[center][h2]Camille Mahroug vs. Cedric Wessex & Light 
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Death Dressing as a Little Child[/h2][/center]

((Collab Post between Archmage MC, Letter Bee and Savato))

Cedric smashed aside monsters with his Toon Hammer, while Light and Tribuo - assuming he was there - went their seperate ways. Then, he heard a scream from a far end of the corridor, where there was a small room, where a child lay down on the floor, wounded, he assumed by the monsters who surrounded her. Seeing that said monsters were former humans and Metahumans -

"Don't listen to her!" said a Fake Vampire who had a few metaphorical brains "- it isn't us, we swear!" Cedric shot the Artificial Vamp a look, but then took stock of the scene. True, the bloody knife was at the monsters' feet, but, well, on a second look, the wounds on the girl's body were superficial, the knife looked to be [i]thrown[/i] in the direction of the monsters (it was the blood trail that gave it away), and, well...

The little gremlin teared up in response to the nice man's lack of action in regards to the monsters harassing her poor soul. The stream of tears was somewhat thin at first since, well, they were crocodile tears but with the experience she accumulated the past years it wasn't too hard for her to pull off a convincing act. 

"[b]*Sniffle* M-Mister! They're trying to bring me back with... NO NO NO![/b]" And the hysteria went on.

"Please!" said the Fake Vampire in his own imploring voice, "she's lying! She's actually our mistress' adopted daugther! She was leading us to pound you guys! Please believe me!" The Fake Vampire was tearing up now. "Please, I was [i]drunk[/i] when I accepted the mutation! I don't wanna die; I thought I was going to be invincible!"

Cedric looked at the girl, then the Fake Vampire, and said:

"Okay, first up, I have a soft spot for children, but I also have a soft spot for lower-class people, and that was what most of the 'monsters' used to be. On the other hand, I have no time to make an extended judgement, so all of you," he said in a tone that meant business, "accompany me. If you don't really want to die, then you shouldn't have joined the people [i]recruiting you guys as cannon fodder[/i]."

"I wanted to be beautiful!" said a False Elf, patehically.

"And you are," spoke Cedric, "now let's go, deeper into the labyrinth!"

"Erm ok-" It was all the Fake Vampire could have said before a bullet pierce right through the back of his skull and came right out of his forehead. An exasperated Camille had reached her limit in stupidity tolerance for one invasion. The Fake Elf was stunned by the sudden deathdealing from his superior, and as she turned to face her, she too took a shot to the face. Needless to say, they were dead. 

"[b]Ugh. Can't find good henchmen these days, pas vrai?[/b]" she wiped off the fake tears from her cheeks, the salty water had already mixed with the blood on her cheek wound, thus spreading a large amount of red all over her face. 

"That's more a problem of training and military doctrine. If you train your soldiers to be crappy cannon fodder, don't be surprised if they're crap," said Cedric. 

"[b]Blah blah blah, always the same nonsense with you peace lovers. Don't patronize are beautiful craps~ They make great shields for the mighty[b]!" she arrogantly boasted as she slowly walked up to the seemingly leader-like individual. Handgun in one hand, another one wiping her eye from the dampened mascara she was wearing. 

"Of course I love peace," said Cedric, "I love granting people the [i]peace[/i] of death," okay, not entirely the truth, but he was pissed off right now. And with that, he swung his Toon Hammer so fast, it would parry any bullets she can shoot out, as well as her ageing goop - Toon Hammers were like that.

"[b]Oh scary~[/b]" she mockingly responded as the hammer was apparently being employed to deal with her little case. She smirked as her pupils prolapsed ever so slightly. The man who was a few meters away from her could feel a slight change in the efficiency of his movements. He felt slower, but it wasn't apparent enough to be an obvious change, his attack was only slowed down by a few fractions of a second, but more than enough for her to swiftly duck. When his move ended, her hand would grab on the long shaft of the weapon, daring him to try and hit her again. Little did her know, the hammer would wither to nothingness the moment he'd try to swing it once more.

Except that the Toon Hammer had been affected by Light's Reality Shift, giving its wielder, Cedric, limited super strength and speed, as shown in his moves before. So, he managed to pull back just in time, but, noticing that the room was too cramped for extended swining, the 20-year old jumped backward outside, where more monsters awaited...and had heard the sounds of the argument and altercation.

