Artifice (Free roaming, rating unknown...)

[Aeris Avalon]

Welcome to the world of the future...
Hey, everyone, and welcome to my first little jaunt at starting a roleplay. My hope is to create a fun little diversion that will let us play with a decent character range. This roleplay doesn't have so much of a set genre as it does a few encompassing ideas. Here's the setup for those who are interested...

The scientific community is in an uproar...
Some fifty years after the creation of the first Mewtwo, numerous groups and organizations have taken the study of genetic manipulation to new heights. What started as the will of one crime lord has become something of an underground enterprise; the new species is stronger, more durable, more able to survive the harsh testing of the modern world. But the government is catching on... fast. Laws are being re-written... and not always fairly. Things are about to change.

Finally aware of the threat growing in the labs of both legitimate and illegal organizations, the government has decided to take action against this new 'false life form'. A new law allows them to arrange raids on scientific groups to search for and seize any 'extreme' experiments... and they have the Mewtwo species in mind. Anything they find will be taken back for their own use, with a good bet that any specimens deemed "too powerful" will be euthanized. Escape is the only way to survive. At the same time, they're beginning to search the countryside for any experiments that may have escaped. Members of the Mewtwo race must fight for their very right to exist. Numbers may just be the key to winning the game; a lone 'two can no longer sleep without fear. Either way, survival is the name of the game.

The world we live in is not the one you know...
Since this roleplay takes place a little ways into the future, not everything is going to be the same technologically. There will be new weapons, new medical devices, and new everyday items... but things like flying cars are still a ways off. Teleportation is still reliant on psychic power. And some computer products are still known to crash suddenly and without explanation. It's an era of vast amounts of new information, but humanity still hasn't quite gotten the bugs out of everything yet, so to speak. Still, the potential is there... the potential is always there...

... and the world of spirits is closer than you think.
As technology booms, more and more people have turned to older belief systems as a way to hanging on to their roots. And, amazingly, this clinging has borne fruit. Spiritualists and mediums are more popular than ever as humans look for guidance in this ever shifting world... and rumors of magic abound...

So what kind of role will you play?
Now it's up to you to decide your path. Will you be one of the creatures of artifice, hunted in the darkness? Or will you become one of the hunters stalking the shadows? Or might you find yet another path, another thread to weave into the tapestry? Again, survival is the name of the game... so let the games begin!

Buuut, first a few small guidelines!
Okay, guys, let's keep this as basic as we can. First of all, no godmodding. And you ALL know what I mean by godmodding. Character interaction is key, but don't take certain things too far. For example, don't try to kill or maim another player's character without talking to them first... and we really would prefer you try to avoid killing other people's characters at all. Likewise, DO try to keep character interactions on a more... toned down level. Relationships are fine, but try to keep anything explicit off the general boards. That's what messenger exists for, people. Use it well.

And as far as both technology and magic go: please, keep it reasonable. A character with awesome magical ability would soon find those abilities to be taxing. One should not be able, for example, to conjur up a thunderstorm on a whim; we have Pokemon for that, folks. But it is within the realm of possibility to say that one might find an item in a messy room, or coax a small flower to bloom into a vine they could climb down a cliff with. Likewise with technology; new guns are fun, but they can't shoot through ten foot thick concrete walls with X-ray scopes so you know exactly what you're hitting on the other side. We're advanced... just not that advanced.

And the same goes for characters. While demonic hybrids and demi-gods are fun, they're also just a little bit extreme. If you create a 'two, multi-typing is acceptable as long as it's something simple, such as a psychic with a water or fire attribute... but trying to throw together four or five types is a bit much. The same goes for any other experiments or character creations. Try to keep it 'believable' and within reason and we won't have a problem. Sounds good? Great!

So let's go!

NOTE: I only remembered this as I was typing, but as far as psychic speech is concerned: I usually use italics for telepathy with the same punctuation as normal speech... "so a psychic speaking looks something like this." It would be nice if we all did the same thing as everyone else, but if you have a method you really prefer, please make some note of it in your first post. Also, any such out-of-character notes should be done in parenthesis or with some other distinguishing mark. Thanks!

[Aeris Avalon]

(("Psychic speech is as follows in my posts, italics with standard speaking punctuations. Thanks!" Also, I have a random habit of going back and editing the detailing on my posts (read as "adding more") when I roleplay. Aheh...))


Saffron City wasn't the place it used to be.

Perched on the roof of the Silph building, the cat-like creature shook her head sadly. The last time she'd been in this city... well... it certainly hadn't felt this busy, even if she hadn't exactly gotten to see it. Frowning, she stood and picked her way carefully to the outskirts of the metropolis. What she had come for had no longer been there. The apartment had been empty. The first 'friend' she had ever had was gone. She wasn't surprised. But it had still been nice to hope...

