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the battle begins

<< Blackout's call to battle was definately ANSWERED as the Six seemed to work in concert, even Silver Swan joined in quickly but true to form the derranged metahuman escaped the death grip of the mutate and violently attacked MorningStar before anyone could stop her.>>

<< the mutant was down for the count. and that left only Black Widow, Rampage and the Silver Swan. could the hybrid and the mutant really depend on the mutate? she wasnt yet fully acclimated to being the silver swan. they had no choice. it was one of those moments Haleigh had warned mainstream Sharon about in the earliest sessions of the Danger Room.>>

<< and as a slightly more "prepared" group of WILDpack burst in, it seemed that the newly "enhanced" soldiers (which had been altered by mystech science to replace the Black Guards) were never ending in their supply.>>

<< But while Blackout thought Haleigh was her greatest mortal danger...she had something else to worry about. Someone who was supposed to represent the 'next generation' in mystech experimentation in this timeline as she was meant to in mainstream.>>

<< as Rampage "looked for the Queens, he would soon find them and MORE.>>
 
Magick attack

<< remaining cloaked, Shadow Weaver, Malice and Enchantrah allowed Blackout to lead off the attack with the WILDpack. they were now in war room as well which Black WIdow seemed to realize and thus released CHLOROFORM into the air!>>

<< gas attacks...one of the few things that could be a problem in an enclosed space and the sisterhood showed immediate signs of discomfort until Karen gestured, weaving a pattern of power and summoned the violent mistral winds to SWEEP through the hall, the war room and all its offshoots , blasting the cloroform as it was swept in the winds and disappated by the cyclonic movement. by now, as the battle had begun RAMPAGE was now "looking for them" and Karen knew from Malice's initial b riefing on him outside of Ilustra that he was a physical power house. the PERFECT toy for a demon sorceress to target! :fdevil: >>

<< as the telekinetic sonar rippled out , Malice , in her diamond form, holds out her hand and ignites her field of DEFLECTION, not only blunting and halting the wave but distoring it. But even doing that, would indicate where they were, so she directs Enchantrah and Shadow Weaver to move quickly. Shadow Weaver appears, at Nicolas' 3'oclock. The young mutant sees the sorceress, looking beautifull, with longer hair and a sexier design to her "flying suit"...but in her sapphire blue eyes...there's nothing but coldness.>>

<< she doesnt greet him, she simply looks upon him with disdain and holds her hand up to call the winds still gusting in the room.>>

winds of the north heed my call
converge your powers to form a ball!

<< the winds shriek and whistle as they swirl and spin, coalescing into a tight sphere around the doctor's raised hand which gets smaller and more concentrated, a white, sparkling effect forms around it as she brings it down and pulls hands back [ think Ken or Ryu from street fighter.>>

AWAY from here, little mutant!

<< she says with contempt as she flings the ball with feminine form and grace. the "wind bomb" streaks across the room and slams into Nicolas with the initial force/punch of a F4 tornado. nothing LESS than that kind of power would be needed to send him flying through a wall or better yet a WINDOW , anything to get HIM out of the way and as FAR away as possible while roughing him up.>>
 
alternate sharon

[ she ESCAPED! the silver swan looks surprised for a moment as the metahuman bursts into a flury of black orbs, getting out of her death grip and surging around to attack MorningStar. Sharon can't stop her doing that but when she comes back together...she'll regret it. when mainstream Blackout fought the Six, she didnt have to deal with someone EQUALLY as homicidal as her.]

[ as MorningStar fell, Sharon could see in her own mind, images of another blonde, being blasted by MASTER MOLD after she told sharon to run for her life. MORGAN fell too...trying to help her. Sharon's silver eyes sparkled with a flash of sorrow and fury from the painfull memory and morgan's loss. Blackout mentioned Morgan and that was it. Sharon was going to break each bone in her body...ONE AT A TIME.]

[ more WILDpack came...but this time, it was not going to be so easy for them, as Silver Swan spread her arms and begin to spin like Wonder Woman before transforming into a glowing white, sparkling funnel of high powered wind! (at least an f3 if one was pulled into the funnel) that began to charge forward, releasing and adamantium SPINNING STARS. the walls SPRAYED with blood as many of the WILDpack were brutally and violently dispatched. Blackout hadnt counted on THIS . SOME of the weaker WILDpack began to RETREAT at the sight this. SIlver Swan spun across and toward Blackout before changing back RIGHT as she reached the metahuman and PUNCHED her across the face with a strong right hand cross to the jaw. that punch would have PULPED a normal human's jaw and broken their neck and Sharon wasnt pulling her punches at this point.]


YOU'LL be dead...YOU can tell us..how it feels to have your vertabrae cracking...ONE BY ONE!

[and with that...Sharon grabs Blackout's arm and yanks her up, swinging her OVER her head like a RAG DOLL and slamming her down to the ground on the other side. she THEN attempts to smash her high heeled armourd BOOT down on Blackout's face.]
 
reunion

:: as RAMPAGE continued to "hunt" for the Queens, Malice, prooving that she was still a great tactician, directed the Red and Black Queen to evasive maneuvers before taking action agianst their targets while she deflected the initial TK wave with her deflection field. IN her diamond form, she finally manifested as Shadow Weaver flooded the war room and its offshoots with powerfull mistral winds before turning those winds against Rampage.::

:: the silver sawn was agoing after Blackout with a vengeance.::

well...it looks as though OUR renegade mutate has come into her own faster than i could have expected, but then again i KNEW by tapping into her pain and rage at the moment of her death, and telepathically REMINDING her of her son's loss, that we would ensure her agressive and homicidal instincts would come to the forefront. We'll be taking the Silver Swan BACK to the citadle with us after we're done killing you so you neednt concern yourself with her for long.

