Topic: RPG-Superhumans

((Booyah!  Go Sunburn!))

Darklight awoke, mystified by his new suroundings.  He was standing on a plain of grass, grey as ash, with a sky only a single shade lighter.  It was a barren place, seemingly devoid of light and shadows.  Darklight had very little, if any, depth perception.  Suddenly he saw something.  A figure, arising from the ground before him.  It was Void, in his human form, shaking his head groggily.  Seeing Darklight standing before him, he snarled, and approached him.

"You did this to me, Nick!  You'll pay for this!"

"Light cannot live without the darkness Terry, and darkness cannot live without light.  We are both here.  No one else is around."

"Where is here?"

"We both killed each other, but there was a huge explosion, and we both died in a strange way."

Void lit up, a small grin stretching across his face.  "Hey, this is like my little shadow dimension.  You have a light dimension, but you never knew it, never entered it.  This must be a neutral one.  Kinda like a limbo."

"So we ARE dead.  If we're dead, we can't die again, right?"  Darklight smiled (his costume was gone; he was wearing civvies)

Void grinned.  Both brothers changed, Void reverting to his old living shadow shape, and Darklight taking a new one, a form of living light, with golden wings stretching from his back in place of tendrils.  Blades of shaows and light appeared in their hands, and they rushed towards each other.  Even in death, their hate remained.  And now that they could not die, they could duel for the last time, and their duel would last for all time, a never ending struggle between light and shadow.  Neither of them noticed a small globe of liht and shadow, left behind where they appeared, vanish, as it returned to the warehouse; a final sign to Darklight and Void's old friends.  Neither of them noticed this.  They were too busy duking it out once more, clashing in a hail of shadow and light, the sparks of the ussle burning and scorching the earth below them.  And they still fought.  They would not grow tired, or need food.  All that they had now was each other, and their fight with each other would last for all of eternity.

Flame coughed. He tasted blood.One more. he thought to himself. He tried to move his legs again, nothing. The arm had damaged his spinal cord apparently. He didnt want to die here. He always had known that something would kill him, but he didnt want to die in some warehouse, leaning against a wall while others fought something. He had always expected his death to be quick, not slow, not like this, full of thought, knowing that he would die, but still clinging to the impossible hope that he would live. He never expected to be so....helples.

Frost relaxed, Harry was dead at last. Then he noticed Vandal, lying on the ground, in tears.

"Vandal!" he yelled, rushing over. "What happened?"

"The spine... from Noxious, it nicked my arm... I'm... dying..." She said, in between sobs, saying the last word almost surprised.

"I don't think so, dude... not while I'm around." Frost said, determined and passionate. He knelt down, cooling the blood in Vandal's arm, causing it to move slower. "We have to get this poison out! Somebody help!" Frost cried desperately.

Ronin sat in amazement as he watched his comrades finally kill Harry. But they seemed to have forgotten about Drakeus, who seemed to be gaining the upper hand against Jack.

Ronin literally dragged himself, pulling his legless body to where the other heroes were gathered around Harry's body. Ronin left a bloddy trail in his wake as he he pulled the crimson colored stubs where his legs ahd once been.

"Hey..." Ronin said, tapping on Jericho's thigh. "Uh... *cough* we've still got one more villain to *cough* kill. Also, if one of you could put me in a sitting position somewhere or soemthing, I'd appreciate it."

"Sorry boss." Jericho picked Ronin up and sat him on an old tool bench. "I guess we're not the bad guys anymore...are we?"

Haze was exhausted but glad that Harry was finally dead. She saw that Drakeus was putting in a good effort to try and kill Jack. Haze looked up and saw that Flame was in a bad way. She picked him up with her mind and moved him away from the immediate danger. The others were much healthier, well most of them.

Haze lifted Ronin into a more comfortable position than on the toolbox, “Happy now?” she asked.

