Heatblast nodded to Asgore, then began to walk out of the tunnels, turning towards the group as they walked.

"Miss Tairee is the librarian in that center building. She's working with the guy who made this place. She says he's keeping us here for inspiration or something stupid like that. But he's hurting innocent people!"

He thought for a moment.

"Well, some innocent people and some people who aren't innocent.... you know what I mean! Point is, this guy's getting his kicks from seeing people get hurt! I'm a hero and I can't let that happen! So as soon as we can find this guy, I'm gonna kick his butt!" He crossed his arms. "One way or another. But point is, we don't wanna blow up the library. Even though she's on our prison warden's payroll, she's been nice to us. Nicer than her master has at any rate."

As Marr waited for Grimlock's response, he felt distress and inevitable conflict through the force..and saw as what he saw from near here what seemed to be a small child being threatened by a man, with what appeared to be a cyborg..he then saw the conflict happening.

"Excuse me. I feel the need to bring these looters in line...they might even try killing us if this escalates."

The Sith Lord then immediately made his way to the beer store which Adam, Morty and the man were currently fighting, while he may be old, his suit, along with the force empowering him, allows him to be faster than a normal person would be.

As he would arrive close, he noted as the Cyborg was swarmed by some kind of insects, somewhat looking like colicoids, though his focus was more on the man, the Sith Lord saw as he had on hands what he thought to be a Thermal detonator.

That man wants to kill himself along with these two with explosives...

Marr would then with a gesture of his right arm, use the force to pull the grenade off the man's hands before he could attempt to take the pin off, if Marr were successful with that, he would then immediately aim his left hand with a claw-like gesture at the man...and the man would immediately feel as if something was slowly crushing his throat, feeling the need to grab his throat with both of his hands, and find as he is being levitated in the air.

"While I respect the fact you will die with a fight...This is the First warning. The second warning will be much painful than your lungs being unable to breathe. The next warning will be even worse than death itself.."

Darth Marr coldly stated to the man, still force choking him.

edited 12th Dec '15 12:56:08 AM by Darkomega245

Adam grunted under the attack, he prepared to use the Typhoon, but that didn't seem to be a option with Morty nearby.

So he raised his left arm and a nanoblade sprouted from it, he pointed it right as he assailant, and fired the Nanoblade.

Kieri's eyes widened as Darth Marr rushed past her, whirling around to see where he was going. It was at this point, she realized, she should not have taken her eyes off of the conflict between the boy and the man in front of the store. Because now the man had pulled weapons on him.

The Angel bit her lip. Clearly Marr had the situation under control for now, and there was someone else there with the boy who seemed equally capable, but...She had met people like the man Darth Marr was currently holding up with some sort of magic. They were dangerous, not just to others, but to themselves. And, while she saw no evidence to support this next bit, they had a tendency to travel in packs.

"I'll r-return s-shortly," she said over her shoulder "I just...I n-need to try and d-do something..." The Angel finished with a mutter, flexing her wings before taking off, staying low to the ground. It didn't quite match Darth Marr's speed, but she was able to approach with more speed than most people's top speed running. Soon, she saw something the Sith had overlooked-the bees.

Now, at the moment, the bees didn't seem to be bothering the man with the sunglasses that much. They seemed to be an inconvenience to him at best. However, there were two things that put Kieri on edge-one, bees of that size had a tendency to be heavily poisonous. Two, they were dangerously close to the boy in the yellow shirt.

'Focus...' Kieri thought as she approached, a volley of ice balls welling up in her hands. The bees were fairly large, so that made them easy targets. Still, they were bees, and they flew around with alarming speed. Still, the Angel shot a small blast of ice at each one of them. If she succeeded, the bees would drop to the ground like stones, encapsulated in ice balls. If not...Well, she'd find some way to make it up to the man in the sunglasses later. She hoped.

Kieri landed between where Darth Marr was choking the man who had attacked the boy and the boy himself, assessing the situation as quickly as she could. She tried not to think about how the ice magic she had just used was a stronger variant of what she used to attack the fire demon she dared not name to get him away from her and assessed the situation. A broken door behind the boy and the sunglasses man, the sounds of rummaging around inside the building...Perhaps they were all looters who happened to target the same building? Only one way to find out.

"D-Darth Marr," Kieri said softly "c-could you p-please lower t-that man to the g-ground? And p-perhaps release w-whatever magic you're holding over him. I c-can hold him in p-place, and perhaps w-we can figure out w-what's going on here in f-full..."