Free of the lights at last, it didn't take her long to get to the old chapel in one of the suburbs outside of the city. A good rest and then they'd move on again, find somewhere a bit less... populated to call home. She paused for a moment, recalling the newspaper she'd found on her journey into the city. Protecting the Pokemon, the headline had read, and then Government is making Good Progress in Cracking Down on Illegal Experimentation. Reading the headline had made a small shiver run along her spine. The article had oozed praise on the way the streets were being cleaned up. She gritted her teeth from the memory. Lies, all of it. The damned public didn't even know what the government was really fighting... She stood in the shadows for a moment before springing up to the bell tower.

"You're late again, Aeris."

The feline rolled her eyes as she made her way down into the unused bell keeper's room where she liked to hide, shrugging off the heavy cape she'd been wearing in favor of a more comfortable old shawl. She bitterly hated the cold... "Don't be silly, Branwen. It's still a long ways until dawn. Besides, this whole nocturnal thing was your idea, not mine."

Her Murkrow companion shuffled her feathers. "And it suits you as well as it suits me, so stop complaining." And then, more gentle, "Did you find it this time?"

"I did." A rosy pink tail flicked as the large feline form all but disappeared into a quilt. "Empty. The person I was looking for left a long time ago."

The great black bird only nodded understandingly. "Humans have a hard time staying in once place, just as we do. Did you check the building carefully?"

"Yes, Bran, I checked everything."

"But did you actually check?"

The feline sighed in annoyance. "Yes, I actually checked. I can tell just as well with my psychic powers, though."

"Over-rated," the dark type squawked. "I take it you didn't procure anything to eat tonight, then?"

"Oh, go feed yourself. I'm tired."

The crow chuckled and flew off, leaving her catly companion alone. Aeris could watch herself, at least for a little while...

[Tieria Erden]

Ohayo, or konbowa, whichever it is night or day, morning or evening for though Aeris-chan. Can I call you Aeris-chan? Anyway, I'm new to this temple and I would love to join in on your rp, I'll give you my stats first though. My character favors a humanoid appeal, albeit it is Nekojin in nature, human/feline that is, I can change his storyline to fit the timeline but note I'd still need to put some advanced technology aside as he is a combat-cyborg, originally meant to hunt down mewtwo's, but my idea is for him to be a hunter turned how should we say, actavist, causing trouble for the government, hunting down and 'putting down' other hunters and important people, he's powerful and psychic gifted but in no means invincible, he's very fragile, just strong fast and reliant on shields and ranged tactics. He also has an uplink to a secluded XV-III "Eagle Eye" Kenim-class Global Positioning Satallite with a massive AI network hooked into it, in short kind of like his eye-in-the-sky but he can only use it when it's above where he is. He has many abilities, that is, Cybernetic/Biological/Psychic, the latter being more tied in with his other two atributes then seperate. If it's okay for me to join in, lemme know ok? I'm a master at role playing games on consoles so I know my interactions, and dont work, bad karma is not my thing! xD.

[GamzGuy]

Sleeping under a cold, rain-drenched bench was nothing like sleeping inside of a warm incubation tube, but it had to make do.

He was napping quietly not far from the old chapel, underneath a bench to keep himself somewhat dry from the rain, a runaway from one of the many institutions somewhat dedicated to heinous experiments involving child abuse, and in some cases, illegal DNA manipulation. He was one of the few of his companions to survive all testing done to him. An urchin child taken off the streets of the decaying Lavender town, he was subject to years upon years of illegal experimentation, leaving him as he was now: a tired, starving young adult with the body of a Mewtwo and several cybernetic parts the scientists had implanted in his body.

He knew very little about the outside world, other than that it was certainly more filthy and more dangerous than the eerily clean and organized hallways of the lab. But he was certainly was aware of his predicament, at the least; any contact with human civilization would almost certainly end in his detaining. He was a freak of nature, nonetheless one that victim to an unlawful project.

He stirred silently as he heard faint, almost silent creaks on the old wooden stairs leading to the belltower. Strange, he thought. I thought this place was abandoned. Instinctively, as he got up, he kept himself hidden within the tall, uncut grass, assuming the visitor was another human.

Then he looked up and saw her. The pink figure, nestling herself near one of the four windows of the belltower, facing away from him as her companion departed. She appeared to be Mewtwo, like himself, which meant she would have had three-fingered paws. It made him wonder...was she the one who left the bloody pawprint as a clue for him back in the labs? Was she Petra, his long-lost companion in the labs?

He quietly crept to one of the many rusted drains along the side of the building, and ascended his way onto the roof, creeping even silently up onto the belltower. He peered over the windowsill, across from her, and quietly mewed, "......Petra?"

