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

[Nova Blancke]

Legio stood and observed. Ah the red aura. Anger. And emotion he does have but does not see the need of it. A calm analytical assessment of every situation was better in his mind. But then the aura subsided when she seemed conflicted before it flared up again. She seemed surprised at the power. After slamming the red orbs into the ground, it exploded around him.

It didn't do much to him due to the defense of Cassandra and his own natural armor. She came straight at him.

Legio raised his hand to catch her punch but would grow a mithril spike in the palm of his hand that would make contact with her first.

"Leo stop! You're not helping! Let her go! Shaking her won't help her in any way."

She looked at her children.

"There are people here that can help her. We have the means to do so. But regardless of that...she IS exhausted. She does need her rest. As do you two. Please, go check on the little ones. I'll stay here for now. If anyone asks about me, tell em where I am but don't expect to be let in."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The wolf broke through the debris and saw his hand raised in anticipation to catch her. She opened her hand at the last possible moment and took the spike through her palm. She flexed her fingers and clasped down onto his hand with her aura wrapped claws. She didn't notice that there was no blood coming from her wound, but it did hurt like hell.

That would normally be the time where she'd shoot a quip like "gotcha" or "no where to run now." But she was treating the fight like it would be her last. She was determined to either kill him, or be killed by him. Just so long as she avoided being consumed by him again; else she'd just end up like she did before due to the specifics of her curse. She would be the "other" that would fight to wrest control on the new moon.

No way.

She took advantage of their height difference and brought her opposing palm down. She snapped it just shy of his face and fired a concussive blast of her golden aura.

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Leo's lips tightened as he considered his mother's advice. He looked down at Ravan's other worldy yet delicate form in his hands. He didn't share her feelings for him, but she'd always be another little sister and good friend. He embraced her gently and then placed her back into what he hoped would be a comfortable position.

Unwilling to display any more vulnerability to his conscious family, he simply muttered, "She's such a pain." and walked to the door. He held it open for his sister.

Dawn brushed a few stray hairs from Ravan's dark face and kissed her forehead. She stood up and hugged her mom before she followed Leo to the door.

Just as they were about to shut the entryway, a pair of Valhalla medical personnel approached them. They were clad in full PPE so it was impossible to see their defining features, but their heights and builds suggest that they were both men.

"Miss Morris sent us here. She said one of the away team had irregular vital signs. Is there someone who needs help?"

Dawn peeked back into the room and, under the assumption that Crystalion could hear them, called back, "Mom?"  

[Nova Blancke]

This again. It seemed she really didn't like not being in control. Her next blow came her his head. Legio grip on her hand tightened as he lowered himself. In one swift motion he grabbed her by the clothes on her chest. Twisting as he got in and extended a leg to block hers. Pushing in his hip and pulling her forward as well as pulling her hand down he threw her over his hip in a classic judo throw to slam her against the ground. It would be a classic judo throw had it not been for the absurd strength he had.

"She really is..." Crys responded before returning the hug. When her kids left or were going to the medical personal was already there. She had forgotten how fast Gidget could work when she had information available.

She sighed. The woman had hoped to have had more time for the both of them to rest. But...they were here and it was their job to help the Meta's under their roof. Time to stop being stubborn herself.

"Fine...fine...let them in."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The wolf cursed as she felt her momentum being used against her. The part of her mind that was Freya was just as forgetful as always. Of course he retained her hand to hand techniques. Just as she was going over his shoulder, she brought out her silver aura. The ground the wolf was slammed into was softened by the explosion that had taken place only a moment ago, but the throw was still hard enough to knock the air out of her lungs.

But wait, she didn't need air. In a recovery she would've thought impossible before that moment, she snapped her teeth and glared up at Legio. She still had a grip on his hand, but she could feel the pike made of mithril sap her strength. She knew there would only be a few more seconds before she'd be at even more of a disadvantage than she was. She hated it, but she knew she'd have to use her body's new found pliability.

He had made her clothes from his own body, so she willed it to tear. She also released the grip on his piked hand and slipped her injured hand off the mithril spike. With one swift move she bucked her hips and kicked her feet up toward him. In that moment, her body liquefied, reversed and re-solidified her into a standing position. Her aura went gold again, and she unleashed a barrage of clawed jabs at his pressure points that were each accompanied by a burst.

