Fanservice skidded along the ground, ice crackling under her feet as it speed her clear of a fire wreathed punch from her alter ego. This was good footage, the editing team were gonna go wild when they saw it and it might just take the top slot on the programming scheldue, which was great!
However right this instant, things didn't look too good at all. Her copy wasn't an exact match for her, but what it lost in experience it more than made up for with recklessness. It didn't help that both could set each other on fire with the lightest touch if they saw it coming. Meaning that while the copy didn't care if it got burned back, Fans had to surprise it or pull the blow.
Ducking another wild swing Fans kicked out her copies legs, smashing her fist into it's head as it reached the ground the pavement cracking under the force and flames spluttering to life wreathing the hair in fire. Jumping back as her copies hand waved to try retaliate the clone sprung at Fans from it's downed position. Ducking under it she shoulder barged it with a grunt, sending it sailing off into the melee as a ball of flame. A thud and a scream as someone came running back out of the melee ablaze, diving at a burst hydrant to douse the flame, Fans winced at her mistaken throw.
Barely slowed, her doppelgänger run back out of the melee looking around for Fanservice and being greeted with a spinning manhole cover to the face. The sickening crunch knocking it to the ground as Fans fist pumped for the cameras in triumph. Looking around, the whole street was a battle zone and Fans herself was stalemated in this fight the doppelgänger already rising to reset it's jaw and charge right back in.
"Alright! Uh... look anyone want to switch partners? Beating myself up over this isn't helping!"
Leaving the fake Amber Banshee behind Nightseye jumped towards what she presumed was the real one.
"Saffron! Are you alright? Let me help you up..."
Somewhere her accute senses picked up a few words from out of the battle sounds... "...want to switch partners?..." Amber seemed ok, but was really shaken up. When Amber opened her eyes she had a shocked look.
"Behind you!", She said fast.
Nightseye turned her head and saw the Amber Banshee clone standing there ready to attack... and next to her was... herself?! Reacting as fast as her catlike agility would allow she pushed herself and Amber to the side... Just in time to avoid the avalanche of sound the Amber clone hurled towards them.
Jumping away with Amber in her arms she said softly "I am weak against overall non-directed sound. Things I can't dodge." With that she landed behind a tree covering her ears while seeing her own clone jumping towards them... claws out ready to shred them to pieces. Hoping Amber would understand...
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Still slightly dazed, Saffron looked up from where theyd landed. She could see the Nightseye clone about to pounce them and slightly further away, her own clone as it turned and shouted at... her dad!? She was about to say something when the Nightseye clone pounced. Singing a bassline frequency at it sent it spinning off course. She followed it up with a higher pitched tone, designed to knock it backwards. Leaving it reeling she ran from the cover of the tree towards her own doppelganger.
Its disoriented, theres your opening! she cried, hoping Nightseye would take advantage of it. Right now she was more concerned with her dad who seemed to be beating on a bemused Shivan. Could this day get any weirder, she wondered. Seeing the Shivans pacifistic flailings, she figured it was somehow not involved in the alien shakedown. But knowing her dad, hed probably seen it, seen the meteor, put two and two together and come up with five. He had a lot to learn about heroing.
Dad no! she shouted, before her double caught her with a blast, sending her into the side of a parked car. Brian, hearing his daughter turned to see the two of them fighting and stopped.
What the hell? he muttered. He patted the Shivan on the chest and turned to sort out his daughters. Well speak later, he said. Striding over to where the two Ambers were dodging each others screams, it was easy to spot the fake when next to the real one. He grabbed the clone from behind and lifted it off its feet, watching it as if flailed trying to get free.
What is this? he asked out loud, some kind of clone?
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..Clear of the cloud Bill spotted three PPD SWAT officers , parried and made a run across to them , .. make ready full auto and unloaded all you have when I say go ...clear ..spinning back to block the Billclones next swing , Bill had to hope the SWATS nerves held , this was going to be messy .....
..now for the hard part of Plan B ... Bill exchange a few more blows with his Billclone , and then left a opening , low , for a thrust at the abdomen ......
and Billclone was happy to take it driving the tips of the energy blade into Bill midriff ... Bill then put Plan B in to operation , rather than ducking back away from the strike he drove forward onto the blades...the red energy cutting deep and passing right through Bills guts .....
in the fractions of a second the Billclone was defenceless , Bill flicked off his energy blade , repositioned the short handle , and re-fired up the blades , straight into the Billclones head , this time with the weapon set to full power ......
