Sir if you don’t mind I can hang back with one of the rifles we have and help start bringing in the Fire and Police. This area seems Quiet enough and as you make your way done and clear up these streets. She said holding up one of the rifles that fired the Ice bullets.

They weren’t kill shots but neutralizers that would give her and the authorities some advantage…. She hoped.

William looked at the team,

OK Two and myself and will stay behind and help the authorities to get them to start moving in.

Williams said pressing a button on his watch and producing an circular energy shield.

The rest continue with the plan, Bloodrager, Harbinger, Spider-man and White Witch
Head down Malinche or Bartlett and clear the path.

Doc and Darkstar, Barbarian remain a few minutes behind and then follow up the path to ensure no surprises are left to surprise the team and then once near the warehouse house you can regroup and investigate or engage the warehouse.
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Harbinger began heading down Malinche with a noise of acknowledgement. She was eager to get to the target and tear him apart.  This Purple Man was likely only human unlike Belial. She didn't know if she could kill a demon but a human with powers she could. She broke into a full run, letting her suit enhance her speed to a degree as she moved her fangs grinning. She was excited to hurt someone.

Bloodrager listened closely. Sword did not know what Malinche was, and thought that Bartlett was some sort of fruit, but he understood following and assisting the other units in the party. Seeing as White Witch and Spiderman were more aerial, the big red man trotted after Harbinger, sword firmly in the grip of his ring-wearing hand. The ring itself was actually rather dim at the moment; Heart's attention being more focused on what the other Blood Red Swordsmen were up to currently.

"Alright, I'm going down Bartlett," He says, waiting for the others before he would begin to scout ahead. Everything still felt... Far too quiet considering the situation they were in. I don't like when it's so quiet despite a scene this bad... I better keep my guard up while I'm here. Spider-Man thought to himself.

As the plans changed and the groups split up, White Witch weighed her options. Spiderman was going one way and it wasn't ideal to have anyone alone in this dangerous situation. However, the other team consisted of a homicidal monster and an odd, alien being that she still only vaguely understood occasionally. She had faith in Spiderman, he seemed confident and leveled headed, so White Witch decided to head down Malinche with the two questionable teammates.

Steeling herself for what was ahead both literally and figuratively, White Witch flew down Malinche. She didn't need to go far, after a single block and an intersection littered with still bodies, the first dangerous person was stumbling south, away from the school. Not wanting to engage directly before gauging their ability and temperament, White Witch flew ahead of them, still several meters in the air and addressed the victim below to test their reaction. "Hello there. Can you tell me what is going on?" She asked. She was ready to evade should the affected individual throw something or leap up.

Spider-Man, upon seeing White Witch also head down another street he was taking, then jumped and began swinging down on his own, landing on a streetlight that was nearby the first person that managed to still be standing. "Hey buddy, you doin' alright over there?" he asked, wanting to see how they would respond to him before he acting.
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Sword of Cup paused upon finding the first body on the ground. His head tilted left, then right, considering the sight. Raising Woundhealer over his head two-handed, he snarled and brought the blade down to plunge it into the fallen person's torso. Up and down their form he non-sliced with the healing sword, hoping that enough life was still present for the sword of mercy to keep them from truly perishing. If there were obvious serious wounds, he drew the blade through them.

She ignored survivors , she ignored the wounded, she ignored her teammate stabbing people. She moved with the focus of a Terminator. Only one thing could possibly distract her from her mission. Of course her better half was keeping a careful eye on their surroundings for that one thing. She could imagine someone taking advantage of the chaos to catch a plaything. But her primary focus was the Target, the Purple Bastard.

SPIDERMAN:

Spidey doesn’t get any answers from the corpses laying in the street he heads down a few more houses he can see on the street that the road has has been torn up something, like melted tar which makes it's way down Bartlett...

His spider sense kicks in, warning him of danger to his left.
He turns, to look and just as he does he sees a large electrified Spike heading his way from a beaten looking female civilian. She is standing by the door of a house one arm raised which was aimed at Spidey the other holding a body of a man with a smoking hole in his chest, her shirt is partially torn and one of the legs on her pants are torn off her face looks bloodied but she stares up at you with a blank look.


