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Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Great job kid! You sure showed them… Dear god, that was just terrible.

Mercury felt relief soon wash over him as the tubes were removed. He looked up at Eddwina seeing the Warlord mask on her he chuckled. ”God you look silly, c’mere I’ll get him off. Thanks, for saving my ass before it became grass.“ He slowly sat up groaning in agony as his insides still burned a great deal. Underneath that pain he felt a tiny bit of an empty void inside him. He set a hand to his gut, and then moved his other hand to Edwina’s face. Then gently pulled it back, and with it his Warlord. ”I sure hope he wasn’t an ass to you. He’s got serious anger management issues. I’ll have to clean the mask off before I try wearing him again.“ He put the mask back with the others on his sash. He sighed deeply then tried to stand up. ”I’m gonna go find someplace quiet to rest… I really don’t feel very good.“ He began to get up slowly his insides rumbling, and he tried taking a step only to stumble over onto the ground.

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Sorry kid I can’t get out of your head just yet. Warlord scoffed at Edwina’s objections. It’s not like he had a choice in the matter, he needed to save Mercury.

Warlord observed the situation her Edwina’s eyesight was filled with shapes outlined in red. It traveled down to a floor below, and Mercury was there writhing, and screaming in pain. Tubes kept draining him of his life. Fuck, that’s not good. They already started hurting him. Warlord looked around at the guards. Can you focus the light to blind just the guards? If you can do that then you can attack with your new strength to either knock them out, or kill them. From there we can rescue Merc.

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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The bone quickly moved around Eddie’s mouth to avoid getting puked on, and drowning the girl in her own vomit. ”Girl you need to learn to take a serious chill pill. Fuck, that was nasty.” He let out an annoyed sigh in her head, and calmed down. He didn’t really care for this chick in the slightest. Why couldn’t Merc have left Magi with this idiot instead of him. After filling her in on why she needed to hurry she reacted so poorly.
"You're only mentioning this....now?!" Eddie hissed. "Dear Lord, do not let me be one of his fucking masks. Kill me. Whatever. I don't want to be stuck to his face for eternity."”Well get the fuck moving, and you won’t need to worry about that. Plus Murk would take good care of you. Occasionally he lets us do what we want when wearing us masks… But, you’d probably end up killing him. So yeah, I’d probably just eat your soul like a snickers bar.”
Warlord was boosting her strength not as much as he could for Merc, but enough to help her run to a Motorcyclist, and steal their bike. You’re doing fine kid. Especially now that you’re actually moving. Also my name is Warlord, and I’m in your head. How else do you think I’m talking to you? Once you touched me we formed a psychic connection. Sooo…. If you’re gonna think I’m an asshole at least confront me on it.

Mercury felt the van stop, and the sounds of a garage door closing. They opened the back, and the Tia’s men dragged him out roughly. In doing so they opened some of his still healing wounds, and he groaned in pain. They threw a hood over his head, and started to guide him. After a bit he could smell formaldehyde, and other hospital scents. ”I swear doc I ain’t crazy! I’m telling you I saw a purple scaled yellow polkadotted Dragon by the name Antonio he was handing out flyers to Pizza Castle. The pizza was meh, but that waitress was muy caliente.“ One of the guards snickered, and another zapped Mercury making him groan in pain. ”So I’m guessing we’re starting on shock therapy?“ He then chuckled as he cringed, and was soon thrown onto a hard surface that was cold to the touch. He tapped his fingers against it, and could tell it was metal. ” Oh, oh! Is this the part where you start doing naughty things to my body?“ He felt himself get strapped down, and his cringed as the bindings were tight.

”Good it looks like they’ve finally stopped… Oh fuck looks like they’ve finally stopped.” Warlord was now very worried about Merc.

Tia walked up to Mercury, and tore his hood off. She wanted him to see himself get torn apart, and experimented on. She started by taking blood samples at first, and then started injecting particles into his stomach. Then taking sophisticated scans of him. “My my… You’re just like a black hole in their aren’t you? Anything that goes in there vanishes, and you get stronger. But, if you take things out?” She started taking samples from there, and his body felt like it was boiling, and he screamed in agony. Tia looked at the sample, and smiled in pleasure. Soon forgoing what she'd originally planned for Mercury. “Interesting… I can do a lot with this. Take vast strides in me research, and at the same time end you. So thanks for this.” She then took a device, and hooked it up to his body. To start slowly draining his body of the black substance he called blood. Tia smiled as her ears were filled with the sound of Mercury’s screams. “Like music to my ears. Boys make sure that he dies.” Tia took three medium sized vials of the stuff, and then left it was more than enough for her research.

