TuneUP
New Mutants
Sean Winterstar
Posts: 165
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Post by TuneUP on Oct 26, 2008 0:27:18 GMT -5
Sean held Kate tight when Shadowkat pulled them up on the stage. Except now he had to deal with the mutants on stage. He desperately wanted to protect Kate, but he couldn't concentrate on the device at the same time. "Thank ya kindly Miss Kitty," Sean said as he looked up at Belasco and the demons on stage staring at them. "it'll be okay Katie girl. You'll see," he said in a reassuring voice.Miss Kitty if you could perhaps help keep them demons away while I get this right. I just need one more minute to get this thing here right and then I need- he felt the connection severed and thats when things in hell went more in hell.
"Miss Kitty, even if I fix it, I don't know what I can use to activate it," Sean yelled as he backed him and Kate up to a rock as a demon charged at them. "Oh this ain't good at all.." he said as he looked to the device and quickly started putting it together. It was almost done just needed one of two tweaks. Shadows fell over him as he looked up and saw a group of large winged demons right over them. Aideen charged at them in a magnificent sight with two sword. They were right above them and he got nervous that they might come down, but he knew Ember would be more than a fight for them.
"Katie girl stay close to me, I'll get us outta here somehow!" he yelled over the noise and finished up his device.
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D'mnchyld
New Mutants
Katie Lazaro
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it 'The Present'!
Posts: 187
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Post by D'mnchyld on Oct 26, 2008 0:59:14 GMT -5
Oh crudsicles this is all going bad now, Sean, oh no- she managed to think to him before the mental link went away. "Oh Sean, look at them I gotta DO something. I have to get them all to stop attacking. They don't seem to want to listen to me anymore." She had wanted to tell him so much how she felt about him, bu there was no time for that. There was no purpose for it either. Not here and not right now. She wouldn't know how to think it anyway so maybe it was better this way, and besides everybody would know what she was thinking so it wouldn't be private at all. No, she would find the words for him, if he could only find a way home for them she knew she would find just the right words.
She looked out and saw the whole scene of the mutant kids and Cyclops all surrounded and then Ms. Frost getting clobbered, and then Ember lighting up the sky with her fire swords and she thought of her own sword, well the one she had in her hand and how it had been so useful to get the attention of the demons, but yet so very much just a flashy bit of light. She wondered if it would be useful at all as a sword. It looked sharp....she reached up a finger, meaning to test the blade.
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Diesel
Acolytes
Ian Larks
Posts: 492
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Post by Diesel on Oct 26, 2008 1:37:17 GMT -5
Pipsqueak! Babe, are you alright? Look just hang in there babe, be tough I'll get to you soo-, "DAMNIT!" Ian yelled in frustration when the connection was cut off. He grabbed a hold of the smaller demon and hurled it right at the bigger one. Another tackled him right to the ground, making him grunt in pain. "Back off bro, you need some mouthwash," Ian grunted out as he took the giant alligator like jaws of the demon and pushed them apart in opposite direction. The demon became dead weight and he threw it into the crowd on top of some others. "Yea we're talking bout the same girl. But she ain't the same chick anymore. Wolverine dude, she's dead inside since the battle. Like a god damn Robot, No feeling no nothin' just a shell!" Ian grunted only being able to see the Ember flying up in the air as he grabbed a demon's foot and swung it around right into a demon behind Shadowkat. "Me and Pipsqueak did a bit of- OOF!" he groaned as a demon ran right at his side and knocked him to the side. "Searching after the whole thing. Sabretooth got to her in the forest. Ugh!" he grunted trying to get the guy to see what happened to his friend while punching another demon at the smaller ones that tried hopping on the stage. "She keeps sayin' she learned her lesson in this dead ass voice whenever you were mentioned...OOF!"Ian yelled when a demon dug its claw into his side. Ian pushed it off and looked up at Aideen quickly as she worked almost mechanically as Wolverine explained the fastball special. "Sounds like what me and Haven did. I gotcha when you need it," he said and looked back up at Spitfire and then looked around at the crowd. "Wait a second.... wheres Pipsqueak?!"
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Oct 26, 2008 2:01:13 GMT -5
Cyclops didn't need to remind her to hold on tight; Lorelai knew to from common sense. She tightened her arms and legs around him as much as she could as he charged into action, starting to blast demons. As Miss Frost opened the telepathic communications to the others, her heart raced at hearing Ian's voice in her head. Ian! Oh god oh god! I'm- was all she could think to him as both the connection was cut short, and she found herself yanked off Cyclops' back.