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Harbinger / Bloodrager: White Witch

As the trio head down the other street. Bloodrager’s attempt to heal are left with no effect,

Harbinger continues her March ahead and see's the figure White Witch attempts to communicate with, the man looks unstable on his feet his brown shirt swaying in the wind his jeans partially burnt off.

As White Witch hovered,  the second she finished her question the stumbling person looks up towards her and a blast fired from his eyes, White Witch maneuvered just enough that the blast just missed her shoulder but she felt the heat emanating from it. He yelled as he got set to fire another shot. As White Witched watched it was very easy to notice the blank stare in the eyes of her assailant.



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William / Two:

William and Two  the smell of the area is strong, The smell of death is heavy everywhere. The Duo head out of the school onto the Bartlett main entrance and Head north. They can see the street has been torn up something like melted tar makes a line down Bartlett. Williams assumes that this was where Ghost Rider passed by.



OOC: ok this is probably the first sequence of fight for most of the folks:
So in brief let me The Defensive action required and attack action required.

Harbinger ignored her teammate under attack. The man was entirely focused on the witch so she continued onwards silently towards the target. She began runnin, more of an bounding at top speed towards her destination. Nothing was getting in between her and tearing the villain behind this's arms off.

Spider-Man instinctively reacted by jumping over the spike and firing his webbing at it, causing it to stick to the wall of a nearby building. He landed on the ground, facing the direction of where it was thrown at him. Once he sees the woman, he says, "Hey, that wasn't very nice!" He knew there wasn't anything that he could do for the man she was holding. He thought to himself as he carefully approached her, something isn't right, I doubt that this is really her actions considering how her eyes look...

Having only barely dodged the fiery blast White Witch decided to not take chances with the subsequent. Staying still, she raised her left hand as if to stop the blast and after a moment pitch black wall formed in front of her. The square of darkness was several meters across, enough to adequately cover her floating form, at least until the attacker repositioned.

Thinking herself safe for the moment, she considered the fight ahead. Hopefully while the man was blasting away at her, one of her companions could close the distance and incapacitate her attacker. Or at least that was her line of thinking until she noticed Harbinger booking it down the street. "By the heavens.." She started before silencing herself. I followed these two, but find myself alone.

Quite bothered by the deaths of unique individuals this way, Bloodrager moved away from the still forms. His sword was, oddly, clean and free of blood despite having been used to stab the body.

That Harbinger rushed ahead seemingly senselessly confused his human elements, but the flash of light up ahead was more concerning. And... was that a darkness spell? The Witch was doing more than just fly, he guessed, and he broke into a run heading for the wall of darkness and White Witch to see what he could do to assist (or heal) her.

With the wall in place and the preparation for the attack. A Loud Clacking is heard from behind you. It was Doc Oct.

That foolish Girl is going to get herself and possibly us killed!!  Bloodrage and you hurry after her keep her safe I will handle this one!

Oct Yelled to make sure they both heard him, Doc Ock used two of his arms and planted them firmly, sending two more towards where the man was standing.

Spiderman:

Upon Spiderman’s approach again his  spider sense went into over drive again. The woman he was focused on raised her hand again but this time before she had time to use her power Spidey just avoided a man jumping from the 2nd floor window and landing with a ground shaking impact next to the wall crawler causing him to lose his footing and land on his ass in the grass,
This man seemed to be strength augmented from the crater he had just made.
From Spidey’s current position he turned to see another spike coming for him from the woman who had now dropped the body and was walking towards him.


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White Witch / Bloodrager



White Witch’s’  Darkness wall seems to shimmer with another blast hits it from behind. The man was in an uncontrolled rage now, both pounding on the wall and using his beams to try to go through.
White Witch could feel that there was a fair amount of power behind the attack.


