[IC] Welcome To H.I.V.E

[Horrid]

Molly saw that everyone was occupied, with the ash clouds and the noise and just everything rushing around, serving to confuse even her. She hoped that her blast towards the enemy team had affected them in a lasting, disruptive fashion and resolved that she would hold down the fort for her team as they ran around dealing with the others. The enemies didn't seem to have noticed her coming up here, so it was the perfect opportunity for her. She flexed her biceps and back as the air grew heavier around her, her respirator already dealing with the ash and dust, now filtering oxygen correctly for her to breathe as she altered the gravitational fields around her body, as close to herself as she could. She felt her long, curly hair become straight and heavier and her body growing heavier as if she were gaining pounds on the spot. She had anchored herself to the ground, but had only shifted her gravity to the point that she could still move, although her movements were laboured and sluggish, but she was still prepared should anyone begin an assault on her as she looked around the peak of the pyramid for some sort of rope or chain to throw to her team-mates.

[ScarlettWaters16]

Shadow is grateful for the help as he lifts her up and over the edge. She smiles at him and says, "Thanks." She looks around at a that is going on and a thought crosses her mind. She walks ahead of him a little bit before turning around, looking apologetic. "I'm sorry about this." She draws some more shadow from her vial and ropes him around the waist, moving quickly. She ties it around his waist. A sudden thought crosses her mind, and, moving on that impulse, she yanks him toward her, kissing him directly on the lips, before shoving him over the edge. She grips the end of the shadow rope and stabs one of her katanas through the end of it, hooking him to the pyramid so he doesn't fall the whole way. She turns away from the sword and runs toward Molly, aiming a kick at her abdomen, hoping to knock her off balance and get her on the ground. --- "Five minutes left!" Jinx yells, looking at the clock. "Team Shane you need to knock James's team off within the next three minutes and keep them off if you want to win."

[Horrid]

The kick collided with Molly's abdomen and pushed her back a step, but due to her increased gravity, she didn't budge much. She smiled at Violet as she grabbed at her leg and shook her head. "Not this time, girl. This is for throwing that wall at me." With a great growl and an immense amount of force, she twisted her torso and tried to use the centrifugal force to whip Violet around to the side and throw her toward the edge of the peak and down the side of the pyramid. Though she was very experienced in the art of using one's weight against them and grappling in general, she figured that a little help never hurt, and with a flex of her muscles and a push of her hands, she attempted to lower the gravity in the air she was occupying to send her flying further and leaving her with less chance to recover immediately. Off to the side she saw her team struggling to the top. "Y'all need to just get up here and help me clean up!"

[ScarlettWaters16]

"Not this time," Violet snaps and draws out a shadow right as Molly tries to throw her. She whips it around Molly's waist like a lasso and swings around her, pulling the string down to wrap around Molly's legs. She lands a few feet away from Molly and yells at James, "Yo! I could use a little help here!" She yanks at the now solid, taunt shadow string and pulls as hard as she can. This chick is strong and she knows that she won't be able to knock her down easily, so she hopes with James's help that she can.

[Horrid]

"Oh no, no help this time." Molly growled through clenched teeth as she grabbed at the shadow rope with both hands, a slow and strained process in its own right, before using it as a conduit to project her powers. She could feel her nose getting warm once again as she concentrated, but a quick wipe confirmed that it wasn't bleeding again as she focused her power into the centre of the shadow rope. She concentrated on gathering energy as she pulled the rope taut, attempting to use what amounted to a small gravimetric pulse to snap the rope and send Violet wheeling back with all the force she was using to pull at her.

[ScarlettWaters16]

"Ugh!" Violet yells, the force throwing her back halfway across the top of the pyramid. She growls in frustration and looks down at her vial. She has about a quarter of a vial left. She looks to some of the steps again, yanking enough shadows off and turning enough of the stairs to dust to fill up her vial until it was three-fourths of the way full once again. She draws out a long piece of shadow and forms it into a whip in her hands. She whips it toward Molly and wraps it around her hands, tightening it to where it is almost inescapable, before shifting into shadow form and falling a few feet below the surface of the pyramid, yanking Molly down against the top floor of the pyramid.

[Horrid]

Molly hit the ground hard and felt the air leave her lungs quickly. Her heavier mass caused her to make an indentation in the ground, like a bowling ball dropped into sand. She would have been immovable to even herself had her concentration not been broken by the sudden whipping and pulling. She felt herself get lighter but she was still tethered to the floor by this shadowy apparition of a girl. It made her blood boil that she was essentially in a submission hold and being made to tap out. But that it when an idea struck her, or rather, the idea of striking something struck her. With the whip around her midsection, she was free to move her arms once more. Slowly she began to slap the ground she was laying on her, each strike becoming heavier as she repeatedly increased and decreased the gravity around her arms as they went up and down. The ground cracked and tremors quaked the ground as she began to crack and splinter the ground beneath her, throwing dust and debris into her face. "Can't be a shadow on the floor if the floor is all pieced up. Ever seen your reflection in a broken mirror?"

