((Collab post between Eviledd, Rofls and Santa))
((It's really long))
"There will be a time to talk more, but it's time we begin." Isaac said. "Ms. Lancaster does not like to be kept waiting."
The Chimera bowed its head down and Isaac climbed onto it, beckoning Jenni to do the same. As soon as she and John were on board, the hunters appeared on its back and the Chimera raised its head. It lumbered forward into the sunshine and stretched its bat-like wings before running forward and taking off. Soon, the Chimera was above the clouds, making a beeline towards Alto's base.
Motivations... Isaac thought as they flew on.
His sole motivation was to understand life, to gain the ultimate knowledge. The more he found, the more he needed to know. It was a neverending quest for knowledge, one that would never end in his lifetime. Perhaps the torch would be passed to others after his death. Humans always had a penchant for knowledge, after all. It was a sad fact that his sole motivation to live couldn't be achieved solely by him, but there was nothing else he wanted to do in life, and he'd accepted it since childhood. With that said, this situation would be handy for more profiling.
"My motivations are hardly worth mentioning." Isaac remarked. "It would please me to know your own motivations, Ms Kycek. Perhaps we can find something we have in common."
"Me well i don't like talking about it with others ya know it's off a more personal matter but you told us a little bit about your motivations she we might as well tell you ours" Jenni said take a moment to breath before speaking again,"We do what we do mainly because our brother holds us back wanting us to be goodie goodies but don't shiv like that we want to kill and torture the ones that hurt innocet people and that is why we existed we are judge,jury and death in human form" Jenni said with smile behind her mask taking a seat on the floor.
"Now you know a little bit about us nothing too speical sadly but i have told you what we do...But we want to know more about this Lancaster you speak of..." She said now her own curiousity peaking and wanting to know about this person.Like a cat she would want to know about the others Isabella spoke of also but that would be for a later time.
The crazed nurse in the meantime now crossing her legs and waiting for the answer to her question form Issac.
Isaac pulled out his phone and brought out a file for Isabella Lancaster.
"Isabella Lancaster." Isaac said, beginning to read. "Her powers manifest in the ability to create spores which have the ability to mutate organic life. However, her powers can only affect willing subjects, which raises questions that can't yet be answered. With that said, she has an adequate ability to lead despite her shortcomings. Sadistic, manipulative personality with dreams of grandeur."
Isaac put his phone away and continued speaking.
"An A rank egoistic woman. She can be dangerous, but is predictable." Isaac said. "There isn't much else to say about her."
Jenni abosrbed this information nodding her head to the details said about their benifactor along with her shortcomings,"Mhm intersting intersting...and what the others do ya got info on the people we will be working along side?I ask only because we are curious" Jenni said her hands in her lap her legs still crossed like a ententive child listening to what daddy is saying.She was curious if this could mean she could easily dismantle the women if her benifactor tries to betray her,[/i]"But then that would be crazy she wouldn't do that to use....unless she thinks we are disposable pawns in her game of chess if that is the case then we will have to dispoal of that cunt"[i] She thought to herself thinking many situations and senarios in her head.
"Sounds like a hoot at parties..." She said to Issac chuckling to herself at the wisecrack.
"I have many, many files on people of note, but there's too little time to go through them all, so..." Isaac said, pulling out his phone again. "Let's list some of the more important ones."
A host of files swam onto the screen and Isaac began listing the people of note.
"Jaden McFadden." Isaac began. "His power is Biomass manipulation. Has a large hatred of normal humans."
Isaac scrolled down to another one.
"Sebastian Lyone." Isaac continued. "He has the power of Blood manipulation. A genius, but let down by his ego. May or may not be deceased."
He continued for a few others.
"Camille Mahroug. Has the power to influence the concept of aging. Currently aged 25 with the appearance of a child. She idolises Isabella Lancaster."
"Vince Ceilio. Has the power to manipulate emotions via pheromones, as well as the ability to manipulate nerves. An expert at dealing with people, so to speak."