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Harbringer

(refer to Map group u)

Ignoring the fight you’re full run leads you quickly down the road. You get a couple blocks down when suddenly from beneath you the ground suddenly becomes a melted puddle causing you to lose your footing and tumble head over heels onto the ground. You can feel the hot tar on you. As you look you can see 3 people surrounding you. One holds up a hand with a  fire ball, another looks to have some sort of weird Bug eyes and clawed hands, The last one looks like a savage, foaming at the mouth and grunting

As Bloodrager approached, he would see that the black square floating several meters in the air, concealing White Witch, was a wall of some variety. Although it was a little difficult to discern at first glance due, as he drew closer it became clear that the barrier was a thin plane with no perceptible thickness.

White Witch breathed a small sigh of relief as the blasts were stopped by her barrier. While she was sure it would hold against any mundane force, powers where a bit of a gamble. Was the fiery blast a concentrated blast of plasma? Perhaps a laser igniting the air? Both easily stopped. However on the rare chance it was something more mystical in nature, like drawing energy of a fire realm and casting it forth, who could say how it would affect her spell.

Unfortunately one of the many trade-offs of a more absolute barrier was the absolute lack of knowledge that penetrated it. Blind to her attacker's movements and assaults, White Witch was forced to use indirect clues to deduce what was going on. Yes, the man was shooting his blasts at her, the illuminated street and buildings was proof of that. Yes, it was quite powerful, the air coming from around her barrier was practically scolding. However she couldn't discern  more until she braved a peek under her floating bastion. It was only then did she see that Bloodrager had tired of what had assumed was mutilating corpses and was running towards the fight.

Before she could decide how to subdue the rampaging fiery eyed man, while keeping Bloodrager from becoming burnt to a crisp, an unexpected voice drew her attention. "Doctor!" She exclaimed with surprise. "Alright, but please stay safe. It would be too soon for the world to lose your brilliance." She added before dropping her dark barrier. While the spell's collapse had a sort of ripple affect as reality snapped back to normal, to the untrained eye it simply vanished in an instant.

Flying towards Harbinger in a fast and erratic pattern to avoid any further blasts from roasting her, she did a quick assessment of the situation. Three affected individuals, with varying abilities. Great. She thought as she swooped down to the roof of a parked van. She had to slow down momentarily, but with a touch to the vehicle's roof, it lurched into motion off the ground and into the air, carried by White Witch as if stuck to her hand. Then after a few seconds of lining things up, the van shot forwards ahead of her flight, careening towards the group. White Witch had aimed for a spot in between the fireball wielding man and Harbinger. She was hoping to avoid squishing anyone and instead create a distraction and give cover for Harbinger. "Watch out on your left!" She yelled out in warning.

In reply to GM (msg # 49):

"Oh, come on!" Spider-Man says as he barely rolls out of the way of the incoming spike, hopping back up to his feet. "You're really leaving me no choice!" Spider-Man yells out as he fired more strands of web at the woman's feet with one hand, then with his other hand, he fired more at her torso to either slow her down or get her stuck in place. civilians. He knew that with the stronger one, he'd have to wear him down first before he even had a chance of keeping him still.

The hot tar wasn't much of a problem. Though the tumbling was a bit embarrassing had she been more prideful. As soon as the firestarter was in the picture she could feel her better half screaming. As Witch dealt with him. She sent out two tendrils forming suffocating masks around their heads other tendrils quickly forming restraints for their arms and legs. "Go to sleep" she told them. Hopefully they'd go limp before the other could tear a hole through the van with his flames

Spiderman / Barbarian

The webbing caught the woman dead on and caused her next action to fall short into the ground in front of her, creating a slight spark as it hit the ground harmlessly. She let out a howl as she tried to break free of the webbings.

The man However started towards the wall crawler and attempted to land a blow, Spidey easily dodged the fist coming at him. The man growled at the missed opportunity.

Spidey heard something from behind him but his Spider sense did not register a threat.
As Spidey prepped for his action he heard a familiar voice from behind him.

I have him! The Barbarian says tackling and Grappling onto the brute.