[MonsieurShade]

Dimitri growled in annoyance as his sound waves were redirected back at him, prompting the cyborg to slide back a bit. His body, having been modified to handle the strain of his powers absorbed the attack with little issue, however it still served as an unwelcome hindrance. As he realized that nearly everyone had climbed to the top and engaged each other in a mad battle for supremacy. "Alright, kid gloves comin' off!" He barked as he pounded his fists together and ran to the top. Once reaching his destination, Dimitri singled out Molly, as she was currently distracted with Violet. Under normal circumstances, Dimitri wasn't one for attacking someone when they weren't looking, however her powers were definitely one of the more tricky ones to deal with. Couple that with the fact that time and options were running out, Dimitri found the resolve to fight dirtier than he would have liked. The cyborg strode over to the distracted young woman, leaned over, and clasped his hands over her ears, wincing as he felt his hands grow extremely heavy at such close proximity. The gravity being as dense as it was coupled with Molly's retaliation to Violet's attack forced him onto his knees, however that would not deter him. Rather than blasting her with sound, Dimitri reared back as far as he could -"Pay back for the dent!"- and lunged forward, head butting the back of her skull with a loud *crack*.

[twave]

Shane tackled James but he didn't fall over since he was, for all intents and purposes, fixed to the ground by a brace. "Come to join the storm chasers?" Shoving Shane back he would let the tornadoes Jack made take care of him. Overhearing Jinx announce that they needed to dislodge his team to win it was time to turtle the point. "Better hold onto something." Planting a few more stakes into the ground James surrounded himself in a steel dome.

[Horrid]

A mischievous smile came to Molly's face as she destroyed the ground the was being pulled into more and more, attempting to drive out her shadowy opponent within. The smiles all came to a halt when she felt something collide with the back of her skull, the force almost equivalent to that of a sledgehammer. She had raised the intensity of her local gravity, which meant that anything entering now carried additional weight and in turn, additional force behind any strike enacted within the small field she had erected. The last thing that Molly saw was the ground around her compressing further before her ears were filled with a deafening crack, and she felt a warmth seeping from both the back of her head and her face. The scenery around her went dark as she fell limp, gravity around her returning to normal as she lost consciousness, blood seeping out of an open wound on the back of her head and colouring her platinum blonde hair a dirty brownish-red.

[ScarlettWaters16]

Violet hears the pounding stop and the taut rope slacken. She zooms back up onto the top of the pyramid once more and shifts out of her shadow form to land next to Dimitri. She stares down at the limp body of Molly before looking at Dimitri. "What did you do?" she whispers in horror before running over to press her fingertips to the inside of Molly's throat. It is very faint, but she feels the soft fluttering of a pulse and she lets out a sigh of relief, stepping back away from her body.

[TheDarkTemplar]

If it wasn't for Molly's gravity fields Shane would have been picked up by the tornadoes. Thankfully he was pulled to the ground and as he looked up to make another go at James he found the boy had sealed himself up in a dome. That was when he heard the sickening crack caused by Dimitri's headbut. This enraged him, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!", he yelled as he sprinted towards the cyborg. Once he was within range Shane threw a right hook at Dimitri, then a left, and a right again. He kept on the attack with all other senses blocked out. His only focus was beating the shit out of this guy.

[Tidus]

Jack was a bit surprised by the rope around his waist, but as he prepared to wrangle his way out, he was suddenly lip to lip with her. Now, that COMPLETELY ruined his guard, and his whole face turned bright red. He waivers a bit in the kiss, almost not noticing his sudden departure from solid land. As he was hanging there, he started to once again talk to himself. "Well, I suppose there could be worse fates than hanging here. After all, she had the curtesy not to drop me, right?" At around that moment, the ground began to shake rather violently, and he felt his position grow... precarious. "Or maybe I should get the hell up." Jack had only done this particular maneuver once, so a little luck would do him good. He began to vibrate his body and spin rapidly, both legs out like helicopter blades, until he picked up enough speed. He vibrated through the shadow rope, and began to fall. "Come on! Damn it!" He would shout as he finally reached the right speed. He shot up into the air like an RC copter, grabbing the edge of the landmass and falling onto his feet to catch his breath. Jack was pretty surprised that he made it. The helicopter thing is pretty hard to do, but it has saved him before. Now that he saw the state of things, Jack wasn't entirely sure of what to do. He shoved another energy bar down and charged up. Seeing clanky on top of his team mate, Vector finally made up his mind. He began whirling his hands until he had crafted another sonicboom, and rushed forward at top speed towards his fallen comrade. He grabbed Violet up in one arm as he passed them, twisting and launching the blast right at Dimitri. He sped away from the resulting boom, hoping it would wake up Molly and send Dimitri away. He smiled at Violet as he stopped a bit away. "Thought you'd gotten rid of me, huh?" He would say as he dropped her on the ground and sped towards the center of the hill.

