» Attention Rookies: Zero, Chapter 3 - A successful bench test.

Several days after defeating Electron Echidna...
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Alia was at the front of the briefing room again. On the screen behind her there was an image of the outskirts of the city. Red warning lights flashed and blinked while an arrow tracked the source of the disturbance.

She waited until the team was assembled before starting.
"Alright Hunters. We've just picked up the signature of a maverick roaming around the outskirts of the city. We lost sight of the maverick once it entered a small forest, but they're still out there. We don't know what they're up to. So we need you to go investigate. Locate that maverick and put a stop to whatever plans they had."

With that the team was set off, onto the mission though the teleporter.

The hunters arrived on the edge of the city a split-second after entering the teleporter. The edge of the city was rather plain, an industrial district on one side with the other being a residential section giving way to a forest. Meaning the area was rife for hiding spots for a maverick. Making an ambush a high probability...

The hunters looked around, then without warning a massive noise resounded through the area. Emanating from the forest area. The sound was like a massive gun being fired, either a huge rifle or an even bigger artillery type weapon.

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Back at hunter HQ...
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Various hunters were milling about in the secretarial area. Some were talking about various work matters. Things like the budget, new recruits, incident reports. Others were more inclined to talk of a more personal matter...
"Hey, did you hear what Jonas did the other day?" One female reploid started. Another nearby turned and looked at her.
"No, what'd he do now?" she replied. The other reploid giggled before replying.
"He took a land chaser out..." She started.
"Oh no." Exclaimed the other secretary, interrupting the first.
"He wrecked it. Apparently he was chasing a maverick and instead of stopping when the maverick stopped, he plowed right into the maverick. Apparently they were picking bits of that maverick up for miles." The secretary gave a short laugh. The other laughed but then stopped.
"Hey... do you hear that?" She asked. A whistling sound was growing louder each second.
"Yeah, probably just another one of those hunters from the flight division out practicing again. You know how they love to do stunts while we're watching."
"But this doesn't sound like that..." The other secretary replied. They both pressed their faces to the nearby window to look out. Then the window exploded inward. A massive projectile caught the two secretaries and tore them apart. The circuits of their bodies exploded out from them and clattered on the floor behind them. The projectile then struck the ground and exploded. A thick brown fluid was shot out from the explosion, it covered the two secretaries, among other reploids that weren't fortunate enough to duck behind a desk or other cover, then hardened.


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Back on the outskirts of the city...
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"Hunters... Hunter HQ is under attack by long rang bombardment. The shot was fired from close by where you're located. It must have been that maverick. Hurry and locate them."

Soon a light touched down to the outskirts and the hunters emerged from the light. Among them were Brooks and Charsi.

"It looks like we got some work to do." As Brooks looked around some mettool commandos showed up in rows as if these mechanaloids were actually waiting for the hunters.

"Oh how cute." 'This will be an easy day today." Charsi drew out her blade and her saber ignited in a pink color.

"Hmmm this doesn't feel right." "This is a little too organized." "Whoever is behind this is a bit of a strategist..."

Ami had been leaning against a wall beside the door, eyeing his future comrades as they rushed off for the mission. He knew he was to join them, just the matter of getting the official word.

With the last of the hunters gone, Ami waltzed over to Alia. "Did you want something, ma 'am?" He asked. "Mirai. Signas has resolved your issue. Effective immediately, your unit is disbanded. You've been assigned to this new unit--Signas hasn't placed any authority on the team, but Scopes relays information to and from us as well as through the team, so the team does have some level of stability." Alia responded. Half-interested, Amu gave a distant nod before turning away. "Mirai? I'm sorry for your losses." Alia stated, her formal manner disappearing for merely an instant. Ami turned back to give a faint nod, this time complimented by a hollow smile, before heading out.

It was never easy losing allies in battle. The leader of Ami's old unit was merely a rookie with promise he never got the chance to deliver. It was only a few weeks ago that their leader had been KIA'd. Under Ami's command the team had lost several more under hectic contact and bad intel before Signas set the team on haitus. And now the order had been given. But there was no need two dwell on the past; Ami himself preffered the outcome. A field of lavender light disrupted Ami's thoughts and beamed him out.

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Vyper, in a desperate act of survival, dodge-rolled out of the way, barely dodging the thunderous crack of.....nothing? Artillery? Military-grade ordinance? from afar. Vyper didn't see the round in action but the sound spoke tons for itself. "Why in hell's name were we transported in reach of an artillery cannon?!" Vyper radio'd to the public out of rage. She gave a hard turn towards her crew. Worst case scenario? The opposition caught frequency, locked coordinates on their position, and was ready to strike. Vyper suddenly found the group of her allies repulsive and nothing short of a death-trap. Lowering on all fours, Vyper sprinted with haste towards the treeline...

V had left, giving H a lot to think about, as well as a job he wanted H to complete within the next few days. And H surprised himself with his willingness to comply, it wasn't like him. And yet, V had given H no reason to fear, he'd acknowledged H's need for privacy and asked very little of him. Still, most people weren't obvious when they were planning on screwing you over, H thought, conceding that he'd still have to be guarded. Still, if what V said was true then a brotherhood with a group of reploids like himself did seem enticing.

The next couple of days passed without incident, until H was summoned by the Hunters for another mission. Something about mavericks gathering on the edge of the city. Could've just been a scouting party, and it made sense that the hunters would send someone stealthy like him to find out what they were dealing with.

H warped in on the edge of the industrial district. The forest was close by, and if there were mavericks out there it was a good bet that they'd see the hunters before the hunters saw them. Wanting to avoid becoming a target, H quickly engaged his invisibility and made for the trees in the distance. Suddenly a massive burst of energy ripped through the air, H couldn't see it which was good in that it wasn't aimed at him, but something was getting shelled hard. The answer came almost immediately as a frantic navigator informed hunters in the area that the target was in fact HQ.

More hunters were warped in in response, including members of H's team. At this point shots ripped out of the trees towards the new arrivals, catching one generic green hunter off guard and ripping him apart. The shots were followed by a wave of mettools which shambled out of the forest to engage the hunters while the gunners could pick them off.

H knew the hunters would suffer heavy losses as long as they were stuck in the open, they had to get to the trees. Trusting that most of them could handle the mettool army, H slipped around them and made for the gunners in the forest. As he tramped through the brush a maverick gunner took notice of the breaking twigs and split off from his group to investigate. Fortunately H was aware of him as well, and waited in the brush for the maverick to approach. When he was close enough, H tripped him quietly with a large stick and drove a knife into the back of his neck. He stood up, still cloaked. The group of mavericks hadn't noticed anything, their focus was still on the struggling hunters. There were five, too many to take out alone, even if their backs were to him. He'd have to get creative. Projecting an image of the maverick gunman he'd just killed, H called out to the group "Hey, I need help over here!"

As expected, two of the group turned to follow H as he led them out of sight and drew his knives. The pair followed the hologram blindly as H crept in from behind and silently assassinated both. He'd rinse and repeat.

As he crept back to the remaining three mavericks he must have made some noise because one turned and yelled, "Don't tell me you need more help you spineless drones?!"

H reacted, hurling two more knives. One struck a maverick's throat, instantly killing him, but the other only made it into the second's shoulder. Growling, the maverick pulled out the knife, looking around for the unseen attacker. He sprayed fire around carelessly to no effect, and motioned to his last comrade to retreat. The maverick was motionless for a moment, until it raised it's weapon without warning and sprayed its partner with energy shots. H deactivated his slicer and without input the last maverick fell to the dirt. H knew that there were most likely more groups of mavericks roaming the forest, but hopefully he'd created the chance the other hunters needed to reach tree cover.

As H dissappeared Brooks couldn't help ,but remember himself in his prime. Soon he remembered someone he had forgotten about whom he thought would never come up. The words "Hey, Knives" echoed in his thinking. At that point the mettool commandos began to march in closer towards the hunters.

Charsi was on the move with her saber ready charging through the masses cutting the mechanaloids down without so much as a sweat.

