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The lady and the tiger are a strange pair. Nissa would probably lay off and just talk things over if the sibs weren’t mass murderers.
Responding to Flora’s retort, Nissa says,
“Flora and Fauna would work better if you didn’t ruin the theme by carrying a hammer. So I’m gonna call you Thora.”
She shoots.
“Or do you prefer I call you Serial Killer?”
She shoots again with the other gun, stepping toward Flora as she does so.
“C’mon, Thora… stop banging windows when you’ve got an armored opponent to swing at!”
Verve gestures, and then the object the woman dropped levitates into the air. "And what's this?" she asks as she levitates it up to the ceiling of the hallway.
The object is growing as Verve levitates it. It's weight is increasing as it grows. It's already grown to about a foot in length and you can see that it's some kind of mushroom. Except, mushrooms don't usually have teeth. This thing does and the teeth are gnashing hungrily as it grows.
Verve looks around for a place she can move the mushroom to that will keep it away from everyone.
Charles's fox head looks nervously at the damaged container, wondering just what will come out of it. This place must be like an arsenal to this pair.
Which meant ending this quickly. Though... he hoped it didn't come to killing them.
His space-dinosaur head, however, was a bit quick to just take a bite out of the nearest one it could reach.
Verve tosses the growing mushroom into the vault and gestures to the camera to close the vault.
Flora takes the blast from Nissa on her woody chest covering but it obviously hurts her. She turns her attention to the plight/flight of the mushroom.
The mushroom screams as Verve throws it. The mushroom, now two feet long, begins to crawl out of the vault when the door closes on its meaty little hands. The vault is soundproof.
Flora gasps with sincere sympathy and then turns on Verve, furious, "I liked that mushroom! He was a fun-guy."
She raises a hand and a blast of thorns comes from the woody vine wrapped around her arm. They're aimed at Verve.
She looks like she'd like to retreat and begins to make moves to do so.
Her brother slashes at Charles with a huge claw.
The casing on the tube finally gives and a dark oblong head pokes out. Dozens of red eyes open at once moving independently as it takes in its new environment.
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Unable to safely explode, Nissa keeps shooting Flora, hoping her nonlethal guns will take her down.
But whatever the new thing is startles Nissa. “What, how and WHY?!” She shoots it too!
"Puns? Really?" shouts Verve.
"They seem determined to make this as stereotypical as possible, don't they?" Charles's fox head comments as he swats back at his fellow shape-shifter with his own claws.
"BAD KITTY!" Theo shouts as another hammer strike missed.
The many-eyed thing sees Nissa's nonlethal blast strike the container it is in and hisses from a tiny mouth lined with tiny fangs. It leaps out of the container and lands on the floor beside a grinning sabre-toothed tiger. It's three legs split at the knee into three more parts, each of which ends with a clawed foot. It moves quickly as it scampers away, but it is slowed only by the inability of its clawed feet to get traction on the smooth floor. The grinning tiger runs after it.
Fauna watches them leave and looks disappointed for a half second, then moves to the center of the corridor trying to block anyone from going after her younger brother and says, "I surrender, sir."
She smiles at Theo when she says this.
Charles' attack scratched Fauna bad enough that he's leaving drops of blood about every three feet even while running.
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Nissa holds her fire, and replies, “Surrender means you get cuffed—and outta my way!”
She tumbles past and runs after Fauna and the weird thing.
If she can get within ten feet, she’ll explode!
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Nissa holds her fire, and replies, “Surrender means you get cuffed—and outta my way!”She tumbles past and runs after Fauna and the weird thing.
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If she can get within ten feet, she’ll explode!
They make enough noise and Nissa radiates enough light that she can kind of follow them through the maze. Plus, Fauna's bleeding. At first Fauna is chasing the weird thing, then the weird thing is chasing Fauna. Finally, Nissa finds the weird thing and Fauna trapped in a dead end.
Charles growls. "I'll keep an eye on her. You guys keep after Nissa."
He glares at Flora balefully, with all six eyes.
"I'll stay here with Charles. You go help Nissa Theo." says Verve as she drops the woman to her knees and binds her hands behind her back.
Judging from the fire in her eyes, Nissa looks ready to explode. She says to the murderous tiger, “Revert to normal with your hand in the air or I blow you to bits! Given all the men and women you killed, I should do that anyway!”
She’s pretty sure someone else is filling her. Despite her bravado, Nissa can only do so much if Fauna is still standing after the blast…
"I'd do what the lady says, if I were you", The Olympian states blankly.
Fauna reverts to normal. He's bleeding badly and has little fight left in him. His excitement at the new creature to play with is gone, now that said creature is approaching him slowly, walking in a weird skittering-circling stride on its three little clawed tripods.
The multiple eyes gaze independently in every direction. The little fanged mouth coos and chitters as it closes in on Fauna.
"It won't listen to me!" Fauna says. "They always listen!"
He concentrates again, closing his eyes. The chittering thing draws nearer to him.
Flora is completely compliant, but when she hears noises coming from elsewhere in the maze she warns you not to hurt her brother.
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Nissa keeps her guard up and guns in hand because of the weird creature. She says, “If you come peacefully, you’ll get medical attention.” And probably executed for all the murders, but whatever.
She asks, “Do I need to worry about this weird thing? This isn’t one of those Mind-Shredder things, is it?”
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Nissa keeps her guard up and guns in hand because of the weird creature. She says, “If you come peacefully, you’ll get medical attention.” And probably executed for all the murders, but whatever.She asks, “Do I need to worry about this weird thing? This isn’t one of those Mind-Shredder things, is it?”
