Sark
Im-im-impossible!!
"And there it is""Hey kid, you're wasting your breath on a man like him." Nezumi hissed sharply without even looking at Steven, his mind racing with jumbled thoughts the moment Arcade spoke about Shion being in a bee trap of all things. There was no use trying to even speak with a man like Arcade. Though the chance to attack him was something he'd jump on quick if he had the means to, he didn't know the extent of this man's weird powers, or what he might have up his sleeve. Didn't mean he didn't want to beat the shit out of him any less. No, something about this encounter felt wrong, but he was too angry to see it. He didn't move from where he sat, studying Arcade for a moment while he tried to calm himself down to think more clearly, eyes holding contempt.
If he wanted a rise out of them, he got one for a split second from Nezumi. Once calm enough, he didn't move and wouldn't until Arcade got out of his sight.
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"That flicker of passion! That spark of emotion! In 6 days, my children, that spark will have grown into the brightest flame you can imagine. It's going to burn you up! You'll be begging me for the chance to rip someone's throat out, should it help extinguish that flame for just a moment"
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"I can see it blazing away inside you already, Nezumi... that's why you're one of the top picks. Its why a lot of nasty, nasty people have a lot of money resting on you coming out on top. It didn't take much to kindle that light within you, kid. All it took was an angry speedster and you start a-hackin'. Tell me, son. If you hadn't been smooshed into the side of that rock, would you have gone through with it? Would you have kept grinding that knife into him? Would you have killed poor old father of two Wally West? Or... do we already know the answer to that one?"
@Takumi @Gummi Bunnies @Atomic Knight @York @Hahli Nuva @Minerva @Sark
View attachment 3689Jianyu rolled her eyes. "He's lying," she said. "He doesn't have anyone we love locked away and is just trying to get us to snap. Well it's not going to happen, typical TV producer."
"Jianyu!"
"What? He called you a Doll, and I warned him about running his mouth. Anyways, if you're not staying here the whole night, you can go now. No gritty massacre is happening here tonight."
@Sark @Takumi @Atomic Knight @Jeremi @York @Gummi Bunnies
"Really? We're still on this 'typical' thing? Please" Arcade groaned and shrugged, before nonchalantly reaching into his jacked and fumbling around. "I forgave you last time. But twice? Shame on you. Remember what happened last time you kids disrespected me? You should really listen to your sister. She sounds like the brains of the operation-- Ah!" There it was. He'd found it. Holding the item with two pinched fingers, he let it dangle for a moment, swinging it callously. Once he finally let it fall into the sand by Xiayu's feet, he instinctively began to wipe his hands along the sides of his pants, inadvertently staining his white suit crimson with flicks of blood and ash. "I trust you recognize this?"
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"Consider it... a token of my generosity. A keepsake from which you can remember a lost friend... and most importantly a sign of my honest albeit murderous nature"
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Jeremi @York @Gummi Bunnies
The silent treatment continued from Laura. While the others might feel inclined to feed his ego she wasn't going to be one of them. Besides, men like him lost some of his power if you decided to ignore them. Even still they were still stuck on this island with him pulling the strings potentially with their loved ones in his grasp. They needed to figure something out and soon.
"Anyways, if you're not staying here the whole night, you can go now. No gritty massacre is happening here tonight."
@Sark @Takumi @Atomic Knight @Jeremi @York @Gummi Bunnies
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"You sure about that?" Arcade smirked. "I mean, one of you could snap and run the gauntlet overnight. A couple of well places stab wounds" His eyes fell to Hyakkimaru. "Or claw swipes" His eyes bounced to Laura. "Or some beautiful strangulations" The swung back around to the two dolls "Your little camp could get very messy very quickly. I suggest you sleep close to the river. Might give you an escape route once things go south and the--" He smiled at Nezumi "--back stabbing starts"
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"Oh, and before I forget... Remember to wrap up warm tonight. Especially you, Ms.Kinney..."
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"Because there's a storm coming... and I'd hate to see you catch a cold..."
