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Battle at Hydrobase

Llyron vs Spectrum

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Spectrum

~The plan has been set . Blindside is looking for Razorblade . The Schemer is using his ming controlled workers at the casino the clique is using for base to help setup operations in Moblie . Spectrum is dispatched to hydrobase to deliver a knock out blow to those pesky redeemers and free those they have captured . With that Noreen in control of the Philmont building those captured will be needed to retake what rightfully belongs to the true clique .
At light speed she is above hydrobase from the alabama casino in a flash . Hovering in a disc of solidfied light she calls out .~ Followers of dread Dagon ! The most vile of seatitans ! I Niahm goddess of eternal light have judged you all unfit and unworthy ! Surrender now or I will destroy you all !

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Llyron

The base's warning alarms went off a half second after she appeared. At light speed it was nearly teleportation ...her approach not detected until it happened. Photonic detectors, recently installed, detected her presence atop the disk. Llyron was the only one handy at the moment ... though with their teleportation technology others could be called. But this was more of a personal challenge. Taking one of his tridents from the wall, he stepped to the window and smashed through, flying up to Spectrum.

"What are the conditions of our surrender, goddess of light?"

He seemed nonchalant, but the device in his ear was feeding him scans. Seeing if she was solid, or in photonic form. Scanning for alternate sources, in case THIS Niahm was a hologram. Fool me once, and all that.


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Spectrum

~She sees and hears Llyron . He is asking conditions for surrender but she suspects he will fight . The schemer had told her to expect a battle . Llyron represents power . Evil power but still power . It does give up its place easily .~ The conditions are these . Cease your conflict with the clique this moment . Release the members you currently hold to my custody this instant . Unharmed and untainted by your foul science . Lastly, agree to help the clique with a certain problem that has arisen . One that will not harm your position but will aid ours . I am to tell you it is not something illegal . What do you say, prince of evil ? Will you comply . Or must I take extreme messures . ~she is real . Not a hologram and in physical form for the moment .~

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Llyron

"I hold no clique members in custody. I turned them over to the United States. Your terms seem reasonable. Except how can I agree to help with something, unless I know what it is?"
He looked her up and down
"You are indeed beautiful. I've seen photographs of norse goddesses but the celtic gods are fortunate indeed to have those such as you in their assemblage."
He smiled
"Many of my people currently worship poseidon, but things can indeed change ...."



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Spectrum

~He is stalling . Playing games with her . He is using flattery to try and put her off guard . She knows how charming the forces of evil can be . Such powers have attacked avalon under guise of being friends . Now this dog is trying the same tactic .~ You are waisting your time, Llyron . Though your words are flattering and have the ring of truth, you attacked the clique without provocation . We did nothing to you . Your actions prove your are not a noble being . Now, I ask a final time . Will you release the hostages ? And if you have sent them to the devils called government, will you gather them back and return them ? Or must I reduce your pretty base to rumble ?

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Llyron


One last scan to make sure she was solid, and that she didn't have a photonic force field about her. She was solid now, so her reflexes should be mortal range. He opened his mouth when there was suddenly an explosion .... the front of his belt exploded, like a claymore mine. Shooting shards of razor sharp and light reflecting mirrored flecks of orichalcum burst from his abdomen ... sending him flying back painfully. But it was aimed at her .... in mortal form the concussion would stun a human, and the shards would cut her to ribbons. In photonic form, the reflective qualities should scatter her like a disco ball.
He feigned rage at the explosion shouting .... it DID look for all the world like a missile had struck him in the abdomen. It was designed to.
"Treachery! Your allies attack while you make false offers of forgiveness!"

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Spectrum

~She gets the answer she expects . A move of treachery . She tries to put up her force field but it is too late . the flecks hit her and slice into her skin even through the protective bodyarmor of her costume . She screams in pain and momentarily losed control of the light platform she is standing and starts to fall from a height of several hundred feet .~

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Llyron

Llyron growled, feigning rage ... he saw the orichalcum had cut through her armor as expected. That's why he'd used the expensive but indestructible substance.
"So you were not unscathed by your companions treachery!"
His gut ached from the blast .... he recalled a line from a movie. Use enough dynamite there butch?
She seemed in human form again for the moment. Another blast should hopefully knock her unconscious. Hopefully she'd survive ... he could heal her even if she lived but momentarily. He aimed his trident and fired ... instead of a blast of desalinizer, it was another powerful burst of flechettes.



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Spectrum

~She is stunned but not out cold . She has enough presence of mind to will herself into lightform and retreat . She tries to fly away before he can fire again . If she makes it she swears Llyron will die for this . A goddesses promise is one that is always kept .~

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Llyron

Llyron hits her with the blast, but not before she's changed to light form. Luckily, however, that is exactly the primary use of the blast. To disperse light. He hopes to scatter her about, at least momentarily.


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Spectrum

~She tries to flee but the shards strike her light form and send her scattering in all directions . She is lucky she has complete control of her form even scattered . She can will the pieces of herself to flee in one direction then reassemble at a safe distance . If she manages to escape she is not sure if she can fight now . It is not known how much damage that first shot that struck her solid did to her .~

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Llyron

Sensors showed her escaping at high velocity. He actually felt glad she had lived. She seemed to be mentally deranged or under delulsions, possibly caused by the schemer. His own mother was borderline insane, and homocidal. It struck too close to home.

He hadn't had a chance to try plan B or C. Perhaps next time.

He flew down to the base ... he knew he had no chance of catching her. Power he had, speed he did not. He sent a crew to gather the expensive fleschettes as they landed in the water and sank, glistening. They were nearly as expensive as secondary adamantium.

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Carnage at the Docks

Well, a relative of Carnage anyway

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Cretura

Another boatload of animals...most seeming all the worse for the trip. The homosapiens weren't the best people for taking care of them, but her newly found sponsor was more than willing to assist her in making them feel at home. True, the pirvatization of Central Park was her idea...she got tired of seeing the destitute wandering all over the place while her friends were stuck in their little paddocks. And, should people trespass, they were fair game anyway.

She watches the harbor men unload the ship, then growls at one as they aren't careful with a crate.

"Do you want me to rip your head off and feed it to the animal you're injuring? Get out of here, now!"

She swats a rather sharply clawed hand at the man who runs in fear before she checks on the animal.

"Stupid humans..."

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*crouched low over the nearby wearhouse josh sat crouched on the rooftops edge, the docks were deserted except for the unloading ship*

mmmmmmm fresh stock

*he hissed as he leapt to one of the dock cranes nearest the ship, observing the woman and the men leaveing in seprate directions, he watched them all for a while*

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Llyron



He was walking along the docks, and there was usually not much to see. But today shiploads of animals were coming in, curious he took out his cell phone and called one of his aides to check into it. He wanted to make sure High Evolutionary wasn't working manhattan again. Then he saw the claws ... the beautiful young woman indeed seemed to fit stereotypical H.E.'s work. Curious, he walked forward.
"You want brutal, you should tour the boardwalk markets of Hong Kong or Bangkok."

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Cretura

She raises a brow, glancing back to the man speaking, unconsiously sniffing the air...having never liked it when people spoke to her when she was with her animals.

"Been there...Bangkok is brutal, but at least they respect the people they steal from."

She looks him over for a moment, sniffing again, smelling the fishiness of the man...

"If you'll excuse me..."

She mumbles and guides the animal from the crate towards the truck, simply speaking softly to it as they move.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*leaping from the dock crane he landed on one of the men walking away the man let out a scram as the symbote enveloped him for a moment feeding itself and re attatchign itslf to josh*

*the black skeleton smoked lightly as josh shot a tendril back up to the dock crane pulling himnself up to his perch once more*

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Llyron


Jack started and jumped back at the scream, landing about 20 feet back ... or rather gliding to a landing, as dove like sprouted from his ankles, tearing through socks and pants legs. He was pulling a handgun ... and watched the skeleton fall to the ground and the symbiote retreat away.
Venom? Carnage? Father Ocean, not ANOTHER symbiote. d**n that spiderman for bringing these things to earth.

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Cretura

She quirks a brow when she hears the scream...then watches the other man fly towards the skeleton. Her eyes change and she sniffs the air, closing the truck to keep her animals safe before she starts walking towards the man.

"d**n it...what is it with all these superfreaks around here lately?" She growls audibly, then scans the area, her eyes following the slithering shadow as it moves towards it's host.

"Up there." She motions up along the crane, still snarling a bit.


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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*he sat crouched on the dock crane his bright white eyes and black suit was an easy give away that this was a child of venom, though his suit was slightly diffrent, the suit was black yet criss crossed with white streaks like that of a zebra*

*the thing sat on its haunches there for a moment silent before leaping off the crane with a backflip and tendril swung from the crane to the truck* ;landing on its rooftop and denting it*

*the thing gave a toothy grin at them and began ripping into the truck*

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Llyron


He frowned ...
"It's going for the animals!"
Symbiote. Probably a danger sense. They'd secured a sample from Titan's teeth during the first clique battle, but this one looked different. He fired, aiming a few feet to the left. He was curious to see if the thing tried to dodge anyway. There was little real danger ... the shot wasn't headed toward it. AND he was curious to see what happened with the animal girl.

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Cretura

She growls, definately letting herself go more feral...and angry enough to make Sabertooth look like a housecat. She leaps towards the truck and opens the back to let the animals out before that thing could get inside with them all. To hell with the humans around the dock, her animals could take care of themselves if they aren't bottled up inside a truck.

"Get the hell off my truck you mother f**king black sludge coated bastard son of a b**ch!"

She rushes into the truck and leaps up through the torn ceiling and starts lashing out with her rather long sharp claws.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*he hissed at the cat girl as her claws sliced at his suit, the sking tore and flailed a bit revealing human flesh before it reformed, josh Aimed a punch at cat girls gut before his sense went off like a alarm and he leapt away from the direction the bullet was traveling shooting a tendril back to the crane, seeing the two down there he couldnt help but give out a knowing laugh*

mmmmmmm fiesty

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Llyron

He almost grinned as he saw the smile. The thing had KNOWN he wasn't really aiming at it. Danger sense. Interesting.
He leapt into the air, flying toward them ... but keeping human for except for the ankle wings. And even these he kept blue hued, not like his usual green.
"Symbiotes. Marvellous. Most susceptible to sound and fire."
That was for the girl's edification


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Cretura

She takes the punch, snarling at the impact before letting herself drop back down to avoid the bullets. She paces inside the truck, looking up as the thing pulls itself back up onto the crane. She leaps back up ontop of the truck and simply eyes the thing...much like a cat watching a spider...snarling and growling.

"COWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Her voice changes a bit more as she roars...not anything close to human sounding, but definately the gutteral roar of a lion.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness

*he chuckled at the woman* too quick for your cat like reflexes girl thingycat?

*he chuckled and watched them both from the docks eyeing the ship that still was docked, wondering if there were more animals on board*

*he watched jack comment on weknesses of hsi father* Too bad evolution improves on the decendants


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Llyron

THAT got a HUGE laugh from Jack aka Llyron.
"NO argument on that one."
He considered HIMSELF an evolutionary step above his father also, though evolution had had a bit of help.
"Though your appetite seems more than your parent's. Inefficient digestion?"
He watched the thing ... he knew he had no chance of shooting it with his handgun. It would be like shooting at spiderman. He waited for an opening and watched.


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Cretura

"You're a d**nation against nature you bastard!"

She squats down, then kicks up from the truck, grasping the lines of the crane and quickly scales them chasing after the black gooey monstrosity.

"If you're going to kill anything, it had better have a fighting chance. Why don't you just got f**king eat another human or something?"

She continues, pulling herself up, then runs along the crane towards the thing clashes slashing out towards it again, fangs fully beared as she charges.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness

*he watched cretura scale the dock crane, he shot a tyndril out and slung himself onto the ship deck, smelling some cargo that would probably rile this woman up and make her stupid, he ignored lyron for now and ripped the cargo hold doors open, below were a few animals he grinned at the wicked idea that ran through his head*

*takeing a large support beam and ripping it out he wedged a hole in the side of the boat and let the water deluge in before dissapearing into the hold*


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Llyron

He smiled ... briefly considering sinking the ship further - he preferred aquatic batles. But he refrained. He holstered his gun, and flew down, and ripped off the top of a section of the deck ... a good ten by ten section of steel, making an easy opening for Cretura, then tossed it aside.
"There you go, my dear."


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Cretura

She growls again seeing him once again flee from a true predator and go after the captive animals on the ship. Then snarled a bit more as the flying fish tears open more of her ark. She speeds up, then reaches the end of the crane and leaps from it, diving towards the gaping hole ontop of the ship, letting membranes come from her sides to let her glide into the hole momentarily before they retract once more and she continues after the thing that was frightening her animals.

She was seeing red and wanting blood...enough so that her presence was causing the animals to start attacking as well, breaking out of their cages and rushing towards the foul smelling thing in their hold.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness

*he grinned this was exactly what he wanted, she had gone feral and the rest of the animals following suit , he crawled onto the cealing and as a wolf passed the symbiot snatched him up like a venus fly trap and left his black carcas on the ground beofre the next animal, he hit the power room and smashed the controles blanketing the ship in darkness, true they could smell him but still smell was not as good as sight if he was down wind and the water rushing into the ship happened to be towards him*

hehehe *he hisssed as he stayed hidden*


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Llyron

Try to crush a fast insect such as a fly your hand, or worse, a finger tip. You will likely fail. Use a basic lever, and widen your weapon on the end ... and you will likely succeed. Thus, the fly swatter was born.

A steel pole was unceremonially snapped off and lain with one end upon the flat chunk of decking he had ripped off. In a few punches later and he had a fly swatter .... steel, and 18 feet long. With a head on the end the size of a sedan.


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Cretura

She snarls as the lights go off, it not phasing her all that much, nor at least half of the predators onboard her ship. She heard the wolf's surprised yelp as it was caught, then starts stalking that way, letting her ears change slowly, picking up considerably more as a bat might in the situation.

The fish was certainly making enough noise outside...she glances towards some of the animals that hadn't quite made it out of their cages yet and breaks their cages open as well, she could recover them all later. She simply chitters as to tell them to make their way to the deck of the ship.

Most turn and head away from the water while she moves more towards it, still growling sofftly, listening for the sound to come back to her.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*he crawled along the ceacling much liek spiderman did, an effective trait passed down from venom each step brought him closer to the engine room, wich would be lit with emergency lights but there he woudl destroy the engine and in the confution would make his way back on deck*

*when he entered the engine room, a few broken valves and a few shaterd safty machines and the engivne was already overheating*

*he punched his way through the cealing and crawled through chuckleing maniacly as he did* on the upper deck he happened to find another stray animal but this is where he did something diffrent, instead of absorbing the beast he cornered it and captured it, and a glob of black ichor oozed from hiz skin and attatched itself to the wolf boreing itself into its skin*


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Llyron


Flying overhead Llyron saw the symbiote create a spawn and smashed at the humanoid one with his make shift weapon. Missing badly, and making a LOUD bang upon the deck.
"Blast!"
Was all he said. The weapon was unwieldy.

