[IC] Super Heroes/Villains, Rule of the Goddess

[Sapphire]

Elysia was staring at a picture, it had begun to crinkle with age and use but it was still in good condition. The smiling faces of the people who had once served with her only created sorrow and guilt. Had she really thought that happy existence would last? Six years had past since this picture was taken and out of all of them she was the only one alive and free of Kami's rule. Their deaths were ultimately her fault, Elysia ran from the problems she faced at Hope and the world paid the price. It was not a mistake to be made twice. She knew the world was not content as it seemed and although she was painted in the minds of millions as a demon there were those who would be convinced other wise. Laying the picture down carefully beside a folder labeled 'Project.' Sure, it wasn't the most creative name but it wouldn't stand out in a conversation as much as something snazzy. The folder was everything physical she had on her little project, she picked it up and hurled it into the fire place before quietly gathering the last of her things and leaving the house. Elysia had already taken preparations, a message would soon reach the participants of the project. The messages would either reach their intended target or disappear, there would be no mistakes or errors, she had made sure of that. The smoke from the chimney had increased to a dangerous amount and soot coated the windows, it would burn to the ground as she planned. Elysia had managed to stay hidden from Kami and she wasn't ready to loose that advantage. She had better places to be anyways.
--Time skip--
Elysia entered a code, finger print and eye scan. Not that any of those things mattered, she had built the door and underground compound herself if she wanted to deny access she could. She entered the door which apparently lead strait to an elevator, she pressed the bottom button and the elevator started to descend. Above ground returned to normal, the spot that the door had once stood in had returned to normal ground marked by a small rock that looked anything but out of place. On the lowest level she stepped out, it was every thing anyone could ever need and she had spent months building it. Elysia was more ready for this than she had ever been for anything ever, after all she had so many things to reclaim and fix she would be an idiot to walk into this unprepared.

[CallaLily180]

Dalia was waiting patiently, for her sister to arrive at the tunnel. She had no idea what her sibling was doing right now but it was taking forever. She had no time to wait for things like these, it was too tiring to do so. Rolling her eyes she walked over to the complicated metal door and knocked on it silently. "Hey! Open up, you have two new recruits!" She shouted calmly, bored out of her mind now.

[Sapphire]

Elysia smiled as security cameras provided her with a view of above, she knew some would arrive sooner than others but she hadn't expected any so soon. She took the elevator up to meet her. Upon reaching the surface she smiled, though the cold look in her eyes said she wasn't particularly happy. "Two? I only see one, we will wait." Elysia couldn't help but feel a eerie sense of familiarity with this one. "I hope you realize the gravity of the situation, we stand against a force much greater than our own."

[Yog Sothoth]

as one of the twins introduced themselves to Elysia, a large terantula was crawling along the walls towards them. Walt was laughing to himself as he scurried on the walls. he came close to them so there was no way that they could not see the spider, and then Walt decided to change back into his human form and laughed hysterically.

"I hope i didn't scare you!" he said while he clutched at his sides laughing.

After he was done laughing, Walt introduced himself to them, "The name's Walt Warner, but you can call me Shifter, as you can see I am an expert at changing into things."

And with those words, Walt shifted from his human form to a tiger and then a large metal cube and finally he changed back into his human form. He knew he was kind of showing off but he didn't really care, and Walt was eager to know more about his comrades.

[CallaLily180]

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Dalia didn't pay attention to the shapeshifter, and she did not jump when he appeared to her as a spider. She had seen far worse things then that, and if Walt really wanted to scare her he would have to become the devil himself. "Nice to meet you Walt. Lovely show of your abilities, truly it was horrible." She rolled her eyes at him, that is when Maria came up from wherever she was, now holding the hand of a strange looking water demon.

"Hey sis, lovely to see your making friends. Meet Brian, or Cuthres as he likes to call himself. I like Brian more. Don't You Brian?" Maria asked, the six foot tall, humanoid figure of water nodded and smiled. White teeth revealing themselves as he did so, the only thing that was wrong with him was that his body literally dripped access water, and he was covered in it from head to toe.

