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 Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
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.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Sept 23, 2009 18:41:58 GMT -6
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He was running again, through the streets. He'd been running a long time. Massive feet thumping the pavement like palms on a bongo drum. Cars in the streets bounced to the rise-fall beat of his legs. And then he broke the street line, and scraped to a stop in front of the vendor. A giant red finger pointed up at the picture on the vendor's menu, then down to its own chest. The vendor shook one head, then nodded upwards to the sky with the second.
Shin reached upwards, scraped... hopped. But could not reach. All the strength in the world, and cotton candy cloud puffs were still beyond his grasp.
He woke sweating. Back shot straight up in bed. Hazel eyes turned to squint at the clock's glaring '3:17' menace.
"Too early..." But now he couldn't sleep. The image drifting by his mind's eye wouldn't float away. The accumulation of cumulus was like smog on the horizon. The covers fell away as Shin rolled himself out of bed. Lips smacked. Food rattled into a dog's dish. He plucked a blueberry bagel from the bag on his mini-fridge, and pulled a container of whipped cream cheese and a knife from within. Padding over cold wooden floor and carpet to the window, he leaned against the sill to gaze.
Stars still in the early-morning sky. The lights of the city obscured heavenly bodies less here at the mansion. It must've had to do with how good a neighborhood they lived in. Or maybe the fact their large front lawn didn't have a light every five steps.
The taste of cloud cotton candy still tugged at his mind. He'd never tasted cotton candy made from cloud puffs, not even in his dreams, but he had to think... it tasted good. And even when he'd been in Abyss's form, he'd been unable to reach the sky. Kasumi could jump high. Koga could climb walls. But even with all the strength that red giant had mustered, Shin had still been forced to deal with two feet firmly rooted to the ground.
People dream of flying. It is their way. He remembered when he was younger, and how the dreams had been. Good, humorous, clever... there was always an inventive method Shin had discovered to circumvent gravity. Be it a hover-car, a pair of wax wings, or a milk jug one blew in to levitate and swim through the air, he'd always woken up the same.
Falling. Flat on his face, feet to the ground, nose to the grindstone. He'd told his dad once about the dream. Pops had told him "Get your head out of the clouds." He'd tried to pass off the dreams as a phase of childhood. Told himself he'd been a big dreamer.
But dammit. Even big dreams have a chance at becoming reality. It's all about what one does to make it so!!
Being in Abyss, he'd been inspired by many vague and disconnected ideas. I guess walking in another person's shoes, you got to feel the extra wiggle for toes. And all that strength, Shin had wondered, had to have some sort of relevance in his own mutation... He could move things with his mind. Lift them with shards, and drop them. The ring toss with Jewel, Juka, and Shana had proven that to him. He'd had enough practice building constructs with shards to know their strength... and he'd had enough time to suspect the levitation they possessed had alternate strengths he hadn't explored. The creeping suspicion grew on him, until it was choking Shin's throat like a morning glory chokes a dahlia. Why couldn’t he?
Why couldn’t he test that theory to see if shard levitation could be put to further use!?
Staring at the navy haze of clouds at 6AM as the sun crept ever up, inspiration came to Shin. He turned the last half-disc of bagel in his hand so that it contrasted with sky like a Frisbee. He’d fly today. He’d fly, or die trying.
And the creativity that had driven him to conceptualize the idea of a skyward shard platform hadn’t stopped there. He’d fly alright.
In a giant moving maze of stairs and walls and floor.
And Koga would help him learn how.
~*~
Shin’s footsteps creaked down the old mansion floorboards of the second floor hall. He’d showered, walked Thor, and dressed in the three hours since cloudburst had shocked him out of sheets. He wore a red t-shirt with a curled dragon over his top, and blue jeans. A silver chain necklace wrapped around his neck.
The person he’d chosen to train with today wasn’t chosen out of the blue. Ever since Ghost had been assaulted and Koga had injured his arm, Shin had been a scant worried about the little Lizard-boy’s power level, and its proximity to values above 8000. The training session would be good for Koga. Shin had chosen him for that reason, and that reason alone.
