Reginald carefully set an arrow in his bow, and painstakingly aimed at the Kraken that the Dark Servant was attacking.
"A little to the left. . . to the right. . . just down."
"Yeah, that should do it!" said the Oracle from his back, as Reginald let the arrow fly into the Kraken, piercing it through the forehead. Reginald only hoped that was a weak point on these things.
Pariku moved his position to next to After-Image.
"Do not concern yourself, madam." he said, his eyes on the conflict as he assaulted the Hydra around them with fire. "Please rest. The others and I will hold off the undesireables."
Nena charged forward at one of the Krakens, getting right up in its face and lashing her sword horizontally at its gut, even as Reginald's arrow struck it in the face. The Heart Render sliced through the slime of the Kraken's substance, and it roared, its yellowed jagged teeth exposing itself.
"Eeeeew...." she wailed, "Gingivitis-tastic!"
"I didn't know you could pronounce that word." Pariku grumbled, intensifying the fire cages.
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Ryuu Hotaka raised a finger to his lips as he heard another Kraken's bellows.
"Sensei, what are we still doing here?" the Jounin Waziri whispered in his ear, his grip form on te overdimensional masamune in his hands, "We have what we came for. Let us leave."
"Now, now." Hotaka smiled innocently, "Wise man says you don't learn anything if you don't seek out knowledge."
"I don't remember that saying." Katashi, the second Jounin, spoke up, his fists ready to strike at anything that came near them, "Or that wise man."
"That's because it's from me, you knucklehead." Hotaka returned, "I'm the wise guy. Now stop being so skiddish and follow me."
Slinking about pipes and corners, the three went on, hising in shadows wherever possible.
And in one such shadow, they came upon the source of the bellows - a Kraken under assault by several heroes.
Strange...that's not supposed to be down here. Where are the Hellions and such...?
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Liz smirked and 'ported down to the ground level...and stepped calmly into the midst of the PPD officers gathered around the ruined warehouse.
"Officers? I'd prepare weapons and an armored paddy wagon if I were you, I'll have an arrest for you in a moment."
She glanced up to the figure standing at the edge of the building overhead, and pointed at the dark figure silhouetted against the sky. "That fellow there...you might want to ask him some questions about Hellions and magic rings. Shall I bring him down here for you?"
Jon muscled his way to the front of the line, inserting himself forcefully inot the conversation with la Comtesse.
"What's you're hero handle," he asked authoritatively. He didn't wait for a response. "Whatever it is, listen; if you can bring me a collar that's fine, but we're here on a retreval mission first and foremost. If you can get that ring back I'll spearhead the initiative to get you a medal personally."
The elder detective had a look of sincerity in his eyes.
But it was too late. The ragged robe already headed for the ground...
Only there was nobody in it. As it floated to the sidewalk, its occupant had simply disappeared...
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R0CK-0N was getting the tar beaten out of him. It was time to leave.
Moving swiftly, 'Pariah' headed for the back of the tech store, bag of loot in hand, and stormed out the back door.
The sewer gate was right across the street, and the heroes were occupied. It was now or never.
His ragged robe fluttered in the wind as the tall and lanky figure sped across the street for the sewer gate...
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The Kraken was taking immense punishment, but it wasn't yielding. Regenerating itself at an insane rate, the thig managed to keep the door blocked.
The very door that the heroes were obviosuly trying to get through.
Hotaka's curiosity was slowly getting the better of him, standing there in the shadows. Technically, he was classified as a villain, s this was a dangerous proposal. Freedom Corps had assigned him the moinker 'Dragon of Decay', a very high threat level, and a bad reputation.
Still, they would need something to counteract the monster's speedy regeneration.
Oh, what to do, what to do...?
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"Die please!" Nena yelled as her greatsword slashed through the gooey beast once again.
"Do you think saying 'please' will help matters!?" Pariku shouted over the roar of his flames, and extended a hand, healing Xander and After-Image of any peripheral wounds the two of them may have accumulated.
"It can't hurt!" she said cheerily, swinging for the fences.
