[IC] Masterminds

[MarshiestMallow]

Leela shook her head, "No" She said, "I'm battered and bruised and feel as if my body is still shaking from your shocks. I can barely move, so we are screwed if someone comes after us, and most of all, I feel all dry and swiveled up. I need water, you need electricity, and I bet you that neither of us will find it...wait" She struggled up, suddenly grinning, "I know where the switch box is" She pushed open the door behind her, grimacing at the numerous number of stairs, and struggled down them. She found the power box, mainly by touch along, and opened it. Again by touch, she found that one of the fuse switches were down, so she pushed it up, going on logic. Suddenly, the place lit up, and Leela whooped.

She had to crawl back up the stairs, and collapsed next to Maria. "Will that help you?" She asked

---

Jamie sighed at the expression on the wolfs face, but still dragged her into the elevator, and up to Marcus's office. "I have caught Noirin" He told Marcus when he got there. "I promised her food, to get her to stop biting me"

Marcus was sitting at his desk, looking at the cell in his wall, a plate of food on his desk. Seeing that Marcus hadn't touched it, Jamie snatched it off the desk, and put it on the floor in front of Noirin. He figured she would at least eat the meat.

[C W St J Nobbs]

Feyd had spent most of his time locked in the cell yelling about random things. He told Marcus the story about when he was young and threw a desk at one of his foster siblings, about the time he got so nervous about counting in front of the class in kindergarten that he had pissed himself, about the time he found a cat and took it home with him, but how it got hit by a car. He talked about his favorite bands, even demonstrating his non-existent singing skills to Marcus to make sure that he knew what bands he was talking about. He talked about why purple was his favorite color, and how people who said black was their favorite color were all just unimaginative douche nozzles. He discussed all of his favorite foods, went into graphic detail of his favorite sexual encounters, and even found time to explain to Marcus the virtues of being a fire eater, though Feyd would admit he cheated and didn't know how a normal person would have done it.

“YOU KNOW WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT ALL THIS? I KNOW YOU'RE TOO SCARED ABOUT WHAT I'LL DO IF YOU SHUT YOUR LITTLE WALL AND DON'T KEEP AN EYE ON ME, SO YOU HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS.”

Tin man tried to be passive, and Feyd couldn't see his face, but he could tell from his body language that he was not happy. Every time Feyd opened his mouth, he could see tin man's shoulders tighten, and a vein would pop out of his neck.

“I'M REALLY ENJOYING OUR TIME TOGETHER, YA KNOW? I FEEL LIKE WE'VE REALLY BEEN BONDING!”

[Aisling]

Noirin was a not happy about being pulled into a tiny box and her whimpering increased greatly. She cowered in a corner until the door was open. She crawled out on her stomach and looked around warily. The man was talking to another man but she didn't care for the first man gave her some food. Rather quickly she gulped the sandwich dnown then pushed the crunchy flat pieces around looking for more food.

Upon not finding any more food, she crawled on her stomach to the first man then rolled over to her back and showed her submissiveness to the first man. With a soft whine, she looked up at him with soulful eyes.

[MarshiestMallow]

Jamie had to close his eyes, or find himself completely at the mercy of the wolf girl. He just had to chose the one that knew how to be cute, didn't he? the one that could change into animals, and tug at his soft side. He sighed, opened his eyes, and knelt. Marcus didn't seem to notice them, and he rubbed the wolf-girl's belly. "I'm sorry" He said remorse full. "I really am"

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"Either shut up, or I'll make you put a cork in it, you annoying little bug!" Marcus roared at Feyd, and the building seemed to shake with his rage. he rose, approaching the cell, his expression murderous. "You have one change to shut up. One. I have many tricks up my sleeve, and am very adapt at tortoring without killing. I can give you so much pain, that your bowels will loosen, and you will be begging for mercy in minutes"

[salamimike]

Flint began to drive, using the small tablet device to track Maria and Leela. After finding Marias phone to be off he decided he would just have to use the small radar on the device. He began to use his insects and birds as well. Taking in what they saw whenever he passed a few, replaying there memories, this caused him to nearly crash the van a few times but the people in the back didn't mind, they couldn't mind...
Flint soon began to pin point around where the two might be and exited the car with the zombies "Ok lets move" He muttered as his insects, birds and rats began to comb the area. Flint had to concentrate and so him and the zombies stood inside the small alleyway unmoving except a small sway when a wind flew by.

[Rusalka]

"Yeah....guess I shoulda been a little easier back there...if I knew this is where we'd end up.." Maria sighed deeply in response to Leela. True...the girl went overkill with her power back there and poor Leela was the victim of Maria's blind brutality, taking every voltage Maria could throw at her, all of which put Leela in her now weakened state. She cocked an eyebrow though when Leela stood up, shakily of course, but there was the strangest of grins to her face. "What's up?" Maria asked, but before too long Leela had the door pried open behind them and was descending sluggishly the stairs into the darkness. What was she looking for in the basement, Maria wondered, but too soon did that answer come to pass with almost every light in the abandoned school building flickering on, dimly of course, but Maria caught the hint quite easily. Heh....I guess I should be glad I have her around. A bit of a smile formed under her mask as she stuck her hand to a nearby outlet when Leela fell next to her. "More than enough." She answered the girl and soon went to work absorbing as much raw energy into her body as possible, the lights flickering and some of the ancient bulbs busting with a loud pop, but there was still enough electricity to sustain the place.....except...they might need to be leaving now. From the corner of her eye, Maria noticed....quite the familiar bug scurrying around on the floor just mere inches from the girls.... "We might have to get water for you elsewhere... They're here..."

