Freak Out 2 ...the Freak inside ((open RP))
By
Arctic_Princess,
Posted on: 2008-06-25 14:42 in Roleplaying
Ed dropped to the floor and panted hard, his body was pretty badly cut up but was healing slowly.
"Something tells me this is the Meat Doctor I've been looking for...so, we need her bound and awake...without these too..."
Ed begun attempting to snap off the metal arms protruding from the meat doctors back.
Badge Earned: Wing Clipper
A real showstopper!
Kata, clutching her wounds, uncurled herself and managed to prop herself up against one of the control panels.
"I think I'm going to have to mediport out of here. Not sure I can actually stand, let alone fight."
She checked the entry wounds and winced as the effects of Red's powers wore off.
"Nothing mortally wounded here - I hope." Kata's breathing was in short, sharp bursts as she tried to mediate the pain.
She made sure her undamaged leg and attached foot was touching her trusty katana before she got a firm hold on the mediport device.
"Good luck to you all. And promise me that you'll find out what this whole sorry business is about." Kata gave a wan smile and then disappeared in a burst of light.
***
The doctors were their usual efficient selves: The bullets were extracted and Kata was given some very powerful painkillers. She drifted off to sleep, lying in a hospital bed in Galaxy City, partially comforted by the fact that she had put up a good fight...
Of course, the matter of Edward and a known criminal by the name of Wild Red will have to be dealt with...
"Ungh... oh great..." Molly said as she leaned against the nearest wall, dropping her rifle and taking a good look at the wound in her leg. "That's gonna take a while to heal, isn't it?"
Molly then proceeded to gently touch the wound with her little finger, quickly pulling back and wincing as soon as she learned how bad an idea that was. Then, looking around, barely taking much notice of Ed's actions, Molly decided to finally ask: "Hey, anyone got a bandage? Or a bit of cloth they don't need?"
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Wild flew over to Molly and tore off a section of her cape. The wound on Molly's leg looked quite deep. She then flew to the tangle of cables Molly had been caught in and picked up a broken length of wire. She flew back to Ed, she dropped the cable and nearly fell over as a sharp pain shot up her leg when she landed. She had completly forgotten about the blade damage. She raised her arm and targeted the meat doc for a trasfusion. Then she thought better of it. Who knows what a Hero will do if you are seen as "taking advantage". Instead she tore yet another section from her cape and bound her leg as best she could.
As she flew around the room looking for pieces of the puzzle. She started to make her way to the computor's. There must be some information held there! Freaks are not normally this organised.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
Tim seem to just fall to the floor, almost completely worn out from the whole battle. Glowie came down from where it was hovering and gently flew around him.
"Thanks Glowie.. but im just gonna sit here for a bit." He said placing his right hand on his neck, where the needle had stuck in.
His gloved hand seem to glow faintly has he temporal powers kicked in, healing the wound up. Tim then glanced over at Ed, ripping the limbs from the doc, he signed "Ed, must you?" as a metal limb landed a few feet away from him.
Once to wounded had evacuated or patched ..Wild pondered on may be a longer cape ..or a first aid kit for next time ...
As Ed finished regen-ing , disarming the Meat Doc , and binding the said Slashshade and bothering Tim.....Molly , her leg now a lesser ache , had time to peer around , spotting one hatchway high up in the far right corner , accessible only via the circling walkway .. and a second hatchway on the far wall beyond the control desks...both hatches being locked closed .. from this side ....
Wild toured the twin banks of control desks , noting that the left hand ones where for power management .. and that the Freaks where stealing city power from somewhere ....
The right hand side as much stranger ,having a mix of bio monitors , GPS systems , lots of odd data streams , and a powerful number cruncher running .....
"Hmmm... " Wild started tapping away at the keyboard. Searching through various files and data. At the same time as trying to access the net, so she could download a few helpful files.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
To Wilds shock instead of the internet she found a intranet . . . . belonging to the City ... the Citywide Medi-Status net(( ver 3.844.01)) .. . that watches Heroes in case they need a Medi-Teleport .....revelation steped in .. the data is the reports on Heroes across the city ..and the calls upon the Hospital Teleport Bays ....