Oh, and there was the fact the training session idea he had was awesome, and Koga’d probably get a kick out of it.
That too.
“Knock knock.” Three quick raps at Koga’s door. Shin called to the inhabitants within. “Rise and shine. It’s time to get sunny-side up! I’ve got a training regimen to follow, and you’re getting roped in too!”
The alarm clock went off for five A.M. he had forgotten to turn the alarm off, he wasn’t supposed to train with Sam today at Six. But he could always use the time to study…He thought all of this and then let gravity peel him off the wall. You had to wake up and wake up all the way when you tended to sleep walk and your body remembered it could climb walls. Today he went easy on himself and he was merely a few feet off the bed and onto the wall. so he leaned and plopped onto the bed. rolled and hit the off button, making the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz of his alarm finally stop. He got up used the restroom brushed his teeth and showered…and at 5:15 he returned to his room, And opened a political science book. And began reading, he was ahead a couple chapters and intended on keeping it that way besides this way he could read the whole book and not just the required. He flipped a page with a baby smooth left hand, he had a feeling his whole are would have been a lot more pale if it hadn’t been for his color shifting. At 5:45 he put the political science book away and popped a couple slices of bread in a toaster and then ate them strait out of the toaster.
He was finished cleaning up the crumbs and staring at his violin wondering how early was too early for beautiful Music.
~~“Knock knock.”
His eyebrows rose as he heard the knock on the door.
~~ “Rise and shine. It’s time to get sunny-side up! I’ve got a training regimen to follow, and you’re getting roped in too!”
“One moment Ssshin-Sssan!” Koga called.
He padded bare foot to the door. The let him keep his own thermostat so he wasn’t always falling asleep in his own room but if he was going to leave the room he’d need more than just the thin tank top he had on, so he threw a white shirt on over it and then a black long sleeve, he had already put on some black slacks so he was ready to go. He hadn’t yawned once this morning until Shin said training. Today was his day off…no rest for the wicked, so no rest for the Just he reminded himself.
He opened the door and smiled at Shin and then yawned again. “Rose and Ssshiny about five, up and ssscrambled. Are we going out? or sstaying in for thisss regiment of training?” He held up a pair of socks and shoes, not really needing to explain his disdain for shoes to Shin.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Sept 23, 2009 20:26:19 GMT -6
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"Those," Shin started with a smirk. "Won't be needed for the type of training we're gonna do. I got an idea in my head this morning, and it just won't quit. Picture, if you will, a room with sloping staircases, and walls that lead to floors and topsy turvy ceilings and doors. A bit like..." His hand darted to his pants pocket, extracting his silver cellphone. He flicked through his photo gallery, and found what he was looking for. He showed it to Koga. "Topsy turvy, upside-down weird room of training... ness. Uh. Yeah. It works better as a concept than as something explained. Anyways," away went the cellphone. "This training would utilize your wall-climbing and your agility enough that shoes should be a non-issue. And that sort of idea can only be made 'reality' by the powers of the danger room, so we'll be indoors. I'll tell you more as we get there."
Shin turned and started to lead. Down the stairs and to the danger room, they went. As they neared the danger room, Shin glanced back at Koga. "So... how's your arm been?"
The typically neat freak Koga tossed all four objects precariously behind him, that’s where Shoes and socks belonged, in a refined world of order shoes and socks could be flung to the wind, they had no place in the world so they had no proper place.
~~"Won't be needed for the type of training we're gonna do. I got an idea in my head this morning, and it just won't quit. Picture, if you will, a room with sloping staircases, and walls that lead to floors and topsy turvy ceilings and doors. A bit like..."
“Neat!”
~~"Topsy turvy, upside-down weird room of training... ness. Uh. Yeah. It works better as a concept than as something explained. Anyways,"
“M.C. Essscher’s Relativity.”
~~"This training would utilize your wall-climbing and your agility enough that shoes should be a non-issue. And that sort of idea can only be made 'reality' by the powers of the danger room, so we'll be indoors. I'll tell you more as we get there."
