"YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!"
Screamed Infernus at the top of his lungs as he and his comrade met Coldfire ((D'oh)) Head on. Their flaming blades slashed forward with incredible strength and momentum.
OOC: Sorry about that, Ryan.
BIC: 7h3 74nk managed to spot Goro as the rock man rushed in and took the hammer blow to the upper chest instead of the head. Reeling backward, 7h3 74nk shouted for the Juicer Freak to give Charcold a hand. The faster they could take down one hero, the better. Then, pivoting at the waist, 7h3 74nk brought his own hammer up to smash Goro in the face.
The other Freak's continued to fire at Coldfire. The Mad Freak Gunner slotted a reload into his gun and kept firing. The Juicer Freak stayed at range and blasted Coldfire with streams of electricity. Hopped up on Excelsior, the Mad Freak Slammer pulled out his sledgehammer and charged Coldfire, intent on caving his face in.
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.
Being hit in the chest by a grenade and flanked by another pair of enemies did not sit well with Captain Farfield. Launching another couple of blasts with his beams at Iosif and Semanov, he ordered the Longfangs into close combat. Brandishing their artificial spider legs and the hooked blades on their wrists, the Crab Spiders lunged at the two mercenaries. Farfield ducked under another precise burst from the spec ops and dug in his feet. With a cry, the Webmaster hurled himself at CptCommie, confident in the fact that the mercenary couldn't beat him in close combat.
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.
A little bit of a redish mud ran down his face. But he didn't feel it. a few of his teeth were broken. but he didn't feel it. His jaw was dislocated. but he didn't feel it.
"HAHAHAHAHA" Goro laughed as he lowered his head...... smiling. Goro readied his hammer once more. "My hammer bigger" He swung his hammer like a golf club smashing the tanks knee's. "Feel pain"
Semenov recognized the attack, and shot a web grenade into the lunging Crab Spider. Iosif remained out of cover until the last moment, blazing away at the face of the Crab Spider. At the last moment he ducked and crouched behind their meat shield, who had been obligingly still. Both hoped that the Crab Spiders intertia would carry them forward and show the two an open back.
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CptCommie fell onto his back as Farfield entered. The blasts of heat came dangerously close to his ear as the wizzed by, searing his hair. When Farfield threw himself at the Russian Commando, CptCommie threw his feet up above his head and into the chest of Farfield. He did not expect to send it going anywhere, just push it into the air a bit so that it flew and tumbled over him. He hoped to be able to fire into the damaged chest of the Web Master as it lay stunned on the ground.
All the attacks were beginning to get annoying. They had all underestimated Coldfire's new power, and they would face the outcome. Coldfire launched himself into the air and focused all his might into one fireball. The 12 ft. radius orb grew over his head. This attack was 10x what inferno was. If anything survived this, it deserved a medal. He unleashed the ball above himself. He knew Charcold would live...but would the others?
((OOC: Sorry about the delay, have had a busy spring break!))
Jord's strides easily pulled her feet from the glass that had once been sand, he strength was too much for such inefficient holds. A golem leapt to bury her, but it obviously had misjudged her, and badly. She lifted her hands above her head and caught it easily, smiling. She turned back to the Circle mage and laughed wickedly, even as the newest additions to his team appeared.
Filled with battle lust once again and cheered on by the presence of Iron Fist, Jord heaved with all her strength, flinging the golem with all of her amazing power straight at her magical opponent.
A short squat man entered the Coliseum and made his way to the registration desk, his costume was an eyesore to anyone who looked down and noticed his 4' 5" frame, it was all black with yellow radiation symbols all over it. He gave his initial information to the automated clerk; his name was Atomic Firecracker, and he was lookin for a good time.
"Oh, hell!" Yelled the Inferno.
"Get close homes, we gone!"
The two Hellions watched the fireball eagerly, then went back-to back. Infernus snapped a finger, and his arm caught on a seemingly living fire which quickly spread to him and his comrade. The two flaming men suddenly exploded and were gone, and two Skuls had taken their place.
The two looked up and said only one word in perfect unison.
"Hell!"
((I will be intro'ing more characters as mine are killed off. I'm doing a bunch of groups.))
Atomic firecracker turned just in time to see a shape charge blast a section of the wall away. In walked and flew several skyraiders.
"Excellent work, Carlos." Mentioned Ltc. Samuel Weston, a Wing-Raider captain of high skill, absently gripping a SPAS-12 tactical assault shotgun.
"Yeh." Grunted his engineer, who stepped through the hole jetpack-less behind him wielding an advanced model flamethrower.
Two more Wing 'Raiders flew in quickly, one hugging an M22 Grenade Launcher, the other an M4A1 Carbine.
