The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
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The sky had been clear blue without a cloud in it and only a hint of wind. The streets busy with people rushing down the side walks and the streets in their rush bumping into those around them but their minds so far into their phones or own affairs they may as well of been alone. It was something that served the masked Aura well as people in large groups as she moved with Alex firmly gripped by the wrist. Balancing Alex and the syndicate had been an issue at first but Aura had adapted and even begun to thrive, the child even helping her blend in as the Syndicate had wanted. She growled as another presumably human bumped into her without a word and only the tug on her arm prevented her from responding to this latest affront. The idea of humans touching her was still something that bothered her on an instinctual level or maybe it was just that beaten into her.
The first scream made Aura's head whip around, and push Alex behind her, despite the child's surprised protest. She was glad she did as she watched a Zombie tear open the neck of a man looking to be in his early 20's. Another scream and this time Aura knew the voice becide her and rather then reprimand the kid, Aura looked past the Zombie following Alex's finger and only then did she see more figures resembling the first, bursting through the earth or clawing out of it. The destubed graves were not uniform some with half a dozen spaces between zombies and others in clusters but Aura was sure she would have failed to count them all had she tried.
The streets were clogged with cars and people and people began abandoning their cars or running over the top of them as the zombie wave hit the streets. Her Aura covered her body and she met the first Zombie she had seen with a fast downward strike which ripped through the left shoulder and ripped away two ribs and the Zombie simply bit and clawed at her aura, her return strike took off it's other arm but it only stopped moving when she took the head in a third swipe.
Hearing a womens scream behind her Aura let Alex go and her blade split the skull of a zombie that had knocked a women to the ground. Aura helped the Woman up but could see right away the woman had very deep cut's in her leg. Never the less Aura pushed past her cutting a zombie trying to attack her from behind in two at the waist. Aura looked around trying to quickly determine what to do.
She pointed down the street way and Alex helped the women limp as she went acting as a sort of crutch. The idea of killing the wounded crossed her mind but she dismissed it atleast unless their was no options left. On the way down the street Aura moved between a young teen and a zombie preventing him from being bitten, instead impacting on her aura. She took off it's head with a blade from her elbow and pointed to the small group. "Do not leave the group, I can not cover you if you do" she said with a demanding growl even as she punched through yet another zombies head with a drill hand stepping in two swipe the heads off of two more which were breaking through the glass of a crashed Porsche. The three inside opened the door and joined Aura merry band of rescued souls.
That had been twenty seven minutes, two dozen people and over seventy three zombies. Aura had lost count when one zombie had nearly made to the group of what Aura knew was likely mostly humans but their was no time to check. They had also made it just a hand full of blocks, unknown to Aura they were near the center of the issue. She took a few deep breaths, the zombies did not hit hard but volume and frequency built up and these seemed a bit stronger then a humans strength. Aura was pushed back to within feet of the back of the group by a new group of sixteen zombies. "Alex, Pink mom loves you very much" she said and the shock and understanding hit the childs face. Alex knew Aura was not sure if they were going to make it out of this even as the child saw Aura cut through three of the attackers and her return stroke three more, but four knocked her off her feet and the rest advanced past her. Even as she got to her feet cutting down two more zombies and rushing to the group of people she knew she was two late, as one of the women she had saved was torn to shreds. Their speed was being hampered by the few wounded they had and terror as well as having to fight for every inch they gained. Aura tripped as a zombie upper hald grabbed her leg and tripped her even as the Zombie that made it past her went after a secound victim. "Alex!" she screamed as she struggled to make it to her feet under the crush of zombies.
It had been a lovely day and, as he was wont to do, Zek was scouting out some new rooftops to wander along. Roofs really made for excellent vantage points to see all sorts of things. They also made it easy to drop things on people or take naps while working on your tan. And Zek was pretty pasty - working the nightclub life would do that for ya.
A bunch of screams woke Zek up from the delightful dream he’d been having about playing a giant game of Chinese checkers with a giant ice cream cone. His sweet expression quickly soured as reality took over. “Knock it off!” he yelled to whomever was doing all the carrying on. He turned in the hammock he’d strung up and pillowed his hands under his head.
But the screaming didn’t stop. Well, one scream did, but only after gaining a particularly unusual bloodcurdling terror-like quality to it. Ugh. Of all places to move to, why’d he have to choose the one That Never Slept?
