Lyfokos and Rylus clearly weren't paying attention to the announcement earlier or Edward's warning it seems. The containment field was rather handily stopping normal teleports (But not portals) out of the boxed in convoy area and since this was just a standard teleport the devices beeped with a small strain as they failed to hook into whatever little trick got them from A to B and sparked violently.
Cerridwyn threw a small chunk of ball lightning through the truck at the sound of beeping, it implodes in a small pulse that frys the electronic devices inside, while Rhi ducks reflexively behind the truck door afraid it was a bomb.
She leans her head round slowly as the beeping stops, giving a breath of relief at there being no earth shattering kaboom. Resting her foot on the step up to the truck she aims her rifle at Lyfokos.
"Cute. I said not to touch anything until bomb squad arrived. Fingers outstretched put your hands in the air and drop to your knees. Slowly too, any sudden movements and I'm pumping you with enough electricity to melt the fillings in your teeth." Rhi says in a deadpan voice while the gun hums away ominously.
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Meanwhile Snappy is busy bothering Silent Assassin and spitting with a grungy sound that just isn't natural a small wave of spikes follow in the wrapping vines raining down upon the Stalker. Trying to bind up his arms and legs, Snappy will move in to pick up Assassin by clamping its jaws round his body if he's restrained.
Blood Ghoul , entered his chamber and a flurry of servants dealt with his immediate needs , having followed Edwards instructions , Blood Ghoul had left Peregrine , and was now back in the Islands .
Calling to him one of this Majicak minions Blood Ghoul enquired ,
So my loot , detail ,details ....
oh Masterful Liege , we have scryed and warded the items and they are clean and untraceable , however they are technological , and so we have passed them on to Mister Simon to look into .
well , well get Simon X here , I want to see what treasures I risked so much for , a burst of unrestrained giggling escapes Blood Ghouls maw.
With in a handful of minutes a cyborg figure entered the Chamber ...
Yes , oh Masterful Liege , I have answers for you . They are devices of the most supreme fashioning , a collection of equipment design to protect one from damage while engaging in close quarters combat , with built in stealth , perception enhancement and flight capability . All light weight and concealable , a ultrafabric suit , helmet , boots and a shield . Most divine manufacture , such cunning and arti...
Good , good interrupted Blood Ghoul , preventing one of Simon X's techno -babble speeches .
hmmm this would be most useful for when I wish to retain human guise , and would avoid making a large magic signature ...it has been a while but I used to be quite good with a Mace ..summon my crafters I feel creative ...
now , a quick call to Edward , to see what he is planning next ..
Lykofos sighed, "I remember reading the reports from both of you at the Police HQ in Steel Canyon. You've always been very efficient." he looked at the box, the TP Beacon now useless. He begins lowering to his knees but springs at the last moment, he dives to the right, away from the sewer opening. He rolls and stands, ripping the coat from his body. He stood before the two heroes and laughed, "I've had a good time you know, but, I do believe that life will be a little easier with just Lykofos to think about. Catch me if you can..." he fades from view as he runs in a zigzag motion heading for the downed silent assassin.
Rylus stood in the alleyway with one of robots when the teleport beacon started to fizzle. "Damn! How could I forget about the containment field!" He ounched a wall in frustration, cracking the brickwork.
"It looks like I will need to devise another plan, until then I need to find somewhere safe to repair these rocket boots." He hopped on the back of the Assault Bot as it safely carried him away. On his journey he turned on his comm. "Lykofos, it appears there was a slight miscalculation in my extraction of the goods, you wouldn't be able to pick some up for me would you? Another jounrey into that Containment Field would be suicidal at this point."
((Rhiannon and Cerridwyn are the same person!))
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"I've had a good time you know, but, I do believe that life will be a little easier with just Lykofos to think about. Catch me if you can..."
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The blast from the lightning gun arcs goes wide and grounds on a lamppost the light blowing out in a shower of sparks. Saying something most unladylike at the rather sudden escape.
"Is there any villain out there who doesn't go invisible and teleport? Bunch of friggin cowards" she bemoans as a gale whips up loudly slamming shut the doors to the trucks, throwing out a new batch of seeds, rope like vines burst up from all around to wrap them rather firmly shut.
Stroking one, Rhi gives it a pat on the end of the stem caressing it between her fingers "Grab anyone who tries get in sweetie, I've been challenged to a race."
With that the wind catches her and she practically skips along the ground between the convoy and Silent Assassin, skidding to a stop near the struggle between Nibbles and the twin bladed fighter. Flicking her hand a little, it helped manage atmospheric conditions, the air goes damp and it starts to pelt down with freezing cold rain and lumps of hail upon the area a small shield of wind keeping Nibbles from getting the worst of it. The ground beneath them quickly getting slick and frictionless.
