User:Arnout aka The Emperors Angel/RPG/Current Post

20:45

Quicksilver was always at least 10 minutes early, no matter what. Of course, he could hardly just go and stand there in the early evening, so he was wearing a long trenchcoat and a hat to conceal his figure. The only one already there was Ornis, who had greeted him when he had arrived, but who had quickly reverted to being a few sparrows sitting at the edge of the bus stop afterwards. They were the only ones there. This part of town barely had any people in it at this hour, despite it still being quite early in the evening. There just wasn't anything to do around here right now.

Checking the Big Ben clock every few seconds, Quicksilver felt incredibly anxious and nervous. You didn't start a superhero team every day, and despite knowing better, he couldn't help himself from wondering where the rest was. Of course, not everyone shared his habit, and it was still 15 minutes from the actual arrangement.

--El_Nazgir 18:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

20:46

Arnout chuckled to himself. "Arnout, it is very impolite to just watch and stand around." Came the reprimand over mind link. "Yeah, I know. But it's just very funny. Switch to the heat visor again, please." "Switching."

Arnout's view turned blue and green, except for the figures of the birds Gavin had transformed in, Eve's body, and the guards up the street. "I mean, look at Quicksilver. He's just invisible. Cool." "Arnout, that would make sense. He is made of metal. He absorbs heat from the environment."

"Yeah, I know. But still." "Arnout, please contact either of the team down there." Arnout's computer kept complaining." "Okay, Okay, stop nagging. Activate the earpiece, would you?" "Activating."

"Quicksilver, are you receiving? It's Arnout here." "I hear you, Arnout. Where are you?" "I’m 250 metres east of you, on top of the building. Don’t turn around to look, you won't see me." "Say hi to Eve for me, would you?" "What? Eve's not here. O wait."

"Eve, you ARE here, aren't you?" Quicksilver looked around. Gavin's sparrows looked down on Quicksilver. Eve appeared out of nowhere. "Yes, I'm here. I have been for a while, too."

Quicksilver tried to form an angry face, and looked at Eve. "Why didn't you show yourself?" "I don't think that really matters now." Arnout interrupted. "I've been watching the guards all day. They changed the way they patrol after their lunch break. Something is wrong."

"Why do you think something is wrong? Why wouldn't they change patrols?" Quicksilver wondered. "I've been watching them since Sunday morning. They didn't change patrols once." Arnout answered. "What! Why would you do that?" Quicksilver was amazed.

Inside his suit, Arnout smiled. "I know what I’m doing. You might not think much of me, but I'm a professional." Quicksilver looked baffled and Eve responded "You wouldn't be here if you weren't."

"Well, thanks for the compliment, hon." Arnout remarked, sarcastically. "Eve will do just fine, thank you." Eve retorted.

Gavin changed to his human form. "Stop bickering, all of you. The bus is arriving."

With the assistance of User:Smiling Eve Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 21:10, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

20:50

The 9 o'clock bus arrived early. A couple working men and a security guard got out. The guard waited by the stop until it had driven away. Quicksilver glanced in his direction between fidgeting and checking the time. The man was staring into the distance.

Slowly, he took out a folded top hat from underneath his coat and it popped up with a metallic twang. The man spun it on his finger for awhile before replacing it into the folds of his suit. The Baron had arrived.

--Łô√ë îğá†ħŕášħ 20:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

20:55

Silvia watched the people at the bus stop from the top of a nearby apartment building. In hindsight, it hadn't been a very good decision; she'd spent the past five minutes waiting until the people that left the bus were gone. Who ever heard of buses coming early? No matter what world you were from, that just defied common sense.

She put on her helmet, jumped off the roof and shifted out her wings. She glided down to the bus stop, adjusted her course to horizontal flight, shifted away her wings and rolled the last few meters. Using the last of her speed, she pushed herself up in one fluid movement, just outside of where the group was standing.

"Yo. Akuma here." she said, for those who hadn't seen her suit yet. Through the helmet, her voice sounded soft, low, distorted, and yet perfectly understandable. That was a design feature, of course. It was meant to make her be unrecognisable on infiltration missions.

-Nyerguds 13:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

20:56

"Right, so we're all here. One thing before we actually go there. Do not use regular names when addressing each other, use our superhero identities." Quicksilver had gotten used to calling himself a superhero by now, no matter how egocentric it sounded, but Ornis clearly felt uncomfortable about it. "Baron, Raven, " Quicksilver continued, "you go in first and take out the guards. Baron, you take the ones inside, Raven will join you when he's finished with the ones outside. But be careful. Raven said the guards were acting suspiciously. It might be that we're walking into a trap of some sorts. If you come across any kind of trouble, give us a shout and we'll be there. I'll go through the sewers, I think Akuma and Ornis can go through the air."