[Yog Sothoth]

"well i try" Walt replied Dalia with a smile. He then saw Maria walk over to them with Brian the humanoid water demon, and hurried to get a close look at the creature.

"cool! Where are you from?" he asked as he transformed into an exact clone of the water demons. Appearance wise, he looked like a perfect clone of the being, but he had none of the creature's powers or abilities. He transformed back into his regular self, and was starting to like his new comrades.

[CallaLily180]

The water spirit raised a blonde eyebrow, the feature showing through the water. With a shrug-that revealed his pale blue skin-he opened his mouth to speak, but closed it as soon as Maria gave his hand a squeeze. "You don't need to know that." She wondered if he could use their abilities when he was a copy.

[Yog Sothoth]

Walt gave a fake frown and shape-shifted into Maria and gave a pouting like face.

"Why not?" he asked in a whiny voice. for some strange reason, his powers wouldn't allow him to change his voice to match Maria's, so it was his voice that came when he spoke. but it still was fun playing around with the girls and he loved a good laugh.

"let me guess, it's someplace wet?" he started laughing again after he stopped frowning, and then changed back into his normal form. he loved making light of things, many would say that it was a flaw in his personality but he thought of it as a way of keeping things light and not falling into despair.

[Avanhelsing]

Jack ran into the room after them. It was easy to get in. He just snuck in through the side and appeared as if by magic. He loved doing this. Scaring the heck out of people by just appearing them vanishing. It was oddly fun for him.

"Hi! I'm the Streak. Fastest man alive or I will be one day. Coolest guy in the world too. Get use to it. " He said quickly looking at the group.

[Savepoison]

Nathan calmly stepped up to the door, a light burst of flame slamming into the door, as if a knock, as he peers up to the security camera, he cracks a slight smile, his chains pushing away from him, as the slam into the door "Take your time.." He says annoyingly.

[thewizardguy]

There was quite a lot of noise. The creature could feel it on the surface of the metal, as it crawled over it's surface. Eight long, hairy legs moved with lightning speed, as the creature moved over the surface of the door, examining the group with it's many eyes. It was a massive spider, a king among it's kind. It's throbbing body was the size of a man's hand, not counting it's long, spindly legs which stretched out to all sides. It's chitinous armor, as well as it's small puffs of fur, were jet black, as if made of obsidian, interrupted only by it's blood red eyes, and a strange mark on it's back. A symbol in the brightest of reds, seemingly in the form of a single drop. It was a symbol that distinguished the creature from it's harmless cousins in the arachnid kingdom.

The creature couldn't be seen. It was invisible, to all but Elysia. Slowly, avoiding blasts of flame, it crawled down over the floor as it found the leg of a girl, the one whom it had been tasked with taking down. Slowly, it's large, hooked claws reached up, careful not to break skin as all feeling was muted in the girl's leg. As the massive spider crawled up, taking it's time, nothing could be felt. Black fur tickled flesh, and nothing was noticed, as it crawled up the girl's back. Had the creature been capable of smiling, it would have smiled, as it set it's throbbing black body at her neck. It pulled it's head back, it's teeth glistening brightly in the reflected light, before it plunged down. Two small holes in the back of the neck, the bleeding stopped instantly, and nobody would notice a thing.

Hundreds of eyes peered through the eyes of the creature, an intelligence far off and far more powerful than the feeble spider. Had these fools not already been muted, they would have heard the thrumming of tiny feet. They would have heard the soft chirping sounds, made by those who know they need not hide. Hundreds of black spiders, ranging from the size of a man's head to the size of a walnut, crawled over the floor, rushing towards their targets, a black swarm that would not be seen, as they muted the legs of their targets, as they started to latch on to legs, ready to crawl up. Each and every spider, among these large black masses, bore a single mark, the mark imprinted on their back. The mark of Kami, and the Citadel of Tears.

