Reikoff shrugged. They needed supers, not bots.
He and his men entered the lift, appearing in a narrow hallway. They could hear the others talking, so they must have started close. He decided he'd wait to hear Chertak giving orders, and meet up with them.
One of his TacOps silently de-fused a small bomb on the wall.
"They weren't kidding about the traps."
Drone walked past the two groups once they entered the maze. He rounded a corner and an explosion could be seen from every area of the maze. The Assault Bot, Ymer, had just swarm striked a bot. "This is pathetic." Drone said to himself as he send his bots a few feet ahead of him and they began to traverse the maze.
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Carlos reached the maze and had a quick thought. He activated his jump boots and tried to get an arial view, once he got to the max height of the walls, a force field knocked him back down. "Dammit!" Carlos yelled in pain. "Commander Del Suego!" Lt. Hernandez yelled as he went over to help his superior up. "I'm alright, lets all hit stealth and try and get through this thing in one piece..." Carlos said as he began his tred through the labyrinth.
Ha ha ha, perfect perfect perfect! Nobody really knows my true power, I've got this match in the bag. Rai thought to himself while on lift number 46.
"Hernandez, scout ahead and see if you can find a good path. Lorenzo, take the right path, I think I heard a few bots, try and take them out." Carlos said as his men and his self tried to navigate the maze. As Lorenzo turned to corner he was confronted by a huge robot. The likes of which looked nothing like the ones they saw being lifted up. "[censored]." Lorenzo said as it set it's sights on him. At the last moment, he jumped out of the way. Carlos saw, as much as felt, the explosion and helped Lorenzo up. The two began running after Hernandez. Once he saw them, he didn't stop to ask, they just ran.
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Ymer's usual over zelousness made him shoot at the first sight of movement. He had fired at a soldier, one of Carlos'. Suddenly, Diomedes men ran up to him. "Reporting for duty, sir!" said one. "Good, follow me and keep an eye out for those trying to sneak up from behind." Drone said as he ordered Ymer and Blood Asp to follow Carlos' men.
((What does everyone think of Drone, pretty scary dude?))
Ryan's lift brought him into a narrow hallway with tall walls surronding him. Looking to his left and Right. Walls were blocking his path to Goro and or Rai. With a little sigh of dissapiontment Ryan took of running in the sraightline untill he reached his first T junctoin, and with out thinking jumped and tried to phase shift through the wall. Well, that ended pretty badly. The wall acted like a normal wall and stood strong. Ryan smashed his head on the wall and landed on his [censored]. "Damn it, must be enchanted. I hate that."
Ryan stood up and dusted himself off And took off to the left.
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Goro ran forward and fast as he could not taking any time to look for traps trick or even opponents. Well, that was till he crashed head in into a group of drones.
When Goro looked down he saw a drone already badly damaged from him ramming it, then to the side two other robots. Quickly swinging his hammer down on the first he crushed it spraying Hydrolic fluid, oil, and coolant everywhere.
Then swinging his hammer back uptearin off the bots head to his left. And again fluids splurted everywhere.
But, unfortunatle by this time the last Droid was able to attack back. Fireing a series of laser blasts into the back of goro. The momentary pain not only made him drop his gigantic hammer but, activated his rage. With his slightly increased streangth He turned and cought the droids head in his grip. Lifting it off the ground he heard a series of beeps and boops. Goro took his time crushing the machines head. Soon, the liquips were apearing betweens goro's fingers as the robots head armor failed. Then Goro's hand made a fist. Dropping what was left of te droid and grabbed his hammer, Timeto be moving again, he thought as his rage subsided
Ymer turned a corner and saw another metahuman. He scanned him and came up with the name Ryan the Shadow. "Statement: Target sighted." Ymer said as he turned and fired a huge barrage of missles at the small man.
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Carlos and his men escaped for now but they didn't know for how long. The robots had met with another person and were assaulting him. As the group moved on, Hernandez patched up a wound on Carlos' arm. "This is far to dangerous. If you get into a bad situation, I want you to mediport IMMEDIATELY." Carlos said in a serious tone.
