More Meteor Showers Bring Even Stranger Powers. (O/A)

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The Count of Monte Carlo

"Ready as I'll ever be." Ako said. He rotated his shoulder, the one that had been dislocated a time or two, making sure he wouldn't have any lock-ups. While he still had the physique of someone a few years younger than he actually was, years of fighting were proving to be a little much for even a meta-human body. The week or so of rest he'd just gotten was a nice change of pace, but he was worried that he might have become too relaxed. He hadn't actively used his power in a while, and it was possible he may have slipped a little during the break.

He shrugged the thoughts aside, knowing they weren't any good. The break hadn't been that long, and his time with Gidget had kept him active. Thanks to her, there was only one part of him that had gotten stiff during his time off.

He smirked at that thought, looking to the woman walking just in front and to the side of him. He still didn't know his way around very well, and was perfectly fine with letting her lead. He wanted to ask what they could be up against, what danger the egg could possess, but he'd learned one thing from being a Meta and dealing with others; you never knew what you would be up against. Instead he just asked; "Are you?"

Gidget's eyes shifted momentarrily. She hadn't really thought about her own feelings on the events at hand. She had been running on pure emotion. Perhaps that was for the best. If she thought about it too long she might realize this was incredibly dangerous. That thought alone drove her to ignore the danger. If the thing in the egg reached full maturity, it could mean unspeakable mass genocide.

The elevator signaled it's arrival with a chime and opened it's doors, bringing Gidget out of her thoughtful state. Her eyes became solid and she nodded to Ako. She stepped into the elevator and faced the her friends. That thing had killed her Ark, and it was payback time.

"Let's do this."  

[Nova Blancke]

The lights went out completely and the bio-electricity flickered away slowly. A red/pink murky light from within the egg broke the darkness of the room. It came and went with the same speed of the now loudly audible heartbeat.

Alexavier whistled at the sight of it. He seemed rather relaxed by all of this despite knowing the dangers.

Theonis took a small step back and put up his guard.  

[The Count of Monte Carlo]

As the lights flickered and failed, a soft hum filled the air next to Gidget, accompanied by the smell of ozone and a sift fluttering light. Ako had quickly shed his jacket, dropping it by the door, and arcs of illuminating electricity sparked across his bare arms. He was using Gidget's trick to provide some illumination, if only a small amount.  

[PixelMuse]

It looked like planing would have to wait. As soon as the light went off she dropped through her shadow. She saw as Ako got his are ready from within the darkness. She waited for the right moment watching the egg carefully.  

[mc2]

Annie's eyes widened in the darkness before she closed her eyes focusing on the liquid in the room. There was the blood of Trinity, Theonis, Ako, Gidget, and Alexavier-of course that was useless for her. Typical room humidity at best, and Ako's use of electricity was not going to help the humidity. At least this time she could shift to her liquid form for physical protection, well that is if Alexavier actually shielded her.

Taking a calming breath she waited, gaining control of the moisture in the room- not enough to change its form or move it around, but enough to be ready to do so on a moments notice.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Gidget's face-plate clamped down and activated it's night vision, Once she had a good dose of Ako's light she yelped slightly and turned it off. "Ako, this thing has automatic night vision. Please warn me the next time you do that."

Gidget approached the others and looked into the room from the viewing area that used to be made to speak with Shane. The malevolent nature of the egg did little to frighten her. Instead it only fueled her rage. "Everyone please step back to where I am."

She knew of something that psycho kinetics could do very little against. She had prepped Shane's chamber to do so long before he broke out. She never had the opportunity to use it until now. She kept this to herself, though, knowing that the creature in the egg would no doubt act in self defense. She didn't worry about that though. The implant she had placed in her neural port would see to it any psychic spies would get a nasty headache if they took a peek.  

[Nova Blancke]

The egg felt a certain hostility towards him but it was mixed with hesitation. Except for one. The steel-clad person. The sight of it reminded the egg of the robot that destroyed itself. A piece of the face plate of the machine drifted towards Gidget and attached itself to her mask. The egg was slightly confused.  

[PixelMuse]

It looked like Gidget seemed to have a plan of some sort. As the egg seemed to be focused on Gidget. She shot out of a shadow in the ceiling close to the egg. Trinity launched a kick along with that she tried to hold the egg in place with shadow tentacles.