[MarshiestMallow]

"Well then, we need a car, because I doubt I could even walk for two minutes right now" Leela said, but deliberatly she raised a hand, seeing a bug, and brought it down as hard as she could manage, feeling the squishing of it and making an "Ick" Sound. She wiped her hand on her pants, defiant to the end.

She struggled up once more, leaning against the wall. "Even a bottle of water will be beneficial to me right now" She said, "Hell, I'm desperate enough, I'll even take toilet water"

She glanced about, "How ccould he find us so quick? Honestly, we should dig a hole and put him in there, and bury him alive! Then maybe he'll realise he's dead"

[salamimike]

"BINGO!" Flint yelled rasperly as he opened his eyes. They all quickly got back in the van and quickly drove to the old building the rodents began to move into the building though, attempting to slow down the escape of the two girls. When Flint got to the site he made his slaves hold there guns and be ready to shoot if need be. He sent them in to search the rooms as Flint did the same, leaving one of the slaves outside to guard the van.
Flint was pissed "When I see them girls..." He grumbled as he walked the hallway.

[Rusalka]

"Psh! I doubt it. Even if Bug-boy's arm fell off, I still don't think he'd realize what the walking corpse he is." Maria remarked, grimacing a bit at Leela squishing a bug with just her bare hand. Sure, Maria's seen her share of gore, most of it committed by here, but a bug...it was just...no.. Of course, she could've just chalked it up to Leela's own lethargic state of being, desperate for only a drop of water, and even if she was desperate enough to drink from the toilet, Maria was sure there wasn't much of a drop left in those, judging by how old this building was. Yeah the electricity was working, but the pipes...they had to be withered by now. Where else could they get water she wondered....and then it struck her as if a bolt from the blue yonder. "So you'd drink anything right now?" Maybe it didn't have to be just water...maybe it was any liquid. Slipping off one of her clawed gloves, Maria exposed the back of her arm, dragging one of her razor talons across, as always not feeling a thing, and soon followed a trickling crimson pour.....of blood. "It ain't water, and it may be gross...." She said kneeling down towards Leela, bring her arm to the girl's lips. "But it's liquid....and you need it more than me." They had to hurry though, so there was no time for Leela to hesitate. Flint....was drawing near....

[Aisling]

The wolf licked his hand then when she heard the loudness of the other man, she began to whine, roll over and crept closer to the first man. In fact so close that she was right against his body in pure fear and trembled visually.

[C W St J Nobbs]

“Oh, now I get it. See, none of this made very much sense until now. You're just salty that the wizard didn't give you that heart you asked for. Don't worry, tin man, I'm sure you'll find true love someday, or whatever the fuck you wanted a heart for.”

Pain was second nature to Feyd at this stage of being a fire handler. He wasn't sure if anyone else's learning curve had been as difficult as his had been, but most of his training had involved accidentally setting himself on fire. And before that, he had been beaten to a pulp at least twice a week by his father. He had a trick or two up his sleeve. His ribs were still a dull, throbbing ache and the road rash that covered the entire left side of his body wasn't very pleasant, but it was child's play compared to what he had weathered before. He wasn't really scared of whatever tin man could throw his way.

[MarshiestMallow]

Leela stared as Maria cut her arm, brought it to her slips. Blood? Was she to be a vampire now, sucking blood to survive? She didn't see that she had much of a choice, and hesitantly drank from Maria's arm. The blood tasted metaliccally, and just plan gross in her mouth and throat, but she drank down. "ick ick ick" She muttered, pulling away, wiping the blood from her mouth. She stood less shakily, "Lets go"

Jamie winced as the wolf-girl cralwed into his side, "Watch your claws, and teeth. I don't need another bite mark" He said, stroking the girl's muzzle. He watched Marcus, deciding not to intervene.

"Oh, I could give you pain, more pain then you have ever felt before" Marcus said darkly, "Shut up" He hated this. He wasn't some sort of baby sitter.

[Aisling]

Noirin quieted down with the man petting her muzzle and laid her head on his shoe. She didn't exactly like the man very much but he didn't shout and he did feed her a bit. She was still hungry but at least her stomach stopped growling and her mind was taken off of food. Now she could think more clearly about her situation.

[salamimike]

Flint and his minions where moving door to door and soon one of the zombies was in the doorway of the two girls. It was a young man in a smart black suit, he had some green liquid around his face but he seemed pretty normal otherwise, it would seem confusing having this stranger in the room but the absent look on his face showed something was off. At first the figure didn't know how to react but soon it raised its gun towards the pair threateningly hoping to keep them in place as Flint was relayed what the Figure saw. The others began to converge on the room. Bugs already seeping within.

