Darkness Rises Part 1
Participants
Date
17/4/14
Log
It took days for the call to finally go out and moments for Agents to respond. There was precious little to go on with almost no information leaking out of the strange factory, other than the even more unusual sounds pushed out. The skunk girl would no longer venture nearby, keeping locked down even tighter than normal, and other than Jesse and James both being missing and suspected there not much was known. While normally it would be considered the results of ferals even they had been quiet near the building of late and small sights of a dark elven form had been flicking through the shadows.
All now stand in front of the large building heavy steel doors shut against the drab sign and the normally white spraypained skull and crossbones was now red with a slight flaky look to it. Small screams could be faintly heard through the heavy door, perhaps a hint of what was to come.
A soft glow was the first thing to signal hir travels. While in Fairhaven though, Miranai had got a broadcast about some trouble with the Skunk Girl Library? They had helped hir greatly and shi'd defentately come to help out. The wide and pregnant overdrive foxtaur walked carefully down toward the chemical factory. Shi'd not been there for a while, swaying hir nine tails behind hir. Clad in hir usual outfit of brown leather and white unders, shi finds the rut shi is under very manageable. In part due to hir programming, in part due to hir training. Currently a massive amount of fox, shi wonders if this will work for hir, or be more of a deturent. Listening to the heavy door though, shi whinces at the sounds, looking about, ears folded back.
Knowing how dangerous Fairhaven Chemical could be from some fine experience, Dio makes sure he's armed and ready, at least in the defensive category. The lion's multiple lines of armor clank and jingle with each step while a large metal riot shield stands strong in front of him. To top it all off, a lovely snack fills his belly while a pat on his pocket unleashes a small buffer layer of nanites to help protect against incoming damage! Also he's a lion! A walkin' sack of armor. Not long after Mira, the feline finds himself at the scene and looks about for anyone else.
Cookies arrives closely behind Dio, clad in sparkling, wizardly robes, a wide-brimmed pointy hat and a plethora of smaller, more useless planar trinkets. Over her chest is a grenade bandolier, several throwing knives line her belt, strapped to her back is the beam shotgun she's so proud of and hanging next to it is nothing less than a grenade launcher. She follows close behind Dio, looking somewhat unimpressed. "Did they seriously go out of their way repaint the skull and crossbones? Why red? Why not green, or yellow, or maybe a psychadelic tie-dye thing?" She shifts her weight onto one leg as she critiques the warning sign. Her priorities are clearly in the right place. "In any case- You hear that screaming, right? We should hurry," she mewls up at Dio. "Uhhh... You first."
Twitch humms gently as she makes her way through the streets of the city, nodding gently as she approaches the spot where it seemed folks were gathering. The demonic cat clad in thin, redisgned riot gear meant to aid in absorbing cutting blows and such, with a thick brown trenchcoat hanging over it all, and a grey military hat pulled down over her hair with special holes for her two curving horns.. Her sword resting on her hip tenativly, with the small charms hanging from it's handle clinking together in the wind. Along her belt she keeps the Glasher pistol holstered for a quick draw... One way or another, this cat was prepared for a fight. Her right hand raising slightly to fiddle with the brim of her hat as she idly licks her lips, her rut slowly descending, but not enough to count her into a lust haze just yet... And who knows? Maybe she'll find a tasty 'meal' here. Then as if to speak of meal, appears Dio. A large grin crossing her lips as she makes her way closer to the lion and waves. "Good day to you Dio, ready for a fight as well? Ah, and a good day to you as well Cookies." The cat giving a smile as her forked tail sways gently behind her.
Skade arrives at the scene looking more like she's ready for a night out on the town rather then a dangerous mission into the unknown, given her makeup and outfit. The cat girls high heels make a familiar click-clack on the pavement as she approaches the chemical plant, her red-painted lips quirking up in a smile beamed towards any agents she recognizes. The Kemonomimi's little black mini-dress covers little as it is and her stockings doesn't look like it'd take much effort to pull off her shapely legs. But she is, infact, armed to the teeth.
Skade's jacket is outfitted with the very best and extremely expensive tech to deflect all sorts of physical harm. Said short leather jacket bulges slightly where two well-made laser pistols rest comfortably in an easy to reach position. Slung over her shoulder is an impressive, if somewhat jury-rigged sniper rifle. Parts of it glowing omniously where the shielding barely contains it's firing power. The manacle around her right wrist doesn't appear to be entirely normal as well. It helps being rich, and technologically gifted in this day and age, especially when you don't have any mutant powers.
An unassuming latex fox walks up to the group, with an equipment bag over his shoulder. The only things that really point out that he's not one of the local ferals is his groin is usual for the forms here, but manly, if those that bother to check their comms for a transponder, he pings as Randel. For those that ran into him before, it makes sense for him to blend into the feral environment. He has a focused scowl on his face, glances around, titles his head at how some of the other agents look, but then goes to Dio, makes a quick wave, and says, "Hi, nice to see you again. Did I miss anything? Any more information on the situation?" Looking over the agent, he looks like the lest prepared of the group, no visible armor, barely any kind of gear to speak of on him, and most noticeably no manufactured weapons. Those that are familiar with mutation powers can see that his inconspicuous frame is packed with more than a few highly trained mutant powers. He talks off his pack, grabs a water bottle, and starts drinking, while listening to people. The water has a white glow to it.
