[IC] CoM: City of Mutants

[Drake Baku]

==Date; 1-6-2015 - Time; 11.00==

It started as a basic day;
Mech was working on pimping the jeep again
Rain was not in the base but roaming in the forest above it, staying close to the entrance as he knew he may be summoned soon.
Inari was in the surveillance room as always.
Runa and Drake could be found in the living room watching TV.
Runa was in control most of the time when they were sitting together, but the last few day's Drake took control when the news came on.
Rumors of people disappearing around the town, some were found but dead with some weird things on their body's like growing rocks out of their spines and such weird mutations.
It was not weird for people to start blaming mutants for these events, so Drake found it was time for CoM to check up on all these events before it went out of hand and possibly causing a thread for them as well.

Nothing much in the first few reports, most about some trivial stuff like coming elections for the city's major, but one of the last reports was the one Drake was waiting for.
<3 more people have disappeared again, for once the location of the disappearance however is known, Jean Moria is on the scene>
<I am here on Sectstreet where after 3 girls were on their way home, one of them just disappeared>
the on-the-field reporter turned, followed by the camera to 2 girls that were crying.
<these are the 2 friends of the missing girl, can you tell us what happened>
<We were like walking to the bus station, Jena was like walking behind us, and I know she was like was behind us when we walked past the alley>
Then the other girl spoke.
<first, first we thought she was still behind us, but when I called out her name there was no response, so we looked behind us>
The first girl then continued again.
<the.. snick... her bags were like still on the ground, as if she dropped them while getting pulled away or something, I dont know>
The camera turned back to the reporter in a way that the scene was without the girls behind her.
<there you have it, the ally is a long path with multiple endings, but at least we know what to watch for, stay away from alley's>
Then the next report on something completely else, followed by Drake turning the TV off
"grab your gear" was all he said to Runa while standing up and Walking to a small control panel on the wall he pressed a button "everyone, get ready we are moving out"

15 minutes later everyone was in the hanger ready.
Drake was the one who walked in as last and looked at everyone.
"We finally got a clue, Inari your sight will not be required for this mission, care to guard the base" It was more a command then a question.
Inari just nodded and left the hangar, returning to the surveillance room.
"Mech, care to take us to Sectstreet" the way Drake said it was the same as with Inari, it was not a question.

As everyone stepped into the Jeep, Mech was the one that took the driver seat as he always does, this was because the car cant drive without a mutant able to control machines one way or an other.
The Jeep lacked a steering wheel, or for that matter a normal dashboard, instead it had a small computer like monitor and a hexagram shaped port.
Mech placed his arm against the port as it transformed in a manner similar to how transformers transformed in the real live movies, plugging himself into the port, instantly the Jeep roared to live and Runa ended up grabbing the safety belts.
"Ready, lets jump" Mech said as the Jeep suddenly leaped forward towards a wall, only to suddenly drive trough it.
Mech had perfected holographic technology for the hangar and had already opened the mechanical door when Drake commanded the to get ready though the intercom.

Not much later did they arrive, most people were avoiding the streets after what happened, the shops had to close because what happened, not that they would get much costumers now anyway.
Drake got out first, his wings folded like a leather cloak around his body, as the rest followed his lead.
Rain however jumped up on the roofs to check the area.
As Drake walked in the alley he started sniffing the air, bending down by a sewerage lid "smell ends here, it smells reptilian, the lid has been opened recently"

Drake walked back to the rest "seems my guess was right about Inari not being needed, ready to..." his gaze looked behind Mech to an other small alley next to a shop "who is there?"

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“ A few gutter rats and Me” a female called back hopping that Drake would have some sence of humor.
“Janet Evans.” She added just to be on the safe side.
She walked towards the voice. She saw three figures.
Holding her hands up showing that she meant no harm.
“And how are you three?” she ended asking.

Drake did not really react to her joke, trough his eyes did show a hint of green, but it disappeared quickly, turning back to his usual yellow.
Mech however started laughing like an imbecile, ending when a black figure dropped down behind him from the roof and hit him in the head.
"she's alone, no one else is in the area" the new figure said, Rain kept his black skin like matter on as he did not trust the girl, he never did trust anyone right of the bat.
"hai, fine, thank you, and how are you?" Aqua said, even trough it sounded like she greeted the new arrival with the Hai, it was actually a simple Japanese word for Yes.