In a burst of lighting, Arcade vanished, sending stones and sand clouds dancing in wake. As soon as he was gone, the heavens seemed to open, spraying the Jungle with a fog of pounding rain.
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"Crap dude..." He groaned, trying to hold back his lunch and having a frail hand in front of the concentrated radiation blast "Can I just.... t-t-t-tap out? The b-b-b-big guy n-n-n-never had to d-d-d-deal with this amount of the green s-s-stuff--- not c-c-concentrated like this! I ain't got nothin' to prove here man..."
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Rolling onto his back and breathing heavily, Superboy let a shiver rush over him.
"What do you say we go for the b-b-b-best of three? W-w-w-wasn't on board with A-A-A-Angel from the start. W-w-was gonna q-q-quit after their s-s-scouting r-r-run wrapped up... g-g-gonna play them like the b-b-big guy would. B-b-burn all t-t-their supplies and come running... or even s-s-steal their s-s-stuff and get Wally back on board... Big Guy didn't kill.. s-s-so I wasn't gonna do it..."
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"S-s-so what's it g-g-gonna be, Tin-man? Y-y-ya gonna ice me, or d-d-do you want another k-k-kryptonian on y-y-ya side? Or am I gonna wake up in the big penthouse in the sky?"
@Crow @York
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"None of you seem to appreciate that I'm the only one here doing anything to keep us alive. I got us the furs. I got us the food. All you did was start a crummy fire. Some courage that took"
"You're right, Alice. This whole thing is fucking bad. Which is why we've got to do bad things to survive. You can whine all you want about how I 'hurt your feelings' went behind your back, but what none of you have considered is that I could have easily just ran. I could have headed for the coast. I could have swam up to the Northern Clearing. Or ran down the the Badlands and not freeze half to death. Instead, I came back here to kill a bear and save your sorry arses. You should be thanking me"
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
"It wouldn't surprise me if 'Mr.Logan' ate his moose straight from the claw" He laughed "I... don't know if Wolverine's a good man, but he's... not bad either. He's saved our lives more often that I can count, and that's earned him a lot of slack in my book. But I'm not him. He can call me a Boyscout all he wants, but I've got a conscience, and I plan on keeping it intact. Especially if I've gotta avoid 'going mad and dying', like you said I would. Let's hope that Arcade of all people isn't the guy who start's that downwards spiral" He smiled again, mood picking up. "Who knows? If we make it to Day 6, I'll tell you about that Giant Pinball Machine of his"
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
Should Billy and Jak explore the area surrounding the waterfall cave, they would find a handful of slow moving fish, which would prove to be easy pickings for anyone with a quick-fire weapon or the ability to cast lighting. As the storm erupted in the distance, the magical lightning summoned by Billy would slip under the radar, its flash lost in the mist of the rain. With shelter and a food source, the White Team seemed to have found safety for the night, albeit a colder, wetter one than they might have initially imagined.
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"You sure about that?" Arcade smirked. "I mean, one of you could snap and run the gauntlet overnight. A couple of well places stab wounds" His eyes fell to Hyakkimaru. "Or claw swipes" His eyes bounced to Laura. "Or some beautiful strangulations" The swung back around to the two dolls "Your little camp could get very messy very quickly. I suggest you sleep close to the river. Might give you an escape route once things go south and the--" He smiled at Nezumi "--back stabbing starts"
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"Oh, and before I forget... Remember to wrap up warm tonight. Especially you, Ms.Kinney..."
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"Because there's a storm coming... and I'd hate to see you catch a cold..."
In a burst of lighting, Arcade vanished, sending stones and sand clouds dancing in wake. As soon as he was gone, the heavens seemed to open, spraying the Jungle with a fog of pounding rain.
