[IC] Masterminds

[MarshiestMallow]

"You should have brought bug spray" Leea said to Maria, letting herself slump in the back seat, "Who knows, it might have killed the walking corpse. You do know, I could probably smash the window with these handcuffs" She said, but made no move to try. She slowly fell asleep, totally exhausted.

[KatherinWinter]

(damn nija posts. Will think of something new to put here)

[MarshiestMallow]

Aisling said
Noirin moaned as she slid down onto the floor. Her bones began to creak then a sudden snap which brought on a scream followed by more snaps and screams for the next 10 minutes before there was a sudden eerie silence. Slowly moving figure clawed it's way up onto the seat and shaking it's head as if clearing the cobwebs out of it's head with a low growl......

"Oh, look" Jamie sighed, "Down, girl" He said, weaving shadows easily, "See, I told you you had abilities" He yawned, forming a rope and collar out of the shadows, letting them form around Noirin's neck. "You really want to try me right now?"

[Aisling]

The wolf tilted her head as she listened to the man's voice. Then she realized that there was something around her neck and shook her head again. Not being able to get the thing off she began to growl and scratch at the thing around her neck. Dribbles of saliva began to drip from her mouth as she tried to bite the thing off. She growled more menacingly as she got more and more frustrated.

[MarshiestMallow]

Jamie sighed, "Stay" he said, looping the shadows around his hand, them extending as he got into the drivers seat, making sure all the doors were closed. He started to drive once more.

[salamimike]

"If you smash the window all the cockroaches will get in" Flint remarked proving a point by making a few of the bugs slam against the outside of the window. Attempting to get in.
"Now stay quite until we get to the office. I can always make you start throwing up blood so don't try anything." Flint threatened

[C W St J Nobbs]

He heard the whoosh of something behind him, and had no interest in finding out what it was. He cut to the left as suddenly as he could and kept running down the alley when he had an idea. He really, really hoped his theory was sound because that was all it was. He focused on pushing the flame from his hand to the pavement.

'Come on,' he thought as he willed himself to lift off the ground 'It works for jets, there is not a damn reason this shouldn't work for me too,' he told himself, even though the damn reasons that it shouldn't work for him was a rapidly growing list.

Maybe it was the adrenaline rush, maybe it worked through pure force of will, or maybe the laws of physics had taken the day off, but he found himself whooshing upwards towards the roof of the building to his left and he frantically swung his arms up to catch himself on the edge and pull himself up.

He was stunned that it had worked, but there would be time to pat himself on the back later. He looked across the roof to the building on the far side and saw an access hatch. He sprinted over, pushing the pain out of his mind as he jumped between buildings. He didn't quite make the roof, but was lucky enough to slam onto a fire escape.

He groaned as black bursts almost overcame his vision while he pulled himself up. He wanted to rest, but he knew that was an unlikely event right now. He wasn't sure he could shoot himself up to the roof, so he smashed the window and stepped into a wide open room. He ran to the door against the wall and opened it into a hallway. Instead of fleeing down it, he stepped to his left, knelled down and began to conjure the largest flame orb that he could remember trying to make. For the first time, he felt really, really bad for whoever was chasing him.

[Aisling]

The wolf heard the man speak again and her stomach began to growl reminded her that she needed to feed and while a man is not high on her favorite food list, it would be better than nothing. She backed up as far as she could go then lunged at the man with her jaws wide open with the intention of taking a big bite out of the man.

[Rusalka]

Maria just figured it best to let Flint do all the work and be a faithful temporary servant, since for most of the day, she was the one having to do all the dirty deeds...and not the good dirty deeds either. "Bout fucking time she shut up." Was Maria's only quip to Leela as the white haired girl passed out in the back-seat, trailing her eyes back a little to keep an eye on the bitch and make sure she didn't pull anymore shit like last time, otherwise...it would be Maria dealing with their little captive...and she wasn't as subtle as her decomposing compadre next to her when it came to dealing with loudmouth little brats like Leela. Giving a deep sigh, she moved her hand to the radio dial again, flipping through the stations and the white noise as she finally fell upon another song she liked. Good...more music to chill to after such a hectic hour or so... "Yeah sorry 'bout not helping, but as far as I can see, Bug-boy, I dealt with that cunt all day. Your turn now." Tesla muttered to Flint, leaning back in her seat with a ragged yawn leaving her lips.

Sooner or later they arrived upon the steps to the building where Marcus' office was located, top floor...typical of your cliched comic book villains and Marcus...well...to Maria he certainly fit the mold. Getting out of the car first, Maria stormed over to the back door, swinging it open with ease and gripping Leela by her slender ankles, forcefully yanking her from the backseat with an insolent chime of, "Wakey wakey, li'l Leela!" She didn't really give a damn if she hurt the bitch or not at this point, not after all the shit she put Maria and Flint through. Now grasping the girl by her hair, Maria pulled her in close to her face, practically hissing venomous under her mask, "Now here's the deal, you little bitch. You're gonna go in this building and you're gonna be on your best behavior, if not....." At this she paused, raising her hand up....claws gleaming insidiously, the fresh blood of the dead man still upon them crimson and warm...as lightning surged and arced violently through the ice cold metal. "I'm gonna melt the fucking flesh RIGHT OFF YOUR BONES, then my little bug buddy over here's gonna let his friends have a feast. GOT IT?" Maria didn't wait for a reply, just shutting the girl up with a harsh issue of , "Good. Now fucking move it!" Coldly she dragged the girl along by her hair, Flint possibly following as she again whipped out her phone, "Marcus! Wherever the hell you are, we're at your office now and we got Leela too."