Zek swung himself out of his hammock and stepped over to the little ledge on the edge of the roof. “I said knock it offf…..” Zek trailed off. There was some weird little flash mob happening three stories below him. One person even had pink glowsticks and was covered in neon pink paint. Wait, no, that was just a regular mob and the pink person was fighting with glowsticks. Zek blinked and rubbed his eyes. Oh, actually it was an unending horde of zombies converging on a mutant woman with a force field and energy weapons desperately defending a dwindling grouping of defenseless people from said horde.
“Keep it down, will ya?” he shouted. Ugh. wasn’t death when you were supposed to sleep? But it seemed the dead ones down below weren’t listening. “Fine, be that way!”
Leaning over the ledge at the group of living (and terrified and screaming) people that just so happened to be in front of the building he’d chosen to nap on, Zek flicked a golden ball out into the air just far enough for it to fall on a conveniently abandoned car. The car vanished in a flash, only to reappear seconds later in place of a red ball, about three stories in the air above a spot between the overwhelmed pink person and the terrified people and directly above the squad of zombies that were making their way to the helpless people.
Then Zek remembered that a warning might be helpful. “Look out belooooowww!”
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 2, 2020 14:23:31 GMT -6
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”One more time?” Sam asked holding his earpiece as he slid to the scene. ”Again?” he asked shortly after as looked down. There were people screaming and running being chased by… ****. Yep that’s a zombie. Whole lot of em. That’s a hoard right?” Sam asked as he dropped down covered in ice. If a wolf couldn’t bite through the ice there was no way a human could. Zombie or not.
While Sam was blessed with protection of his frozen shield he didn’t have to worry about himself getting chewed however if he was going to help everyone else that was being eaten and ripped apart he knew he couldn’t stay still for long. Sam looked to the nearest Zombie and blasted it in the head with ice the body stumbled a few feet towards him then fell and the body went limp after the head shattered.
”Someone one might want to set up a barricade…. It doesn’t look good.” he chimed into his earpiece as he blasted another three that fell to a similar fate. The icemancer turned his head extending his cold sense outwards the corpses didn’t read but everyone else in front of the building did. Sam raised his hand and was about to direct an ice beam at the zombies approaching the group he felt until the car dropped on them.
Sam started running blasting all the zombies in sight with a beam of cold as he ran to the group only to find a pink aura. ”****” he said saving the one person he felt he shouldn’t have.
”Everyone needs to get inside!” he said yelling. ”Help is on the way.” he looked to the doors, ”The door locked?” he asked everyone occasionally shooting a zombie with a jet of blue before they could get too close.
Things changed very quickly after she struck the ground. She had not heard Zeks earlier screaming but she heard the look out below in time to see a car falling from the sky feet in front of her. She heard a familiar voice and She felt the skeleton hand on her leg freeze as well and the yelling behind her stopped. The Bone hand snapped as she pulled her leg up, and stood in time for a zombie to make it to her, she jammed her first blade under its jaw and broke it's spine tearing the skull from the zombies shoulder. She took the freedom the cover of the other two gave her to catch her breath. Looking back at the group to confirm what her heart needed to know.
She smiled the Snowman's swearing she was not really thrilled to see him either. She was not picky on who helped of course but their were several thousand other mutants at least it could of been. "My Cold friend, I owe you and our new car dropping friend much this day." she said locating the other mutant on the roof top. "So far theirs been no end" she said even as she seen more groups of zombies begin heading their way.
Aura glanced at Cold steel and offerd a single nod, as she heard a woman called out the door was indeed locked. She dropped back toward the door and while she did push her way through the crowd with her power, her only strike was on the door itself. A keypad lock, her blade carved into the door and while it took a minute to carve through the metal door, removing the key lock entirely following what she interpreted from Sam as an order. It was her nature to let others take command of a situation and support it. The screams in her nightmares kept her own failed leadership chance a fresh lesson even after fifteen years.
The door pulled outward as she pulled and Aura knelt and gave a quick hug to Alex as the people began to go thrue the door, quite ready for any protection that could be afforded to them. "So Frosty, help is on the way? I and perhaps our new friend will help buy the time required. We will save these people and those who come after" she said ever as more people came toward them, zombies in their wake as they ran. She saw the wisdom to the plan, the Zombies well numerous were stupid and this gave them less they needed to protect. Their would be plenty of need for that protection soon, Aura could see.
