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Post by Josh Dalton Worthington on Sept 14, 2006 17:19:33 GMT
Josh and his clone are standing on the bluff, attempting to pelt each other with rocks.
This.... isn't.... working. Josh's face is narrowed in concentration, and redirects another boulder back towards his twin, whose face is also narrowed - though something about him just looks wrong. Then, he sees Warren begin to go after fake-Jubes.
He thrusts a hand to the left, flinging his double back towards the melee, and TK-jumps high into the air, attempting to land on Jubilee's clone and telekinetically pin her down. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees his twin get up off the ground, coughing, and launch himself at Warren.
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Post by theonavarro on Sept 14, 2006 17:30:55 GMT
Jubilee heard Warren and nodded at him, she saw his clone swoop in his direction, She sent a couple of fireworks in its direction, hoping to at least stun it, she then blasted Josh's clone, which had launched itself at Warren. "Josh, you take the other girl's clone, your powers would be more useful there.!" She ducks as Warren's clone swoops down at her, apparently she had missed him with the fireworks, "Dammit," she growled.
Jubilee watched as the Warren-clone made a mid-air U-turn and and came back for another shot at her, Jubilee rubbed her hands together, colored sparkles appearing, she thrust out her hands and a barrage of multicolored sparkles hit the Warren clone head on, she watched as it hit the ground, rolling in a feathery mass of arms, legs and wings.
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Meanwhile, the jubilee clone was thrashing and bucking, apparently she didn't like being pinned down again, and this time she couldn't break free, she was being held down by what felt like a giant amount of pressure, like a plate of glass being pressed down on her. She screamed in rage and Josh was pelted with fireworks, she sent him flying with an energy streamer that appeared around a foot away from his chest, she got up, released from John's telekinetic prison, she saw Warren coming and did to him what the real Jubilee did to the Warren-clone.
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Jubilee watched this happen and screamed at warren "No! Take the Josh clone, she has an advantage with her powers, i mean, my powers, i mean... Uhh, just get away from her!" Jubilee turned back to the Warren-clone, awaiting its next attack.
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Post by Larza on Sept 14, 2006 18:03:53 GMT
Larza and Larzaclone were still going at their empathic battle. Larza was barely paying attention to the others, still dodging and such with half her mind and her body, while the rest of her concentration was on transforming the others' attacks into fuel for more attacks.
She did hear something about switching partners. But she was a little preoccupied, and didn't bother to look around - if someone else grabbed Larzaclone, she wouldn't be too broken up about it, but she wasn't going to get distracted.
Larzaclone had scarcely moved from her original location, standing atop the rock-thing, still shooting. Her other hand was at her temples, a gesture Larza found to be quite...weird looking.
It was like looking in a mirror while drunk, she mused absently. You knew you were supposed to match up with the reflection, but it just so obviously *didn't* that it was amusing. Ish.
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Post by Bobby Drake on Sept 14, 2006 18:11:33 GMT
(( OOC: Quick rules reminder:
Don't post the EFFECTS of your own attacks. Leave that to the attackee. (Eg, X posts "X throws a thermonuclear hand grenade at Y," Y posts "Y smacks the hand grenade back at X with her tennis racket", X posts "X stares in horror as the hand grenade gets stuck in his teeth before exploding".)
The exception, of course, is when one of your chars is attacking the other.
Moving on...))
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Post by Warren Worthington III on Sept 14, 2006 18:44:55 GMT
> "No! Take the Josh clone, she has an advantage with
> her powers, i mean, my powers, i mean... Uhh, just get
> away from her!"
Judging from how effective the Jubilees are being against both Warrens and Josh, Warren decides she probably has a point. Besides which, the Josh-clone is already targetting him as he gets up off the ground.
So he veers past the no-longer-supine Jubillee II, continues to pick up speed towards Josh II, and wonders how he's going to manage this. Warren's wings are damned useful in an ordinary fight, but Josh -- either of him -- is hardly an ordinary opponent. All it takes is one successful TK grab and Warren is basically helpless.
Good thing I'm smart as well as rich and good-looking, he thinks wryly to himself. He tries not to flinch as he drops low and digs his wings into the ground painfully, scooping up a few bucketfulls of loose dirt and sand and flinging them in Josh II's direction. With a little luck, he'll be blinded for a while, which should make him a little easier to deal with.
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Meanwhile, Warren II charges Jubilee in a weaving, bobbing, zigzagging flightpath designed to make him difficult to target. As he zips past her a muscular wing flashes out like a flail towards her head.
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Post by Josh Dalton Worthington on Sept 14, 2006 22:33:49 GMT
Shit.
Josh is thrown, painfully, about 20 feet into the air by Jubilee II's fireworks, and comes to a halt in a stand of scrubby bushes.