Bursting into the room came an Assault Jump Bot, holding twin military grade MP5s.
"Sign us up." Said Ltc. Weston as he motioned to the papers.
74nk fell to one knee as the other was smashed. "9r4444 1 k1ll yu0" 74nk screamed. he returned with his own blow straight to Goro chest.
Goro slid back as the hammer hit him square in the chest."You think hurt me, i hurt you" Goro yelled back at the freak.
74nk stood back up but was still wobbleing on one leg. Then he gave himself an injection. "m3 n0 f33l p41n" 74nk started to run towards goro untill he got a hammer to the face. realing back Goro had his rock gloves on and hit 74nk in the face knocking him down. Goro now towered over the downed freak.
(OOC-Are there any other freaks left open)
Atomic Firecracker sometimes wondered how the buildings in this town still stood, with people making enterances like that all the time. While waiting for his directions, he glanced one of the battlescreens, it was tuned to a fight where some halpless skuls were being introduced to the ground at quite an intimate level.
Coldfire's fireball exploded, shaking the arena to its foundations. The two Skulls and the lesser Freaks were propelled into a wall and their battered and broken bodies showed what happened if you didn't spring the cash for a Medi-port. Shouting in rage, 7h3 74nk stumbled back a few feet from the rumbling and then swung his hammers at Goro. However, the Stone King had been knocked off his feet by the minor earthquake and instead of crushing a stone head between his mallets he instead crushed the chest of one of the Longfangs that had chosen that moment to finally show up. The mortally wounded Arachnos disppeared in a flash of light as his health beacon triggered. The remaining Longfang regained his balance long enough to lash out at Iosif, who, with his cover gone, was in a prime position to be punished with a quadruple helping of titanium spider leg pain.
Caught off-guard by CptCommie's stunt, Farfield stumbled to one side and fell onto his back. Shaking his head, the Webmaster saw Commie training his gun on his damaged armor plate and did the only thing he could do; roll over. The armor on his back was fresh although it still took a pounding from Commie's barrage. Two of Farfield's spider legs were also shot off, reducing his weaponry by half. Enraged, Farfield scrambled to his feet and lunged for CptCommie's legs, hoping to take him down and then tear him to pieces.
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"What the hell!?!" shouted the guard as the Sky Raiders came bursting in through the wall. "Security! We've got a breach at entrance four!"
A second after the black suited man screamed into his mouthpiece, a few panels in the ceiling burst open and a couple of power suited figures jumped down from them. All told, about half a dozen guards wearing Crey Power Suits surrounded the Sky Raiders and, ominously, a pair of Rikti Gunmen stood behind them, their matte black armor absorbing the light and their guns glowing green.
"Put your weapons down," said one of the guards in a not unreasonable tone of voice. "If you want to fight, we can arrange it, but there are better ways to introduce yourselves then to come in through the wall. Now, lower your weapons and put your hands behind your heads."
The unarmored guard looked over at Atomic Firecracker and looked like he was going to nudge the villain in the side but quickly decided not too.
"Hey, you want to sign up, right? Give the guards a hand if those guys try to fight and you'll definately score some brownie points with the Old Man."
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Back in the arena, the sand golem flew through the air at Andraxus and the mage seemed startled that Jord had so easily deflected his minion's attack. But his confidence reasserted itself as the golem dissolved back into sand as though it had hit an invisible shield around the Archmage. Pointing his staff at Jord, he gestured for her to continue.
"My Shadow Beasts will keep our mutual aquantince occupied for a while, my dear," he said. "But come, let us see which is better, the closed fist or the crystal staff."
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.
Goro still a little dazed was laying on the ground from the fireball. Looking up he saw 74nk's fist connecting through the chest of a longfang. Taking this moment he kicked 74nk in the chest with both his feet.
74ank stumbled back. "n0 f41r" he shouted at goro as he tried to rub his chest with his hammers.
Goro jumped back up, pushing the longfang out of the way. "Me no go down" he said staring at 74nk.
"Ahahah!" Ltc. Weston laughed, a grindingly fake laugh.
"Ahah."
"Hah."
"Hoo."
"Open fire."
The Skyraiders all ducked, and the Jump Bot began to hose the guards with sustained fire. The engineer threw a small sphere into the sky that unfurled into a force-field generator drone.
As the Rikti charged from behind, the Wing Raider with the Grenade launcher set his ammo to detonate-on-contact and fired.
As the dust settled all around him, Coldfire could hear the sounds of glass shattering. The intense head had turned the cascade of sand into glass. As he looked around he saw Charcold still in the same pose, staring at him with a sadistic grin. "That was intense." He said. "You bet your [censored] it was."