“I like it, I was just going to be stuck in a book.” He didn’t say that with slightest bit of disdain merely stating what else he might have done till he had class. “You mean like how this isss training for you?” He grinned at Shin knowing he preferred a more relaxed relationship even when training.
~~"So... how's your arm been?"
He held up his arm and showed it to Shin to assure them that it was still there. He knew the man felt guilty about the repercussions of his haste in the alleyway, but thanks to a couple of friends he was alright. “ It isss kind of odd but the ssskin isss really sssmooth and sssometimesss it isss tingly but it isss gaining in ssstrength again. Thanksss, for everything by the way.” He didn’t really remember much of what happened after his arm gut cut up but he was pretty sure that Shin had seen to getting him home.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Sept 24, 2009 21:13:03 GMT -6
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>>“You mean like how this isss training for you?
Shin ducked the question as he started to walk. He glanced back at Koga's arm. It looked much better. "That's good. And don't mention it. If our position were reversed, I'm sure you'd have punched that guy for me as well." For a moment, he dropped into silence. It was just Koga and Shin, walking the hallways of the mansion at 6AM. And then more silent walking. Whatever Shin's part in this training was, he wanted it to be a surprise.
Finally, they reached the danger room. Shin punched in a code and walked through the doors. As Koga followed, he turned to face him, raising his right hand towards the ceiling.
"This." Shards appeared, quickly arranging themselves into a flattened pane of glass that drifted to the floor. With a big hop, Shin jumped on top of it.
And promptly fell back to the floor on his back. "Er... that wasn't supposed to happen. Maybe more shards on the bottom of it to thicken things up. More lifting potential? Hrm..." He muttered notes to himself as he got back to his feet and tried it again. Success on the second attempt. He hovered on a three-foot wide, two-inch thick flattened square of orange, three feet above the ground. "... THIS!"
Much better.
Shin floated around a bit, testing his mobility. And then fell again, after turning a corner too sharp.
~~"That's good. And don't mention it. If our position were reversed, I'm sure you'd have punched that guy for me as well.”
“Every single time.”
~~"This."
“Whow!” Koga attempted to slow Shin’s fall some but his eyes were already wide in awe of what Shin was attempting.
~~"Er... that wasn't supposed to happen. Maybe more shards on the bottom of it to thicken things up. More lifting potential? Hrm..."
~~ "... THIS!"
Koga cheered him on, greatness was in the works. “That isss AWESSOME!” Koga was nearly jumping up and down at the prospect of flight and Shin doing the flying
“I now sssee where your training comes in, maybe we should get the danger room to simulate softer floors?” He loved the danger room and all its potential for an awesome party, He had gotten used to some of the commands in his daily training with Steel. He ran over to a pad and typed in something. The floors poofed up like a bounce house. “ At least until we are ready for crazy stairs and whatever else you have up your sleeve.” He started bouncing up and down as Shin tested his magic square.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Sept 29, 2009 17:12:28 GMT -6
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>>“That isss AWESSOME!”
This wasss awessome. It was now impossible to hide the grin radiating off the triangle-mancing Asian's face. Words could not describe the joy he'd feel if he mastered this ancient art of levitation on mental barriers... but if they could, they would have probably rang similar to 'this is awesome'. Maybe with a few more exclamation points? Shin gave Koga a wry smirk. "I know."
"... And yes." Shin turned on the danger room with contemptuous eyes. "The ground could be softer. Good point." He bit his thumb, rolling the idea over in his mind. Feathered pillows could be squishy... or mattresses. Maybe a futon? Boxing rings had pads to reduce the likelihood of injury, and tight rope walkers used nets... though to fall from such heights into a net like a sieve... or better yet, a cheese grater. Shin shuddered at the thought. "It isn't as if we have any rogue air elementals to pad the fall. And Ghost isn't up yet." He frowned.
Koga ran over and made short work of his dilemma. The floors poofed up like a bounce house.
>>“At least until we are ready for crazy stairs and whatever else you have up your sleeve.” He started bouncing up and down as Shin tested his magic square.