Soon the other hunters followed after Charsi firing their numerous weapons. Only Brooks stayed behind feeling something wasn't right. "There was no way these mechanaloids would simply just march towards their destruction." he though to himself.

Then the ground shoke causing the hunters to stumble.

Charsi fell over on her butt. "Eeek!" "What now?"

The grounds started to open up and a hissing sound could be heard

Brooks turned on his visor and he was reading some unknown nanite life signs. "Get out of there!"

Brooks shouting couldn't be heard due to the noise.

Charsi tried to stable herself ,but the shaking was intense and kept her off balance.

Soon the hole got bigger and a giant snake head emerged from the hole. The snake mechanaloid hissed loudly. Some of the hunters were in a panic.

"Great I knew something wasn't right." Brooks bites down on his teeth. "Its a giant pit viper alpha ,but this one was different from your average one." Brooks continued scanning and detected another set of nanite life signs from with in the mechanaloid's head. "Wait." "There appears to be another set of nanite life signs ,but these were a mutosreploids nanites."

Then the mechanaloid stopped hissing and up top of its head a huge hatch opened up and soon something was coming up ,but it was hard to tell what was exactly coming up do to the sheer size of that mechanaloid.

This post has been edited by randomdrifter865: Aug 4 2011, 08:36 PM

Ami made little effort to maneuver his way out of the fresh blend of chaos. It took only nano seconds to realize what was happening....but the mere fact that it was sank Ami's heart. Hunters arriving to the scene were picked off by bursts of energy dropping in from afar, making the engagement with the mettool platoon more tedious than need be. A few hunters even suffered direct hits from the opposition. "Commander Signas...no." Ami mumbled as he shook his head. `Multiple insertion points could've prevented this ambush...`

Ami snapped back into reality in time to brace for a minor earthquake. And soon enough, the cause for such tremors erupted from the earth, sending an unfortunate hunter skyward in the process.

Ami's thumb had been placed in an insert point of his pistol. Plasma surged around the gun in a dazzling violet radiance. The gun was toted in the snake's direction. "rrrrrrrrnno more!!" The boy reploid cried as he let loose a succession of three shots: A rather large plasma shot with two plasma pellets shadowing it. Ami's trigger finger proved to be fast, as all three shots slamed the foe as though they were one.

The snake bucked against the shot, and shrugged it off as it turned to face the boy. Now the mettools listed him as a higher priority enemy and sent a hail of pellets his way. As if that weren't enough, the snake mechaniloid opened a hatch to reveal a heavy auto cannon. The turret aligned itself in Ami's direction and spat a berrage of pounding ground-breaking energy fire. Two energy volleys from two different angles. Ami decided to chance the mettool volley.

Shots stung him hard, denting up his armor something fierce before the mettools returned to attacking everyone. A crude crater lay where Ami was, all thanks to the auto cannon--he made the best choice he could, apparently.

Artillery was still ruining chances of success. Ami kept his distance, picking off mets while keeping a wide eye for raining energy bursts...
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Taking to the trees had served its purpose well for Vyper. Her orange color scheme would easily be picked out from the trees, but luckily the mecha plants had replicated the autumn effect, taking on hues of oranges, reds, and yellows. Vyper had also kept to the relatively thicker branches to reduce noise and tree motion. Several enemy units had marched by without a fuss, so it was obviously working. A few even had the courtesy to drop dead!

Vyper knew the cause--she had seen it for the third time now, and had made sure to slow down a bit to stay in the vicinity of the... 'ghostly kill-zone.'

Or at least, until another unit had made themselves known by trecking through bushels of fallen leaves quite noisily. They were a little further off, sparing a bit of time before they could take notice of the invisible one's massecre.

Vyper leapt from branch to branch quietly as the group of five inched near. The armblades of hers were unhooked and prepped for contact. Two had busters--they appeared weaponless. The others had beam sabers. "A quick silencing for the noise makers." Vyper muttered under her breath. Before she leapt down to assault them.

Vyper became an acute arrow lancing down upon the figurehead with her feet. The carapece armor of the maverick crunched in under the force, scrapping the inner engineering of the 'roid. The two mavericks beside him were caught unawares and easily taken: The head of the last gunner was lopped clean off with a swipe befor Vyper spun around to pierce each side of the reploid's rib cage. She hoisted the maverick up and sent a deadly thrust-kick to rid her blades of the trash. The last two had, by this time, ignited their sabers and gone on the offensive. Vyper blocked and parried each crude swing they delivered. `A farcry from the child.`

Seeing a split-second opportunity, Vyper sumersaulted backwards to gain distance. The blades of hers were tossed high into the air. Two energen knives developed within her hands and she swung them fiercely. One made its mark in a 'roids head, dropping him instantly. The other reploid, however, had made a rather foolish down swing in an attempt to hit Vyper, ironically sparing his life further. The energen blade pierced though his fingers and into the hilt, rendering it useless. A growl, part anger and mostly pain, escaped the maverick's mouth--The last thing he could vocalize. Vyper batted the foe's head, allowing her claws to rend it to scrap.

Vyper paused for a moment while the wind carried a light sheet of leaves across the destroyed roid bodies. Looking up, she had found her blades lodged into some upper branches. Vyper sunk her claws into a tree and began scaling. 'Those mavericks submitted to the heat of the moment instead of calling for backup. They must have been heading to the bombardment area to clean up the hunters. They likely also assumed none would make it this far just yet. Foolish mavericks.`

Vyper collected and reattached her blades before moving on. The deafening cracks of their cannons were getting louder...

While Brooks was scanning he heard Ami's shout and then saw the shots fired towards the snake getting its attention in the process. Soon Ami was swarmed by the mass volly of the mettool shots and soon the snake fired a shot. On Brooks visor he started to pick up Ami's nanites and lifesigns he was doing fine ,but the shots from the mettools severely damaged his armor. He pushed a button on his arm top computer and soon medic cure was transmitted over to Ami's Nanites leaving four charges left.

Brooks knew Ami fairly well ,but never liked seeing him overexert himself. Despite being a kid Reploid Brooks understood how Ami's mind thinks which is that of a strategist ,but with a heart that cares for his comrades. Brooks was angry and drew out his knuckle blade and moved forward towards the snake hoping to give Ami some breathing room. He also detected Charsi's nanites while running and she was a bit dazed by the tremors ,but was fine for she managed to get out of the way of the snakes grand enterance and attention. Though while communicating with her nanites she wasn't to happy to fall for such a trap that she should of realised sooner ,but Brooks was unsure granted he was already dealing with some issues affecting his mentle psyche serveral days prior.

Brooks tried that new technique he obtained from the battle with Echidna it was called Static Pulse. His knuckles began to produce electricity on his weapon. Brooks then jumps up into the air towards the snake aiming for its face. "Static Pulse!" Brooks whole fist ignited with yellow energy and it made its mark leaving a decent dent on the snakes face causing it tremendous pain.

Soon the mettools turned around and began targeting Brooks which Brooks hoped for. He clinged on to the back of the snakes head and the mettools did the rest of the damage for him. "Yeah!" "That's right fire on snakey!"

The snake started to get really angry and began moving rather violently trying to get Brooks off ,but Brooks simply hung on tight. Soon serveral hunters began firing rounds on the snake from their busters and bazookas causing more damage.

Brooks smiled ,but his job wasn't over with this snake. He still detected mutosreploid lifesigns from with in the snake. He felt he could punch a hole ,but right now the snake is moving around rather violently. "As much as I thought this was great idea..." "It just became a big hassle for me." "I'm getting dizzy..." Still he holds on for dear life.

This post has been edited by randomdrifter865: Aug 5 2011, 01:27 AM

Serah arrived to the battle field slightly later than the others. But she still was present for the resounding crack of the high powered canon that went off. She was going to say something but decided just to get out of the open area first. She ran towards the industrial complex. The forest was slightly further away, plus she figured she'd stick out pretty badly in the forest.

She had just made it to the industrial sector when a minor earthquake split the ground. The mechaniloid snake popped up from the ground. If things weren't bad enough an army of metools were marching towards the other hunters. Serah decided to give some cover fire with her buster. A few shots struck the snake from afar, but nothing really damaging for it's heavy armor. With her shots not being very effective, Serah turned to some of the metools. She could certainly give them something to think about.

