Ryan entered the Arena. He watched as Goro sunk slighty into the loose sand. Looking over at the many Arcnose. "Good, many for the feeding."
The guard looked down at Podo and shrugged.
"I just sent up a rock dude and some guy with a sword. I think they could use whatever help they could get. Just hop on and I'll send you up."
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The lower arena was once again configured as a city scape. Except instead of some ruined, war torn version of Paragon City, it appeared as a slightly barren looking Steel Canyon. The road behind Ryan and Goro shimmered slightly to show that it was the boundry of the arena and streets ran off to the left and right. Ahead was a very tall skyscraper. Also, a pair of large red numbers hung in the air before the two fighters. They read 10 and the guard had told them the fight would start when they reached zero. So far, the numbers were not counting down.
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OOC: I'll get the patrons later in another post after I've gotten some sleep. Night!
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.
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The guard looked down at Podo and shrugged.
"I just sent up a rock dude and some guy with a sword. I think they could use whatever help they could get. Just hop on and I'll send you up."
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With a hop skip and a bounce Agent landed lightly on the platform, smiling cutely.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
Podo followed Agent onto to platform, giving the guard a thumbs-up. The lift shot upward and deposited them into the cityscape, where they stepped off. The lift lowered behind them, the ground closing up.
"Greetings, rock king Goro!" Podo waved as he and Agent walked to them. "Thou hast aquired allies for the games! I can only hope thou art pleased with thy new friends' appearance!"
"Your asistance will be greatly appreciated Podo." Goro said as he looked down. "And how ares the princess this afternoon, ready for a battle."
Ryan looked over at goro. His eyes said enough, 'who are these people.'
As the lift climbed the giddy girlish excitement slowly drained from Agent. As the lift passed a dark area before entering the light of the arena cityscape once again Agents ornate finely crafted elven armour appeared under her robes. Flames smoldered in her dark eyes as the white smoke appeared on her breathe.
She acknowledged the Rock King with a slight nod of her head, and eyed the unknown (to her) swordsman with mild suspicion. Her robes started flowing gently as waves of warmth began radiating from her gently lifting her golden hair.
Looking down at Podo her mouth twitched slightly as an innocent elf girl tried to smile at the goblin, but something else was taking control.
Somewhere nearby in a control room, someone adjusted the sensitivity of a thermal cameras sensor as the screen showed Agent as a white bloom of heat.
The smoke on Agents breath grayed
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
(Last post for tonight)
Ryan looked back at the two new 'allies'. He unsheathed Akujiki and went into a combat stance. "Whens this starting"
((Gonna put another character in.))
"Not without me." Carlos said as he entered the arena from the lift behind Ryan, "Congrats on winning." Carlos readied his rifle as his two Spec Ops set up their gear. "This looks to be interesting." Carlos laughed.
"You're getting on my nerves!" yelled Scorpion as he blocked the fire blast with his cannon arm. Grabbing onto the ice encasing it with his right claw, he began tearing at the frozen stuff, trying to dislodge it from his cannon. While he was occupied doing this, his tail cannon, recently repaired, snapped up and shot a large bolt of energy at Charcold.
Mako took the blow and the grabbed Coldfire's arm. Twisting it painfully, Mako turned back to look Coldfire straight in the eye and grin horribly.
"You can't win, hero. I've killed dozens of men tougher than you."
That said, Mako brought up his leg and kicked Coldfire in the side of the head.
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After Rai came up on the elevator ((I assume you want in on the fight)), the glowing numbers began to count down. When they reached 00, a buzzer sounded and the numbers vanished. The fight was on.
OOC: Just so you know, you can't see the Arachnos yet and I'll tell you when you do. I've got plans, see?
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.
((Khell: Can you give me more detail on the environment? How much ceiling we have. Are buildings accessable or are they like CoX? General size in blocks of the active area. What zone would it most resembles?))
As the numbers count down Agent took a few steps away from the others as the heat from her body intensified. Just as the numbers hit 00 flames erupted around her in red, orange and blue, the smoke from her lips darkened, and as she tightened her fist a flaming scimitar appeared in her hand.