Twilight was about to tell Kieri that Shining Armor was indeed married to an Alicorn, but got interrupted by the following events.

First, the notification of the decreasing temperature, Twilight barely noticed due to getting caught up talking with all these new people, but it was slowly getting colder. Unfortunately, Twilight didn't know any fire magic.

Second, the fight between the men in front of the nearby store. Twilight was horrified by what she saw. Darth Marr went to assist, followed by Kieri. Kieri used ice magic to fight off the bees while Darth Marr disarmed and (much to Twilight's horror) began to levitate and seemingly choke the one who seemed to have the advantage.

edited 13th Dec '15 8:04:24 PM by Cybersbe

Plague Knight saw Darth Marr speed off somewhere and saw he was heading to a liquor store. Whatever conflict seemed to have been summarily dealt with. He would have commented on how Marr managed to strangle the instigator in midair without touching him, however.....

"Mortimer?!" he cried out, recognizing Rick's grandson. He immediately walked over to the boy. "What is going on here? And why are you pilfering alcohol?" he asked.

Morty flinched as the man was suddenly engulfed by an explosion of violence; hesitantly the teenager slowly lowered his gun and just watched the violence play out, dodging every few seconds and swatting at one of the bees. After a few seconds, a small green speck on the horizon resolved itself into the familiar form of Plague Knight.

"Uh... I mean- w-we, uh, I mean, Rick, he said that we needed alcohol to build a... uh... a liq-liquid heating system. Something about, uh, the, the..."

There was a crash of glass as Rick swung his crowbar into a nearby plate glass window and climbed out; behind him was the tank of alcohol, now mounted on a makeshift sled harness he'd built in the last few minutes.

"Lowest freezing point," said Rick absent-mindedly as he fumbled with his metal flask. "Just gotta superheat it, hook it into a portable pump and we'll be wa- we'll be warm." Rick dragged the sled a few more feet across the snowy pavement as he spoke. "Knowing this asshole, he's probably gonna try to *urp* sic a monster on us or something... some kind of yeti, or-or a *urp* a ice drAEEAURGHon... so we can't just- we can't just hide in the library and dick around with, I dunno, magic potions, or what *urp* whatever."

"Geez, Rick, did, uh, did-did we do the right thing there? I mean... that guy, he was, he was pretty mad. He said that he was living there, I think?"

"Morty, you gotta *urp* you gotta understand that there's no rules here. I mean... this is that asshole who was leading that mo- he was leading an angry mob yesterday, Morty! Make no mistake here; if we were the ones livin' in that, in that beer store, Morty, he'd be the first to try and loot us. When you're stuck in a, in a city that's trying to kill you it's loot or *urp* get looted, Morty. Alright, come on, we gotta get back to my lab. Anyone who doesn't want to die can come, I guess." Rick set off, dragging the tank of alcohol behind him.

"Oh, uh, oh man, okay... oh boy, Plague Knight, uh, I th-think that's what we needed all this junk for?"

edited 12th Dec '15 8:26:34 PM by Locoman

Legion followed Rick, carrying a vast quantity of alcohol intended for his machine. The geth figured it could probably leave the fight to everyone else there.

While the likelihood of harassment was fairly high, Legion was betting on being able to get away in the fuss. The owner would probably make a beeline directly for the geth, Rick, Morty, and Plague Knight as soon as he saw them, and Legion didn't quite have a plan for dealing with the owner while also keeping the alcohol safe. He was very well armed, and would likely strike first, and the geth didn't fancy taking blows any more than it had to.

Not to mention such an impact would destroy the alcohol containers, jeopardizing the mission. The geth's only recourse was to hope the owner did not notice, but it braced for a fight regardless.

Lich Yard

He slashed the chest in half with his scythe. Somebody had stolen the Phase Locket! As he stared at the remains of the chest, he made a note to go search for it.

Suddenly, the destroyed chest began to fade from his vision, as did the rest of the Lich Yard. He tried moving, but couldn't. Was he succumbing to death again?! The darkness consumed his vision.

Balcony

When the darkness subsided, Specter Knight found himself...on a balcony? A quick look around him told him that this wasn't the afterlife. "At least I haven't died a second time...", he muttered. Floating a bit, he could see a fight unfolding at a liquor store nearby. Perhaps he could teleport there? After all, he'd rather fight than waste his precious time on a balcony.

edited 12th Dec '15 5:11:07 PM by astrokitty

Gon was right about the door being locked. But hey, since when was he right anyway?