"What the....!" Wild could not believe what she was seeing. Someone was playing both sides of the fence and it was not Wild. She moved over to where Ed was trying to get answers out of Slashshade. Wild picked the meat Doc up by the neck, showing hidden strength. She limped while she dragged the meat doc over to the computer screens.
"I have 3 questions for you Doc. What are you doing here? Why are you collecting all this information? And who is behind all this? You will answer me." Wild Red leaned in close to Slashshades ear and whispered so no-one else could hear. "As you probably know I am no hero. I have no problem with draining you of everything you are and, I can do that before any one of those hero's even has a chance to stop me. You really don't want to experience what makes me so powerful in the isles! So answer me!"
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
Tim stood up, his rest had given him back the much needed energy, glancing to Slashshade he frown before slowly walking toward it.
"Huh? thats odd.. strange.. and almost impossible.." Tim muttered as he came towards Wild and Slashshade.
Adjusting his goggles he peered nearer at Slashshade's bound up form, frowning.
As she returned to the awake side of reality it was very clear Slashshade was in a great deal of pain .. the metal arms that Ed has ripped off had positive feed back into her flesh ... groans became screams as the full effect hit her . . . .. .
Wild let go of Slashshade's neck and covered her ears. She quickly checked her belt but she was out of pain killers.
"Anyone got any sedatives?" She shouted over Slashshades screams.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
Smirks, "now you know how it feels to have your arm begin to melt off, just like mine did with that gas of yours..."
He looked around, "I don't carry any...never really found the need to be honest...and yes Tim, I did have to remove those arms, you want to leave her with those things still attached, she'd cut through the cable and be out of here in a flash..."
Badge Earned: Wing Clipper
A real showstopper!
"Did you know she would be in so much pain when you ripped her metal arms off?" Wild Red asked Ed. She looked at the meat doc's back to see if there was anyway to reduce her pain and get some answers out of her.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
He shook his head, "to be honest, I didn't think they would provide such feedback...cybernetic limbs with tactile sensation are a rarity, they're more often built to smash than to feel..."
He looked down at Slashshade, "where is Shad00w...I'm sure my words are getting through to you, even through the pain..."
He leaned down and whispered to Slashshade.
"I'm not like the other heroes, I learned my art in the Isles but I still have a code of ethics, had I have known I would have left your limbs intact, I am not fond of ill-treating women, especially those as skilled as yourself, seek me out later and I'll repair and improve upon your damaged limbs and regrow your damaged nerves..."
He placed a card into her pocked before moving behind her, using his 'heat vision' to seal the nerve endings shut, cutting off any feeling to them, just leaving an icy chill in its place.
"I am a person of science, like you Slashshade, while I admire your work in creating another super freak...a foolish ideal since even Doc Buzzsaws creation turned on her...but it is a marvel none the less...so tell me, my dear, where is your Frankenstiens Monster of technology and magic?"
Badge Earned: Wing Clipper
A real showstopper!
Wild had no patience for dealing with Slashshade and her screaming. She was more used to beating the information out of someone, rather than coaxing it. She turned back to the computers. Maybe she could find something there, emails or memos to give them a clue as to what was going on.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
Shad00w was her direct boss .. she had enhanced him with techno-magical part .. she had carried out the work ..but the raw components , and some of the clever integration of the magic was not hers ..someone else had supplied them.. Shad00w's Boss .. a unnamed Freak ..only Shad00w talked to this Boss via a private comms unit built into Shad00w ....
as to what was going on here , Slashshade told of Shad00w's great luck .. he had raided a government warehouse down Inde-Port way hearing that a shipment of military small arms was being held there ...and as well as the guns he found and stole some created redundant computer parts....
.. and on one of the old hard drives where City Hall utilities plans ..from the rebuilding /war wall period ...and these plans showed the reuse of old data cabling for the , then ,new Medi-Port system.. as a short term measure to get the system up and running , the use of the cables was to be phased out over a few years .. BUT the cable where still in place .... a back -door a way into the system ....