She let loose a bloodcurdling scream as she was dragged underneath a swarm of demons. Although she had been carried, she still hadn't regained much energy back and so she thrashed back under them with all her might, trying to crawl away from them. She had never been so scared in her life; here she was in a place not made for icy people like her, very little strength left to defend herself with, surrounded by demons that were starting to scratch at her with sharp claws despite her attempts to move. "HELPPPP!!!!!!!! IAN!!!!!!!!" Lorelai tried to scream as loudly as she could.
She was sure she would start crying, but she couldn't let herself as it would only make things worse for her as she again tried crawling out from under the pile of demons that pulled her away from staying with Cyclops. Working to swat off what claws she could, she moved as fast as she could to a somewhat open spot so one of the others might see her and help, though to her horror she saw Ember raining fire knives and then make swords, feeling more heat than ever. Lorelai tried standing up to move on her feet to get out of the way, but was easily pushed back down, and resorted to crawling again on sore knees to keep from being trampled on.
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Hardlight
Acolytes
Kevin Leonard
Hey, Call Me Hardlight
Posts: 297
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Post by Hardlight on Oct 26, 2008 3:16:37 GMT -5
This was getting totally beyond scary. Kevin was about to freak when he saw all that was going on around him and the demons getting closer. He heard the orders and everything from Emma and Cyclops but it was Frostbites question in his head about how could he be thinking she was his best friend that struck him most of all. His fear was making him gasp at the hot air and all he could think was Oh girl, your my best friend because- and that was when the link cut out for him as well too. Then he heard the sounds of panick even more than he felt for his own safety and turning from the most scary group of demons who were coming right for him he saw Frostbite scrabmle into the last bit of an opening right nearby. He called out "Hold on I'm coming!" before he even knew what he was doing and as he realized he was being braver than he ever knew he could he rushed forward and reached out his hand. "I got you Frostbite, grab my hand!" he said as she was pulled further into the depth of the demons like a smelly gross moshpit. He couldn't get to her! Not this way and there was not to many ways he thought he could. She was fading from view being pulled further away Gotta get to her, I just gotta! he thought and he stood up quickly as he felt the demons right in front of him realise he was there as their feet and trying to make grabs for him. Ooooh hell, got to keep them back and cut a path to her, she's counting on me! he thought and then it came to him, like all his sculpts just like an inspiration for what he needed and it would be something he was always good at! He made himself a HoooLA HOOP! This one was made of pure light and had an edge on the outside that was sharper than any knife, any knife except for his sword, because it had been made the same way. The very cutting edge was only one molecule wide, nothing on the earth or this plane of existance was as sharp as his sculpts, they were like laser beams made solid, they were beautiful artistic and deadly. He would 'Hoola Hack' his way to Frostbite and save her from the nasty groping hands. He saw how they fondled and grabbed her and he was pissed off now. "Watch my hips and watch my ass cause I'm about to slice and slash!" he sang as he got the rythem and moved through the crowd. Some got out of the way, but that was only because they learned fast after seeing the little swively hips and hoop of light cut there friends in half and slash off arms and legs. He was getting to her, but they were not making it easy and then something hit him hard in the back of his head. The lights went out, Kevin and his hoola hoop went down.
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Haven
Acolytes
Niki Sanchez
Posts: 316
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Post by Haven on Oct 26, 2008 4:08:20 GMT -5
Haven was still surfing the horde of demons when the firebender launched herself on plumes of superheated air to fly high up and rain down fire in the form of daggers. It was an impressive display and one that the albino in her bubble was not remiss in noticing. It jarred something in her, shook loose a memory, not of the girl using her power but of a quiet day in the stables at the school. A day before all of this went down. Before Niki had left the academy. Before Magneto had made a "deal with the devil".
She could vaguely recall hearing about that deal, she had thought it was all for her. Magneto, who she had been told to call father, had said it was all for his daughter. All for me ? Haven had thought. Now looking at the sights before her it was hard to believe it at all. She was not at all thrilled nor happy and she was growing increasingly agitated at the demons beneath her tossing her about so very unceremoniously and with no regard for her wanting to help.
"You shitty demons are making me mad!" she hollered at them as they were now enjoying her being upset and antagonized her with glee. They tossed her about through the air as she remained safe inside of her forcefield. Safe from the fire that set many of them to howling in pain or ecstasy, since some of them very much enjoyed the sensation of pain. "Put Me Down!"
