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

Willow, Nicole, Sandy & Toby

All the animal meta-humans, plus Bones, would have found what just occurred to be extremely funny, if they hadn't been fighting for their lives. Johnny had just been gloating about something they had no clue about, and then the Oozium had seen an opening and then flicked him across the room as though it were nothing. It was gradually losing size as they took away more of the slime it was composed of, but everyone was slowly starting to think that this creature didn't get tired like most living things. The group that had been fighting from the beginning was starting to wear out, and it was showing. They weren't done yet, though, and they intended to prove they were worth a lot more than everyone gave them credit for. Nobody ever really considered that maybe their belief that the animal-metas were weaker showed. If it did, they didn't even seem to stop to consider that perhaps this group was more devoted to survival than others, and had strengths lying elsewhere. Perhaps the Oozium wasn't something a more physical mutant could easily battle, but the advantage of physical prowess was that it was harder to overuse such abilities than it was for energy.

Toby, however, had reached his limit, and desperation to live and defeat the Oozium affected him. A golden halo of light enveloped his entire body, until it was a glowing orb that completely concealed the person inside. Within, a transformation was taking place, and the light evidenced that whatever it was, it was a kind of burst. Toby's size increased until he stood 10 feet tall at the shoulder, and his normally stubby neck elongated, somewhat. His length was a great 18 feet, and he now towered over those present. When the light receded, his appearance had dramatically changed. His face was no longer cute, like a pugs, but had changed to the countenance of a pit bull, one of the world's most aggressive dog breeds. His mane was gone, and was replaced with a ruff, like a tiger's, the appearance strengthened by the tiger-like markings on Toby's face and neck. From his upper jaw sprouted two long, wickedly sharp sabers, and his eyes were not black, but an alarmingly bright shade of gold. His button ears were now long and pointed, and were flattened against his skull as he bared ten rows of deadly-looking teeth. His long front legs, still covered in fur along with the upper part of his body, and still powerfully built, began as tiger stripes at first, but the orange color faded to yellow, and then white as it ran down his legs, the black stripes slowly giving way to rings like those of a leopard's. His dog-like paws had grown in to strong feet like those of a mole in appearance, with a radial shape. However, the claws were dramatically long, locked together into a point, and were also razor-sharp at the edges. Where Toby's fur faded, his tail no longer resembled a manatee's, but a thresher shark's, having a long, elongated upper fin that could be used like a whip to stun foes. The skin was patterned like a tiger shark's, but was brown in coloration, and while retaining a thick, elastic nature, now rough like sandpaper. Toby's hind legs had become like a fusion of kangaroo and frog, the end of the feet being tipped with sharp webbed claws, as they were covered with shark skin, rather than fur. A shell like a leatherback sea turtle's rested on his back, but was covered with thousands of sharp porcupine quills. Turtle-like armor now covered his belly.

Toby growled, before giving a terrifying roar, that could have only been described as what would have come from the most powerful of all ancient predatory mammals or fish. He then coiled up, and sprung at the Oozium, his body lithe and flexible. He bared his dangerous claws as golden energy began to glow along their edges. Somehow, by whatever means, they were employing the same energy that allowed Toby to run at lightning speed, to make themselves sharper, and thus more lethal. This was Toby's Gamma Burst, as evidenced by the faint glow that he exuded, and while the form was not permanent, it was truly terrifying, in comparison to his typical appearance. It was also like this that he couldn't possibly be more dangerous.

Tom & Marie

As it rushed towards the Oozium Clone, Terror sent out its own tentacles to grapple with those of the clone's. They were not razor-sharp, and did not possess suction-cups, but they were definitely cold enough to have some sort of negative effect on whatever dared to touch them. These tentacles, formed from pure fear energy, tangled with those of the slime monster's, and immediately began to tighten around them, slowly constricting each one, as Terror's head launched at what was the clone's long, serpentine neck, opening the horrifyingly large jaws, which then firmly clamped down. Terror then began to slowly encircle the clone with the main part of its body, revealing that it intended to constrict the creature's body as a snake did its prey, its frozen scales coming in direct contact with the slime that formed the clone. As it did this, now taking its time, Terror never let go of the sharp tendrils, although it now began to slowly bend their angle, as though intending to eventually snap off their tips, despite their obvious elastic qualities. Meanwhile, it clamped down harder and harder.

Mr Allen J wrote:: It launched a wave of ten knife-sharp tentacles towards Claire and TJ, looking to impale.

Claire rolled out of the way of the Oozium's barrage of spikes and TJ opened a portal on the wall behind them. Another appeared below the Oozium on the ceiling, sending its own spikes flying back at it. The tentacles that flew at Claire and TJ were parried with an electrical blast just as they were retracted. Claire cocked back her arm to fire another lightning bolt when another kid around her age decided to do it for her. She stopped in her tracks when the new lightning arrived. It was rare to see two meta-humans with similar powers, though this one seemed to be much stronger than Claire. She and TJ both decided to watch as Johnny's crew beat the crap out of the Oozium, and then swept into action as soon as Johnny was sent flying. TJ opened another portal under a very large, very heavy crate with the words "breakfast cereals" written across it in black. The massive crate appeared over the Oozium's head and fell down.

"Yeah, because Lucky Charms kills every monster!" Claire yelled as she generated another blast of blue lightning she aimed at the Oozium's face and let loose with a wicked thunderbolt. The Valos family was not going to steal Claire's spotlight again. She would kill this monster, not them.

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

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The Oozium was losing mass rather fast, minimizing damage to the group. It was about time that it took it up a notch. Toby has gone through his Gamma Burst, appearing much stronger and intimidating. That was bad. The first thing the recently transformed Meta-human did was launch itself at the Oozium with claws extended. Which, wasn't a good idea against a beast. Initially the Oozium did nothing to prevent Toby attacking it. When Toby's claws bared into it, a cloud of steam came out of it as it lost mass. However, after Toby had delivered his attack, the Oozium sent out many tentacles and to wrap around the transformed Toby. The large crate of cereal that TJ had launched at it had done little damage to it. On impact it caused a ruffle throughout the Oozium, and it, comically, rested on top of the slime monster's head. Before the Oozium was shocked with a bolt of electricity from Claire, again, steam came out from the impact area. The Oozium used it's spare mass to compensate for the lost parts of it's body. It focused on fighting the rest of the group. It wrapped it's tentacles around the box of cereal and used it as a massive club, bringing it down overhead on both Claire and TJ. It also sent out a wave of twenty tentacles to grab them. It also sent out another wave of thin, razor sharp, tentacles, at the rest of the group.

On Drake's front, he and Gabe were working together to kill the Oozium. It didn't matter who got the glory, only that they end this thing, before someone gets killed. The Oozium brought down a flurry of razor sharp tentacles, bringing them straight down much like a rain of swords. Drake immediately shot a large and powerful bolt of lightning up above him. Completely decimating some of the tentacles, leaving nothing but steam, and giving from a safe spot. Gabe ran in Drake's direction, desperately trying to get out of the way of the death that surely would have followed. All the tentacles dropped down, impaling the ground, causing them to be open for a moment. That moment was all they needed to take the monster out, the dual combatants immediately began their attack. Gabe increased the friction around her super-heated fists, and a cloud of fire came from her arms. Raining down on the ground under them, before disappearing. She swung her fists in a wide arc, and hard and fast. With the force of her punch, mixed with her super-heated fists, she cleaved clean through three tentacles in one swing, before they could retract. Steam came from the fresh wound as the bottom part of the tentacle fell off. Drake just did what came to mind; shoot them with electricity. He randomly fired several bolts of electricity. While he didn't destroy the tentacles, he caused them immense damage. Steam came out as the tentacles retracted

They were getting tired, attacking all out just like that was getting taxing. However, neither of them are going to stop until they're dead.

"You saw exactly what I was made of, didn't you?" Drake playfully says to Gabe, even though the situation wasn't quite right for jokes, he couldn't resist. He was hea

"Yeah, yeah. Ya' sure aren't bad at this..." Gabe says, as she looked up as the tentacles all combined to form one large super-tentacle. It dropped to the ground some ways away from them. It swiped across the ground, taking out everything in it's path and would have surely caused massive damage to them, if they didn't act fast. Drake figured, that he should dodge, instead of shooting electricity. He used his (unskilled ability of) flight to assist in a high jump. Drake completely dodged the tentacle, and promptly descended. Gabe didn't have the luxury of flight and could not punch through the tentacle, as it is too thick. She attempted to jump, but just couldn't get high enough. The tentacle swiped and hit her right leg (around the knee) with bone-crushing force. Gabe loudly yells out of pain. She was immediately flipped over on her side and hit the ground with a thump. Gabe tried to get up on her feet, and tried moving her leg with no success--- Then she realized that couldn't move that leg, and all she could feel was immense pain. Her knee was shattered by the force of the Oozium's tentacle. She couldn't get up and run, leaving her open to everything. Gabe was yelling at the very top of her lungs out of pain, grasping above her knee. Rocking left to right in agony.

"Gabe! What's wrong!? Get up!" Drake shoot a massive bolt of lightning, with both hands, at the Oozium tentacles. Wiping out the tentacles completely, leaving nothing but a cloud of steam. But, they kept coming. The Oozium wasn't going to relent, as it knows there's a wounded member of the group--- And it intends to finish her off.

"God d*mn! I can't! My leg's broke! Get me the 'ell out of here!" Gabe angrily shouts at Drake, before she started howling quietly out of pain.

"What---?!" Drake stopped and turned his head back towards Gabe. Which turned out to be a bad decision. He took his attention off the Oozium, and it took advantage of this. It sent one tentacle at Drake in a sweeping motion. The tentacle wasn't razor sharp, it was heading towards him at high speed. The very second Drake turned his head forward, towards the Oozium. He was smacked by the tentacle at high speed. A cloud of spit came out of his mouth, and in the process, several of his teeth were broken. Drake was stunned very well. He fell on his back. While his electric form did some damage to the Oozium in return; it didn't cause any significant damage to the tentacle. Some steam came out from the wound. The moment he hit the ground, he reverted out of his electric form. The electricity faded away, and his actual form became apparent, until all the electricity was gone. And he was just the normal Drake Blackmore. It won't end here. I just know it.

From behind the crates, at a safe-ish distance, there was Lily watching, peaking from behind the crates. What just happened sparked an extreme panic in the Puerto-Rican teenager. She didn't think, that fear that Drake had repressed quickly returned. "Holy sh*t! I'll... I'll..." She muttered to herself. They were going to die, she saw the tentacles moving in for the kill. What the hell could she do? Just charge in blindly and get killed. Lily retreated behind some boxes to sob about how useless she's been the entire time they're here--- While waiting for her friend to be killed. That would just be fitting, given how she's likely about to join them. She dropped on her behind, waiting for the tentacles to come in and finish her off too.

Moments earlier...

After Johnny's humiliating defeat, he was sent flying across the room at high speeds, but shortly, he lost momentum. He skid across the cold concrete, while saying, "... I can't." In a disheartened tone. After he stopped, he got up from the ground. An attack like that was not going to stop him one bit. The battle wasn't over, and he needs to kill the Oozium himself. Now that he learned that they can damage it, the urge to win was greater than ever. He jumped up on both feet, and looked around, he saw Toby's Gamma burst and smirked fiendishly. Haha... Little doggy can't make use of what he was given, he has to ascend to a higher form. How pathetic that you need to do that just to fight. When I don't need a burst to go ham. He taunted Toby in his head, he wasn't going to talk trash until the fight's all over. He has to continue kicking ass. Johnny spit on the ground, before breaking off in an all out sprint towards the Oozium. He was going to hit it with a rock. Then punch it, then kick it. Johnny was such a good pimp, always looking out for the lesser hoes--- Fighting whatever monster shows up. With lesser hoes being everyone but him, Jake, Gabe and Sylvia.

While Sylvia was launched across the room from her own blast, she managed to recover quickly in mid-air. Before hitting anything of note, and possibly killing herself, of course. She managed to fly straight, and she narrowed her eyes towards the Oozium and flew towards it at high speeds. Sylvia eventually eyed Johnny and flew in close to him. "Sup, f*g. That was pretty f*ckin' cool. But, we f*ckin' ain't close to bein' done f*cking this thing up."

"Nope, the game isn't close to being over. And we all know this is only a game to me." Johnny laughingly says. However, that laughter came to a stop when he heard Gabe's screams. He turned his attention to the source. That was one of the things that could easily Johnny take his attention off showing off, or dampen his ego. He also heard her scream like that before, it was obvious what happened. Johnny diverted his attention from the Oozium and started heading towards Gabe, fast as he could. Tentacles were raised in the air to kill. "Syl." He blankly says. Johnny didn't need to be a telepath to tell what he really wanted her to do.

"F*cking on it!" Sylvia says as she just zips by Johnny. Flying fast as she could (and slow enough to stay controllable) and fearlessly got close to the tentacles as she could. She risked being impaled and more, just for Johnny. And people she didn't know or care about. The second she was close, she did her dubstep bomb. Sending out a wave of bone crushing force in all directions, and leaving a loud boom. The tentacles were temporarily pushed back. Except the Oozium sent out more Tentacles. It brought down the tentacles on the incapacitated Gabe. She was about to meet her maker--- Except, Johnny was going to have none of that.

He leaped up in the air valiantly, and did an epic, movie style, mid-air, roundhouse kick. He kicked the closet tentacle away. Causing himself to get cut in the process, blood started coming out. But, that wasn't going to stop him. The moment his feet touched the ground, he was kicked more and more of the Oozium's tentacles out of the way. "F*ck! One of your no-names! Help!"

Sylvia decided to take the initiative and fired off another dubstep bomb. A wave of blurry air was sent off in all directions as every single tentacle attacking was reduced to steam. The Oozium came back by sending more tentacles.

After the last Dubstep bomb, Sylvia started feeling weak. Very weak, she knew exactly what was going on, and flew away from the chaos. All while she had "blanks" in her hearing. For a few seconds she couldn't hear anything, and everything that she could hear was distorted. She landed and leaned up against a crate of food, "Oh... F-- sta-i-g -o h-p-en...." She says to herself. Various parts of her sentence were silenced, her mouth moved, but nothing could be heard. A side-effect of her power quickly started to manifest. She would have to take a few minutes without using her powers, or else she'll lose the ability to use her powers, and she'll go deaf, and mute. Which is bad. "T---ucker is--- yours..." She mutters, panting.

Sylvia has to conserve her energy for later. Johnny will have to handle this alone. All she could do was watch from a distance.

Glowing blood of crimson red dripped from Johnny's wound, as he stood high up against the Oozium. With only two things in mind, defend Gabe. Everyone can go screw themselves, if they want this glory they can go take it. "You want it..." Johnny quietly says to himself, as he made the finger gun gesture with both hands, "Just come and get it, you slimy b*tch!" His right eye started glowing a bright red, leaving behind a trail of a red light. He pointed both finger guns at the Oozium and started shooting as many Devil Kisses as possible.

