*Be'lak looks down at Sydney, and he studies her for a moment*
What else? Wear it, and appreciate the gift.

*Hanna heard Iris' cry for help and ran off to the showers to help her*

*She opens the door and takes a waft of smoke to the face and coughs*

*She covers her mouth and goes in looking for Iris*

Hanna: Iris!?

*Sydney moves awkwardly, her arm making several horrible noises as she slips the necklace on*
Sydney: There... what now...
*She seems weakened and extremely tired all of a sudden*

*Iris hears Hanna*
Iris: Hanna! I'm okay! Just... get a fan, or something to clear this smoke! I can't see anything!
*She takes a step towards Hanna and slips on a puddle of water, landing hard on her rear.*
Iris: OW!
*When she yells a bolt of lightning shoots from her mouth and blows up the light fixture in the bathroom, sending a shower of sparks everywhere*

*Hanna recoils at the lightning then the sparks then shields her face with her arm even tho the flash was barely visible through the smoke*

*Hanna's wings shoot out and she uses one as a fan to blow the smoke away, it is not that fast but it works*

Hanna: J-just give me a second Iris!

*Be'lak simply takes a step back, and disappears into the shadows, melting away from Sydney's view*

*The sparking outlets all erupt in a flash of light, and bat like creatures made of lightning fly across the Room. Lightning flashes from them and strikes at anyone near them while the creatures fly*

*Hanna doesn't see any of the bat creatures until they are very close and she gets hit with multiple arcs of lightning. She tries to use her wings to block as much as she can but her movements are sluggish because of the barrage of lighting*

*She falls to the ground convulsing and her wings also thrash around. She is in extreme pain but cannot vocalise it because all her muscles spasm*

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*Walter watches the bat creatures fly about and he quickly throws himself out of the room. He scrabbles to his feet a few meters from the door to the room*

Walter: (What in the world!?)

*Iris peers through the smoke at the shocking events*
Iris: Hanna?! Hanna are you alright!?
*She moves towards where she last heard Hanna speak, crawling with one arm outstretched to feel her way blinding over the floor*
Iris: Hanna stay down!
*She appears to be immune to the electricity coming off the bats as she crawls forwards*

*Sydney swears violently*
Sydney: What the- WELL F*$& YOU TOO TOSSER!

*Xan nearly falls over in shock and quickly transforms*
Xan: AHH! What is-
*She screams and convulses as she's shocked, singing much of her fur*

*The bat near Iris suddenly shifts forms, imitating Iris' own physique. It then lunges at her, trying to rake its claws against her*

*The bat near Xan swoops down at her, shooting off more lightning as it goes*

*Xan swipes out, then yowls in pain again as she's zapped*

*Iris screams and stumbles back*
Iris: Ahh! No get away!
*She yells in pain as her shoulder is cut, though her hard scales keep the wound shallow.*
*She instinctively kicks out with both of her powerful legs at the creature*

*Zeta pauses for a few seconds as she tries to figure out what just happened, but is shaken out of her stupor by the bright red glow of her spear, which neatly slots itself in her hands. Instincitvely, she aims upwards with it, and fires a massive blast from the tip of the spear, though she tries to git as little of Xan as possible, not yet willing to question how she changed form. The blast itself neatly takes off a portion of the ceiling, but whether or not the bat was actually hit is still in question.*

---

*The Black Armoured Figure is out and about.*

*Jillian tries to avoid the lightning, by and with her insane lightning reflexes draws her magnum.*
*Covers her eyes at Zeta's blast, but quickly looks for any sign of the bat.*

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*Sasha shrugs.*
Sasha: We are dealing with a small gate so the largest thing we will see are Void drakes, besides that it can be any number of creature from that dimension. Some are more sentient than others.
John: In theory.
Sasha: Not a bloody theory John! It's the truth.
*John sighs, and decides not to touch this argument again. They both keep walking along, guns at the ready.*

*The bat neatly avoids Xan's claw, but gets hit by the spear shot. The bat shrieks as it gets engulfed by the shot, and two halves fall from the ceiling*
*Each half quickly reforms into a new bat, and they begin shooting lightning at Zeta and Jillian*

*Pseudo-Iris stumbles back and growls at Iris, but is unharmed by the blow*
*It stomps on the floor, causing electricity to go across the ground in every direction*

*Lecter nods again, and takes the group to where he last fought Be'lak*
Lecter: This is where he was. And where that Praetorian first showed up.

