Blizzard in the city

The weather got even worse and now it seemed like the wind and the frozen paper were actively pushing them away from the library. Rex decided to tell Grimlock to lead the way because, even with his helmet, the hail really hurt.

Before he could do that though, he recognized two figures in the distance: Adam and Legion.

He was excited to see them again but that wasn't going to stop the storm. Now they could only see a far off lights in the horizon but they couldn't see how to to actually get there.

He moved to where they were "Guys! Please tell me you know how to get to the library"

Sir Redring, the squid that had joined them in the clothing store, was specially affected by the cold due to being an invertebrate and all. Fortunately for him, Ben used his fire powers to heat things up. A bit more and he would have toasted him.

"Watch your flames Ben. Being roasted alive isn't any better than freezing to death"

To The Rescue

Legion continued to move through the conditions. As bad as things were, they were still no less hostile than Noveria, where the cold was extreme to an insane point and environmental gear was a necessity for survival rather than a luxury.

Of course, the city most likely wasn't built for this. Power flickered out as everything that ran on electricity shut down. Legion's array of sensors would likely be able to bypass the human limitations of visible light somewhat; nevertheless, it still represented a dramatic jump in the hostility of the environment, especially given that temperature was continuing to fall and winds were rising to near hurricane force.

Bringing with them jagged pieces of ice.

Of course, for Legion this was also a moot point; its kinetic barriers began flaring to deflect the ice. They failed after thirty seconds of consistent barrage, but the geth's outer shell was built tough, and Adam would hear a light tinkling as the ice ricocheted off of Legion's external plating.

They still had no idea where Ben was, but a moment later a burst of flame entered its vision. Legion immediately recognized it.

"Ben Tennyson," Legion greeted. "We left from Rick's laboratory to attempt to find you and return you there. Rick has constructed a space heater and it seems to be working against the cold. However, given the extremes of the environment as of right now, return is unlikely without death."

A burst of flame lit up everyone there, giving much-needed warmth as Heatblast started to head to the library. Legion wordlessly followed, hoping they had something set up there to keep them warm, as it turned its head to Rex. "Ben is currently heading towards the library. It is difficult to see, but it casts light."

The thought of being stuck in a place with hundreds of dying organics scared the geth so much it didn't even notice the emotional reaction.

Rescue Mission

Adam looked at the firey figure before him, and upon Legion's comment, "That's Ben?"

Adam could only follow, better to continue onto the heat source rather than be left alone.

"Oh, I claimed it from particularly irrate person who attacked us and died for it," Plague Knight explained. "I wonder if the sword does the same....." he pondered aloud.

He continued to help out in insulating the windows until the weather became even fiercer and blow with such force it shattered several of the windows, with jagged ice particles coming in with the wind. He heard the woman quickly ran up to her. He pulled out a bomb filled with bright pink powder. "I have both fire and fuel," he quickly said, "where do I start the fire?"

edited 2nd Jan '16 9:49:26 PM by UdtheImp

Luckily for Spectre Knight, his armor kept him from getting cut by the falling glass shards. Still, so much for insulation...

Upon seeing the grenade, Spectre Knight warned the woman.

"I'd step back if I were you. Explosions happen to be a specialty of his."

edited 2nd Jan '16 1:49:34 PM by astrokitty

After Plague Knight walked back in with an injury, Twilight realized how poorly planned out her idea of using snow was.

She stepped out for a brief while to try and use the snow as insulation herself, but the combined effort from using shield magic and levitation was wearing her out, the increasing temperature was getting to be too much, and she wasn't making much progress anyway. She was forced back inside, too exhausted to do any more. She rested as much as she could until the windows shattered.

At that point, using what energy she had rested up, she ran towards whoever was nearby and put up a shield spell to protect them from the hail. Though it didn't amount to much. By this point, she had completely accepted that the books couldn't be saved: they needed fire and they needed it now. That and an alternative shelter.

edited 2nd Jan '16 2:38:59 PM by Cybersbe

Kieri's eyes widened as Brother Marcus leapt on to the rooftop. She would've gone for her blade in an instant if he hadn't shielded Morty when her own ice wall had broken down. She nodded at his loud, boisterous words, thankfully using his body as a shield until they were back inside. The Angel leaned against the wall and closed her eyes, panting for a moment. The words of anyone in the room seemed to be drowned out to her, until she opened her eyes...