The screaming inside was slowly getting louder, soft dual voice wails of pain and terror echoing out through windows and muffled by the door. Cookies could tell though, as she glanced at the skull and crossbones, that it wasn't paint. No the red substance covering the graffiti was the lifesblood of some unfortunate being. Over the din of cries dark red glowing eyes could be seen peering from an upper window, a burning gaze welcoming them inside before vanishing as if it's owner had never existed.
The door shook suddenly, a small heavy hammering coming on from behind the thick steel. The beating continued on, steady and growing in it's volume. The still low dull sound thrummed as if to match growing anxeity, each beat of a heart matching the battering on the heavy metal thing.
Miranai looks over to Dio and Cookies. The sight of Cookies makes hir tails twitch and an ache fill in hir belly. Both easily supressed down. She looks around at those around. Feeling a bit skitish about them, moving close to Dio a moment. "W.. well-" Shi starts, but then hears something going on inside, a pounding, more screaming, should they really just try the front door? Shi instead looks around for some other, better way in.
Edel jogs along, still dressed up in her rather casual clothes, but she did carry with her the addition of her larger sword to supplement her typical arsenal. She was ready for a battle, if it came to it! As it is, the husky slows to a stop once she catches up to the group, panting softly as her eyes dart around to see who else she would be working with today.
Twitch whistles slowly as her ears twitch, and the doors begin to open. The demonic cat couldn't hide the sadistic look of joy at the thought of combat, her right hand reaching down to pull the katana free from it's hilt, and rest the flat of the blade upon her shoulder. Her fingers carefull to not pull on the trigger that rested upon the hilt as she looked over the entrance, her left hand lowering itself to hook her thumb onto her web belt... With easy access to the Glasher should she need it. "Well, I'm thinking we should go introduce ourselves to them eh?" The demonic cat turning slowly on her paw as she begins to make her way to the front door, sword raising and tapping on her shoulder as she gets ready to use it should anything pop out. Though when she glances back over her shoulder she stops and offers a wave to Edel. "Well hello there~"
Skade flashes the fellow agents another grin as she readies her rifle. "Well, this looks fuckin' omnious. And sounds like it, too. I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle though. A swift kick to the love spuds and they'll go down just like anything else. I got you covered with my baby here if you want to open those doors." the cat girl says, her eyes flitting up to try to peek into the dark windows above before refocusing on the pounding noise being heard from infront of them. "Uh.. anyone brought a flashlight by the way? Might be dark in there."
The windows at the sides of the building and upper floors appeared to be safe until Miranai's keen eyes examined them closely. Each of them appared to be trapped, explosives of an unknown sort and chemical vats seeming to be linked. The front door itself was starting to buckle under heavy blows but... Ah! Nearby there was an old sewer entrance. While likely dangerous from runoff it didn't seem to be trapped as the rest of the entrances were.
Dio's eyes flicker about amongst the various group members, taking key note of their equipment and such should things every come to blows within. Waving to the others and bowing his head to anyone who may have greeted him, he returns his attention to the door and problem at hand. "Indeed, my lady," the lion replies to Cookies while he peers at the symbol upon the door. "Two missing agents and a curious low amount of feral activity. That's all we know for now. The rest we'll have to investigate on the field." The lion settles the base of his riot shield and watches as Mira searches about for something. "Did you find something, my lady? I don't feel too comfortable running right through the main entrance."
Miranai looks about, hoping whomever was inside was going to be fine. Shi shakes hir head a bit though, poking to Dio, "Umm, the windows, are trapped, very much. But, that sewer access looks fine. If.. .if we would be ok going through there." Mini taur would be a far better thing to be for that, maybe even getting a ride in the overcoat of a lion! Shi snickers at hirself a moment, shifting hir size to be something much more compact...
Edel lets her eyes drift to Twitch with a light furrowing of her brow. "Hey there. I've been looking for you, you know. Mitzy has been wanting to meet her father for a while now!" She cracks a small smirk, tugging the smaller sword around from the back of her hip to her side, ready for a quick draw. "When we're not out here like this, we should fix that!"
Twitch chuckles as she lets out a nod and grins. "Of course! BUT, it sounds like we've a better path then going in guns blazing... Sewer entrance eh?" The cat turns to follow to what dio and Miranai were talking about as she slowly strode over in the direction and curled her nose. "Eh, I've smelled worse."
Skade wrinkles her nose, her ears drooping. "The sewers?" she whines. "Come oooon.. I didn't exactly bring my rubber boots for this. Let's just open the door and shoot whatever's behind it full of holes, yeah? Yeah. Cookies, I KNOW you're with me on this one." she says cheerily.
