Over the edge

[Seer]

<< and so, like the end of any fast, unpleasant ride, the Six and The Sisterhood found themselves left to pick up the pieces of their false sense of "calm" and pride as Alycia had seemingly turned against ALL of them and detonated the last car of the train just as it flew of its rail inside the underground dock.>>

<< SHE herself disappeared in the blast, leaving the Six and Sisterhood to recover. any suspicions about her from the group were all but confirmed now, but not in the way they might have thought.>>

<< the two teams were now firmly within the grounds of Arklay and struggling out of the wreckage. Isis would be needed to heal injuries, much as she despised helping ANY of them, she would allow herself to honor the truce.>>

<< in the distance, bleached, mutated reanimated corpses were emerging from behind machines, or walls, and slowly converging in thier advance toward the staggered group.>>

<< there was no turning back now and going forward would be no less easy.>>

 

[Persephone]

Ava held onto one of the sleek silver poles that lined the top of the train car; her other hand massaging her temple in an effort to get rid of her blazing headache. She heard Malice ask Alycia when they were to arrive at Arklay. Alycia replied with a cryptic answer, causing Ava to lift her eyes in the woman's direction.

Alycia: "I hate you all. I HOPE YOU DIE!"

And with that, Alycia lifted a small devise and detonated a huge blast that sent the car hurling off the tracks, exactly as she predicted moments earlier. Stunned by the overall suddenness of the attack, Ava's body tumbled as the train crashed to a halt. Despite the crash, Ava managed to hold onto the train car's pole long enough to withstand the initial blast, however as the car came to a crashing halt, it was too powerful for even her to stay stationary. As her hand ripped from the pole, Ava flew backwards, tumbling along the car until everything became still.

Smoke filled the air and electrical sparks were the only sounds that could be heard in the entire train. Slowly sitting up, Ava gasped out feeling an intense pain under her rib cage. Looking down, a piece of debris--notably a jagged pole that had been ripped from the train during impact--was sticking out of her chest.

"Fuck...."

If being impaled wasn't bad enough, being impaled by an explosion caused by Alycia was like salt on the wound. Ripping the pole out from her side, she cried out in pain, gritting her teeth tightly to prevent any audible discomfort from being heard by the others. Tossing the small pole fragment away, her acidic blood was already doing a number on it; sizzling could be heard as the pole began to be eaten and burned away by her unique plasma.

"If any of you thought she was stable before....bloody hell."

Ava mustered out, pushing herself to her feet as she placed pressure on her wound.

Nearest to Cameron, Ava grabbed his hand and helped him up [as best she could]. She could see Haleigh and Delilah slowly getting up as well; as well as Diana and Dominique. But from behind all four of them, Ava caught sight of corpses...zombie corpses.

"Corpses, 12 o'clock!"

Gesturing behind them, Ava unleashed an earthquake around the back portion of the train car; the walls and debris falling in front of the corpses creating a barrier between them and the six/sisterhood. How long it would hold was anyone's guess.

 

[Prophet]

Cameron slumped next to Ava as a head count was completed and Alycia and Malice began bickering back and forthe. Cameron was tired of it. In fact he had half a mind to mentally knock everyone out until they arrived at their destination, not that he could all of them, but still the thought was there and entertaining. Cameron felt a SURGE of pain and confusion in his mind.

"Alycia!"

His mind couldn't react fast enough as he experienced a HUGE surge in her thought patterns, that seemed to reach all the way down to her CORE. This was not right, it almost felt as if she was POSESSED!

Alycia: I hate you all. I HOPE YOU DIE!

From within her clothes Alycia revealed a trigger and detonated a giant concussive blast that ROCKED the train off the tracks, blowing up the last car. Cameron was thrown off of his feet and into the glass window as he back and neck were THROTTLED by glass, the shards digging into his skin, as his hands were mangled by blasts of steel bits, catching what seemed to be hundreds of them in his hands.

"AGH!!!"

Thinking fast, in his mind he had stopped the glass and steel from digging too deep into his skin. He could deal with the steel in his hands, but the glass was too much, with another thought the glass began to extract from his back and neck, and quickly and telekinetically Cameron began to clot his own blood, stopping his bleeding, a testament to how his power had expanded in his time away from the Six, that and he REALLY didn't want to have to be healed by Isis.

And as soon as it started, it was over. He was helped up by Ava, much to his surprise as he gave her a glance of thanks. He placed his hand over hers at the sight of her wound, careful not to get any of her acidic blood on him as he mentally scanned her, noticing her vitals were find, and began to mentally clot her wound as well as she launched a full scale attack on the now approaching zombies. (Of course, MORE zombies).

