed a small passage way, to a partly collapsed cave, sunken in into the ground some, and rather shallow compared to the deeper ones, but sturdy all the same. Talon smiled at the entrance of his make shift home, kneeling infront of the passage way and taking the water container to pour it onto a few flowers that had bloomed their, after being planted. It hadn't rained in a while, so he took up responisbility for keeping the roses red, and the moon flowers purple.
Once watering his small flower garden had been done, he tossed the pitcher down into his cave he called a home, and looked up at the sky, dawn had just arrived. A slight frown on his face as he saw a hero flying over head, shaking his head.
Talon had what it took to become a hero. Power, will, and the correct moral, but it didn't interest him anymore.... Not any more. The only thing that interested him now was the fish in the red river, and whether or not he would have to water the plants the next morning...