[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura

Looking around as he is charged, Gunner sorta shrugs, before having a pistol fall from his sleeve, and him firing a few shots, aiming for center mass, expecting it to be a quick stop to the fight.

Hunger grins, and as she goes in for a bite, he licks his lips, as he opens his mouth, and while dodging past her, takes a chunk out of her arm, or tries to. In his gluttony minded approach, he forgets to take into account her extra mantis arms, and gets slapped with them, knocking him off balance. He ends up getting spun about, which makes the amassing hunger dissipate as rapidly at it arrived.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

The shots hit, but camilla remains conscious long enough to get close and punch him in a certain area between his legs

"Mantis arms bitch." Theta sneers as she approaches hunger

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
Gunner lets out a long pained groan, and leans forwards slightly.
"Shit, why do they always do that...." He asks, before both Theta and Hunger would get a bit of blood on them, coming from my direction.
"....holy....shit..." Hunger says, looking my way.
I would collapse backwards, blood leaking from my back, my own blade stuck though me...and it does not help that me falling backwards pushes the blade even further.
"....Shit.....why the fuck did I do that?" Rinack asks, looking down, as green energy would gush from the now totally open stab wound. Slowly, this would pour out onto Camilla, and she could feel the bullet wounds close up, the lead being pushed out of her. "....D-damn..it..." Rinack groans, before falling backwards, coughing up blood, and green energy.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"That's what you get for messing with my friends." Camilla says with a smile before turning her attention to rinack....only to get tackled to the ground by theta "oh I'm going to enjoy this." Theta chuckles as she leans in

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
As she tackles Camilla, Hunger quickly scrambles to his feet, and rushes over, picking up Theta by her throat, and her spine.
"Get off of her!" He yells, and he starts to attempt to rip Theta in two, his anger fueling his strength.
However, Camilla could see Gunner start to stir, as the green energy pool reaches him, and he slowly starts to get back to his senses..and he reaches for his pistol, which is near by.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"Oh no you don't!" Camilla says as she sprints towards gunner. Meanwhile, theta smirks as she becomes slug-like. Slipping out of hunger's grasp and changing back the moment she hits the ground "better luck next ti- oh you bitch!" She groans before chasing after camilla

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura

Hunger chases Theta, who is chasing Camilla, and soon Gunner gets to his firearm, grabbing it just as Camilla would be close, him sticking it right in her mouth.
"Anyone other than Theta moves, this bitch gets a new hole..." He says, slowly standing up. Hunger raises his hands above his head, slowly.
"Listen, there is no need to do this. Can't we all just go home? Rinack's dead, but..well..he was an asshole...so I, personally, don-" He starts.
"Fuck you too buddy.." Rinack groans, facedown.
"...See, no one is dead. We can all go home an-" Hunger starts again, and Gunner pulls the hammer on his weapon back, shutting him up.
"Theta, tie these asses up...I'll get Asura." He says, slowly backing away, keeping his weapon trained on Camilla.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Theta nods and proceeds to tie them up "thank god for spider dna." She chuckles

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
"Pretty, badass AND useful...." Gunner jests, before entering into Asura's house, weapon at the ready, looking for any sign of where Asura would be, including up. Hammer pulled back, hair trigger tempered, the bounty hunter stalked his prey.....

Rinack and Hunger both struggled with their bindings, but to no avail. "I hate webs...." Rinack says, shivering. "I don't know why, but they always gave me the creeps..."
"Hey, they make great floss." Hunger retorts, chucking a bit, as he'd soon start to naw on his bindings.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

He finds nothing.... at least that's what he thinks, but then a kitchen knife flies toward his knee

Theta looks at the house. Not noticing hungers attempt to escape "do you think asura'll be all right?" She asks rinack

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
The knife finds it mark, cutting into his knee with a sickening noise.
"Fuck!" He yells, pulling the knife out.

"Well, he went in with a gun..." Rinack starts, and Gunner's shout is heard. "....Welp, someone either surprised him, or hit him in the balls."

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Right after he pulls the knife out he finds himself in a headlock "care to explain why you're trying to murder me?" Asura asks

Camilla looks at theta and says "he's gonna get his ass kicked." Theta merely mutters something under her breath

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura

Gunner smiles wryly.
"Business my friend, someone wants you dead, and they put a bounty on you." He says, before Asura can feel an odd tingle, as his bulk slowly increases, his shirt ripping, and tearing off. Soon, he barely doesn't reach the ceiling, and is lifting Asura, despite his rather tall build, up off the floor, if he maintains his headlock.

"I hope that Asura guy does something crazy, and that ass's head flies out and lands right in front of us." Rinack says, grinning, trying to bait Theta. Hunger manages to naw though his bindings, but hides it, waiting for a moment to strike.

[thewizardguy]

Creed was enveloped by the explosion of flame and force. A shockwave that would rip apart mountains tore through him at point blank range, and he knew he would not survive. His only solace was his final sight, as he witnessed Toguro breaking apart. Melting and shattering, unable to contain the forces he was absorbing. The unstoppable golem was dead, and Kevin had been avenged. It was almost peaceful, in that fraction of a second, where Creed could feel his body being ripped to pieces.

But it was not to last.