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Cretura

"GAH!!!!" She falls to her knees, covering her ears as the bang rings through the cargo deck...hurting her temporarily bat-like ears. She forces them to change back, still wincing from the ringing.

She shakes her head to clear herself and gets up rather dizzily, as that little bang seriously unbalanced her.

"All of you, out...now!" She turns towards the animals and ushers them move quickly out of the hold, staggering a bit herself as she follows behind them.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness


*his dager sence went nuts as the flyswatter came down hard on the deck* *he scquealed at the loud sound it did make but like he had said it didnt effect him like his father*

*he retreated from the flyswatter and made his way towards the deck*

*meanwhile the spawn had found cretura ushering her friends out, the vile smelling thing lunged at one of the animals*


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Llyron

Llyron frowned ... this was an interesting creature. A mutation, perhaps of the original symbiote. As it had said. Too bad it might have to be killed.

He swatted at it again, flying after it. A perfect swing, in a sweep to crush it against the steel of the deck.

(( a critical hit ))


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Jason Sin

Jason had rode a bike and heard some fighting not far from him. He had used his sight and hearing to get the area it was coming from.

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Cretura

She narrows her eyes as she sees the mutated mongrel and lunges towards it as well as she can, being still off-balanced and rushing through a crowd of animals. She studies it as she continues closer, letting her claws come back out as she makes her way towards it. It acted far too human...toying with it's prey. It smelled similar, but for some reason something about it made it seem wrong. She could smell the beast within it and snarled...calling out to the host.

"Fight it! You are not it's slave..."

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness

*there was another smell to cretura, one distinctly nothing on this earth the thing stopped as it lunged at a small mamal and bit into it, the beast drained it somehow, leaveing only a mummified corpse, the beast turned to cretura and hissed the skin fully changed into a dog likeness of the one she had chased into the hold*

*meanwhile josh caught off guard from the sound dazeing was slammed against the wall by the fly swatter, squealling in pain the tentrills returned as he tried to push the flyswatter off of him* AHHHHrggg Youll pay for that Whelp.

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Llyron

He laughed ....
"Well, I AM only six years old!"
He kept the pressure on, crushing down on it with his full strength ... hopefully, somewhere under that black crud were human bones and sinew to break ....

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Jason Sin

Jason had gotten to the spot. He took his pistol out and attempted to take the symbiote out with a concintrated blast.

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Cretura

She snarls looking at the doggish form once more, then nods slightly.

"Go find your attacker...and show him you are not to be toyed with." She watches the dog again, then continues to usher the other animals back out of the ship...channeling them towards the gangplank before scanning around for the other creature. Another bang, she shakes her head, wondering if the moron slamming metal on metal even realizes how annoying that was. But, then again if it were the fish man she'd run across before, surely he'd know that's hurting the fish in the area as well.

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Symbiote Bonded : Josh McGuiness

*the dog sat groweling at her the thing inside it overideing every decition it lunged at creturas throught attempting to rip it out*

*as the strength of jack overpowered him the danger sence returned and he was able to push the flyswatter towards the direction the blast was headed to where it would absorb the blow*

*hissing as the metal melt josh quickly used his strength to bend himself free and he skittered away once more , litterally ripping through the decks of the ship with rapid pase, quickl;y clawing his way on deck,

[[ and bounding away in a burst of speed, soon out of sight ]]*

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Llyron

He sighed as the creature bent the steel up and escaped ... it was only normal metal after all. Then it skittered away. But the ship was sinking ...time to help with that. He grabbed the piece of metal and flew up and into the water, flying down to block the rushing water from continuing into the ship. Pushing in forcefully in to block most the water.


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Mac Jase

He sensed the ship and saw it once he got close enough. He he used he power to help keep the water back. It was as if he willed the water still and not enter the ship.

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Cretura

Kill or be killed...so be it.

She reaches up and catches the creature in the air, letting her hands tear against it, then rushes past the animals, keeping a hold of the poor mutated beast and leaps down to the dock, letting her claws out to slash at it overly, even as much as biting at it's flesh brutally. If it was going to fight for life, so was she. If it wanted food, it had better kill her, or she would hunt it down forever...and that was not something she had time for.


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Llyron

Llyron helped secure the vessel, impressed especially at the one with water control. VERY useful for Atlanteans. And once the creature was controlled, he offered them each free trips to Atlantis and potential to join the Redeemers. If the wolf creature was captured, he would offer to try to remove the symbiote.


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[Board Keeper]

Changing Channels

Llyron and Channel (Lesslie Carter)

Lesslie Carter

Lesslie sat in the situation room, sifting through all of the information that she'd found on the child Alexandra Hawthorne. Just as she'd suspected, there wasn't anything concrete...no smoking gun...but alot of strange coincidences... In the same school that the girl had attended a lunch lady had inexplicably shoved her entire arm into a boiling hot pain of beans....later a teacher had thrown herself down a flight of stairs. A couple of the stories had confirmed that Alex had been present at both occurances, though neather hinted that she was the cause. They both treated the accidents as examples of yet more tragedy that the girl had been subjected to. God bless the tireless men and women of the press....always snooping for the hidden connections.

She sighed, leaning back in her chair, crystal blue eyes scanning the computer screens while she absently rubbed the hand Scathe had resently healed.....the hand that this child had made Lesslie stab completely through...

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Llyron

Llyron came into the situation room ... formerly the Avengers Assembly room. He LOVED stealing their thunder ... though he had nothing personally against them. He walked up behind Lesslie and looked at the screen then put his hand down on her shoulders ...
"Yeah, I'm getting the same stuff you are. Was hoping you'd find more ..."
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Lesslie Carter
She looked up at Llyron as he enteres, flashing him a warm but somewhat weary smile. Spinning her chair around she stood up, stretching her back which eched through out the room in a series of pops. With a relieved sigh she slumped back, leaning against the assembly table.

"Yeah. T'be honest I was hopin' for a bit more mahself. But she's covered her tracks really well. Jeremy's out sniffin things out with the local ghosts...see if they know anything. He said that there are rumors about a large number of poltergeists hauntin' around NuGen for some reason...hopefully one of them has enough presence o' mind to talk to him rather'n try and start a fight.."

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Llyron

He chuckled
"We're without our chaperone then?"
He rubbed her shoulders
"Don't worry. I'll do my best to remain a gentleman. I wish I'd had more time to investigate but I've been a bit busy this week. Multiple clique battles and one rogue symbiote. But don't think I've forgotten my friends. I am still entirely at your disposal. What is our current plan A?"

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Lesslie Carter

She groaned pleasently as he began rubbing some of the tension from her shoulders. She surveyed the monitors which made up the walls of the room, watching as they each scrolled by their seperate news stories, tyring to find some chink in the girls' armor.

"I appriciate that Llyron. Nice not to be goin in solo." she said with a sigh.

"So far your idea appeals to me the most. Jack's workin on a holo projector thing for me, one that will make me look like Heatseeker. Once that's ready we can look at infiltrating NuGen...if I can get close enough and keep control then I can use her Mama's ghost to burn her...and we can make it look like Heatseeker did it..."

She frowned slightly at that...not really comfortable with the idea of foisting the attack off on someone else...even someone like Heatseeker..someone who she knew had commited horrible crimes.

"Part of the problem is...if the stories about the 'geists are true then it might be to risky for me to go in there.....ghosts know what I can do...and I dunno if I can stand up to an assault from several angry spirits...Jeremy'll be there with me, but still there's only so much that he can do..."

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Llyron
He nodded, considering. This was out of his area of expertise.
"I worked up some alternate costume ideas for you also. Best to have your features covered, in case of an EMP discharge or the like. I ran into that a couple days ago myself."
He reached over and typed, VERY quickly, with one hand, bringing up an image from data file. A set of armor designed for her. If she needed it.

"Theres always the option of creating some short lived clones for mom and the gang to borrow. In case, timed clone bio breakdown is EASY. Many geneticists have trouble getting beyond the problem ... ie: the Jackal and the various spiderman clones."

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Lesslie Carter
She looked up at him, incredulously.

"Clone me....is that what ya' talkin about? Clonin' me and having them take over the clones?"

She shivered slightly at that thought....the idea of what someone could do by cloning her powers....without the ethical training that Mama Serenity had given her.

"I think that'll have ta' be a last resort." She said, looking over the screen where he'd pulled up the armor.

"That looks alot like the stuff Jack wears." She said with a small grin. "I caught yall's fight on the news the other day...at least until the power outage.
That could work. I have a feelin that she's gonna know who I am, even with this psion blockin trinket ya gave me....but I'm not crazy about gettin caught...no court in the world would understand..."

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Llyron
"I have a question. Are these 'ghosts' actually the spirits of the deceased, or physic afterimages left behind? Or some of each?"

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Lesslie Carter

She turned around, looking at Llyron and leaning against the table again

"It depends. Not an exact science so I've just got what I've found over the years. Most of the time a spirit is just an after image. Like...shadows yah seen in ya vision when someone flashes a light in ya eyes. A little smudge of ectoplasmic energy that usually can't even hold a shape and dissipates after a little while.

But once in a while when someone dies they have a reason....or the strength of will to remain here...kinda stuck on the underside of the 'real world'...never crossin over to the otha side. Emotion seems to be the key...someon who dies with extremely powerfull love...anger..sadness..it gives them enough strength ta hold their ectoplasmic form together...and in some extremely rare cases they can actually controll it well enough to interact with the real world on their own."

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Llyron
He nodded.
"We atlanteans know about ghosts. When the founder of the Atlantean empire rediscovered the ancient Atlantean capital, he was greeted by the spirit of the last king of Old Atlantis. That's where the Sword of Kamuu gets it's name. It was the royal weapon of the last king, who bestowed it on the New Kingdom's founder. I still wonder if he still haunts the ancient thronerooms."
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Lesslie Carter
Her eyes widdened slightly at that.

"d**n...I've never met any royalty...but then I've never been to Europe....Probably could stir up a King or Queen if I evah went there.

Hell of an honor...to meet the ancient King or ya people..."

She trailed off, her eyes looking over Llyron's shoulder, a small gasp escaping her. Unseen by Llyron, Jeremy had just staggered into the room, dripping trails of ectoplasm from several wounds all over his form.

"Jer!"

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Llyron

"Well, the cloning thing is available if we need it. And we can design the clones to keel over dead after a certain amount of time, if we need to."
He slid up onto a desk, looking relaxed. He of course could not see Jeremy enter.

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Lesslie Carter
"Jer!" She gasped, pushing past him to where her brother had staggered through the wall. Cloying glops of ectoplasm dripped from numerous rounds over his etheral form, the substance quickly evaporating into nothingness when it was no longer connected to the whole of his will.

He looked up at her, eyes sunked, one cheek torn open. He looked visibly thinner, wasted as if he'd drained himself during whatever had happened.

You...you can't go there Les......there are monsters there..not just human....geists that are to strong...

She knelt beside him, holding his invisible form up from the floor.

"Jesus Jer....what happened? What are they doing there?"

She looked up at llyron, eyes pleading

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Llyron
He looked at her ... it looked for all the world like she was doing a mime act, holding something that wasn't there. But he knew she was serious.
"I assume you're talking to Jeremy. I have limited information on Nu Gen myself, other than as possible research sources."
He looked, d**ned if he could see anything ... but he'd had the boys working on something. People usually reported a chill when a ghost was in a room. He himself was so resistant to cold, he couldn't tell, but he'd had some glasses made up. He put on his glasses, and looked in Jeremy's direction, seeing if he could see anything.

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Lesslie Carter
Tears were standing in her eyes as she cradled her brother, watching in confusion as Llyron pulled out the strange eye pieces and put them on. Through them he could see the shimmering outline of a male human form, dripping some substance onto the floor.

Turning her attention back to him she listened as he relayed what he'd found, his voice stuttering as he struggled to put the words together. A relieved sigh escaped her as she saw that his wounds were already healing. Being around her did that...refreshed him, restored his strength...which is what made hims so dangerous to other spirits when he was fighting them in her presence. She provided him with some sort of endless energy supply...

"He says that NuGen is crawling with Geists.....some of them are even strong enough to affect things through the energy field surrounding the labs...abmiant energy that's put off by that much technology...

He says that NuGen's been doing some really horrid expirements...genetic engineering....feeding people to the monsters they create... ghosts that aren't even human anymore... He found the ghosts to two scientists that were killed...one in a lab accident, the other intentionally...by the girl's father. He used .....Dr. Spyncer for expirimentation before he...died..."

She frowned, brows furrowing as she considered the implications of this news.

"I'm not sure I can go in there...that many angry ghosts...Jeremy and I might not be able to fight them off...."

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Llyron
He frowned, nodding.
"What of the other options would you consider our next best then?"
He looked at the figure ... d**ned if there wasn't something there.
"But remember ... we must be discrete. The grassy knoll?"

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Lesslie Carter
"We could try." She said, stepping back and helping Jeremy pull himself to his feet. He shook his head as if trying to clear it and patted her on the shoulder.

Let me talk to him sis. He said.

Lesslie nodded, closing her eyes and bracing for the merge. She felt him step forward, stepping into her. The icey chill flowing through her veins as if her blood had been replaced with glaciers...the electric tingle as her nerves began processing a new set of sensations. The calming voice and angry emotions that filled her head.

Before Llyron her body changed...glowing subtly, Jeremy's ectoplasmic form pushing through into the real world, reforming Lesslie before his eyes. The resemblance was uncanny, so much like Lesslie...only male.

"Hello Llyron. Sorry about the dramatic entrance." S/he said.

"I don't think Lesslies plan will work. I can't allow her near that many angry spirits...there are to many for me to fight, even with her there...and if even one of them were to merge with here it could create a monster the likes of the Hulk. These things....they aren't even human anymore. Most of them anyway. The father is as bad as the daughter. He has no regard for human life if he needs to sacrifice it for his experiments. He's been feeding one of the monsters...a thing called Spyder..human flesh for months..

The girl...Alexandra...she's obsessed with Lesslie...and she isn't going to stop until she's killed Lesslie and that's not something I'm going to allow."

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Llyron
He looked at the girl, fascinating ....
"Nice to finally talk to you, Jeremy. Too bad you don't have yer old body handy, I could make ya a new one. Yes, I was thinking the same. I've done some investigating ... there's a german psychic who captures or kills ghosts, but I don't know if he'd be up for a whole nest of them."
He looked
"You didn't get any information as to where we might intercept this girl, did you?"

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Lesslie Carter
S/he smiled ruefully at the comment about his old body.

"I doubt it would do me much good now. I died in the womb...my old body wouldn't really be of much use to me now."

S/he walked over, sitting one of the chairs. He could feel his strength returing, but he didn't want to take a chance of weakening suddenly and falling out of Lesslie

"We've met him I think. Gestalt I think he said his name was. He was very interested in Les...had a bunch of ghosts with him.

Honestly he could be usefull...if we have to make a frontal assault any help we could get would be much appriciated....but I'm hoping we can find a way to do this without risking frontal confrontation.