[Sapphire]

Elysia stood silently as the group got acquainted with each other and to some degree she was shell shocked. Maria and Dalia, Light and Dark, they were painfully similar. The spider kid had pissed her off too and if you looked closely you would have seen a blade slide out of her sleeve only to vanish. Scowling at everyone she held out a hand and in it little black chips appeared. "These will protect you from Kami as well as serve a number of other purposes, before I allow you all inside you must take one. Once they attach themselves the only one who can take them off is me. I suggest placing them behind an ear, anyone who refuses one I will assume to be a traitor. Do I make myself clear?" Elysia would wait until every single one of them had taken one, it was an extremely important that they have free minds.

[Savepoison]

Nathan would calmly take one of the black chips, nodding once and carefully placing the chip behind his ear "So does that mean I don't have to keep running off the main streets and I can get some decent food other than scraps?"

[CallaLily180]

Yog Sothoth said
Walt gave a fake frown and shape-shifted into Maria and gave a pouting like face.

"Why not?" he asked in a whiny voice. for some strange reason, his powers wouldn't allow him to change his voice to match Maria's, so it was his voice that came when he spoke. but it still was fun playing around with the girls and he loved a good laugh.

"let me guess, it's someplace wet?" he started laughing again after he stopped frowning, and then changed back into his normal form. he loved making light of things, many would say that it was a flaw in his personality but he thought of it as a way of keeping things light and not falling into despair.

Maria growled at Walt, looking away she sighed, turning to face the wall and giving a feint sigh. "You are quite the idiot, I must say." She muttered, looking him over again and shrugging.

Dalia faced Walt with a smile, offering her hand to him. "Hi Walt, you must be the idiot my sister keeps referring to while I have my back turned. Pleasure to meet you and see for myself how this skill works."

[Yog Sothoth]

Walt noticed the other two heroes make their entrance and he laughed when Streak boasted about being the coolest guy alive.

"You know they say that those who are very boastful are usually the first to get their asses kicked Streaky" he said hysterically.

He turned to hear Dalia's introduction and smiled, "Nice to meet Dalia, and trust me, i have a lot more tricks with my powers, all it just requires is a big imagination if you get what I mean."

Walt then saw Elysia begin to hand out chips so that she could be sure that none of them where spies. He took one of the chips and placed it behind his ear. The moment he did that, he saw the spiders that were beginning to crawl all over the place. "uh guys? I think this place has an infestation problem"

He then shape-shifted into a five foot tall black bowling ball and started to quickly roll over several spiders, trying to crush the arachnids. He hoped that his comrades would put on their chips and start noticing the spiders.

[Sapphire]

Elysia cracked a smile, she wasn't going to lift a finger unless things really got out of control. If this makeshift team couldn't handle a little pest control then what use were they. "Spiders, the most dispicable creatures on the planet. Coincidentally they are Kami's pets. This my friends is the first training exercise, good luck." Crossing her arms she smirked however the smug satisfaction failed to reach her eyes. Any spider that crawled within a few feet of her died horribly and slowly as if taking the effort to actually fully kill them was beneath her.

[Yog Sothoth]

After Walt shifted into a tiger, he began to claw at the mass of spiders. He wondered how they had followed them here unless one of his new comrades hadn't been careful enough to not be anonymous. No matter he was focused on killing as many spiders as he could and transformed into a rhino, starting to stomp on the arachnids. Because of his form's large size, his big rhinoceros feet caused the place to shake and create loud banging noise from his stomping. After he heard Elysia make her comment about spiders, he changed back into his human form and smiled at her.

"I don't think Spiderman would like your opinions on arachnids" he laughed. He turned his attention back to crushing the spiders and glad to be making jokes as this so called test was going on. he jumped over the spiders on the ground and shape-shifted into a four foot wide steel cube. His steel cube body squashed a bunch of spiders beneath him.

"This is a lot of fun!" he said still transformed, and then he morphed into a lion and continued his offense against the spiders.

