Othergrounds: The IC Edition (Act 8: The Strangest Days have gone By)

Johnny & Gabe


These people... Johnny thought to himself as he listened to the small group of animals talk. He wasn't too pleased. Not that they were talking, what they were talking about. They were sharing stories when they're just here in the sewers, mulling around when they should be moving. It was stupid and annoyed him. Naturally, Johnny couldn't help but chime in, all the way from the back of the group. "That is very interesting...." He starts off, speaking to them, "... Except for the fact that it's barely appropriate right now to tell your silly stories about eggs and chickens, and butter--- Any that crap. We're in a sewer, with god knows what lurking around; save it for when we actually get done here.... When that fated day comes." Johnny turned his head towards Dragonfly for a second. If this lizard-b@stard knows this sewer so well, then why haven't they started moving by now? Does he need to turn into a girl and lay some gecko eggs or something? Johnny sarcastically thought to himself, as he looked around. While he may sound like an @ss right here, it didn't matter to him. Everyone here can have their negative opinions of him. As long as they don't start fighting, then it'll be all good. However, Johnny quickly tacked on, "... No offense."

After Johnny had added on the "No offense part" Gabe just couldn't resist saying anything. Johnny actually meant. There's no way that he actually wants them to focus--- It was more of a shut up. "He actually means he thinks your conversation is stupid."

"And Gabe, stop being a blatant d*ck to the animal-types. We don't need to be enemies with them... Right now. Try to turn off the stupidity of what you're saying for ten seconds, and actually be subtle." Johnny appeared to have been talking about her disdain for the Animal-types, except, he was referring to her comment on him thinking their conversation is stupid. He actually uses subtly to cover up that.

"Riiiight." Gabe sarcastically says.

"Now for more pressing matters... My @ss is itching to get a movin'. Lizard-man, are you going to navigate or what? Because, I can jump back to the surface in one leap and scavenge up some jimmies." Johnny says, the impatience was obvious. He was getting tired of standing around here in some smelly basement with people who are his enemies, people he doesn't know, and people who generally annoy him. There were also the people he thinks are useless, but it's too early to say that.



Hunter and Victoria

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"hay! What's your name? I'm Lexy!"

The duo concerned for Jia-li's sake were caught "off-guard" by Lexy. They weren't expecting someone to just come out of no where... Rather suspiciously. The girl was in her early teens, Victoria had easily guessed. Lexy seemed to be very average, and unremarkable. She seemed extremely unimposing, but Victoria is way too smart to fall for that. There's a potential for destruction in everyone trapped in this dome. The young are no exception (For example; Marie). Nor will Victoria treat them as one. Once again, she found herself breaking her "No telepathy without permission" rule and just had to probe into Lexy's mind. The eldest child of Blackmore tilted her head downwards for a moment, closing her eyes and putting two fingers on the side of her head. She tuned in on Lexy's thoughts for a few moments to gather some information. From what she had gathered from Lexy's thoughts; the young girl was another survivor of the attack. Two in one day. It was interesting, yet another girl just pops out of no where, surviving the attack. Oh, and Victoria discovered that Lexy's actual name is Alexia Smith. So far, she does seem to be legit. Victoria raised her head and opened her eyes, returning her hand to her side, giving Lexy a warming smile. Maybe I should add on to that rule; "special situations are an exception." She thought to herself, as she pulled together some reason for her just doing that. "I have an headache..." She just stated, blankly. "Oh, sorry, I am Victoria. I'm a bit... out of it right now. So excuse me...." She nonchalantly mutters.

"Hunter." The obvious person told his name. He personally was free of suspicions. Lexy appeared too young to be capable of such heinous crimes, too weak as well. However, with the advent of powers, even the weakest of people, normally, can become killers. Especially with Shape-shifters and immortals running around.

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"Wait, is everyone okay?  Are either of you hurt?  Need me to help? Of course I wouldn't be of much help but yeah."

"We are fine, Lexy." Hunter says, putting an unneeded amount of empathizes on Lexy. A kind soul comes from no where and asks to help? Seems as if it's far too good to be true. I may just be getting paranoid. Hunter monologues to himself. I will silence, Victoria seems to be a much more social person than myself. And I am not... Good, when it comes to social-ness. I am placing my faith in you, Victoria. Hunter continues, before momentarily turning his head at Victoria and nodding. Staying silent for the entirety of the conversation.

Victoria herself didn't know what to say. "Well..." She mutters, loudly enough for everyone to hear. "We aren't exactly hurt.... But, I'm a little afraid for a friend that was in here...." Victoria trails off, "... She was badly injured and now she's up and gone." She was unsure of if she should have said that.

CRYSTAL
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Crystal nodded, "I think that's kinda neat. The reason has a good backstory." She enjoyed talking with the animal metas so far. Maybe she would stick with them a while. Crystal winced when Johnny told them that they needed to stop talking and get going. There was good reasoning in his statement, so she nodded, forcing a smile.

"Right- sorry bout that."

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LEXY
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Lexy smiled at the duo. "Nice to meet ya, Victoria and Hunter. I like your names- Victoria is a pretty name and Hunter sounds cool." Lexy then turned to Victoria, "I hope your headache gets better." Lexy liked these people- they seemed nice and were talking to her, after all. When she began to talk to some people, they would ignore her. Lexy was too, well, dumb to realize it was because of her annoying behavior. But luckily she didn't seem to care if people ignored her, since she just enjoyed talking to whoever happens to be there.

Lexy nodded as Victoria explained about her friend. Lexy felt a little bit sad about the situation Hunter and Victoria was in, so she decided to try some encouragement. "I'm sure you'll find your friend! I can help search, in fact," Lexy pointed at herself with her thumb. "I would probably be of even more help if I had some searching power, but all I have is perfect aim. The most I can use that power for is in dart games and sports. Which is probably why I was in basketball at school. I hope using my power for it wasn't cheating. I mean, I can't help it- I just aim for the basket and make it, right?"

Lexy didn't really perceive how telling her power to complete strangers could be a stupid, dangerous thing to do.

Spoiler:

It took every ounce of Claire's will to look away. She knew exactly what Johnny was doing; he was pissing everyone off to make himself stronger. She hadn't realized this before, which was why she was never able to defeat him, but now she had seen the error of her ways. That was how you had to stop Johnny; you had to stop being angry. Claire inhaled slowly, closing her eyes and letting her arms lay dead at her side as she focused. She thought of all the good things in her life; TJ, her brother back home, how proud her parents would be when she could touch a doorknob and not short the electricity. She let everything good in her life flow through her and as she let out her enormous breath, the electric blue glow vanished from her body completely. She turned around, away from him, and looked over at this "dragonfly" character, who was apparently a giant lizard.

"Lead the way." she said.


(assume that Alejandro, TJ, and Claire are all with the rest of the group now)

Johnny, Lily, Drake, Gabe & Sylvia

TheⓍperator wrote:

"Then by all meanss go, Johnny. Nobody'ss sstopping you." Dragonfly replied in a sarcastic manner. "I dont know why you need me anyway, after all, according to Gabe, sshe'ss perfectly capable of finding her way through the bassement all on her own." He hissed looking to Gabe, his yellow eyes looking her over. "Then again, if sshe lead you, you would all die in here. Letss get moving before sshe triess that." He said, not giving her a chance to respond before turning around and leading the group through the basement.[/color]

"Please ignore my smart ass sister." Johnny mutters to himself. At this moment, he felt as if he should have ordered Gabe to stay above ground. They are doing a great job making good first impressions... Then again, Johnny doesn't seem to ever give a f*ck. The animal-types seem to be useless so far. Which really meant that they were irrelevant in his eyes. Baggage, that the rest of the group has to carry around. Pathetic. However, Dragonfly seemed to be the most useful one out of all of them (Even if he doesn't like Johnny's clique). And after minutes of itching to get a move on, Johnny finally got his wish, the group was finally moving. Every last person started following Dragonfly (Sylvia choose to ride the sound-waves and fly). In this moment, he decided to read the emotional aura's of everyone he could. Mostly everyone major had their auras read. Drake's aura was the most interesting (To him), as it had the most layers. Fear, Anger, Doubt... Among other emotions. Lily's aura was an annoyed aura (Likely at him) and had faint amounts of repressed anger and fear. Gabe's aura was her usual anger. Dragonfly shared a similar aura to Lily, except he's a little bit more annoyed. There was a bit of anger in the Animal-types as well. It was most certainly directed at himself and Gabe.

After a bit of walking, the group was lead to a massive body of water underground. It didn't exactly bring out inspiration in the group. It brought out downright concern for both Drake and Gabe. For the former, his electric form would shock the hell out of anyone in the water. Which was something Drake really didn't want. For the latter, her Fire Heart would go out and leave her powerless for days. Which would leave her completely defenseless, and weak, something she never wants to experience again. Gabe wasn't afraid to voice her issues.

"Ah, hell, no! I ain't gettin' in no water." Gabe carefully words, not to voice her (Fairly obvious) weakness to the Animal types, "I might as well head back now. Have fu---" Gabe then turns around, probably causing the many who didn't like her to feel relieved. However, Johnny wasn't going to lose another heavy hitter on his side. He grabbed her by the arm tightly and spoke to her.

"Really, Gabe? You gonna leave me here all alone?" Johnny playfully says to his younger, half-sister, "If you are really afraid of the water, just jump on my back and I'll carry you across."

The idea that Johnny presented her wasn't the best idea in her head, however, she didn't want to let the Zoo-animals touch the food. "... Fine..." She hesitantly says. "If even the slightest drop of water gets on me..."

"Well, you f*ggots can f*ck around in the sh*t water. Ha, a b*tch like me can fly through this sh*t like it's nothing!" Sylvia says in the same mocking, annoying tone that she always has. She hovered over the dirty water perfectly in place. Before turning away from the group and flying all the way over to the other side in less than a few seconds. Using her incredible speed, and maneuverability that came with the ability to ride sound-waves. She causally landed, being the first person to make it across. It was in her nature to mock the people who didn't get here in time. She shouted at the group, except in a much more obnoxious way. Instead of just shouting, she absorbed the sound of her voice back into her body and re-projected it throughout her entire body, "C'mon, f*ggots! We don't have all f*cking day to slap our d*cks together!" It would have been painful for those with sensitive hearing. Downright annoying to everyone else.

"F*ck off, Syl!" Johnny shouted at the top of his lungs. Sylvia caused him great irritation, yet again.

"Ya', go f*ck yourself already!" Gabe adds on.

This exchange only made Drake shake his head. These kids are somewhat retarded... Why am I trapped in here with them? He thinks to himself, which was sent to Victoria. "I have a problem of my own here." He blankly says. There were several options here, try to fly over and potentially crash down, killing the group, turn off the electricity and the group gets lost--- It wasn't a good thing to have this body of water here, "I don't think can get across and give you all light...." His electric form would shock anyone. Then the idea came into his head, while it wasn't a good plan, it was a perfect plan, "How about I wait for the rest of you to get across before I go...?" He didn't know what'd happen if he touched water while in his electric form, but he knew that the electricity will get conducted.

"You do your thing, Blackmore...." Lily starts off, hesitant. In truth, she didn't want to get into this disgusting water if it kills her--- But, it all will pay off in the end. She had prepared herself for this trek. While it's up to Dragonfly's waist, as Lily is much shorter, it'll be up to her chest. As the "leader" of the group, she would have to endure such things like this for the good of the rest of the group. While Dragonfly could easily get her across, someone else might need it more. That's what a good leader does, she takes the bad things so the rest don't have to. "I'll be going across myself... Someone else might need to be hauled across..." Lily sighed, before taking off her sneakers and holding them in her hands. She, shamefully, lifted up the shirt under her jacket a bit, exposing her midriff. Not in a sexual-way, she wanted to make sure some of her clothing doesn't get soaked. Lily closed her eyes and thought to herself, This is what we gotta do to survive...

Johnny thought that it might be a good time to use his Emotion-sensing powers to go see if there was anything lurking around here. "This is a good time to use my emotion sensing powers to go see if there's something in here ready to butt-rape us." Genius. He tilted his head downward for a moment, letting his wide-brimmed hat cover his eyes. Then he focused on every Emotional-Presence in the area. Fortunately, other than the group, there were no other Emotional Presences in the area. "It's all clear. No butt-raping monsters are present!" Johnny sarcastically says, to give himself a good old laugh, "... Unless any of you are into that." He started laughing at his own joke.