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Post by Shadowkat on Oct 26, 2008 11:47:46 GMT -5
Shadowkat let her eyes flash for a second to the far end where demons were starting to attack the rest of her fellow mutants. You got it, Cyke, and that's what I'm doing Sean. Doing the best I can so just try and focus ok- she thought while the connection was open. She glanced back at the two, now backed up into a rock and tackled down a demon that was running toward them. "Try to use something connected to our dimension, remember how k'8's blood was connected to Limbo? Agh!" she grunted as another demon tackled her back down. Haven's still crowd surfing...I need to find another weapon, she thought, kicking back a demon as she searched the ground for something useful while Diesel took care of a demon behind her.
She yelped as a demon with horns and a sword struck at her and rolled out of the way. Propelling herself back up, Shadowkat kicked the demon in the face making it stagger back while she wrenched the sword from its hand. She ran him through with the sword and pulled it out, getting back to TuneUp and D'mnchyld. "You two okay?" she asked, standing directly in front of them, hoping she could fend off more demons long enough for Sean to figure out what they needed for her device to get them all out of there. In the meantime, she continued fighting them off, and with another quick glance back she saw D'mnchyld touching the blade of that light sword she had. It looked extremely sharp, and it made the phaser wonder briefly what would happen should the girl draw blood here.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Oct 26, 2008 13:53:39 GMT -5
Falling through the hot thick air Kurt got his bearings flipped around through the air to land hard on top of a demon toting a shield. Glancing up he saw a wave of demons, some little more than skeletons they were so thin and ravenous looking, led by a beastial looking creature. It screeched and howled as it reached for him and ~BAMF~ he teleported to the stage. "Kitty, ak mein Gott- it's good to see you!" Kurt breathed heavy for a moment to catch his breath before clutching at his freshest wound, a huge gash in his shoulder. Then his eyes got wide with shock as he remembered...."Zhe gilr, viss zhe vounds! Be right back." with a quick double teleport he appeared atop the pillar of sandstone and scooped up Elixir and then ~BamFF~ he returned to the stage alongside Kitty, D'mnchyld and TuneUp. With gentle ease he placed the girl on the stage and whispered "I zhink you vould be safest amongst friends, ve are here young von." Standing he looked to the device clutched in TuneUp's hands as it appeared that the boy had the ability to manipulate metal and was some sort of technophile. "Does zhat old zhing really vork?" he asked as he took a step closer to try and help. Catching frantic movement out of the corner of his eye he looked to see Wolverine and Diesel fending off the onrush of creatures. "Sorry I zhink I vill be of zhe most help over here." He turned to run over and the sword of light caught his eye. "Careful girl!" he said reaching out a hand to stop k'8 from cutting herself. "Zhis is not somezhing to be played vizh....May I?" he asked as he held out his other hand indicating that he wanted the use of the sword.
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Elixir
dead/inactive
Sara Belsky
-----*she's special*-----
Posts: 117
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Post by Elixir on Oct 26, 2008 14:38:32 GMT -5
Nightcrawler had grabbed Elixir just in time, as she had been about to teeter off the top of the pillar as in her delirium she had forgotten she was on one and mistakenly remembering ground behind her was slowly inching her way towards its back end with the intent to crawl across land that was really thin air. Even so when Nightcrawler grabbed her she was terrified and would have much preferred to be back on the pillar for until he spoke upon reaching the stage she had no idea who or what had her and could only assume it was some dreadful demon.
On the stage Elixir was still scared. She had no idea whether she was somewhere safe or still surrounded by a demon horde. Actually, she guessed she was still surrounded as she could hear the blood curdling shrieks of demons around her, smell their stench and the smell of fresh blood, and also could feel something else that terrified her even more, an intense heat, even by the standards of hell. A heat that made her wounds almost blister, making her pain, if that was even possible, much worse.
Nightcrawler had said she was among friends though. Cautiously she asked, "Where am I?" Are Shadowkat and Diesel, OK?" Then to nobody and to everybody she whispered, "It's all my fault. I didn't get them killed did I?" At the same time she was fighting delirium. Her make shift bandages may have kept her from bleeding to death on the pillar but she was still bleeding profusely and needed medical attention. So somewhere out of her addled mind came the words, "Mom, I want to go home," clearly pronounced in a matter of fact tone like she was a six year old at the zoo getting tired of looking at the elephants.
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Post by Emma Frost on Oct 26, 2008 18:33:00 GMT -5
Prying herself out of the hole she had been pounded into was not easy. She had to wiggle her shoulders and arms around for a bit to loosen the ground up around her before she could get out. In the time it took she had watched, with darting eyes, as one after another of the group fell or was caught by the demon horde.