[Aeris Avalon]

Aeris was all but asleep when she heard the small sounds. Her whole body tensed up, trembling slightly as she pulled herself in smaller under her blanket. Another scavenger? Perhaps if she was very, very still they might not notice her. But even as she thought it she knew she was wrong. For someone to poke around this soon after she had returned to this place, she had to have been spotted. Damn it, had she really been that careless?!

Silence... and then another creaking sound, this one right below the window. She closed her eyes and began to focus her energy, not trusting psychic power to allow her to 'see' her 'visitor' undetected. She had a brief vision of power, a fellow psychic, before her seeking was interrupted by a sound she understood by that strange instinct. "Petra?"

Aeris's eyes blinked open. Slowly, carefully, she shifted her head until it was no longer obscured by the quilts and blankets she had filled the small space around her with. It took a moment for her to actually see the figure, silhouetted against the darkened sky behind... him? But once she did she felt her heart skip. The slightest outline of a head... but the ears were unmistakable. Could it be... really be... could it really be another like her? She raised her chin from the floor, trying to see him better. It wasn't just the dark outside, he looked dark himself. She shook lightly; no choice now but to reply. He knew she was there already, after all. "There's no one here by that name, stranger... but you can come inside if you want. It's cold out tonight, and safe inside of here."

[Orgun]

He stood there in the alley the rain dripping from him, his large cloak weaved and flowed around him as his constantly active psychic abilities moved it, several bodies lay around him all alive but out for the count. His need to feed had eventually overcome him, in the beginning his human mind had refused to do it but with all the hunters and beings in this world who wanted to hurt him, that resistance eroded. He only fed enough to sustain him and not kill the prey, but still he was a monster and he now revelled in that freedom it gave.

His senses peaked for a second as another presence was felt, it was close, quite strong too, a more resilient prey? He smirked to himself before launching to a balcony and jumping again to a rooftop, the rain continued to pour down but he didn't care only the prey mattered now. He looked around slowly, reaching out every so often with his senses he closed in on the origin of the power, there! an old building of some sort. He began to make his way towards it.

[Tieria Erden]

The MX-IIV "Eagle Eye" Mark-II Nexus series Quantum Imager/Cyber-organic Orbital Monitoring Installation or simply, "Eagle Eye" as it was known to by the only being who knew of it's existance...

Tieria Erden...

Perched atop the balchony of a tall currently inert office building 300 meters to the southwest of an old cathedral-style building he surveyed the area. Ti was a human/nekojin cyborg designated as "Ares 1" and had originally been intended as a mewtwo hunter-killer, emphasis on 'had been' as it's kinda hard to program a combat inhibitor and "Neural Loyalty Chipset" when your being beaten to death with your own limbs.

Via Eagle Eye's "Quad-Eyes" Telescopic 3-D and Topagraphical Quantum Image-filtration Units, Ti was able to pick out a face from space with 10.000 x 5000 HD-resolution and through zero-lag two way real-time information interface Eagle Eye was feeding all of it to a GPS mini-map on the lower left corner of Ti's Recon facial shields Quantum 3-D/360° HD-Headsup display.

A mear 'face' foor the advanced issue YK-2000 Mark-II NeverSaw series Recon Cyber-suit.

A nano-enhanced kevlar/cheramic fiber composite HiFlo Hydraulic muscle suit with a flexible duraplas powered muscular exoskeleton and a protective layer of reinforced nanocule composite flexi-iridium enhanced with reflective beam-coating.

The suit provided Ti's cybernetic frame with even greater strength making him a match for most adversaries. It also enhanced his speed and senses extremely, provided him with immunity to radiation and null-air circumstances with it's own regenerating oxygen supply.

Despite being bulletproof and able to reflect beam attacks fairly easily without damage it was vulnerable to heavier weapons. It was after all just a recon suit, designed for hit-and-run tactics, long ranged combat and advanced melee and not for engagement against heavy armaments.

Suddenly a blip on his GPS mini-map alerted Ti to psychci activity in his sudden vicinity, it was faint, but noticable to Eagle Eye's unavoidable stare.

Ti immideatly requested focuss on the area of emission.

Eagle Eye meanwhile re-oriented it's optical equipment and focussed on the nearby cathedral building, detecting two confirmed heat signitures and psychic commune waves at the quantum level, penetrating the buiding easily with it's non-lethal X-ray's it saw through the walls, and via gene-mapping through bio-molecular analysis delivered a complete image of two..

"Mewtwo's? No... couldn't be... Could it?" Ti asked himself as he got up and paced, thinking for 30 seconds before deciding to personally investigate... Touching his right pectoral muscle, or rather the right side of his chest for but a moment he vanished as is Rappid-adapt 3 Reactive-active camo switched on and he blended into the environment with psychic output buffered, noise cancelled out and movements concealed via holographic and lightbend emissions.