"Then what are ya' waiting for, get in. I ca---won't get in that." Gabe says, nearly giving away her weakness.

"Fine" Johnny inhales and jumps into the water, soaking his fresh to death outfit. He probably should have taken off some items of his clothing (Like his pimp rings), but what the hell. Where would he have put it? In his mouth? Up his @ss?

"Why'd ya' jump in before I climbed on ya' back?" Gabe says, noting Johnny's lack of foresight.

"... I don't know... Look, let's stop f*cking around already. We need to get across before we get left behind." Johnny turns away from Gabe. The latter climbed on to his back, wrapping her arms around his neck and wrapping her legs above his waist. With his upper body slouched foreward. In a very awkward and uncomfortable position. Not a single drop of water touched Gabe. "This is sooo degrading, and awkward." He moans.

"Now, now, Johnny, if ya' can finish it up 'ere then it'd stop being 'degrading and awkward'." Gabe taunts her other brother.

Johnny started marching across the water slowly, making splashes, "You know, Gabe. I've been doing some thinking and I have come to the conclusion that, if we weren't related; then we would have long killed each other by now." Johnny notes.

"Well, I'd kill ya' before ya' even got the chance. Heh." Gabe laughs off the thought.

At this moment; Lily cautiously climbs into the water. "Dear god!" She shouts as the water reaches her chest. She moans "I-I really wish I could fly now..." Instead of what I can already do....



Victoria & Hunter

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"Nice to meet ya, Victoria and Hunter. I like your names- Victoria is a pretty name and Hunter sounds cool."

You should it's not my real name. Hunter does the usual and thinks to himself. He was unsure of what to make of Lexy himself. She seemed to be kind, pure... The ugly side to that is that she has the potential for cruelty. So did everyone, including himself. Unlike everyone else here, he has met that potential.

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"I'm sure you'll find your friend! I can help search, in fact," Lexy pointed at herself with her thumb. "I would probably be of even more help if I had some searching power, but all I have is perfect aim. The most I can use that power for is in dart games and sports. Which is probably why I was in basketball at school. I hope using my power for it wasn't cheating. I mean, I can't help it- I just aim for the basket and make it, right?"

Aside from the slight rambling, Victoria felt like Lexy could be useful in the search. If she doesn't turn around and backstab them. That wasn't really an issue if you can read minds. Just in case she needed it, Victoria changed her brain-waves to access her Telekinesis. Temporarily putting Crystal's Psionist powers away. "It really will help us if you helped us look for her..." Victoria looked at Hunter for a moment, "... Even if we don't know where to look."

Hunter shrugged, as he thought about several places for them to look for Jia-li. After a few moments of thinking, he came up with two options. "Perhaps.... We should look to the Eyes...." Hunter quietly and blankly says, "They know all about the school. If that doesn't work, there's a security room somewhere around here. If the Cameras haven't been tinkered with, we might be able to extract something useful."

"That's... Actually a good idea, Hunter. We should look for the security room first. If that doesn't work, there's one big security center in the Tower." Victoria said to Hunter. Why didn't I think of that...? She briefly thinks to herself. "Let's go." She lead the group out of the room.

Crystal
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Crystal sighed as she looked at the water. Good thing she could swim. She felt some annoyance towards the Sylvia girl because of the loud mouth she seemed to have. There was also some annoyance for Gabe's anger towards the animal meta-humans. Seriously, she was still clueless why the girl didnt like them. She was also wondering why Gabe didn't want to get into the water. Crystal shrugged off the thought.

"My shirt is blood stained anyways- might as well swim," Crystal smiled as she walked into the pond and began swimming. She paused next to Lily, "Flying would be good right now, wouldn't it?" she laughed, "but hay, it's better to get dirty then it is to be in some other situations, right?" She continued swimming, going pass Johnny and Gabe since the duo were a bit slow with Johnny doing all the swimming. She made it to the other side and stood next to Sylvia.

"Well that was a.... new expierience," Crystal smiled though in her mind she was completely disgusted with the water.

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Lexy
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Lexy smiled, "Great! then i'm ready to help wherever you need me." She examined the two people she was talking to. Hunter had a lot of scars.... she wondered what from? Lexy shrugged it off. She could ask later.

Mr Allen J wrote:

"That's... Actually a good idea, Hunter. We should look for the security room first. If that doesn't work, there's one big security center in the Tower." Victoria said to Hunter. Why didn't I think of that...? She briefly thinks to herself. "Let's go." She lead the group out of the room.

Lexy smiled as she followed Victoria and Hunter out of the hospital room. She was still wondering about Hunter's scars as they walked outside. After a few moments, she decided to ask. "So what are all the scars from?" Lexy suddenly piped up. "Sorry... I'm curious," she said as she looked at the scars on Hunter curiously.

Jake & Lin

CENSORED you, take some Massive Attack:

Alright, it was time to get started. Jake had prepared himself to cook for the group. It would be a very wise thing to go back and find the Kitchen before they get back. It was about time for all these cooking lessons he's received over the years to pay off. He emerged from his room, wearing the same suit and tie attire, except he has a large white cooking apron. Which had REAL MEN MAKE COOKIES written on it, with several cookies and sweets along with it. It was a very humorous attire, but necessary to get this done. He started moving out of his room, towards the Cafeteria. Last thing he remembers about the Kitchen, is that it's just out of the Cafeteria. So, he returned there, he stood in the middle of the now vacant room. It was a little bit unsettling, being all alone here. With what lurking around in the shadows. He reached into one of the pockets of his suit and pulled out his golden pocket-watch. He flipped it open and looked at the time. This watch reminded him of the few things that are truly real in his life. He shook his head, hesitantly. Before moving on through the halls of the academy into the kitchen. There was a large revolving door into the Kitchen. Which were made for the Eyes to keep flowing as they deliver food in and out of the cafeteria. They weren't here anymore, were they? That means it'll only be Jake, and possibly other people cooking the food. Fortunately the doors to the kitchen aren't locked (Though, students who mess with things usually get punished).

The kitchen was a very large room, nearly a quarter of the size of the Cafeteria. It was lined with rows of rows of everything you'd see in restaurants. Stoves, Sinks, Counters... All that stuff. Surprisingly undamaged. From what he could see, nothing was damaged. He wanted to make a thorough investigation. He walked down each of the aisles and causally looked at everything. The traitor hadn't touched this room , yet. Likely the @sshole didn't want to completely ruin their food source. For whatever reason. Jake continued his mission, passing by a few counters with some large cabinets that were pretty big. He heard a slight rustling sound (Like a trillion tiny jimmies were all rustled at once) coming from the cabinet closest to him. Normally, he would look without a second thought, however, he used his illusion powers to turn invisible. He knelt over, and sighed, before opening up the door quickly as possible--- Before lightly leaping out of the way. A girl of obvious Asian descents tumbled out quickly like she was going to sprint away. Only to see no one, except she sensed him. "Who are you?!" Jake shouts at the top of his lungs, turning visible for proper interaction.

Only for the mysterious girl to respond with.... "Who are you?!" Panicked. This "mysterious girl" stood straight up and looked Jake in the eye. Allowing him to take in her stunning beauty. She was Lin C. Kentt. A student at this formerly great school, with the power of Telepathy and Shape-shifting. When the attack came along, she managed to hide in the Education Wing. In plain sight, since her shape-shifting allowed for a more compact form. Which meant that she managed to hide where people would least expect her to. She was wearing a white frilled dress-shirt, with buttons down the middle (Under that was a t-shirt). She wore tan cargo pants that went down past her ankles, and matching tan boots. Interestingly enough, she had a Wedding Ring on her ring-finger. It spiked curiosity in Jake, since she looked too young to marry. Lin started reading Jake's mind, just to gather a bit on his personality and what he was planning to do. From what she gathered, he had no plans of harming her, nor did he. However, she didn't dismiss the idea.

After both of them had calmed down, Jake spoke, answering Lin's question, "Oh, I'm, um, Jake Valos." Jesus was adding on my last name overkill? He thought to himself.

"Oh, no, it isn't." Lin says kindly, seemingly answering the question that he had in his head. Before scolding herself for basically revealing that she was reading his mind. She suddenly got a bit frantic as she tried to correct herself, "... Oh, no, no I mean my name is Lin."

"Right..." Jake says to himself. He now suspects that she's a telepath. That's... I hear that they call that an invasion of privacy around here... He just randomly thinks, hoping that Lin would reveal herself.

Lin was still reading his mind, and she easily picked up on him suspecting that she's a telepath. He was a nice guy--- She just wanted him to understand that she wanted to know if he was a nice guy or not. She tensed up and scratched the back of her head as she hesitantly said, "I'm sorry. That just happens sometimes when I get scared... I just accidentally do that--- Believe me, I wouldn't read your mind just like that! It's an invasion of space..." That was partly true, but convincing enough for Jake to swallow.

Then the situation got awkward, Jake was unsure of what to say, he wasn't sure of if he should be anger. However he spoke changing the subject, "What brings you around here...?" This may have brought about even more awkwardness.


"... Oh? I was looking around in here trying to find something to eat... Then I heard you and I hid..." Lin says to Jake, slowly and nervously, "I... Can't survive off bags of chips."

"How about we fix that? My friends are looking for food right now." Jake says.

"Friends?" Lin says to Jake.

"Yeah..." What followed was a conversation about Jake and his siblings situation at the school ((AKA, off-screen exposition, since I'm lazy))


Johnny, Lily, Sylvia, Gabe & Drake


((As of now, everyone has made it across the lake and are out of the water))

ViperaUnion wrote:

"Hey, Lily! You want me to come over and get you?!"

"Bleh... It's cool. Since I'm already in this; might as well finish...." Lily says to Nicole. She greatly appreciated the gesture, but, there'd be no point in getting out of the water after already getting in. "Thank you, though." She added on, trying not to be rude. After a long and filthy trek, they finally made it across the lake of water. Lily seemingly clawed her way on land, like she was running from some water monster (Given these horror-movie like situations, that wouldn't be too out there). The first thing she did was look down, it was pretty dark from this far away, since Drake was gone. But, she got enough vision to see that she's going have to throw away this outfit. It was completely soaked, water dripped off her clothes. She quickly rolled down her shirt, and looked around at everyone. Johnny was just about out of the water. "Jesus christ; I'm gonna have to throw this out... At least gone of it got on my hair, it would have been a disaster."

Johnny gave Lily a very narrow glare, the kind that just showed how annoyed he was at her. Not only did she get in the way of him getting Claire out of here. There was also what happened back at the meeting. He only shook his head while he stepped on to land, with Gabe on his back with a death grip since she really didn't want to touch water. The moment he was on ground, Gabriela jumped off his back. She looked around and started laughing. "Looks like the gang's all 'ere." She spoke with a near-sarcastic tone

"Sup, f@gs. 'Bout time you got here." Sylvia says to Johnny and Gabe, only to be ignored by the group at large.

Johnny looked down, and realize that his pants have been ruined. He should have stopped to change his clothes before coming down here--- He was going to complain, but he rather not and just keep moving forward. "Gabe, I'm going to catch a cold." Johnny says to his younger sister, "Can you heat up a little bit to dry me."

"No. Gotta' save my strength for when--- If, we fight." Gabe lashes at Johnny. By fight, she meant fight the Animal types. She knew that they had disliked her, probably enough to attack her--- And that's what  
she wants. For two reasons. One; she could kick their @sses and show them who's on top. Two; that'd fuel her disdain for them even further, by proving to them that they're exactly what Gabe thinks they are. Flithy, no-good animals that need to be chained up. "Ya' know what could be down here...?"

"Rats. Lots and lots of rats." Johnny sarcastically remarks.

"I hate rats. They're like those filthy..." Gabe trails off, intentionally cutting off her own statement. "Now, where's our Thunder God? He's supposed to be lighting." Gabe looks back towards Drake who was still behind the group. "Ya' comin' or what, Thunder God!? We can't stay here all day!" She shouts to Drake.