She unleashed a blast at one metool which ripped right through it's softer body. A second metool had enough time to clamp down so it's powerful helmet armor negated the shot. Serah unleashed a different blast then... A diffusion wave which caught the metool while it was down and covered it in a layer of ice. Which proved more than enough to prevent that metool from being able to stand back up.

Meanwhile Ami's shots were more effective on the giant snake. Brooks made his charge to the snake and delivered a hit to it.

Though Serah was still more focused on helping abate the metool army. Ice blasts caught two more metools and pinned them down. Their numbers seemed not to be dwindling all that much.

Serah decided to try a bit of a heavier weapon... She engaged her missiles and fired several of them. The metools ducked onto the ground at the sight of the slower moving missiles, but thankfully Serah had decided not to aim directly at them. She had aimed at the ground in front of them. The missiles struck ground and burrowed in a good foot. Just enough to get under the metools. Serah remotely trigger the missiles and they exploded upward, sending the metools flying skyward, their undersides ruined but contained in the helmet, with a fairly large blast of dirt.

Serah turned again to look at the snake, with her missiles ready she wanted to unleash a few into its side... But the massive snake was thrashing about with Brooks riding it.

"Hey Brooks... when it thrashes next, let go. Let it fling you to safety so I can get a clear shot at it..." Serah called out.
No sooner than she spoke, another thunderous crack resounded. The shot from the end of the artillery moved quickly, it struck Hunter HQ only slightly later.
Serah winced, though she felt a slight bit of relief that she wasn't actually in the building. She had to push that thought out of her head to focus on the mission.

Brooks still hanging on managed to get off when he heard serah ,but sadly his landing wasn't exactly pleasent as he pretty much face planted in a wall nearby Serah's location. "Ser..." It was hard for him to speck clearly. "Serah...." N-next t-time I do-o something crazy like that..." "Please say no..." He was dizzy ,but managed to get out fine despite taking a severe face plant having his face smashed in a little... Unfortunately he didn't see or hear the blast to HQ as he was kind of occupied of being face planted into a wall...

His communicator goes off and Midea's voice pops up.

"Brooks are you okay?"

"I'm fine just a little broken in the face ,but its manageable..." "Whats up?"

"Hunter base was shot by an artillary strike further ahead of you location." "Do you think you can get there?"

With a sigh "Unfortunately the way things stand out I'm pinned down with several of my teamates trying to get passed what appears to be a custom built giant pit viper alpha and I have detected mutosreploid life signs from with in the mechanaloid."

"Mutosreploid life signs?" "Well... according to our database there is no record of any custom built giant pit viper alpha ever being made so it must be a underground job."

"Does the database say if there any mavericks who would operate such a contraption?"

"Going on the database there only a few possible pilots ,but two of three were already caught and retired." "The only one on list thats still at large is..." "Oh my..."
"It has to be him Brooks."

"Ummm your not making sense Midea..." "Whats wrong?"

"I'm sorry ,but the pilot of that mechanaloid is the maverick Trap Scorpion."

"Thats not good..." "Trap Scorpion has been in top of our database for years and no hunter has ever caught him, but judging from the battle so far he isn't running the show because Trap Scorpion doesn't like working with other mavericks." "Let alone be up in the frontlines like this." "He is known for his abillity to use deception in strategy." "He is considered a brilliant trap tactician as his name monicker suggests."

"Midea please send out a warning to all hunters that Trap Scorpion is here and should be warned of potential traps up ahead."

"I will do that Brooks." "Midea out." The comm shut off and Brooks was deeply worried.

Soon Midea's message rang across the feild all over the communicators of hunters who had their comms turned on and the warning was spread out.

Still the hunters currently fighting the snake remained to keep the snake focused on them along with the vast mettool army.

Charsi finally was able to return to the fray taking down multiple mettool commandos with her sharp energy saber.

OCC: The maverick mentioned isn't going to fight in person so I imagine the real boss is somewhere with the artillery I think.

This post has been edited by randomdrifter865: Aug 12 2011, 09:08 PM

"Not like I had much of a say... You kinda jumped on that thing a bit impulsively." Serah responded.

Though with Brooks safe, she readied her buster again. The snake reared up, readied for another strike.
The sound of metal clanging then the horrific whine of metal being burrowed into filled the air. Though the Auger missiles didn't manage to bit very deep into the armor, they still managed to stick in. Just long enough for the powerful explosives to go off. Some of the massive snake's armor was ripped away from the body, sending a spray of metal shrapnel flying into the ground.

The snake itself struck the ground, the force of the explosion having unbalanced it.

"Yeah, that did it." Serah shouted enthusiastically. Though her happiness turned to annoyance when the snake started to get back up again. The armor gone, but it's metal skeleton visible through the holes in it's body.
"What is it going to take to kill this thing..." Serah asked, a bit of exasperation showing in her voice.

Then a yellow wave of energy impacted the now open segment of the snake. It's skeleton was cleaved clean through. The body sparked a bit while the dead of the snake fell to the ground.
"Really? A giant snake? That's the best he could come up with?" A female voice called out incredulously.

Serah turned to locate the source of the voice. She found the source...
Standing on the underside of a metal catwalk was a female reploid in black armor. Her face was clearly visible, though upside-down her hair stood on end. Even still the woman was recogniseable to those that had seen her face before.

Black cape dropped to the ground, her hand struck the ground first and she used it to push off so she could land on her feet.
"Hiya hunters. Fancy meeting you here." She stated once she was right side up, then she struck a fighting stance.
"Ready for round 2?" She asked.

OOC:
Black cape appears again! With new armor this time.

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General Information
Character Image: (Not necessary)

Name: Black Cape
Species: Reploid - Old generation
Gender: Female
IQ: 134
DOB: March 12th
Birth Place: (Rumoured) Okinawa, Japan
Residence: Mobile
Occupation: Thief
Alignment: None (is a thief... only works for money.)

Normal Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125lbs
Skin Color: white, slight tan.
Eye Color: Unknown
Hair Style: Long black hair.
Other features:

Armor description - Note: This is not Black Cape's true form.
Head – Nothing.

Chest/torso – Black Cape's body is jet black with a heavy, but plain looking black chestplate. On the back are 4 small arms that are retracted into the armor and extend when needed.

Arms – Black Cape's arms are also black, with a visible grey seam along the top and bottom of the arm.

Legs – Black Cape's legs are black but have several grey seams.

Weapons: Buster, extra arms.
Other/Items: None.


Basic Stats
Speed – 6
Strength – 2
Defense – 4
Dexterity – 9
Skill limit – 6
Skill level – 9
Constitution – 4

Special Attacks:

• Black Capper - Black Cape's buster fires an orb of black electro-static energy. The orb moves extremely quickly and causes those struck by it to be repelled from others.
• Wide Cutter - Black Cape's buster opens up at the wrist to form a W like shape with the buster. Energy charges at the back, then releases in a wide spray. The attack is fairly slow, though it is powerful.
• Extra Arms - Black Cape's extra arms come online and she can use them to slash with their sharp claws or to fire energy beams.
• Appendage Taser - With the extra arms active, Black cape charges them with electricity, allowing them to shock opponents on contact.
• Magnetic grip - This power allows Black Cape to charge her boots so she can walk on anything metal... Vertically or horizontally.
• Hyper jump - The seams on Black Cape's legs open and emit an electric charge. This propels her upwards extremely quickly and quick far. Though it takes a bit of time before she can do it again.

Miscellaneous

Special abilities or talents: Black Cape is a master stealth artist, able to use the shadows to move and hide about in.

Weaknesses: None.

Theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6YDUnYqHs (Cyborg Ninja Theme - MGS: Twin Snakes)

Personality: Black Cape doesn't care for anyone or anything that isn't the target/objective. As long as there's money involved then Black Cape will do just about anything. Given that the whole reason for Black Cape's existence was to steal things... this could be due to a flaw in the hardware, poor choice of "upbringing", bad hardware design or simply Black Cape's own decision.

