Corporate Development 2

[Netdroid9]

*The child who had been attacked by Chris ducks and pulls out a stun-gun.*

~Who the hell are you, and how'd you get out of your cage?!~

***

~Ah... Damn Psychics. You don't honestly think I'm going to let you anywhere near my 'superiors', do you? Why don't you ask for a stun-gun, too?~

[UncleAsriel]

I open my eyes and blearily. Distorted shapes seep into them and my head pounds in a dizzying rush. I close my eyes to put the spinny world out of my sight.

Damn, what happened?

There's some motion outside of... Whereever I am.

"Mwwww...mrrrmbllll."

So much for "Hey, you!"

I dare to open my eyes a second time. This time the world is less spinny and swergilly, and I can sit upright with a good degree of feeling okay. I'm in a prison cell. huh. Funny thing is that I can't remember anything that happened for the past day, which probably means that I went out for a drink in one of Psychotopia's seamier districts and was slipped a mickey. I heck to see if I'm wearing my own clothes - I'm surprised to see that I am.

Usually a one-nighter in Psychotopia with drugs unknown coursing through my bloodstream leads to a peculiar wardrobe transplant involving traffic cones and amusingly rude hats.

Maybe I wasn't busted.

In any event, there's someone outside my prison cell, and they're rather eager to see me.

Groovy. Maybe I'm getting bail after all.

[Shine]

"Hey Whiteoak, look who's here." Obed called out to his norn friend. Obed had backed down the hallway to be a bit more distant from the odd pair of morphers. Inspite of his size and strength, Obed was often insecure around spidery/reptiley/cephalopody/morphery thingys that looked icky.

"It's that guy who sort of runs the Wild Forest around the Dojo area, the guy who hired Sanders to keep the Dojo grounds."

Whiteoak glanced over and asked:
"Do you mean Asriel?"

"Yah, thats him. He doesn't look so good. That compulsion wave really did a number on him. Let him out, will you?"

Whiteoak reached a hand towards the locking device and encanted: "Mudify... extra creamy"

and the metalic locking devices lost their molecular coherency and became a smooth muddy substance. Obed grabbed hold of the door and gave it a hard YANK and it swung open.

"Mister Asriel, you should come out now, we expect the prisoner children to show up any minute to stop us, in the mean time, you can help us free as many more as we can. When we have to, we will retreat to our escape ship with those we have released, " he said pointing to the half dozen others who were standing in the hall between he and Azzy, and Whiteoak and Ravil and Raziel.

[Panther385]

"Fuhahah! I'm surprised you don't remember me!"

Chris skidded around to the back of the child, silently cursing that he missed.

"Intelligence and Torture Agent: 4917, Chrisedo Sautobi." He stared oddly at the stun gun, and then smirked. "Stun guns work on biological things, don't they? I wouldn't bother firing that anyway, I'm your last resort, direct source of information for prisoners, remember? Damage me," He snarled, "And you'll have no backup when the goody-two shoes decide to be heroic, and not spill the beans." He sat on his haunches and curled his frayed wire tail around. Small, thread-like tendrils seeped out from it and headed towards the Child. "You should lead us out of here, pronto. I could always just decapitate you, and steal the gate codes..." The wires curled up around it, like rearing snakes ready to strike.

[Wamphyri]

((We find ourselves somewhat unsure of what was supposed to happen Shine. Last we checked, you had fired upon us, and yet you are in space. We shall make a reply as though you still remain in space. If we have made a mistake, we will edit. Otherwise, Azaria is ours.

A permite aceia cine dare challnge nouă suffer un fate de un durere mare than patimă înainte şi un toaletă mai mult fear than a vinde al tău inimă.))

The now unconcious Azaria is like a rag doll. Limp and lifeless. A puppet to be manipulated. Shaithis grins as he begins to encroach upon Azaria's private thoughts, slowly seeping nightmares into her mind. If he cannot instill fear one way, it shall be done another. Turning back towards the cave, he begins to stride, a circle of Wamphyri remaining with him, an army marching at both sides and behind him. Zek walks on, a little further ahead.

Some of the Wamphyri continue to collect the bodies and remains of those that had been killed upon refusal of entering the alien spacecraft. They would find some use for them, even if it included feeding the underlings.

~A minor feat.~

~A feat all the same.~

~She isss ours.~

~I wouldn't disappoint you any other way.~

~Share her thoughts.~

[GBE]

Drone bends down and lifts up the child with both hands, before leaping up into the air, spinning around beginning to bring the child back down face first in an attempt to smash through her telepathic defences.

((She's a few feet in the air, so you do have a chance to retaliate.. ))

[Falhado]

Father Mac just stares at the child. He'd never met one yet that had found themselves refusing to help him, even after offering a small token of his gratitude. Unwilling to go against his own teachings, he avoids forcing the child to help. "Young child, if you will not help me find someone in charge, then I believe I shall have to search the ship until I find someone who's in charge. And far be it from the day that I require a weapon of any kind to bring harm to another living being!"

With that he walks away from the child towards one of the doors in the room. Opening it he proceeds through, passing a message onto Blue, "Blue, could you please accompany me. I fear I may find myself at a loss when it comes to technology, and would find your input most helpful."