The sight of a car crushing a bunch of zombies into squishy puddles was easily one of the top ten most satisfying things Zek had ever seen. He grinned with simple child-like glee and pumped a fist into the air as he whooped. “Take that, stupid dead things!” He fired off a salute to the people.
Zek did a quick scan of the scene. Well, it looked like things weren’t going to be quieting down anytime soon, what with the arrival of more zombies and an ice-looking guy. Oh wait! The ice guy looked familiar. Three stories was a bit of a distance to see fine details, especially at the angle Zek was looking at, but blue beams were freezing things left and right and yep! He’d recognize that yelling anywhere!
“Why, is that you, my little Sammy-poo?” he called down, a cheshire grin on his face. “Fancy seeing you here! Oh hey, you’re not going to get mad at me again for killing some of these things, right?” Because it was good to know ahead of time if he was, so Zek would have a chance to get away. There was a fire escape just twenty or thirty feet away that Zek could clamber down in a flash.
The person in pink lights seemed to be tearing through all the zombies that Captain Coldpants wasn’t blasting, but they also seemed to be distracted with a door or something. “Well I guess it’s still up to me, then,” Zek said.
“Isn’t it always?” he responded.
“Sure seems like it,” he said with an eye roll.
There were more zombies on the way. Fortunately, there were also a couple more cars in his line of sight that he felt he could hit. Zek took aim and hurled another golden ball at a second car. He overshot it and the ball vanished before it hit the ground beyond. The second ball hit the car. A third ball snagged a second car.
Seconds later, the two cars were falling on top of separate groups of zombies that were trying to reach the living people. Now there were three crunched up cars in the street and one was partially on a sidewalk. Not only was Zek great at smashing zombies, he could build crude battlements too! “Clean up on aisle five!” Zek crowed as another golden light formed in his hand.
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 7, 2020 11:37:40 GMT -6
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>>>My Cold friend, I owe you and our new car dropping friend much this day."
The icemancer ignored the ‘friend’ title she so casually threw around. He didn’t consider them friends, if anything she was on the ‘I’m probably going to have to kill you list.’ Friends didn’t end up on that list…. Okay most friends didn’t end up on that list. ”Thank me by helping them!”
>>>“Why, is that you, my little Sammy-poo?”
”****” he said rolling his eye and blasting another zombie that had crawled close to him. Sam gave a firm stomp forcing his foot through the things head. ”Can’t walk away.” he reminded himself quietly while there were other people that did deserve saving. The bounty hunter probably didn’t deserve to be put on the same list as Aura did but, he was well on his way. He liked to push buttons and Sam apparently had way too many to push. ”If they were dead already smash away.” he yelled.
The door opened under Aura’s power and he turned his back towards the living people behind him. The cars appeared out of the lights that Zek created into a makeshift wall. Sam responded in kind by making a wall of ice opposite the cars to create a small choke point. ”Yeah, Zombies roaming the streets safe to say that they will be sending back up.”
”Who started this?” Sam yelled. He hoped it wasn’t that zombie chick him and his brother met at the Hotel California. She had some screws loose but seemed more interested in making a bigger following. These zombies were just killing without reason other than carnage.
”Aura, get them to the roof and make sure all the exits to the building are secure.” he yelled before walking to the choke point between the cars and his ice. ”Zek, I’ll un ban you from my bar if you do that light thing to anyone who needs saving.” kind of hoping that he’d help but kind of regretting his offer.
"I got them this far My Noble friend and had planned to sell my life for that cause" she said simply. It was true, before the Snowman and their Light Ball friend Aura had been considering trying a desperate last stand. Still options had certainly grown since then. That same growth was why she had not tried to distract the zombies with injured humans. It may have slowed the horde but Sam and the Light ball man had arrived before she had to pay it a secound thought.
"Watched them rise from the graves myself and they do not blink upon losing a limb" Aura tried to Add to Zek and Sam's conversation, even as she batted aside another zombie, cutting it's head cleanly in two. The permiter had gotten much easier to maintain with Zek and Sam involved. Aura no longer needed to run cover for the group herself which mean she could fight better.