[MonsieurShade]

Dimitri sat up and wiped away the flecks of blood that had stained his forehead from the attack. "Aw crud, probably shouldn't have done it that hard." He muttered with concern. Before Dimitri had the opportunity to see if Molly was alright, he felt a series of thumps that forced him off of his target. The cyborg grimaced as Shane laid into him, though Dimitri was more annoyed than concerned given his lack of pain receptors, "Oi, knock it off! I've got enough dents as it is man!" He growled, still preferring not to be near Shane given what had transpired earlier. A blur of movement caught Dimitri's eye, one that looked worryingly like the same guy that had caused the twisters. "He's on the offensive!" Dimitri thought, the words lighting in his brain like a neon sign. The cyborg interrupted Shane's assault by grabbing his opponent's shirt and decking him in the nose with a solid jab, however he was too slow to properly react to the sonic boom that knocked him off of his feet. Dimitri tumbled down the stairs with Shane still in his grip, using Shane as a pillow to soften the falls. His concern for Molly was now taking a back seat to Vector's choice of attack "So he wants to have a sound battle? I'm game as soon as i'm back up." Dimitri mused as he and Shane came to a halt.

[paigesweetheart]

As they were all fighting and trying to kill themselves knowing this was only a GAME and people were taking it serious. Ariella decided to go do her thing and continue to run up the hills. A few minutes later she made it on top, trying to regain her energy back by taking a deep breath. Inhaling and exhaling. Hopefully her team would be fine, but now it was the hard part. She had to take the members from the other team of the hill. How was she supposed to do that exactly?

[TheBrightestEyes]

Jami made her way to the top, seeing Ariella on the opposite side. Bear grew to the size of a greyhound, growling at Ariella as Jami got into what she assumed was a fighting position. "Hi." she said, taking a deep breath.

[paigesweetheart]

Ariella looked towards the girl with the bear now turning into some kind of greyhoind and growling at her. She jumped scaredly, taking a few steps back. "I don't want to hurt you or your bear. Please don't do this..." Ariella said not wanting to use her powers on a human, or even the bear! She loves animals.

[ScarlettWaters16]

Shadow rolls her eyes at Jack but is blushing profusely at the same time. She had been hoping not to talk to him until after this thing was done. She draws a bit of shadow from the broken floor boards and runs toward the fighting group of Shane, Dimitri, Jack, James, and the now unconscious Molly. She whips around as she hears an alarm go off and looks down toward Jinx, drawing her katana out of the ground as she runs by where she pinned Jack to the outside of the pyramid. --- Jinx looks to the time and yells up to the fighting comrades. "ALRIGHT GUYS! YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS LEFT!" She grins, knowing that James's team has already won, but she would give it to Shane's if they managed to knock all of them off within the last thirty seconds.

[Horrid]

The peak of the pyramid blurred and swayed as Molly fought to open her eyes and look around. Her eyeballs even felt heavy as she looked around at the surrounding team-mates and their respective battles going on. She tried her hardest to push herself to her hands and knees, but as she moved she could feel the cold air hitting her scalp. It felt like she had an axe-wound in the back of her head and it was gushing fluid like a broken hydrant, but in reality it was a splitting of skin and some muscle, and was lightly seeping dark red blood. She shook her head, a spell of dizziness hitting her for a moment as more of her senses returned. Her hearing came back just in time to hear Jinx shout out the ever-shortening time limit. Anger. Anger soon followed as the few seconds before she blacked out came flashing back to her. Her fingers curled up and clenched into fists. She gritted her teeth and groaned in equal parts pain and rage as she shifted her concentration from her head-wound to the air around her. With a growing noise that quickly became a feral howl, she raised a fist into the air, the very air around her humming and droning out as the gravity fluctuated. The noise peaked as her fist stopped, and then became louder as she brought it down to slam on the ground, sounding like a gigantic machine powering down or an pulse of energy being expended. From her position on the floor, a pulse of force spread slowly like an invisible advancing wall, gaining speed with every second as it expanded in a dome-shape. Molly was weak, and frail, but if she could throw all of her current power into one great push in all directions then maybe she could win it for her team. She wasn't going to get her skull split for nothing.

[Flood]

Shadow rolls her eyes at Jack but is blushing profusely at the same time. She had been hoping not to talk to him until after this thing was done. She draws a bit of shadow from the broken floor boards and runs toward the fighting group of Shane, Dimitri, Jack, James, and the now unconscious Molly. She whips around as she hears an alarm go off and looks down toward Jinx, drawing her katana out of the ground as she runs by where she pinned Jack to the outside of the pyramid. --- Jinx looks to the time and yells up to the fighting comrades. "ALRIGHT GUYS! YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS LEFT!" She grins, knowing that James's team has already won, but she would give it to Shane's if they managed to knock all of them off within the last thirty seconds.

@ScarlettWaters16

Ryan was just hiding from all the fighting as he knew he was useless in this fight without weapons. He sighed and shook his head. 'They're all going to kill each other if this keeps up.'