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"Hmm," Reginald said as he nocked another arrow. "This world certainly has an awful lot of dangerous creatures. Surely even the Noo'Ki were not this resilient. . ."
"You'd be surprised, dear," the Oracle said under her breath. Or at least, she said it quietly, since holograms rarely breathed.
". . .What?" said Reginald, distracted.
"Um, nothing, dear!" the Oracle said hastily. "I was just saying, that After-Image girl has nice eyes. . . dear! You should ask her out!"
"Oracle!" Reginald complained, nearly dropping the arrow. "Not now! And. . . with no offense to her intended. . . she's dead!"
Pain Killah was rocked with the pipe causing him to stumble backwards. Now..he was mad "Me SMASH puny pipe man"
He stomps with such force the ground ripples towards the pipe man. At the same time Killah leaps into the air, ready to send the pipe man to ground if possible.
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"That's not her fault! Why do you have to hold it against her," Xander teased as an uppercut sent a Protean up into the ceiling. Returning his attention to the Kraken, he balled up a fist and tugged loose a portion of it's life force, absorbing it into his own form. The wound it left didn't seem to leave a mark and was gone a moment later.
Starfall looked over the Kraken from head to toe. Nothing seemed to be hurting it. At least, nothing was hurting it badly enough that it -stay- hurt. Nena's big sword had cut huge gashes in it that just weren't there anymore. Plus, there was a second Kraken that wasn't even doing anything. If that one decided to fight them as well things would probably end in several emergency trips to the Hospital.
"THE PAINPIPE CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED BY THE FORCES OF EVIL!" Wielder shouted as he rocked back and forth, trying to keep his balance as the shockwave rolled under him. "THE GREAT OAK THAT IS GOOD SHALL NEVER SUCCUMB TO THE LUMBERJACK THAT IS EVIL!"
Grabbing his pipe in two hands, Wielder held it upward, catching Killah, literally, on the pipe before heaving forwards, throwing Pain Killah away. Once the villain's attack was thwarted, Wielder surged forward and bashed him in the head with the Painpipe.
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: Keep in mind pretty much everything EXCEPT the kraken is frozen solid at this point. Hydra have a pretty high water content in their body, making them Hydrasicles)
"Y'know if you guys can hold out for another seven minutes or so, I can focus everything I have into that thing and make it impossible for it to regenerate. Or move. Or breathe. In fact we could probably chop it up and sell it at a frozen delicacy if you'd like. Krakenpops are all the rage in...well I'm sure someone'd buy them," Ryuji said, his mind floating off into a tangent.
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"Hmmm," le Comtesse turned to face Jon, "Perhaps I can't provide that arrest after all. One moment..."
Liz decided to trigger the teleport target anyway, figuring invisibility wouldn't be much of a defense against it. "Unless this fellow's a plane shifter or something..."
Extending her senses through the shadow plane, she reached along the connection she'd had only moments before and pulled, unsure if it even still existed at the other end...
"Krakenpops, hurrah!" Nena cheered as she continued to keep the giant beast's attention.
"...Sewerlicious." Pariku remarked dryly with a deadpan face. "The ice doesn't seem to have affected it so far. Neither has my fire. We are going to need to have something else slow it down for it to have any sort of affe-"
His words broke off as he felt a psychic presence observing them.
"...Someone else is here." he warned the group.
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"There's nothing my ice can't effect eventually. All water molecules can slow down and freeze, if it's blocking it somehow, it just takes more time," Ryuji said.
((Pst, there's only one Kraken there. Each door to the abandoned sewers has a Kraken guarding it, but I doubt there are 2 doors within sight of one another in the sewer network. 
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"Halt in the name of Longbow!" suddenly echoed from the top of the tech store as a squad of Longbow Eagles and an Energy Tanker Warden descended upon Pain Killah, quickly driving him off Wielder.
"We've got this guy!" the Tanker shouted, his fists crackling with energy as he came down with a bonesmasher.