"Free Pardons, a job, and a raise for said job if you help me destroy this brat!" Cedric said as he pulled back his Toon Hammer, causing it to vanish, and drew out two Clockwork Pistols made by Clockpunk, a Meta whose power was to make Scientifically Impossible Technology work (Heh, [@NarcissisticPotato]!). He then shot out several needle-like darts tipped with tranquilizer at Camille, while the monsters, not wanting to be betrayed anymore, and wanting the freebies Cedric was offering, began launching their own bullets, and for the Artificial Elves, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air attacks.

"[b]Pffff. The cops want you dead, this guy's the boss. Kill 'em and you become executive here.[/b]" she taunted the man as well as the enormous greed of her henchmen. Although they may not have been convinced immediately, or at all, they would be left into hesitation. After all, were they to fear Isabella more than the possibility of losing a lot? She had her entire focus on the man before him who took his distances, prompting her to smirk once more. 

"[b]Monsieur Freedom Fighter...[/b]" As he withdrew a pair of bizarre pistols, she simply took a step forward. All he could hear was a slight buzzing sound as she had used her movement lag to move at the speed of sound right in front of him while he attempted to aim at her previous position. Because of her small size, she'd easily be between both his engaged arms, her deadly stare scrutinizing his very soul as she grinned in excitement. If he were to move his arms to either change weapons or change his shot, she'd immediately catch his wrists with her movement dilation. If he were to attempt to move, he'd deliver a cheap punch on his body armor. In any case, he'd be in for a surprise. 

Cedric, in response, tried to knee Camille in the crotch.

Being a woman, that was... Inefficient. Or at least very annoying. It hurt, but it response, both her hand slapped against his thigh out of simple reflex. From there, his entire piece of clothing would be quickly consumed by the rotting ability of her touch. He had little time to react to this, but it was still possible to go commando. 

The 20-year old was now freaking out, not just because of the kid's seeming time manipulation, but because he now looked like a sexual predator after ripping off his rotting pants. This, this was not good; outnumbered though she was, she was holding her own. Cedric tried to draw back; from his hands, out of literally nowhere again, came the Toon Hammer; he would need its enhancements if he was to even stand a chance.

"[b]... I thank you for this moment![/b]" she announced upfront while they were at kissing range. It had seemed he took notice of the pants disintegrating and lowered his guard to rip them off. That split second, even without the movement dilation, her handgun would be pointed right at his face. Her members were much smaller than his, making it much easier for her to move them around. But as he tried to move away, her attempt to kill him would fail but her accuracy would be efficient enough to badly graze his eye as he retreated. Blood gushed out and splattered toward the cowering minions who were hesitant and didn't dare to interfere when two hgiher ups were so close to each other. They would be even more frightened after witnessing the aging ability she use so well. 

Cedric felt pain, huge amounts of pain streaming from his now-useless eye. He screamed, but bit back more shouts; if he had flaws, they included a desire not to look bad in front of [i]his[/i] soldiers, his people.

Pantsless, eye bleeding out, the 20-year old, after his scream, presented an indiomitable image now that his teeth grit in rage.

"I will not yield," he said as his Toon Hammer was drawn up defensively, "I do not yield when my people are at stake." And with that, he smashed his hammer upon the ground, causing a deliberately comical ripple in the earth, a ripple that headed towards Camille, who was now some distance away.

"[b]Hihihi! You're so cool! I want that hammer![/b]" she explained in total glee as he drew his weapon in a defensive position while giving some speech she couldn't care less about. He was going to use it, but was a little too far away to hit her with it. It all made sense when a ripple was released. Her movement dilation had faded the instant he took his distances in order to rest her senses and in exchange, her arm went purple, coated in a murky miasma that didn't appear to be tangible. She pointed her hand at the upcoming attack and as it got close, it collided with the mass of purple product that took the shape of a defending arm. Most of the arm would be burn out, but the attack itself was aged beyond existence as it hit the substance. In the meantime, she glared at her damaged opponent, happy that he was in such a shape. She wasn't a sadist, but death was something she grew to appreciate a little too much. After that counter, she retreated the murky arm in her organism in order to save her energy. She then walked toward her adversary once more. 

Cedric breathed hard; nothing was working. So he had to shout:

"LIGHT!" into his communicator.

Light meanwhile was having a grand ole time beating up the various things that came her way. Demons, mutants, clones... they fell one by one to her punches, or her using a makeshift bat out of one of their buddies. She was busy piecing herself back together after one of them had smashed her into the ground, leaving a comically sized light shape hole in the ground when they did, when she got an SOS call from Cedric.asking for aid.

