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originally posted in:The New Dojo
10/30/2016 7:58:06 AM
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[i]As the bullets went through his physical remnant, he suddenly appeared to the side of it, rolling. He released his energy in the form of [u]Soul Fire[/u], a purple beam of Psionics most likely knocking his opponent back a few dozen metres. He then quickly switched to his Mag Rifle, firing a few pot shots before rolling into shadow and becoming one with it as well.[/i]
[i]Xavier then started to move around, finding ways to flank his opponent. He had his pistol out, which was currently set to 'cryogenic'.[/i]
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The man was knocked back by the Soul Fire beam but managed to anchor himself to the ground as he was blown two meters back, stabbing the dense sword-breaker into the earth as his hat sailed backwards from the force of the psionic energy. The potshots were swiftly avoided by twisting and allowing them to hit his ceramic guards, but not before leaving a few good bruises due to their velocity. After the blast he gets up and looks around for Xavier. Not knowing that he's in his shadow, he produces a few cylindrical objects from beneath his coat and throw them all around him, creating a perimeter of about 6 objects in total around him and Xavier. He reloads his revolver before fanning the hammer and masterfully hitting each object laying on the ground with a .45 colt. Electromagnetic pulses are released from the EMP grenades destroyed by his bullets, disabling any electronics Xavier might have as he was caught in the radius. He quickly reloads different rounds in the gun and holsters it. The man's attention to detail and quick reaction time to anything proposed to him is what made him noteworthy. Something told Xavier that he wasn't a simple warrior who would ramp up his power until he beat his opponent by sheer strength. No. This was an observer and a thinker. He came prepared. And he would not allow Xavier to do the same trick twice.
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[i]Observer and Thinker, huh? Well, he won't be observing and thinking after this.[/i] [i]Since his Mag Rifle and Arc Sword were out of the count for now, he went to his Psionic Amp, and started charging it up. He then suddenly jumped out of the shadows and released the energy, the Purple tendrils of the energy forcing their way into his opponent's mind. They attempted to [u]Terrorise[/u] him, haunting him with his own fears.[/i] [spoiler]This requires your permission for me to play with his mind.[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]Go wild man[/spoiler] Just as Xavier emerged and released the energy, he fired three .410 shotgun shells from his revolver at his position before the psionic energy began effecting him. Something was wrong. He could feel it. [i]Believe in monsters, not the fantasies of men. Believe in monsters...[/i] The mantra his mentor gave him grounded him to reality for a short while before Xavier's Terrorise ability took hold.
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[spoiler]Soooo... What does he exactly fear?[/spoiler] [i]In his subconsciousness, he finds himself standing in a dark void, looking at a flower seemingly placed in thin air. It stood at his feet, ready to be picked.[/i]
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[spoiler]The boy he's trying to find dead.[/spoiler] Looking around confused at first, Lucien realizes there is no one there. No stranger to dreams, he picks up the flower and awaits for the vision to progress.
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[i]When he looked back up, a figure was seen standing a kilometre or so away from him. Whoever it was stood there, staring at you.[/i]
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The man immediately took a combat stance, legs spaced apart in a fencer's gait and arms poised above his waist like a gunslinger ready to draw. "Who's there?" he asks.
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[i]The figure continues to just stand there, staring at you. When Lucien looked closer at him, it seemed like someone familiar...[/i]
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"Alister?" The man releases his tenseness for one second before regaining his composure. No. He had to remember who he was - who he was... Who Alister was...
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[i]Alister then began to walk away, slowly going away from him.[/i]
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The man looked around before sprinting after Alister, always looking around for any other threats. "Alister! Look at me. What did they do to you? What did the Icos do to you?"
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[i]He continued to walk away, and somehow, Lucien was moving slower than Alister.[/i]
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Lucien knew there was something wrong. It felt as if Alister was slipping away, ignoring him like some kind of corpse. [i]No... No![/i] "Damn it! Alister! ALISTER!" All Lucien could do was watch as the boy walked away.
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[i]Then the boy faded into the darkness. There was no point in chasing him anymore.[/i]
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[i]No. He can't be gone. He can't be gone.[/i] "No..." Lucien's eyes light up with rage as he draws his pistol and points it to the black void. "GIVE HIM BACK! OR I SWEAR, I WILL MAKE SURE A SWIFT DEATH BECOMES A MERCY WHEN I FEED YOU TO THE FIRE!" In reality, the air around Lucien begins to smell like brimstone...
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[i]Then a voice came from nowhere.[/i] "Ah, shît... This is not good. I can't control what is happening to your head, since you've interrupted it when you shot me." [i]Then the floor beneath Lucien disappeared, leaving him to fall.[/i]
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Lucien rejoins reality and looks around frantically for the boy. Then he sees Xavier. "You... You dare tease me with finding him. You dare play with my mind? So be it then. Feast upon the fruits of a False Prophet." He holsters his revolver and draws the sword from its mechanical sheathe - the first time Xavier has seen it. It is akin to a traditional Japanese katana, albeit set with engravings and alight with blue flames. The man drops to his knees and swiftly plunges the flaming blade through his own stomach in an act of twisted seppuku. The last thing Xavier sees of Lucien's face is the raging fire of pure hatred before he dons the gas mask hanging from his belt. Fog begins to creep from seemingly out of nowhere as the scent of brimstone becomes intertwined with the stench of burning flesh... Through the silhouette of the thick fog comes slight flickers of the same blue flames as before, albeit more... Hungry. Veins of purple creep up the fires behind the kneeling figure of Lucien, only to shift around him like a shield and covering his body. The fires covering Lucien spread outwards by a few meters to each side - like two massive avian wings. Through the fog comes glimpses of burning wings of flesh and feather, feathers charred with soot and ash, set aflame by devouring cobalt fire. Two massive limbs stretch out from behind Lucien: two arms made out of the burning flesh and bone of other arms, amalgamating into two limbs with each hungry fingertip clawing at the thick fog, [i]hungry...[/i] There is only a flash of a silhouette against the thick fog: the form of Lucien outlined by burning wings and two massive extra arms, holding a flaming sword and pistol like some demented angel of Eden. Then the fog creeps over his silhouette, leaving Xavier in the thick fog with that [i]thing[/i] hidden somewhere.