20:13

Llian made The Baron frown. There was something suspicious going on. There had been much more guards than there should have been, and it had been quite tricky to prevent them from alerting the rest. Not enough trouble to call in the rest of course...

All of a sudden, a short loud beep sounded, much like a siren cut short, promptly followed by the sound of at least a few dozen of people storming through corridors. Behind her controlpanel, Llian sighed. It seemed Raven had not been so fruitful in his task.

20:13

Arnout was in a tricky situation. He had approached the guards as usual, from the air, but his infrared vision hadn't spotted the security robots that had been on stand-by in the containers on the concrete. Despite not getting the chance to fight back, the muffled shout of one of the guards had been enough to activate the robots, who had then spontaneously triggered some sort of alarm. "Arnout, we seem to have triggered some kind of alarm. Do I need to warn the others?" Arnout's computer asked. "No." Arnout was breathing hard. "They will have heard. Activate close quarters protocols. The time for neutralizing is over."

Within moments, security robots poured out of the 2 containers laying next to the building while Arnout had jumped onto one of the guard towers. He didn't want to go into the fray without knowing what he was up against. "Arnout, " his computer alerted him, "I've done a quick scan of the robots, and they seem to be a much more advanced type than the regular versions we have encountered before. They seem to be based on the Scythe Inc. bots, but these are stronger, have more armour, and are carrying heavy weaponry. The video feed I'm sending to your screen clearly shows heavy machineguns, some RPG launchers and even 3 portable laser guns."

Arnout ordered his computer to activate his earpiece with a quick thought. "Shit, looks like it was a trap, I got tons of bots coming from the containers on the- WHAT THE FUCK!" Jumping away, Arnout was cut short by the ground suddenly being torn open, revealing beneath it what could only be described as a giant humanoid rock. A few seconds later, about a dozen vans crashed through the barrier at the security checkpoint at the front, and several people got out of it. Most of them were wearing a uniform of black body armour and a helmet with a mask, but some of them were a lot more noticeable. Arnout made his computer save the video images of these people getting out of the vans.

Arnout spotted a blue-haired girl in blue spandex and with silver skin (and his computer protested heavily against the mental images which promptly followed: "Arnout, now is not the time to give in to this kind of thought."), another petite girl in a cheerleader uniform (which made his computer's protests even louder: "Arnout, focus on the situation!"), and a dark brown man in a trench coat. From another van, a man in purple and black robes and another one with a black suit but with his head left uncovered. The last one had pure white skin, and just seeing him sent shivers down Arnout's spine. "That last dude looks like he can rip out your spine with his bare hands." Arnout made a mental note.

"We have confirmed hostiles at the gate, with what I would identify as superhumans. They seem to be splitting up. There's a girl in blue, a guy in a trenchcoat and a guy in black with white skin going in, accompanied by a bunch of henchmen and robots. There's still a couple supers and robots outside, and, oh, and a huge stone... whatever, tore open the ground."

20:15

Dammit! Quicksilver cursed internally. ''They were here already? Raven had been right about there being something fishy with the guards, apparently. The whole thing might be a trap. They might even use this as a distraction from their real goal. There was no way to get a message to Dorres now though, so we'd better just do whatever we can right here.''

"Dammit. Good job Raven. How many supers are still out there?" "There's a guy in a purple robe, a girl in a cheerleader uniform and the big rock thing here. Apart from the hordes of robots and henchmen..." Quicksilver frowned. ''Cheerleader?, seriously? Whatever...'' "Ok, Ornis, Akuma, Eve, go back him up outside. I'll go help out the Baron in the building." "Oh shit." Raven said. "What? Raven?!? What is wrong?" "Gravitron's here. He's going inside too."

This couldn't be happening. Gravitron was here? Was he their leader? But he never worked with other people, he just went on random killing sprees! Quicksilver's mind was racing and he almost panicked. "Stay clear of him, you hear me? All of you stay the hell away from him. He'd kill all of us at once." "Quicksilver, just to be sure. Are we allowed to use lethal violence? Quicksilver sighed. This was what he had been dreading. "Yes, Raven. You are allowed to use lethal violence.