"Solf Patel. An anomoly..." Isaac said slowly.
In all honesty, what he had on Patel was mostly speculation and things he'd heard from Isabella. Solf had an unknown amount of power, and it was unknown just how his known powers manifested. His best theory was invisible tentacles that crushed people to death, but Isaac had no idea of the limits as to the number or strength of said tentacles. All Isaac knew was that Patel had more than he let on...
"Mostly an unknown being." Isaac said finally. "His powers are largely unknown besides the ability to crush things without physically moving. Possibly the result of a government experiment."
Isaac put his phone away once again and looked over the manticore's head. They were nearing Alto's building.
"If you need to know more, ask later. We have work to do." Isaac said.
Jenni was listneing to what Issac was saying taking in the information once more nodding her head a few times while he was speaking,She made some notes to herself taking intrest in Jaden since she didn't care much about humans herself and Sebastian would be a problem to her but she would have to get on his good side so or find a way to beat his blood munipulation in case she gets into a fight with him.She could be firends with Camille since she likes kids but she could be a total bitch and that would only piss off Jenni,Vince along with Patel are going to be people she should watch out for and look for their weakness as a precaustion in case she has to fight them like with Sebastian.
"Thought so fine i have some question that that be said later on" She said now jumping to her feet looking at Issac.
"Well then, listen closesly." Isaac said. "I have a plan."
"Oh my god." Sefia said.
"What?" Alto said, pulling out his wallet.
"You had six tacos! And now you're getting ice cream!" She shouted. A few people looked up from their shopping as she said that.
"To be fair, I'm not going to eat it right now." He replied, "I just need to stock up."
"The total comes to, $50." The cahsier said. Alto was about to pull out a $50 dollar bill, before hesitating for a second.
"Hm, gotta use these some day." He put his wallet back into his pocket, and he pulled out a bulging sack of coins from inside his lab coat somewhere.
"Oh my god." Sefia said as she put her head in her hands, "I don't even want to be associated with you right now." But Alto was busy counting coins so he didn't respond.
A few minutes later...
They exited the store carrying two heavy bags of ice-cream.
"Yay!" Sal exclaimed as she rushed forward.
"Not now." He said, stopping her with his hand. "Let's get home first, Theo should be picking us up."
They walked towards tthe street, and a car pulled up in front of them. The window rolled down to reveal Theo, still in his butler uniform.
"The meeting ended earlier than scheduled, emperor." He said. The boot of the car opened and Alto lugged the plastic bags into it as Sefia, Sal, and Con loaded into the back seat. "Where is our destination?" Theo asked as Alto slid into the front seat.
"Let's just go home." He said. The car drove off, swirling dust in the street.
Alto's base was actually his own house. A mansion, to be precise. It was a quite fancy mansion, with white pillars out the front. It was also quite large, taking several acres of land. One might question what need a brilliant inventor like him would have for a mansion, but he'd always had a penchant for flair, and it was impressive regardless.
As Alto's car pulled into the large driveway, Isaac and Jenni stood on the Chimera, high enough to be out of sight.
"Perfect." Isaac said, removing his glasses.
As soon as he stepped out of the car, his sonar kicked in and he detected people.
"Not this again." He sighed. "Theo, there are two people in the basement near our power supply, take care of it for me."
Theo nodded and walked calmly behind the house as Alto fished his ice cream out of the boot.
"Alright Sal, which flavour do you want?" He said as she ran up beside him, "We've got strawberry, caramel, chocolate..."
"This is it..." John said.
He'd found Alto's power box. A small blue flame lit up on his finger and he began burning through the metal at a quick pace, bringing up sparks before cutting into wire. The low hum of electricity faded and he knew his job was done.
"I got nothing against you, buddy, but..." John muttered under his breath.
This was to further his agenda. He had to make himself useful. There was soemthing he had to do...