"How would I know what this is?" whines Fauna. He's dropping patches of blond fur now, having changed from a blondish sabre-toothed to a brunette human rather quickly.
When he moves to scratch a patch the creature chirps and leaps a foot closer.
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Nissa says, “Well, come peacefully and we’ll get your wounds patched.” It’s more courtesy than the twins showed the thumbless guards, but Nissa doesn’t really even know what to make of the pair.
They don’t act like homicidal maniacs… but then, isn’t that how crazy works?
She asks the Olympian, “Got any cuffs or rope, Big O?” The little creature’s behavior still has her on edge. She asks, “Ya think that critter’s friendly? That word Mind-Shredder’s giving me a severe case of the willies. I expected a swarm, like, bees with chainsaw butts. But the tripod legs… I mean… I dunno.”
Theo brings out two sets of cuffs and begins to restrain the mischievous duo.
"It sounds more like the thing you broke out might be dangerous to him," Charles growls. "I'd ask what you were thinking but thinking obviously isn't either of your strong suits. Just like morality."
"It sounds more like the thing you broke out might be dangerous to him," Charles growls. "I'd ask what you were thinking but thinking obviously isn't either of your strong suits. Just like morality."
Flora allows herself to be handcuffed. She doesn't seem worried about getting caught. When Charles points out the obvious danger to her brother, she says, "Do not let it hurt him. His gifts must be protected."
Theo brings out two sets of cuffs and begins to restrain the mischievous duo.
Down the corridor and around the bend, Theo steps forward to handcuff Fauna. As he does the chittering little multi-eyed thing jumps towards Fauna, scratching him badly, and then tries to bolt back the way it came and past both Nissa and Theo.
Nissa doesn’t understand the weird creature, nor does she want to.
If the creature passes Theo, it’ll run into her blast zone!
Cuffing the woman, Verve smacks her on the back of the head and says "Start talking. First, what is that creature?"
Cuffing the woman, Verve smacks her on the back of the head and says "Start talking. First, what is that creature?"
"That creature was something different! Everything here is and it's all locked up in stasis fields. My brother and I are freedom fighters. We want to free all the genes!"
"Your little super-friend called me a serial killer," she continues, "But, we haven't killed anyone, inferior genetics did. We just let the gene be what the gene wants to be and the weaker genetics died!"
Nissa doesn’t understand the weird creature, nor does she want to.
If the creature passes Theo, it’ll run into her blast zone!
Nah. Theo's just getting the hell out of there.
"But that's... I'm not even going to try pointing out all of the problems with that system of morality, if you can even call it that," Charles's vulpine head says as his jaguar head turns to follow the sound of Nissa doing her explosion thing. With hardly a pause from when his other head had finished speaking he yells with his jaguar head, "What's going on over there? Do you need help?"
There was a couple rounds of giving chase, but not in a straight line. Only about 100 ft. distance now, but you don't have line of sight. You can certainly hear Nissa go boom, and probably see the flash of light.
Nissa whirls around, guns pointed at the escaping creature. She shouts back, “Theo and I’re fine, Charles! That skittery thing attacked Fauna—it’s heading your way!”
"So I guess I should feed you to that mushroom then, since it's genetics are superior?"
"So I guess I should feed you to that mushroom then, since it's genetics are superior?"
"I didn't create that creature," Flora responds, further expounding her unhinged morality, [b]"Some gene-happy scientist did, but does it have any less right to be free than your friend there." She nods to Charles when she says the last bit.
The tripod-that-skitters zips down towards Verve and Charles and then takes a side tunnel instead. You hear a slam followed by two more slams as large doors block off those tunnels. The skittering creature is heading back towards you.
You have enough time to bind Flora and Fauna while this is happening.
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Seeing Fauna is bound and the skittery thing’s tripoddy feet sound like they’re on a return trip, Nissa codes to dash to the intersection and shoot.
She keeps her back to the wall opposite the perpendicular hallway, leaving Charles plenty of room to round the corner and subdue or end the shroom.
"Do you think I don't worry about whether or not it's safe for me to be free?" Charles's dinosauroid head growls at Flora as he turns towards the direction the creature went. Trusting Verve to keep an eye on their captive he trots over to the intersection, turns, and crouches down, baring his teeth at the creature as it turns back towards him.
"The difference between the two, you dumb t@#t, is that he is a caring, loving, and amazing person, and you decided to release a crazy murder spider. How up your own a@# are you?"
Fauna--dressed in an outfit of wood, vines, leaves, handcuffs, and green stretchy fabric--shrugs dismissively in response to Verve's question. She's obviously pretty far up her own ass.
The creature runs at full speed towards Nissa and Charles, who now block the intersection. It leaps just as Nissa fire. Her shot misses.
It attempts to leap far enough to bounce off the wall behind you and take the corner without slowing down.
When it flies through the corner, its three-by-three legs tuck in tightly behind its oblong body. As it flies through the air, it resembles an American football, which you might have seen in museums.
He turns the corner and starts heading towards Theo and Fauna at full speed.
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Nissa keeps after the little guy.
“Non-lethal gun,” she assures the others (evil wonder-twins included). “This creature may be innocent, but Greer ain’t opening a way out unless—”
She lets her non-lethal gun finish that sentence.
Nissa shoots at the creature as Charles’ largeness stops it in its tracks!
Her blast misses by a mile as she doesn’t want to accidentally shoot Charles. She steps back and fires again.
Charles swats at the thing with a paw, forcing it to stop in spite of how wide the attack goes.
As it hesitates he tries to smack it again--this time keeping the claws in in response to Nissa's suggestion.
Verve drags the woman down the hallway by her hair so she can get a look at what is going on.