Not surprisingly the only ones who were safe were on the stage, or flying through the air. Scott had been tackled from behind and was currently struggling on the ground with his assailant, a four armed monster who seemed twice his mass. Frostbite, dehydrated and over heated as she was, had been pulled from Cyclops' back before that creature had struck him and was currently in the midsts of a hideous ordeal. Coming to her aid had been the most unexpected of heroes, Hardlight, who had tried to cut a swath clean through to his confessed best friend, but had been clubbed down a mid-swivel of his Hula-Hooping hips and was now a blond morsel lumped on the hot cracked ground.
"Come on Emma - Move!" she said aloud to herself. Motivating herself to push her way out of the ground and help. Making it barely halfway out of the hole, she was stomped down on by the same denizen of Limbo who had planted her bodily a moment before. -OOOFFF- She let out a lungful of air as somehow he managed to stomp on her in such a way that it took the wind out of her. "Alright Gigantor, no more fun and games for you." she grunted out as she pushed herself up hard and fast.
Catching the bottom of the monster's foot as she did so, the two began a terrible battle of wills. Emma, standing in her diamond form and holding the monster from crushing her again, and the towering mass of scales and fangs, pushing down with all of it's might. They fought a tug of war in reverse...a push of war it was. Each one using their own considerable strength to try and out muscle the other, it was futile in the extreme. A veritable stalemate, until Emma took stock of the situation and a dry smile glinted in her crystalline features. Use his own strength against him... she thought and with a turn of her hips and a step to the inside she had him.
The towering beast was unbalanced and off his stance, Emma having turned her size disadvantage to her own advantage quickly out-leveraged the monster and heaved him off into the sea of limbs, horns and hate that was the demon horde Haven had been surfing. The massive creature landed with such force that it shook the ground. "Alright! Who's next!!!" she cried out, looking around invigorated. She was about to rush to Frostbite's aid or Kevin's, or Scott's....but something in the sky caught her attention.
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Post by ~ N.P.C. ~ on Oct 26, 2008 20:15:57 GMT -5
The sky above cracked open with evil light and the sound of hooves, unearthly as they echoed like thunder in the air, split the ears of those assembled. Belasco, who had been strangely unattached to the drama unfolding below cried out "AAAHH HAAA!! At LAST!! Our MISTRESS doth ARRIVE!"
He threw open wide his arms and drifted down slightly as through the clouds above came a woman riding side-saddle atop a black greasy beast, much like a winged horse with bullhorns. She seemed strangely at peace with it all and at the same time mildly aloof in her position. "Father!" she called out as the beast of burden flew down with her on it's back. There was something oddly familiar about her.
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Post by Cyclops on Oct 26, 2008 20:42:41 GMT -5
UGGGggg! This guy is heavy! Scott thought as he fell hard under the weight of a mighty tackle. He felt the arms of his assailant wrapping around him and then he felt two more arms. HUH!?! Does this guy have a friend? The shock hit his mind a moment after he realized that the creature had four arms. "Aww hell- Just what I need." Cyclops muttered.
Rolling around on the ground he couldn't see what was happening with Emma. Nor did he see the arrival of the Demon Mistress of LIMBO. He kept struggling through the sounds of battle, the rumble of the ground and the noises of the sky opening up above. It was all he could do to keep from being crushed by four strong arms and then he felt the fire of agony in the side of his neck, as the demon opened wide and bit him. The black saliva burned white hot as his flesh almost sizzled under it.
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Post by Ember on Oct 26, 2008 21:31:01 GMT -5
Her first time fighting in the air and these giant demons weren't making it an easy time. Not that Aideen would let up for a second. With expert and trained ease, Aideen brought the sword out and spun around in a fast circle right as she got to them, cutting up and burning a good deal of the group. She was quick in her movements, and her flight adapted to her training easily. Her spinning stopped and she stuck her swords straight into one of the demon's eyes. The giant minotaur demon growled in pain as it fell to the stage, not far from Nightcrawler. Immediately one of the other demons grabbed Ember. Quick as ever, a pair of sai formed in her hand and she stabbed them back, feeling the hot guts and demon waste flow over her hands as she dug the deadly fire sai into him.
Snapping her hand out, Aideen shot a powerful fire beam at two of them, sending them flying high in the sky. "Ahh," she groaned out in a breathy voice. The scum that had grabbed her wasn't finished, digging his claws into her side as she smelled its rancid breath. Aideen erupted in fire, just like she did on the ground but much hotter to anyone that was this close to her. The flying minotaur demon let go her as it screamed in pain. The other ones were pawing at her and trying to grab her.