Bill knew a head shot would not kill himself , but it did muddle his thinking for a while ....
with the Billclones blade still stuck through his stomach , and his blade in the Billclones head .he shouted to the SWAT team .. GO , fire, fire , fire ....
He hoped they where good shots , as he felt pretty weak with his middles coming apart .......
Annie started to panic. She was sure the additional gravity would have slowed the clone. She started to back away. She heard Commander Union shout. The clone didn't stray from it's course.
She looked around and had an idea. Combining her abilities, she picked up a car and hurled it at the clone.
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Nighsteye saw the opening and reacted with astounishing speed. She knew very well how fast she could recover from a simple disorientation.
She jumped up on her clone and landed a barrage of devastating blows on the head. Without actually aiming for it she also hit the orange glow which disappeared in seconds. The fake Nightseye started to shake and fell lifeless on the floor. Then the skin broke and the clone broke out green fluid from the openings missing the real Nightseye only by an inch. Then the body started to melt away in green ooze.
Great Horus
THAT is gross!, she called out.
Battle ready she looked around to see Amber and her dad. They obviously where in control. At the end of the street she saw a hero struggling with her clone. Flames where everywhere
and for a second she remembered the scream of help she heard a few minutes earlier.
Taking up speed she ran up towards the obvious clone of Fanservice and jumped it with full force from behind. To follow up with a second jump landing on her feet next to the real thing.
Hi
I am Nightseye
Do you need help with youre twin sister here?, she said to Fanservice with a small grin. We have to hit the orange glow!
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VGX-3 shoots landed, one after the other, it's clone reeled from the impacts then the orange glow coming from it's visor screen flickered before the hulk fell to the floor.
"Target: Clone :disabled.
Life sign scan: No response: Result: Dead from: Impacts."
The progarm flashed up on it's visor screen before scanning the area, and showing up a air veiw top down of the area, highlighting each battle as it happend, where each person and clone was. The heroes had the code "Prime" tagged on before their names, the clones were just called clones.
VGX-3 twisted around on the spot and picked out one of the clone targets from the scan radar, switching his right arm from the normal blast mode to it's long barreled sniper mode and began charging it up to full power. Slowly as it charged it's legs clamped down onto the ground, and small support pads unfolded and connected into the ground, in order to take the feed back force from the full powered blast it was ready to unleash at the target clone.
"Hero Targets: Call names and duck, Unit will fire at: Clone Target choice." VGX-3 Shouted out as loud as it possible could to make sure this time it was heard.
((Anyone who wants him to sniper blast their clone or blast the clones, give him a shout. He's there to act as a range support bot for the heroes of the city anyway, he's only following his programming to assist them.
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Fanservice nodded at Nightseye, the orange glow was there but encased in a thin layer of ice. Fans knew it was adaptive though a blow to it would barely dent, it unless was superheated flame that is. Swinging in for a kick Fans knocks the clone sideways bumping it up against another.
"I'll expose the head! You hit it, don't get caught doing it, or you'll get lit up like a Christmas tree!"
As the car sailed through the air Fans coiled and jumped, landing on it's underbelly as it twisted down to the pair of clones. Grabbing onto the axle she forced heat into the car's frame and with a loud burst the car was turned from a flying projectile to a giant ball of fire crashing into the pair with Fans hopping clear at the last moment.
"She'll be down. Do it now!"
From above, the Portent watched the tense situation degenerate into a brawl as the duplicate heroes attacked their originals. Whatever the intent of the pod that had apparently created them, it now had control of numerous superpowered beings, and seemed to have staked a territorial claim.
Action needed to be taken, but he was at a loss as to what. He was well aware that this was not a situation suited to his skills; he was not a diplomat, a scientist or a soldier. Up here, he was at the limits of his attack range, and unable to track targets in the swirling melee of dopplegangers.
Only one option presented itself. He scanned the crowd to locate the Amber Banshee... or both of them, engaged his cloaking field, and teleported to a spot near their position.
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Focused on the exposed area Nightseye jumped high... turning around in mid-air to dodge some random flying flames. Even so a bit of fur gave a slight burned smell.