Back Story: Black Cape was created years ago in Japan by a wealthy business executive. The executive suspected that his company was being robbed blind by an opposing corporation but there was never any proof to link them to the crimes. So the executive decided to try sending a reploid to rob them. Hoping that when the reploid got there it would find the tech and objects belonging to the executive's company. Thus implicating the company...

While Black Cape enjoyed the prospect of stealing, it didn't care enough to bother returning to the company that created it. Instead it ran off and became a rogue thief. The original company however was implicated in the break in and was investigated where they found that an employee had been stealing and selling company secrets to the competitors.

General Information
Character Image: (Not necessary)

Name: Black Cape
Species: Reploid - Old generation
Gender: Female
IQ: 134
DOB: March 12th
Birth Place: (Rumoured) Okinawa, Japan
Residence: Mobile
Occupation: Thief
Alignment: None (is a thief... only works for money.)

Normal Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125lbs
Skin Color: white, slight tan.
Eye Color: Unknown
Hair Style: Long black hair.
Other features:

Armor description - Note: This is not Black Cape's true form.
Head – Nothing.

Chest/torso – Black Cape's body is jet black with a heavy, but plain looking black chestplate. On the back are 4 small arms that are retracted into the armor and extend when needed.

Arms – Black Cape's arms are also black, with a visible grey seam along the top and bottom of the arm.

Legs – Black Cape's legs are black but have several grey seams.

Weapons: Buster, extra arms.
Other/Items: None.


Basic Stats
Speed – 6
Strength – 2
Defense – 4
Dexterity – 9
Skill limit – 6
Skill level – 9
Constitution – 4

Special Attacks:

• Black Capper - Black Cape's buster fires an orb of black electro-static energy. The orb moves extremely quickly and causes those struck by it to be repelled from others.
• Wide Cutter - Black Cape's buster opens up at the wrist to form a W like shape with the buster. Energy charges at the back, then releases in a wide spray. The attack is fairly slow, though it is powerful.
• Extra Arms - Black Cape's extra arms come online and she can use them to slash with their sharp claws or to fire energy beams.
• Appendage Taser - With the extra arms active, Black cape charges them with electricity, allowing them to shock opponents on contact.
• Magnetic grip - This power allows Black Cape to charge her boots so she can walk on anything metal... Vertically or horizontally.
• Hyper jump - The seams on Black Cape's legs open and emit an electric charge. This propels her upwards extremely quickly and quick far. Though it takes a bit of time before she can do it again.

Miscellaneous

Special abilities or talents: Black Cape is a master stealth artist, able to use the shadows to move and hide about in.

Weaknesses: None.

Theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6YDUnYqHs (Cyborg Ninja Theme - MGS: Twin Snakes)

Personality: Black Cape doesn't care for anyone or anything that isn't the target/objective. As long as there's money involved then Black Cape will do just about anything. Given that the whole reason for Black Cape's existence was to steal things... this could be due to a flaw in the hardware, poor choice of "upbringing", bad hardware design or simply Black Cape's own decision.

Back Story: Black Cape was created years ago in Japan by a wealthy business executive. The executive suspected that his company was being robbed blind by an opposing corporation but there was never any proof to link them to the crimes. So the executive decided to try sending a reploid to rob them. Hoping that when the reploid got there it would find the tech and objects belonging to the executive's company. Thus implicating the company...

While Black Cape enjoyed the prospect of stealing, it didn't care enough to bother returning to the company that created it. Instead it ran off and became a rogue thief. The original company however was implicated in the break in and was investigated where they found that an employee had been stealing and selling company secrets to the competitors.

Vyper had upped her travel pace since her first contact with opposition. She had eluded the eye of other patrols, but they were relatively few in number anyway.

The forest had come to an abrupt stop. The trees had been cut clear of the way, revealing a massive round clearing. Most lumber was tossed away to the perimeter of the area; the rest was scortched away along with the ground, only leaving berren earth for the site.

Vyper was in a tree behind the last tree before the clearing, and a sniper was purked right on a thick branch. Artillery covered the abrupt sound of her lunge from her spot to the sniper. A hand smacked the foe's top, claws embedding into wherever it could. With a forceful yank back, the huntress exposed the maverick's neck and ripped out everything essential for screaming. Little resistance was left, and the head was snatched off. The width of the tree and the constant artillery bombardment hid the corpse's decent to the ground well. The maverick's rifle, for what is was worth, stayed.

And there it was: the thunderous cannon smacked right into the center of the area. It was little more than a giant husk of whirling machinery with a berrel outstretched for the sky. Thick cables linned the rim of the machine before spreading out to rush-built generators. `Twelve in total,` Vyper counted. Overall, it had a vague resemblance to HQ's own Enigma cannon.

A massive terminal sat fused to the hull of the cannon, providing a keyboard and various monitors. And using it to serve death from afar was an ill-armored reploid. He wasn't alone. Two mavericks stood guard. Beyond that, several patrols circled the area. Some were equipped with massive battlized hammers, others had deactivated saber handles or nothing--or rather, hidden busters. A few had even toted miniguns.

Vyper took a deep breath. Escaping the scenario alive was now just a dream. This should have shaken her to the core. But a rush of excitement filled her bosom. An urge to kill and destroy. Like with Echinda. She held the rifle acquired from the maverick steady, and peered into the scope focused on the artillery 'roid. Chaos; That was going to be the result of this shot. Vyper welcomed it with the roid's execution.

Scraps of reploid cranium wizzed by the guards. They made a casual turn. A few seconds flew by. And now their heads darted around for answers. With the redundant booming ceasing, Several more shots could be heard, dropping other snipers of the area. Everyone was now focused on Vyper. Warcries erupted, only to be drowned out by a wave of energy fire. Ammo spent, the rifle was left behind as Vyper leapt for other branches. The tree was horrifically rendered apart within seconds and the wave of fire trailed after her. Camoflauge did nothing to help her now. Her armor blazed over with fiery pink energy as her hypermode was aroused. Using a thick slanted branch, her dash function boosted her high into the air. A calm blue trail of energy followed her feet. Vyper was gliding! With enough speed to stay away from that wave of death, no less. Vyper banked around the perimeter and in towards the cannon. To her anticipation, The fire lessened. Now the melee mavericks closed in.

Vyper stopped on the mouth of the cannon and sprinted down the slope. The guards brandished their vibrant energy sabers and rushed for her. As the gap closed in, Vyper leapt into the air. Crystalizing a couple of knives, Vyper turned just in time to see,...an energy clone of herself violently explode, rending the guards unto scrap? The cannon suffered a crater on its hull from the impact. Was that her? Vyper wasn't even aware of her abilities in hypermode. Whatever she did looked mighty useful.

Vyper turned around in time to see a hammer upswing her into the air. A quick desperate block and the blades on her arm absorbed much of the impact, but were shattered. Her guantlets were chipped and cracked too. A backflip occured before her dash function brought her down to the hammer 'roid. A quick formation of a crystal arm sword was run trough his mass, ending him. The crystal blade exploded harmlessly, releasing Vyper from the corpse. A few backflips, and the Huntress was at the artillery terminal. Several dozen mavericks closed in...
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It wasn't by much, but the mass of mettools were lessening. Ami excersized perfect timing between picking them off, dodging artillery fire via a series of escape rolls, and avoiding the snake. But they were still at a disadvantage. Frustration built up in Ami's core. Just then, The snake died. Its destruction was hard for his busy eyes to miss. "Awriiight! Way to go--" Ami was cut off by the thief's introduction. "An enemy? As long as it's a replacement and not an addition!" Ami returned through comms. Another artillery shot slammed into HQ, and then one more for a small group of unfortunate hunters. "Can some one do ANYTHING about this infernal bombardment?!" Ami radio'd with shuddering frustration.

And the firing ceased. Hunters looked up with growing curiousity. "Well I'll be doused in eternal youth...It's gone?" The kid muttered. With that, he turned toward the new opposition. Hunters were already scrambling to clean up the mets. It was time for a counted assault.