"Ok, this'll be a piece of cake, I'll just go under it." Rai said to himself as he dug into the ground with his powers..."[censored] I shoulda known the walls would go down into the ground too...O well, I'll just go the long way" Rai Hinomu
Agent Immolate listened to the Commanders speech without any visible emotion, at its end she begins walking to the nearest available lift.
On the way there out of the corner of her eye she catches site of Andraxus his eyes following her intently.
Rage, fury, anger and vengeances boil up inside of her seeking an outlet. Her skin burst into flames the temperature around her rising sharply in temperature. Jets of flames shoot out from her eyes momentarily shaped like hands of flame reaching for Andraxuss neck.
Before they clear half the distance she pulls them back, and reigns in the flames.
The rules of this place prohibit this but more importantly Rax lead her here and judging from the robes on this mage he outranked Rax. The time will come soon enough to burn them all Thorns will pay Thorns will burn!!!
She improves her pace toward the lift her eyes not leaving Andraxus, flames from her eyes licking her golden bangs while white smoke pours from her lips.
The lift climbs up into the maze,
The maze spreads out before her yet she hasnt moved from the lift.
30 seconds pass... 45 seconds... 2 minutes then finally slowly she gingerly steps off of the lift.
She chants a few words and her robes are replaced by highly ornate elven armour, she starts walking slowly to the only available hallway in front of her, flames simmer from her body.
Following the twist and turns she eventually comes to a T, she turns left and continues walking at a slow deliberate pace......
Deep inside of her a vengeful flame visualizes melting through the concrete and steel below her and incinerating the mage his screams echoing like music that makes her flames dance.
Smirking she walks on
.slow
patiently
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
Ryan didn't even move and the missles flew right through him. Ymer quickly went over its programing to find the reason it's missles failed. He came up with several solutions but went with the most likely, Phase Shift. And Ryan slowly unsheathed Akujiki, then he turned to face Ymer.
Then Ryan attacked, He started sprinting down the hall way at full speed. Ryan came into close range fast, really fast. Then attacked with a horizontal swip towards Ymer's gut.
After a couple of moments walking through the maze, a few drones came around the corner. The tiny drones puased then made a statement.
"Target Aquired. Destroy!"
Two tiny guns came out the side and opened fire. They only chattered away for nearly a second until they were torn apart by gun fire. Legs were clipped off, the guns ripped, and bodies punctured. Leaking hydraulic fuel and spastically limping, they continued on saying.
"Des-Des-Destoying!"
Feliks just walked by the tiny robots and continued down the maze.
Suddenly, Blood asp put forth a huge shield and knocked back the assaulting metahuman. "Mocking Statement: Can't touch this." Blood asp said as he and the larger bot readied their weapons, it had been 30 seconds since the man had activated his phase shift. "Diabolical Speech: Mua ha ha! You cannot stand against us." Ymer said as the two soldiers ran out followed by Drone. One of the soldiers pulled a chaingun over his shoulder and they all got set up in line. They would open fire in...3...2...
(Errmmm.... just to tell youmy Phase shift can be activated when ever. Ryan just doesn't like to do it in fights unless it dire. And Also He is really weak against psycics and certain types of magic)
The soilder opened fire unleashing a [censored] load of bullets in Ryan's direction. The smell of gun powder filled the room as did smoke. The loud gun shots ecoed down all the corridors and hit the back of the wall.
Blood asp was confused though. He heard no death screams and not the sound of a bullet's heiting flesh, or anything at all. He waited a few minutes as all the smoke cleared to see nothing. nothing at all Ryan had disapeared as it would seem. Then with his metallic voice; "Question: Where are you"
Blood asp's scanner picked up nothing. Then a loud scream of one of his soilders. Blood asp turned to see that one of his soilder's foolishly had his leg outside the force field and now it was detached.
OOC: Ack! Bad Soviet! I'm supposed to start things! *Hits Soviet with newspaper* Sigh...Now I'm going to have to re-plan things. Consider yourselves all up in the maze now if you haven't gotten there already.