Aideen immersed herself into the fight, all her training evident in her movement as another pain of fire swords formed in her hands. She slashed and spun out of their reach and making their heads spin, in a form one would compare to a dance. All her movement had a sort of grace to it that was similar to a ballet performance, though a bit more morbid as she spun around and sank her swords into the demons.
The one that seemed the toughed charged at Aideen, horns full aimed right at her. Aideen flew up and grabbed it's horns, steering the thing as it went down towards the stage trying to grab at her. With all her force, Aideen flew it into the stage face first, narrowly missing Diesel and Wolverine. Quickly fire swords formed in her hands as she stabbed the creatures neck. You dig it in from the top, then pull it apart. That is the proper form. Her lessons echoed in her head as she did just that, feeling the creature go limp under her.
Right as she did that, Aideen was grabbed from a flying demon hard and brought back high in the air with little time for her to react. I should have expected this. Her fire eyes managed to catch a glimpse of a woman riding a demon as Belasco's voice boomed over the crowd. "Ahh.." she moaned when the demon was practically cutting off her air supply as she tried to light on fire fully.
That's a bit hard when she saw two demons charging at her bull style and she could barely breath. Her kicking was doing nothing to this demon and her fire was getting ready to erupt as she struggled to breathe.
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Post by Wolverine on Oct 26, 2008 22:34:21 GMT -5
Finishing up with the demon he was fighting he turned to see Nightcrawler arrive on the stage, leave and then arrive again with the girl who had freed them all from their chains. "Aw damn, look at that poor thing." he said to Diesel as he pried his claws free from his most recent kill. "Now that girl needs help, and fast. Hope we can get out of here soon, she looks like she wont make it five more minutes."
He wanted to head over to the group of mutants as, if for the briefest of moments, the demons were regrouping or so it seemed. Then a huge winged Minotaur, as if to drive home the point that they should be ever vigilant, crashed into the stage right in front of him. His eyes watched as the girl he knew showed her true inner self, the conscienceless warrior that she kept hidden, the presentation of a demure young lady falling away in an insant.
The guise of a simple student shown to be little more than a performance, he smiled a bittersweet smile. Sadness mixed with pride, for he loved the skills she had displayed but knew the lonely road that lay before her if she did not turn from it's path. Knew the road step for step as he had himself traveled it and a part of him wished for better than that for her.
She flew again into the sky as he watched, transfixed by her grace and fluidity of movement. A part of him held in thrall from what he witnessed, and then shockingly a mistake! "She's caught kid! Looks like it's time...you ready?" he called over to Diesel as he pointed skyward. Running at the young Acolyte he lept into the air, claws extended, muscles taught. His eyes focused on his target, body rigid, he held his breath hoping the kid could pull it off like he had seen him do with Haven.
Somehow the two of them had done the technique nearly flawlessly and he wondered if the added weight of his full grown body and metal laced skeleton would foul the boy's aim. It was now up to Diesel, Wolverine knew he could do nothing except be the instrument of destruction, the tool of death. He had to trust the kid's choice of target and not try to influence the throw. That had been the easy part for the pair of students, he knew. Belasco had been their target, it was plain to see that, and they both knew it. This time Ian would make the choice, and Logan would trust him, he had to for Aideen's sake.
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TuneUP
New Mutants
Sean Winterstar
Posts: 165
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Post by TuneUP on Oct 26, 2008 23:19:43 GMT -5
Sean held up the device just as Nightcrawler popped in with Elixir. "All right, this here thing looks to be in good shape, truth is I won't know if it works till we get the right combination, and I have no idea what those are. Till then we won't know how it works," he said to the teacher and looked over at Kate. "Careful Katie girl. I don't want you to get hurt," Sean said gently and reached out to grab her hand down. Sean jumped when he saw the heavy minotaur fall right in front of them.
He pulled Kate closer and looked down at Elixir. "Don't worry Elixir, you'll be okay. I'll try to get us out of here soon," he said in his most reassuring voice as he pulled Kate closer. He had an insane urge to protect her and not let her stray far. Sure she was nothing like the girls he liked before, but perhaps that's another reason he liked her. That and there was something else about her that really made him wish they'd get out of here okay.
Belasco's voice and the voice of a woman made him look up to see a beautiful woman riding on a winged demon. "I thought you were the mistress," Sean said to Kate as he studied the woman. There was something really familiar about her and he just couldn't put his finger on it.
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