Drake walked past the rest of the group as he headed to the new arrival "your a Mutant" he commented, he could smell a strange oder coming from her, it strangeness reminded him of a metamorph he had met before.
"A metamorph?" He guessed based on the smell, he thought that a Metamorph power would likely effect the smell they gave off, though he figured he could be wrong.
"what is your purpose here" he seemed as emotionless and calm as ever.

Before she could answer he looked behind her "Symbio, you said she was alone correct?"
"Yeah, why?" The black man replied.
"Seems we have a sudden guess then" Drake responded.
Janet herself looked confused by the entire situation and looked behind herself as well.
"You, come out here as well" Drake spoke up.

[rocketrobie2]

Automantun-108 or As he preferred to be called, David nearly jumped out of his skin when the mutants had addressed a stranger in their midst. He was about to come out only to find out they were talking to a woman named Janet Evans who emerged from an alley. David was perched up on the nearby building with it having taken great strain to get up there. He had used his spiny arm protrusions to jab and climb his way up the wall after hearing the incoming vehicle. Luckily Automantun kept himself disguised in his humanoid form which made him blend in more so than his natural form which would stick out like a sore thumb. Just as David had gotten his wits about him once more he heard the leather clad man call out once more to someone. At first he stayed hidden, hoping that another stranger would emerge but when none other did he sighed and stood up from his hiding place. Carefully the man-creature made his way down using his arm protrusions to slow his fall. From the other people's point of view it would look like a man almost floating down the side of a wall with a lot of turbulence since his arm protrusions were disguised by his illusion powers. Once he got to the ground he looked at all the other members that were on the ground now with a good amount of fear welling inside him for two reasons, firstly these people did not look to be the most friendly and secondly his ability to speak English was shaky at best as of this time and getting into an actual conversation might be tough but he gave a try at a greeting "Hk-low" the creature gargles out of his mouth before trying again after a cough "Halow" he said slightly better.

[Drake Baku]

Drake looked at Mech "one of your contraptions?"
Mech looked confused "why, thats a mutant right?"
Drake looked back to the new guy "Smells like a machine, regardless, what are you both doing here"
Rain stepped in between Drake and the new people "Maybe there part of the kidnappers"

Mech decided to ignore the conversation and transformed his right eye into a scanner like system.

==Janet==

The hair on the back of her neck stood on end when he said that she was a mutant and a metamorph.
It sure surprises her, not many would had been able to pick up on that.
Meaning that he likely has enhanced sense of smell.
She wasn’t so sure if she liked that because some would be able to pick up on emotions such has fear, Though she wasn’t afraid at the moment.
She really couldn’t blame him for wanting to her purpose for being here, She would ask the same thing if she was in his shoes.
The new guy seemed odd though, gliding down a building was normal in a mutant world but there was something wrong with his manner of speaking. She watched in interest as the idiot’s eye transformed into some kind of scanner.

"Well, I heard of the disappearances and death that have been happening here. I wanted to see if I could help in the search of the poeple who went missing. I could be great asset to your team.”
"Yeah right" Symbio spoke up, pushed trough the rest and stood in front of her "and what tells us your not an spy."

"your right Drake, Reptilian type mutant, went into the sewers" suddenly Mech said, breaking the tension.
Mech looked up at the new woman and smiled a mischievous smile as his scanner made some more transformer like transformations, not much changed but a few outer parts of the scanner, unknown to them all, he had figured out how to make a scanner system that can see trough clothes, but the smile disappeared soon enough "damn, her cloths are metamorphed"
Everyone off course now looked at the idiot of the group, even Drake turned his head to look trough the corner of his eye to him.
Runa turned her back to him.
Symbio sighed as he walked to Mech and hit him on the back of his head again.