He ran towards the edge of the building and leapt from it, spiralling in the air as he landed on all fours, cracking the concrete but emitting no noise as he bounded forward, hands along his sides from that rooftop to the next and from there onto the next and within 35 seconds had closed 300 meters.

Landing on the cathedral tower, he utilized his stealth paddings active-bond molecular composite 'glue' to stick to the walls climbing down as silently as a spider-bot stalking it's prey, he approached the area of interest noted by a location-beacon on his HUD when suddenly...

".... Petra?"

caught him off-guard... "Empthatic communication..?" Approaching further untill he was within visual range of the two, deciding to maintain his stealth, till the moment was right for him to reveal himself.


Listening intently with his Quantum-harmonizing decryption set to maximum like a spy would eavesdrop in on the big-man's top secret plans...

[emsiecat]

(( I usually use ~ to signify psychic speech. I would use italics but I'm crap at editing posts like that, plus it's how I've always written it. So if it's okay I'll stick to my old way.))

~Ugh, it had to rain didn't it...~

Not that she minded the rain, not at all. It's presence masked any sound she made, and in kind masked her from obvious view should it become heavy enough. Not to mention humans seemed to have a strange aversion to the falling water, and thus generally disappeared when it started. She often surmised it had something to do with tottering around on two legs with no tail to support oneself in slippery conditions. Or perhaps the fact that their lack of fur made them feel the cold easier?

Whatever the reason she generally enjoyed the rain, but not now!

Just as humans scurried for cover as soon as the weather turned, so too did most small prey animals, making the pursuit of hunting just that little more tricky.

Haru ghosted across the forested landscape; leaping over roots and dodging pesky jutting outcrops in the terrain with the quick, agile movements of one who had done such things all her life.

Briefly Haru entered a small clearing, and the moon that had played peek-a-boo behind the scudding, inky clouds all evening finally shone fully for the smallest moment throwing her likeness into sudden illumination as she stayed her rush.

She was short for a Mewtwo; standing at a mere six feet and four inches whereas others of her kin usually surpassed six feet seven in height. She was lither than most too, leanly muscled with a body structure that suggested long hikes and not quite enough food.

Her short fur was a held a green tinge, the fur of her stomach and tail, and the wild, bushy hair that was on her head was a russet tone of brown. Her eyes, currently glancing warily about the clearing were a stormy blue.

She wore a simple travelling cloak, long enough to hide her very obvious form; a well stocked pack and a quiver of arrows were on her back, a long bow lay in her hand unstrung.

She was an oddity in this day and age prefering to use traditional weapons to back up her kinds' psychic prowess. However she had always maintained that the art of surprise was a good one and whereas most would expect her to use those said powers or perhaps a more modern weapon, they would be caught unawares and left defenseless when she used her bow.

~So where to now? There's no point in hunting in such abysmal weather.~ The constant murmuring to herself was a bad habit picked up after months of travelling alone.

Haru turned slightly, raising her nose to sniff the wet night air just as the moon was shrouded once more and the rain began anew, falling in heavy sheets around her.

~More and more forest to the East, I just came from the North... South is a city. I can smell the pollution from here.~

Something within her quivered at the thought of a city, part disgust and part nervous excitement. She had never seen a city before, living in the forest as she did. Until two months ago she'd never seen a village any bigger than Pallet. To witness a city would be interesting, but also dangerous, this she new all too well.

The government was cracking down on her kind mercilessly. It was why she now travelled as she did. However she had never known the sterile smell, or the cold touch of a lab like so many others. She had been born in the wild, just like her mother and father before her (her grandparents were the 'lab rats' of the family).

Flicking her tail in irritation, Haru finally decided on a destination. She would bypass the city if possible, but perhaps take a quick look, after all she was a naturally curious creature.

Shouldering her pack more securely, and huffing to blow a lock of wet hair from her face, Haru continued her light-footed trek altering her direction a little towards the South.

[GamzGuy]

He sighed softly, a small disappointment that he had not found Petra, but nodded and hoisted himself up through the sill. He looked at the pink figure with curious eyes, wiping the excess rainwater that had beaded on his metal chest. He noticed how she was slightly taller than him, himself being at six foot even. She also lacked the life support gear that he had, meaning she was not from the labs that he was. However, she did still retain scalpel hair like he did, which he found rather curious...

"I'm sorry," he said softly and blushed, "I thought you were someone else. Someone else I've been looking for for a long time. Looks like you already know me, since you seem to know some psychic powers...so I don't suppose an introduction from myself is necessary."

He was a little embarrassed, though, seeing as he lacked any abilities that she most likely already mastered. Even if he was a psychic type, he still lacked the experience and the mindpower to use them himself; he had used physical contact since his human days long ago.

He leaned back against the wall, next to the windowsill, playing with his own soiled black hair before he slumped to the floor and yawned widely. "Don't mind me, miss. I think I'll stay here with you until I can find my own way tomorrow..."