John turned to the hunter beside him.
"Take me back." He said.
He and the hunter disappeared and reappeared on top of the flying Chimera.
"The power's cut." John said simply.
"Good. Isaac said. "Let us begin."
The hunters, Isaac and John disappeared from the top of the Chimera, reappearing somewhere in the mansion. The Chimera dove straight towards the mansion and smashed its body into it, breaking half of the roof in and smashing a hole in a few floors. It shot a blast of lightning through the house, making a hole down to the ground and roared.
Jenni who jumped out of the off the Chimera so she could have her own cool entrance because why should they have all the fun,"We want to have some fun too..." She muttered to herself walking up to the double door in the fornt of the manison using her powers to bust the doors forwards and into the manison foyer walking inside scanning the room for any traps."Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Jenni!" She yelled out her somewhat muffled voice echoing thoughout the room.From what she could see it looked like a pretty normal house but then she thought their has to be more about this place then it looks and she should tread lightly.
"We always wanted to say that...Alright doggie take me to Alto..." She said to the Chimera taking in one last scan of the place before walking forwards and looking for a door,There was a few on the first floor of the mansion so she extended her arm out pointing to watch door to take,"Inne Meeie Minee Moe...Caught a tiger by it's toe if it hollars let it go...Inne Meeie Minee Moe" She said outloud to herself pointing to a door on the far left of her postion and looked down at the Chimera.
"Shall we Mr.Doggie?" She said to the Chimera with a smile.
"Hey," Alto said, "The power's out." He was in the middle of piling ice cream into the freezer when the power suddenly cut and the fridge stopped. He shrugged and reached around the back and flipped a switch. The freezer turned back on and he continued putting ice cream in the fridge.
"Master." Con suddenly said. "We are under attack."
Suddenly, a massive boom! emanated from somewhere in the house. It sounded like a massive thunderbolt, but really close by.
"Aw man." He said, raising his left hand to his ear. "Theo, come back. I need some help." Suddenly, Theo appeared in a flash of blue light next to him.
"What is it, emperor?" He said.
"I need you to move the fridge to the secret lab." Alto said, unplugging it from the wall, "And take the throne as well."
Theo silently picked up the large fridged with one arm, and took the throne with his other and started to make his way towards the secret basement. He felt some more people enter the radius of his sonar, and he sighed again.
"Look's like that chimera from yesterday is here." He said, "Con, start working on the Titan, and Sal, you should probably just run somewhere in case we don't handle this." Sal nodded and ran off, through the front door. Con simply closed her eyes and focused.
"What about me?" Sefia asked, surprisingly unfazed.
"You left one of your assignments in your room didn't you?" He said, "You should probably deal with it."
"Damn it! I forgot!" She quickly ran off towards the second floor. Alto was left with Con, and nothing much to do.
"Whatever, guess I'll just wait." He said, sitting down on a nearby chair.
Jenni was going to head off into the far side of the door but notice that Sal was coming up to her and got into a fighting stance,"Oooooh backup now this is gonna be fun" She said her smile getting larger using her powers to throwing a vase towards Sal.A little taste of her powers for the other meta and if she was of interstrest to her then she would give the meta a full taste of her powers.
"Ah!" She hadn't expected anyone to try the front door, and she also hadn't been expecting anyone in a nurse outfit either. Sal quickly turned into a small kitten as the vase sailed over her rapidly shrinking head, and soon enough she was a tiny orange kitten. She hissed at the intruder and scampered off into a nearby open door.
"Here kitty kitty kitty come out and play...." Jenni said now walking slowly into the open door,Once she was inside she flicked on the light switch but nothing happened."ALLLLLTOOOOO COME OUT TO PLAYAYA" She said loudly in a high pitch tone of voice mimicing a character in a movie she saw recently,"Damn no light well i guess i gotta do this in the dark...or maybe their is a candle around..." She said using her powers to summon Dean who looked like a true ghost with his eyes curled into his head and could only see the whites of his eyes and his mouth sown shut.
