Escape from NERVOUS

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<< Spellbinder begins to gasp for air ..coughing as she immediately sits up ...she see's Alison and finally HEARS her screaming at her...and as her vision sharpens she sees the Super Soldier rebounding from what must have been his latest round with Alison....>>

Guardian.....<< cough>> ....get up!!! << she struggles up to her feet with Guardian>>

I'm not done YET!

<< as she motions for Guardian to move away....Spellbinder takes hold of a MASSIVE metalloid column from one of the piles of wreckage...and RIPS IT away from its foundation....the sound of metal tearing and crackling electricity/energy can be heard violently errupting from the exposed cables and inner working of the mechanical column.....and in an impressive display of her physical strength, Spellbinder hefts the column lifting herself off the ground as she flies toward the Super Soldier>>

die motherfucker!!!

<< she shieks with pure irritation>>

<< she SLAMS the exposed end of the column into the body and face of the Super Soldier...the width othe column is large enough to totally encompass the monstrous creature as he is now BOMBARDED with raw power and energy from NERVOUS itself....his body convulses and shakes VIOLENTLY as he is barbequed, burned, irradiated all at once....his body catches on FIRE as sparks spit out from the column causing strobe like flashes to be seen around the area>>

<< continuing to ram the column into the creature...Spellbinder finally pulls back and spins her body around with the massive column. a low pitched sound of air splitting is heard as the column casts a long shadow even over the other members of the SIX as Spellbinder SLAMS it into the super soldier...broad siding him SO HARD a bone crushing CRACK is heard>>

Guardian....he's AIRBORN....do your thing with him!
 
:: Super Soldier's body is once again abused beyond the point any normal human male could survive. He violently convulses and some of the capillaries in his eyes even begin to rupture causing his eyes to "bleed". even as his body seems to lock up he is made airborn by a body breaking SLAM from the metalloid column wielded by Spellbinder. he is knocked violently and dizzyingly high into the air...and as he begins to free fall back down toward the floating platform he prepares to retaliate against Spellbinder first but his plan will not take place::
 
:: Guardian held her gloved hand out ...palm facing forward as a bell tolled and thunder CRASHED in the air::

have a nice ride, ASSHOLE!

:: a glimmering hint of the Alison that had been seen at ALexis' gala was manifesting as she LOCKED onto The Shape's body with her Telekinetic power::


:: she gestured like Prue and sent him flying, REELING across the length of the platform, HIGH over the heads of the reset of the six...but suddenly he stopped as if slammed into an invisible wall. he was flung the OPPOSITE way just as hard....as she gestured again ...and again and again......increasing the speed of the super soldier's body and his molecules....Guardian began to BATTER him as she subjected him to a vicious telekinetic equivalent of a being a ball locked in a pin ball machine. ::

:: up down, diagnal, side ways , zig zagged...slamming into machines, the floor, spun around....Guardian brutalized the super soldier's body and shattered his equilibrium and as he was flung about so viciously...it began to occurr faster and faster....soon the actual sounds of a pin ball machine could be heard as he looked like nothing more than a toy::


:: Spellbinder could be seen smirking with delight. the two witches were DEFINATELY pulling out all the stops to try to detroy this creature::
 
Haleigh watched over their shoulders, pacing anxiously back and forth as they erased the database. She continued to pilfer through wht they were deleting as she overrode the prompts and authorized each deletion. At some point she realized she had been detected... she zeroed in on what was identifying her and hacked the communications between Cameron and Vivica. She weighed her options, as she concealed the fact that she was listening in on their conversation. At this point, she could HIDE her scanning of the files from Vivica's detection.... but that would make her look suspicious and as if she was guilty. She could STOP filtering through them..... but that would ALSO make her look guilty AND she wouldnt see anything else... so she simply keep scanning them, as if there was absolutely nothing wrong or unethical about what she was doing.

The battle raged in the background, and everyone was making more than satifactory progress. Haleigh glanced round, surveying to make sure nothing was being left to chance.... she backed away from the group, glancing over her shoulder to check on Morgan and Alison.

"You guys keep going, your nearing the end... I'm going up to the observation bay... there's an access terminal that needs attention."

