Topic: RPG-Superhumans

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"I'm not really sure what's going on, Frosty. Maybe if I wasn't %^$&ing frozen I could sort things out! To answer your question, I discredited you all those years ago, because frankly, it was either you or me. Either I took the fall or you did.  And, well, who would you choose if you were in my position?"

"Yeah, well...uh....holy shizznitcuss dude, you've got to see this?"

"What?!?" Oni was getting annoyed, being frozen and all.

Frost turned Oni around so he could see Harry, now a twisting shadowy mass of flailing clawed hands, battling Haze/Chromium.

"NO %^&$ING WAY." Oni and Frost said in unison.

(oh no..... its turning into an R-Rated saturday morning cartoon)
Flame stepped back, Well then, he voiced, I'll leave you to your bussines He turned, and walked through the fire, as if it were air. He jumped into the hole in the roof, and almost landed in a glob of dark goo. He incinerated it, Haze/Chromium were still fighting the more solid reamiander. He joind the fight, adding gouts of fire that caused the dark thing to hiss and sizzle.

"Ummmmm... I forgive you. Now let's kill the flippin' shadow octopus. Deal?" Frost said hurriedly.

"Deal."

"Ummmm, I'm still a good guy right?"

"Sure. I guess I am too, now."

"Kay, cool, just checkin'"

Frost defrosted Oni, and the both rushed the writhing shadowy mass that was the former bartender...

Haze felt stronger and more powerful than ever, Chromium was moving with her and also assisting her reactions if she was a little too slow. The intimate contact also meant that Haze could actually speak to Chromium’s mind directly.

She watched as Harry changed form once again, this time it was to mimic Acero. This is going to be a challenge. Haze voiced to Chromium.

Nah, I reckon you could fry him. Chromium replied then reminded her that she now had the ability to fly, courtesy of his powers.

Harry turned to steel and started pounding at them. Haze turned her psy-blades to swords and allowed them to pass through matter rather than stay solid. She swiped the blades across Harry’s arms and watched as they turned limp, his nerves were now fired.

Harry growled and switched forms again. This time he mimicked Haze. The real Haze actually grinned. Harry threw her and Chromium across the room and they slammed into the wall. Chromium’s outer protected them both.

Haze laughed at Harry, in her form. “Is that all you’ve got?” The real Haze then lifted Harry off the floor and proceeded to break every bone in his body.

Harry screamed and tried to push her across the room again but Haze knew her own weaknesses. She flew at Harry, who was attempting to change form, and sliced her psy-sword across his neck which severed his spinal cord. “Let’s see you change after that.” Haze spat.

Harry was in pain but somehow he managed to change. Haze watched in horror as Harry took the form of Starbright.

"So, snowcone, you won't tell anybody about this, right?"

"Course not, broham."

"Great." Oni and Frost headed towards the monstrous being attacking Haze/Chromium and Flame, and shifted in Starbright.

"Waitaminnit...Harry? Double H? Izzat you, man? What happ--unnggh!" Oni was knocked in the face by a blast of shadow energy.

Frost fired a blast of ice at Harry, who absorbed it and fired a beam at Flame. At the same time, Harry merely abosrbed the blast, stunning Haze/Chromium with blasts of light.

"Y-you want to hear a s-s-s-secret?" He hissed, bringing him/her in close  with strands of solid-light so she feel could the heat of his breath. "I k-ki-ki-ki-killed Starbright. J-just I'll k-k-kill you. And everyone else. Soon I'll h-ha-have all y-your powers. Then I c-can run this ci-city by m-my-myself." He then slammed Haze/Chromium into the ground.

"Bullcrap you will, Harry!" Oni shouted, appearing behind Harry, digging his wrist blades into the bartender's shadowy neck.

To his surprise, the blow did nothing, but Oni was overwhelmed by a swarm of tentacles that overwhemled the would-be villain king, slicing and tearing at him relentlessly. Then all the tendrils that descended upon Oni enwrapped him at once, spreading over his body, crushing his very fiber....condemning him to the tendrils' home dimension of darkness.