"That i can not answer, i saw no flash of power use nor anyone who seemed like a source, but i was unable to investigate further as their were to many and other priorities" she said before continuing. "We may well need that backup if this continues, been almost an hour i think" she said considering the time and mostly judging it by the sky. She saw the barrier the Cars had made and was impressed once she was able to take a look at it. Whoever the Light Ball man was he certainly seemed to have experience.
"It will be done, Noble Friend" she said as she watched Sam take up the spot at the choke point. She admired that without question he simply assumed the role. It was the position Aura would have preferred. "Do not fall to this rabble, either of you." Aura said before backing into into the building itself.
Aura looked around scanning the room and looking past the scared people in the carpeted room. "Listen" she started but was drowned out by the panicked people, so if one swift motion, Aura cut a desk in two which fell with an attention grabbing impact."Make sure all the windows ans door are closed, then move whatever you can in front of them, windows first as they are our weakest defense points. I'll need a volunteer to start checking the upstairs rooms." she said loudly and confidently. When a man volunteered Aura went through her purse and handed him a pistol. The man thanked her which Aura accepted, the man never realized the real purpose of the gun was to announce zombies were present before he died. With that the group split up into smaller teams to see what could be done. When an old hammer and some nails were found Aura began cutting up the furniture into blocks that could be nailed to the windows. Just under five minutes in and she had yet to hear the pistol go off, which was a good sign, so far.
Posted by Zek on Sept 10, 2020 17:52:28 GMT -6
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“‘Kay!” Zek sang out, leaning even further over the ledge. “Hear that, zombies? I now have a license to kill! Or unkill! Or rekill? Whatever it is! The point is I can smash you and it’s all okay because Captain Chillout said so!” The zombies did not seem very impressed. Well, that was because they were probably brainless and such because Zek was very impressive.
“Zippedee doo dah, zippedee day,” Zek sang and he re-evaluated the scene. Mister Frosty Pants was making some more ice walls and the Pink Panzer was just cutting through everything that got close. “My oh my what a zombie-slayin’ day.” He was out of fresh cars and he didn’t exactly want to weaponize the makeshift barricades at the moment. Probably for the best though, since those three cars had already been quite an effort and now the ambient light was stabbing into his eyes and he really felt like vomiting. Ah well, that the price one paid for an awesome opening maneuver.
There was a lot more yelling. “I wanna say that this is totally not my fault in any way, shape, or form,” he called back, his voice slurred. At least, he was reasonably sure of that. Although he didn’t remember getting banned from Icecube’s bar. Oh well, the guy had probably put his head in a freezer too long or something. “Anything for you, my little Samsicle!” Zek blew the guy a kiss and then…pretty much did nothing.
Neon Breeze and the Snow Soldier looked like they were doing an excellent job of holding the zombies back. As least until Maroon 5 Minus 4 vanished into the depths of the building. Now Coolman McSnow was all that stood between the survivors and the zombie horde.
Ugh, now Zek might actually have to do something. The place of resistance seemed like it was attracting all the zombies to the area, even more effectively than a milkshake. Zek pulled a pair of sunglasses out of an inner pocket of his trenchcoat and put ‘em on, making himself suddenly way cooler and his eyes a lot less in agony. Golden lights formed in his hands and he cast them at the zombie horde, in the general area in front of the snowblaster.
Seconds later, red lights flickered in the air and zombies began falling from the sky, crashing into various groups of zombies or otherwise just making messes on the ground. Actually half of them were just hitting the ground. His aim wasn’t that fantastic after capturing three cars. But that didn’t stop him from singing.
“It’s raining zombies! Hallelujah! It’s raining zombies! Amen!” he crooned as he began repeating the cycle of gold then red lights.
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 16, 2020 5:26:26 GMT -6
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”Backup will start with a perimeter then work their way in. We can’t let any through. Not until we know what the hell we are dealing with. I like the city and I’d prefer not to share it with corpses.” he was about to regret his words, ”Once it’s secure, we are going to go get everyone else we can!”
Of course Zek had more names from him. Although he had heard most of them he would have preferred to hear the other nicknames from his friends. Not Zek, when Zek did it he just pressed more buttons. Which given the circumstances was okay. A spike of ice shot out from in front of him impaling three zombies.
Their bodies struggled to break free till the decaying bones and flesh froze over. When the spike dropped the corpses shattered on the ground. Hopefully they wouldn’t get footage of the carnage until after the bodies were cleaned up. He wouldn’t be too happy if someone shattered one of his relative’s corpses, but better than finding out they killed someone.