[Aeris Avalon]

Aeris blinked. Already... know him? "Um... actually, an introduction could be kind of nice..." Unless... she blinked again. Wait. There is that. The female shivered inadvertantly. There was that time, the time she didn't remember. Could she have known him then, was that what he meant? But then why wasn't he calling her by name? Or did she not have a name before that? Oh, she should have asked Izzy while she had the chance! "Am I... am I supposed to know you?" She leaned closer slightly, unable to keep the eager curiosity out of her voice. "How am I supposed to know you?"

[Orgun]

Several minutes of jumping from roof to roof had brought him to a building that stood level yet a good 8 metres from what he figured now was an old chapel, a rumble of thunder could be heard a few miles away as he reached out again with his powers. Whoever it was, used their abilities with no regard for their own safety no matter they would realise soon enough.

He looked around to ensure he wasn't being watched when he was certain it was quiet he jumped. The 8 metres didn't bother him, it was the fact that the part of the chapel he had landed on broke away, his powers kicked in fully as his cloak warped and shot out. It latched onto anything it could and he stopped with a sudden jerk, unfortunately now his element of surprise was gone the prey would now probably be aware of something. He gripped onto the stone hard as he claws dug in, searching quickly he found an old window that had been shattered. Moving as fast as he could he disappeared into the dark innards of the chapel.

[Aeris Avalon]

Before Aeris could receive her answer... in fact, almost as soon as the question had been asked... a strange noise outside made her nearly jump out of her fur. She spun almost instinctively, her eyes trying to peel back the darkness outside and identify movement in the shadows, but the tower's small window was too dirty to see out of clearly. Her next thought was that her 'visitor' may have had company and she whirled back around to face him, only to find him just as seemingly confused as she was. She turned back towards the window nervously before freezing at the sound of something breaking in below her tower. Damn it. Damn it! Had she really been that careless?! Trust the whole bloody world to find her tonight... she glanced back at her blue-tinted 'companion' and frowned to herself. No telling if she could rely on him yet. With a sigh, she closed her eyes.

It took a moment to touch what Bran jokingly called her 'third sight' and let the familiar cool rush wash over her. She could not always be sure if what she did was really magic- perhaps she only imitated the arts with subconscious psychic power- but she did know that other psychics could always pick up on clairvoyance- second sight- but they never detected this. The third was, as Branwen was so fond of reminding her, far more reliable than the second. A Dark type could hide from a psychic's second sight.... but not from the third. This one trick, she knew, was really magic after all.

She let it guide her downstairs, her mind and eyes seeking as her body remained immobile in the tower, searching for the source of the disturbance. Two 'visitors' in one night... damn it all...

[Tieria Erden]

Ti had been perched above the window, cloaked from view by way of an optical defense shield, protected from prying eyes and judging by the secure and relaxed nature of the mewtwos below, also to whatever senses they possessed(assuming she didn't already know he was there), until the reaction of the mewtwos and a loud, crashing noise snatched his attention span and focused it somewhere else entirely.

He'd been listening in on the conversation, eavesdropping you'd call it, but he preferred the term "Active Intel-accumulation" over "listening in on peoples conversations" which sounded so.... demeaning.


Rising from his perched posture he swiveled his large, cybernetic cat-ears to a forward, 'perked' position the highly-attuned sonic vibration receivers picked up the sound of someone... or something, moving at a rapid pace within the cathedrals walls.

Directing his gaze to the building roof he switched to his bio-e vision mode to attempt and pic-up any bio-electrical impulses. If whatever it was that had infiltrated the compound, bypassing his wide-area awareness field so easily was alive at all, it couldn't be completely concealed due to the electrical activity of it's brain...

Swiftly deciding upon a course of action he located the nearest possible entrance in order to attempt and intercept the creature, naturally maintaining his level of stealth he located another window, leading to a room abandoned according to his x-ray radiation scans.


He ran down the roof silently and grappled onto the windows side, swinging himself inside acrobatically, landing without a sound thanks to his sound/vibration nullifying stealth padding, moving onwards at an acceptable pace like an assassin going for the kill, intent on intercepting and determining the intentions of this unknown 'interloper' as soon as he beheld it.

[Orgun]

Darkness, he felt at ease in the dark it let him slip un noticed by most others. He stalked through the hallway before stopping, the part of him that was still human the part that told you something was off even when you couldn't see it, was acting up. He closed his eyes for a second as he felt his surroundings, there further along a being or something. Its ability to remain undetected was far in advance of anything he had encountered, so really he couldn't 'see' it as such but rather the way the area around it changed.
"No matter" he thought the prey upstairs were most likely aware he was here and prepared, this other thing might have life in it and it was closer. As he set up to attack he grimaced in pain, looking at his left arm he realised he hadn't fed enough from before and now skin and muscle were dying, for the time being he could animate the bone with his psychic abilities but it was only a matter of time before his brain started to fail.

