((He's a hero in the same sense the Punisher is a hero, no goody-two shoes, coddle the badguy for him. He views it like this: Why would I put a criminal in jail, when they will be back out committing crimes again, when I can put them in the morgue and not have to worry about them? The villains in the thread didn't do anything he cared about while he was around, so he had no reason to fight them.))
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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"Well, I won the fight and used an extremely expensive weapon doing it, so drinks are on you I think"
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"Works for me. Just so long as we set the precedent." Jameson walked back in and bought a round of drinks for anyone in the fight.
Taking her seat, she picked up her whiskey and started sipping once more. "Sláinte!" ((slauncha))
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"Gaelic, for 'to your health'," Doctor Von Krayzee spoke up again, taking more money out of his pocket. "Cad a siad ag ol?"
He smiled over at Jameson. The Cybernetic Tomato put his hat back on and sat down. He fiddled with the drink straw on the bar in front of him, but didn't order anything.
Brian listened to the voice on the other end of the line "Yes a Hero came into my bar and killed a man and started a bar fight. He just left... Yes he's a hero was on the news and everything. Look I have my Arachnos sercurity bill fully payed up. Besides there a mess here we need a Hazmat team to tend to a nuke hole. No that wasn't the Hero's doing it was my bouncer do you want to meet her I coul... Ah glad you see reason so get someone down here." He sighed and hung up the phone. "Someone remind me to go to Lord Recluse and complan about who ever they got incharge here"
He hears the talk about the drinks "First round is on the house consider it a celabration for poping the Den's cherry" He started counting the money Claw left behind. "I wonder if that fellow would find out the sad fact about vengance..." looks over at Tommy's body "Perhaps not he might be stuck in the cycle of always finding someone new to rage against."
George replaced his gun to his holder and started filling drink orders. He smirked hearing the coments made on the phone to the Arachnos operator.
From the back Morgan came looking around worried "Is it over?" Behind her came a beat up looking Sky Raider jump bot the way it moved hinted it wasn't in full ablities anymore. It was pushing a Mop and bucket on wheels cleaning the floor as it moved from one area to another.
Tony was talking to the Family members that came running over now that it was done the Family took note of the thugs then headed back to there hangout. Tony returned to his control panel. "Well Now the Local action is over... and we compleatly missed getting it on camera... Back to the action elsewere. Right now there's another Zig break out going on the fellow leading the attack is a Villian named Nightstrike a Dark stalker. Betting is 2 to 1 that he can take out all three Captains with out KOing. 3 to 1 odds on him soloing the Longbow Officer there."
"On Monitor 4 you see 5 Villians going after the Hero known as Sea Witch. Were giving 20 to 1 Odds that they do it with no KOs, 15 to 1 on one of there members going down, 10 for 2 members KOed, 5 to 1 for three members KOed, 2 to 1 odds for 4 members KOed, and a full team wipe out at 5 to 1 odds. This is a big one so betting starts now and ends when Witchie sees the Team." He taps a few keys "On Monitor 2 you will see just a fun action of a team of 8 Heroes going after Lusca. No Betting on this just enjoyment watching Heroes go splat."
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((Darn you Averick, calling me on my Gaelic... roughly, what are they drinking? or something close...))
Jameson chuckled and rasied her glass in salute to the Doctor and his fruity friend. "Bhí mé ag ól uisce beatha..."
She started chuckling self depreciatingly, "Oh Lord, that was terrible. Grandma would so dissapointed. You good with languages doc?"
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Someone remind me to go to Lord Recluse and complan about who ever they got in charge here"
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"Ah, Oakes runs through Arbiters and Marshalls pretty quick. Its kind of the place careers go to die."
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"Feh. Speak English dammit", Ildela asked of the two of them as she wandered over to Tony, pulling out the remaining fifteen bucks of what she'd won off the first round.
"Hmm...", she mused, looking up at the collection of villains going after Sea Witch and the stalker assaulting the Zig. "Feh. I've seen better villains than those come out of the cesspools in Mercy. And Longbow have always been and will always be useless, so five on the Sea Witch and five on that stalker to beat the Officer senseless." She handed over the money and settled on a nearby chair to watch Lusca and the heroes beating seven shades of snot out of each other.
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"Ah, Oakes runs through Arbiters and Marshalls pretty quick. Its kind of the place careers go to die."
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"Heh, a couple of them died at my hand even", Ildela bragged. "No wait, that might've been those Family boss dudes, I can barely even remember 'cause it was so long ago. Feh, one or the other did."
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"Languages? Oh lord no. I only speak fifteen. Now my older brother, he was brilliant with languages. I was always better with math and science." Doctor Von Krayzee looked at the Cybernetic Tomato and sighed. "Until recently, that is."
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I was always better with math and science." Doctor Von Krayzee looked at the Cybernetic Tomato and sighed. "Until recently, that is."