The electricity crackled quite loudly, much louder than it did before. Drake was standing completely still, with his arms crossed, eyes closed. This is usually what he does when he talks with Victoria telepathically. Except, he was thinking. About Jia-li and what became of her, and what Victoria is doing right now. While he could just ask her, because of their mind link, he needed to focus. A sole tear ran down his face, electricity coursing through it, causing even more crackling. He opened his eyes, full of determination and was far less pleasant. He was harsher. He saw that everyone was across the lake, it was time to him to traverse the lake alone. The last time Drake tried this; he made an @ss of himself. This time, it will be different. He suddenly broke into a sprint, and jumped above the water. Instead of descending into it and possibly causing himself grievous harm by electrifying the pools of water, he floated above the water. Slowly drifting. Flying towards the group, he was shaky, and taking the occasional dips towards the water. Not as bad as the last time he attempted to fly. Drake kept a neutral outward emotion, never showing fear of what would happen if he touched water. After he reached the group, he pulled off a near perfect landing on his.  "Let's go." He stated devoid of emotion.

"O' what a scenic entrance, O' Blackmore. I have to say that I'm impressed with you so far." Johnny says, "But, onwards! Let'd get this sh*t over with! I need to wash off." He adds on. He remember Dragonfly saying that the food storage was down the pathway. So, he didn't wait for anyone. He just kept walking forward down the hallway. With Drake and the rest of the group following behind him (With Sylvia flying again). Until the group had finally reached their destination.

The immediate area was a very large opening, much like the last room they were in. Just one large room, with three hallways leading out of it. One of the hallways was the one that they came in through. In the room was indeed the entrance to the Food-Storage. It was like any other door in this school, with two handle-set doorknobs. Except this door was very large--- Large enough to fit half the group going in at once. The door was obviously locked, but didn't look sturdy enough to keep the group out. Given the people that were present. The group forgone everything else that was in here and surrounded the door.

"Looks tough..." Lily says hesitantly, "Does anyone have any idea on how we're going to get in this?"

"Beats me. I don't think I can blast it down with lightning." Drake throws in, "Looks like I'm not going to be no help here"

"Crap..." Lily says in response.

"I think I can melt it enough fo' us to knock it down... I'd probably cook all of ya' before I even get that hot..." Not that some of ya' Zoo-animals would mind. Gabe says nonchalantly, looking at the door.

Johnny was thinking of ways to get in. There were a few ideas on how to get in... He figured that he would cut the sh*t and go straight for the obvious solution, "Syl, blow that f*cker down."

Gabe naturally got back immediately once Johnny spoke to Sylvia. Gabe knew what was going to happen. "Do it, already. We need to get this over with already."

"F*ck, I was wondering when the d*cks you'd say that. Get the f*ck behind me, I dun' wanna knock my f*cking brains out when I do this... Again." Sylvia causally floats over to the door, and pointed her right hand at the door. Quickly wrapping her free hand around her wrist. She already had Dub-step playing through her head-phones, so she was ready to deliever a powerful dubstep blast. Which should be more than enough to knock the door loose. Johnny quickly converts to his emotional-energy form. A white light engulfed his being, and a rainbow of colored lights pulsed across his being from left to right. Every pulse created a different pattern. His body was hardened, and the Negative emotions from those around him gave him immense power. He stood a few feet behind Sylvia, ready to grab her once the kick-back of her dubstep blast knocks the doors open.

"Alright, if ya'll appreciate the natural ability to hear, then I highly suggest that you all get back." Johnny warns the group. Who all should react accordingly, or will risk their hearing.


Hunter & Victoria

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"So what are all the scars from?" Lexy suddenly piped up. "Sorry... I'm curious," she said as she looked at the scars on Hunter curiously.

It is best, for me, that I do not speak of these scars... At least not now. Hunter had just looked at Lexy when she asked about his scars. Completely stoic and silent. There was a new awkward silence as they walked. Hunter didn't exactly notice it, since he was less than social. He did answer Lexy's question, just so that it wouldn't follow him any further and pop up again, "If we are to resume having healthy relations; it is best that we do not divulge into the subject of my scars."

Victoria had already respected Hunter enough not to read his mind and find out about his scars. Not that she was too curious. The guy seemed to have been in some messed up things, and it showed. The way he acted; it just cried out that he's a broken bird. While she was no psychologist, she thought it'd be a great idea to just stray around his scars. "I won't ask about your scars." She just causally throws in, trying to get on Hunter's good side. Eventually the group made it to the main lobby, and immediately Victoria noticed the door to the security room. She walked up over to it and turned the knob, only for nothing to happen. "Jesus... It's locked. Do you guys have any ideas?"

"Give me a moment to think..." Hunter responds to Victoria. Going into deep thought.

"You, Lexy?" Victoria asks her new ally.

Crystal winced when rats were mentioned. She knew she was going to see some, but they still freaked her out. Nonetheless she chose to keep her mouth shut and just listen to the conversation. Gabe was beginning to get on her last nerve with the rude statements. Crystal had decided only to speak up when the animal metas do. It wasnt her fight to decide. Not to mention it wouldn't be a good idea to make any enemies. Just keep smiling.

Crystal did as she was instructed and stepped away from the door, covering her ears. She now knew what the Sylvia girl's power was. It was a good thing the girl had come with them, then. It was a good offensive and defensive power, in a way. Best not to make her an enemy, no matter how annoying the girl seemed.

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Lexy
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Lexy felt awkward as silence surrounded the group for a few moments. She felt excitement come when hunter finally spoke up... But then just as quickly leave. The feeling was replaced with a little bit of guilt for bringing up the scars. "Oh... Okay. Sorry bout that," Lexy smiled. No asking about the scars, then? Nope. No asking.

Lexy followed Victoria and Hunter, now daydreaming about the most random thing. "I wonder what it would be like if you could freeze time and just do whatever you want without worrying about the day ending." The thought was said out loud by her though she didn't even realize she had said anything. Lexy smiled once they arrive at the security door. Locked? Victoria aske her if she had any ideas.

"If its locked then someone has to have a key, right?"

Victoria & Hunter

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"If its locked then someone has to have a key, right?"

Why didn't I think of that? Victoria thinks to herself, almost humorously. Now wasn't the time to joke or act silly. It was the time to be serious. Now, she had to think about where a key would be. The only thing she could think of was finding out who's a security guard, and raiding his room. Which will be very time consuming, but this is something that Victoria was more than willing to do. Someone's missing, no time to lollygag. Even if it takes years, she will not stop searching for Jia-li--- And there's plenty of people that will help too. "Alright, I have an idea. We should go find a Security guard's room back in the dorms. Do any of you know any guards...? We need to get this wrapped up soon as possible and knowing where to look is a great start."

Hunter spoke up, "Ruth Olivas." He spoke blankly, and it wasn't the best way to answer Victoria's question. But, he didn't know that.

The only thing Victoria did was shrug and started walking out the door. After reaching the door she stopped and said, "Alright. We should head back to the dorms. The best idea I got is to tear apart Ruth's room until we find a key, any key." If we can find his, her room... Victoria thought to herself before proceeding out the room. Followed by Lexy and Hunter. They all walked down the many paths to the dorm, with Hunter keeping his eyes on what was going on around him. With this traitor running around it's best to be on the cautious side. He swore that he heard some bushes rustling. He immediately turned to it when he heard it, but, he saw nothing. The group pasted another bush and heard a loud gurgling sound. It was a nasty sound, like one you'd see in a horror movie.

Immediately, Victoria stopped and looked at the source (Hunter did too, readying his sword). Instead of going over there to look, she choose the better option. She closed her eyes and focused, attempting to pick up anybody with her telepathic abilities. What was strange was that she did sense something. Except, it only felt like there was half of a mental-presence. All Victoria could detect was a fade, almost like whatever is there has no brain. Which was strange, but nothing worth disregarding. "... Something's there."
She says, giving a narrow, near-hostile glare in the direction of the gurgling.

Suddenly, the bushes start a heavy rustling. Just like if something was coming their way. Naturally, the pair prepared. Hunter put both hands on the handle of his blood-sword, ready to slice his enemies in half, and Victoria was ready to telekinetically throw anything that attacks out of the way. They soon realized they made the right decision in preparing themselves for combat. Five strange tentacles came out of the bushes at high speeds. These tentacles seemed to have been made out of a strange goo-like substance, and colored a shade of pink (They're colored Rose to be precise). The tentacles were sharp at their tips, sharp enough to impale anyone at the speeds they're going. Two tentacles went towards Hunter, one went towards Lexy, and the last two went towards Victoria.

Hunter was the first to react, he instinctively side-stepped the first tentacle that went towards him. He quickly swung his sword horizontally at his second one, using his slight control over his constructs to guide his blade. Slicing it in half horizontally. The tentacle started melting, turning into nothing but a cloud of steam (or smoke). The tentacle that Hunter dodged quickly tried to come back and slice him, but he saw it coming. He raised his sword high up into the air and brought it down hard, slicing it in half too, causing it to melt too.

Victoria quickly used her telekinesis to direct the three tentacles that were going towards her (And Lexy) into the dirt. Getting embedded, pinning them down. She used all of her strength in keeping them pinned down. Which exactly was what Hunter needed. He charged towards the tentacles with his Blood-Sword in hand, and sliced through all of them vertically. Cutting each and every one of them in half. They disintegrated into steam. Victoria let her telekinetic grip loose, she then looked around confused as hell on what just occurred before them.

"... What was that?" Victoria hesitantly asked, still confused and scared.

"We'll see in a moment." Hunter turned his head to where the tentacles came from. He held on to his sword with one hand, but, kept his grip tight. Ready to slice through more tentacles. Something definitely was getting closer, from the sound of the gurgling and bushes rustling. Victoria readied herself as well, she telekinetically lifted up random objects that were lying around. Rocks, dirt, trash, bullet-casings--- Nothing, impressive, but that's everything that Victoria has access to.

Slowly, the gurgling got insanely loud and it came through the bushes. It was a pool of an extremely thick goo, the same color as the tentacles that attacked them. It got closer, and closer. Seemingly showing that it's much larger than what they may have anticipated. As it got close, everyone got back until there was a large gap between them and it. Eventually, it stopped moving, and formed a still puddle on the ground. No one let their guards down. They were prepared for the worst. Eventually, the goo started transforming, into another, form. Quickly, all the goo packed together into one big orb. Hard and tough. It slowly started talking a snake-like body, long and slender. It has no legs, only a small pool of goo was under it. It has several similarities (In looks) to Salamanders, specifically Axolotls. It has the face and head of a Chinese giant salamander. On sides of it's head were twelve fins exactly like Axolotl fins. It has a massive mouth that is a gaping maw, no teeth, only nothing. It stood over the group, being four-meters high. It was looking down at the group, like a beast ready to strike. It grey several gooey tentacles, at least twenty, all of which are either normal or razor sharp. It is The Oozium and all the Japanese will love him.

"How horrifying." Hunter says blankly, in response to this creature. It could almost be interpreted as sarcasm, if he was a sarcastic person. Another vile beast...? How strange, and where do such creatures come from? I have no idea why they're coming out now, but I will get to the source and end it there. Hunter readied himself. He put his feet shoulder-width apart, and held his blade with both hands. Taking a sort of Samurai-like pose. The blade was held directly at his center.

The first thing that Victoria did was alert Drake of what's going on, DrakeDrakeDrake! There's a monster up here and it's after us! Come back now! She quickly sent the thought to her brother. That was all that needed to be done. Right now, she, and the others, needed to go fight The Oozium. No time to wait. Little did she know, her brother was about to be caught up in a battle of his own.


Johnny, Drake, Sylvia, Gabe & Lily


The very moment everyone got back, Sylvia unleashed the full force of her Sound Cannon. A painfully loud boom could be heard as a rush of blurry air. The blast went directly from Sylvia's hand, straight into the door. Causing it to get twisted and mangled--- But, the two doors were blown open. The door was still completely intact, other than being blown open. Sylvia was launched back at high speeds, and was promptly caught by Johnny, who skid backwards a few inches. She would have done some serious damage to herself if Johnny hadn't caught her.

"Got ya' Syl." Johnny says with a smile, before he looked up at the damage, "Looks like you did a number on that." He started chucking, as he let Sylvia out of his grasp.

"F*ck yeah, sh*tface. Let's all go to get sh*t to eat!" Sylvia immediately jumped up and flew inside before anyone could do anything. Johnny reverted back to his human form and scrolled inside.