"Whatever that was... *sighing* was NOT Alycia. Something happened to her. Something BAD in her mind. I don't know what, but that was NOT her..."

Looking at Ava's impressive display to block the zombies from getting at them.

"Good work, but who knows how long that will hold them off. All of this is time wasted. Is everyone okay? I don't mean to be insensitive but we need to move on and FAST...Ahh..."

He winced as he made a fist with his hand, forgetting the shards od steel were still well intact.

 

[Isis]

Arklay underground

[ things happened so FAST! and being hemmed in on a high speed train didnt make it any easier. She despised these children and hoped a few of them, namely Haleigh and Ava would be killed by some "unfortunate" circumstance but soon she was counting her own blessings as she narrowly escaped the NEMESIS to the next car.]

[ as she and Malice struggled to catch their breath after having been TOSSED by the creature, Malice asked Alycia how much further they had to go. Alycia responds with an unusual remark before showing an almost MANIC shift in her personality and presentation!]

[ the train flies off the rail and a concussive impact rocks Dominique into temporary unconsciousness. the blackness is a welcomed oblivion. if only for a while she FORGETS that she's in the presence of people she cant stand, fighting the ghosts of a situation she INHERITED by being a member of the sisterhood.]

[ but any possible "escape" was painfully shortlived as Malice quickly pulled her back to consciousness. Dominique sputtered and coughed a bit as she struggled to her feet.]

that woman....she's INSANE!

[Dominique said as she struggled to regulate her breathting amongst the smoke and dust kicked up by the derailed train.]

"If any of you thought she was stable before....bloody hell."

Ava mustered out, pushing herself to her feet as she placed pressure on her wound.

[ Dominique catches sight of the struggling Persephone. ]

It appears that you could use some healing...

[ she said flatly. of course she'd DENY Ava any other time, but she HAD promised Nicolas before she left she'd extend her abilities to ALL of the six, whomever might be in need.]

Nearest to Cameron, Ava grabbed his hand and helped him up [as best she could]. She could see Haleigh and Delilah slowly getting up as well; as well as Diana and Dominique. But from behind all four of them, Ava caught sight of corpses...zombie corpses.

"Corpses, 12 o'clock!"

Gesturing behind them, Ava unleashed an earthquake around the back portion of the train car; the walls and debris falling in front of the corpses creating a barrier between them and the six/sisterhood. How long it would hold was anyone's guess.

Malice, just how many people DID you kill in this place...

Malice: details! anyone outside of Helena and Myself was expendible.


Dominique: I just wanted to at least FATHOM how many of these creatures we're going to have to deal with as we make are way to this psychotic upstart who's laying in wait for us in this dreadfull place.

[ the makeshift barrier created by Persephone bought them a few moments to at least get up and get their bearings but it wouldnt last forever.]

 

[Black Widow]

Cameron: Haleigh, how much longer do we have until we get there? Everyone in the same room like this... kind of makes me nervous!

She was about to announce that they were getting very close, but Malice cut in:

Malice: alright, you psychotic linda hamilton, how long before this train reaches the underground docking station of the Arklay Replica?

Assuming Malice was talking to HER, Haleigh tossed a sharp glance at her, as if to say 'OH MY GOD, let me get the words out of my MOUTH!', but then Alycia shot back a response instead. And THEN:

Alycia: I hate you all. I HOPE YOU DIE!

"Oh gee, thanks for that BREAKING NEWS UPDATE, because we couldn't actually tell HOW you felt about us, what with the CHARMING mood you've been in lately."

She griped, with violent sarcasm, glancing over to notice something in Alycia's hand. She responded as quickly as it registered to her, shoving past everyone to get to Alycia-- but there was too much in her way. She shoved Delilah down safely between a row of seats and then pushed Diana behind some cover, but as she dove for Alycia, the woman triggered her device.

"It's a DETONAT--

She was blinded by the strobe effect and the sound of the blast drowned out the rest of her warning. She does her best to shape the blast AWAY from everyone, but it doesn't do much good anyway, as the train they are speeding through the tunnel in is ROCKED by the blast and jumps the track. Haleigh, already lunging for Alycia, who was in the front of the train at the control bay, gets thrown through the front windshield as the train comes to its crashing halt, and lands in a heap several yards away from the actual wreckage. She sees spots for a few moments in the darkness, but her night-vison returns to its full capacity and she can make out their surroundings just fine. Her glowing red eyes give away her position as she gets torpidly to her feet. She can hear everyone in the train's mangled car starting to recover, and takes a few steps in that direction, but then stops.

