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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 6, 2011 23:05:33 GMT -5
(A roleplaying telling of Sparrow's first encounter with the Dark Claw, so it's only for them)
The Dark Claw had been on the job for over ten hours now hunting down the remnants of The Hellfire League's Reavers. Lady Talia and Maxwell Pierce had already gotten away he wasn't going to allow their band of cyborgs to get away as well.
Unfortunately, they had gotten the better of him. He had chased them to the Gotham City Mall and followed them into an underground complex beneath the mall. There they had set the ambush. Beaten, cut and now literally crucified to a wall; he knew all he could do is sit there while they mocked and abused him.
They were going to kill him slowly, he knew that. He just wondered to himself what death would actually feel like.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 7, 2011 18:45:43 GMT -5
Jubilee awoke with a start. She had be sleeping on the half-sized display bed at a department store. Her hair stuck out in every direction as she yawned and looked confused.
.oO ( I hear something...I better check it out to make sure no one's robbing my home! Well...other then me.)
She threw on some clothes and quietly moved to the stairs which led to the mall's underground area. As Jubilee drew closer she realized the noises weren't anything good, it was New Gotham after all. Jubilee moved quietly and stuck to the shadows so she could see what was going on.
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 8, 2011 0:57:47 GMT -5
"The high and mighty Dark Claw doesn't look to great when he's spiked to a wall does he boys?" Mad Bone Breaker said as he wrapped his cyborg hand around Dark Claw's throat, "Thought you had us on the run didn't you. Well it turns out you're not really the World's Greatest Sleuth or you would have realized that we wuz laying a trap for you."
Dark Claw spit in Bone Breaker's face and said nothing else.
"Seems he still has some fight in him! Maybe I should use my hypnotic strands on him, turn him into a Reaver." Pretty Jewllee said with a smile crossing her face.
Dark Claw steeled himself for what would happen next, he wasn't going to let them brain wash him, not without a fight.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 8, 2011 16:21:09 GMT -5
Jubilee watched them torture Dark Claw with growing anxiety. She was able to survive being homeless in the mall with only a few near misses with the mall cops...nothing like this. Jubilee hadn't been so scared since the sentinel attack.
She nearly ran away just before creating a flashy display on the other side of the hallway then focused more concentrated blasts on Dark Claw's restraints. Jubilee bit her lip hoping it would work.
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 8, 2011 20:44:21 GMT -5
The three Reavers were temporarily distracted as the explosive plasmoids that Jubilee fired exploded on the other side of them. They looked first at the fireworks display and then back at the direction they had come from, missing the fact of what her second barrage was actually targeting.
"Well lookie here, a little pup to play with" Bonebreaker said with a glee, "We should have Dark Claw carve her up after Jewlee is all done."
The restraints exploded as Jubilee's plasmoids stuck them, though weak, slashed forward with both arms, releasing his adamantium claws from their sheaths in his forearms. The first one slice through Pretty Jewllee's hypnotic strands and the second through Mad Bonebreaker's cybernetic hand. He lunged forward as best could slicing through the metallic chest of Shrapnel Buster. "Done good, now scoot kid!" He weakly murmured as he tried to get back to his feet.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 8, 2011 20:54:55 GMT -5
Jubilee looked at a loss about what she should do then she nodded suddenly and ran for the exit. Jubilee found a spot to hide and watched.
.oO ( You are such a WUSS Jubilee! Even with those restraints off I doubt he could take them all on in that state. Maybe I should call the cops? UGH! And try to explain why I'm here? I'm boned. )
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 8, 2011 21:13:52 GMT -5
The Reavers yelled in pain as they were all torn into by the Dark Claw, "Come on, boys, you got your licks in. But I'm still the best there is at what I do!"
He lunged forward at Mad Bonebreaker, grabbing his throat and digging his adamantium claws directly through his chest going for his power source. He found it, and unfortunately the electric feedback from the power source traveled perfectly up his claws and throughout the metal in his skeleton.
He yelled in agony as he was electrocuted, his howl screaming through out the halls of the underground passage.
"Awww... widdle Dark Claw bit off more than he can chew." Pretty Jewelle said and looked at Shrapnel Buster, "Hold him, this time I'll mess his mind up so hard that his children will come out vegetables."
Shrapnel Buster smiled with his metallic visage and grabbed Dark Claw and held his arms up in the air.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 8, 2011 21:27:58 GMT -5
Jubilee gritted her teeth and stood. "Oh screw it. It's not often you can save a legend!"