And test, he did. Another, even larger cube, formed up this time. Shin climbed on-board the big bad box, and balanced. Arms swung out, he swayed slightly, but... "It's a bit like surfing." Shin noted. "Except that, instead of paddling with my arms, I'm creating the waves with my mind."
Very wobbly waves. That didn't give much push. Shin leaned forward, crouched on his cube like a skier slaloming. Slowly, the cube hovered its way over to the panel.
Faster! Faster. He urged with his mind. Mush!!
The cube was stubborn, like a disobedient donkey, until finally!!
Shin shot forward, straight into the wall. Bump. The Asian dismissed the shard cube, dropping to the floor.
He grinned sheepishly as he programmed in the data for the danger room. "Computer. Bring M.C. Escher’s Relativity to three-dimensional life."
Shin blinked at the image. Another blink. A third blink, and he nodded. Punched the 'affirmative' button on the numberpad. That would do quite nicely.
The danger room rushed to work, establishing a physical holographic representation of the photograph, in all its blocky Lego glory. Complete with Lego people, who clung, lifeless, to the walls.
One Lego person's head tilted to eye the pair upside-down on his ceiling. That wouldn't do. No, not at all.
"And give us two ping pong paddles," Shin spoke to the ceiling. A paddle appeared in each of his hands. Walking over to Koga, he held out a paddle beckoningly. "I hope you aren't opposed to making the training simulation a bit more interesting?"
Lego hands clacked stealthily. A bit more interesting? Yes. That, he could guarantee.
"... And yes." "The ground could be softer. Good point." "It isn't as if we have any rogue air elementals to pad the fall. And Ghost isn't up yet."
“ I Keep ssseeing her hang out with the unicorn dude at work…”Koga couldn’t help it, he was fond of Ghost…he hadn’t really talked much to her, she was an adult house member at the mansion…he returned her top at that pool…he tried to rectify that scumbag in the alleyway for her…he talked with her every so often at full circle. He wasn’t jealous…But the unicorn guy was old sometimes….but he could also turn into a unicorn, I am sure that a lot of girls would be happy with having their very own unicorn… He knew that the crush was a bit silly seeing as she was an adult and he was still a minor and more so, that he liked Katrina a lot….and then there was the new girl Twyla and Shin had a cousin his age coming into town, it’d be nice to speak Japanese to a fellow student…gah! What was wrong with him!...according to every biology book nothing…with the teen years came an increase in hormones and well that meant an increased attention those you could be attracted to or aware of. Still how had all that transpired in his head just at the mention of Ghost being asleep still?
~~"It's a bit like surfing." "Except that, instead of paddling with my arms, I'm creating the waves with my mind."
Koga literally applauded Shin’s effort, it wasn’t everyday someone decided to fly or float and achieved it, he was impressed and wanted to fly too…maybe after shin got a better a grip on it he would ask for a ride on one of the cubes.
~~ "Computer. Bring M.C. Escher’s Relativity to three-dimensional life.""And give us two ping pong paddles," "I hope you aren't opposed to making the training simulation a bit more interesting?"
Koga’s mouth dropped in awe, he absolutely loved the mansion… the training room was the best video game ever. “Ssshin-Sssan, anytime you want to wake me up for training don’t hesssitate. This looksss like it iss going to be great fun. Alwayssss. The more the challenge, the more efficient the training isss. How do we play and what exactly are we playing?”
He took one of the paddles and then started to stretch, he always liked to do warm ups, and he could do that and listen to the rules of engagement for crazy Lego world ping pong. He was already convinced that he would brag to Sam about how creative Shin was, Sam liked to throw interesting stuff into the missions but Lego M.C.Esher and ping pong paddles…wow!
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>>“ I Keep ssseeing her hang out with the unicorn dude at work…”
Shin's head snapped 'round like an owl's at the comment. "Huh."
The only unicorn dude he knew was Ghost's knight in shining armor, the healer who'd showed up back when Ghost got shot... and again, when the morose and merciless misanthropic miscreant maliciously massacred many municipal men in uniform, and took it upon himself to heap wanton hurt on the wisp of a waif... by which Shin of course meant 'when that bastard hurt Ghosty.' Wait, were the unicorn and the white-haired horned dude one and the same? What the hell? That wasn't right. Couldn't possibly be... but then it made sense. Hmm. Further research was advised.
