On the Hunt

[ngm_bloodforce]

Panther's Blood Force eventually got their trans-reality portal to open again. There was some time lag and even greater distance shift between when they left and where they arrived. The five dimensionally-displace villains arrived at North Carolina's Outer Banks slightly disorientated from the journey. As they got their bearings, Blood Witch took a breath of the salty air.

She looked to the others of Blood Force. They looked hungry for action and slightly disappointed they weren't getting any right away. She took stock of their surroundings. No annoying superheroes were there yet. Which was both good and bad. Good in that they could lay a trap. Bad in that they had no one to call their prey to them.

She ran her tongue over her pointed canines. "Mm. Quiet little world here. Let's make it a little louder. Sandstorm, make this sandbox ours. Rough Justice, scout the area. Iron Maiden, Blackdog, get the authorities to come. I want a surprise for the soon to be dead crown prince."

The escaping nuisance from last reality had probably warned Remi deNamor. Blood Force would not have much time to set things up. The little almost king would be here soon. Possibly with others to slay.

Comments

[aqua_gambit]

Remi had the Dimensional Research team monitor for any new spikes on the East Coast with his dimensional signature. When they found five of them in North Carolina, Remi put the call out to the team to assemble immediately. Though he was slightly surprised they were so off target from him in New York.

When the Imaginauts landed on Hatteras Island, Remi was so tense he thought his jaw might snap in two in a minute or two.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob wasn't usually nervous before a fight, but this one included a brain scrambler. He just really didn't like the idea of a bad guy potentially getting hold of him and turning him against his teammates. He knew he was hard to stop, it was his one gift.

He glanced over at Remi for instruction.

[stormy_skrull]

"What's the plan, Boss-Fish?" Mary asked.

[sub_mariner]

"Boss-Fish. I like that." Derric grinned at Mary and, yes, winked at her. Because he was Derric and that's what he did. "Dad, I'm letting you take the reins on this one."

Sandstorm

[ngm_bloodforce]

Since the beaches provided Sandstorm with so much material work with, he had used the time for their prey to arrive to set up a few dunes. Once those were made, he disappeared inside of one to await for the fools to walk into the trap he and his team laid.

Re: Sandstorm

[sub_mariner]

"You realize he's probably set a trap, right?" Derric asked, looking up at Remi. "I mean. Sand. Bad guy. It's too...obvious." Electricity crackled between Derric's fingertips. "You know?"

Re: Sandstorm

[aqua_gambit]

Remi had shields up over both of them. Though his force fields were invisible, so it was hard to tell. He wasn't sure how good they would be since Sandstorm could make his mother sweat holding her own up.

"I'm counting on it. They've had time to prep."

Re: Sandstorm

[ngm_bloodforce]

It was a trap! Admiral Akbar did not need to be there to tell them.

Both big dunes rose up like waves and came crashing down on the pair of Atlanteans. Sandstorm rode the crest of one of the pair of meeting waves.

Rough Justice

[ngm_bloodforce]

The armored speedster/blaster was waiting a mile down the beach for the 'good guys' to arrive. It was not too far for him to make it there quickly. Though he had gone this way to find some people to torment to pass the time. All he had found were big, empty houses.

Rough Justice was not impressed with this reality.

Re: Rough Justice

[realstarpower]

Rough Justice.

Seriously, what kind of name was Rough Justice?

It sounded like a horrible band from the 90s.

Or, worse, horrible 90s porn.

Still, Ryan headed straight towards him, all purple and sparkly.

Even if Rough Justice wasn't impressed with this reality, maybe he'd be impressed with Ryan's stellar fighting skills.

Re: Rough Justice

[ngm_bloodforce]

The armor-suited villain was aware Ryan was coming before he saw him. He scratched over his cybernetic lenses when he saw his opponent was purple and sparkly.

"What the hell kind of lame ass heroes do they have in this reality?" he asked over the comm. He shook his head and started toward the on-coming hero.

He started at an easy 30 mile an hour jog as his blasters charged up.

Re: Rough Justice

[realstarpower]

Ryan smiled. Really, blasters?