The only ghost I found that was semi coherent was this Dr. Spyncer....turns out that the Spyder creature escaped..ate a bunch of people. As punishment Hawthorne used him in some experimentation then fed him to the creature...he's been haunting Hawthorne since.

The girl is a psion..we already know that. But she's unstable. Her powers are reinded in by a mutant inhibitor....a bracelet she wears...without it she can't control her power and it apparently causes her some pain. Unfortunately since her Mom attacked her on the train Hawthorne has had her under constant guard...she hasn't even left the building.."


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Llyron
He nodded, mulling it over.
" 'Spyder' creature. I assume that's some sort of genetic experiment. Hmmm. Jeremy .... ghosts tend to move about in patterns they did in life, correct? So, might I assume that they seldom dive deep into the earth itself?"


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Lesslie Carter
"No. Unless they were burried somewhere on the property, which is unlikely. They're above ground...either haunting where they died or haunting the specific person they consider responsible for their deaths.

What do you have in mind? It will be difficult to sneak Lesslie in. We....ghosts can sense her. We know instinctivly what she can do if she gets close enough to us Usually it isn't a problem because the spirit isn't strong enough to over power me and her. But these are.
So taking here in there would be like having a homing beacon on for every nasty in the building, and not a one of them would think twice about killing her if it ment that they get their revenge."

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Llyron

"What is the range that ghosts can sense Lesslie from? What is she went DEEP into the ground, then came up directly under the CENTER of the installation? And there's a possibility that the FLOORS of the installation are not energy charged like the outter walls and ceiling ...?"

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Lesslie Carter
"It's hard to say. Depends on the spirit...how coherent they are. One that's caught in a rage, it might take a minute for them to notice. The girls' mother for example, she didn't notice Lesslie until we were right next to her. So some of the more monsterous ghosts might take a bit longer to catch on.

The energy field is around the whole building. It has to do with all of the technology in the place. Technological things send out all kinds of...interference. EMP fields, electrical fields, radio waves, infradred waves...all of them create interference which CAN block even a powerfull spirit from manifesting through to the real world....that's why you don't hear of many hauntings in high tech labs and such. It's to hard for the spirit to push through that gauntlet and still interact with the 'real world'. But the fields won't stop them from following her, and if they manage to merge with her then they can do anything they want. She's a bridge, crossing all of those gauntlets..."


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Llyron
He nodded, thinking. This was not his forte. He was better with hard science than the mystical.
"Sounds like it's down to an assault. Which, unfortunately, is exactly what they would expect. The difficulty in keeping a low profile."
He sat upon the desk again
"Perhaps we take out the father. Kidnap him and use his knowledge of the facility to shut down the defenses. As a business man, he must leave the compound."

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Lesslie Carter

S/he propped a hand up on the table, resting hi/er chin on the upraised palm.

"That could work. He makes almost as many public appearances as you do. Public relations for NuGen, putting all of their medical and technological advancements in the news...making people think that NuGen is about nothing but healing people and clean fuels... He usually has a body guard with him, but that shouldn't be to hard to get past. He'll have a few spirits around him...but I think most of them will remain at the NuGen building....

I think that might be the route we need to go. If we get him and can make him talk then we might find a better way to get to the daughter. It's just to bad we don't have any telepaths on the staff......do we?" S/he raised an eyebrow, questioning.

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Llyron
"We have a few but not powerful. Supernalia is capable of hypnotic suggestion, but as far as I know, not capable of deep mind probes or control. Sealeopard has telepathy, but he's a wild card. The princess of monaco is a telepath that we are on good terms with, as is ... I've heard ... her assistant. But, again, the wild card factor."
He thought
"Perhaps an old fashioned abduction."
He brightened ... it was almost like the movie the Grinch, when he had his idea.
"Kidnap him ... blame the clique ... they've been abducting rich men lately ... we mindwipe the father, and make him our pawn ... he tells the authorities that his daughter is being held by the clique in the Nu Gen building. They either raid it themselves or call in the Redeemers or Champions for aid. We collect the girl FROM the authorities."

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Lesslie Carter
Her eyes widdened slightly, a feral grins spreading across hi/er lips as S/he leaned forwards the glow around hi/er body increasling slightly.

"Now that sounds like a brilliant plan. Bring her to us. We'd have to make sure that the authorities sent to retrieve the girl are protected. She could just over run their minds and make them all shoot themselves. We're not sure how wide of a range her powers have, she might be able to read minds as well as implant suggestions..

Once we have them both in our custody how will we explain them both dying? Hawthorne and his daughter are in the public eye to much lately to just make them dissapear."

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Llyron
"You don't see the beauty of it. The SCHEMER has her. The government will HAVE to use agents with telepathic protection. Possibly even Sentinels. We have the old man publically announce that his daughter has been taken hostage by the clique. AND that she is a powerful telepath ... which is WHY the schemer wants her. Once she is captured, we lobotomize the telepathic centers of her brain, and give her a whole new set of memories. Return of the stepford kid."

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Lesslie Carter
"You can do that? Remove her telepathic abilities permanently and give her a new set of memories?"

Jeremy wa a little bit uneased by the discusion they were having...kidnapping and lobotomizing a child....but then he reminded himself that this 'child' had killed her mother, and was anything but an innocent.

"That sounds like the best idea Llyron. It will eleminate her as a threat, get the authorities on the Clique even harder. Plus it will make us look even more like heros.

Count me in." S/he said, extending a hand.

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Llyron
He nodded.
"It can fairly easily be done. As for the memories, how do you think our new population gets their memories? They're computer generated. A process I myself oversee. Though now we are phasing out the repopulation program since we are back up to optimal numbers. Our new goal is recruiting skilled immigration for the inland areas of Atlantis."
He extended his hand and shook his/hers.

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Lesslie Carter
"I've read the fliers in the lobby, but I have to admit, I didn't know how much of that was just something to attract mainlanders.

I'm going to release control back to Lesslie now. It's been a pleasure speaking with you Llyron."

S/he smiled, the glow fading as he pulled himself out of Lesslie, her body returning to normal once more. Blinking her eyes she looked around the room as if she was trying to get her bearings.

"Sounds like we have a plan. I want in too. I have to much at stake to take any chances and if we are going to let this little monster live then I want to make sure she can never hurt anyone again."


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Llyron
He smiled
"YOU are in charge of it. Consider me as your liason officer. And don't worry about the agents and techs we use. They are what I call 9-5ers. Their memories are wiped at the end of each day. They report to work, and they end work. No memory of what they do in between. Until it is reloaded the next day."

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Lesslie Carter
She nodded solmnly. It was a big responsibility. If things didn't go well then it could end up as a HUGE mess in the Redeemer's laps. Not to mention that alot of perfectly decent people might get hurt if the girl was tipped off and decided to go on some kind of a rampage. They couldn't protect everyong in New York from the girl's psionic projections.

"It's gotta be strange....erasing and replacing people's memories like that. A little close to playing God for my comfort....I dunno if I could keep my self honest with that kind of power."

She looked up at him, smiling mischeviously.

"You ever 'flashie thing'd' me K?"

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Llyron
He chuckled
"Flashied or flashed? Nope, neither one. Though I have made a few Lesslie harem girls, just for lonely thursday nights ..."

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Lesslie Carter
"Oh really?" She said, her voice both amused and chilly as she stood back, arms crossed over her chest. Her brows dipped, eyes narrowing slightly.

"Sweetie, don't ya know that imitations never stand up to the origional? You've got me on your team, why waste your time playing with a cheap rip off?" She said, flashing him a grin as she turned away.

"I need to go put some thought to the plan Boss. You know where to find me if ya need me."

[Board Keeper]

Channel watched the news feed from inside the concealed dispatch van. On screen was the most beautifully orchestrated mission the Redeemers had performed thus far....to bad they couldn't take the credit for it.

The newscaster replayed footage of the earlier attack, caught by various surveilence cameras, and later by network choppers. On screen several members of the Clique attacked and captured Jerome Hawthorne, the benevolent CEO of NuGen BioMetrics. Capturing him as he left a meeting with several members of the NuGen board, the Clique members drug the man to into the street where Spectre teleported him away.

The NewsCaster flashed file photos of the members responsible. Brawn, Arc, ShadowCaster (actually Lesslie using a holographic projector), Spectre (Jack in a holo projector), and Schemer (Llyron, onces again showing his twisted sense of irony). The pretty blond anchor woman came back on screen, explaining that Jerome was later rescued by the team The Redeemers, the same team who had so heroicly battled the Clique on previous encounters. Reports were that the NuGen building had been taken over by the Clique, their target being the technology held within the building. Rumors stated that Jerome's daughter was allegedly still in the building.

Channel looked back over her shoulder, smiling wickedly at Llyron. Around them were several vans containing both Redeemers and Code Blue officers. A mind wiped Jerome had been convinced that the real reason that the Clique were after him was to get to his daughter...one of the most powerfull telepaths to have been born. He'd authorized them to raid the building. To rescue his daughter. Stroking the Selenium pendant around her neck she waited for the order to advance.


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Llyron was also in the van. And doing something he rarely did. Wearing armor. Should the mission go awry, he had plausible denial. If it went well, he could always reveal himself.
"Jerome is securely sequestered away. In cryo-sleep, just in case daughter reach him telepathically. I HATE this suit, but I got annoyed at the emp difficulties with the last battle."
He flipped a switch, and used the voice filter
"Redeemer strike team to code blue ... ready for action on your command."
He flipped it off
"Let the bureaucrats think they're running the show ..."

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d**n it if J.H. was just not ready to let Alex in on the secrets to his building. Thats ok though. He had agreed to certain measures that would be taken to ensure her safety. After all, there was a team of 'heroes' out to get her, and she was his only child. So, they had developed a plan.

Several of them, in fact.

First there was the 'get the hell out of dodge' plan. They would secretly escape Nu-Gen for a while, taking to hiding in a remote but secure safehouse. Alex and Spyder would be safe there for months, long enough to let things blow over and for J.H. to see to his daughter's safe return. That was the first plan.

But Alex wasnt one to put all her eggs in one basket. No, she had other ideas in mind as well. Ones that she didnt tell anyone except Spyder. He was her confidente. Only him.

So, when J.H. was attacked and kidnapped, that spawned the need for other plans. Before the 'Clique' had even managed to get him out of the place, she and Spyder were half-way through one of the emergency exits that only she and J.H had known about. She had learned from Carlos that it was dangerous for her to be trapped inside this building, or any other, even if it was her own turf. Particularly when dealing with a group like the Clique. He had given her lots of information about them, and warned that she might be on their radar too... because the leader had this thing about being the most powerful telepath on the planet.

The building had its own safeguards in place, that went into effect the moment J.H. was captured. It locked down all the labs so only those with his clearance could open them up. Well, his clearance or a very big, very bad blast. Alex wasnt sure just how strong those doors were. She had clearance to get to Spyder, and one of his special guns, and then she was out of the building. All the computers, with the exception of Central, were shut down. All information and data was placed into heavy encryption and locked away. Alex figured Central could take care of itself and the building. The thing was practically alive in its own right.

Now that she was out, the news reports of her 'hostage' situation came to light. Alex sincerely doubted that J.H. would've given anyone free-for-all over the building. But for now, she couldnt do much except watch from a nearby safe-point as law enforcement tried to overrun the building to 'save' her. Too bad there hadnt been someone who could be passed off as Alex. She did, however, manage to leave a bit of DNA for them... in the form of dust. She had gotten the medics to grow some of her DNA for her just so that she could leave it behind, if necessary. And to top it off, she left an implanted memory of her own death with the woman, that wouldnt become 'real' until after she received a code phrase. The scared woman was now huddled in SpyDer's lab, crying over a pile of ash, thinking Schemer had gotten hold of one of J.H.'s guns and inadvertantly killed her with it.

Better for the world to think she was dead, than for her to be found alive by anyone she didnt trust. And J.H. was barely on that list... much less anyone of law enforcement.

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Spyder hunkered down next to Alex within the darkened room of their hidding point. His eyes had been transformed to see almost telescopicly in the low light, tracking the armoured forms as they stepped out of several buildings and began swarming into the building. His joints bent and twisted, his back becoming broader, changing shape so that Alex could ride him, and so that he could quickly carry her away from this place as soon as her curiousity had been sated.

He understood enough about the building to know that when the agents entered it would fight them...and he grinned at that thought.

"We should go Alex."

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Channel stepped out, fusing with Jeremy and going invisible to track along with the Code Blue team as they made their way across the street to enter the building.

Inside was eerily quiet, the loby and security areas quiet, no one in sight. The front doors slid open automaticlly as the team entered, the C.B. officers giving orders over the communication system, sending teams out in a strategic search pattern. Channel glanced around the room.

"From what the old man said, their living quarters are upstairs...that's the most likely place for the girl to be, either that or down in the basement labs with her 'pet'." she whispered over her private com link with Llyron.

"I'm going to check the living quarters." she said, falling further into Jeremy's soul, her body becoming intangible as well as invisible. Silently she began to float up through the various floors.

In the loby a computer monitor watched the C.B. team. Central's processing system jumped through thousands of 'thoughts' a second. It had been placed on alert when the connection to Jerome had been severed, further more when Alex had escaped. Now it was activating it's security counter measures as an unnecissary SWAT team entered the building to combat Clique members who were not within the building.
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Llyron took the point entering the building, ordering the Code Blue persons back. Once within they would be exposed to the building's defense grid. Something he knew great detail about now, after extensive scans of Jeremy's memories. He knew the AI would have shifted things around extensively since going on alert, especially after losing contact with Jeremy. He attempted something he was even better at than combat. Negotiation. A hypersonic tight beam voice communication directly to an audio sensor.

"Greetings NuGen AI. We are possession of your creator, Jeremy, whom you are designed to protect. He has supplied us with details of your building's and your own design, among other things. He wishes to regain possession of his daughter Alex. You are intelligent enough to be aware that, though you may cause extensive damage to SOME of us, more will come and you will be destroyed if resistance is met. Let us search the site, and take the girl, and you will be unharmed. And we can negotiate the reestablishment of linkage to your master. You are intelligent, and logical ... unlike most pathetic humans. Rationally, you will realize this move will save you from destruction, save the NuGen facility and aid your master."

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"I know. I was just hoping to watch the building go after these punks. They have J.H. and until he comes home, I cant possibly some out of hiding."

At least she had money. Alex made sure J.H. had a stash of cash for her, as well as an account she could access from an off-shore account. Not much, compared to what Nu-Gen was worth. But enough for her to live fairly comfortably for a while. The safehouse they had discussed was out of the question now. There was no way Alex was going to go somewhere that J.H. had known about. He was compromised, as far as she was concerned.

No. Other arrangements would have to be found and made. But everything right now depended on how long J.H. was going to be held for 'safety' purposes. She knew SpyDer would protect her with his life.

Alex watched the men for a while. She saw someone for a split second before they went invisible. And in that moment, there was a spark of recognition. She had tried to read their mind, but it was impenetrable. Still, something about that one person made her angry. Was it the woman who had attacked her? She wasnt sure, but for some reason... she had an inkling of such.