Drake, ignoring the stupidity, hold up his hand from under his 'leather cloak' as a sign to make the rest stop talking "her smell, there is no hint of reptilian or sewer scent" he looked at her, he was not able to smell emotion, and was glad about that as it might agitate his own.
He looked at Aqua and Mech, the both nodded, he ignored Rain knowing his stand already "Alright, but we wish to know more of you first, we are willing to give the same information back to you off course."
"GOD DAMMIT, each fucking time, is it going to be like this each fucking, first Runa, and I admit she was clean in the end but...." he turned quiet at one look of Drake's his red eyes.
Rain Sighed "Fine.." he turned around, extended his arm to the lid, pulled it open while sending the lid flying as if it weighted like a bottle of water he flung of the ground and jumped into the sewers first letting the rest take care of the new arrivals.

Janet’s attention was drawn long thin figure When he said that there was a reptilian mutant in the sewer.
noticing as he smiled at her mischievous as he gave her a once over. Narrowing her blues eyes at him when he said "Damn, her cloths are metamorphed." Perv. She thought.
She noticed that the others must have thought the same thing as they all turned to him.
She chuckled as the black figure slapped the man again.

Drake then redirected his attention to the other guy "But first we have this individual, the same matters will count for you depending on what you will state your purpose is for being here as for why you smell more like a machine then a person"
Drake wanted to know the reason for the smell so he could know if they were dealing with robot or not, cause a robot could pose a problem depending on its programming.

[rocketrobie2]

David was glad that for the first small bit of the encounter he was ignored. He thought about making a run for it but he didn't have a lot of comfidense that he could out run the black clad person or the cloaked one. He made a strange noise that might pass for a chuckle when the one robotic like person made a comment on the stranger's clothes. After they all finished talking the cloaked one adressed David much to his displeasure, asking about his scent and why he was here. David swallowed and began to speak his broken English as best he could. "I follow human reporting report from light box. Light box tell me this place where people go away. Disappear! Light box tell me this is the place where people disappear. That better. Then Walk here I do, watch from above I do." He said explaining why he had come to the area. "My orgin, my scent. I like him" David said pointing at mech " but not like him. I machine but I also alive." He stated, unable to really get his across what he was saying due to his inability to properly speak. He had been in the forest for a while and though he could understand English perfectly fine, his grammer and actual speaking had a lot of room to improve.

[Drake Baku]

"I follow human reporting report from light box. Light box tell me this place where people go away. Disappear! Light box tell me this is the place where people disappear. That better. Then Walk here I do, watch from above I do." He said explaining why he had come to the area. "My orgin, my scent. I like him" David said pointing at Mech " but not like him. I machine but I also alive."

The group and Janet looked confused at the man for a second.
"Excuse me, if I may give my opinion, I believe he is from an other country"
"WAIT WHAT HE IS A CYBORG" Mech suddenly shouted as he finally put the puzzle pieces together about what he person had said about being a machine and living.
Quickly he walked to the man, examining him before having a new confused look "Cant find the machine parts, are they your organs or something, senthetic skin?, man this guy is sweet if he is really is a cyborg, wish I was one, dude, you got to let me examen your tech parts, maybe I can help you with keeping yourself running and enhancing and..."
"MECH" Drake ended up saying loudly as Mech was ranting in one go "give the guy a break, I hardly believe someone would become cyborg without some painful experience, either background or the rebuild to start with" Drake continued before redirecting his attention back to the man.
"As that I doubt a cyborg would have an easy time to find a home in an other country then he is from, perhaps even from in his own country" Drake then spoke to Mech again.
"Seeing your so interested in cyborgs, mind telling me this, can a cyborg be programmed by others or would they always keep their own state of mind?"
Mech was quiet as he thought about it "Hard to say, they say the brain is like a computer, I mean a telepath can hypnotize anyone due to basically hacking the brain, but until I see some proof I doubt a brain can be controlled by a chip, I know a brain can control computer chips but I dont see how a computer chip can control a brain"
Drake nodded at that comment "I see, then If you wish, your both allowed to join us and live with us, regarding off course you give us some more intel about yourself, off course I wont ask you this without granting some knowledge about us in return, but as we are on the job we will only grant you our codenames"
Drake then nodded to Aqua.
"Hai, Watashi no Aqua, Nice to meet you, Sumimasen for Rain-san, he has trust issues" She said as she bowed in both greeting and apology at the black man's actions.
Mech followed up "Mech, and the black guy, we call him Symbio"
"And I am named Drake"