She knew there was a chance he'd be fast enough and smart enough to either remove or move his pressure points, but she hoped that the concussive strikes would be enough to at least disrupt his form long enough for her to finish him.

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Dawn stepped aside and allowed the medics in. She then nodded to Leo and shut the door behind her.

Once medic moved down to Ravan's side and began an immediate scan of her vitals.The other moved the Crystalion and scanned her as well.

The med scanner began to buzz and error out as it tried to assess Ravan's condition. "Christ, I've never seen it do that before."

The one checking on Crystalion looked to the woman and introduced himself. "I'm Malcolm, and that's my partner Isaac. We got the 411 from Miss Morris. We really can't thank you enough."

Isaac huffed and reset his machine. "Hey Mal, I think whatever this is that's covering her is shorting out her suit's Health Assessment Interface. I'm going to disable it and see what a vanilla scan does."

Malcolm's scanner chimed when it was done with Crystalion's assessment. "Normal readout, and no delay or interruption in rapid healing. You're looking good. ER! I mean! You're readout! You're readout says you're healthy." Malcom stammered.

Isaac tapped a few keys on his scanner and shook his head. "I think she gets it, smooth operator."  

[Nova Blancke]

When the wolf pulled released her own grip on his hand, he instantly pulled it back. Raising it to block her kick, he found her changing her shape to avoid being on the ground.

"You're learning. Good."

Legio changed his stance to that of the Snake in Kung Fu. With circular motions he deflected and came closer. Using that same style he used an opening and made a jab for her eyes.

Crystalion nodded at the two men coming in. The fact that they couldn't get a normal read on Ravan didn't didn't surprise her. They might have never encountered anything like this before. As far as she knew, Ravan was one of a kind when it came to this.

"Regenerator" She responded to the stammering. It was...nice to know she could stil get a reaction like that but this wasn't the time for it.

"My daughter mentioned she essentially put herself to sleep. Retreated in her mind. "

Cassandra didn't like the tone this boy used to her son. But....he was right. Too much was at stake. She put her hand on Damian's shoulder.

"Many of us should not exist in this world. But we are here. Most people don't know their purpose. Maybe mine was to make sure you were born. And I am still here. After that..... You won't vanish...you won't die. When you are done...you'd be truly free."

"He's right....I...we won't let anything take you. I will break anyone who tries to do that. You know that.

Meanwhile Alexavier landed near them.

"Well this is all very heart-warming and all but shall we get back? Which earned him a stern look from Cassandra from barging into this moment.

"What? You wanna stay here?"  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The wolf shifted her neck and narrowly avoided the jab at her eyes while losing a tuft of fur in the process. She stepped in and reached her hand up to snatch his wrist while it was next to her head. She delivered a head but and snarled, "Shut up!"

Faster. Stronger.

Even with one hand in her control, snake style was tricky. She adapted to the tiger style and struck at his core with her palm. Anticipating the snake's evasive techniques, she followed it up with twist of her wrist and a slash.

If your opponent equal in knowledge, then you must become better than you were five minutes ago.

"Don't act like you want me to improve! I'm nothing more than another box to be checked in your shitty quest for knowledge." she chided while she adapted once more to the crane style, released his wrist, and hopped back with a snapping front kick into a one legged stance.

Faster. Stronger.

"Bet you're excited to see what happens when the curse takes me over, huh?! Bet that'll be a learning experience!"

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Isaac took his reading and narrowed his eyes at the display. "Your daughter was right, but that's not all. This young lady's in a coma. Not only that, but her pulse and blood pressure are just high enough to keep her alive. It's a sort of extreme hibernation. Maybe we can ease her out of it. Mal?"

Malcom cleared his throat and pocketed his scanner. He shuffled over to the side of the bed opposite of his partner and put his hands over Ravan. He focus his revitalization power on Ravan's in an attempt to coax her out of her sleep state.  

[BeaMichelle]

Ravan lay motionless as the power worked it's way into her heart and lungs. The veins of light that began to steadily brighten as it worked it's way through her.