She smells blood. There is almost a gravitational force beckoning her towards the wreckage. She clamps down on a concrete support beam, anchoring herself to the spot. She uses xray vision to see who's hurt and how bad. Ava is clutching her stomach and Isis is reaching for her/

[distantly] Isis: It appears that you could use some healing…

[projecting her voice across the distance] "Cameron needs some attention as well. [after a beat] If you would, please…"

She stayed where she was. From here she was confident she could control herself…. She didn't want to get too close to any open wounds… Jessica was bound to show up any minute, and Haleigh was starting to get the sneaking suspicion that she was standing on the edge of a cliff, staring down into oblivion. She was spooked by her own instinct to respond to the bloodshed like a scavenger, not a medic, as was darkly shamed by the realization. She spotted a stray zombie, ambling towards the main group, and dispatched it quickly with a silenced handgun. She understood why the zombies always seemed to gravitate towards them… the smell of blood-- of LIFE was attracting them, and she felt a pang of disgust for so intimately understanding what was driving the otherwise stolid undead.

 

[Isis]

Arklay underground

[she heard Black Widow, who noticeably remained separated from the majority of the others. as little as she thought of the hybrid, she couldnt deny the girl's willingness to place her team's lives at utmost paramount importance.]

[ the hybrid asked her to tend to Cameron as well as Ava. She would do so but restorative magicks didnt HAVE to be "pleasant" to the recepient upon activation of the spell. the person casting the spell could consciously help to ease the discomfort associated with it but Isis was not concerned with that as evidenced as her facial expression as she gestured, weaving a pattern of golden hued power and directing her hands at Prophet first, who was slightly swept off his feet by a swirl of sparkling gold dust as the magick "charged" into his body and healed him. he FELT the sudden, unnatural change being wrought in his body by her spell and it was not comfortable. There was a CLEAR difference between being healed by a FRIEND (Morgan, Alison, Karen or Ororo) and an enemy who was JUST as powerfull as the friends who knew your body, how it worked and what ways to make sudden change via magick easier.]

[ next came that toxic fern, persephone. She was better off than most, in that she could sustain more damage to her body than even some super humans could and survive. But she needed healing as well and with no one ELSE around, that left Isis.]

I do hope this doesnt hurt....no wait...I'm lying.

[ directing her halo encircled hands toward the goddess, two beams of magick discharge and hit Persephone she feels the sudden STING of the magick as it bypasses all natural order in her body and begins to reverse and reset any injury. ]

[ within moments, both Prophert and Persephone both healed and restored, the teams had no choice but to draw close together as it was obvious Persephone's barrier wouldnt hold long. between the fires that burned around them and the moans of desperate corpses in the near area...it was not a place any sane person would want to be for long.]

Diana, if you would be so kind as to at least point us in the right direction?

[ she asked in a disdainfully "polite tone" as Malice brushed off the after effects of her handiwork.]

 

[Seer]

The Aqua Ring

<< though they were able to gather themselves. they still had yet to figure out just WHAT happened with Alycia. Delilah and now Cameron as well were convinced that whomever that was...it wasnt the REAL Alycia, but the woman had more than a small role in all this, perhaps not at all the way they originally thought.>>

<< much to their dreaded expectation, zombies begin FALLING OVER the top of the train wreckage and now begin to get to their feet to make their slow but determined approach toward the fresh meat.>>

<< Malice finally snaps out of one of her recently developed "distracted looks" and directs them to a freight elevator off in another direction.>>

<< the dash to the freight elevator was easily enough and the systems still worked under their own power.>>

<< the ride up though was short lived...the elevator stopped, totally unresponsive to any attempts even by Black Widow to get it going again. the car SHAKES and rocks violently as the wall BEHIND them begins to PUSH forward! Silver Swan, being the strongest among them does her BEST to halt the wall with her power. until the REAL threat becomes apparent.>>

<< the power shorts out, total darkness and the orientation of the car itself seems to FLIP as the Six and Sisterhood are DUMPED out of the Elevator , now caught in a cascading WATERFALL, they fall MANY feet into the dark, DEEP, deary depths of the AQUA RING! and not the center most portion of the Aqua Ring, but rather the immense seemingly endless tunnel area filled with the flowing water of RIVER like proportions.>>

<< In MAINSTREAM, the Six had never encountered the Aqua Ring, only their enemies, the Zaccharas had. This was TRULY uncharted territory for them.>>

 

[Viper]

welcome

feedback reverberates through the massive, dark waterway and echoes off the metallic walls. its so dark that its hard to tell where the sound is coming from.

