originally posted in:The New Dojo
[i]Wolfe took the right, rifle up and looking for a set of stairs down to the lower decks. If he could keep moving down, maybe he could find her.[/i]
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[i] Eventually, the bodies that were swarming them ceased, there only having been so many bodies on the deck, and most couldn't stand due to broken spines, legs, and decapitated heads. Selene didn't seem phased in the least, the flames from the fighter jets making smoke that consumed most of the deck, making it hard to see.[/i] "It's a shame you don't use those abilities for better applications Jackson." [i] She said with a smile, while Riley stood quietly, analyzing the situation..[/i]
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[i]The smell of burning corpses and jet fuel filled the air, the carrier's flight deck an absolute mess. While he kept the rifle in hand, he did not raise and aim it, switching on his HUD's heartbeat sensor. Thermal, NV, and FLIR optics weren't going to be much help with all of the heat. [/i] I'm quite happy using them to get rid of people like you. [i]He replied calmly.[/i]
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"Let's see, if you can use them to get rid of someone like her." [i] She said with another sinister smile crossing her face, flicking her hand out towards her left. Through the chaos of smoke and flames, a figure walked, calmly and calculated. Who it was, they couldn't tell. The smoke was too thick. But the figure was definitely feminine and she carried a sword. A katana. If Selene raising the dead had sent Riley into shock, than that was nothing compared to her reaction now. Her entire body froze, her eyes going blank and limbs going slack, she stumbled from the sheer effort of standing.[/i] "No..no..you didn't." [i] She spoke in a ghostly whisper, not looking at Selene, or the approaching figure, or much of anything at all. Her eyes were transfixed on nothing but empty space, staring off into oblivion. [/i] "Oh yes..I did."
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Riley, you're gonna get your chance now... [i]Wolfe said, raising his rifle to his shoulder.[/i] This is the end-all, be-all... I believe in you. [i]He said, letting off a blast at Kyr, the rounds aimed for her chest. He'd swapped his armor-piercing steel core rounds for Hornady green-tips, nasty multipurpose API rounds.[/i]
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Edited by Will: 12/7/2016 10:22:30 PM[i] The bullets were plucked from the air, by none other than Selene. [/i] "Oh no, I'm your opponent boy." [i] Selene says, sending the bullets flying back at Jackson just as fast as they'd been launched. At the same time, the figure walking slowly through the smoke became clear to them. She was only about 5'8", dressed in a skintight black suit. A Silencer's outfit.. her skin was a flawless porcelain, her ice white hair cropped perfectly, framing her face. Her body was lithe and agile, like Riley's. The katana at her waist was a simple black. [/i] [i] Riley couldn't breathe, it felt like someone had a boot on her throats and was slowly crushing her windpipe. [/i] "Kyr." [i] She breathed. This couldn't last long, she couldn't last that long. She moved before she could think, launching herself at Kyr who didn't even draw her blade. Riley slashed downwards and Kyr weaved sideways, slamming her fist into Riley's jaw.[/i]
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[i]Wolfe rolled out of the way, and tossed the clip from the rifle. His revolver was sitting at only three shots, and he raised it, opening the cylinder and dropping the shells. His other had already been emptied. He emptied his bandolier of grenades as well. Approaching her instead, he readied himself for a fight.[/i] Alright... [i]And then he teleported, reappearing behind her.[/i] I'm waiting.