"Did you see that? That one just disappeared in mid-air..."

Her mind was churning with the idea that it was the woman responsible for all this and it made her desire all the more to stay and watch what was going on. Besides, Alex had been scoping this place for a couple weeks, getting a hold of building plans and everything else she could, so she would know how to use it to her advantage.

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Spyder frowned, eyes narrowing visiously. He had seen the woman, and his eyesight, so much clearer than Alex's human eyes had registered what she could not. The woman's face. It was her, the woman from the train, the woman from the news.

"It's her Alex. This is her doing."

He growled, muscles tensing. He wanted nothing more than to storm that building, tearing through those troops, adding them to himself...to hunt through the building until he found the woman responsible for hurting his Alex so baddly. In truth he nearly gave into that blood lust, that blind rage.....but reigned in at the last....reminded of a more important mission, to guard Alex, no matter the cost.


Inside the building a speaker system chirped on.

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< ATTENTION CODE BLUE OFFICERS. THIS IS CENTRAL, THE OPPERATIONS CONTROL HUB FOR THE NUGEN BUILDING. YOUR PRESENCE HERE IS UNNECISSARY. THE CLIQUE IS NOT PRESENT, NOR HAVE THEY EVER BEEN PRESENT WITHIN THIS BUILDING. YOU HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED. PLEASE LEAVE. IF YOU INTRUDE FURTHER I AM PROGRAMED TO REACT WITH FORCE, LEATHAL IF NECISSARY.>

Channel grimaced at that...apparently they had missed something. The building had been tipped that it was a ruse some how. If no Clique members were found it would be difficult to explain to the authorities.

Silently she phased through the floor, finally emerging in the penthouse, her body completely invisible....even to the computer system's highly advanced sensors. It had just never occured to Jerome to construct the building to be ghost proof. Thank God for men of Reason.

She made a quick tour of the penthouse, finding no sign of the girl, then quickly sank back through the floor to the lobby. Once there she resolidified in order to make contact with Llyron, though she remained invisible.

"She's not up there Boss....and it sounds like someone's tipped the computer.....what should we do?"

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He thought a moment ... then spoke to her
"It would know if anyone was here. We play out our hand."
Again to the computer, audibly.
"NuGen AI. We were informed that the clique was onsite. And unfortunately, we cannot take your word for it. If the schemer HAS taken over the building, you must realize how easy it would be for him to reprogram you ... or destroy you, and replace you with a computer of his own. We demand to search the premesis for the clique and for Alexandra. If you wish myself and one other member will search the site. Any attacks upon us will result in the destruction of this property and yourself. As a logical being, you must realize this would be a waste."

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Alex's mind had another idea now.

"Hey... while they are in the building, do you think you can mark the van they were in without being noticed? Something we could follow later when they leave?"

She didnt think it would be possible to take on the entire team. Not safely and wisely. Besides, the point was to make the team look incompetent, as well as keep SpyDer's secret safe. Not very possible if he went in there and starting rampaging on them. That would make him a target, which would make it harder for him to help keep her safe.

She huddled close to SpyDer, listening to the entire conversation from an earbud connected to a handheld computer that was still connected to Central. With a few taps, she entered her own code to CENTRAL, telling it to let them search, if they allowed J.H. to be reconnected to it. She knew her remains would be discovered near SpyDer's tank. She had thought of leaving some of his DNA nearby too, but that would only serve to confirm his existence. Still, she figured Central would be the best judge to how corrupted J.H. was.

Central chirped back, following the command with a certain amount of reluctance. It didnt like the idea of men overrunning its hallways.

ATTENTION CODE BLUE OFFICERS: I AM PROGRAMMED TO ONLY ALLOW SUCH A SEARCH IF JEROME HAWTHORNE IS PRESENT AND GIVES HIS COMMAND CODES FOR SUCH AN AUTHORIZATION. PLEASE EXIT THE BUILDING, OR PROTECTIVE PROGRAMMING WILL COMMENCE.

Alex chuckled as she listened.

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The creature raised one eyebrow, watching Alex as she worked at the computer, highly acute ears picking up the transmission through her earbud.

He wasn't familiar with the computer system. But he could tell from Alex's expression that she had just laid some trap for them.

"What are you playing at Alex? The longer we remain here the more likely it is that we'll be captured."

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"Alright. Lets get out of here. If that idiot is going to go after Central, its his own funeral."

Alex severed the remote link, removed the earbud from her ear and put the handheld device away. After securing everything, she hunkered down to Spyder, so he could get them the hell out of there.

"I just wish there was some way we could follow them..."

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Spyder grinned, obviously relieved that she was finally agreeing to leave. That would make his job much easier.

His grin spread as an idea came to him

"Who do you want to follow?" He asked, folloing her lead as she pointed out the van that Channel had gotten out of. With barely a though his skin rippled, shifting hue to match the shadowed building as he quickly leaped off the side. Landing silently on padded feet he crept forward, behind the van. Within a few seconds a specialized gland hand formed in his mouth...similar to the scent gland of a skunk. With an almost silent hiss he sprayed a thick layer of phermone laden mucus on the underside of the van. That done he leaped back up the building, jumping between the shadows until he was back up to Alex.

"Done. Lets go."

inside the building the security measures had ramped up. The security system quickly registered that the sonic scramblers and elecroshock arrays weren't working. Neither were the security door. In respons Cenral armed the BioEtheric Plasma guns, as well as standard plasma energy beams. in addition strategicly placed explosives erupted, collapsing all of the hallways leading to the computer core. Highly flamible toxic gasses fill the hallways, prepparing them for a flashburn of fire intended to intantly roast intruders.

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Channel heard the hiss first...the telltaie sound of gas being quickly filling the room. Her eyes narrowed as she and she sped toward the door, shouting to the Code Blue officers. The computer would have registered that they had gasmasks...so this wouldn't be ment to knock them out.

"EVERYBODY OUT!" She shouted, becoming visible and leading the Code Blue officers out of the building as Llyrong began to tear through the building to get to the computer core. She could only hope he'd be alright...she'd already been here to long. Across the room a ghostly arm was reaching through the floor, looking as though it had been chewed on by some fanged beast...and visible only to her.

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Llyron avoided the hallways, the standard approaches. These would be defended. He was literally ripping through dozens of yards of reinforced walls. Some of the stuff actually gave him difficulty, even with the blades coming out of the wrists of his armor. The suit was designed for digging. As he did so, he was ripping through the power cabling to the hallway weapon systems, and pushing the stonework and various amazing materials into the walkways, collapsing them.

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The place sounded like it was coming down on itself. Here she was, trapped in this building... Central was going nuts, and the hallways were booby trapped. Great. Just great.

Suddenly, someone came bursting through a wall. Anne screamed in terror before she started coughing wildly from some sort of gas that was leaking in from the hallway... which she was now exposed to. Anne made a mad dash for a gas mask, so that she could breath.

In response to her fears, a wall of sophisticated technology started shaking against the wall... trying to tear out of its place. Thick wire cables crawled from them, and panels flew off it, heading towards the stranger, who she perceived as a threat.

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She rushed the last of the men our of the building. Behind them there was a dull boom, the gas ignited and flash burning the lobby. Above her she could see many of the windows flashing with light as the fire ignited for an instant, then was put out by the system's automate fail safes. The reinforced glass was the only thing that had kept the conflageration from comming out into the streets. Even so, one of the doors was ripped from it's hinges, flying through the air and striking one of the officers in the back of his head. Channel ran to him, picking him up as best she could, pulling him behind her, as an army of spirits began rising out of the ground.....all the victims of NuGens experiments rising.....seeking revenge.

"Jesus..."

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Llyron saw the woman, and shot at her with a jack tag teleport dart .... to get her to safety. But she was of secondary priority. He continued plowing through the thick reinforcements ... these were something that could not easily be altered, and used the collapsing stone and metal to seal the tunnels in and out of the core. He began circling the core, like a shark, ripping through power and communcation leads until it was Humans would have been limited by two dimensional thinking ... but he was aquatic. Attacks from below, above and all sides. Once the core was isolated, he began pushing the material in and crushing the outter defensive grid of the core. Basically dumping a ton of gravel on a bee hive, isolating it. There was a chute under the core ... this he also blocked up. Soon, barring incident, the core would be fine for Jerome to reclaim at some point, but cut off from anything external. He would be unaware of any default incineration devices in the labs, until after the fact.

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Llyron's job was done ... he'd cut the core off from all outside communcation. Now to get back topside and see what was going on. He thought he'd felt a shaking sensation ... perhaps some sort of explosion above. Hard to tell down here, buried as he was in rubble.

A click of a jack tag, and he was back upstairs in the van. He stepped out to see the building in flames. Jerome's mind scans hadn't mentioned the incediaries. They must have been a new addition since his 'kidnapping'

He looked to Channel
"What's going on?"

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Anne was still reeling from the effects of Alex's attempt to implant a memory. It had taken effect for a while, but had started to wear off as she was subjected to the fear of the building coming down on itself. Alex must not have realized her resistance to mental control when she implanted the thing.. since Anne was generally good at hiding her ability.

She screamed in terror as something flew towards her and in a blink she found herself somewhere else... still screaming. Her powers were going haywire, as anything electrical started trying to pull from their place to encircle her. She sent out empathic broadcasts of terror, affecting anyone who wasnt wearing psionic shield.

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Channel looked up as the air echoed with the signature pop of one of HighJack's jacktags. She frowned slightly as a woman suddenly apppeared...several feet away from the van holding the tag's anchor....and a few feet up. Did that tag just malfunction? She shuddered at the thought of something like a teleportation tag malfunctioning...the woman got off lucky.

Her eyes widdened in panic...she screamed as machines begain activating, the cars reving up and driving to circle her, several radios screeching louder.

The air popped again, Llyron appearing in the van, exactly where he should.

"I dunno Boss...this gal here just 'ported out...courtesy of you I hope...but she missed her mark. Lookes like the building flashed on fire for a second...but now their all out. It's the d**nedest thing."

She glanced over her shoulder, eyeing the sppirits which were milling around the building...none of them had 'felt' her yet.....

Inside the building Central registered that the intruder had left...primarily through the fact that he was no longer damaging the building's structure...but also through a set of onboard sensors that were build into the Cores coolant shell. Processing quickly it sent out two signals through an 'over the air' broadcast that would put all WiFi to shame. One signal was sent to Alex's computer, advising her of the delay in Centrals escape. The second to a basement lab...openind a container of silvery goop. With an almost sentient motion the Goop began to move. Millions of nanomechanical constructs making their way toward Central's escape chute. Once there they began disolving the rubble blocking the tube, sending progress reports to the main computer through the wireless link

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"If any of the ghosts are around, and try to grab ya, feel free to port away."
He looked at the building ... a flash burn system. Probably fried all the data storage devices and such also. What a shame. A tight beam message to Channel.
"If target was in the computer core room, she's trapped. At least for the moment."
He turned and looked to Ann, realizing she had misjumped a few feet. THAT was distressing.
"Are you all right ma'am?"

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Anne hovered a few feet off the ground, electricity forming a shield around her body that held her there as electronic items started circling her as well. Anything with a greenboard was an easy missile now as she screamed in terror.

She watched as the remainder of her work, her veritable home, swayed and shuddered from all the fields she was tossing off. People who werent psion-guarded started screaming in terror as well, from the empathic broadcast she was sending off. The building looked like it would crumble at any moment.

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"Ya don't have to tell me that twice boss...." she started to say, turning her attention back to the woman who'd been ported out. Channel's eyes widdened as the woman began floating, electricity arcing off of her as anything with a circuit board began levitating, floating around her, several pieces beign slung off...hitting C.B. officer's with the force of a high power gun, ripping through kevlar in many cases. The men nearest to her began to scream, some falling and weeping, others running franticly trying to get away as their psionic scramblers began to malfunction....making them vulnerable to her empathic signals

"Bettah and Bettah." She said, her accent comming out thick in her exasperation. The spirits behind her were deffinently taking notice...the ones that had enough of their mind left to do so. Growling she went intangible once more, just in time as a chunck of metal was shot away from Ann, phasing through her chest.

Behind her a beast reared it's head...the vaguest hints of it's former humanity showing only in the pain in it's eyes. The creature/ghost began shambling toward Channel.

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[Board Keeper]

scratches preceding roleplay and the resulting press release in the interest of peace

[Board Keeper]

Assault on Hydrobase - Part I

~~ Heatseeker
*He spent a few day working with Arctic. Trying to snap her back to reality. She seemed to be responding but who could really tell?? When some messed with your mind....it was not always easy to get yourself back. He had been their before with enigma but eventually came back to real world. Arctic would too. He hoped now. She was needed. The girl was ultra powerful. And the communication he had with thr Schemer made it obvious her power would be of great use.

The Schemer's last communication said an attack on Hydrobase was coming. That lunatic Spectrum and that witch Fade out were in a jet in the atlantic scanning for the base. But he would be needed to find it.....he or the godzilla wannbe Gino the Schemer found somewhere had the sensory ability to track the place down.*

Arctic....sweetheart. We're needed. I hope you're up for this. *There was a teleportation device stolen from shield in the safehouse....he gestured....suggesting she join him inside....they need to 'port to the jet and join the others.*

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~~ Arctic

The last few days had been hard on her. Something like what occurred when someone got far too hooked on a substance and while they knew they needed to stop for their own good, it doesn’t prevent their body from wanting, craving, needing that substance.

Such was the case with Noreen.

She saw the face in her dreams, she heard her voice and the memory was fading and causing her to be quite jumpy. Noreen was not going to be happy once she learned how she had disobeyed. Bad things were going to happen to her and all in all, it had made her quite jumpy.

