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

[innameof]

"Alexa," Griffin barks picking up on that.

"She's trying to keep our focus. Any thoughts on that?" His mind works ten miles a minute. He doesn't know that the woman will die if they disable her armor but he does know she is going through an awful lot of trouble to keep them busy.

[soulstealingstark]

"I think that if we move away from her focus-wise she'll attempt to blast us into the great lab in the sky and that if we don't they're going to try to use it as an opportunity to go after their targets without us intervening."

Alexa started redistributing selected power outputs. Not enough to kill the woman (because that would be wrong, right?) but enough to prevent her from getting much altitude.

"Let the rest of the team going on. We have comms...right?"

[innameof]

"Yeah. Standard for when we go anywhere. I always keep one on me too," Griffin said.

"I don't like not being able to contact the team." He tries to figure out a solid plan but then decides that contacting the team plus following Alexa seems wisest.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa sent another zap of power output through Iron Maiden.

"Let them know. I'm going to try to disable her ability to fly entirely. Should give us about a ninety second window before her propulsion systems come back up."

[ngm_bloodforce]

"So you say now," Rough Justice quipped as he lay on top of Ryan. He felt the energy coming into his armor. He needed to do something before this kid did something bad to his suit.

He tapped a small panel near his neck, out of Ryan's line of sight. "Keep it up, buttercup."

A few motions with his fingers and his suit was charging up with the energy Ryan was putting out.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Iron Maiden felt her flight capabilities disappear. She plummeted toward the waters of Pamlico Sound like a rock.

"Witch, help Sandstorm get rid of the royal shit," was about all she got out to her teammates before she splashed down into salty water.

[clobberin_kid]

The beach sand muffled the thudding sound of his steps as Jacob headed down to follow the Blood Witch's direction. His body did, anyway. Inside his head, he was struggling like crazy to get control of himself. This was his worst fear... he couldn't control his own actions and he was heading straight for his friends.

The two police officers still dangled from his clenched fists. When he was close enough, he hurled them at Remi and Derric.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Sandstorm emerged out of the tornado, hovering just outside the whirling silica. He growled when he saw the possessed rock-man charge at Remi and Derric.

"I do not need your help, Witch." He gestured, bringing a claw-like hand up. In response, the wet sand behind the two Atlanteans formed a large hand to grab the pair.

[realstarpower]

"C'mon, man. That's unfair," Ryan grunted. He'd been around scientists and crazy armor enough to understand what it was that was going in. He cut the energy away from Rough Justice and turned it towards the ground.

Maybe he could blast himself away from the jerkface.

[sub_mariner]

Derric looked down at Jacob and frowned.

Okay. Hard-bodied, but clearly not hard-minded.

He loosed a charge towards Jacob.

[ngm_bloodforce]

"Nothing's fair. Which is why the Atlantean prince will be dead soon." Once the energy stopped coming into his suit, Rough Justice gestured to get his armor running in a non-absorptive mode.

He noticed that the blasts were going into the sandy ground. He decided to lay where he was and see where this went. Either the kid lifted them both up or her blasted a whole in the sandy beach below them.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi reached out a soft-construct shield to catch the flung police officers.

"Jacob! What the he-oh." He saw the red on black eyes. He cussed in Atlantean. Though the string of what he said was cut short as he took a step back into a giant sandy hand.

[innameof]

"Guys! This is Griff. The target is Remi," he snaps over the comms so that at least everyone knows.

"Everyone else is just a distraction to keep our attention divided."

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa let Iron Maiden go splish. She'd be fine, just significantly slowed down.

"We gotta get closer to Remi, Griff, now that Metal Pants is floating."

[realstarpower]

It seemed more like Ryan was just blasting a hole in the sandy beach below them.

Not exactly what he wanted. Switching tactics, Ryan let the cosmic energy his body produced start to build up within him. His skin thrummed and gooseflesh pricked up across his bare forearms and neck as he did so.

If he couldn't fly away, that was fine. Ryan instead would unleash a blast of cosmic energy enough to blast Rough Justice's armour apart.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Iron Maiden sunk more gracefully than the Titanic. With her ability to fly currently in major need of repair, she adjusted her waterlogged descent so she would land on her feet on the ocean floor.

It would be a trudge back to the shoreline.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Kid wasn't talking. So he was possibly concentrating on something. Rough Justice figured possibly amassing lots of cosmic juice to do something.

"Experiment time!" Rough Justice jumped to his feet and used superspeed from his armor to help him run a ring around Ryan. As he moved, he tried tossing lots of sand on the blond to see if the explosion would make a nice, sandy 'whomph' when the energy exploded.

[clobberin_kid]

Derric's electric charge dances across Jacob's stony skin. The dampness of the beach air had left a sheen of moisture over him and the electricity crackled across it. Another time, the sensation might have been kind of funny. Jacob was in no state to be amused right now.

Inside, behind the black eyes, he was horrified to find himself charging at his friend and team leader, heavy fists poised to try and take off the Atlantean's head with a well-placed swing.

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.

[soulstealingstark]

"...this is about the time that I need the orbital lasers."

With the hunk of metal dealt with in the brine Alexa turned her full focus to the situation unfolding in front of her.

"Jacob. If you don't stop right now I am going to go complete hormonal redhead Stark on you."

[sub_mariner]

Derric had been about to jump in front of Remi when the others had started to intervene.

"Oh, dude, you don't want that. Hormonal redhead Stark chicks are scary as all get out."

[realstarpower]

It did. Ryan unfurled an entire starburst of energy from his body, but some of it managed to cut through the sand, the heat turning the sand into something else.

Sharp shards of glass fell from the explosion. Some, he hoped, would attack RJ.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Shards of glass hit the backside of Rough Justice's armor. The dimensionally displaced villain put his head down to keep the shards of glass from taking anything important away. He was running away from the Ryan-induced sand-explosion. He was running toward where the rest of the FF were converging around a giant hand made of sand.