Nullman , respectfully ,grabs Manny and with no sign of effort carries her up to the Vanguard roof top ...
" what now ? " his voice uncertain and worried ...
Nodding, Sam crouchs down to let the child clamber on her back "This is not going well." She yells over the wind...
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The young boy looks at her for a moment, before smiling and hopping onto her back.
"I can help.. Me Nurture." Nurture said as a small amount of soil spilt out from his belt.
"Okay Nuture...." crouching down lower she springs away landing on a building away from the malestrom but not far away..."Here seems good..."
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Nurture jumped down from her back as they landed.
"Here..?" He asked running quickly over to the roof edge, " But it's over there.. I want to help.. can't get them from here." He winned, looking down over the side and the floor below.
Manny found her feet and nodded to Nullman in gratitude. She was pleased to see the boy and the archer had retreated to a safer position too.
"Right, well the lightning bolt appears to have made no progress. Perhaps a little trench warfare to impede its path?"
Manny took out an embroidered, drawstring bag from within her shoulder bag. She loosened the strings and tipped out a handful of polished stones, each one totally different. The old woman studied them for a moment and decided on a silky smooth pumice. She held it up to the sky and began to chant in a language similar to Arabic. The stone appeared to grow hot but Manny kept her grip on it as its edges burned a coppery red colour. There was the rich, acrid scent of camphour in the air as she continued to chant.
Finally, she raised her arm higher and then forced the heated pumice to the floor where it exploded in a white cloud of dust. Cracks appeared in the road where the storm was fast approaching. Manny willed them to speed up but the physcial act of the road collapsing was out of her control now. She had merely given the concrete a push...
Sighing, Sam lifts him back up and leaps closer to the storm, letting him down then shooting off Arrows into the fog, "Isn't anyone going in there?" says she over the hero general comms
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Nullman just faded away ...then sped around the building looking for a side door ...
Nurture smiled then once he was on soil ground took out a few hand fulls of soil and seeds mixed up before throwing them towards the pillar of wind.
"Watch this." he shouted as the soil cubs suddenly as they hit the ground bursted out into vines trying to reach into the wind.
The storm continued to fill the area with a thick fog as screams came from nearby buildings, great crashes of rubble hitting the ground rumbled through the air as the robots started aimlessly destroying walls and cars, all the while hidden in the abyss.
One brass mechanaut tumbled onto it's knee as one foot fell into a crack in the ground, scanning the area, an arrow harmlessly deflected off it's shoulder whilst it's sights came upon Whirling Dervish. Getting to it's feet, it started to charge towards the Hero, one arm raised as a club to strike her down.
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Manny had some time to react to the construct as it raced towards the building she was stood atop. She knew she had to keep distance between herself and it but from the look of things, the trail of destruction left by the storm and its inhabitants meant that no building was safe.
"I must get back down to street level." She spoke aloud, trying to gather her thoughts. Many years ago, when she was much nimbler on her feet, Manny might have risked launching herself from the edge of the roof and trying to summon an air current but her body had succumbed to the frailty of relative old age and she doubted she would finish the incantation in time.
The clanking of the construct grew louder as it drew away from the storm and headed towards her. Manny retreated to the roof access and tried the door - it was locked. Looking to the heavens she muttered a short prayer and pointed a finger at the lock. Moments later lightning struck the door and it burst open almost knocking Manny over. She hurried down the steep, narrow steps, hoping to get as close to the ground as possible before that thing caught up with her.
Spotting the robot through the fog she leaps with and sommersaults through the air, landing with her feet square on it's shoulds shoving the flame sword deep into it's head, trying to fry any of the AI that was in there. "Dear god, Growth's good with this stuff where is she when you need her."
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Hearing the destruction Nullman gave up his side door quest and , at top speed , flew back to the roof ...
just in time to see the empty roof top and a giant metal arm looking for a target ..
trusting to his concealing cloak ((stealth)) he flew around seeking the beast head to aim , mind wreaking blasts ,at ...
Twisting the sword hilt the heat intesifies, "BURN YOU PEICE OF ****!!!!!" hoping to high heaven that this'll work she then pulls out an arrow, static arcing off it and shoves it deep into the robots now open head((Yes yes EMP arrow well an EMP arrow considering she IS a blaster. >.>
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Nurture suddenly caught sight of the thing in the haert of the pillar, the metal giant. His eyes widen for a moment has his jaw dropped open, his glazz fixed on it, form him it was the first time he had seen such a thing his wonder and amazement overrided his fear for those moments.
"Mummie.. what's that!?" He called out seemingly to thin air.
Suddenly he nodded and ran towards it, pointing his hands down at the ground has he ran, which in turn seem to have a crack follow his path towards it, glancing briefly up at the lighting bolt hitting the near by roof.