a woman obnoxiously clears her throat to get everyone's attention.

oh this is so NICE! I get to test out all the modifications i made on YOU! This is the AQUA Ring! it was one of my FAVORITE places to come visit when I was a little girl! I hope you'll like it too! You get to see all the exciting creatures up close and personal!

they can hear the massive sound of metal hydraulics shifting and soon, the massive "river" of water they are now in begins to flow with a POWERFULL current. on top of that, they now have to contend with massive and long electric eels with aggressive tendencies that are now closing in on them. the water is impossible to see through, coupled with the darkness all around them, they have the sense they are somewhere massive but no idea where this current is going to take them.

oh wasnt that nice of Alycia, by the way? I knew the behavioral modification chip i implanted in her would make her a most EXCELLENT lure for you after all, like me...you've got a past that just wont go away!

 

[Persephone]

Isis: It appears that you could use some healing…

"I'm fine."

Ava stated evenly, not wanting any help from Isis in the least. Cameron actually took the insentive to clot the blood around her wound so she would be able to function once they finally encountered Viper, however Ava was skeptical about how long she would be able to fight without being fully healed. Regardless, she was greatful to him.

However, despite his best efforts, Isis took it upon herself to heal both Cameron and herself. Probably due to the truce, otherwise she knew that leather faced bitch would let her roit.

Isis: I do hope this doesnt hurt....no wait...I'm lying.

"Screw.....OW!"

As the beam of "healing light" enveloped Ava's wound, it felt like she was being stabbed again by the pole shard.

"Thank you Dr. Mengele."

However the snipping came to an immediate stop once Viper finally arrived. She was as obnoxious in person as she was over the speaker at the Hellfire Club's war room. She revealed that Alycia had been implanted with a behavior modification chip, to which Ava internally groaned. So close! She was SOO CLOSE to prooving to the others Alycia was an unstable crone who needed to die. She'd definitely slap Viper around a little harder for that one.

Viper: like me...you've got a past that just wont go away!

[while rolling her eyes] "Yes, you definitely have GNAT like tendencies."

 

[MorningStar]

Alycia: I hate you all. I HOPE YOU DIE!

It only took seconds. Alycia's words. The train jumping the track. Delilah thrown around within the steel box, unable to stay upright. And she, unlike the others, was forced to watch it all.

As the car came to a screeching halt, Delilah jumped to her feet. Her rage fueling her, masking any injuries she might have sustained.

“That fucking CUNT!”

Since they had discovered that Alycia had returned, Delilah had gone to bat for her. Stood up for her, protected her. Given her the benefit of the doubt. Believed in her. And Alycia had just taken a huge steaming SHIT on all of that. And Delilah was PISSED.

In that instant, all of Delilah's belief that something was wrong with Alycia – but that she was still the same person inside – evaporated. It would take extraordinary circumstances for Alycia to ever come into contact with Delilah again and walk away from the meeting. She didn't anger easily, and she generally gave people more second chances than they deserved. But once her anger was spiked, god help you.

"Whatever that was... *sighing* was NOT Alycia. Something happened to her. Something BAD in her mind. I don't know what, but that was NOT her..."

“The fuck it wasn't. I'm going to KILL that two-faced bitch.”

This sort of betrayal was nearly too much for Delilah to bear. That it came from Alycia was doubly terrible for her. Corpses were coming at them, but Delilah didn't care. She was too angry. Good for The Six (and probably the corpses as well) that Persephone took care of the problem.

She stood at the back of the elevator car, silently fuming. But she forgot her anger as the elevator began to move and actually dumped them into a waterfall. And then Jessica Marcus showed up. Yay.

Oh wasnt that nice of Alycia, by the way? I knew the behavioral modification chip i implanted in her would make her a most EXCELLENT lure for you after all, like me...you've got a past that just wont go away!

Oh thank GOD.

Viper didn't know what a disservice she had done to herself in revealing that. Because now, it was as if a weight was lifted from Delilah's shoulders, and she began thinking clearly again. And all of those thoughts wanted Jessica Marcus dead. As soon as they got OUT of this water.

Delilah reached a hand out of the water, and fireworks appeared to shoot from her finger tips, culminating into floating bulbs of light that hung in the air above them and illuminated the Aqua Ring.

