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-.Smoke billowed from the side of a volcano, originating not from the summit so much as the site of a crash. A crater was blown through the rock surface near the peak, revealing a slowly rising pool of lava just beneath. Metal was strewn haphazardly about, bits and pieces of a ship engine still sizzling and spinning before slipping over the side and disappearing into the molten rock below. The dark grey metallic hull of a ship was quickly being painted orange by the glow, creaking from the heat exposure as it teetered precariously over the edge. Sparks flew from a hole in the side from where, while passing too close to Earth, the vessel had been blindsided by space debris orbiting at least at bullet speed. Over the course of twenty minutes, the ship was enveloped in lava as the volcano fully erupted; it and its contents dissolved into the debris of the volcano.
Smoke again rocketed skyward, the mountainous earth formation shook violently, and sparks flew from the summit. Then came the magma, pouring out over the top, punching holes in the sides of walls, or finding old veins that led down to the foot of the volcano. Trees, grass, and plants burned while the animals scattered. The lava slid until it lost most of its momentum, having reached a mostly flat landscape. Then it started moving again; this time, a corner seemed to lurch straight upwards, forming a five-foot-tall column. The top rounded out in the shape of a head, below which it narrowed considerably before again expanding out, forming a neck and shoulders. Arms split off from the remaining yet-to-be-sculpted base, defining the contours of the upper and lower arms as well as elbows, then moving on to form hands. The chest came next but was left mostly flat; then the forming body simply smoothed down the rest until reaching the hips and then dividing to form legs. The creature lurched forward, feet yanking free of the pool of standing lava as it raised its arms, let its head fall back, and fell to its knees.
Flames shot up from the head as a nose formed, the hollows of the eyes, and the contours of the lips. Then the mouth actually formed, parting to free a long, shrill wail. Arishav’s eyes snapped open then; a pool of black flecked with embers, with molten golden orbs for irises. Slowly she turned her head left, then right, then let her arms drop to her side. Smoke began to shroud her form from view. She lowered her head and chuckled. “Unexpected detour…? Well, that was…foolish.” Arishav was referring to the ones who’d been on board the ship. Now, they, along with everything else the lava she formed from had ingested, were nothing more than nourishment for her. “Foolish of them, and fortunate for me…” She’d been on the ship too; on her way to exile for practicing with powers everyone knew she had, but the governing council of her home world had very clearly told her to ignore. They didn’t particularly like the ones who were born as flame elementals, even though they knew they needed them as lower working class and construction. These…second-class citizens were known to be volatile and difficult to suppress. It hadn’t been so bad previously whenever she took her abilities too far and went from being productive to “anti-social” and “dangerous”; Arishav would just get yelled at or receive a “slap on the wrist.” This last time, though, she had accidentally-on-purpose burned over half her district, and then killed Director of Conditionings, destroyed thirty labs, toppled the Counsel’s tower, and reduced the next generation’s population by at least half by wrecking thirty hatchery units. Oops.
They had her frozen and placed on a ship, on the way to burying her in Pluto’s core when Arishav’s ‘escort’ apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and deposited her on Earth instead. “They were even thoughtful enough to thaw me out…how sweet.” Arishav chuckled again and stood up, walking a short ways from where the lava had been as she looked around. So…where does that leave her, exactly? Aside from somewhere she would have plenty to burn, anyway. How long would she have before someone back home realized Mission “Ari-sickle” had been a miserable failure? Arishav shrugged and raised her temperature, body going from an orange glow to a bright yellow as she lifted slowly and steadily off of the ground, beginning to float in mid-air.
She looked down at her hands, clenching and un-clenching them before zipping off, flying until the landmass ended and a wide pool of water stretched out beneath her. A few more moments, and the landmass suddenly returned, and then she smashed into something tall, hard, and cold. Something that bent and shrieked, with bits that shattered and scattered through the air as she kept going. Screams rent the air as she flew through a hollow part inside of whatever she just hit and the interior began to blaze. Flying out the other side, she looked around before smashing through another similar structure and realized what she was going through was a city, filled with towers not too unlike the ones on her own planet. Though, they were a lot weaker. And the screaming? People, a lot more than were ever allowed in the towers where she came from. Funny. Flying out the other side of the tower, she slowed to a stop and floated straight upwards, looking down. The city was huge, and filled with towers. Weird ones, most of which were kinda square-shaped and hundreds of lights ran up all four sides of every last one.
Shaking her head confusedly, Arishav sped off until she noticed everything below had gone black. She slowed to a stop and lowered herself a good several hundred feet until she felt hard ground beneath her. The place was full of sound and the occasional distant spinning red and blue lights, but…she couldn’t see further than the edge of the light she herself gave off. She wandered around, seeing signs she couldn’t read and hearing horrified screams within buildings. Not being able to read the signs didn’t bother her, since her caste’s literacy ability back home was deemed irrelevant; the not-being-able-to-see was what was quickly starting to tick her off. “How is this place as inhabited as the others, yet unlit? Have they lost…power?” She started walking, and felt something tugging at her feet. Looking down, she scowled; the rock-like substance the ground was made of had melted and was sticking to her soles.-
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-Banna smiled at Nicholas as she tried to ease her worry. She said, “So, what has my brave little nino been doing?”
