Heroes: Shadows over Millenium

[Charon]

Legacies continued to sit quietly on the floor. The suit slowly bringing itself back into it's firm shape around his body. His breathing was ragged, which showed itself in the way his body was moving. The silver figure was still dealing with the fact that he'd almost died. "We will be fine. We just require a few minutes rest to recooperate."

[Cynical Cat]

Blackheart gestured for the pad. "Argent took Gravitas & Legacies."

"Ahh," he said. "Um. . . . maybe he needs a counselor?" What the fuck did he know about dealing with other people's emotional problems? He was literaly an emitter of negativity. Who new poping a few super powered punks would bring on a weeping fit?

[Agent Fisher]

Ryan nodded. He wrote on the pad. "K. Can you get somebody to get me over to Ultima, I need to get to medical. Car is parked around the corner."

[Cynical Cat]

Blackheart wrote "just a sec."

[LadyTevar]

"Legacies has just informed me he will need only a few moments of rest and recuperation..." Amazing how dryly that was spoken. If Blackheart was closer, she'd have sent him a wave of disbelief to go with it. "He is pulling himself together." Lei allowed *that* to have a mental image all its own.

Her shields as firm and tight as she could make it, she started to work on Gravitas' pain. It was like gently wiping away dirt from an open wound, while applying a soothing cream to deaden the nerves so it wouldn't hurt as badly. A touch of water to remove the bloodstains, a bandage to cover the largest scrape.... "Gravitas...... just needs time....." she said, distracted by her work. "You can reach me here...."

[Cynical Cat]

More cloak and dagger stuff. "Gotcha. Just a second." He switched lines. "Need a pick up and a fast transport to medical." He switched back. "Please continue."

[SirNitram]

"No." Gravitas spoke. It was always too soft to be heard. But he apparently could feel what was happening. "Please. I know you mean well. But this is the punishment of hubris. To remember every person I've killed." He spoke, using an old word which, once upon a time, meant a human who thought he was an equal of the Gods..

"I must remember their faces. For good or ill, they were taken by my hand. But I will go to medical."

[LadyTevar]

"Nevermind..." she said, suddenly no longer distracted. "Gravitas is wanting to go to Medical now. I will drop him off, then Legacies and I will rejoin you at the bank." The phone was hung up, and the secret of Main Kwong Kitchen's Dragon & Pheonix Special remained unknown for the moment.

"There is remembering whom you've killed," she said to Gravitas "And then there is haunting yourself with them. You and Saibot do not know where that line is drawn. Legacies, when you are ready we will drop him off at Ultima Medical and return to meet Blackheart."

[Charon]

Legacies slowly got to his feet again, the suit still swaying and undulating around him. The figure still stood in a fashion which showed a great tiredness but Legacies was not about to let that stop him.

"We are ready."

Legacies said nothing of how Gravitas should deal with his own demons, Legacies had himself hushed many of his own long ago.

[LadyTevar]

Lei eyed Legacies critically. "If Blackheart orders me to take you to medical too, I'm not arguing with him..." she warned him, letting him know without saying so that she thought he looked in need of medical aid as well before she melted into her ShadowDragon form.

A tendril reached over to the stereo system once again, programming it to play a different song for a set amount of repeats, then to scramble the songlist. The code would inform her landlord she was leaving.

The silver eyes gazed calmly at the two war-weary heros. "I'm ready...."

The wings stretched out, carefully cradling Gravitas, solemnly cupping around Legacies, and then they were absorbed into the silvery darkness where a single heartbeat thrummed.

Ultima Medical Bay: The shadowdragon coalesed out of the early morning shade, rising slowly beside a medical bed and gently laying Gravitas down onto it. "Rest well... we will speak to you when you are better." Then the shadow sunk down again, never revealing the other held within her darkness.

The Bank: A shadow stretched near Blackheart, rising up into the familar form with the silver cat-like eyes. Her wings opened, revealing Legacies, although a sharp-eyed man might get the feeling she was also hovering a little in case Legacies did something like fall over.

