Podo nodded to Chertak, willing to remain back and allow his fight between the Family boss to go on unhindered. Johnny had insulted the goblins honor and beliefs in his battle lust, turning an offer of peace into a weakness. Podo could think of no greater injustice from his teammate, Johnny was on his own.
With a snap of the mightily corded muscles in his legs, the goblin shot through the air with a mighty jump. He was unhappy at the moment, the thrill of battle flown. Chertak had been an honorable and strong opponent, but he had no doubts about who would claim victory, and no doubts that Johnny would accept no surrender. Without a weapon, the rikti warmaster would be taken down. Snarling, Podo promised himself that he would schedule a personal duel against Johnny once this fight was finished, but for now he wouldnt be foolhardy enough to put his team in jeopardy by striking him down. It simply wouldnt be the thing for a great warrior to do.
The small man came down on top of a ruined building, balancing his weight perfectly as he landed on a bit of blasted wall. Glancing about, it wasnt long before he noticed the remaining opponents, Adam and Eve. With another great leap, he cleared the distance between them and landed several yards in front of them, dropping into a roll to absorb the shock, pulling out his sword even as he did.
Let us test your mettle against my metal. Podo taunted to the largest, his eyes sparkling with inner fires.
Chertak nimbly dodged the thrown chunks of rocks and slowly made his way to the body of the Gunman that had been slain at the beginning of the fight. Jumping to the side to avoid a lamp post, Chertak snatched up the repulsor rifle and lifted it up with a smirk on his face. Then the beam hit him and he tumbled head over heels into a wall. Groaning, Chertak shoved a rock off of his chest and checked the rifle, it was still operational. Moving deeper into the building into which he had been knocked, Chertak began making his way toward Johnny from what he hoped was the rear.
OOC: Adam on Becky and Eve on the thugs. Guess Podo'll have to wait a bit.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"[censored]." Becky said as the acid hit her in the face. As Becky flew back in pain and anguish she began healing instantaniously. "DAMMIT!" Becky yelled as she looked up, "That hurt you freak!"
Becky readied her sword again, this time, full of rage and angst.
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OOC: Adam on Becky and Eve on the thugs. Guess Podo'll have to wait a bit.
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((OOC: Bah! Is there anyone left who isn't engaged? I figured the thugs were on the rikti now.))
CptCommie had no idea that Podo was about to hurl a sizable rock at high speeds towards his window. He had made no plans for such an action, as was only able to fall flat on his back as the chuck ripped through the already damage wall and slammed into the far side of the room. Pissed, but having not incured any bodily harm, he stood up, dusted himself off, and went Semenov.
"I think we may have annoyed the Goblin, Pogo or something. Keep an eye out for any new targets."
CptCommie returned to his previous location and watched The Family men hit the Rikti with a giant I-Beam. As the alien smashed into a wall, and limped off, CptCommie looked towards Iosif.
"Pull the trap, Iosif! We may be moving soon!"
Semenov ran to where his leader was standing.
"Podo went over head. We can assume he knows something we don't. Maybe where the rest of the fight is."
"Alright, we'll follow him."
Jogging down the stairs to where Iosif was just removing the last grenade and placing it back in his bag, he left the door and stuck close to the buildings. Weaving through the rubble, they managed to find Adam and Eve. Taking shelter behind a van, they would wait until the beasts became totally occupied doing something else before striking.
Becky heard movement behind her, not wanting to get caught off gaurd, she knocked the two monsters away and jumped over the rubble sword drawn, 'whatever it is, it's head is about to be split in two', Becky thought.
As Eve charged to the thugs, they smiled.
She got right on top of them, and was pulling back her arm to kill them both, when she screamed in agony.
She was knocked forward between the two gunners.
Behind where she had been stood the forgotten Buckshot, smiling, barrel smoking.
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Johnny let loose a freakish yell and began to pull at the supports of the building the Rikti had run into. He assumed it was flanking him, and accordingly began to pile rubble at the main entrance of the structure, which was behind him.
He drew back his fists, pulling from the ground the girder beam, and held it in front of him, aimed at the small pile of debris like a battering ram.
Enraged at the abomination's attempt to escape, Adam threw itself into the air and landed in front of Becky. It threw its arms wide to block her path and roared.
"YyyoooOOuUU ssHaaALl NOT esscAApeE AlLiiVeeE!!!" it gurgled as brought both hands in to squish Becky like a bug.
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Lying on the ground, Eve whipped its arms out and grabbed onto the legs of the thugs in front of it. Pulling back, Eve pulled the thugs off their feet. Then the Lesser Devoured got to its feet and started to use the pair of thugs as clubs against the Buckshot.