When Creed next opened his eyes, he was floating. He could feel his body, as it was slowly being put back together. Cell by cell reattaching itself to him, as his vital organs restarted. He could feel a vast force washing over him, as an immense presence healed his grievous wounds for some unknown purpose. He could faintly see a figure, in that same space with him. It was a figure he had once known, and once feared. And he could sense a power that dwarfed that of even the Omegans, stretching out seemingly into infinity.

And then, he was gone. And he was back. Back in his body, on a physical plane of existence, fully reconstructed. Down to his very outfit being put back together for him. Clarent was in his hand, having been retrieved from some far corner of the Multiverse where it had been left when Minx had supposedly been killed. Once more, the Dragon Slayer walked.

The second thing he would notice is that he was standing in a military base, alongside a draconic-looking humanoid and a humanoid constructed entirely from wires. The latter was busily eating it's way through a stack of military weaponry, the previous owners having fled the area with their injuries. It was a strange scene to be sure, only accentuated by the strange looks he was getting from the dragon-looking creature.

[CreedTheChimera]

@thewizardguy

Creed stood there, blinking, before rubbing his neck and stretching it until it cracks. "Geez, I was at peace, ready to move on... If you're going to revive me, at least buy me a drink first..." His mutterings, hopefully, went unnoticed by the two beings in front of him as he finished stretching, making sure all his appendages worked correctly. For once, there was no chatter in his head, and he was amazed at how absolutely deafening the silence could be. Jacob, Mark, Terra, Raul... All the souls had gone, reduced to energy used fruitlessly to try and revive him, failing before his revival by... whatever did revive him. After the long, yet short time he adapted to his new set of circumstances he looked at the wired-humanoid and the dragon-like creature. "Hello there, umm, yes, anyone know where I am?" He asks. The sword in his hand vibrated a bit, a sigh escaping the blade. On one hand, he was so happy that Creed was alive he felt like jumping into a humanoid form to do a little dance or some stupid shit. On the other hand, he was almost completely certain they were going to go right from being revived to being in a combat situation, again.

[Tyki]

@CreedTheChimera

"military base Gamma of the communistic republic of hazakstan, formerly known as the center of the commonwealth empire." the wire creature chimes in, the thin line along it's otherwise featureless face outputting a neutral, smooth voice as he stands stock still, his 'chest' not even rising and falling with the speech, giving it a rather eerie effect up to the point that it's struck by an rpg in the back of the head without even flinching. It doesn't even turn around as an arm extends from its back to forcefully take the rpg-launcher from the soldier and crush it before the remnants sink into it's arm, it's 'skin' seeping out thick, black smoke as it's face remain trained on creed and the sword without evenly shifting at the activity to look at the soldiers or the tank rolling in, it's hand raising about as quickly as the pilot pulls the trigger to fire, he shell crumpling against it's hand before it picks the tank up, jettisons the pilots, and begins crumpling it in a 'sack of skin' that forms over it until the vehicle is no more. "it would appear the armed forces are raising our threat assesment levels, we should go" it remarks evenly before grabbing both cosmos and creed by the face and dragging them through a portal, catching a missile just behind the warhead to prevent it from blowing up as it leaves.

The both of them arrive at a decimated city from a slightly more advanced civilization that wiped itself out, the city still containing higher than average background radiation but nothing that could even be felt outside of those with highly attuned senses specifically designed to track radiation. "we should be able to talk more freely here" the creature remarks evenly, setting them down within a small, one story house that it can actually walk around normally in without falling through the floor, setting the missile down on it's lap and starting to take it apart, it's various limbs seeming to sink into it to retrieve bits and bobs like the explosives to detonate it safely within it's specially designed digestion chambers that it'd developed for handling explosives before the missile starts simply sinking into it to be devoured.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

Asura moves away from gunner. Deciding that the headlock wasn't exactly going to be of much use "ah. I thought that was the case. You being a bounty hunter and all." He admits "care to reveal who has it out for me?"

"Shut it." Theta simply replies. "He'll win. I just know he will...."

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
"Some demon...didn't state a name, just a place to pick up the bounty at, when I'd either took a photo of you dead, or brought your severed head. I'm no savage, so I figured I'd take a picture of you in a puddle of your own blood..." He starts, moving forwards, cracking his knuckles. "Nothing personal. Hell, I don't even want to do this, but the reward is something special I can't pass up...the ability to free some souls from a demon's possession. I mean, hey, my good deed for the day".
With that bit of explanation, the lumbering bounty hunter moved forwards, surprisingly slowly, as he took a swing at Asura, a right hook, aiming to knock him into the next wall.

"He's fighting a being able to wipe out cities...you really think someone who has to use guns, and knives, is going to be able to compete?" Hunger chimes in, sounding far more a voice of reason. "...You have some sway over him. Go, tell him to leave while he can. It may be your last chance to do so, before someone ends up dead."
"Bah, let her let him die. It'll teach her a lesson about being a bitch." Rinack says, in reply, again, him trying to piss of Theta.

[CreedTheChimera]

@Tyki

Creed was barely able to let out a yelp as the metal being grabbed him face first and dragged him off without much in the way of introductions. When the being released him and he realized the change of location, he calmed a bit and simply sat staring as the being dismantled and consumed the explosive. He looked between the creature and the other guy several times before deciding to speak. "Hi. My name is Creed." He holds out his hand, seeing if either of them would take it. "Nice to meetcha."

[supertinyking]

((Due to events outside of my control the story line involving Raven, Angel, and Ozzy is being dropped. Feel free to throw your characters where ever you wish.))