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XP or not totally up to you... -Retreats into a rabbit hole-

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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”Nah, I’m none too worried. Us masks aren’t affected by the light like Mercy boy is. We’re bone, human bone. So unless you got a bone cutting laser on you I’m fine.”

The mask clung to Edwina’s mask fitting around it snugly so she didn’t have to worry about it falling off. Inside her mind a map formed in red, and she could see a dot moving that took the form of Mercury with a helpless kicked puppy look. As the mask promised she could see exactly where they were taking Mercury.

”Oh don’t be such a baby. You’ll be fine so long as you get me to Mercury in forty four hours… Otherwise, I could end up devouring your soul. Or better yet switching with you, buuut I love our resident shadow idiot. He’s an okay dude. Now let’s go babe.”

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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The mask slid then the markings started glowing brighter. ”Yeah, I can find him. Mercury, and the rest of us masks share a special connection. It’s why he NEVER goes anywhere without us. He left me here with you on purpose you stupid putah. Get the fuck up dry your eyes, and put me on. I may not work as well when I’m with Mercury. But, a good strength boost, and knowing exactly where Mercy boy is. That should be good enough to pull off a rescue.” The mask let out a sighing sound like a normal human would. But, he wasn’t human just a soul inhabiting a mask. “Look just be glad your still able to move. Now please dry your eyes, Merc isn’t dead yet. There’s still a chance to rescue him. But, that window will if you don’t get up right now, and believe in yourself. Merc believes in you, otherwise he wouldn’t have bothered leaving a mask with you. Seeing as all together we’re powerful, but separated we’re weakened… As the saying goes divide, and conquer. C’mon Lucy I promise I smell sweet. That idiot likes putting chocolate scented lotion on us… Fucking weirdo.”

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Tia saw Eddwina and laughed, “Get in the car, and run her ass over. If we don’t get her keep going to the lab. She’s not worth our time, I’ve got bigger fish to fry. Ain’t that right Mercury?” She got into the van she was still laughing in amusement. What? Did Edwina really think she was anymore important than annoying leech? A quick pull, and the problem was over.

The van took off fast going towards Eddwina, but avoided hitting any cars. Mercury hit a wall in the van, and groaned in pain. He was terrified, and was starting to shake. They drove onto the freeways after exiting the lab parking lot leaving Eddwina looking stupid. Then Mercury’s mask started to glow faintly pulsing almost like a heartbeat. It was his warlord mask, and the expression seemed to fix into that of a berserking rage.

”Edwina… Now I understand that fear you felt.“ He was shaking panting with fear, and tried to get free. But, he was soon zapped by one of the men assigned to watch him. Mercury screamed in pain.

The mask started moving violently then Edwina heard a voice inside her head. ”Lucifer you idiot! did you really think you held any significance to them? Especially after they have what they want, and know you could stop it all? God your stupid as fuck!” This voice was one usually only Mercury heard inside his head all the time he wore it. They were the souls of the masks, and were the beings Mercury embodied when he wore the masks. But, Lucifer was getting talked to because of the dire circumstances Mercury was in. Usually they never talked to anyone or raised any sort of fuss.

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Mercury was quickly hurried past people he would try asking for help. Only to be reminded what would happen to them by a gun pressing into his back. So he shut his trap, and they were almost outside when the alarms went off. “Blast it down it’s only steel reinforced, that assistant is trying to shut us in,” Tia ordered. The men pulled out a powerful cannon, and Mercury was pulled back before they let the cannon rip. The bright flash of light made Mercury cringe in agony, and the loud booming of the door being blown off it’s hinges made him sigh.

