The Rift

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

"Are you okay, Sharkie?" Hibiki was becoming visibly fatigued. "Y-Yes I'm fine, there's not so many of these that I can't handle myself..." He slashed at an abomination, but it's head exploded. 'All of that training with soundwaves proved useful. Their armored bodies are perfect for my fighting style...but using my powers so much, it's exhausting...' Hibiki's body shook as an abomination slammed it's sword down against his. He fell to one knee, but it's arm exploded violently. "Why are there so may of them?" He stood up panting, and Wes came in. "You're way too tired for this!" Wes grabbed onto Hibiki's shirt and continued running "No, I can handle this! Let me go!"

[GamerKale]

"KENPACHI." "You don't have to yell, what is it Kiva?" "It's Hibiki this time. Wes says he's exhausted." Of course he is. Why did we split up in the first place? "Alright, take us to him." Hayate was drawing most of the aggro at the moment, so Ken took this opportunity to swing around to the side of his truck and set Jacklyn down in the passenger seat.

He switched over to a pair of smgs when his rifle's magazine emptied, and when those ran out an abomination jumped into the back of the truck with Ken. This one was of the fast variety, considerably less armored, and disgustingly long limbs. As it lunged forward Ken threw a needle, buckling a leg and Ken hammered it with an uppercut, sending it flying up and up and up, and also putting the truck's shocks through a good test. "Please don't do that again Kenny. This truck is my home for now." "Right, sorry." He was going to try and help Hibiki, but he was getting exhausted himself too. I'm more out of shape than I thought.

They pulled up beside Wes and Hibiki. "Any of you boys seen an aircraft-carrier around here?" "Come on, get up here Hibiki. We need to regroup. The new guy's practically at the tear and is drawing most of the attention. I'm not sure how long he can keep that up. So we need to either get back to him or find Michael. What do you think?" What he wasn't saying, but was also on his mind was that these tears should have at least one extremely powerful abomination near them. Hayate could teleport so he would probably be fine unless he didn't see it coming, and even then, he seemed fairly confident that it was nigh impossible to kill him. But he hadn't seen or heard from Michael since this started, and that worried him. Had he drawn the short straw and found it already?

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Wes threw Hibiki on the truck, and Hibiki caught himself in the air, "I can still fight!" He was breathing heavily, and staring at Wes, who was moving alongside Kiva. "Please watch him, if anything happens to Sharkie..." Wes's avatar smiled and sighed, "He's a good kid, he is, but Sharkie wasn't ready for this, I don't think any of us were ready for a -" "Kenpachi, do you know if it's near the tear or is it hiding?" Hibiki said, preparing his blade. "What are you talking about?" "Kenpachi thinks that there's an abomination near the tear, a big one..." Hibiki became calm as he entered the truck, "What happened to her? Is she hurt?"

[GamerKale]

They seemed to have a moment's peace. "She'll live. More importantly, I'm a hunter of people not abominations, however if it were me I would lure whoever seemed the strongest and/or the leader away from the safety of his comrades or the reverse. Lull them into a false sense of security or at least distract them in some way and then strike. So in this instance, the lure for us would be the tear. Hibiki, locate Michael." Kenpachi withdrew a pistol and three extra magazines from the boxes as well as a combat knife. He checked his throwing weapons and pulled his rope taught as well. Ok, break time is over, time for the real party to start "Ok, new guy, get your butt over to us and you protect Wes and these ladies while Hibiki and I go find Michael. And new guy, I'm putting a lot of faith in you on this one. If you fail, I won't hold you personally responsible, this is a tough job, but I will kick your sorry tail back to wherever it is you came from. Ok, Hibiki, if you've found him hop on my back and let me know where he is." He would move fastest alone, but there was no telling what he was running headlong into and he might need the help of a psychic, like Hibiki, especially if whatever, if anything, that happened to Michael had trapped him in his own mind, a scary prospect. He was putting everything into speed, which meant he couldn't use fire and his flesh would be no sturdier than that of anybody else, not that that had helped much thus far.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Hibiki took off his watch and placed it inside of Wes with his suitcase. He then closed his eyes, searching out for Mike's thoughts. "Kenpachi, I think I've found him, there's another person nearby him, she seems to be a child." Hibiki levitated and looked to Kenpachi, "If you aren't too heavy, I can lift you as well, I can levitate out of these creatures' range. I would rather not be on your back, it seems like that would slow us down." He closed his eyes, "Or at least, it was when I was fighting." "Stay safe, it's not like we can do much without you guys! Watch Kenpachi's back, and I'm sure he'll protect you as well." An abomination had made it's way to them, and Hibiki let out a whistle, piercing the abomination like a missile.

