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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1280156" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 013“You Can Not Defeat the Maestro”A large green skinned Ogre stands over them.  He has wild light green hair that grows in patches.  Dark green warts and scales cover his skin.  In all appearances, he wears nothing but a scaled purple and black pants and wrap.  Heavy leather boots and gloves are also worn.  The Captain slowly stands up picking up his fabled shield.  He studies this large foe trying to figure out how something this big could live.  He is the size of an elephant!  The beast is obviously ill tempered and very dangerous.Christina of the Mace also picks herself up and studies the foe.  She begins to review the spells she may need to defeat this muscle-bounded freak.  If only half the stories she has heard are true he will be very hard to defeat.  They were not ment to face him at all.  They were here only to steal an artifact he unwittingly holds within his fortress.Vander glares at him.  This creature is a fiend.  It needs to die but fiends don’t die easily…especially the big ones.The Captain walks directly up to him.  Once about 10 feet away he stops.  The entire time there is a battle of wills as the two lock eyes.  “Maestro.  I presume this is who you are.  We are not here to battle with you.  We are merely travelers.”A wide toothy grin opens up on the Maestro.  “You are mere travelers?  I doubt that.  Especially since I’ve killed you once already Captain.  Guess I’ll just have to do it again.”  He tenses up and raises his arms to strike.Vander strikes first- Mind to Mind.Maestro finds himself standing on top of Washington’s head at Mt. Rushmore.  Confused for a moment he glances about.  Trees Tourists…the hum of birds and planes.  He is in the past.  A whistling sound is heard far overhead.  Even as he looks upward an eerie soft green tinted light appears.  It baths him and the world in its toxic warmth.  He smiles.  This when he became the Maestro.  What kind of attack is this?  Then instead of becoming stronger…he weakens.  The explosive blast then strikes him and the granite monument blows up.  Long tense minutes go by.  Maestro can not believe it!  He is getting weaker.  He can not pull himself free from the boulders and rubble.  Then a white and gold armored figure floats within his sight.  Vander.  “You are defeated.  You are demoralized.  You can go no further …Banner”GETOUTOFMYHEAD!Screams Maestro.  The suddenness of the outbursts pushes Vander to a knee.  Tired he catches his breath.  He knew it was a long shot but hoped for a weak mind wrapped in a strong body.   No such luck.Christina calls up a powerful spell to strike him down.  A circular cloud grouping appears above him.  The Captain moves away sensing something with come down from the cloud grouping…something harmful.  The Maestro looks up and sees a flash of heat again.  Only this time it is real.  He screams in pain as the very gates of hell itself seem to pour it’s flames onto him (Flame Strike).  Screaming in as much rage as pain, he leaps out of the inferno and crashes again nearby.  Steam and flame crackle from his skin.The Captain begins the attacks by throwing his returning shield.  It strikes the green goliath over and over.  No real damage is done and the Captain begins to realize how futile this may be.  Vander powers up calling on his natural psionic talents.  His skin thickens and becomes rough to the touch.  His strength increases and he prepares for his next attack.  The Maestro strikes down on the Captain.  The Shield is struck so hard the toughened near magical steel alloy bends and splits (199 pts).  The Captain screams in pain as his arm is shattered while holding the shield.  “Not so tough are you?” sneers the hulking beast over the defeated and defenseless Captain.  Christina quickly tries to hold the beast still through the use of a spell.  The beast slows down then stops completely.  “Quickly-  I’m uncertain how long I can hold him.” Says Christina as her will begins to battle his own.Vander pulls the limp but conscience Captain away from the green statue of rage and death.  White fractured bones are visible through the Captain’s scale armor.  He is in shock from the severity of the wound.  She moves away from the brute closer to Vander.  Vander carefully releases the broken Captain and hefts up his charged sword.  Screaming he charges the frozen brute and begins to hack into him.  The psionically charged Falchion draws blood and soon fleshy chucks.  He hacks at him until the weapon feels heavy in his arms.  The Maestro’s glare is of poor evil and menace.  As she feared…his mind’s rage finally overcomes hers.  He lashes out at Vander.  He strikes him hard enough that psionic energy crackles and weakens with each strike (197 pts). Vander feels ribs break and twist under the impacts.  His armor deforms and his weapon falters.  All the while- The Maestro’s many deep wounds begin to heal up rapidly (hidden Tattoos of Claws of the Vampire).  He turns rapidly and the red tinted drool and spittle flies free from his lip.  His eyes flash in pure anger and hatred.  “ENOUGH!” hisses Momma the cat.“Huh?!?!?”  Not even Strange had a talking cat snarls the beast looking towards the source of the telepathic message.  Christina, with tears in her eyes reaches over and grasps Vander while still holding the Captain.  Momma leaps onto her lap as the air shimmers around them and they disappear.“hurmmmmmm   I hate porters” grumbles the hulking engine of destruction that turns towards two lone survivors…Col. David and Salvatore.  A new evil smile crosses his face as he sees the new possibilities before him.</blockquote>

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