Crystal saw Johnny go flying across the room and almost laughed. The humor was short lived, however, as the battle continued. Everyone was getting up an fightiń and just when the Oozium appeared to be on the losing side... Injury. Then another. Then another.

Crystal turned to Dragonfly, unsure if her decision was good or bad. She hoped it was good. "I think I should stay here now that I think about it. Thank you, though." Knowing Dragonfly he was probably gonna be annoyed. "I think I just got needed. Just please keep any attack from the hurt." Crystal smiled- a fake one as always, as this one had some pain behind it- and quickly ran towards Gabe. Sure, she didnt like the girl and could easily get hurt, but she couldn't stand there and let someone die. Crystal arrived next to Gabe, not noticing unti her arrival that a tentacle thing had sliced her left arm. Oh well, wasnt that bad- as long as she could stand the paing. Gabe on the other hand... Without asking permission placed her hands on Gabe's wounded knee. "Sorry for not asking permission," she said before going silent in concentration. This easily made her open for attack as well, but Crystal just didnt want anyone hurt and thus wasnt thinking clearly.

Her idea was to heal everyone who had large wounds enough to be able to stand the pain. Screaming wasnt being able to stand pain.

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Lexy
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Lexy smiled an nodded, "Thanks. I'll go try and find some other people." Lexy ran past the duo and out the cafeteria. Lets see, where can people be... The library, maybe? Maybe reading or just hanging there. Made sense. Lexy ran towards te library, knives in hand.

Once at the library Lexy just stared at the scene in shock. There was another Oozium creature thing and some beast fighting it. She figured the beast was good if it was fighting whatever was bad. Lexy shrugged as she threw a knife at one of the Oozium's tentacles that were tangled with Terror's. she then looked around the room, noticing the boy that was shielding himself with one of the funny looking flying eyeballs. Lexy ran up to him and smiled. Best to just cut to the chase here, right? "Need my help? I think I could help... Names Lexy, I have perfect aim, so just tell me where to throw a knife." She didnt realize that in the heat of battle people may be slow to trust stranger that just come up offering help.

((Posted like a noob XO sorry))

Jehovah's Thickness Posts : 582 Join date : 2012-12-02

The shadow-blob-thing, the word for which Livvy couldn't quite think of it, it...it was like an alien and a demon and a ghost and a nightmare and a everything all in one, but all worse, because it was real, and it was going to kill her oh no oh oh no

Livvy curled up, already small frame shrinking as far as she could possibly make her ((uh, for clarification, this isn't like metahuman shrinking, this is just "oh sh*t" curling up in fear. Since I didn't have her power in the OOC I thought I should clarify, hahaha)) body go, arms wrapped through the straps of her backpack to shield herself. Behind her, Mr. Teddy's presence, pressing into her back...it...it didn't have its usual comfort. This thing was so terrible, she could hear it coming closer, squelching and sliiicking across the ground, it was getting nearer and nearer. Maybe one of those other kids-she had seen so many-would come and help. But...maybe they wouldn't need to. Maybe this thing would just walk on by, not notice her presence, maybe the best ruse a little girl could throw at this eldritch thing might actually work.

Maybe.

The Oozium-oid "walked" to the small crevice in the pipes that was currently Livvy's hiding spot and seemed to slow down (it slowed ten-fold for Livvy, because everything was going nightmarishly slow at this point), but all Livvy could see of it was the "feet" and the ankles-the pipe above her concealed the rest. Something wet and cold and icky dripped onto her and Livvy resisted squealing with all the willpower she could muster, but still silently and slowly moved a hand back to make sure her teddy was unharmed. He was. Okay. Not a total loss.

The Oozium kept on walking by, and Livvy's hopes skyrocketed. She...she was going to be okay! She began shaking with relief and was vaguely aware that she was quite dangerously near to wetting herself-she hadn't found a bathroom since she'd stumbled out of the Stasis chambers, after all. The Oozium moved out of sight and Livvy desperately tried to throw together a plan of action. Should she go now and try and slip by, or risk it coming back by in a minute and noticing her on the go-round? Livvy didn't think she could endure another round of that terrible each-second-could-be-your-last feeling any longer, and so when she gauged the Oozium was about ten yards away, she slowly started to inch out.

Unfortunately, there was something Livvy didn't quite consider about the Oozium's "biology". Given that there was neither flesh nor bone in the jelly substance consisting of the Oozium, let's say it's safe to assume it can see in all directions, all at once. Livvy's strategy may have worked against a human, but against the strange, monstrous things lurking about in the Othergrounds, the little girl's best laid plans were laughable. The Oozium stopped cold when Livvy was barely out of the crevice, edging into its field of vision, and it began to move back towards her, faster now. Livvy was frozen for a moment, staring in awe and catatonic terror, but some little voice inside of her kickstarted her failing engines. Livvy, you and Mr. Teddy are going to die if you don't move. Livvy scrambled out of the gap, whimpering and screeching, and started pushing herself backwards as fast as she could, facing the thing that was gaining on her. Livvy, of course, was now faced with yet another predicament: yell and draw more of these things to her, but possibly gain some allies, or face it alone.

She didn't even realize it was a predicament, and wouldn't have been able to think through her choices if she had, anyways. Absolute panic had set in, and Livvy was operating solely off of what adrenaline told her to do next. Livvy screeched with the high-pitched intensity only a small child can evoke. "HELP!" she said, kicking her backpack futilely at the Oozium. It simply maneuvered around it and kept progressing on Livvy, who, unfortunately, should've focused on where she was going and not on the thing pursuing her (an understandable mistake, given the circumstances). A pipe ran across the ground, stopping Livvy's progress, and by the time she realized her error, the Oozium was upon her. It grabbed hold of one of her wrists with its slimy, terrible grip, and Livvy, to put it bluntly, freaked the f*ck out.

The little girl began to flicker with golden light at her core, a brilliant, intense gold-white, and the Oozium recoiled back at the sudden heat and power of the light. Livvy kicked and thrashed, screaming all the while, and managed to push it back an inch or two more as the Oozium humanoid attempted to figure out what the hell was up with this little girl. The front of the Oozium began to darken and ripple as the intense corona of sunlight lanced the humanoid, sending puffs of steam up into the air. Livvy, however, was aware of none of this: she had Mr. Teddy clutched tight in one hand and was punching wildly with the other. She managed to catch hold of the ground with one of her kicks and pushed herself up over the pipe, rolling over it as the Oozium humanoid recovered and began to pursue her again. Still flickering with the light (the edges of which were now multicolored, blues and greens shimmering around her. There was a faint whooshing noise, as well, but it was likely lost amidst the screams of battle), the little girl desperately pushed back again, crawling in reverse, but making sure to check over her shoulder for more obstacles this time.

"HELP! HELP! SOMEBODY! NO! GET AWAY!" Livvy kicked valiantly at the Oozium as it closed in once again, leaving a deep burn mark on the place where her shoe (enveloped in light) touched it, and issuing another small cloud of mist from it.

Willow, Nicole, Sandy & Toby

When the Oozium tried to snare Toby, it made an extreme error. Toby was now literally part porcupine, and in addition, despite the turtle armor, he was unbelievably flexible and strong. It was no surprise that when the tendrils wrapped around him, the ones that touched the quills on his shell were immediately impaled and turned into steam. The ones that weren't would quickly be dispatched, Toby was now too dangerous for the Oozium to safely hold him in its grip. Toby dispatched the tentacles around his upper body with swift bites and slashes with his teeth and claws, until the only ones left were wrapped around his tail. Then, in an amazing display of raw power, he twisted completely around and cut himself free with a single, swift stroke of his claws. He fell down and landed on all fours, giving another deafening roar. Toby didn't care about trying to impress the others, he only cared right now about survival, that everyone would live past this. Moving at an unreal speed that was nearly impossible to track with the naked eye, he dashed to the other side of the Oozium where nobody was directing an attack, running alongside the monster. As he did so, he raised one claw, and dug it into the base of the creature while he moved. It seemed that his Gamma Burst had renewed his energy, as well.

Sandy thought she was finally starting to develop a special strategy for dodging the tentacles the Oozium launched at her. Considering it had multiple targets, and it was finally starting to shrink a bit, she thought it seemed to be less specific in how it was targeting people, except for those that posed a more serious threat, like Toby, Drake, Johnny, Sylvia, and Gabe. When Gabe started screaming, Sandy inwardly winced, even though she herself wasn't the one severely injured. People were getting badly hurt, now, and the Oozium still didn't seem to get tired like a normal living entity. She had to do something to make it easier on everyone, but she would need to somehow expose this creature to an enormous amount of pheromone for it to work. As she was forced to once more dodge spikes (Getting a decent-sized gash along her back and a clipped right ear, in the process), she thought about how when she had bit the tendril attacking her, her mouth had filled with an enormous amount of pure liquid pheromone, heavily concentrated. If she could just figure out a way to do that without biting, she could infect the blob monster without the affected area going up in steam before the pheromone took effect. A part of her mouth had tingled a bit when that had happened. Wondering if it might work again, she pressed her tongue against the inner part of her upper lip. The tingling started again, and the liquid pheromone filled her mouth. So she could do that? That was good, maybe she could actually confuse this thing. Running near it, she spat the pheromone, which was like water in appearance, at the base of the Oozium, the chemical coming in direct contact with the thing's skin, without dissolving it. Seeing she could do this, she started to spit as much pheromone as she could at it.

Nicole was getting tired of this Oozium, her talons could only do so much. She would have quickly taken down a more physical foe, but this was a giant slime monster. The animal-metas admittedly seemed to have bad luck when it came to the opponents they had to fight. They didn't just get battered by their enemies, they got treated as inferior by half the people they had to deal with. It was time Nicole showed she could do a huge amount of damage to the blob monster. Flying a distance back, she directed her attention at the thing's face, aiming for what she thought would be right between the eyes, angling so if a straight line was drawn, it would cut through the largest amount of matter in one strike. She then concentrated, looking for the same sources of energy she had found during the fight with Zizz. The bird girl was going to launch her ultimate attack at this thing, but she didn't quite know entirely how to do it, and she was slow in finding the source of the power she used. All the while, she had to concentrate while dodging spikes, one of which grazed her right leg, and then return to the original spot. Suddenly, she felt a pulling coming from far above her, across a tremendous distance, that most surely was not on earth. Her power was coming from somewhere in space? She could think about that later, instead, she locked on to several bits of things she could sense in the distance, only one being relatively close, and began to draw their power, until finally, she could feel the attack coming, like her body was both freezing and burning at the same time. Finally, she opened her beak, and fired the attack. Just as before, it was a beam of pure-white light, crackling like sparks, that completely illuminated any shadow that might have been in the room. It moved far too fast for the thing to react to it, the speed of light, and it passed straight through the Oozium, cutting as though it were a physical blade. When the attack was done, Nicole felt a deep tiredness suddenly sweep over her, and she knew she couldn't use the beam again in this fight without severely harming herself. Not stopping to see if her energy attack even worked, she quickly flew to a stack of crates and landed behind it where she couldn't be seen, needing to rest. It almost hit Toby on the far side of the Oozium, but he had thankfully been far enough away from where the beam met the floor to avoid injury.

Bones had been using her whip to deflect spikes shot at her. She could not help flinching, however, when Gabe screamed, as though she had been badly hurt. When Nicole sent her energy blast, she reflexively moved back a few paces, although the beam was precise and couldn't miss its target, or hit things outside its radius. She immediately remembered how in the fight with Zizz, nothing had hardly injured the flamingo man. When Nicole fired her beam, though, it had left a huge, badly burnt spot dead in the center of his chest. Bones didn't even know what kind of energy it was that Nicole was using to form the attack, but whatever the reason, it was tremendously powerful. It was also extremely tiring, as she saw her friend forced to retreat behind some crates after using it. Clearly, she could do it once, but not twice. Glancing back over at Gabe, she saw the girl's leg looked wrong. Judging by the way she was screaming, it wasn't the fibula that got broken. Her tibia, the weight-bearing bone, was the one that got messed up, and if that was the case, then Gabe wouldn't be able to walk until Crystal finished healing her. Distracted, Bones did not see one of the spikes coming directly for her, and because of this, she did not notice until it had embedded itself in her left arm, an audible crack coming from her humerus, which fractured, but due to its incredible properties, did not completely break. She clenched her teeth, but did not scream, and seemed more angry than hurt. Slowly, she turned to the Oozium, and grabbed the spike in her arm, slowly pulling it out, and blood welling where it had been, although quickly clotting. She then wrapped part of her whip around the spike, and then sliced through it, destroying it. Once this was done, she carefully held her injured arm, but a moment later, returned to fighting stance, as though the bone had not cracked at all. Her other tissues were damaged, but it was completely impossible for Bones to be defeated by by breaking her limbs. Her bones, it went without question, would heal back like lightning. The greatest risk for Bones in a fight was mostly the threat of blood loss, and later severe malnutrition. Angry, she lashed another attack at the Oozium.

Tom & Marie

Normally, Tom would have been extremely mistrustful of Lexy, but at the moment, she seemed a lot more friendly and a great deal less threatening than the two creatures currently battling. "The yellow serpent is my friend, but her powers go out of control in that form, and she's not herself right now." He said, his words rushed and quick. "The pink thing is the one we want to get rid of, but if Terror finishes it off, we might want to run if she doesn't change back to normal. That form is unstable, it has a mind of its own."

"Fine, sstay ssafe!" Dragonfly said to Crystal, before turning back to the Oozium. He could go all out frenzy, and go in close quarters with the slime where it's tentacles would have less maneuverability. He could weave around them if he needed. He decided to do just that. He let out a powerful... almost roar, and was about to rush in when Toby gamma burst. That was interesting. But he had to focus. He burst off into a run, and closed in on the slime, which was distracted from him at the moment. He slashed with his claws with all his might, but little steam was rising. The Oozium then began to swing spiky tentacles at almost everyone.

Including him.

He ducked under the stalk of the first one, which was relatively easy because of the fact that he was very close to the Oozium itself, just far enough away to where it wouldn't try ingesting him, but close enough to where he could hit, back off, and then hit again. Another tentacles came at him, this time curling around itself and going for him tip first. This would end badly for him. He screeched in alarm, his tongue curling up and onto the roof of his mouth instinctively. His screech became choked up suddenly, and a bright blue florescent substance flew from a gap under his tongue. The substance flew at the tentacle which was going at him, and burned through the pink substance with great ease. Steam rose into the air as the tentacle was corroded. Dragonfly was stunned by this new ability. Was this a new... power? He didn't omnicron burst like Nicole did, that's the only reason he knew what an omnicron burst looked like. This was not that. Had this power been there all along? It didn't matter. He distanced himself from the Oozium, and curled his tongue to the roof of him mouth once again, and emitted a choked snarl. The bright blue acid once again flew from his mouth and landed on the Ooze. A great cloud of steam rose from the blob as the acid burnt through the blob's body all the way to the ground below it. Dragonfly tried to do this again, but felt a small pain in his throat. He would not do this again for another few minutes.