:: combing through the memories of her alternate. but as Shadow Weaver attacked Rampage, Malice looked at Black Widow and sneered.::

Never in my wildest dreams, did i imagine i'd see YOU again. Your precious morgan may have destroyed my body...but my MIND...its far more powerfull than anything YOU could ever know and so...by some JOYFULL twist of fate, you are now here, for me to exact my revenge and i can't think of a better way than ot watch you see your friends FALL and then...I'll take YOU apart MYSELF!

:: Haleigh realized this wasnt an alternate. the tone, the inflection of the voice...this was MAINSTREAM MALICE! she'd found a very round about way to some how RECOVER from death. her mind and consciousness had found another alternate body and taken it over so this meant that Malice was BACK.::

What's the matter, can opener? thought YOU were the only one with not enough BODY for one life?

:: Malice noticeably didnt aid Blackout from the attacking Silver Swan just yet. she was too busy setting the scene for one hell of a grudge match. and there was still ENCHANTRAH to consider as well.::


You know you can't defeat me. YOu couldnt before and your arrogant pup of a mutant, Nicolas is NO MATCH for me on the astral plane, but i think "mommie dearest" (referring to Karen) is doing a fine job of humbling him wouldnt you say?

:: looking at Delilah who was still down at the moment::

hmm, maybe it be best if I remove all the DEAD WEIGHT around here. If you arent here to fight, then it's time to DIE!

:: touching her index and middle finger to her forehead in a "salute" pose, energy chimes as a white sparkling effect forms at the touch point. a halo forms around her gloved hand as she brings it down. a "javeline" of PSI LIGHTNING forms and flashes into view, nowo gripped by her as she takes aim and HURLS it at Delilah. the javeline rushes with thunderous din and if it strikes Delilah it will not only blast her with powerfull concussive force but it will DESTROY her brain, caushing her body to shut down in cascade failure, leaving her a dead heap with her brain oozing from her ears.::
 
Blackout's focus was broken and the entire team dropped from their 'holding' position on the wall to the floor.... but even as Sharon was upon her, Alexis disappeared.... then seemeingly inhabited Delilah's body, ravaging her internally before letting Morningstar drop to the floor, unconscious.

"Delilah!"

Haleigh called, as Blackout warned her against trying anymore TO funny business again. Haleigh considered doing it anyway.... but she knew she wasn't quite adept with it yet... not fast enough. In the future timeline.... she knocked the guard out in mere seconds.... but it would take time and practice to get to that level... even WITH Blackout's advanced infected state. Haleigh glanced over at Delilah, praying the mutant, a few feet away, would move under her own power. She didn't.... and as Haleigh picked herself up, she was SWARMED by the WildPack. Two men reached her simultaneously and tried to overpower her, but Haleigh was strong.... MUCH stronger than they were and she easily dispatched one man as the second pulled a blade on her. Not just ANY blade, either.... it was made of glass. He tried to bring it down atop her and she quickly reached up and grabbed his wrist with one hand. She squeezed... her viselike grip CRUSHING his wrist and she smirked as she took the knife from him, stabbing him in the throat.

She fully stood up.... her sensors indicated the Karen had swept fresh air through the room and dissipated the chloroform and Haleigh pulled off the stifling gas mask as she got SHOT in the back twice by plastic bullets. The bullets stopped on contact.... for Haleigh's TO Virus reinforced body made her denser, tougher and while she wasn't near Nicolas in terms of 'invulnerability', her skin and underlying techno organic tissue could stop all but the most extreme armor-penetrating ammunition.... and while it STUNG, and slightly swelled.... both bullets only caused what would be mere bruises. It was like wearing a kevlar vest. Plastic, airpowered rifles just couldn't match gunpowder and lead, and even the most highpowered would be little threat to Haleigh.

"Plastic guns? You sent them after me with TOY weapons? You might as well have equipped them with SQUIRT GUNS.

Haleigh shook off the pain, ignoring it, as Malice started blustering, overzealously arrogant.

Sharon took care of the Wildpack and moved on to Blackout.... Karen engaged Nicolas.... that left Haleigh to face Malice.... who tried to strike Delilah while she was down. Haleigh glanced at Delilah, imbedding her with a molecular displacement chip and shuttling her off at the speed of thought, just as the Psi Javelin scorched the floor. Where Delilah was sent was known only to Haleigh.... buried beneath layers of binary code too time-consuming to crack. Haleigh smirked sardonically.... clapping her hands together.

"So, you've escaped death, have you. Well DONE.... congratulations. It TOOK you long enough, Diana. [pausing nonchalantly] I CAN call you Diana, can't I? [steamrolling on] Tell me, Diana..... Have you been hiding out here in this alternate reality, COWERING all this time? [shrugging] No matter..... we SQUASHED you out of OUR timeline.... we'll SQUASH you out of this one as well."