"Now aren't you powerful?" Lily says, nearly sarcastically. She started proceeding inside with a cautious step.

"Yeah, she may look powerful." Drake mutters to himself under his breathe. For now, he wanted to get this all out of the way before he continued.

The rest of the group entered silently. The food storage was a very dark room. Fortunately, Drake's electric form gave them quite a bit of light. However, it was impossible to make out anything outside of the view of light that Drake's electric form gave them. What could be made out was that there were several large metal shelves and lots of wooden crates. The room was pretty big too.

"So, uh... Pretty dark in here...." Lily says nervously, as she looked around curiously. Scared of what could (and is) in here. However, Drake's light revealed something; a light switch. Deciding to flip it without a word, Lily quickly walked over to the switch and flipped it on. The entire room light up, showing all the contents of the room. The Food Storage room was a massive room, twice the size of the cafeteria. The room was pretty high. It had a blank, smooth grey concrete floor, with smooth, tan colored walls. Scattered throughout the room were piles upon piles of neatly stacked together crates. Containing, you guessed it; food. All kinds of food that don't require refrigeration. In the center of the room, was a grey large machine called a HAULER. Which is square and had twenty conveyor belts which lead into large square openings. These openings lead into tiny little elevators. Which are strong enough to carry plenty of boxes and more. There were two buttons on the sides, one to send up a cargo and another to call down. Someone could possibly ride in them. Around the room were special Eyes, merely hovering around. These Eyes manage the Food Storage rooms. The way the room works is that when the food runs low, the Kitchen Eyes send out a signal to the Food Storage Eyes and they use the transport system to bring food to over world. The storage room is below the Dorms, and the elevator will take them to the Staff section of the dorms. On the other side of the room, opposite of the entrance, was another large metal door. Which leads into the refrigerated part of the storage room. If the group went through this door, they would see an incredibly long hallway with several different doors, which lead into refrigerated rooms. Full of food like fruits, that require refrigeration. At the end of this hallway, was yet another room. The freezer room, a large room, half the size of the main storage room. That is where they store the frozen foods.

"Woah..." Drake says, as he reverts back to his human form. His electricity slowly faded, as his human skin started becoming more and more apparent. Until all the electricity was gone and he was normal. Everyone had light, so they didn't need it anymore.  

"Does anyone know where's the Kool-aid?! Haha!" Johnny was immediately filled with excitement upon the lights turning on. And it showed, a wide grin formed on his face and his eyes opened wide. Now, the first thing he wanted to do was secure some food for himself. Before he did anything, he needed to make sure this room was clear. He tilted his head downwards, letting his hat cover his eyes. Once again, he knew the exact location of every single last emotional presence. There was nothing else in here, other than them. "Before you all ask, the fabulous Johnathon decided to check this room.... And there is only us. No one else! We can do whatever we want in here! Now, if you excuse me" Now that was out of the way, he immediately ignored what the group was doing and ran off to go find food.

Followed by Gabe, "Ya' should slow down and wait for me!" She shouts at him. Before running after him.

"Alright everyone. I'm going to have a look at that thing in the room... You guys grab whatever you want to eat and then we'll head back up..." Lily says to the group so that everyone can hear. There was one concern, she wanted to know how they'll bring all this food back up to the surface. They will find a way. She walked towards the machine slowly and once she was close she looked at it. It appeared as if this was an elevator of sort. Lily curiously pressed one of the buttons and the elevator went up with no cargo. She was smart enough to figure this out. "Hey guys! Put your stuff in here, it'll go up!" Lily shouts, hopefully loud enough for everyone to hear.

Sylvia just silently shrugged and started flying towards Johnny and Gabe.

Drake nodded his head and slide his hands into his pockets before wandering off, perhaps he'll knock over a crate or two to see if there's anything worth eating fresh. He was hungry as hell right now. However, this train of thought was broken when he received a frantic thought from Victoria, DrakeDrakeDrake! There's a monster up here and it's after us! Come back now! Immediately a pulse of electricity surged throughout his being. He was about to transform into his lighting form, except he stopped. Victoria? Victoria!? Drake replied mentally, with no response. He turned back towards the group and shouted, "Alright, we need to go back up right now! Something's up there and it's after Victoria!"

"What?" Lily says, "Oh, god. Something else?!" She was getting tired of this already. Getting attacked by monsters and maniacs just like this.

Shortly, the very same gargling sound could be heard behind the door. Gaining the attention of everyone in the group. Quickly, a wave of the very same pink goo came through the doors of the Food Storage room. Along with a man in a lab-coat, he's unconscious and it was hard to make out his details at the moment. It quickly pooled in front of the doors to the food storage room. There was plenty of this goo. Eventually it stopped coming, and an ominous puddle of the pink goo was on the floor. Stationary, everyone stared at it to see what it will do. Quickly, it condensed into a ball and started taking a long, thin, snake-like body. With the face of a Salamander, and Axolotl fins on the side of it's head. There was a pool of goo at it's bottom. Hundreds of tentacles formed from that very pool. It is fourteen meters tall, much larger than it's smaller clone. It is The Oozium, and one of it's abilities is to split up into smaller forms. It's nearly identical to the version of the Oozium that is attacking Hunter, Lexy and Victoria. Except, there is a few differences. There was that man that came in with the pool of Goo deep inside of it, and this Oozium is much larger. This is the main body of Oozium, and the one controlling the other five wandering around the Othergrounds, killing every student that it finds. This creature is certainly not friendly. The Oozium let out a loud, gargled roar.

Everyone responded to this creature in their own ways;

"Oh my god! It's a Japanese tentacle monster! Ladies! Prepare your ovaries!" Johnny humorously says. He really didn't take this seriously, because this creature looked so silly. In his eyes, it isn't a threat. It's a convenient way to show off his prowess to the rest of the group. He starts loudly laughing, "It's about time to keep calm and go Ham, children!" While Johnny transformed into his Negative Emotional Energy form, he did a dance. Not just any dance, Micheal Jackson's smooth criminal dance. Then a white light engulfed his skin and his outfit. Pulse of several colors danced across his skin from left to right. He finished his transformation (and dance) with the famous Smooth Criminal pose. "I'm fresh to death and about to kill it." He says to himself.

"F*ck my life..." Drake mutters under his breath, as he narrowed his eyes. Another bolt of electricity danced across. The last thing he wants to do is waste time fighting this thing. It seems like he doesn't have an option. Drake squatted down low, bending his knees as much as possible. He put his hands on his knees and held them tight. Electricity started covering his skin, eventually, he transformed into his electrical form. While he transformed, he kept that pose and lifted his right leg high into the air, and stomped it down. Much like a Sumo Wrestler. Once his foot touched the ground, electricity shot off in every direction. He then stood straight up, with his electric form being completed, and he had his fists at his sides.

"Oh, time to show these amateurs how to murk this bloody thing. Everyone stay the 'ell out of my way! Unless you like having some mighty bad burns." Gabe had a similar mindset as Johnny. She quickly kicked her combat boots off her feet, and her entire arms started superheating. A sizzling sound could be heard as smoke came from her arms. Her arms then started glowing  bright and burning orange. Anything that she punched would be grievously burned. She pounded her hot right fist into the palm of her left fist--- Grasping her fist with her left hand tightly. Gabe had kicked off her boots so that they wouldn't get burnt when she used her air-friction power to deliver dangerous kicks to anyone in her path.

"Holy sh*t! What the hell is that thing?!" Lily was panicking at this point, she dropped to her bottom out of shock and really couldn't process this.

Sylvia floated high up into the air with a devious look on her face. "Looks like it's high-f*cking-time that we do some fun sh*t. God d*mn walking around that smelly f*cking sewer finally f*cking paid off." Sylvia already had Dubstep playing, so it was unnecessary for any further preparations.

"Alright, children!" Johnny started off, loudly so that everyone can hear him. He still wasn't serious enough to actually believe that this was a threat, "Now, we have one really big tentacle monster here! Me and Gabe here will lead the attack. The rest of you are our shields! Throw yourselves at it until we kill it! Wait, no. This thing could make a killing in Japan." Of course, he was being sarcastic and joking. Most of the group probably would think that he's being serious--- And it was fun.

The battle on two fronts finally begins.

The first thing Claire did when she saw the massive puddle of goo splash all over the floor was mutter "oh sh*t". She had more-or-less lead the attack on the last giant deadly monster, and from the looks of this thing, she was about to again. Johnny could screw off all he wanted and make his plans and punch the goo until it looked like Jell-o, but jobs like this required one thing that Claire could easily deliver; badassery. As the massive monster formed into what looked like a salamander snake, a deliciously evil smile crept across Claire's face. She cracked her knuckles loudly, causing sparks to shoot out, and her fists clenched as they were surrounded by twin balls of blue electricity.

"Say, Teej." Claire said as the electricity spread up her arms "Do you think your portal would work on that thing?"

"I guess, why?" a rather intimidated TJ replied, his eyes not moving from the goo monster's massive head.

"Because I wanna make a show outta this b*tch. Now let's kick some ass!" By this point, both of Claire's arms were lighting up with electricity, and her eyes glowed white. Her hair stood up straight, as if she had been struck by lightning, herself. She consolidated a large bubble of electricity between her hands, making a massive ball of white lightning. She smiled, her teeth even crackling with electricity, and said "hami, hami.... HA!" She laughed and the massive ball of lightning rocked at the goo monster, accompanied by a loud crash, as if lightning had stuck the room. Alejandro, meanwhile, decided to back off a bit for this battle, obviously terrified by the gigantic pink goo beast which now stood before them.

"Eh, I'll take the next one." Alex said, backing away from the goo beast to join Lily behind the action.

When Lexy heard the gargling noises she didn't think anything about danger.  It was more so curiosity then anything.  She did sense the danger of the situation when the tentacles attacked. Lexy reached her hand into her purse for a weapon when she realized... She had no weapons. No form of protection whatsoever. This made Lexy really grateful when Victoria and Hunter took care of the tentacle attacking her.

Lexy smiled, "well, that was interesting."  She wasnt sure why Hunter and Victoria were still standing there, but did the same. She then realized why when another monster was formed.  It was some lizard-like beast. Lexy frowned, "it's kinda cute. Buuuut I kinda don't have a weapon. Well, there's a pen I have if the goo thingy had eyes I could, you know, make it blind, but it won't work here, so I think I'm useless. Sorry?" In truth Lexy was glad she didn't have a weapon. What if she had to hurt a person later on just because she had one? That would be mean! She couldn't!  Monster thingies like this goo thing though... She wouldn't mind killing. Wait, so maybe she did need a weapon.

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Crystal
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Crystal looked in the room in amazement. So much food, so few people.  She immediately picked up a few cans of fruit and shoved them into her backpack along with a few bags of marshmallows.  Canned oranges were a must for her. A mini box of cereal that's made for one breakfast for one person that you see at hotels and schools. Crystal then looked up at the sound of gargling.

When she saw the Oozium monster, Crystal quickly took several steps back. She was a healer in the Psionic enhance field- not a fighter. Sure, some can enhance strength with their abilities or enhance speed, but she couldn't. She was weaponless and vulnerable. Crystal just stared at the Ooz monster as she continued stepping back until she felt a food pile behind her. Luckily a lot of other metas wanted to fight. They can go ahead. She was gonna stay here and be safe.

Oozium

Oozium Boss Theme:

The battle began. The very first thing that the goo creature did was open it's gaping maw wide as possible. It "inhaled" an enormous amount of air. It greatly swelled up with the air, nearly taking a balloon like shape. It quickly shot out the air in one blast towards the ceiling. However, this wasn't it's attack on the group. The gust of air carried along thousands of variously sized orbs of goo. These orbs hit the ground all over the food storage area, and remained perfectly static for a few seconds before they revealed their true purpose. They changed their shape into humanoid forms. Both male and female, they were all featureless. No faces, no muscles, no bones... Yet, they had a humanoid form. They posed very little threat, and can easily be dispatched by the weakest of attacks. However, these acted as cannon fodder, distracting the group, and wearing them out--- Possibly overwhelming them with their numbers. Almost immediately, they set out, all of them attacking anyone that they encountered. They used swarming attacks, never attacking alone.

These tiny creations of the Oozium rushed towards the group, attacking every last member of the the group.