Cookies gives a rather dismissive wave to Twitch as she stares that door down intensely, crossing her arms and letting out a huff. Her eyes slowly widen as she realizes that isn't paint at all. "Oh. Merde, that's not paint. I guess that explains that." She reaches out and drags her finger along the door, rubbing the substance between her fingers before flicking it off with a growl. She fails to notice the eyes above, jumping slightly at the shaking of the door and looking towards Dio for reassurance.
Randel finishes drinking what has to be builder nanties, puts the bottle way, and says in mild surprise, "Damn, this is sounding more hazardous than expected." He then thinks for a moment, then looks annoyed, and adds, "Crap, I can see things turning South quickly. I'll stay out here in case there is some need for medical help, or someone to pull someone out. Got to have some backup plan after all."
The hammering door buckles slightly, apparently nearly welded shut as a small hole opens up to show the horror beyond. The creature behind the door dripped with a green burning goo, a skunk girl by the looks of it with a few adjustments. Her body ended where the right shoulder should have been, the torso of a blue gryphon sticking out where it should be. Discordant screams rang from muzzle and beak, ringing out as eyes stared forward wide and blank with pain. The connection was coated with the strange goo, delaying the inevitable where both were connected, each body attempting to consume and break apart the other in a twisted struggle to regenerate what was once hole.
The skunky muzzle and grphyon's beak shot out thin latex whips as tongues, lashing for Twitch as she moved toward the sewer. The agile infected managed to evade the initial strikes but the caustic black saliva was not so easily thwarted and flew out with unknown intent.
Edel grimaces, ears twitching back at the sight and sound. "That's dreadful... Whatever is causing this certainly is rather twisted." She clicks her tongue and glances towards the sewer entrance. "I'm also in favour of going that way, now. I think we should probably hurry, too... In case that door gives way." Looking over Twitch she furrows her brow again. "You alright there? We can talk about daughter issues later. I think we're going to be busy, here."
Twitch rowls as the crashing of the door catches her attention, turning on her paw as she manages to escape the majority heading her way... THough what does get her causes her to almost drop her sword as her hands change, luckily enough it's no major concern for the adept as her hands shift back almost the moment the changing ceases. A electric charge building in them and around her fur as she draws a good deal of power into herself in preperation for whatever comes next as she turns and makes a dash for the sewer. "I'm fine! Just -go-! We can deal with that thing later!"
Miranai looks up from hir now much lower perspective to see the creature coming through the door! "Get down there!" Shi says looking to Dio and Cookies mostly. A glow in hir muzzle, a cackle of flame. The tiny creature opening wide and sharply, ball of flame emitting from hir as shi waits for the sewer cover to be taken off to join those!
Cookies squeals and dashes straight the hell over to Dio, all but trying to occupy the same space as him in her moment of fear. She follows him loyally wherever he might go. "O-kay! Let's go SOMEwhere! I don't care where but I would like it to be a place where that thing cannot find us!"
Dio looks down at the mini-Mira and smirks. "Quite. Thank you very much for the information. We'll see if we can't sneak through the tunnels." The feline listens to everyone else, But more listening would have to wait! It's time to put that riot shield to good use! The lion let out a large attention grabbing roar while holding out his shield to protect any that would stand behind him. "Stick behind me while we retreat downwards," he claims while retreating back to the sewer entrance. If no one else was going to open up, he uses his strength to attempt to open it up and then drop down along with the others.
Skade backs away a few steps and takes a deep breath, aiming her rifle square at the hole in the door. "Well, great. Sewer it is then. I bet shooting it would only make it angry anyway.." she mutters as she slings her rifle over her shoulder. Taking a few more steps over to the sewer grate she leans down to pull it off. She might not exactly look like it but there's quite a bit of strength behind her curvy frame.
The creature ignites under the blow from Miranai's power, burning and screaming with discordant voices to shriek loudly across the streats. Flesh boiled and peeled backwards to expose muscles lingering underneath. Blood, green, and black leaking burned brighter, fueling the blaze as the door began to melt underneath the assault. Dio's guarding shield was quite fortunate, blocking the blaze from the rest as it heated under the streaking blaze while asphalt began to crack. The streams of fire seemed to be almost undirected from the aim, eyeballs melting in their sockets as the strange twisted thing moved forward with seemingly unending vigor.
The strength shown by Skade may just provide some respite however, tearing the cover off and away. The darkness beneath the streets held a foul smell, a rotting scent as though from a charnel house. A thousand mad whispers seemed to echo from the building and sewer, all in the same voice speaking in harmony with itself. "Welcome to my new home. I do hope you enjoy my latest experiments. Odin, Loki, Kangaroo. They think themselves Gods. I shall show you the meaning of true power."
Twitch wastes no time as the manhole cover is opened, grinning widely as she turns her gaze from the horror scene unfolding behind her to jump high and through the manhole... Down into the dark below as the electricity coating her fur and between her limbs increases to try and provide some form of illumination, a nice laugh ringing out from the demonic cat as those red eyes scan the darkness as she moves to leave room for the others, with her sword at the ready. "Oh Icarus, oh Icarus... You fool whom thought yourself a god, only to be burned and damned..." She mutters gently to herself, rather eager for what could come next."
