ng_underworld (ng_underworld) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-02-25 20:42:00

Entry tags:

adrienne batroc, anya stark, armadillo jr., bea dayspring, crosshairs, guardian, martin baum, plot - "lightning strikes", team - thunderbolts

Lightning Strikes
Stephen Remus sat in the office of his penthouse, smoking a cigarette as he looked out the window.

"You have your team. You ready for your first outing?" Remus asked the figure behind him.

"Yes," came the audibly distorted voice. "We know where they'll all be."

Remus takes another drag of his cigarette before responding. "Good. You've all been practicing, let's see how you do against the real thing. Good hunting."

The sound of metallic boots are heard leaving as the figure goes to announce the mission's start.

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lightningsquad
2013-02-27 04:11 am UTC (link)

Ajax hadn't been expecting that as the blood blinded her optical senors. Before her internal ocular systems could work on cleaning up the blood in her eyes, Kelly's head slams into her nose. The nose itself is mostly artificial synthflesh, and the disorientation usually associated with a broken nose did not apply to Ajax. However the blow did jerk her head back enough to give Kelly a chance to connect with the manhole cover. The strike drove Ajax to let go and fumble back, causing her blade to retract from Kelly. Ajax's chin looked twisted and bent, and a chunk of synthflesh was torn off to reveal bits of a skull laced with some kind of metal.

"I don't feel much in the way of pain, but you've caused more than most have." The blood around her eyes starting to gradually disappear and new flesh began to appear at the very tip of where Ajax's remaining facial flesh had been. She removed the knife from her armpit, and the skin began to do the same, albeit just as slowly. She glimpses at the knife and smirks as her power servos are nearly recharged. "Catch." And she suddenly flings the pocket knife back at Kelly.

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goesbothways
2013-02-27 04:22 am UTC (link)

Kelly does catch it. Right in the ribcage. She goes staggering back, flinging the manhole at Ajax's knee while her eyes are still clearing.

"Shame, you're missing out. Me? I feel pain all the time. So its saying something when I tell you this is at least a little more pain than my average date." she replies, while forcing the knife back out.

"I've got to admit - you have the killer instinct to make this fun. Most of our baddies... they just don't have it. You're also stronger than me, faster than me, more armored, and you heal... neat tricks."

A moment of coughing up a little more blood, making her grin through it really extra disturbing.

"But I know something you don't know."

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	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 04:26 am UTC (link)
	Ajax doesn't have the time to enjoy the success of her throw as the manhole collides with her knee, damaging the servo in it. Damn it! That would seriously hamper her running capabilities. She manages to stand back up, though the nanotech would take awhile to repair the knee damage. "Really? And what would that be?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

goesbothways
2013-02-27 04:35 am UTC (link)

Kelly grins. As her first injury, her legs are furthest along in healing - so slowing down was part of the point.

"When we were grappling there? You know, while you were stabbing me in the kidney? I totally felt you up. So, victory conditions achieved." she responds.

Oh yeah, and as she's trading banter, she drops a grenade. She doesn't have many. Not in her going-out-wear, but she tries not to go out totally without.

The hope is, if the woman has been watching her enough, she'll know of Kelly's tendency to beat some of the robots and other unkillable-with-bullets types with suicide bombing and dive for cover.

This is just tear gas. Which she figures won't do much for long to the cyborg. But it should cause her to adjust, maybe blur her vision and smoke up the area long enough for Kelly to duck down an alley, up a fire escape, and to the rooftops. She's not going to win this one out in the open in a fair fight. Time to get out of there until a less-fair opportunity presents itself.

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	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	Ajax looks at Kelly annoyed before she notices the grenade. "Damn!" She moves to dodge the explosion by leaping behind a car..only to realize that it was tear gas. At first she's angry, but then chuckles a bit. "Well played you crazy bitch." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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