Ronin gave her a thumbs up as Sunburn burned the end of his stumpy legs to stop the bleeding. Ronin yelled a few choice words but seemed to know that it had to be done.

Frost looked like he didn’t want to leave Vandal who was very distressed. Haze placed a hand on Frost’s shoulder “I’ll take her to the hospital. Go help the others.”

Frost hesitated for a moment then nodded. Sunburn, Jericho and Frost rounded on Drakeus ready for the final battle. Ronin also readied his weapons from his vantage point.

Haze lifted both Flame and Vandal from the floor and carried them outside with her mind. She gently placed them on the ground as she approached Chromium who still lay where she’d left him. “Chromium?” she called but still he did not answer. Haze touched his silver skin and a thought occurred to her. Chromium had said that his silver symbiont had the power to heal. She hoped he was in the process of restoring himself. She also wondered if the symbiont could heal Vandal and Flame.

Flame was pretty sure his legs were useless now. The way they dangled below him was a dead give away. He looked up slightly, still keeping his hand on the entry wound.What are you thinking? he voiced to Haze, talking would be to hard. He was starting to think that he might not die.

Desdemona watched as Lilith claimed Harry's evil soul. Harry fought all the way but Lilith was too powerful. She consumed his soul, then released it through her mouth and into the underworld just as Desdemona had done with Magnus.

Lilith turned to Desdemona. "I must leave now, you realise that Void has left this realm of existence don't you?"

Desdemona nodded and realised that. Void had died but she had not delivered his soul. She looked at her hands as they turned transparent once again. It seemed humanity was out of her reach once more.

(Well, you guys kind of left me out of the grand finale there....)

(Blame Mel.

And theres still drakeus, get up Mr.shiny)

((Thanks a lot Adeptus. :P Well Val, you knocked Chromium out, besides we’ve still got to get rid of Drakeus))

Haze didn’t look up but answered Flame’s question, I’m wondering if Chromium will live. I’m also curious to know if his symbiont could heal you and Vandal.

Does it have that ability? Flame asked in return.

Yes, Haze answered as she touched Chromium’s chest. She watched as a portion of silver moved to cover her hand. It separated from Chromium’s body but left no exposed spots. Haze lifted her hand that was now coated in silver. The symbiont moved up her arm and then down her chest to her broken rib. Haze gasped as she felt a pulling sensation.

“I thought you said you were taking us to the hospital!” Vandal snarled as she lay on the ground with her arm partially frozen.

Haze closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them the symbiont moved back to her hand. She turned to Vandal and placed her silver hand on the puncture wound. Vandal hissed for a moment then relaxed within minutes the silver shifted back to Haze.

Haze turned to Flame and placed her silver hand on one of Flame’s wounds. The silver took a lot longer to heal Flame and while it was doing so Haze turned as she heard a groan from Chromium.

“Chromium can you hear me?” Haze said but still left her hand on Flame for the portion of silver to return to.

Flame felt a slight tug on his back, then a very sharp pain, which caused him to grit his teeth. His leg twitched. He wasnt paralized anymore apparently.He felt another tug in his chest, then the silver semiliquid exited the same way it had entered, then healed that wound.

"Ok guys, now that's just freaky."

((Gah!.....suddenly i feel outmatched))

Drakeus looked over to see Harry collapse onto the floor. Drakeus could sense that he was dead. "Now I dont have someone to distract them. while I kill Jack." Thought Drakeus. He decided that it would be in his best interests if he hurried up and killed Jack. Drakeus brought to bare all his demonic hellfire, so Jack would burn. Swirling pillars of dark fire barreled towards Jack. Jack did his best to avoid them, but was unable to escape unsinged. Jack caught one in the shoulder, and a second on his thigh. Jack went down a second time. Drakeus walked slowly to the very much weakened Jack, and put his hand out. Aiming for his chest. Drakeus, instead of consuming Jacks soul and sending it to hell, He started to BURN it. Patches of Jacks skin started to turn to ash, and you could see a flame flicker in his eyes. Drakeus' mission would soon be complete...