The bright blue substance he had first shot had fallen several feet away. It had burned directly through the tentacle earlier and kept going. It landed a few feet away from a food crate and was hissing as it decomposed into the air. A small indentation in the floor concrete had been created from the extremely corrosive property of the acid. It was still emitting it's blue light until it disappeared a few seconds later. He moved away once again to give himself space to move away from any incoming tentacles and time to recharge his... acid sack or whatever was in his neck that gave him the ability to spit the substance.

Drake, Lily, Johnny & Gabe vs. The Oozium

Nicole's attack burned a large hole clean through the Oozium, a cloud of steam came out of the wound. The Oozium lost a lot of mass from Nicole's attack. After the steam cleared, the damage that was done became apparent. A hole was seen. The creature quickly compensated for the lost mass by using excess mass to compensate. The Oozium hadn't expected for Toby to escape it's grasp, destroying all of it's tentacles that it sent at him in the process. Then Toby moved far faster than the Oozium could possibly process, that power that the Meta-human showed was immense. This speed allowed Toby to get the drop on the Oozium and nearly slice it in half using his claws. A cloud of steam followed Toby as he traveled. The Oozium was nearly cut in half, it quickly compensated for the lost goo with spare mass. At this point the Oozium was barely half it's original size. Every last one of the smaller, humanoid Ooziums quickly halted their assault on the students, and retreated back into their master. Merging themselves back with the slime-monster, giving it back some of that mass. There was more little it could do now, victory was in sight for the students. All they had to do was keep at it. The Oozium wouldn't give in, however, it was a vicious beast, and will fight to the very end. It retracted all tentacles that were assaulting the group, and started grabbing boxes, flinging them at the group. It was now going to focus on minimizing damage to itself, and maxiumizing damage to the group.

Sandy's intense amount of pheromones had done something to the Oozium. Her pheromones dulled it's senses, and it's 360 vision became very blurry. It also couldn't control it's tentacles. Most of the tentacles that it sent out missed their intended targets.

There was a fierce fire of determination in Johnny. He was more than determined to protect Gabe, even if he was doing it alone. A razor sharp tentacle went barreling towards him--- The trajectory was off, so it wouldn't of hit him, even if he did nothing. That didn't stop him however, he just leaped into the air and kicked it with another spinning kick, deflecting it. That spinning motion allowed him to see what was going on around him, and quickly processed it. He wasn't the least bit jovial about having to fight this thing off alone. When they know that he needs help, and people (Including who seems to be friends with them) are going to die. These people... They actually try and call themselves people. Startin' to realize that Gabe was right in her brash hatred of these zoo-animals. I need help here and not one person even bothers to just come and help? Even when the animal-types could easily take this chance to prove that they're above such petty hatreds... Ugh. Johnny rants in his own mind as he notices some footsteps coming from behind, approaching Gabe. The moment he touched the ground, he turned his head around behind him, to see Crystal. At least someone has the brains to help. Johnny thinks to himself as he focuses on stopping the Oozium from attacking them. Instead of paying Crystal and Gabe any further mind. However, the tentacles that the Oozium were preparing to attack Johnny with retracted, and started tossing boxes at them. Which was another opportunity to show off (Even though, he didn't have the right mindset for that). The first box that went towards him, he jumped up and did a fancy upwards flip kick. Breaking the box in half with his kick, "Don't think so... It'll take more than that to take me down."

The pain had distracted Gabe from realizing that Crystal was healing her, as she was still rocking back and forth recoiling from the agony of her leg being broken. The moment she felt Crystal's hand on her knee, she was about to let out some angered response telling her not to touch. But, she remembers that Crystal was the one that healed the zoo-animal, Nicole. The only thing that she shouted was, "Hurry the hell up and fix this! Then help Blackmore!" Being gritting her teeth, she wasn't even going to express the agony that she felt any further.

Drake wasn't completely taken out of the fight. The slap from the tentacle knocked him down, but not out. His electric form was gone, which means that he could be attacked by just about anything. There was a pool of spit where he lied down. Not this time, I will save myself. He thought to himself, as he slowly tried to pull himself up. He got up on all fours, before he spit out some teeth and a small amount of blood. Nothing too bad. His vision was a little bit blurry, and his face hurt like hell. Nothing that would make him give up, however. He quickly got up on two legs, but he grasped his face where the Oozium attacked him. His face was bright red and left a tentacle-shaped mark on the side of his face. Drake looked around, to see Gabe on the ground, and Crystal helping her. As much as he would like to stay and protect them, it was time that he pulls out his ace in the hole. If it goes as planned, he wouldn't even need to protect them or anyone else. As of now, he's placing his faith in Lily, praying to god that she can deliver. He started limping over to where Lily was, slowly activating his lightning form. Electricity pulsed across his skin, and quickly was enshrouded with electricity, leaving everything under the shroud as a black shadow. Loud crackling could be heard coming from him. While he was still a bit stunned, he wasn't going to just give in.

Lily was still sobbing about what just happened back there. She couldn't do anything to help, and all she did was this entire fight was mope about how useless she is and watch as everyone else fights. Probably one huge disappointment to them. "God dammit... Why..." She mutters to herself. Why the hell did I get into this? I just wanted to learn about what I am, that is my own d*mn reason for coming here! Now I'm in the middle of fights I can't even fight. While she was thinking this to herself. A power was emanating from within' Lily. It was the sorrow of desperation in her that fueled her Omicron Burst. All she needed was a little push. Which shortly came, as a small tentacle came feeling around a box, it touched Lily's leg. Without a second thought (That's if the Oozium was capable of such thought) it wrapped around Lily's leg and pulled her away, attempting to pull her around the corner. She let out a loud scream as she grasped the first thing she could. The corner of a box of food, she held on tightly. Trying to pull herself closer, she was kicking at the tentacle with her free leg.

"Lily?!" Drake acknowledges Lily's yell and picked up the pace. He tried to go there fast as he could, with his electricity readied to give the tentacle a massive shock.

POWER UP SONG:

As Lily tried her best to keep from getting in the Oozium's grasp, she felt... New. Strange. Powerful. The Pseudo Meta-human energy that she generates became apparent and visible as it illuminated her entire nervous system with a bright, electricity-like red energy. Which created. This light could be seen throughout the entire room (Which only caused Drake to go a little faster). The tentacle of the Oozium let go, immediately retracting back to it's source. Lily dropped to the ground with a thump, as the light from the energy faded and she felt strong. Stronger than before. Throughout her body she felt strength. This was her Omicron burst, and it changed her powers greatly. She is now a Power Manipulator, albeit she doesn't know this yet. Her abilities haven't deviated too far than where she was before. Lily stood straight up, and looked at her glowing hands with great curiosity. The light that she was generating quickly vanished. However, from Lily's point of view, her nervous system was still illuminated. She was seeing the energy that illuminates inside of her, the same energy that gives her power. She also can see the energy that was within all the other Meta-humans. Lily could also "sense" the Meta-human energy, it is hard to explain as well. She just felt their presence in her mind's eye, and knew exactly where they are. There was also varying levels of how much she senses their presence. One strong presence was coming straight for her. "What...?" Lily says to herself. I don't know what just happened... But, it feels great. Like I'm finally powerful. No longer just the load, you know. Maybe I'm just what this hopeless fight needs. To turn the tide. Yes. That's it... She monologues to herself, as the inner determination masked the fear. Lily felt a exhausted however, Omicron bursts weaken Meta-humans greatly. Lily was no exception.

"Lily!" Drake shouts, running up to her from around the corner. His electricity illuminated the area with white. He peaked at the tentacle retreating and quickly shot a bolt of lightning at it. Turning it into steam. He stopped and turned to Lily, "Are you okay?"

What Lily noticed was that Drake's nervous system was illuminated brightly. From her perspective; a green energy coursed through his nervous-system and bones, and, it is hard to explain, the electricity around him was colored the very same color as the energy throughout his body. She was seeing his Meta-human energy, active. "Drake. You're glowing..." Lily wanted to touch Drake, but knew she was going to get shocked.

"Yeah, that's the electricity! Enough of that, are you okay?!" Drake snaps at her, determined to find out what happened and return to the fight, "And what was that light?!"

"I..." Lily trailed off, "... Don't know. One of those things grabbed me, then this light came out of no where, and now I feel really, really strong. And I can feel like there's... Like..." There was one ability that Lily always remembers, the power to Enlighten other Meta-humans of their gifts. All she has to do is touch them, and she gets to know all about their power, and they got to know about her's. This is exactly how she figured out what she can do. Lily slides her hand on her chest, and uses the Power Enlightenment on herself again. Then it came to her, like a rush of new information and power. She no longer is confined by kissing Meta-humans to charge them, that degrading act is a thing of the past. She can finally love again, never having to fear creating another Meta-human against her own will. Now she is far stronger than before, she's a Power Manipulator and knows all about her own potential. Just not how to meet it. That comes later, now she knows that she can possibly charge Drake. "We'll talk about it later! Quick, kill the electricity!" Lily says to Drake in the most determined tone that she could. Like now she felt like they had a chance. A chance to live and survive.

Now it was finally time for her to return the favor, and be useful to the group. Drake complied and reverted back to his human form. Devoid of electricity and other powers. Drake put his right hand out, like he was offering it to Lily, and dropped the leather glove off his hand. She in turn, grabbed it with both hands. However, before she could do anything, she accidentally triggered Drake's Power Replication just by bare skin to skin contact. Drake's body was enshrouded with a bright red light, and glowed dimly. His clothes were incorporated into this transformation. This light hovered over his skin, and was smooth and a brighter light traveled from his head to the rest of his body. Naturally, Drake had no idea what this form does, and now wasn't the time to try to find out. "Oops. Little side effect." Drake says, nonchalantly. Before he reverts back into his human form. He now has Power Manipulation stored inside of him for his third power replicated. As long as he has this form in him, he won't transform needlessly on contact with Lily.

"Right... Let me see... Here goes nothing." Lily nervously says, having a bit of that determination fade away. She grasped Drake's hands tightly. The Meta-human energy within him "followed" her hands, like she was a magnet. She then closed her eyes, and focused. Trying to transfer some of the Energy that was inside of her, to Drake. She succeeded. The red energy in her hands started glowing brightly, and it traveled out of her hands all the way to Drake. Making his Meta-human energy illuminate and the two energies merged. With the Lily's energy being absorbed into Drake's Meta-human energy. Giving him much stronger powers, as long as he used them. Drake felt much, much stronger as Lily transferred more energy into Drake. Lily let go of Drake's hands and took a few steps back, before she says "Um, your power should be a much stronger now. That should be enough to kill the Monster. Don't go overboard. You'll kill yourself. Short, controlled attacks only." Lily immediately got back and retreated behind cover. She was smart enough to easily tell that Drake was going to go electric form. Also, that if she's too close she's going to be badly shocked. "Don't tell anyone about this, please!" While she was given new, stronger powers, her stance on keeping it a secret was unchanged.

"Wow... This is..." A blue electricity danced across his skin as he triggered his transformation into his Electric form. The electricity crackled loudly, and appeared to be much stronger than before. The electricity enshrouded him in a much thicker cloud of electricity, and left little of his body invisible. No shadow of himself underneath it. Nothing. Just electricity. He was ten times stronger than before. Strong enough to kill the Oozium alone. However, he is getting over excited. He raised his hands skyward, and did a dramatic hand pose. He pointed his head up there as well. He dropped to his knees and shouted at the top of his lungs in the most over-dramatic fashion, "... This is amazing! I feel incredible! I am now the best Thunder God there is! YEEEEEES! Thank you for letting me taste this power! Nothing can stop me! I am Drake Blackmore and all in my path will be obliterated!" Everyone in the food storage room could hear him.

Lily frowned, and gave Drake that special look. The look that denounced how stupid he looked right now. Getting overexcited like a kid in a Toys R' Us when people are getting hurt and killed. Lily snapped at him in the most annoyed, angry and "no nonsense" tone she could, like a mother talking down to her child, "What the f*ck are you doing!? Stop that sh*t and go kill the monster, d*mmit! You only have a few minutes before that runs out! Don't f*ck around!" She felt exhausted at this point, there was no way that she could charge him again. Now they have to take this opportunity while it was available.

After Lily snapped him back to reality, Drake immediately said, "Oh, right!" Before he jumped straight up and ran out from the boxes, towards the Oozium. With his newly charged Electric-Form glowing brightly. He kept running straight towards the Oozium. The creature tried to swipe him, but before they could even get close, they were destroyed by his charged electric form. Drake stopped in his tracks, with a cheeky smile on his face, "Oh, you wanted to give me a tentacle... Or two...?" Drake stood a few meters away from the beast and looked around sarcastically. "No, no, no no... I want the big boss." A loud boom could be heard, like a striking bolt of thunder hit the room. Before the Oozium could even do anything, Drake pointed both hands at the Beast and unleashed a storm of electricity. While he was told by Lily not to go overboard, he was trying to fire the weakest bolts he could. But, Lily charged him to the point where his weakest bolts were his strongest normally. Drake randomly fired off many of these powerful bolts of lightning at it, and wiped out parts of the Oozium easily. As Drake unleashed the electric nightmare, the area around him was illuminated with bright light. The Oozium dissolved into a cloud of steam, covering it up, and didn't show the damage that Drake done until it was all gone.

After the massive cloud of steam had faded away, it revealed the Oozium. Horribly damaged by Drake's electric storm. It lost almost all of it's remaining mass, and it was barely three meters high anymore. It retained it's original Salamander/Axolotl shape, and still had tentacles ready to kill. But, at this size, it wouldn't pose too much more of a challenge to the students. Plenty of them could probably finish it off right here and now.

"You freaking idiot! I said don't overdo it!" Lily shouts at the top of her lungs, commanding and controlling as always.

Lily's charging wore off, and it wore off hard. His lightning form was very dim, and seemed to be less electricity enshrouding him than before. "Oh... Uh... Looks like I overdid it, just a little..." Drake says, feeling extremely exhausted as he really pushed himself to the limits right there. He really felt tired, like he needed to take a nap for twenty years. He fell down to his knees, about to pass out. Before he could, however, he gave words of encouragement to finish off the Oozium: "Looks like I've done all I can. Now it's up to you..." Before he dropped to the ground, unconscious.

"Idiot... Looks like you almost did it." Lily says to herself. While Drake was considered a friend, she didn't consider him to be that bright.

The Oozium can easily be finished off now that it's much, much smaller.

Jake, Victoria, Lin & Hunter vs. Oozium Clones I & II

Coming soon...

Claire and TJ watched as the whole fight seemed to go south. Johnny went airborne, not to be seen again, and now Gabe and Drake had fallen. Claire blasted the gigantic box of cereal with a lightning bolt, and it exploded into a massive rain of Rice Krispies and Lucky Charms. But the blinding rain of marshmallows made it near impossible for Claire to see. The massive club tentacle bashed her in the arm with deadly force, and sent her careening into a crate labeled "condiments". A loud electric crackling came from the box, and then nothing. Claire was down for the count, smothered in ketchup, and now with a separated shoulder. TJ expertly created a portal to make him appear on the other side of the Oozium, then closed both. Gabe and Drake were both in no position to fight, and the others seemed to be doing about just as well. If there was ever a time for a miracle, it would be now.