No

Ravan's right hand twitched. The air above her visibly rippled. Her veins returned to their dimmed state, and a mix of dark and bright blood began to pour on her.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Malcolm saw the ripple. There was no pain, and his hands were gone. Just gone. Like they'd been deleted out of existence. One second after this realization, with nothing to keep it in, his veins and arteries of his wrists bled freely.

"AUGH!!!" he screamed. He stumbled away from Ravan in terror and fell backwards.

Isaac called out, "s**t! MALCOLM!" He immediately leaped to action and used his mending power on his partners wrists. It stopped the bleeding almost immediately, but there was nothing he could do to bring his partner's hands back.

Malcolm could only look down at his stumps and tremble. Isaac whirled around and shouted, <********! What the ******** was that?! He was trying to help her! What'd she do to him?!"  

[PixelMuse]

Nova Blancke

"Let's head back. We need to debrief and put my father under surveillance and floating suspension."

Trinity nodded. “I’ll fill you in… but first thing you need to know… despite foiling his plan. Eclipse … he got away. For me, there’s not much time to celebrate and I need to focus, on preparing for his next attack.” She proceeded to take him through the shadows back with his father and along the way she filled him in on what happened in their pursuit.

Afterward she decided to check on Chariot. She entered the room where she and Rydia were. “Good. Your awake. How are you feeling?” she needed to get a better sense if she was willing to cooperate with Valhalla or have something else in mind.

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Rikki Tikki Travi

 

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Chariot lifted her head so she could look at Trinity. She smiled sweetly and replied, "I'm not bleeding, my power isn't back, and I'm strapped to a bed. So...okay I guess. But it's really boring being stuck here. You think you could take these things off so I could have some fun?"

Carak's growl grew in volume, and Rydia narrowed her eye at the restrained girl. "I took a look at her with my left eye while she was still unconscious. She's a sadist. Her idea of fun is harming people until they're in critical condition."

Chariot's smile melted from sweet to something much more cruel and sinister. She chuckled. "Aw...you spoiled the surprise."

Rydia didn't flinch. She panned her eyes to Trinity and explained, "My infinite eye read everything there is to know about her and everything she knows. Everything except any time Eclipse has spoken to her and the other clones of Theonis' sister. I think that thing in her head is blocking out anything important from prying eyes."

Chariot made a face of faux pity and drawled, "Aw, the master didn't make it easy for you? Poor kitty."

Rydia's upper lip twitched. She continued, "I think I can get it out with my spirit claw. But it's going to hurt her...a lot. Personally, I don't mind the idea of torture. She and the other clones were the ones that shot down the helicopters containing the last of my people. But, I've never done it on something so malevolent. It could very well kill her, and we'd lose any intel she have in that twisted head of hers."

Chariot's amusement died down a bit at the idea of being on the receiving end of pain. "W-waaait a minute. Trinity, you wouldn't let a kid get hurt, would you? I mean...you saved me, right? I can tell you things. All sorts of things."

Rydia lifted her eye cover and peeked at Chariot while she plead for her safety. She dropped the cover back down and sighed, "She's telling the truth. She's Eclipse's favorite. But there's a chance the thing in her head might stop her from spilling too much. I'll leave it up to you Trinity."  

[Nova Blancke]

Legio let the headbutt land for it did little to him for it did little to him. His Crane Style had proven to be effective at this range to counter her jabs. One deflection missed as she switched to the Tiger Stance and struck his chest with her claw. It damaged him but was already repairing himself. Stil in the same Crane style he swiped away the kick as he did a step back himself to give him enough space to do so.

"You could not defeat Eclipse. You need to be stronger in order to do so. Your improvement is unrelated for my desire for knowledge. There's nothing to be gained. I know what you know." He responded calmly as he shifted to the Monkey Style. Why was she so emotional?

"Come."

She had suspected something like it. Self-Induced Coma. Well..she wouldn't have used those words. Ravan went to sleep by her own volition without wanting to be woken up.

The man worked his magic or rather his power to try and wake her up. It was an interesting ability. Not suited for combat at all but for this field of work it was great. Crys jumped up as there seemed to be a ripple and then....Malcom's hands were gone. Before being able to burn the wounds shut, his partner had already taken care of that.