The students launched their collective attacks. With Claire being the first to land a successful hit on the beast. The electricity of Claire's orb traveled all over it's gooey being. A bit of it's being was destroyed in this attack, as torrents of pink steam came off it's being. The next attacks were from Bones. The wave of spikes hit it in it's head area, and did a bit of damage to it. A small amount of steam came from where the spikes had landed. However, regardless of the damage she caused it, it would not let her attack it undeterred. It started swinging some of it's tentacles around in the path of the spikes. Either taking the damage of the spikes, or flicking them away from it. It was relatively damaged, but not even barely out of the fight.  

Now was it's turn to return some of the damage. It let out another ear crushing roar before it went on the offense. It directed it's attacks towards the ones that attacked it, and the ones that caught it's eye. It launched a wave of ten knife-sharp tentacles towards Claire and TJ, looking to impale. It then created one large tentacle and vertically swiped it towards Nicole in the air. The next person to be attacked was Toby, the Oozium raised several tentacles in the air and brought them all down at once, in an attempt to crush the dog. One large tentacle was swung directly at Sandy's mid-point.

Sandy's attempt at sickening the Oozium was partly successful. The creature slowly felt more and more confused and drowsy.



Lily & Drake

ViperaUnion wrote:

"Lily, if you shut down on us in this fight, then what kind of leader are you? Get up, and get it together!" She snapped, in her typical gruff fashion.

Do I look like a soldier? A warrior? I'm just some girl d*mmit! Who just wanted to get the hell away her life of being abused by some thug of a ex-boyfriend, looking to get a charge! I never asked for this. No one did. I just want to head home and never speak of this place again. Lily was immediately reminded of what happened during the fight with the Zizz. She just stood on the sidelines until someone nearly got killed. Then she froze, and just gave up. There was little she could do there, and even less she could do here. This Goo-beast scared her much more than the Zizz ever did, and it showed. It was bigger, meaner, and vicious like an animal. It'd kill her in a second, and it'd kill someone here. Lily just tensed up as tears ran down her face, she quickly tightened and formed the fetal position. More and more tears started running down her face. "What the hell am I supposed to do?! I can't fight!" She screamed at Bones, emotional as ever, "I'm useless here! I just can't get it to together, can't you see that?!" She just tilted her head downwards and waited for inevitable to occur. The small spawns of the Oozium slowly closed in on her. Ready to kill. There was no where for her to run, so she didn't even bother.

She gave up.

The boom of Drake's electrical attacks could be heard throughout the storage room. He was standing on top of a pile of crates, with the spawns of the Oozium trying to get up. He was raining down bolts of pure lightning on them. With every bolt he fired, they immediately melted. He scowled and thought to himself. These things are just little distractions. I gotta go for the big cheese. Drake turned his head towards the Oozium, ignoring the spawns for a moment. He was going to go straight for the beast--- However, something more pressing caught his attention: the screams of Lily. "F*ck..." Drake jumped down off the pile of boxes, landing on the pile of Oozium spawns. They couldn't touch him without getting shocked to death. So, it basically gave him immunity to the creatures. He started running towards the source of Lily screams. There was one large Spawn in his path, he reacted by punching it with the full force of it's electrical fist. It immediately melted, and was killed. He continued his charge--- Only to stop in shock on what he saw. Lily was surrounded by those things. He didn't waste any time in trying to think about this, he just acted. The first thing he did was fire a large bolt of lightning at them, trying his best to avoid hitting Lily. He wiped out several of them. He ran closer to Lily and delivered another powerful punch to yet another Oozium spawn. It immediately melted. He stood over Lily like he was her guardian angel--- Which, in many ways, he is. They took their attention off of her, and it went to him. Not that he was complaining.

The first thing that Drake did was yell, at the top of his lungs, at them, "I am Drake Blackmore and there is no way in hell I'm letting any of you f*ckers touch her!" Naturally, they didn't have any natural ability to hear. They charged at Drake in every direction, he just wiped the electrified sweat off his forehead and focused. He fired yet another blast of electricity, with both hands, at the largest group, wiping them all out again. Leaving only a few remaining, he fired smaller bolts of electricity at them, destroying them as well. With that out of the way, Drake turned his attention to the one person that mattered to him here, Lily. "What the hell, Lil!? Get up!" He shouted at the petrified in fear Lily.

Lily was just about tired of people yelling and shouting at her, "Just go away... I'm fine right here..." More tears ran down Lily's face, soaking her clothes.

"What the hell are you talking about?! They almost killed you! Get up, fight, run, do anything other than what you're doing right now!" He shouted at her, in a mighty, authoritative voice. The electricity that enshrouded Drake glowed brighter and brighter with every word, and suddenly, went dim once he was finished. This was really making him angry. All of this going on, and she wants to do this now?

"I can't do any of that..." Lily hisses, "Some leader I turned out to be... Ready to head out and leader the rest of you around... But, gets petrified in fear the moment someone scary comes along." She finished.

"That doesn't mean that you just have to give up!" Drake snaps back. Three more spawns of the Oozium came towards them, Drake reacted accordingly and fired three blasts of lightning at them. Killing all of them. There's so damn many... He thought to himself as his attention went back to lily.

"What other choice do I have...? I'll only get killed if I fight, I don't shoot lighting like you do. I'm just so scared right now.."

Drake wanted to slap her hard as he could, but that'd do more harm than good. He choose the other option, he reverted his right arm back into it's human form. The rest of his body was still enshrouded with a thick coat of thunder, all except his arm. This allowed him to grab Lily without risk of shocking her to death. He used his un-electrified arm to grab on to Lily's shirt and pulled her up. Hard he could, he wasn't in the least bit concerned about if he was being rough or not. He kept her arm's length so that she wouldn't get shocked by his form. "Look! I'm scared here too!" He admits, he was scared right now. Not afraid of the monster itself, but afraid of what it will do. "I'm scared for my older sister who's up there all alone! I'm scared for Nicole, Dragonfly, you, who could all be killed! Hell, I'm scared for everyone here! But, the desire to win outweighs that fear! It always has, it always will!" He continued, he looked around at all the chaos. He needs to get back in soon as possible. "Look, you told me earlier that you were sorry for running away last night? Well, you sure as f*ck ain't acting like it."

"I know..." Lily says as more tears ran down her face.

"No, you don't. If you did, would you have been lying there waiting for them to kill you as you cried?! No." Drake yelled at her, gripping her tightly and shaking her. If Victoria was here, she'd be kicking his @ss by now. But, is she here? No. It's only him, and all the people fighting. Maybe he was being too hard on her--- Maybe, he needed to see things from her side of the window. Not everyone's a Blackmore, and had their own inherited fountain of courage and hope, to help him get through the darkest hour. However, he was only trying to give her some of that courage. Here, he was not only fighting for every last person here, he was fighting for his family. Charles, his brother. Adam, his father. Lisa, his mother. And all the people he knew and loved back in Black Fall. He's fighting here so that he can see them again. The electricity around him dimmed as he spoke in a softer tone, "Look. You need you reevaluate things here. Your life. It'd be selfish for us, and all of your family if you just gave up here. What you need to do is think about what you're fighting for. Me? I'm fighting to protect everyone here, and go back home and see my family and friends again. So, tell me, what do you have to fight for?"

"I'm fighting for..." Lily starts off, hesitant as ever, tears were running down her face a bit less. "... Survival. All of you guys. My family. My boyfriend. My dog. My kittens. My..." She listed on and on about everything she thought was worth fighting for.

At this moment, Drake lessened his grip, and smiled a bit. Lily wouldn't notice. "Good." He starts off, "You have lots of things to fight for. Now, let all of that fuel the inner desire to win. Can you do that for me?" He let go of Lily and took a few steps back, keeping his glare on her at all types. The electricity reappeared on his arm, and thus, his electric form was completed again.

Lily wiped the tears off fear off her face and replaced it with that inner drive to win, like Drake said. Maybe she can't do too much here. Maybe she will die. Maybe people here will die. That will not stop her here. She was going to help in the fight even if it killed her. All the sudden, the situation didn't seem so hopeless.. "Thank you, Drake. I... really needed that." She said, before quickly adding on, "I'm sorry about that back there. I just felt so stupid."

"Now, let's win this. You said that there's something you could have done to help. Can you tell me?" Drake asks Lily, he was specifically asking about her powers. He no longer thought of her as some stranger, she was now a friend, and friends can keep secrets. Even if it's dangerous or harsh. As long as Lily stayed on the path of righteousness, he would do anything to keep her (and her secrets) safe.

This was the first time that Lily (honestly) heavily considered telling another person about what she wanted to keep in the dark for so long. She looked around, nervous, then she figured that there's no point anymore. She just gave up a few minutes ago, and would have been dead if it wasn't for Drake. "Well..." Lily starts off, extremely hesitant, until she just gave in and told him, "... I can super-charge Meta-humans by kissing them! They'll get really powerful if I do!" Now that she got that out there... It felt good. Getting a bottled up secret off her chest. Hopefully Drake won't think of her as "disgusting" or "slutty" because of this. Lily started innocently twiddling her fingers, "... I can also turn normal people into Meta-humans... If that's useful."

That was unexpected, but warranted secrecy. Drake could understand why she wanted to keep it a secret--- And he respected her for so willingly telling her power to him. "That's unexpected... But, useful." For a moment, he wondered why she didn't do it when he was fighting the Zizz... No, f*ck, Blackmore. You're just being selfish again! He immediately scolds himself for even thinking about that. It's over with. There's nothing more to go back to. Lily was scared, and fear and panic can be a mighty force in a person. Making disregard all reason in order to save themselves. Now, he had a plan if Lily was telling the truth (Which, he really assumed that she did). "Now, I need your help in stopping this thing... Will you join me?"

"Yes, yes I will." Lily nods, with new found determination. Together, both of them charge towards the Oozium. Ready for combat.



Johnny, Sylvia & Gabe


When the Oozium sent out the smaller Spawns, Gabe and Johnny were almost immediately surrounded. Not that they were complaining. Both of them were ready for a fight. There was at least thirty of them all around the two siblings. Johnny didn't waste any time in trying to kill them soon as possible. He made the finger gun gesture almost immediately, with both hands. He started shooting off many Devil Kisses as his opponents. Naturally, Gabe's very presence made his Devil Kisses much hotter. They literally burned through the crowds of Oozium Spawns. Wiping out most of them in less than a few minutes. The first thing that Johnny noticed was how easy they were to kill. He spoke to Gabe, "This thing's a lot smarter than it looks. It's sending out the small fry to tire us out."

"Looks like we headin' for a fight of attrition!" Gabe responds. She swung her super-heated fists at the Oozium spawns. One large one in the shape of a female charged her. Only to get a powerful kick to it's side, causing it to melt. With every swing of her fists and feet, she increased the friction around her body. Which caused the air around her body to combust into flames. Slightly making her hits stronger. A group of three Oozium spawns charged her, she responded with one movie-style spin punch. Her fist burned through the Spawns heads, killing all of them.

"Attrition..." Johnny says under his breath as he keeps fighting. There was one thing that Johnny could do, back up that smart-@ss attitude and ego with superb street fighting. His Emotional Energy form gave him the ability to cancel their intangibility. Giving him the ability to hurt them with physical attacks. Ten Oozium spawns came charging at him. He only smirked as he went to work, the first one that got close was hit with a movie style round-house kick to the face. Knocking it to the ground for Johnny to further damage it. However, he didn't get this opportunity just yet. The rest of them charged at him, he responded by unleashing a flurry of speedy punches aimed at their midsections. He managed to cut down three of them, but they just wouldn't stop. Johnny did his finger-gun hand gesture with both hands, and fired down the rest of the Ooziums that were attacking them. It seems like they're in the clear for now.

"Alright, that was plenty o' fun, but what the hell do we do..?" Gabe says to Johnny.

"Dunno. We keep fighting. The two of us can stop this thing." Johnny replies.

"Yeah, the zoo-animals are being useful as always. Looks like it's up to the Valos to save the day." Gabe says in response.

"Wow! You f@gs are some hardcore motherf*ckers! You just f*cked up that entire f*cking army like it was nothing." Sylvia was watching their entire fight from the air and did absolutely nothing, but, watch. She slowly descended and said, "Sup f@gs."

"Now look who decided to show up..." Johnny hisses at Sylvia, "We could use you right here."