[Dark Blade]

Mike had made his way back out of the building and had recovered his weapons. He was still some distance from the others but he was catching pieces of their thoughts. He wasn't exactly paying attention to them though as he fought. He had begun scanning the minds of those he was fighting, taking his time so as not to kill someone who might still have their minds intact like that girl. As he picked his way through the mob that surrounded him he found five that still had their wits and were hanging back as best as they could. Their minds were odd. Something was MAKING them fight, but those five or rather six if he included the girl, were able to resist the compulsion. He had been sidestepping and avoiding the half-hearted attack attempts of the five while cutting down the others who had succumbed and attacked him blindly.

The fight itself was easy enough but trying to track the source of the compulsion was proving a challenge. It was a familiar feeling. He had felt it before. 'Where?' It was on the tip of his tounge. 'WHERE?' Then it hit him as he gave a gentle, at least for him, shove and pushed back the ones fighting him. Those sand wolves! They had the same feeling! Someone had manipulated those things hoping to kill a singled out group member. There was no doubt about it now. There was a strong psychic nearby. That would also explain how none of them had felt the presence of the abominations to begin with.

Mike began narrowing down the path that was being used to control them. The damn thing had to be close in order to maintain control over such a large group. Mike expanded his reach, pushing hard. As the abominations approached him again they began dropping and clutching their heads in pain. 'I know your here you bastard.'

"You have a vulgar mouth on you boy." A huge psychic shockwave came out of a nearby building killing the abominations in it's path before connecting with it's intended target ... Mike. Who in turn was sent flying uncontrolably through the air and crashing through several buildings. He went flying straight past Ken and the others in to one final building causing a large section of it to collapse on him. While all of this had gone on the rest of the abominations had scattered and were no longer in sight. A man stepped out in to view of the other and slammed the cane he was carrying on the ground causing a small quake in the area. "So then ... Who would like to go next?" The man sidestepped as a large chunk of concrete flew at him. Mike stood atop the rubble he had climbed out of bloody and cut up, his jacket missing, exposing the scars that lined his arms. "What do you mean, next? You still havn't finished with ME yet."


((OOC: First prime encountered. Name: Currently unknown. Age: Appears 60-65. Sex: Male. Powers: Psychic, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN (Yes he has 5 total.) Appearance: http://wen-m.deviantart.com/art/Anima-R ... 170&qo=146 Weapon(s): UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN.))

[GamerKale]

"I'll run, thanks. You need to conserve your energy for the big guy, and I don't like psychics trying to control me." Kenpachi jumped from head to head, devoting everything to speed he could have easily outstripped Hibiki, but he wasn't about to divide the team up again, so he maintained his defenses and just kept pace. When the wave went out at Mike even Kenpachi could feel it, and instantly his own mind became a fortress. The smart play would be hide, wait till the others have him distracted and then strike...but when was the last time I made the smart move?

Kenpachi made a final leap and landed about 15 yards to the Prime's side and began sizing up his deader. It seems that he's a psychic, and extremely powerful. Possibly stronger than all of the others combined. That tremor, was that strictly his psychic powers or does he also do sonic? And it looks like he evaded an attack from Mike already, judging by that giant hole in the wall, meaning he could be as strong and fast as Mike and I too. Of course, that doesn't mean he doesn't have strong defenses, but since he evaded that means he either considered the attack a threat, or just feels like toying with us. But then, why didn't he throw it back? If he's that powerful of a psychic he should of been able to with no problem, maybe he concentrates his powers into one aspect at a time, but I doubt it. Let's try something, see if he'll show anymore of his hand.

Kenpachi created flames behind him and then rushed forward and sent them spiraling towards the Prime. Several needles flew from his fingertips following the flames, with a lot of luck the flames might distract him and the needles could get through, unlikely as that would be. Kenpachi dove to the side, in expectation of a counterattack. He grabbed a good sized piece of concrete and threw it at the prime too, just in case the other two things had distracted him enough to let that through. Or maybe one of the others would seize this opportunity and try something. Either way, it was a chance to get to know this man and find his weak point.

