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Post by mugenginga on Apr 10, 2010 15:12:26 GMT -5
Lucca's eyes widened as Robo spoke, and she tried to twist herself around to get a better look at the situation. She still had both the makeshift flamethrower and rope clutched between both hands. Ellie's shout didn't help anything in regards to Lucca's quickly growing panic. Before she could do much more, she felt her entire body shake and thought for a terrified second Robo was going to fall down, likely landing on her as they hit the ground. She probably wouldn't survive that.
Luckily, Robo managed to shoot one hand to the side. He found a grip by using his force to quite literally drive his fingers into the wall beside him. There was a period of unbalance but the added support let him pull himself back. His eyes were still on Alex, who his sensors were reading as not quite human, especially after he'd shifted. Robo jerked up just as Tara was screeching, and Lucca's eyes widened as she was lifted into the air and landed somewhat roughly behind Robo. The man would find a fist being pointed at him.
"I will not allow you to harm my friends," Robo stated.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Apr 10, 2010 15:56:09 GMT -5
Ion stumbled for a bit at Alex's shove, but he managed to land on this floor, not one floor down.
Ellie stared at Tara for a second as started shaking her. "Alex Mercer-- wait, Alex Mercer?!" She looked up at the man standing on the edge of the pit and then back at Tara. "Tara, I fail to see how this is a good thing! What if he decides to ignore you and use us like the expendable video game mechanics we are?! I don't want to die like this!"
And poor, forgotten Canary looked like a giant poofball with everyone around there. Alex's appearance had particularly freaked him out.
Ellie looked at Tara again. "Tara, if he does decide to absorb us, then I want you to kiss me. I do not want to die without having my first kiss!"
Ion facepalmed.
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Post by Sweet_Chef (Ani) on Apr 10, 2010 16:47:51 GMT -5
((XDXDXDXDXD O-oh my God, FF!! I can't believe you just had her say that!!! *dying of laughter here*))
Alex merely spared the robot a glance, still very eager to destroy the thing but too busy with the females below. They both knew him, judging from their words, yet one claimed they had no memories that would be of use to him. Perhaps they were merely trying to trick him so that he would spare their lives; that was highly likely. Alex's mind was busy processing exactly how to handle the situation, so he merely stood there and didn't move an inch.
Tara, seeing his hesitation, whipped around to face Ellie with a sigh. "Yeah, I know. He's a highly unstable super-human with a habit of absorbing everyone he can get his hands on. But! We have to at least try to convince him not to absorb and kill us! I mean, look, he's hesitating!! That's a good sign!!" she explained quickly, pointing up at Alex. "And I'm not gonna kiss...." She paused as there was a loud "thud" behind her, turning slowly to glance over her shoulder and confirm her suspicions that said superhuman had jumped down to their level. He had.
".....you. Right then." Tara finished, and without hesitation grabbed Ellie by the shoulders and planted the requested the embrace of lips upon her. Alex blinked his icy blue eyes a few times as this happened, arms and vision now normal as he stared. "....um. You know of me?" he asked. That had obviously been his question from the start, but upon seeing this little number, his voice was significantly more quiet than he intended it to be.
((........OH, COME ON. I HAD TO DO IT. XP))
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Post by mugenginga on Apr 14, 2010 15:16:54 GMT -5
There were those who criticized Lucca's odd choice of headgear. Somewhat understandable, most people didn't realize some of her techs came from the thing. But at the moment, the advantage to wearing it came not from the techs, but from the way half of it hugged the side of her face. The glasses were jostled a bit by the rough landing Robo had caused, and had it not been for the hat she may have had a classic Velma moment.
In any case, she pushed the glasses back into place and scrambled to her feet as Robo made his disturbingly flat threat. It sounded more like what she would have expected the other robots of his series to use in terms of tone, not the Robo she knew. She had opened her mouth to tell Robo to calm down when she noticed his expression of surprise that the man had just ignored him. Well, surprise. Not many other than Lucca could notice Robo's expressions, but what was important was that she caught it.
Lucca ran towards the edge, <i>still</i> holding the rope but at this point just because she hadn't thought to drop it. She looked down at her hand and threw it behind her, enough of the weight being above the ground now that it didn't fall below. She pulled the Wondershot out of its holster and pointed it at Alex, aiming at his right arm. She'd either graze him or shoot a hole clear through his arm if she fired due to the unpredictable nature of the weapon, but at this point she didn't care.
"I'll shoot you if you try to attack them!" She said, her voice falling a slight bit short of confident. Man, she wished Crono was here.