Miranai jumps in after Dio, hoping the sewer wasn't too bad, so shi could swim, or someone caught hir. That is when shi finally noticed Edel. "Oh hi there!" Shi says to her, looking around after shi is down. Shi plugs hir nose and listens to the voice. "The meaning of true power?" Shi answers back. "There is no power above and beyond ones of family and the mind. Not even Odin could out power the human spirit." Shi says back. Shi thinks on the after, a quick message to Dio.
Skade takes a look over her shoulder at the monster, idly considering if she wouldn't enjoy doing combat with that monstrocity over taking a tour of the sewers. Ah, well, seemed like everyone else was going. She follows suit. Whoever hired her can pay for the drycleaning.. and new shoes! "Odin was always a fan of man, actually. Sort of his thing. Loki though? That guy was always sketchy.."
Edel tips her hat towards Miranai as the foxtaur joins them in the sewer. "Hello! I can't speak much about any of these gods... Tanuki is enough for me. Everything else is.. Well, whatever!" She props her arm up on the pommel of her sword, sniffing at the air and immediately recoiling. "Eugh. Even these days the sewers smell dreadful. This isn't going to be fun at all. I just hope I don't step in anything."
Dio braces himself against his shield as the violent attack pushes against his shield. Luckily, the riot shield did it's job rather well considering the lack of being dead. The lion hops down the graciously opened sewer hole and looks at the front of his shield. A little scratched up, but should still be mission ready. Listening to the strange sounds and Mira's message, he nods his head, rolls his shoulders and walks forward to take a defensive stance in front of the party. "Probably someone gone mad. Let's continue on and take care of this individual," he says, moving forward with his shield out once more.
Cookies is right behind Dio when he jumps down, a sheet of flexible, waterproof material forming over her fanciful robes. She mewls quietly, ears flattening at the voices. "Hey buddy! The jerk store called, and they said they're all out of YOU!" Smooth. She reaches behind herself to bring out the grenade launcher, keeping it unloaded but at the ready for the time being. "My name's Coo-kies I gots-a big gun, my name is Coo-kies we're gonna have some fun," she hums to herself as she sticks close behind Dio.
The scent in the sewer could be unnerving to some, Twitches arcing power giving light to the darkness with flickering bouts of power. The wetness below was a twisted morass of red, brown, blacks, and greens as it drifts along lazily with only ankle high 'water'. Behind the odd creature continues to scream as it pushes into the door, metal around dripping across it's flesh to shove it downward to be covered by the molten mass above and below. As to how long it would stay there or what the long term effects would be there were few who could guess.
The husky known as Edel did start to step on something, a something that quickly seemed to slither out from under one paw and up her leg. The black mass pooled up around her quickly, pulling itself over her from the water and starting to draw itself inside every hole roughly. Eyes, ears, anus, vagina, uthera, nostrils, there was no opening that wasn't quickly trying to be violated by the living mass squeezing down on the husky with no hint of mercy but to continue to duplicate itself endlessly.
Miranai looks back and notices the thing attacking Edel. Oh wonderful, going to be one of thses. So far no one to actually talk to. The water was too deep for hir paws to reach bottom right now, but shifting back to a more normal for hir size would be no issue now that they were below. Shi takes a moment to examine the creature, only a moment though, before lunging at it and attempting to sink hir toxic fangs into the strangness assulting hir newest friend.
Edel snarls as she's overtaken by the latex, but she's not about to let it go without a fight! Not with her devices and nanomagic, as she snaps the electricity into action, trying to shock the... Whatever it was... into letting go of her. She's not in much of a position to talk, though, with that latex in her mouth trying to change her.
Skade isn't in position to do much about this particular critter unless setting Edel on fire was a valid option. Somehow, she suspects it might be frowned upon. The next thought that came to her was that she reaaaaally didn't feel like getting probed today. She was already ankle deep in goo too! Shit. Shitshitshit. Doing her best to keep her feet dry, she flicks on her nanite buffer just in case. "Get her off! I mean, get it off her! Quickly!" she shouted encouragingly.
Twitch humms gently to herself as she looks out into darkness, sword tapping her shoulder as she looks back to see Edel being attacked by the latex... Well, that wasn't good... And given the choice combination of gear, it wouldn't easy to just attack it without risking harm to Edel as well. Sure enough, the glow from her electricity dims some as she holds her left hand out, nanites kicking into drive as she goes to siphon some of the pool's 'spirit' to hopefully make it easier for edel to fight it off. "Going to say, let's keep moving before all it's buddies show up. I want to meet 'Icarus' in person and see how much of a 'god' they actually are."