Need to keep making noise to a minimum.

He placed the beam rifle's butt onto the door knob and started to whack it hard again and again until he can get the doorknob loose.

"Woah, woah, slow down a second" the prominent woman of the group said, stopping in her tracks. "You know about why we're being kept here, and you know someone who works for whoever put us here? But you haven't done anything about that because she's 'nice'?" she questioned Heatblast accusingly.

"What the hell is wrong with you!? If she's working for our captor then she's our captor too! You don't get all friendly with your captors; that's called Stockholm syndrome you dolt!" the woman yelled at him, it not occurring to her that perhaps Ben came from a universe that didn't have a Stockholm or the phrase Stockholm syndrome. "If I see this 'Miss Tairee' I'm gonna tie her up and use her as a hostage to force her boss to let us out of here!" she declared, and started leading the tunneling group towards the library with a new and very hostile vigor.

Darth Marr was able to easily obtain the strange grenade and put the man into a force choke grip, but whatever life lesson he was hoping to impart on the man, and whatever Kieri was planning to interrogate him about, both were made moot when Adam fired an arm's length long blade right into the guy's chest. The snow was spattered red with blood both in front of and behind the man, and he went limp still in Darth Marr's hold until his body disappeared in a blur, dropping the sword and his coat, plus whatever might be in the coat, onto the ground.

Of course, that wasn't the end of it just yet though, as both Darth Marr's force choke and Adam's firing of the nanoblade triggered two more groups of those giant bees to suddenly appear from the man and attack the nearest target, which was still Adam. With a whole swarm of bees now on him, Adam was starting to do pretty worse for wear, and the issue was only compounded when the blasts of ice started coming in from the approaching Kieri. It was easy to hit only the bees at first, but what Kieri didn't know and thus couldn't account for was that the bees would suddenly die and fall to the ground on their own after about two stings, and multiple shots of hers that would've hit a bee if not for that instead hit Adam, freezing up parts of his body in ice as he was brought even closer to the point of death.

But between dying on their own and being killed of by Kieri, Adam was now no longer under assault. Of course, Kieri's attack could be mistaken as being intended for Adam...

It took almost a minute and his arms would feel like limp noodles after the exertion, but Gon did eventually break the handle off the door.

edited 12th Dec '15 4:48:34 PM by FirockFinion

Adam could feel it, the Sentinel RX Health system was having trouble keeping up, he was about to die... and then promptly respawn somewhere else.

This was going to hurt... unless someone helped soon.

Heatblast turned towards the crowd, standing in front of the growing angry mob and heating up his flames suddenly.

"ENOUGH!" he shouted, during that sudden flare-up of his heat. "Listen to me. I want to get out of here as much as you guys do. In fact, I don't think I could stop Miss Tairee myself. She has powers that nobody could understand, she can warp space and time and all that stuff. I stand no chance against her, and if I don't stand a chance, neither do any of you!" he exclaimed. "I am not gonna let you guys get hurt trying to fight her, 'cause I'm a hero, and heroes don't let innocents get hurt!" He glared at the mob. "We will find away to stop both her and her master, but keep this in mind. We're in deep, and until we can do something about this, we've gotta play by her rules. Even if they're really stupid."

He sighed angrily and turned around, beginning to walk forward. "We're wasting time, Your Highness. Let's get to that clothing store before I turn back and freeze to death."

edited 12th Dec '15 10:55:54 PM by AllHailThrall

Kieri had it all worked out in her head-Darth Marr would lower the man with the blade to the ground, she'd lock his legs in place using her ice, his sword and any other weapons he had would be confiscated, and they'd all sit down and figure out who was to blame. No one would have to die.

Then the man in the sunglasses fired.

The man with the bee's blood splashed everywhere-across the snow, the broken glass of the liquor store, even onto Kieri. The Angel stared at the blood with wide eyes as the now dead body slumped over. Her pupils dilated as she saw not only the man who had just been killed, but the dead body of her childhood friend Sanjulo, blood leaking out of the new hole in his neck, the body never to receive a proper funeral...

Kieri wasn't in The City anymore. She was back in the fires of St. Curtis, a guerrilla army of demons killing anything they could get their hands on. She turned around and there were more of them, at least a dozen small wing demons swarming a defenseless Median. She grit her teeth and started shooting more ice magic.

'Kill them,' came a voice in the back of her head that sounded oddly familiar 'kill them all! All demons must perish for their to be peace!' She didn't even realize at first that she was missing the demons all together and hitting the Median. She just kept firing.