"Yeah, f*ck you, d*cksucker. I was doin' the f*cking b*tch's work and checkin' out that god d*mn door back there." Sylvia points at the large door into the Refrigerator rooms.

"There's a bloody room back there...?" Gabe skeptically asks.

"Nooooooooooo! I was just looking for a f*cking room to shove my hand into my p*ssy and rub one off! Of course there's a f*cking door back there! Don't repeat what the f*ck I'm saying!" Sylvia hisses at Gabe.

"Remind me to add ya' to the @sskicking list." Gabe crosses her arms

"Now that, gives me an idea. Perhaps there's something useful back there..." Johnny says to his little group.

"Ya' sure? Prolly just food." Gabe says.

"No. But, I know that it'll be much better to look for an edge against this thing, rather than sit here and punch all it's minions to death." Johnny replies.

"Eh, well, you're the boss. Now, I've been meaning to ask this, but, what do we do if anyone gets in our way?" Gabe asks again, she was wondering what they should do if anyone was stupid enough to get in their path.

"It'll be a tragedy if any of those morons are too f*cking stupid to get out of our way. They get in our way, we take them out of it." Johnny apathetically answers Gabe's question, "Now, we have a room to search, a monster to kill. Let's go!" The three ran to the back of the room, towards the door to the Refrigerator and Freezer rooms. It may have seemed to be cowardice, but it was exploration. Even if they find nothing, they will always come back to kill the monster.



Victoria, Hunter vs. Oozium Clone I

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"it's kinda cute. Buuuut I kinda don't have a weapon. Well, there's a pen I have if the goo thingy had eyes I could, you know, make it blind, but it won't work here, so I think I'm useless. Sorry?"

"I don't know too much about you, but I can tell you that you're not useless." Victoria attempts to uplift the younger girl. There was so much that Lexy could do to help them outside of fighting. She just didn't know it. But, Victoria did. "Look, you can always help us in any way you can. Go inside and find help, go find a weapon. Just remember you ain't useless."

At this moment, Oozium Clone I launched it's offensive. Sending several tentacles at the group. Victoria responded by using her telekinesis to stop the tentacles by embedding them into the ground again. Hunter sliced all of them in half gracefully.

"Yes, there are many who didn't go down. Find them, then find a weapon.." Hunter says to Lexy before he puts his attention back on Oozium I.


Oozium Clone II


The Ooziums were wandering the school, every single last corner of it. Looking for something to kill. Specifically, students. And Oozium II had found exactly what it wanted in the library. Two students, all alone. Perfect for the hunter. Oozium II slowly slid along the ground into the library room, pooling in the middle of the floor again. It quickly condensed into a orb, before forming the usual snake mixed with an axolotl form. This Oozium specifically was three meters high. It roared loudly as it deployed it's tentacles for combat.

Crystal began stepping away from the pile of food she had been backed up against when the Oozium separated into smaller human-like forms. Some of the forms were running after her. Crystal quickly began running back, until she noticed everyone else in some way fighting the gooey monsters with their abilities. What could she do? Healing was something that helped people, not hurt them. Then her sense enhance ability couldn't be used very long or else she would get a headache that would endanger her more.

Once an Oozium attacked her, Crystal quickly ducked as a way of dodging it. "Might as well try," she though out loud before attempting to do something of a karate kick at the strange pink goo person. She quickly regretted it once her foot came in contact with the Oozium human. Crystal stepped back after the kick, "oh that's disgusting," she groaned as her foot was covered in slime. What to do, what to do? Crystal found herself once again backed up against a food pile. In a sudden rush of fear she grabbed one of the canned goods and threw it at a Oozium creature. If she couldn't kill them, confusing them could work. No matter how stupid the form of confusion was. Now she just had to hope a canned good could do something to the creature or else... She was screwed.

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Lexy
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Lexy nodded at Victoria and Hunter, smiling, "aw, thank you! Okay, I'll try and get... Something. And also someone." With that Lexy spun on her heel and headed towards the cafeteria. It made sense to her- a cafeteria had a kitchen and all kitchens have knives. Lexy ran in that direction, not realizing that there were more Ooz monsters all over the school- some could have even pursuin her and she wouldn't know.

"Anyone heeeeere? Helloooooooo?"" Lexy wasn't sure if there were or weren't, she was mainly just concerned about a weapon. She began opening drawers and eventually found a large array of knifes- from butter ones to the larger cooking knifes that went up to 10 inches. Lexy just grabbed all of the potential weapons and threw one at each of the ooziums' heads that may have been around her. (If there were any in pursuit) Lexy didn't worry about missing her target. That was one thing she didn't have to worry about. It was if the knifes would do any damage.

Oozium


The Oozium was damaged yet again by the combined attacks by the students. The tentacle that it attacked Nicole with was sliced into two, the tentacle slowly dropped to the ground as it converted into steam. Before it even got a chance to drop to the ground, it was all gone. Nothing left. Toby's attack with his claws had nearly sliced in half the tentacle, a cloud of steam came out of the tentacle as the Oozium retracted it. Due to the tentacle's elastic nature, Sandy's stomp did very little to damage it. Only causing a very small amount of steam to come off of it. Every tentacle retracted and raised it up. The attack that really caused it damage was Sandy's whip. The bone whip sliced through the Oozium's body, causing a large cloud of steam to come from the wound. The creature put some goo from the rest it's body in it's place.

The monster seemingly had a plan with it's counter attack. Instead of blindly swiping at the group with razor sharp claws, or trying to crush them. It choose to send out many tentacles at it's aggressors to grab them. Then it can easily swipe them without them possibly dodging. It sent out at least ten tentacles for each person.




Oozium Clone II


Oozium Clone II didn't waste any time in engaging Terror. It let out a loud roar as it's tentacles reached around to grab objects. Books, furniture, the Eyes that tended to the library--- Everything around it was grabbed. It slung everything it could like a catapult. At both Tom and the now transformed Marie. Hoping to wound them.


Victoria & Hunter vs. Oozium Clone I


With Lexy gone, the two decided to focus on the Oozium that is before them. All they have to do is hold out for somebody. A thick, blue telekinetic-aura surrounded Victoria's hands. The first thing she did was send all the objects at the Oozium at high speed. The objects were embedded into the creature, and caused steam to come out of the holes made. The creature quickly compensated for it by using excess goo--- Which wasn't a lot. Victoria attempted to bring the objects she was lifting out of the creature, with no success. "There goes that plan." She says to Hunter, with her eyes widened.

This is a battle we can succeed. All that is needed to survive is the will to live, and the tools that lie in our hands. Hunter thinks to himself, blade pointed towards the creature. He was awaiting another attack. "Victoria. Use your telekinesis to redirect the tentacles. I will slice them."

"Sounds good to me..." Victoria says to Hunter. At this point the first clone of Oozium launched a flurry of tentacles at them. Some were razor sharp, some weren't. The oldest child of Blackmore redirected the tentacles upwards, almost back towards the Oozium. Which gave Hunter all the opening he needed to slice them to pieces. He held his blade tightly and swung them artfully, at the tentacles. Each slice of his blood-sword was horizontal, so he can take out as many as he could with every swipe. With five swings, all of them were on the ground, steaming.

At this point the creature realized that blindly sending tentacles at them wouldn't work. It started moving back slowly. It wanted to make them come to it, so it can take advantage of that. "It's falling back... Should we be doing something?"

"I have a plan. Use my sword." Hunter blankly states, before he threw his sword high up into the air as he could. Victoria caught the blood-sword using her telekinesis.

"... And what am I supposed to be doing with this?" Victoria curiously asks, the confusion in her voice could be heard.

"Launch it at it's head hard as you can. That is all I request." Hunter blankly says, before breaking off into a full on sprint towards the Oozium Clone. He had a plan for killing the beast. But, it'd be risky.

"Okay..." Victoria complied by launching the sword at the Oozium's head at high speeds. The creature attempted to swipe the sword out of the way using it's tentacles, but Victoria was launching it too fast. It ended up going through the tentacles and impaled the creature. The blade was sticking out of the creature head, as a stream of steam came out. Victoria made sure to use her powers to keep it still. The Oozium tried it's best to get the blade out by wrapping it with tentacles, but Victoria's telekinesis wasn't going to let it move. The creature roared loudly, not out of pain. But, out of anger. It was getting mad. It quickly spotted Hunter sprinting towards it, and sent out several razor sharp tentacles in order to impale him.

Hunter reacted almost instantly, diving to the side to dodge the first wave of tentacles, and ducking to dodge the other ones. The Oozium was too distracted with trying to get the sword out of it. Hunter was a few feet away from the creature before he could put the next part of his plan into action, "Give me the sword, Victoria!" He shouted as he charged at it. He put his hand out, so Victoria can put the sword into his hand. She complied by ripping the sword out of it (Causing some damage to it's tentacles) and sent it flying at Hunter, handle-first. He grabbed it with both hands tightly, and he was close enough to deliver a powerful swing of the blade. The Oozium tried to impale him with it's tentacles, but Victoria dug them down with all of her power. Hunter put his blade to the ground as he spun his body around and delivered a mighty vertical swing of his blood-sword, using his slight control over his constructs to increase the force. There was nothing the Oozium could do to stop them. The sword went clean through the creature from bottom to top, and dug deep within it. Hunter almost cut the beast in half, but stopped halfway in. A cloud of steam came from the fresh wound and a gaping hole was cleaved in the creature. Hunter didn't stop there, he used the opening to get as many slashes in with his blade as he could. He just swung his sword at the beast over and over again, the Oozium got much smaller very fast. He's trying to kill it now. End it soon as possible, the two have the advantage over the beast.

The Oozium responded by not trying to attack, but retreat. It detached the tentacles that were being held down, and they turned into steam. It rolled up into a perfectly formed sphere, and rolled away much more like a ball. It was half it's size right now, and if it was going to survive, it would have to merge together with another Oozium clone. It rolled towards the dorms at high speeds, quickly it went through the front doors.

"Hell! It's heading towards the dorms." Victoria shouted. She didn't wait for Hunter, she just started running after the Oozium, with or without Hunter. Never thought I'd be the action girl. She thought to herself as she ran.

"Go ahead without me! I will need time for preparations!" Hunter shouted. He sighed as he rolled the sleeve for his right arm all the way up to his elbow. Revealing his horribly scarred arm. If they were going to fight this thing, he needs more swords. It'd give them the edge against the creature. Hunter pressed his existing blood-sword up against his forearm, and slowly cringed as he cut himself. He cut himself a deep wound, and blood came pouring from his arms. Fortunately, he can regenerate blood faster than anyone else here. So, he can avoid dying from blood loss. He reached into his bag and nearly put together a square out of several papers.

From there, he went to work. Making several blood-swords, while enduring the pain.




Drake & Lily


Another wave of Lightning was sent out by Drake. Decimating the humanoid Oozium clones easily. This is easier than the last guy... He thought to himself, as he saw another few coming at them. He easily dispatched them with a few bolts of lightning. "... This is too easy." He says loudly and stops in his tracks, looking over his shoulder at his companion. Lily was a few feet behind him, giving moral support, among other things. She was keeping her distance so that she doesn't get shocked by electricity. When Drake

It didn't take her much to figure out what Drake was talking about. She responded, "Yeah. Looks that way, but what are we going to do? Just ignore them? They'll kill us..."

"Wipe them all out at once." Drake responds, "Maybe there's some weakness this thing must have.... We just need to find it..."

"I don't have any idea." Lily shrugs off the idea. At the corner of her eye, she spotted Crystal being attacked by the smaller Oozium spawns. Regardless of whatever Drake has planed, they need to help her. "Drake, she needs our help!" She points in the direction of Crystal, as she says to Drake.

"On it." Drake blankly says before breaking off into a sprint towards Crystal. After he was close enough, the first Oozium he killed was the one that Crystal threw a can at. While the can, hilariously, did nothing. Drake's bolt of lightning that came from his very fingertips caused the creature to melt. A few more approached, only to get wiped out with another strong blast of lightning. After they were all gone, Drake looked at the larger creature. He has to join the fight against it soon. The last thing he was going to do was sit in the background, and he was itching for a fight. The electricity around him dimmed.

"Crystal, honey. Are you okay?" Lily says to Crystal as she makes her approach. The last thing they needed was their healer getting killed. "We can't lose you now... You need to find somewhere safe."