Her attention snapped back to him as she jolted when he caught her attention. She rubbed her stomach a little (a nervous habit she’d picked up) and nodded a little as she moved to join him.
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~~ Bombshell

*Bomber was transported by her brother to the jet. She did not talk to him because she did not want thim to rag on her before this mission. They appeared on the plane and she started to walk up to where she would sit. There was a few people on the plane and she nodded towards them. Her brother disappeared again as he was probably going back to the schemer. She frowned at this. Her brother never seemed to stay with her in these missions, watching her in action. Bombshell sighed and turned towards a window, gazing out and watching.*
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~~ GINO

Gino swam under the surface. It too was looking for this thing they were going to destroy. He left his mind open for anyone of the clique to get a hold of him.
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~~ Fadeout

~It is good to be in action again . She prefers this mission to be about getting the Creature King, Roderick, her man back from that batfreak . The schemer to her credit did try . But she failed . the batman escaped . So now focus is on dealing a crippling blow to the redeemers . She thinks going after that woman that took of part of the clique should be first order of business . But whatever . The Schemer calls the shots . She might be crazy as a loon but she does pay well . And money is what this girl lives for . That bombshell girl pops into the jet with her and spectrum . Good . Maybe she is a bit more normal than that rambling want to be goddess . She is flying the jet on path the Schemer felt would be the most likely hydrobase might take .~ Hullo, Bomber . ~She greets her and smiles .~
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~~ Spectrum

~The battle is coming . Another attempt on Llyron . She worries about her fellow clique memebers . She had the opportunity to destroy Llyron and let her guard down . He hurt her . Badly . The clique autodoc healed her but the mental scarring remains . She is going to destroy llyron . He may pretend to be a god but he is the most base villain she has ever met . She will end his life . It is a matter of honor now . She pays little attention to others arriving . She is only aware of the battle to come .~
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~~ Llyron

Llyron was in the Avengers Assembly room at the Avengers Mansion on Hydrobase. He loved using the heroes old sanctum room for his own purposes, and had little doubt that Tigershark felt the same. Assembled he had heavy hitters from the Redeemers and the visiting Rokea.
"Redeemers and honored Champion, we are due for an attack by the clique. Our incredibly lovely and resourceful precog has predicted this, and proven what a great asset she is to our team. They are tracking the hydrobase by scent, following the monstrous Gino, who is in their control. After our last battle with the clique, we ran into trouble with a member using EMP powers on our equipment. Those of use using technology, please use the supplied EMP insulated pouches for backup batteries and weapon clips for jack tags and anchors. As well as the usual goggles, oxygen clips, etc. Against Gino, I'm issueing Horns of Proteus. Only ONE is the real thing, but the others should prove distracting. I've also prepared Anchor darts for shooting down the beasties throat ... shouldn't hurt him but will tag him pretty well, and also provide tracking and such. Tigershark, no press is here, so feel free to cut loose. Your niece and possibly nephew may be in the clique assault team. So, everyone ... no lethal attacks upon Todd's niece."
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~~ Supernalia

~she is relaxing in her plush chamber . By earthly standards it is plush by on her world it is considered a hovel . The sea here are blue not silver . The is blue not the more lovely silvery, white like home . But she does not complain . She needs to conform . She has been banished from her home . Now she is here . Such as it is . So she deals with it as best she can . But it is frightening . The longer she remains in this form the more her emotion charged states rule her . Alien thoughts become familar . Old thoughts and desires fade . She feels sometimes she is losing herself . From their she listens to Llyron over an intercom . He suggests no lethal attack on two of the clique members . She will not abide that . If she has the opportunity . They will die .~
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~~ Hi Jack

Jack sat back, leaning against the comfortable leather chair in the Assembly room as he watched Llyron do the rousing leader thing. The plans were laid out. In truth Jack had known about them for a little while as he'd been helping to install the new stealth weaponry on the Hydrobase. He glanced across the table as the sharkman Tigershark practically salivated at the thought of tearing into the Clique....creepy. At least the other Sharkman..the Champion seemed more reserved.

"Instalation of the EMP compensators and the feedback breakers is complete Boss. If they bring another energy manipulator to the fight we won't be hit as hard this time."
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~~ Rokea

The silent sharkman nodded as Llyron introduced him., black eyes tracking each of the others lining the table. Unlike many of the others he stood, his body uncomfortable being at rest. He'd come at Llyron's request, due to the fact that they were traveling through open water, his element as much as Llyrons. He could feel the strength of the Ocean filling him, bolstering him.

If the Clique instigated a battle over the very body of The Mother, they would not live to regret it.
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~~ Oracle

*Heidi tied the horn to her belt and smiled at Llyron.* I guess you want me to stand guard here. *Heidi stood there watching out the window as she had done many times before. In fact if you were trying to find her.. most likely you would find her in the hydrobase, watching what went on outside these windows. She did not ever think that she would be watching for an attack, one she had seen coming. Sometimes she wished her visions did not predict..but she could not help them. She kept her watch over the waters*
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~ Tigershark

*Llyron gave the order he wanted to hear. No lethal attacks against Bombshell. She was just a worthless mutant.....but she was family. If anyone was going to kill her....it would be him. But he would give her a chance. Which was more than he gave most.

He had notes on Dorcus's experiemnts....and how they created him.....he could duplicate them with Llyron's help....and make Stacey and her brother like him....Shark creatures!!!*

You heard Llyron....hands off the twins....do what ya like to the others!!!




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~~ Heatseeker

*He could see Arctic is not fully over her exprience. But she needed to be. They couldnt win without her. She'd be okay.....he new her....her strength and power. She would hold up.

He activated the 'port and materialized on the jet. Once there he took command.* Fade out.....anything??? Scanner picking up hydrobase???

*He looked to Arctic.* Darling....want to strap yourself in....we might hit turbulance.

*He then opened a commication to Gino who was outfited with a radio attachment in his ear.* South east big guy.....you find anything....attack.....we'll be right behind you.

*Amazingly the big lizard could understand english.....his mutantation gave him human level intelligence.*
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~~ Arctic

“I’ll be fine.” she told him sharply, meeting his eye for a moment, telling him silently that she hadn’t meant to snap at him, but she had never wanted to appear weak in front of anyone, and now that they were not alone, she needed to remind him of that.

She moved back through the jet, offering silent nods of the head in greeting to the others assembled there before taking a seat and strapping herself in as had been suggested to her.

Arctic then focused on the task at hand, rather then what was waiting for her when she got home. She just had to keep telling herself that everything was going to be fine.
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~~Bombshell

*Bombshell turned to notice Artic and Heatseeker and she nodded to them.* I trust you two are well? *Suddenly Artic snapped at him and she raised her eyebrows. His warning had not fallen on deaf ears when it actually reminded her to buckle herself into her seat. Stacey did so and kept silent as she sat there. Something about getting ready for battle mentally was big with her. Something in her mind told her something was different this time but she could not find out why. She closed her eyes and tried to block her mind from wandering. It would not serve the purpose if her head was not in the game*
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~~ GINO

He headed south in the deep ocean. He looked for something that looked like a base. Little fish and sharks had swam out of his way in fear. Something bigger than them would scare anyone.
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~~ Fadeout

Daaaaaarling ! ~Fade out mocks heatseeker . That gypsy jerk is always got his eye on some girl . Now Arctic . She never thought they might get together . Fire and ice did not mix . Deep down she is upset . She likes Heatseeker . She always has . Now he is with another woman, again . It will serve the creep right if she bites it on this mission . She greets Arctic with a smirk and rolls her eyes at Heatseeker .~ Nothing yet . Maybe those heat sensing powers of yours might do better ? ~She is little put off Bombshell does not acknowledge her . Another stuck up clique bimbo she thinks .~
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~~ Spectrum

~She acknowledges the others but only barely . She wants this situation to start up now .~ Let me do some faster than light traveling, Apollo . ~She says to Heatseeker .~ I can find the base in an instant .




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~~Llyron

"When the attack comes, it will come fast ... from the stern of the ship. The clique will be in their ship. Oracle and Hi-Jack, take a hydrocycle. It will let you zip underwater ... just like in VR training. (( Like an aquatic speeder bike from Star Wars. )) Oracle, use the horn on Gino when he draws near. We've our scanners trained to pick up the heat signatures of the stealth jet coming in, and hope to shoot it down while over the water. We've put out underwater buoys to detect him coming in ... even in stealth mode, the water dislacement will detect him. Had we not known it was coming, we'd not have detected either until they were close. Supernalia, as backup, I'd like you ALSO to go after the jet ... you're our fastest and the best pinpoint weapon power, and probably the most powerful range weapon. Tigershark ... rip into them, and if they made it back to hydrobase, teleport back and .... again, rip into them. I've ... no offense ... removed any civilians so cut loose! Hi-Jack ... stick by me. Rokea ... do the same. Remember if you can't get to the flyers, use fastball specials on each other. In other words, throw the big hitters at them. I myself will go after Spectrum. I've some customized weapons for her. Don't forget your jack tag belts either, people."
He stood and went out to the edge of the base .... any second now, they'd see Gino first, then the clique would be following ... he gestured for Supernalia to hit the air in that direction.
Word came through ... the buoys had detected the massive creature.
"THAT direction .... half mile. Let's HIT it BEFORE it gets to base!! Supernalia ... go for the plane, should be coming in shortly behind it ! You're our speed and power in the sky ! Oracle, Hi-Jack, take the hydrocycles. TS, Rokea and I will swim !!"
He dove into the water, zipping toward GINO underwater ... other than the great beasts like GINO, he ... like Namor and TS ... were the fastest things under the water.
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~~ Supernalia

~she eyes Llyron .~ How am I to go after the jet ? I cannot fly ? Those powers have been stripped from me . I would need exact location to teleport to the jet . ~She never gets to finish her objections . He is gone into the water . She jumps in after him . She is fast in the water . It is her element too .~
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~~Hi Jack

Jack stood, strapping his helmet on and running it through it's start up cycle. On the inhelmet screen the image of the Assembly room flickered to life. Oracle stood before him, overlaid in the blue 'friend' marker.

"All system's up." He said, testing the communication system. The new armor was a self contained environment, designed to allow him to opperate underwater if necissary. He'd run it through some tests, but hadn't actually used it in battle yet.

He looked over at Oracle, gesturing for her to lead the way to the hydrocycles

"Seems like we're always getting teamed up huh? You watch my back and I'll watch yours." He said, his playfull tone comming through the com link. The door opened, and he jumped onboard a Hydrocycle

"Boss, dunno if you heard, but Supra's lost her flight ability. Might need to adjust the plans a bit."
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~~Rokea

Rokea nodded to Llyron and the others, stepping up behind the Atlantian as the alarms began going off. He scanned the computer screens quickly, Llyron's technology using the displacement of the bouys to draw a rough image of the intruder Rokea's eyes narrowed slightly. The creature was huge....and that was by the standards of the Ocean Dweller who was familiar with whalesharks.

He stepped up behind Llyron, diving into the cold waters of Mother Ocean behind the Atlantean. Once sumberged he felt his body thrum, the strength of the tides augmenting his already considerable physical power. With a kick he sped along with the Atlantian and the alien woman Supranalia, speeding toward the intruder.
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~~ Oracle

*Heidi had followed her orders and had taken one of the Hydrocycles out into the water. She brought along a oxygen mask just in case she needed to breathe and could not do it the way she had learned from Llyron. She had been patrolling the water for a little while and it was seeming to work for her. Suddenly she saw this big beast coming at her in great speed. She fumbled for the horn then when she got it she blew it loud and long so everyone could hear it. After that she sat there trying to get her hydrocycle to move faster.. trying to outrun this creature. She did turn around and fire her grennade gun, just trying to throw this thing off her track*
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~~ Tigershark

*Tiger shark hopped in the water and kept up easily with the others. Llyron took the lead. Good....let him take on the monster thing the clique was sending at him. What the hell was it anyway??? He had never seen the like of it. Figures the Schemer would have some prehistoric beasty in the fold.

He swan around to the left.....flanking the thing....he motioned for Llyron to go right....they could hit it on either side. A classic pinchers movement.*
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~~Heatseeker

*He gave fade out a dirty look.* I know you're ignorant.....but try not to show it. *He then truned to Spectrum.*

Oh for christ sake....I'm not apollo....I'm not even greek...I....*He sighed knowing Spectrum would never believe him.* Never mind....and go ahead....Transform and eject....operation....location of hydrobase.....Bombshell....you eject too....If you locate the base....engage....destroy it!!! We'll be right behind you with the big lizard.

*He settled in his seat next to Arctic...and kissed her.* I'm proud of you. You're so strong....we'll do this job....then take out the witch that did this too.
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~~Arctic

She smiled gently at him and nodded. She knew he was telling her the truth, and she believed that he believed they would, but she simply… knew better. There would be no way to get near her, so much time had been devoted to supersonic sensory devices and the white noise in that place would make even the strongest go down in a heartbeat. She rubbed her stomach again as the idea of Noreen was brought into her focus again and she started dreading what was going to happen to her.

Her eyes slipped closed and she fought to push those from her mind and focus on making some frozen fish sticks.
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~~Bombshell

*She opens her eyes to see Heatseeker and Spec having it out and just shook her head slowly. The man is having more problems today then usual. Bombshell was not sure on how to make of it, if he brought it on himself or not but she let it drop from her mind.* I thought the lizard was suppose to find the base for us now? *She looked at him oddly but then shrugged. If he wanted her to eject from the plane then she would. Bombshell reached down and pushed her eject button on the chair. There was an explosion then a sudden surge of power behind her chair. She screamed as it left the jet then started to float towards the ocean. Before she hit the water she unfastened herself with gear on and jumped into the water.*
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~~GINO
He saw beings come at him. He telepathically told the group he was close. He shifted into the largest torpedo. He got a good burst of speed and used himself as a battering ram heading towards the beings coming at him.

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~~Spectrum

~she ejects from the plane on command and instantly transforms into her light form . It will not take long to locate hydrobase now . And in truth it does not . In less than 30 seconds she finds her objective .~

Hydrobase has been located . ~She says turning solid and speaking into her communiacator . She is standing on a platform made of solidified light . Under the waves Gino is engaging the redeemers . She can make out some shapes .~ The great brute lizard is battling the underworthy ones, Apollo. I request to go aid him .~
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~~Fadeout

~She gives Heatseeker and smirk . Under her breath she says,~ creep . ~She consentrates on flying the craft . Once Spectrum and Bombshell eject she will make the jet and those within intangible . If the redeemers have weapons to fire they will not be capable of hitting the plane . She clicks on the autopilot and gets ready to fade things out .~
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[Board Keeper]

Assault on Hydrobase - Part II

~~Heatseeker

Apollo!!! *He shook his head and muttered something about Spectrum being a lunatic.* No Spectrum.....attack the base. Gino can handle himself . Bombshell....take off....get in the air, Stacey.....use your power blasts on the hydrobase. destroy it....that's our mission.

*Suddenly his body becam wispy.....as did the whole plane and everyone within . It was one freaky effect.*

Good work fade out.....get us close to the surface.....Arctic freeze the water and capture all the redeemers at once!!!
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~~Arctic

She looked up at him and smirked a little, deciding not to mention how much he sounded like someone else for the time being.

She unbuckled and moved back to the washroom for a moment. No, she wasn’t taking this opportunity to powder her nose, but for such a massive scale of freezing, she needed to at least have visual contact with her target, so she did the best thing that she could think of, and flushed a receptacle, freezing the handle into place so she could see the water they were flying over.

Her arms extended and became rigid as she focused first on building a wall downward and from there, it could expand around them and trap them within.
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~~Bombshell

*She jumped out of the water and started to fly around.. how was she to fly around and know where the hydrobase was. Stacey saw the shadow of the creature below, swimming faster towards something. Bombshell clinched her fists tightly and started to gain her energy. She suddenly sent massive blasts towards what she hoped was the hydrobase. After letting the blasts go.. she moved to another position to blast the base again*
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~~GINO

The creature stopped and opened his mouth. It started to glow. He was thinking of fried fish. He released a steady beam of fire.

