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longestnight_old2015-06-25 04:41 am
beetlebutt) wrote in longestnight_old2015-06-25 04:41 am
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Gods and Monsters [cs: torture and murder and scary stuff]
Jaime Reyes was standing on a street in El Paso, looking very confused, and talking to himself. Well, at least it looked like he was talking to himself. Really, he was talking to the scarab, because the two of them were trying to figure out what the heck had just happened. The world had blurred, Jaime had passed out and now...
"This is so not El Paso."
Now he was in a place that was home and yet not home.
|T L[][]KS \|/E|RD. \|/HERE'S THE PUTT-PUTT?
"Exactly. And that - what is that? That building wasn't there yesterday. Neither was that bank building. And where's the El Diablo?"
/-\LTERN/-\TE D|/|\ENS|[]N?
"Are your sensors picking up anything weird?"
...SENS[]RS /-\RE |N[]PER/-\T|[]N/-\L.
After doing a systems check, the scarab trilled a little wordless cry of alarm.
"What's wrong?"
/|\UTIPLE SYSTEMS |N[]PER/-\T|[]N/-\L. []NLY B/-\S|C L|FE SUPP[]RT, B/-\SIC TR/-\NSF[]O/|\/-\T|[]N /-\B|L|T|ES, /-\ND C[]/|\/|\S /-\V/-\|L/-\BLE. D|/-\GN[]ST|CS UN/-\BLE TO DETER/|\INE WHY.
"Whoa, whoa, okay, calm down, you're kinda panicking. Stop with the brain klaxons, okay?"
|'/|\ RUNN|NG BL|ND. Y[]U C/-\LM D[]WN!
"I know this is freaky, and you're not used to being blind like this, but you're still conscious and I'm still conscious, and we're not fighting an evil death satellite or, I don't know, being shot at by aliens. We'll figure this out, okay? Just keep a cool head."
The response was a very surly, | D[]N'T H/-\VE /-\ HE/-\D.
Jaime rolled his eyes. "You know what I meant, Mr. Literal. Look, we'll figure this out, okay?"
In fact, maybe he could just talk to someone and get some answers. Some teenagers ran down the street towards him.
"Hey! Very, very lost superhero here," he said, waving them down. "Any chance you could -"
They didn't notice. In fact, with a feeling like cold mist, they ran right through him. Jaime froze up after they did, expression stricken.
"Okay, we're a ghost or something and no one can see, hear, or touch us. Time to panic."
| T[]LD Y[]U!
"This is so not El Paso."
Now he was in a place that was home and yet not home.
|T L[][]KS \|/E|RD. \|/HERE'S THE PUTT-PUTT?
"Exactly. And that - what is that? That building wasn't there yesterday. Neither was that bank building. And where's the El Diablo?"
/-\LTERN/-\TE D|/|\ENS|[]N?
"Are your sensors picking up anything weird?"
...SENS[]RS /-\RE |N[]PER/-\T|[]N/-\L.
After doing a systems check, the scarab trilled a little wordless cry of alarm.
"What's wrong?"
/|\UTIPLE SYSTEMS |N[]PER/-\T|[]N/-\L. []NLY B/-\S|C L|FE SUPP[]RT, B/-\SIC TR/-\NSF[]O/|\/-\T|[]N /-\B|L|T|ES, /-\ND C[]/|\/|\S /-\V/-\|L/-\BLE. D|/-\GN[]ST|CS UN/-\BLE TO DETER/|\INE WHY.
"Whoa, whoa, okay, calm down, you're kinda panicking. Stop with the brain klaxons, okay?"
|'/|\ RUNN|NG BL|ND. Y[]U C/-\LM D[]WN!
"I know this is freaky, and you're not used to being blind like this, but you're still conscious and I'm still conscious, and we're not fighting an evil death satellite or, I don't know, being shot at by aliens. We'll figure this out, okay? Just keep a cool head."
The response was a very surly, | D[]N'T H/-\VE /-\ HE/-\D.
Jaime rolled his eyes. "You know what I meant, Mr. Literal. Look, we'll figure this out, okay?"
In fact, maybe he could just talk to someone and get some answers. Some teenagers ran down the street towards him.
"Hey! Very, very lost superhero here," he said, waving them down. "Any chance you could -"
They didn't notice. In fact, with a feeling like cold mist, they ran right through him. Jaime froze up after they did, expression stricken.
"Okay, we're a ghost or something and no one can see, hear, or touch us. Time to panic."
| T[]LD Y[]U!
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The sense of electricity racing up her legs and through her body was a surprise. It wasn't the same as expelling the energy but it was at least familiar in some way. Every muscle it raced through tightened and twitched uncontrollably causing her to arch her body and tumble backwards landing on the lid of the dumpster hard, twitching and growling involuntarily.
Oh...oh he would pay for this indignity. He would rue this day.
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Jaime ran, down the alley, jumped over a fence, then turned and started running across the nearby US-180, jumping and bouncing off the roofs of cars to get across the very busy multi-lane super highway.
Most normal humans wouldn't have been able to cross it without getting hit, something he was banking on.
It was another advantage he had here. After growing up in this city and flying over it every day, he knew it like the back of his hand, even with this version being slightly different.
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Appearing suddenly like a bolt of lightning made flesh she was following him across the highway. As cars drew closer to her she almost seemed to glide out of the way. Smoke rose from her heels as she thrust her hands down and blasted blue flame at the street sending her rocketing the through the air and rapidly closing the distance between them.
His head start it seemed was rapidly running out.
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"Of course she has rocket feet," he muttered under his breath.
He wasn't sure how he was going to get out of this.
Diving off of the overpass that made up US 180, he landed on top of a semi-truck passing on a road below, and then, not wanting to make the truck a target, he jumped onto the roof of a McDonald's that the truck passed by.
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Had she gotten confused? Had he lost her?
A long silence and stillness followed. Would he stay where he was or risk abandoning his hiding place from more appropriate cover?
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If he could completely lose her and power down the suit, he could even pass for some random guy on the street, so long as he didn't walk through anyone.
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Just as he came around the corner a flaming foot crashed into into the side of helmet and skull hard.
Azula did not wait to see if the suit had protected him. She followed up the kick with a double palm blast of flame so forceful it blew her hair back.
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The blast of fire? That caused him to slam into a nearby building so hard the brick crumbled around him.
He slid to the ground, revealing that the back of the suit was actually cracked and sparking. Even the scarab had been knocked out with that rocket punch.
The blue goo mixed with Jaime's blood seeped out of the crack in the armor at his head.
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"The only downside to defeating you so soundly is I don't get to gloat to you. But I suppose that's somewhat childish of me."
So is talking to yourself. A nagging voice reminded her.
Still she shouldn't waste time and she knew it. Rather then dragging him away to his next ordeal she brought in some fearlings to do the work for her. While it was a tempting thought just to kill him and make the enemy realize that they weren't to be trifled with, she had received a rather "Inspired" suggestion from Alex before she'd left to collect this boy.
There was potential here, and Azula loved taking advantage of potential.
This foolish boy had no idea what Azula had in store for him.