"You mean her knight in shining armor? Neat. Maybe wedding bells are ringing, and we're all in the dark," Shin joked. He grinned at his cleverness. Oh yes, with the grinning.
Shin reined his attention back to the matter at hand, and answered Koga's question.
"Have you ever played tennis... or Pong, mayhaps? It's a bit like that, except that rather than playing a simple game with the back and forth paddling on a level surface, we'll be going up and down walls as we hit the ball..."
He tossed the paddle in his hand. It spun three times in the air before he brought up his hand to catch it. "Computer, ball."
A ping pong ball fell from somewhere in the head-turning ceiling to bounce on the danger room floor. Shin picked it up, and hopped on top of a thick platform of shards. He'd serve first... if only he could balance. "Ready when you are."
The Lego dude clacked his hands silently, repeating the thought.
~~"You mean her knight in shining armor? Neat. Maybe wedding bells are ringing, and we're all in the dark,"
Nodding Koga reluctantly joined in on the joke. “heh,” it sounded more like ‘ouch’ than it did laughter, but it only took him a moment to set his silly crush aside and be happy for ghost, the “Yeah.” Followed sounded much more convincing.
~~"Have you ever played tennis... or Pong, mayhaps? It's a bit like that, except that rather than playing a simple game with the back and forth paddling on a level surface, we'll be going up and down walls as we hit the ball..."
“Ssshin san, I know you haven’t met my parentssss, but they set the ssterotype for ssslave driving perfection that we tend to provoke in other Americans. If they do it at a country club, I at the very leassst know the basicssss.”
~~"Computer, ball "
Koga watched intently as shin showed off some skill with a ping pong paddle, this, was going to be interesting.
~~"Ready when you are."
The Lego dude clacked his hands silently, repeating the thought.
A goofy grin spread across Koga’s face as he couldn’t resist a cheesey and tired line. “I wassss born ready.” He said spinning his own paddle in his hand. He crouched slight ready to sprint in what ever direction the ball was bound to fly. If shin was going to be flying he didn't fell bad about using some of his natural gifts. Koga changed colors as he ran, but instead of blending he went for high contrast if the lego behind him was royal blue he turned orange, yellow equated purple and red invoked green.
A freaking mazing! Koga ran toward the stairs and went up them, Swatting the ball with a thunderous 'tap'. He sent it flying off to Shin's left, it wasn't too harsh but it was certainly something he might have to work to get to, as for Koga he continued forward and his legs carried him up the stairs until his feet were planted solidly on the wall, from Koga's View Shin was now "above" him so he was looking strait up. from anyone else's view Koga might have been laying belly down on a floating invisible bed.
A couple of the Lego men clacked there hands together cheering the game on...at least he assumed they were cheering.He hesitated momentarily to see if Shin was going to make it, or if he had decided he could swim just after learning to tread water. but he of course believed in Shin.
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A belief that, perhaps, was out of its place. It'd take hours of mind-draining practice for Shin to the get the balance down on his levitation trick. The ball flew to his left, and Shin leaned towards it. His shard wobbled, but did not budge. He urged it with his knees.
"Go! C'mon, gooooo!!" He looked. Constipated. Crouching like that on the shard was not a flattering position. The ball sailed towards the floor. At the last moment, Shin sighed.
"Ah, to hell with it. Shards, gogogo."
A set of four shards broke from the bottom of the cube and shot towards the falling ball. They swung up like a paddle, knocking the ball right towards Shin! His own paddle came up and around, firing the ball towards what, functionally-speaking, was the ceiling! But in this Escher-esque scene, was a doorway and a nice set of stairs.
Shin focused on locking his knees in-place again, on keeping his legs steady as he watched Koga go after the ball. A thought struck him.
He summoned a few shards to clamp down on his feet, holding them in place. There. Like buckles for skis, except sharper... good.
Something round and yellow flew at him, just as Shin was sighing in relief. He spun around, flipped upside-down. Hung there a moment, discombobulated as he wondered what had attacked him, and then...