(OOC: Both she and Robo were too preoccupied to notice Tara and Ellie's little "encounter". XD Ani, her gun looks like a toy. Its metallic orange, yellow, and red. It has a sattelite disc like area around the firing point. It's a sort of laser gun, but you'd expect it in a toy package rather than in a weapon shop. A full description of it is in her character profile, which is in the full character list B under my username. The inside parts if Alex looks at it are stupidly complex and impossible to understand unless you're a savant scientist wiring and what appears to be concentrated gemstone essence. XD)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Apr 16, 2010 21:21:42 GMT -5
Ellie was grateful Robo and Lucca weren't paying attention. She was also grateful Magus wasn't here. Hell, she was grateful that Ion was too polite to make fun of her for what had just happened, because Alex had lept down into the pit and Tara had answered her prayers. Ellie had been surprised at first. She'd been about to reach and pull Tara closer. And then Alex had spoken.
Ellie looked toward Alex and then back at Tara and pushed Tara away. "Er... um, yeah, kinda..."
She thought back to when she'd encountered Magus. Right. Probably not a good idea to mention the whole video game thing outright. Especially with a guy like this.
"Er... but it's not because we're with the government! Trust me, we hate the government! Well, I do. I dunno about Tara but I do! Me and my bird, we haaaaaaate the government!" Ellie said. She suddenly thought about something. "You didn't absorb my bird did you? Please tell me you didn't, I got him for my birthday and he's my bestest buddy."
Canary gave an answering chirp from the above floor.
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Post by Sweet_Chef (Ani) on Apr 17, 2010 20:06:30 GMT -5
Alex gladly turned his attention away from the two females who were sucking face to look up at the third, who was now pointing some kind of weapon at him threateningly. Instantly, his eyes narrowed, infected mind not even acknowledging her words. Only one thing registered in his head: there was a weapon pointed at him, he was being threatened, time to remove the threat.
Tara blinked rapidly as Ellie pulled away, releasing the girl and stumbling off to the side. "Wow. Never thought my first kiss would be with a girl.... one I barely know.... in the middle of a dungeon.... in another dimension...." she muttered, sighing at her words. "Only a kid on crack after watching one too many yuri sci-fi anime would think that." Turning around as Ellie began talking to Alex, she couldn't hold back a grin, still ecstatic at meeting one of her favorite video game characters. "I'm against the government, too. They're a bunch of assholes. Trust us, we're just a bunch of civillians," she affirmed.
Alex listened as the two girls spoke, but most of his attention was entirely focused on Lucca and her weapon. "Fine. Then just stay back while I take care of this," he answered at last. Transforming his left arm back to its normal state and his right into Whipfist, he yanked the long, rubbery, spiked appendage back before launching it at the girl up above. It was as fast as a diving hawk with the precise aim of a skilled sniper, and if Lucca didn't move fast, it would either impale her torso or graze part of her body with its blade.
Tara's eyes widened. "Crap! He's attacking! Lucca, put the damn weapon away and surrender before he massacres you!!" she called up frantically. Trying to interfere would likely do no good and just get the interferee horribly and brutally slaughtered by a pissed off Alex.
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Post by mugenginga on Apr 17, 2010 20:21:53 GMT -5
Lucca's finger, which could have been described as twitchy by this point, squeezed down on the trigger at the same time that Alex's body changed. She had no idea what had caused that, and it was only her mind as a scientist that allowed her to even wonder among her panic. What basically looked like a solar flare shot straight at Alex.
It was rather large, we're talking a burst of round and extremely bright energy the size of a baseball. A stream of light followed behinid it, and the kickback had knocked Lucca off her feet. That was the problem with the Wondershot. It was unpredictable, but when it felt like packing a punch...
In any case, the fact that she was knocked off her feet probably helped save her. She fell downwards and onto her bottom. It managed to hit the side of her face with the helmet that came down. A wound of decent depth was inflicted on her cheek, but it didn't look like it would scar. A spark came out from the side of her helmet as the attack had hit part of the wiring. It shorted out and the inside of the complicated wirework was exposed. The temple of Lucca's glasses on that side bent ever so little as well. Her teeth clacked together and by some miracle she didn't bite her tongue.
Robo had gone into action as soon as he saw the movement. That had to be the reason the human read as wrong. That wasn't magic, it didn't have the right energies. In any case, the hand he'd yet to lower since making his first threat shot. It was accompanied by a shout from the robot.
"Rapid-Fire Fist!"
The thing was going as fast as Alex' own attack had. A bit of fire came off the end, making the comparison to a rocket fit best. The thing would fly around Alex several times and hit up to ten, although once he realized what was going on it was more than possible he could block the remainder. It was likely going too fast for the man to put up a good defense in terms of shapeshifting, but his own agility could serve useful. Lucca had heard Tara's shout, but was still a bit dazed from the attack and the hit.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Apr 20, 2010 19:55:24 GMT -5
Ellie's eyes widened as Alex turned his attention toward Lucca and Robo. While normally this kind of fight would be cool, A) Lucca was one person short of a full party and B) Someone was gonna get killed and it wasn't Alex. Ellie ran forward.