TJ looked down at his hands, as they began to glow; one black and one white. The white hand spouted a flame of the purest white, and the black, a flame of the deepest midnight. He turned to the others, who had now seemed to be fighting harder again. His portal must have glitched, sending him randomly forward in time (an extremely uncommon thing, but it happens). The Oozium seemed a lot weaker now.

"There is about to possibly be a very big explosion." TJ yelled out loud "I have no idea what is about to happen. Everyone get the Hell out of this room and run!" Alejandro, who had been watching the fight from high above, perched in the room's rafters, heard this and flew across the room to where Claire laid in the crate. He scooped her up in his arms, and flew off into the refrigerated room. A wicked smile spread over TJ's face as he looked back up at the Oozium.

"Hey there Oozy!" he yelled out "May I call you that? Irrelevant, anyways, I would just like you to know that this is going to hurt both of us really, really badly!" With that, TJ combined both of his hands with a loud yell. It wasn't the easiest task, as the hands seemed magnetically opposed to one another, but eventually the two flames combined, and the room was filled with a deafening shriek. TJ threw both of his hands towards the ground, and the shriek grew louder as he tore time and space to smithereens. The room began to shake, causing boxes and crates to fall off of their shelves and hit the floor. A massive portal, the size of a swimming pool appeared between TJ and the Oozium. The other end of the portal was total blackness; deep space. Almost instantly, diffusion started and a massive tornado exploded from out of the portal on the floor, buffeting everything in the room with gale-force winds. The tornado started to turn beautiful colors like that of a supernova as massive blooms of cosmic radiation filled the room. TJ stood at the side of the portal, still holding his hands together. The wind sucked his glasses into space and his hair blew all willy-nilly about his face, like a tongue of flame. The diffusion began to suck all of the oxygen out of the room, and soon objects began flying off the shelves and into the portal, where they were immediately destroyed by a cloud of antimatter.

"EVERYBODY...." TJ screamed out through the vortex "RUN!!!"

Willow, Nicole, Sandy, & Toby

The Oozium barely posed a threat to anyone now, but seeing as there was now a gigantic vortex in the room, and two people were unable to escape it, the animal-metas took it into their own hands to help them leave the room until whatever portal this was closed up, hopefully taking what was left of the monster with it, while still leaving the crates of food. Toby dashed over to the other side of the room, easily outfighting the pull of the vortex, and picked up Drake by the back of his shirt. He was careful not to hurt him with his sharp teeth, but his clothing would likely be ruined forever, after first the sewer, and then the fight. There was also a risk that Drake might zap him, but a bit of pain was better than someone dying, most certainly. He then ran back, and grabbed Sandy, who was closest to the vortex, in one paw, before quickly running out of the food storage room. He quickly placed them down once they were safe, and shook his head to clear it, suddenly feeling dizzy, possibly because Sandy had still produced trace amounts of the pheromone.

He dashed back into the room, and ran over to Gabe and Crystal. He had an extremely apologetic look in his eyes, as he was now interrupting the healing session, but at the same time, it was ruined, either way. "Sorry..." he choked, his voice having changed to a deep bass by his Gamma form. He then grabbed Crystal by the back of her shirt in his mouth, and then proceeded to use his right paw to pick up Gabe. He then rapidly ran out of the room, and deposited the two next to Drake and Sandy. In the two swift trips he made, Bones made it to the entrance of food storage and escaped, being only average in her speed. Toby only had enough safe time to make one more trip. This time, he rushed in and grabbed Sylvia, who was tired after using her powers. He quickly carried her out of the room, and put her back down. He had made three trips, but he could now feel his Gamma Burst wearing off, and he was panting heavily. People were still inside, but it was too risky for him to go back in. If he reverted back to his normal form while he was there, nobody was strong enough to help him escape, he weighed too much. Suddenly, the Gamma burst form dissolved, and Toby collapsed, blacking out, and unable to do anything else. Regardless, he had saved five people, using the last ounces of his strength.

Nicole came out of the area where she had been resting behind the crates, and had enough strength to fight the vortex, but eventually she had to land and use her talons to stay grounded. The air was getting thinner, but she was going to try to help the best she could. She ran over to Lily, and then used one wing to keep her from falling into the Vortex, "This way..." She said, barely audible over the sucking of the portal. She stretched out her other wing, to catch Johnny, in case he lost his footing. If he did, he would land in the grip of her wing, rather than in a cluster of antimatter. "Hurry!" She yelled, before hastily moving towards the exit of the storage room, ushering Lily along. She didn't bother to ask permission, first, she didn't think it was needed. She was determined that everyone would live past this.

Crystal frowned. Here she was helping the girl and in return getting rude comments. It was probably just the pain speaking... Hopefully.

"Alright- I'll rush as fast as possible, have the worst headache imagined, and then you lose your healer! Sound good? Now I'm rushing as safely as possible, and I'll tend to Drake and Sylvia after you. Only gonna heal you enough to stand the pain though- I can't risk anything that could overuse my abilities." Maybe she shouldn't have snapped but its hard to think about manner when concentrating on a wound. Oh- that's how Gabe felt.

She had just began healing the bone when the TJ kid opened some sort of vortex thing. She looked around frantically. They were dead if they didn't leave now. Lucky for her Toby came to her and Gabe's rescue and she grabbed her backpack before he carried them to safety. "Thanks," she quickly said. Gabe might not be very happy now, though. She just looked back at Gabe with a blank expression and went back to healing the girl's bone.

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Lexy
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Lexy nodded, "Alrighty. I'm on it," she smiled before throwing a knife at the Oozium clone's head. "Also what's your name?" She asked as she threw another knife.

Oozium

The last moments were upon the damaged beast. There was a vortex in between it and apparently the caster was on the other side of the vortex. The vortex started sucking it in. The Oozium tried it's best to get away from the portal by sliding away. It kept trying to move away from the portal, only to fail. There was only one other option for it. It sent it's remaining tentacles out to latch on to TJ. Several of these tentacles grabbed on to TJ, and then they tightened with bone crushing force. Tight enough so that it wouldn't let go of TJ. The Oozium gave up, it was defeated. But, it wasn't going down without killing one of the students in it's place. It released it's slimy grip on the ground, letting itself be whisked away into the portal. With TJ in it's slimy grasp, it went through the portal. Once it was through, the portal simply closed. The vortex stopped, and all the objects flying into it suddenly dropped to the ground.

At this moment, every single Oozium wandering the school grounds were destroyed. Immediately, they all stopped whatever they were doing and turned into a cloud of steam. Disappearing into nothing.

The terror of the Oozium has finally been brought to an end.

Drake, Johnny, Lily, Sylvia & Gabe

Drake quietly was carried along by Toby. Still unconscious, and will be for awhile. The electricity he generated wouldn't be too dangerous.

Johnny was rather impressed by Drake's sudden burst of power. Alone, the electro-kinetic managed to practically destroy the Oozium all by himself. Johnny was proud. Until, Drake fell over unconscious, then Johnny was laughing. However, he easily figured out a connection between Lily and Drake's sudden burst of power. There was that red light that came from behind the boxes, and Drake comes out super-powered. There was also Lily's reactions to Drake using his power, that easily gave Johnny everything he needed to at least guess what Lily's power is. However, that wasn't what he was focused on. There was the matter of the rest of the Oozium, which was Johnny's primary objective now that it's been brought down to size. A fiendish smirk crept up on Johnny's face as he starts laughing, "Hahahahahahaha! It's just me and you pink, semen monster. It's high time that I end you!" He shouts in an aggressive tone as his right eye started glowing a bright red. He readied his finger guns to shoot a Devil Kiss. However, he was once again interrupted from his prize. TJ opened up a freaking portal in the room. Not just any portal, a black hole. For something that's about to die. Johnny frowned for a number of reasons. One; he thinks it's stupid of TJ. Two; he dislikes the usage of bursts. Three; he doesn't get to kill the monster himself. Johnny rants in his own head, That is literally the stupidest sh*t ever, TJ. The thing is just about dead, and you open a black hole, a f*cking black hole! All we have to do is walk up and punch it. Dumbass... Worst of all, I don't get to go fresh to death kill it. The Black hole started sucking everyone in.

Everyone around him was escaping or getting saved by Toby and Nicole. Fortunately Toby rescued Gabe and Sylvia, the beast has Johnny's respect by doing so. Which gave him a lot less to worry about. This whole situation, fighting the Oozium, and trying to survive this portal. It was... Amusing. Very amusing to him. A small smirk crept up on his face, which turned into a mile-wide smile. He tilted his head downwards. As he was slowly being pushed into the Vortex, he could help but laugh at all of this. The fighting, the portal, it was just so fun. "Hahahahahahahahahaha...." Johnny started off his quiet laughter, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" That quiet, subtle, laughter quickly turned into all out maniacal crackling. Johnny abruptly put his hands high up into the air, with his face skyward, laughing like a maniac, "This! This is incredible! I love all this havoc!" He was laughing--- Until he realized that he was being dragged into the portal. His smile turned into an ugly frown, as he looked down to see himself moving. Now was the time to get out of here. His Emotional Energy form granted him immense speed. Which allowed him to break free of the suction. He broke off into a sprint, using all of his speed to run out of here. Johnny was smart enough to attempt to avoid the suction by running behind objects that were larger than himself, like crates and all the likes. Eventually he made it outside of the Food storage. After he was out of the front doors, he did a dramatic slide, skidding to a halt. Everyone was out here, "Now wasn't that exciting..." Johnny says to himself. He was still smiling, and was 100% nonchalant, "Let's just hope portal boy doesn't get himself sucked into his own portal."

The portal only made Gabe much, much more frenzied. Not only is her knee broken, now there's a bloody portal in the room sucking everyone in. Her eyes widened as she shouted rudely to Crystal "Oh my god! Look, Crystal! I don't give a flying f*ck about your headache! You have to heal me, because we have to get the 'ell out of here, now!" That was the anger, panic and pain talking. And it was well warranted. For all she knew, she was just about to die, and the threats of death didn't improve your attitude. Her savior quickly came in something completely unexpected (and unwanted): Toby, one of the people that she scolded as being a zoo-animal. Looking far more dangerous (And she had to add, silly). He grabbed her with his arms and quickly got them out of the room, Oh god... No... Gabe thinks to herself completely mortified, with a horrified expression of her face to match. While Gabe hated the animals; she has common sense. There was certain death right there, and Toby's taking her away from that. Better than she would herself, because the only she could do was drag herself away. After she was disposed of next to Drake and Sandy, both of which were out of the fight. That horrified expression stayed there on her face as Crystal resumed healing her leg. Gabe knew exactly what Crystal was saying (Without telepathy). She did silently thank Toby for what he did.

Sylvia quietly was carried along by Toby, her powers had completely distorted her hearing and talking skills. It'd be impossible for anyone to understand her anyway. The moment she was out, she leaned up against the wall. Panting.

"Drake!" Lily shouted at the top of her lungs, worried as hell. Drake was completely unconscious on the ground, and would be sucked in to god-knows-where. Thankfully, Toby sprung into action and saved him. She was relieved, but, was about to fall over into the vortex herself. She almost fell over into the vortex, when Nicole thankfully blocked her, and kept her from falling into the port. "Oh my god! Thank you!" Lily thanks Nicole in the most enthusiastic way. She already had detected Nicole coming up. There was no thinking, Lily got up and ran as fast as she could--- Though she was tired from her Omicron Burst. There was no one saving her this time, this is something she'd have to do herself. Lily ran out of the portal's wake, and was out of the doors with the rest of the group. She immediately knelt over and was heavily panting, "... Oh, Jesus... Christ... That... That... Oh my god..." She could barely speak right now. This was so chaotic. Lily could sense the presence of every single person in the hallway, and some presences were stronger than others, some were weaker. This was strange, her Omicron burst gave her so much more power to explore. There was one Meta-human presence very close to her ((Livvy)) that Lily detected, "Oh my god... Not another one... Not now..." She says under her breathe. Well, if this newcomer is going to kill them, it was likely that he/she would have already. "Hello! Is someone down there?!" Lily shouted down the hallway, hoping for a response.

"Now, I have to say..." Johnny says, looking at the rings on all of his fingers. He was still smiling and nonchalant like nothing happened. He was slowly clapping, "I used to think all of you were harmless, and useless before seeing you all in action. Heh, you all can really hold your own in a fight, and dog, manatee, thing; you saved my sisters. And I have to say; thank you. You have have my thanks." For once, Johnny wasn't being a smart-@ss and was showing legitimate appreciation for Toby saving Sylvia and Gabe (Even though he could have done it himself). It was no lie.

Jake, Lin, Victoria & Hunter

Jehovah's Thickness Posts : 582 Join date : 2012-12-02

Livvy screeched once again, her valiance sapped. Perhaps, were her mind clear, she would've noticed the bursts of steam coming out of the Oozium, perhaps inferred that she was causing the weakest of the attacks the Oozium could dish out some harm-but, sadly, the adrenaline-soaked mind of an eight year old is not that acute. Livvy shrieked, throwing her arms in front of her face, keeping Mr. Teddy safe out of harm's way.

And then, as luck would have it, the silly thing just up and vanished. Dissipated into one final burst of steam, leaving Olivia Averton (perhaps comically) shivering in absolute terror at a threat that was no longer there. Somewhere in the back of her mind she realized the sounds of the next room over, previously filled with the din of combat, was now...empty. No. Sounded like a...whooshign? Livvy thought it sounded almost like a huge toilet being flushed, the absurdity of which brought a giggle to her tear-stained face.

"Mr. Teddy, are you okay?" she whispered, peeking out. The hallway was empty: it was darkened, but the girl saw through it just as easily as if it hadn't been. Livvy slowly stood up, looking all around to make sure the scary monster was really, truly gone, and then picked up Mr. Teddy. She slowly walked over to her bookbag and poked it tentatively with her foot, then checked inside. No bad guys hidden in there. She slipped the pack over her back and then felt a draft slip over her, a cool breeze tugging towards the giant-flushing-whooshing sound. Huh. Livvy, gripped with the insatiable curiosity of childhood, began walking towards it, just glad to be rid of that scary monster. One thing was for sure: Livvy was not impressed with her new school thus far.

The little girl stepped over the pipe, having learned from her previous mistake, and then heard something interesting. Somebody's voice echoed down the hallway, asking if anybody was there. Huh? Livvy crouched, shifting over into a little spot not unlike the spot she'd hid from the Oozium only a few seconds before. Yes, it was someone calling out to see who was there, and it sounded like a girl. This helped to soften Livvy's doubts, and she slowly started walking towards it, the recent encounter with the Oozium still burned fresh in her mind.

"H-hello? W-who's there?" Livvy asked timidly. If it was one of those monsters, she was readying herself to turn and run.