Flame melted the ice that was thrown at him. Haze/Chromium was down for the moment. You may want to hide he voiced to Frost. He ducked and covered himself. Flame filled the air with Fire, blowing out the windows, and exploding the bottles of drink on the back shelf. Frost was using his power to protect himself, and Chromium, who was impervious anyway, was covering Haze.

Frost, after seeing Oni swallowed alive by the shapeshifting bartender and heeding Flame's warning, retreated. At least, for all intents and purposes, that's what it looked like.

"Dude," Frost said to himself while skating to the porch of a nearby building in the usual fashion, "I'm never gonna beat this guy at close range. Time for a little sharpshooting, man..." He landed on the porch, then swung out the rifle and looked through the scope at the shadowy mass. He could just make out the shape of a head within the morphing shape. He took a breath, held it, and shot. Then he looked through the scope, to see if he had done any damage...

Within the column of fire Jack saw the sword with his mind's eye and grabbed it.  He jumped out of it with his healing factor healing all wounds.  And then he saw the girl.  He thought she looked familiar.  And cold fear seeped over his body.  And she just kept staring at him. 

"I have come for you Magnus."

"Who the crap is Magnus?  Get out of my way kid.  Leave this to the older guys and gals."  He made a move as if to pass her but she held out her just held out her hand and he couldn't move, "Okay you are obviousl-"

"Magnus your time is up."

Jack suddenly felt the oddest sensation.  He felt as if he was being shoved back into his body.  He felt and saw but could not control.  He heard a voice deep with in him and realised this... thing was talking through him. 

A deep raspy voice that did not sound like his own replied, "I will never come Desdemona.  I rather enjoy this body."

A smile crept on her face, "Then so be it."  She closed her eyes and suddenly Jack's mind exploded with pain.  It felt as if he was being torn in 2.  Even he could not take this pain and he began to blank out.

Hary continued to thrash at the heroes when fire filled his lungs. Shifting from Starbright to Flame, he merely inhaled the smoke and cinder, unaafected...until a sniper's bullet razed his skull. Focusing with all his might, Harry utilized Jack's healing factor, pushing the bullet from his head. Blood trickled out in a steady stream. No more playing games. Harry shifted in Acero and began to battle anew.

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Oni floated in the empty nothingness of the dark dimension. No up, no down, no in, no out, just the darkness and the cold.

"Hello?" Oni called out hopelessly. "Voidhunter? Harry? Anybody? Anybody..."

Acero put the unconscious Vandal beside some rubble where she'd be safe and slowly inched his way into the ongoing battle. He found himself standing a few feet from... well, himself. A most curious power.

Before Haze could make another move with her psyblade, Acero bull rushed Harry from the side throwing his doppelganger to the ground. Metal punches were thrown as the two scuffled and kicked unable to do harm to each other. Then Harry was shifting. He changed into a Chromium and melted down almost completely. Warm liquid metal was thrust into Acero's face swimming wildly across his mask, forcing itself down his throat.

Acero smacked his own face desperately struggling for breath.

Frost got excited, he had wounded the... thing.

"Yes, dude!" He shouted, then stared, mouth agape, as the shadowy Flame shape's bleeding head expelled the bullet, and stopped bleeding, healing itself.

"What the frak!?" Frost yelled. "WHAT ARE YOU!!!???" He screamed at the thing in frustration. In anger, he threw ice spear after ice spear at it, and when that didn't work, he conjured little shurikans and threw those, and when still that didn't work, he blasted it with ice, encasing it completely, only to have it dodge the spears, heal the wounds from the shurikans, and use Flame's power to melt the ice.

"Agh! Dude, this sucks!" Frost jumped off the porch, landing on a sheet of ice, and went off to find someone who could help with this big ugly freak.

