Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Chicago Ripper

[Falkus]

Larry's Desert Eagle boomed, and opened up a hole in the cultists chest. He screemed in pain, but didn't go down.

Diego fired, but missed, blowing a chunk out of the wall.

Quinn double tapped the cultist that shot her, firing two shots rapidly into his chest. He collapsed on the floor, and began bleeding to death.

Cade fired the shotgun with perfect accuracy, hitting him in the chest. The cultist spun around, and collapsed onto the floor.

Meredith and Xeria continued their deadly dance. Meredith managed to partially skewer Xeria, the holy energy from the blade making the wound much, much worse until the cultist managed to pull away. Xeria, in turn, managed to open up Meredith's left arm with her blade, badly injuring the reporter.

As they finished wounding each other, Meredith's and Xeria's blades locked for a brief second. Suddenly, a small metal chunk in Xeria's blade began to glow white against the unholy black glow, the same glow as the blade Meredith carried. After an instant, Xeria's entire blade was glowing white, and then it exploded, showering both Xeria and Meredith with metal chunks. The piece of metal that had started glowing initially wound up embedded in Xeria's face, where it was obviously burning her. She pulled it out and dropped it the floor.

Xeria backed away from Meredith frantically. "Shoot her, shoot her! Somebody shoot her!" she shouted, losing her calm demeanor as she covered her face with one hand. Unfortunately for her, the loss of her blade and her panicked retreat opened her up to Meredith who, with a quick and powerful stroke of her blade, decapitated the female cultist as she fled, dropping her body to the floor.

Nick leveled the heavy machine gun at the scroll reading cultist and fired. He hit the cultist dead in the chest with the first bullet, the second bullet, the third bullet and all the rest. The cultist dropped the scroll and was forced backwards by the stream of gunfire, his chest a bloody mess. After just a second, he collapsed, his body unrecognizable.

At the deaths of Xeria and the scroll reader, the cultists finally lost their nerve, and panicked. Dropping their guns and ritual gear, the remaining three cultists ran towards the front door in a blind panick, trying to get away from the agents who were slaughtering them.

The ritual was aborted, the city had been saved.

In the distance, the team could hear the distinct sound of a helicopter.

[sblock]Larry hits the cultist, dealing 7 points of damage
Quinn hits the cultist, dealing 14 points of damage
Cade hits the cultist dealing 26 points of damage
Meredith hits Xeria, dealing 14 points of damage
Meredith gets an attack of opportunity on Xeria, and deals 15 points of damage.
Xeria hits Meredith, dwealing 15 points of damage
Nick hits the cultist, dealing 12 points of damage[/sblock]

 

[Friadoc]

Cade doesn't seem to notice, or care about the fleeing cultist, as he rushes towards the alter.

"We've stopped the ritual," says Cade into his comm, on a channel open to Hoffmann. As he pulls out a pocket knife, which flicks open with the press of a button, and begins to cut 'Z' free. "I repeat, we've stopped the ritual, tell the UN to call off the strike..."

With a half chuckle, Cade adds, "...I'd hate to have to knock the nice smurfs out of the air."

 

[industrygothica]

"Whoa," Nick whispers to himself as the scroll-reading cultist flies backward from the force of the machine gun. Quickly, he surveys the scene and realizes what is happening. "Good, Cade's got Z," he says, again to himself.

Nick runs over to Meridith, bloody from her battle. He tries to ignore the severed head on the floor, and puts pressure on Meridith's arm as he escorts her away. "C'mon, we've got to get out of here," he says. "There's no telling if they're gonna be able to stop that helicopter or not."

"Can everyone move?" he shouts to the others. "We've got to get out of here!"

On the way to the door, Nick fakes a smile and whispers to Meredith, "Remind me never to piss you off, okay?"

 

[Falkus]

As Cade starts to cut Z free, he notices something unusual about her. On her back, exposed by the clothing she's been dressed in for the sacrifice, are a medium sized pair of gossamer wings. It looks like she normally conceals them beneath her regular clothing. "It's good to see you, Cade," she said, smiling, once the gag had been removed from her mouth.

"Thank god," Stanfield says, then starts shouting into another phone. "You hear that, Minister! They secured the ritual site. Call those butchers off, now!"

 

[Friadoc]

"You too, 'Z'," says Cade with a smile. Quickly he takes off his coat, and drapes it around her shoulders as he helps her sit up. Hopefully, if that's what she wants to do, it'll help 'Z' conceal the wings.

"Man, you've got some weird friends." Cade says as he helps 'Z' off the alter, the shotgun now slung over his shoulder. Cade'll put himself between her and the slain scroll reader, but he does stop and pick up the scroll that the dead man had dropped and rolls it up. "I've got a feeling that the scary book club will want this one."

 

[iwatt]

Once the battle is ended, and Cade has secured Z, Larry comes up and hands over his jacket to the girl. "We wouldn't want you to catch a chill, would we?" After a few moments, the shakes started. They'd been coming on harder after every battle, as if in somehow he was pushing himself harder everytime. He'd barely had a twitch against the cultist in the Library, but now he couldn't stop. Looking back, he realized he'd once again charged in blindly into a room. One day my luck will run out... But he couldn't help it, once the action started he just kept going, unafraid of any consequences.

 

[Shayuri]

Meri jumps a little as Nick takes her arm, then she looks at him and down at her wound...then sways unsteadily.

"Her sword wasn't as corrupted as she thought," Meredith tells him a little dizzily. "And you know what's weird? I felt it. I was just about to say something like...are you sure that sword's really on your side? And then...it started glowing white, and it blew up in her hands." Abruptly, she leans over to grab the hilt from the exploded sword out of Xeria's senseless hands.

"It came back to us at the end," she says. Then she mumbles something maybe only Nick would be qualified to understand. Words in ancient egyptian that translated to "Honor found in death."

Then Meri looked around, as if goosed. "The ritual! The scroll...we have to...to..." The situation dawns on her, and she sags in relief. "Oh thank, god...we did it."

 

[industrygothica]

Nick looks to the others, "So now what."

 

[iwatt]

Larry finally stops shaking and says, "Well, we should check the bodies, specially sword chick over there. Any clues we can get might help in the future. Although maybe we should leave them for the Institute's cleanup crew?"

Turning to Quinn he adds, "Now we have time, Liutenant. Ask, and all questions will be answered. Although I could use a beer first."

 

[kinem]

"I'm hit, but I'll live" Diego declares of his bloody wound.

That's it? This wasn't as hard as I'd feared. Wait, we need information ...

"We should stop them!" Diego turns and races after the fleeing cultists, determined to tackle one of them.

(ooc: He begins this action as soon as he can. He will use his burst ability to increase his speed to 40' for up to 3 rounds. He will use an AP to grapple the nearest fleeing cultist.)