She said, throwing a dark glance at Malice as a 200 HUNDRED TON iron weight appeared above Malice's head and then DROPPED immediately on her. It was so heavy that even THOUGH her diamond form would protect HER.... it wouldn't help the steel-reinforced FLOOR, which quickly gave out.... sending Diana crashing down a story to the next floor, which INSTANTLY gave out.... a process that would REPEAT ITSELF 99 times.... smashing Malice over and over until it finally CRUSHED her THROUGH the underground parking to the actual base of the EARTH floor.
 
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Helena stood back and watched the battle proceed as WILDpack soilders stood guard around her. It seemed Haleigh was far more gifted than she had anticipated....but that would soon be corrected.

"Shift to phase two when dealing with HER [Haleigh]."

Helena ordered to one of the guards who in turn informed the rest of the pack. Malice soon engaged the hybrid as Shadow Weaver took on Nicolas and Silver Swan attacked Blackout. Helena wasn't much of the 'get her hands dirty' kind of gal. She waited for the perfect moment to make her move and made SURE that move COUNTED. Shadow Weaver and Malice were definitely the blood, guts, and gore sisters of the sisterhood....however Helena did make exceptions to this rule when dealing with her longtime rival, Karen. :D

Haleigh quipped back at Diana and suddenly manifested a 200 ton weight above Malice's head, intending for it to crash down upon the woman. With a simple wave of her hand, the weight immediately glamoured into a single feather that floated softly to the ground.

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Waving her finger like she were reprimanding a young child, Helena nodded her head to her men as they advanced back onto Haleigh. Each WILDpack soilder wore a standard black swat uniform consisting of kevlar vest, kevlar padding on arms and legs, and helmet. With their faces exposed, Haleigh would find herself swarmed with WILDpack soilders with the face of her ex fience PATRICK....an illusion trick she loved to do for psychological damage. Their weaponry had changed as well. It seemed the thick plastic bullets that would normally inflict as much damage as a regular bullet on normal people had no effect on Haleigh, therefore the soilders were now using plastic cased guns that shot out an explosion of razor sharp glass that would spread in a 2 foot radial spance when fired.

Now that Haleigh was occupied for the time being, Enchantra handed the reins back over to Malice so she could have some fun with the hybrid. Turning her attention onto Silver Swan and Blackout, Helena sighed while rolling her eyes. She reeeeally hated having to help Alexis....but she'd rather her rabid niece live through this so Helena could kill her herself later. Alexis was laying on the floor thanks to a very powerful blow to the cheek via Sharon. As Silver Swan prepared to smash her heal into Blackout's face, Alexis wisely rolled her upper torso to the side as Helena snapped her fingers creating a masking illusion around Alexis. Although Alexis was still laying on the floor, Silver Swan [along with everyone else besides Helena] would only see the floor itself, making it look like Alexis had disappeared once again.

[to the WILDpack] 'Tranq her [Sharon] and get her out of here!"

Much like Haleigh, Silver Swan would soon find herself overrun by WILDpack as well.
 
As Nicolas pinned Blackout with his powers and took a second to regroup, his 'ping' registered the unwanted guests, who quickly made their presence known. As he stood, Karen appeared at his right and chanted, pulling a ball of air onto her hands and blasting him out of the building. He had just enough time to pull in a TK field to prevent much damage as the WILDpack burst in again, rushing his female allies. Sharon dealt with them and they seemed to be doing well until the queens moved as one, each of them making a coldly calculated move to end this. Nicolas quickly realized that Haleigh was RIGHT. That he had not yet taken the full share of caution or severity in this case. His face hardened as he vowed never to do that again. As Malice's psi lightning sped towards Delilah...

Not today, D.

but before he could act, Delilah was already gone, and he smirked a bit at who he knew must have done THAT.

Good one, Hales.

Nicolas teleported back into the room behind Karen and punched her in the back of the head, sending her flying. As a titan, even Malice had only roughly half Nicolas' strength at most, and he punched Karen to make it count. He then placed his hands as if around a head and twisted as the head of every Wildpack soldier that was in room twisted around in response, killing any normal human instantly...
 
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the battle escalates

<< the Queens adhered to one of the oldest chest move strategies, use as many pawns as possible to take hits and to aid in diversion. with mystech science, magick from shadow weaver and the real as life illusions of Enchantrah....as long as any genetic material ( blood etc) of the WILDpack remained...MORE would generate. the WILDpack were the next generation of "BLACK GUARDS". they simulated human interaction but they were little more than animated beings powered by science and technology.>>


<< as the next group of WILDpack fell in the war room, Enchantrah's mirage and illusions took effect as Haleigh found herself being confronted by the SUPER SOLDIER while on every floor that Mike had YET to reach, more WILDpack soldiers began to emerge from the shadows.>>

<< Haleigh's attempt to smash Malice down through the floor failed as Enchantrah transformed the weight into a feather, and now that all three Queens had entered the battle...things were escalating. Enchantrah ALSO aided Blackout in avoiding death at the hands of the Silver Swan.>>

<< Shadow Weaver was down, but Rampage was about to find out that the Sisterhood were not so easily dealt with.>>
 
two fold

:: Black Widow successfully evacuated Delilah. Black Widow intended to send Malice crashing down below ground of Illustra but Enchantrah stepped in with her trademark finesse turning the weight into a feather.::

Fool! you still havent learned that I am the puppet master..and YOU are the puppet.