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[i] Selene turned around and finally drew the katana at her waist, ripping it from its sheathe, the edge sparking with blue electricity as she swung it at Jackson's face. [/i] ~~~ "Son of a bitch." [i] Riley growled, picking herself up and not letting herself examine Kyr. Or, her corpse, rather. She hadn't changed a bit in the year or so since she'd seen her. Minus the blood red cut underneath her suit that peeked over the collar. Lance's death blow. It wasn't bleeding, or healed a bit. It was just kinda..there. Riley lunged again, attacking her old mentor and greatest tormentor. She thrust the blade in a feint, and pulled back, turning and slashing at her mid-section. Perhaps the strangest thing was Kyr made no facial expression or sound while she fought. She couldn't, of course, but it made it all the more eerie. A shell, just fighting at someone else's command. A shell that still fought with every application she'd wielded in life, and very well still could kill Riley. She drew the sword at her waist, an unfamiliar blade to Riley. Kyr's sound was back at the Dojo. The sword Lance had taken from her once he'd killed her. Kyr blocked the attack with ease, deflecting it away and thrusting at Riley. She was toying with her.. Riley growled to herself. This was Kyr's sparring capability. Riley weaved past the attack and sent a spinning kick at Kyr, which she dodged with almost no effort. Riley grimaced at the thought. She was fighting with the abilities Kyr had taught her, and as lance had taught her, Kyr had made her into a cheap copy of herself. There was no way she'd beat her fighting like that. [/i]
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Edited by Trashcan Jesus: 12/8/2016 4:59:19 PM[i]Raising his right arm, he deployed his hydraulic gauntlet blades, catching the blade as it fell. Twisting his arm, he wrenched the blade out of her hands, sending it clattering to the deck. The electricity seemed to have minimal effect on his armor, it having been built by Schrader and his father to withstand immense quantities of electricity, in case of an emergency. [/i] [i]He knew Riley needed help, but he couldn't exactly deal with Kyr and Serene at once. Bullets were useless against one, and he'd already dropped his ammunition to maintain an advantage over the metal manipulator.[/i]
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[i] Selene laughed at Wolfe, not even going back for her katana as her form blurred unnaturally fast. Supernaturally fast, reappearing in front of Jackson and slamming a fist into his face mask, not even flinching as the blow sent him reeling and putting him on his back. Enhanced strength? [/i] "You, are nothing Jackson Wolfe." [i] She snarled.[/i] ~~~ [i] Riley took up an unnatural, unknown fighting stance. Crouched low and Blade out to the side, left side of her body turned. It was a stance Jackson had seen Lance use.[/i] [i] Riley moved fast, unnaturally so. To the point where it seemed Kyr would not be fast enough to counter. Until Kyr slammed her katana through her collarbone.[/i]
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"NO!" [i]He screamed, a scream of animalistic rage and desperation as he rolled back onto his feet, teleporting to Kyr, grabbing hold of her from behind, and using his size and strength to his advantage and driving his gauntlet blades through her spine, not once, but twice, a powerful double tap, vertebrae shattering as the blades went in. Throwing the corpse to the ground, he turned to Selene, and rushed her. This was sheer anger now, hatred and unbridled fury. All Jackson could see now was Garrison, smashing the man's face into a cabinet, Caine, killing his father that Christmas morning... Caine gasping for breath in his grip. Selene was going to die.[/i]
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Edited by Will: 12/9/2016 10:03:17 PM[i] An invisible force grabbed Jackson from behind, keeping him from moving. Riley stood impaled on Kyr's Blade, eyes glazed and blank. ..Until she smiled. The body on her blade flickered and disappeared from existence, like the picture from an old TV. The real Riley, still cut and bleeding but without a stab wound in her collarbone flickered into existence behind Kyr, and rammed her sword through the woman's back, the audible crack of her spinal cord heard out loud, and Kyr's form crumpled to the ground like a bag of cement. Riley turned to Jackson and grinned..until a spray of blood erupted from her arms, legs, torso, face, everywhere.. hundreds of small but noticeable wounds opened in a fantastical spray of crimson, where she crumpled to the ground. What had just happened..? [/i] "Jackson..Lodestone's weakness.. blood. He was scared of blood." [i] She breathed only loud enough for Jackson to hear. She was going to live, the cuts all over her body were little more than glorified paper cuts, but there were a lot of them..But why was she telling him this? Jackson's analytical and tactical mind would have figured it out though. Riley had told him that all Powers weaknesses were linked to the owner's fears. Lodestone, was the metal manipulator Selene had gotten the metal manipulation, which was the very power that was keeping Jackson from ripping her apart with bullets. Riley had told him powers could only be deactivated by using the owner's fear and thus, their weakness, against them.. If Selene had stolen their powers, could it be possible she unintentionally stole their weaknesses as well..? [/i] [i] From her sprawled position on the ground, Riley withdrew a dagger from a sheathe on her thigh and hurled it past Jackson, at Selene. Naturally, the knife faltered in the air and dropped to the ground, but at the same time, caused her to relinquish her hold on Jackson.[/i] "Don't you see Riley? You murdering the Gypsies gave me all the power I could ever need." [i] She said with a laugh.[/i]
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[i]He drew his knife knife, seeing that Serene was focused on Riley. Without his guns, he had to rely on his knife. Drawing his Ontario spec ops blade, he threw it, the blade rolling through the air and heading straight for Serene's chest. [/i]
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[i] Same as always, the knife simply dropped from the air and clattered to the deck, to Selene's amusement.[/i] "How much metal are you going to throw?" [i] She says with an insufferable smirk.[/i] "I have Lodestone's powers! The best metal manipulator this world has ever seen!" [i] She yells, the wing of another jet in flames picking up and launching at Jackson.[/i] "You can't defeat me!"
