Infection

[cityship]

The disease spread through the City, and through the City, to the crew. Those who came in contact with the invisible killer would slowly begin to exhibit many of the symptoms of a common flu: nausea, chills, and fever.

But they would not feel lethargic. No, quite the opposite. Their energy and their activity would only increase. And now, so would their aggression and pent-up rage...

...and it would increase very, very quickly. So quickly, that you might almost lose your mind.

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[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"We're not saying that!" defended Ben. "Family doesn't let others suffer by themselves!"

Wait, flames? Uh oh. "Just calm down and we'll get something looked at!"

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

"Don't tell me what to do!"

Caught up in his fury, Devlin transformed and blasted fire at Ben. It was impossible for him to see any reason in his dad's arguments.

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

The fire caught Ben right in the chest and he barely got a moment to say anything before he was pitched headlong across the way and through a wall. There was a resounding crash, much larger than it should be accompanied by a flash of light.

And with a groan, Four-Arms pulled himself out of the rubble. "Devlin! What the hell!"

Inwardly, Ben was worried sick. Was this a side effect of whatever got a hold of him?

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

"Guess you like the classics," Devlin growled. "Try this one, then!"

He morphed his crystalline arm into a blade and charged Four-Arms blindly, swinging high.

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Ben leaned backwards from the wild high slash, pushing one arm up so that he would push Devlin's arm blade to the side as he shot out his other two arms. "Devlin stop this!" growled the Tetragenesis. "This isn't you, you're wigging or something!"

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

Devlin was thrown off-balance as Ben pushed his arm away, which actually made it easier to avoid the counterattack. He sped backwards, taunting, "Too slow!" before unleashing another slew of flames.

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Diving into a roll, Ben crashed all four of his arms together, palms inwards to create a shockwave of force that careened towards Devlin. Hopefully it would disorient him enough.

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

Devlin staggered back from the shockwave, but it wasn't enough to tame his temper. It only served to make him angrier.

He charged again, shouting in rage.