Charcold flew toward Coldfire casually, saying, "You have such awesome power, and yet you use it to protect? This is a world where power is the only thing people respect. Combined, we could dominate this world!"
Coldfire looked at him, regaining his stamina for the fight destined to occur. "No. Some hero would always come along and try and defeat us, and at some point, they would."
Charcold laughed and said to Coldfire, "You've thought about this?"
Coldfire respond in a casual tone, "More than once..."
Charcold laughed, "We could have been allies in a different life..." he sighed and then continued, "it will be quite depressing to kill you." Charcold pulled back his fist and they engulfed in flame. "Ditto." Coldfire said as he, too, engulfed his fists. The two flew at each other with the intensity of two beasts fighting for their survival.
((You can do anything you want with my characters for now. As long as it doesn't screw up their fight TOO much. I will still be reading, I just want the plot to progress some more.))
As the Skyraiders continued their attack, the holder of the M4, uniform reading DAVIS Q., slowly loaded a single armor-piercing bullet. Drawing a bead on the unarmored guard, he smiled slightly, and fired.
A metal hand grasps a corner of the hole that the Sky Raiders blew in the wall, and a head clad a bulky-looking set of goggles peeks out of the same corner. "Hey, is this the?" He looks into the room and sees the Sky Raiders fighting the guards. "Oh. Well, I did come to fight, after all." He's a tall hero, about seven feet, decked out in a suit of grey mesh armor with yellow circuitry running across and two large gunmetal-grey gauntlets. The hero pulls himself into the gap with just a single arm and squats perched on the broken wall inside the hole, looking at the skirmish that is about to ensue. He flicks his left arm out, and then his right, and metallic claws pop with a *schick* from both of his gloves. The hero presses a few buttons on his headset, taking a minute to allow his armor to focus his senses, and then hydraulic rails in his boots fire, giving him a powerful, fast jump straight at the force field generator, which he delivers a quick strike to.
((His name is Mechanism, a security level 42 Claw/SR scrapper with some martial arts attributes and borderline-super speed.))
Goro and 74nk started to run at eachother at the same time. This would be something of a final showdown. Goro let he rage take over his entire body leaving any diregards for sense, logic, and pain behind him. As well did 74nk. He set his drugs to max for this last joust. They both readied their hammers. There were no battle cries, no fear, no tears. They were both almost emotinless as they came closer and closer. excepts for hate, rage and anger corsing through their entire bodies.
As they cam closer and closer they both readied to swing with all their might. This would be their last conferation, the last time they charge. It would be the end for one or the other.
74nk was ready first, he swung faster than goro giving him he first advantage. But, his drugs affected his strategy. While Goro was fine. Goro ducked under 74anks first swip and came up with a hit that sent 74 back. Although he landed on his feet he was gone. Goro came with another swing, right at 74nk's head. Almost tearing it clean off. 74nk's blood splatered over the sand and glass mixture. Goro came again this time at his body. 74nk's ribs, or where ribs used to be was crushed in. His core was leaking but, he wasn't dead yet. with his last attempt 74nk tried o swing one last time. But, he never got ther chance. Goro's hammer was raised high above his head. Goro brought down his hammer at full force. It almost instantly killed 74nk. Almost, 74nk felt the last blows as Goro, in his rage, continued to smash 74nk. There was no coming back this time.
The irritable engineer swore at the death of his drone and began to spew flames into the newcomer.
Weston muttered a curse under his breath and hit his jetpacks, heading for the Hero. On cue, the engi' stopped.
The attacking hero looked to him, flying forward, shotgun raised, and could see his eyes gleam, even through his 'Raider helm.
Right before he shot him in the face.
The flames seem to glance off of the cybernetic hero's armor, causing only a bit of minor damage, a slightly burned cheek and a bit of red heat-stress along his shoulders and back, which quickly reverted to it's normal grey as he quickly dove through the cone and onto the floor. As he landed on the ground and saw Weston point his shotgun at him, his armor took over. Even as the blast fired, the powerful mesh twisted and pushed against the hero's body, enhancing his already quick movement and pressing him flat against the floor, the buckshot ricocheting harmlessly behind him and burying its self in the opposing wall. Weston swore and fired another shot even as the hero closed in on him, but again, his armor seemed to literally shove Mechanism out of the way of the incoming round. A deadly grin and could be seen from beneath the hero's eyes as he sprinted directly under the leader, his hydraulic rams kicking in again to deliver a clawed uppercut aimed at the Raider's exposed throat.
"What the hell is up with you villains!" cried the guard commander as the rounds from the MP5s forced him back a couple of steps.
Smoothly, the two guards on the ends of the semi-circle jumped into the air, bounced off the ceiling, and landed slightly behind and off to the side of the Sky Raider group. Both power suited men carried a large pulse rifle and their first target was the Jump Bot.
