The Rebirth of Veronica (Phase One)

[craaazyisland]

[ooc: PLOT POST IS HERE! Read it!]

He stalked through the hallways like a shadow, moving too quickly for anyone to keep a bead on him for long. There almost seemed to be a purpose in his movement as he made his way through the dark corridors of the ship, though it was impossible to tell where he was headed. Perhaps the young man whose body had been hijacked was exerting some kind of control, or perhaps Veronica was doing the driving.

Whatever the case, the Tyrant made his way to the City.

He emerged from the tunnels and into the wide open space, at last free of the cramped hallway. He took a few steps into the streets and sniffed the air, smelling human blood. He roared, a horrible and twisted noise, then headed into the streets.

She demanded they all bow to her. They were little more than prey for the Queen in the grand scale of things. These thoughts rang hollow in a primal mind, though, but he knew what he had to do.

They would all die.

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People in the City

[craaazyisland]

Hi, meatship! His name's Tyrant!Steve! What's yours?

Re: People in the City

[livingontheweb.livejournal.com]

Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, on his way to check out the Science Lab, had hitched a ride on Steve as he burst out of the doorway in his escape. Feet firmly stuck to the monster's back. weblines attached to its shoulders, the hero continued in his attempt to direct Steve's movement.

It wasn't working out too well.

"THIS WAS A BAD IDEAAAAAAH!"

Re: People in the City

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

He'd heard the warning over the communication devices some time ago. However, given that Renne knows so few people onboard, just who or what the warning had pertained to. Thus, he'd scoured as much of the ship as he cound to find out.

...which leads him to the City. Crawling as fast as he dares along the ground, the noises above have him both wary and confused. Still, with his Stone entrusted to his Bonded, Renne reminds himself that he has a duty. To this ship. To his Bondeds, to understand the crisis and deal with it accordingly.

The voice above him however, doesn't lend confidence. Hopefully said voice isn't about to fall. Renne makes a terrible catching-cushion.

"Eeee?"

Re: People in the City

[starlightace]

Steve might not notice the dancing pink light hovering near his head - or if he did, it wouldn't change anything. The image was relayed back to Nanoha all the same - and she took to the sky, zeroing in on the boy-turned-monster's location in the city.

"There you are... I've found you."

Nanoha had promised Miku and Luis she wouldn't act rashly, but... she had faith in her own monster-fighting skills. If she could capture Steve non-lethally before he hurt anyone else? So much the better.

[craaazyisland]

He didn't notice the light at all. Looking up was a bit difficult when your back was twisted downwards. Though that did make stalking for prey a lot easier, and the creature was rushing through the streets in search of the first unfortunate, squishy little humans who would be his victims.

[silverduelist]

Yzak Jule, who would really not be down with the whole "they would all die" thing. Yzak had caught Luis' warning over the omnicomms, and though he had no intention whatsoever to run around and seek the monster out to play the hero, he definitely kept it in mind. After all, with the constant looming threat of the Ohm, dangers from the inside were a hell of lot more annoying (and took away from their bigger problems). So they were best taken care of as soon as possible, and it seemed as though response to Luis' warning ensured that would happen soon enough. And Yzak was generally a pretty alert guy as it was.

He made his way through the city. His destination? Not very important, since as he wasn't aware of quite yet, he was going to be a bit deterred.

[craaazyisland]

"Deterred" was putting it lightly. Yzak had not made it far before some hulking, screeching horror came tearing out of the alley off to his left. He paused momentarily, stared the man down, then with a furious roar he lunged at him, clearly intending to smash him into the nearest piece of pavement.

Re: People in the City

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara had been helping Alex and Nanashi get the Outsiders headquarters ready, glad to have their help. She was hoping that Beastboy would contact her soon, and would help Nanashi start herding people in. She was bustling through the city when she felt the presence of something approaching. She looked up...and her mouth fell wide open.

She hadn't expected to meet this...thing, but there it was, and it was scary. What was worse was she recognized the person too: it was Steve, the bots he'd argued with a few months ago. She wanted to help with loading people into the hotel, but now she was concerned with what might happen with Steve. What if he was hurt, or hurt someone? He was already distrustful of the ship, imagine if something bad happened that he couldn't control?

She closed her eyes, and quietly brought some water from the river that was Haku's home. If she could somehow freeze him in place, maybe she could get help in getting him restrained, so that he could be contained in the med lab.

"Come on," she whispered. "Get a little closer."

[craaazyisland]

And closer he got, as he smelled someone nearby. He turned the corner and caught sight of the girl, staring her down with blood red eyes that showed nothing of humanity or intentions-- just primal, uncontrollable rage.

He roared at the girl and stomped towards her, claws poised to take her out.

Re: People in the City

[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

[NPC rights to Negi granted]

Re: People in the City

[magictrkswwater.livejournal.com]

"How about better idea: how about the both of you get out of here!" a voice shouted. Approaching the Kamen Rider was a very upset Irma. "Didn't you see that note? This isn't what you guys are used to. Well... whatever it is you're used to!"

Mentally, Irma sighed. This would have been a perfect time for some Guardian action.

Re: People in the City

[capture-worlds.livejournal.com]

Tsukasa was driving through the city when he saw Tyrant!Steve. After speeding up to intercept him, he looked at him and said, "Well...you look positively Lovecraftian."

Dismounting his bike, he continued with, "So...how shall we handle this?" He reached behind him and pulled out a white buckle: His DecaDriver. Placing it on his waist, a belt began extending around him, with a book (the RideBooker) appearing attached to his left. He reached down, and pulled open the buckle, a slot that was on the right side of it now moving to the top.

Pulling out a card, (http://media.photobucket.com/image/Decade%20card/guyveraxe/decade-card.png) he said, "Are you going to come quietly, or am I going to have to knock you unconscious first?"