BIC: Stepping lightly, Chertak and his men slowly advanced through the maze. Shimmering shields covered all five Rikti thanks to the force field tech that the Guardians specialized in. Already those shields had been tested by several trip mines, a spike trap, and a large group of the small robots called Spiderlings. Hefting his repulsor rifle in the air, Chertak signaled for his men to stop moving. After they froze, Chertak clearly heard heavy footfalls coming his way. Seeing as how the path he was on intersected like the bottom of a T to the corridor that the other person was on, Chertak had the Guardians step forward and ready their pistols. The instant the fighter barreled past, Chertak's men would open fire and make him wish that he had never come to the Coliseum.
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The trio of droids raced down one hallway and skidded around another turn in their haste. They kept running until another turn came up, at which point they slowed down instead of risking a collision with the wall. The lead droid turned to move down the next corridor and died with its arm half-raised to fire. The other two droids died just as quickly and Reikoff's Malta stepped through the smoking remains.
Ahead of them, the assassin droid catalouged its opponants and carefully drew an EMP grenade from its harness. If the machine was not careful it could destroy itself with this weapon. Cocking its arm back to throw, the assassin chucked the grenade at the pair of Hercules Titans and then ducked back around a corner, planting its back against a wall and eagerly anticipating the coming explosion.
OOC: HK-47 FTW!!!
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.
[Agent Immolate, in the maze]
Agent continued her lazy stroll through the maze. Humming an elfish tune to her self along the way.
She had reached several dead ends having to backtrack here and there she marked each dead end passage by burning a elven sigil into the wall <different elven sigil each time>.
Changing songs after a few minutes she thought she might be gaining a false sense of security, with a bat of an eyelash her flames intensified as waves of heat poured from her in every direction.
Up at the T intersection ahead was a single bot, it hovered at an odd angle showing some obvious signs of battle damage. AI continued walking at her slow deliberate pace.
At 50 feet what remained of the bots sensors kicked and it whirled to face her. Its first burst from the mini turret was wildly off, it noticed this and used this data to correct its sites. The second burst racked across Agents chest, with no change to her pace she continued to advance.
It fired again, and again the bullets melting before they struck covering her armour in molten lead.
The bot sensed the threat from the waves of heat washing over it as AI closed the distance. It set itself in destruct-mode and whirled its servos to collide with the inbound target.
The massive explosion was deafening fire flooded down the corridor and split off to follow the T intersection. Walking though the smoke AI immerged on the other side, the spirit inside her raged against so unworthy of an opponent her flames grew brighter and hotter as she continued her song, and continued her stroll.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
Caper, making sure to follow the rules, teleported ten feet forward with every step he took, just fading out and back in farther along his chosen path. Doing this, he was speeding through the maze quite easily, and he had to wonder if this place may just be a bit too amateur for him. The secret agent had been in mazes before, what evil genius didnt have one? He doubted this would be any more dangerous.
He heard footfalls ahead and deftly stepped to the side of a trip mine, which was beeping ever-so-subtly, but enough for him to pick up with his incredible senses. A telltale whrrr told Caper that the opponents ahead were carrying plasma weaponry.
The super powered secret agent smiled. He knew which group would be carrying plasma weapons. The rikti. Chuckling to himself, he teleported directly into the intersection without his weapons drawn. A barrage of crackling energy greeted him, but he quickly teleported away back around the corner, mapping out their positions in his head. Hed gotten a good glance and was almost sure where each alien was.
Without warning and without a sound, Caper appeared in the middle of the rikti battalion, his pistols drawn and already firing.
Chertak's eyes widened when the hero evaded the plasma blasts with a teleport. Shooting a glance at Eok, the Mentalist, the other Rikti shrugged and then grimaced. The Mentalist dropped to one kneee and held his hand to his temple just as Caper teleported in their midst. One Guardian went down immidiately, hands clutching at a bloody wound blown into his side. The other two Guardians were mostly protected by their shields and suffered only minor wounds. Chertak's thick armor and force shield also deflected much of the pistol's power but the Warmaster winced a bullet grazed his cheek.
