Tricolore concentrated on the zombies. They lurched after civilians, and... Well someone had to. Swift kicks and smacks were the word, and zombie arms were very, very easy to dodge for her, her Inner Will channeling her movements, giving her strength.
The music was blaring though. She swore she heard Queen. Slightly distracted, a spinning kick sent a gyro flying randomly into the newly formed mist...
((Post quick, short and sweet, avoid the traffic!))
Darting into the door with lighting speed (Just really good sprint) Ainurauco smacks the edge of the counter after the msit blocked her vision. Her black and gold tunic, with matching black and gold thigh boots, and gold head wings, did little to soften the harsh punch of the counters edge.
"Dang it, some hero I am" she said half whispered.
Stepping back to get her bearigns she sees the zombies, the other heros and the double patty, double cheese, with everything hamburger sitting on the counter.
Ok, I can do this, I can handle myself" she thought.
Glancing around and see all that is going on, placing a well aimed roundhouse to a zombies head. She might not be able to take one down, but she could keep it busy for a while.
UD glaced around at all the heroes surrounding him. He had to admit it, he was beginning to worry a little bit. Even with the addition of this badly-dressed purple man, he wasn't completely sure he could hold out until Varius arrived. The manner in which Moonscribe fell didn't help, either.
UD concentrated on his remaining zombies and sent power to them ((like a mass Enchant Undead)), then had them stop causing random havoc and form a second semicircle around the heroes' semicircle around him and the purple guy.
UD turned and whispered hastilyin the purple guy's ear. "Look, if we retreat to that back room, I put a trip mine in the hallway. It'll catch one of them, and we'll have a defensible position." He tapped the slot on his back again and three more small disks came out. He raised his voice to be heard and said, "It's good to see that I have such resistance. I see that my reputation has preceded me. In case any of you don't know, I am Urban Dead, and I will be your executioner." He paused and smiled, turning his eyes to the floor. He suddenly shouted, "Think fast!" and threw the three disks at Tricolore, El Guapo Grande and Ainurauco. ((By the way, I believe that the seeker drones, which are what the disks are, blow up when they get close, giving a chance of stun.)) While they were distracted, UD quickly transmitted the GPS coordinates of his tunnel to Varius' cell phone. I'm sorry I clogged it, now, but I had to, he thought grimly.
((Gah! Heavy traffic right now!))
Experiment raised an eyebrow toward Moonscribe, grunting. "Right, you could NEVER handle this on your own, even though..."
He looked up, making note of what he saw. "You have some kind of hurricane going, and you are completely faking being hurt. Right. You know, I know being a hero is fun and all, but come on, four eyes, playing around isn't part of the job."
He pulled his goggles from his head to over his eyes and ran forward, slashing rapidly with a sudden burst of spines toward a group of zombies. "But DAMN if it isn't fun!"
However, just as he said this, a shadow seemed to grow from the floor, standing to the left of UD in all its voidly glory. It spoke with a chuckle as it rose. "Heh, come on, you can't tell me you ACTUALLY attacked a City of Gyros store, in a public shopping mall, in a city known for being a city of heroes on purpose... right?"
The voice grunted with laughter again, as the shadows descended, leaving a cloaked figure with a very low hood covering almost his entire face, along with a mask covering the rest. What could be seen would appear to be some sort of skull. "Besides, you are going about this all wrong."
Then, a voice to the RIGHT spoke. "What you should do is make copies that explode in dark energy on contact, and send THOSE in first." came the finishing sentance of someone in the exact same clothing. With that, the left figure ran directly toward Hallucinogen, the area that its eyes were supposed to be pulsing with dark energy.
"Blind Messenger, necromancer and master of darkness, at your aid." spoke the figure on the right, chuckling.
"Yes, I was robbing a fast food place on purpose, to put them off guard," UD replied sarcastically. "In any case, I can't do that. what I can do is strap C4 to them and detonate them, but if you didn't notice I am surrounded by heroes and cut off from them. If one of them would get off his lazy [censored] and actually kill someone, I could make one over here, but in the meantime, you go ahead."
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"It's good to see that I have such resistance. I see that my reputation has preceded me. In case any of you don't know, I am Urban Dead, and I will be your executioner." He paused and smiled, turning his eyes to the floor. He suddenly shouted, "Think fast!" and threw the three disks at Tricolore, El Guapo Grande and Ainurauco.
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Tricolore didn't think. Her Inner Will did it for her. The disc flew over her, exploded, and out of a mish-mash of luck and skill, she came out unscathed, in time to swoop out a zombie's legs (literally) and send it sailing into a wall with a high powered kick.