Through out this all she was...calmer than she thought she would be. Loss of limbs or injuries weren't uncommon in their world.

"She's never done anything like this before! Ravan can create black holes but that takes a lot of concentration and this was nothing like that. Don't worry about his hands. He'll get them back......We're going to need a psychic." She said and put her hand in Ravan's without any fear of losing her own.

"You really are my problem child..."

Theo listened to what happened. This only further solidified the thoughts that it was the wrong decision to take Ravan with them for this mission. All they saw was a convenient power that could take care of Eclipse for them. How wrong where they. Why wouldn't Eclipse mess with her head? ******** was such an idiot for letting it go through.

"Yeah...at least we've bought ourselves a few months. Despite everything....good job today Trinity." Theo said before she left and afterwards focused on his father and the product of him and Gidget.

Theo let out a deep sigh and raised his father into the air a bit. Enough so that he wasn't in contact with the metal around them. There was no way of knowing for him if he could control it from a distance but this was one of the safest bets for now.

"Thanks for waiting Theresa. Now, lets-are you bleeding? What did you do?" He walked over and grabbed some bandages to wrap the wound with.

"Seriously, Theresa. I take my eyes off of you for a minute and you're injured. What happened?" He said before laying his eyes on the bloodied scalpel also now noticing that the room was a bit of a mess. Was she searching for it?

"Did...did you cut yourself with it?"  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The wolf's eyes widened and then narrowed dangerously. "You may have my memories, but you do NOT know what I know!"

She charged and leaped with a spinning front heel kick that was quickly followed up with the strong arm and leg movements of Northern Shaolin style Kung Fu in order to keep up with the erratic flowing movements of monkey style.

"Freya beat Eclipse before! That's how her sister had the chance to seal him in Teshoumaru the last time! Why do you think he was so afraid of her, or did you compartmentalize that along with the rest of the awful memories?!"

You could be so much stronger, so much faster.

"Memories that you might know, but don't understand! Do you have any idea what it feels like to lose yourself to another life, another body within you?! It feels like death! Freya died each night of the new moon, and Okami every morning that followed."

"And YOU!" she roared as she switched to Hung Gar style's rooted stances and powerful strikes. "Have the balls to say you know everything I know?!"

She dodged blows, and took blows. To her frustration, she landed very few, and what she did land were immediately healed. The red aura began to flicker along with the gold aura. It was't long enough to change the property's of her gold aura, but the flicker became more frequent the angrier she got.

"Freya and Okami fought so hard, and gave everything they had, so that they could become strong enough to protect the people they love! Decades of blood, sweat, tears, torture, and loss! You become stronger by absorbing power and taking life! You think you can lecture me about real strength?! You know nothing about the pain, strife, and love that builds true power!"

stronger than you were 5 minutes ago.

Unknown to her, the red and gold aura flared and merged to create a vibrant and violent orange aura.

"You! Know! NOTHING!" she howled. With her second word, she rooted herself into a Tae Kwon Do straddle leg stance. With her last, she performed a punch that had the projectile property of the red aura, and the defensive bypassing of the gold aura. The stream of flaming aura was less than half the size of her black aura pressure tunnel and aimed at where Legio's heart would be if he had one.

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Malcom huddle his arms to his body and stood up with the help of Isaac, who was whispering to Malcolm, "Hey bud, take it slow, it's gonna be okay. We'll see if a re-generator can help with that."

Malcolm nodded his head wearily. Isaac looked down at Ravan and scowled. "I know she helped save us, but if she's that dangerous she might be better off staying asleep."

He looked back up at Crystalion and said, "Expect to see a kid named Tom in a few minutes. And good luck."

With that he helped his partner out and shut the door behind them.

Almost ten minutes later, there was a light rap at the door. A small, meek voice echoed in Chrystalion's mind, "Um, Miss Crystalion? My name's Tom. Did you ask for a psychic?"

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Alec mulled over Kerana's question silently for a few seconds. He had a personal issue with giving away too much about the future, but the kid did need some sort of reassurance.

"I'll see what I can see." he sighed. His pupils overtook the irises, and he looked into the boy's next 4 hours. He tilted his head curiously as he sifted through the vast array of possibilities.