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Hearing the sound of crashing rocks and debris coming from in front of him, Chertak knew that his deception had failed and that his target knew he was coming. Thinking to himself, the Warmaster slung the rifle across his back and dug his fingers into the wall before him. With his strength enhanced by his power suit, Chertak managed to quickly scale the building and pulled himself through a window to see the human staring at him in shock. Knowing that he had but a moment to act, Chertak dove to the side, drawing his rifle. He came up in a crouch, fired, and then ducked behind a wall.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
((OOC: Im going to guess its Podo that Becky heard, Coldfire, but I can delete this post if Im wrong.))
Adams arms came crashing down, but Becky was done in a green blur, Podo having thrown himself and pulled the woman out of harms way. He set her down and gave her a short bow, then turned his attention to Adam.
The Lesser Devoured was an abomination, to be sure. A human twisted and perverted into something terrible by the wretched Hamidon. How many times had Podo faced similar monsters in his home, Abaddon, where the evil god Immortal spawned twisted and terrible perversions of nature through magical rite and ritual often and ceaselessly? The little warrior had been trained as a hunter of those same monsters, his skills honed to become the great protector of his tribe. He knew how a monster worked, and how to defeat them. An unthinking beast simply cannot compare to unbridled skill, no matter how powerful.
Let us show this wretched monster that it takes more than brute force to defeat a true warrior! the goblin growled to his companion. Then, to Adam, he screamed, his sword pointed at the creature, You are bested!
Podo would not accept a yield in this case.
The Buckshot screamed and dropped his weapon, knowing that accidental deaths of his brothers in the Family would mean his own. He frantically stumbled away.
One of the Gunners had reached his knife, and slashed at the tree-like wrists of his captor.
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Johnny attempted to form a gravity surge around the plasma, but it was too late. The blast knocked him into a building behind him. Clutching the large black spot on his pinstripe suit, he snarled and picked up a convieniently placed section of wall, pulling it in and attempting to crush the Rikti into its cover.
"AAaboOomMinaTIIiOn!" Adam shot back. "YyOouUU shaAlL bbEe PUurgGED!"
Planting its feet in the ground, Adam rapidly shot out a burst of acid followed by a Swarm. Both projectiles shot at Podo.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
The ball of acid came forward and Podo rolled out of the way, but didnt manage to move quite fast enough. The acid clipped his foot, burning the bottom of his boot off and singing his skin badly and making it bubble up disgustingly as it burned. Cursing, Podo stood and leaned his weight to his other foot, but he was now at a sore disadvantage.
The swarm came forward, but this time the goblin had the upper hand. Chertak had dropped his plasma pistol before when Podo had slashed his hand, and it had seemed to disappear, the rikti hadnt even seemed to notice, but only Podo knew the truth. His mechanical arm, programmed for defense and naturally a technology scavenger, had absorbed the weapon into itself, integrating itself into the pistol the whole while Podo had been scanning for a fight.
The goblin lifted his mechanical arm and it opened up, revealing a swirling mass of plasma within its core. Taking the form of a cannon, it fired forth the burst, absorbing the swarm and continuing on toward the Devoured.
Podo was already moving again, the arm spitting out the remains of the rikti technology.
Becky didn't have time to thank the little goblin. He had saved her life and she would never forget it. Becky took the bow and aimed carefully, she set up for the arrow to go into the beasts chest, where the plasma would as well, the combined should tear it up enough for Becky to be able to impale the beast.
Seeing the acid strike Podo in the leg, and watching as he stumbled after firing the Plasma bolt from his arm, CptCommie knew he was in trouble. Seeing how the Devoured had taken some serious damage before hand and walked out fine, if not angrier, he was not sure if this large attack would take it out. CptCommie reached into Iosifs bag and removed a syringe, some medical tape and wraps.
"Your not gonna actually help that guy, are you? I mean, I heard he threw a rock at you."
Frustrated with his insolence, CptCommie grabbed Iosifs shoulder and spun him around.
"Unless you feel like engaging those nightmarish beasts yourself in melee, I suggest you shut up and cover me."
Keeping low, he sprinted out from behind the van while Semenov and Iosif put even more fire onto Adam. Ducking behind two cars he reached Podo, who was still moving, though his foot still looked bad off.
"Here, this is a local anesthetic and some stuff to cover the foot. If nothing else, it should cushion it so you put a bit more weight on it."
OOC: A bow? Meh, whatever.
BIC: Adam shrieked and took both plasma shot and arrow right in the chest. The Devoured clapped one hand over the gaping hole in its chest as though pained but it kept moving toward Podo. Lumbering around a car, Adam saw the goblin and yet another abomination. Shrieking again, though this time in anger, Adam lunged forward and tried to flatten them both at once.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Podo bent to take the medicine and thank the man, but Adam had refused to relent. Unable to dodge due to his foot, the goblin found only one choice. Using his robotic arm, he threw the man to the side and pulled out his sword with his other arm. Bracing it with both hands, he held the blade in front of him, forcing the Devoured to impale itself on the sword as it bared down on Podo and buried him under his great weight.