Meanwhile, 'Pariah' had reached the sewer gate, trying to duck inside before the heroes spotted him. However, there was litle chance of doing so - a ragged and dirty tall figure tended to attract attention just about anywhere...
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Guess I'm not as good at hiding as I used to be. Oh well, here goes nothing.
"Alright, you found me." Ryuu Hotaka stepped from the shadows. The almost eight-foot tall man wore his standard red-and-gold martial arts robe, complete with bamboo coolie that obscured his eyes. From the holor of his short hair and fu manchu beard, he seemed aged, but moved with a spring in his step that dispelled any notions of being old and frail.
Without another word, he spat into his wrapped hands, then flung an array of vile poisons at the Kraken, visibly sickening the already disgusting blob of...stuff.
"Well, that are you waiting for?" he growled, pulling a bow and nocking an arrow, "Get going already!"
"Hai!" echoed as Waziri leaped from the ceiling, engaging the Kraken with a ridiculously oversized masamune as Hotaka let the arrow fly right into an eye...
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Le Comtesse managed to pull something back, alright - a silver orb about the size of a fist, which beeped in a very annoying, high pitch, growing more rapid by the second...
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"MANY THANKS, FELLOW DO GOODERS!" Wielder shouted at the Longbow as he pulled back and let them go after Pain Killah. A villain from the Rogue Isles was more Longbow's venue anyway. Those stubborn bastards never went down fast enough for Wielder's tastes.
You might want to get the tall skinny guy now, the Painpipe said.
Spinning around, Wielder noticed the Pariah attempting to escape into the sewers. Charging forward and pointing his pipe at the villain, Wielder shouted, "HALT EVIL VILLAIN AND FACE JUSTICE!"
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Le Comtesse managed to pull something back, alright - a silver orb about the size of a fist, which beeped in a very annoying, high pitch, growing more rapid by the second...
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Hmm, godlike powers then. Ok, I'm out.
((Oh come on, haven't you ever seen a grenade before? 
It's not like it's sticky or anything, just shiny and beepy. 
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"Excellent," said Reginald, and nocked another arrow. He tapped a button on his hand, and a tiny jet of flame shot out, setting it ablaze as he fired it at the weakened Kraken.
"Just another three minutes," Ryuji announced, looking at his watch, "And it'll be Krakenpop time."
Meanwhile, El Guapo Grande finally stumbled upon a Kraken of his very own...
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"Oh you have got to be [censored] kidding," MacMaetor moaned before shouting "Hit the deck!"
There was quite a chaotic scene as the assembled police rushed for cover.
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"Halt in the name of Longbow!" suddenly echoed from the top of the tech store as a squad of Longbow Eagles and an Energy Tanker Warden descended upon Pain Killah, quickly driving him off Wielder.
"We've got this guy!" the Tanker shouted, his fists crackling with energy as he came down with a bonesmasher.
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(....Ooooh...that sucks....Well maybe i will just cry now 
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Pain Killah was angry that the "puny man" with the pipe threw him. As he wasabout to charge, a squad of Long bow came in. Killah was knocked over by the energy punch. Pain Killah came charging again, this time at the "Tanker".
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Max D. Stroyer watched from the shadows as the huge brute charged at the Longbow. He grinned as the man with the pipe took off. Max dialed a number on his black cell phone then spoke into it, "Axel, Syxx, Get Eddie and Timmy, and unchain Bear...Meet me at Striga Isle...I got a plan"...
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Pariku silently continued his work at disorienting the Kraken with flames, but was analyzing Ryuu suspiciously. He appreciated the help, but this man seemed...evil. The psychic could sense his mind was heavily guarded.
Nena was less discerning.
"YAY!" she squealed as Ryuu's ninja came in beside her to tank the Kraken. "Hey, ya know I thought you might be evil but you're doing nice things so we can fight later okay?"
Pariku turned his eyes to where he last saw Reginald, reaching out with his mind to gently place a message in the bowman's own.
Keep your eyes on that one. the magepriest warned.
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Grunts and hoops were heard echoing through the sewers.