He felt a little strange as if someone else other then the clique was trying to use his mind. He tried to shake it lose. Then an anger part of him emerged. Charged the shell of the base as if he was ignoring it or so it seemed.
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~~Fadeout

~The autopilot is set to hovering . About 200 feet in the air . She has to admit, Heatseekers , plan is working perfectly . They are safe inside the ship intangible . The ice might trap some of the redeemers and Spectrum/bombshell can do damage to the base . Perfect ! She keeps her power going, keeping herself and the others in the plane safe . Then Gino lets loose the fire .~ No ! that will melt the ice ! What is that lizard doing ?
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~~Spectrum

~Spectrum weilds around in midair and sees Llyron . Bombshell is wisely consentrating on destorying the base . She will spend her time attacking the evil head of these sea demons !~ Llyron ! Hear me ! You dared to bring harm to goddess ! Now you will suffer the ultimate price ! I will consume you with starfire ! ~See creates a pillar of laser energy red hot ! Powerful enough to melt steel . It will go after Llyron and not stop until he is dead or it is eliminated .~




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~~Llyron

Llyron frowned, hearing that Supernalia could no longer fly. Perhaps that explained why she hadn't used her telepathy in the previous battles ... she'd lost some of her abilities?
"Jack, thanks and noted. Sorry, supernalia. I should have gotten together with you before the battle to review, my fault."

Communcations came in regarding the ejection of persons from a stealth plane, which then faded from scans. Energy and scans revealed incoming toward the base, not those in the water.

"We have incoming people, Jack informs me that teleport tags won't work underwater ... Oracle, command GINO to dive to attack the clique ... then port back to base. Just speak whlie holding the horn."

"Rokea, cover Oracle. Everyone else 'port back to base now. Use your goggles! Tigershark, clique is at the base!"

At the base, cannisters of ink black fumes erupted, covering the base in total darkness. An ion cannon at the top of the mountain would begin firing upon anyone solid enough to be detected on Sonar or Radar. From a speaker, Llyron's voice bellowed in the air, within the darkness of the fumes ... a decoy.

"Cowards of the clique! Here I am !! Face me !! "

In reality, he landed on the ground, looking for enemies ...

[ his blasts miss ]
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~~Supernalia

~She has no time to reply to Llyron . She sees the ice forming and knows what that means . Her people live in the deepest depths of the silver seas . Sh can handle cold . But not the complete freezing powers The ice woman of the clique can produce . She fires her energy blasts upward trying to shatter the ice before they are trapped . She hopes to destroy the plane too . She does not know it is intangible .~ No ! ~She yells at Llyron .~ I will not withdraw like some willow limbed female coward ! I will stand my ground !
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~~Hi Jack

Things were going FUBAR fast. Ahead of them came a beast out of some prehistoric nightmare. Godzilla given life. Jack veered out of the way as the beast swam past, the wake of displaced water easily sending the hydrocycle spinning out of control. Above them the water began freezing...slowly. The salt content of the ocean waters keeping the freezing at bay...but it was a losing battle. Ahead of him he saw the beast unleash a blast of some kind of napalm like fire...sending the water around it boiling. At the same time he heard Llyron calling for a return to base, stating that the base was under attack.

He didn't need to be told twice. Hitting a tag on his belt, Jack was teleported instantly to the anchor on the Hydrobase, seeing several of his dripping companions appear as well.
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~~Oracle

*She nodded and pulled out of the way of the beam just in time for it not to hit her or the bike. A lucky thing for her this time but next time she would not be so lucky. Heidi turned towards the beast and closed her eyes, trying to get into its head. She concentrated very hard, waiting for some kind of response from the creature. Heidi was hoping she would be covered by the others, trying not to teleport back until she knew it was under her control*
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~~Rokea

He saw Llyron and Tigershark performing a picer movement, striking at the creature's armored sides. But it didn't seem to phase the beast. This monstrosity...like the dinosaurs of old had skin thicker than the armor of a tank....they would do little more than annoy it with a physical assault. To add to the danger the beast unleashed a searing blast of heat. Rokea could feal the Sea scream as her body was heated to boiling in an instant.

Over his communicator he heard Llyron calling for a return ot the base. Growling with frustration, the Avatar of the Sea sent out a call, a psionic beacon to all predators in the vacenity. Sharks, Rays, giant Squids, all would come to his call ((Basicly 16 high level predators of different species)


That done he turned, swimming quickly back to the base, easily outpacing the growing skin of ice on the Ocean's surface.


[ at this point, I give up trying to keep the posts grouped by team as things got out of order, so I'm just posting them as they appeared in the room ]


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~~ Heatseeker

Excellent!!! Keep it up Arctic.....don;t let up!!! Bombshell....fly....get out of the water. Use your explosions to get airbourne....keep hammering the base.....sink the d**n thing!!!

*He spots Spectrum going off on her own again* No!!! Forget Llyron.....consentrate on the base!!! *He shakes his head....d**n the woman and her freelancing!!!.....Gino....Watch yourself....Rokea...and I think Tiger Shark can control sea life.....get out of the water....get onto Hydrobase.....destroy it!!!

*He decides on a plan of his own.* Arctic....keep up the work with the ice.....get supernaila.....Fade out....keep the plane intangible...I'm going to eject and take out the base myself.
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~~ Tigershark

*Tiger Shark lacked the emotional lunacy of Supernaila.....he was kick to back off....after he got in a shot at Gino. He could lift 80 tons....rip steel like it was a paper.....but the big Lizard only winced a bit when he hit him. Then it started cutting loose with fire....and the ice was coming down.*

Screw this...i'm outta here. *He said.....then he spotted a shapely form in the water.....Stacey.....her knew it had to be her. He came up from below toward her.....he was going to grab her knock her out.....then....have llyron help turn her.*
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~~Arctic

She nodded a little, as a sign that she heard him and acknowledged his words, but didn’t make any other response toward him. She was concentrating far too intently in order to do much more than that.

They were scattering, and that was making it more difficult for her. It was working she could feel the molecules tightening and compacting, but it was such a vast area of water that it was difficult for it to go quickly.

She got another idea. What she really needed to do was to round them up into a tighter space. With one hand, she started coalescing the water to form a whirlpool.

Spinning, spinning, faster and faster, creating a vacuum sucking them back away from the base toward the wall of ice that was already very solidified.
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~~Bombshell

I AM OUT OF THE WATER *Bombshell shouted at Heatseeker before sending another powerful blast at the hydrobase. She wanted to destroy it first.. let them be proud of her for once. She looked around to see Supernalia going her own way and heard Heatseeker as he raved about her always doing her own thing. She shook her head and sighed, pondering the fact that it takes a team of everyone going in the same direction to win battles. She sighed softly to herself after everything to calm down as much as it could do in a battle situation. Stacey suddenly looked down at the water to see a large shape coming up after her. Bombshell did not know at first what to make of it but she did not move away from her spot. Instead, she energized her hands again, making ready for another strong blast*
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~~LLyron

The island was facing the oncoming Gino and clique with it's 'north' side. The benefit of knowing which direction the attack was to come from. The ion cannon had missed the underwater Bombshell ... interesting, she could use her flight underwater. Tigershark was on his heads up display, headed toward her. The, through the darkness, Spectrum was blasting at him. He sensed her with his goggles, her energy form a shimmering outline.

He noticed that Gino seemed to hesitate at the call of the horn. Then the blast from Spectrum ... too fast for him to dodge. But the ablative fumes and his heat resistant costume helped him. Still, he staggered back in pain ...

"Rokea, Oracle, use your sealife control TOGETHER on GINO. Rokea, concentrate your sealife control of GINO."

A nice trail of cold leading up to Arctic ... the ion cannon blasted again. A clear target. He ignored Spectrum ... and blasted at Stacey.


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~~GINO

The creature growled a loud angry roar. The roar was loud enough to hurt anyone's ears. He opened his mouth again and this time threw a steady beam of fire towards the creatures. He was going to scare them off before really going bezerk as he felt his mind start to go against the attack and defending the base.
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~~Spectrum

I got him ! ~She gloats seeing Llyron engulfed in the flames of her laser light .~ Burn heathen swine ! Burn as if in the fires of hell where you truly belong ~ She thinks he must be beaten and take back to the base . She fires makes giant light fists and starts banging away at the buildings .~ This devils temple with be crushed for good !
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~~Supernalia

~Her Blasts broke up the ice a bit but Arctic has another ploy . The waters start swirling . She is swept up in them . She is a powerful swimmer but no match for the vortex . She is swept downward in the flow despite her best efforts to escape .~
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~~Hi Jack

The battle had reached the base. Above him Spectrum was laying wast, giant light hands smashing into the buildings he'd just spent weeks repairing. He cycled up his JackTag gun, teleporting quickly to one of the nearby rooftops. He pulled up the targeting system, tracking Spectrum as she soared over the base, her laser like hands burning through everything. Steading himself with a breath, he fired. The tag soared over the distance between them, striking the light wielding mutant. The Jack Tag triggered imediatly, teleporting her to one of the inhibitor holding cells several miles away.
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~~Rokea

He'd almost made it, almost made it free of the battle zone. Around him several of the Ocean's sturdiest hunters swarmed past, seeking his prey....the Giant Lizard. They battered at it, teeth tearing, tentacles gripping. The ice continued to encroach, the sheet above him growing thicker.

He almost didn't notice that his momentum had slowed...he was no longer moving forward, instead pulling back toward the beast. Looking behind him Rokea's eyes widdened as the waters swirled into a whirlpool...sucking everything into the depths.

"Mother....why have you turned on me?" he thought, pushing harder against the tides.....wishing that he'd accepted one of the 'escape' tags that the Redeemers had offered him.
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~~Heatseeker

*Heatseeker slipped out of the plane and away from Fade out's influence....he dropped several feet before turning on his flame. Airbourne he flew up.....And flew between Spectrum and bombshell......not wanting them in the line of fire. He spotted Jagtag materlizes nearby.....going after spectrum.*

No you don't punk!!! *He turned his heat absorbing powers on him.....hoping he could sap his strength....and get him out of the way.*
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~~Oracle

*Heidi acknowledged Llyron as she still tried to turn the beasts thoughts around to defend the base. She could feel her presence in his mind and his thoughts changing but he was too big for her. She hoped that Rokea would help her out as she was not back in the hydrobase. Heidi stood at the windows of the hydrobase, watching Gino in the water. He was conflicted now.. it was a good thing now.. just an extra boost would help them out alot*
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~~GINO

The creature had started to fight of the creatures attacking him. a few of them with the whip off his tail. He hit a few with his fire breath charring them then bit into the tentiacled ones. He started to head for the surface. He was going to show his true nature.
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~~Arctic

The water was thicker now. Colder. Much harder to swim through, she could see how Llyron might have been able to escape but that guy that had pegged her last time intending to get Heatseeker… she didn’t understand how he might have gotten loose.

But the ones she had, she intended on keeping them there. Harder, tighter, more compact. She pulled them closer and closer together along with the molecules soon enough it would be solid enough to bob to the surface then they could simply come along and pick the captives up.
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~~Tigershark

*He had leapt out of thw water in tim to avoid Rokea's and Supernalia's fate. Not like he gave a nuts about golden girl. But Rokea was him.....virutally a brother. He hoped he'd be okay. He had other....er...fish to fry....so to speak....namely his beautiful but misguided niece.

He jumped at her...hoping to nail her before she could clock him with those blast of hers....he did not want to hit her....but he had too.....just enough to knock her cold.....then he would have her....and they could be family again....once she was exposed to the sharking treatment that made him as he is now.*
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~~Llyron

Llyron scowled at Spectrum as she tore into his buildings ... granted, they were the hotels, but they were expensive. Heidi was due a bonus for warning them of the attack, they'd brought the 'north' side of the island to bear. Then Spectrum disappeared ... had she flown off? No, Hi-Jack had gotten her. Good boy. Let her deal with being 5000 feet under the sea if she broke out. He had no doubt she might have devices to burn or blast her way out, but they'd learned to put the inhibiter generators UNDER the cells now, so burst out would cause someone not getting their powers up in time to be crushed like an egg.

Tigershark was fighting his niece ... he'd been doing well this battle.

"Supernalia, use your d**nED tag and 'port to base."

He turned and shot at Arctic, a long shot ... as did the ion cannon.

[ Critical Hit but she is unaffected due to the phasing ]
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~~Supernalia

~She is helpless in the monsterous grip of the vortex and now ice forms around here . She tries to blast free but the force of the vortez keeps her pinned . She is trapped . How can this be ? How can something so impossibly wrong happen ? She starts to ice over, as mad as it sounds, she is beaten .~
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~~Bombshell

*Bombshell's eyes widened as she saw him leap out of the water at her. For some reason she did not fire her powers at him. She knew him from somewheres but where. Suddenly he had her by her ankle then the blow to the head. She fell from the air, her eyes rolling back into her head. He had knocked her out cold. Stacey fell away from him and towards the water now.*
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~~Hi Jack

Jack grinned behind his helmet, glad at yet another perfect shot. Hopefully the psycho woman wouldn't escape this time. They'd taken added precautions since the last time he'd teleported into a holding cell with her. Now to concentrate on the rest of the battle. A quick scann of the scene showed him what he needed to know. He saw TigerShark leap from the water, taking out Bombshell with a well placed punch. Llyron was recovering from the blast that Spectrum had launched at him, screaming for Supernalia to use her escape tag. That drew Jack's attention....The ocean had come alive, becoming a seething mass of ice and foam as it spiraled into a vortex...caught in it were Supernalia and Rokea, quickly being drug down and frozen.

He jumped from the building he was standing on, noting the locations of the two. With a whump of displaced air he teleported. Water splashed around him as he reappeared next to Supernalia, grabbing her arm and teleporting again...to where he saw Rokea's arm through the ice. But he was too late. Appearing on an ice floe where Rokea had been he finds the Champion has already been sucked under...out of sight.

"d**nit" He said, glancing up to reorient himself on the base and teleporting himself and Supernalia back to the reletive safty of the Hydrobase
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~~GINO
The creature let out a loud roar then with a burst of speed. He swam and aimed for the glass in hopes of flooding their base. He became a creature of anger and madness towards the redeemers.
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~~Spectrum
~She hears Heatseekers warning and takes off at lightspeed [starts to]. The little man with the transport devices . She plans to jet off several miles distant believing that will be a safe distance . Then she plans to fly back and start more damage . The devil temple will fall ! Llryon will be beaten at long last ! The ways of the new gods will be upheld ! But then she realizes she has not escaped . The tag has gotten her again . She curses ancient blaspemies about the sea devils . But for now she put up her force field to maintain air . She must keep any gas affects out . She plans to smash free of the holding cell she is and return to the battle .~
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~~Rokea

Rokea struggled, using his imense strength to try and keep fighting against the thickening soup...against the riptide of the vortex. He saw the giant beast heading toward the base, it's massive frame unphased by the whirlpool. Dark eyes searched for any escape. He wasn't worried about being pulled deep into the ocean..that he could survive....but not being frozen solid....
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~~Bombshell

*Tiger Shark jumped after Stacey and caught her in midair.....grabbing on to a piece of articulation jutting off the bases edge in the process. He had her....now he needed her brother.....he began to climb to the surface and hydrobase.....secure in the knowledge his captive would soon be like him.*
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~~Llyron

In Spectrum's cell, the mutant negation field is on ... making her a human, though leaving active any devices she may have to blast her way out. The danger : she is a mile below the sea, and the field may not fade before her power returns, and she would be crushed instantly.