Janet stood her ground as the dark man push thought the rest and asked how did they knew she wasn’t a spy or had something to do with what was going on.
The man reaction didn’t surprise her, In fact she had experience the same thing where ever she went.
She was about to say thing but the leader, Drake came to her defense, Saying that she didn’t smell of reptilian or the sewer, Ignoring him cursing, She saw the look Drake gave him and the glow of red that she saw there in his eyes, Making her wonder if they changed each time his emotion did.
Her blue eyes followed the dark man as lift the lid off the sewer and jumped in.

Janet gave the Asian young lady as tight smile when she apology saying that Rain had trust issues . She gave her a swallow bow trying to show respect to her.

“ I can’t blame him for having trust issues, We all have been betrayed at some point, Rather by humans or by mutants, Trust is earn not given.
My full name is Janet Evans, I been with Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and the X men if want you can verified that with them, All I want to do is help find the missing people, I stay until the job is done.” She nodded to Mech, Aqua and Drake as they gave their names.

Drake nodded with his still emotionless face "knowing you were part of them is good enough for me"
He then looked at the cyborg, waiting for his side.

[rocketrobie2]

David was going to try to explain his situation on being a cyborg but he figured he would leave that for the time being as he did not want to get into trying explain his situation yet. Instead he turned to the cloaked one "I not from other place. I from here. Just no talking I done. Talk new to me." He tried to explain as he attempted to find the right words in order to get his point across. "As where I come from I not want to tell. It not good." He said simply as he looked down at the ground for a moment then remade eye contact with the cloaked one.

[Drake Baku]

Drake Nodded "I see, Then you truly are in need of a home, Alright, we can help you with your language and provide you with a home if you wish, just give us your name, at least if you can"
"Dude, seriously, were going to have a cyborg in our group, awesome" Mech shouted happy.

[rocketrobie2]

"David." Automantun said in perfect english. One of the only things he knew how to say absolutely properly was his own name "My name David.". and with that he made a smile towards mech when he said it would be awesome having a cyborg in their group.

[Drake Baku]

Drake nodded once more "welcome David, now let us start this job"
Looking at the pit Drake turned and jumped into the sewers followed by Mech and Aqua and off course Janet and David.

"Have you seen anything Symbio" Drake asked the black man as he was looking around.
"nothing, what R they doing here" He replied while looking at the two new arivals.
"Dude, relax, she's with those X-man people and the other guy is a cyborg" Mech came in, Symbio did not calm down but at least he was quite.
He had met one of the X-man once, and while that guy with his metallic claws was a wild man, he was a good man as well, so she would get the benefit of the doubt.
For the so called Cyborg, he had no idea what to think or say...
"Mech, what can your scanner see" Drake redirected his attention to the long guy.
"Not much, seems this is its base, more DNA traces then sewage all around" He answered lifting his shoulders
Drake nodded while breathing out, it was the closest he could get to a sigh without letting in to the emotions of getting discourage.
"We shall walk around in that case, see what and who we can find" Drake said finally, His sense of smell was not useful in a place filled with stench..

After a couple of minutes, no one had noticed that at one point the water in the sewage drain started to move in an unnatural pattern.
Only after a few more minutes did the sound of rumbling water coming to Drake's and Symbio's ears.
Both of them Looked back they noticed a torrential wall of water filled the entire pipe like tunnel
It would have been an interesting sight for Janet and David to see how trough the black matter that covered Symbio's face shifted slightly, the cracks where Rain's eyes would be, opening to reveal two un-human yellow and white eyes and around the mouth area lips shaped with monster like mouth behind them, a Symbiote's face which at this point was mimicing the face of its host under its own mass, mimicing the terryfied face Rain was having under the black mass while Drake was standing next to him with his emotionless face, only opening his lips to say "Runa"
Janet wondered who Runa was but before she could think about it, Aqua turned around before the others, holding up her hands as she made a movement with her body as if to push against something, but nothing happened as far as people could notice.
Drake realized something was wrong quickly enough to yell "RUN" loud enough to cross over the water as it was closing in.
Right away did the group started to run as fast as they could, Janet however changed into a hawk to fly, it was not her intention but a subconscious choice made by her body.