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Fifteen? Jameson tried not to look bug eyed at the Doctor. Covering her surprise with a gulp of whiskey, the blonde narrowed her glance at the Cybernetic Tomato. It looked impressive, of course that all depended on what it was supposed to do.
"Now, Doc, don't you think you're being just a bit hard on yourself? You start drinking when you're meloncholy, you'll just end up crying and depressed. That'll kill the mood of everyone you're drinking with."
Jameson looked around the bar, trying to find a lonely, morose looking sap to use as an example.
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Brian looked around "Alright I got two Jobs. One is easy and might not even be any blood spilling. I want to know who been sending his goons to my Bar find the guy and tell them to meet me face to face. No henchmen or enforcers just the guy himself."
"Second is more of a risk. The PPD has a device in there evidence lockup I want it. It be marked Case 11690 This will be a high pay job I'm willing to pay a Million for that device. In working order"
The doctor looked down at the bar. "It's not that I'm not proud of making the Tomato." The Cybernetic Tomato leaned a bit into Doc Von Krayzee and made a soft "raaaaaaaaaaah" noise. The doctor didn't show signs of noticing as he continued. "It's just that everything I've learned about science since day one has convinced me that it shouldn't work."
He looked away briefly, as if thinking about something. "It would be like controlling plants with mad dog 20/20 and miracle grow. It shouldn't work." Then he rubbed his beard. "It shouldn't, unless..."
Once again he scribbled chemical equations on a napkin, this time he passed it to Jameson. "Check my work, do you think this will have a chance at creating audiosynthesis?"
Brian leaned over "Hmm perhaps given the size of the .. Tomato there genetic alterations. Normal tomatos have high acids combind with the right metals could produce electrical impulses. By chance do the cybernetic systems have somekind of nutrition absorbers taking particals out of the air to feed the plant?"
Jameson took the napkin, felt actual thoughts starting to bubble back into her mind and immediately winced, "Chemistry was not my strong suit Doc. I know all the vital organs and major arteries of most bipedal sentient lifeforms, but I can't even begin to fathom this..."
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"Who cares if it shouldn't work", Ildela interrupted, thoroughly bored of the science-y talk. "Obvious fact is it does, what's so important about why it does?" She shrugged before going back to watching the fights, smiling as a particularly vicious swipe of one massive tentacle from Lusca sent one hero to the bottom of the harbor. He didn't come back up, but a faint flash of light beneath the water gave evidence to the mediporters still working as intended.
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Jameson took the napkin, felt actual thoughts starting to bubble back into her mind and immediately winced, "Chemistry was not my strong suit Doc. I know all the vital organs and major arteries of most bipedal sentient lifeforms, but I can't even begin to fathom this..."
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"Ah, yes, I forget sometimes that I'm not in the lab. Yes, well, there's only one way to try. Perhaps the barkeep could get me a bottle of Maddog 20/20. I have some miracle grow in my pocket. You never know when you're going to need that." He reached into a pocket on his lab coat and pulled out some money, sliding it across the bar.
The Tomato, meanwhile, had taken to stacking nearby objects on the surface of the bar.
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"Who cares if it shouldn't work", Ildela interrupted, thoroughly bored of the science-y talk. "Obvious fact is it does, what's so important about why it does?"
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"Who cares?" Doc Von Krayzee was visibly agitated, but didn't seem violent. "Why, EVERYONE cares! Science isn't about knowing that something works, but WHY something works. The underlying principals are what allow us to bend science to our will and not be ruled by it. Understanding why is what takes a simple discovery, like mold growing on bread, and creates a cure for thousands of infections like Penicillium! The why matters! What kind of scientist ARE you?"
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"The why matters! What kind of scientist ARE you?"
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"I'm not a scientist at all, Doc", Ildela laughed. "And I don't give a damn, thus putting paid to your 'everyone cares' theory. Trust me, some things in this world can't be and shouldn't be attempted to be explained by science. I should know, I'm one of them." Exactly what she meant by that, she left up to his imagination. Though she'd probably give a demonstation if he asked.
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"The why matters! What kind of scientist ARE you?"
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"I'm not a scientist at all, Doc", Ildela laughed. "And I don't give a damn, thus putting paid to your 'everyone cares' theory. Trust me, some things in this world can't be and shouldn't be attempted to be explained by science. I should know, I'm one of them." Exactly what she meant by that, she left up to his imagination. Though she'd probably give a demonstation if he asked.
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"Oh, then what are you doing in this lab?" As Doctor Von Krayzee spoke his outrage, the Tomato poked him in the shoulder then pointed around the bar. "Oh, yes, of course. It's a bar... where people drink."
"It's just that, well there's a thousand things that can be done with the smallest piece of knowledge. Surely, you can get excited over that! Of course I couldn't possibly explain it all to you without teaching a catch up course in cybernetics."