*Again, Iris seems immune to the electricity, in fact as it runs over her body it seems to sink in between her scales*
Iris: Ahhh!
*As she yells a bolt of blue lightning streaks from her mouth and at the Pseudo Iris*

*Sydney lapses into unconsciousness*

*Taboo watches the events unfold from her hidden position in the air-ducts*

*Xan howls in pain, then picks up a chair and hurls it at one of the bats as hard as she can*

*Zeta almost yelps when she sees the bat A, still existing, and B, attacking her, and so she misses her secondary swing with her spear. Despite this the spear corrects itself and fires yet another blast, albeit badly aimed, and far less intense in the general direction of the bat swooping Zeta.*

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*The Black Armoured Figure steps into the light where Lecter and the group of futuristic peeps are. He's bulky, like, 8 feet of muscle bulky, with only a helmet and a cloak that is draped around his shoulders, which actually makes him look armoured, though he isn't. Although he looks like a brute, he does also have an armoured tasset piece, along with black metal leg gear. So pants. Basically metal pants.*
BAF: Greetings. Investigating the storm?
*His voice is deep, and carries a heavy accent from a faraway land of anime and bodypillows. Leaning heavily on his huge scythe, which is almost his heigth, he gives the small group a quick inspection from underneath his menacing helmet.*

*Lecter steps towards the armored figure and smells the air, trying to figure out what he is*
Lecter: Yes and no. There's some things in this storm that need to be found. Name's Lecter, you are?

*Pseudo Iris doesn't flinch at the lightning, and instead strides towards her while swiping at her throat*

*Bat B gets grazed by the blast, and falls to the ground. It then shifts forms to mimic Zeta, and swings its own staff at the girl*

*Bat A shoots lightning at the chair, but still gets hit by the wreckage. It them shoots a bolt at Xan in retaliation, and regains its altitude*

*Iris screams and throws up her arms protectively, yelling in pain as she's badly cut. Even as she's cut though, she seems to absorb the energy from the creature attacking her, stealing it away and storing it.*
*She recognizes this and instead of trying to fall back more, instead ducks low and tries to tackle Pseudo Iris*

*Xan gets zapped again and her muscles spasm, throwing her across the room where she lands in a heap. She quickly shrivels back down to her human form, unconscious*

*Major gets shocked and starts firing off full at Las pistol in libiarybat bat's trying to do something to stop whatever the hell they are. *

*Barbarians are knocked out cold as they have metal weapons and that's just not gonna work ever*

*Hanna grits her teeth as one of her wings blocks a bolt of lightning. Now's my chance! she thought, she thing shoots a wing shard at the bat before most likely getting shocked again*

*Even with her super high pain tolerance these shocks really sucked. Forcing her body to convulse and burning at the same time*

*She tried reaching for he back pack but she couldn't control her limbs for long enough to hit any of the buttons on the back pack. She continued shooting off shards whenever she could get a semi decent shoot at the bat monster*

*Zeta recoils in pain from being struck by the spear, and can't really manoeuvre well enough woth the spear to hit back, and everybody knows that spears are meant to be used at a comfortable distance away from the bad guy, which is not being done at the moment. Instead she tries locking the cross-section of the pointy end (pointy end of the spear is basically an oversised cross, not sure if it's been that noticeable in the past two photographs that have been posted in regards to Zeta) and starts trying to beat the pseudo-Zeta into submission. Even if she has lightning going off her, Zeta is fine so long as her exposed face and whatever parts she has exposed due to her armour being fairly ineffective at stopping dangerous blows, but hey female armour syndrome does that to a woman.*

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*The Black Armoured Figure nods at the news of there being something in the storm. Underneath his helmet, he's grinning at the revelation.*
BAF: I see. Perhaps it is a primal beast after all. My name is Vaseraga. I came to investigate the storm to see if there was a primal beast behind this anomaly or not, and a couple other reasons.
*He makes sure to not give away his other reason, reason being Zeta.*

*Jillian fires six rounds into the bat that is attacking her head, and with lightning speed reloads her magnum. She readies herself to unleash another salvo of shots.*

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Sasha: Well let's find your problem...
*Sasha aims her lance at the Vaseraga, but gradually lowers it after announcing himself, and speaking to Lecter.*
John: Names John, this is Sasha.
*Sasha nods to Vaserage.*