Johnny, Gabe, & Sylvia


"Dubstep, boom!" Sylvia loudly shouted as she assumed her usual Sound-Cannon pose with her right hand pointed palms out at a group of Oozium clones that were in their way. She wrapped her left hand around her wrist and fired a powerful blast of pure sound. It was strong enough to immediately destroy all that's in her path. She was launched back at high and would have hit a box of food, if Johnny wasn't behind her to catch her with both hands, that is. "F*ck yeah! That's exactly what you f*ggots get when you f*ck with me! Now let's... What the f*ck are we doing again?"

"We're going to have a gander inside that room." Johnny let go of Sylvia, then pointed at the large door into the Refrigerator Rooms. He started walking towards the metal door, and grabbed on to the doorknob and turned it. Surprisingly, it wasn't locked. He threw the doors open and said to his siblings, "Come on, children. We need to be quick. I'm itchin' to give that thing a bruisin'. Haha!"

Gabe scowled and crossed her arms, "I really hope there's something in 'ere or else I'm going to throw a fit..." She muttered quickly to herself. She then looked behind her to see the animal-type Meta-humans fighting the Oozium. Bloody zoo-animals are giving us time to make an actual strategy. That scowl turned to a forced smile.

All three stepped inside the room, and Johnny closed it behind them. It was a very long hallway, with many, many metal doors. Each door lead to a room that's %100 refrigerated, and had foods that needed to be refrigerated as well. "Now ain't this a real motherfucker...?" Johnny says to the group. The first thing he did was scroll over to a door and open it. Only to see metal shelves lined with several cardboard boxes. His curiosity didn't end there. He grabbed what one of the boxes and ripped it open with his bare hands. Inside were several cartons of milk. At this point Gabe and Sylvia came in and started going through the boxes, saying not a single word. They got some various foods, including fruits and meats. "... Food break!" Johnny humorously says as he grabs the first carton of milk, and drinks as much as he can.

Gabe unpacks a box of sliced ham and started stuffing it in her mouth, chewing it and swallowing. Before getting some more. "God, this is so delicious." All she needed was some bread, and cheese, and she could make a sandwich.

Sylvia grabbed several other packets of lunchmeat out of the box that Gabe got her food out of.

The monster can wait, they were all starving.



Jake & Lin


"... Your brother and sister are all underground now?" Lin curiously asks. They were just finishing up their conversation now, with Jake explaining all the events. While he was trying to get everything here prepared for service, he was slowly turning on every stove and washing off utensils needed to prepare the food. Even though he had no idea what they were going to bring back.

"Yeah." Jake cheerfully responds, "They're tough. There isn't much that can stop them." He was now appearing to be condescending. He knew that there's plenty of things that can stop them. Like bullets, ambushes, nukes, Lady Gaga, water, and probably everyone that went down there with them. He was about to continue when he heard...

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"Anyone heeeeere? Helloooooooo?"

This caught Jake's attention, "What was that?" He says. Looking away towards the source of the yelling. He heard another sound, like someone throwing something around.

"What's that...?" Lin carefully asks.

"I will find out." Jake says dramatically, to try and sound like an action hero. To impress Lin. "Stay here." After the last words left his lips, he turned invisible. Using his illusion powers to hide himself from sight. Lin ducked down behind the stove, awaiting for Jake's okay. While completely invisible, Jake made his way out of the kitchen and into the cafeteria. He say a strange young girl that he hasn't seen before. She was no where near the meeting when it occurred and she's throwing knives around like it was nothing. Jake certainly wasn't going to let this slide. Easily, that is. This could be another maniac coming out of stasis, and the two of them were in here alone. Easy picking.

The first thing that could be heard was the loud snap of Jake's fingers and became visible. He crafted an illusion of a brick wall between him and Lexy. It would be hard as an actual brick wall. As long as Lexy doesn't have a Cerebral, or Energy power, she wouldn't be able to easily destroy the illusion. "Who are you?" Jake blankly asks, "Don't lie. Why the hell are ya' throwing knives around, too?"


((There are no Ooziums nearby, haha!))

((lol well I did say if there were any I pursuit. Oh well- this'll be an interesting first impression))

Lexy blinked. She had thrown three knives, each one hitting a cabinet. Had she just imagined the cute little goo monster things? She jumped when she heard a voice, turning to the direction of it. When did that wall get there? It was then Lexy looked carefully at the said wall. It looked like some boy was in fact making it. She shrugged before smiling. "Oh I'm Lexy and I thought there were some of the goo monster things chasing me- guess I was wrong. Well, there are like some that are attacking this school right now and Hunter and Victoria are outside getting attacked and they told me to go find some help and get a weapon since I have perfect aim. Long story short." Lexy had just said the whole situation with a happy, rushed voice. "Well I reeeaaaaally gotta go, so.... Can you drop the illusion thingy?" Lexy asked with a smile. She didn't realize that her cerebral ability could allow her to walk through the illusion.

((sorry Vipera- I know I said I would try to have Lexy go to the library in my next post, but I can't think of how to without having Lexy go out of character or something ^_^' really sorry))

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Crystal
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Just a Crystal figured would happen, the can did nothing. Lucky for her, Drake came to her rescue and killed off all the pursuing oozium monsters. "Thanks a ton, Drake!" she smiled at him. In truth, she felt a little weak because of her inability to take care of herself. Then Lily asked if she was okay. "Yeah, perfectly fine," Crystal forced another smile. That question made her feel worse for some reason. She SO wasn't a fighter.

Crystal sighed, her feelings becoming slightly evident, "Yeah, I'll just go find somewhere to hi-" Crystal was interrupted by Dragonfly. His idea sounded much, much better to her and helped her feel less useless. Crystal didn't wait for anyone's feedback on the idea and quickly nodded. "sounds good- just lead the way."

Oozium


The Oozium let out another roar as it moved forward, seemingly gliding along the ground. The attacks by the animal-type Meta-humans weren't as effective as they were before. They had indeed severed a few tentacles in their attac. Except, the Oozium knew they weren't doing as well as before. It retracted the remaining tentacles that it had sent out after the group. Steam came out, as it compensated for the lost limbs by using extra body mass. It moved closer to them so it can finish the job. However, they were spared because of a massive bolt of lightning hit it on the side of it's head. Causing it's head to be knocked back into the wall, a massive cloud of steam came from the source. It quickly recovered, and it turned it's head (and attention) to the source...

Drake Blackmore.




Drake, Lily, Johnny, Gabe, & Sylvia vs. The Oozium

Epic battle song for pure asskicking:

Good, Dragonfly's here and he's going to take Crystal out of harm's way. Hopefully that'd only leave only the combatants and their tentacle monster. It was really giving the animal Meta-humans hell--- And Drake felt like sh*t for not being there from the start. But, he had to go help Lily get through this no matter what. "Good, Dragon. Get Crystal out of here and come back. I'm tired of f*cking up the small timers... It's my turn to give the big cheese some problems." He spoke, pounding his fists together hard as he could. Small sparks of electricity were sent off in all directions in front of him. "Lil, are you ready to rock?" He turned his electrified head towards Lily.

Lily wasn't sure if she was ready to fight. But, she was going to show the group here and now that she's not a ball and chain. She is a strong leader, no coward. While she didn't want to, she nodded and spoke to Drake, "Right. I'm ready." ... To die. She thinks to herself.

"Alright. Stay behind me. I'll clear the way." Drake broke off into a sprint towards the Oozium, with Lily behind him. He shot small bolts of lightning at, or punched,  every single mini-Oozium that was in his way. Not because they were in his way--- His electric-form killed them on contact, he could run through them. It was just that he was covering Lily. He didn't stop for nothing. The moment he was in range, he didn't think about nothing. He pointed both hands at the Oozium. A large ball of lightning covered both of his hands. This is the strongest bolt of lightning Drake has ever produced. It hit the creature right in it's ugly face, launching it back and creating a cloud of steam. It turned towards him with vicious intentions. He was effectively taking the pressure off the animal-metas, and putting it on him. There was one thing that Drake knew, and it was that he can hold his own in a fight. "Everyone! Get back! I got this." He readied his fists.

Lily stood behind a pile of crates for cover, "If you need a boost, holler!" She shouts at him, before retreating behind cover.

Emerging through the doors to the refrigerator room was the Valos siblings (And one Bertoose). Their bellies were full, and they were ready to prepare a fresh serving of whoop-@ss. While they were inside; they found everything they needed to make... SANDWICHES. Johnny was holding a ham, salami, turkey, beef and cheese sandwich. Taking bites out of it as he looked around nonchalantly. At the moment, he was out of his Emotional Energy form. "Looks like they got their hands full." He states, nonchalantly. Since to Johnny, this was all one big game. Just an opportunity to show the group his power.

"Ya' because we weren't here to tear it up, they got themselves in quite the pickle." Can't blame em' cause they're a whole lot of stupid Zoo-animals. Gabe thinks to herself, with an apple in hand, she took a bite out of it before she did an over the shoulder throw, and tossed it at the Oozium. It didn't even get close to the Oozium. Gabe then started super heating her entire arms, they started glowing brightly, as smoke started coming from her arms. A loud sizzling sound was generated by her. "Time to fix that. Eh, Johnny?" She said to Johnny.

"'Bout f*ckin' time. I want to kill the f*cking b*tch this time. No god-d*mn giving it to that pretzel neck b*tch, Taylor." Sylvia says to her comrades, sliding her pink-headphones over her ears. Blasting her bass-boasted dubstep playlist loudly as possible. Ready to tear through the pink Oozium monster. She smirked fiendishly.

"Alright. No distractions..." Johnny did a Micheal Jackson pose, while he transformed into his Emotional Energy form. A white light covered his being, and a rainbow of colors pulsed across his being left to right. I am going to go ham... NOW! He thinks to himself. He then breaks off into a sudden sprint, using the astonishing speed that this form provided, it didn't take him long to cover the distance. He ignored any smaller Ooziums, as they weren't the prize. During his sprint, he dropped his sandwich, and made both hands into a finger gun gesture. When he approached the beast, it was right when Drake shot it with a blast of lightning and it was knocked back. He used all the momentum he could and leaped high up on to a pile of boxes. After the beast turned it's attention on Drake, Johnny used this opportunity to tear the thing apart. He pointed both of his fingers at the Oozium and started shooting off several Devil Kisses as he ran towards the beast,  running across the boxes. Almost every Devil Kiss connected with The Oozium, steam came out as the Kisses burned into it's flesh. Johnny stopped with a skid, and smirked, yelling at the top of his lungs, "Alright, b*tches! The king returns to take his crown. Step aside, cuz' we about to kill it. And more."

Gabe and Sylvia were catching up. With Sylvia flying, of course.

Is this just a game to this jack@ss...? Stay focused! People can die, here, you dumb-@ss. Drake thought to himself, before he shakes his head out of disgust. He pointed his right hand at the Oozium, and fired off a stream of pure electricity at it. Nothing like a bolt of lightning, but close to it in terms of devastation. The electricity coursed through every bit of the creature's gooey body, causing steam to form all around it.

The Oozium was just about tired of this. It sent out thirty razor sharp tentacles at both combatants. It raised the tentacles high up into the air, before bringing them down on top of them like spears. Johnny smirked and used his quick speed to maneuver through the tentacle swarm. The tentacles got embedded in the boxes of food. This gave him an idea, he grabbed on to the nearest tentacle before it could retract, with one hand. Now, let me show you how to die in twelve different epic ways! This battle is going to add to my living legacy, b*tch! He thought to himself as he was whisked away by the Oozium's tentacle, being brought closer to the creature's face. Laughing like a total maniac in the process.

Drake immediately stopped the stream of electricity and made haste in his dodges. He ran in the first direction he saw, not even thinking. He barely got out of the way of the tentacles, almost. One razor sharp tentacle grazed the back of his shoulder. Making a nasty slash, electrified blood dropped down from the wound. Fortunately, Drake's form gave it a shock of it's own. Steam came from the tentacle as it retracted. He looked up to see Johnny holding on to the Oozium's tentacle. "What the hell?" He mutters to himself out of shock.

"Holy hell!? Are you retarded?!" Lily takes note of the craziness of Johnny, peaking from behind the crates, and loudly shouts to him.