He waited till the other was in the right position before charging through the weakened wall and ploughing into it, the wall behind him collapsed bringing further debris down from above. His cloak wrapped around the others limbs and he leant in close to its face. "Alive or are you useless fake-life?" he asked using his voice for the first time in over 4 years.

[Tieria Erden]

His reception of time slowed to a near absolute halt, providing a grievous image of the entity whose psychic energy signature he'd been tracking... It was coming straight at him, at pretty impressive speeds too, for even with his reception of time slowed, it still came in pretty fast...

"Oh... Crud..."

Was all he could say before being slammed into without enough force to knock the wind out of his lungs, and him through a concrete wall, thankfully a neglected one with poor structural integrity.


It didn't feel right, without the ability to feel pain where pain should have been felt, the aspect of damage was abstract to him, it kept him focused on important things, like for instance, shaking off the creature menacingly staring him down...

Ti knew he'd been restrained the moment the entity's strange cloak... Was this even a mewtwo? Wrapped around his legs, arms and neck, even his midsection, keeping him pinned...


It's whispering voice instilling a deep distaste for the creature in his mind, incapable of fear when he should have been shivering, when his heartbeat should have been racing, when he should have been sweating like a man running a three day marathon.

Instead he just stared the creature in it's... Seemingly dead eyes, with unnerving calmness...


~Useless no-life... Information does not compute... I am Anti-mewtwo Specialty Recon and Weapons tactical deployment Cyborg-001, designation "Hikari"... I will have you unhand me... RIGHT THIS INSTANCE!!~

Ti psychically yelled out at the entity before him as the organic part of his mind kicked in with it's passionate protective instincts of those in the building, the cybernetic part of his mind however, added it's self-preservation programming to the fray... The result would be, quite gut-wrenching...


As most of Ti's muscular skeletal structure consisted of advanced HydroFlo powered hydraulic systems intended for use in advanced military cyborgs it was naturally designed so that a speacialty 'Hydra' fluid stored in three special cybernetic organs replacing Ti's kidneys and spleen, could be introduced into his 'blood stream' to in accordance to dose levels, almost quadruple over the hydraulics internal pressure and thus provide an extremely powerful albeit short-lived power boost.

Mainly used for temporary heavy lifting and or power blow finishing moves, the use if the fluid re-distribution system was exactly what Ti needed. Accessing tha exactt same liquid redistribution system he admitted a 25% boost of 'Hydra' fluid into his synthetic blood-plasma circulatory system, smirking coyly at the creatures fate.


Planting his left foot down FIRMLY onto the ground as suddenly the re-directed and contained pressure build-up sequence finalized in his left leg... Allowing it to tear free of the creatures strange cloak-like binding of him and reeling back against his stomach, the holo-screen on Ti's facial shield wear showed a pair of happy kitty-eyes, the servo-motion drivers in his bionic skeletons internal motion-mechanisms charging to outlet a massive forward impulse of kinetic energy before he unleashed ALL the pressure and ALL the power stored up in his legs hydraulics and motion servo's into one successive kick into the entity's gut with bone-crunching force.


The resulting attack would send the entity flying through at least a couple of walls, if not three... That's when Ti remembered... He hadn't yet fully rid himself of the entity's complete hold of him! Albeit nearly all of it's cloaks shadowy bindings would rip from his body a couple still clung on like they had him in a death grip. Not only did this bring him with the creature in it's temporary forced-flight cycle, but it caused him to slam side-by-side with it into the very same walls he had intended to send it through in the first place!

"Note to self... Make use of the hyper-acceleration kinetic rebounding blade-cutter BEFORE kicking someone that's STILL holding you THAT hard in the gut..." He noted just... As the first wall, greeted his facial shield wear with warm, open bricks...

P.S. I hope this doesn't sound overpowered, but then again that's why I decided if I could kick Orgun like that, I might as well add comic relief and some damage to myself to even things out :D

[Aeris Avalon]

Aeris felt her fur rising on end as the noises downstairs continued to escalate. What was there, what was there... something blurred past her 'vision' in the darkness below, and then her sight spun into focus. Two figures, limbs locked together under a concealing shadow until she could not be sure which was which. It took another moment for her 'hearing' to kick in, and she cursed the delay all the while, but all she could hear were the sounds of the scuffle below. Finally she forced herself to pull back into her own senses, shivering. Not just one but both of the... creatures downstairs had possessed the strangest sense about them, a conflicting aura of life and death. She didn't know for sure what it meant, but she knew she didn't like it...