The one mistake her targets tend to make is that they hope to obtain some advantage by cutting the light. That only brought out the contrary, it tends to give Trinity the full advantage.  

[Nova Blancke]

"No, stop!! Theonis yelled out towards Trinity but it was too late.

The same invisible force that crushed Gadget caught Trinity in mid-air. It sent a massive surge of pain towards Trinity. It felt like all of her nerves were set on fire. As if she herself was on fire without any way to relief herself. The egg tossed her aside like a rag-doll. The only reason this happened because it was still distracted by Gidget.  

[mc2]

Annie opened her eyes and went on the offensive, while she shifted into her liquid form, hoping that any attack that the egg sent her way would be diffused some by her defense, two tendrils of acid struck out at the egg.

"Alexavier, can that egg do psychic attacks? If so I need you to shield me," snapped Annie.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Gidget tore the piece of face away from her helmet. Her HUD showed Trinity moving from one place to another, then a critical spike in her vitals. Gidget cried out. There were no words, only her anguish and rage.

Her thoughts turned to when they discussed being in a compromised position. They had agreed that if a rescue interfered with their mission, that they wouldn't hesitate for the greater good. It had been easy for her to do that before, but now she had a conscience.

She whirled around to Alexavier and commanded, "Pull her out of there, now!"  

[Nova Blancke]

Theonis didn't wait for Alexavier and caught Trinity. "Pull it together Trin! Come on, you'll be alright!" He sounded very concerned as he should be. He had no idea what the egg had done to her.

Alexavier threw up his hands. "Alright alright calm down. Geez crazy women" Alexavier shouted back. It was already chaos in the room which he normally thrived on but not right now for some reason. Accepting Annie's.....bark he shielded her but only her since she was the one who asked. Well..in her own way. While he was at it he 'cooled' Trinity down to calm down. Which was...harder than he had anticipated.

The egg was confused. Why did these people attack it? It was not something it comprehended at the moment. All it did was defend itself and push them back. Why scream and shout? It couldn't communicate like this. A whip of acid struck the egg. It's confusion was messing with his ability to protect himself. A wave of Telekinetic Energy surged towards Annie while small cracks begun to appear on the shell of the egg.  

[mc2]

Annie narrowed her eyes dangerously at Alexavier after his comment before she returned her attention to the egg. She felt as if something struck out at her mind but it was as if it passed on through, just like a physical attack would pass through her body in its liquid form. I guess he did shield me, Annie thought glancing over at Alexavier. It surprised her slightly, to tell the truth, but then again her instincts were rarely wrong about people and she felt like she should trust him- at least to a point.

"Thanks," she said to Alexavier. "I suppose I have a favor to pay back now..."

All the while she kept her attention on the egg where small cracks had began to appear and she couldn't help but smile a faint smile- there was more liquid in the egg she could sense. She raised another whip of acid from moisture in the air, ready to strike out at a moment's notice.  

[The Count of Monte Carlo]

Ako had dimmed the light effect as everyone complained, but in the ensuing chaos, it seemed to go unnoticed. He tried to come up with a way to help, but after seeing everyone's attacks fail, he didn't see a way. The flash of his lightning would undoubtedly blind everyone in the dark room, anyway.

For now, he stood at the ready, a capacitor ready to go.  

[PixelMuse]

Trinity went into her attack thinking that all the egg would do would push her back like it did with earlier with Gadget. At that point she would go back into her shadow and hoped at that point some one else would strike while it was focused on her. Things didn't go as planned.

She heard Theonis yelled but it was too late. At that point she was caught by an invisible force, her whole body felt on fire. There was no relief. She screamed as the firey pain first hit her but stopped shortly for it was too painful to continue. She closed her eyes, curled up and tried to over come it some how

Then was thrown aside expecting to slam into a wall or something. But was caught by Theonis and heard the concern in his voice. It was strangely comforting in some aspect. Shortly after, thanks to Alexavier her body felt cooled down. She let Theonis know she was okay with a smile and said "Thank you". As he placed her down she had to get her head back into the action. She saw Annie's attack.

[EDITED]