She picked up speed, jumping up the metal stairs two at a time, running across the mezzanine to the door into the bay.... it automatically slid aside for her... and she approached the executive access terminal with haste. She typed commands with remarkable speed, and from this terminal she could access features like the "self-destroy" defense features that protected Nervous from invasion if the upper levels of the facility sustained too much damanged. Haleigh smiled.... this feature would destroy the lab, including all the terminals, but the Harddrives were protected offsite. Cameron, Delilah, and Alexis were deleting the files from the Harddrive... so this self destruct feature would save them time and effort. Haleigh authorized the last few deletions as she prepared the self-destroy. Haleigh entered an override code and stepped back, a shotgun appearing in her hands. She sprayed the terminal with buckshot style rounds, destroying any chance for it to recover or reverse her commands and preventing it from being accessed in any way. Haleigh stepped out of the observation bay, smirking at the pinball sounds. it seemed Alison DID have some kind of sense of humor. the shotgun in her hand turned into a sniper rifle and Haleigh followed the shape with precision. She operated with machinelike speed and reflexes, so the moving target posed no extra difficulty... and after a few minutes of calculation, shot the super soldier in the back of the head with a thumb sized ARMOR-PIERCING round just as he changed direction once more. She lifted the gun back up and looked down at Alison and Morgan. The was a detached coldness in her demeanor and not a wisp of either happiness or sadness about her. She was operating on mere survival instinct.

"If you ladies are done playing around... Its time we shut down this arcade.... the defense sytems are set to self destruct in two minutes time... and its got enough power to wipe this particular geographic location off the MAPS."
 
[ MorningStar finished deleting the files in her section with a final Control - Delete. That was it. She turned, seeing what was left of the Super Soldier, and that Morgan and Alison appeared - at least on the surface - to be allright. Joining Haleigh, she said something that had been nagging at her. ]

"Are we sure we got it all? Are we sure there isn't a backup somewhere?"
 
:: Cameron looked over at Delilah. In their last encounter he really hadn't gotten to know her at all. She was a gorgeous woman but even without his telepathy he could tell that his boyish charm and swarmy lines wouldn't get him anywhere with her. ::

"I am in communications with a liasion with mine, she has a specialty with this kind of thing and from what she is telling me. We have everything. This is pretty much the brains of the operation. They would need a warehouse the same exact size in order to back up all this information..."

:: He cocked his head over at Haleigh and was almost shocked. He smiled deep down inside because it was those one liners and leaving the group in almost certain destruction that made him love her. ::

"Just like you Davidoff.. you were never one for dramatic goodbyes! Guess that is because you always seem to come back.."

:: He smiled at her. This was the first non argumentative moment they had since she returned in her new body. Looking at Alison and Morgan. ::

"Shouldn't we make sure this creature is dead though? Somehow I don't think a bullet is going to take care of him..."
 
"I think the massive explosion will take care of anything that's left of him...which reminds me, shouldn't we be making tracks out of here?"
 
"Oh, it's not JUST a bullet... its a small nuclear bomb." Haleigh said, her eyes leveling on the super soldier before she glanced back at Cameron, decending from the mezzanine steps to rejoin her group. "and you have to remember that this is a government black ops facility... the self-destruct feature is designed to remove all evidence that it EVER existed."

Haleigh looked over at Delilah, her gun returning to a pistol-handled shotgun, which she pumped to load once more out of habit. "Trust me... its hard enough to put something like this together... and on top of that... our government believes in grouping its assets together to make them easier to protect. If they keep it all in TWO places, they'll have to split their resources to protect both... but in ONE place... they can concentrate their efforts and put up one hell of a fight."
 
:: the shape had been totally brutalized by the two witches, Morgan's vicious counter attack followed by Alison's prolonged telekinetic/temporal attack were more than enough to have destroyed any lesser a creature...but even as the Super Soldier began to hemorrage internally and from his eyes and nose, he still did not die. Soon, an usual armor piercing shell was launched into the back of his head....a deadly accurate shot by the Black Widow but its immediate effects were seemingly minimal until Black Widow pointed out that it was a nuclear detonation device::

:: Alison let the shape fall HARD....landing at just the edge of the suspended platform over looking the nucleus of NERVOUS that was surrounding by matter/anti matter energy. he twitched violently but did not get up ...in fact he soon STOPPED moving...seemingly dead or inert for the moment. The Six were preparring to escape NERVOUS as time was now growing terribly short::
 
<< swooping down low and landing gracefully, a rushing wind could be heard and felt as Spellbinder spoke abruptly....>>

LISTEN!!