"Stop it! None of you guys are helping so stop beating each other up like wussies!" Ellie yelled.
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Post by Sweet_Chef (Ani) on Apr 20, 2010 20:22:32 GMT -5
Alex, having launched his own attack at the same time as Lucca, had no time to dodge the blast or morph to a more defensive tool. He was forced to face it head on, but he'd been in the middle of fiery explosions far worse than this little number. Sure, said fiery explosion had blasted him to mush, but he'd always just regenerate. Alex's Whipfist reeled back while he was in the middle of the flare, the intense heat burning up most of his clothes and easily covering his body in third degree burns. However, a normal human would have keeled over from this and would be dead in seconds; he stood strong, a burnt corpse on two feet.
It took all of Tara's self-control not to turn and puke up stomach acid, all that was left after her earlier vomit session in the courtyard. After all, most of Alex's skin had been completely burned off, leaving the muscles and veins along with a few shreds of burned clothing. Though he was obviously significantly weakened, he showed no expression of pain, gaze as cold and hate-filled as ever. Not wasting another moment, he morphed into his Armor, the same he had used in his battle with Magus. As such, Robo's rocket fist barely made him flinch and stumble from the hits, only getting that much of a reaction because of his weakened state.
Had the previous sight not been up close and personal in real life, Tara would probably be fangirling at just how powerful and cool Alex was right now. Instead, she gawked incredulously at Ellie, who was now the person receiving the man's glare for trying to stop him. Running over to her, she pressed her hands against the other girl's back and attempted to push her off to the side. "D-don't pay her any mind, Alex! She's just babbling, nothing serious about it, really!" Tara stammered quickly before turning her words into a fierce whisper at Ellie. "Are you fucking crazy?! He had his skin burned off and he barely flinched. Alex Mercer is one serious mofo you do not want to mess with. He'll fuck you up ten ways from Sunday without even looking at you!" she hissed.
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Post by mugenginga on Apr 20, 2010 20:43:12 GMT -5
Lucca was looking at the blood on her hand. The blood she'd gotten when she reached up and felt for the injury on her cheek. And actually found one. A second before that explained the slight burn on her finger. Her helmet piece had sparked a bit. It was now laying on the ground from her ripping it off. Her vision was a bit unfocused as her glasses were lopsided.
Robo's fist came back to him and reattached to his arm. He wasn't sure about the structural integrity of this place, so jumping down with his weight did not seem an option. The issue at the moment was it didn't seem quite possible to kill the man. There should have been no way for a human to survive that attack, and yet he had. His pulse hadn't stopped even once, despite the injuries. Robo gave as worried a look as his construct allowed as he saw Lucca getting to her feet without her weapon.
Lucca's purple hair was a pretty large mess at the moment. Her helmet piece was now on the ground. She pushed the gun back with one foot and held up her hands so hopefully their attacker could see them. They might be able to win if they continued fighting, but it would cause a lot of damage. And quite frankly, she was still concerned about whatever that thing before had been. It hadn't been defeated, so it could come back. Her right hand had a bit of blood on it from where she'd wiped her face. A thin trickle of blood was coming down from it still. The only thing that had gone right for her is she'd missed what Alex had looked like before forming the armor.
"Please, we don't want to fight anymore! I'm sorry about before, but you have to admit you took us by surprise!"
Robo didn't like seeing Lucca hurt, but he didn't want to take the time to heal her. He decided to trust his friend's judgement and lowered his arm. He no longer seemed all that threatening, although at the speed he'd been able to attack before it wasn't impossible he could do so again. In any case, both Lucca and Robo seemed to be waiting to see what the man would do next...
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Apr 24, 2010 0:20:56 GMT -5
"If he's gonna kill us, then it's not gonna matter either way, is it?!" Ellie retorted. Still, she shut up. Right now, survival was her issue. And her bird with clipped wings was currently on the other floor. So she couldn't figure out where the fuck to go from here.
"Uh... yeah, please don't kill us, we didn't mean any harm," Ellie finally said.
Ion was just staying back from the situation for now. Somehow, he doubted that anything he said would really help.
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Post by Sweet_Chef (Ani) on Apr 27, 2010 20:23:34 GMT -5
Alex's infected mind considered the situation, calculating and analyzing every aspect of it, every threat, every possible move he could make and the probable outcome. As he did this, he stayed completely still, only an armored finger twitching here or there out of reflex from his severe injuries. Finally, after what likely felt like hours but was really only a minute or two, he seemed to relax out of his strict stance. Alex would have removed his armor, but he hadn't healed yet, and wouldn't until he absorbed a living creature. So he left it on as a temporary skin and took a few steps closer to Tara and Ellie.
