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Giovanna M. Bennet ([info]burnwithlight) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-01-14 02:01:00


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Entry tags:andrew summers, giovanna bennet, plot-"horsemen of the apocalypse"

Prelude to a Massacre
((Warning: This is going to get messy and unpleasant. Some aspects may be triggery.))

They were on the roof this afternoon, just talking and relaxing a little after getting some more work done. It was too cold, sure, but the decor was lovely and the view was great.

Considering their early trouble, Giovanna had taken to keeping her knife in the inside pocket of her coat when they went outside anywhere that wouldn't have metal detectors. She knew she'd most likely just use her powers in another emergency, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone.

"The weather's improving. Perhaps it'll even be tolerable eventually," she told Andrew with a smile.



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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 07:29 am UTC (link)
"Well, its not Genoshan weather, and won't be for a while, but its kind of ref..." he pauses, tilting his head.

"You hear tha..."

He doesn't get a chance to finish the sentance.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 07:31 am UTC (link)
Breakneck tears up the side of the building, across the roof, and without breaking stride, grabs Andrew, getting him quite some distance from Giovanna before he lets go.

Andrew crashes into the guardrail with the sound of snapping bone, then through it at his high velocity, tumbling over the edge of the building.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 07:35 am UTC (link)
She's caught off-guard by that, but hating herself for it will have to wait. Giovanna starts to hurry towards Andrew, getting a charge ready for both him and the assailant.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 07:53 am UTC (link)
Penny, aka Flux, walked confidently across the rooftop to where the girl was rushing to her companion's position. The girl was a mutant, that much was clear, and Flux was going to have some fun. She put on her best rock star smile.

"Oh darling, you shouldn't be worried about him right now," she said as she activated her powers and started draining, she hoped, the girl of her powers.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 07:58 am UTC (link)
Andrew holds desperately onto the edge of the roof, one hand on the stone, one on the twisted and broken railing. One leg flails about, trying to get a grip on the side of the roof, while the other dangles uselessly, not responding to his efforts to make it move.

He manages a little climb, briefly able to see over the lip of the roof before the railing screeches, a little more giving out and dropping him back down.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 07:59 am UTC (link)
Blake turns from the roof, letting pretty-Penny handle the hanger on, while they switch targets and he turns his focus on Giovanna.

Almost like a greeting, he tips his hat, and in his rich baritone Texas drawl, sets into a pretty good Beach Boys rendition.

"Well its been building up inside of me,
For oh I don't know how long."

He launches into a blur. For him, every fight is like that lovely Sherlock Holmes slow-mo, where he plans out the fight, and just has to hit his marks, assessing and savoring the most traumatic injuries before he even swings while the world holds nice and still for him.

"I don't know why, but I keep thinking,
Somethings bound to go wrong."
he launches a jab to the solar plexus, trying to take her breath away, followed by a snap punch towards the throat.

"But she looks in my eyes..."
snap punch
"And makes me realize."
left hook, right hook in a blur of motion, quick, short punches, as designed to torment and disable as to seriously hurt,
"And she says, don't worry baby."
snap jab.
"Don't worry baby."
snap jab.
"Don't worry baby."
swing for the nose.
"Everything will turn out alright."

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 08:12 am UTC (link)
The charges had faded considerably before they even left her hands. She knows it's not enough, and the new surprise affects her aim in this tricky situation a little as well. As good as her energy reserves normally are, she doesn't seem to be accessing them properly right now.

That witch did something to her, and as she processes that she can't trust her powers she gets out the knife. By that point, the male assailant was already...singing.

While the initial punch is certainly successful, her arm was already moving into a position that happened to partially protect her throat slightly, so it's still possible to catch her breath...

Except that he keeps hitting her. And hitting her. And she hardly has a target. It's hard enough to keep from dropping the knife after the first few blows. Essentially, she's still reacting to previous blows to the face when her knife comes at his arm during the last. She's doing her best to keep her head clear; just needs him to back off for a moment.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 08:15 am UTC (link)
Flux looked over the side. "Hey there, big boy," she said with a bright smile. "Just hanging out?" She laughed at her own joke. "I could help you up, but what would be the point in that?"