Sam did his best to ignore the light show Zek was putting on, that and his singing he knew he was going to have that stuck in his head the rest of the day now. If he survived that long.
A fallen Zombie latched on to his ankle half of it’s skull was missing but it still had enough sense to bite on when Sam moved close enough. The teeth didn’t puncture his ice but it was enough to remind him to keep a better eye out. They’d have to be wiped out completely to make sure no one else would become a victim by them.
”It’s raining… damn it.” too late the song was stuck in his head. Sam shifted his weight to avoid a zombie as he froze it solid. Someone not being eaten ran by carrying a little dog. She was hysterical and scared. ”and they say the danger room is nothing like real life.” Sam stepped forward and closed the pass behind him as he sealed the entrance. ”Zek, anyone who is living and you can get them in the ‘safe zone’ do it. I’m going to go find any stragglers.”
He didn’t wait for confirmation. He didn’t have time. The woman and her dog were out in the open and exposed and now they were being corned. One zombie lunged only to be speared in the back by a shard of ice. The zombie staggered back and Sam yelled, ”Hungry!?!?” the ice armor stepped off of him revealing his skin to the zombies.
”Come and get some!” his ice clone barreled into the small group of zombies, while the others that weren’t run down turned towards him. It was enough to get their un-dead attention and enough for his ice clone to absorb the woman and dog into it. Sam slowly started to move backwards ice starting to coat over his arms and feet while a spear formed in his hand. ”Send her home.” Sam said to the ice clone which then made a beeline for the wall of ice that protected the entrance.
Part of her longed to be in the thick of the fight even if they were the shambling dead. She could feel the anticipation crawling up her spine. Combat called to her like a siren song, but she buried the thought in her mind. Not long ago she had believed herself in engine of death, a weapon to be wielded to hurt and destroy and nothing more. It had been drilled into her so often that even Fifteen years later their words echoed through her skull. She had defied fate by being alive even a fraction of the time she had been having been told her lifespan was a thing measured in months.
Aura's brief lapse in attention snapped back as she heard something drop outside a couch now blocking the window so she was unable to see what happened but she suspected the Snowman's and her new friend of that. Whoever he was he had some teleporter power she had not seen and wished she could see closer up.
The barricades would never hold real abuse being what the hastily constructed obstructions they were. They had been able to put nails in most of them but had run out and cannibalized more questionable ones from the furniture. Still they would buy time as needed the stairwells would form good choke points assuming these things could even use stairs. Aura was not much of a movie or even a tv fan so her knowledge of common weaknesses and zombie tactics was limited. Once the Barricades were all in place, Aura guided them upstairs, taking the rear as the man she had armed took the front. When the last of them were upstairs, Aura formed an axe and swung down into the wooden stairway close to the wall, a few swings and minutes later and she tossed aside the bottom three steps. If her friends got more people in here they could hopefully climb up or be helped and if Zombies climbed then this was meaningless but she had not seen them do so yet. The stairs groaned more as she made her way up the stairs to join the others who had come to another door.
Once directed the people had been efficient checking out each door and had only come up to one that actually needed more then a bit of force. Most of the doors were wood, solid, well built but not locked. Aura removed a few of these with quick swipes lodging them as barriers in front of the door to the second story. However the last one was instead another metal door with a keypad and Aura hacked that one with the same elegance she had applied to the ground level door and while far tougher then the wood she removed the lock in minutes, though the door would never relock.
Emerging onto the roof Aura dropped her aura seeing no danger. and moved out to the edge of the building's roof to see how the others were managing. She pointed at the guy with the gun and a woman, picking her at random. "Go back down the Hall and make sure nothing...dead comes up, if it does, get back here. she said. The two may have been pro or anti mutant but they were not willing to argue with the woman who had helped keep them alive, her reputation aided with that. She felt a small head push it's way under her arm and she gave a few strokes of her hand in the young girls hair. With her other hand she pointed as she located them.
"Don't worry little one, your Teacher says backup will come, You will be safe, even if i must fall to ensure it. She said confidently and truthfully. However they were not word's kid and only served to make Alex emotional and cry.