Dragonfly saw that the Oozium was defeated. It was being sucked into a black hole. He did not have the strength to face such a thing head on, so he moved away from the area to get out of the direct suction of the black hole. Now he was semi safe. The others were escaping, and soon enough the black hole was closed. He, and the others were safe. He snarled, jumping to the spot where the Oozium once stood, and sniffed the area. It didn't smell good, but it wasn't ad either. But now, it was vacant. He was once again king/queen/ruler of the sub basement.

And he was alone again. Leafnoes could lead them out using her pheromones. He was going to rest from his fight, or talk to Henry. Maybe both. He turned away, going over to the entrance to hit the light switch, when he heard a voice down the halls. "Mr. Teddy, are you okay?" the voice spoke. "Oh god..." Dragonfly said to himself. It was the voice of a small child. One who had narrowly avoided being in the middle of a massive brawl. He homed in on the direction of the sound, and began to move to find it's source. He had incredible eyesight in the dark. It rivaled even Nicole's before her burst. He left the light on, and used the small amount of light to find the little girl. As he traveled, it got darker and darker, to the point where normal human eyes would no be able to see. He was a child of the dark, and maneuvered well through it.

As he ran, he slowed. He was tired emotionally and physically from Gabe and all the moving around today, and his throat stung for using the acid for the first time. "H-hello? W-who's there?".The noise was all he needed. He took a sharp left, and he found the source of the noise. A small girl. Just about four feet tall. He could only make out her outline in the almost zero lighting, and that was only thanks to the room whose light was one a few hundred feet away. He reached out for her shoulder, before deciding against it. What if she could see him? He camouflaged just in case, and then placed a hand on her shoulder. "E-Excusse me," He said only resting his hand on her shoulder lightly. "Are you losst? I can help you back up to the sschool. You're in the ssewerss right now." he said. He didn't want to scare the girl, but he couldn't help that with how he... looked.

He sniffed the air and smelt the scent of Oozium. Had she been nearly attacked? "Are you alright? You didnt get attacked by a pink blob did you?" He questioned. He was tempted to kneel down next to her, but didn't. She hopefully didnt see him. Dragonfly, for the first time since he could remember felt a tugging in his heart. He had a soft spot for children, and this girl was probably lost and could be hurt. He almost let out a whimper at this. He, the Dragonfly, was terrified for this girl's well being. The same Dargonfly who was cold, animalistic, and insane, had a soft spot for kid. Who knew?

Willow, Nicole, Sandy & Toby

Toby winced, his entire body feeling as though it were trampled by a herd of stampeding elephants. He tried to shift onto his paws, but when he did, a flash of burning agony surged up and caused him to collapse back down. His eyelids refused to stay open, and he had to keep jolting himself to keep them from staying closed when they slid shut. It was made worse by the soreness he was feeling all over, as though he had undergone an intensely physical workout and hadn't stopped when he should have. His Gamma Burst had been great while it lasted, but now he was regretting it. His jaw felt as though it were made of rubber, but he was able to murmur a reply, "People were in danger...I could save them...so I did..." Toby's voice was quiet, but most of the people were close enough to hear. He wasn't feeling good enough to be playful and happy. He was serious, now, and if he hadn't saved as many as he did, they might be dead now, and he would have lived the rest of his life knowing he had let something so horrible happen. Toby had said he would be the best guardian ever, and even though he may have not seemed serious, he had meant it.

Nicole didn't lower her wings and fold them until she was positive that nobody would get pulled into the rift, and even then, after it had vanished, her feathers remained ruffled, although she was gradually calming down. She looked at Toby, clearly hearing what he said, better than anyone who could have been right next to him. Her third eyelids blinked once, to clear some unsettled dust from her eyes, but the way her beak tightened suggested a kind of smile. She was proud to be an animal-meta, and even though her face no longer looked human, she was happy to have a beak and feathers. She was a lot stronger than she looked, and her spirit lifted that someone finally saw it, not just about her, but all the animal-metas. They weren't useless or weak, they were just different. Because of the way they were, people did not immediately respect them, but maybe it was better that way. They earned the respect they were given, and respect that is earned is well-deserved. The feeling of saving someone's life was, admittedly, one of the greatest things a person could feel. Nicole felt lighter, somehow, as though weight had been lifted from her shoulders. It brought her joy, to know that someone was alive, and that she had helped them live.

Sandy got up, and was wobbly on her feet, until she finally regained her balance. She looked around, and saw that Dragonfly was now gone. If he was no longer present, then this meant she would be in charge of leading the group back out of the sewer, or rather, what was left of it. Two people were not there, Dragonfly, and TJ. She knew Dragonfly was alive, the reptile man was strong enough to escape the Vortex with his life, but she had seen the blob monster grab TJ as it vanished into the rift, taking him down with it. She felt a pang of sadness and grief at this, but knew that there was no way she could have saved him, and that if she had tried, she would have been destroyed, as well. She thought she had seen the girl he was with, Claire, get sent to a safer place, but she was in a different place than where everyone else was. She felt a lot better about her powers now, regardless. Now that she had figured out how to actually spit her pheromones in liquid form, she could quickly incapacitate even the most massive of foes, although she couldn't do any real damage. Regardless, the Oozium had truly been under her influence, for a time, it had lost control of its tendrils, and when it had tried to throw things, its aim had been completely wrong. It had really and truly become disoriented by the pheromone. This set aside, she knew she could track her own trail, and would have to take Dragonfly's position as the group's guide in the sewer.

Bones, although not the most severely injured, looked as though she had been mangled by some horrible means. She was drenched in a scary-looking amount of blood, although it had already clotted and dried, and her arms were covered in deep, ugly wounds that went all the way to the bone. Upon trying to re-absorb her bone whip, she found that it had been in use for too long, and refused to dissolve back into her skeleton. As a result, she was forced to grab it with her left hand, and then forcibly yank it out, clenching her teeth as a tiny snap was heard when the bone broke. Although she might have been considered beautiful, it was clear why she had been defensive about keeping her powers a secret, and why she wore her jacket all the time, even if it was somewhat uncomfortable to do so. The brilliant tattoos across her shoulders set aside, she was completely covered with row upon row of hideous white scars that were raised above the surrounding skin, obviously the results of her abilities being used. If she used her power, it severely hurt her, and also permanently marred her skin. Setting down the whip of bone, she untied her jacket from her waist, and put it back on, wincing as she did so. Bones' jacket was blood-soaked, like the rest of her, and the fabric was stiff because it had dried, but she hated her wounds being visible. Too many people stared. She didn't bother to wait for Crystal to finish healing Gabe so she herself could request help. Bones didn't need to worry about open wounds, even in a sewer filled with bacteria. Her immune system was so incredibly powerful that she never got infections. She didn't get infected cuts, she didn't even get sick. She healed twice as fast as a regular person, and was also more resistant to pain. In addition, while she was happy to be alive, she was in too bad a mood to truly accept help. She could still think clearly, but her powers had mentally stressed her, and she was likely to react much more harshly than normal.

Tom & Marie

Terror had almost killed the Oozium clone when all of a sudden it had collapsed into a puff of pink steam. The serpentine manifestation of fear hissed, and its eyes narrowed, the wicked smile turning into a scowl. All eight tentacles, no longer holding a victim, lashed about in irritation. It had been enjoying every moment of the fight, and now its opponent had dissolved, most definitely not because Terror had destroyed the clone itself. Marie, because of her powers, could almost have been considered to have multiple personalities. Of all the forms she had, though, Terror's personality was above all the most terrifying. Cruel, cold, and ruthless, Terror's greatest form of entertainment was inducing fear in others. Worse, it was armed with the girl's vast intellect, and could therefore plot its next move with precision. Not caring for anyone but itself, Terror seemed to take joy in inducing fear in its own host, horrifying Marie by harming the ones closest to her, and then making sure she remembered what it did in vivid detail, becoming stronger by making her feel even more scared. It was a part of Marie, but more comparable to a monster possessing an innocent child, as Marie truly hated Terror for what it was.

In response to Lexy's question, Tom hastily whispered his name, "Name's Tom, but you should get out of here, without that blob thing here, Terror might turn on us." He warned. As if to prove his point, the snake creature twisted around, its bright yellow eyes locking on Toby. It's mouth suddenly twisted back up into that sickening, awful grin, and its fingers began to wring themselves together again. It was truly easy to see that Terror was now plotting what it would do to him. Tom didn't move, and Terror coiled up, before springing directly at him, it's massive jaws opening, and preparing to bite him in half--

"No!"

Marie's voice came through, and the form suddenly dissolved, moments before the horrid teeth clamped shut on her friend. The little grey girl stood where the form had originally been, but her face was in a rare moment, expressive. Tears streamed down her face, and she collapsed down onto her knees, weeping as though her world were falling apart around her. Tom ran over and scooped Marie into a hug, feeling such relief and sadness all at once. "It almost hurt you...it almost hurt you..." the girl sobbed hysterically. "It's not your fault, it's okay." Tom said. Marie's power couldn't have been crueler to her. She was just a child, and she couldn't feel any emotion without fear of triggering a change. Sadness, she could feel, but it was unfair to take away her childhood. She was still a little girl, and she had to do so much to keep people safe.

Marie had surely been tired by her powers activating, as moments later, she passed out. Tom carefully picked her up and turned to Lexy, "Marie's powers are dangerous, she saw that thing and it triggered a change. She really is a good kid, she means well, but her forms have minds of their own. It almost got me, but she managed to stop it before she did." He said, shifting her so she was easier to carry. "I'm going to find a vacant room for her to sleep in until she wakes up."

Lexy was just about to take off running when she heard a girl scream. She turned around to see a girl in replace of Terror that was crying. Lexy didn't want anyone crying- she likes happiness and smiles just like what she think everyone does- and this girl obviously wasn't happy.

For some reason, Lexy couldn't think of what to say- which is a really rare moment. She figured Tom was probably the best person who could comfort the girl, as he was already doing so. Lexy stood there quietly as Tom picked up Marie.

"Poor girl," she sighed after Tom explained what had happened. To go through so much at such a young age... it has to be hard, as it would be for anyone. Lexy stood idle for a few moments before placing a smile on her face in an attempt to lift the mood.

"Whenever you're done could you explain to me whatever you know has happened the past couple days? I was kinda hospitalized."

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Crystal
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Crystal frouned when Gabe snapped at her about her headaches. Psionist headaches were worse then your average headache- they are the type that leave you in tears and- if the abilities are overused- pain worse then Gabe's current predicament. Crystal chose to stay quiet and focus on her healing.

She was done after a few minutes and walked up to Drake. She had thought of going to Bones first but despite the large amount of blood Bones had covering her she seemed to be walking around almost like normal.

Crystal studied Drake's passed out form and placed a hand on his forehead. He had gotten hit in the face and he was low on energy. A few broken teeth. That's hard to fix without the pieces of teeth that have already broken off. She could still heal him, though. Crystal began healing Drake, as well, remaining quiet the entire time.

Tom & Marie

Tom carefully set Marie down in a chair before turning back to Lexy, "Well, a lot of stuff has happened the past few days, and none of it is really good. The teachers and staff in this place are all missing, as is half the students who didn't get killed or sent to the hospital. I'm not really sure what happened, there, but I doubt it's good." He wore his traditional scowl, but he had every reason to, at the thought of what was happening in the school. "Recently, people have been viciously attacked by extremely powerful mutants for no reason, and those mutants had to be killed in order for everyone else to survive. Now, there's a traitor running around the school, and as of now, they've murdered one person, and sabotaged the cafeteria and destroyed all the food in it. There's a group of people down in the sewers right now searching for the food storage area, hopefully they found it by now. Either way, Marie and I have been in the library ever since, and then that blob thing showed up."

He shrugged, "That's just about everything that I can tell you. Regardless, you should be careful, there's been a lot of tension lately, people are freaked out and they're looking for someone to blame, and if they don't know you, they're more likely to think you're the one they're looking for." He shook his head, "I myself was almost accused of being the traitor, but that's mostly my own fault. I have anger problems, and I wasn't really that nice to anyone when we got here. Marie's been teaching me to control my temper, though, and I might have snapped at people, but I'm not violent." He glanced over at where the sleeping girl was sitting in her chair, "Marie was suspected, too, but she's not a bad person, she really is a great kid. It's just that she can't allow herself to feel anything, because her powers are so unstable. She hardly ever speaks outside of a monotone, and she doesn't do half the stuff a normal kid does, not to mention she's much more mature and knows more than most girls her age. People are suspicious of her because they think she's creepy, but they don't even know her, and it's appalling to me that they'd suspect someone her age." He looked back at Lexy and shook his head, "You need to be very careful, until this whole traitor business is settled."

CASTLEVANIA HAS FITTING AFTER BATTLE MUSIC BITCHES:

Victoria, Lin, Hunter & Jake

Several minutes before the demise of the Oozium...

Victoria had charged into the Cafeteria, panting and sweating a little bit. Having lost the tracks of clone Oozium. All that running wasn't too good on her, being an overweight female. She knelt over, and started panting, ignoring everything going on in the room. Jesus, now I wish I was built like Drake and Charles... She thinks to herself as she pants. Then she remembered that she has to focus, and stop the Oozium. Victoria raised her head to see Jake and Lin looking at her, curiously, through a glass illusion.

After Lexy left the room, Jake kept the illusion barrier blocking him and Lin from Lexy going strong. He didn't exactly swallow Lexy's story, regardless of what Lin said. Two two strangers showed up from out of no where, and one claims, after tossing a knife around (A major concern for Jake), says they're being attacked by a monster. "Yeah. I don't think there's much we can do against whatever she's talking about... We should wait for my brother and sister to come back up. They probably can do more than we can." He says to Lin, scratching the back of his neck. Trying his best to avoid going out there and looking for a monster. The only things he could do was hide, trick, and defend.

"Your choice." Lin says blankly, she had already read his mind, against his consent, again. However, there was always that one thing that always put Lin off, "I... Don't like violence, anyway..."

You don't like violence? That's sad, it's all around you... Jake thinks to himself, really hoping that Lin didn't read his mind when he thought that. He was fine with not fighting, since he was never a truly violence person. Which brought up a major contrast between himself and his siblings (And Sylvia) as they were fairly heavy on the violent side. However, his train of thought was interrupted when Victoria ran in, panting heavily. Jake raised an eyebrow, "... Are you okay Ma'am...?" He politely asks. He felt a little bit more at ease with Victoria, as he's seen her before. However, he kept the illusion going.

"Yeah... Yeah... I'm fine. Just need'a minute to catch my breath..." Victoria continues panting for a second. Before she raised her head, again, and looked at Jake and Lin. Asking them a question with a half-smirk, like this whole situation amused her, "... Did any of you, by some chance, see a big pink tentacle monster...?"