As they  tumbled a few feet passed Spidey Grappling his enemy, The Barbarian attempted to drain the energy from the man . However to his surprise, There was none of the specific energy Barbarian could drain. The brute had no more hopes… no more dream… in fact there was nothing but horror and despair in this brutes shell of a mind.
The Attempt to drain the host so Barbarian could keep his form strong seemed to have the opposite effect,  The energy he drained now filled Barbarian’s / Kent’s Psyche with the fear and despair the shell of the man felt.

Barbarian’s large 7’ foot frame and large muscles which needed Kent’s mind to be positive  in order to remain the Barbarian suddenly reverted him back to a normal  6’1” Kent, the Barbarian persona now retreated back into his psyche. Kent felt the brute reverse the grip onto Kent and snapped both his wrists. Kent shouted in pain. Fear and realization now visible on the young man.




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Bloodrager / Doc Ock



White Witch Lowered her barrier as one of Doc Ock’s arms streaked towards the firs spike man. Bloodrager was arriving as Doc Ock’s arm smashed into the man’s face. His fiery spike launched straight up as he tried to react to the arm now grappling his face. Doc held the man in place allowing Bloodrager a chance for a free attack.


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White Witch / Harbringer

The van came flying as did the fireball. It hit the side of the van and engulfed it in flames the impact sent the van flipping a few feet above Harbinger’s head.  The symbiote felt the heat but it wasn’t enough to distract harbinger from her goal. He tendrils streaked and engulfed the enemies. The brute’s strength was formidable but the Symbiote was stronger and held him steady as he tried to rip the tendril from it’s face.

The bug man’s clawed hands tried to snap the symbiote loose from it’s face but there was not enough strength. Harbinger however did feel a sudden sharp pain  as the acid from the tendril wrapped onto it’s face released and dripped with a strange acid like substance.
The Bugman spit again at the tendrils wrapped at it’s arm and again another wave of pain hit the symbiote. Wings emerged from the bugman but he could not quite escape grasp Harbinger had on it’s legs.

While The Brute went unconscious she had to focus on the bugman and the pyro . Spinning the bug by it's legs she smirked a pained smirk under her covered face. "You ever been so mad you beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker?" she muttered and then used bug man as a club against pyro.
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In reply to GM (msg # 53):

Bringing Woundhealer up, Bloodrager snarled like some sort of beast. The ring on his finger flared with bloody light, the ring self-fashioned from living metal that fell from outside of the multiverse, and the thematic music of the Blood Red Swordsmen began to play in an oddly atemporal fashion within the area the ring illuminated.

Liquid light flowed down the blade of Woundhealer as the sword of mercy was brought slashing down on the man's head. Had it been a normal, injurious weapon, it would have been an attack threatening to cut him in two lengthwise.



OOC: The Swordsmen's theme song and music video, one of the instances all six of them share in their matrices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaxEWKagh8

In reply to GM (msg # 53):

"I better help him out now that I got the other one tied up," Spider-Man said to himself before focusing his attention to the powered man. Spider-Man jumped over the two of them and fired a web at the top of a nearby building, then said to the man grappling Kent, "I need you to do me a big favor and hold on to this for a second." He proceeded by using his other hand to shoot a quick strand of web that attached the first one that was on the building to his back. He then moved back over to the front of Kent and grabbed hold of his shirt, saying, "Better brace yourself, I'm going to try to keep you on the ground with me," before firing another line of his webbing at the ground below him and holding onto it with his other hand.

Seeing that she was able to intervene in time and didn't accidentally crush anyone, White Witch gave another sigh of relief. She wasn't sure what her next move would have been, so she was glad Harbinger seemed to have a handle on the lot. Floating over, she descended until she had landed. "While I think Darkstar's worrying is bordering on paranoia, I don't think rushing in carefree is the answer either. If they-" White Witch cut off as an idea came to her. "Are you being manipulated again?"

Ensuring that the firebug and the normal bug were down and out first she turned towards White Witch. "Not unless Belial wants the guy responsible for all this armless, legless, and tongueless. Maybe Eyeless too. Possibly castrated. I don't know. I'll figure it out when I get there." She answered casually.