[Shine]

((Wamphyrii - I'm not sure when you were referring to that I was on the ground, a good deal had happened since I had been on the ground, time was going by when you were not posting. The MAV flew to where the "children" had warped to, and then after unloading its passengers Sanders returned to help Az. At that point, Az was calling out mentally for help. Sanders attempted to lock a tractor beam onto her. We waited for her to respond as to whether she had been locked onto. She never responded. If you say we did not get her, I will comply, but if she posts that that is not so, and that she felt the beam before she lost consciousness, we would have to discuss it further, but for now, we will go along as she has not posted otherwise.))

[Netdroid9]

~Ah, trying to pass off as a snitch, are we? We only use stun-guns on biological freaks because they tend to kill the mechanical ones. Unfortunately for you, section gates lock automatically when biosigns go out, so killing me means you'll be stuck in the prisons forever. Or at least until we purge it, anyway. So get in the cage, whilst you still have a chance.~

***

~Screw that.~

*The child pulls out a stun-gun and fires it at the door, frying the motors used to open and close it and partially welding it to the frame.*

~Get in the cage, or you'll be next.~

***

~The child realizes her chance and increases her weight whilst at the *ame time shifting her composition to become liquid upon impact, hoping to use the wasp's attack against it.*

[Azaria Matthews]

((I am...confused. I was waiting for Wamphyri, considering I had been covered in tendrils and unconscious, and locking onto me would therefore have affected Shaithis as well...

Let's just continue so I don't reach my chars level of confusion... ))

Az is safe in her little corner of her mind... for about three seconds. The humans 'mind-self' has her arms tightly wrapped around the top of her head, and is crouched near a wall. She rocks back and forth, muttering incoherently even inside her own head.

It's dark in here, it's always dark in Az's mind, and everything constantly moves. The 'wall' she'd been crouched next to disappears, and Az slowly gets up and stares. She grasps her gun, which in here is covered in strange symbols. There's black fog in front of her, and a ruined village, devoid of life. Shaithis feeding nightmares into her mind brought this up from her memories. Only this was worse, there were still Wamphyri roaming around.

Az begins backing away, only to find the wall is back and is now blocking her from leaving. She spins around, takes aim with her gun and fires...

... only to find it start disintegrating into smoke, even while she held it. Seeing smoke also disappearing from her pockets, she figures that had come from what had used to be grenades. Now terrified, Az does the only thing she can: Az runs.

Even while unconscious, Az's facial expression changed to show her terror.

[Panther385]

"Ah, ignorant. I can't stand you ignorant types." Chris rolled his 'eyes'. The wires that were around the Child struck and triedto bury under its skin. "Then I won't kill you, then. You're going to be my puppet, lttle child."


((I've been too lazy to make a profile for Chris, so I'll do it here: The wires bury under a person's skin and spiderweb throughout their whole system. That way, he can control all their movements- like he said, the victim is his puppet. It is possible to escape, but that means ripping out all the tendrils; which could be very painful. ))

[Swix]

DM nods, but looks at Chris with a concerned and slightly surprised bright yellow eye. He'd tried to help her, and she didn't want to just abandon him. But then he said he'd come with them, so there shouldn't be too much difficulty.

"My mentor wants me to go with him, I-"

She stops, staring at the now fried door. DM walks slowly and deliberately towards the child that had obstructed Father Mac, and affixes him with a wide, toothy smile.

"Hello, do you remember me? I'm sure your friend does. I would like it if you would not do that. Confined spaces make me... edgy"

[GBE]

As Drone brings the child crashing towards the ground, the child suddenly liquidises, causing Drone to crash chest first into the ground. As she does so, parts of her flew off as if she'd tried to change last minute, but didn'tquite complete the transition. Slowly, she begins to stand up again...

[Falhado]

Father Mac regards the child with an air of disparity. "Why do you mean to remain so unhelpful child. I mean no harm and only wish to meet those in charge. You have proven most unhelpful and have acted aggressively. I will not tolerate action brought against myself, nor against those travelling with me."

~Blue do not bring unnecessary harm against the child. Perhaps he misunderstands our intentions. Violence is our last option remember? Tolerance and understanding, as well as your patience will be most helpful.~ As he finishes his private message to Blue, he gestures behind him with a free hand towards the damaged door which slams open as the molten seals are forced to break.

"Petty traps, nor petty devices will hold a pilgrim from his travels, nor his quest to learn. For we all ascend to the same place eventually and we will learn and continue our travels then. Do not encapsulate a free spirit, for it will ensure your passing not unto the lands of the light, but will have you cast into the lands of the darkness."

[Netdroid9]

~Hmph, and I'm the bad guy here. Those doors are a total pain in the ass to fix, you know. I stress once again, get back in your cell before I summon an utter shitload of guards to this location. Trust me, pilgrim, psychic or whatever the hell you are, you aren't getting off this rock before we're done with you.~

***

*The child screams as Chris's tendrils bore into it's flesh, making it barely mobile and seemingly helpless. Fueled by the pain caused by the obvious reasons, the child commands it's metal frame to brace itself against the wall, floor, ceiling or whatever it found first.*

~Let go of me!~

***

*The girl spots her chance and lunges at one the wasp queen's wings, bursting into flames as she does so in the hopes of burning the delicate fiber (wasps do have delicate wings, right?) and rendering the queen incapable of flight.*