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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1568853" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 058“To Die Again”Megamania jumps in on the action.  “Vander-  you stupid a**wipe--   YOU’RE MAKING IT STRONGER!!!!!!”  The Captain begins to ponder what he can do other than give orders that are being ignored.  Vander continue to swing at it.  Thick sweat begins as continues.  The sweat burns at the acid injuries.  “I…WILL…NOT…BE…DENIED!”   Jean unleashes another lightning bolt.  This one staggers the magical beast.  It howls and begins to back up back into the swampy hole it came from.  Vander follows it steps for step.Christina pauses.  The ghost of her mother that follows her everywhere has alerted her to something traveling to them.  It is traveling invisible and incorporeal!Vander strikes at it several more times even as Jean strikes it down another lightning bolt.  Its lifeless body slides into the black swamp water and sinks slowly.“What is it Mom?”= I saw a woman …dressed for combat.  Long hair and held a light mace.  She was moving behind you then hid in the rocks when I turned.  I fear she means you harm daughter =Christina, being the only person that can see her “Mom” (her real own reality mother) is troubled by this.  “Guys-  I don’t think we are out of danger yet.”Suddenly she hears a scream in her mind.  Christina’s mother has her head twisted back in a way that suggests it is broken.  A figure is vaguely seen beside her.  She is twisting the head and with a dagger has stabbed her in the side.  Ectoplasmic equilivant of blood is pouring out.  Christina-  in both shock and amazement watches as her mother draws on her own special talents and attacks this assassin.  The attacking figure releases her quickly.  “Go!  Run away!-  This assassin is too dangerous for you to defend yourselves.”  She motions to conjure more energy but instead reels back and grabs at her severed incorporeal hand.  Christina can not see the incorporeal figure of the assassin but can see her ghostly mother’s body due to their unique link.  She sees the essence grow weaker and bit by bit be torn up and cut up.  “Mother”, her intelligent and very powerful mace that carries the spirit of her mother from another reality screams to attack in Christina’s mind.  She guesses where the assassin is and swings.  A satisfactory flash of a woman being struck flashes to her view before rolling and tumbling to a battle stance.  Even as her image disappears she smiles and slowly mouths the words of  "I-will-cut-you” before leaving.Christina turns her attention to her ghostly mother.  She is laying down and becoming less visible to her.  “I …I …it appears I …will be lea …leaving you now.  Be careful ..daughter.  Do Infiniti’s …will.  She  …will protect …you and you’re …friends.   Remember …I have always …and will forever …looooo—“The Captain turns back, his shield still poised to defend the ranged attackers, and looks bewildered.  Christina is sobbing, her body hunched over as if holding someone.  Someone dear to her.  Jean began to settle to the ground but then stops.  She is preoccupied and distracted by something she has seen nearby.  The Captain turns back to call for Vander and Megamania to hold but Megamania is walking away sputtering about being on scout duty.  Vander just stands there, very very very still.  The acid dripping from his weapon and armor.  Visible burns on his skin smoke as the acid breaks up.A shimmering doorway opens up beside Christina.  The Captain calls out a warning but it is too late.  A running blue skinned woman in red leather comes out of invisibility in a full rush.  She strikes Christina in a tackle and both go through the doorway.Vander snaps out of it.  “Mind bender!”“What?!?”“There is a psion here attacking us.  I am unclear if it was male or female or even what race.  It trapped me within my own mind.”, looking about quickly, “Where is Jim, Jean and Christina?”“Attacked I’m afraid.  Mentally just as you were.  We are being tricked.  I fear most for Christina.  Her mind is so …unusual.  I think she was forced to see something from her past again.  Someone that died in her arms.”Another shimmering doorway appears and Christina steps out.  She has a black eye and a bloody nose.  “That witch won’t be bothering us anymore.”Both the Captain and Vander look at her and then each other.  Both know that she has never used a doorway and now seems to but to their minds …that is okay.“We better get Jim.  He is headed into a trap.”  Christina adds.  Both men shake their heads yes.  They know something is not right but can not place it.They begin to run in the direction of Jim’s leave when Vander suddenly whirls about with his falchion trying to cleave Christina in two.“How did you know?” She hisses!“I do not sense the intelligence in your weapon.  Vander suddenly finds himself facing a fiendish looking ½ orc female.  It wears little but still holds a mace.  “Come to me lover or I will punish you.”  Vander’s face ashens.  He trembles and can not raise his arms to strike.  In a low whisper he trembles- “Ten Bites”Suddenly a throwing shield of pure cosmic power strikes Ten Bites throwing her back.  It morphs into an image of a young man in green cotton clothes.  The name stitched on his uniform is Buckley.  “Captain Stevens-  you just nearly killed me!”The enchanted shield returns to the Captain’s open grasp.  He only catches it by repeated reflex.  His mind is racing back.  Back to the mid 1940’s.  The two planes.  The Fireball as it erupted on the plane he had just leaped from.  The plane Buckley was in.Buckley’s skin blackens and boils burst and smoke emits from his.  Vander finds himself in complete darkness.  The Captain, too stunned to react, stands there and stares.  Buckley …He snaps out of it and sees Vander come out of the darkness.  He is alert and has a tight grip on his psionic falchion.  “It is still nearby.  I sense it through the lack of space and thought.”Vander’s quick assessment and method to bypass the mental and magical trickery would have impressed the Captain but he can not help but wonder if he can trust the person before him.The Captain feels a great surge of energy in his mind.  He knows the attacker is in his mind.  But why?  It is obvious this person can enter their minds undetected.  Why makes the presence known?  Mind games.Vander turns to attack something to his left but a ball of metal pieces is thrown his way.  He fights instinct and doesn’t swat it away.  It would have mattered little.  It explodes and with a grinding and churning it wraps his armored body in thick iron coils.  Even with his great strength, he finds himself struggling to remain standing.  Then small cracks begin to spread out from under his two heavily laddened feet.  He looks up at her and swears.  He and the used Iron Bands of Binding fall through the thin wood and marble tiled walkway they were on.The Captain begins to run.  He needs to find Jean and Jim.  Maybe they are still free and able to help him.He runs into a section where a burnt Buckley is hunched over looking at runes very carefully.“What happened?” the illusionary Buckley asks.The Captain forces himself not to react to the ghastly figure.  He motions for Buckley to stay where he is then rushes off to a new threat.Buckley, aka Jim Addards- the Megamania, stands up with a really annoyed look on his face.  Vander is next.  “We are under attack by a doppelganger” Vander says running by.Jarella, the planar assassin doppelganger is beginning to enjoy herself now.</blockquote>

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