And found a sword embedded into the wall next to her, right about an inch from her neck. Kieri's eyes went wide, her mind going into overdrive for the second time that day. She could have brought out her own blade, but this man's sword was gigantic. She was skilled with a sword, but she doubted she could overpower him. Even if they did fight here, she had a feeling this building wouldn't be able to stand up to the force. She gulped audibly, deciding to answer his question. If things went south however...

"I am an A-Angel," Kieri said, balling her fists up at her side and trying to sound as if she had control of the situation "if y-you intention to f-fight me sir, allow us t-to go back to the r-roof. This b-building is m-meant to be a s-shelter, and I w-will not h-have us d-destroy it..."

The streets

"Sir Redring?" Sadness repeated. "That's - t-that's nice..."

But now wasn't the time for names. Now it was so cold that she wanted to curl up in the snow. She wished she could get closer to Sir Redring and Mary to keep the three of them warm, but she knew her powers would just make the situation worse.

The familiar man and the robot thing - Ben called him Legion - that they had ran into joined their little group. Ben recognized them, so she had no objection. Sadness was thankful that Ben kept them warm and kept the nice octopus (octopode?) from freezing to death, so she would drop the whole transforming-human-boy thing for now.

Sadness, along with the others, spotted the lights of the library. She let out a sigh of relief that practically froze in midair. "I-I hope that's it..."

edited 2nd Jan '16 5:44:49 PM by Syrika

Heatblast looked at the geth as it approached. "Legion!" he exclaimed, grinning. "Am I glad to see you. Don't worry. I'm gonna help protect these guys until we can make it to the library. Guys, if you can, help us get there!" he told the others, still firing blasts of flame into the air around them to attempt to warm their vicinity and keep them from freezing. His thoughts immediately went to the Omnitrix. It had been at least 10 minutes by now, at least it felt that way, and he really didn't want to think about what happened if the Omnitrix shut down now...

Upon hearing Adam's inquiry, he turned towards the cyborg police officer. "Yeah, I'm Ben. The kid you met when we were fighting Brother Marcus. After Le—" he started to say, then shut up when he realized that Legion was right there. "Sorry. Shutting up now."

edited 2nd Jan '16 8:09:10 PM by AllHailThrall

"Well I am glad you found a way to keep warm. As for Brother Marcus I'd have a few choice words for him should we ever see him again," Adam responded.

Rick's Lab, Stairway

As the chilly weather outside worsened, Lune felt that this was going to be the end for her and her friends. However, fate decided to bring in an unlikely savior in the form of Brother Marcus. After being protected against the hailstorm by the big man in armor, Lune noted that Brother Marcus must be pretty beefy if he can carry a small teenager while blocking a hailstorm for two other people. Lune used this opportunity to dash inside and smiled at the armored Marcus to show her thanks.

After recalling the descriptions of the blue demon by Ben and Rex, could Brother Marcus be the blue demon they were talking about? Regardless if he is or not, any help in gathering more survivors would be nice.

"Well, we wanted to get people to notice this nice warm shelter," answers Lune. "After all, we need to stick together if we need to survive the wrath of this blizzard, right?"

Lune sighed as Brother Marcus pointed his ginormous sword at Kieri. Why the hell would he do that?! It wouldn't make sense to alienate the people you're trying to ally yourself with, especially when you're trying to survive a deadly hailstorm.

edited 2nd Jan '16 10:09:03 PM by josh6243

Morty blinked and looked around in a mixture of confusion and mounting terror as he looked up at the gigantic blue form of his rescuer... and then realized that he was probably staring at the gigantic 'blue devil' that had ran amok in the city just two days ago. The fact that the devil was just a massive human clad in a suit of powered armour did little to assuage the initial rush of panic, followed by exasperation, as the Space Marine decided to interrogate Kieri by means of chainsword.

"Aw jeez... he muttered under his breath. "Can't you just, you know, put the sword down before you kill somebody! She's, just, like, a person with wings, okay? You don't have to lose your shit cause of that! I mean, you, you were the guy running around kill-killin' people, weren't you? If you wanna stay here in this building you can't just, just walk in here like a-and start hurting people!" he shouted, fumbling for Rick's laser pistol in the now darkened hallway.

edited 2nd Jan '16 8:43:44 PM by Locoman

Though the Sith Lord found the fact that nobody truly dies in this strange place disappointing and saddening, it would be good for him definitely, he had to survive whatever game this being played against them so he could return back to Dromund Kaas and lead the Sith, along with the Republic's aid against the Eternal Empire.