[C W St J Nobbs]

“This is my scared face,” Feyd said. “You already said you weren't going to kill me. God, you really suck at this whole 'bad guy' thing. Yeah, you have the goons and you are mysterious, and the fact that you can become a Wizard of Oz character is pretty impressive. But...you can't just tip your hand like that. Plus, I know you can't kill me. You've been chasing me all damn day. You even had me passed out a few times and here I am, still alive. Think of this as...constructive criticism. Look at it as a chance for you to pull your head out of your ass and be a real bad guy.”

[Rusalka]

As disturbing as it may have been for Maria to let Leela drink of her own blood, it was only with strong intention towards survival. The girl had drunken her fill and was seeming to be a bit more energized than before, her legs wobbling less as Leela stood, Maria following behind her while slipping on her glove again and fastening it tight, at least that would hold the wound for a bit, and she didn't really cut that deep into her arm to be frankly honest. Maria wasn't much aware if Flint was alone. Surely the others were hunting the rogue villainess as well.....and really....Maria never considered herself much of either....she was no hero....and she was no villain....she was just a girl who loved causing discord every once in a while. "Where else do you think we should head to? I mean you can't go back to your brothers and me...well the Playground's probably plagued by now thanks to Flint." Maria said following beside Leela. She remembered the bug infested creep Flint infecting one of the bouncers...and the disease may have spread to the entire club by now, making it unsafe territory to practically anyone.

Too late for an escape though.....

"Fuck!" In an instant, the crawling chaos of Flint descended in full force upon the room, bugs, roaches, every single undesirable the dead man could conjure, flooding towards the two girls, and worse... "Is that....a fucking zombie?!" So this was the extent of Flint's power, eh? Now...he was infecting others to do his bidding. Clever, but Maria be damned if she was going down without a fight. Instantly, she attacked, sending volts of lightning in every single direction, frying every bug and insect that dared to come in reach of her and Leela. "Go! Get the fuck out of here!" She shouted to the white haired girl

[MarshiestMallow]

Leela shook her head, "I'm not going without you! what a few more of the undead? At least they don't smell like he does!" She picked up a metal pipe, abandoned on the factory floor, and wielded it as a weapon.

She attacked one of the Zombies, feeling a moment of guilt for the poor soul, and then bruatally hit it over the head repeatedly, tears stinging at her eyes.

She conjured as much water as she could, letting it flow around them, to try and wash the bugs, the zombies, even the walking corpse that was Flint away.

---

"I. Can. Kill. You" Marcus hissed, "But then I'd be forfeiting my own life. Lets see how you like it without fresh Oxygen getting to you" He pushed a button, and a glass well came down over the cell, covering it completely, and seeing off the vents and routes air could get in. A sardistic, somewhat crazy smile covered Marcus's lips.

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Jamie watched, horrified, turning to the wolf girl, what was going to happen to her? Jamie rose suddenly, clicked his fingers softly, "Come, please" He said

[salamimike]

The empty person was fried quite quickly, it hadn't attempted to avoid the blast and so burnt to a crisp. Flint soon got just outside the room with the other minions. Flint making the animals swarm faster in an attempt to have some break through. The other minions began to shoot through the wall between the hallway and the room, blasting through the crumbling wood to attempt to hit the girls. "You know if you give up now It would be a lot easier" Flint yelled then coughed loudly as the minions beside him ran out of ammo. Flint had lost quite a lot of insects in the attack but a few stragglers still attempted to break through. When the insects died down Flint walked into the room from the hallway followed by his zombie minions. Hoping to find two half dead woman inside.
What he actually found where a lot of dead bugs and two dead minions "Well that's just great" He grumbled his other minions having reloaded. The three of them now pointing there weapons at the girls.

[Aisling]

The Wolf kept close to the first man and did as she was told and went with him. She was glad to go anywhere to get out of the reach of the loud man.

[Rusalka]

This was getting really....REALLY fucked up! First bugs, then zombies, now...zombies with guns! "Are you trying to get yourself killed?! Go!" Maria, eventhough she admired the courage of this young girl, still yelled to her to leave, run for her own sake and leave Maria to deal with this plague-infested son of a bitch. Bullets were ricocheting everywhere, bouncing off the sullied walls of rotting wood and cracked drywall, one precariously grazing Maria across the cheek, almost a killshot there had it not bounced off her respirator. Thinking quickly, however, the lightning girl extended her hands outwards, and soon around her surged an orb of static electricity, sparking and fizzing as it engulfed the two fighting women. Now bullets were bouncing off the lightning shield...or rather being repelled by the negative ions counteracting the deadly lead and brass. Finally the shooting stopped....and there before them stood the walking dead himself. "Flint!" Maria hissed beyond the veil of lightning, gritting her teeth in such disdainful rage to the rotting corpse shambling towards them. "Figured Marcus would send his mangiest dog to bite me! Why don't you do me a favor and tell him to fuck off? You should do the same too before I fry your rotting ass again!"