She just ignored it and managed to land with both her feet dead center on the exposed spot. Directly jumping clear avoiding either more flame or maybe the coming up green goo.
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The nameless being observed the battle, that is to say, he ran around in mock panic, finding the best points to view the heroes struggles and thus to feed on the visual energy, their emotions generated.
But the dance couldn't last for long, though he'd not been cloned himself, he found him self surrounded by clones, civilians by their dress, weathering their blows the surrounded being seemed, less concerned with the beating he was receiving and more concerned with watching the rest of the battle.
Tch I can't get a good distance, would some one offer assistance? he shouted in a stage voice, as the clone mob wailed on him.
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
The car flew toward the Union clone. The clone caught the vehicle with ease and tore it in half as if it were tinfoil. Commander Union by this time had figured out that this clone had all of his abilities. If this clone wasn't stopped it would become a major threat to the city and it citizens.
Union had heard someone shout something about the glow on thier heads earlier. Thier weak spot. However, when Union had his clone pinned he had pounded its head, including the orange glow. The clone shared his power, including his molecular density. It seemed this weak spot wasn't so weak.
Union racked his brain, desperately searching for a way to stop the clone. Union knew his only weakness was psychic assaults. But he wasn't sure if that would work on the clone and there was no way to find out.
By now the Union clone was dangerously close to Annie. One punch would kill her, or at best seriously cripple her. Union did the only thing he could for now. He flew toward the clone like a bullet and tackled it. The clone stumbled, but remained on its feet. It brought a devastating double axehandle chop down on Union's back. Union dropped to his knee, still maintaining his grip. Hopefully this would give Annie opportunity to either gather strength for another attack or run. Either way she needed time.
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But I cant! exclaimed Brian, still holding the writhing clone of his daughter. He had it held tight, one massive arm encircling it, the other hand clamped over its mouth. It squirmed in his grasp but Brians Devoured mutation and recovery had left him with immense strength and Saffron had no more strength than any other twenty one year old. The clone wasnt going anywhere.
Saffron rolled her eyes in despair. If she could handle the bones of an alternate reality version of herself, she expected her dad to be able to destroy a replica of her. Ok, hold it tight and get ready to drop it when I shout.
Brian nodded in response, Saffron lining herself up and tuning into the frequency of the orange glow in her clones forehead. Singing a finely tuned note, she pinpointed the glow with the blast, causing it to vibrate madly before dissipating. Brian noted that the body went limp almost instantly and dropped it to the floor. Within moments it began to start melting. He watched it forlornly before he was led away by his daughter.
Its ok dad, its just a clone, she said. An alien copy of me. Im still here, ok? Brian nodded, a little saddened and weirded out by recent events. Now get back to the Dugout, theres going to be wounded and The Militias base is closest to be able to provide help and refuge.
I dont think were going to have that option, replied Brian, staring behind her to where the meteor still lay. From out of the mist, more clones were coming. But this time there were at least five copies for each hero, a veritable army of hero clones, including one of those that had already fallen. Saffron turned to see two more copies of herself destroying a car through more sonic blasts. She clicked open the comms unit on her wrist and switched to PPD and Hero Corps emergency frequency.
Attention all present at the Kings Row crash site, she began, Theres more clones incoming from the direction of the meteor. We need to aim for the glow in their heads and somehow get to that damned meteor and switch it off!
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Starting to get scared now, Annie kept backing away. She let out a yelp when Commander Union tackled his own clone.
This bought her the time she needed. She opened up another rift. "Please give me another lamp-post." She whispered and her luck held out.
"Heads up!" she yelled as propelled the lamp-post end on, with all the power she could muster, directly at the orange glow on the clones forehead.
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The lamp-post collided with the Union clones forehead. the clones head reeled from the impact. The orange glow flickered for a moment. The clone stood still while this little orange light flickered like a firefly. After a moment the glow stabilised, returning to its original intensity.
Union glanced up at his clone with a look of worry. That bright spot would have to be hit alot harder. The clone swung his arm back, knocking Union to the ground once more. It reached down and retrieved the lamp-post. It threw it at Annie like a javelin. Fortunately it missed Annie by inches and hurtled past her. Unfortunately, a civilian had wandered into the fog and gotten lost. Union watched in horror as the lamp-post struck the poor man with full force, crushing his chest and killing him instantly.