From afar, Ami let loose a berrage of small plasma bursts at the Thief.

Returning from the city, Scopes could clearly see an attack advancing. He was but one man, and one against an army was going to result in his death. However, what he could do, was move in as a surprise factor.

Scopes ducked behind a building. He could hear those moving in, and judging by the sound they were close. The building was of decent size. It was an office building for a fast food chain restaurant. Perfect.

Taking the front door, Scopes found an elevator to his right, and a staircase next to it. Crashing through the glass door, Scopes proceeded to not waste anytime and jumped at the wall where the staircases squared. He kicked off the wall and made his way onto the next level by gripping the railing. His feet planted on the wall under him and he shot himself off using his dash function. Pink energy shot out from his feet and hurled him at the opposite wall. Hitting it, he kicked off again and vaulted over the third story railing. From here he moved on to the windows.

Looking outside, the attack was clear. Several mavericks lead some mechanoloids in. Scopes then crouched. He didn't want to be targeted first. He looked out at them again and took aim. 10 humanoid mavericks and too many mettuars to count. There was more there too, Spikys rode along the ground, Walk Shooters were placed every so few mets, Hover Gunners flew above those that marched. This was going to be a test.

Scopes poped out of his place and shot the first humanoid maverick he saw. His pink stream melted through the glass and made contact with the mavericks head. An orange glow edmited before a minor explosion. Scopes then ducked down out of site and used his dash function to propell himself to another window to his far right. He brushed past loose papers that had fallen from their desk. His feet came to with the ground and pulled against his momentom to bring himself to a halt. He turned and stood up. Drawing his buster he only had but a moment and it had to count. The units below were now in a sortie, most of the ground ones moving in. Only one Humanoid one remained. That one soon met a beam. Another minor explosion. Ducking once more, Scopes knew he had to move. He moved toward the stairs again, activating his hypermode. Reaching the stairs he had all four of his bits first fire down, destroying the lower stairs, along with a few Walk Shooters. He had to keep them below him and he had to keep them guessing. With the stairs below him gone he once more jumped against the opposite wall and rebounded back onto the higher level. Level four was now where he was.

This floor was the lunch hall, and had plenty of free room. Not the best, but it worked in his favor. The far wall was nothing but windows, and with that he sent each of his bits over to them, each taking its own window. Scopes touched his arm and a holo panel appeared with four screens on it. Each one showing what the bits saw. The units below had moved out of range of his targeting range. Not good, However, now he could sneak around freely. Each bit broke through the windows and dropped to the ground level. Right under them was a grouping of mets. Most likely places do Scopes couldn't escape. The bits then began to fire like crazy, hitting mets left an right. After 8 were down, the others shielded themselves. Taking this time of weakness all the bits flew back up to Scopes. He now had an idea on the enemy's tactics. However, what he didn't see coming was the massive cannon shot that hit the side of the building where the windows were. Brown liquid flowed across the ground, then hardened. Not knowing what it was, scoped walked over to it and picked up a bit. His systems began to analyze it.

"Hunter HQ, this is Scopes. Returning to the base I was engaged in combat with a maverick force. Get on the defensive and prepare for an attack. As well, I am sending a sample of what they are using to attack with. Its a substance I am not familiar with." While he awaited a reply, he took a look down the staircase. Nothing. They had to be planning something.....

Out of everyone there Brooks wasn't really that surprised to see Black Cape here after all she does owe him a debt so he thought as he clinched his fist. And the words I should of finished you off echoed in his head over and over again.
"Great..." "Now how can this day get any worse?" He muttered to himself sarcastically as if he was expecting this was to play out sometime soon.

His visor was still on and judging from the snake's lifeless body it was clearly dead ,but he was still detecting mutosreploid life signs and frankly out of all the chaos he was waiting for the suspected Trap Scorpion to make his grand enterance.

And soon a small steam mist was seen above the snakes head and then the sounds of a hatch opening rang.

WARNING WARNING

Then soon an image of tail a peered out behind the steam veil and soon a silouette of the mutosreploid in question appeared.

Brooks was ready ,but soon his jaw drops as he sees a normal reploid male in a rather femine looking armor sitting in a chair with a weird type of wire on it. There was a rose in his hand and his hair was flowing in the wind.

"What?" "Were you expecting someone else?"

"Who the hell are you?" "And where the hell is Trap Scorpion!"

"Well aren't we not fine in the force?" "They call me A10CG or if you are looking for a better title they call me Pretty Domino." His eyes sparkle with a quick sheem as he poses rather feminine like with a rose in his mouth at Brooks.

A sweat drop appears behind Brooks head.

"Well Cape my job is done deary." "You go have fun now ,but if you can..." "Think you can bring me back a fine souveneir?"

Black Cape doesn't respond. "Well you are just as talkative as always Hun." "Guess will meet later then." "Chau." He blows a kiss towards Brooks and then simply teleports out of there."

Brooks had a rather disgusted look on his face. "Well..." "I suppose we can breath easy now that wasn't Trap Scorpion ,but some weirdo and yuck." "Still why was I detecting mutosreploid life signs?" "Could it be that man was a mutosreploid?"

Charsi was still busy dealing with the numerous mettools and really wasn't paying attention to any sound other then the mettools crying out with warcries and striking pick axes. "Why won't these little guys give up already?" "Is there like some sort of met dispenser hiding out in the frontier producing them?" "Kiyaahh!" She slashes another mettool in half from under their protective helmets and continues going through numerous piles of mettool pawns.

OCC: Pretty Domino is an NPC so he's isn't at all what everyone was expecting... I wasn't sure how to go with this ,but we will see him again and not what you would expect.

OOC: Let's keep the anime/Legends styled campiness to a minimum in the storyline.

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Serah paused, Black Cape had just reappeared. But the sound of the area was different... there was no artillery fire. Someone had taken out the artillery? Or was it that Black Cape had been the one firing it? Serah didn't know. But for now she didn't really care. The fact remained that the artillery was temporarily taken care of either way so she could refocus on to Black Cape. Given Black Cape was a priority target herself.


Serah pointed her buster at Black cape and let loose a plasma shot.
"Tsk, Tsk. That one was way too televised" Black cape chastised.
"Then how about this?" Serah shot back, a missile en route while she spoke.
"Better" Responded Black Cape, though her buster was armed and it soon released a ball of black energy which struck the missile and caused it to explode into a cloud of smoke and dust. Serah wasted no time, she fired several blind plasma shots into the smoke. Two of the shots went wide, but the third caught Black Cape in the side of the stomach. If her armour weren't already black there would have been a slight burn from the impact.

"You got luck there, I'll give you that." Cape responded. Though she had moved... leaped up and clung to the side of a wall. She returned fire, her black energy ball would have caught Serah in the face except at the last second she was able to raise her left arm. The blast exploded, covering Serah's arm in a slight black glow.

Serah ignored the glow and raised her buster to fire. This time she primed her buster to fire a missile, but Black cape put her hand up and called out:
"I'd think about where you're shooting before you pull the trigger. Take a look at the area. Where I'm standing now is a tank of highly caustic chemicals. You rupture this tank and we'll all be covered in it. I don't know about you... But I don't think acid wash is really my style." Cape explained, pointing to the side of the large chemical vat she was standing on.
Serah paused, she disengaged the missile, but Cape responded by firing a second shot. Serah dodged to the right, but was flung further than she expected. Serah crashed to the ground a foot off where she intended to land.

"Oh, did I forget to mention my buster's new ability? Silly me." Cape gloated.
Serah pointed her buster back up to the chemical vat.
"Ah, remember the chemicals before you take that shot." Cape retorted. Serah smirked then fired anyway. The diffusion blast struck the tank and sent a wave of ice over it and Black Cape's feet.

"Ah, annoying. I'd almost forgotten about that." Cape responded. The ice under her feet glowed for a split second then shattered while Black Cape herself was propelled off the wall and back to the ground.

Serah got back up then hit her radio.
"Hunters, we've got a situation here. Black Cape's shown up. If you're not otherwise occupied, we could use a hand. It looks like she's improved since the last time." Serah stated into the comm.