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

((I'm quite excited for this boss battle, it's shaping up to be really cool =D))

"I guess we share a mutual feeling..." He buckled in when he felt the shock wave and closed off his mind to assault, falling down a meter before catching himself and speeding towards Mike.

Hibiki flew opposite of Kenpachi and tucked both of his two fingers in his mouth, "I got this side!" He whistled loudly, sending a sonic blast towards the Prime, then repositions himself once he saw Mike was still in the fight. Hibiki unsheathed his sword and landed on the ground, "So that's the one who's in charge...he looks surprisingly human." 'Where's the new guy? I think, no matter how powerful this ting is, the four of us should take care of it easily...'

[GamerKale]

To each attack the prime slammed his cane on the ground once. The flames twirled around the prime and died, the needles stopped midflight, the sonic blast parted to avoid the prime and instead send Kenpachi flying. And the rock swung around the prime and flew towards Hibiki.

The prime plucked one of the needles out of the air and let the rest fall to the ground. He tossed it aside and it flew at high speed straight into the hole made by Ken when he crashed through the building. "That little toy couldn't kill a fly. Get up insect." Said the prime, taunting Kenpachi, but no reply came, Ken's mind seemed to fade into nothing, and he did not emerge from the hole. "Perhaps I overestimated that one. Now, you two, do try to entertain me better. I bore easily."

((Yes, Ken's alive. He's just hiding his presence. If you do try to check on him, all you'll find is his headset with the needle through it.))

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

Hibiki dodged the rock barely, though it knocked the sword from his hand. He knew he couldn't go back for it, and let himself fall to the ground, "Not even my sonic attacks will work..." Hibiki closed his eyes and lifted the sword, having it return to his hand, "Perhaps I can fight him." Hibiki's body levitated and he rushed towards the Prime, preparing to assail the Prime with a sonic blast if his sword clashed with the Prime's cane. 'I hope Kenpachi's alright, I put everything I had into that attack...'

[Hayate_T'Eraon]

Hayate came out of the shift near to Kiva and Jacky. He flinched as the psychic wave hit him, then recovered as Ascalon set himself into an overlay, accelerating his "host's" perception of the area, high lighting the enemy forces, and the Prime. He didn't glance back, but spoke to the into his headset, speaking with two voices, his mind connected with the spirit of the Sword he held loosely in one hand. "Anyone got any ideas on how to put this bastard down?" He drew the Gauss pistol from the holster across his lower back as he did so, loading it, deciding to test the beast's strength. He levelled the weapon at the Prime, firing the large spike at the thing's head. It froze, then dropped as the Prime turned his gaze to them. He looked over his shoulder, speaking to the Truck's AI. "Miss, get her out of here, if you would!"

[GamerKale]

"I"M WORKING ON IT!" Shouted Kiva into Hayate's ear.

Kiva disabled the last remaining safety limiters and pushed the truck harder, Kenny would scold her for the damages later, but at least Jacklyn would be safe. She opened a private channel to Wes, "Honestly, all I ever get is go here go there, you'd think they would learn to drive themselves. Hey, Wes, you have any more trouble with your secondary processor since you were last in my shop?"

[Dark Blade]

((OOC: Nice to see everyone understands how powerful a prime is supposed to be. Now to introduce 2 more of his powers and one of his weapons.))

Mike charged the prime unleashing his own psychic shockwaves as he did so. The prime parried each and every one with his cane as if swatting away an annoying fly. Heedless of this show of sheer power Mike still went at him now psychically hurling large chunks of concrete at the prime. Concentrating hard and gesturing with both hands as he ran mike 'threw' a good size block at the prime. His plan was ranther simple but should of worked; as the prime's vision was obscured by the block he would came at it from the side. It would most likely not be a fatal blow if he connected but he would at least get in a solid hit. All hope of this plan succeding however dimmed as the block shattered, pulverized from the prime's psyonics which left Mike wide open and within arms reach. The prime grabbed Mike by the throat and clamped down. The prime clicked a small button on the head of the cane to reveal a sword inside of it. Mike began to panic. Any shockwave he sent out was nulled by the prime. Even with his hands preoccupied and Mike taking some of his attention it still managed to deflect incomming attacks.

The prime let out a new kind of pulse. A high pitched soundwave, like a bat. "Hmph." The prime threw mike in to the ground cracking the pavement and one of his ribs. The prime looked at a building with a stoic expression. "My dear boy you may be able to hide your life force but you can not hide your resonating frequency." The prime pulled back one of his hands, a large fireball building in front of it. Mike felt the heat from the ball. It was intense. The prime shot it at the building he had faced when speaking.