“Let’s go,” Tia walked out quickly she could tell the lab was starting to fill with chemicals. So didn’t want to stay long, and risk her lab rat dying from the exposure. ”C’mon kid you can do better than this… I hope,“ Mercury mumbled. He looked up at Tia asking, ”So why are you avenging that monster anyways?“ He could obviously tell Tia was getting something out of this, but he wanted to know the connection between the Drug kingpin, and her. “Simple, that monster was my husband. I loved him, and he loved me. He even took my last name,” she said. Then shoved him towards a black van. “Now get in the fucking car. You two make sure he doesn’t try anything.”

Mercury looked back towards the lab before being roughly thrown into the car trunk, and strapped down.

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Mercury grabbed some random paperwork, and took a seat looking as casual as can be as he flipped through them. When the men burst through the door they saw only an Intern looking over papers. They looked around for a bit, and were about to leave when Tia came into the room. “Idiots he can shape shift! Grab him,” she screamed pointing at Mercury. “he’s key to my research.” She was holding some sort of strange device that was glowing green when pointed at him.

Quickly the men surrounded Mercury, and slammed him down against the desk. Putting handcuffs on him. Then administered a powerful shock of electricity through his body making him return to his true form. “I’ve been wanting to meet you Mercury... So where is your little friend? What was her name? Ugh, whatever I don’t need to remember that she’s just an assistant.” Mercury snarled in rage opening his real mouth that was filled with white dagger sized fangs, wanting to tear this woman’s throat out. ”She’s a brilliant scientist you asshole! I made sure she escaped, and so she’s not here. You’re never going to catch her, she’s smarter than you will ever be. Because I’m going to fucking kill you.“ Tia burst into a mocking laughter before zapping Mercury again. Making him scream in pain, and growl at her. “You’re in no real position to be making any sort of threat. Take him to the lab!” The men escorted Mercury away forcefully, and he stumbled.

But, he was smart and had stumbled on purpose. In order to knock one of his masks loose that he quickly kicked under the desk. He couldn’t really see which one. But, all of his masks were a part of him, and acted like a homing device because they wanted to be with him. That is if one was focusing on Mercury, and were brave enough to actually put it on… Though it did smell like chocolate.

“Careful with him you idiots! Break him, and I use you as a guinea pig for my experiments instead.” Tia was mad, and followed behind the men with an angry scowl. She wanted to make sure Mercury wouldn’t be injured before she got her hands on him. “I’m going to enjoy dissecting you.” ”Oh boy, don’t I feel loved,“ Mercury spat sarcastically. The door shut behind them with a very loud SLAM which shook the door.

Powerbound: The story of Edwina, and Mercury

@Morose

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Mercury hopped over to Eddie now that he was able to see again. ” Tia Abela, Abela… Where do I know that name from.“ He tilted his head this was going to bother him for a while. When the gummy worm was offered he jumped on it fast, and swallowed it fast. ”More please! I ADORE sweets… Not only are they delicious they give me energy like no other food out there.“ Then proceeded to laugh, and then eyed one of the sodas.

It was only when Eddie asked, "She isn't one of your enemies or anything, right?" That snapped him back to what he was thinking about previously. He hummed rubbing a wing thoughtfully under his chin. Then he all but squawked as he leapt into the air flapping his wings madly with panic. ”Now I remember! Abela was a drug kingpin I brutally slaughtered a two years ago. He swore a smart lady would avenge him, well at first that’s what I thought he said. He spoke spanish, and Tia in that language means lady.“ He leapt up onto Eddie’s shoulder as he couldn’t quite fly yet.

They could already hear the pounding of running footsteps approaching the room. Mercury was trying to think of what to do. They were trapped like animals in a cage, as far as he knew. He went to the bag of gummy worms, and downed them fast. Then returned to humanoid form an hour or two had passed so he should’ve had enough energy to switch masks again. Quickly he grabbed the Warlord’s mask, but stopped as it zapped him making him cuss. The masks weren’t letting him switch yet. He had to think fast as they were getting closer. Then he had it quickly taking the form of one of the interns that he’d seen around he grabbed Eddie by the shoulder softly. ”Hide in the closet, and go invisible. That should be enough to confuse them, and make them go away so we can escape. Hurry.“ He then went about cleaning up all the mess of his blood, and the snacks. Wanting to make sure it looked like they left in a hurry.