Fortunitally she could also hear his bellow faintly through the complex, or what she thought it was, and decided to use the TNT in her dress to make a tunnel through to him, the baddies she was fighting wisely moving away as she blew open wall after wall, making the same joke each one and feeling a bit disappointed when she found another empty room or hall. At least until she reached where Cedric and Camille were fighting. Of course she busted through the wall with style, saying "OHHH YEEEAAAAHHH!" In a low voice and posing.

Multiple loud sounds could be heard coming closer just as Camile was ready to deal another blow, distracting her from Cedric. The noises got louder until finally a nearby wall collapsed from a loud 'boom' and in came a loud odd lookign girl. Raising an eyebrow at the current events, Camille could only guess that that GIRL was Light, the person Cedric had called for because of his recent injury. She looked like... A Pokemon. That at least peaked the young-looking female's interest since cartoons and games were her thing.

"[b]So... I have to kill toi aussi?[/b]" she asked the woman who had just barged in "[b]Cuz' your friend seems pretty beat up. He ain't going very far![b]" 

She pointed her gun at Light, demonstrating hostility which would of course contrast her rather calm demeanor towards the sudden randomness of the cartoon meta. 

"Cedric, you lost to someone with a gun? Did she..." Light said looking over at Cedric who was bleeding profusely from one eye. "Oh... well thats not good." Light said, ignoring Camile and pulling out a medpack for Cedric, dropping it near him so as to not touh it for too long. "Can you patch yourself up? I'd get going if I were you, I'll deal with this one." she continued, moving a few steps away from Cedric and facing Camile. 

She pointed at her gun and laughed, dismissing it. "That wont do you much good. Unless it has infinite ammo. Dunno how you shot Cedric's eye out though, must've been a sneak attack or something." Light said.

"[b]What the...[/b]" Camille had a hard time actually grasping what the hell this person was doing. Such confidence, it was almost disgusting given the status of what appeared to be their leader. Or at least that's what Camille guessed.  She really didn't know what to do other than, well, shoot her once right at the face. She didn't know that person and was obviously one of the invaders. 

Apparently this person had no clue who Light was. Most criminals ran when they saw her coming, or futally shot at her only to find it wasn't that effective. Although that was the common riff raff in the shady parts of whatever town she was in at the time, and this was apparently a high up big bad. Light got hit right where her nose would be if she had one, leaving a gaping white hole through her head. Light didn't bleed, and while mildly disturbed at the pain of a bullet going through her head, looked mostly unphased..

"Most people drop the gun or go for center of mass shots. You went right for the headshot. jeez." She commented, poking at the new hole in her face with one of her fingers. A few moments alter an audiable 'pop' could be heard, and Light was back to the way she was, although a bit more agitated.

The monsters all clapped and cheered; they loved a good show.

Camille nodded, obviously impressed just as the lovely crowd surrouding the small field. Her free hand clapped against the gun she was wielding. 

"[b]Ohhh! That's a cool power! I want it, like that hammer~[/b]" she grinned upon looking at the wounded Cedric who had made that hammer vanish in thin air. "[b]So, since I can't shoot you and kill you... I guess I'll slap you~[/b]" she announced with her usual child-like tone. Her immaturity and overall childness would come to pay when confronted to insane opponents like Light. 

"OK. Its like some domnatrix thing going on here or something. I dunno, I'm getting some baaad flashbacks. Oh, I'm 8-3 now with that succubus I told you about. Poor girl got blown up when I was tunneling. Hence why I bring this all up." Light said, making casual chat with the pair, trying to keep all the attention on her so Cedric could get to safety through her dynamite tunnel or wherever he was going to go. Being the brightest thing in the room, it was pretty easy to keep everyone's attention.

"Oh well. At least you got a fun personallity. Shame you had to shoot out Cedric's eye though. Thats... yeash. There are things you don't do. Eyes, Groins, and Boobs. Don't aim for those. Well the last one can't be helped sometimes..." Light said, moving ccloser to Camile while wagging her finger like she was nagging a child. But being a toon... it looked funny more than anything.

Cedric, meanwhile, began to retreat, being carried out of the Labyrinth by the monsters as though he were their savior from the brat who was planning to sacrifice them for her own gain. Plus, Cedric offered genuine gold.

Camille rolled her eyes, not because of the nagging but because someone was trying to blame her for the man's lost eye. "[b]Pfff! It coudn't be helped either! This crétin moved when I tried to headshot![/b]" she explained like a dishonest kid trying to cover up the fact that she broke the vase. 

As Light got closer and closer, Camille took a step forward as well to close the gap between them. She then placed her finger on Light's lips, signaling her to shut up. "[b]Shhhhh~[/b]", little did Light know a simple touche would make her cartoon flesh age and turn her to dust pretty damn quickly. 