:: Haleigh had been so focused on getting Delilah out of the way and trying to deal with malice that she left herself OPEN to...a PSYCHO BLAST.::

:: a white halo forms around her head as Malice unleashes a violent telepathic attack that slams haleigh's mind, her very consciousness like a mack truck and would even knock her to the floor.::

i'm NOT your little pup, Nicolas. I have the class AND the power to take you down without laying a HAND on you... just ask your FATHER. Sending him to his twisted, burning metal DEATH was quite easy.

:: simultaneously, Malice contacted Enchantrah via telepathy.::

to Enchantrah: Rampage is attacking Shadow Weaver. We must act together to deal with him to give her time to recover.

:: the plan is relayed to Enchantrah without a word being said...and suddenly Nicolas finds himself in MORGAN'S luxury penthouse. it looks like it did right before Illustra was destroyed...but there's something odd...a cold , tragic feeling in the air.::

:: Nicolas is drawn up the stairs down the hall to Morgan's bedroom..where he finds a battered, bloody and broken body laying face down on the bed....his heart is plagued with trepidation, ANXIETY as Malice's EMPATHIC attack begins to take its hold. while Enchantrah's "real as life" illusion floods his senses to the core. he IS in the penthouse, and he IS standing over MORGAN'S dead body....she's dead because HE KILLED HER! and on the floor near the bed...is KAREN. with a vicious, gaping wound in her head....dead too. he sees blood on his hands...his pants and his chest. his heart is racked with GUILT....with the REALIZATION that he LOST CONTROL!::

:: Malice's empathy attack and Enchantrah's sophisticated illusion work in concert to do MORE than merely distract Nicolas. they pull forth and project him in a worst case scenario. one that Malice has picked from his mind.::
 
Haleigh cut a menacing glare at Helena, as her weight glamoured into a feather. Helena was too afraid to outright FACE Haleigh, however... she sent the Wildpack to do her dirty work.... with a nasty little twist... they all looked like PATRICK.... Haleigh paused.... a twitch beneath her left eye... a glitch in her otherwise stoic facade. But Haleigh was rather skilled at suppressing her heart in the heat of battle.... she had done so many a time and this would be no different. they all raised plastic guns at her again, like a demented firing squad. Haleigh was tired of this foolishness... she didn't care WHAT kind of ammunition they had now... it didn't matter. She plugged the barrels of each weapon, shoving cylindrical 'corks' into all of them and making them BACKFIRE.... showering glass BACKWARDS into the ranks. Nicolas then drops them ALL with broken necks, and Haleigh smirks and nods at him.

Good one yourself, Nic.

Haleigh suddenly grimmaces and drop to floor, victim of a PSYCHO BLAST that wipes her out... she falls to the floor, landing on her stomach, her head turned towards 'Patrick', her eyes momentarily shut.... but only momentarily. She opens her eyes.... staring at a downed Wildpack member, inches from her face. Her head feels like its SPLITTING in half.... blood drips from her nose... and though Blackout had threatened her against it, Haleigh instinctively reaches out, DRAINING Alexis of life glow again.... but this time it was faster, stronger.... more desparate... and as she drug Alexis DOWN.... Haleigh could feel the pain fading to a dull headache.

Malice: i'm NOT your little pup, Nicolas. I have the class AND the power to take you down without laying a HAND on you... just ask your FATHER. Sending him to his twisted, burning metal DEATH was quite easy.

She propped herself up on her elbows... not bothering to wipe the blood from her face as she sets her sights on Malice and Enchantrah.... who are working in concert to play a trick on Nicolas.... They are distracted.... and Malice isn't the ONLY one who can deal a burning, metal death. Haleigh fills BOTH their lungs with white hot, melted to LIQUID metal. In addition to DROWNING them.... it scalded their insides INSTANTLY.... and even if Malice's diamond form protects her from burns.... she won't be able to BREATHE, while Enchantrah can glamour all she WANTS.... but the burns occur INSTANTANEOUSLY.
 
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Clara Oswald
Clara Oswald
That was awesome lol
:: Alexis' head whipped to the side violently as Silver Swan's fist made contact with the metahuman's cheek. Literally flipping in the air due to the force of the punch, Alexis soon found herself in a heap on the floor; her jaw broken and her cheek instantly bruising. Silver Swan attempted to slam her heal into Alexis' face but she quickly rolled her torso to the side avoiding the hit. Expecting Sharon to continue with her attack Blackout found it odd that the woman stood there doing nothing...like she weren't even in the room. Looking over at Helena, it had to be her doing. Pushing herself away from Silver Swan, Helena's masking illusion seemed to be working allowing Alexis to take a few minutes to catch her breath. ::

:: Running her hand down the side of her face, she gripped her jaw with her fingers and thumb before jerking it back into place. Her eyes shut tightly in pain but she remained quiet so she wouldn't reveal she was still in the room. But it seemed Haleigh had realized she still was as the hybrid once again begain to manipulate the TO virus within Alexis, draining her of her energy. With gritted teeth Blackout became dizzy and weak...she needed energy and quick before Haleigh tapped her out. 'Sinking' into the floor the metahuman disappeared from the room and began to drain every ounce of energy within Illustra like a leach. The back ups for Illustra's back up generators were now compeltely shut down as the lower levels of the building were completely pitch black. The lights on the 99th floor began to flicker as a 'draining' sound could be heard in the room. Suddenly the doors burst open as an army of WILDpack soilders began to fill the room, Alexis following them as they entered. Lifting her hand out toward Silver Swan Blackout sent a massive bolt of black lighting out from her plam directly at Sharon's chest as the already busted light bulbs above began to shoot out black lighting as well, all showering down upon the woman. With her other hand, Alexis waved it as she tapped into the energy molecules within the floor to ceiling windows behind Haleigh and Nicolas. The windows bubbled out [think the Matrix] before exploding inward violently, showing Haleigh, Nicolas, AND Sharon with huge shards of thick bullet proof glass flying at high speeds. ::
 
down but not out

:: as Malice and Enchantrah subjected Nicolas to a very visceral experience by combining Malice's empathy attack with Enchantrah's mirage, the White and Red Queen were suddenly being attacked themselves by BLACK WIDOW.::