Okay. This he could manage. A bolt of cosmic energy flared out from the corona surrounding Ryan and went straight for Rough Justice.

Iron Maiden

[ngm_bloodforce]

Iron Maiden hovered over the waters of Pamlico Sound. She was the most visible of all the Blood Force. She was the bait. She didn't particularly care. She was checking over her system read-outs as she waited for the heroes to approach.

Re: Iron Maiden

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa knew better than to watch what was going on with Remi or the others. It would make it too difficult for Alexa to concentrate...or just piss her off and make her crazy. One could never tell exactly what direction redhead insanity would go. Instead she focused on the hovering hunk of metal in the sky.

"That is one ugly paint job, chica."

Re: Iron Maiden

[ngm_bloodforce]

Iron Maiden was not known for saying much. Though her teammates got to hear her disbelief.

"They sent a pregnant woman after me."

Iron Maiden raised an arm and brought her hand up to show its palm. She fired a repulsor blast at Alexa.

Re: Iron Maiden

[innameof]

"And the techie," Griffen snapped before bouncing off of a wall. He shoots towards Iron Maiden like a canon ball. He isn't going to play nice.

He knows he'll take any impact damage she manages to put oyut with her own weapons system. Yay for kick ass shields.

Blackdog

[ngm_bloodforce]

Blackdog sniffed at the air. He lounged on the hood of a police car behind Sandstorm's created dunes. He sniffed again and got up into a squat.

"We got company," he crowed softly. He rolled his shoulders and wiggled his clawed fingers in anticipation.

Re: Blackdog

[stormy_skrull]

Mary transformed into a battle form, one that combined strength with speed and flight.

She swooped down to attack.

Re: Blackdog

[ngm_bloodforce]

"Poor little birdy. Don't you know I'm a hunting dog?" He backed up on the hood and paused to get his timing right. As this weird bird thing swooped down at him, he launched himself at it. The claws out of his fingertips ready to swipe at the bird as she came barreling at him.

He was even willing to take the hit to draw as much blood as possible It's what his healing factor was for.

Blood Witch

[ngm_bloodforce]

The redheaded vampire sat in the back of one of two police cruisers hidden behind large sand dunes. The police officers who had come were sitting in the front of their vehicles, staring blankly ahead.

Blood Witch examined her nails and picked a sand burr off her pant leg.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob did not enjoy the idea of pulling witch duty on this one. He was happy to do his part for the team, but the whole idea of squaring off against a brain witch just made him squirmy. As squirmy as he got anyway.

He marched through the chaos, eyeing the fights already in progress and itching to jump in, but he had a task and everyone looked to be holding their own. The suit hovering over the water made a nice, shiny target, though...

Just as he was looking around for something to throw, he noticed two police cars just sitting there. Not completely strange, except that he could see people sitting in them. Cops, in the middle of all this, just sitting around?

Suspicious, he headed over to check it out. Maybe they needed help.

[ngm_bloodforce]

The redheaded vampire stopped inspecting her pointy nails just in time to see Jacob walk into the area. She tilted her head and considered him. He was a bit more rocky than she had anticipated. Though how hard that rock was needed to be tested.

Blood Witch's red on black eyes narrowed as she tugged at her connection to the two bitten police officers. Shoot him.

The police officer in Blood Witch's cruiser got out of his car to fire; the other police office shot at Jacob through his windshield.

Convergence

[ngm_bloodforce]

Blood Witch was still standing back by the police cars, head tilted to one side as she watched the attacks on the prince.

Sandstorm grabbed Remi with the giant sand hand and squeezed. If nothing else, it help the Atlantean in place as the Blood Witch's minion swung for the head. Sandstorm hoped it would either be hit off or pop off from squeezing.

Re: Convergence

[stormy_skrull]

Mary's eyes fell on the battle that had been evolving while she had been beating the stuffing out of this guy.

"Jacob?!" she cried out. "What the flarg?!"

[innameof]

"What?!" Griffin is pretty surprised. Mind whammies have never happened before. This should be an X-Man thing! Or the Avengers!

Blast.