At this moment, Hunter walked into the room, with some major differences than before. He left a trail of red blood that was dripping down from the arm that he had cut to draw blood. He didn't have his gloves on, so it revealed his heavily scarred palms and hands to the world. His fingers were smeared with the blood he used to . Hunter had made an arsenal of blood-weaponry. During his short time outside, he created three Blood-Swords, and eight foot long Blood-daggers, held in his hands and under his shoulders. Most of which were for Lexy and Victoria. All he needed was two swords. However, losing that much blood had negative effects on Hunter, and there was still the pain from having an open wound like that. He looked very pale, and was light-headed--- It won't last long. However, since he regenerates blood at an accelerated rate, all he needs is a few minutes. "... I am... prepared." Were the first words that left his lips, blankly and full of apathy. Hunter could barely even stand. He walked over to the nearest chair and sat down, "... It appears that I won't be able to continue this fight, just yet."

Upon seeing the sight of blood, Lin looked very uncomfortable and looked away, hating to see the sight of blood. However, Jake took notice of this and pointed his right hand in the direction of Hunter, and snapped his fingers. The trail of blood had disappeared, being enshrouded in one of Jake's illusions. Thus hiding them from sight, and hopefully Lin would appear to be much more comfortable.

After seeing Hunter's blood, Victoria scuttled over to him, worried, "What the hell happened to you?" She spoke, sounding a bit worried. She was unaware of Hunter's power.

"This is... My gift. The Blood Art Technique. I... used it, to help me craft weapons." Hunter blankly says to Victoria, his speech slurred. Hopefully answering her question. "There is not a... need to... To... worry. I have been through worse. Take theses, this will help you..." Hunter drops all the Blood Weaponry he has created to the floor. They all landed with the loud clang of metal.

Note to self; don't copy his power. Victoria thinks to herself. Coming from the distance, she heard crashing, among other things. That is the best indication of where the Oozium could have ran off to. She said to the rest of the group, "Guys, we really need to go find that monster before it kills someone. I think we should--- Looks like it found us!" A certain sight had diverted her attention... Since she found what they were looking for.

During their conversation, slime from Oozium Clone IV entered the room like a wave of thick water. It quickly condensed into an orb, and assumed the usual Oozium form. This was exactly like the rest of the Oozium clones in terms of appearance. Reptile-like, with features from Salamanders and Axolotls. It was much bigger than the other Ooziums clones. It was easily ten meters high and it immediately deployed it's tentacles, roaring loudly. Going into combat mode.

Immediately, Victoria's hands were enshrouded with a thick, wavy, blue aura. Then everything that Hunter created had the same aura around them. They quickly lifted up into the air and she sent them at the monster at high speeds. The blades went clean through the Oozium, going far behind it, leaving behind steam. Victoria then made the swords flip backwards and go back into the Oozium. With plans to repeat the process until the monster was dead.

"Oh my god, what is that!?" Lin screams at the creature. Completely shocked at what she saw. The very first thing she did was turn towards the opposite hall from where the Oozium came and ran towards it. She was obviously not a fighter and staying there would be stupid. Since she's both in the way, and terrified as f*ck of the monster. Lin would stick this one out.

No. You can't go just yet! Jake thinks to himself as a cheeky, determined, narrow look got on his face. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "It's no problem for the Master Illusionist! Come on, Lin, stay for the show!" Right when Victoria was about to send the Blood-blades flying at the Oozium. Jake snapped his fingers and crafted an illusion. Not just any illusion. The flashiest illusion of all time. He created orbs of incredibly bright lights all around the Oozium. All flashing different colors every second. Then he created a sort of bright tornado of multi-colored stars. This was all so beautiful, in a way--- It was all the result of Jake's extensive training with his powers. Covering the Oozium in light, making it impossible to see it, and this went on for a few minutes. Until it all faded. Jake's light show ended with the Oozium being trapped in an illusion dome of tough bullet proof glass. Jake left little room for the Oozium to move, so that it can't build the momentum needed to break free. Tough enough to keep it in for awhile--- If it doesn't try going underground. All to impress Lin, and hoped that she responds positively. The Oozium tried desperately to escape, by thrashing about violently. Trying to flail it's tentacles.

When Jake started his light show, Lin looked back. She saw all the pretty lights that Jake had created and then she stopped to watch. Assuming that he was defeating the monster all by himself. After it was all over, she spoke, "Wow... That's..." ... Cooler than what I can do. Lin thinks to herself, since she didn't want to inflate Jake's ego any further.

"Oh, heh, oh, well." Jake just cheekily says with a smile on his face.

Show off. You're lucky that you got it in there. Victoria thinks to herself, annoyed because Jake had to show off. She decided not to say anything about it and just ask a question, "... You sure that glass will hold it?" She was very skeptical.

"It's bullet-proof glass, that stuff is pretty tough. And, long as I concentrate that thing will stay in there." Jake responds, turning his head to Victoria. Still smiling a little bit. He stopped and reached into the pocket of his over-coat. To pull out the golden pocket watch that he holds dear, and he flips it open to look at the time. Time is an illusion... I just didn't put it together. He thinks to himself. Before he noticed that the Oozium just suddenly stopped in it's tracks. This was the very moment that the main body of the Oozium underground was destroyed, thus all of it's clones were defeated. It then exploded into a cloud of steam. Which lulled inside, trapped in the bulletproof glass. "Whoa. For once, I didn't do that." Jake snaps his fingers again, and the illusion fades. Allowing the steam to escape. Jake then shrugged, "What's next? I think I can boil us up some tea while we wait." Jake says cheekily. Incredibly proud and happy, with what he's done.

"Oh yeah, we need to go find out where that violent noise came from..." Victoria says to herself, and the group at large. Completely calm and nonchalant since their monster was gone. She felt the need to go check out the noise before she starts celebrating, however. "I think it came from the Library. Let's go! We don't have time to waste."

"Yeah. I would go check that out..." Jake ran out of the room, saying, "Meet you there!" Before enshrouding himself in an illusion that made him invisible.

"I'll go too..." Lin hesitantly asks. How easily Jake handled the Oozium gave her a little bit of hope. She followed behind him at high speed. Jake promptly wrapped her in the illusion. Making them invisible to everyone else, visible to each other.

"Swords, please." Hunter says the very first thing he's said in a few minutes. He was merely asking for his Blood-Swords so that he can go fight. He wasn't in the least bit concerned about him wasting his blood for nothing.

"Oh yeah..." Victoria stops for a moment, and two Blood-Swords started floating, glowing with a thick, wavy aura. They floated into Hunter's hands, who then grabbed them with both hands and stood straight up. Now that Hunter has his swords, Victoria left the cafeteria. Heading towards the Library fast as she could. Which, naturally, wasn't that fast.

Hunter appeared to be in better shape now that his blood had properly regenerated. He was still bleeding a bit, but he should be fine. Well enough to go fight again. "I will not fail you all." Hunter says to Victoria, as he followed behind her.

The first two people to enter the library room were Jake and Lin. The Master Illusionist has arrived. They stood in between the doors, invisible because of Jake's illusion. They were a few steps into the room. The room looked to be in a state of chaos. Books, Eyes and Furniture were everywhere--- All of which were broken. There was obviously either a fight here, or someone lost control--- Something happened, and they were curious. Jake wanted to make a scenic entrance into the room, but didn't want to look like he was trying too hard. He simply snapped his fingers and the illusion faded, reveling themselves to the inhabitants of the room. Jake was about to say something when Lin did it for him.

"... What happened here...?" Lin spoke in a shocked tone.

At this moment, Hunter and Victoria ran into the room behind them. Victoria recognized everyone in the room, Lexy, Tom, Marie... They've all met her in the past. She looked around and saw the chaos too, "Hey, Lexy, I see you are alright.... We didn't that need help after all..." Victoria shrugs.

"Looks like a vicious wind came through here... Are you all okay? I wish that I could have been here myself..." Hunter states, blank as always. He held both swords in his hands tightly, the tips of both were pointing at the ground.

Lily

The Real Shade wrote:: "H-hello? W-who's there?" Livvy asked timidly.

My god.. It's a little girl. How the hell did she get anywhere near here...? Who is she? Where... Ugh! Lily didn't exactly know what to say. Livvy, who apparently was the person that Lily had sensed, stepped out from under the pipes. There were many questions that Lily wanted to ask, but she didn't know how to say them. Lily had sensed Livvy---- Again, she was still getting the hang of these new powers her Omicron Burst had given her. Livvy had a strong presence at most. While Lily didn't know this yet, Livvy was a pretty powerful Meta-human. Dragonfly had beaten her to saying anything to the young girl, the lizard monster had offered to take Livvy back up to the surface. Which was a good idea--- For everyone really, they need to get back up soon. They have wounded, and everyone was probably tired of this place. Lily's eyes examined the area around them, and then she took a few steps towards Livvy, very slowly. Lily spoke to the little girl, "... Hi, little girl... Um, I'm Lily. No need to be scared, we're not going to hurt you." I really need to work on talking to children... That was terrible. She promptly thinks to herself.

Johnny & Gabe

"I can say that this isn't the worst time I had in a sewer..." After a few minutes of leaving, the whirling of TJ's vortex vanished without a trace. The very sound of objects. Which caught Johnny's attention. He closed his eyes and focused for a few moments. Not even tilting his head downwards. He tried to pick up every last Emotional Presence in the area. There was only the group down here. Absolutely nothing in the food storage room... Which wasn't initially a good sign. As Johnny escaped the food storage room, he eyed TJ being pulled in with the Oozium. Which is unfortunate to say the least. However, there was a chance that TJ got out. Instead of guessing what might have happened, or what he believes could have happened, Johnny choose to go investigate for himself. "The food storage appears to be safe. But, since I'm such a gentlemen... I'll be the first to check inside. Wish me luck, children!" Johnny says with an adventurous smirk. Without even waiting for anyone to get their responses in, he immediately walks into the room. Johnny took two steps in, and looked around. The place was quiet now... It still looked like a tornado whirled through the room at light-speed. But, it still looked rather peaceful now. No monsters, no vortexes, no more violence. To Johnny, this was soothing. Like a cloudy day after a storm. Most of the food had been spared being sucked into TJ's Vortex. However, there was no TJ, and if he escaped, he would be out there right now. Once again, Johnny found himself feeling very little emotion. Just like he didn't really care that TJ's probably dead, or was it that he had the feeling that TJ could be alive. He had little clue It was ambiguous even to him. Am I just losing it and becoming a socio? He thought to himself as he looked on.

The knee was broken in the fight against the Oozium was healed, by Crystal. There was agonizing pain no longer. Gabe tried moving it around just to be sure, as Crystal said nothing. Gabe successfully moved her leg around. But, was still cautious on trying to stand straight up. There was that immense fear still quelling of just dropping over. She wasn't going to lie on the ground, waiting for the rats to eat her leg off (That would humorously put her in an even worst situation than before). She says to herself, "Here goes nothing..." Before putting both hands on the cold concrete of the sewer. She pushes herself up, attempting to put the weight on her other leg. She was leaning up against the wall, then attempts to use her other leg--- Only to see that she can stand up just fine. Just to experiment, Gabe tries walking a few slow, and steady steps. To do them successfully and realize that she can walk just fine. However, she wasn't going to do anything major just yet. She noticed Johnny walked back into the room, she had assumed that it's safe for the time being. There were some things that she needed to get out of the way before she left. Mostly thanking (and, begrudgingly, apologizing to) Crystal for healing her. "Ayo, Crystal..." Gabe closed her eyes and sighed, "Thank ya' for that... And sorry for yelling at ya' back there, that was the pain and anger talking... Ya' also kinda cute. Don't let that get to ya' head, though. Ha." Gabe says in the most apologetic tone she could force. Before Crystal could even react, Gabe was already walking in the room behind Johnny. She stood right next to Johnny and looked at him curiously. Gabe then spoke with apathy laced in her voice, "Eh, I get the feeling that portal-boy didn't make it, yes?"

Johnny shrugged and shook his head, nearly appearing to be disappointed. Just to hide what he was feeling inside, he decided to make up some last words to Gabe about TJ, "Eh, what a horrid way to die... With the greatest intentions; he opened up a portal straight into Cthulhu's anus, hoping to suck the tentacle monster in. Only to get pulled in himself, right with the bloody b*stard. How tragic. Heh. While I don't think doing that was the smartest decision he could make then and there... I hope he finds providence in the afterlife. And we'll keep pushing forward, despite this, right Gabe?"

"We always do." Gabe says with an inspirational smile. She hadn't personally known this TJ, but, she felt a bit of... Gabe didn't know how to describe it in her own head, but it was like she was proud of what he did. And hoped that he died knowing that the rest of the group gets to succeed, push forward, because of him. Now, they didn't come down here into the sewer for nothing. There was still that machine in the center of the room that sent boxes of food back up to the surface. "Now, can we get this over with so we can get the 'ell outta here. I'm tired of this place and err'thing in it."

Johnny nodded, he agreed with Gabe here. While he certainly wouldn't forget about TJ anytime soon, they really can't let his demise slow them down. He had his own speech going. He took a few steps forward and threw his arms high up into the air, shouting at the top of his lungs "Listen up boys and girls!" Johnny starts off shouting to motivate the rest of the group, "I'm in an especially good mood right now. And I believe that it's high time that we start fulfilling our duty. There is a machine right there that I think sends stuff up to the surface. I believe we should start putting the necessary foods in there. So my brother can prepare it all, and you all get something proper to eat!"

Lexy nodded at Tom, "Thanks for the heads up," she smiled. "You don't seem that angry, though, which is a good thing, right?" Lexy looked at Marie. The girl was so young- why would people accuse her? She was crying from Terror almost hurting Tom. Maybe there wasnt a traitor, who knows? Everyone she had met so far seemed so nice. Tom, Marie, Victoria, Hunte- oh, wait! They had sent her to get help!

"Oh yeah- Victoria and Hunter like reeeeaaaally need help right now, that's what they sent me here for. So..." She stopped when she heard a familiar voice speak up. Lexy turned to the direction of the voice to see the girl and boy from earlier. "Oh hi," she smiled. Then Victoria and Hunter came in. Oh... Well that fixes a lot of stuff. Lexy's smiled grew, "Good to see you guys are okay- that's great! And I don't know the whole story- I just came in here and Marie and Tom were trying to fight a blob thingy so I helped." Lexy just summed up the reason for the library's mess. "We're all okay, as I hope it seems. No big injury thingies."

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Crystal
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Crystal was surprised to hear Gabe come and thank her along with apologize. She then felt guilty for snapping back at her earlier. Crystal continued healing Drake as she opened her mouth to speak, but it was too late. Gabe had already walked off. Crystal closed her mouth and examine Drake carefully. His teeth were getting replaced. With normal medical silence this was almost impossible if they are adult teeth, but Crystal's enhance Psionic abilities helped the healing process. Drake should be waking up soon.

Johnny had made some announcement, but now Crystal was too busy concentrating o her task at hand to know what he had said.