Flame looked down at his hand, and a small fire started. He looked up, and the fire grew. "I'm back." he said, barely audiable.

(Drakeus is Sev's villain. Whatever.... )

Chromium's eye lids slowly cracked open. He was staring into a clear blue sky. He tilted his head to his left and saw Haze. She looked back at him a smile spread across her face. He grabbed the back of her head and brought her lips to his. He cleared the silver liquid from his mouth so their skin touched. He released her after several moments.

Chromium levitated into a standing position and Haze rose with him. He saw the silver liquid from his body healing Flame, and he saw all the others healed and outside of the ruined warehouse. The healing ability of Chromium's metal was increadibly hard to manifest and took much concentration to use. In his unconcious state, it must have been activated automatically, still retaining its little intelligence since he fought against it several years ago.

Chromium frowned slowly as he looked at the warehouse.

"What's wrong?" Haze asked, worried.

"Harry's already dead. I missed it..."

"Yeah, well, Drakeus isn't." Vandal said to Chromium. He looked at her, and back at the warehouse. He burst into the warehouse flying at supersonic speeds.

He stretched his arm and lauched it at Drakeus' chest and he flew backward. Chromium flew up to the burning body of Jack and Helped him stand.

"Will your healing ability help against this fire?" Chromium asked him

“I don’t know,” Jack said as he gritted his teeth against the pain.

“I can help,” Desdemona said.

Fully transparent and like a ghost, Desdemona merged with Jack and restored his body and soul. She took control of his body and made him stand. You can defeat him but you need the others to help you. Desdemona said as she was still within him.

“Stay with me,” Jack said as he felt her start to leave his body. Very well, Desdemona replied. I will do my best to protect you.

((Amended for you...))

(Uh....can someone edit please?)

(Near the begining, Mandal created Drakeus, then he lost intrest, then he re-made Drakeus. Pay attention.)
Flame had re-entered the warehouse, he began to throw fire at the giant demon, it was good to not be dead, or dying.

(er, did we get the pillar-prisoners out yet?)

(I dont think so)

Oh ok....dad.

I meant that Drakeus was Sev's villain to fight, not mine. Jack and Drakeus have their own sub plot. Pay attention

(I try, but i tell you....its hard.)

Flame made his way over to the pillars, and took control of them. He killed the fire, the people on the inside looking at him fearfully. "Go." he said, and they did.He turned, to help deal with Drakeus.

When there's like 28 characters running around here....i dont blame you.

((Theres even one or two characters who have less then three posts.))

((I've fixed our continuity problem...))

Haze and Vandal rushed back in after the others. Haze ignited her psy-blades and Vandal hovered. "Ready?" Hazed asked.

"Ready," Vandal answered as the two women charged it.

((Sorry Sev, have now fixed - too many posts to keep up :P ))

((Jack released the civs by the way.  Pay attention.  And didn't Jack have protection against his soul being burned?  But for the moment Drakeus is Jack's villain as Drakeus blames Jack for sending him to the underworld.))

Jack feeling restored and revigorated renewed ((ooh alliteration)) his attack on Drakeus.  He switched from fighting form to fighting form in order to confuse Drakeus.  He cut Drakeus across the chest.  Drakeus caught his arm.  Which healed immediately.  But all of his attacks seem to be taking no effect on Drakeus. 

Jack use my powers!  It is the only way you can defeat him!

"How?"  Jack fended off an attack and launched a flurry of his own.

Concentrate hard.  Feel the power deep within you.  And release it.

"Sounds fun."  Jack did as he did with Haze.  He concentrated hard and envisioned a hand grabbing this ball of energy.  Sure enough a ball of energy formed in his hands.  He kept taking more until he could barely hold it.