((Prime update ... Powers: Psychic, Sonic, Thermal, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN. Weapons: Sword cane, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN ...... NOTE: This prime will have one ability that was not listed when the RP started.))

[GamerKale]

Well, that wasn't entirely unexpected...and neither was this, but I haven't seen one anywhere near that strong. As the fireball crashed down on Kenpachi he sneered, this is why I hate guns and gunpowder always going off when you least expect, he pulled out all of his ammunition, the flames set off all of the bullets and they flew straight at the prime. The unexpected nature and volume of the attack threw the prime for a split second, allowing one of the bullets to graze his arm. Kenpachi himself, his clothes on fire, followed swiftly after the bullets and engaged the prime in melee with paired knives. "Who", Ken rolled backwards, narrowly evading the sword cane, "the hell", the prime hopped into the air to evade a sweep, "do you think", the prime pressed the attack from above using his psychic abilities to compensate for the speed difference, "you're dealing WITH?" Ken kicked upward and the prime hopped off the tip of his foot to get out of melee range, Ken threw the rope out like a whip and caught hold of the prime's leg. It wouldn't hold him long, a single cut or burst of flame would eradicate the rope, but in the mean time, he dug his feet into the stone and yanked down hard in reply the prime took advantage of Kenpachi's inability to move and shot down a sonic wave, it felt like his heart was about to explode. Kenpachi created a fireball that quickly consumed the oxygen and then exploded, temporarily creating a vacuum between the prime and himself, halting the sonic attack. "I'm no amateur."

[Haseo{Terror of Death}]

"I don't think so...I don't really use alot of processing power, this feels like the most work I've had to do in a while, Hibiki's really nice, but a little too quiet! I wish he'd be a bit more friendly..." Wes bucked as he pushed himself harder. "But it would matter if I went back in the shop for a tune-up soon."

Hibiki charged at the Prime, and swung before he got to him. Using the sword's seeped, he created a quick Sonic Wave and then sent a Psychic shockwave after. "Close your ears!" He jumped up in the air and tucked two fingers in his mouth, inhaling a great deal. He let out a long high pitched sonic whistle.

((Edit: Color change, I keep messing them up D<))

[Hayate_T'Eraon]

(For the record, Hayate talking, normal color. Ascalon alone talking, dark blue. Both talking, light blue.)
Hayate grinned. "Keep at it!"

He waited until the truck was clear, shifting himself into the line of fire for the Prime.

Got an idea?

A few. Right now, this thing is kicking our collective asses. We either fight as one, or run like hell!

Hayate charged Aether into his sword, setting it alight. "Alright, let's go!"

[GamerKale]

They were over five miles out when Kiva and Wes managed to break away from all of the abominations. "Whew, finally. I thought we were through for half a second there."

The prime countered each of Hibiki's attacks by emitting neutralizing counter waves, and had the nearby abominations pounce on Hibiki. The ground below Kenpachi and Mike began to shake. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me." The slab of concrete the two were standing on swung upward, into Hayate's way. "Time to die boy." The prime shot towards Mike, slicing the rope cleanly on the way down. Mike was still panicking and all he could do was send off a half-hearted psychic wave.

Ken held onto the rope, every second the prime was stuck was a second the others could take advantage of, and took a double sonic wave, one from Hibiki and the other from the prime, causing blood to seep out of Ken's eyes, ears, and nose. When the prime shot towards Mike he dashed, initially to strike at the prime's side, but when Mike didn't move he changed his angle slightly and stood directly in front of him. Ken crossed his knives to block the cane sword, it sliced through them like they were paper machete and bit into Ken's forearms. Cheap military weapons. "Foolish boy, you think you've saved him. You're merely delaying the inevitable. Give up, and save yourself some pain." The prime's words were laced with psychic persuasion, and he turned his blade into a saw with sonic vibrations to cut deeper into Ken's arms and splattering blood onto Mike's face. It was all Kenpachi could do not to buckle under the psychic attack and hold his arms in place.

[Dark Blade]

The world around Mike stopped, dimmed, and was replaced with the world from when he was younger. There were alarms going off. People running in all directions, screaming. He didn't understand. Why was everyone running from him? Why did they look at him with terror in their eyes and minds? Why were they shooting at him? His hands, or rather claws, were covered in blood. At his feet lay a body. There was a picture next to the body. He picked it up and inspected it. It was a picture of Mike when he was younger. Quickly flipping it over he read what he dared not find, "Happy birthday Yoko! Sorry but I'm broke so your gift this year is me!"