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Jeremi @York @Gummi Bunnies @Lake Team
Even a telekinetic wall couldn't shield the Metropolis Kid from brunt of the radioactive blast, forcing him to his knees. With his powers shutting down one by one, Conner felt him becoming something strange and new- human. Perhaps it was his other Father's heritage taking over, placing the 'Man' back into 'Superman'. Or perhaps the radiation had just crippled his system entirely."Bzzzzt!"
The Scarab did not take kindly to the telekinetic intrusion, and before Superboy could hit any internal weak spot, the Scarab reversed the telekinetic waves, hitting Superboy with his own medicine, right in the mind! This also caused a creation of distance between the two parties.
"Whatever you're doing, I'm sure you'll be successful after ninety-nine or so times," Beetle taunts as the glowing slits on his suit changed from a sunny red to a very familiar radioactive green. "I think you already figured, but unlike the augmentations of that Cyborg Superman guy I think you're talking about, my friend here knows how to fight back."
Blue Beetle formed some kind of wave blaster in his hand. These glowing slits dimmed as the very same radiation that previously exuded from them, now in a more concentrated form, was aimed for Superboy!
"Crap dude..." He groaned, trying to hold back his lunch and having a frail hand in front of the concentrated radiation blast "Can I just.... t-t-t-tap out? The b-b-b-big guy n-n-n-never had to d-d-d-deal with this amount of the green s-s-stuff--- not c-c-concentrated like this! I ain't got nothin' to prove here man..."
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Rolling onto his back and breathing heavily, Superboy let a shiver rush over him.
"What do you say we go for the b-b-b-best of three? W-w-w-wasn't on board with A-A-A-Angel from the start. W-w-was gonna q-q-quit after their s-s-scouting r-r-run wrapped up... g-g-gonna play them like the b-b-big guy would. B-b-burn all t-t-their supplies and come running... or even s-s-steal their s-s-stuff and get Wally back on board... Big Guy didn't kill.. s-s-so I wasn't gonna do it..."
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"S-s-so what's it g-g-gonna be, Tin-man? Y-y-ya gonna ice me, or d-d-do you want another k-k-kryptonian on y-y-ya side? Or am I gonna wake up in the big penthouse in the sky?"
@Crow @York
"Sure, I could have told all. But then what? Half of you would have tried to talk me out of it. Scott would probably have to restrain himself, or else he'd be giving us some GreenPeace spiel. You'd have probably knocked me out, if I gave you the chance"The moment the bear was finally dead Alice put her gun away. With Eli badmouthing Scott however is when she had enough of his shit. She brought her fist down on his head.
"Eli what the fucking hell?! Instead of risking your life like that you could of told us or something then you would of had someone watching your back a lot sooner! Your recklessness os going to get you killed and if it's someone like me telling you this then that's pretty fucking bad." She exclaimed. Sure they got meat and furs now but that didn't excuse the fact that things could of gotten real ugly and went wrong if they didn't realize he was gone as soon as they did.
She didn't pay too much attention to the little broadcasts of the day Arcade put up, too busy chewing Eli out to really care about that.
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"None of you seem to appreciate that I'm the only one here doing anything to keep us alive. I got us the furs. I got us the food. All you did was start a crummy fire. Some courage that took"
"You're right, Alice. This whole thing is fucking bad. Which is why we've got to do bad things to survive. You can whine all you want about how I 'hurt your feelings' went behind your back, but what none of you have considered is that I could have easily just ran. I could have headed for the coast. I could have swam up to the Northern Clearing. Or ran down the the Badlands and not freeze half to death. Instead, I came back here to kill a bear and save your sorry arses. You should be thanking me"
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
Loa didn't really know what to say to comfort her future headmaster. "People hunt for food, I bet Mr Logan does that a lot when he's out and that doesn't make him a bad person, right?"
To Eli Loa just shot a glare. "If you want to be the guy who tries to kill everyone go for it, but I'm pretty sure you're not going to at least get anyone of us to help you, and I'd like to see you get a drop on that Weapon Hex girl all on your own too." She realized that whatever they said and did he was still going to try his darnedest to follow what Arcade had set out for them to do, but that didn't mean none of them should actually help him do it.