[color=f700cc"But without you..."[/color]' Alex started but Aura did not let her Finnish. "Enough Small one, cry when this is over if you must but now is not the time" she said her voice almost growling in reply and when she felt Alex separate from her she paid only a glance to see the kid sulk but try and sniffle the crying. Aura knew she was just scared as the others were but Aura did not feel it was the time. She watched resting her aura in case she needed it as things went on.
“As you wish!” Zek shouted. “I’m so proud of you, my frosty little turtle-duck! That’s my guy!” Zek even fanned his face for a moment.
And then it was time to get serious.
“They’re gonna go down…” he began. A golden orb flew out into the horde.
“...get them-selves…”
A trio of orbs followed, swallowing up a couple that were trying to climb one of the crunched up cars.
“....abso-lute-ly eff-en’ DEAD!”
Another trio bounced off the ground and finally hit a pair of zombies that were moving a little too determinedly to a door across the street.
Zek grinned wildly and hopped up onto the ledge, throwing an armload of scarlet spheres every which way over the masses below. “IT’S RAINING ZOMBIES!” he cried, making jazz hands as five little zombies exploded into existence in the air over the street like the grossest fireworks you ever did see. “Hallelujah!” He started high kicking as he strutted along the ledge.
“Oh wait you’renotdead! ” he sang without missing a beat as the door across the street exploded open. Two women and a man, each holding makeshift weapons began charging at the ice shield at a not-dead run. The ice wall that now had no opening since Doctor Deep Freeze walked off and, like, shed his ice armor like a really cold snake. “Here, catch!” Zek said, keeping time and tune with the imaginary music.
He turned his last high kick into a classic pitcher’s wind-up and chucked a shiny orb at the people. His aim was actually pretty good. He snagged the women with the office chair and then hopped backward off the ledge so he didn’t, like, fall off and die or whatever. He’d never be able to live that down. Especially if he came back as one of these zombies.
It was amazing what insurance companies would do to keep from having to pay anything.
The remaining man and woman had almost reached the ice wall and though they’d been quite surprised by their vanishing friend, they got over it. You know, more pressing matters to attend to, like the pressing horde of zombies that were no longer taken off guard by the unexpected attack. The man was mostly covering the woman’s back with savage sweeps of a standing lamp while she battered her way forward with truly the largest purse Zek had ever seen. He was absolutely willing to bet she could fit more in that purse than he could in one of his orbs.
The next couple of balls went a bit too wild and Zek let them just smash into zombies like regular baseballs. A moment later the man vanished in a flash. In that time the woman had managed to bowl over three zombies and splatter another one across the ice wall. Then Zek managed to tag her too.
That’s when the knocking on the door started. Well, it really sounded more than a drunk kangaroo home from a bar crawl and really wanted to tell its ex just how much they missed them and wanted to get back together. With a chainsaw soundtrack.
“Who is it?” Zek sang out. “Occupado!” Like, did he really have time to go get the door? He was single-handedly holding off an entire zombie apocalypse all by his lonesome, handsome self (and looking amazing in his trenchcoat, sunglasses, casual scruff, and perfectly tousled hair) - he really couldn’t be bothered with someone coming over for a cup of sugar. Especially a zombie. He just knew in his gut a zombie would then just want to stick around for dinner and desert and then drink everything in the house. Probably wouldn’t use silverware either.
The banging apparently went on for a few more minutes (in which Zek was trying to set a high score combo in how many zombies he could smash with another zombie - his best was a cluster of four from a zombie fall from five stories up - stuff splattered everywhere!) before the door finally opened. Zek casually glanced back.
“Oh hey, Floyd,” he said as the pink glow stick person appeared. “Having fun? Oh, you brought helpers? That reminds me…”
Zek tossed some red balls a couple yards away and suddenly the trio of mad-dash folks appeared. They were spaced far enough from each other and anyone else that they wouldn’t swing and hurt anyone. Probably.
“Howdy y’all! Welcome for saving you. Think you guys could help a fellow out? I got a hammock over there. Needs putting up. You mind? Kay thanks bye!” Zek flashed the bewildered people a sunny smile and started throwing more balls into the undead crowds. The ones concentrating on the cars were the ones he really needed to go for.
The Office Warriors Triad blinked, looked at each other, and then wandered off to start putting away a hammock.