A saber user closed in quickly just as Vyper narrowly avoided and dashed backwards from a deadly saber swing. Another of those hammer users was on her flank the moment she was able to retaliate. It wasn't fair. A sketchy leap backwards was all she could do to escape. It wasn't enough; her right arm caught the brunt of the swing. It was batted away, threatening to rip off and fly to some uncharted lands as Vyper lost balance and tumbled across the ground. Throughout this quick bout, Vyper had quickly learned that staying on the move was key to making this fight last as long as possible. The blow from the hammer failed to keep her down.

Right at the end of the all the tumbling, Vyper threw herself into a quick roll and then a cartwheel--an armless one--to wheel around back to the hammer user. The momentum of the string of actions allowed her to slide-tackle the foe down to the ground before a counter assault could be made. Staying on the move was still key, and Vyper hadn't the time to finish him. Vyper sprinted off as a volley of buster shots made their way to her position. Most found a home in the hammer maverick getting up, inadverdently finishing what Vyper started.

Vyper was not unlike a bee among a mass of nats, only said 'nats' had the very potential to end her with a well-placed shot or hit. Her arm dangled lifelessly as she weaved and thrashed about. Her armor was riddled with dents and nicks from the army of guns and blades against her. Vyper's physical capabilities surpassed each and every one of these mavericks alone. But they weren't incompetent; one screw up could end her existance in a flash....her crippled arm was a strong testiment to that.

Every couple of seconds, the mavericks would manage to surround her, forcing her to face a couple of mavericks head on to make a way out. Such an instance happened once again. Several 'roids stood ahead, waiting for her to meet them while many more gave chase from behind. Another saber user spearheaded the sloppy formation. Vyper rolled straight in his direction. The maverick thought himself to have caught a break, and dashed forth to lash out at her. It was merely a juking maneuver. As soon as foot touched ground, Vyper dashed to his left before he could even reach her. It were moments like these, when the enemy get complacent in their numbers and pride that Vyper found a break of her own. Vyper quickly modeled an energen knife into her working hand and tossed it freely at the saber user's wide-open head. It made its mark square in his temple--or where it would be; the helmet hid it from view--and dropped him like the annoying nat that he was.

Vyper surviving the initial assualt came as a surprise to more than just the one now dead. Onc maverick toting a heavy energized minigun stared in awe as his weapon took its sweet time winding up. Vyper got in close, and placed a hand on the top of the weapon as leverage so that her legs could swing in and around the foe's head and allow her thighs to clench it with a vice grip. One couldn't be sure wether the maverick's expression was that of fear or blissfull surprise as he gazed upon the pelvis in his face. It was the last thing he ever saw. With one twist-jerk, His head was compacted a bit before being ripped off from his shoulders. Vyper backlipped off the standing corpse and leapt forth, placing a foot on where the head was before using it to jump over and away from the scene just as more mavericks could close in on her.

Once again, Vyper was on the complete run from the mavericks who gave chase and fired off rounds of energy fire at her. A noise filled her ears. It was someone--female, talking. With the mission of surviving being priority numero uno in her head, Vyper couldn't tell the talking from annoying gibberish intentionally distracting her. Because for one, it worked in that regard. For a brief second, Vyper's running speed slowed by a fraction, and that was all it took for some of the trailing buster rounds to leave their mark on her. The sounds of energy fire riddling her armor was like a torrent of rain on a thin sheet of metal. They failed to compromise her armor, but they came damn-near close. A mad-dash to the relative safety of behind the massive artillery cannon saved her life. Three successful energen knife throws downed the couple of mavericks who still had a bead on her. They were closing in, and fast. Vyper found herself breathing in short gasps...here energy reserves were getting low. Throwing all of those knives were taking a toll on her. And just to make things worse, a pink mist emenated from her body for a quick second; she felt normal again. The hypermode had worn off.

With the short seconds of rest, Vyper's mind was able to put together the gibberish brought through the radio earlier. Black-something had come back. `Whatever.` Vyper Had considered hightailing it out of there for a brief second. But she couldn't. Not while the artillery was still active. Doing so would simply allow them to get back on. She had no capability to destroy it either. At least, not while the private maverick army was all on her.

Vyper had long since resolved to disable the cannon or die trying since before this fight. But it seemed the gravity of it all had just now hit her.

Vyper peered out to her right. They were still closing in.

Or so she thought. Just as she returned to normal stance, a hammerhead slugged her cross the face, shattering her helmet while she went sprawling across the ground. Her internal systems violently protested and thretened to shut down on her incompitence. Using her arms, Vyper lifted her body from the ground in a desperate bid to get up. Fragments of helmet crumbled away and her burgandy hair drooped down. Her innocent face betrayed everything about the feral assasin she seemed to be. She saw from the corner of her eye the hammer user closing in, his hammer slung over his shoulder. He became complacent in his apparent victory. Vyper spat vital fluids as she sprung to her knees, cocked back a hand and formed to throw an energen knife. He was caught unaware. But the blade flew wide of him. With that, he continued his cocky demeanor as he and others gathered and grouped around her....

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Ami watched the duel between the huntress and Black Cape unfold, and took not of the foe's style change--as the huntress pointed out. See seemed to cling to the walls while defying gravity. `Magnetism, eh?` Ami thought. He was somewhat familiar with it being used in combat scenarios. He exerted control of it to some extent in his hypermode. `No need to fight fire with fire just yet...`

Ami bent down to sink his hands into the earth. With a firm tug, a massive chunk of land broke off and he raised it above his head, resembling an ant with an oversized piece of food particle. A powerful toss landed the chunk of dirt somewhat wide of Black Cap but she took the precaution to evade anyways. As the chunk crumbled on impact of the ground, chunks of debree altered course and made way to Black Cape, pelting her armor harmlessly. Most of it clung to her. "Aha! Damage the land around her! Do whatever's necessary to distort the magnetism!" Ami shouted as he drew his plasma pistol snapped fire in the foe's direction. Each shot went scattered around her, baiting her to move and evade more than anything. Ami had always found it easier to bait enemies into traps when they were on the move. When Black Cape retaliated with fire of her own, Ami dived into the hole he created, using it as cover as he returned fire.

This post has been edited by Silver Stryker: Sep 13 2011, 12:37 AM

OCC: An attempt to keep things a little cheery I guess for me oh well...

IN:

Brooks despite his encounter shook off his disqusted look and simply monitored Serah's nanites and was impressed on how much she improved in her skills with that buster she weilds. Defently getting better all the time as he thought on. His face was a little smashed in from his face plant as it was somewhat hard for him to see which is why he had his visor on to make up for the slight vision errors created by the fall. While watching Serah fight he was reminded of that person again.

The images of that person clouded his mind for a second till he realised there was no chance that would happen. As much as Brooks thought of that person and compared it to Serah. He shook his head again and continued monitoring the nanites of the nearby hunters fighting numerous metools and those of his team that were in the general area though he couldn't detect those of Vyper or H for they were obviously out of range for him to effectively read their lifesigns he knew they would be fine. They were after all fairly well suited for their task its only matter of time before he hears the success of thier efforts. "Hopeful thinking perhaps?"

Brooks still felt a little bad for the last mission even though he took his weakness head on he saved Valaren from certain doom and is now stuck at the hunter medical center for some repairs. Thinking back to it he needed to come up with a way to apologize to Vyper for his misjudgement as well. He did over react then ,but with time he felt he could regain her trust at a later point. He was concerned on her multi split personality problem as a medical unit he is charged with all the monitoring of his teamates medical history though he only just got Vyper's medical records he still had to look over it more for the file was quite big and actually took up some space on his armtop computer.

You'd think after budget cuts they at least update a medical unit's storage space on an arm top computer. Sure it was over five terrabytes in storage of all types of illness, procedures and varous data viruses ,but it all that plus personnel medical records tend to take up those five terrabytes very quickly and the constant updates just fill it fast. "Too much thinking here..."