Wrapping herself up in a defensive circle of raging winds, Rhi waits with a gun humming for a clear shot.
((LoL my bad))
'Damn, she's fast.'
He stands still for a moments and protects him form as much of the spores as he can before he walks over to Night Assassin. He touches his shoulder and whispers in his ear. "Its Lykofos, I don't think I can get both of us out. I'll call up an Ouroboros Portal but I can only keep it open for a few seconds. It will open 2 foot to your right."
He looks at Nibbles it was watching him, 'Can it see me?' throwing caution to the winds he call up the portal and dives, he just makes it before the vines lash round a leg. "[censored]!" he cried out as he struggled as the vines began trying to pulling him back away from the portal.
((FYI it's Night Assassin not Silent Assassin people..))
With the vines trying to wrap up his hands and legs, Night Assassin struggled as hard as he could given how much his body still hurt from the massive shock that had rippled through him.
"Get lost will ya! skat now!" Night shouted slapping at one of the vines just as the freezing rain and hail started.
"What is this.. evey damn weather at once time.."
With that he managed to just kick up, with a mighty wince of pain, one of his blades enough so it's razor sharp edge went for Nibbles feet vines, while he grabbed for the other one next to him.
"Damn the pain.. but can't hurt as much as it is now, Now get off my case!"
Just as he did Lykofos whisper came to his ear, he used what was left of his strenght to get ready to dive for the portal when it opens.
((ok people lets begin to wrap this up, mass of PPD would probably begin arriving about now. A note, Miranda, the Longbow with the Grenade Launcher AND the sniper rifle is a player character, not some random NPC with a name, it's been brought to my attention that a few of you have godmod killed her, this isn't ok in the slightest, the person that plays her was upset by it and hasn't enjoyed this topic at all, please take into consideration other people when you act, next time I shall be running a very tight ship when it comes to this topics, it may be a little less freeform but I think the topics will benefit from it overall in plotline))
Badge Earned: Wing Clipper
A real showstopper!
As the last two villains sneak off out of their portal Cerri powers down the gun, waving a hand at the sky returning it to mostly normal if still a little overcast. Nibbles had lost a tendril to the sword and was chirping unhappily but with a little petting he was soon soothed. The Piranha plant had tasted a bit of Supadine on its first day in the city and it had regenerated rather nicely since then.
Taking deep breaths, Cerridwyn is glad her muscles don't spasm when she's nervous or she would be, ironically, shaking like a leaf by now. "Miranda? I think we're all clear, coming to you. Good job, that could have been something nasty"
Zipping back to her friend, Cerridwyn couldn't help but think as to what the hell had just happened. A whole damn rogues gallery just drops in out of nowhere and intel had nothing on it. A new power play in the Islands? One thing was sure, she could count out an early night.
The debriefing was going to take a while as it is and after that she was going to grab enough people to make a plan that'd give the Menders a yelling that may well burn their ears right off. Helping them out was going to stop if they were going to be accessories to crime on US soul and really the Heroes helped a hell of a lot more than the Villains did, they'd choke.
After getting no response Rylus ripped off his comm piece in frustration and threw it onto the ground of his hideout. "I'll re-attach that later. Next time, old Doctor Mechano should co-ordinate these better." With that, Rylus stalked down one of the corridors to his repair shop to fix his robots and comm. link.
Night Assassin dived into the portal with a might yelp of pain from his battered body. Once on the other side the Menders glared at him like they did the others who had came their way, with his strenght almost gone he managed to crawl over to the other portal and escape via it back to the Isles to lick his wounds.
((Sorry Miranda, wasn't intentional. My posts were supposed to cover your posts but I managed to give Rhi the credit, sorry again.))
Lykofos dashed through Ouroboros and exited, making for St Martial. His guise in the PPD was in tatters, at least he hoped he had made some new ally's and a place in the NWA.
He opened the small box, even through all that, he still had the device. The grenade pulsed slightly. He turned on the Rogue Syndicate's Mainframe computer monitor and began typing. Soon, detailed plans were appearing before him about the device. "What the.... Level 5 EMP Grenade...." he read a little of the information about it and smiled, "ahh, so thats what they were going to do with it, I think Mechano and Rylus will want to see this. Until then," he pushed a few buttons and a hidden safe opened in the wall beside him "I'll just keep a hold of this." he sat back in his chair and took a rest waiting on the next NWA meeting to be called.
Magnus Malacha decided it was time to head off and solve the other problems around the city like the arson, it seems as though the Longbow cleared up this mess.
"Thanks for ruining my show.. Bloody villains." he muttered to himself as he walked off.
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Rylus emerged from the sewer to see the purple-clad figure of Magnus leave. Wow, that cape is persistant. He ordered one of his robots to meet him in the alleyway and began to teleport the goods to the beacon. "Time to see what I got" he said.