:: the odd feeling...of fluid in the lungs. it caused Malice to falter before even in her DIAMOND form she began to show signs of extreme shock at not being able to breath! her psi powers STOPPED the sensation of pain, one of the blessings of being a telepath of high order was that she could negate the sensation of pain in herself or others and while in her diamond form, she was immune to such things as drowning, this attack was on a different level, th e severity of the temperature of the liquid metal was a danger to her even in her diamond form.::

:: she staggered back...unable to speak, her hand to her chest. for the moment, she had to shift focus. Nicolas was more than immersed in the attack laid out by herself and Helena and so ...calling upon her psi powers...::

telepathically to Haleigh: I can make it...so YOU feel the pain you are causing US. I'll DRAG YOU DOWN TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL with ME if i have to.

:: Malice seizes Haleigh's mind, no matter if some core components are hidden by the binary code, she STILL is conscious, STILL acts WITH thought and that's all Malice needs. She FORCES Haleigh to experience EVERY BIT OF PAIN that she is causing Malice and Enchantrah with her attack. every painfull burn, every futile attempt at breath, ALL of the pain and feeling they have, HALEIGH has and it won't stop until SHE does.::

:: while Malice reflects the pain of Haleigh's attack BACK upon her...the red queen is seriously injured now and the white queen has been severely impaired as well. but at that moment, Blackout reemerges, having recovered from the Silver Swan's violent attacks and Haleigh's drain on her lifeglow. the metahuman returns with a vengeance as she drains more power from Illustra itself and renews her attacks on Black Widow, Rampage and the Silver Swan.::

:: Malice tries (out of her primal instinct to want to LIVE) to contact ShadowWeaver, but the cursed PSI SCREEN blocks it. her brow betrays the strain that even SHE is feeling from trying to do so much at this point. if it werent for the liquid metal, she could multi task easily, being a skilled, experienced and seasoned omega level telepath, b ut Black Widow has played a powerfull hand and the best that Malice can do is to make sure to SHARE the fruits of that move by bombarding Haleigh with that painfull feedback.::
 
alternate Sharon

[ the Silver Swan is truly upset when it seems that Blackout has escaped again!]

WHERE IS SHE!

[ the mutate shrieks with extreme frustration, unaware that she's been tricked by Enchantrah into thinking the metahuman was gone. the battle around her escalates..MORE WILDpack! its almost...BLURRING how they seem to appear/REappear! how can that BE!]

[ Enchantrah orders them to take her down and tranquilize her.]

NO! I won't GO BACK WITH YOU!


[ Sharon inhales, preparing to unleash her POWERFULL sonic scream when she is BLASTED in the chest by the newly energied Blackout! the blast can't break through her adamantium bodice, b ut the concussive power of it, coupled by the fact that she was hit while inhaling deeply, causes her to stagger back and be sorely winded. she gasps and coughs...before suddenly, she is accosted from behind, and hit in the ONE true weakspot of her body, the back of her neck where there is no armour. she is STUNNED and tranq'ed into unconsciousness by a powerfull chemical cocktail designed especially with her in mind and carried by all the WILDpack at Enchantrah's command.]


[ the six are down by TWO now. Losing MorningStar and now the Silver Swan, their ally by circumstance. Sharon is evacuated via a "pipeline"-esque exit strategy by three WILDpack as they transform into energy patterns and are shunted through the wiring of Illustra, speeded on by Blackout.]

[ The six have lost Sharon again...]
 
Nicolas turned to face Malice and Enchantrah when she spoke of dealing with him with indir4ectly. Suddenly he was immersed in a dream, a fantasy that was reinforced by Enchantrah's illusion...

Nicolas was in a room , with Morgan AND Karen before him. He was hit with the feeling of dread from the first timeline when his alternate had done such a thing. He fell to his knees as he was overcome with grief.


Morgan, I am SO sorry, baby...

Nicolas life was very much an exercise in control. It took great control of harness his own strength, to screen out and keep private thoughts that he heard, even to coordinate and keep cool his emotions about the things that he did hear. This last fact was part of what was bothering him now. It was one thing for Ava and Delilah to not like him or to doubt him. It was another thing altogether to endure EVERY negative thought in silence. He had done it for years when it came to prejudice or to jealousy from strangers, but he was having difficulty processing similar hostility form people he regarded as family. Especially when he feared that he would not gain similar acceptance. This fear was borne out in the dream as he was faced with one scenario in which two of the women who believed in him (despite their concerns about MEN) paid for that faith with their lives. Tears began to fall as he sat there in silence, his heart beating faster as the emotions overcame him...