A rage built up inside Union the like of which he had never before known. He clambered to his feet. The image of that mans death replayed in his mind. The adrenaline flowed freely, stoking the fires of his fury, fueling his already titanic power. With an almighty roar, one that would likely be heard by all in the vicinity, Union charged at the murderous clone.
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The SWAT's fire power and a few good swipes from Bill has put the Billclone on the back foot , now hearing Amber Banshee's PPD message , Bill switched to all out attack risking being Blued by SWAT he closed in and landing a killing chop to the Billclones head , cutting though the glow and sending the Billclone to the ground .....
dump a few mag's in it to be safe guys .. the shouted to the SWAT team , and then kicked in his rocket boots , full power up....
Bill's brain selected Plan C , checking the sword was still set to 'no more Mr nice-Bill power' , the rocket boots screamed to full thrust and climbed to 700feet , than Bill started a dive at where he had last seen the spacerock , energy blade to the fore the zombie guided missile drove downwards......
VGX-3 sensors picked up on the army of hero clones coming from the "pod" as it had been labeled by it's A.I program, it had also noticed Bill soar upwards then drive down at the "pod" area. it's A.I program ran as many scans and results as it possibly could in the minute this all took place.
Targets: Clones. Heroes: assist. Target object: POD: destory: confirmed.
Targets: Clones: orders: Destroy: protect civilains at all costs.
Energy level: Opt. Blaster power: Stable: Max.
Battlefronts: Area Around POD: Mutiply clones: best use of weapons: Sweep arc Blasts: Beam Blasts: Energy blasts rapid fire.
It's visor flashed up as it switched it's aimming to the group coming from the "pod", without warnning it shot off the sniper charged blast at the group, aimming for the heads of the Clones, hopeing it would disable as many as it could in one long line.
Annie sidestepped as she saw the lamp-post heading straight for her. She watched as it sailed by, she saw the civilian too late. Annie could only hold her hand over her mouth as she watched her lamp-post crush the civilian. Her heart dropped into her stomach at the tragedy.
She heard Union's roar behind her, as she turned she saw even more clones ambling out of the mist, too many to count.
"Oh no!" She exclaimed. She saw at least 5 more clones of herself and Union. They were having enough trouble with one. She flew over to Union who was battling his clone and tried to get his attention.
@Wild Red
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Steve knew what he had to do...
A massive ball of radiation built in his hands and he hurled it into the midst of the incoming army of clones. He lumbered towards them. A single Shivan Decimator can prove to be more than a match for some heroes. Steve moved into the midsts of the clones, radiation blasted out of him to the surrounding clones, the area filled with a green haze for a moment.
Steve begun smashing his fists down on the nearest clone, whirling and spinning in a ballet of radioactive destruction, fighting his way towards the meteor.
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Commander Union slammed his fist into his clones face. The impact produced a ripple in the air, a miniature shockwave. The Union clone was knocked off his feet and flew backward into the oncoming army of clones. Union stared in disbelief as three more versions of himself emerged from the mist.
They strode forward like juggernauts. He spotted the Shivan, Steve battling his way through, firing radiation bursts at every clone he could see. Union had battled and defeated Shivans in the past, even Decimators. He knew that if even one of his clones attacked Steve, the Shivan would be in serious trouble. The Union clones were unfazed as they continued their relentless march and were soon joined by the first clone.
Union looked up at the angelic white form of Annie. There was a look in his eyes that betrayed his feelings. He was afraid. Not for himself, but for Annie, for Steve, for the other heroes and for the people of this city. He closed his eyes.
"Go help the Shivan." He said. His voice wasn't loud, but carried both conviction and solemnity.
Union strode forward toward the quartet of his clones. He looked at each of their faces. Each of them was a reflection of his own. Each of them cold and emotionless. All four clones had Union's titanic strength. All four had his megalithic durability. The eerie glows in their foreheads were their weakness, but with their heads being as hard as his, it would require every drop of strength he had to take them down.
He stopped. He had to make sure they attacked no-one else but him. He reached up and removed the blue titanium mantle that framed his face. He let it drop to the ground. Once again he eyed his clones. They marched through the mist like the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Union planted his feet and stared his opponents down.
"C'mon." he whispered. "C'mon! C'MON!"