Marr noticed two figures. One was a unknown droid he didn't recognize and the other one was the man who was struck by the angel.

"Just how close are we to this library? We will not last much longer if this climate keeps like this."

The Sith said to the others, as he stayed near the fire Ben was emitting while walking with the group.

edited 2nd Jan '16 8:41:50 PM by Darkomega245

Can't see anything with this storm

Adam didn't know about Ben's abilities. Rex figured he would know how things worked on the city at this point.

"Didn't you get the memo? Everyone can turn into something else here" he said while extending his arms, making it clear that it was most likely true for the inhabitants in other parts of the city.

"And he can turn into ten different aliens; a blue fast guy, a red hulking monster, a golem, the firebutt he's currently turned into, a ghost, Stinkfly, liquid metal, and some other aliens I still haven't seen"

edited 2nd Jan '16 9:00:03 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Heatblast's flames were certainly helping, but every step forward was trudging through a whole foot of snow, forcing some members of the party (likely Grimlock) to clear a path through it along the way just so Sadness, Mary, and the young lady could move through it in any reasonable amount of time. Slowly, finally, the library came into clearer view, initially illuminated on its side by Heatblast's shooting flames. It was clear from outside that the building was taking a beating, as basically all the windows were broken in, but flashlight beams were still visible moving around as those inside were mostly scrambling to get back to the bottom floor. A few people moved as close as they could dare to the side to usher the group in; once Grimlock got close enough to block the incoming hail, that certainly helped their bravery to travel forth and help the party inside.

"A bomb?!" the woman exclaimed, wasting no time to start smashing one of the chairs to add more fuel. "We need a sustained flame; that isn't just gonna destroy the wood, is it?" she asked as kept working.

A few people eagerly moved closer to Heatblast once he was inside, but no sooner was he inside that the Omnitrix symbol beeped and flashed red, transforming Ben back unceremoniously. He obviously wouldn't be aware, but his transformation had technically run out of time a while back, though the Omnitrix kept him transformed as turning back in the hail storm would have almost immediately killed him. A couple people moaned in disappointment as it happened.

"Hold your tongue, citizen! You clearly know not of what you speak" Brother Marcus snapped at Morty, before looking back at Kieri and contemplating for a moment. It was impossible to know for sure what he was thinking underneath that helmet. After a short moment that probably seemed agonizingly longer than that to Kieri, Brother Marcus pulled his sword away, placing it back on its magnetic holding. "I find it hard to believe that you are a servant of the Emperor, but now is not the time; I will deal with you later" he told the angel, then turned to go back up the stairs to the roof.

"Continue your signal from somewhere safe. I will help others reach this building" Brother Marcus instructed them in a commanding tone, clearly expecting them to comply with no questions asked.

edited 2nd Jan '16 11:28:03 PM by FirockFinion

Ben groaned loudly as the Omnitrix returned him to human form. "Aww, man!" he exclaimed. At least he had transformed back to his human form indoors when he wouldn't become a Ben-cicle. He was also still wearing the warm coat that the octopode Sir Redring had given him, thank goodness, though even this coat wouldn't be adequate protection against the horrifically-cold temperatures outside.

His eyes widened a bit when he saw the destruction that the library had taken: the windows were broken in, the desks were being chopped up, Plague Knight was here about to set off a bomb in the middle of the library.... from the bomb tests Ben had done with Plague Knight a couple of days ago, he was pretty sure that was the pink one was one that created the tall wall of flames. He looked at some of the others that were inside the library, including what looked like a purple horse? With wings? And a unicorn horn? Oh great, he thought. She looks like something that a little girl would have come up with. Regardless, he had to focus on those coming in for now.

He ushered in the people he was helping Grimlock to escort. "C'mon, guys, it's safer in here," he told them. He then looked at the people trying to start a fire. "Need help? Sorry I turned back, I can't control this stupid watch sometimes." he muttered.

Plague Knight glared at Spectre Knight briefly. The alchemist then bent over the growing pile of wood, popped open the bomb casing, and carefully poured out the powder within, making sure the wind did not blow away the powder. He then pulled out a book of matches from the pub, lit one of the matches, set the rest of the book on fire, and tossed it on the powder pile.