The raid on Autoscribe Techs office block ..was to destroy the only other copies of the data cabling plans .. to protect the secret ...
.... the project Slashshade was working on here is nothing to do with the data on the Heroes who use the system .. that is just a bonus ..being able to see which Heroes are out of action .. and learning about their mutations .. no the great work here is to copy the Medi-Port system for Freakdom........through the hatchway beyond the control desks is the test Teleport .....
thats where the three Tank-Freaks went when they where defeated ....
Shad00w , he left last night to stage a major fight is Galaxy City so that he and a bunch of Freaks could get shot up enough to use the Cities Medi-Ports .... Slashshade had make them faked ID's that will fool the system .. and the Freaks only need to take minor wounds to trigger the Teleports.....
Once teleported in to the Galaxy City Hospital Medi-Port room .. Shad00w plans to steal all the teleport equipment to set up the Freaks own system .. it seem certain parts are hard to acquire...
The strain final told and Slashshades brain shut down .. sleep of a kind was the body's medicine of choice....
Cleaning his blade on the nearest freak Nox listened to Ed and Slashade talking. On hearing the details,Nox's cold sephucral (sp?) voice,said we need to get a message out to the galaxy city hospital that their will be a raid on their mediport system, and that they will need some powerful help. Also I need to get to this ShadOOw's boss, the kind of magic he is dealing with is very deadly and unpredictable."
Tim blinked then glanced up at Ed, "Yeah I get that but.. nevermind." he stook his head then glanced about.
"Galaxy city hospital huh? I could get there in a flash.. however, I could appear too late.. or during it.. possibly even before it.. I need to know when it's happening." Tim said fiddling about with his limiter bands controls, twisting the dials, pressing the odd buttons getting them to quietly hum ready for his Temporal shift to Galaxy city.
Wild Red interupted the conversation. "Transport should be easy! I thought medical teleporters were standard issue for you hero types? Shucks I guess I will miss out on all the fun."
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
"They are,and you wish!" Molly limped up to Wild with a confident smirk on her face, holding her mediport device in her left hand. "Just need to boost this and we've got an instant two-person teleport straight to Cygnus! Awesome, huh?"
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
"Stay away from me!" Wild took a step back. She could not use her powers due to the current tuning. So she balled up her barbed wire wrapped fist and took swing at Molly's head.
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
"Woah, wait a sec!" Molly yelled as she reacted as best she could to the attack, scoring a lucky dodge by quickly ducking and following up by swiftly swinging her rifle to Wild's neck. "I was kinda hoping we'd all play nice here and work together against these losers, if only temporarily, but you know, I could just pop you and send you to the Zig right now if you like!" Molly then let out a giggle, which came across as a little sinister, given the current situation. Then again, Molly would face anything with a smile and a giggle most days, not that anyone in the sewers would know. "Pick one and make it quick, okay?"
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Wild froze as the tip of the barrel rested against her neck. She wondered if these hero's knew just how vulnerable she was right now!
"Fine." She snapped. "I will help in Galaxy, I can play nice for a little longer."
@Wild Red
"In the Rogue Isles, loyalty goes to the highest bidder." Wild Red
Molly and the remaining Sniper-Freak traded long range shots , each knowing the first to score a bullseye would win more than just a stuffed toy .... Molly emerging the victor by a margin of 3 to 1 ..with a wound to her left leg as a the prize ....
The blade of Nox downed another Gunner-freak , as Kata's energy torrent sent the fallen and the fresh Gunner-Freak crashing to the floor .. providing a simple thrust target for Nox to finish off...
Tim powers held the two Swiper-freaks for long enough , so that his little helper could cover then in assorted junk ..knocking and crushing them into unconsciousness...
Ed's mighty regenerative powers and his dogged spirit held him upright until Wilds photon snipe sent Slashshade spin to the ground in a heap of metal and flesh limbs .....
.....the noise in the room fell to a series of electric hums and human-ish groans ....
One Swiper-Freak seem to have fled the room , the three Tanks had long gone .. in teleport like flashes .. the rest of Freaks lay scattered in a wide range of states and poses .....some adding to the groans and hums.....