Suddenly, the vision...shimmered a bit. Wavered, and he was given a n opening mentally to see outside of this nightmare. He realized that Malice had done it again. Had pissed on his feelings, his emotions. Had manipulated the concern he had for others to attack him in ways she never seemed to do to him PERSONALLY. His tears dried quickly as they ionized, and he became aware of his surroundings again.

The WILDpack had appeared again, taking down Sharon and escaping as he rose to be greeted by imploding shards of bulletproof glass. He reached out, stopping the glass a la Neo. His voice was barely a growl.

You motherfuckers are SO dead.

Nicolas took the shards of plexi and tore into the remaining Wildpack members. Their blank psionic patterns hinted at their true nature, and he dealt with it harshly, using the glass shards as a buzzsaw to rip the members in the room to shreds. Once he had rendered them, he coated the ball of body parts and fluids with the plexiglass, sealing the shards together to make a large grotesque PAPERWEIGHT.

As his ball was being formed, he felt Haleigh's distress due to Malice and worked on it two-fold. He intervened in the simple attack that Malice had designed, and then used his knowledge of Haleigh's mental structure to cut her off from the pain. He leaped forward pulling his axe as he engaged Malice directly.

How about I give you another taste of Morgan's magic. The last time you REALLY lost your head over her.

He struck her with he flat end of the axe. Her diamond form was very cut resistant, but Nicolas knew that diamond was FAR from shatter-resistant...
 
a draw

<< it seemed easy enough, to blast the mutant away. She COULD have done worse, but she did not. to the observer, her attack was plenty offensive and very well placed, but her mind was not nearly as focused on this battle as it was on the fact that she was inside of Illustra...only a few floors away from her daughter's penthouse. goddess forgive her, but she'd much rather be THERE than here...fighting with these...interlopers and she hadnt even taken a shot at HALEIGH yet. Malice directed her to face Nicolas because of her psi screen AND one of her own unique mystical attacks that could SCRAMBLE a mutant's powers were tailor made to deal with him.>>


<< the demon sorceress was about to pepper Black Widow with mystic force bolts as she faced down Malice, but she herself was PAINFULL struck by Nicolas. she cries out, before stumbling forward, losing her footing and falling to the floor. she lays there motionless for a while, as the WILDpack rebounded under Enchantrah's command and Malice attacked Haleigh before she and Enchantrah BOTH attacked Nicolas in a way that would do any psychotherapist proud :D, the demon sorceress began to stir...she felt groggy, like she'd been asleep for ages. the battle had ranged on for sometime without her. >>

<< slow to move at first, she gingerly reached her hand back and rubbed the back of her head, using her own magick to soothe the painfull headache and burning sensation from Nicolas attack. the doctor knew that she was lucky to be ALIVE but that she would need medical attention to fully stablize herself before she could properly heal herself. though she was vital and powerfull...she was older. all of the queens were in their late 40's or very early 50's though they certainly didnt look it.>>

<< this man...he had just brutalized h er in a way that was ...INTOLERABLE!>>

<< as she groaned with pain, and some teares involuntarily fell from her sapphire blue eyes, the chaos of battle around her allowed her to remain in the background so to speak as she took stock of what was happening. MorningStar was down. So was Sharon!....Sharon......it bothered Karen to NO END the way Malice and Enchantrah were haunting and hounding this woman, who had once been one of Morgan, Alison's dear friends and a staunch ally of the SIx. she remembered the night Sharon had died...the same night as Morgan and while necromancy was no surprise to Karen [ though even she herself would not attempt such a thing with her magicks] the power afforded by mystech science and technology (as well as the magick, some of which SHE provided) aided in bringing Sharon back. what was NOT known by anyone ELSE in the sisterhood was that it was KAREN secretly AIDED Sharon in ESCAPING before the mental conditioning process could take place, she also aided her in escaping the lumbering SUPER SOLDIER that , in this timeline, roamed the halls of the Citadle, the same halls that the original Six had traipsed through on their first nightmare mission together. this startling fact was something HALEIGH and MIKE had somehow missed...and it gave credit and validity to Mike's question about just how "committed to evil" she may have been, not to mention Enchantrah's telling assessment of Karen "not belonging here.">>

<< still at THIS moment...Nicolas was a man who needed a lesson in HUMILITY! how DARE he hit her...HURT her like this! she didnt know him here as Karen did in her timeline and if there was one thing that was the same with Karen (and Morgan) in every timeline they might be in...it was that NO MAN hurts them and gets away with it.>>

<< she struggles to her feet, using a chair. Blackout rebounds and delivers a violent attack against Black Widow and Rampage even as Malice and Enchantrah appear to be in severe distress. Malice's telepathic distress call to Karen never reached because of the psi screen but the doctor can see that they are in a bind, so why not kill too birds with one stone! :fdevil:>>


young man....

<< the doctor says with a bitter, cold tone...as she raises her hands and swirling, golden streams of magick form around them. Nicolas is about to attack MALICE with a large axe! but before he can reach his goal....>>

HOW DARE YOU LAY A HAND ON ME!

<< sounding like she would if she were yelling at HALEIGH, Nicolas , who was coming off the double whammy from malice and enchantrah would FEEL the indignation from Karen, probably the same thing Christopher felt too. She unleashes the mystical HELLFIRE. the golden, sparkling mystical flames that blast and erupt forth, charing across the rooom and BAPTIZING his body in them. just like it happened in the first timeline they were in when he saw the memory! Karen had the capacity to KILL if she were provoked.>>

<< as she conducts the hellfire to burn Nicolas, and yet it doesnt consume him. it burns his body AND his spirit.>>

<< satisfied that she's paid him back, she turns her attention toward Haleigh.>>

Murdering COW!