Deora walked closer to Kerana and asked, "He's looking awfully hard at Damien. Is that the future sight thing you told me about?"

Alec's brow knit when he heard Deora speak. He replied, "It is, and it's not as easy as I make it look. I'm going to need to look a little further. So if everyone could try to be as quiet as possible, please?"

Deora squeaked and clamped a hand over her mouth. "Sorry." she whispered

Alec had to extend his sight over another 2 hours. It was then that he saw everything he needed to see. His pupils returned to normal, and he took a deep breath.

"When you're done, a choice will be presented to you. I can't tell you what that choice is, but there is a decent chance at good news in your future." he explained.

Damien let out a heavy sigh of relief. Even though his future wasn't assured he felt better knowing that there was at least a chance at one.

With that relief came a new sense of purpose, and with that sense of purpose came a release from the pain that had inflicted him only a few seconds before.

Valhalla finally finished it's thunderous return to it's abandoned plot. Dust kicked up from it's landing site and gently swirled toward the group. Heather. eager to see Liv return from what had to be the realm of light, chirped, "There it is. Let's go home."

Alec leaned over by Damien ear and whispered, "It's gonna be a while before the light candidate appears, but you'll find the perfect one for earth in the infirmary with her family."

Damien looked to Alec, smiled, and replied, "Thank you. Even if you were a little mean, you did it to help me."

He looked toward Cassandra and said, "Mom, I'm going to the infirmary. Do you want to come with me? I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to."

Alec approached Kerana and took her hands into his. He tenderly touched his forehead to hers and smiled. "Looks like we'll have our picnic sooner than we thought."  

[BeaMichelle]

Ravan only stirred a little when Crystalion's hand was laid on her. Subconsciously, she didn't want any harm to come to the people of her timeline. That included the woman she was sure was her mother.

Theresa looked Theonis squarely in the eyes and plainly said, "Yes. The danger is over. I felt the stupid one waking up. I don't want to go to sleep yet. She doesn't like pain, so I cut myself."

Leonard strained to look toward his children and said, "Theresa, I've told you time and time again. Hurting yourself is a bad thing."

Theresa shifted her eyes and coldly stated, "Right. You and the other doctors are only happy when I hurt someone else, or when someone else hurts me."

Leonard grunted in frustration at the girl's astuteness. She wasn't entirely wrong. "Theo the bed is made of plastics and alloys. I wont be able to do anything with either. Could you please put me down?" he asked Theonis.  

[Nova Blancke]

Theo switched his gaze from his half-sister and their father. Slowly shaking his head he sighed. Before his family was pretty normal. Then he found out his father worked for Daedelus and had a hand on turning Shane basically sentient biomass. Then had created the twins in order to reign him in. They all combined into what had in other time lines ended the world. But besides that, he also created Theresa/Thea. Sure it was unwillingly but that didn't really meant much because he still did it. Not even mentioning all the experimentation and conditioning that happened to her.

Thea was just an innocent child. Managing to retain her innocence by pushing it all onto a second personality, who in turn only knew violence and pain.

Theo lifted up his father with his power and put him down on the bed. It wasn't rough but could have been more gentle.

"I am not going to pretend to be okay with what you did." Theo said as he looked at Theresa and his father since it kind of applied to both.

Their play-fight continued. Legio's demeanor remained calm as he dodged, countered and received the occasional hit. The wolf was taking out all of her anger and frustration at him. She was irrational. He had never lectured her and he did know everything she did. Her behavior was slowly annoying him. No, it was not annoyance. Anger. Perhaps it was feedback from her mental state?

Legio noticed the aura merging into one. Something he was not aware of could happen. The fist connected and the devastating effect of the combined aura's did it's job.A large chunk of his left side was blown away. Where his heart would have been was now a massive hole. Part of his chest was gone. His left arm was also nowhere to be found.

"Both of them failed despite it all." Legio replied sounding a bit more angry as he responded with a round-house kick with his right leg.

She should have expected a psychic to do that. They all tended to do so.

"Is there a need to ask Tom?" She responded in her mind. The memories she had of him were faint and brief. Mostly just information from her time as a Daedelus spy. The woman got up and walked over to the door, opening it.

"Come on in. She's on the bed."