It was like being set on fire or blown up. Light was a pile of ash on the ground with her eyes just sitting on top of it, visably annoyed. She didn't mind this when she was the one doing it, but loathed when other people did it to her. Being turned to ash wasn't the funnest experience in the world. And much like before, she just 'popped' back to normal after a little while, Camile confused at the pair of eyes staring at her from the ash pile before Light was back in full form.

She slapped Camile with her overly large hand, saying "Really?", her hand starting to turn to ooze at touching Camile, but Camile on the other hand would have trouble dealing with this. Why? He movement dilation wasn't active during the random reincarnation of Light. It wasn't like she expected the cartoon to die, but to get pissed so fast was somewhat of a surprise. Luckily for Camille, however, the hand that hit her pretty hand would inevitably touche Camille's exposed parts, notably her hands, causing the member to wither into dust as well. Her arm followed which would be an obvious indicator to purge the arm. 

Nonetheless, the hit had left pretty nasty red marks on her arms and cheeks while throwing her a few meters away. The landing also hurt her butt, which wasn't too shabby after the previous kick in the crotch. At least her rejuvination ability made her body constantly at its prime, taking limited damage and having the minor wounds have less impact on her performance. 

"[b]Okay! We are equal! Don't hit me with that nasty hand again ugh it's all gooey...[/b]" she shivered a bit thinking of the different meanings that could have. Not that her childish mind would harness such things but nobody here is innocent. She slowly got back up and stretched a bit. 

"Oh this'll be annoying..." Light said as her gooed up hand popped back to normal. At least that rotting process didn't really hurt at all. "Well, I guess..." Light said, pulling out a hole and jumping into it, appaering behind Camile out of a nearby wall, diving at her attempting a grab.

Camille would now realize that her enemy wasn't going to go down like the others. She was reminded of the immense danger Light presented when a new move was demonstrated. This was annoying... She suddenly disappeared only to re-appear behind Camille. Luckily for the young looking fighter, her Movement Dilation would be re-established after her previous strike. When Light entered the five meter radius, her movements would be slowed down by a few fractions of a second, enough for Camille to roll to the side and let the toon crash face first on the floor. 

"Uuhhh..." Light said as she went sailing past Camile, a bit confused as to why she was suddenly moving so fast. It was like the bug monster all over again, a bunch of haphazard powers put together or so she thought. At least she had no dampening field.

Light got up, brushing herself off. Everyone around her had left minus Camile and hereslf, which was good. Cedric had at least gotten away. While Camile was standing there, looking smug, Light grabbed the ground and pulled out a goood sized chunk, throwing it at her. Although there was a room below them...

This attack wasn't too difficult to predict. Camille closed off her dilation in order to save energy, and exchange released the murky arm from her right arm. The purple masse would assault the thrown piece of rock and rot it out upon contact. It was an easy task that allowed Camille to retreat the member as soon as the task was done, wasting little blood. Due to the missing chunk of floor, the two of them fell into the room below as the floor became unstable and gave way. The room beneath them would lead to one of the many research areas where many chemicals were exposed and guinea pigs left vulnerable. 

"[b]Light was it?! Mama needs me to beat you so I can have a good supper! Mind giving me a hint?![/b]" she asked all so politely with her delicious little French accent that would make even the cruelest of psychos feel queasy.

"All I can say is, tune in on Saturdays at 7 for the next thrilling episode!" Light said, playing along with the little kid voice that Camile was using while she looked around at her new surroundings. The first thing that caught her eye were the various vials of liquids sitting around the lab and a couple machines that looked particularly nasty. Light went to gather some vials and put them into her pocket space under her dress. "Its just good advertising. Gotta make the fans want more. Ya know?" Light said as she picked up various liquids, Feeling out Camile's psyche. Light was playful, but Camile seemed a bit naive to her, but she wasn't sure if it was an act or not.

Camille was both dilluded in this little game that was going on and unnerved by the immense danger this foe presented. What the hell could she do? While Light was having a fun time with vials, Camille checked the area out in order to figure out her envrionment. Given this was her territory, she wouldn't have trouble orienting herself through it. She then noticed the word "protocol" on one of the computer screens. In this case it involved purging the experiments, but it also reminded her of quarantine, the best option the research team had when it came to controlling the creatures. It would be thanks to bizarre idea associations like that that she could figure out such interesting strategies. Now, to get her in that quarantine zone. She had to force Light into a reinforced cell through a large entrance that would be sealed by a huge door. 