She fired until the last demon dropped. She panted and looked up at the unknown Median to make sure he was okay. Was he wearing sunglasses before? And since when did demons of any kind look like bees?

It all came rushing back to her. Gone was St. Curtis, gone was Sanjulo's corpse. In front of her was the man who had shot the man she was to interrogate. It was in self defense. And now he was dying. By her hand.

"No..." Kieri whispered to herself, her eyes wide and her footsteps shaky as she made her way towards him "No, n-no more deaths, n-not today. I c-can fix this, p-please Gaia I c-can fix this..."

Once she got close enough, she dropped to her knees, not taking her eyes off of the stranger. Where she had shot him, his body was a pale blue, and where he had been stung stingers jutted out in awkward angles, thin streams of blood seeping out of his body from where they were.

'Focus,' Came that same voice from only moments before 'heal him first, stabilize him. Get the stingers out after, they might be poisoning him. Heal him again afterwards. And if he dies...'

Kieri cut off the voice there. She wasn't going to let him die. She placed shaky hands on his chest. If the Angel felt anything cold, she attributed it to her own ice magic instead of Adam's cybernetic enhancements. Screwing her eyes shut, she spoke softly in a language that no one around her had ever heard before. Her hands started to glow blue as she channeled all reserves of magic she had left after that volley of ice shots into them.

If it worked, Adam's splotches of icy blue skin started to return to normal, any mechanical components of his body that had been damaged by the bees or Kieri mended itself back together, any poison currently in his body started to clear, and any holes the bees made started to seal up around the stingers. Kieri would have to remember to pluck those once she finished the healing process. That is, if it worked...

Near Library

"Alright then, let's go!"

Sadness was right in thinking that Mary couldn't be dissuaded from heading to the place where the looting was taking place. In fact, she could've very well said "those gloves would look very pretty on you," and the result most likely would've been the same.

"Excuse me!" Mary called out to the raiders in the store. "Is it okay if my friend and I grab a couple things from here too? We don't want to be cold later."

Kieri's magic was able to mend up Adam well enough; while still in some pain he would not be succumbing to the wounds just yet. The only real problem was that while Kieri's magic could mend his cybernetics back together, it could not actually return them to function; Adam's sentinel system would need some time to get everything back in perfect order, or ideally he'd need the help of someone proficient with nanomachines. There was of course the stingers, but they just had to be pulled out. (They were not poisonous, but not that anyone here would know that.)

The group stared at Heatblast, some in disbelief, others in anger, as he made his proclamation. After he turned his back, he got about ten paces away before his head fire was put out with a snowball smacking into the back of his head; or rather melting so fast that he was practically pelted with a handful of water. "Innocent people are already getting hurt!" the woman yelled at him after she'd thrown the snowball to get his attention back. "I saw three people get torn apart by plants yesterday, and most of us would've been done in by giant bugs if not for that big guy in blue armor!" she informed him, motioning to the rest of the tunneling group. She was about to continue, but Heatblast might want to interrupt her.

The crowd had started to disperse somewhat by the time Mary and Sadness walked over to the clothing store, but there were still a few people about the place. As Mary asked about having some clothes, another looter was just coming out of the broken window: A large octopus with a wide brimmed hat that had a red feather in it, perched on top of its head. It was walking mostly upright on its tentacles, putting it at about five feet of height, and it looked towards Mary with its dumbbell shaped irises. "But of course young lady! Just tell us what your sizes are, and we will see if anything in the store fits you" the octopus said with the accent of a British gentleman.

edited 12th Dec '15 11:42:26 PM by FirockFinion

Gon got the doorknob that he knocked off from the door after it fell down to the floor.

He pocketed it and carefully opened the door slowly to minimize noise. Once that was done, he walked inside slowly to not make a lot of noise and see if anyone else was inside.

If he can find a table nearby... Gon can drop the doorknob handle off.

edited 21st Jan '17 4:19:42 PM by Ominae

Heatblast was about to continue walking when he was hit by a snowball. He whipped around.

"Okay, who threw that?!" he exclaimed, his head put out. At the absolute worst moment, the Omnitrix started to beep, and there was a bright red flash of light. Suddenly, Ben was in his human form yet again, and he was really cold. "Aww, man!" he exclaimed, then glared. He was start shouting at the woman when he noticed just how cold he was getting. He grabbed his arms close to him to keep warm.

