Coldfire's eyes flared up as he looked down at the gaurd, "And if I kill him?" "You get banned." The gaurd replied with a snort. Cold walked into the room and never looked at his supposed partner, he would take him down when he had the chance, in the real fight to come.
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Charcold laughed inwardly. He had paid of the arena to make him and Coldfire partners so as to make him angrier. "To bad I have to give up Becky soon. She was so...beautiful." Charcold said. Coldfire held in his rage, a sign Charcold welcomed.
With an almost inaudible sigh, the door in front of the two Cold's slid open, revealing the smaller arena that this had all started in. After stepping out onto the sands, the crowd started cheering and the door slid back shut.
"And we have a pair of returning fighters from yesterday, folks! The villainous Charcold teams up with his heroic twin, Coldfire! It looks like today is a good day for rivals forced to compete together! Give a big welcome for the second team, brought to you by the Master of Mayhem himself!"
The door opposite Charcold and Coldfire slid open and a massive, lumbering, metallic figure stepped out. Behind it was a much more lithe, agile looking creature with bloodlust burning in his eyes.
"Straight from the Rogue Isles and the armies of Lord Recluse himself, I bring you Black Scorpion and Captain Mako!"
The crowd roared even louder as Black Scorpion flexed his tail menacingly and Mako's claws twitched.
"You better hold up your end, you rusting bucket of bolts," Mako hissed as he crouched down to an attack position.
"And you better stay out of my way, you @#$%ing fish-face," Scorpion replied as power fed into his arm cannon, causing it to glow red.
"Let's get it on!"
OOC: Home team gets first move. 
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 snorts in approval at his foes' cunning, and moves his men from the spa...
Coldfire looked at Mako knowing he was the weaker of the two, "Distract Scorpion." Cold yelled as he rushed at Mako Ice Sword ready as Charcold ran at Scorpion with his fists aflame.
OOC: Btw, the only patron I've fought so far has been Ghost Widow so I don't know Mako's and Scorpion's powers that well. But I have fought a copy of Scorpion and I think I can fake Mako's style well enough. And while Kaiser is busy with these two, I'll set up a match for everybody else.
BIC: "Distract this!" yelled Black Scorpion as he raised his left arm and fired a blast of energy at Charcold. Charcold dodged easily but he had a harder time avoiding a tail blast that fired almost immidiately afterward. Charcold managed to keep rushing and lunged at Scorpion but the wily patron had a trick in store.
Shifting himself to one side, Charcold just barely brushed by Scorpion and then was knocked sprawling behind the brute by a whack to his back from the tail.
"Too easy," said Scorpion scornfully as he charged up another hand blast.
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"Let's see what you've got, little guppy," said Mako as he charged at Coldfire as well. The shark mutant took the ice sword in his shoulder but shrugged off the pain and grabbed Coldfire around the neck, preparing to bite him with his extremely powerful jaws and finish the fight quickly.
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A guard stuck his head into the spa and took a quick look at the several female figures that were in there.
"Anybody who's up for a fight, we've got some Arachnos down in the main arena that're bored and want to fight. There's a lot of em so I think we can fit in as many fighters as we want. If you want in, just come on down to the basement with all the elevators in it."
After saying all this, the guard left to go to other meeting places and said more-or-less the same message in the bar, the work-out room, and the repair bay.
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.
Ryan didn't say a word and got up and headed over to the enteranceof the Main arena, Goro followed the sameexample, even if they wern't in the same room.
Coldfire shoved his hand into Mako's mouth. Mako thought he had just made the most moronic move ever, but he was wrong. Dead wrong. Coldfire unleashed a massive sub zero blast into his mouth freezing it open. "GAH! AHHL KHHAAL YHAOO!" Mako tried to say trying to break the ice to no avail. "I have about 30 seconds. I think I'll take Scorpion while I wait." Cold said as he did a backflip and landed in front of Scorpion taking the hand blast unexpectantly and flying back into the wall. As he got up, his sadistic conterpart did as well. "Go for the tail." Charcold whispered. "Right." Cold said. Cold launched himself forward and turned invisible as Scorpion tried to crush him. The hammer like fist missed but out from behind where Coldfire was Charcold charged up his blaze attack and ran forward to slam the fist into Scorpion's face as Cold attempted to tear off his tail.