He smiled at her in return as rocked back and forth, “I have been protecting the room!”
She ran her fingers through his hair that jostled them side to side to ruffle up his hair. They both giggled a little until they saw something moving outside of the window. She shoved Nicholas out of the room and locked the door as the strange thing entered her room. She forced herself to stand and said, “IDENTIFY YOURSELF!”
She heard a nurse outside taking Nicholas from the room, possibly going to retrieve the other wrestler from his current where-bouts.-
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“The Kraken” blinked a bit as shards of glass from the broken window littered the hospital room floor, tinkling like tiny Christmas bells. Inside was a HUGE, angry wrestler chick wearing next to no clothes. Honestly, did that even count as “clothed”? A faint blush tinted the tips of his ears and cheeks but the blue mask he wore did a decent job of covering the incriminating evidence. A young kid was also present, but got quickly escorted out of the room by a nurse. This caused the supervillain to grin toothily. It was good to know he was feared by at least one of the occupants of the room. “The name’s Kraken,” Cody responded, giving his new alter-ego title. “And I seem to have lost my way to your …delicious backup generator. Mind being useful and giving me a tour Miss….?” His smile and the menacing way each clawed tentacle snapped and clicked made it clear that the tour was non-optional. Yes, this woman looked strong. In fact, she oozed strength out of every pore and fiber of her being. One arm was twice the width of his thigh, and she could easily snap his spine in two, but he had POWERS and was confident that he could take out someone relying purely on brute force.
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He stood staring at Larfleeze and his power battery and rooted himself into the ground. His feet truly taking root as his mouth seemed to fill with a disgusting fluid he leaned back then thrust his body forward spitting the corrosive enzymes Larfleeze. As he moved instead of quickly shielding his arm was caught and started to get eaten in a slow and painful manor. Soon though an orange light came over his arm and pushed the enzymes off onto the floor then burnt them in that orange flame. The battle raged on for what seemed like hours tell finally Larfleeze bolted out of the lab. Dionea Stands up looking chared chlorophyll running off his body while he breaths and stumbles towards the door to get out into the sun only to find that it is night outside and bows his head. “Great just great.” He started to walk down the street with ripped pants that looked more like shorts now. His red hair blowing in the wind. People where avoiding him. Some remembered about his mother and where scared others just didn’t like his current appearance. He wanted to find sun lamps or something to that effect. Realizing a good place to go he headed towards the hospital.
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-Banna glared down at the small sparky thing. She heard the reply and the request. She knew she couldn’t do it in good conscious but it may be the only way to survive in her condition. She put it together, her venom. But that was thrown into the sewers so she decided upon her bargaining tool. Her voice boomed out at him, “I have but one condition to helping you, you must retrieve my venom and its containers. That is the only way I can be useful to you, and I assure you, my strength is unmatched when I have it on.” She felt like the boasting was needed. If he accepted, then she would tell him where it was.-
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Banna’s proposition was met with a disbelieving look. “Do you really expect me to go on errands for some junkie I’ve never met before?” Kraken’s wiry tentacles at this point had begun to explore the room, tossing aside the pillows on the hospital bed and in general, expanding to take up as much room as possible. Geez, this wrestler broad was really asking a lot, wasn’t she? With a derisive click of his teeth, Kraken’s face became a little more serious and focused as he considered the benefits of having a powerful ally. He was new to the world of crime, so it might be useful to have a companion. At worst, she looked like she could serves as a great distraction or lug around all of the bags of loot he had stolen. “Fine. Fine, it’s not like I have anything else to do. I’m assuming your venom is in a metal container, right? You’re going to seriously owe me for this… Any idea where you’ve lost it? Or are you planning on having me go on a freakin’ Easter Egg hunt?”
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He took and turned into the Hospital after his trip there a doctor begrugingly walked over to him. The two talked for a few minutes about what was wrong with him and what had happened. With this a nurse came across the doctors channel explaining that a room had been broken into and that there was something on the top floor as it was discribed he closed his eyes and sighed. “let me take care of this.” he told the doctor asking which floor that nurse worked on. Getting the information the doctor asked him not to go that in his condition he probably wouldn’t make it. Smiling and placing a hand on the doctors shoulder he nodded. “I will be back and we can try that idea you had.” He then headed towards the elevator and took it up to the top floor where Banna and Kraken where. stepping off the elevator leaving a green substence behind he looked at the two realizing that something wasn’t right. “Hey Sparky” he called out looking at Kraken wondering how he would do this and not seeing or feeling any real plants save for damaged flowers he sighed gripping his fist as the hospital started to rumble some. he seemed to be straining at what he was doing.