Dean was now looking around the dark room for Jenni leading her out of the room.
"You don't have to shout, you know." Alto said suddenly from the entrance of the room, "Hey, aren't you Nurse Concrete?" He'd heard a vase breaking, not that he minded because he'd never wanted those vases in the first place. "Why are you raiding my house?"
Jenni quickly turned around to face the source of the voice in the room,"Why well good question mostly because my higher ups want you...but that doesn't mean we cant have some fun with you..." Jenni said now jumping up and down getting herself pumped up."So lets dance...and why don't i make the first move.." She said and with that Dean came rushing at him with Jenni using her powers to move a chair at him to try to struck him in the head.
"Yeah, no." He lifted up his left arm and a barrier of energy sprang to life in front of him, and the chair shattered on it. The barrier coalesced into a flat wall of energy, and it flew straight at Nurse Concrete.
The energy wall hit Jenni sending her flying into the other side of the room,"Damn it...your pretty good i guess that is why you got the same code name as the boss" Jenni chuckled to herslef before getting back up to her feet.Once she was on her feet she sent Dean out once more now looking more pale and had no eyes only the eyestocks and his mouth gaping open,"Time to dance...dance for me boy..." She said with a shrill laugh as Dean rushed at Alto once more now visable to Alto to try to scare him to try not fight anymore.
In case that shouldn't work she sent a few couches and large shelves towards him.
Alto stepped back, out into the hallway and the debris crashed into the frame, cracking the sides a little. At the forefront of the mess, a cabinet flung open and out fell Sal, the tiny orange kitten.
"There you are." He said, picking her up. His right hand touched the door frame and veins of black steel spread from his fingertips. Black steel bars jutted out from the veins and blocked the psychicly propelled stuff from coming through. Sefia also appeared behind him.
"You ready to go?" He said without turning around.
"Yes." She said in a bitter tone.
"Oh, did something happen?" He said, turning to face her.
"My homework got vaporized by the lightning." she replied. Suddenly, Theo came in from the front door.
"The laboratory has been sealed, emperor." He said. Con came in from the kitchen as well.
"Master, the Titan is ready." She said.
"Alright, time to leave." he said.
In the front yard of the mansion, the earth suddenly seemed to shake. Cracks appeared in the pathway leading to Alto's mansion, and slowly, a hand shot out from the ground and grabbed a large chunk of earth as if to hold on to. With an almighty crack! a collosal black steel construct pulled itself out from the ground and stood up. It was as tall as the chimera was long, and its fists looked like giant warhammers.
Alto and the crew ran out the front door as it took its first steps, each time his foot fell the ground shook a little and he left a giant footprint in the ground. Alto raised his left arm and a horizontal square of blue energy appared in front of him hovering onto the ground. He jumped onto it as he ran and Sefia, Sal, Theo, and Con followed suit. The magic carpet lifted off the ground and flew through the titan's legs as it approached Alto's mansion in search of enemies.
The Chimera burst out of the top few floors of Alto's mansion and pounced towards the Titan, claws bared, lightning charging in its mouth. It landed on the Titan, grabbing onto its shoulders with its massive paws as it let loose a blast of lightning straight into the black steel titan's face. The lightning surged through the Titan but it didn't do anything to it. The titan grabbed hold of one of the chimera's necks with it's massive hand, and proceeded to swing it's other fist straight into the Chimera's exposed torso. The Chimera took the blow, bracing itself to reduce damage. Its snake tail wound around one of the titan's legs, pulling at it with all of its strength. The Goat head started headbutting it while the Lion head blasted it with lightning.