She activated her powers again and hoped she drained him.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 08:18 am UTC (link)
Big advantage: at the moment, he has no powers to drain or make go haywire. He is what he is. Of course, by nature, this isn't obvious.

Big disadvantage: at the moment, he has no powers, even weakened ones, to help him out in the situation.

He strains and struggles, dragging his dead-weight leg as he tries to get his arms up over the edge of the building.

"You're funny." he grunts, losing almost as much ground as he gained when another bolt comes free and the railing drops a few inches.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 08:25 am UTC (link)
He wasn't expecting her to have a knife. He then wasn't expecting her to be any good with it by the time it registered.
By the time it does, in the midst of his blur of motion, he takes a cut across the arm.

He darts back out of reach, first glaring at her, but then it turns into a good ol' country boy grin, before he licks the wound, then licks his lips as if savoring it, before he begins again with the Beach Boys.

"I guess I should've kept my mouth shut,
When I started to brag about my car."

In a blur, he's behind her, kicking at the back of her knees hard."

"But I can't back down now,
I pushed the other guys too far."

He adds as he swings a hard left, then a hard right jab for the back of her head.

"She makes me come alive,"
He sings, darting back around in front of her, trying to wrestle the knife away with one hand, slapping her face at super speed with the other.

"And she makes me wanna drive,"
he sings with intent, slapping harder and faster.

"When she says don't worry baby,
Don't worry baby,
Don't worry baby."

He sings in the soulful drawl as he attacks her with one hand, and her own knife if he can get it away from her, though none of the attacks are intended to do more than daze and injure, though there's plenty of intent to do that.

"Everythings going to be alright."

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 08:39 am UTC (link)
She's trying to get a breath, get a shift in stance, and get ready to try to make it past him to get to Andrew when -- he's back again.

She starts going down with the targeted attacks, but in truth, she's had training sessions that hurt worse than this. But then he's got her wrist he keeps hitting her. And hitting her. And finally, she has to drop the knife, though she manages to drop it with a little burst of minor electric charge -- ma foi, it's hardly better than static -- so he can't grab it easily either.

And she can't even stay mostly on her feet anymore, and why is he doing this so inefficiently and what's with the singing and...

"ANDREW!"

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 08:42 am UTC (link)
"I'm funny, but most importantly I'm pretty. Don't you think I'm pretty? I bet you like blonds. All guys like blonds. We do have the most fun after all." She smiled and did a little wave with her fingertips.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 08:44 am UTC (link)
An idea occurs to him. Despite the pain and struggle, the diplomat takes over.

"You... you're gorgeous, you remind me of someone." he says, quieter and quieter as he strains, trying to get her to lean in closer, just a little closer, as he brings up the reminiscence, by the end of it, voice barely above a whisper.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 08:50 am UTC (link)
The static shock /hurts/, and hurts bad. But Blake is no slouch either. He's been through dislocated joints, bad burns, hard falls and the rest. He can handle pain, it just eggs him on.
It does make him take her more seriously though. For a moment, instead of playing with her, her goes all out. Rights and lefts coming in a furious blur, trying to break her nose, swell an eye shut, and leave not an inch of her face anything but black and blue.

Then he's got the knife in a blur, smacking her face in another super speed slap, and the Beach Boys are back on.
"She told me baby, when you race today,
Just take along my love with you."

The knife flashes, cutting through the front of her shirt, the tip only just barely grazing skin. Then he slaps her again.

"And if you know how much I loved you,
Baby, nothing could go wrong with you."

The knife flashes up, cutting more fabric, leaving whisper thin cuts in flesh. His speed lets him be precise, its a slow, careful cut to him, his target barely moving.

"Oh what she does to me
When she makes love to me"
he sings, tauntingly close to her before he ducks his face out of reach and slaps again.

"And she says don't worry baby,
Don't worry baby,
Don't worry baby,"

he adds, before using the knife as brass knuckles, trying to hit her hard over the head, not enough to put her out, but hopefully to dim the lights some.

"Everything will turn out alright."

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 09:01 am UTC (link)
Giovanna Bennet isn't terrified often, but she is now, as she screams and tries to protect her face as best she can, which is only sporadically effective and her clothes are...are...

She's dazed and in a lot of pain, and she's terrified for Andrew, and ashamed she can't protect him, and ashamed that she's just as afraid for her herself or more. So scared.