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Charsi was still fighting metools left and right ,but when she heard who the opponent was from Serah's message she immediately went back towards the direction of destroyed metool bodies she made. When she heard the name she remembered distinctively from the report of the first encounter of Black Cape that she was the one who almost put Brooks in a state of permament shutdown due to system failure. This greatly angered her and she wouldn't stand for it if she did that again to Brooks whom also has a cervo to pick with her. When Charsi made it back she saw for the first time who Black Cape was and it sounded like she was just as cocky as she was when she was just a new model. Ami had attacked her with his plasma pistol and soon cape's focus was on Ami whom just jumped into a hole. Charsi figured he was baiting her so she did what any close ranged expert could do was get in there and strike which as she dashed she held her Saber preparing for a specail attack known as Thunder Dragon.

As she dashed pink energy was forming around her blade and she accelerated towards Black Cape's side readying her attack shouting out "Thunder Dragon!" Soon a dragon's roar could be heard and it made contact onto an unprepared Black Cape who was slightly surprised to hear a dragon's roar rip a cut through her armor as Charsi passed by with a rising slash on Black Cape's side. Charsi only knicked her armor with the strike to basically strike fear that she will be terminated today if not by Serah or any other hunter ,but by her hands will finish her off ,but with that knick Black Cape felt electricity pulse through her system and was expierencing quite a shock that she was slightly smoking after it ,but only for a little while.

As Charsi landed behind Black Cape she moved away from Black Cape who was quite stunned and well litterally shocked by that attack. Charsi stared her down with eyes of a warrior. It was the sharpness in those eyes that struck down on Black Cape like thunder. Though soon enough Black Cape gave off a rather cocky look back at Charsi.

OCC: Does Black Cape have any maverick info on her yet? I don't see it in the database because I doubt her weakness is the electric element. If it wasn't the case she'd still feel pain from the after shock at least.

This post has been edited by randomdrifter865: Sep 13 2011, 07:29 PM

OOC: Black Cape's info is posted here (in the part marked hidden content.)

The reason I'm not adding Black cape to the Maverick Database is because she's story mission only. So that means she also can't be killed quite yet either.

IN:

Black cape's armor sizzled a bit from the powerful electric attack. A few puffs of smoke illicited off her body once the current was gone. A slight cut in her armour, but she wasn't worried at all. She felt confident that if the best this new huntress could do was just barely cut through her armour with a direct hit, then a glancing blow wouldn't be an issue. Though she didn't want to take chances, just in case.

"That was a nice trick... But you know I've still got a few left myself." Black cape muttered. A split second later, the black of her back seemed to split and curl out then upwards. 4 arms formed, they were somewhat thin looking, but appeared to be extremely flexible in the way they bent from almost any part of the arm. Each arm was jet-black with a small black 3 fingered claw like hand. In the center of the hand was a red crystal.

Black cape turned towards Charsi, one of the arms reached out, then sparked violently. The spark sent small arcs of electricity running down the arm into Black cape's back, though it didn't appear to phase her at all. Black cape reached out to try to smack Charsi with the electrified arm.


Meanwhile, two of the remaining arms raised up and pointed towards Ami and the hole he had constructed for cover. The arms took a shot, though they missed Ami quite clearly because Black cape wasn't even paying attention to where she fired.


Serah, having dived into the hole Ami had made, had the unfortunate luck of popping up to take a shot just when Black cape had fired... Serah caught one of the shots in the face. The shot exploded into a ball of plasma that quickly dissipated. The shock of being hit combined with the pain made Serah leap back into the hole, to the far wall. Serah's face was burned black where the shot hit, but otherwise she was ok. Shaken up, but ok.
"Ow." Serah cried out. The pain had dissipated, but the burn was still there. She knew she'd be fine until she got back to HQ where they could fix her up properly. It was just a minor injury... Though not one she'd want to repeat.

OCC: I'd figured she be some time before her magnificent death ,but just adding some good drama as Charsi feels she too has a bone to pick with her. I think its neat when both of the same elements collide. Granted it seems Black Cape is only using electric based attacks.

Should we consider a storybase variation of the maverick database so that way its easier for some people to post those characters there in seperation of those who maybe appear twice or are retired once.

IN:

Charsi continued to stare down Black Cape till she saw her form what appeared to be four extra arms each with a claw and red like jewel. It appeared these arms were quite flexible as Black Cape was able to manipulate each to do something different.

Black Cape had faced Charsi and soon sparks were starting to form around one of her arms and she was readying for an attack. At that point Black Cape was ready to strike Charsi with that sparkified arm.

Charsi braced herself with her sheild and awaited the strike which actually was a bad thing on Black Cape's part because by the time her arm reached Charsi's sheild she smacked it out of the way and thrusted her sword forward launching a close ranged spark ball at Black Cape shocking her once again ,but due to her electric arm she wasn't suffering as much of a shock as the Thunder Dragon Technique.

Black Cape scoffed "This is mere child's play hunter you think I'll let you shock me like that again?"

OOC: Hope I didn't make Vyper too much of a DiD SS, but I thought she could use some assistance...

Back at it guys!

IN:

H crouched quietly in the shadows as yet another squad of mavericks blundered through the forest, searching for whomever had been dispatching their patrols without leaving a trace. Which was of course, him. H had lost count of just how many mavericks he'd eliminated but it seemed as though he'd caused the mavericks some irritation, they were now combing the forest in a tight search line and a few, the commanders H imagined, were sporting what could be assumed to be heat vision goggles. Determined not to let the mavericks get the drop on him H had been able to circle around the mavericks, always keeping either the sun or the cannon at his back in hopes that his own heat signature would be lost.

H now paused to consider his options. Continuing along would be foolhardy and yet the majority of the hunters had not even entered the forest yet. H had thinned out as many of the mavericks as he could but his "team" would have to deal with the rest themselves, H knew that confrontation with the roving patrols was tantamount to suicide. And all the while Hunter HQ was still being shelled… the best and only course of action was to continue on and lie in wait for an opportunity to disable the weapon.

A short distance ahead lay a clearing where the mavericks had assembled their cannon. It was crude, powered only by a pair of small generators but anything more powerful would've revealed their position before the bombardment could even commence. H eyed the power cables, knowing that if he could just sever them or otherwise disable the generators that the cannon would be rendered useless.

H drew a pair or knives and let out an exasperated sigh as he crept into the clearing, he did not want to be the one to save HQ. They didn't deserve his help, and demonstrating his value in this way would only make them more determined that he remain a part of the team. Still, better that they owed him than if they felt he wasn't pulling his weight-

From the other side of the clearing a volley of shots rang out, one of the other hunters had reached the cannon! Several mavericks fell as she emptied her rifle, but more importantly she'd attracted the attention of every maverick in the clearing and many of the larger, saber and hammer wielding mavericks were giving chase as she fell back into the woods.

H was momentarily stunned, the huntress had not known of his presence in the clearing, her distraction had been pure courage - or perhaps momentary insanity. Regardless, it was the lucky break that H needed. Sparing not another thought for Vyper, he flattened his back against the side of the cannon and began shuffling toward the closest generator, severing the power cord with his knife as soon as he was close enough.

A startled cry erupted from the maverick at the cannon's controls as the power fizzled by half, but it was short lived. A moment later he was blown to pieces as the hunter, Vyper, came tearing back toward the cannon, mavericks in tow. H watched as she dove behind the over of the maverick cannon, narrowly avoiding a flurry of shots. Her sudden reappearance would serve to buy H free passage to the second generator. H had just reached the generator when he heard her cry out. The mavericks had finally cornered her and shattered her helmet in the process.

H hesitated. She was a hunter doing her job. He, by contrast, was not a hunter, and yet he too was doing the job of one. Her death might even herald his successful escape from the clearing. And yet, H thought, hearing Serah's request for assistance against cape, there was something he could do to save her…

"Mavericks ralley to me!" Black Cape shouted, standing between the generators and beckoning urgently. Vyper's aggressors as well as the remaining maverick guards looked at her confused.

"The hunters have broken through our lines," Cape continued, "The new orders are for three squads to join me and meet them while the rest of you prepare to withdraw!"