"You saw... B-Brother Marcus?!" he asked, trying not to completely freeze solid by running in place. "He saved you? Where is he n-now? He tried to k-kill us a c-c-couple of d-days ag-go!" he added. "He's a b-bad guy... how come he s-saved you and tried to k-kill me?!" He sighed, shivering more. "I can't... I c-can't be everywhere at once.... I was t-trying to beat up a giant plant and a killer b-b-bee! If I d-didn't do something, they'd k-k-kill everyone!"

edited 12th Dec '15 11:53:33 PM by AllHailThrall

Adam opened his eyes, he felt better, well most of him did. So far only his left arm was functional, and his legs were stiff. It was safe to say his Sentinel RX would have to fix him up a bit more.

He raised his left arm and set about pulling out the stingers out of his body, "ow," he muttered.

Outside the diner

The cat woman was annoyed with Rex because he hadn't solved her problem.

"It's a plan in steps! We deal with the armored guy and then find you a new stove" he said right before running to the liquor store.

Liquor store, who the hell are these people?

Before he could enter the store Rex saw Rick taking a pretty big tank of alcohol with him and recognized Plague Knight talking with Morty but he was too focused on an armored guy sorround with blood (you just can't trust those kind of people), a pink horse (!?), and a winged girl near Adam who was laying down apparently injured.

Rex wasn't going to let his guard down. He created a giant cannon that grabbed earth and snow as ammo. He aimed it at Darth Marr.

"What's going on here? And why is Adam injured?"

edited 13th Dec '15 6:50:14 AM by DeisTheAlcano

The 'ow' wasn't completely comforting, it still meant that the healing hadn't entirely worked, but still Kieri breathed a sigh of relief when Adam started making noises and removing the stingers. "H-Here, let me help..." She said, starting to pluck any stingers the cop missed.

Rex showed up soon afterwards. The Angel was somewhat dumbfounded by how the newcomer's body worked-one second, he had an arm pointed at Darth Marr. The next, it had turned into some sort of canon? If she survived his apparently angry rampage (you don't go pointing weapons at people unless you were upset, she thought), she'd have to investigate that further. She cleared her throat to get his attention, picking one of the ice balls that contained a bee off of the ground.

"The r-reason your friend on the g-ground are because of t-these, and...W-Well, me," she explained, hoping telling the truth wouldn't incur his wrath further "h-he was surrounded by t-them, stinging h-him all over, and w-well...I t-thought I could s-shoot them out of the air w-without hitting him..."

Kieri turned back towards Adam, plucking what was left of the stingers out of his body. "Y-Your name is Adam t-then?"

Adam got up as he could feel his other body parts again, "Adam Jensen, I'm with Interpol ma'am..." He responded.

He mentally checked his nanoceramic blades, he still had plenty left until the compartment would be little more than a empty structural weakness, oh how joyous that would be.

"I'll be fine, nanobots are helping fix me up right now. I've been through worse..." the cop continued.

Liquor Store

With the catgirl's query taken care of for now, Lune followed Rex over to the liquor store. She quietly entered and spotted the carnage from a distance. Boy, did things go to heck in a hand-basket quickly, huh?

She looked at Rex pointing his cannon arm at one of the newcomers and sighed. He's even impulsive like Masaki. After looking around the room for a bit, she noticed the angel giving an explanation of the situation while fixing up the cyborg.

"Glad to see you guys took care of a problem before we got here, said Lune. "Who attacked you guys?"

edited 13th Dec '15 9:56:05 AM by josh6243

Plague Knight was going to comment on Rick's new invention when when Adam shot a blade through the strangled man's chest. The fact the man almost immediately vanished afterwards signalling that he was dead after impact. As Kiriel blasted the resulting bees with ice blasts, the alchemist went over and started to collect a few of the dead bees, including ones that died naturally and the frozen ones.

The angel then started to heal Adam.

"Fully functioning healing magic....." he said, taking down a few notes. It was then Rex came along.

"Well, Rick's brain is apparently keen enough to resist whatever self-inflicted pickling process he puts his brain through to build a device to provide heat via means of alcohol, and the one wh claim this store as his domicile was being most unreasonable," Plague Knight explained. "However, I do question the wisdom in outright killing him after he was already subdued....." he said, directly his irritation towards Adam.

edited 13th Dec '15 1:30:38 PM by UdtheImp

Deciding now was a good time, Specter Knight teleported to the Liquor Store. He'd had enough of the Balcony, and the Liquor Store seemed close enough.