Willow, Nicole, Sandy, & Toby

At the announcement, Bones scowled, and looked at her hands. Both were drenched with blood, and her right palm had a huge gaping hole in it from where she had generated her whip during the battle. She didn't think people would want her touching their food any more than they wanted the animal-metas to. Then again, only Gabe seemed to have an issue with it, and she might let everyone slide, considering the animals had done an amazing job fighting the blob monster. In addition, she would probably be considered ungrateful if she said something after Toby had rushed in and saved her life. Bones was still strong enough to lift stuff, although it would probably irritate the wound on her palm slightly. Eventually, she just shrugged, "Hey, if someone can find a bottle of water, I would like to wash my hands before I start handling this stuff." Bones' blood was in fact rather sanitary, considering her amazing immune properties, but it was still blood, regardless.

Toby once again tried to rise to his paws, and after about three more tries in which he failed, he finally managed to get on his feet, although he still seemed regardless extremely tired and dizzy. "I'll try to help..." He murmured sleepily, before lurching forward and starting to walk, somewhat off-balance, as though he might accidentally tip over. Sandy just frowned, "Toby, you need to sit down and rest a moment. You just had a Gamma Burst, that's hard to shake off. Let us handle it, you have vertigo, you look like you're going to fall over." She said. She then ran over and placed her hand over his face, surprising him. A second later, he collapsed down, out cold. Bones stared at this. "He's going to push himself too far if he tries anything at the moment. I had to knock him out, it'll wear off later." Sandy said. "You can put people to sleep, too?" She asked. Sandy just nodded, "Pheromones do a lot of different things." She said.

Nicole flew into the room and looked around at each crate, passing up the ones with foods that had low nutritional value. The way things were, she doubted that the Oozium was going to be the last mutant she fought, and as an animal meta, she wasn't likely to enjoy foods that weren't worth the energy of procuring. She picked out crates that were packed with vitamins and things people needed. One was marked holding lots of dried pasta, filled with carbohydrates. She landed next to it, and looked at it, tilting her head in various directions, as she tried to figure out how she was going to move it without touching it. She really didn't need to make Gabe mad after all of this by doing the very thing she had come down to prevent. Eventually, though, she gave up, and sighed, grabbing the crate with her wings, and picking it up. Her wings were extremely strong, so this was rather easy to do. She then slowly started carrying it towards the belt.

Tom & Marie

Tom frowned, "Well, whatever it was, it kind of just died, all by itself. I don't really get what happened, there." He said. He was starting to get a bit uncomfortable, were people going to start asking questions again? His lack of trust was starting to come back again, and for some reason it bugged him that Marie was passed out while these people were around. Tom wanted to get her to safety, before someone started wondering what she had done to fight off the blob. Marie's powers were unstable and dangerous, and people might harm her just because she posed such a threat. Tom didn't want that.

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Livvy, due to the curiously keen vision she had, saw something moving towards her in the hallway, but it was coming slowly, and calmly, and when it got close, it just rested a hand on her gently, not like the death-grip the Oozium had put on her. Livvy's lip was trembling-as was the rest of her, but she squinted her eyes, straining to see what was there. Something was-the darkness of the hallway wasn't impairing her vision whatsoever. Perhaps it had something to do with the faint golden sparkle in the girl's eyes. She frowned slightly, holding her teddy bear.

"I....yes...there was this blob thing and it looked like a person but it moved all wrong and it tried to grab me but then it went away" Livvy blurted out, speaking incredibly quickly and in a high, panicked tone. She was breathing heavily, from a mixture of the exertion of using her powers (inadvertently) earlier as well as the adrenaline pumping through her, sending her heart-rate through the roof. "D-did you say this was near a school? My mommy and daddy said I'd be going to one but I really don't like it here."

Livvy heard another voice coming the hall, which confirmed her thoughts on the almost-invisible thing: it wasn't trying to hurt her. Maybe it was a ghost? Livvy wasn't entirely sure, but it didn't seem like it was out to get her. She looked down the hallway, seeing the other girl walk up to her, introduce herself, and then say she wasn't going to hurt her. That was the last bit of evidence Livvy really needed, 'cause even though she wasn't supposed to talk to people she didn't know, they did say they weren't going to hurt her. Plus they were acting really nice-slowly, Livvy's doubts and fear began to unwind, if just a bit. All the noise from the fighting was all gone-so....were all those scary jelly things over? Maybe they were still lurking around somewhere, but Livvy clung onto the hope she wouldn't have to ever see one of those things, ever.

"W-who are you two?" Livvy asked, looking between Lily and the almost-invisible thing. In the subterranean darkness of the sewers, likely all that was visible of the little girl was the faint glow of her eyes, and the strange, had-to-squint-to-see-it shimmer of multicolored lights that seemed to dance around her. Livvy, on the other hand, could see Livvy just fine-and she could see everything else in the hallway well, 'cept for the blurry thing, which was bothering her a little. Maybe it was a ghost. He was a really nice ghost, if he was one. "M-my name's Livvy and I kinda want to get out of here." Livvy remembered her manners, which her parents had repeatedly attempt to indoctrinate her with, and often failed in. Sometimes, they succeeded, and so Livvy hastily added, "Please."

"It'ss good to hear that you are ssafe." Dragonfly said, a small sigh escaped his mouth as he did so, before he looked to the girl for a moment. While he could not directly tell if she could see him or not, he go the feeling that she knew he was there. Most animals had this sense of knowing what's happening around them. Dragonfly, being one of the most animal based metas on campus, shared this feeling. However, he didn't reel back or run from the girl. He was human enough to realize that she wasn't out to harm him. "The blob thing... I have..." Dragonfly trailed off, trying to think of a word to help consol the girl. "...friendss that were fighting it... It'ss gone now. Our friend TJ fought it off and followed it away to make ssure it sstayed wherever it went." It wasn't quite accurate. He was fairly certain TJ had sacrificed himself to save them. But it would be good for this little girl. He didn't want to talk about death around someone so young.

"You are in the ssewerss of a sschool named The Othergroundss." Dragonfly began, kneeling down beside the girl. "Sso you're actually underneath the sschool. Nobody really likess it down here, but we had to come down to get ssome food from a food sstorage. I know thiss area well, sso when me and a few others went down, I agreed to lead them down here." He said, trying to fill the little girl in. "You're lucky we were down here. That blob could've gotten you if TJ didn't help uss sscare it away, and you might've gotten losst."

He looked up as another made themselves present. It was Lily. "Lily.." he said, acknowledging her presence before looking back down to the little girl. "Her name iss Lily," Dragonfly said, repeating what the 'leader' had just said to make sure the little girl got what he was saying. "My name iss Dragonfly. Like the flying bug you ssee around sstreamss." Dragonfly said, imagining his name and then his scaly hide and how his name didn't really match his appearance. However, it did match his crazy. Dragonflies ate their mates right? Or was the Praying Mantises... "It'ss very nice to meet you, Livvy." He said to her. Dragonfly smiled to himself slightly as the girl said please to his proposal to take her to the rest of the group, along with the rest of the group.

Dragonfly then took the little girl's hand and began to lead her with him back to the group and then hopefully to the surface. Hopefully Lily would be able to follow. "When I wass little my mom read me a book called 'Where the Wild Things Are'." Dragonfly said as he walked. "When i was sscared I read that book and liked to think that for every monsster that wanted to sscare me there was one that wanted to be my friend." he said, thinking to the book momentarily. "If any blob that TJ misssed comess I can sscare it off... I'm... a bit of a sscary guy. I hope you dont mind." he said. He also hoped that the girl didn't notice that the pads of his hands were scaly and calloused. He hoped that the girl wouldn't be scared of him for what he was. He didn't want to be a monster. Hopefully his little interaction would show Lily that he wasn't a monster. Maybe this girl wouldn't agree with Gabe when she ribs on him and the other animal metas and maybe show her or the others that he still had human under the scales and spikes.

That Henry O'lin was still in there.

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"Eww..." Livvy muttered, looking around. "I didn't realize sewers looked like this."

It was kinda hard to understand Dragonfly (kind of a cool name, Livvy thought-she realized that probably wasn't his real name, but Livvy didn't pry. There was another name Livvy liked to call herself, sometimes: Starlight, and she sympathized with Dragonfly's alias) at times, but Livvy felt she got the gist of it. The blob-thing was gone for now, which was really good, 'cause it was kinda scary and mean. The three of them started walking back towards the others, Dragonfly's other friends. Dragonfly was holding her hand, probably to help guide her-Livvy could see just fine, but she was still a little shaken up from all the crazy things that she'd endured in the last, oh, fifteen minutes, and saw no need to let go for now. Her other arm carried Mr. Teddy, and her bookbag rode behind her, comfortably light, as the trio walked down the hallway.

What Dragonfly said about monsters frightened her, initially-she didn't ever want to see anything like those blobs again, but she was glad he was going to help her. Since she could feel him, she figured he probably wasn't a ghost, and it got Livvy thinking. If he wasn't a ghost, and his hand felt kinda scaly, like...like a claw (she was reminded distinctly of her pet iguana, back home)...and there were blob-things running around the school...

"Dragonfly," Livvy asked, her face scrunched up with the effort of pondering where, exactly, she was-her parents had merely informed her she was going off to another school where'd she make plenty of friends, which thus far, was proving true in a very strange way. Livvy's well-worn tennis shoes stepped against the sewer floor, echoing down the empty hall-the whooshing sound of the vortex was beginning to fade away, and if you listened really close, you could almost hear a far fainter, similar noise lingering around the little girl. "This school isn't for normal people, is it?" she looked around, thinking back to the Stasis room she'd come out of-and had absolutely desire to return to, because that place was even freakier than the blob things were. Even with Dragonfly and Lily, she wasn't going back there. But between that, and just how big this place was-she had been walking around for a good fifteen minutes before the fight, and knew there was yet more to come-well....this didn't seem like a normal school. Her school back home was really small, and it didn't have sewers or blob things underneath it. But if there were kids like Dragonfly here...and Lily, well, Lily was glowing kinda funny, so....

The little girl, clinging to Dragonfly's hand, continued looking around. She glanced down at Mr. Teddy, who agreed with her (curiously enough, he usually seemed to). This place was scary, for sure, but Livvy was starting to get an idea of what the Othergrounds was for. Or, at least, so she thought.

Johnny, Drake, Lily, Sylvia & Gabe

Thirty minutes later...

The group had finally finished their business in the sewers. Everyone was patched up by Crystal, and all the food have been sent up to the surface for Jake to properly prepare for everyone. They were done with the basement for now. Hopefully, they won't need to head back down there anytime soon. Because, as of now, it is downtime. Meaning that everyone should relax and head out to go do something fun. Hopefully, there will be no monsters or any. Being lead out by Dragonfly and/or Sandy, they came up through the same way they came. The first person to emerge from the sewers was Lily, who quickly climbed up. Followed by Johnny, Drake, Gabe and Sylvia (Who was still getting the backlash from overuse of her powers). The rest of the group got up using their own means.

They all stood there, quiet for a few seconds, and Lily, being the natural leader she is, decided to dismiss the group, "Well, we're all done here. You all are dismissed. So, you all go do... Whatever. I really need to go to sleep---" She was cut off when she felt something wet hit her forehead. Lily immediately looked up, and put her hand out like she wanted to feel the rain dropping. Which was impossible because of the dome. "What...?" Lily says to herself, as she feels.

"Haha... Keep forgettin' ya' new here. That's the magical dome, about to show us it's special magic!" Johnny says, in his usual cheeky attitude. He was anticipating the wave of rain coming in.

Rain had finally arrived, at the Othergrounds. Where ever the place is located. While the dome did (Somewhat) stop the rain from coming in. There was a special system implemented so that the school can get the water from the rain. When it rained, trillions of tiny holes had opened, holes so small that it'd be impossible to fit in anything with solid form through them. Allowing the rain to get through. There was a massive rain storm over the Othergrounds, and it was just starting. Quickly, rain drops began pouring down from the holes in the dome. Drenching the Othergrounds in a thick coat of fresh, cold water.

"Wow! This place can rain!" Lily says, enthusiastically as her outfit quickly gets soaked. Everyone else had similar thoughts on the rain. Either being happy or just feeling refreshed.

However, not everyone was pleased with the sudden rush of rain. Gabe, who is aquaphobic latched on to Johnny with a death grip, shouting at the top of her young lungs, "Holy hell! Get me the f*ck out of the rain, Johnny! AHHHH!"

Afterwards, the group went their separate ways. They will reform when the calling comes.

And that concludes: Act 5: The Ugly Side of Paradise

Act 6: Wash away the Pain

Theme song for Act 6:

7:49 PM

It is later on in the day, after the sun has set. It was darkness, with light provided by the. The rain storm was going strong, drenching the entirety of the Othergrounds in a thick rainstorm. There was thick clouds of fog throughout the school, obscuring vision and allowing easy hiding spots. The scene was moody, and relaxing in a way. There was just peace, no violence, nothing of the sorts. Whoever was outside would be drenched in cold water, if they didn't have an umbrella of sorts. Some of the students were inside, enjoying the rest of their day. Others were outside, commencing their business.

In either case, they better enjoy this time while they have it. As tomorrow, it's back to the usual business of trying to get the hell out of here.

Johnny & Gabe

((People are going to mock me for this one))

Song that is playing in the radio:

Deep within the dorms. In the very student lounge where Taylor's sister was found dead, Johnny and Gabe were playing a nice game of pool. In the middle of a room that looked like a war zone, causally. They managed to start fixing up the place a little bit. They started by cleaning up the blood and bullets that were all over the place. Before flipping over a few pieces of furniture, and cleaning up everything else. The place was starting to look a little bit better. Then, unsurprisingly, they got bored, and saw a golden opportunity in the pool table. They also managed to get one of the speakers worker. Therefore they were playing music loudly, so loud that it could be heard from the distance. Blaring through the speakers, was one of Gabe's favorite songs for moments like this. While Johnny disliked the song, he tolerated it. Both Valos got a change in attire, for reasons obvious.

Johnny wore his usual attire of brown Pimp-ware. He wore a button up shirt (With black buttons) with a pattern of elegant and flashy stripes. These stripes lighter shades of brown. He wore matching dress pants, that had a matching pattern. Since, he needs to clean his trench-coat off, he wasn't wearing it today, or today. Or probably ever. Around his neck were several gold chains, that jingled. He wore black leather gloves and black dress shoes. With his usual pimp hat rested on the top of his head. His bad-@ss outfit was complete.

Gabe was wearing something different, and much more suggestive and revealing. She wore a white tank-top with several glittery flowers covering it. This outfit revealed the tribal-style tattoo of fire that she got on a dare with Johnny. She wore blue jean shorts, with a belt lazily wrapped around those pants. Gabe wore large combat boots. She wore absolutely nothing else. This outfit was light on purpose, so that if she gets into a fight, she wouldn't have to suffer the embarrassment of burning off all of her clothes. Never again.

Johnny was holding the long black pool cue, leaning into the pool table to shoot the balls. The cue sent the white ball into the neatly put together triangle of the other balls, scattering them all around. "So, what do you think of our lovely guests? Heh. I think they might be interesting..."

"Eh. They ain't that special. Too many zoo-animals to count, the usual." Gabe blankly says as she's handed the pool cue, and shot the white ball.