The clones rushed him. They came forth with a barrage of blows. Union tried to block or dodge as many as he could but the four Union clones just continued to pummel him. Each punch was like a freight train, sending small shockwaves through the air. Their relentless assault brought Union to his knees. Each time he tried to move another punch landed. Union had never taken beating like this. He had never been hit so hard.
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Annie didn't miss the concern in Union's eyes. She didn't want to leave him to face the powerful clones alone. But she did as she was asked.
Annie floated the lamp-post she had destroyed her own clone with, over to the Shivan.
"Well I guess the world has gone crazy." She said as she landed next to Steve. She looked up at the Shivan "I hope you can understand me! You need to hit the orange glow. You can have that lamp-post."
She turned and saw Commander Union on his knees. The four clones not giving him a chance. Annie couldn't stand there and watch. She decreased the gravity around the clones floating them away from Union. Giving him even the smallest amount of time to recover. She also sent him a boost of oxygen.
"I hope it's enough." She whispered.
@Wild Red
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Steve nodded his head, taking hold of the lamp post in one clawed hand and deciding that since these things were truly hostile, it was a fight to the finish.
Steve begun bringing down the lamp post on the heads of any nearby clones with great force following by sweeping it around him to try and give himself some breathing room. The meteorite needed to be destroyed and he knew it...moving forward he continued his assault and battery of any available clones noggins as he pushed towards the sky rock.
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Gall was getting his a$$ handed to him.
The clone army that attacked him did so without weapons at first, but after he lost his sword to a particularly zealous replica of himself, he was finding the fight distinctly one sided.
At least he still had his sai. He blocked an overhead smash from one clone, bracing his forearm with the length of one sai, before jabbing the rounded and blunted blade of the other into the clone's head. Grimacing as the head popped like an overripe melon, geysering him with noxious green fluid.
The other clones took offence. One retrieved his ninjato and deployed its vicious edge with the same skill as Gall himself. Another dragged a broken street sign behind it, straining with the effort as it raised it like some primitive bludgeon. The rest of the clones attacked the police detachment, pulling revolvers, night sticks and shotguns from the outmatched officers. Three raised their newly acquired firearms in unison, taking aim at the frankly swamped felon turned hero....
"Thwoom!"
The shot was thunderous. Gall couldn't help but look down, expecting to see his gut opening up wet and red from multiple gunshots. Nothing?
He looked up as another shot boomed out. Tracing the fire to its source.
Atop a rooftop a camouflaged figure stood aiming a Vanguard Redding rifle. He decapitated the third clone with a third shot then seemed to speak into his collar.
"Trace to R.A.P.I.E.R. I have engaged the clones. Requesting back up."
VGX-3 retacted the supports from it's legs and twisted about to look a the metoerite "pod" in the middle of the now battlefield that once was a small area of Kings row. it's A.I progarm still worked like cazy trying to give the suit as many options and tactical input as possible, grading each fight around it by number, going by how badly each hero was doing against the clones. Commander Union seemed to having trouble, as was Steve and the hero next to him. It was a choice to make one hero or the other, unlike a person VGX-3 had no emotions, no feelings, no sense of what or how humans valued life so to it, it was a choice by the person most likely to need assistance and live long enough for it to get to the hero. With that VGX-3 twisted about on the spot and activacted it's flight mode, unfolding the wings from it's shoulder pads and the boosters on it's back and legs. hovering upjust enough for it to no longer be in contact with the ground it flew off as fast as it could towards Commander Union, it's path took it straight into the nearest Clone of him, as it flew its blasters switched back to it's robotic hands then began to glow as the energy pumped into him, it was going to try and take out at least one of them.
It's A.I had done the maths, one large hulk of a battle bot vs one or more Commander Union clones would at least make a small dent.
Steve looked towards the sound of the voice.
"Gurmgr!"
Steve raised his hands in self defense, not actively striking out at the charging hero, the body shock of the massive man hitting him caused his body to wobble slightly as he dug his gelatine feet into the ground, sliding back.
Steve gestured frantically at the varios clones, pointing out the battle between Union and his clone, a series of short, sharp gurgles coming from him as he gestured...though making no motion to attack Brian, the gesturing more like arms waved in panic, an odd sight for anyone who had ever seen a Shivan before.
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