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 Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:10 pm
"RC, wait--!"
It was too late. Tim watched her fly up from them, drawing the attention away from Nightwing, Starfire and himself. He shot a concerned look at d**k, knowing they shouldn't split up... but he didn't want Kai to split from them either.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:59 pm
Kai spot the Helicopter near by and recognized a familiar face from those who were inside. Arell? How was he he all the way from IO, or the Institute? She had no time to think except to consider he might kill her parents with the team he had there. She swooped down towards her father throwing down her last few smoke bombs hiding him and herself simultaneously. She had already lost Kane and despite their demeanor and jobs she really didn't want to lose some of the few people who knew about her in this world. There wasn't going to be some marvelous valiant heroic effort to save them but she would only gently nudge them into escaping before it was too late. She fazed her father through his suit and threw him back up through the window he had jumped out of. He toppled into Rose who stood in the window unaware of what was going outside through the smoke.
"Get out of here. I'm warning you."
Was all she could say before disappearing back out of the smoke towards the shore where Nightwing and Tim were heading.
Grayson wanted to talk her out of it but before he could do so she was gone. He stopped short after some time and looked to Tim.
"She's not up to par yet. Did you see how she landed out of that window. It might be her IO experience, or she could have been hit. She didn't have to do this."
He wanted badly to help star but at the same time was willing to hand her over to Tim to go retrieve Kai. There was no way to know if she was going to be okay or would return in one piece and he couldn't handle not knowing that she was going to be alright.
"Can you hold Star here while I go see if she's getting herself into trouble?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:42 pm
And when the suit clattered to the ground due to lack of a Jack Summers (Damn!) sent Rocket and Arell into a collision course! Slamming into each other, the inertia from the rocket skates sent Arell flying backwards, crashing into a tree as Hex walked over to the duo.
"Owww . . . my achin' hea- WHAT TH'?!" Arell yelped as the raccoon grabbed Arell by the collar and started smacking him around.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, BANNER?! DIDN'T YOU SEE I HAD HIM COV- wait a minute, you're not Banner. Banner doesn't smell like cigarettes and . . . *sniff sniff* what is that?! Booze and seafood?" Rocket asked as Arell smirked.
"Lucky guess, varmint. Now get offa' me befo' I turn you int' a coonskin-!!!" he growled, drawing back a fist to knock the critter into next week before he heard the k-klick of several firearms.
"GET YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEADS!!! NOW!!! Flint, get animal control and an extra set of cuffs!" the leader said, having them surrounded as they looked at each other.
"Animal control?!" Rocket asked as Arell rolled his eyes.
"I s'ppose you ain't seen a mirror, have ya, crittah?" Arell retorted. As for Hex . . . where the hell was he?!
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:24 pm
Tim stopped as well, looking between the way they came and the concern on d**k's face.
"...no, I'll go find RC. You should stay with Star."
He could see that Nightwing didn't want to separate from Kori, especially when she was in this condition.
"I'll be right back."
With that, Robin sprinted through the thick brush, disappearing into it's shadows. He was almost entirely hidden as it was despite it being broad daylight, and he hoped to keep it that way.
((Remember everyone, it's morning. razz I kept thinking it was dark out actually, but it's not ))
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:45 pm
Kai flew away from the gunslinger situation as quickly as she could. When she was near the trees that they had taken cover in she dove into the shadowed trees of the early morning. She tumbled a little into the bushes down below near Tim. Her body flipped forward into a sitting position and she began to rub her bottom after her rough landing. Strangely the landing didn't hurt as much as it should have but at the same time she wasn't sure if she could stand up.
"We need to get out of here. I was going to distract them but I think they are escaping now."
Jack immediately realized that his tools were just taken down to practically nothing. He had a bow staff and some tools on his person but they were nothing compared to the power he had in that suit.
"They were heading into the woods. We should head out another entrance and hunt them down in the cover of the trees."
"Good idea. We can't be out in the open around them or any of their friends. Especially without your protective suit."
Rose ran for the back of the home towards the woods with Jack following behind her. They ran into an interior hallway away from any windows or way of being spotted. There was virtually no one around in the direction they took. "Soldiers, take care of all hostile forces assuming you are still there. We are going after some escapees."
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 2:26 pm
Meanwhile, as Jack and Rose darted through what was LEFT of stately Wayne Manor, we turn to two cowboys and a Raccoon, which have found themselves into quite a bind . . . that either sounds like a bad cartoon from the '80s or a beginning of a joke.
Well either way, Arell and Rocket slowly got up as Jonah smirked, a hand reaching for the gun on his hip. Arell going for his shotgun and Rocket . . . just standing there, looking at them, then at the weirdos in uniform.
"So . . . this for the guy whose face I clawed off?" Rocket asked as Arell smirked.