[thewizardguy]

As Walter started rolling over the spiders they simply scattered out of the way, as a massive headache began to build. There were about a hundred spiders, and every time another spider joined the group, it got worse. Even though the chips prevented Kami from mentally ripping the team to pieces, her mind was battering down these limits, ready to strip those who would think themselves immune of all that made them human. She would tear away their ability to feel love, happiness, excitement, and leave only a mindless tortured soul, incapable of being saved, lashing out at anything nearby. The spiders scattered once more, dodging the large wrecking ball, moving surprisingly fast, as instantly, the full force of Kami's mind focuses solely on Ellysia.

The chip was a powerful machine, of course, but it wasn't the only thing protecting Ellysia's mind, due to the previous encounter between Ellysia and Kami. Had Ellysia's mind not been fortified against such an attack, it would have been ripped apart by the assault, and yet it held strong. But even through the many layers of mental defenses, the paranoia, the memories, the insanity, a single message was able to cut through the fog. Kami spoke to her, even from across the world, her voice as elegant and disdainful as ever, tinged with a slight hatred for the girl who had nearly ruined her plans. "Found you."

In the distance stands a figure, visible clearly against the backdrop of tall buildings, the civilisation that had started devouring the forested areas of the world. A relatively short figure, clad in a deep green hoodie and a pair of strong jeans, under which the creature wore heavy military boots. With it's hands in thick leather gloves, not an inch of the creature's skin was visible. On it's face, it wore a familiar gas mask, with green tinted lenses. Wiper stood clearly, seemingly having appeared from nowhere, one of Kami's greatest killers, and certainly the most loyal. Wiper had arrived to nip the Project in the bud.

[Sapphire]

Elysia smiled slightly, "Of course you found me, the second I saw your spiders I knew you would find me. To some extent I suppose I was tired of hiding, not that I need to justify my actions to a wretch like you." Elysia said both in mind and out loud. She didn't particularly care if Kami heard her. With a small sigh, we'll have company soon, if you want to stay up here and fight so be it but death is almost certain. I have a slight advantage against Kami's favorite dog, if that's who she's sending. The rest of you do not, I will not hold it against you if you choose to hide." Elysia looked calm as if the prospect of her death was of no great importance. A blade formed in her hand and she prepared to fight. "I take back my former comment, it would be best if you all go into the base, if I loose you'll die."

[thewizardguy]

In usual fashion, the famous assassin didn't move a single muscle, without emotion, without reason, without mercy. A being utterly and completely devoted to serving Kami, the only one of Kami's servants she trusted so greatly as to not even use a Spider. Wiper's gas mask didn't betray any intention, but the assassin had no need to make an immediate attack, not with the spiders swarming everywhere. Instead, anyone who watched would see large bricks disappearing from the surrounding areas, seemingly evaporating into thin air, as Wiper prepared to engage in a game that might cost it it's life.

At this point, Wiper did something strange. Something that truly had never happened before, and had never been expected to happen. It had faced Ellysia before, and there was no resistance fighter during the Invasion who had not known about Kami's dog and it's great power. However, some things seemed etched in stone, even when facing one of Kami's minions, and the action that Wiper partook in had never been seen before.

The creature spoke.

From Wiper's lips came the voice of a woman, authoratative and smug. It was soft and lilting, almost like a song, and yet carried the power of an interdimensional military. Even speaking with seeming kindness, each word was filled with a bladed, venemous tone that could cause ears to bleed. It was the smug tone of the Goddess who had gained control of two worlds through cunning and deceit. It was Kami's voice. "My dear Ellysia, it's been such a long time. I was hoping that we could catch up on all the violence and agony you missed during those years, don't you think?" Wiper's gas mask betrayed no semblance of emotion or interest in the conversation, but through sheer tone of voice Kami's grin was conveyed. "Shall we start with your friends?"

As Wiper held up one hand, the bricks that had been removed from the surrounding area reappeared in front of it. However, they were moving at high speed, projectiles with sufficient force to tear down buildings, fired at high speed from Wiper's mere wim. However, instead of crashing into the members of the team that Ellysia had assembled, they struck the walls and doors around them, with an inaccuracy that Wiper did not possess. However, most confusing of all was Kami's next line of dialogue. "And now, with your friends dead, shall we continue this conversation in person?"