<< the sound of building up, rising up ....as the the whole expanse around them in all directions began to tremble....and the hue of the area began to rise from the natural colors to a hot red shade....>>

the core of NERVOUS itself....it seems to be growing unstable...and brimming....its defenses have been breached and its going to PURGE ITSELF!!

<< she directed the team to head back to where they had first landed when arriving in NERVOUS>>

we have to move!!

<< an alarm began to sound>>


NERVOUS: Well.....how rude! you've broken through our master computers encryption codes and security systems! No doubt made possible by Black Widow.....thats gratitude for you.

<<an obvious dig at Haleigh's connections to mystech/a.i.m via the government and her own agency Clandestine>>

<< just as the automatron voice system began to react to the gross breach of security...the virus unleashed by Black Widow began to ravage the computer's core...and the voice began to warp and change frequency...growing staticy as the mainframes began to spark and crackle..and consels exploded in cascading succession.....the crystaline tubes all around them began to RUPTURE and release the deadly flowing liquid energy which was now flowing on the the floors of the floating platforms and falling down to others...making the path of The Six's mad dash much more difficult>>

STAY ALERT everyone!! and keep moving!!!! we're almost at the check point!!

<< Morgan took to the air and began to fly over the group>>

<< they assumed that the Super Solider had been finished...that he would suffer the fate of NERVOUS.....and in their haste to escape with their lives...they had all but forgotten him.....an oversite they would come to regret....very shortly...as explosions, tremors and other meltdowns began to happen rapidly all around them....the scene soon became reminiscent of a technological HELL...with the temperature rising around them...making the air thick and harding to breathe>>
 
:: Hearing that obnoxious voice over the loud speaker once again, Alexis cringed. But as his voice began to warp and change frequencies, the brunette couldn't help but smile in satisfaction.[/b]

"Buh bye Mr. Moviephone."

Letting out a light laugh, Alexis became serious once again. This entire place was going to blow in less than two minutes, and they had yet another obstacle in front of them....well actually, surrounding them. Although Morgan wasn't directly effected by the liquid energy's path (seeing as how she was flying), Alexis took it upon herself to sprint up to the head of the group. This was, after all, her specialty. Holding her hand out in front of her, the liquid energy parted down the center, much like Moses parting the Red Sea. Beautiful electric blue liquid towered on all sides of the group, leaving them a direct path to the escape. But as the ruptured tubing continued to spew out the liquid energy, the strain began to take effect on Alexis. This Hive had so much energy in it, that not even Alexis' could overtake it. ::

"Keep moving! I can't hold it for much longer!"

:: Shouting to the others, she continued to run like a bat out of hell, down the straight away, following Morgan. ::
 
::running in perfect form, despite wearing stilletto heels, Alison felt the extreme heat even through her insulated, black leather body contouring suit. the entire core of Nervous was on the very of exploding and NERVOUS itself was shaking violently as meltdowns and explosions occurred in cascading effect all around them and on the various floating platforms::

::seeing that Shockwave was bravely attempting to hold back MASSIVE amounts of liquid energy to provide the group a path toward the check point, Guardian decided to help her out. She used her power over time to warp the temporal fields around the entire group...and soon EVERYONE was moving at extremely high speeds...leaving an image blur as they streaked down the path to the check point...she then altered the temporal field BEHIND them so that once the liquid reached the area...it would be SLOWED to the pace of a snail as it was warped in time.::

this will buy us even MORE time.

::the group was now in an area that was relatively calm compared to the areas closer to the core but the alarm was still sounding and the system wide failure would soon encompass all of NERVOUS and the Hive.::

::there was still something else...something very wrong and even as Alison began directing Black Widow, MorningStar , Shockwaveand Prophet through the bound disc....she turned. Morgan was bringing up the rear while flying...and she turned the other way...a feeling of dread washed over her and the expression was betrayed on her usually emotionless face. her cobalt blue eyes focused on a shadow enshrouded alcolve near by....::
 
<< landing down near Guardian and the disc.....everyone else had passed through>>

Alison, what is it? what's wrong??

<< she looked directly at her dear friend, knowing that she "saw" something....something that must be coming FAST.>>

we have to get out of here ...
 