Cookies just staggers back at the sight of the latex- she's here to blow up the things that are big and angry, not things that have her pals grappled. Certainly not in the sewer, either. "You know, I should have brought the derringer," she mewls out to her silver lion. "And maybe some slightly more concussion-resistant armor. In fact, I am having a lot of regrets right now. Maybe bringing my plane-bling everywhere is a bad idea." This only now occurs to her. She taps the ruby-jeweled amulet hanging from her neck. "A laser would be just keen any time now, you little shit." It does nothing, and stays that way.
The strange thing broke apart under the co-ordinated assault. The weakened form from Twitche's siphon mixed with the poison fangs, fangs which broke through to impact agaisnt Edel's flesh. The toxin the poisoned fangs was shaken off by the constricted husky although the deep bite marks still remained. Arcing power was weak against the liquid thing but enough when combined to push it off almost completely. The pool broke apart, sinking back into the sewer water to seek easier prey. There was only one little problem, something Edel could still feel. The creature broke a little bit of itself off, writhing and wiggling inside the husky's ass worming farther inside to nest in her intestines.
Twitch huffs as the pool appears to have broken away, the power returning to her arcing electricity as she turns and begins to walk down the sewer in the direction they needed to be heading. "Let's be quick then, I'd like to get this smell off soon eh? Pluss if we hang out here too long, I'm going to tire out from giving you all light. Hop to it now!"
Edel grumbles softly, gingerly poking at her limbs where Mira had bitten her. "Erf. Thanks for that. At least it's... Mostly gone." She writhes about uncomfortably, but is otherwise uncertain how to get that bit of latex out of her. She certainly wasn't about to reach up there to get it! "Hopefully we don't end up with more of these things... At least not on me." She huffs and resolves to carry on, trying to ignore the thing for now.
"That was quite something," Dio comments under his breath as he races forward, not particuarly noticing the curious piece of creature still wiggling about. "I do hope everyone's okay? It's best we continue forward before any other monstrosities sandwich us. I'll take point this time to allow everyone to recover." Just in case, the lion reactivates his nanite buffer to help mitigate damage and pushes forward into the sewer, eyes and ears out for anymore particular danger.
Miranai looks over Edel and whimpers a bit, "I'm... I'm sorry." Shi says, not meaning to have bit her as well. But shi shakes hir head, "I think I'll join Randel up above again. Coordinate with him, Edel, come up with us when you can, to see about that.. thing." Shi says, giving Edel a quick hug and a look over to Dio before heading back up.
Skade nods, drawing one of her laser pistols. "Well then, Mr. Lion, take the lead. I'll cover your shapely rear. And everyone elses too, regardless of shape." she says, deciding to go last, covering their retreat, frequently looking behind her. Not that she could see all that much in this gloom.
Edel gives a polite nod to Miranai. "It's alright. I'm not hurt too bad. I've had worse, afterall! Your help is still appreciated. And I'll come see you up there soon, yes! When all of this is over, probably." She shifts her hips and huffs, propping her arm back up on her sword as she follows after Dio.
The sewer trek continues on, walls of the thing slowly changing in consistancy from the smooth concrete to that similiar of another zone. A pulsating mass of meat forming the walls with thin cilia wriggling and writhing along the sides. It was almost as if a piece of the shadow maw itself had been brought over and grown, expanding out. "Nanites control everything. Food, form, the world itself is under their sway. Even your powers all linger under the infected form. The powers weilded now are as magic would be to those before. What are we all now but gods? Reality twists before us while those from beyond the viel enter our world. You say I seek to fly to high but no, I am the sun."
"We've seen enough of these... Creations," Dio calls out through the sewer, peering alertly from behind his precious shield.
"We've heard your stance. If you are truely as powerful as the sun, perhaps we should stop wasting time and allow us to meet you face to face. With all these experiments you're creating, what is your true objective? A simple grab for power?"
Regardless of the response, not even sure if the voice could even hear him, the feline continues forward at a quick pace, steeling his nerves and taking deep breaths along the way.
Cookies answers without skipping a beat. "Wrong, motherfucker! For one, look at my clothes! I've got shit that came out of a box that's MAGIC, son! Presumably from some sort of bizarre box dimension! For another, I don't need powers! I HAVE A GOD DAMN GRENADE LAUNCHER!" She waves it around in gesture as she follows behind Dio. "And let me tell you about gods: dedicants have a comparatively minute amount of power GRANTED to them, by them, and they're still some of the toughest sumbitches you'll meet! How much mako do YOU have, buddy? And think about THAT, even," she continues raving and ranting, waving her hands about as she explains, "For the huge amounts of investment you put in, that's still only so much of their power! Tell me honestly: Would YOU want to go toe-to-toe with the head honcho of the Einherjar, or Odin, or even Uber Fox? Nooo."
Twitch tilts her head back and laughs as the voice continues, enough light finally filtering in that the electricity traveling through her form dies down some to a dull state of preperation to conserve power. Her right hand manuvers her sword so the sharpened edge trails along the meat coating the walls, finger pulling the trigger as the blade coats in electricity as if the cat was toying at the new covering for the walls. "Ah but even the sun will die, you are no true god and neither am I. We are flawed creatures marching through a flawed world, and the only god in this world is Death... Ah what is that play? The one about the huntsman and death? A germanic play really, I'd think you'd like it really. Shame you'll be forced to miss it really."