Reversing the card and slotting it into his Driver, the belt rang out with "Henshin." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLoC3lkKsA) Tsukasa said, closing the buckle.

sounded out, and ten Grey versions of a suit with a "X" on the left side of its chest appeared in a semi circle around him. After converging upon Tsukasa, he was clothed in a black suit and helmet. Then, holographic cards appeared out of his buckle, moving toward his face and forming a crown. Magenta and white sections appeared on his suit, and his eyes "activated" with a green glow a second later.

Grabbing the RideBooker on the left side of his belt, he reached for the bottom and tilted the edge back forty-five degrees, transforming it into the RideBooker's Gun Form.

"Well?" Decade said, pointing the gun at him. "What say you?"

[craaazyisland]

ROAAAAAAAAAAR, say him.

The Tyrant was not particularly impressed by the fancy display, immediately charging and swiping to squash the human flat.

Re: People in the City

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

Jayne was barely aware of the Tyrant's rampage to be honest. He'd only heard about it through word of mouth in the bar and while he had no particular inclination to be a hero...he was just drunk enough to go looking for trouble.

So armed with his beloved gun "Vera" the muscular man wandered about the city with half a mind to find some abandoned building to take a nap in. That was how not worried he was about the concept of a single monster rumbling about the ship. After all he'd seen how much trouble could one monster be?

Re: People in the City

[leafonthewind]

Wash, on the other hand, paid attention to his omnicomm and knew there was a big nasty loose in the city. With that in mind, his first and most pressing goal was to get out of the city as quickly as possible, since he was not the heroic type and definitely didn't want to get mauled by a big nasty.

But his luck wasn't with him today. Not in the least. He walked past a side street and heard a low, threatening growl. Turning around slowly, he found himself less than ten feet away from something very big and very ugly.

"Son of a bitch...!"

Wash turned and ran. Oh look, there was Jayne. Jayne had Vera. "Jayne there's a thing shoot the thing! Run and shoot the thing!"

[sanguineroyal.livejournal.com]

Nanashi was willing to give the best one more chance before doing her best to pummel it into the ground. She left her swords with Katara to avoid the temptation of using them. Without them, she felt a lot more vulnerable, but she at least wouldn't be cutting anything of his off.

Landing on a roof near him, she called out as re-assuringly as possible, "Steve, we're all worried about you. Please, calm down."

[craaazyisland]

The Tyrant glanced up at the rooftop and his eyes narrowed at the sight of the woman who'd formerly escaped him. Her words seem to bounce off him meaninglessly, with only a vague tilt of the head at the name.

He stalked a little closer to the building.

Re: People in the City

[windyellow]

He knew it probably wasn't the greatest idea of his to go into the city, but he knew he was well suited to finding any injured and transporting them quickly. So hopefully he wasn't spotted. If Tori was here, she probably hurt Dustin for even thinking of this idea.

"Okay, Dustin. See if there's any injured and get out of here."

[craaazyisland]

Well, here was an injured guy. But he probably wasn't the kind of injured that Dustin was looking for.

He was quite tall and green, for one thing. He stalked out of a nearby alley and tilted his head at the human as though examining him.

Your move, tiny man.

In the Contagion Lab/Engineering

[craaazyisland]

So an innocent kid has been warped into a rampaging nine-foot monstrosity. What's the next course of action?

And does it involve a high-powered plasma cannon?

Re: In the Contagion Lab/Engineering

[governmentninja]

Damn right it involves a high-powered plasma launcher. Which is what Leon just arrived there to pick up, after he checked on a couple of people first.

"Claire, Luis!"

[notlewis]

Luis was the first one he ran into, leaning on a table with a makeshift splint and a bandage strapped to his badly bleeding right arm. The lab was looking a little worse for wear, with one of the tables smashed and all its former contents scattered all over the ground.

"We're all right. Just a little banged up."

Project Gunsmithery

[morphitudinous]

Over in the Engineering lab, the crew has their orders: build some type of weapon that will stun Steve and administer the suppressant. Preferably both in quick succession.

Since the orders were given, Billy had focused all his creative energy on imagining ways to build the weapon. Obviously the shot would need to be powerful enough to stun someone as large, energetic, and angry as Steve's new form. It would also need to act quickly, before the monster could retaliate.

With that in mind, he summoned any available engineers and frowned. "We don't have too long, but I have a few base designs. I have the injection covered, but I need help with the stunning mechanism."

RUNNIN' RUNNIN' RUNNIN'

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku scurried into the Hub carrying the suppressant gun that she'd only just gotten from Luis. Though she'd smiled and tried to look confident when she picked it up, she felt as transparent as glass. If she wasn't fast enough, there was a good chance that someone would go play Hero and kill Steve.

Maybe that's why her vision was tunneling to show her a path that would get her where she needed to be. She didn't know exactly where in the City Claire and Leon would be, and hoped that her arms wouldn't give out. Even though she was used to running around with photo equipment, it'd been months, and it was starting to pull on her arms. Miku stopped to catch her breath and adjust the gun.

Why couldn't there be just a little more time?

FLEEEEEEE FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

The Force was a strong, strange pull, and when it tugged insistently at Luke, he could not help but answer it. Perhaps it was tired of him brooding, though the nagging feeling in the back of his head was so insistent that he knew it had something to do with someone he was close to.

It hadn't taken long to figure out who.

He'd followed his instincts, as he had half a hundred times before. So when he saw Miku, holding a gun, Luke knew he was on the right track. "Miku!" he called out, jogging the last few steps. Even from a distance he could feel her urgency and her fear; the feelings spiked when he put a steadying hand on her shoulder, then subsided as he pushed them away for the time being. "Miku, what's going on?"