He saw Hi-Jack reappear with Supernalia. He was about to have the remote escape tag activated, but hadn't like the idea of sending supernalia back to atlantis proper. Good work again to the man.

Someone phased was up there ... but still using their powers while phased. Effective method of combat. Theoretically, the ion cannon might hurt them but he had another concern. The Giant Gino was tearing up one end of the island. And he WAS above water now ....

He flipped his trident around and raised it aiming carefullly, and fired a smart missile at the beast ... aiming for the mouth. If it entered, the creature shouldn't even feel it ... until it was too late.

Llyron leapt onto the back of the beast after shooting his anchor-dart into a potted plant which richochetted and killed one of the pet cats on the island. And was whisked away as Gino turned and swam off ... He bent and grabbed a scale, only his strength let him remain attached ...
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~~Heatseeker

*Heatseeker saw Spectrum teleported away. Too bad....her powers came in handy.....but then again....so did his. And he was going to use it now. And so he did......Settling fires along hydrobase's surface then dozens of them. They had not fully completed their mission.....but the message was sent. And who gave a d**n about Spectrum anyone.....she was an annoying lunatic.*

Okay everyone.....that's enough. I think Llyron got the point.
Gino.....take off....get out of there before they 'port you out of something....fade out.....get the jet out of here.

*He flew off.....quickly.....making sure the base was in flames....and he was out of range of those tags.*
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~~Hi Jack

Supernalia was ok...unconcious, but alive. Jack scanned the horizon, looking for Rokea, but not finding a trace of the Aquatic Champion. With a sigh of frustration he turned back to the battle, just in time to see Llyron jumping onto the giant lizard thing. Pushing himself to his feet, Jack began a series of gut wrenching 'hop-skips', using his natural teleportation to carry him line of sight from building to building toward where Llyron was fighting the beast. He slapped a fresh clip of JackTags into the gun as he went.

Raising his Tag Gun he aimed and fired. The tag struck and exposed bit of flesh as it broke above the waves, instantly teleporting a 600 pound chunk of the beast's flesh into space.
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~~ GINO

[The beast turns and flees away ]
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~~Llyron

THIS shot did NOT miss as he saw the thing moving away. A dart sank into a thick scale, and llyron was thrown off ... it had required two hands to fire the weapon.

"Back off, men. I think it's had enough !! ""

[Hi-Jack also hit it with a teleport dart, teleporting away a 600 pound of meat off it's back]

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[Board Keeper]

Summary : The 'north end of the Island is badly torn up by GINO and burned by Heatseeker and Bombshell. The Horn of Proteus and Call of the Sea used by Rokea had NO effect up on GINO. Did the creature have ANY weakness? GINO was however tagged with a GPS tracker 'barnacle'. Supernalia and Rokea ignored offers to use escape tags, and were essentially taken out of the combat in early stages. The ablatative black cloud generated in the air and water about Hydrobase helped against laser fire, etc, but otherwise wasn't overly effective. ION cannons do NOT work against phased individuals, opaque force blasters are recommended for future encounters against phased or energy form clique members. Heidi's precog was extremely useful in confining hydrobase damage to the cosmetic end of the island.

Overall the Redeemers were unorganized and ineffective in their encounter, though extremely lucky in capturing 2 clique members.

[Board Keeper]

Cellular Trouble

Can you hear me now?

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Bombshell

*She remained silent as she listened to give excuses for his behaviour. It was a likely story.. only been here for six years with two hundred years of memories that are not even his memories. How could someone live like that? No wonder he would try to hit on her.. but the other would be jealous of him right now. He better tread softly with his flirting if she would happen into this lab. Then she heard her Uncle come into the lab. She was excited to hear his voice at the same time she grimaced at it. He talked about this experiment and it made her sigh again. Bombshell suddenly got up and went to her door again to see him* Why are you hell bent on making me like you? I haven't done anything to you.. doesnt our family relation play into anything?? *She screamed at him*

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Tigershark

*He looked hurt.....like someone had slapped him....in sense that was what Stacey had done with her comments. But he would not be swayed from his path.*

Of course it does, darling. *He sighed.* Stacey.....I'm doing this for you. So we can be a family again. In my current form all I see is food when I look at you. I couldn't live with it if I harmed you. I love you....like a daughter....I always have....and once you're changed....you'll see.....I'm a superior being....the perfect hunter. Then...only then can we be family again.
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Llyron

He looked at Tigershark. Looking at humans as food? He hadn't known about this. But his face was a mask ... he betrayed no emotions. He looked back at Bombshell. An alteration in plans may be in order ...
"Stacy. Your uncle knows best. You don't know the joys of aquatic life."
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Bombshell

*She rolled her eyes as she saw she hit something with in him now. Family was important to him but he got his rantings mixed in with it.* If you really cared for me Uncle.. you would not do this to me.. We could work on it *Bombshell was trying to plead with him not to turn her into this thing he was.* What if there was a way to turn back at least you aggressive behaviour *Stacey touched the glass, hoping he would remember more.. how he promised he would never hurt her OR her brother. She loved her uncle.. and she knew he was in that brain. Just then Llyron chimed his bell into this conversation again.* Would you stop pushing him into this this even further? *She sighed heavily* I am sure there is other ways then turning me into a shark! *She looked at her uncle again, with tears in her eyes.* My Uncle would never do this to his niece.. or his nephew.. if he ever truly loved them..
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Tigershark

Turn back? *Tiger shark broke out laughing* Become a nobody....a mere human with some athletic gifts??? Todd Arliss??? You must be mad!!!

*He looked at Stacey as if she had turned green....and his rage began to grow.* It's easy for you to say, child. You have powers. Without my shark skills....I'm nothing!!!! Nothing do you hear!!! Llyron is right.....this is going to happen darling...and you will thank me. later.

*He reached through the lazor bar and touched Stacey's forehead. A spec of sweat on his fingertips.....he tasted it.*

You seem a little bland dear..add a few fatty acids to your diet..have you tried mackeral.....lake trout???
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Llyron

Llyron shook his head.
"Time for us to get things underway. Todd, pull your arm back so I can drop the glass and gas her."
After TS had done so, llyron touched a control on the wall, and the glass partitian came down again ... and her cell began to fill with gas. It should cause her to loose consciousness shortly ...with the mutant negation field in effect, her endurance should be human level or close to it.
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Bombshell

*She blinked at him and shook her head* you would be my uncle! The man I loved dearly as a child and still love even as the thing you turned into *She screamed back at him* And besides.. you would not get so emotional if it did not matter to you! *He reached through the bar and touched her forehead. She jerked back and smacked at him.* Keep you hands off me.. You are not my uncle anymore... *Stacey clinged on the inside, not truly wanting to say it but her mouth ran away from her. Just then solid walls came down and gas started to emit from all around her.. She panicked as she started to move away from the gas but it was not long before she started to surrender to them* Please don't do this.. *She pleaded softly as she started to surrender to the gas*

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Tigershark

*Tiger Shark growled at Stacey.* Don;t you say that!!! not ever again!!! I don't care what programming that scum telepathic leader of yours put into your mind!!! I am your uncle!!!! You better get that through your head!!!

*He looked to llyron.* I'm now scientist.....you are....I gave a copy of Dorcus's notes to one of your followers...You'll find them in your quarters.....I want her like me....and I want Tamara.....Do that....and I'll serve the redeemers as long as you like.

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Llyron

He looked at Todd.
"I already have the note. I saw them earlier, and we've readied a morphotron. To be honest, we had one partially built, though we couldn't get past the rough spots without the notes. We'll need a blood sample from you, we need living cells as a template."
He reached over and flipped controls on the walls. The gas was sucked from the cell and the glass slid up, the laser reinforced force field fading. He looked at the sexy young girl, smiling.
"Want me to carry her?"
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Bombshell

*Stacey laid on the floor of the quarters, unconcious. She only had her thoughts to keep her company as she was not helpless to their experiments. She wished she could get up now. Her uncle was vengeful and why he was like this, she could not understand. Bombshell was laying in a heap in the corner*
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Tigershark

*Tiger Shark was not unsympathic to Stacey's situation. He understood....he once was imprisoned in the vault. And like any animal.....which is what Dorcus's treatments have reduced him too.....he could not stand confinement.

Stacey had the same fight....drive in her that he had....it must be killing her to to be caged. He tried to comfort her.*

Don't worry, darling....you'll be free soon....and we'll be together again.

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Llyron

Llyron stepped into the cage, and picked up the unconscious girl. When suddenly, the glass shield slammed down and the mutant negation fields came on. Gas began filling the chamber. What should be frightening to Tigershark was that the same thing happened in the observation room as the exit door sealed shut, and a similiar mutant negation field filled that area too. Gas likewise began to fill the area ....
Through the speaker a voice was heard ... it sounded robotic.
"This is Dorcas. You two, who seek to steal my technology, shall die by it's hand. Farewell !"
Llyron dropped the girl down, and smashed at the walls and forcefield ... but without his mutant strength it was too strong for him to damage. He turned to Tigershark who was doubtless having the same thing happen to him. He tried using a jack tag to no avail ... something was jamming it.
"Todd !! Get out !!"
But the negation field, force fields and gases were filling the observation room as well as the cell. Wall,s, floors and ceiling were airtight and designed to handle ten times their current strengths.
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Tigershark

That voice.....Dorcus. *But how.....he heard he was dead.* What kind of trick is this???

*Suddenly room filled with gas....and tiger shark's powers seemed to fade....almost instantly. He tried to break free....but his strength was gone. Suddenly...a rare thing occured.....fear showed in Tiger Shark's eyes.*

Llyron!!! We're trapped!!!! How??? We have to save Stacey!! Dorcus!!! d**n you!!! I'm your creation....the perfect blend of shark and humaniod!!! How could you do this to me!!! Let me out at once!!

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Llyron

Llyron continued beating on the walls, trying to use his communicator to call aid, but to no avail ...
eventually he slumped down and lost consciousness ... almost but not quite falling atop the sleeping Bombshell
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Tigershark

nuts...nuts....nuts...Llyron!!! You idiot!!! What happened to yyour top notch security!!! how could let this happen!!! Dorcus breeched hydrobase!!! Now he's gonna kill us all!!!

*He tried to pound the walls....but nothing.....and the gas was getting to him.

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Mysterious Masked Man

Hours later, gas masks securely fastened to their faces, Bombshell and Tigershark lay strapped upon the morphotron testing tables. And the device began to hum to life. A masked slightly paunching figure stood at the controls.
"Now, let us test this new morphotron ....."
A switch was pulled ... but instead of Bombshell receiving Tigershark's genetics, the reverse was happening. The shark genetics were being partially drained, and replaced with Stacy'd human genetics. And hopefully a bit of her other abilities as well.
"I'm sorry if this kills you, Mr Arliss. But you've been through it before ..."
chuckles and throws the switch ....
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Hours, or was it days, later, he awakened. He'd feel changed. When he awoke, he'd see bombshell, breathing easily through her gills. She looked not to have shark genetics however, but a mixture of atlantean and banari genes (Tamara's race) ... a perfect hybrid. The procedure on her had been a critical success. But not quite the way he'd hoped.

[Board Keeper]

Rude Awakening

~~ Llyron

Llyron and a group of Atlanteans were swimming up toward Bombshell just as she was awakening in the water. They were heavily armed, and carrying tridents and wore light armor. He relaxed as he saw her.
"Ms Arliss. There you are. I was concerned when you disappeared from our detention center."
He looked her up and down
"It appears you have already undergone morphotronic transformation ... though apparently without any shark characteristics added. Are you feeling all right?"

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~~ Bombshell

*Bombshell woke up, blinking her eyes and rubbing them. They were alittle blurry but she sat up not knowing where she was at the moment. She throught it strange that she was not breathing through her nose or her mouth for that reason. Although she really did not think anything of it, she twisted her head to see Llyron coming up to her.. rather swimming up to her. She opened her mouth and realized there was water in there.. Stacey started to choke and hold her neck, reverting back to her human ways.* How.. *She suddenly said and she looked slightly surprised she was talking under water..She looked up at him and blinked* What did you do to me? *She said softly* How am I breathing in the water.. *She looked at her Uncle that layed there in the water*

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~~Llyron

He looked over at Tigeshark.
"We had some robots infiltrate the hydrobase. The automated defenses kicked in too late for us to stop them from taking you or your uncle. I myself when I awakened had no memory of having gone down and spoken to you in the cells, though security recordings showed this happened. That is they showed up until the point where your uncle and I were gassed. I was left in the cell while you two were taken. Which I find a bit insulting ... one would think that I would be the bigger target. Once I regained consciousness, we instigated a search and found you via the concealed tracking unit in your clothing."
He looked at her
"Apparently, you've been exposed to the morphotron. A similar experiment as to what I myself had planned. As you may know, we are not the only holders nor even the inventors of the technology."

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~~ Bombshell

*She shook her head and frowned at him. Llryon was known for his technology and for something as simple as robots to break into the base and just take her away from them.. was nearly impossible for her to even fathom that happening. Bombshell did not expose her thoughts to him at this time.* Now what am I gonna do... are you expecting me to suddenly be on your side? Or are you going to keep me in captivity so you can run more tests on me..? *She shook her head again. and sighed before she got up to her feet.* You think these guys are going to save you.. in case i decide to rebel against you? *She raised her eyebrow at him*

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~~Llyron

He chuckled
"You may be able to breathe water now, but I am the unequaled master of combat beneath the sea ... with the possible exception of my father. Namor has bested every single aquatic rival there is ... while in the water he's even beaten the hulk. And I easily ... easily ... matched him in hand to hand from my very first month of existance. But no ... now that you are aquatic, I'd like you to see how we atlanteans live. If you agree to do that, then I have no further quarrel with you. Anything beyond that will be between you and your uncle. Unless of course you decide to attack us again ... or other innocent civiliians, atlantean or humans."

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~~ Bombshell

*Bombshell scoffed and shook her head.* I am alittle out numbered here so it would be stupid for me to try and retailiate. *She folded her arms tightly across her chest and walked towards them. Stacey gave him a slight smirk.* You really judge me too harshly.. Should be my brother you judge harshly I did follow him into the clique.. *She sighed again then looked him squarely in the eyes* Take me back then.. and show me what you want to show me.. I am sure you would do so anyway.

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~~ Llyron

He shook his head.

"If I judged you to be a natural and heartless killer like some in your group, we wouldn't be having this conversation. You were captured this time attacking an Atlantean vessel. Piracy is a capital offense, if we so deemed. But we don't."

He gestured and coming up she would see an Atlantean sub approaching and they would be bringing the unconscious Tigershark aboard.

"My medtechs will run some blood tests and see what alterations were made to you and your uncle. Though I'm almost positive it was a morphotron that did it. Then you can tour parts of atlantis that few see. The aquatic side."