Agent rested the sword on her shoulder and looks over to Podo and the others Shall we? her voice deeper and crackling, orange embers floating on the gray smoke of her breath.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
OOC: Gotcha, Halo. Ceiling height is about twenty meters, although it looks much higher, thanks to a completely simulated sky. The entire arena is about the size of two football fields put together but I'm not sure how you'd apply that to number of blocks. You can interact with anything, the holograms are sort of like the ones in Star Trek. Example: You can pick up and a car, throw it, and the guy who gets hit will hurt like a real car was thrown at him. Also, there are no civilians running around and if you go into a house, it'll look as though they just got up to leave a few minutes ago. The guy who programmed all this for the Coliseum has an odd sense of humor.
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.
As the buzzer sounded Ryan stood dtill for a moment. "You want a stealth fight, ehhh? Well prepare to lose." Ryan wispered under his breath. Then he dissappaered as a blur.
The more capibale Fighters would have seen Ryan propel himself into the air. Nearly scraping the cieling and landing on the top of one of the small building. Then he stepped into the deeper shadows and vanished. From all sight.
Goro looked around and began to walk casually forwards down the street. "I hate stealth fights." Goro said to no one inpertictular. He knew the only way he would find them wwas for them to attack him.
Let us follow after Goro. Podo suggested, not yet unsheathing his sword, but instead holding his right arm forward, willing it to become a minigun. It complied, morphing with a screech of metal. After several moments, it was complete, and the goblins arm consisted of a shoulder piece, a rotating chamber, and ten barrels to fire from. Smirking, the little warrior held the front of his right arm in his left hand for support and ran forward after Goro.
Loping after, Podo spoke loudly so both the stone king and his elven ally would hear him. The doctor hath constructed mine arm with many functions, I shalt be able to hit our enemies from a long range, mayhap take out a few of the dogs before melee is joined. He explained. He tapped his eyebrow as he continued. Mine eyes can also see in spectrums different from thy own. As a denizen of deep holes, mine own natural eye can see infared, and mine replacement, robotic eye can detect the motion of others.
Carlos never liked staying with a crowd. "Lets go." He said pointing at the tallest building in the area. After trekking carfully for about a minute, they arrived at the roof, "Hernandez, guard the door. Lopez, cover me." Carlos said as he pulled out his rifle and readied the sights. For this battle, he would be the hunter, not the hunted.
((Khell...Cold and Char are stuck in purgatory!))
OOC: Check the previous page. Mako and Scorpion did reply.
BIC: Up on the roof where Ryan had landed, he saw a team of two Wolf Spiders. One of them had a pair of binoculars and was watching something down in the street while the second had a very long rifle with a barrel that glowed slightly. It looked awfully deadly. The soldier with the binoculars chanced to look behind him at that moment but didn't see Ryan because of the man's cloak.
Down in the street, a puff of dust suddenly shot up right next to Podo's foot. Half a second later there was a rolling boom as the sound wave caught up with the bullet.
"Damn it," cursed the sniper. "This is Stinger Post 3, targets are engaged."
"Roger, Stinger 3. All Stingers are cleared to open fire," replied the Executioner.
Ryan saw the sniper team near him suddenly take on an air of purpose. He could see the rifle traverse slowly as though it was tracking a target.
One bullet slammed into Goro's chest, cracking the rock and forcing the big brute back a step.
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 leapt nimbly to the side as the bullet whizzed into the ground, cursing. He hadnt been caught off guard, however, and he was immediately working on tracking the enemy down.
His cybernetic eye glowed, switching vision fields and turning his world to black and white. It was mostly shades of gray, darker and lighter depending on the true colors, but one thing stood out. From where the bullet hit, his eye lit up the vapor trail to the sniper with a blazing white, showing the goblin exactly where the trooper was.
The little warrior lifted his arm, letting in work in sync with his eye, which lined it up perfectly with the vapor trail, raised slightly to account for drop. With a holler, Podos minigun arm began to spin, sending rounds whizzing at the marked position.
((Wait...Where am I?))
Agent walked up behind the short goblin, bringing her flames down to a simmer. She traced a rune with her finger on the top of his bald head as shells from his arm cannon trickled to the ground much like a brass waterfall.
Agent again turned on her flaming aura and poured fire in all directions around her self and the small goblin-cannon. However this time the flames from Agent danced around Podo not touching his skin. He only noticed a comforting reassuring wave of heat at Agents proximity.