"Nope! I'm just adventurous!" Johnny says in response, still laughing loud as ever. The Oozium's slight intangibility was immediately negated by Johnny's power. As long as Johnny was touching it, it would be solid. Allowing him to break the creature. As he got close, he made a finger gun with his free hand, and started shooting Devil Kisses at the Oozium's face. Faint amounts of steam came out. It was clear that Johnny's Devil Kisses aren't very effective against it. He would need a hard-hitting strategy against it. The creature responded by sending out tentacles to attack Johnny. Even if they did hit him, they wouldn't affect him in the slightest. His body is harder than ten million prosthetic legs! And the ladies loved it. However, he would avoid taking damage from this thing. Just to show off his skilled he is in dodging, or just deflect it. The first tentacle that was sent at him, he kicked it hard as he could, sending it away. The Oozium flicked the tentacle, that Johnny was holding on to, up into the air. Thus breaking his grip and sending him into the air, hitting the peak of his ascent before falling. Right then and there, it sent out plenty of razor sharp tentacles acting as spears, that would cause even Johnny harm. "Oh boy. This could be painful." He says to himself.

"Rockin', motherf*ckers!" A familiar voice comes from behind Johnny. It was Sylvia, flying in behind Johnny. She had her dubstep blaring through her headphones. She was ready to kick some @ss, and it showed.

Johnny turned his head towards her at the speed of light, and immediately shouted, "Syl! Launch me!" My ears are going to be ringing for generations to come! He thinks to himself, seeming like he was joking to himself. Preparing himself for what's to come.


Almost immediately, Sylvia grasped her headphones and preformed her famous Dubstep Bomb. An immensely loud boom could be heard throughout the storage room, as the air around her blurred and seemingly was "pushed" away. The blast of her bomb launched away the tentacles with crushing force, and hit hard enough for them to be damaged. Steam came out of the tentacles as they got smaller and smaller. Johnny was launched square at the Oozium in mid-air, and with the absence of tentacles, he was given a free shot at the monster.

Meanwhile, the Oozium had sent one large tentacle, and attempted to drop it on Drake. He jumped aside, and narrowly avoided it. In the moment it touched the ground, Drake rammed his fists into it's slimy body before it could retract. The electricity fried the monster, causing bursts of steam to come out. The Oozium readied tentacles to bring down and bash Drake.

"Time to see what ya' made of, eh?" Gabe walks over, nonchalantly cracking her knuckles. She was ready to tear it up. Unfortunately, that would come later since it's Johnny's time to shine.

"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Johnny screamed as he was sent through the air like a rocket. His form gave him resistance to what would have easily incapacitated anyone else. I can feel the agony of that tingling up my balls. He thinks to himself as he does something that'd be super-fabulous. He extended his leg, and delivered a literal, flying kick to the Oozium. A kick that wouldn't be too out of place in a Karate movie. In the process of doing this, he was loudly singing a verse from his favorite Jamiroquai song, you give me something, "You, you give me something! Something that nobody else can give! See my heart, has started thumpin'! You're the one I truly know I dig!" A few moments after the last words left his lips, the foot he had extended connected with the Oozium. Transferring all the kinetic energy that Johnny had built up, square into it's head. As his power gave him the ability to negate it's gooey form, everything around his foot was turned solid. With the force of Sylvia's sound blast, he caused the creature's head to crack. A torrent of steam came out of it's head, as it compensated for the lost mass with excess mass. The Oozium roared loudly. Immediately Johnny laughing loudly as he could, as he presses his other leg against the Oozium, and used all of his strength to use the Oozium as a jumping pad. Leaping backwards several feet away from the Oozium in mid-air. "FRESH... TO... DEEEEEATH!" He shouted ecstatically as he descended. He better enjoy this now. As the moment he reverts back into a human, he will experience pain beyond all possible pains.

Johnny barely did anything to damage the Oozium, but he did barely anything in style. With swag.

"And f*ck you too!" Sylvia quickly flies in at high speed, with her right hand pointed at the Oozium's head, and with her other hand wrapped around her wrist. She got in close as possible, aiming for the spot where Johnny hit it (Though, that was hard, since it already was gone). "F*ck it." She hissed. Before firing out a focused Dubstep-Bomb. Sylvia was launched back at high speeds towards the other end of the room. The Oozium started steaming hard as Sylvia damaged it.

Johnny landed on his feet with an enormous and cheeky smile on his face. He runs at high speed to get away from the creature. Now that he's done the single greatest thing in this fight, he figured that he'd gloat a little bit. Because the excitement was overwhelming. "Oh, my god! That was... Just soooo, f*cking good. I haven't done something that fresh to death since I fought the Uprising Gang--- Anyone remember that? Oh, wait, no, because you degenerates would have gotten your @ss handed to you the very moment you looked the ruffians I had to fight, in the name of---" A massive tentacle from the Oozium swiped at Johnny, horizontally, launching him across the room. Comically screaming along the way. He would probably scream like a ten year old girl hopped up on drugs, the moment he turns human again.

"Saw that coming..." Lily inserts, blankly. Honestly, if she wasn't fearing for her life. She would be laughing hysterically.

The battle was far from over.




Jake, & Lin

Celo The Impossible wrote:

"Oh I'm Lexy and I thought there were some of the goo monster things chasing me- guess I was wrong. Well, there are like some that are attacking this school right now and Hunter and Victoria are outside getting attacked and they told me to go find some help and get a weapon since I have perfect aim. Long story short."

"What...?" Jake says, perplexed. Okay, he needed some time to wrap his head around this. This strange girl says that there's monsters... Victoria and Hunter were two names from the meeting. They could be in some serious danger and they could use his help... The only problem was that he had a hard time telling if she was being truthful. The last thing he wanted was to fall for a trap. "Look girl, I'm not letting you out until I get co---" He was interrupted by an outside voice.

"I know what you're thinking. She's telling the truth." Lin causally walks out of the kitchen, next to Jake, having read the minds of both Lexy and Jake.

If Jake wasn't too concerned about what's going on, he would probably scold Lin for reading his mind again. "You sure...?" He choose not to think, he choose to act. He lifted the illusions that were around Lexy. They just faded away. Just to be on the safe side, however, he put himself and Lin in an illusion of a bullet-proof glass box. The glass has the same durability as bulletproof glass. So, no knife that Lexy could toss could get through it. "I'll go have a look myself and help. Lexy, whoever you are... Do whatever. I'm not dropping this illusion until you're gone."



Oozium Clone II


The Oozium Clone swiped aside the objects that were thrown at it. They wouldn't have done too much against it unless they were either sharp or thrown at ridiculously high speeds. Once Marie charged it, the Oozium raised it's head and charged directly at Marie in return. With razor-sharp tentacles pointed at Maried and it launched these tentacles.

Above ground, students moved about. Signs of life were visible.

Beneath the school? Not so much.

Silence.

There was silence in the Stasis chambers, which was the meta-human equivalent of the time out chair. But, oddly, there was movement. Noise. One of the chambers, it seemed, amidst all the conflict and fighting, through some means or another, was malfunctioning. Perhaps the source of its breakdown was from within, perhaps from the outside. For whatever reason, there was one chamber that wasn't quite doing its job. The door shook, having been wedged open. A tiny, pink-fingernail-polished hand managed to fit through the gap and begin to wedge it open further. After perhaps five minutes of struggling, it was opened wide enough for its occupant to slip out.

Livvy, backpack, lunchbox, hair ribbons, and, most importantly-Mr. Teddy-and all stepped out of the stasis chamber and into the sub-basement of The Sparrowdale Academy For the Genetically Gifted. She, of course, didn't know it by that name. She knew it as a place her parents said she would go: a cool new school, called a boarding school. She'd have friends there! And it'd be just like Hogwarts from the Harry Potter movies.

Still? New schools were scary. 'Specially when they stuck you in a stasis chamber. Livvy didn't seem to recall that, however: perhaps she fell asleep in her overbearingly pink bedroom one night, and woke up a few minutes ago, locked in a cell, opened by a quirk of fate.

Livvy rubbed the sleepiness out of her eyes and looked around. Wh-where was she? This...this place looked scary. So many machines that just didn't look normal. Livvy was trembling, Mr. Teddy shaking visibly in her own small, pale hands.

"Mr. Teddy," Livvy whispered quietly to him, her voice eerily loud in the dead silence of the Stasis Chambers, "I don't think we should ever come back here." The teddy, presumably, agreed with her. Mr. Teddy's strange yet undoubtedly wise advice was only for Livvy's ears.

One tiny, sneakered step at a time, Livvy started making her way out of the chambers. There were a lot of other pods in this place, this dark, creepy, godawful place, and Livvy felt such terror creeping through her. What was this place? Where was she? What was going on? This...this wasn't...was this all a bad dream?

"M-mommy? D-daddy?"

Silence.

Livvy wandered around for a couple years, a couple days-time was meaningless in this place. Everything was so strange and alien and unfamiliar. The little girl eventually managed to find the exit, emerging into the sub-basement, and a sudden, overwhelming sense of relief flooded her. Anything was better than that place with all the chambers. Livvy roamed the sub-basement for a while, finding the dusty, wire-and-pipe-ridden halls to be very difficult to navigate. She didn't quite have the word for it (the word in question is "claustrophobia") but it felt too cramped, too dusty, too enclosed. Like the wires and pipes were just squeezing in around hr. Not to mention, once a rat rustled behind her and Livvy screamed bloody murder, turning to see what it was. The rat scampered off at the sound of her voice-and the unnerving sight of all the silver light burning forth from the girl, enveloping her like an aura. The rat fled. The scream tapered off. The light faded. Livvy's heart eventually settled to a normal rate and she eventually started walking again.

At one point, Livvy thought she'd found a door out: but it proved to be locked. Livvy tried the door a few times and futilely pushed on it in an act of desperation, but it was of no use. Eight year old girls are many things, but physical powerhouses, they are not. Panting, Livvy picked up Mr. Teddy and continued, trying to find a different way out. After a little while of walking, Livvy became aware of her stomach growling and the beginning of hunger gnawing at her. With no thoughts to conserving her food or water, Livvy found a place to sit, opened her lunchbox, said grace (extremely quickly) and then began eating. Fortunately for Livvy, she started with the sealed bag of chips rather than the sandwich that had gone bad while she was in Stasis, sparing her botulism for the rest of her time at the Othergrounds. As she ate, she also became aware of something else: noise. Echoing from down the hall. Livvy wiped her hands on her pants and laid the lunchbox down, making a note to come back to it later (this would slip her mind entirely later on) and cautiously approached the source of all this commotion. Livvy came up to a corner and slowly peered her head around, wondering what could possibly make this much noise down here when before it was so creepily quiet. The little girl saw something very, very strange: it looked like there was a battle unfolding in the sub-basement. Containers of some sort were all around, like this was a big storage room, but that didn't draw Livvy's interest: what drew her interest was the huge black goo thing in the center of the room, lashing out with tentacles and launching out other goo things and-and-and.

Livvy cowered back behind the corner and shrunk down, trembling. She took a few deep breaths and, clutching her bear, managed to work up the willpower to peek out again. There....there seemed to be a bunch of other kids going and fighting it. At least five or six, but then another group came running up. There was one really big ooze-thing and then a bunch of smaller ones that looked kinda like people. Livvy whimpered, which was a very, very bad mistake, and inadvertently drew the attention of one of the lesser beings. It turned its head, featureless and smooth, which was disturbing on a great many levels, and saw Livvy's sparkling eyes and pink-and-blonde ponytail sticking out from behind the corner. It began to approach, prompting Livvy to duck back behind the corner, shaking even more vigorously. After a moment she looked back around, to see if the thing was still following her-it was. Wasting no further time, Livvy began running back down the way she came, but abruptly stopped: there might've been a better way. The pipes, running along the wall, they were thick and bulky. Livvy noticed a small pocket of darkness, tucked between two of the pipes, and quickly weighed out her choices. That thing didn't look like it was moving so fast, but she couldn't get to the end of the hallway before it came and saw her. Maybe if she hid in here...Livvy quickly dropped to all fours and curled up into the small crevice, using her bookbag as a shield against her frame; which was in turn shielding her beloved teddy behind her. Livvy closed her eyes, the sound of her heart hammering inside her chest drowning out most other noise, and waited for the creature to hopefully pass her by.