A soft sound caught her attention as her 'companion' in the tower room edged towards the window. Honestly, she found herself feeling the same urge to flee. She glanced across the small space, pulling her shawl tighter around her. She didn't dare attempt telepathy to speak to him; at least one and possibly both of the strange auras downstairs had seemed like they could be mildly psychic, but she hadn't been able to tell for sure during the scuffle. There were just too many conflicting aspects, especially the darkness that had drowned them both. She shuddered lightly, also making to move towards the window. "They'll wake up the entire neighborhood..." Her vocal speech rasped slightly, and she winced at the hissing lisp that made the words unclear- it came out sounding more like "Thheyul whhake up th' entay-er nay-bur-hhhhood." And his speaking had been so clear... Ah, no this was no time to be embarrased! A crash resounded through the building, shaking it slightly as she grabbed her cloak, hissing softly. "Gah... gah... go!"

[mew2cool]

Will opened his deep red, piercing eyes. This time he definately heard something. He lift his head and uncurled, lifting the cardboad boxes off him. They provided some insulation, and it was cold because of the rain since he had no furcoat to keep him warm. He opened the shack door slowly and stepped out, sniffing the air. There was something going on inside this building. Maybe it was the hunters? He'd make quick work of them, just like before. He clenched his fists and stood up to full height, standing at an impressive 11 feet, very unusual for his kind, but he had been altered a lot in the lab. His Black, scaly skin glittered in the moonlight as the rain covered his skin. ~ugh, i hate water~ he thought as he made his way to the closest window, careful not to get noticed, well, at least as much as someone his size could. As he closed down on the window, a loud noise came from inside, causing some of the wall to crack. ~shit, what are they doing, the building's going to collapse...maybe there's someone else my kind in there they're fighting..~ He breathed deep and stuck his head in from the window, only to realize he was staring at someone...

[Orgun]

Pain, he felt pain not caused by his own body. The blow to his stomach had damaged several organs and caused internal bleeding, the course through several other walls didnt help. His skull was fractured, he needed to do something quick so he did. His cloak released the other and he warped the cloak around himself to cushion the next impact. He skidded several feet before coming to a stop, he was dazed and his mind was cloudy just like in the beginning which only meant that time was short. He got up slowly, the damage to him was massive if he had been more human he'd be dead but thankfully in a perverse way he wasn't. Still the damage had to be healed if he had any chance of beating this thing, so he began to focus on what little life energy he had left and used it to repair the organ damage and bone damage. There wasn't any point in healing the skin as it was dying off now, using his psychic abilities he wrapped the cloak tighter around himself as that was the only thing keeping his insides where they belonged.

He turned to the other, looking far more terrifying then before. He now resembled a demon, his bone glowing earily while he eyes or what remained glow with dark crimson power, ~Annoying fake-life! You are not what I need!~ he screamed at the others mind, ~Begone, I have no time for some weaklings toy!~ he lurch out at the other sending a massive wall of energy at the other, the building gave a groan as more of it fell apart. It wouldn't last much longer.

[Tieria Erden]

Time slowed to a neigh absolute halt, yet again Ti beheld his enemy, but now... With something of a remorseful look in his concealed eyes and way of thought.

The macabre visage before him was terrifying to say the least, yet the inability to fear rendered it to a mere unpleasant image. The entity he had tracked was seemingly becoming undone by some mysterious force from within. And judging from the looks of it... Was rapidly rotting away.


Demonic in appearance and hateful as could be divulged from the tone of it's psychic voice... Suddenly, Ti's NDI(Neuro-direct-Imaging)-HUD displayed a flaring red alert as a massive surge of power build-up was detected emitting from the macabre creatures brain.

The readings indicating that it's cerebral quantum waves were increasing at an unnerving rate...

"This isn't good..." His suspicions were confirmed when a wall of energy came hurtling towards him at an enormous velocity that would surely compromise the structural integrity of the entire segment of the cathedral where they were currently at!

"You wont have your way... Any longer!" Reactive Energy Field, codename "Absolute Protection" initializing, kinetic energy condensing state percentage... 36%... 56%... 76%...120%... Field deployment capability, available...


Crossing his forearms and placing them in front of his chest he stared fearlessly into the incoming attack as the visible circuitry of his cyber-suit pulsed much faster. The normal pulse green color coded energy usually running along them glowing brighter and pulsing, moving much faster now as power built up at an alarming rate...


The holo-screen making up the top-half of Ti's recon cyber-suits facial helm depicted a pair of >< eyes as to display annoyance... The energy wall would slam right into him, an unearthly screech as it grated against something like metal grinding metal, more then enough energy to blow him away, yet... It met resistance...


A powerful field of semi-transparent green energy had formed infront of Ti's entire body, crackling with what appeared to be internally contained lightning and seemingly composed out of some sort of energy weave it cleaved into the entity's attack, bending it around Ti neigh harmlessly yet causing it to oblitirate by sheer force most of the surrounding internal environment... By using the attacks own generated kinetic energy the field was able to alter it's course whilst absorbing percentages of it's damage dealing potential as well...