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-Banna said to Kraken with a smile, “It should be next to the gutter of the bank a few blocks from here. I wou-” She stopped as she heard the elevator and turned to see the plant. She smirked and said, “Kraken, you can get it while I pummel him for interrupting us?” She felt the rumble but was not intimidated and cracked her knuckles. Her eyes narrowed hoping for a fun injured person fight. Upon her glances though, this plant’s wounds were much worse than her own. She had an advantage and she disliked it, hoping to just stall him as long as she could to get her venom. The first thing she did was lunge in towards him and brought her fist up to punch at interrupting plant’s sternum.-
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“Hmph. Alright. Don’t get into the habit of ordering me around. I’m not your errand boy,” Kraken muttered mutinously before heading back towards the open window. His iron and copper tentacles latched onto the outside wall of the hospitals and helped him clamber out of the room like some massive spider. Remembering something important, Kraken peeked his head back into the window just as Banna lunged forward to attack the newcomer. “Hey, by the way… MY NAME ISN’T SPARKY, IT’S KRAKEN!” Having screeched that in a slightly flustered, yet sufficiently angry voice, Kraken then let himself drop down to the bottom of the hospital and began heading down the road towards the bank on foot at a brisk pace.
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Listened to the on goings and then saw the woman give an order to the thing. “Huh so you…” he stopped watching her go into motion and went to move to the left her fist hitting just off her mark as it came into contact with his right peck. It would feel for her like punching a petrified oak tree. The strike caused him to spin off balance but as he did a large vine shot up through the ground behind her having torn through the hospital. As Kraken was wondering off down the streets on his errand. He would see the plants that had already started to seal off the hospital. He smiled seeing the plants had finally made it up through the hospital now he had a advantage or so he hoped. He had never really been a fighter like his mom had been and he was raised in a garden. Twisting some and bring his leg up in a backwards hook kick towards the center of her shoulder blades. He hit the back of the vine. This sent out a strong shock-wave forward form it towards her back. Adjusting he lowered his leg and turned to look and see if he had actually made connection with her in some capacity. Standing there his hand came up to his chest feeling to pain from the hit as it was already darkening from her strike. she was strong and if his suspicions where right as he was still trying to make out what was said on the other side of the door it was just going to get worse.
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-Banna felt the contact on her knuckles, it hurt but she knew she would be okay because of her training. She heard and felt the plants overtaking the hospital including the vine shooting up behind her. She stepped forward as she reacted after the sound but kept her eyes locked on her opponent. She brought her arm up to block the kick then saw it change direction, pulling her arm to follow it to her side, making the landing part hit the bone in her forearm. She was sturdy but it still hurt like hell. She spoke out to him, “Why are you trying to hurt these people with your plants?” During that she stepped towards him and pushed her free arm to attack for the abdomen, hoping it would knock the air out of him though she tried not to hit as hard as the first hit.-
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The noise of cracking cement and concrete captured Kraken’s attention as enormous plants began to wind about the hospital, sealing it off and focusing on the window he had just come from. It seemed the new interloper must have plant manipulation powers. That or the wrestling chick had some tricks up her sleeve besides just super steroid induced strength. He laughed, clutching the stitch in his side as malicious giggling spewed forth uncontrollably. “Wow, I hope you know what you’re getting into, lady! Hahha, sucks for you!” The thought of rushing back to help his new ally occurred to Kraken but was swiftly dismissed. After all, he would be more help actually obtaining the Venom capsules, plus he would be in less danger as well. The supervillain continued on down the road towards the bank and arrived just outside the building. Taking a moment to concentrate, Kraken focused on making his two lower tentacles magnetic enough to attract any metallic objects and began to patrol around the outside. A few civilians screamed as he approached, while others seemed surprised that he was not attempting to rob the bank but instead looking for something along the side of the curb.
After collecting several lost pennies, a few pieces of aluminum gum wrapper and some dropped buttons and pins, Kraken let out an angered hiss of frustration. “Grr, do I actually have to look myself!? This blows.” He returned his tentacles to normal and squatted down in order to search more thoroughly.
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He went to move but the fist caught him on the left center of his gut and he but over the corrosive enzymes in his mouth flying out at her left shoulder and arm not even thinking to use them against her. He stumbled back and held his side and dropped to his knees a gleam coming to his eyes. “You Assault mother earths protector..” he brought his leg up and pushed himself from the floor and looked to her. “This will not do” He then held his hand out and gripped it and jerked his hand back in as one of the thicker vine came flying at her back to send her flying at him if it connected. If this happened he was throwing a punch right at her body.
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-Banna saw the weird stuff flying from his mouth and moved herself just out of the way, she did feel it move just past her and she listened to what he had to say. She knew she screwed up but soon it wouldn’t matter, once she had her venom, she would be a mindless beast of fueled rage. She saw his hand move and then a heard movement behind her, she planted her feet firmly in a horse stance to assure that upon contact it would merely shove her as her back muscles flexed to take the impact. This would leave a bruise but that wouldn’t be for a little bit. She was in range of a possible assault and put her arms up next to one another in front of her torso. If he followed through with his follow up attack, this would take the brunt. She knew that she had been told of one similar to him and the thought of him thinking himself a guardian was enough to tick her off a bit. She spoke to him once more, “You do know, this is NOT what a protector of mother earth would do.” She punched at him with a quick jab, making sure her other hand was prepared to take the force of any upcoming attacks. “I only attacked because you are a monster.” She made sure there was emphasis on this sentence. If it were to connect, her knuckles would be at the collar bone.-