She noticed the ringleader pull back, even with the gaudy speech, and shouted "'Ey! You came for a heist, ah? Leaving already?" before confidently gliding (this time flying) after him.
((.. Yeah it's late here. I won't post for a while since I desperately need sleep. So feel free to knock her out cold or consider her happily entertained by beating up zombies.))
Reaction...nope....
Skill...nope..
Perfected martial arts....nope
Empty ketchep pack on the floor....yeap
Aniu slipped and fell quick to the floor, the disc wizzing past her head and smacking the wall befor eexploding.
She flipped back to her feet and Crane kicked the zombie she had been fighting, sending it against the wall.
Meanwhile, Varius' cell phone beeped with the GPS coordinates of.. something. It didn't say what. What was clear was that UD needed his help at that location. He put the phone back into a slot in his armor that probably wasn't designed for such a use.
As soon as the sub pulled up to Talos Island, Varius paid the captain and hopped out onto some nearby rocks. He focused for a moment, drawing on the battle charges of a hundred Roman soldiers at once. A fury built inside him, and he drew his gladius, held it in the air and charged. Althoguh it seemed to be a normal running rate to him, he sped through Talos Island extremely quickly and soon arrived at the coordinates. He looked warily around, to see if anyone had noticed him any more than they would notice a man in Roman armor running down a busy street, then climbed down into the tunnel. Varius pulled out his phone and held it in front of him, its screen dimly lighting his way. I really hope Urban didn't plug this tunnel, he thought.
After Jen had straightened out her shelfs she sat down and moved her survielence cameras to catch the action at City of Gyroes. She was slightly startled when her phone rang.
"Gamma's Garage if you can break it, we can fix it." Jen said.
"No time for pleasentries Black Gamma, you are urgently needed." said a voice in an english accent. " Quickly get your suit and met me in Atlas Park."
"Posi, is that you? C'mon you know I'm retired. Side's I couldnt fit into my suit anymore age hasnt been good to me." Jen responded.
"How'd you know it was me?" Positron asked.
"Caller id. Welcome to the 21'st century."
"C'mon Gammy, I saw you last week and I know you can still fit in suit. You look just like you did in your twenties."
"Minus the grey hair, the not-so-toned stomach, and the 20 pounds, I've put on Posi."
"Always said you needed to put on about 20 pounds."
"What? I was too skinny for you? Is that how it is?."
"No... No C'mon Gammy why don't you just stop by?"
"Can't Posi, locked down again, mall is under attack by zombies. I'm in my protective bubble. Sorry."
"God, can't you just say no or you need to "wash your hair" or something. I can take rejection you know?"
"Bye Posi."
(OOC: Just so you guys are clear...Mo is a GIRL, in my first post i mentioned her name was Mona Webber >_<. She has the unique ability to channel the spirit of any musician that has played an instrument she touches. In other words, she plays music as well as the best musician who played the given instrument. For instance, she has a clarinet owned by Kenny G, and a guitar owned by Kurt Cobain.)
Mo opened fire on the nearest zombie. She had done this before, zombie attacks were more frequent since 'Brains R Us' moved in where the comic book shop was before.
El Guapo Grande opened a magnificent can o whoopass on the nearest group of zombies as well. Limbs flew everywhere, heads landed in front of old church ladies, causing them to faint.
Truly, it was both disgusting and magnificent at the same time.
Due to his immense size and strength, El Guapo Grande was able to wield the chainsaw like a machete, increasing his efficiency.
(OOC: If I had known there'd be zombies...i woulda put them in Housewares)
((By the way, UD threw a Seeker Drone at Guapo. Did it miss? Is he stunned now? Is he just really fast, so it hasn't approched yet?))
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((By the way, UD threw a Seeker Drone at Guapo. Did it miss? Is he stunned now? Is he just really fast, so it hasn't approched yet?))
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(OOC: I doubt he even noticed. El Guapo Grande is a Fire/SS tanker. When his flames are activated the area close to him is hot enough to melt lesser metals. The fire comes from within his soul, so it doesn't actually burn him but that doesn't mean he doesn't have an innate resistance to fire anyway.
Basically, if it explodes, burns, or generates heat in anyway the same temperature or lower of his own flames closest to his body, then don't expect an effect. Throwing a seeker drone at El Guapo Grande is like throwing a ball of aluminum foil into a campfire.
He's not completely invulnerable but he's damn near close to it. I'll leave it to your imagination to what can and can't hurt him.
A bucket of water doesn't work, since the source of his flames is on a metaphysical level (the flames of his own burning red hot passion)
If you wanna get technical the Fiery Aura set has status protection.
besides he's a comedic character)
"There's something going on at City of Gyros..." Essex said, her eyes wandering away from her smoothie.