(OOC: from here on I plan to post somewhat shorter posts and give you more movements space, all stuff I mentioned about using some older stuff for Janet has been used and from here on its all us)

[rocketrobie2]

(OOC: Alrighty then! Let's get this show on the road!)

David quickly jerked his head back, looking towards the unnatural water before running. He didn't like this place but he had come here regardless under his own free will. In the hopes of injuring whatever they were running from, David used his hidden forearm pines to fire an electrical charge into the water in the hopes of frying whatever was causing the water disturbance.

[Drake Baku]

Just as David charges hit the massive wall, the electrical energy gave a large flash fitting that of short circuiting something and the water wall collapsed.
Most of the group stopped in their tracks to look back at the wall, water that made up the wall flushed softly past the soles of their feet as not every bit of the massive wall would fit into the drain that was running next to them in one go.
"Impressive, how did you know that would work?" Drake asked the man.
Rain however looked forward as he realized Janet had not noticed that the wall that was charging at them had collapsed and was still flying further in.
"Seems X-man failed to notice were save" he reported dry.
Drake sighed "Fine, I shall go after her, you guys follow the path until you see any sign that I may have left the current path, see if you notice anything I may have missed"
With that Drake started to run after Janet at his full speed.

"So... now what?" Mech asked simply.
"We do what Drake said" Rain followed.
"Anyone know what the heck that wall was?" Mech asked as reply...

(OOC: and that was why I will not use the other one for inspiration any further, your action has completely changed the flow of the rp as it have been going in any other attempts, makes me glad as this will be a new story line now ^^)

[rocketrobie2]

(OOC: Sweet! New continuity! I've got a smudge of free time so I'm gonna get this post up while I have the time)

When asked how he would know it would work, David simply said "usually it do." And with that he stopped running thanks to the lack of threat. Now that Drake had run off after Janet David found himself among the others, wondering what had just attacked them "I don't know what was it. Maybe it was person stealer, kidnapper." He said looking into the water and wondering what was going on down in the sewers here. "We now go again. Be good idea." He said as he began following behind where Drake had run off.

[Drake Baku]

Before leaving after Janet:
Drake looked at David with his usual expression, though if he could act on emotions and such, then he would likely looked at him odd and confused.
"Odd, a wall of water can be created by many means, and a lot dont get effected by an electric blast"

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The group that was left behind decided to follow David as he seemingly took the lead.
"You realize we dont really have to follow them in order to check around the area right?, whatever, I am going back to check if we missed anything while we were running" Symbio said as he turned around and moved solo.

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After 5 minutes of flying at high speed, Janet reached an side passage which she figured would be a good way to avoid the water wall behind them, not knowing David has destroyed the wall a while ago.
Yet when she entered the passage she was greeted with a large reptile like claw, wounding her wing and slamming her against a wall.
Looking up she was seeing a large reptile like humanoid with brown scaly skin, a sail on its head and a snake like tong going in and out of its large mouth.
The beast(?) snarled at the bird in front of it, wondering if it was just a lost bird or something else, the smell that was coming from the bird confused him a lot...

[rocketrobie2]

David was going to consider following Symbio back but figured against it as forward seemed like a good direction to go. As they walked he heard a faint sound that wasn't their footsteps off in the distance. "Did you hear. That?" He asked the group he was now apparently leading through the tunnels.