Clack Clack! Lego Men. Pincer Claws.
A trio of Legos grinned up at him maliciously from ground floor, next to their Lego Cart of projectiles. Shin gulped as realization struck him.
Koga crouched on the wall looking upward at Shin and his comical pestering. He then noted that the Lego men looked like they were scheming behind Shin…how odd to think of Lego men as mean…they always had a smile on their face…then he realized something, they had stubble…the mean Lego guys always had stubble. One even had an eye patch…
“Headssss up Sssshin!” Koga called leaving pleasantries to the side as things began to take an odd turn and the lego men progress toward his mentor. But he was too distracted by the game and the ping pong ball to observe the odd behavior.
~~"Ah, to hell with it. Shards, gogogo."
Koga watched as a few shards broke off from the board that Shin was on. “ If we made rulesss to thisss game, I would call foul!” he called jokingly to Shinbo. He sprinted across the wall to dive for the ball but diving wouldn’t work as planed…the scenery had him confused though so he was tempted to go for it. which way was up?
He pulled to a start as a row of Lego men filed out of a doorway.. they had grey weapons they didn’t look sharp, but they were somehow menacing in the way that they moved in unison. Koga glanced at Shin…He must have been writing over Sams programs or something…Sam was always added weird random AI to scenerio’s.
Now the truly freaky part happened. The first Lego man with a club stood like a base ball player and the line formed behind him…the first lego man in line popped his head off and tossed it in the air for the batter. The lego man nailed a line drive at Koga. “that’sss jussst wrong!”
Koga took his paddle and did his best to divert the head…what was more disturbing though was that the now headless lego man was marching forward with his spear held toward him.
“Fight or flight, bosssss?” Koga called to Shinbo…I think Death pong just took a turn for the weird.
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Shin hung there, up-side down with his arms crossed. Coding. Freaking coding. Who put these guys here, huh?! Darn danger room. And now blood was rushing to his head. Fantastic!
Imagine, if you will, a metronome, or the pendulum on a clock. A pendulum! That was Shin, shifting his body back and forth in the hopeless attempt at revival. Like a cat with a mouse.
But righting himself didn’t come easy. A quick intake of breath hissed past his lips as Shin swung a bit too hard to the right avoiding a Lego head, and shards dug into the legs of his pants… and his own legs.
Shards, sharp. Remember? How could he have forgotten?
And how… the heck… would he get on his feet again, instead of danged upside-down by them in this topsy-turvy ramshackle Lego M.C. Escher world!?
The image of Epic Fail Guy fell to his hands and knees in Shin’s mind. This was… yes, this was… he didn’t want to admit it, bit his lip in avoidance of the truth, but… no! It was a total ‘orz’ moment. Falling to hands and knees… Shin raised his bowed head as enlightenment lit the corners of his eyes.
“That’s perfect!!” He’d fall on his face!!! GENIUS!
His hands hung down there, didn’t they? Shin looked up… to feet. Down, to arms. Right. His fingers curled inwards. The Asian focused, focused, on drawing up a thick rectangle of shards to land on. He had to get it just right. Conjure it to support his weight, raise the sides in case he rolled, and…
There! The rectangle rose up beneath Shin. For a moment, he rested open palms on its honey-yellowed face and did a handstand. And then, thud. He released himself from the old shard platform just in time to duck another pair of Lego heads.
“Ow…” He rubbed his elbows… his knee… his gut. Looked to his legs. A faint hint of red was visible. He’d have to pay Doc Prof a visit after this was over.
“Fight or flight, bosssss?” Koga called to Shinbo.
Tetsuya looked up at Koga from his belly. “Looks like the ball went down on your side of the court, Koga.” He grunted with a weak grin. “I get the point… and these Lego men want to spear you with theirs… I say… FIGHT!!!” He snapped up on the shard rectangle like a woman rising on her surfboard. His arms struck out to balance and focus the bulk of his old platform above into two shard cubes. They spun, red and blue on his left and his right.
Then flew upwards, er downwards, at the Lego men batting heads.