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Post by funwithfire on Sept 16, 2007 23:00:23 GMT -5
Landing just feet from his target he saw the metallic tendrils fly in front of him. "Well damn." He came to halt and removed his cloak, to free up his movement some more, revealing his form. He pulled in his arms and readied himself for potential capture.
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Post by Render of Veils on Sept 17, 2007 16:29:23 GMT -5
"Gotcha!"
Slag cackled with glee as his net clamped down around Chimera, blocking the vigilante's access to the hydrant. His amorphous head swirled down to look at the captured victim.
"Now, what am I going to do with you, hm?"
Ionia's tactic seemed to work, as she rose against Ash's crushing pressure slowly. The heroine could hear a kind of rumbling in the black swirling mass of dust around her, which sounded like someone grumbling under their breath.
Damn you... Ash thought. Suddenly a great force slammed down on top of Ionia's force bubble! With terrific strength Ash directed an incredible amount of mass into a single vertical push downwards, intending on piledriving Ionia straight into the rest of the villainess' imploding mass to crush her!
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Post by funwithfire on Sept 23, 2007 0:17:28 GMT -5
With a low chuckle, "Well, that all depends." he looked at the 'face' of his cage, "Are you the type of villain to gloat and tell his plans or the type that gets right to the good stuff?"
Smirking, "I'm clearly not going any where while you've got me in this cage. You can always go and save your friend leaving me with noone to play with or we can finish this right now." Chimera raised up his claw and tried to rip through one of the solid sides of the trap.
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Post by Piccylo on Sept 23, 2007 3:37:25 GMT -5
With the reversed pressure Ash was giving, Ionia's immediate reaction was to respond with a stronger force of ionized air underneath her, to push herself up with just as much strength and to blow away any ash that might try to reach up and wrap around her ankles. The most she knew she could do is a stalemate in this position if she wanted any sort of safety (she was already accidentally grounding with the effort). Ash did not appear to be showing any signs of blindspots in her control or approaching a limit to her stamina in her smoggy form to Ionia, and since the only ally she might have was busy, trying to wait it out until Ash faltered or until help arrived was not an option.
Ionia used her time nearly frozen in the air with the neutralization of forces to think, pulling up every chemical composition and reaction ash could possibly have. Every once in a while, some of her electric discharge was still grounding, and with the increased voltage she was using, the shocks were getting distracting.
Why does ash always have to be so hard to clean up?! she thought, but the mental complaint turned out to be a brainstorm. Clean up! Ionia had set things on fire accidentally while experimenting with charging various wires and filaments before, and she of course had to clean things up afterwards (especially in her father's lab). The key to cleaning up ash was to keep it from migrating around to get into vents, working parts, and people's lungs. And the best way to do that was to get it wet, so that it'd cake together.
There wasn't a chance of finding water fairly close by, and there was no guarantee that Ash couldn't still have some control if Ionia did manage to turn her into ash-cakes.
But a sentient liquid.... Ionia looked about, trying to discern where Slag was, and if he was still fairly molten. The air had opened up only a little with her tactic, and she couldn't afford much distraction, but she was able to see a strange sort of cage around Chimera, and a moving, metallic head.
And she thought she spotted, somewhere near by them, a fire hydrant.
With few other ideas coming to her, and sparing no other concentration for thinking, she put as much electricity into making a thrust without comprimising the bubble, and angled it towards where she thought she saw the others and the hydrant. The electricity she tried to bounce off the ash under her feet while she made the thrust, to minimize as much grounding as economical.
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