[Drake Baku]

"Hai" Aqua said, Mech shook his head however.
From deeper down the path, from a little side passage that Janet had failed to notice, the sound of something crawling across the floor could be heard as it slowly moved towards the group.
When they got closer to it, the sound began to seem as if it was much more then one thing but an entire group.
"Snakes?" Mech asked.
"I wish Rain-san or Drake-Sama was here to check first" Aqua replied.
"Nah, I am do that as well" Mech replied before transforming his arm into a large cannon.
"Mech-San, please refrain from using such a gun" Aqua quickly replied, fearing that one shot of that energy cannon would cause the sewers roof to collapse on them all.
"Dont worry, I'll just use it for show then" He said winking to Aqua, he had no idea himself why she asked it, but she often was send with him in order to prevent him from doing something stupid.
Walking into the front of the passage with his cannon arm he looked confused "what the?"

if the others were to look into the passage they would see a large group of vines and such growing in the passage.
"I. dont think we can go this way" Mech reported.

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Janet fearfully wondered why the large mutant would not attack her, but she knew she was pinned down even though the beast (?) was standing a meter or 2 away from her, just one wrong move, one attempt to transform and he would kill her, that she was sure of.
Drake showed up right then, causing the mutant to jump back by quite a leap.
a new snarl escaped from its lips before it spoke "Yourrrr neverrr rrreatsch thhe crrreatorrrrr, leafe thhiisssssss place orr diie"
With that the reptile man escaped deeper into the passage.
Drake decided to let it go in order to check with Janet first.
"Are you alright?"
Janet transformed into her human shape as the moved her arm, seeing if its not broken "Yeah, it should be fine soon"
Drake nodded "let us regroup and see if the others have found something as well"

[rocketrobie2]

David looked down the tunnel skeptically as the plants sat around. "Somthing up to here. Not good. Not good at all." David said as he scratched his chin. Slowly he raised his arms and began firing wildly into the passage seeing if he would hit somthing. David wasn't very good at summing up situations based on the factor of safety for others but he was good at firing at nothing. Very good.

[Drake Baku]

"i'll say" Mech said as he watched the vines getting restless, it was odd to see plants moving as if they were snakes and seemingly annoyed at the sudden attack.
"lets run" Mech followed up as he began sprinting followed by Aqua and hopefully David, the vines were hot on their trails however....

(short I know, failed to come up with anything else aside Drake saving our assess again)

[rocketrobie2]

(Don't sweat, my post was short to begin with)

David agreed with the mechanical man and began running after them, trying to avoid the snake like vines and their horrendous grip. Just to be safe he began firing shots behind him in the hopes of slowing the plants down.

[Drake Baku]

"What the hell are these plants" Mech yelled as the vines were able to keep up with them.
Suddenly a burst of flames came from in front of them.
They all could easily see it coming and avoid it, even if David would fail to himself, Aqua would use her aquakinessiss to use the sewer water and knock him aside so the flames would burn the vines.
Once the flames disappeared Drake and Janet had entered the party again.
"Report" he said to Mech.

"Symbio went back to check if we missed any paths earlier, we found an other path which was crawling with vines, Cyborg shot at the vines for some reason and the vines, dude the freaking plants got angry! you should have seen them, acting like snakes and following us all the way to here, freaky" Mech began professionally but ended typically as himself.
Aqua nodded to back Mech up "I believe we are dealing with multiple mutants"
Drake nodded "lets find Symbio and check up on the vined path again"

"No need, i'm here" a voice spoke from behind Mech's group, looking behind them they could see Symbio as he walked up to them between the ashes.
"nothing to report" was all he said before Drake could even ask.
Draje nodded again "I met the reptilian one, it spoke something about a creator"
"Creator?" Mech asked.
Drake nod ones to confirm "Let's see this vines path, perhaps there are some clues"
Drake then looked at David as they started to walk "what do you think?" he asked the man, trying to get more of an read about him.

[rocketrobie2]

When the blast of fire came from the tunnel David leapt down to the ground in order to avoid the flurry of flames which saved his hide. As every one gained their bearings again David looked back at the charred plant remains and shivered at the thought that he was almost attacked by a plant. Once they started walking again David was asked about what he thought about the situation which made him feel very touched in that the strangers were actually some what interested in what he thought, somthing that hadn't happened before in his life. "Well, I think mutants here form refuge. It good place and it my seconed choice for living space. Maybe they live down here, abduct people for food." David suggested. He had actually considered living in the sewers for a while but ultimately decided against it due to the lack of desirable food.