((BTW, think of Blaze as a shotgun blast of fire.))
((Double post.))
"Stop." Reikoff says to the guard.
"Are there Fortunatas or Mu with them?"
The guard paused and then shrugged.
"I don't know. I'd go ask Carson, my boss. He's over by the main desk right now," he said and then left to complete his rounds.
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"Damn it, fish-head!" bellowed Scorpion as he whipped his tail back and forth, Coldfire trailing from it like a flag flapping in a strong wind. The power armored brute scowled at Charcold as he kept thrashing his tail around and then suddenly grinned. That was the only warning Charcold had before Mako slammed into his side.
The villain fell to the ground and Mako pushed off and somersaulted through the air to land on his feet in a crouch.
"I mean it when I say I'm going to kill someone," Mako hissed at Charcold, not knowing that he was speaking to the wrong twin. Diving at the prone villain, Mako started clawing up a storm, reveling in his trademark bloodlust.
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.
Charcold got up and as Mako flew at him with rage in his eyes, he took of his sunglasses and grabbed him with his other hand. Mako clawed at him as Charcold squeezed harder and move him closer to his face. "Note the scar, fool." Charcold said as he put his shades back on and slammed Mako head first into the dirt. Meanwhile, the unseen Coldfire launched himself up into the air while Scorpion was still looking for him. He lower his level of invisibility to stealth and fired one of his single most powerful attacks at Scorpions tail, Blazing Bolt.
((Snipe. Oh, and two differences between the two, single slash mark scar over right eye on Charcold, and he also has one of the chestplate skulls. The smaller mettalic one with fangs.))
Reikoff had his men move with haste to the main desk.
"Describe to me the contending Arachnos forces."
The Guard Commander, Carson, lowered the blast plate of his Crey Power Tank suit and took a close look at Reikoff and his Malta.
"Heh, you guys. I can tell you a bit. It's mainly Wolf Spiders and Tarantulas, with a couple of the other types thrown in. Captain Farfield and his Crab Spiders were also forced to participate for the 'glory of their patron'. That's all I can tell you, so either go fight or bugger off."
Carson snapped the visor shut and patted the assault rifle he had slung at his side.
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"Whatever," snarled Mako as he grabbed Charcold by his thighs and threw him at the wall. Charcold slammed into the wall and Mako jumped to his feet. Shoving his hand at Charcold, Mako summoned up some of the ancient powers he had unlocked and fired a pack of spirit sharks as him.
"God damn it!" cursed Scorpion as his tail took the blow and went limp. But Coldfire was now visible and Scorpion spotted him quickly. Pivoting at the waist, Scorpion backhanded Coldfire and sent him flying into the wall. His fury aroused, Scorpion's intelligence won a momentary victory. Ignoring Coldfire for a moment, Scorpion leveled his hand cannon at Charcold and fired once to complement Mako's shark attack.
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.
"Anyone have a suggestion?"
"The Tarantulas. Some are psychic, and the brains are already removed...Makes things easier..."
"Good."
"Sign us up."
"Dammit!" Charcold yelled as he dove to the side, immediately getting back up and running at Mako with his fist ablaze. Coldfire jumped up and launched himself onto Scorpion, landing on his shoulders and charging his inferno. Even if he could knock him off, the inferno would still get him.
"Touchy, touchy," said Mako as he grabbed Charcold's hand with his own, and oblivious to the pain, held tight and began spinning and the villain around and around before throwing him at Black Scorpion. Scorpion, for his part, decided that Mako had the right idea and so instead of trying to dislodge Coldfire, he swept his arm up and hit the hurtling Charcold straight up into the air. Then the Inferno attack slammed into Scorpion's face and he flailed wildly about.
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"Just walk on down to the elevators," Carson said. "There'll be another pair of guards down there waiting for whoever wants to fight."
OOC: Is that it? Just Kaiser, Soviet, and Shadow?
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.