[MarshiestMallow]

The iron formed around Marcus like armor as he entered the building looking about wearily "I grow tired of these games, brat" he said, listening around him.

"Come out, you are just making this worse for yourself. You cannot hope to harm me with fire"

---

Jamie yelped, twisting the car about causing it to crash, and he yanked on the shadows around the neck of Noirin the wolf. "bitch!" He shouted, backing the car back, satisfied it was still driveable.

[C W St J Nobbs]

Feyd appreciated the warning. He was about to just blast him in the face and try to take off, but had had another plan. He stood up and stood in the doorway, the orb he built crackling the air around it.

“Thanks for the warning, bro.”

Feyd threw the orb directly above the tin man's head and the roof collapsed over him, filling the air with debris and dust. It probably wasn't fatal, but there was approximately a metric fuckton of debris burying him. Feyd took off down the hall, kicking doors open until he found the stairs, which he started jumping down two or three at a time.

[MarshiestMallow]

"Do it!" Leela spat, struggling weakly "oh, wait, You're scared of this "Marcus" what is he, an imaginary friend?" She snorted, ignoring the pain from her hair. "Bite me and go to hell" she snarled.

She wasn't going to make it easy for them to get her in the office.

"A little busy, Maria" Marcus replied, "hold there, and don't let her escape" he hung up, waiting for any sign if the one he was tracking.

Leela struggled, trying to get her cuffed wrists around Marias arm

---

Marcus yelled in fury, and the rubble blew off him as he chased after the little prick, the earth shaking with his fury. He ran fast, his strength pushing him along faster and faster.

"I will get you!" He yelled furiously

[C W St J Nobbs]

As he jumped steps, he heard tin man shouting something which was all the prompting Feyd needed to start blowing away chunks of the stairwell as he sprinted down them. Whoever owned this building probably had crazy people with magical powers insurance. Or at least he told himself that as he caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of collateral damage as he sprinted down the stairs. He jumped onto the next landing and his foot slid out from under him and his chest slammed against the railing, and he collapsed. He just...couldn't run anymore. He was barely able to roll himself onto his back as he heard the thundering footsteps get closer and closer. Besides, tin man hadn't killed him yet, so Feyd figured he wasn't in any sort of rush to. He had faith in himself that he could get himself out of whatever situation he was about to be drug into. He dug through his pocket for his pack of cigarettes and pulled out a pack that was crushed into the size of a dollar bill. He would have laughed at it all, but he felt like his chest would have exploded if he tried.

[Rusalka]

Muttering to herself, Maria snapped her phone shut, ignoring the brash and spiteful commentary of Leela as she grabbed the girl's handcuffs before they looped around her arm and sent a small dosage of electricity through the cold metal, enough to at least leave some...pretty painful burns upon Leela's wrist. "GRRRR! Is this day gonna get any more fucked up than usual?!" She growled, gritting her teeth under her respirator, such paroxysm she exhumed clenching her fists tight and glaring at Leela, "And you....shut the fuck up already! You think I'm afraid of Marky? I fear no one! No one....." Her voice trailed off for a moment, her words seeming to trigger....something to unlock a dark memory....

---

"Klaus wake up! Klaus!"

Maria was only six....witnessing the horror that unfolded before her eyes filled with dreadful tears....and it was all her fault.... The boy lied on the floor....a frothy red foam of heated blood dripping from his pale...lifeless lips, holes burned into his shirt...as if he were struck by...lightning, and his eyes dilated and wide open in a thousand yard stare, not a spark of the living to them as he just lied there....lying before Maria....his murderer. The little girl who loomed over the dead kid, her tears were equal to Maria's, so painful....so full of....so many emotions. She couldn't take looking upon that dark and melancholic face mirroring her own, only made worse.....when the Nun had soon arrived.

"Dear God in Heaven....what happened?! Clarice, tell me what happened to Klaus!"

"Ma....Maria did it! She...she killed him!"

"WHAT?!"

Maria's eyes met with the Nun's, eyes burning into her fragile, withering soul with such disdain to her, such harsh judgment to cast upon a six year old girl, "Little girl, did you kill this boy? Answer me!"

"I....I-I'm sorry....I...I didn't mean to...he.....he...." She could only whimper, sob and fall before the Nun like a beaten pup, which was pretty much what she was turned into when suddenly...she felt the harsh, hardened hand of the old woman lash violently against her tear-stained cheek, a hot, searing pain jolting her entire body and sending her to the floor with a painful scream...followed by the most heart wrenching words...she had ever heard....