<< she BLASTS Haleigh with a force bolt, to FURTHER knock her off her game. the bolt was designed to SLAM more than to do any internal damage.>>

<< Karen slowly moves back...gesturing as she weaves a pattern of power and forms a mystic barrier to seperate them as the glass shards fly. with Blackout and the Queens on one side, and Black Widow and Rampage on the other....the Black Queen speaks...still a bit shakey from her own blow from Nicolas.>>

you...savages. you hole up...in my daughter's building like the common squatters that you are. YOU should have died instead of her! and by the soul of hecate....before this is all said and done...I will have YOUR LIFE in repayment for HER'S.

Now that we know you're here....NO WHERE you go will keep you safe form US.


<< and with that....Karen teleports the sisterhood and Blackout away.>>
 
damage controll

<< and with that, the battle was over. but a GRUDGE was now destined to be settled.>>

<< Illustra was racked with electrical damage and power outages, Mike and Clandestine Inc had all but been immobilized by the blackouts and energy fluxuations that errupted around the building as they struggled to weed out the WILDpack on each floor and on the WAR ROOM floor, it was ground zero.>>

<< the mainstreams had traded heavy blows with the Sisterhood and Blackout. Both sides took damage but the Six were now down to 3. MorningStar had been incapacitated by BlackOut and Sharon was recaptured by the Sisterhood. a fine job they did of looking after HER, even though SHE availed herself to their side during the batle.>>

<< Malice, Enchantrah and Shadow Weaver delivered powerfull and damaging attacks against Black Widow and Rampage, but the two mutants held there own inspite of the WILDpack nuisance. the strategic withdrawl by the sisterhood only meant that Rampage and Black Widow had fought them to a standstill...but again, both sides had taken injury and Haleigh and Nicolas both were reminded now just why Malice turned out to be the true (and only) WHITE QUEEN of Mystech in their own timelin. As a telepath, the woman was brutal. Enchantrah, in this timeline was more powerfull than Haleigh would remember in mainstream and Shadow Weaver was obviously more homicidal, liker her daughter in mainstream. BUT inspite of that...it seemed more like a DEFENSE than a way of life.>>

<< WHY had she killed Christopher? surely it went beyond his infidelity. in the other timeline, she exacted revenge on Nicolas for the brutal rape and murder of her daughter. and just now, Karen COULD have ignited any number of spells to destroy them in one blinding blow...but but she didnt. she acted in the best interset of her fellow queens and took them away from danger.>>

<< Haleigh and Rampage had time to ...ACHE among other things...and to try to salvage what was left of the war room, and Illustra. for while the building looked fine OUTSIDE...it was a mess inside on many floors. >>

and zooming across town and blow ground

<< the sisterhood is back within the CITADLE, in their high tech infirmary where robotic medical staff are helping to tend to them. they took more hits than they might have expected. a testimony to the strength and fighting ferocity of their foes. but one battle did NOT win a war. not by a long shot.>>
 
Nicolas rushed to strike down Malice when he felt Karen's fury just before the hellfire engulfed him. It was too late for him to teleport or attempt a defense and as he was being burned, he roared in pain, dropping to his knees as he was slowly being consumed. Then, inexplicable, she let up. Did NOT kill him, as he feared she might of no one intervened. She then launched a tirade about them deserving to be dead instead of Morgan. Nicolas croaked his response, teeth gritting as he endured the pain of losing his epidermal layer...

You could have saved her...wrong path. Show you...what you missed out on.

As the ladies left, Nicolas sent an vision with his last strength to Karen. It unfolded quickly before her eyes, gone in no more thna a few seconds. In it , he showed her four quick things:

1) A picture of Morgan and himself taking her to dinner on Mother's Day

2) A picture of her being held warmly a by a handsome Black man, at least as tall as Nicolas (this was Mike, but Shadow Weaver had yet to see him)

3)A picture of her with the rest of the Six, as they sat together on the Isle of Aerie...

4)And lastly, a picture of a beautiful girl that was the spitting image of Morgan and the man she had just set on fire (Victoria King from the first timeline)...

As the queens of Mystech made their exit, Nicolas reached for Karen. She would see even as she exited that he reached not in anger, but pleadingly, as a son might for his mother...

Nicolas slumped hard onto the floor...
 
Enchantra was focusing all her attention on the illusion she was creating for Rampage when suddenly she began to scream, dropping to the floor while grabbing her chest. Her screams muffled as the hot liquid scolded her lungs and began to drown her. The pain was too intense causing Enchantra to pass out on the floor among the chaos. WILDpack soilders immediately circled their mistress, keeping guard long enough for Shadow Weaver to whisk herself, Malice, and Blackout away to safety.

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Back at the citadal Helena was laying still on a medical bed, now fully conscious. With the medical advancements MysTech had in this timeline, along with Shadow Weavers healing spells, the metamorph was at about an 80% in the recovery scale.

"That mangy little RAT [Haleigh]!"

Helena managed to muster out with a soft horse voice.

"That's it...i'll turn her into a legless rat and crush her with my boot!....That insufferable bottle blonde bitch.."

