ngserpentsoc (ngserpentsoc) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-07-09 21:16:00

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adrienne batroc, armadillo jr., guardian, martin baum, plot-"underworld war", team - thunderbolts

The Serpent Strikes
Vadoma gave the members of the Serpent Society instructions on what they were to do. They were being paid quite handsomely to do a small job. The job was to destroy a factory in the Boston area.

It was a simple plan. Get in and do as much damage as possible. Then get out before being captured.

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magic_hands
2013-07-16 09:17 pm UTC (link)

He tries moving his discs to smash into her or at least nick her, but she's fast, much more agile than he expected even, and not one manages to hit her. Well that was interesting.

He was just in a moment of consideration about which spell to do now, when she's right in front of him and reaching for his wrist. It's times like this that make it obvious just why he always went places sitting on his disc. Conjuring a disc was the teleportation prep, sitting on one meant it took only the slightest thought to flash away. But in that moment, right before her fingers look like they're going to catch his wrist, the confidence of youth that believes themselves invincible disappears, and there's sheer panic in his eyes.

All at once he's gone in a rush of blue flame, but the panic had stray magic spurt from his gloves. Whether it hit her or did anything he couldn't tell from here. But soon it's apparent that his panic isn't from what one would expect in that situation, as his brow furrows and he shoots her a telepathic message.

You shouldn't touch my gloves. In most cases this sort of warning from most people would be a thinly veiled threat. But from Martin there seemed to be something more to it, as if he was more concerned at what might happen to the other person than to him if she did.

Martin works to catch his breath as his disc floats up, higher and making it harder for her to reach, as the other discs reorganize and prepare to try and attack her again. First thing was first, he was fighting a brawler and needed to take precautions. She moved too quickly to time freeze her, but he was going to have to do something else to combat her attacks. Instead of creating an area where time stopped within a metre or so of him, Martin does the longer lasting version that he's been working on these past few months, and even showed off to Adrienne.

He starts on the words, slowly creating an invisible bubble of sorts around him where, should anything enter it, would slow down to the point where time crawled for it. He may not be the best dodger, but when the fist coming at you the next time was moving at centimetres per second...well even the inexperienced could handle that.

Of course once the spell was up it'd only last the next couple minutes before needing to be renewed. And while he was doing the spell he couldn't exactly precisely control the attacking discs. So when they come swooping at her, it's noticeable enough that the movements are sloppier and wilder, more to get in her way than manage to hit her this time.

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ngserpentsoc
2013-07-16 09:30 pm UTC (link)

The discs are doing all the attacking for him. He's teleported out of reach. As this happens, Han's brain races... and comes to a conclusion.

She can't fly. Sure, she could find something to throw, but that's not her forte. She can sort of evade the discs - but eventually, one will get lucky, or she'll tire. She's an Olympic caliber athlete... but still entirely human in that regard.

Worst of all, she was foolish, and gave a wizard time to prepare. She should have gone right for the throat - but she didn't. Thinking she could use that good nature to delay him - her real goal. They were hired to cause massive destruction, they've done so - and now she has the means to contribute to it.

So instead of continuing the fight, she exercises the better part of valor and flees - heading first for the stairs, then leaping through a hole in the ceiling opened up by explosions below. She does her best to remain something of a small, fast moving target, hoping she can get Martin to launch offensive spells after her while she focuses entirely on defense.

She can't beat him. That much is clear. Not now, possibly not ever. That doesn't mean she has to lose.

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magic_hands
2013-07-17 01:23 am UTC (link)

He can't say what he exactly expected, maybe a leaping attack of some sort, who knew. But running away...most certainly not. And just when he was finishing up the time spell that'd have him be able to handle her close range style better! Well that was no fun.

Seeing as he's in the middle of a spell, Martin can't exactly teleport off after her. He lets the discs go after her as he wraps up, and go after her they do. Though the farther they get from their master, especially now that he has no visual on them, the sloppier they get. The rush her and ram into parts of the stairwell then the hole in the ceiling, shattering soon after impact.

Well this was no good. Martin sighs and does another head scan, this time to lock onto her. Everyone else is still a peripheral blip on his radar, but he's focused on her, and teleports in without warning, but too late to get his chance to hit her mid-air where she can't dodge.

Oh well, he'll have to make another opportunity like that then. He conjures up some new disc once he has her in his sights, and sends them after her along with some mystic bolts. If she wanted destruction, she's getting it. Though he's aiming at things she lands on, or looks like she'll land on. It's an attempt to get her airborne again and rather defenseless.

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	ngserpentsoc 2013-07-17 01:31 am UTC (link)
	Han dodges and weaves. She's bleeding from a dozen scrapes and burns, and has bits of the stairwell embedded in her arms and shoulders from the race - but she stays low to the ground, uses cover to the best of her ability, and does what she can to cause Martin to help take this place apart. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2013-07-17 02:23 am UTC (link)

Martin crouches low on his disc, weaving about and racing after her amidst all the other fighting and destruction. At least the time spell gives him some protection from debris and stray bullets too.

His disc turn so they're all laying flat, and begin ramming into the ground under her then thrusting up, trying to get her and some debris airborne. It's still destructive, but perhaps not as much as if he was accidentally taking out pillars or blasting ceilings.

Not that he's too concerned about destruction. 'Save the factory' was the order. He assumed that meant from the invaders, nobody had specified to stop them from destroying it. He'd assumed the priority was the get the bad guys out.

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ngserpentsoc
2013-07-17 02:55 am UTC (link)

Even with her increased strength and durability, this is starting to hurt. She keeps running, ending up airborne at one point, grabbing for a railing and hauling herself over, scraped and burned by another projectile.

She heads for the pillars as best she can, trying to make sure as much damage is dealt to the supports as possible. Even if she's caught, the Society can free her - but is much more likely to do so if they've met their objectives.

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magic_hands
2013-07-17 03:01 am UTC (link)

What sort of fight was this? After all that talk about injuring each other she was just going to keep running? No no, that wouldn't do. Racing like this was fun to an extent but it wasn't a real fight.

So he changes tactics, and instead of his discs ramming into the ground under her, they start trying to herd her into smaller spaces. Because if he got her there he could expand one of the discs and block off her runs. At least that's what he hoped.

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ngserpentsoc
2013-07-17 03:18 am UTC (link)

What it is is a fight between two people with entirely different objectives. He's trying to herd her, she's trying to make sure this place comes down behind her.

An actual fight... had she opened with it, she might have had a chance. Once the mage really gets going? No way she comes out of this ahead. But she scared him - she could see it back there. And now he's doing the destruction work of any four or five of the Society.

As she gets an idea what he's doing, she heads for their team teleporter.

"Time to call it." she insists.

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magic_hands
2013-07-17 04:02 am UTC (link)

She's scared him all right. But likely not in the way she thinks. Every time someone comes close to touching his gloves there's a moment of sheer panic because he knows what might happen. Well, more accurately, he knows he has no idea what could happen. He could've just as easily accidentally turned purple as he could've given her some gruesome death. Both unintentional but when it came to his hands he had less control than he'd like, and they were too unpredictable. That was the fear really, what his hands might do.

He's still trying to herd her but it's looking unsuccessful as she veers off to someone on their team. Hmm not good if they're teaming up. He still thinks he can take them both, but he doesn't like the idea of it. Entirely because he doesn't feel like he got a real fight out of this one.

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