Nurture seem to suddenly change how he was for that point, instead of being scared, afraid, shy, he became like those else fighting of this metal giant.
The creation shook from the assaults against it's head, raising both arms to knock off the hero.
Meanwhile, the other robots returned to the platform within the storm, concealed from the fog.
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Manny careered down several flights of stairs and almost bounced out of the front door of the apartment block. She caught her breath and took in the scene:
The little boy had a strange air about him and whatever he had done in the time it had taken Manny to descend had caused something very metallic and far bigger than him to retreat back into the broiling storm.
The athletic archer was doing her best to dismantle the robot that had caught sight of Manny and the younger woman's close proximity to the thing meant that Manny wouldn't dare attack it with another lightning bolt. Besides, the archer seemed more than capable.
"Where's the man who lifted me to the top of the building I wonder?" Manny mused before deciding to run after the boy and try a combined assault on the fog enshrouded enemy.
The cracks in the road had hindered the progress of the storm but not stalled it completely. Manny cursed under her breath, "The bag! I've left my bag up there. Stupid old woman!" She would now have to channel magic through her, rather than using her props which always afforded her the use of a little extra energy. Channelling was risky for Manny - she could only utilise a small portion of energy at any one time so each attack would need careful thought and time.
She shouted to the boy, "Perhaps if we work together we might halt this unnatural thing? I'm Manny, by the way."
Reappearing just behind Manny ..Nullman glared at the machine ...."never was much good with robots" ...."i'll do what i can "..and with that Nullman changed a few force vectors around the robots center of mass ((levitate)) ....
Dodging the arms she continues to atack it's now open head, hoping to stop it tapping the comm on her ear, "Growth, any more of those arrows?" soon she had more electromagnetic arrows in her quiver and leaping back she lands just infront of Nuture and Manny, "Oh I hate these things." drawing the arrow back to her ear she let's it fly and it crashes into the robot exploading with force enough to knock most foes to the ground and away from the explosian.
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Nurture continued his run till he heard not only Manny behind him shout out at him but the archer girl land infront of him. Skidding to a halt just before her the two cracks following him suddenly bursted out from the floor as a root like spike, which headed into the wind just as the arrow went in.
"Im Nurture.. I can help see." He span around to face Manny then nodded to her. "Mummie tells me, you need something up there?" pointing at where Manny had came from.
"That's very kind of your, um, Mummie." Manny replied as gently as she could. "My bag is on top of the building over there."
Just watching the archer made her tired but she was thankful of the assist and the reappearance of the man who had helped her previously was reassuring.
She turned back to the boy, "Tell me, would your Mummie mind if I tried something a little unusual?"
Nurture looked at the building roof for a moment then at the small leaf around his neck on what appeared to be a vine, whispering to it he smiled and nodded.
"Mummie says she will let.. I'll get them to get your bag if you want." Nurture smiled, pointing towards the buildings wall.
"Thank you, Nurture. Now," she stopped to consider the boys age and wondered if he would understand the concept of electrical conductivity. Two years ago she didn't understand it but then two years ago she had only just entered the world of the literate. Manny pursed her lips before continuing, "I think I have a plan for stopping those robots inside that storm. But it will only work if I am totally assured that no harm will come to you or your 'Mother'."
Manny caught the attention of the archer and the flying man. "Now, Nurture, there seems to be quite a lot of those robots. Do you think you could hold them at bay with those vines of yours? And if they were used to channel lightning at the robots, would it cause you any pain?" Manny smiled at the boy, hoping that the answer would be in the negative.
Nurture tilted his head to one side as he glanced back at manny, not seen to her, up the building were a sent of climbing roses now quickly growing their way up to her bag before pulling it back down the side of the building.
"You want me to... keep them there, with my friends..?" He asked his head still tilted to one side.
Before she could answer fully, he said "Ok then.. Mummies says fire is bad, it hurts you, but plants like rain.. and the pretty lights not hurt as long as it's fast."
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As the storm landed, Manny doubled her efforts at creating some kind of counter but the group of assembled heroes, plus one small boy, were running out of room.
Manny turned her head to the flying man, shouting over the din of all that hard weather, "Could you lift me up, take me to the top of the Vanguard building? I might fare a little better there."
She waited for the reply and turned her gaze to the lively woman with the bow and arrows. "Grab the boy! I doubt your sword will withstand the force of the air currents! In fact I doubt you will either!"
The rain lashed down and Manny, feeling the magical energies within her surging, summoned a seething mass of storm cloud. She brought her left hand down sharply and an arc of brilliant blue lightning descended towards the base of the storm and the source, she hoped, of those echoing footfalls...