Edel follows along fairly quietly, a scowl on her face. She didn't like having things in her, and she didn't care much for the banter. Either receiving it or giving it. Naw, she was content to find them and lop off their head. That usually makes people shut up. "Hmph. Doesn't even mention tanuki," she grumbles. "We're obviously the best."
"Then show me what you believe to be a flawed power. I will devour you all eventually and make your strength my own. Come huntsman, let's see your choice before your star too fades and disappears." The dark voice rang out, getting closer as the trek continues on. The meaty walls part and rejoin, slurping and dripping with the passing of the strange covering while small faces appear behind where the cuts once were to cry out in terror.
Finally the living area opens up toward a massive room, writhing and wriggling tentacles sliding in and out of the walls. Across the room on the far side is a dark elven woman standing there with a smirk on her face and a crazed look in her eyes. "Come then. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Show me your strength."
Skade shoulders her rifle, taking aim at the strange woman. "I always fell asleep watching theater.." she mutters, squinting through her scope at the form. Although a voice in the back of her head nagged at her. Things arn't always what they seem, after all. Surely it wouldn't be this easy. And who has the time to cover an entire sewer in flesh anyway? This might be more of that illusion nonsense people sometimes toyed with. On a pretty massive scale, she had to admit. Still, the cat girl makes a concious effort to try to detect any shennanigans that might be fooling her senses.
Cookies takes a careful look around and frowns deeply, wincing at the screams occasionally. "I wonder if this could possibly be..." She trails off and her eyes go a bit dark. She chuckles a bit at Edel and scratches at the back of her head. Once the living area is visible, Cookies clunks open her launcher, rips a 'nade off her bandolier and carefully packs it into the GL, before snapping it shut and, murmuring out a quick, "Nah," stepping back a couple paces firing it into the room with a soft 'P-CHUNK'. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
Not having any offensive weaponry with him, Dio bolsters his shield and stomps the base of it against the floor. "These actions can no longer continue. You will give up and come with us or face the consequences." Once more, the lion lets out an intimidating growl and a sort of half roar before moving forward a bit to take point. Looking back at his party members, he prepares himself to run about in an attempt to cover anyone else behind him from any damage.
Twitch chuckles lowly as she twirls the sword in her hand, watching the cut along the wall which shows off the faces behind the meat with a low whistle. "Well, if you are death... Then I must say that I thought you'd be a bit... Taller perhaps?" She chuckles gently as she spins the sword in her hands once more and kills the electricity coursing through herself finally. Her left hand gripping the Glasher pistol as she draws it, and aims it down at the figure with a grin. "But yes, come 'death', a demon wants to see if you bleed." One could argue twitch was starting to show her crazy, but at least it was for their cause! The demonic cat giving that cheshire smile as she pulls the trigger to the large caliber handgun.
Edel smiles faintly, wings ruffling under her cloak as she tilts her sword's scabbard, flpping a switch on the sheath as she prepares to draw at a dime. "Yes, let's not make this too difficult for anyone." From beneath her black silk cloak slinks two tentaclesm writhing and curling at her side. She'd let the others handle the long-distance business, preparing herself for anything that comes close.
"DON'T SHOOOOOOT!" Skade screams at the top of her lungs, just a few seconds too late, at that.
The grenade shoots forward with unerring accuracy, slamming into the woman alongside the handgun bullet to slatter a torrent of blood along the back wall. The heavy assault easily shattered the hold of the illusion nanomagic covering the skunk girl from the library. The bound gagged female slammed into the meaty walls, visica mixing in a bloody mass while the walls start to shake and tremble. "So easy to fool. Pathetic." The water behind the group slides upwards in a gooey mass, a gelled girl shifting into a dark elf rapidly while she slams her hands together. The sewer entrance slams together in a heavy slam of rock and steel to seal the group in while the tentacles start to dart out toward the group with each ending it tips drooling with semen.
Skade swears loudly, secretly hoping the trigger happy people will atleast be a little probed by tentacles. She, herself, was not so much in the mood for such things, atleast not from such a royal bitch! Pointing her arm at the appendages heading her way, she does her best to dodge them as she flicks her wrist, sending a gust of flame from her high-tech manacle, which is actually a portable flamethrower, hoping atleast the bloody things weren't too happy being set on fire.
Twitch laughs as she gathers electricity, her hand gripping tightly upon the sword and raises it high over her head before jumping... Bring it down in a slashing motion at the nearest tentacle, while avoiding the others. "HA! Clever! Keep this up and I may just feel bad about killing you I hope you realize!" Her grin wide as she hoped to sever one of the tentacles at least, that feeling of lust mixing in with that blood craze as she rowls. "... Clever... I may have to fuck you before I kill you now..."