Tara, seeing this, paled, believing he was about to absorb them. "Killed by one of my favorite videogame characters.... oh, the irony...." she muttered, tightly closing her eyes. She waited for the pain to come, knowing it wouldn't be pretty from playing the game herself. Instead, Alex's arms suddenly shot out, hands gripping the girls by their clothing before he leapt up into the air. Tara shrieked, eyes still tightly closed as the infected man backflipped, shoulder bones rotating around a complete 360 degrees so that both girls remained in their current hanging position.
He landed easily on the floor above, right in front of the collapsed staircase. Alex's landing created a light tremor in the floor, cracking the stones beneath his feet and making the area even more unstable. Sensing this and knowing it could collapse at any minute, he did the first thing his crazed, microorganism mind could think of. He tossed Tara and Ellie up over the collapsed staircase in an effort to get them to solid, secure ground. Alex may have been a monster who killed to keep himself alive, but he'd still protect civillians if he wasn't currently dealing with a threat. Besides, girls always reminded him of his sister; it's what she would have wanted.
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Post by mugenginga on Apr 27, 2010 20:34:44 GMT -5
It was indeed an agonizing minute or so for Lucca. Robo's time sense was better due to being a machine, so he was able to track the exact 103 seconds it took for the unidentified living creature to relax. It wouldn't be quite as visible on Robo, but he relaxed as well... before both he and Lucca tensed up again as Alex began taking quick steps towards Tara and Ellie. Lucca had ducked back down and grabbed her weapon, and even had it pointed before Alex leapt into the air.
In surprise she lowered the threat by dropping both her hands to the side. She covered her mouth with both of her hands and had a slightly green expression as the man's arms rotated in a matter completely unnatural and completely unnerving for his human appearance. Even covered in armor, he was presumably still human underneath. She followed his flight over her and Robo's head and turned around to keep the gaze as he landed with enough force to hammer down the very front of the collapsed stairs. And then threw Tara and Ellie.
"Hey, that's dangerous!" Lucca shouted to Alex.
Robo looked towards Lucca, "The angle and force at which he threw them should only cause minor scrapes and bruises."
"Oh..." Lucca said, more as a response to speaking than an actual coherent response. She grabbed the rope that was still on the stairs above them and tried to lift it, only to find Alex had one foot on it. She stopped tugging when she realized and cleared her throat, "Um, excuse me? I think that bird over there belongs to one of those girls... If you'd get off the rope I could get it..."
"What is it that you might be?" Robo inquired of Alex, speaking rather formally.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Apr 30, 2010 22:48:52 GMT -5
Ellie also shrieked when Alex grabbed and tossed her and Tara up to the top of the stairs. She landed rather roughly, but all she got were a few bruises. After a moment, she examined herself. "I'm okay...? Oh, hey! Thanks! Could you grab Canary too? He's my bird!"
Ion had been rather worried for Ellie and Tara as Alex had approached them, and then grabbed them and thrown them once he made it up to the next floor. Ion scrambled over toward the collapsed stairs. He looked even more worried, even with Robo's words, until Ellie gave a thumbs up from above.
After a moment, Ellie looked toward Tara. "So, uh... should we tell Magus or do you think he already knows?"
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Post by Sweet_Chef (Ani) on May 1, 2010 0:07:13 GMT -5
Tara groaned from her spot on the floor beside Ellie, pushing herself up onto her knees and rubbing tenderly at her side. "Well, that was surprising.... but we're alive! And that's something almost no one gets to say after having a run-in with that badass mofo," she stated through a sigh. Rolling up her hoodie and the shirt she wore beneath it a little, she poked at her smarting side a bit with a finger. "Ya mean about Alex, or that other dude who attacked us and got me possessed?"
Meanwhile, Alex had felt the tug beneath his foot and looked down, seeing the trapped rope at the same time as Lucca. He obliged, moving off of it, then followed her gesturing gaze to the yellow bird he'd overlooked on the floor below. Without hesitation, his arm morphed back into Whipfist, and less than ten seconds later shot out like a homing missile. At first, it looked like Alex was going to hit Canary, but the fist itself missed the fluffball by mere centimeters. However, the impact it made with the floor launched the poor avian high into the air, where he easily snatched it with his normal hand.
Turning to Lucca, he held Canary out to her, other arm wordlessly transforming back to normal. Sparing Robo a glance, Alex didn't answer right away, unsure of how to properly answer the question. Finally, he decided to just put it bluntly, his voice slightly muffled by the armor he wore. "Infected." Once everyone was on safe ground, Tara could easily explain the situation, but for now that label would have to do.
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