::The Super soldier busts into view....having lunged out from the shadows and smoke from the approaching meltdown and explosion. his face mangled and dripping with blood. his stature immediately dwarfs the two witches as he cold cocks Morgan across the jaw SO HARD she's stunned and dazed as she hits the ground with a thud and slides a few paces away....laying dangerously close to a puddle of that liquid energy.......::

:: there's no time for them to react as he wastes no time as he bears down on Alison swings his other arm under and forward...SLAMMING his photon weapon, now in the form of a javeline THROUGH Guardian's abdomen....the photon javeline punctures through her back....as he PUSHES it in forcefully.::


::the Shape stands , seemingly triumphant , silent and without emotion as he clenches his fists and continues to breath hard and heavy. the place is falling, MELTING down and will soon explode, permanantly changing the subterranean geographcy of the arctic circle::
 
:: Cameron had passed through the disc when he felt an intense amount of pain in his abdomen which seemed to be poking out of his back. Something was terribly wrong as he picked himself up from the ground and instantly knew what was wrong. ::

"Alison! Morgan! The Super Soldier! He got them! I have to go back! I can't let them down again!"

:: Pushing himself back through the disc he was back in the place to see it melting around him and Morgan lying on the ground dangerously close to liquid energy. He put a protective force field around her body as he went over to the Super Soldier and his sister who was now impaled with the photon weapon. ::

"Get away from her you BOTCHED Science Project!"

:: Prophet lashed out with his mind repeatedly with the force of a freight train behind him each time. The telekinetic lashes not only blasted the Soldier back and back further but with his new aspect the invisible force seemed to be razor sharp as the force cut deep into him, much like when he used his ability to peel Alexis' skin off in the Citadle. He had lost it and his powers were being used much beyond his means of normal capabilities. ::

"STAY AWAY FROM THEM!"

:: The Super Soldier was strong but everybody knew that adrenaline was the strongest thing in the world and for somebody already capable of amazing feats, it was a deadly combination. The Super Soldier was hurled into a pool of the melting compound that was spreading around like wildfire. Cameron wouldn't leave until he saw the Soldier dead. Thinking for a moment, Prophet used the Shape's own Photon Weapon against him as he telekinetically reshaped it into the form of a Battle Axe and sent it to crush right into the head of the Super Soldier. He was out for blood. He looked over to his sister. Was she alright? ::
 
:: As Alexis and the others ran into the alcove and were ushered through the disc by Guardian, she immediatly put her hand to her head and stumbled out onto the snowy expanse. The energy within that room was outrageous, and her body was on overload. Collapsing to the floor in a heap, Alexis was passed out; her bodies way of telling her to calm the fuck down. She was out for the count...she was now laying on the snow covered expanse of the arctic...unaware that Guardian and Spellbinder had been attacked and badly hurt by the Super Soldier and were unable to get through the disc. ::
 
<< Spellbinder was trembling with fatigue and EXTREME physical exhaustion....having had exerted her strength to its utmost levels more so than ever before tonight...the super soldier's rush may have proven to be the straw that broke the camel's back. she lay on the floor, stunned, dazed and slipping into unconsciousness....but even through her blurred vision...she saw the horrifying site of Guardian being impaled by the photon javeline.....she tried to yell...but her jaw was broken..the shooting pain caused her to wince...as tears began to fall down her bruised cheek....she had been through so much tonight....and done so much....she couldnt fall NOW...not when Guardian needed her....>>


<< she tried to get up...but she just COULDNT...as her eyes widened with extreme agitiation and disorientation.....thunder rumbled in the air, although it was muffled by the explosions and crashing all around.>>

<< as she succumbed to the relentless feeling of physical faituge...and lay to the floor....a force field surrounded her. Prophet had come BACK through the disc to try to save them from the Super Soldier!>>

<< a valiant effort indeed. as Morgan's icy violet eyes fluttered... she lay on her side..unable to speak and unable to hardly move. she didnt faint....but tears did stream down her battle worn face>>

<<Prophet's powers had definately been enhanced due to Alison's foresight and the spell performed by Erika.....but he too had exerted himself quite a bit during this caper. although he was stronger now, the super soldier had proven that he was pretty much indestructible. having survived being severed in half by a stepping disc, blasted apart by Guardian, incinerated by lightning bolts and laser blasts from shockwave and morningstar....basically this creature had taken MORE than any human or even most SUPER human men could have taken and yet here he was...having subdued Spellbinder, maimed and possibly KILLED Guardian, Shockwave was now unconscious above ground on the snowy expanse...and now the group was faced with the possibility that they WOULD lose the two witches in the collapse of NERVOUS...just as Guardian had foresaw!>>


<< time was growing short...all the way around. and even the SUPER SOLDIER, who had a nuclear device implanted in his head, would soon test just how "indestructible" he is>>
 
[ Delilah glanced behind her and realized that Alison and Morgan weren't following...and then Cameron revealed why. She looked down at the unconcious Alexis then back behind her, deliberating. She knew that Morgan would tell her to help the others get to safety - to leave her behind if she fell. But she wasn't Morgan.