He seemed absolutely sincere.
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~~ Bombshell

So you do believe I have got a heart.. how sweet... *She scoffed at him as she started for the submarine. Usually she would not be so willing but where would she go from here.. The clique was not there to help her get away.. and this was not a good time to make that escape. Besides she was not curious as to what Llyron had to show her. Maybe he did think she was a mercilous killer of innocent. For Stacey, she never attacked anyone that did not go after her first.* You are going to let me see places others of your own kind can not see? Trusting you are...But is it you want to impress me? *She smiled at him smally* I thought you had a girlfriend you bad boy.. *She smirked as she twisted around for a moment to see his men picking up her uncle. Bombshell really did not know what to think of him now... he had betrayed her.. deeply.*
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~~ Llyron

He chuckled
"I've never had a girlfriend. Not yet. I've been far too busy. I've been interested in one of my teammates, but I seem to be continually angering her. I'm somewhat of a workaholic."

He swam with her to the sub, and the techs examined Stacey and Tigershark. He'd be out for a while yet, apparently.

"You'll have no idea where the small city I'm bringing you is. I'm assuming you don't read atlantean, so the readings on my controls should mean nothing to you. You could swim back to the mainland, but without any skill at aquatic navigation, it could take you years of wandering."

He smiled

"And, yes, I wouldn't mind impressing you. Impressing UPON you actually, that we atlanteans are NOT evil, nor are all flatline humans."

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~~ Bombshell

*Stacey smirked at him again and shook her head.* You know.. you should grab her before you loose her.. She will wait for awhile.. but get sick and tired of waiting for you.. *She shrugged at him then let his techs run their tests on her. Bombshell was just as much interested to know what they read as Llyron was.* I did not know there was such a thing as Atlantean until I found out about you.. *She looked around the sub, at her uncle with some disgust but with love as well.. even though he was tried to mutilate her, Stacey still loved him.* Me not trying to escape from you now because of the swim and naviagation is precisely why I dont... But I will figure out my way.. know I am always thinking. *She scoffed* Go ahead with you little we arent evil trip.. I will sit through it..

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~~ Llyron

He laughed
"Ah, prejudice. A mutant being prejudiced against an atlantean for being different. And a mutant Atlantean at that. How humorous."
He looked at Tigershark
"Don't judge him to harshly. As I said, he's had a rough time of late. Two wives dying ... though I'm managing to bring the second one back. And then his mutation getting out of control. His shark instincts have been influencing his judgement. I wonder if the changes done to him now will help with that at all."
He was handed a chart ... which he skimmed over.
"Hmmm. Seems his tigershark genetics were pushed back some and new DNA added. YOURS in fact. Interesting."

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~~ Bombshell

*She shook her head again at him and sighed* Have your fun Llyron...and I am guessing you are not taking my advice on that girl.. *She shrugged and laughed, then she looked at her uncle again* Do not try and talk down his actions to me. He knew what he was doing... and knew i wanted him to stop...but you wanted to keep it going.. kept him going as a matter of fact.*Bombshell frowned at him and put her hands on her hips* What about me?

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~~ Llyron

He was handed another clip board. With data on it.
"You've been given the DNA of a Banari ... that is to say, an aquatic human from another world. An alien atlantean, basically. Though seems you've kept your human pigmentation. The precedure seems to have been an unqualified success. Your x-factor seems undamaged, while you've acquired aquatic abilities, and the strength and resistance of a Banari."

[Board Keeper]

Static Problems

~~ Arc

The fish man had released him to the American authorities following the attack on the HydroBase. At first Arc had been perturbed that the attack hadn't disabled the mutant inhibitor in his cell...he'd been hoping to make his get away during the chaos of the attack...but that hadn't worked out.

Now however was a different story. He'd been playing it meek...quiet. He had no previous record so the authorities had no reason to think him anything other than what he presented himself as. A mixed up young man who go t caught up with the wrong crowd.

In another stroke of luck, the cop in charge of his transfer was sympathetic to him. Felt that he'd been held unlawfully by Llyron, and had blathered on and on about rehabilitation...getting him into some kind of comunity thing. Arc had just smiled and nodded all the while grinning to himself. The idiot didn't even try to do anything to shut of his power.

He'd waited until Llyron and his do gooders were well and gone before making his move. With a concentrated effort he superheated one of the links on his cuffs, allowing him to snap them in half. Before the guards even had time to react he'd sucked the bioelectricity from their bodies..a new trick he'd learned since joining Noreen's Clique.

Leaving the brain dead guards behind him he concentrated on the metal mesh in the window, drawing all of the ambiant head around him and focusing it like a laser on the window. The metal mesh began to glow, then melted, causing the glass to shatter. Arc jumped out of the window, slowing his fall by drawing on the nearby powerlines and creating an electromagnetic bubble around himself, lowering him gently to the ground. Befor the alarms had even begun to go off, he was gone.

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~~ Pulse

Pulse had been supervising the transfer. He'd been deemed most suited to deal with Arc should it be necessary. And it had gone well. The human had seemed to express interest in rehabilitation. Until, while again at the facility to drop off another criminal to the americans, that he felt the 'food' in the area being drawn away from the area .. it was like a suction, and Pulse suspected where it was coming from. Indeed, a few minutes later word came that the human had escaped, killing two other humans in the process. How inefficient.

Pulse rose into the air, gliding on an electrostatic field, and began flying toward the sources of the area wide drain.

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~~ Arc

It felt good. Trapped in the Redeemer's holding cell he'd felt as if he were starving....as if a part of him had been torn away and the wound left open and leaking. But that was changed now. He felt the power of the city flowing into him..the thrum of electricity, the dull throb of heat as it drained from the sunbaked sidewalks into his body. Even the vibrations caused by the rampant noise around him were absorbed, their kenetic energy fusing with him to be used as he willed.

With a jaunty smile he made his way down the streets. No doubt the human police had found his escape by now. An APB was probably already going out over the airwaves. He needed to get back to Noreen, back to the Cligue so that he could lay low for a while.

With that in mind he turned and made his way toward Philmont Towers.
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~~ Pulse

Pulse glided silently over the rooftops, continuing toward the draining effect. As he neared, he dropped low to the ground. In case his flight field faltered ... he followed at a fair distance, deciding how to proceed. The mutant human could possibly absorb his flight field, so that was a poor idea. As might he absorb any lightning cast by Pulse. An interesting dilema.
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~~ Arc

The young man slid into a side alley. It was one of the many emergency entrances that Noreen had uncovered when she took over the Philmont Building. The basement of this rundown appartment building connected to an unused subway tunnel, which in turn connected to a secret door into the Clique HQ. He was almost scott free.

He reached for the door...the paused, hand inches from the doorknob. Something had changed...a subtle shift in the energy paterns around him. Frowning he turned, looking over the alley, eyes peering into the gloom to try and see what was waiting. He considered emiting some light, but decided against it...not wanting to give away his location incase someone had shown up. It would be just like the fishman to send someone to watch over his transfer

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~~ Pulse

He considered his options and backed off. Best to report back to command and followup at a later time.

A few minutes later, he was a half mile away, making his report.

[Board Keeper]

Ali vs Frazier

Tigershark awakened after having been changed by the morphotron. His strength level seemed unchanged, but he had reverted to more human form. Llyron finally had enough of Tigershark threatening and blaming him. Told him off, and clocked him one.

This resulted in a knock down, drag out fight ... TOTALLY evenly matched. They had each taken 3 hits from each other. Then, the finale. In one round of combat, Llyron launched a perfect spin kick on Tigershark, who perfectly blocked. Tigershark then counterattacked with a perfect hit, which Llyron perfectly blocked.

( Yes, they consecutively rolled all 10's on 1d10. Four times in a row. WHY weren't we at the casino?!! )

Following this round of combat, they were so impressed with themselves they formed a mutual admiration society and went off to have a few cold ones.

[Board Keeper]

One flew east, one flew west

Lyron talked at length to Spectrum, and decided she was nuts. He surgically removed the scar tissue from her brain and had scathe regenerate it, transferring it to a regenerating mindless clone. Then he WIPED out her memories ... Tabula Rasa. And reloaded them to her age of 17, two years before she went off the deep end. He also did some hormone treatments to try to stabalize her chemical imbalances.

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Update : so far the experiment is a success, though control of her power may become an issue. Spectrum, while with the clique, used technology in her costume to aid her in control. Llyron, leary of using the original costume, is having another control aiding device created.

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~~~ Llyron

He nodded
"You must have heard of Namor. I have the same powers as he does, though I'm smarter and can also vary my skin color."
He smiled
"We'll have to go flying some time."
Then he looked serious.
"I'm ... not sure if he took any other liberties with you. I'm afraid I can't say."


~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

Liberties ? ~She hears that and is fuming .~ You mean sex ! Rape ! ~She is shivering at the thought . Her rage builds and inadvertantly her form starts to glow . That is a telltale sign she is on the verge of letting loose a energy burst . Without her costume to focus and hold back her powers she cannot control he power displays nearly as well .~ He raped me !



~~~ Llyron

He shook his head.
"Not as far as I know, but we're investigating. And if he did, it's likely we'd never know. He IS a telepath capable of altering memories. He's even ... somehow ... changed from male to female at times. He's a confused individual. Or perhaps disturbed would be a better term."



~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

God ! Doctor ! What happened to me ! What did that freak do to me ! God ! I was playing super hero . Going after criminals and bringing them to justice . Was that when he got to me . Or she . Whatever that freak, Schemer is ? ~She cannot control herself as her emotions make her powers rise to critical levels . Without the stablizing influence of her costume the build up releases a laser from the palm of hand powerful enough to melt metal .~ Doctor ! Watch out ! My powers, I cannot slow them down ! I am overloading ! ~She is to anguished to fight her own powers . Unless she calms down more powers discharges will follow .


~~~ Llyron

He hopped aside, and smiled ... his face calm and soothing.
"Schemer has a bevy of beautiful women. So chances are he didn't do anything. We can check if you'd like?"
He held out his hand ... his face was calm and serene.
"Be calm, Nina. You're CURED of cancer. You've a wonderful life ahead of you. And your family is going to be so very very pleased to see you. They must miss you awfully."


~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

his words help her calm a bit but she is shaking from fright and fear . He is the only friend she has right now . She has to regain control . She takes his hand .~ I could have killed you . I am afraid . I am not sure of anything now . Please help me . ~It takes a great deal of will to force back her powers . The thoughts of family certainly helps . The doctor has pushed the right buttons .~


~~~ Llyron

"You are TOTALLY safe and secure here. And we are coming closer every day to shutting Schemer down permanently. And we Atlanteans don't believe in long trials."
He smiled
"But you're FINE here. You've your family to get in touch with, you're healthy .... and you won't believe the wonders I'm going to show you. Since you went to sleep, the central part of Atlantis has risen in the Atlantic ocean. It's incredible ... and surface folks can finally see it."


~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

she is calmer now . She even manages a smile and the hugs Llyron .~ Thanx doctor . I would never have forgiven myself if I harmed you . ~She listens and believes . She will be fine . And she will get in touch with her family . Her father must have given up on her by now .~ Atlantis ? On the surface ? ~She is thrilled to hear this . It will be the closest she can ever be to the fable of Avalon that she loved so as a child as she can possibly see .~ Yes Llyron ! I want to see it ! All of it !



~~~ Llyron

He smiled.
"That's why I was going to take you to the hologram room. Now, schemer had given you a costume to help you control your powers. But we're still breaking it down and replicating it. I don't trust the technology to NOT have some self destruct device or some such in it."
He smiled .. he LOVED talking about Atlantean Lore. He took her hand and walked to her into the HQ, headed for the basement. The VR training room ... with the holo/force projectors.
"What do you know about Atlantis and Atlanteans?"



~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

she goes with him hand and hand . Her mind that of a teenager is swimming with fairy tale thoughts of a handsome prince who saves a sleeping beauty . Llyron is very handsome and that has not escaped her notice . She is also awash with thoughts of seeing Atlantis . A kindgom of fable like Avalon . There has been much terror since she has awakened . But now there is a feeling of wonderlust in her heart .~ I do not want to see it . Or anything that bloody pig, Schemer gave me . But please yes . I want to see the VR training room ! ~She smiles like a school girl .~ I know they can breath water . Some breath air too . Like namor . I met him once in Paraliment . He seemed rather curt . I know it sank centuries ago from and earthquake . The people became water breathers to adapt .



~~~ Llyron

He smiled as they walked into the VR chamber.
"Computer, access Atlantean tour program 1101-1"
About them the marble walls faded, with their black circles evenly spaced all about. Replaced by a computer generated hologram of ancient air breathing atlantis ... the beautiful stonework and ancient art, flowing robes worn by sparkling merchants, nobles, soldiers and statesmen.
"This is a CGI representation of Amphitrite, before Atlantis sank below the sea ... Atlantis was millenia ahead of other cultures, with the exception of a race called the Deviants. They were a race of mutant like creatures, who ... unlike normal human mutants ... nearly ALWAYS had physical devations from human standards of aesthetic appearance, and tended toward moderate power mutations. Only rarely was anything near an alpha level mutant found. But their technology was HIGHLY advanced."
He shook his head ....
"The Deviants, and this is what THEY call themselves, went to war against the Atlanteans. And simulataneously against a powerful space faring race. They were a very war like people. We modern Atlanteans believe in war, but for betterment and justice ... not subjugation."



~~~ Nina (Spectrum)

the visual display is unlike anything she has ever witnessed . The walls themselves change and show representaions of Llyron's culture . It is all so beautiful . He speaks of them and the Deviants . She has never heard of them . She wonders how much of this world hold secerts that are like from a fairy tale as Atlantis seems to be . What a wonderful culture they have . If Llyron is an example of the people they must be truly amazing as a race . She cannot help but captivated by it all .~


~~~ Llyron

He gestured .... and the scene changed ... a space view.

"Reports of the ancient past are vague ... we do not know exactly what happened. The space faring races destroyed the deviants, and their land, based in the pacific ocean, sank beneath the waves. While in the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlanteans were battling armies and mercenaries sent by the Deviants. Atlantis too sank beneath the waves. Something caused the tectonic plate to sink. One myth has the ancient atlantean kings using the power of their geothermic devices to destroy the armies but somehow cause the small continent to sink as a side effect. Or did the space faring race sink Atlantis as it did the deviants home continent, to destroy the deviant armies? Was it natural disaster? We don't really know. But Atlantis sank. All died save a city here and there at the outskirts, protected by inpenetrable domes."

[Board Keeper]

The Redeemers and Senator Lamonte were soundly thrashed by the Clique and the Superadaptoid.

The line-ups :

Hardcore, Heatseeker, Ghoul, Hound, Arsenal, Temptress, the Super Adaptoid.

vs

Llyron, Hi-Jack, Senator Lamonte, Supernalia and Pulse.



Severely outgunned and outnumbered, the Redeemers were defeated. Llyron was driven into a hypothermic coma, Hi-Jack's back was broken, and Supernalia was captured. Hi-Jack's gun and Jacktags were taken. Pulse's identity was revealed. A bad day all around.

It should be noted that Supernalia and Senator Lamonte were remarkably ineffective again ... Llyron recommends extended retraining. (( *G* ))