Dio grimaces under his breath as he watches the illusion fade in front of him. They would have to get out of here and recover her via some medical nanomagic as soon as possible. Looking back, it doesn't seem there was a lot of time to play around. The lion does his very best to dodge the tentacles coming his way while he fumbles about in his pocket to pull out his nanite buffer. But with it concealed in his hands, who could really tell what it is?
"I've seen enough," the lion growls. "It seems our invesitgation is complete. We were sent here to discover any innocents down here before blowing the place with our prepared explosives. I'd deem your experiements a close. You may think you're beyond God, but is your work considering what damage we previously did? Perhaps it's best we talk it out now before it all comse crashing down."
The lion puts on his best poker face while bound by the tentacles. Worth a shot at least.
Edel spreads her wings as one of those tentacles makes a move for her, kicking off with a feathery wingbeat, propelling herself out of the way and towards the tentacles that seem to have snagged Dio. Couldn't have that, so as she twists to face them, she grips her sword and pulls it free in what is hopefully a clean Iai strike, using her momentum to try to slice straight through.
Cookies nearly drops her GL when she notices her mistake, but she shakes it off and reaches to rip off another grenade, only to be caught and bound by the tentacles! She twists and squirms against them and grrrowls out, looking towards nothing in particular as she addresses the voice once more. "Alright, you cocky freak... I just have one question! What's your name?!" This could mean the world to her. Even in her immediate situation, she had to know.
Twitch and Edel manage to dodge away from the tentacles, the rest only partially managing to evade being gripped in the writing things. Crazed by lust, Twitch's flailing blows slide around the rest of the thrusting things. The blows from the long objects slam into Dio, Skade, and Cookies, some partially lighting on fire or being torn up during the strange little attack. Dio was hurled into a far wall along with Skade, tentacles around their ankles, and Cookies found herself pulled down to the floor and held tightly with legs and arms spread eagled. A mass of writhing appendages burst up around her, a thin tunnel forming straight toward the lust filled Twitch while the rest busied themselves fighting off the powerful team. Any more words from the strange adept they had been battling were lost or at least drowned out by a nearby screaming. The skunk girl from the library was very much alive, screaming in bloody murder as several slick appendages thrust into holes open in her belly, legs, and arms to seek any bit of warmth they could find.
Twitch breathes heavily as feels the lust growing, enough to mix with her rut and take precidence over that blood lust. A savage rowl escaping from her as she's covered by the tentacles into a sort of tunnel, and what luck! The smells of a fertile target coming from the other end... And she's quick to follow after it, licking her lips at the bound cookies as she plays with the crotch piece of her riot gear while looking over the woman with that lust filled gaze, sword left on the ground next to her.
Skade takes a deep breath to calm herself, her RSX training kicking into full swing as she draws both her laser pistols in a quick, smooth motion. Her left opens fire at the tentacles at her feet. Atleast those were an easy target and she hoses them down with the narrow, cutting beam of her gun. Her right hand aims towards the ones holding the skunk girl captive, hoping to atleast draw their attention if they were sentient. Or cutting a few off, if she was lucky.
Edel scowls at Twitch, her tentacles shifting uneasily as she looks between the two felines. Leaping over with a wing-assisted lunge, she scoops up Twitch's katana and grins. "Hey! Don't you worry about her. Wouldn't you rather play with me? This is a real fancy sword, you know..." And indeed, now Edel has not one, but -two- lightning swords!
Cookies jerks her arms and legs as hard as she can against the tentacles, but frankly the catgirl is not actually built for melee engagement; her atrophied, skinny nerd muscles are her failing, good as she may be with a gun! She gives Twitch a hissss and snaps her teeth at the other cat, still struggling uselessly. "Any day now I could use a hand, guys!"
Dio lets out a large grunt as he's tossed aside and into a wall. With his armor and nanite buffer, at least it didn't hurt too badly, but it was still quite a blow! There were some tentacles around his feet, but his cat girl was in trouble! Summoning up whatever strength he can, the lion lets out another wonderful roar to pump himself up and fill his body with glorious adrenaline. His muscles ripple and bulge with heroic strength as he forces his way towards Cookies, damn the tentacles on his ankles! With a giant leonine roar, he slams down the base of his shield upon the tentacles with all his might to set her free.
The darting forward toward Cookies by Twitch was inturrupted with the loud lionine roar and heavy shield slamming between the bound cat and the one heading toward her. The tentacles near Cookies slipped away at the heavy slam, wall from the tunnel broken and dripping by the quick rush. The cat town mayor found herself with her body newly freed once more while Edel distracts Twitch with her own blade and laser light from Skade burns away all the tentacles near the skunk girl. The librarian passes out almost instantly after, nanites starting to heal the damage, and the rest of the tentacles receed down into the meaty walls to leave everyone trapped with the lusty demonic cat that was Twitch.
Cookies grumbles and slowly pushes herself to her feet once the tentacles disperse. "Thanks, Dio," she mewls out, looking between Twitch and Edel in confusion and giving the walls an odd look occasionally, also giving the skunkgirl one more glance just to make sure she isn't total mincemeat. Those screams were unpleasant. "Yeah you BETTER back down," she yells at the walls, still frowning deeply.