A few mavericks hurried to join 'Black Cape' but a handful of the brutes decided they weren't finished with Vyper. As they raised their weapons to strike at the weakened hunter a sizable explosion caught their attention, the second generator was violently blown to pieces along with any mavericks who had rallied over to H's trap. 'Black Cape' had only been an illusion, and while his projection had the attention of the maverick guards H had plugged into the remaining generator and switched it to 400% capacity. And since the cannon was no longer firing the energy had built up until…

Their attention still occupied, H approached the semicircle of mavericks and drove his knives into the backs of two exposed necks. Another maverick turned, startled by the flurry of movement to see his companions drop, and he took a slash to the throat for his trouble. The last two mavericks raised their weapons and swung, deadly energy crackling through the air where H had been - but he had dropped to the grass and kicked out, taking out the mavericks by their legs before burying his knives in their chests.

"Common, let's get you out of here," H muttered to Vyper, standing up and taking her in his arms as a heavy chamber rattled behind him. H bolted, narrowly evading round after round of fire from the minion maverick. Fully aware that Vyper could not share his active camouflage, H projected an image of empty space around Vyper and himself, while creating another illusion of himself fleeing in a different direction. Satisfied that the mavericks had been thrown off H cast one final look about the clearing before carrying Vyper back into the forest.

The sound of an explosion rocked the area when the second generator failed. The clang of broken mavericks followed soon after the explosion. With the cannon disabled permanently now it was clear they wouldn't be using it to bombard HQ again. Even if they managed to call some new generators in it'd take too long and be far too dangerous now that hunters were in the area.

Black cape pulled back from Charsi while a blast of energy shot by her harmlessly. Serah had poked out from the hole she had fallen into and loosed a blast of energy.
"Nice try, shame your aim is bad." Black cape stated.
Serah didn't reply, but instead she climbed from the hole and triggered her Spark Hook. It latched onto one of the metal beams of the area and Serah pulled herself towards it. She released the hook mid way so she instead flew directly towards Black cape. In mid flight she aimed her buster at Black cape and fired a shot. She figured that the added speed would make it so her shot had a better chance of landing and doing some nice damage to Black Cape.

Black cape, on the other hand, electrified her extensible arms and swatted the blast away with ease. Then when Serah landed, Black cape jabbed Serah in the thighs and biceps with the electrified arms. Current coursed through Serah's body elliciting a cry of pain from her. Serah twitched while the current ran through her. Black cape had her trapped... The current prevented her from moving too much. Though her buster was pointed at the ground... Serah unleashed a single auger missile into the ground directly in front of her. The sound of it landing was masked by her own cries of pain.

The explosion that followed quickly after ripped Serah away from Black cape. Serah landed on her back a few feet away from the explosion site while Black cape staggered backwards. Two of the arms that Black cape had used to hold Serah were still attached to Serah's thighs. Though they smoked and had black char marks around where the electricity had entered her body. At the end of the stubs on Black cape's armor, the former extensible hands sparked, no longer capable of doing anything.

"You wrecked my armor... That was quite rude, you know that?" Black cape muttered.
"If that's how you're going to play, I might as well go home." Black cape stated. And with that, Black cape fired a few shots into the ground to kick up a cloud of dust. When the dust settled a second later, Black cape was gone.

"Heh, easy as pie" Serah stated while she got up slowly. The current from before gone, but she still felt it's aftereffects. A trip to the medical bay was definitely in order after this mission was over now.

"Guess we should meet up with the others now" Serah stated.
"They shouldn't be too far off, since those explosions sounded kind of close." Serah stated again.


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"Sssssoo, they got the cannonssss then? SsssNo mattersss. It wasss inevitable anywaysss." The voice spoke into the communicator. The maverick in charge of the area listened calmly while Black cape spoke.
"Yes, they're on the way. I softened them up a bit by playing distraction. So they shouldn't be too tough for you now, nothing you shouldn't be able to handle anyway. I need to go back and get my next armour ready."
"Alrightsss. I will take caress of thisss messsss." The maverick hissed.
"But firsssst one more volley to the Hunter HQ." The maverick stated to itself.
And with that, a massive shot echoed through the clearing. The brown projectile slammed into Hunter HQ and flooded the area it hit with more of the brown sludge that quickly hardened into rock.


With that, the Maverick general left the relative security of the hiding spot deep within the woods, at a relatively open area, they'd been sitting in and headed into the woods where the hunters were currently wandering in.

The maverick tromped through the woods, making a lot of noise... The heavy tail swishing back and forth in the area, making more noise. The sole intent... To attract attention.

OOC:
Ballistic Basilisk

Spoiler ( The Maverick's Bio)

  
General Information
Character Image: (Not necessary)
Name: Ballistic Basilisk
Species: Reploid - Old generation
Gender: Female
IQ: 96
DOB: May 4th
Birth Place: Athens.
Residence: Maverick base.
Occupation:
Alignment: Maverick

Normal Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6" without tail (Tail is 5 feet long itself) or crown.
Weight: 250lbs
Skin Color: Brownish-green
Eye Color: Her eye's pupils are slits with yellow irises surrounding them.
Hair Style: Ballistic has no hair.
Other features: A tail...

Armor description
Head – Ballistic's head is rather plain lizard like head, with a tall piece of metal extending backward out of the head with armor. (The piece is sectioned and opens from the top. Though exactly what is in there isn't known to any survivors...) This forms the crown of her head.

Chest/torso – Ballistic's torso is rather plain, a scaly brown-green armor with a slightly lighter green on her breast region down to her lower stomach. Her back is darker brown.
Her tail is dark brown on the top and light green on the underside, much like her torso.

Arms – Ballistic's arms are quite thick comparitively to the rest of her body (due to heavy shock absorbers and servos). Her hands are dark green and very long looking, are also unique in that they open up to allow claws to come out. These claws are used to help her grip the ground when she's using her more powerful abilities.

Legs – Ballistic's legs are also quite thick, which comes from a lot of shock absorbers and heavy servos to giver her strength to grip when she fires her big guns. Like her hands, her feet are dark green, though she only has 4 toes, that can open up to reveal claws to dig into the ground to help her grip.

Weapons: All hidden in her body.
Other/Items: None.


Basic Stats
Speed – 2
Strength – 7
Defense – 7
Dexterity – 3
Skill limit – 6
Skill level – 9
Constitution – 6


Special Attacks:

• Stone Bomber - Buster - Shoots a small capsule at high speeds. When the capsule strikes something it breaks apart and spreads a nasty brown sludge that hardens into rock.
• Cluster Slasher - Saber - With the swing of the saber, several small stone-like capsules are released. When they strike they explode, sending fragments outward.
• Stonesplash Grenade - Knuckle - When activated, creates an apple sized sphere that explodes, on contact or after several seconds (whichever occurs first), and showers everything close with a mix of projectiles and the brown sludge that hardens.
• Artillery gun - Ballistic's tail opens up, revealing segments of this massive gun. It assembles over her shoulder then she can fire long range shots by planting her hands to the ground. The rounds she fires are larger versions of her Buster weapons.
• Chain gun - Ballistic's back opens up, revealing twin mini-guns. They fire high speed rounds that are mini versions of her Buster shot.
• One Woman Army - Overdrive - Ballistic crouches down, then her crown, tail, back and arms open up... Once open she fires volleys of projectiles in a wide range.

Miscellaneous
Special abilities or talents: Is very skilled at throwing objects, knives especially.

Weaknesses: Electrical shots interfere with her targetting systems.

Theme song: Death Mountain

Personality: Ballistic Basilisk is unstable to say the best. she is extremely easily agitated, borderline berserk and at times extremely depressed. She is quite suicidal too.

Back Story: Ballistic Basilisk was created by a Greek reploid development company as part of a defence contract with the Greek military, she was built over 30 years ago. She was designed to reinforce a Greek military base's defenses against maverick attacks by providing medium to long range bombardment capabilities. Specifically she had the power to stop lesser mavericks using an ultra compressed synthetic mineral that hardened on contact. Effectively encasing enemies in stone, or a state of living death.