But there's one thing she's not afraid of, as she blinks to try to see and finally wills one hand to lash out no matter what it exposes her to, what he's doing to her faster than hse can see, faster than she can think.

Her parents always told her never to be afraid, if it became necessary, to get a little vitreous humor on her fingers.

Giovanna claws as best she can for the cur's eyes.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:05 am UTC (link)
"Marilyn Monroe, don't you think?" Penny asked, not really paying attention to what the guy was saying. She didn't really care if he was talking about another girl.

She was a blond, but she wasn't that stupid.

"I mean, I could really be the next Marilyn Monroe. I have the looks, the skills, I just really need that break."

She smiled down at him. "Speaking of breaks, do you hear your girlfriend? Hear those screams? Breakneck likes it when they scream."

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 09:10 am UTC (link)
He heard the screams alright. He was trying desperately to shut them out, just a second or two longer. He's terrified for her, and just knows if he doesn't do something, they're going to make him listen, before the guy comes back and shoves him off the edge.

He grits his teeth and does what he has to. Ignoring the probably busted knee, he kicks with his foot, digs in as best he can, and lunges up.

"Actually, I was thinking Rapunzel." he grunts, reaching for a handful of her hair as he pushes up on the wall, one arm straight. He wasn't trained to Giovanna's level, but his parents wouldn't let him be a slouch either, and thankfully, neither would his workout partner. He pulls hard, slamming her face into the gurardrail with his weight before pulling himself up.

He hopes that's enough, between impact and vanity at hitting her precious face, as he drags himself towards Giovanna, not able to get to his feet, his leg done for the moment. He's not even sure if she can see him or not, he just pleads she keeps the guy's attention a moment longer.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:16 am UTC (link)
He doesn't entirely pull back in time, but he clearly wasn't expecting her to have that much composure either, used to girls who are terrified to uselessness by now.

His eye remains where it is, but he has a horrible set of four scars from his brow, across one eye and down his cheek, trailing the same blood that coats her fingers.

"Damnit." he cusses, all tune lost. His fist comes back at her in a blur.
"We still have a date you and me, but first, I'm gonna hurt you. I'm gonna hurt you bad. Then maybe I'll rescue your boy... break his arms and legs, let him watch while I hurt you some more. Bet the wuss hasn't even touched you yet, huh, baby? You untouched goods? Don't worry, I'll show you a real man before you go out."
He taunts, kicking at her midsection hard, not daring to get his face in talon reach again.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 09:27 am UTC (link)
She can't properly block that next punch; she only partly manages to turn away from the kicks -- but she forces every bit of energy she can up, eyes flickering wildly, to try to make the experience of touching her as difficult as possible.

She's shouting, so hoarsely now it isn't all loud, something that hasn't been in common usage in eight hundred years and wasn't very polite then.

He won't get Andrew. He won't. He won't.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:32 am UTC (link)
"YOU BASTARD!" Penny screamed before splitting out the blood that had started to pour from her nose.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 09:34 am UTC (link)
He doesn't care about Flux now, he has to get to the guy attacking Giovanna. He crawls, desperately, scrambling to one foot when he gets a little momentum going, getting a couple of hops before he tumbles, alerting the attacker while he's just feet away.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:35 am UTC (link)
Blake spins, fists up, features twisting into a sneer.
"What're you gonna do, boy. Can't even walk."

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 09:37 am UTC (link)
Getting his good leg braced, Andrew lunges, feinting at Blake, then diving and crashing into Giovanna.

"C'mon, please be ok." he prays out lout loud.
"Hit me with everything you've got!" he yells, hoping she's aware enough to know its him holding onto her for dear life as he feels the energy she's putting off, hoping its quick enough.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 09:42 am UTC (link)
Trembling in shock and pain and fear, beyond punch-drunk and into its equivalent of alcohol poisoning she may be, but between love and Bennet professional obsession, she'd still know his voice anywhere. She'd started straining to tap her reserves and build up a charge already, now she expends all she possibly can.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:45 am UTC (link)
Not so fast there. Penny activated her powers and hoped she would drain her.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 09:53 am UTC (link)
Penny's luck with odds runs out there. As Gio's power fluctuates wildly out of control, it all flows into Andrew. All of it.
He's bathed for a moment in greenish blue radiance, and then it goes dark as he's changed.