She stared at the cartoon, feeling more and more stressed about this. "[b]Yeah... It's all about images these days...[/b]" she responded more or less adequately to her opponent's question. "[b]I like dead things, but that excludes me. What do you like?[/b]" she asked randomly, not to buy time but to possibly find a crack in the girl's behavior. 

"Whatever I find fun. Mostly freedom." Light said, noticing a small canister of liquid nitrogen at the end of one of the tables. "I'm more shocked you didn't know hwo I was. I mean, theres a bloody billboard with my face a couple blocks away from this place." She said, picking up the barrel, punching a hole in it with her fist and haphazardly throwing it in Camile's general direction, having a bad throw as a good chunk of her hand was completely frozen with Light audiably complaining about the pain before smashing her hand on a table, shattering it into little pieces.

"Merde!" Camille shouted in surprise. Luckily for her the throw wasn't too accurate, allowing her to react quickly. Like the rock from before, she easily used her murky hand to consume the linear attack coming straight at her in an obvious way. However she could start to feel the effects of using that arm a few too many times. The lab was covered in frozen matter now, but that didn't matter too much given the situation. Keeping a fixed stare on Light, Camille paved her way to the nearby maintenance cabinet every lab had for hygiene reasons. There she'd rot the door and find what she was looking for. She grinned, happy that things were turning her way. 

"[b]Be careful with those lab chemicals... You may hurt civilians~[/b]" Camille warned the toon in hopes to calm her down a bit. 

"Hm..." Light said, looking around at the strange abominations inside test tubes and the like. "If I was reallt using them, I would've made a poison gas with these things by now. Course these guys are here, so I guess not" Light said, pointing out the fact that she was more or less playing with Camile. After all, all Light had to do was run at her with some dynamite in her hand and BOOM, gibs everywhere. Much like some zombie movie she saw. But then the civvies would get hurt and that was a no no. 

She instead opted to hop back into another hole, hopping out of the same hole she went in, a second hole appearing out of the wall that Carmile was near which spat out a couple beakers of liquids, most of them foul smelling or acidic. Light wasn't going to let that girl get anywhere near her if she could help it, and she didn't need to as long as she had the fixings of the lab to throw at the girl. Although the chemicals were a bit cartoony and she had used up a great deal of them.

Camille didn't see that one coming, random vials of whatever splashing out of nowhere from a wall in which she only expected Light to come out of like last time. Her arm used to block the liquids out of reflex would be exposed to some of them, the rest being rotted away as it hit her arm and murky ooze. The damage was there, but the liquids aged fast enough to have minimal damaging effects. "Punaise..." she grunted to herself, looking at her wound. She seemed concerned about her damaged arm, but at that very instant, Light could hear a slight Buzz ring through her cartoon ears. Camille had used her movement lag just as she picked up the item she coveted and moved herself at the speed of sound right next to Light. 

"[b]Losersayswhat.[/b]" she mockingly said as she appeared, only to deliver a sucker punch on the strange cartoon's face. Light, usually having issues with super speed, took the punch square in the jaw. She wasn't really capable of ultra fast movements. She did do a reactionary kick however at Camile's stomach before Light turned into dust with eyes again, while Camile was knocked a bit away, 

Gitting her teeth from the sudden counter attack, Camille had suddenly become furious from the labor caused by the demented creature. She was pushed away and her physical limits were being reached, but she didn't want to fail. When he feet touched the ground, her leg muscles became tense and proppeled her back at the now dust Light. A buldge of veins formed on Camille's forheard, signaling her utter rage. Pointing the vacuum cleaner she had snagged, she siphoned the dust created from her rotting body, in hopes to stuff her entire being in that small box. When Light didn't pop out of the cleaner, although a pop was heard of her regenerating, Camile followed up on her plan and threw the vaccuum cleaner with Light inside inside the small cell and closed it.  Rumbling and disgruntled noises coming from the trapped Light.

Camille puked out of sheer disgust as to what she had just done, but also by the recent hit she recieved combined with the over exerting efforts she had to endure. That thing wasn't even defeated, let alone killed. Either way, she had to report back to her mother. Camille let her body go limp for a second, sitting back against a nearby wall to catch her breath before heading out of the lab, grabbing some meds. She didn't want to be there when Light eventually broke free.

[hider=tldr]Camille heavily wounds Cedric and is later confronted to the dreaded Light. Light goes funny mode but is eventually trapped by Camille for a short period of time. in the research labs. Camille exhausted due to the battle with Light.[/hider]