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 18, 2020 5:24:07 GMT -6
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The ice clone got to the wall of ice then pressed against it, at this point Sam was close enough to have the armor push the woman through the wall. It was a strain for him at a distance but while he was surrounded they slow. Slow and didn’t give much of a thermal read. In fact if it wasn’t for his battle instincts Sam would have been bitten several times over. Every time one of the zombies lunged Sam sidestepped and jabbed with a spear. Six feet was all he would need to insure a somewhat safe distance.
Every thrust came with a grunt as the tip of ice exited the back of a zombie skull. There wasn’t a human or mutant around him and now that he didn’t have to focus on controlling his armor it remained motionless near the makeshift barricade meaning he could cut loose for a moment. The hairs on his arms and neck stood on end as he took a breath and exhaled slowly. His breath was the first to be scene followed by a plethora of frost that quickly climbed up every zombie in close proximity.
It took seconds, dead flesh was easy to freeze. It was already cold, and there was nothing that would warm it in time before every movement caused the zombies near him to fall apart into frozen chunks at his feet. Sam turned and launched the spear into a zombie that was slowly following a pair of kids who got of a car nearby and tried to escape. ”Kids, to the ice wall!” he pointed they saw where it was and ran for it. His armor that once enveloped him acted as a sentinel giving them time to climb into the cars and exited the other side.
Sam tapped his ear piece ”Need some eyes in the sky, I can’t see everyone.” he didn’t know who would get the message or who was in the area. ”Mother ****er!” Something jumped on his back causing him to stumble. It was quick and dead but now it was frozen. His body reacted and shot spires of ice from his back.
The undead hitchhiker fell to the ground impaled in several locations, most notably the mouth where it tried to latch onto his neck before the ice got there. Sam looked from the corpse and frowned. ”Too close.” he said with a grumble knowing he couldn’t rely on his thermal sense to detect danger. That’s fine. He could just detect the living and go from there.
It started to snow, Sam inhaled and exhaled again trying to spread his power out as far as he could. Windows nearby frosted over, near the drains where some water had accumulated sheets of ice formed. Two warm bodies nearby. Sam shifted his vision in that direction and ran for it making sure the ‘safe’ zone was still in sight. ”Come on!” he roared to the nearest group of zombies that was surrounding a conversion van and charged them. His body starting to coat in ice again.
Turtle Duck? Aura's mind unsuccessfully tried to merge the two animals as she spared a gaze for their newest friend. Aura liked to talk herself in a fight to gather information as well as off balance her opponents but it seemed their New Friend did so out of the sheer joy of combat, though she thought he might indulge to much. Clearly he knew the Snowman which was not a shock to Aura, X men got around the city and helped many where they could. It was a trait the X men shared with Aura, the Desire to help and improve their world, their methods and belief's on who should be helped differed wildly however.
"Floyed? I am Aura new Friend" she said not at all understanding the Joke. Aura had never listened to much music after she came to the city new or old. "Your power is fascinating however" whoever he was he was a mutant even if his actions confused the pink one. Zek's playful nature made him seem undisciplined to Aura.
She glanced back at the people on the rooftop, including Alex and considered their defenses. The doors should hold and what she had seen of these zombies they did not climb. When she saw the Snowman stumble Aura resolved her course of action. she was far more use on the ground. ""I go the frontline, you will be safe" she tried to assure them locking eyes with Alex a moment before she took a running start and leapt from the rooftop corner. She landed on an upturned car, the aura around her feet absorbing most of the impact for her. She still bent her knees' with the landing and surveyed the area. Their still seemed to end to the zombies that seemed to pour from the graves.
Aura let her aura stretch out from her outstretched fingers until one hand ended in eighteen inches of pink blade and the other a hammer, an upward swing carved the first zombie in half and the return stroke did the head from another her hammer impacted a zombies head and shattered it. Aura moved swift surgical strikes to the neck or heavy hammer blows to the head. She could not see the Snowman but she could feel the chill of his powers. There she stopped, and held her ground with the intent of taking pressure from the Snowman and their New Friend. She kept her attacks simple and calculated. Her grace to conserve her aura's energy as so far their still seemed no end to these.
"So assuming all these things are pouring out of the graves, their are over a million graves in that graveyard. To be honest my powers will not hold that long" she said even as an upward hammer swing ripped the head from the neck of another zombie like a baseball. Her shouted message was meant to simply inform of her status and what she knew of the graves these things were leaving. While Aura found no stray humans or mutants she did her best to compliment's the snowman and the light ball man's tactics.
