Apocalypse - Page 5

August 28, 2008, 4:18 PM

Alex's eye went wide when he found himself suspended in midair. So, this explains the Avengers' successes. Supernaturals fight among them. This is most fascinating. Before he could say anything, he was flung into the ground. He went to stand back up, but found himself being held by his neck face-to-face with this odd woman.

"Who am I, you ask? Why, you're right! We haven't been properly introduced." As he spoke, he delivered a solid punch to her gut. Alex was incredibly strong, so a punch like that would no doubt send her flying. Alex kept a wary eye on the other person who suddenly just appeared, killing a foot soldier with a lightning bolt. "There are more than one of you, eh? This is VERY interesting indeed. Well then, the more the merrier. Allow me to introduce myself."

Alex smiled and made a bowing gesture. "My name is Alexsandr Grigorivich Romanov, but I am also known as the Iron Hammer." Alex's voice, which had a slight Russian accent, began to increase in volume. "You may call me Alex, for the remainder of your short lives." He cracked his knuckles and faced the man who had teleported there. He held his fists high into the air and brought them crashing down into the ground, sending shockwaves of heaving earth towards the electric man...

August 28, 2008, 4:38 PM

Just as she heard Stephen was dead, someone named Kai found Faith. She was completely astounded by the fact that Shooter was dead. Then she glanced down at Alex and anger was coursing through her veins. Stephen can't be dead! He can't be, she thought, looking clearly in denial. Faith looked to Kai and nodded. My name is Faith, don't tell him that. She nodded in Alex's direction. Please don't be alarmed. You can hear my voice in my head. Now she had the anti-Avenger at hand to deal with. When he spoke, he punched her in the gut and she went flying into the burning dustbins. The punch was so hard that Faith could hardly move. "You can bet there's more than one of us!" she spat in his direction.

How was it VERY interesting that there was more than one Avenger? Please save the introductions and get to the fighting already, thought Faith, as she allowed herself time to recover and rise to her feet again. I am clearly NOT in the mood right now, having known one of my comrades has fallen. "Remainder of my short life, eh? You don't know who you're dealing with here." There was anger in Faith's eyes, an anger that was rarely seen. It was his fault that Stephen was dead, his fault that he was going to get his just desserts. As always, her eyes turned a crimson colour. Faith could feel herself losing control of herself, but she didn't care. Stephen was dead. Someone had to avenge him, right?

Several different objects, including the burning dustbins, began to float all around Faith. Broken shards of glass were sent towards Kai to protect him from the shockwaves. Next, she turned her attention to Alex. "You really don't know what you've just done, do you?" she taunted him, although speaking in an emotionless voice at the same time. It only took a bullet to her right shoulder to snap her out of it. The objects dropped and so did Faith as well. However, it did not mean that she was done. She rose to her feet after telekinetically getting rid of the bullet out of her shoulder and turned to face Alex. "If you want someone, then take me!" she shouted at him. "I'm the leader of the Avengers, so you might as send your crap at me!"

August 28, 2008, 4:55 PM

Filden began seeing Faith in the distance...and another man...and then this big bulky man. Filden squinted his eyes to see who the men were, but he recognised neither. All he noticed was that Faith was getting angry, and her powers seemed to be going haywire.

Filden eventually arrived into the fray. He stood 30 feet southwest to Faith, and aimed both his pistols at the big guy.

"Crimson, what's going on?" Filden asked.

August 28, 2008, 5:03 PM

The battered jeep came to a grinding halt just behind the SUV. Michael saw Filden jump out and throw himself into the fray. Michael himself stepped out of the jeep, threw closed the door and locked it. From the pickup he took his shotgun and... Where was it? Michael had the feeling he'd lost something, and only after a few seconds realised that the pain he had been feeling had drained away. He clutched at his chest, tried to concentrate on the feeling that had so short ago indicated someone in pain, but failed to recieve any kind of signal from that particular source. It was gone.

He stood there blinking his eyes when slowly his senses returned, the sounds of the battle around him filtered through and he saw Filden rampaging through a cluster of enemies. From the flat to one side someone came shooting bolts of lightning, a sniper rifle in one han... Sniper rifle? Michael recognised Stephen's rifle with a shock. Had it been him? Had it been his pain? What had happened? Had he been shot?

Michael shook his head and grunted. Everyone else was doing their job, and he was just standing aruond dumbfounded? No way! He had been idle for long enough. Now he would pick up the threads of his life again, however changed it might be. He cocked his shotgun, rose from his kneeled position and shot one of the enemies squarely in the face. Droplets of blood rained down on his face, and he wiped it clean with his sleeve. He ground his teeth. It were always the good and the young that died. Today, he would do his job in evening out that balance.

He ran across the plaza that was now rapidly turning into a full-blown battlefield, cocking and firing his shotgun all the while. Suddenly, he felt a dull pain in his stomach, and he nearly doubled over. Feverishly, he looked around to see where it came from. Then he saw: Faith and some great big beefy guy with a Russian accent were enganged in a duel.

Michael frowned and started to jog in that direction. No way Ivan was going to try to pull shit on them!

"Need help?" he shouted at the gathered group of people.

August 28, 2008, 8:24 PM

"I don't know what's g-going on, Stealth!" sobbed Faith. She had slowly come back into reality, where she realised Stephen was no longer with them in this accursed world. "Shooter, he's ..." But she couldn't bring herself together to even say that he was dead. She wiped away the tears that were now streaming down her face. Her rage was slowly creeping up again, but she ensured that her powers wouldn't go haywire again. "Stealth, take Shooter somewhere safe," she instructed Filden and then spoke to his mind. I don't want this bastard making any fun out of our recent loss. I'll deal with him and make him pay for what he did to us! With her orders to Filden loud and clear, well, in his mind, she turned to face Alex.