The Titan shifted it's weight onto the leg that the snake had wrapped around, and it held as the snake pulled. The goat head was starting to dent the Titan's head but the lightning still had little effect on the Titan. The Titan grabbed the snake head with its free hand, and squeezed tightly. The lightning conducted through the Titan's body and through the hand, into the snake. Fortunately for the Chimera, its natural lightning resistance mitigated the damage. Unfortunately for the Chimera, the Titan's grip was too strong. The titan was slowly choking the snake, and there was little the other heads could do to stop it. The goat head headbutted the Titan's arm and the lion head bit down, but to no avail. There was only one thing it could do now.
The Chimera wonkily took to the skies, dragging the titan with it. The lion head's fangs were still in it and it still held the snake in a death hold. With no other option, the Chimera flew as high as it could and then immediately stopped and began diving straight into the ground, piledriving the titan into the mansion lawn. The impact pushed the Titan into the ground slightly, but that was of little consequence. The Titan pulled hard on the snake and lion heads, attempting to tear off its heads. The Chimera struggled, but the Titan's grip was strong. Even with the Chimera's immense strength, it couldn't break free. Things were looking bad for it...
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"A pity." Isaac said.
In front of him, a glowing computer screen denied him access. Alto's secret stash of hidden information. Unfortunately for Isaac, it was extremely well protected.
I can't say I didn't expect this. Isaac thought.
Despite the fact that he was there, he couldn't do anything with Alto's secret information. Isaac sighed and turned back around, walking out of Alto's secret room. He walked past the large blocks of wall he'd cut open, through the secret tunnel and out from the basement. A hunter stood, waiting. Isaac walked next to the hunter and they both disappeared, reappearing on an intact bit of roof. Isaac saw how the Chimera was doing and sighed again.
"Inadequate strength. There's room for improvement..." He muttered.
Isaac and the hunter teleported down to the gridlocked behemoths. He calmly stepped onto the black iron titan's arm, walking towards its chest. As if knowing that his master was there, the Chimera displayed a burst of energy, determined to hold down the iron construct.
"How interesting." Isaac said, scalpel in hand.
A construct made out of black iron, as well as manipulation of blue energy. Alto quite a large range of powers at his disposal, it appeared. He still didn't know the powers of Alto's mercenary crew, but it didn't matter. He'd find out eventually.
Isaac arrived at the struggling titan's chest and stopped. There was a large vital point on it, at which Isaac bent down to touch it. He found the inner workings of it were simplistic, but the brain stored some complicated circuitry which likely housed an artificial intelligence.
"Simpler than hypothesised." Isaac said.
He stabbed down and with a large crack, the black iron fractured around the stab wound. The cracks spread through the golem quickly, racing up its limbs.The Chimera let go in surprise at the sudden change of pressure. Isaac walked back to the Chimera as the titan quietly broke into pieces.
"Well, this can be counted as a failure." Isaac said quietly to himself.
He turned to the mansion and called out.
"Ms Kycek, it's about time we leave!"
"Really well fuck me..this sucks..." Jenni said to herself throwing a mini temper tantrum knocking over another vase form it's stand,"Fuck fuck fuck...this is no fun at all right Deany?I wanted some fun it's not fair god damn it.." She said pouting and flanting her arms around.She finally made her way over to Issac looking a bit pissed off and mopey,"So yeah think the boss lady will be pissed at us?Probally..." She added shaking her head and started to look around at the manison.
"At least i got to meet a dreamy guy..." She added with a smile underneathe her mask walking away.
"It's not like I expected victory." Isaac said. "Yes, Isabella will be angry, but we have information."
Afterall, knowing was half the battle. Technically speaking, Isaac didn't get much information, but he did find out a few things.
Alto was known as a genius builder for a reason. He had to ability to manipulate what seemed to be black metal as well as blue energy. And his powers were at least A class, if not S class.
John rivers appeared with a hunter. He hadn't done much, but he hadn't really been able to. Another hunter appeared, holding a sizeable chunk of black metal, to be analysed later. The Chimera bowed down to let the group onto its back once again.
"This was a failure, but not a complete one." Isaac said. "Let's go back to Avalon."
