Warhawk (warriorwilled) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-10-02 22:21:00

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avia free, inactive - himon, inactive - hope free, inactive - warhawk

Admission of Guilt (Open to Avia, Barda and Scott)
An hour after Hope's abduction, Rex asks Avia to call her parents and tell them he needs to speak to them immediately at the Brownstone.

Rather than hunt them down, he'll let the people with Boom Tubes come to him for ease of travel...and because most people would rather die someplace familiar than elsewhere.

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	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-03 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Something isn't right about this," Barda said. "These cells are normally full." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... ms_miracle 2010-10-03 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	"By the suburbs of Supertown!" Avia exclaimed. "What the heck went down here, cats?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-03 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Scott occasionally wondered where exactly Avia had learned to talk. There wasn't anyone else who talked like that. "...No," he agreed. "This isn't right at all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... warriorwilled 2010-10-03 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	"This is the prison yard?" Rex asks. "Okay...prison yard, no prisoners. Is there anywhere else they'd hold them?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-03 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	"There are various dungeons all over Apokolips," Barda said, "But this is normally where they hold the most dangerous prisoners. Somehow, I don't think there was a mass riot, either." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... ms_miracle 2010-10-03 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Avia was listening to the pings of her Mother Box. "My foxy Box is workin' on seeing if she was even here at all... Give her another minute or so and we'll see." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-03 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Can't begin to imagine why this place would be empty..." Scott said. "There's always some dissident to hide away." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... warriorwilled 2010-10-04 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"Okay, this sounds like a trap to me. How about we get out of here and check the next building?" Rex suggests. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... ms_miracle 2010-10-04 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	Avia nodded. "Got the Boom Tube coordinates calculating now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 01:13 am UTC (link)
	"Why would Darkseid empty all of these cells?" Barda asked. "Though there is probably a reason behind it, that seems completely against his normal way of handling criminals." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 01:27 am UTC (link)
	"Any number of infernal projects, I'd wager," Scott said. "And none of them good." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: On Apokolips...

dc_apokolips
2010-10-05 03:25 am UTC (link)

"In truth, my son, your wife has the right of it. This is against my normal way of handling criminals and those who speak against me. However, I have decided to make a change this day." Darkseid's voice booms from the speakers inside the cell block.

Several Boom Tubes open then, hundreds of hardened criminals pouring into the cell block to surround the Free Family and Rex.

"A full day's food and water for the one who brings me the Thanagarian's wings. He is expendable. Bring me a member of the Free Family and you /shall/ be free." Darkseid says.

"And to add some sport to things..."

A piercing wail erupts from Avia's Mother Box as the frequency is jammed.

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	Re: On Apokolips... warriorwilled 2010-10-05 03:26 am UTC (link)
	"WHERE IS HOPE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Rex roars, hefting his axe. He doesn't even wait for a command. He just starts swinging. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Barda snarled, firing a blast from her Mega Rod, punching, kicking, shoving her way through the horde. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: On Apokolips...

dc_parent
2010-10-05 03:36 am UTC (link)

Scott Free is, at his core, a remarkably peaceful man. The cool yin to raging Orion's yang. But he is also a father. And his daughter has been taken from him by one of the few people in the universe he truly hates, hates with every fiber of his being.

Scott goes to work fighting his own way through. Perhaps not as showy as Barda's, but effective all the same. Rage guided his actions, making him rash where he would be careful, forceful, where he would otherwise seek to redirect.

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Re: On Apokolips...

ms_miracle
2010-10-05 03:42 am UTC (link)

A Mother Box in pain is a terrible thing. Avia quickly bid hers to shut down its calculations and protect itself, knowing she would have to devote her own energies and good thoughts to healing it later.

Avia is not nearly the powerhouse her mother and sister are. Whereas they could easily lift a tank, Avia could, on her best day, lift a very heavy man. Her fighting style relies primarily on evasive tactics, quick blows intended to easily disable without undue harm, or to use an opponent's strength against them.

For a moment, she seemed to vanish beneath a pile of prisoners. But then she was outside the pile, driving home blows to put each out as quickly as she could.

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Re: On Apokolips...

warriorwilled
2010-10-05 04:04 am UTC (link)

Rex's own actions are guiding by rage, fear and love. Rage for being unable to stop Darkseid's abduction of Hope, fear that they are already too late to save her and love for the girl who's always been there for him without fail.

Even when he accidentally insulted her cooking.

Rex slashes a man down with his axe, then kicks another in the head. He doesn't care if they don't get up again; throwing in with Darkseid absolves him of pity for them.

"We've gotta get out of here! If he's that concerned about keepin' us in here, that means there's somewhere else he /doesn't/ want us to be! And that's probably where Hope is!" Rex yells over the commotion as he bashes down yet another inmate.

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	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 04:10 am UTC (link)
	"I'll clear a path," Barda yelled, charging through the inmates. Like Rex, she didn't care if they never got up again. Getting her daughter back was more important. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 04:24 am UTC (link)
	Scott continued his own brand of bare-handed fighting, crumpling his attackers with easy blows. By Highfather, he could get his daughter back. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... ms_miracle 2010-10-05 04:26 am UTC (link)
	Avia flipped over a prisoner, grabbed him on the way, and slammed him into the next guy in front. "This might be our greatest escape yet...!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: On Apokolips...

warriorwilled
2010-10-05 04:39 am UTC (link)

Rex waits for Barda to clear that path, and then he lets Avia and Scott go ahead of him, bringing up the rear.

Outside, the group fights their way into the city square, just outside Darkseid's palace. Once they reach the square,the inmates back away, but keep the group encircled so that they cannot escape.

Rex sees Darkseid and tries to fly toward him, only to be met with a blast from the Omega Beams, which sends him crashing to Earth, into the throng of inmates. Many of them get in several punches and kicks before tossing him back into the center of the formation with Scott, Barda and Avia.

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Re: On Apokolips...

dc_apokolips
2010-10-05 04:43 am UTC (link)

"You are the Thanagarian she favors. Rex?" Darkseid says, smiling at him.

"Oh, how she screamed your name. One would think you were a God yourself, how she begged you to come and save her." Darkseid grins.

"Scott, my son. You have returned to me and brought the family. I would rather not taint our reunion with bloodshed, but it appears that we each have something the other wants." Darkseid surmises.

Soon, another body is tossed in their midst: that of Himon, Scott and Barda's nephew, as well as Hope and Avia's cousin.

He grunts in pain as he pulls himself upright and glares at Darkseid.

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	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Barda snarled, gripping her Mega Rod. "You will release my daughter now, Darkseid," she ordered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... dc_parent 2010-10-05 04:47 am UTC (link)
	"I am not your son," Scott growled. "Return them, Darkseid. Both of them. Or suffer the consequences." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: On Apokolips... ms_miracle 2010-10-05 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Avia's eyes went wide behind her mask and her knees grew week. Darkseid was the bogeyman in the closet, the dark thing that threatened to snatch children and happiness away. A dark fairy tale come to life. She clenched her fist and bit her lip. She would not show fear. She was the daughter of Scott and Barda Free. She would not show fear. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)