Jericho kicked the back room door open and shot Acero 4 times in the face with his 30mm rifle. Acero was  knocked against the wall from the energy of the APFSDS rounds, which the last one went through his helmet. Turns out, Harry saved Acero by absorbing the bullet, and ran out onto the floor in a puddle.

"Not so tough now, are ya' Harry?"

Sunburn didn't know what to do, as Harry thrust himself down Acero's throat..... but it did seem like he had two options right now: 1, he could ignite Acero into flames, and both of them died, or 2, just sit there and watch what happened to Acero.  He personally liked the first one, but didn't really want to harm Acero.  So he stuck with the second.

Desdemona felt no pleasure in what she did, the smile she had worn had been for show only. Jack was in pain but it would pass, Magnus would fight but there would be no victory for the evil soul.

Jack’s hands were firmly on the blade. “Let go of the sword.” Desdemona told him.

“I-I can’t.” He said as pain coursed through him.

“The pain will stop when you do.” Desdemona said. She had witnessed such things many times before.

Magnus influenced Jack to lunged at her with the sword but it passed right through her body harmlessly.

Desdemona felt the pull of another dark soul. So there would be another that needed to be purged. It would be released from its living form soon enough, Desdemona knew this for a fact.

(i am here, please notice me...)

Vandal sat up and held her head and wondered when she’d fallen unconscious again. It was getting rather annoying. She was surprised to see the state of the bar as it looked like a demolition crew had been busy.

Vandal walked up to Frost, “What happened while I was out of it?”

“Turns out Harry the barman killed Starbright. He’s a shape-shifter. Seems he can take the form of any of us along with our powers.” Frost told.

“Well that really sucks.” Vandal stated as she tilted her head sideways and wondered if she could remove Acero’s paracite.

“Has the deep freeze worked at all?” Vandal asked.

Frost shook his head, “Not nearly well enough.”

“Why don’t you have a go now?” Vandal asked.

Frost was happy to comply.

Haze, still protected by Chromium, picked up the frozen blob that was Harry and smashed it into a million pieces. She help the group of pieces tightly, “Any objections with me throwing this into a smelter, or even better the sun?”

((Amended post...))

Flame stood, looking around, for anything not normal. He was fine, so was every one else apparently. He sat down, the stunt he had pulled earlier had exausted him.

((See my last post.))

((Sorry Revan, I've amended my posts))

Flame looked up. "I can take care of it." he said, igniting his hand

Jack stood there in helpless pain.  He tried and tried to let the sword go but he couldn't, heck, he couldn't even think straight.  But part of him didn't want to let go.  This part told him he should attack.  And managed to muster a small swipe which just harmlessly passed through her.  He heard a voice say, "I yield."  Jack's entire world came crashing upon him.  He heard the clang of metal as the sword fell from his hand.  He felt his head crack against the pavement as he fell to the ground unconscious.

Desdemona watched as Magnus left Jack's body. She turned her hand with her palm extended and Magnus was absorbed into her. She stood for a moment and opened her mouth to the sky, a beam of light shone upward and quickly turned in an arch down to the ground and beyond. Magnus passed through the light and down to the underworld. Desdemona closed her mouth and dropped into a crouch and took a few deep breaths.

Raising a hand Desdemona noticed that she wasn't quite as translucent. "I must be close to my quota." She said to herself. Desdemona stood and picked up the cursed sword. She held the sword in both hands and it ignited in green flames before disappearing from existence entirely.

Desdemona turned to Jack and allowed her hand to materialise. He was alive and his pulse was strong, her hand glowed slightly and Jack awoke.

Desdemona noticed that the average age of an adult had changed since her last hunt many centuries ago. She shifted her form, making it older in appearance so she looked approximately 22. Then she felt the pull of the last soul she had to capture before she would be released from her duty.

Haze moved the captured pieces of Harry to Flame. She had no idea if this would work, but sincerely hoped so.