"Eh." Rosalind said with a shrug. When she looked back...the little android was gone. "[censored] [censored]!!"
"Mister Solid!!" Essex squeaked in glee, her thrusters taking her quickly towards the tall grey android.
Japancakes.
Art - Theme 005 - Seeking Solace
"AH!" Solid shouted when he heard his name, jumping about a foot into the air and almost losing a hold of his bag.
"Tell Tony I'll pay him the rent next week god damnit!" Solid groused as he scrambled to make sure nothing fell out of the bag. It took him a few moments to actually look in Essex's direction and in that amount of time he had probably already been glomped or whatever it was Essex was about to do.
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.
((Shorten my posts? HERESY! The Angel averts her eyes!))
"Ah yes," Schizophrenias sighed, watching the display. He spat on the ground, and a huge, hairy black tarantula appeared on the spot.
"Oh, Cuddles!" Schizo cackled as the spider crawled up his leg. "Awww, who's a good little wookums snookums!"
The spider clicked happily. Schizo turned to Urban Dead and Blind Messenger, frowning slightly.
"Ah yes, arguing over petty matters. . . Oh, you two have done so much for me!" A tear came to his eye, and he wiped it away, where it burned a hole in the wall. "I'll be sure to carve your names on the tombstone of the doomed cosmos."
"Enough of that!" Hal yelled, and a brilliant flash burst around Schizo, UB and Blind. Apparently where he was was now right next to them, and he hastily jumped backwards before they could retaliate.
Moonscribe traced a circle in the air with one hand as the other typed. The air seemed to cut open where his finger touched, and then it broke free and began advancing towards the villains, the laws of physics warping in the path of the Singularity he had created. . .
Indeed, Essex impacted Solid's leg with a soft thump, the android's buster arms wrapping snugly about.
"It's so good to see you!" she chirped. "Me and Rosie were shooting zombies and she let me have my own gun and it was really really cool!"
"Ahehe..." Rosie trotted after, Essex's smoothie in hand. "Yo, Solid. What's up?"
Japancakes.
Art - Theme 005 - Seeking Solace
Another zombie bit the dust, Tricolore's kick sending the head... way out, and the rest of it collapsed. It was a real mess fighting here. Grease was *everywhere*.
"Mon dieu! More heroes! They've really got it coming now!" She laughed, then turned towards the villains. "Best give up now, eh? Maybe you get a better bed in the Zig!"
"Agh!" shouted Blind, covering his already completely blacked out face from the light. He pointed his right hand toward the sound of Hal's voice and fired a skull encased in a darkness that would wrap around its target's eyes, if it had them, to lower the chance of them seeing the villain.
He rubbed his eye sockets slowly, groaning as he then lowered his hood further, which seemed impossible. He raised a hand as six zombies rose from the ground, breaking out of floor tiles and the like, attempting to circle Moonscribe. "Okay, buddy boy, you are to be my next minion..."
((Blinding darkness = Gloom. The six minions... Think of them as the three first tier zombies, but their damage and health is halfed because of their numbers.))
Taking a step back, Ainu focuses for a moment, drawing on her years of training (martial arts), and tapping into her inner energy pathways (focus chi) and remember the words of her mtoher (enrage insppiration), she plants her feet firmly and launches a crippling axe kick to the zombie.
"miss"
A round house kick..
"miss"
A crane kick
"miss"
COBRA STRIKE..
The last one finally lands, doing little more that getting the zombies attention again.
"I should have found my car" Aniu thinks to herself.
Launching another crane kick, by some twist of fate it lands, planting the zombie against the wall, were it finally stays, sliding to the floor.
Ainu looks aorund, gettign her bearings on the fight, everything was moving fast. Arms, legs, heads, all moving at eerie speeds.
"I hate zombies" she thought.
((Okay, so, I wrote a really long post in which UD remakes his dead zombies, but stronger, making him an EB instead of a Boss. Then he straps some C4 to a zombie, gets blinded, and sends it off in a random direction. Then Varius finally arrives, says some cool stuff in Latin (which I am never ever ever taking the time again to figure out, so just assume he's always speaking in latin), then trips on UD's tripmine and goes flying towards Moonscribe. Of course, once I hit "Enter Post" my browser crashes.))
(OOC: Restrictin yourself to 'EB' 'Boss' 'AV' is kinda borin' 
)
The Mexican Hat Dance ended and Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire' started up.
Jen sat back in her little protective bubble watching the fight unfold.
Suddenly, it is as if time has frozen, with no one moving or talking at all.
((Don't forget about this thread!))
((FAST?!? Like four people posted while I typed that! I just copy the post and check that no one else has done anything before sending. XP))