The pair of Guardians hurridly backed up, knowing that their commander would need as much space as he could get. And indeed Chertak did, for he dropped his rifle and pulled out his Rikti warblade, the massive weapon almost as tall as he was. At the same time, Eok sent a blast of mental energy at the hero, attempting to immobilize him with illusionary pain, allowing Chertak enough time to strike.
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Behind CptCommie's advance, a harsh clicking noise could be heard and the bright, sourceless lighting around the mercenary started dimming until it seemed to be twilight. Then the clicking noise came from all around and a swarm of Spiderlings descended upon the villain.
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Around a corner in front of Agent, a huge robot stepped out and faced her. The machine raised a pair of arms that looked suspiciously like a pair of fire hoses and took aim at the extra-dimensional elf. A loud whir could be heard in the sudden silence as the robot's single eye zoomed in on its target.
"Fire based powers detected," the robot said in a high pitched voice at odds with its massive body. "Extinguishing."
Twin giant jets of water gushed out of the hose arms and straight at the hero.
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.
Reikoff's instincts kicked in. He dropped to the floor, performing a swirling kick which knocked the grenade back to the assassin. It exploded nearby the droid, annihilating all of its systems.
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As the last Malta ceremoniously walked on top of the assassin droid, the Engineer began to pick some sort of plasma on acoustics. Realizing that this meant the Rikti, Reikoff had his men gather around the Gunslinger chief.
They teleported ten feet, then again, and then finally, they appeared at the end of the small hallway and saw the Rikti. Immediately recognizing Caper and what was happening, Reikoff yelled to his sapper, whom quickly fired the sap rifle into the group. The Rikti, being naturally enhanced, would not be affected, but it should hold caper long enough for the Titan to perform its capturing move.
The hulking machine opened its rocket pods, but instead of missiles it launched a small cloud of gas grenades into the area ahead.
In an act of pure fury, Drone activated his scanner eye and saw the invisible man, without a hitch, he grabbed him by the throat and activated a jammer, no matter what source of power he used to do so, he could not phase shift out of this. "Humans are so inafficient..." Drone said as he order the medic to tend to the Commando. Drone reached into his pocket and stuck a chip into the mans arm. "This will make you die. It is a poison agent that will cause your heart to burst. The only cure is in my chest cavity. You have 20 minutes to get it out of me, and quite frankly, I believe you are screwed. You have no way of healing or hiding yourself with this thing in, so you must rely on brute strength. But, can you take on Ymer and Blood asp?" Drone said with a grin as he threw the man down. He ran off. Drone sent his two robotic menaces after him. "You two, get ready, we leave, now." Drone said as he called forth a small robot and a portable force field generator.
((That's what you get for cutting his leg off!))
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Carlos had taken out at least seven squads of those arena bots. He had met up with the rock man Goro and moved on. Hernandez had been struck by a sniper bullet from who knows where. "Rest, we will move out in five." Carlos said as he set up a triage beacon to help heal their wounds.
((How about some action for Carlos?))
As Feliks walked down the corridor, the clicking was getting progressively more obnoxious. Spinning about he saw a few shadowy legs dart into darkness. On impulse he fired, his round piffing into the dirt. Soon all three were seeing small metallic legs from all angles, the group resorting to untrained spray and pray in panic. Then the clicking, and the legs vanished. Suspecting a mental attack, the three were about to move again when a wave of tiny torsos trampled from all directions.
Firing into the mass, the three each emptied clips into the advancing menace, the weak drones falling with the firepower. However the numbers were great, and the trio soon were back-to-back emptying full auto magazines at the front spiders. Feliks shouted to be heard over the roar of gunfire and tiny legs.
"IOSIF! GRENADES!"
The frightened private removed two White phosphorous grenades, slinging them into the pack before resuming his fire.
OOC: I am currently having a talk with Kaiser about his post. Please do not reply if you are effected by it at this time. Thank you. And Ryan, no more lopping off of limbs unless its a robot.
EDIT: Ok, we're all good. Continue about your normal business of killing each other.
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: Well since technically I'm not effected by it, immo go on about my business.