"You little mosnter! God will not forgive thee of such vile actions! Now you listen well you murderer! This pain shall follow you for the rest of your life! Every inch of your waking life will be haunted by the soul whose very blood you spilled this day, and when you die.....you will go to HELL!"

---

Maria shook herself from her recent trance....trying her best to block out those sickening recollections. To her...it never happened at all. She never killed that kid... But from then on....she couldn't deny how many lives she had taken since....

[MarshiestMallow]

Slowing, Marcus saw his subject on the floor, and shaking his head said "I gave you the chance to come calmly, but you just had to make it worse for yourself, didn't you?" He said, creating iron chains, and wrapping them over the his captive.

"Well, so be it. You are coming with me" he said, and pulled the man up

---

Leela looked up as Maria seemed to freeze, seein the expression in the girls face. Feeling sorry for her, Leela rose, virtually climbin up the girl as she used her to support herself up. She swayed slightly, "you don't have to do this" she said softly

"Let me go. Come with me. Get away from these people. Be free" Leela said, her voice soft, but strong, any sign of weakness in it gone. She still swayed.

"Do it, let's get out of here! Let's run off, and be free" her voice hanged to pleading

[C W St J Nobbs]

As soon as the chains were wrapped around him, Feyd felt like the most prudent thing to do would be pass the hell out from the combination of pain, coming down from an adrenaline rush, and pure exhaustion. This was supposed to be his off day, but it hadn't worked out like that. No matter what tin man was about to do to him, it probably couldn't put him into anymore pain than he was already in. So that's what he did. He wasn't even sure that he could have prevented it if he tried.

[Rusalka]

Maria looked at the girl confused for a moment or so, studying Leela's face so sincere and not much in defiance or anger towards the electric chick anymore, but...even if she couldn't deny the sort of connection she felt when looking into the eyes of the girl...feeling a sharp tinge of pain in her obsidian heart....she merely dismissed such showings of sympathy and sincerity towards her...as just a ruse. "What....what the hell do you take me for, huh?" She snapped at Leela, her eyes gleaming bright blue as she felt the electrical tinges in her body intensify. "I love being around these kind of people. I'm accepted by them, not cast out, ostracized and called a fucking monster like many of us have been, and even if I am a monster in their eyes, who gives a fuck? I love being what they fear, I love being what they hate...because what they hate also loves me... So don't think your fucking sympathy act's gonna sway me, bitch. You wouldn't be the last person I killed....." Her voice had trailed off...losing that intensity and that grit she was most famous for, her vicious growls...only dying into soft sighs of melancholy.... Damn was this girl ever prying into her head... I'm a monster...and I'm fucking proud of it....proud of it....

[MarshiestMallow]

"What do you think will happen, as soon as me, and others like me, are caught? What donyiu think will happen to you, and these supposed buddies of yours? Huh? Do yku really like being around that pestilence fellow-the walking corpse? Do you think they will leave you alone,'let you be? No! They'll shove you in a cell with the rest of us!" Leela said, her voice soft, toneless

She tried to stand without swaying "take a chance to really and truly live, take the chance, and escape...all they want to do is use you, take a chance, and be free!" She tried to keep hope out if her voice "please..." The word slipped out and she didn't mean to make it sound like she was begging.

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Marcus hefted the subject up,'over a shoulder, and started out. He hailed a cab kicking the driver out, through a handful of notes at the man, shoving feyd in the passenger seat, and driving off, starting back to his office

[Rusalka]

"So what about Flint and his bugs?" Maria quipped ever silent to Leela, this girl...she knew what she was trying to do and Maria be damned if she let herself be swayed so easily. "Nothing a can of Black Flag and a flyswatter can't fix, and I'd like to see them try and get me in a cage, because they'll be needing body bags after I'm done with them." Fuck! Why is she doing this to me? She sighed deeply, tightening her fist more and more until her knuckles were glowing pure white as she again hissed to the white haired girl, "And for your information, I've been living life. This IS my life, robbing banks, destroying buildings, killing.....it's all I've ever known, and it's all I'll ever stick with. I wasn't lucky like you. I bet you have it all...a nice home, a family that loves you and is so nurturing and so nauseatingly affectionate and stereotypical...... You know where mine are? Me neither? Nuns said they were roadkill, splattered by a drunk driver or some shit... and the same fucking fat penguins said I wasn't a good kid, that I was the Devil incarnate... Psh yeah....real nurturing alright..." Her voice was hoarse and bitter as she spoke to Leela, but her face....it only reflected that pain she buried so deep within herself...and dammit was Leela ever exhuming it from her.

[MarshiestMallow]

Leela didn't hesitate, she went to move her hands, forgetting about the cuffs, to cup Maria's face. She sighed when that was impossible, "My parents aren't loving, my elder brothers have raised me" she said simply, shaking her head "Maria, take a chance to be free, to not answer to these people. Take a chance, and let me show you what it's like. I think together we can keep them away, together...I can't go back to my brothers, so...I may as well become what I need to to survive. Let's be free" she held out her hands, and stared back at Maria passively