Charcold regained his balance and looked down at Mako coughing up a little blood. "You wanna play rough shark man, fine!" Chacold said flying straight down at high speeds. As Mako tried to dodge Coldfire knocked him right back into Charcold's path and jumped out of the way. Charcold smashed Mako into the ground with enough force to crack steel.
The Maltans approach the elevator.
"We're ready." Reikoff tells the guard.
(Don't forget about Goro)
Whatsay we join our newest companion in his battles! Podo said excitedly to Agent Immolate as he leapt from the side of the lava pool and back to the rack, where he put his clothes and sword back on. With a pointy smile that looked odd on a goblin face accented with black eye makeup, the little man beckoned for his elven ally to follow him. Shalt thou accompany me to the lowest arena, friend?
"You hit hard," conceeded Mako as he threw Charcold off him and rolled his neck to work out a crick. There was a massive bruise on his chest from Charcold's punch and the mutant seemed to favor that side a little bit but otherwise he was unharmed.
"But there is a reason why I am one of Recluse's lieutenants and why you're just another small fry!" Mako shouted as he tore off after Charcold and dealt him a long slash down one side. Charcold hit back with firey fist but Mako rolled with the punch and kicked Charcold between the legs.
"I am so pissed off right now!" shouted Black Scorpion as he came up behind Coldfire and smacked him. Coldfire managed to block the blow but he was blown back a few feet anyway. Scorpion then took one step back to brace himself and leveled his hand cannon at the hero.
"Die!" he roared as he fired.
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"What the hell is taking them so long?" wondered the Bane Spider Executioner in charge of the Arachnos forces assigned to Mako and Black Scorpion. His question was directed to a Crab Spider Webmaster that was standing next to him with a very resigned look about him.
"Any number of things," answered Captain Farfield. "There could be a mechanical failure with the elevators or they might be having trouble getting enough people to sign up to fight us."
"Ah, yes. That must be the case. After all, you in their right minds would dare challenge the best soldiers that Arachnos has to offer," stated the Executioner confidently.
"Whatever you say, sir," sighed Farfield.
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.
Coldfire created a wall of ice which the blast crashed into, as it came down, Cold flew out and shoved one ice covered fist into the cannon, "That thing is getting on my nerves!" Cold yelled as he flew back throwing a volley of fire at the metal incased man. Meanwhile, the blow to the crotch did nothing, Mako mockingly said, "Coming up a little short?" "No, but in our line of work, you learn to wear a nice cup." Charcold said as he reared back and slammed his fist into Mako's face.
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Whatsay we join our newest companion in his battles! Podo said excitedly to Agent Immolate as he leapt from the side of the lava pool and back to the rack, where he put his clothes and sword back on. With a pointy smile that looked odd on a goblin face accented with black eye makeup, the little man beckoned for his elven ally to follow him. Shalt thou accompany me to the lowest arena, friend?
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'Certainly, I would be glad to" Agent sung happily. "Though these Arachnos are not my sworn enemy, I'd be honored to fight by your side in battle" Sparks and flames puffed breifly from her eyes at the mention of the word battle.
Rising from the lava AI dismissed the mischievious Fire Imps with a wave of her hand and they sunk harmlessly into the lava.
Agent's scarlet and gold robes returned billowing out from her body like shaped fire on air currents of heat as she walked to Podo. The waves of heat dissipated as she reached Podo and her robes settled into proper place.
The goblin warrior and the strange elf girl walked quickly with excitement to the Arena lifts for the next combat.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
I pray my companion and myself are not too late! Podo said to a guard at the lift. Shalt we enter to lift, or are we truly doomed to spend our rather young morn in boredom? Wilt thou permiss me to enter this battle with Agent Immolate, my friend and ally?
The guard by the door leading to the other deployment room looked up as Coldfire approached and then stepped forward to block his way.
"Sorry, man. We've already got the other two competitors lined up. You and your twin there are fighting together," the man said.
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Reikoff heard mocking laughter as his operatives found nothing to aim at.
"I could do many things, most of them quite unpleasant. But all I ask for you to avoid any of those fates is to keep your greedy hands to yourselves, at least in public areas such as these."
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.