Now Jack! Let it go now!  Jack did as he was told and let it go.  It hurled towards Drakeus colliding with his chest launching him off his feet into the next wall.  Drakeus got up slower than before and charged up his own dark ball of energy.  Jack threw up his shield and the dark energy rebounded back at Drakeus.

EDIT:  ((See Jack saving civilians.  I'll edit it so only half we're saved.)) 

((So..should the rest of us just stand around in awe? And whatever happened to Acero?))

((Kay, I'm technically out of all this.  And Net, to be extremely technical, Void and DL are in a sort of deathly limbo.  They are dead, adn yet, they aren't.  You can still hunt them down if you want.  Oh yeah, and there are still two globes of light and shadow somewhere in the battlefield.  Just for later, adn just in case....))

((By all means join the fight.  I was waiting for some others to come.))

((Acero went to save some citizens. Dravage hasn't been back since.

Oh MA, if you want to play Noxious you could. He's still thawing in the the other warehouse.))

(Flames already there) This was going to take a while. Flame leaped onto the demon's (Im assuming he has taken a giant form thingy huh?) back, and held on. The thing tried to shake him off, apparently more of a nuisence then anything else.

Chromium charged while Flame was on the demon's back, distracting it. He morphed his arms into giant blades again and stabbed and slashed Drakeus' body. His attacks wouldn't kill him, but Chromium knew that. He just hoped him and Flame could distract Drakeus long enought for Jack to finish him off.

Jack continuously fired energy after energy ball.  Each one seemed to weaken him a bit more.  Making him more suseptable to the attacks around him from the others.  They seemed to be having more effect on him.

((Okay, I am now possessing the character Noxious :P))

Noxious awoke, and rubbed the back of his head.  He had just barely thawed out, adn he had a score to settle with that Frost guy.  But it didn't seem like he would get that chance.  An explosion next door shook him out of his dark thoughts, and diverted his attention.  He climbed through an open window, and observed the happenings of the conflict.  He cautiously entered the warehouse, in time to see a motley assortment of heroes and villains alike, facing off against what could only be described as a demon.  Wow.  He must've been on the ice for longer than he thought.  MAybe it was like Captain America, from the comics, and he had dethawed half a century later!  That would be so cool!  But then he recognized the actual combatnts, and his theory was shot.  There was Haze, Jericho, Jack, That new guy, Chromium, a Canadian hero; Sunburn, Frost, and a guy in armur with two stubs for legs.  Okay yeah, this was most definitely in his era.  He jsut had to decide what to do.

Flame got on the thing's head. He hung on, lit up on of his hands, and slammed it into the demon's left eye. It howled in pain. It finnaly reached up and grabbed him, throwing him across  the warehouse.

Chromium used the demon's half blindness to his advantage.

He noticed that now physical attacks worked and he knew what to do.

He lenghtened his right blade and held it high above him...

(CAN I PWEEEASE?????)

Frost watched the battle with Drakeus from a distance, knowing that he couldn't take on Drakeus, as Frost wasn't all that into having his soul burnt. But watching the fight, Frost saw that Drakeus, while looking as if he was weakening, was conjuring up a massive sword of energy behind him, so that Flame was almost sitting on it. He saw Flame hit Drakeus in the eye, then saw Drakeus pick up Flame and hurl him off. Frost, whipping out his sniper rifle, aimed at where he guessed the now-exposed eye of Drakeus was, and fired. The thing screamed with pain, then Frost shot the extending energy sword twice, until it disappeared. Now, not having anything else to shoot at, he waited, hoping he had done enough, as Jack relentlessly shot energy balls at the rapidly failing Drakeus. Chromium, above him, wound up for what was hoped to be the final blow...

((Oops, posted without refreshing. My bad, kay, edited))

(what happedend to "Drakeus is Sev's villan huh? :D)

Flame got back up. He was going to be realy sore later,but right now, that wouldent be important. He charged again, fire flowing from him, leaving a trail behind.