((Guys this will be my last post for a day or two. Please shuffle Haze and Chromium to the background if need be. Val if you return please feel free to pick up where I left off - Thanks! ))

(Mel, i suggest u post in the "I'm Back" thread)

((I HAVE RETURNED! Yea ill take over Haze/Chromium Mel))
This time Chromium spoke to Flame his metallic deep voice could be heard normally, coming from Haze, but you couldn't tell exactly where.

"Flame, despite any differences we may have, I know you to be no fool. We must rid ourselves of this super immediatly. All our lives are at stake. Do you know where or how we could dispose of him? I was thinking the sun. I would separate from Haze, she could not breathe in space, and I would fly to the sun (or as close as possible so I dont immediatly liquify) and throw him in. Any other suggestions?"

"Yeah, let him change back into a human form. I'll go in there, step on his neck, and shoot him in the head, because that's how I roll. Does that sound good?"

((Guys, im so sorry, but can you always put the name of your character in your posts? Theres so many im forgetting everyones characters))

"Well...not exactly what I had in mind... Can anyone else fly into space as well? I may need assistance." Chromium said to the group

(my guy has a vaccumed sealed suit but he cant fly)

((Acero doesn't need oxygen in his steel form, but alas, he cannot fly either))

(But i could also you Timeshifting. While Vals guy flew me up to space, he could then throw me at at the sun (with harry), i could stop time intill we got close enough, then unstop time, and hes dead)

((My character can fly in space, as long as a sun is present.))
((And I have the same power as the sun...))

Voidhunter detached himself from Oni's form, regaining the consistancy of a human, rather than a shadow.  He sat there, limply floating in the dimension of darkness.  He had learned much by being Oni's shadow for a while.  Harry was a nihilistic shapeshifter, and had killed Darklight's former girlfriend, for one. Oh,that was rich!  Void had nearly burst out in gleeful laughter after hearing that.  But Harry wasn't perfect.  He had made the mistake of banishing Oni and Void to Void's home dimension.  Which was fine, if it weren't for Void's other current guest.  He had to get Oni out of there, and fast.  Void took his natural form of darkness, and taking Oni's form, shadowstepped to the shadows outside of Happy Harry's Bar.  He made sure no one was nearby, and then carefully deposited Oni's limp form on a splintered table in the bar.  He then returned to the realm of shadows.  He had to prepare his guest for presentation, and quicky.  And maybe then he would be able do something about rescuing Harry in the ensuing confusion.  He had, after all, liked the man's style....

After floating for so long in the darkness, Oni had fallen into a deep sleep. So this was how it ended for Oni. Hardly the Julius Caesar-esque final note Oni had always envisioned himself going out on. Heck, Oni would even settle on a swansong more along the lines of Scarface would be favorable to this lonesome death surrounded by emptiness. Was this the legacy he'd leave behind? A demolished bar filled with dead and damaged super-villains? Shameful. What would his mother think if she knew--

What would his mother think? Oni had never thought of that before. He was super-villain, a murderer, a despot...was he also a disgrace?

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In the real world, Harry had been duped and compressed into a small stone, with al the abilities of a paperwieght. It couldn't end this way, not like this!

Harry knew what to do. Using the powers of Vandal, he began to try and find another body to possess. The best he could find was a rat. Better than nothing.

((Oni is back outside the bar right now, remember?  Void returned him there in my last post))

"Yes, Master. The trap is ready, I will take action once they are inside it. I shall report to you after it is done."

"I got a bad feeling about this." Flame muttered, looking at the paper-weight that was now Happy Harry. He looked at it, and it ignited, but due to the earlier actions, the fire only lasted seconds, leaving behind a slightly smaller, charred block of paper-Harry. This had never happened, but Flame had never done anything like he had before. He was truly exausted, almost unable to stand, and definately unable to use his powers.

There.  It was done.  Now all he had to do was prep the other "heroes", and it would be finally ready; the last possible thing he could do to spite Darklight's memory...

