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]

"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."

[aqua_gambit]

Remi tried to bust out of the giant hand holding him. He felt the sand shift to keep him held with his every movement. He was not going to escape that easily from the possessed Jacob's fist.

"He's possessed! He can't stop-" The Atlantean had tried to put up shields to block the blow. They weren't strong enough to stop the blow, but they could take some of the strength off. He got a mouthful of sand and a faceful of rocky knuckles.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Blood Witch laughed to herself down the beach by the abandoned cop cars. She released her hold on the police officers that had been projectiles, but she maintained her grip on Jacob. "Keep at him, darling. Keep at the prince until he's dead."

Sandstorm shifted the sand to try to choke Remi. Though he was retreating toward some dunes to get away from the converging Imaginauts.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary raced forward, stretching out her limbs to entangle Jacob.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob's fist drew back for another swing at the Blood Witch's command. He swung hard, but the punch was slowed considerably when stretchy limbs entangled his arms. He snarled in irritation, thrashing against the hold.

Inside, Jacob was wishing someone would just find a way to knock him out. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt his teammates, but he couldn't win back control no matter how hard he fought.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa didn't want to have to have to resort to drastic measures in general and especially not on her own friends, but Jacob had just punched Remi. That was not something she could stand. She had been working on something for awhile without her father's blessing and without anyone's knowledge, but a legacy is a legacy.

"Damnit Jacob," she growled. Alexa balled her right hand into a fist and as she did so the iPhone-like device she'd been carrying with her started to break apart and reconfigure itself in a black and silver-toned near armor enclosing the fisted hand. Once the components locked into place, Alexa opened her hand. Five small repulsors dotted along her fingertips and one in the center of her hand. They all lit up and then Alexa unleashed an energy bitchslap on Jacob.

The Mark ACS-1 fired for it's beta test.

[realstarpower]

Ryan threw his energy out and forward, adding a cosmic bitchslap to Alexa's energy one. He didn't want to hurt his brother, not really, but he figured this was a good enough payback for all of the DNA that Jacob regularly stole from him for his tests.

[sub_mariner]

Derric looked between Remi and Jacob.

This was...not fun.

He loosed bolts of electric energy in either direction. One of the two had to be saved or give up first, right?

[innameof]

"Owch." Note to self don't piss off Stark. She is scary. He focuses on what is going on. Jacob is being controlled.

Too bad he hadn't worked on that idea he had late one night. A psychic tracer for back tracking where something is coming from. He hadn't seen the practical use for that idea though.

Now he can. He decides the next thing he could do is make sure his shields are at full... then throw himself at Jacob. The force of the kinetic impact should at least push Jacob back.

[clobberin_kid]

Ordinarily, it took quite a bit to move Jacob if he didn't want to be moved. Fortunately for his teammates, he was standing on shifting sand and completely focused on his order to destroy Remi so, when Alexa's repulsors slammed into him, they rocked him back fairly hard.

The following attacks caused him to stumble back a few steps as well before he righted himself and charged once more at Remi with single-minded focus.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary snaked her arms out of the way just in time to avoid the zap.

But with Jacob still moving, she stretched herself toward him again, wrapping him up even tighter than before. "C'mon, Jacob! Snap out of it! ...You're ugly! ...Megan Fox wants to be your girlfriend! ...Ryan's not actually your brother!"

[ngm_bloodforce]

A very crispy-looking man-shaped thing staggered toward the gathered melee. Blackdog coughed as his esophagus reformed. He was not going into that mass of trouble. Though he was content to shout from the sidelines. He cupped blackened hands around his mouth.

"Oh, come on! Sandy and the vamp can't put the prince in the ground? Knew we shoulda brought a nuke to drop on him just like dear old dead King Namor."

[aqua_gambit]

Remi felt like his face was crushed. He could feel hot blood trickling down into the sand that was trying to choke him. He fought back against the sand until he got a physical shock. He struggled to get free of the giant, grasping hand when he heard the taunts from one of Blood Force.

The Atlantean went still for a second. Then the sand around him exploded out as he shoved his shields out with everything he had.

"What happened to my father?"

[innameof]

"....You do realize myself and Alexa could easily disable it," he growls at the cripsy looking man.

"Mary! I believe the other red head is controlling Jacob I think." It makes sense to him.

[soulstealingstark]

Other redhead. Alexa followed Griff's gaze and as she did so the armor on her arm subdivided, traveling up to her shoulder and then part of the her face, enhancing her vision. Yeah, she saw the redhead.

"Fry in the light, bitch," Alexa growled and unleashed a full-power blast at the vampire.

[realstarpower]

Ryan watched as Alexa loosed a blast of energy at the vampire. While she did that, he still went after his brother. They needed to split their resources or something.

Truth be told, Ryan wasn't really sure what he was doing.

He started zipping bolts of energy between Jacob's eyes. Little pings to annoy him, to get him to snap out of his possession. Its the same way that Ryan used to flick him between the eyes when they were little, before their mutations kicked in.

[sub_mariner]

While Ryan did that, Derric joined his power in with Alexa's, charges of electricity flowing out from between his fingertips and attacking the redheaded vamp-witch.

He paused and winked at Alexa as he did so.

[ngm_bloodforce]

Blood Witch saw the attention turned toward her. As tempting as it was to have her new pet break the mouthy redhead's neck, the vampire knew it was time to regroup elsewhere. She dove behind one of the nearby police cruisers to avoid the blasts coming at her. "Time to go, darlings," she said with a wince as things exploded around her. "While we have a chance to play again. The prince'll keep."

"On it," Rough Justice replied over the team comm. He poured on the superspeed to get around the Imaginauts and grab the crispy Black Dog.

Sandstorm disappeared into a dune. Only to have it fly out and swirl around to obscure vision and possibly get sand into Imaginaut eyes. Using the flying sand as cover, he moved toward the water where Iron Maiden emerged with a splash.

"Maybe next time we can make the world burn, pet," Blood Witch said to Jacob through their link before severing it. Once she had a psychic hold of someone, it was an easy matter to re-establish her dominance later.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi spit out a mixture of blood and sand from his mouth. His blue eyes went cold.

He was the Crown Prince, Heir to the Throne of Atlantis. They had just leveled a dire announcement about the state of his kingdom. Remi gestured and sent two sharp planes of invisible force into the swirling sands after members of Blood Force.

"I will not be ignored," he roared after them as he moved through the whirling sand. "And I will have your heads!"