[Cynical Cat]

"Welcome back," said Blackheart.

[Agent Fisher]

Ryan nodded at the two who had reappeared.

[Charon]

Legacies looked to be still worse for ware but was considerably better than he had last been seen.

"What is the situation sir?"

[LadyTevar]

Argent remained in dragonform, hovering behind Legacies. It couldn't have been more clear: She was expecting the old man to fall over any minute now. But she never said a word.

[SirNitram]

Gravitas, off in medical, cooperated quietly. He was, in fact, thinking on what Lei had said. But he was also attempting to be helpful to the medical team. Who were about to get a glimpse of how weird Nova biology could be.

[Cynical Cat]

"All accounted for. Some of the civies are in rough shape, but they all made it. Small mercy."

[Agent Fisher]

Ryan decided it would be quicker to talk, even it was probably really loud. "Boss, why not have Lei take me to medical, be quicker than waiting for somebody to get here?" He said/shouted.

[Cynical Cat]

"Argent, if you've still got the juice, how about taxiing another wounded to medical?"

[Charon]

Legacies nodded slowly as he looked around. "And the robbers? Have we gotten them all?"

[LadyTevar]

"Boss, why not have Lei take me to medical, be quicker than waiting for somebody to get here?" He said/shouted.

"Argent, if you've still got the juice, how about taxing another wounded to medical?"

The shadowdragon moved quickly, and Ryan was moved to the bed beside Gravitas in Medical. Argent returning to Legacies and Blackheart within seconds, but missed Legacies' conversation. But she had a question of her own.

"I ported those hostages I saw... the ones that Legacies had grabbed and pulled into reach before he was attacked. I meant to go back for those we missed. Are you sure everyone made it? Gravitas felt sure that the screamer had killed people in there, and that's why he was suddenly enraged. People had died."

[Agent Fisher]

Ryan noticed the doctors and nurses talking to him. He wrote on a peice of paper.

"I'm deaf from a really loud noise."

[Cynical Cat]

Blackheart watched as the small pack of investigators closed about the scene as paramedics attended to or carted off the former hostages. The glamourous part of the job was done, now came the boring bureaucratic part. He twisted his neck. God, he hated this part.

Their was twinge in his back and then there was pain like his whole spine was on fire. He gasped soundlessly for a moment and then collapsed.

[LadyTevar]

"BLACKHEART!" She'd barely had a warning, due to the background noise he gave off, but an inky wing managed to slip under him before hit it the ground. The huge silver eyes looked to Legacies. "Are you coming with us?" Argent surely didn't need to tell him where she was taking Blackheart.

[Charon]

Legacies watched, his head tilted in curiousity as he watched Blackheart fall. "It is likely his growth." Legacies turned away to look at the crowds and police and the news stations coming in.

"We shall stay here to make certain that everything is taken care of as best we can."

[LadyTevar]

"Out of all of us, you are probably the one he'd trust for that," Lei answered, then the shadows swallowed them and they were gone....

The shadowdragon burst into the Medical Area. "Emergency! Agent Blackheart's collapsed!" The wings gently laid him down on the nearest bed. "He had a spike of pain in his spine, and then fell unconscious. Whomever's in charge of monitoring his tumor better get in here!"

The rundown of Blackheart's condition was underscored by a wave of -hurry!trouble!-, meant to get the nurses moving faster. Once the first of the nurses rushed in to start working on Blackheart, Lei faded into a nearby shadow.

She peeked in on Gravitas and 'Vanish', to see how they were doing. The nurses were still working with them -- it had barely been minutes since she'd first teleported Gravitas in. Time to check in on those at Blackheart's apartment and let them know what had happened.

A second later, she was reforming inside Blackheart's apartment, and finding most people still trying to wake up. "Listen up, all of you." she said, underscoring her words with a feeling of -this is important-. "There was a bank robbery not far from here. Legacies, Gravitas, Vanish, Blackheart and I all responded. Two metas were captured, one was killed... but Gravitas, Vanish, and Blackheart are all in Medical now. Legacies is handling the cleanup."