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Edited by Tamedfrog: 10/30/2016 10:26:35 AM[i]Xavier stood up, clutching his left arm where Lucien shot him. He then began walking forward, holding his pistol in his right hand.[/i] "You've gone mad, Lucien. Stop." [i]This was not going to plan, and this was his fault.[/i]
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Edited by Chinkronomicon: 10/30/2016 4:23:23 PMThrough the fog comes a massive veiny and burnt arm, each smaller appendage creating it clawing at the air. The taloned finger of each hungering hand that acted as the giant hand's fingers smashed Xavier in the mask shattering the ODST-style helmet. For a moment he sees him, standing amidst the fog. An angel who feeds upon his own wings to tame the inner demon. https://imgur.com/Kd304 The cracks on Xavier's helmet begin to spiderweb across his visor, almost as if consuming the very glass itself... It would be better to take off at this point due to vision being obstructed.
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[i]He threw off his helmet, continuing his walk.[/i] "I know it was a mistake using that ability... Accidentally causing you pain by showing you him... But I can help you." [i]He got ready to fire the next time he appeared.[/i]
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And then the world around him fractured into a thousand pieces. The fog suddenly stopped moving and became fully opaque before spiderwebs of energy similar to Xavier's break out all along the area around him. These fractures soon turn into cracks until the entire scene around Xavier breaks apart into a thousand intangible pieces. In front of Xavier was the same prototype machine that broke his reality all that time ago. Pieces of his University were scattered all around him - with all of his friends impaled on shards of different dimensions, infinite possibilities made viewable. Every one of Xavier's friends that helped work on the machine were splayed out gorily on massive fragments of dimensions, like a shattered mirror each reflecting a different possibility. All of the corpses shared the same violet eyes. No whites or pupils. Just Violet. [b]YOU DID THIS TO US.[/b] They all speak in unison, their voices resounding across a multitude of realities.
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Edited by Tamedfrog: 10/30/2016 9:55:13 PM"Ah... Ah crap..." [i]He looked around, presumably were his subconsciousness is. This is fake, this is fake... He needed to hold his will...[/i] "Vinnie did this to all of us. This is not my fault, but his. He shouldn't have touched that machine, and neither of us should have." [i]He fired at seemingly nothing.[/i] "If you want to inflict Trauma on me, go ahead. I've lost it a long damn time ago."
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[b][i]"YOU WANTED TO PLAY GOD. SO HERE IT IS: THE FATE OF FOOLS WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN BECOME THE VERY FANTASIES MEN WORSHIP."[/i][/b] The voice that speaks is sinister and metallic, almost as if speaking behind that gas mask of his, but multiple mouths and voices are also speaking at the same time. From one of the shattered mirror dimensions arises one of Lucien's colossal extra arms, claws grabbing hungrily at the void around it. The massive hand pulls the corpse of Vinnie from a dimension shard, ripping through his shoulder. His rotting flesh begins to knit itself together as he stares and points at Xavier. "Don't... you dare... BLAME ME!" The dimension machine breaks apart and melds itself to Vinnie, likewise with all the other bodies of Xavier's friends. They all began whispering the same thing: [i]"It could've been us who lived. It could've been us who became the hero - but no. Xavier had to take our lives. Xavier had to erase us from every dimension.[/i] And with that, the flesh colossus of Xavier's dead friends begin to sob, screeching so loud that they shatter other shards of dimension.
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"Heh. Heheheheh. Heheheheheheheheheh..." [i]He began waking up to the machine, the fact that he was slowly going crazy making him say weird shît.[/i] "Trust me. I am not trying to play 'God'. We are all human, from each background. And the ones that tried to call themselves 'Gods' are just ignorant fools. I carried on for you guys, fixing that godforsaken place of a dimension. And your other dimensional selves were there for me, to... Replace you." [i]He then was standing a few centimetres away from the machine, after walking and saying whatever gibberish he was saying.[/i] "?enoyrevE ,thgir taht t'nsI" [i]He then put his hand up to the machine, Transparent energy making his hand looking like it was seen from a broken mirror, and small, polygonal shapes extruding from his hand. He was trying to do something with the machine.[/i]
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All the voices merged into a chorus of accusations, still enumerating Xavier's sins even if he cared not for it. They screamed at him as he began to interact with the machine before advancing upon him. The flesh colossus swings its claws made out of Xavier's friends's corpses towards the man tinkering with the machine. They sobbed and screeched, all attempting to grab Xavier and name his past wrongs. Strangely enough there was no sign of Lucien. Only the corpse monster attacking him and the stinging scent of burning flesh and sulphur surrounded by fragments of broken dimensions.