She looked up into the face of Haleigh - a silent communication of what she intended - and jumped back through the portal.

She saw Prophet, for once losing his cool - raining down pure malice onto the Super Soldier. And then her gaze moved to the fallen Alison, and then to Morgan struggling to get up off the ground. Both clearly NOT allright.

MorningStar drew up the remaining photon energy in the room, left over from the Super Soldier's weapons, and thrust her hands out in front of her, he eyes focused on the Super Soldier where he still struggled in the molten pool Prophet had put him in. A grid encased what was left of his body, pulsating, glowing. Hopefully it would keep him there until Haleigh's machinations went into effect and his ass was blown to hell - and until those of them that remained could escape.

She ran to where Morgan lay first and crouching next to her began to try to help her up. ]

"Morgan! Morgan, can you stand?"
 
Haleigh rushed through the disc, pivoting on her heel to wait for everyone else to follow.... but things fell apart so quickly, Haleigh hardly knew who to attend to first. Cameron went down, then turned back for Morgan and alison. Alexis fainted and didnt recover. Moringstar locked eyes with her, and Haleigh knew what she was going to do... leaving Haleigh with Alexis in the frozen tundra.

Haleigh made a step towards Alexis and stopped, then turned back towards the disc and stopped... she turned to look at Alexis' slumped form once more... it was clear she was debating what to do. She quickly pulled off her snow parka and draped it over Alexis to help her keep warm before dashing back into the disc. She hurried to Cameron and alison, kneeling beside Alison, her hand resting on the tip of the photon spear. It soon disappeared as Prophet used it against the soldier. Hales looked up at Cameron, frowning. She stood up to him, grabbing the collar of his shirt and pulling him down level with her face, commanding his attention.

"CAMERON! Pull yourself together man! Go help Delilah with Morgan, I'll get Alison... we've gotta get them OUT of here... i can't detonate the bomb until we are back on the surface... its destructive power is ATOMIC... there wont be anything LEFT down here... none of us can be around when it detonates! NOW GO!"

Haleigh gestured towards Morgan and gave Prophet a surprisingly powerful one-handed shove in that direction. She then knelt back down and checked alison's pulse... it was weak... she slide her arms under Ali's neck and knees and lifted her from the floor with ease, carrying her towards the disc, turning back to make SURE Cameron, Delilah, and Morgan were following. Hales eyes leveled on the super soldier. He was one tough cookie.... but Haleigh was about to spell his end... once and for all.
 
<<a tear streamed down her bruised face as Morgan pointed to her jawline....trying to indicate she COULDNT talk , as Delilah was helping her. as Delilah got a look at her face directly she could see just how HARD the super soldier had hit her...it was a very nasty site to behold. her legs felt like GRANITE....every muscle and bone in her body ached. as she struggled with pain to her feet...she buckled a few times....but it was clear to delilah that Morgan was going to struggle to the point of UNCONSCIOUSNESS if she had to>>


<< the two women struggled toward the disc...with help from Prophet. Morgan seemed more detatched from her surroundings than before...almost as if she were on auto pilot.>>

<< they ALL make it into the disc and are now back 100's of meters above ground....with Haleigh coming through carrying a maimed and near death alison. leaving the battered super soldier TRAPPED and on the verge of a truly large scale destruction>>

<< Even as Cameron and Delilah try to stead her, Morgan cant help but fall to the ground...as she can no longer stand....and as the winds and snow whistle and whip all around them. the area ALL AROUND them begins to tremble and shake violently...as if an earthquake is taking place. Haleigh could detect a massive surge of heat coming towards the surface....several ERUPTIONS would soon change the landscape of the arctic as the HIVE and NERVOUS were going into meltdown...but it HAD to be done.. Haleigh had only to DETONATE the device attached to the super soldier's head...and it would ALL be over in a technological blitzkreig>>

<< somehow that disc would have to be CLOSED to help LESSEN the amount of volcanic and nuclear BACKLASH that would reach the surface....and the group had to get to LIMBO at the moment of the detonation....But Morgan was fading fast...ready to fall into a COMA [unlike alexis who was merely temporarily unconscious.>>
 
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