The tomato banged out a rim shot on the bar top and ended it with a spoon to the catsup bottle in front of him.
Doc Von Krayzee just looked over at him, then back. "Did you ever have an interest in science?"
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As Doctor Von Krayzee spoke his outrage, the Tomato poked him in the shoulder then pointed around the bar. "Oh, yes, of course. It's a bar... where people drink."
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"You know", Ildela mused absently. "One does have to wonder about the state of the world when the fruit is paying more attention than you are. ...Or are tomatoes a vegetable, I could never remember." she laughed, taking another gulp of her drink and shooting a glance over to the screens to see if any of those fights were over yet.
"But to answer your question," she continued, turning back to him. "No, I'm about as un-scientific as you could get. Well, unless knowing exactly where to stab someone to inflict the greatest amount of pain counts as science. Biology, maybe."
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"But to answer your question," she continued, turning back to him. "No, I'm about as un-scientific as you could get. Well, unless knowing exactly where to stab someone to inflict the greatest amount of pain counts as science. Biology, maybe."
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"Yeah. Anatomy, Nuerology, and such all fall under Biology." Jameson said off handedly. "I know a couple of girls who took pre-med just to become better killers. On the same track, I know a few who sold their souls for the same. Science, magic, end result is the same, method probably is too. How does that quote go... 'Any piece of suffciently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'?"
Shaking her head, Jameson finished her glass and ordered another.
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"Magic? Heh, oh no. Pure scientific and reproducible fact. Although, I'd love to see some thing scientific that looked like magic. Can you imagine if you couldn't explain something? Something so technologically advanced that it was light years beyond your understanding." Doc Von Krayzee nearly exploded with glee.
Actually, he exploded with thorns. They shot through his lab coat and skewered a nearby bowl of peanuts, creating a small peanut shower on the bar around his left arm. For a moment he basked in the thought he was having, as dozens of spiky thorns protruded from his body. He was apparently unaware that he was thorny.
"Can you imagine what that would look like?"
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Ildela abruptly burst out laughing at that, though even after she stopped she didn't care to say why. Clearly she found the whole idea rather amusing, though.
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"Can you imagine if you couldn't explain something? Something so technologically advanced that it was light years beyond your understanding."
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"Can I imagine?", Ildela repeated, a smile crossing her face once more. "Why bother merely imagining, when one can hold tangible proof in the palm of their hand?" She didn't explain further, but from the way she started digging around in her pockets, one could logically make the assumption that she believed at least that she had just such an object in her possession. "Dammit... where did I put that...", she muttered as she kept digging, completely ignoring the explosion of spikey thorns from the man sitting next to her in favor of continued searching. The air around her shimmered oddly with a series of flashes, as her ever-present energy shield deflected those that would otherwise have hit her. Eventually, she came up with a thin silver disk about the size of a wristwatch. "Go on then," she dared, placing the object on the counter between them. "See if you can tell me what that does."
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Doc Von Krayzee picked up the thin disk and turned it over in his hands. "Well there's literally no way of telling just by looking at it, unless it's active right now? Is it active right now? Is it a atmospheric moisture extraction to cellulose and lignin barrier?"
"Only Lab I got here is the robotics bay in part of the Basement." Brian sighed alittle. "The set up I had when I was working on Synthetic That was something. Nearly had it too I made an artifical cell devide. Well that was before someone blew up my lab, nearly killed me, and did kill my wife."
He looked around the bar then "To bad the guy is dead now I should have made him suffer more seems Lazers from 6 robots blasting at the same head at the same time kills quite fast."
"You have a robotics bay? Oh wonderful! I've been wondering where I could do some tinkering with the Tomato. Do you suppose I could rent said bay for a time? I can pay handsomely." The Doc's Face lit up. The Cybernetic Tomato pointed out the thorns by flicking one with his cybernetic hand. The Doc quickly retracted the spikes with an "excuse me" before looking sheepish. "It happens when I get... excited."
The Tomato tapped out another rim shot on the bar.
When the Doc had exploded in spikes, Jameson had been surprised. Which meant the booze was working, as her prescience was getting cloudy. Unfortunately, it also meant that if the Doc was going to keep exploding, she'd have to find some other place to sit before her head got pierced.
Not liking that train of thought, Jameson ordered a burger from the kitchen. Needed some food in her stomache to sop up some of that booze.
Jameson spoke at Brian, "Better to kill'em quick. You take too much time to savor a kill, the target usually finds some way to turn it around on you. Less fun, if that's your kink, but much safer. Sorry 'bout your missus."
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((Me I had work to do ... real life argo... anyway I'm free for a few nights so will come up with something good. And Claw you are welcome to hang around you didn't kill the post Claw seems more Villian then hero anyway. Mah ha ha ha we got donuts with sprinkles!... Yeah I love that bit))