Coughing, it was apparent Helena was pissed at what Haleigh had done to her and didn't bother hiding it. As the doctors continued to run scans, Helena sighed out looking over as the others conversed about what happened.
 
It was a succession of hard hits.... Haleigh hadn't even time to get up from the psycho blast when Malice forced the PAIN on her.... it burned beyond BELIEF and Haleigh coughed futily, gasping for breath that she didn't FEEL like she could get. But if Malice thought inflicting PAIN would get Haleigh to let up.... she was SORELY mistaken... for just like an ANIMAL that bites down HARDER if you try to shake it off, Haleigh kept the fluid in their lungs BOILING, gritting through the pain.... until Nicolas set her free of it. Haleigh is still on the floor when Karen tries to blast her, she quickly ROLLS out of the way, and it barely GLANCES her, sending her sliding a few feet on her side, sore but otherwise alright... as the Queens and Blackout RETREAT.

Nicolas drops to the floor, and it's all Haleigh can DO to CRAWL to him, hurting all over, every movement a new kind of ache. She reaches him.... the only friend LEFT in the room... it's a terrible REPEAT... of the LAST time she faced Malice and Blackout.... then she rushed to ALISON'S side.... all she had left was Blaze.... now she turns Nicolas over, and all she has left is MIKE. She calls Mike on the intercom, beckoning him back to the war room, as she cradles Nicolas, who is BADLY burned and seemingly unconscious.

"Nicolas? Nic, honey.... please? [tears beginning to fall] No.... no, it can't be.... not you too.... [pleading] I can't do this without you.... I can't lose EVERYONE..... not again...... [her voice hardening] not AGAIN."

She looks up, her eyes blurry through tears, as the metal drawers in the room begin to fly open and empty themselves.... cabinets swing open violently, their contents getting strewn all about.... she looking for something...... Alison and Morgan used to dabble in potions.... and they kept a few essentials HERE, where they could be found for use among the six... one in particular they kept PLENTY of.... a healing potion in the event that the Six was hurt and WITHOUT a healer.

Thank goodness for being prepared.... Haleigh thought, as she finally found the stash. She enveloped the small vial she needed in metal and mentally pulled it towards her, as she propped Nicolas up against her, supporting his shoulders and letting his head fall back so she could poor it straight down his throat. She emptied the bottle... it was already measured for single use, and she made sure every DROP of the elixir was gone before she put a hand on the back of his neck for support.

"Nicolas, goddamn it, now you WAKE UP. I am NOT going to lose YOU TOO. Do you hear me? I am NOT letting you give up, so DON'T you just quit, you FIGHT!"
 
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:: the white queen lay on the med bed, as robotic and cyber medical personell attended her. she finally, relucatantly transformed back into her human form, using her psi powers to block the PAIN that her body was no doubt experiencing. she couldnt talk right away and the only people whom she could communicate with telepathically were Helena and Alexis...Karen's psi screen made it impossible for any telepathic contact, even from omega level telepaths. it was a powerfull defense, but also a source of hinderance in times like these.::

:: she lay silently, not showing much emotion or reaction outwardly but inside..her mind churned. Haleigh had obviously grown far more cunning and creative in the use of her powers. using the MENTAL aspects, allowing her to strike from a distance. THAT was something Malice noted for their next encounter, where she'd make SURE to bring Haleigh down FIRST with the full force of her psi powers. Helena expressed her resolve to destroy Haleigh and Malice couldnt agree more, however, secretly Malice decided the pleasure, the RIGHT to destroy Haleigh was HER'S. ::

telepathically to Helena and Alexis: As much as i hate to admit it. Shadow Weaver's retreat of us all was the right move. Haleigh had help this time. next she wont be so lucky. Sharon Kelly is back in our posession and now contained in the bio systems lab. the staff inform me that she's in stasis within the holding chamber, suspended in a nutrient rich liquid.[ Blackout has incapacitated MorningStar. it will be awhile before SHE is a factor, which leaves only the two mutants and their human companion. he escaped our notice his time...but i think we shall find that targeting HIM to lure them HERE is our next step. With Illustra having been so badly damaged by Blackout, they KNOW they cant take another battle like this there. So we MUST marshall ourselves...and strike them again without relent. we shall not stop until they are DEAD.

:: but secretly, Malice hid the fact that she was willing to plummet to new depts of depravity in order to see both of those mutants broken and killed. she and helena did a number on Nicolas before Haleigh interfered and powerfull as Haleigh was, her MIND was still one of her greatest weaknesses. Her time HERE had allowed Malice to enhance her strategy building skill, but the interaction with Helena and Karen, had taken away from the lethal edge she gained as a SOLO act. she had had to assume the role of her doppleganger after having forcibly expelled her alternate's consciousness from th is body in order to take it over...THAT ALONE was a sign of just how sociopathic she was....but she was known for being MUCH WORSE and now that she knew these MAINSTREAMS were HER PESONAL enemies from the mainstream EARTH..it was time to realize her goal of their destruction. Morgan and Alison werent factors here nor was Persephone...and just like last time, when it was down to three in mainstream, Malice would come for them, NON STOP, until they were DEAD.::

:: for now, she must be smart and rest. the white, red and black queens were all doing much better now, having had their wounds attended on every level and karen's healing spell boosting their bodies own resiliency but they needed time to regroup. they had Sharon in their grasp and the mainstreams would no doubt plan to rescue her and now, MIKE was going to be their next target.::
 
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