But when she did, Michael had arrived. "Help Stealth take Shooter somewhere safe!" she ordered him. She wasn't still used to the idea that she was the leader of the Avengers, but Mr X had indeed left the order for her to take over in his will indeed. Now it's time to take care of our major and main problem at hand. She turned to face Alex. "What are you waiting for? I just told you that I'm the leader of the Avengers and you're standing there like a headless chicken? If there's anyone you want here, then it's me. So why don't you inflict your goddamn pain on me before you get anyone else?" She shouted at this point, eager to exact her revenge for Stephen's death. "If you really want to kill one of your kind, that is ..."

August 28, 2008, 8:58 PM

"...Dead..." Rene muttered to himself. The file in front of him stated. "Damn... Who's in charge now then?" As he said this the door to the Records room opened noisily.the

"What the-!?" A man in a white coat exclaimed as he saw Rene, before Rene could react the man threw his hand out towards the wall and smashed the alarm, causing the room to turn red and an alarm began to blare. Rene threw himself forward and grabbed the mans arms as it went to draw a gun. He twisted it and kicked the man hard in the abdomen causing him to go unconscious.

As the man hit the ground Rene quickly ran back to the computer and clicked the print button, he waited several agonizing minutes as the machine chugged out several pages of information. Rene grabbed the bundle and stuck them in the backpack the man had. He swung it over his shoulder and immediately became invisible.

Just as he did this several armed men came in, Rene quickly found the darkest corner of the room and stayed as still as possible. The men quickly checked the man.

"Shit... As if this ain't enough... What with the mini war goin' on up there. We seriously don't need an intruder." One of the men told his partner. He was obviously the senior of the two. "Get on the line to one of the agents and see if you can get one of 'em to help us out"

"Will do sir." The other man said, he tapped his ear. "Base, this is Sierra Kilo Niner. We've found the cause of the alarm, there's an intruder, he's accessed the Records room and knocked one of our men out."

As the two men spoke Rene knew this place would probably become a nightmare within a minimum of 10 minutes. So he decided to get out of here as soon as an opportunity opened.

"Hey geek boy, get over here, you understand whatever the hell this guy was lookin' for" The senior soldier ordered his underling.

Shit! Rene thought, he had forgotten to turn off the computer and the record he was looking for was still on the screen. He could either leg it seeing as the way to the door was now clear, or stop the soldiers. He thought for a moment but decided against attacking them. They were probably highly trained and all he was was a civilian. As the two soldiers looked at the screen Rene made his way to the door and out of the room.

As Rene assumed, the entire facility was now in a red alarm state and the entire corridor was bathed in red light. The alarm was still on but someone had obviously turned the volume down. Rene ran down the corridor and hid himself in a small equipment cupboard.

"Great, now what do I do?" Rene said as he took out his PDA to check the map. He groaned as the machine turned itself off. "Dammit, did I forget to charge it?"

"Guess I'll have to find my own way out..." Rene said as he entered the corridor once more.

August 28, 2008, 8:59 PM

Michael stood in indecision. He was as hurt by Shooter's death (Possible death, he corrected himself) as anyone was, and he was eager to show the enemy what's what. Stephen had simply been too young. How old had the lad been? Sixteen, Seventeen? Much too young to die. He hadn't even reached the prime of his life.

But in this, he just had to adhere to their current commander's orders. And the young boy's body needed to be recovered. They would give him that honour, at least. With one last glance over his shoulder at faith and her adversary, and a final shout "Give that commie hell, Faith!", he grudgingly hurried toward the flat he'd felt the pain had come from. Shooter would have found a window somewhere to cover the plaza from...

Michael fumbled around for his earpiece, then realised he'd left it back at the base. Bloody hell. If only he could send his thoughts as reliably as Faith... Against his better judgement, he tried sending a bried thought to Filden, but felt the same resistance, the same walls in his mind that were almost always there. Then he caught sight of the boy.

"Hey! Filden!" he yelled, jogging in the boy's direction. "Do you-" An enemy tried to block Michael's way, but he felled the man by slamming the butt of his shotgun into the man's face, then kicked the man squarely in the chest, then to the head. That one wouldn't stand up anymore. For Stephen, he thought grimly. "Do you know where Shooter was before he- before he was hit?"

Odd. No matter how much he had been acquainted with death, Michael just couldn't bring himself to say 'before he died'.

August 28, 2008, 9:06 PM

Kai did a back flip and vanished into his cloud of Smoke to dodge the shock waves, he reappeared next to Faith he pulled the Avengers badge out of his pocket and passed it to Faith "take this, we need to get out of here, sorry to say it but you guys have just lost someone who seemed close to you all your in no condition to fight"

Kai then placed his right hand on Faith's shoulder "just say the word and I'll get you out of here" he announced as he looked at her, he could see the emotions running through her eyes

August 28, 2008, 9:13 PM

"...He's dead...I know..." Filden sighed as he closed his eyes,

Filden then recieved his telepathic instructions from Faith, and snapping out of his state of despression, he nodded, and ran back and towards the corpse of his ally.

He eventually made it to the body...Filden stared at Shooter, and he couldn't help but cry again. But it was then that Filden heard the rattling sound of machine guns. Filden turned around and saw 4 soldiers. Filden growled and drew his pistols. They all started shooting at him, but Filden jumped 20 feet into the air to avoid the bullets, and Filden shot down at both all soldiers, firing 4 bullets, one for each soldier, killing all of them.

When Filden landed back on the floor, he put his guns away again. And turned around to take another look at it...

...Stephen...I'm sorry dude...Filden thought to himself,

Filden growled again, he then turned around, and ran back towards Faith, "Fuck it, sorry Crimson, but I'm gonna help you avenge him!"