"You know one of those 'Zoo-animals', that just looked silly, to be honest... Saved your, literally, hot Brazilian @ss... ?" Johnny narrowed his eyes at Gabe, and smirked a bit. He didn't hate any of the animal-meta-humans at all, just found some of them a little annoying at first.

Gabe immediately scowled and immediately decided to attempt to change the subject. She was very thankful for Toby saving her life, and even more thankful for Crystal, who healed her knee. "Right... I guess all of them aren't that bad..."

Johnny knew what Gabe was really thinking just because her Emotional Aura changed to a more shameful, emotion. Immediately, he started laughing loudly. Then he suddenly stopped and said, "Ha... Hand me the pool cue, please." Before Gabe stepped over causally and handed him the pool cue. Johnny leaned forward and pointed the cue at the white ball, carefully aiming it to get the rest of the balls in. Before he did anything, he spoke to Gabe about something that was bothering him, "Yeah, I the reason I was asking you was because of this traitor bullshit... It's almost like what I said about Black Fall months back...." Johnny shot the white ball, knocking the rest of the balls around and some went in the holes. Then he spoke, dramatically and sternly, "... Trapping people in a cage the size of this won't end well. Especially with someone f*cked up in the head enough to take a life or two... All it takes is the spark of paranoia, and things are going to get out of hand. In fact, I think a few people are already plotting out who's the traitor."

Gabe narrowed her eyes, and nodded in agreement, "Yeah... I dun' think things are gonna be quiet for long... What the 'ell are we gonna' to do in all of this?"

Johnny stood straight up, and had the pool cue in between his fingers, smirking deviously, "We have two choices... Stay in the sidelines in all of this and let that traitor dickwad go free to molest everything, or we find the b*stard, and take him out of the picture and let this all die down..."

"I like the latter better, need to show these no-names that we won't take their bull sh*t.... Speaking of which; if we do find this 'dickwad'... How will we take him out of the picture?" Gabe asks curious.

"Anything necessary. He has spilled blood; so I don't think anyone would complain if we go a... Little overboard..." Johnny smirks fiendishly, and starts laughing a little bit.

"Ha... I don't even think they have to know. Now, do you have any ideas on who this f*cker could be?"

In fact, Johnny had several guesses on who this traitor could be. Just had to make sure that there's nobody nearby, he tilted his head down and focused. Attempting to pick up on any and all Emotional Presences. There were only several in the distance, but none within earshot. Which was good, because he certainly didn't want anyone to barge in and get the wrong idea. "Alright. This information should only be shared with Jake..." He starts off, tilting his head downwards so that his hat covers his eyes,

"In case you haven't noticed, that ugly asian b*tch Jia-li is missing. Gone, poof, without a single d*mn trace. While she may not be attractive... I have to say that we should not disregard her because of that. I think Hunter or Dragonfly could be our little traitor. Hunter's story is complete bullsh*t if you don't take it at face value. Just coming across a dead guy, killed with a sword that only he can make? You have to be a complete tool to fall for that. And he's just strange. Serial killer kind of strange. You all heard the rumors about Dragonfly, and I feel as if they are true. Plus, both of them had enough time to kill Jia-li, ditch the body, and return to us. There are also these girls that are appearing out of no where. I'm not saying that they could have done something... But, it's worth being a little bit suspicious of them." Johnny looked around and just had to add on this last sentence, "... Just be subtle, Gabe. Like, don't say anything about this--- Even if we have hard proof... Let me do the talking. You almost ruined the plan I had for looking into Hunter...." Johnny finished his report. Waiting for Gabe to respond.

"Ya' all we need is some proof..." Gabe replies, "In any case; we need to stick together. Traitor or not, we gots ourselves reasons not to trust some people 'ere..."

Drake, Lily, Jake & Lin

Meanwhile in the lunchroom. Four people (Lily, Drake, Lin and Jake) got together now that Jake is cooking food for everyone in the school. They were all sitting at one table, with Jake having prepared them all food. They were all talking now, and Jake was just causally just sitting down with them. Waiting for the next person to come around and ask for food.

"God d*mn. This is some good stuff!" Drake says, eating the grilled chicken that has been presented before him. He was wearing a completely different outfit, it being in a less than desirable state since the fight with the Oozium. He wore a red marc-ecko T-shirt with UNLIMITED written across his chest in white, and a white rhino drawn under it. Over his t-shirt, he wore a red track jacket with a white stripe across his arms and shoulders. He also wore jeans, with a large belt wrapped around his waist. Naturally, Drake had his signature tinted-goggle on his forehead, and silver locket around his neck. He was eating some seasoned grilled chicken that was prepared for him by Jake.

"Yeah. Are you a chef or something?" Lily says, agreeing with Drake. She was eating chicken grilled by Jake too. Lily changed her attire since the incident at the sewer as well. She went with her usual style of a Gothic/voodoo trend. Lily wore a smooth, black, denim jacket with several pockets, under that was a plain T-shirt, with her black bra seen through it. Lily wore black jeans, which had star patterns around her waist, and she wore black sneakers, with white spots that looked like stars. She had plain silver rings put on her fingers, one ring for each finger, and she has matching silver bracelets around her wrists. With a black scarf nearly wrapped around the top of her head. Of course, Lily still has the several piercings all over her face.

"Yeah. That's years of top of the line cooking lessons right there." Jake says, almost letting his ego slip. Jake was preparing food for everyone for the last few hours, and he's decided to take a little bit of his clothes off. Just so he doesn't get them dirty. He went down from a suit and tie, with an over-coat, to wearing a (Stained) white T-shirt and the pants he was wearing with his suit.

"So, what's going on with you all? " Drake stops eating for a moment to speak, then continues eating the chicken with a fork and knife. After he was finished, he put both utensils down and spoke again, "Heard there was a fight up here too. How'd you handle that?"

"Yeah, that Lexy girl told me about it... We weren't really fighting it. I just trapped the thing in an illusion--- Then poof. It was all steam.. There was no way I could have done that..." Jake replies, shrugging.

"We had our hands full down there in the sewers. So, it's good to know that you all survived." Drake says to Jake.

While they talked, Lily looked at everyone in here. As a result of her Omicron Burst, she was introduced to new ability that she barely understands. Like, why does she see everyone's nervous systems glowing green, and her own system glowing bright red. Another perk of her power is that she can sense Meta-humans, and she could sense them differently. She could sense some Meta-humans. The three meta-humans had a weak, strong and average presence. Lin had the weakest one, being one of the weaker Meta-humans out of their group. Drake had the strongest one, being the strongest Meta-human in their group. Jake was in between, having average levels of power. For a moment, Lily stopped and put her hand up to her face and looked at her red illuminated nervous system. It was the Pseudo Meta-human energy that surges through her body. Only she can see this, however, to everyone else, there was no energy. Lily then put her hand back on the table. "Yeah. The fight wasn't going too well..." Until, I did that weird thing and super-charged Drake.

"Good to see that you all are okay." Lin says the first thing that comes out of her mouth in the last ten minutes. "This school just keeps getting stranger..." Lin quietly says to herself.

We're barely okay. We can't keep fighting like this. Drake thinks to himself, before shrugging and shaking his head in disappointment. He figured that he should keep the conversation going with a little random question, "So, uh, Lil, what's the group's next course of action now that we got food? We are trying to get out of here, right?" He curiously asked Lily, since she assigned herself the role of team leader.

"Oh, um!" Lily was so engrossed in looking at the Meta-human energy inside of her, like she was in her own world, that the moment when she was spoken to; she was snapped back to reality. To be honest, she was unsure of what to do next. There were so many options, and all of them would probably go no where. Since they don't know where the exit is, or how to find it. They'll probably be here for months looking for it, fighting monsters and each other. "Well... I don't know..." Lily says hesitantly and trails off.

"Really...?" Drake says, raising an eyebrow and giving Lily a curious look. That means that the group will have to figure something out when the time comes. Which will be tomorrow, since they can't stop trying to find a way out of here.

"C'mon, Lily, there are plenty of places we can look to find a way out...." Jake just intrudes on their conversation. Being one of the students, he knew a bit more about the school than what Drake and Lin did. He thought of a few places they could look for the exit, and complied them all together.

However, before Jake could say anything, the observant Lin butted into the conversation too. "There's the Headmaster's mansion."

"You know..." Drake thinks to himself, he liked the idea of going off somewhere and exploring an abandoned building with some friends. Even with all the maniacs running around, they can take him. As long as they hold steady, no one can stop them. This sparks that inner adventurer in Drake, and brought him a bit of nostalgia from when he was younger. When he used to go explore with Charles and Victoria when they all were much younger. Those days are long over, these days are right here. "I think we should look into this headmaster's mansion!" Drake says enthusiastically and loudly.

"Wait, when...?" Lily curiously says, hesitantly, as it isn't too good of an entire to go off in all that heavy rain.

"Right now. Come on, it'll be fun. Haha..." Drake says playfully.

Lily immediately frowned and gave Drake a rather hostile glare, "Don't you think that's a little dangerous to go there alone, when we have maniacs coming out of no where and..?" Lily says, the faint amount of anger in her voice. It was obvious.

"Umm..." Jake inserts, scratching the back of his neck, he was unsure of what he should say. "Well... Maybe we should go as a group in the morning... Like Lily says."

"But, think about it: no part of the school is no less dangerous than the other. We could be attacked right here... But... Let's just do a quick walk-through of the place, and come right back, okay?" Drake pleads, he wanted to go have a look of this Mansion. It sounds like fun, because he's never been in a mansion before, and it's abandoned. He adds in, enthusiastically, "We can bring a small group. But, I think the four of us can be a match for whatever this place throws at us, heh..." Which was fairly ironic since he had no idea what any of these people (Not counting Lily) can do. "But, just to get it out there: what powers do you all have? I am a Power Replicator by the way. I copy powers, and turn into them, which is how I become a Thunder God." Drake quickly says.

After Drake asked about powers, Jake took it as an opportunity to flash his amazing power. He did take a note of what Drake's power is, and wondered if there were any side effects. He spoke happily, "I'm the Master Illusionist. I can make illusions of just about anything. Watch." After the last words left his lips, he created an illusion a few feet away from them. An exact copy of himself, just standing there with it's arms crossed. Jake adds on, "I can give my illusions all of the five senses, too. Go on, touch it." The illusion was solid, infused with every last sense. It smelled like him, it looked like him, it felt like him, it talked like him.

From Lily's perspective, she saw the Meta-human energy in Jake's head glow brighter while he crafted his illusion. After he was finished, the energy dimmed, going back to it's usual consistency. She was, honestly, more interested in that than Jake's illusion. Though, she felt the need to test it. She walked over to the illusion and touched it's chest, "Wow. It feels life-like..." She says.

Jake made the illusion speak, saying exactly what he wanted it to, he used it to deliver the message to her, "Yeah. I can do that to anything I create, and they can be pretty tough. I can make a wall of titanium hard as it. Only thing that my illusions can't interact with the world, or be used to attack people."

Lin wasn't going to tell anyone else that she has mind-reading again. But, she was more than fine with telling people the other half of her power, "I can shape-shift. Really, really good." She just states the Shape-Shifting part of her power.

Lily wasn't the most comfortable with sharing her powers like this. Due to how powerful she is, even before her Burst. Not in terms of raw offensive power. More in terms of support, she can charge Meta-humans and put them on par with Bursts. "I can..." Lily starts off, hesitantly, obviously like she was going to say something else. It came to her like a wave of realization, "... Sense Meta-humans, and tell how strong they are." That was not a lie, only telling a bit about her power. Only Drake (And maybe his sister, Victoria) will know of her true power as far as she's concerned.

This filled Drake with a bit of enthusiasm. They all seem to be pretty powerful and useful. Except for Lin, but Drake wasn't going to hold it against her. "See. I got the raw power to kick @ss. Lil, you tell us if something's coming at us. Jake, you can hide us, and make shields for us. And Lin... You can... Uh..." He was unsure of what Lin could do to help, since Shape-Shifting won't be that useful here. "... So, uh, what do you all say?" Drake scratched the back of his neck, laughing a bit.

"I don't think I should leave here, people might need more food prepared..." Jake says, hesitant. Then he thought about all the other options, "Though, it is pretty late, and if I'm gone they could probably make something themselves. I don't think anyone else will need me to make them food. So, let me tell Johnny, and I'll go with."

Lin was reading the minds of everyone around her, against their permission. Just to see if they have bad intentions, and so far, they have none. So, she'd figured that she would go along in their adventure, instead of sitting here. "I'll go."

"Maybe, Drake, maybe. We shouldn't just head out without saying anything..." Lily mutters. She figured that they could go into the mansion. Maybe if some other people go with them, but there could be some valuable discoveries in there. However, she didn't want to just head in there, and she had the feeling like Drake was going to go in there anyway. Being the leader of the group, she has to oversee operations like this. In a few seconds, she made up her own plan, that will (Hopefully) satisfy everyone, "Alright. Here's the plan. We are just going to head out to this mansion for a few minutes, just to look around the place to scout ahead, you know? Scan the perimeter, without going inside. Then tomorrow we all head there as a group. Okay?"

"Cool." Drake says. He wasn't going to just look around the place. He wanted to go in.

"That's fine." Lin says.

"No complaints from me." Jake tells his stance on the plan.

Crystal sighe as she massaged the side of her forehead with her index finger. It was just a small headache, true, but it had been going on a while now. Maye she shouldn't have worked so quickly on the healing process for everyone. Luckily the headache hadn't occurred until she was almost done with the final wound she had to heal, otherwise it would have been a lot worse. She had already gotten all the blood off of her and changed into a new pair of clothes. This time it was a dressy pink shirt and jeans. She also was carryin her notebook and pencil in hand, since the backpack of hers was now quite messy and getting washed. Crystal had already written all that she had seen in the sewers down. She was currentlybored and had nothing to do but wonder when the annoying little headache was going to disappear.

Crystal stopped thinking about her headache when the smell of food drifted up to her nose. Crystal hadn't realized she was hungry until that moment and quickly headed towards the direction of it- being, of course, the cafeteria. Crystal walked in to see Drake, Lily, Jake, and some girl. Crystal smiled, "The food smells great! Could I have some?" She asked, not really paying attention to the current conversation. She wa too hungry to pay attention at the moment, and the chicken smelled really good to her.

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Lexy
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Lexy was humming a random song as she walked down the hallways in the dorms. She was still in the same outfit as earlier, since she hadn't really gotten dirty or anything. The only difference was that she now had a few knives in her purse for protection. She didnt want to get into the same situation as earlier.

Lexy paused when she heard voices- two, to be exact. Lexy walked towards the student's lounge. They were talking about how certain people couldn't be trusted. Hadn't Tom warned her about how people were suspecting others? Lexy shrugged as she walked into the lounge. Ooh! Thy were playing pool! Who cares if they wouldn't trust her? She wanted to play or do something.

"Oooh! I love pool! Could I join?" She smiled, looking at Johnny and Gabe, "Oh an I'm Lexy- I don't think we've met before. Then again I meet a lot of people so some might not expect me to remember with all the people, but... Nope, I don't think I've met you two before."

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