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
"It wouldn't surprise me if 'Mr.Logan' ate his moose straight from the claw" He laughed "I... don't know if Wolverine's a good man, but he's... not bad either. He's saved our lives more often that I can count, and that's earned him a lot of slack in my book. But I'm not him. He can call me a Boyscout all he wants, but I've got a conscience, and I plan on keeping it intact. Especially if I've gotta avoid 'going mad and dying', like you said I would. Let's hope that Arcade of all people isn't the guy who start's that downwards spiral" He smiled again, mood picking up. "Who knows? If we make it to Day 6, I'll tell you about that Giant Pinball Machine of his"
@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
"I'm going after the Witch first. If it wasn't for her, the Orange Team would have been wiped out by now, I'd still have my machete and... oh, yeah... we wouldn't be stuck in this endless white wasteland. We have every reason to want her dead. No doubt she was trying to kill us when she sent us here. Call it delayed self-defense"To Eli Loa just shot a glare. "If you want to be the guy who tries to kill everyone go for it, but I'm pretty sure you're not going to at least get anyone of us to help you, and I'd like to see you get a drop on that Weapon Hex girl all on your own too." She realized that whatever they said and did he was still going to try his darnedest to follow what Arcade had set out for them to do, but that didn't mean none of them should actually help him do it.
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@Takumi @Atomic Knight @Crow @RedTeam @Jeremi
Billy Batson/ Shazam
Billy would look over at him and nod. " It might be a good idea to do just that. That is definitely the truth of the matter, we are both targets and I'm sorry about that. I didn't intend to put a target on your back so early in this sick and twisted game. I know you want to go back home to your family....as for me- I guess I do, but I'm honestly not sure. We do need food, it looks like there is some not too far. I still think we should wait until thhe morning to avoid danger. But one good thing came out, it sounds like Scott might be alive. That's good."
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"Shaz-?! He frowned only to hear Arcade mention something about his teammate's name and frowned, "I agree, we law low longer. He's trying to pick out who he thinks will survive. Doesn't mean it's true. He eyed Shazam now who was just a kid. ".. Sorry I didn't know but that makes us both a target now."
"If we both lay low and avoid grabbing attention, we might survive this thing."
"Plus we both need to eat something."
@Alex Azure @dark @Lucky
Should Billy and Jak explore the area surrounding the waterfall cave, they would find a handful of slow moving fish, which would prove to be easy pickings for anyone with a quick-fire weapon or the ability to cast lighting. As the storm erupted in the distance, the magical lightning summoned by Billy would slip under the radar, its flash lost in the mist of the rain. With shelter and a food source, the White Team seemed to have found safety for the night, albeit a colder, wetter one than they might have initially imagined.
Ratchet frowned and turned "Look if I didn't do anything. They could have attacked both of us. He stepped out of the way of the laser shot and frowned. "I'm coming."
@Lucky @dark @Alex Azure
"I don't think we need to worry about them anymore, dudes. I mean, they look pretty dead to me. The bigger issue here's one for HR-" Cho hummed, jogging after his team. "We can't be at each other's throats if we wanna walk away from this. Sorry I didn't hop in faster, dudes. Had some thinking to do. Some planning and stuff. Besides, looks like you had this wild-west shootout under control. These tunnels are gonna keep us cool and dry tonight, but we're pretty screwed when it comes to food. Good thing I never leave home with some Brain Food" Reaching into his pocket, Cho pulled out a small foil-wrapped candy bar, half eaten already. "It ain't much, but we need the Cals tonight" He broke it up into 4 even smaller pieces. "Take one and pass it round. We better sleep where we stand, unless you want to break your ankles on all these rocks... we'll be much better off waiting for lights to come back on"Henry Hart/Kid Danger
Henry would try to hide the fact that he was rolling his eyes. " They could have also left us alone, the shot was for the other unversed, not for you though. Though, you might want to stay out of the way of the laser, it has been known to knock people out," he replied.
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