Heroes: Eve of Destiny

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:19 pm

"Homo Sapiens.." Phil muttered, then shook his head. "This is faster. Standard pincer movement. You hit 'em from the door, I'll hit 'em from the outside." He snapped off quickly. "If you have any others on the horn, we should hit them from every angle we can."

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:26 pm

The suit almost seemed to smile as the wall walking one muttered homo sapiens. The smile faded as Mark talked again though.

"He's got a point, guns blazing from one direction will get hostages killed. First we need to find out exactly where these guys are. Then the two of us out here can hit them from an unexpected direction. By the way I think there are another two here, but they went off to do their own thing so be careful not to shoot first and ask questions later too much."

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:30 pm

Anderson rolled his eyes and turned away without a word, sprinting up the stairs. Kicking open the door, he went in, rifle to the fore, orange mohawk, two shots to the chest, cover... He scanned the hallway he was in, and noted the punk was still alive; apparently he was wearing kevlar. Looking around carefully, glad for his silencer, he carefully crouch-walked forward and dragged the unconscious punk to the doorway he used for cover.

Gripping the kid-- he couldn't be more than seventeen, eighteen-- by the glaring orange shock of hair on his forehead, he shook till the punk's eyes blinked awake. A hand over his face prevented him from shouting; Anderson carefully pointed to the knife on his vest, and whispered, "Talk. What you doing? Who you got? How many? Where in here?"

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:37 pm

Charon wrote:The suit almost seemed to smile as the wall walking one muttered homo sapiens. The smile faded as Mark talked again though.

"He's got a point, guns blazing from one direction will get hostages killed. First we need to find out exactly where these guys are. Then the two of us out here can hit them from an unexpected direction. By the way I think there are another two here, but they went off to do their own thing so be careful not to shoot first and ask questions later too much."

"Well, he's off. Come on. I'll get the hostages clear if we can find them." Phil shook his head. "Let's be careful this doesn't turn into a bloodbath. There's already one of those at some politicians rally." The Nova said, starting to sprint up the side of the building.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:40 pm

Niner entered the building, he had to at least keep up the image of a good guy. He blasted through a wall into the stairwell and proceeded upwards. He reached out with telepathy to sense where people where. There, two men, one young, four stories above him. He reached the level and raised a tk wall, to protect him as he entered the level with the two men.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:50 pm

Anderson had just completed trussing up and gagging the punk when he sensed someone approaching; drawing and dropping into position, he had his USP leveled at the new person. Under the mask, eyes narrowed; he looked... different. He couldn't place it, but it was there.

"You independent? Here for rescue?" he whispered fiercely as he reached out and yanked the youngster into the room he was in...

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:52 pm

Niner spoke to the man with his mind.

I mean you no harm. I am here to remove these rogue metas and those that support them.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:57 pm

Anderson's eyes narrowed and he twitched his head; thankful for the safety being on, he carefully moved his finger away from the trigger, but left the pistol levelled at the new... whatever he was... just in case.

"Right. What can you do? Go through the wall or something?"

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:03 pm

Niner laughed, though it was not outloud, and the man heard it in his head.

No, human, I cannot go through walls, though I can make my own holes in walls. I can do a great many things with my mind. For now, that is all you need to know. Now, shall we rescue the other humans or are you going to keep your pistol pointed at me?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:08 pm

"...Right. Sorry, not one to trust people," Anderson muttered. Pulling a piece of chalk from a vest pocket, he started rapidly drawing a map on the floor, indicating with his hand the hallway outside.

Pointing at Niner and gesturing to the map, he made it known he was to go around in an opposite direction from Anderson; and they would meet together at the other end of the building, if they came across no other rooms, as the punk had said there was a large central room accessible through only one doorway, that the rest of his confederates were all in.

He scribbled on the floor besides the map, Understand?

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:10 pm

Yes, I understand. Give me a few moments with this human and I will find if he is being fully truthful. Mind spoke Niner.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:15 pm

On your own. Am going. See you if there. Anderson scribbled, and holstering his pistol, he lifted the L85 as he warily looked around the hallway, and turned and strode down the hallway in his direction, carefully checking before stepping out of Niner's sight around the corner...

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:19 pm

Niner shifted his gaze to the punk, bound and gagged on the floor.

He reached out, shoved his way into his mind and ripped into it, searching for the info he needed. The man tried to scream but it was muffled by the gag. He found himself in hte mans memory of the briefing, nothing really interesting, just the standard plan, grab the hostages, demand stuff, then execute one every hour if demands not met. He saw the floorplan, the punk had been truthful. He erased the mans memory of his mind being pillaged and exited his mind. He headed in the opposite direction of the gunman, his cloak held snugly in place by his TK.

Rukia · Post by **Rukia** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:23 pm

-At a non-discript dingy apartment on the bad side of the city-

Camie sleeps on a pile of clothes as there is no furniture. She is still in her clothes from the night before, one of the two out-fits she owns. A tight black mesh top and a bright orange bra, paired with a neon green mini-skirt fishnets and converse.

Inturrupting her sleep, the owner of the apartment begins shaking her awake. "Hey, hey, you ok?"

"Mmmm, whasthmadder?" She mumbles as she turns over and opens her eyes.

"Nothing, I was making sure you were ok, you passed out at the concert last night and no one knew who you were or where you lived. So I brought you here, hope you don't mind. I'm Bry. And I swear that I didn't try anything funny."