"You havin' a little trouble there, Flamey? Need a glass of water? Here's a block of ice, hope you can get enough flame to melt it. Anybody got a glass?" Frost yelled.

Flame tried to melt the ice, just as a test, he couldent, he was to tired. What he had done earlier had left the bar in ruins, windows gone, tables reduced to piles of ash. He leaned back against the wall, breathing heavily.

Void stepped back through the darkness of his little home, dragging his "guest" behind him.  The man was a dark haired individual, who would have green eyes when he was awake.  He was wearing a black turtleneck sweater, and dark blue jeans, and he was suspended above the road by Void's tendrils.  Void shadowstepped to the outside of the bar, where everyrone had been gathering, and quickly clambered up the darkened side of the bar, and onto the hole-ridden roof of the bar.  He then extended his tendrils, and wound multiple ones around the two that held the man's wrists for additional strength.  He then waited for the people gathered on the strets to notice him standing there.  This would be fun...

Frost felt a chill up his spine... well, more than normal anyhow. Removing his attention from the deprived Flame, he looked around nervously. Then he noticed something. The silhouette of what was probably Void was framed by the light of the moon, hovering in a corner of the bar. He was holding the silhouette of a man who was either dressed in black or a shadow like Voidhunter. Eyes wide, Frost yelled, "Dude, what the heck! Guys look!"

The group focusing on Flame's inability to flame turned their attention to where Frost was pointing. Then the thing began to move...

Void had their attention.  "Thank you very much, icey one" he thought.  Raising the limp body above his head even further, he pricked his arm, stirring him into awakening.  AS the man's green eyes, opened, and took in his surroundings, Void tightened his grip, and called out to the people gathered below in a hoarse shout; the only time he had raised his voice above a whisper.

"Look at your 'hero' now, fools!  Look upon your 'mighty savior' now!"  He laughed, and the man in his tendrils stirred slightly, his hands suddenly bursting into bright golden light, illuminating his features for all to see.  FOr those that knew his face, hey recognized him in a snap.  The others recognized his powers.  Void laughed.

"Look upon the glorious Darklight, and despair!"  His voice practically dripped sarcasm and scorn.

"You're all wondering, oh what could he possibly do now?  Kill Darklight?  He was supposed to be dead before, anyways.  The answer, is he hasn't been hurt enough yet.  He deserves every ounce of pain he gets, and more besides.  None of you don't know everything about him...You don't know his secrets..."

Frost was confused. Darklight was dead, and now he's back. Void disappeared, and now he's back with Darklight, and all Void wanted to do was... disrepute Darklight? Doesn't seem all that "super-villain-evil-destroy-or-take-over-the-world thing that I'm used to. Frost thought. Whatever, might as well sees how this plays out...

Flame wasnt as tired now, he raised his hand slightly. "Uh, actually, I could know his secrets if I realy cared...but I dont. I would prefer if you dont rip him in half or anything, there are ladies present, but, unfortunately I'm in no condition to stop you."