Twitch rowls loudly as the lion blocks her easier prey, and then her weapon is scooped up by Edel! She had only a moment to really think as her hand darted down into her bag, pulling out a gas canister that she flicks the pin free from... She wasn't lost enough to know numbers weren't on her side, but -something- is getting fucked here... And then without further adue, she drops the H.B.B. letting the lust and heat inducing smoke spread quickly to help cover her own movements as she makes a mad dash at Edel!
Skade figures the rest of the gang probably can take care of Twitch as she pushes herself to her feet and makes for the collapsed skunk girl, making sure she's atleast alive and not in critical need of aid right this second. "Stop playing around over there! Just knock the damned fool out and let's get the fuck out of here!" she shouts, raising her guns, preparing to defend the two if need be, or if worse comes to worse, scooping the girl up and running for it.
Edel narrows her eyes and gives a soft chuckle. She wasn't going to be too bothered by that lusty smoke, with her SUCK activated, but the eyesight was another issue. She couldn't see him, but she could still try to hit him! Becoming a little whirling dervish, she spins around, lashing out with tentacles to flail through the smoke at distance, her outstretched wings for a medium radius... And incase they get really close, those swinging blades. "I've got this! This dance is mine," she calls out through it all.
"Wharrhgghlbrg--" is all Cookies manages to get out before getting a faceful of that smoke, waving it away all too late. Rubbing at her slightly stinging eyes, a more demanding urge radiates from between her legs, making her rub her thighs together and groan slightly. "Arrrh-- Merde! Twitch, you little... Nnnggh..." For the time being she just tries to fight back the sudden feelings, dropping onto her ass and whining.
Skade coughs. That smoke was getting to her. Sickly sweet and oddly.. arousing. And the skunk girls fur was so very, very soft and.. no! Wait.. this won't do. Trapped in a factory with some love bomb going off. Digging through her pocket she pulls out one of her trusty plushy grenades. Her best friends, really! Although once you pull the pin out of them.. well, not quite so friendly. Still, it had to be done. Grabbing her porcupine grenade by the ears with her teeth, she pulls it's head off and lobs it towards the exit. "INCOMING!" she shouts, sending some extra power to her own nanite buffer to shield the skunk girl.
Dio takes a few deep breaths, allowing himself to cool off from the intense amount of energy spent. "I'm glad you're okay, my lady. I was quite worried." A large hand pets over the fellow feline's head before he notices a cloud of curious smoke overtake the room. Luckily, he's in quite the male form and doesn't have to worry about heat, but his lovely cat girl did! "Please hold on. I'll do my best to help get us out of here." It seems his physical being is to be tested once more. Hearing the call out from Skade, he gets up once more and holds out his tower shield steady in an attempt to block whatever he can for the group, despite what shrapnel might pierce through his body.
The wall and room shudders under the heavy explosion of Skade's explosion, meat walls shivering and shrinking down as they start to receed and leave the chemical plant as it was before. The devestating bomb blast bounced backwards off the wall and into Dio and his heavy covering shield. The massive blast had to go somewhere, it needed to be channeled, and picked the path of least resistance. The wall that had been closed up burst open from the blast to give the agents a path back out, hopefully safe now that they had driven off the strange adept from before.
A crackle of electricity sounds through the smoke near Edel as she'd easily glimpse the outline of twitch... Surrounded with the electricity the demonic cat's visage stood aparant and ready for her assault, the call from skade being missed by the crazed woman as she threw her hands forward. The Arc of powerfull electric force traveling through to try and slam into Edel. The explosion rocking the room from the grenade causing the cat to fall off balance as it erupts right as she threw nanomagic attack at her target, throwing her off balance enough to cause her to fall onto her back as she coughs and tries to get her bearings once more, though she's certainly unharmed.
Skade decides she's had quite enough of this. Picking up her precious cargo, slinging the unconcious form over her shoulder, the cat girl makes for her brand new exit. "Alright, I'm out. Getting this one to the triage. And Twitch? Get a grip of yourself." the RSX agent says as she casually shoots the demonic cat in the leg as Skade walks out the exit.
Edel knows that tell-tale sign of electricity getting ready to be used. Afterall, she -was- the Thaumasurge for a reason. Not one to get caught by it, her wings go out as she launches herself in the air. It also helps her avoid that rumbling and shaking from the bomb as she slides her sword back into its scabbard, unslinging the not-copyrighted sword, readying the overlarge weapon as she makes a fast swoop, aiming to smash Twitch with the flat of the large blade to try to put out their lights for good, for a bit.
Edel slings her large sword over her shoulder as she lands, nodding softly, even taking care to return Twitch's sword to its owner's scabbard. "Sorry about that, Twitch," she mumbles, scooping up the decommissioned feline with a huff, slowly working what little healing power she has over her friend as she carries them off into the sunset. Or at least out of the building and to a safe triage.