Burst fire erupted around Agent and Podo as a second sniper team appeared on an adjacent roof top. Most the bullets were wide or started spinning inaccurately as the lead softened in Agents heat. Agent placed herself between Podo and the 2nd sniper team to provide him cover while he hosed the first group.
Agent sent a fireball up to greet the 2nd group of snipers,. Not having the proper angle to hit them directly she passed the fireball above their heads to rain fire down on them. Alternating between fireballs and fire-blast Agent succeeded in keeping their heads down and creating somewhat of a smoke screen at their position.
HaloInc
Triumph:
Heroes: Lady Halifax, Miss Kia, WhiteLotus, Agent Immolate, Lady Empathy, Sylence Fyredancer, Maiden of Fire
Villains: Innocent-Ella, Aegis-Sprite, Midnight Dragonfly
((Youz gots me all confuzed...))
Coldfire grabbed Mako's leg with his free arm as he tried to set it down, "Well, I've kill over 350 Crey heroes, so that makes your count look pathetic." Coldfire flew straight up and slammed Mako into the ceiling, as he fell, Cold charged an aura of ice around him and he froze his body in a huge block of ice and fell upon Mako. The ice melted quickly, but Mako wouldn't EVER forget that one. As Coldfire walked toward the unsispecting Scorpion, Charcold jumped back up and dodged a few blasts from his hand cannon. "You little [censored]!" Scorpion said as he ran at Charcold and lunged. At the last moment, Charcold rose in the air and Scorpion slammed into the ground. "Freeze him!" Charcold yelled to Coldfire as both launched ice at the metallic man.
Ryan stood behind the sniper team. His sword rasied to take out the one with the gun. Then Ryan checked to make sure he was clear. And good thing he did.
Ryan jumped into the sky s bullets cut through the sniper team. Then he watched as thier bodies were incenerated. As he reached the peak of his jump he followed the trail of bullets and fire back to the short goblin and the woman. "Amatuers" Ryan said under his breath.
They had nearly killed Ryan, if he wasn't looking. It was horible how they almost killed some one on their team.
------mean while-------
Goro griped his chest where the bullet hit. It left some cracks but nothing he couldn't heal. But, atleast now he knew how the arachnos were fighting. Long range.
Goro jumped into the side of one of the buildinggand crawled his way up. Using his massive grannite muscles he quickly made it to the top.
"I seeeeeee you..." Carlos said under his breath as he fired two semi-auto .50 caliber bullets into an arachnos sniper duo. "HEY! I TOOK OUT ANOTHER GROUP!" Carlos yelled out to his compatriots.
OOC: You're with everybody else.
BIC: Soon enough, all of the sniper teams lay incapacitated or medi-ported out. Silence fell over the arena once more, broken only by the slight crackling of a walkie talkie that seemed to be shouting enough curse words to burn the paint of a barn.
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"Damn it Mako!" yelled Scorpion as his tail cannon shot Charcold out of the air before he could fire his ice attack. Coldfire's ice smashed into Scopion's left shoulder and the brute stumbled forward until he was standing next to the frozen Mako. Pulling back one arm, he smacked the ice, causing it to crack and slough off.
Mako fell to the ground and panted heavily for a moment before getting up and looking at Scorpion.
"You know what I'm thinking?" asked the shark mutant.
"I wish I didn't," glowered Black Scorpion.
Both of them turned toward the twins and waited for the next assault.
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.
"They have a counterattack." Coldfire said readying himself. "Then lets do something unexpected!" Charcold said running at the enemies. As he approached he jumped and the two thought he was going to fly above them but then landed a slid between Scorpions legs followed by the grabbing of his tail. Meanwhile as Mako tried to grab Charcold, Coldfire ran at him and drop kicked him knocking him away. "Rip that [censored] out!" Cold yelled launching himself at Mako. Charcold put his strength into it, and although it wasn't remove, Charcold tore out a few sockets making the tail fall limp again.
Podo's cybernetic arm fell to the goblin's side and hissed as it transformed back into its original shape. It needed time to cool, and also needed to pilfer some ammunition if it were to fire again.
The goblin transferred his sword to his right arm and nodded to Agent Immolate grimly. "Excellent tactics, thou art an inspiring ally. Let us not drop our guard, the warrior doubts that that will be the end."
After forgetting to reply to Ryan, Rai just followed Ryan out of the room.