When the flaming book hit the powder, the strange substance started to liquify very quickly, and then -

*FWOOSH*

Purple flames erupted from the powder, an almost instant roaring flame. "HUZZAH HA HA HA!!!" Plague Knight cheered.

edited 2nd Jan '16 11:47:56 PM by UdtheImp

Asgore had stayed behind in the clothing store, taking one last look around the place before deciding to leave. He hadn't found anything of real interest, but it wouldn't hurt to make sure there wasn't anything that he could use there. Of course, deciding to stay resulted in him being left behind by the others, which made him start worrying a little. His worries only got worse when he went outside and found out that things were only getting worse out there, even for someone like him that cold was excessive and being barraged by jagged ice all the time was definitely not pleasant in the slightest, thankfully he was wearing armor to make it a little less problematic and painful.

From there his plan was basically to walk around until he came across anything of interest. Being the big guy that he was, he could walk around the piling snow with ease and if it came down to it he could start his fire magic again.

Eventually he did come across the building in the center of the city, the library that Ben had told him about before. The place looked like it had seen better days but considering the storm it was no surprise that it gotten into such a state. Remembering the possibility of Undyne being there, he decided to make his way inside.

As he came in, he noticed the large group gathered there, some of which he recognized and others that he didn't have the slighest clue about.

"Hello...?" he said as he got inside the building, wondering if he was interrupting them as they seemed to be in the middle of something.

edited 3rd Jan '16 1:34:57 AM by FullMoon

Adam stepped in the library and pulled out the portable heater that Rick had made.

"Aaaand it seems it's not exactly needed," he said upon hearing a the sound of flames igniting.

Legion continued trudging through the snow, everyone working to clear it out as the storm beat down on them. The geth heard Ben talking about when Adam and him had met - the geth chose not to intervene in the subject even as Ben realized the geth was there and stopped talking, either aware of its feelings (he didn't need to be) or trying to avoid incriminating the geth (a strange reaction to being shot).

In response to the Sith, Legion merely replied, "We have arrived" when everyone reached the library; it stepped indoors to find that the place was a mess. People were using flashlights for light. There had been some attempt at using snow as an insulator. Plague Knight, in the corner, lit a fairly large bonfire. An as-of-yet-unknown alien muttered a greeting, clearly confused by the events going on.

"Is any assistance required?" Legion decided to ask. "I can perform any tasks that will ensure continued organic function, so long as they do not compromise my own."

After Ben and Legion asked how they could assist, the woman smashing up furniture pointed to the rest of it and then the fire. "Unless you've got some other way to make heat, our biggest priority is keeping that fire going. We can't add everything at once or we'll just burn out too quickly; gotta keep the fire going until midnight" the woman said to them, her breath still condensing in the air even near the flames Plague Knight had started.

Most of the civvie types in the library moved closer to the fire to get some desperately needed warmth, but a few started helping with the furniture task, either grabbing implements to smash furniture themselves, or dragging furniture closer to others for them to smash. "Is that big robot okay with going back outside? We might need more fuel" the woman added, thinking for a moment, "in fact if we could get enough to have more fires going, that would improve our chances a lot."

Grimlock; Dino mode

Library

Grimlock was glad that the snow and flame guy's heat at least kept him from getting colder when they were heading to the library. He straightened himself up to act as an umbrella to let the others inside. After making sure everyone was in, he went inside. As soon as he saw the little robed guy start a fire, he went as close to it as he could without scaring the humans, lying on his belly.

At the lady's question, that he assumed was directed at him, he said, "I-I-I don't know..." the cold clearly affecting him. "I-I've n-n-never been a-a-a-anywhere th-t-thi-this cold f-f-f-for long..."

—

OOC: Mostly guessing how long he'd last from how long Arcee and Prime lasted in the Artic in Transformers Prime.

In some alley... somewhere

Gon felt the weather was going against him. He kept moving carefully, putting his back against the wall so that the hail won't hit him hard.

Got to get back to that building.

"Hello?!"

He shouted at the top of his voice, hoping to get some attention from someone familiar when he was about to leave the alley.

The Library

Legion noticed a woman smashing up furniture, pointing to the rest of it. They didn't have another way of making heat, so Legion took up the job of keeping the fire raging.

"Affirmative." The geth strode up to the furniture and, after several seconds of analysis, began breaking it up into sizeable chunks with what seemed like relatively little effort. It couldn't feel pain, so every limb could be utilized.

The Library

Spectre Knight was tired of floating idly, and decided he may as well put his scythe to admittedly mundane use. Not wishing to face the consequences of accidentally beheading a few people, he teleported to another floor to slash apart any remaining bookshelves.

"Of all the things to use a scythe for..."

edited 4th Jan '16 6:22:28 AM by astrokitty