 

[Black Widow]

Dominique healed all injuries, and for this Haleigh was grateful; however… she did so spitefully and without making it in ANY way easy for those who were subject to it. Haleigh grit her teeth to stop herself from starting another unnecessary and ultimately meaningless argument. She released her grip on the concrete column and allowed herself to approach the train car. It was turned over on its side, obscuring the doors. Haleigh mentally removed a couple of rows of rivets and then manually peeled back a section of the roof to create a door. She glanced at her sister and then Cameron, visually making sure they were alright. Isis prompted Malice for direction, and the telepath seemed to break out of a trance before responding. Haleigh, brow furrowed with growing concern, turned in the direction they were headed.

[in thought]What's on your mind, Diana? You've been distracted since we got here.

They boarded the freight lift without incident, and Haleigh got them going in the proper direction. Delilah was seething, and not without reason. Alycia had sold them all out in a truly unfathomable fashion…. But at this point, Haleigh wasn't all that surprised. This was a disease inflicted on both Alycia AND Sharon. They were once human and had been successful, well adjusted women. The second they became something MORE then human, they cracked. Themyscria had not helped EITHER woman cope. They had been BORN human and their 'upgrades' had been an unnatural perversion. They were never cut out to be Supers. In retrospect, it made sense… they were only human and that was the way they were genetically engineered to be. Sharon had given birth to a mutant; she carried the gene but clearly her bloodline wasn't yet READY to evolve. What Rick Riley did was inflict an ANOMALY on her that she wasn't biologically prepared to handle. No wonder she wasn't right in the head anymore. Alycia, likewise, was only human and therefore wasn't cut out for their 'business'. Haleigh realized regretfully that they'd always been asking too much of Alycia, and now it was much too late to do anything about it.

Haleigh was about to discuss this with Delilah and attempt to talk her down from the murderous rage, but the elevator started malfunctioning. Haleigh attempted to jumpstart it again, but it shook violently, causing everyone to stumble a bit.

"Sorry… it's not cooperating right now. Give me just a--"

The bottom drops out of the elevator and dumps them all. It’s a long fall into icy, murky water. Haleigh, due to her composition, sinks a good twenty feet deeper than everyone else. It least the tank is deep enough. It's dark though, and the water swallows her up in cold, absolute blackness. She starts swimming for the surface, using the change in water pressure to guide her, and switches over to xray vision again to see what they were up against. She almost wished she hadn't found out. Mutant sharks, eels and other creatures whose specie wasn't so obvious surrounded them, and they all seemed to realize instinctively that something new had disturbed the waters. She swam a lot faster now, but it still took her several seconds to surface. She gasped for air, slinging the water out of her hair. Viper had already arrived and was in the middle of taunting them. Haleigh created a large metallic grate beneath the group and raised it quickly towards them. It would be a bit abrupt for the others, but it got EVERYONE out of the water safely and away from the eels just as the current began to get too strong to fight. Delilah provided them with some much needed illumination.

"Great. Just Marvelous. Now my boots are all wet and squishy inside and I fucking LOATHE wet socks."

 

[Viper]

target practice

The group, despite Haleigh's quickly errected protection, found themselves now being pulled into a whirlpool with incredible power. they were being sucked down into the eye of the malestrom where the gaping jaws of an obscene creature...a massive sort of man/octopus....one of the truly unspeakable experiments of Mystech's aqua ring waited with a primal yearning! its tentacles reached up and began to take hold of the cage wrapping around it. There was no escape.

But at the last moment, a violent eruption of water floods the cage while blasting it BACK up into the air above the dark waters. There are some among them who MIGHT catch the form of a woman standing on another platform high above the waters but it does them no good as Viper extends her hands and FIRES upon them with a massive bolt of of BIO ELECTRIC a.k.a VENOM blasts.

The blast is SUPERCONDUCTED by the water and PAINFULLY shocks them all into unconsciousness....with the exception of Black Widow who managed to SURVIVE the initial blast.

YAYYYY!!!

She claps her hands with glee as the cage is caught by a massive mutated flying crow and now hovers in front of her as she TEARS the cage open, a sign that she is incredibly strong, HOW strong is yet to be determined.

that was almost TOO easy! like shooting fish in a BARRELL!

Daddy ALWAYS said that I knew how to get what I want....

She reaches in to grab the stunned Black Widow out and hold her up by the neck! the hybrid sees those striking apple green eyes almost GLOWING in this darkness.

one way OR the other!


and now that I have you....I'm NEVER letting you go! You're the FINAL piece needed for me to be what my daddy always wanted me to be....a GODDESS!

and with that, she bombards Haleigh with another VENOM BLAST and batters her into unconsiousness and drags her off by her hair, while the others are carried by surprisingly COMPLIANT zombies!

 

[Prophet]

The Poseidon Adventure.

Haleigh: Cameron needs some attention as well. [after a beat] If you would, please...