The Reactive Energy Field, codename Absolute Protection, an experimental 'prototype' kinetic-displacement field that had three modes...


Pin-point, Full-body and Frontal-only. Designed so that it could utilize the kinetic energy of any incoming energy or ballistic attack, capable of either halting or deflecting such ranged attacks whilst utilizing a portion of the very same kinetic energy used for attack re-direction or dissipation to condense itself even further, making it an extremely effective defense against all long to medium range attacks, more so in particular, the attack employed against him now which was fairly medium ranged, any closer and the fields defensive capability...


However, despite Frontal-only being but Ti's second most powerful form of defense it had a rather large energy requirement still.

Both his biological and bio-etherial energy reserves would suffer drainage to maintain the otherwise impenetrable frontal defense... That is, it would remain impenetrable for as long as there was energy to sustain it's existence... According to preliminary scans, the entity was in no shape for melee combat, yet weather or not Ti would have the sufficient energy to fight after surviving such a powerful attack would be another matter all together...

"What... What are... you!? Why are you attacking!? Why are you hostile!?" Ti psychically shouted at the entity's mind, not an easy task considering he was busy weathering the creatures attack yet he still attempted to gather information to try and see some reason, to try and get some answers to help him better understand the entity's blatant, unprovoked aggression...

(P.S. I hope it's not too technical or detailed Aeris... >.<)

[Orgun]

He was a little impressed by that defense but he had encountered advanced tech before, it always changed. He stood there watching it struggle to hold his attack, his body had for the moment at least stopped degenerating. If he wanted he could close the gap with the other whilst it delt with his attack from there it would be a simple matter of ripping it apart.
But this was becoming to much effort for the hunt, better to withdraw and feed then fight and possibly lose.
If he still had muscle on his face he'd smirked as he thought up a plan, he momentarily forced more psychic energy into the blast wave before diverting a small percentage to the pillar behind the other, a small push was all it needed to crack its base.
As the pillar began to collapse he heard its questions, he thought about it and figured there was no harm in telling it, so as he backed off into the shadows and sent one saying to it ~I am a monument to all their sins~. With that he was gone.

A block away a drug dealer looked up to see a sight of pure terror, then he saw no more.

[Tieria Erden]

"I am a monument to all their sins..." Was the last thing Ti heard before the massive wall of energy grinding at his Reactive Energy Field vanished like dew before the might of the desert suns heat...


Only to have a VERY heavy, very sturdy background support pillar come right on top of him instead... Crushing his body under incredible weight, smashing him into the floor... Pain... Something alien to him, something once familiar yet he couldn't really remembered the last time he'd felt... Anything.

He lay there under the stone-work for a small amount of time, contemplating, calculating and theorizing as he was programmed to do after a loss, to learn an opponents tactic, and never let him successfully re-use it.

He was unharmed by the pillars crushing weight however... Seeing as It would take much more then a giant pillar to break his Iridium composite bionic skeletal structure and limb replacements, albeit some of his synthetic-organic hydroFLO muscles were bruised and torn, they patched up rapidly.

Channeling bio-electrical, electrical and psychic energy towards his lower regions he planted his legs down hard and then kneed the pillar with incredible force, shattering it with on successive blow.

The force of his kick taking him with it to back-flip and land in a pounce stance atop the pillar, scanning the area quickly he determined the entity had vacated, but odds were it would return... The odds saying so... Were the highest he'd gotten thus far, from any enemy...

[Aeris Avalon]

Even after the sounds had stopped, she knew that something was still down there. The fur on Aeris's shoulders was slightly ruffled as she listened to the silence below. Something had stayed behind, she was certain of it... but at the same time, she was afraid to 'look' again. After all, if something had remained in the darkness, and if that something was slowly making it's way towards her, she might not 'see' it until it was too late. No, she had to check, and unfortunately the only real option was to go see for herself. She glanced at her blue 'visitor' once before heading towards the door to the stairwell. If she could just sneak down silently... if she could keep from making any noise... holding her breath, she opened the door leading from the tower to the stair well and began to ease her way down the steps...

[mew2cool]

oh yeah, they were making a ruckus allright. Will looked inside from the window, seeing glimpses of the two combatants pounding each other. He didn't know who or what they were but they weren't human so it would be pretty safe to assume they weren't after him. He moved away from the window, stepping back to the shadow of the shack, keeping an eye on the crumbling building for any unusual occurrences and also to see what kind of creature would come out when the fighting had seized. He was curious, after all. Maybe he could get a powerful companion? or maybe they'd try to attack him after this? It was good to be cautious, you could never tell what others were up to, after all.