"Aaack!" He rips his jacket off, as it's in flames from the sparklers, and throws it aside. "Damn it!" He begins to stand up, breath coming out as a gasp, a little stunned. She... just tried to kill me. He rolls over onto his stomach, panting.
This has gone far enough! His eyes darken a little, and he begins to walk back towards the group in a straight line for Jubilee II, hands outstretched in front of him. Rocks begin uprooting themselves from the ground and hovering in his vicinity as he strides closer. With a thrust of both hands, he sends them hurtling in towards the clone.
Dodge this.
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Josh's clone takes an abortive lunge at Warren, as clots of dirt suddenly fly in at him. He's taken by suprise and manages to stop the bigger chunks. Unfortunately, the smaller particles get past him guard, effectively blinding him. He shouts in anger, and begins to stumble around the area, hands over his face, sending telekinetic shoves in the last direction he saw Warren.
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Post by theonavarro on Sept 16, 2006 0:10:37 GMT
Jubilee saw the Warren clone come at her in his zig-zag formation, she fired a few fireworks, for luck more then anything, before hitting the ground with a loud thump. She wasn't sure what was going on, or how these glowy-clone-freaks were even made, or born, or whatever. She looked over at the othersand groaned, what the fuck was going on???
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The clone-Jubilee was being pelted with the rocks that Josh was throwing at her, she created a twister effect of fireworks, her fireworks were slightly different from the real Jubilee's fireworks, they were darker then the real Jubilee's, slightly monochromatic. The fireworks stopped alot of the rocks, but not enough, her glowy body was starting to bruise, strange that the clones were so nearly human that even their muscle tissue was similar...
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Post by Larza on Sept 16, 2006 0:40:26 GMT
Some dirt flung from somewhere - Larza wasn't paying close enough attention to know where it had come from - hit Larzaclone, and seemed to startle her. Apparently she/it wasn't paying good attention either.
She stopped projecing to the clone, letting the attacks against her store up within her mind.
With a momentary glance, she noted the fireworks, the flying objects. More mutants. Lovely. And she couldn't tell the orignials from the clones, so she wasn't sure she should help out with theirs - she might risk killing the 'good guys'.
She turned her attention back to Larzaclone, and barely dodged in time ot miss being hit be a blade that had been coming at her head. It pased so close she could hear it whizz past.
She blasted pain at the clone abruptly, using the energy and sensations she'd stored up. The clone faltered, and Larza fired several blades it's way, hoping she'd hit.
(Are we allowed to kill our clones? Heh.)
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Post by Warren Worthington III on Sept 16, 2006 1:33:21 GMT
(( OOC: Sure, you can kill/defeat your clone if you want. Or allow the clone to be defeated when attacked by others. Or allow yourself to be defeated. Basically the fight continues until one side is down.))
Warren grins triumphantly as Josh's clone is blinded, and swoops in for a final blow. Too confident by half, it turns out, as a random telekinetic shove catches him by surprise, spoils his aim, sends him spinning out of control for a moment. He recovers control in an instant and swoops around for another strike.
Meanwhile, Warren-clone's wingstrike swoops over Jubilee's dive to the ground and he continues his defensive pattern past her, also swooping around for a return pass.
Which brings the two winged warriors in range of one another again, and the clone switches targets and Warren turns to face him. The air is split by the collision of their wings -- two strikes, too blocks -- and their bodies slam together like the cars in a game of "chicken" gone too far. Grappling with their wings intertwined they spin in the air for a moment, then hit the ground hard, raising a cloud of dust that obscures for the moment which body hit first.
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Post by Josh Dalton Worthington on Sept 16, 2006 4:39:06 GMT
Gotcha! Josh grins as his telekinetic storm of rocks and dirt hammers Jubilee II. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Warr and his double crash into each other, trading blows. He arrives back in the melee after being tossed across the clearing, and attempts to lift and throw her as high into the air as possible.
Josh tries not to wince as he sees his double trying to scrub dirt out of his face, and TKs him upwards, spinning him wildly. He throws him in the direction of Warren II, and suddenly is blasted off his feet by some stray fireworks.
Good thing that didn't hit home. He picks himself up out of the dust, and brushes a stray hair out of his face, concentrating on deflecting Jubilee II's pyrotechnic barrage.
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Post by theonavarro on Sept 16, 2006 14:31:51 GMT
Jubilee watched as the Warren-clone collided with real Warren, she screambled to her feet just as they hit the ground, she turned and saw her own clone creating a firework tornado, hmm, she thought, I never thought of doing that before... Looks like a good idea. Jubilee mentally kicked herself, this was not the time to taking tips from alien clones! She launched herself at the Jubilee clone, sucking in the clone's fireworks, feeding off of their energy, she was hoping that Josh would have a clearer shot, even though he would probably have to hit her too. Jubilee and clone once again had a tussle in the dust, rolling and scratching and hitting, the Jubilee-clone was firing off fireworks left and right, Jubilee fed off of them, hoping to drain the clone of her energy. She wasn't sure if would work, but it was worth a try...