"Oh son of a bitch, i'm FINE..."

He thought, even though he KNEW he needed the help. The last person he wanted that help from was Dominique. Unfortunately, his own abilities could only take him so far, and though he used his eyes mostly to express his telekinesis, if push came to shove and he needed to do something BIG, he would need his hands.

Surprisingly, in a rare moment of what appeared to be humanity, Isis obliged as a pattern of golden hued energy began to flow his way. It looked ethereal but as the magick hit him, he was taken aback a few feet as his body felt completely.. almost electrified by the magick. The entire process was anything but comfortable, and though he was healed, he felt like he never wanted to experience the magick of Isis in him ever again. Her entire energy was just... different from Morgan or Alison.

Isis: Diana, if you would be so kind as to at least point us in the right direction?

"Great, let the wolf lead all the sheep right to slaughter."

He took a moment to watch Diana. She was a woman who was VERY aware of her every movement. Every facial expression was carefully, planned and calculated. This was the case with many telepaths. They were experts at reading body language, and the thoughts and feelings associated with such movements. In the prescence of another telepath, your poker face, was your ONLY face, but something was troubling Diana, and for the first time since he had MET Malice, she was visibly concerned about something, or at the very least distracted. Thankfully, just as an onslaught of zombies appeared to be flying over the train wreckage at them, Malice snapped back to reality and led them to a freight elevator which began to take them up. If only for a moment.

"God, what now?"

Haleigh tried her best to get it going again, but soon the car shakes and the wall behind them begins to try and cram them all in like a can of sardines. Sharon stepped forward and attempts to halt the wall.

"This can't get any worse..."

Cameron tries his best to augment Sharon's effort by erecting telekinetic force beams from the opposite wall, attempting to telekinetically force the wall put, but suddenly the power shorts.

"I spoke to soo--AH!!"

The Six is THROWN from the elevator and into a frieken WATERFALL?! The fall was LONG and deep and at the end they are flowing into what appeared to be a river of sorts. Where the hell were they?

"Is everyone okay? Diana, where the hell are we? What is this place?"

Soon, his question would be answered.

Viper: oh this is so NICE! I get to test out all the modifications i made on YOU! This is the AQUA Ring! it was one of my FAVORITE places to come visit when I was a little girl! I hope you'll like it too! You get to see all the exciting creatures up close and personal!

"Oh great. The last thing we need right now is a Poseidon Adventure."

Thankfully Jessica admitted that the Alycia they had encountered was NOT the Alycia they knew, which was slightly comforting, but to Cameron also meant that Alycia had been a trap all along. Viper had used her to lead them all here. Thankfully, Delilah illuminated the area and Haleigh lifted all of them out of the water. Now they were together, at the very least.

Haleigh's efforts were in vain as they were now sucked towards a giant whirlpool. Everything was happening too fast to react to, because he knew with a little more time, Ava could have had control of the entire Aqua Ring with her abilities. For a moment, he caught a glimpse of Jessica high above them RIGHT before he was THRASHED with a blast of some kind of electricity, which shot through the water and throttled him into unconsciousness.

"Haleigh..."

The last thing he sees before being knocked out was that Haleigh was the only one who managed to stay awake. His thoughts go dark as Jessica's maniacal voice rings in his ear.

Viper: And now that I have you...I'm NEVER letting you go! You're the FINAL piece needed for me to be what my Daddy always wanted me to be...a GODDESS!

Fade to Black.

 

[Seer]

Genius is Insanity

<< Blackness gives way to painfull awareness. Muscles ache and bones strain. One by one, The Six and Isis find themselves "crucified" by energy binds against the cold metallic walls. neutralizing collars on them and Isis is rendered unconscious by a black lotus blossom.>>

<< Malice, Silver Swan and Black Widow are free, laying on the floor scattered across the the expanse of the massive gothic observatory they are all now in.>>

<< the technology present in the observatory is as cutting edge as can be imagined and in the center of the dome of the observator is a large carved out hole with with a bizarre broadcast transmitter device of incredible power. being that the mansion is on top of the highest peak on Sheena Island, this gives way to several alarming speculations as to what the device might be for.>>

<< with the others regaining consciousness, Malice, Black Widow and Silver Swan were now starting to come around slowly, with Viper standing on a platform above, Alycia by her side.>>

 

[MorningStar]

The fog was slowly clearing...to a blur. Her whole body felt numb...except for the dull pain pulsing through to her extremities. Delilah's long eyelashes fluttered, trying to clear her sight. She could feel that she was strapped to a wall, the collar around her neck.

Not again...