"NO!"
"Yes."
"THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN!"
"Yes."
"SHUT UP!"
"Real."
Mike Roared in the dream and in the real world, "SHUT THE HELL UP!!"

A clawed hand covered in fur reach past Ken and grabbed the prime by the throat. In a snarling growling gravely voice Mike spoke to the prime, "HOW DARE YOU PERVERT MY MEMORIES!" Mike dug his claws in to the prime's throat. It tried to pull away but Mike wouldn't let go. In fact he clamped down tighter. It took the prime both hands to pry Mike's fingers loose enough to get free. As the prime retreated Mike's body continued to change, losing most vestiges of humanity ((http://jlonewolf.deviantart.com/art/Wer ... ewolf&qo=9)). The prime threw some psyonic waves at Mike, he stood still and as they hit him they were stopped. The prime mixed sonic flame and psychic attacks together. The psychic attacks were nulled, the sonic attacks were redirected, and the fire attacks only served to piss Mike off by singing his fur. The prime pulled what looked like a old revolver out of his coat and shot it at Mike. A beam of energy shot out and hit mike. At least it looked that way at first. A psychic barrier was dispersing the beam around his body. The prime pulled an identical pistol from his coat with his other hand and fired another beam. Still they couldn't penetrate his barrier.

Finally fed up with not being able to get past the barrier with his weapons the prime came around the side of Mike at blurring speeds. It was intent on using it's psyonics and sonic abilities to pierce Mike's barrier and remove his head from his shoulders. Mike could see the prime's motions as if he had been walking in slow motion up to him. Grabbing both of the prime's arms when he came up next to him Mike shattered both of them before throwing the prime through the wall of a nearby building. Mike sent a huge shockwave at the building causing it and several others behind it to collapse. "NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH MY MIND!" Especially not when they tried to make him think he hurt Yoko.

[GamerKale]

Kenpachi fell to his knees, panting as Mike grabbed the prime. Way out of shape. He quickly wrapped his arms in the rope, it would slow the bleeding. He stood once again when Mike had thrown the prime. Ken jumped on Mike's back and wrapped his legs around his waist and an arm around his throat, not to choke him...yet. "Michael Taylor, calm down."

[Dark Blade]

Mike was more than angry. He was furious. The prime had entered his mind and tried to make him think he had hurt his childhood friend. For this he would not only kill the bastard he would make him suffer.

Mike felt someone or something jump on his back but paid it no mind until it spoke that is. Mike turned his head slightly so he could see Ken holding on to him. "If you intend to act like a necklace than do so by sitting there and not making noise. But do not for one INSTANT think you can tell me to calm down after what he just did to me! After what he just made me see. TRIED to make me THINK was real!" Ken's hold began to tighten slightly as he was about to try to talk Mike down again. Mike gave an annoyed look. Before either could say anything though a shockwave, whether sonic or psychic all were unsure but it was far more powerful then what Mike had just done. It took a fair amount of concentration to protect both himself and Ken hanging from his neck from harm as well as directing the attack away from the others.

The Prime walked out from the farthest most building along the line of the ones that had collapsed clapping his hands and shouting so they could all hear him clearly, "Well done boy! Well done! Your TRUE form is indeed MOST magnificent! Elegant yet powerful! Large yet fast! And it would seem you enjoy it more than you would let on!" Both the Prime's arms were working just fine. He knew he broke them! That had not been an illusion. "I seem to have forgotten my manners! Allow me to introduce myself to one such as yourself! Gregor Van Kildent commander of her ladyships personal vanguard!" Gregor bowed low, "And one of the few immortal regenerators!"

That was why Mike felt something familiar about this prime! He had a more advanced version of one of Mike's abilities. And if that was the case ..... nothing short of an atomic explosion could kill this Gregor.

((Prime update!! Name: Gregor Van Kildent (yes he has a german accent). Powers: Psychic, Sonic, Thermal, Physical, Regnerator. Weapons: Sword cane, Beam Pistol, Beam Pistol. ........ NOTE: Regeneration is now a recognized ability. There are different strengths of the ability. Only this Prime and one other plot character will be considered 'Immortal'.))