Camie looked at Bry, her Violet eyes almost probing, then after a second she said "I believe you. I'm Camie, nice to meet you. Thanks for the place to stay, beats the street."

"You live on the street?" He sounded astonished.

"Only when my friends kick me out. I don't have a job, so it's hard to pay rent. But that's life, yea?" She sat up, and streched.

"Tell ya what..." he said after a moment. "You can stay here, and I can even get you a job at my work."

Cam eyed him suspisously, "Are you for real? You just met me."

"Seriously, now I have to be at work in an hour... you can come with and I can see what I can do. You may need to change, it's a coffee house and even though my boss is cool, he's not that cool."

Camie nodded almost reluctantly. "Um, my other clothes aren't much better. Old jeans and a ratty Bon Jovi tee."

Bry laughed, "Bon Jovi? Wow. I've got some of my ex-girlfriends clothes you can probably wear." With that he walked to another room and came out a few moments later holding some clothes. "If you want you can take a shower it's down the hall to your left."

An hour and a half later, Camie was employed at the 'Java Joint' Coffee house, resteraunt, and cyber cafe. Fortunately, she was able to wear the jeans Bry had given her, along with the t-shirt that had the House's logo on it. Steven had said "We don't normally hire on the spot, but we had a girl quit this morning so we're short handed and you have expriance. Welcome to the team."

Welcome to the team..... the term had a foreshadowing tone to it.

Comrade Tortoise · Post by **Comrade Tortoise** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:15 pm

FInally reaching his destination, the epicenter of the destruction near the memorial dedication, Sephiroth as he now called himself, or Avatar as he was known to others climbed the ladder of the man hole. He stoped at the top.

"Ok, now it's crunch time" he said to himself, took a deep breath and tensed his massive muscles; spring loading his entire skeletal system.

Then he exploded out of the man-hole grabbed the man-hole cover and hurled it like a 60 kilogram cast-iron frizbee at the guy tossing around lightning bolts.

In the same motion, he stretched his hand out toward the guy with the gun, he seemed to remember his name being Hazard, and made a crushing motion with his huge webbed claw. The air around Hazard started to distort. The atmosphere around him was being compressed to one hundred Atmospheres. He also increased the temperature to around 350 degrees. Essentially turning the space the man occupied into a pressure cooker.

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:21 pm

Adam moved from his hiding spot... the two conversing men having left a while ago in different directions, one had entered combat up another set of stairs and the other had walked back up the wall, he'd seen stranger things though, so it wasn't what he'd call unnerving. He hadn't a clue what he was going to do about this... from the looks of things, he wasn't the only strange one here. This just got complicated for him, and it looked like it was more than complicated enough for them as well. "Rogue metas always attract a crowd..."

He followed after the one who'd gone up the other flight of stairs, trying to remain as silent as possible. He encountered a handcuffed and gagged orange-haired lad in the next room along with several corpses. He retrieved an assault rifle from one of the corpses, and took several clips for himself before moving on.

With a slight glance to the window, he grinned... the sun would be setting soon, it was an hour away at most, and his powers would actually make themselves useful.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:31 pm

Niner sensed another being behind him, where he left the punk. Niner darted behind a wall, and waited for the being to pass by him. He used his TP to mask his presence from the being.

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:37 pm

Adam moved into the next room, leaving the punk behind and glancing from side to side, there was nobody here, and he felt almost... disappointed? He was itching for a fight, possibly a bit too much. Adam had serious problems, and he'd be the first to admit it.

He continued on, hoping desperately to sate his bloodlust soon, or it would eventually be the end of him, as it had threatened him beforehand for centuries.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:39 pm

Niner reached out and mindspoke to the creature.

Hello. I can tell you are not really human. What are you?

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:41 pm

"How cute, a telepath." Adam mocked back, "I'm a vampire, here on important business, mostly working to get rid of these terrorists... and my name is Adam Thorne, and you are?"

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:43 pm

Ha, ha, ha. Ah, a comedian. Do you do standup? My name is my own and does not concern you. However, we are working on the same goal. Now, shall we work together or around each other?

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:47 pm

Mark cursed as he heard the muffled explosion. "Damn young bloods don't know how to do anything but fight and die and cause death." He followed swiftly after the other, his suit leaving a trail of holes in his wake as he climbed. Reaching the top he took a quick look around then looked back to the other he'd followed. "Gravity is your name right? You, myself, and that masked guy seem to be the only ones that have an inkling of what we're doing."

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:49 pm

Adam found it ironic that he in fact had worked as a stand up comedian at one time, back between the two World Wars, he just wasn't any good at it. "We'll work together," he said begrudgingly, "I usually work alone but more than one independent person working at the same goal is suicide." He sighed, "It seems to me that you know more than I about this current situation, or what our situation is, can you tell me what you know, or are you as information-less as I?"

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:59 pm

We have metas and human supporters in a large room, with hostages. The plan is for me to go first, with you and the other gunman to go second.

Niner reached out to Anderson. We have another friend. A vampire, he has an assualt rifle. Be prepared for any suprises.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:01 pm

Anderson was inspecting the sizeable door before him. Apparently the punk had been right; the small utility room that he had left him in was the only one besides the large chamber which he was now trying to enter.

The door was made like a bank vault; very secure. He sighed and pulled the knapsack off his back, rummaging through it to dig out a few bricks of C4, which he cut into strips and began laying around the doorframe, connecting them with det-cord as he went.

He flinched as he felt Niner's signal, nodded brusquely and kept going.

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