She ran back towards the scene, then along the wall, and kicked the back of Jewelle's head as she launched fireworks towards the other reavers. "You guys really should know, the mall is closed."
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 8, 2011 21:36:59 GMT -5
"It's that homeless meta-mutant again!" Shrapnel Buster said in a mechanized tone as the fireworks Jubilee threw seemed to bounce off his hide, "I'll take her down!"
Parts of his metallic body began to fire off from him exploding against the wall, "No you idiot! You'll bring the whole tunnel down on us!" Pretty Jewelle said to him.
Dark Claw was picking himself of the ground again as he heard Jewelle's world, "Good... idea..." he said weakly as he dropped back down and swept Shrapnel's legs out from under him. Shrapnel fell to the ground still firing pieces of him self in the air, now at the ceiling of the tunnels.
"Move... darling... that way!" Dark Claw said pointing in the direction deeper down the tunnel. The ceiling above the Reavers was already beginning to collapse.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 8, 2011 22:07:38 GMT -5
Jubilee booked it next to Dark Claw towards the exit, occasionally looking back at the metal freaks. "Yeesh dude, the early bird sales really aren't worth all of this."
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 9, 2011 14:24:59 GMT -5
While Dark Claw's healing factor was doing its best to heal up the hours of torture the Reavers had inflicted on him, right now it was fighting a losing battle, Dark Claw was
"Copter, escape route one." He muttered into his cowl's radio set, some where the Claw Copter started up remotely heading towards the predestined escape coordinates that Dark Claw had programmed in.
He hesitated hacking up a lungful of blood on to the ground and dropping to his hands and knees for a moment, "You did good back there, girl." he painfully muttered to Jubilee.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 9, 2011 17:22:33 GMT -5
Jubilee gasped at the sight and helped him back up. "C'mon old man, you can take a nap whenever you get back into your Claw cave or whatever."
She checked behind them to make sure they were safe for the moment.
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 10, 2011 22:23:59 GMT -5
Dark Claw was breathing heavy, his healing factor was taxed to it's very limit and he felt like his body was trying to force his bones out, "Just... get... me... there!"
He pointed to a ladder at the end of a very long tunnel, "Don't worry... bout... Reavers... they... dig them... selves.. out for a while."
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 10, 2011 23:04:01 GMT -5
Jubilee grabbed his arm and swung it over her shoulder as she helped him towards the exit. "Jesus on a popsicle what do you eat? You are so heavy!"
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 10, 2011 23:15:39 GMT -5
"Adamantium... lacing my bones... stop... complaining." Dark Claw spewed out in pain.
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 11, 2011 0:00:37 GMT -5
Jubilee helped Dark Claw up the ladder. "Yeah yeah. Well I just finished saving your heavy ass so you're gonna have to deal. C'mon."
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 11, 2011 0:21:55 GMT -5
As they got to the surface a custom attack helicopter landed, "Get me in the... in the copter," he said to Jubilee.
As she helped him in he just said "Burrow" and the copter took off on it's own flying high over New Gotham City before swooping down towards the bay and flying through a small tunnel carved just inches above the sea line. It traveled on and on until it finally broke into a lit cave filled with technological marvels, a oversized Canadian penny, a robot T-Rex, and a picture of a loving couple standing close hanging above a cutting edge computer.
When they arrived Dark Claw ripped off his mask revealing himself to be the socialite/techno-wizard/artist Logan. He stumbled to a gurney set up near the copter and said to Jubilee, "There are some bottles in that fridge over there. Get me one."
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 11, 2011 0:37:50 GMT -5
Jubilee gaped at the sight of the burrow, it seemed some sort of weird underground museum. She looked over to Logan and her eyes bulged out at his appearance. "Woa! Um, yeah sure! It is done!"
She ran over to the fridge and grabbed him a bottle. "So what is this, some sort of healing elixir or something?"
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Post by Deimos Masque on Jun 11, 2011 0:56:03 GMT -5
Logan unseathed on claw, slicing the top of the bottle after he took it, "It's... a beer." he muttered taking a big drink off of it, "My cigars... are in the humidor over there."
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Post by alicemalice on Jun 11, 2011 1:05:49 GMT -5
Jubilee rolled her eyed. "What? Jeez are you just hungover or something?"
She looked around his medical facilities and grabbed a few things. "You'll get a cigar after you are all better. Hmm..I can at least put on a few band aids.."
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