"You're all preparing to attack me, aren't you?  I'm the big bad villain, Darklight's the great noble hero.  Has he told you about his past yet?  Any of you?  Sunburn?  Jack?  Frost?  Starbright didn't even know, all the better for her.  Allow me to explain, and fill in the gaps; he practiced blocking these memories away, and for good reason...
"It was back when he was in his teenage years. He was a bad kid.  Foul mouth, foul fist, he was the school bully.  And a repressed psychopath at heart.  His first vitcims were his very own parents.  He killed them, in cold blood.  With their own kitchen knives.  When the cops came, he claimed it was a burglar.  They couldn't find prints on the knives, so they let him go.  He went on like that for twelve years.  He was twenty seven when he had the 'accident'.  By then, he had accumulated a record of eighteen victims, all killed in various painful ways, usually the ABSOLUTE most painful way he could think of at the time.  He was a sadist.  His final victim was to be me.  That's right; me.  The big bad villain was the innocent guy about to be strangled to death by the future hero.  Ironic.
"I saw the glint in his eyes, and ran, into the nearest building.  A research centre, experimenting on focusing light to be used as a weapon.  Nick here pulled a gun, and fired at me, critically damaging the systems and machinery, adn sealing us both in that fateful room.  Then it exploded, bombarding us both with experimentl radiation and energy.  I was thrown into the shadows of the recesses of the roo, and Nick was caught right in the bright centre.  He emerged with powers of light, and decided to build a new rep with the city.  From serial killer to hero, trusted and loved by everyone.  And me, innocent victim?  Left to rot in the dark corners of the room.  I found I could transport myself through shadows, and manipulate them, like he could manipulate light.  I acepted my powers, grateful for their release.  I became one with the darkness I controlled, and became what I am today, with complete control over my essence.  Oh, I fought Darklight many times over the next few years; I was the only one who knew his secrets.  Who was I to know all this?  I was his brother.
"When I took him, a snapped his neck, paralyzing him for the time being, until you were all together to witness this.  He is healed now, as you can see.  My only regret is that Starbright couldn't have heard this before she died...So now, I leave you with a choice.  Accept back this hero of yours, who has killed his own family, and 18 others besides, and tried to kill his own brother.  If you so choose..."

Void stopped talking, and waited for their reply.

((Ummm Oni, the Magnus character doesn't really have super powers, he's more of a cursed soul possessing a sword.  I suggest instead waiting for Void to help you.  So I'm going to ignore what you posted for now and continue on as if you didn't possess me.))

Frost spoke up, "Of course we'll take him back, dude. All of us here have a past. Look at us, heroes and villains alike, standing together waching you publicly disgrace someone who we may not all be on the same side with, but someone who we can respect, either as a challenge to be beat or friend to do the beating with, man. At least he made something of himself. We can't change what we've done, but we can try to make up for it by doing our best afterwards. While we're at it. I've killed people, too. That's how I became who I am today. I was a lot like Darklight, a kid who thought the world was against him, when my Dad, a genetic scientist, took me to Alaska.  He and I got in a fight, and in anger, I hit him over the head with a snowshoe. Seeing him on the floor, bleeding. I was scared, and ran, crashing into a table with environment-adaptable chemicals in beakers that my Dad had been working on. They cut me as they broke, and got into my bloodstream. As I landed in the snow, they took action, and now I am what I am today. It's not what we've done, but what we do with our future after we forgive ourselves. Woe, that was way too deep for me..." Frost ended, sighing...

Chromium liquified and separated from Haze this time, he materialized right next to her however just in case. He stepped forward a bit however and faced Void.

"Release him now Void." Chromium's deep metallic voice reverberrated through everyone's ears.

"We will judge for ourselves whether or not he is a hero. I do not trust you, nor your tale of murder and lies. What good have you done? You said you accepted your powers...to use them for your own selfish purposes? How have you used them to assist the weak, helpless and innocent? Even if your tale is true, it seems to me hat Darklight is a redeemed man. We will decide whether or not to take him to the proper authorities of this city or not. No one here has ANY right to kill him upon a fanciful tale you just told."

"My dear man, who said anything about killing him?"  Void smiled darkly, knowing no other way of smiling.

"You have no idea what you are doing.  Unleashing his mental state and his powers upon the world."

The man held in his tendrils twisted around.  "They want ME Void.  Not you.  Let me go, or I will light up this rooftop like a Christmas tree.  And that will finish what I started way back when."

"You can go ahead and take your shot, Nick ol' boy.  You won't like the results, I promise you."

Void then hurled Darklight from the bar, aiming for the building across the ways from where he stood.  Luckily, Nick was able to power up in time, generate his field of light, and catch himself in mid-air.

"That's IT Void!  I've had enough of you!"  He shot back across the sky straight for his old enemy, his power shining through the night once more.