She definitely had been in this situation before...Blackout...Malice...

She could just make out Haleigh and Sharon lying on the floor...but without her perfect hearing to aid her, she wasn't sure whether they were alive or dead. Haleigh had broken the collar from around her neck the last time – but how were they going to get out of this one?

The similarities to past events were a little too close – Blackout corrupted by Malice, Alycia by Viper. Betrayal. Delilah closed her eyes. She didn't want to lose Alycia the way they had lost Alexis. Her eyes opened again, as she tried to focus her thoughts on a way out of this, to will the rest of her body to snap out of Viper's attack.

 

[Persephone]

Darkness soon gave way to light....a painfully blinding light. Shutting her already closed eyes tightly, Ava slowly opened them in preperation for the onslaught of brightness. It was like waking up in the middle of the night and turning on your bathroom light. It stung....it instantly gave her a headache....but she needed to see where she was--what had happened. The last thing she remembered was Viper. Shit....Viper. She thought to herself as her blurred vision cleared and she saw the woman standing on a platform with Alycia by her side. But in her line of sight she saw three other people laying on the floor between herself and Viper.

"Haleigh..."

Her newly dyed red hair stuck out like a sore thumb next to Sharon and Diana's blond tresses. Immediately, Ava tried to move forward but she was stopped; prevented by metal cuffs that held her against the wall. In that moment, she realized how weak she was....she could feel the neutralizing collar digging into her neck. A painful reminder of the months spent in the alternate timeline with Alison. As she further regained her barrings, she realized how truly weak and achy she felt. It was a debilitating feeling that Ava despised. She never wanted to feel like this again.....damn that bratty little twit, Jessica.

"Hales. Haleigh wake up."

She saw her sister being to stir. Ava continued to weakly struggle against the binds even though she knew her struggles were in vain. Looking up at Viper.

"If you lay a single trashy finger on my sister I WILL tear you apart. BANK on that you venomous lunatic."

Her voice was less poignant than usual [due to her weakened state], but still hostile and vicious none the less. She bore a cold glare THROUGH Viper, then she shifted her icy eyes to Alycia.

"And i'll just rip YOU apart for FUN."

 

[Viper]

up close and personal

one by one, the toys began to come to life! oh what FUN it will be to play with them. but she always DID have a tendency to handle her toys a bit ROUGHLY...breaking some of them along the way.

Viper extends her fist toward Persephone, who is already "biting" like a venus fly trap with threats of bodily harm. a glowing green halo of energy forms around her fist.

do i look like i'm worried? i've killed stronger weeds than you before in my garden. they were always so ugly and didnt want to die...just like you! but the end will be no different.

Viper displays another of her apparent powers as she leaps with launch and strength to rival that of Nicolas. twisting through the air before landing in perfect 3 point formation on the main floor among the fallen women in the arena. With no apparent need of recovery, she slowly strides toward Black Widow.

I guess you wouldnt like it then, if i did THIS?

kicking Black Widow in her stomach with one of her high heeled stilletos.

orrrr maybe THIS?

slamming her high heeled stilleto down on Haleigh's face. Black Widow could take a hit like that better than the average human or even super human. she prooved that when she survived a punch from KYLE KELLY in the original Arklay Mansion. Viper knew it. She was simply baiting Persephone.

You're not gonna do ANYTHING to spoil my fun tonight. And by the time you might be able to do something about it? it'll be TOO LATE!

but now that I have you all here, I suppose we should at LEAST fill in the blanks before i close the book on the story of your lives. Alycia, the magnetic WAND!

She leaves Haleigh where she is and walks among the other two women laying on the floor.


hmmm...where to BEGIN!? so many FUN and EXCITING ideas to try!

 

[Black Widow]

It was only a temporary fix, and Viper was FAST… fast enough to beat everyone ELSE in action. The little brat had help too, by way of a whirlpool and some kind of mutant octopus wrapping itself around the cage and pulling back. It was hard to keep steady footing but manageable-- it just took way too much concentration. No one was able to get an attack off in time. Viper hit them with bio electric energy, drilling them all and knocking everyone out, save Haleigh. Her techno organic form was very resistant and much more capable of absorbing any kind of energy, especially biological.

She clutches the side of the enclosure, feeling a bit woozy between the whirlpool, the zap and now the ridiculously giant bird snatching them up into the air.

Viper: YAYYYY!!! that was almost TOO easy! like shooting fish in a BARRELL! Daddy ALWAYS said that I knew how to get what I want....