Jericho made his way back to Drakeus and joined the fight.
"You want more little man? Come get it!"
Jericho dodged Drakeus's first punch like he was sitting still. Afterall, he had a lizardman, a liquid metal guy beating him to death, and getting shot at by the Iceman sniper, so the attack was sluggish. Jericho returned the favor by 200 fold in a matter of seconds. He punched so fast, his arms appeared as a blurr. Drakeus stumbled against the wall from the intense pain, something he did not feel often.
"What do you think of this little man now?" Jericho asked, giving Drakeus another barrage of punches followed by a bone-shattering kick.

Noxious whistled.  He hadn't thought Jericho had had any powers.  But the speed of his puches and kicks was a bit too fast for normal humans. Okay, okay, it was insanely fast, he couldn't even see Jericho's arms.  Yes, the man was most definitely a super.  And a dangerous one too; no one could defend themselves against punches at those speeds.  He settled down on his haunches, and watched the remainder of the battle, captivated by how dramatic the events seemed.

(Awwwww, I just wanted to kill something)

Chromium brought his giant blade downward, yet surprisingly it did not bite flesh. Instead it impacted with drakeus` newly formed giant shadow blade. Chromium recoiled and recalled his left arm blade and made his right one into one big two handed sword.

(Flame don't you have a sword you can use to have a duel between chromium and flame against drakeus?)

(had, threw it away, but Flame can make one :))
As Flame charged,two swords formed in his hand, they were curved, like a scimitar. He leaped into the air, one of the baldes reversing itself. He stabbed this into the Demon's chest. He began to climb, but Drakeus knocked him off with his free hand. The swords died, but reformed as soon as Flame rose.
(yes?
No?)

Haze strode purposefully towards Chromium, “I can help you.” She called as she lifted her hands to indicated to her psy-blades. She demonstrated by slashing at Drakeus which he howled to in response. “They cut through all sorts of things.”

(Are you talking about the haze chromium meld thing, or something we haven't done mel?)

((We kind of need Mandal here.  It's unfair to trash on his character like this :P))

Ronin sat there, staring at his stubby legs, feeling useless.

Well... He thought to himself. This sucks.

Then Ronin got an idea. Aiming one of his stunwhips at the rafters over he fired the whip as it coiled around the steel beams. Ronin tugged to make sure the line was taunt, before swinging forward like Tarzan on a vine or Spider-man with is webbing. As soon as his whip swung to its zenith, he fired the other whip and swung again, swinging around Drakeus and atttacking with the sonic blasters of whichever hand was not swinging.

"Take this, beelzebub!"

((ack, im getting the crap kicked out of me))

"YOU WILL ALL BURN!" Howled Drakeus. "I SWEAR IT!" Drakeus reeling from Jericos blinding attack, recovered, and turned so he was faceing away from Jerico and conjured a second shadow sword. Then as Jerico came in for a second slavo, Drakeus wipped around and cut off one of his hands. Jerico screamed while clutching his stump. Drakeus kicked him in the chest sending him flying accross the room. (Tell me if this isint ok, and ill edit)

Then seeing the man with no legs flying towards him, Drakeus didnt even bother to dodge the sonic attack, absorbed it, then cut the wire the man was swinging on, with a quick burst of hellfire.

You cant burn me. Flame voiced, pretty much just an all chanels brodcast, as he could not directly sense Drakeus, as if he were not real, just an after-image. Flame sent two gouts of fire at the demon, the fire hot enough to be considered plasma.

A gout of hellfire nealy hit Noxious, which severely annoyed him.  Okay, that's it, time to teach this big lug a lesson.  He rushed forward, and shot out a volley of his spines into the demon's leg, grinnin maliciously as the toxins began to course through his body.

"Ha!  Take that!"

((Noxious can do this sorta thing, right?  If not, I'll edit))

((Yes I think he can...but you got ask yourself: Can you poison a demon?))