“Well thank you, Aura New Friend! I grew it myself!” Zek whipped back distractedly as Day-Glo introduced herself and complimented his power. At least, Zek was assuming it was a compliment and responded accordingly. He also kinda ignored her because he was intent on causing chaos among the zombies. Like vanishing one out of the way of two little kids who were clearly intent on using one of the car barricades as an entryway.
There was some chatter behind him, but it really didn’t concern him so he really didn’t care. Instead he kept throwing balls at zombies. After a few dozen repeats, he switched to non-vanishing orbs. Soon energy baseballs were just hitting zombies left and right and he didn’t have to worry about releasing anything.
And baseballs weren’t that effective from so high up and against so many. Also, his pitching arm was starting to get tired. At about that time, Floyd jumped off the building and crunched down onto a car. “Talk about a baller move!” Zek said in awe as Her Pinkness charged into more zombies. “Well it looks like the relief pitcher has arrived. I’m heading to the dugout,” he announced to nobody in particular. Also, was it a result of vanishing a bunch of cars and the subsequent sunglasses-wearing, or was it snowing?
Eh.
Zek glanced over at the non-fghty people on the roof. There was a little kid, the Warrior Triad, and a couple of others that had come up with Floyd. “Come here often?” he asked. Then he grinned at the Triad. “OH that’s great, guys! Hey, thanks for helping a brother out!” he said. They’d packed the hammock up neatly and were placing it in the giant duffle bag he’d left beneath it.
He trotted over to the bag. “I’ll take it from here. By the way, loved your moves out there. Great use of tactics and available resources,” he said, ignoring anything they might’ve said. Zek crouched and shoved the hammock into one end of the bag, displacing his morningstar, aluminum bat, and a coil of rope. Ever since that lucrative haul with Juni, he’d decided it didn’t hurt to be prepared for tons of situations. He’d even had a foot long sub in there, bought a week before with a coupon and still fresh, thanks to his powers. Or at least it had been, before zek had eaten it in the hammock.
Which reminded him. He vanished the duffle bag and all its contents and strolled back to the edge of the roof. “Hey! Mr. Frostypants! Lady Rave!” he yelled. “I’m getting bored. Think we can wrap this up or whatever? Like, the first hundred or so zombies were fine, but like now it’s soooo repetitive. Or do you guys got this? Like what’s the game plan?”
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 5, 2020 14:07:25 GMT -6
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A ball of light flashed near him and a zombie staggered to the side. It didn’t vanish. Sam smirked if it wasn’t for Zek being Zek Sam might have liked having the guy around. It did make rescues go smoothly. Well when he wasn’t making Sam want to stab something or Zek himself.
The zombies turned attention to Sam when he roared and after the ball of light smacked one on the dome they seemed to become more hostile. Zek had that effect on him as well. With his body coated in ice he didn’t fear the zombies as much, other than something to keep him from saving anyone and while normally he’d try to keep himself from being swarmed and keeping some distance he decided to try out a new tactic.
The first zombie took a fist to the face. Shards of ice erupted outwards from the point of contact dropping the zombie. Another zombie grabbed his shoulder and tried to pull instantly being frozen to Sam. He exuded some cold near the targets head and then elbowed into it causing it to shatter and the body drop. The thermal readings didn’t get any colder. Sam smirked.
Aura’s thermal readings stood out in the cold, as she appeared helping to clean up the nearby zombies to help get the way into the building clear. Once his immediate area was nothing but headless zombies Sam knocked on the door and a mom and child appeared in window. Sam lowered his ice on his face and waved trying to smile. ”How about we get you two to safety?” he asked the door of the van opening quickly. Both the mother and child bawked at the corpses laid out on the snowed over pavement around them. ”Worry about the ones that move.” he said as he guided they pair over to the ice wall that opened for him to let the pair in.
Sam first hear Aura then Zek, one letting him know that they were losing energy and the other to say he was board. ”If you throw Zek to the zombies Aura we can call it even.” he said walking forward a pink hammer coming into view. ”I got a little more gas in the tank. Can’t let loose with the people around though.” he frowned.
”Hold out until they drop or help arrives!” he yelled the amount of water on the ground made things a bit easier on him. At least he wasn’t creating ice now. A clone formed and stuck close to Aura.