Viper ripped open the enclosure. Haleigh was trying her best to shake off the daze, but she was seeing two of everything and wasn't sure which Jessica to aim at. Haleigh had a positively feral glint in her eyes, both ferocious and fearless though she was cornered.

"Didn't your Daddy ever tell you to be careful what you wish for?"

Viper grabbed a hold of Haleigh by her neck and lifted her off her feet, and in response Haleigh coolly manifested a Heckler & Koch UMP submachine gun and pressed the muzzle into Viper's sternum. She never got the chance to fire away though, as Viper hit her with another Venom Blast. The darkness swallowed Haleigh and brought a brief reprieve.

Haleigh came around pretty quickly, but she pretended not to. Malice, Sharon, and herself were the only ones that weren't strapped down. That was interesting. She couldn't play possum for TOO long, however, since Viper was in a taunting mood and felt like proving it. A swift kick to the abdomen motivated Haleigh to 'wake up'. The air rushed from her lungs in a huff, leaving her gasping for a new breath. Down came a spiky heel. Haleigh caught it with both hands, but she was still feeling a bit too woozy and fatigued and winded to do anything about it. She WANTED to pull that bitch down to the floor, get her on the same level and show her what violence really WAS… but Viper pulls away and Haleigh lets her go with a scowl and a hiss, still trying to catch her breath and regain her bearings from the venom blasts. The stupid power suppressor collar was making things worse. She felt lethargic and weighed down. Everything took more effort.

 

[Persephone]

Viper: Do I look like i'm worried? i've killed stronger weeds than you in my garden.

[deadpan] "I highly doubt that."

Viper's green halo display didn't impress Ava, nor did her Barnum and Bailey circus jump in the air.

Viper: then I suppose you wouldn't like this.

Watching as Viper kicked Haleigh in the gut, Ava winced hearing her sister gasp out as the air was shot from her lungs. But she knew Haleigh could take a hit; she was no weakling. And as if to proove Ava's point, Haleigh grabbed Vipers heel before it connected with her face, pushing it away. She was weak, but she was still fighting. Clenching her teeth tightly together, she wanted so badly to verbally rip Viper a new asshole, but it would only lead to move violence against Haleigh or the others. So instead, Ava watched as Viper made her way over to Sharon and Diana, gleefully contemplating what to do next.

 

[Viper]

getting to know you

a compliant Alycia, who wore a vacant look on her face that was strangely different from the passionate HATRED she had in her eyes earlier, hands Viper a magnetic wand. the woman takes her time, walking past each restrained person. The wand cant effect any of them, but it CAN effect, even KILL haleigh. Viper makes her way back to Haleigh and SNATCHES her up and in one incredibly fast movement is now RIGHT in front of Ava.

Sisterly moments are so special arent they? There's a bond between siblings. Cameron and Alison. Morgan and Blaze. Me and....oh wait...

she says, with a faux reflective tone.

my baby brother was killed....by Auntie Diana. Dear...sweet....SPECIAL

pressing the sparkling, glowing head of the wand against Haleigh's face and pushing it into her cheek very roughly even as she taunted Ava with holding Haleigh RIGHT in front of her knowing that she could do NOTHING about it.

MALICE.

the magnetic wand could wipe haleigh's hybrid mind clean...making her a blank slate...a vegetable. one PULSE from the wand could render her completely inert!

Oh it isnt that i mind so much that she killed my brother. He was weak and sickly and would have died anyway. But my daddy realized along time ago that I like to hurt things...hurt people. it's FUN! you know...like ripping...

she TEARS more than a handfull of hair from Haleigh's scalp.


the wings off of a fly while it's still alive!

she shoves Haleigh's face RIGHT into Ava's and it appears that she presses a button on the wand to activate a magnetic pulse! but no. it was just a scare tactic. she flings Haleigh off to the side back down to the floor and SLAMS the wand across Ava's jaw.

She moves on to Cameron.

You're cute! You could've been my boyfriend....oh no wait...

uppercutting him in the chest with enough physical power to break ribs.

you might bore me.

and finally moving on to Delilah and grabbing her face by the chin.

Not so tough without your sorrority sisters, Spellbinder and Harbinger, are you? you were SO ready to kill dear sweet innocent Alycia for something that was totally beyond her control! She was RIGHT all along! wasnt she? You dont care about her...none of you did....so it should MATTER that I have her now. Just another toy for me to play with....and ultimately USED!

doesnt it just make you SICK? you've been suffering all this time in the mind. dont you know that if you keep being so negative the BODY will eventually respond in kind?

running her hand down Delilah's face, she induces a BAD fever in Delilah's body, making her quite sick. displaying her power over the body's immune system, genetics and viruses.