"Nah, prob'ly fer me escapin' da prison, shootin' Kane Rocknell in da face, blowin' up I.O. facility, stealin' a helicopter, an' probably many mo' dudes I killed." Arell smirked as Hex lit a cigarette.
"wait, that's the guy who killed Rocknell?! Holy s**t that's AWESOME!!!" one of the guards whispered.
"Whaddayou? The president of his fan club?" the superior answered before Rocket pulled out a cartoonishly large laser gun, causing Hex AND Arell to get all wide-eyed.
"Where'dja get THAT, pardner?" Hex asked as Rocket smirked.
"Let's just say I knew an Arms dealer in Nowhere." he replied.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:09 pm
 Firestar curtly nodded at her partner walking up to her. Hearing gunfire echoing in the night, Angelica looked nervous for a second or two -- hooking her arm around Jason's lithe figure, "No argument from me. I've had enough of Beiruti Urban Renewal -- well... we are in New Jersey. Let's get out of this warzone, shall we?"Once locked into a cosy embrace, the fiery mutant enveloped a fire shield around the pair of them before taking off into the night sky. [Exit Firestar and Red Hood to Gotham City]
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:48 pm
 Slowly, the Tamarian princess came to, and opened her beautiful green eyes at the man she was in love with, "Richard.... What... Where are we? Who's shooting?" In the background, scattered gunfire could be heard. Whenever Nightwing would glance around, he would spot the lone small tree where Threshold was observed landing..... only his body was not there. Didn't Jason just shoot him in the head? .............. ............................ The odd collection of gunfighters came under heavy suppression fire from what Arell (and Rocket might guess would be a pair of Browning .50 Caliber Machine Guns..... ............................ Tim would hear the automatic gunfire and detect that is seemed to be concentrated on one side of the Manor... where the helicopter landed. ............................ Jack, Rose.... Sorry, I got .... blasted out of the house. I had to fool some of these cretins in believing that I'm dead. Just arranged some cover fire for you two. We seem to have a continuing stream of interlopers.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:31 pm
"Let's take their lead then. Nightwing and Star are further down the hill."
Tim had already taken the hint that she wasn't firing on all cylinders so he offered to help her if she needed it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:57 pm
Kai looked up to Tim who offered his hand to help. She looked back down and felt around her leg and found a dart holding it up slowly.
"I hope this isn't something bad... Maybe it would be better if I could get back up into the air again."
"We are getting out of here. This place is too dangerous right now."
He began to set her down a bit to see if she could walk.
"Are you okay? Can you move?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:45 am
"I'm not sure that's such a good idea-"
Tim's head jerked a bit as the ongoing battle raged at the manor. In fact some of the shrapnel could be seen from where he stood, though it was a ways away and at an angle. Honestly they were still far closer than he wanted to be.
"We don't want to give those guns an easy target in broad daylight. Sorry to say it, but, we're grounded. Come on."
He was growing more restless the longer they were immobile. They needed to move, before any more unwanted attention was drawn to them. Even in the cover of this thick foliage, he didn't want to take more chances than need be. On top of that, the small dart Kai held surfaced an entirely new set of concerns.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:25 am
"I'll need help then. You're probably right."
She took Tim's hand to get up to her feet again. Her balance was clearly off and she walked as though her legs were asleep or under the stress of vertigo. Though the phenominia so far only affected her legs it was enough to make walking difficult. Kai managed to stand up very weakly on her own.
"Sometimes I wish my parents were just physicians at a pharmacy instead of this."
With one hand she put the dart into one of the pockets on her belt in case they needed to make up an antidote of some kind. She still kept a hold of Tim's hand with her other using him to keep some balance.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:26 pm
(( . . . uh oh . . . he slipped through the noose!))
Arell and Hex heard the k-klik of 50-caliber mayhem as Rocket took advantage of some confusion with being a furry critter with a gun and blasted a hole in the loop. "Hey, idiots! Follow me, I got a plan!!" Rocket growled as the surly woodland creature plowed ahead. Arell looked at Hex.
"Was dat directed towards us o'!!!" Arell yelped as Hex pulled him out of the way of a stream of bullets, the two providing cover-fire as they ran after Rocket.
"It wasn't for damn sure meant to them, now RUN FASTER!!!!" Hex shouted as they ran, aiming to get back to the chopper.
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:42 am
"That definitely would've been a nicer deal..."
Tim was willing to put any amount of strength to his arm if Kai needed more support. They started back down the hill toward the bay side and around the steepness of the cliffs, all the while sticking to as much cover as they could manage.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:40 pm
"Unfortunately they're the reason I couldn't live a normal life. If I had then I wouldn't be in a costume right now... Though, I guess it has it's advantages when i get to meet extraordinary people like you and Grayson."
Kai walked moderately fast along with Tim down the hill to the peer. Considering the numbness in both her legs now she felt confident that they would make it to the boat before it spread to the rest of her body.
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