"Well, so far this is a walk in the park *shoots droid in the face* I'm suprised I didn't run into Ryan *shoots another droid* or Goro *rips arm off dead droid and uses it to kill another* oh well, makes it all the more easy for me to win."
Caper grunted as open wounds appeared all over his body and his nerve endings began to burn as though they were aflame. Damnable rikti tricksters. Fighting in the rikti war had taught him a bit about the mind powers they held, and while he knew they were dangerous no matter how experienced you were, this simply wasnt the type of trickery that would phase him.
Chertaks blade came down and Caper teleported behind the alien, sights set on the things head. He was just about to fire when he heard a click from behind him, the click of a weapon that was most certainly not plasma based.
Cursing himself for letting the mind tricks distract him from hearing the Maltans footsteps, the secret agent tried to teleport again, but it was too late. The sapper beam hit him and disrupted his powers completely, even bringing his senses down to a normal humans level, which was similar to going deaf and blind to the super.
Backup plans, backup plans, backup plans.
Caper yanked a device that looked much like a drill from his belt and aimed in back at the T-bend, firing and sending the end right into the wall, spinning madly. It hit the metal and dug in, the shot several tinier drills in to secure a hold.
The gas grenades hit just as the grappling hook began to pull Caper forward, and the secret agent quickly wrapped the line around one hand as his body began shutting down. With a muttered, Have fun with that the super cascaded down the hall and rolled around the corner and he released, in a daze and hoping the two groups wouldnt be happy to see each other.
Coughing at the noxious smell of the gas, Chertak motioned for his men to continue chasing the super. As the Mentalist and pair of unwounded Guardians staggered through the smoke after Caper, Chertak turned toward Reikoff and his Malta. Chertak thanked the mercenaries with a shallow bow which turned into a kneel to help his wounded man into a sitting position.
"My thanks: Commander Reikoff," Chertak said as he slapped a quick seal armor bond onto the wound. The Guardian hissed in pain but then stood up, favoring his wounded side slightly.
"Now: I am: Sure that you: Wish to: Aquire: That super: So let us: Go," Grabbing his discarded rifle, Chertak shouldered it and stalked off after his other men, the Guardian following.
Ahead, Eok and the two Guardians had found the discarded drill bit and were looking down the corridor in both directions.
"Where: Do you think: It went?" asked a Guardian nervously.
Eok slapped him on the back of the head to shut him up and concentrated. After a moment, the Mentalist opened his eyes and pointed down the right hallway.
"It has: Escaped to the: Right: You remain here," Eok said, pointing at the nervous one. "Remain here and: Inform our: Warmaster: Which way: We have gone."
Pulling out his pistol, Eok hurried after the wounded but still very dangerous super. After a resigned shrug, the Guardian followed.
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As CptCommie and his team blazed away at the swarming Spiderlings, the attack began coming heavily from one direction. Without even realizing it, the mercenaries were being herded to a specific point. At that point, a trap door opened underneath their feet and sent them plummeting down a tunnel. At the bottom of the tunnel was a pit lined with rusty looking spikes. But moments before they came to an untimely end, there was a flash of light and they all came tumbling out of a panel in the wall that had swung aside right in front of Carlos and his men. A casacde of Spiderlings followed them.
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As Goro caved in the skull of yet another ineffective combat drone, the brute sighed and wondered where the real challenges were. And as if in answer of his thoughts there was a flash of light strong enough to dazzle his vision and then standing before him was a Clockwork Assembler Prince. The Clockwork seemed almost as surprised to see Goro as Goro was to see it but it quickly recovered and a pair of Cogs dropped out of its torso manufactory. Sparking and grinding, the pair of minion Clockwork threw bolts of electricity at Goro while the Prince took several lumbering steps back and wound up the factory again.
OOC: There some action for ya, Carlos. And is there anybody that I missed?
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- come on kel I could take him, please I'll be fine, this would be a great time to show the powers that I will later develop in supervillain 101. So, can I let it stand as it is)
CptCommie walked over and grabbed the number nine of a lift. Stepping on with his two followers, he slided close the gate in front.