ng_independent (ng_independent) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-21 17:37:00

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akilah munroe, griffen o'niell, halbjorn, iason, inactive - charlie rogers, inactive - james romanov rogers, inactive - lyta braddock-worthington, inactive - rose logan, inactive - swashbuckler, inactive - valeria richards, inactive - zachary cheney-guthrie, misha loganovich, plot-"man! i feel like a woman!", svalin, team - avengers, vincent vernard

You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
They had arrived at Earth and had orbited for awhile before Empress had selected her targets. It had taken some time. She didn't want just ANYONE. They had to be among the best. She WOULD win the gladiatorial games this time. NOTHING would stop her. Not even a small thing like gender.

Empress didn't care if it was cheating. The only thing that mattered was winning and she would win this time.

The teleporters were activated and the selected targets were beamed directly to the lab. There they underwent a little transformation and were given attitude readjustments and then put into a holding cell.

The men would wake up in the holding cell to find a few changes.

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	quitethecharmer 2010-03-28 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	Vincent hisses with rage and channels another spell before her arms are lost to her. Lightning may be the domain of her opponent's bloodline, but it does not solely answer to them. There is none of the cursory offensive spell that she used in her first round. This is a lightning strike, at point-blank range. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stone_bear 2010-03-28 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	The one problem with lightning - its conductive. Halbjorn takes it, roaring with rage and pain, but nearly as much of the strike is channeled into Vincent through her opponent. Still smoking, enough scarring to suggest she's blind in one eye, Halbjorn flails with one hand hard at her opponent, holding on with the other in a crushing grip. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quitethecharmer
2010-03-28 05:40 pm UTC (link)

Vincent was prepared for the pain. This was never her fight to win to begin with and she knows it. She just intended to bring the fight to her opponent as much as her abilities allowed.

Her flight spell already failing, they plummet towards the floor as she feels a few ribs crumple under Halbjorn's flailing strikes. Her elemental spells are spent with one arm disabled and caught in the death grip, but she has one last trick to play, even if she finds it mildly distasteful.

Ignoring the hazard of using it at close range, she unleashes a web spell that tightly engulfs Halbjorn's head, as well as her arm. It's a long shot, but there's still the slightest chance he might suffocate to the point of unconsciousness before her attacks render Vincent the same.

What is battle without daring and risk, after all?

Bound to her opponent as she is now, her last vestige of hope is that gamble, and the likelihood of Halbjorn hitting the floor before she does.

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stone_bear
2010-03-28 10:24 pm UTC (link)

The two are tied together, no need to hold on any longer. Halbjorn continues to attack savagely with one hand, tearing at the web with the other, even as she hits the floor. That impact doesn't appear to do a great deal, and while the web is slowing her down, she can also sense her opponent weakening. That this battle will leave her scarred never occurs, or matters more than it ever has before, and under her strength, while Vincent's magic is never a thing to be discounted, the web still tears.

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quitethecharmer
2010-03-28 10:37 pm UTC (link)

Under the rain of blows, Vincent's other arm is freed. She has enough energy for one final spell.

She lost the gamble, but she's never been one to accept defeat ~~with much grace~~. Her devotion to the Empress is perhaps making her a bit more ruthless, but the intensity is her own. She unleashes one last wave of fire, it blasting away from her into Halbjorn and the floor. The backlash tears the webbing and sends her flying across the arena, falling limply to the ground, but still barely conscious.

She's spent, energy depleted, multiple ribs and an arm thoroughly broken. She breathes heavily, it taking all her remaining energy to prop herself up on one arm, staring across at her opponent.

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stone_bear
2010-03-28 10:42 pm UTC (link)

She goes flying under the blast, bits of barbarian costume and webbing still on fire, her upper body laced with scars. She pauses a moment, fighting for breath, and feeling the myriad wounds of differing sorts spread over her form, and for a few seconds, it looks like she may even yield.
She succumbs entirely to the madness, snarling like a wounded beast, uncaring for the pain, just out to put an end to it, destroy everything that moves.
Rising to her feet, in a deep, animalistic crouch, she pounces at Vincent.

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	quitethecharmer 2010-03-28 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	Ah... She sees the charge coming, even as her vision blurs and darkens. I've lost. Vincent is barely touched by the first wave of the attack before falling unconscious. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

stone_bear
2010-03-28 11:05 pm UTC (link)

Halbjorn will be marked by this fight for some time to come. She isn't even aware of her victory for some time, its only the Empress' hold, channeling the madness, and even then, barely, which turns her away from her downed foe, and makes her aware there's another fight coming quickly, she just has to wait but a few moments more, and the Empress' champion, little more than an animal now, will be unleashed upon the intruders.

Good.

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