Ok, so the first moment of it isn't so spectacular, aside from the change itself. His healing factor kicks in at a speed it never has before, and with an audible *CRACK!* his knee snaps into place and the bone sets itself. He swears in at least three languages by the time he rights himself.

By the time he does though, he's a monster, even by his standards, towering over Breakneck.

"You hurt me, I hate you. You hurt my girl..."
Even moving makes his neck and shoulders crack.
"Vous êtes un mort."

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 09:55 am UTC (link)
Blake is stunned at first, who wouldn't be? This was under their control.
On the up side: he's quick to react, launching into a blur of motion. He swings again and again, lashing out punch after punch at Andrew's face and stomach, hitting all the usual vulnerable spots.

On the down side: What happens when you hit a cement wall fifty times in four seconds?

Andrew doesn't move. Blake's knuckles look like raw hamburger.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 09:57 am UTC (link)
In contrast: what happens when a cement wall hits you once?

Most of Andrews attempts to fight back are dodged neatly. But in the desperate blur and distractions of the pain dished out when Blake hits him, he does connect once.

He only needs to connect once. Breakneck goes tumbling cowboy hat over heels to tumble to a groaning stop next to Penny, mumbling something through a dislocated jaw.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 10:07 am UTC (link)
That hurt. Burned, as if for a moment all of her nerves were on fire.
She's barely conscious at this point, but through the haze, she can hear Andrew.
...Is it reasonable to have odd, soft little giggles of satisfaction when you're nearly mad with pain? She hopes so.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 10:10 am UTC (link)
Realizing that things have gone from bad to worse with both boots on, it was time to get the hell out of here.

"Breakneck!" she yelled and hoped he would remember to grab her as he made a run for it.

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[info]ng_marauders
2010-01-14 10:13 am UTC (link)
He does. He's up in a moment and moving, grabbing her up as he goes.
"We'we geddin' da f'ck oudda hewe." he mutters, trying to figure out how to get his jaw set right.
"F'ck da misson." He's pretty sure she'll echo his sentiments. They have bigger targets than these two to hit anyway.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 10:16 am UTC (link)
Andrew doesn't stand a chance in pursuit. And he's pretty sure they're not coming back any time soon. Strong arms pick up Giovanna as gently as he can manage right now, squeezing through doorways to get her back to their room.
"S'il vous plaît, mon amour, be alright." he asks desperately as he gets her onto the bed.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 10:28 am UTC (link)
She can't quite say anything, or properly get her eyes open, as he's carrying her.

She manages it after he's laid her out. There's certainly, after all that, no green flickering in her eyes. Just the usual blue...and something very very fragile showing behind them.
She just stares at him for a moment as the bruises on her face slowly grow more and more livid, then, finally, weakly, not quite coherently, "Pardon, mon ange?"

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 10:36 am UTC (link)
"Mon amor, there's no need to apologize. You did well. I'm sorry I put you in that situation." he knows her first thought was to defend him. It always is. Maybe if she'd thought of her own defense first, she'd have been ok?

He puts his massive hand over both of hers, and extends the other arm, easily able to reach the phone currently. He's really lucky the front desk is an auto dial, trying to push just one button right now would be impossible.
"We need a doctor in room 1217, now!"

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 10:46 am UTC (link)
She tries to protest weakly, doesn't want to be seen like this. But it's so hard to stay awake, much less talk.

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[info]assaultnbattery
2010-01-14 10:50 am UTC (link)
He's not taking any protests right now. In her condition, she has to be seen by a doctor. There's plenty of problems associated with that, sure, but his first concern is her, right now.

Once they assure him there's someone on the way, he just sits by the bed, holding her hand and waiting, wishing he'd been a little faster, a little better, or had real powers that didn't need a magic wand waved at him first.

This is all his fault.

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[info]burnwithlight
2010-01-14 11:04 am UTC (link)
She should have been faster, better. Instead of screaming like some inexperienced schoolgirl.
She just wants to sleep.
At least Andrew managed; he's okay.
She just wants to sleep.
...And Justice. She definitely wants Justice. But sleep's going to have to come first, it looks like.

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