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((Stuff in her color, with single quotes and italicized = Luna's thoughts. Normal quotation marks = Speaking.))

Oh course two of em' were gonna' rail back against it all. Not that she hadn't opened her trap wide enough as it was an' killed time. Eh. Look, better the newbies get some idea of what ta' do than not, right? Hell. She wasn't used to doing this sort of thing on her own. Not at all. Trying to get this group of people under the same banner and the same idea or something of the sort without prep time. What had HERO been thinking on this one, really? Two of them who knew the hood, but naturally having this whole ICOSA crap coming down on them and then this mess. What, were they supposed to be a fluid coordinated team at the drop of a hat? Took time and effort and bleeding and almost dying alongside each other for some people to connect the damned dots!

Luna didn't talk back or respond to the others. No, instead she swung her empowered fists and turned Terrazard skulls into paste. Could feel them gnawing at her, only to get thrown off or have their brin ripped out with her bare hands. As much as she wanted to do her best....do her best to stay clean and on a good path no matter what that is, she couldn't deny that this was almost cathartic in a sense that she hadn't felt for a long time coming. Then Mire's stunt almost splashed her, for that matter, though it was certianly a relief. But all of these Terrazards coming in like this and all at once? Doing so in a formation of some kind? No, this couldn't be coincidence at this point. 

However-

[quote=Ardent]"Don't follow them? Are you serious? If they stop coming to us, we're gonna have to go to them. The mission is to clear out the whole place, which means we're gonna have to go in there and get our feet wet a little. If you don't feel safe doing that, you can wait outside. I'm gonna-"

"Hah! At least we can forget about the bait!"

"That was a lot of yapping just to say 'let's watch each other's backs while we fight some lizards'! Better hope it works!"[/quote]

[color=FF8C00]"Alright, I opened my yap too much and I'll own up to it. Thoough I didn't say for us all to never go in there together once-....oh shi-."[/color]

As she spoke her eyes would spot something far, far worse on the horizon. No, a lot of somethings running at them in numbers that were far from natural. It was far from normal. No, it was nothing short of a giant Hollywood zombie horde of Terrazards just flooding out like they were coming out of the walls....or had been set loose. Even the bad infestations in Brookside had never gotten [b]THIS[/b] bad in all her life thus far even in the stories from the old timers. 

[quote]And bounce back they did. Hordes and hordes of them flooded out of the big hole in the side of the wall of the recycling plant. So much so that, at a certain point, the concern was no longer the lizards. The lizards were dangerous to regular people, but there were a number of heroes, or perhaps even some non-heroes with good enough equipment, that could kill them with ease.[/quote]

[color=FF8C00]"This ain't natural! Everyone come together, toward and onto me, and keepin watchin' each other's backs while we start makin' way toward the plant [u]right now[/u]! Morons inside have lost their minds, and splitting up for interceptin' these things won't do squat to help unless we stop the source of em' comin' out from the inside!"[/color] 

[quote]The problem was whoever was putting them there in the first place. Terrazards were never present in these large quantities. Maybe small groups. Maybe LARGE groups. Whatever this was, was a veritable army. Who was making this army?[/quote]

It was her nightmare scenario in all of this come to fruition. One of those asinine ideas she'd heard some morons saying as a joke years ago, but...hell. Whoever was inside was really trying to just kill them all at this point, wanted to just as badly as they were horribly stupid. Stupid enough to name themselves after the Blue Skulls in the most obvious possible way. Stupid enough to not send everything out at once, only a token stupid force, because now at this point she didn't doubt the Skulls inside were the source of this crap at all. 

It was all so stupid, and it made he wonder if it was just some stupid coincidence or not. 

[color=FF8C00][i]'Wait a damn minute, if they made a damn Zard army like that then why send just the small fry bunch at us first? All you'd get is us gettin' ready, then the rest come for-....for....no...'[/i][/color]

Luna began to ramp up her power, her body beginning to warp and change in shape as she ran foward to intercept the next innumerable wave. Grotesque juttings of bone stuck to super-strong arms. An elongating body that ran with far too many pairs of strong legs. Multiple heads and the ilk keeping watch and lash out to bite on super strong but stretchy necks, all while jutting meaty tendrils would begin stabbing with syringe-like super-strong spears of bone to inject her own extremely augmented digestive enzymes being mass-produced in many new stomachs into the Terrazards. Like a caterpillar from Wonderland that got dropped into Hell for a few millenia or so. 

But it was her transformation, and her effort, to not hold back and attempt to help 'handle things' while the others [u]hopefully[/u] formed up and came up with her. Hopefully. Because in this swarm, splitting up for any reason could get them killed and they needed to go to the source. Cut off the source, then hunt down what had come out of the building. Would save the most trouble by far, compared to the alternative that was splitting up and grabbing buckets to hold water when you had a 'burst pipe' type of situation like this. 

[color=FF8C00][i]'No, the name's obvious. Too obvious. Screams loud to people what they're tryin' to imitate. Ya know who knows what it means too? Who'd be drawn here just fer' that reason? **My stupid ass**. HERO's stupid ass too.

And the Zards'? No, they're producing em' somehow. Breeding em'? Somethin'. Have enough wander around to get us called to the scene, though, and then just give us a taste so no backup comes runnin' or we arrive with a bigger group than planned. 

They spring this crap on us, and then we get desperate and charge in like morons to try to stop it. Bam.'[/i][/color]

This wasn't right. None of it was. Skulls should have stayed dead, and the morons trying to emulate them had what they wanted here potentially as well. Her. HERO. A smaller group of fighters compared to what HERO would've sent to assist if they'd known the Terrazards had such unnatural numbers here or the like. Newbies who'd never fought Terrazards before, two veterans, and a dysfunctional mess that could potentially blow up if they didn't come together well enough. Heh. She'd almost laugh if it didn't make her want to cave in heads with her fists first. 

For all her issues or not, for all her power was horrific or not, Luna wanted them all coming back alive and hoped to bring them all back in one piece. She even hoped even Mr Grumpy Mushrooms and Flyboy could at least see the advantage of coming together to push to the building instead of rushing in like a dumbass alone or otherwise. She hoped the Newbies would see. She felt Blur was going to have an eye on things, however....call it a hunch based on past experiences. Though to see 'that guy' here and under the title he was? She was just glad they were all on the same side this time.

But in the end she wasn't going to hold back the assumptions about this anymore. Some asshat in there knew what had happened at the old HQ. They knew she worked for HER. They were nuts, but it was the desperate, vengeful, and crazy ones that just wnted to see the world burn which you had to worry about most sometimes. They, after all, [i]had the least to lose, and the most to gain[/i]. 

....Or, well they were on copious amounts of drugs that only having a superpower would enable without dying. Just manage to locate and ask the corpse of the former Skulls member, the 100% post-mortem legend himself, that had once been "Crazy Crackhead Carl the Immortal". 

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