((I think he gave her a short *Bow* as in gesture.))
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((I think he gave her a short *Bow* as in gesture.))
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OOC: Ssshhhhh, don't ruin the surprise.
BIC: Driving itself onto the blade, Adam reached forward and grabbed Podo's head. Squeezing, the mutated human attempted to pop the goblin's head like a melon.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Johnny strained and grunted, his cybernetics working at full force. The Rikti was holding back his crusher for now, but he was slowly doing what many considered impossible for Family technology to do.
The Rikti looked up.
The building behind it was slowly inching towards it.
"Eat.....
.....This....." Johnny grunted out as his awe-inspiring attack moved forward towards the trapped Rikti.
Being thrown aside by Podo, CptCommie rolled to a halt. He turned and saw Adam with his hands on Podos head. Taking this chance, he ran up and stabbed the end of his rifles bayonet into Adams disfigured face, then proceeded to empty the entire clip into his head, holding the bayonet in place. Iosif and Semenov had seen this, and began to fire into the back and side of Adam as the manuevered to help their leader.
With the soldiers helping Podo, Becky yelled in battle lust and flew at the beast, as she flew down at the monster her blade new it's spot, it would tear through it's back, and then she could move on to bigger challenges.
((>.> <.< Bow...))
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Coldfire sat in the medical area watching a screen of the fight.
"Becky, you're doing great..." he said as the nurse injected him with morphine. "Don't get addicted to this stuff." She said with a laugh as she walked off. Coldfire noticed a man walk in. Hispanic, with two soldiers next to him. It took a moment to register, but it was his old friend Carlos. "SHIELD!" Cold yelled with a smile. "Hey, that's the first time I've seen you smile in a while!" Carlos said as he pointed his men to the registration desk. "You planning on entering?" Cold asked with a smirk. "Yeah, looks like you already got the hell beat out of you earlier so I wanted to see how I'd fair." Carlos said. "Becky is in there, her team is mopping up the enemies. I think there is another round coming up soon, you should..." Coldfire was cut off by the sight of a man walking in. He was disfigured. Chest covered by a tattered black shirt, his pants torn and muddy. His right arm's flesh was torn and revealed a robotic one underneath. His face was pealing off. He had seen him before. He was the man that worked under Charcold. Drone of War. "Looks like I know who my opponent is..." Carlos said with a grim look on his face. "Careful" Cold said as Drone summoned a huge robot and a smaller, but still bulky one.
((Note, Carlos is a merc/traps MM, but he is good. He wears black military clothes full out, nothing more. He has two Spec Ops with him, Markus and Hernando. Drone is a bots/traps MM and his bots are the Assbot is Ymer, and the protector is Blood Asp.))
Roaring in victory, Eve threw the Gunner with the knife at the backpedaling Buckshot. Then Eve grabbed the second Gunner and started bending him in two. If the guy couldn't get out of the hold he'd be snapped like a twig.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Roaring in pain, Adam spun around to crush the pesky abominations that were filling its back with lead. The Devoured didn't even see Becky charging it into it was too late. Becky's sword slid smoothly through Adam's throat and out the other side. One hand jerking up to grab the hero's arm in a death grip, Adam gurgled once more and then slumped to the ground.
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Chertak cursed as he saw an entire building moving towards him through a hole in the wall that had been trying to crush him. If the humans had had power like this when his people had invaded, the Rikti would have been much worse off. Chertak would have rather had the humans never invent such technology, otherwise this wouldn't be happening to him right now. Putting his thoughts aside for later, Chertak kicked at the hole that he could see the building approaching from at managed to make it wide enough for him to slip through. Reorienting himself, Chertak dashed around the corner of the pair of smushed walls and took a bead on Johnny.
Stepping quickly to keep ahead of the building behind him and ready to dodge at a moments notice, Chertak started shooting at the Consigliere as fast as his rifle would cycle.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Johnny yelped with pain and lost his grip on the massive structure. He flew backwards, phased.
Chertak looked up. It had backfired. He had knocked his opponent down for now....
...But the building was falling down on him!
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The Gunner screamed, his spine breaking. The knifing gunner rolled off of the recovering buckshot and swore at the devoured, smacking his last clip into his tommygun and firing. The Buckshot was out of ammo. He threw the gun at the beast in frustration and drew a .50 DEagle, smacking the beast with heavy fire.
Goro decided not to mess with this fight. Mainly because he found a nice litle House untouched by battle that had a nice little stove that he heated up some tea. Sitting far above the arena in a tall skyscraper. The battle wagged on. "Cherrio good show."