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Post by Larza on Sept 17, 2006 13:47:36 GMT
(Decisions, decisions...)
Larzaclone didn'tn otice the impending danger. But the blade didn't hit a fatal spot - it simply imbedded itself in her arm. The identical girl pulled it free, looked at the blood on it with distaste, and dropped it.
The empathic barrage continued, as the pain the double felt was fueling her attacks. Larza was getting tired, and she could tell Larzaxlone was too. It was only going to be a matter of time before they had to resort to a simple catfight to solve this.
Which, if the clone had the skills she had, which it appeared she did, it was going to be fairly interesting to see what happened.
She spared another glance at the other battling mutants and their indistinguishable doubles. No one was dead, yet, so that was...well, she wasn't sure i it was good or not, but it was certianly something.
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Post by Warren Worthington III on Sept 17, 2006 18:04:39 GMT
The two Warrens crash into the ground, one atop the other, and stay there without moving for several seconds. Then one gets back up on his feet, a little wobbly, while the other remains on the ground.
As the dust settles, two things become obvious:
First, even the topmost Warren is not unscathed by the fall. His right pants leg is shredded, and the entire right side of his body is scraped and bloody, and he stands favoring his left leg.
Second, the bottom-most Warren is the clone, still glowing faintly green, and apparently far more damaged by the fall. He is still at least semi-conscious and tries to get back up, managing only to climb to his knees.
Warren's windsense informs him of Josh I hurling Josh II in their general direction. Excellent... two birds with... He lets that thought trail off unfinished, it being not entirely a positive omen, and grabs Warren II by one wing and the scruff of his pants.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!!! Warren hopes Josh isn't picking up his thoughts as he tries to ignore the pain of using his battered right arm... a real hero isn't supposed to be distracted by things like pain, right? He's sure he read that in a book somewhere.
Regardless, he lifts off the ground with a furious beat of his wings, spins expertly once in mid-air, and uses the angular momentum of the spin to hurl Warren II into Josh II's aerial path. With a little luck they'll take care of each other, he hopes.
Then he drops back to the ground, landing on his good leg and checking out the situation. Josh and Jubilee are concentrating on Jubilee II. The stranger seems evenly matched (no surprise) by her clone, but both seem to be tiring.
Warren really doesn't like the look of those knives, but he figures he's likely to heal faster than anyone else here. So he grits his teeth, launches himself into the air again, and loops around in a silent glide hoping to take out the knife-wielder's clone from behind while it's concentrating on its primary target.
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Post by Josh Dalton Worthington on Sept 18, 2006 4:40:44 GMT
Josh winces as more fireworks implode on his telekinetic shield, knocking him backwards a little. Sometimes he really hated Newton's Third Law - sure, his shield could protect him from blast damage, but in Danger Room scenarios he'd been KO'ed more than once when the blast had knocked him into the nearest wall. She's fucking nuts. Jesus, is this what happens when you get the real Jubilee mad?
Suddenly, he detects a sharp bloom of pain from Warren. Distracted, he realizes Jubilee II's fired a huge blast and uses a TK jump to sail out of the way. He lands in a heap, spitting out dirt, but safe for the moment from the barrage. Y'know, sometimes telepathy really sucks. He dusts himself off, seeing his clone impact Warren's with a crunch. The two lie in a heap, unmoving. Ouch.
Those blades could cause a very, very bad day. <Be careful, Warren.> He moves over to the group, and circles the girl and her clone at a distance, hoping to catch any projectiles in midair and save both Warren and the girl from getting one in the chest.
(Warr and Larza - feel free to NPC any blade-telekinetics for dramatic effect.)
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Post by theonavarro on Sept 20, 2006 16:39:45 GMT
Jubilee and her clone rolled through the dust, Jubilee was starting to feel dizzy, the amount of energy she was absorbing was making her head scream, when the clone was drained, she would switch with Josh again, lets see how the Josh-clone can take her with twice as much power, the Jubilee-clone was foaming at the mouth, she was getting so desperate that the energy was no longer appearing in mid air in shapes, it was now coming off of her in waves, likes some sort of bright colorful sweat.
Jubilee absorbed it all, lapping up the energy like some dog drinking out of a bowl, she felt like she was high, she was dizzy and ecstatic and empowered all at the same time, she held on to her clone's wrists, they were rolling through the dust, her back cut and bruised from rocks, but she couldn't feel any of it, the energy was overwhelming. Jubilee began to giggle as they rolled, she no longer saw this as a fight, but as an opportunity for a power boost.
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