Two other guards went to one knee and fired their beam rifles at Weston. The purple-blue beams were aimed directly for Weston's jetpack. The commander and the last guard were armed with flamethrowers and they used them to wash fire over the front ranks of the Sky Raiders.
One of the Rikti was knocked flat on its back by the grenades, but the second one managed to weather the blasts and turned its repulsor gun on the Sky Raider grenadier. The greenish-black ball sped at the Raider as the unarmored guard ducked behind Atomic Firecracker, causing the carbine round to miss.
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.
((Well, Damn, I can't win.))
Weston flashed him the biggest smile he had ever seen.
Mechanism turned behind to see what it was that Weston was planning, but he had anticipated incorrectly. He finished his 180 and looked. All the other raiders were distracted and fighting, but he felt a tinge, then he lost the feeling in his legs. He looked to his chest, and saw that a massive SkyRaider machete was sticking right through his stomach.
"SONOFABITCH" The clearly customized Jump Bot yelled as the rounds smacked into it. It was heavily damaged, but managed to shrug it off.
Drawing TWIN Skyraider Machetes, the Jump Bot flew at top speed directly into one of the guards, twisting its arms in a rotary motion.
The Machetes smashed into the armor, but penatrated several inches. The Bot twisted 560 degrees, and flipped onto the guards back, stabbing at his head.
The grenadier took the energy blast to the chest. He screamed as plasma burned through his bulletproof armor, but he survived. His bayoneted M22 only shinked! off of the Rikti armor, but a grenade to the face got his assailant away for a moment.
The shots Smacked Weston's left jumpjet. He yelled as electricity jolted him.
"I need reinforcements!" He screamed into a wrist-mic.
Four Porters appeared from nowhere; Two carried shotguns, two Assault Rifles. They opened fire on the nearest non-Raider, which happened to be Firecracker.
Carlos tossed up another Force Field generator and fired his flamethrower near Firecracker and the un-armored guard.
((That's a bit of a powerplay. The least you can do for me not putting a claw through your neck is to not put a machete through my chest. O-o))
"Well, [censored]." After the impact to the chest, the hero falls from the sky, but where his body can't perform, the armor takes over. His legs gain new life on the fall and he lands on his own two feet, the yellow circuitry taking on a green hue. The hero pulls the machete from his back with a sickening *splut* and slices it into four unusable pieces with one quick swipe, then tosses them aside. The armor that had been torn apart by the blade seems to sow it's self back together, and though the blade had missed anything of importance, it can't help but seem that it'll take a while for that to heal. Mechanism looks straight at Weston and says.
"I don't know who the hell you think you are, but you're going down."
He presses a button on his headset and his armor roars to new life, the words "elude protocall activated; time to system crash, 180 seconds" flashing across his visor and forming a handy little countdown clock in the corner. Mechanism holds his right claw into the air, and it starts to glow whitish-blue with focused energy, which he slashes at Weston, and then takes off, running alongside the energy-wave to deliver a vicious slash, again, aimed for the throat, just as it should make impact with the Raider.
((I assume you mean Coldfire [icefire]))
Coldfire walked forward, his wings flowing behind him. As Charcold stared on in disbelief, Coldfire raised a single hand and began accumulating fire. Charcold scrambled backwards in fear. Suddenly, the Freaks and Hellions began attacking. The bullets did nothing. The holes punctured and they did damage, but you wouldn't tell by watching. The smoke had no affect, the white fire aluminated the entire area. As the ball of fire grew bigger and bigger still, Coldfire smiled. He had finally finished off Crey. Now he would finish the only other thing hindering his path of light.
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Charcold was scared as hell. His power was nothing compared with Coldfire's. He wasn't even phased by the bullets. "This cannot be!" He said turning to run. 'I have to thing of something!' he thought to himself. "Wait, I'm his clone...I MUST HAVE THE POWER TOO!" He said turning back toward Coldfire. 'I have to focus on something, like he did' he thought. Charcold focused on all of the bad he had been put through. All of the chaos that was his existance. He growled in anger, his rage filling his soul. His body began glowing a dark black, and suddenly, he had become the opposite of Coldfire. To his light was Charcolds dark. Black fire. Black armor. Black demon wings. Black soul.
"I've found a way to fight back, and you can't beat me! The Kaiser gene flows through me as well, and I am just as strong!" Charcold said drawing a dark ice sword, the size of a tree.
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Coldfire looked at Charcold. His power and Char's were the same. Equal. This would be a massive battle. And it would likely be ultimately dependant on their allies. Charcold had many...Coldfire had none. "If you want this battle won," Coldfire yelled up to the others,"I suggest you get your [censored] down here and help out!"