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[i]He watched as it came closer, leaping, and then jumping off of it skillfully, landing back on his feet.[/i] I don't know.... being afraid of blood kinda ruins the intimidation factor. [i]His gauntlet blades shot forwards as he impaled one of the corpses on the ground, pulling them back out, coated in blood. Taking his other hand, he touched the pool of blood around the corpse, and marked his mask with it, the red ichor dripping from his face. He approached her, the blood running down his mask.[/i]
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"I'm not scared of blood, idiot. I'm about to bathe in yours." [i] She says grinning, leaping at Wolfe with electricity sparking on her hands. She certainly didn't seem afraid of it.. But what if she didn't inherit the fear? What if she was unaware of the fact Lodestone's weakness was blood?[/i]
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"I'm gonna guess that you didn't read the terms and conditions page. Your little metal-bending powers have a weakness, because the man you stole them from wasn't a fan of blood." [i]He flicked his arm so that the blood from his blades flew towards her. God, he hoped this was going to work.[/i]
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[i] The blood spattered across her face and chest, but she didn't falter and merely smirked. Jerking a hand sideways, obviously trying to manipulate Jackson's armor. And..nothing happened. Her eyes went wide as she tried again, with the same results. She tried wiping the blood away but only managed to smear it and rub it into her skin. With a snarl, she threw two lighting bolts at Jackson with a scream. [/i]
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[i]He rolled out from under them, standing back up and reloading his remaining revolver. Aiming, he let off three shots towards her stomach, copper-jacketed armor-piercing rounds. Even if she dodged them, he now had an advantage.[/i]
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[i] She swept her arms across her body, in an attempt to throw the bullets off course, but bullets travel pretty fast. Very fast. The three rounds slammed into her abdomen and bent her double, falling to the ground in a heap clutching her stomach.[/i]
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[i]The armor-piercing rounds had ripped through her, leaving massive exit wounds, blood pouring from her body. Wolfe approached, as now she was coat in blood and fairly weakened, as without armor, surviving three shots from a .44 magnum was fairly difficult. Holstering the gun, he walked up to her, kicking her over onto her side, sending another fresh wave of pain into her body.[/i] Shame. Didn't think bullets were going to do too much... [i]She heard the smooth metallic sound as his gauntlet blades sprung forward and locked into their outwards position, still coated in blood.[/i]
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"Unity doesn't die with me, Jackson Wolfe." [i] She snarled, hands still clutching the bleeding remains of her stomach. She wasn't trying to use whatever powers she had, having pistol rounds rip through her abdomen was obviously too much for her. [/i]
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"Doesn't need to. It only needs to be without a leader to unravel." [i]He lifted the woman up by the throat, his grip vice-like, and then ran his blades through her chest, twisting them after driving them in. He said nothing, staring into her eyes, those of his mask cold and inhuman, terrifying in a way.[/i]
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[i] Not a sound escaped her lips as his blades were slammed into her torso, her eyes glassing over and going blank. Selene, was very dead. [/i]
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[i]Retracting them, he dropped her to the ground, turning to pick up his knife, sword, revolver, and rifle. He slung the rifle over his shoulder and onto his back, before sheathing his sword and combat knife. The pistol he reloaded before he slid it back into its proper holster. Quickly, he rushed to Riley, to see how seriously she was injured.[/i]
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[i] She was struggling to sit up, but her body was generally alright..sorta. She'd been stabbed in the thigh, and her fingers were broken. Her face along with the rest of her body was bruised, and every inch was a small cut. Like someone had thrown her into a hurricane of razor blades. They weren't deep, but they bled a bit.[/i] "Nice going.." [i] She breathed, attempting a smile but wincing.[/i]