20:19

Quicksilver popped out of a toilet in the middle of the lab block. Usually, he'd make some mental remark about having to do that over and over again, but his mind was too preoccupied by Lord Gravitron and the small legion that was invading the building. Thinking back to the schematics of the building, he knew he was probably the one closest to whatever they were looking for. He spotted a few men and a bunch of robots around a corner and hid himself in a janitor's closet by absorbing half of the lock. When he heard they were walking past him, he stretched out his arms into deadly spikes through the door into at least 3 men. His hiding place was promptly obliterated by gunfire from the robots. Despite the kickback from the dozens of impacts, Quicksilver was still quite easily able to propel himself from the closet and slash off the heads of the robots with his forearms turned into deadly blades. He was lucky he was in close quarters, where his enemy wasn't able to exploit their weapon's range effectively. One of the robots had carried an RPG, and that would have hurt if he had gotten that in his face.

The lone surviving man had fallen to the ground and had dropped his weapon from his hands in surprise. When he reached for it, Quicksilver had already crushed it under his foot. "Now I doubt you'll stay nice, so I think it's light out for you." A quick punch knocked the man unconscious.

Quicksilver went on, checking laboratories, and when he entered a large empty room which was probably used for all kinds of testing, a blue beam hit his side. He dropped to the ground and rolled away, but noticed his reaction time had decreased, and felt the cold creeping through his body. As he rose again he heard a cold female voice.

"Well, well... You survived that?" A silver skinned woman with blue hair revealed herself from the shadows in a corner of the large room. "Nice, seems like I'll have to use some MORE!"

--El_Nazgir 19:40, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

20:17

"Raven, what exactly are these things?" Silvia asked through the communicator. She'd flown up to a nearby building and was looking down at the mass of enemies.

"Uh, security robots, mixed with ordinary humans. The robots, though, look more like battlefield versions. Be careful, they're heavily armed; I picked up machineguns, RPG launchers and even some lasers."

"Armed robots? I almost feel at home. And man, do I wish I could do some lightning magic."

"Tasers aren't exactly going to cut it here," Arnout replied. "Security robots tend to be well-insulated."

Silvia sighed. "I was referring to real magic. Do you think you can take out the laser bots?"

"Sure, I can destroy them, but then they'll all come after me."

"Baron, I think this is your show," Silvia said. "We need you to come back outside; you're the only bullet-proof member we got here."

"I don't do so well against lasers or explosives though."

"Don't worry about those too much. I just need to get up close. I'll provide distraction from the air, then Raven takes out some of the laser bots, and then you provide distraction from the ground, giving me the chance to get up close. While we distract them, Raven takes out the last laser bots and then the RPG ones. Raven, I'd appreciate it if you'd get up close to help take out the rest; you're pretty bullet proof as well. And Baron, if things get too hot outside, you duck back into the building. Eve, you might want to wait until we got some proper chaos going on, and then do some of your knife work; I don't care if you target the soldiers or the bots, but keep in mind the bots might see you."

Eve finally broke her silence. "You've done this before, haven't you?"

"I have." Silvia replied.

"You're utterly ignoring the fact you're not bullet proof though." Eve said.

"...I'll manage." she said. "Raven, how can I identify the laser bots?"

"Big bulky weapon on them. You'll see."

"Roger that. Ornis, can you provide cover? All I need you to do is fly low over them, as a flock of birds."

"Uh, sure." Gavin said.

"Um, but what about the hostile superhumans?" Arnout asked.

"Steer clear of them until the rest is taken care of. I mean it. A rain of bullets and grenades is far more deadly than what any special ability can do. As Eve just pointed out, I'm not bullet proof, which is exactly why I'm not even going to think about seriously engaging them unless the guns are thinned out."

"And, what do we do when we get to that point?" the Baron cut in.

"The first casualty in any battle is the battle plan. You all got your abilities, we don't know any of theirs. Improvise. And stay alive. Everyone ready?"

The team all confirmed through the communicators.

"All right then. Ornis, let's do this."

When she saw the birds spreading out towards the building, Silvia grabbed some bricks from a pile she found before, and swooped over the army, just below the birds. While most of the soldiers were still wondering about the odd flock of birds, the first brick was flung down with the speed of Silvia's flight plus an added superpowered throw. It crashed straight through both the protective plastic cover and the underlying lens of the military-grade laser mounted on one of the robots. She quickly aimed the second brick at an RPG bot and then flew straight up, while the birds dispersed in all directions. "Go, now!" she yelled in her comm. Below her, the army of robots hummed to alerted state, and the soldiers realized they were under attack. For a moment, all of them were looking at the sky, trying to see where their attackers had disappeared to.

-Nyerguds 21:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)