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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:13 pm
"Chase is on, kid," Doomsday said in reply, flying after Terry and using his ring to blast him. "I know who you are, kid... Batman-Lite. The girl you have feelings for is interested in another man, showing just how inept you are."
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:20 pm
Terry took off like a rocket without waiting for the first shot, and only dipped a little lower to avoid the shot from the ring. Girl? What girl was he talking about, exactly? Like he had time for that kind of thing, anyway. If this was supposed to be banter, he wasn't impressed.
He also wasn't interested in wasting time talking himself. This was definitely life or death; he had to think. Black power ring. He'd never seen a black power ring before, but he figured that the principle behind it was the same-- he needed to play keep away long enough to find some white light. White light... where was he going to find...
He blinked, then rolled his eyes and banked slightly to the right without losing any speed. Wow. If I manage to get through this in one piece, I seriously need to get some sleep.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:28 pm
Seeing that his words didn't seem to affect Terry, Doomsday tried again: "Who do you think you are? Batman? He was one of us, you know... You're going to meet the same fate. It's inevitable..."
As Doomsday spoke these words, he continued to follow Terry with ease, attempting to blast him with his ring.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:15 am
A little flare of anger shot through Terry at the mention of his older counterpart, but his flying wasn't effected in the slightest. He dipped out of the way again, taking pains to avoid putting any (possibly) occupied buildings into the line of fire. In large part, he was just getting annoyed. Who did this person think he was? One of them? Lantern rings weren't contagious, for crying out loud.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:25 pm
Doomsday felt that little spark of anger, and he grinned. "Yeah... Batman was nothing more than a corpse, a mere puppet for Nekron... He used him to make all of his little friends feel a lot of emotion... so he could kill them. And the same is gonna happen to you, kid. Everyone who cares about you is gonna become one of us... And you will too!" he said, speeding up a bit to overtake the Batman and ensnare him with a large, hand-like construct.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:34 pm
More anger, along with a further increased amount of sheer stubbornness. Yeah right. Terry gritted his teeth and abruptly dove down, his wings folding back in close to his suit as he plummeted toward a darkened, empty-looking building. As he fell, he flipped himself over to avoid the grab and sent a small, disk-like object flying toward the construct's palm. The thing detonated just as the hand closed, letting out a truly impressive 'BANG!' that was accompanied by copious amounts of bright white light.
When the light cleared, the Bat was nowhere to be seen.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:37 pm
The light temporarily blinded Doomsday, and he lost his focus-- the construct disappeared, and when he saw that Terry had gone, he merely huffed. The Bat wouldn't be gone for long...
He proceeded to fly around, using his ring to scan the emotions in the area and find the one that was Terry's. It had to be close by...
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:40 pm
There was a sort of similar reading from inside the darkened building, but it was difficult to get a really specific lock on it for some reason. Also, the green and red in it were fading away rather rapidly; somebody was drawing their emotions under control through meditation, or something similar.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:44 pm
((Actually, white simply represents Life, not an emotion or drive of any kind. So I figure that instead of being replaced by another color, those would simply disappear.))
Doomsday growled as the readings began to fade. Where was he? The villain shook his head, and then proceeded to focus the ring's energy more... and then he found it. In a building below. Doomsday grinned maliciously, and then created an enormous hammer with his ring, using it to blow away chunks of the building Terry was in-- slowly, ominously.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:53 pm
And then, through the holes that he was blowing, white light seemed to explode outward, bathing the floating supervillain in brilliance from multiple angles. A strangely pervasive, difficult to pinpoint, and eerily detached voice said, "Welcome to Gotham; we love floodlights." Actually, the empty building was a Gotham PD storage facility. The cops weren't going to be happy that their riot vehicles had been smashed, but at that point the collateral seemed acceptable.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:12 pm
"Neophyte... Who do think you are? You think that light will stop me?" Doomsday demanded as he quickly adapted to the brightness. "Not just any white light can hurt me, kid..."
With that, Doomsday used his ring to sense Terry's position. He could get a rough location, but it was difficult. Still, Doomsday smashed through the nearest set of walls, going in Terry's general direction.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:18 pm
Feeling more resigned than anything else (it had been a long shot), Terry jetted off again, shooting through a convenient hole in the roof like a miniature black rocket. It was still pretty hard to get a lock on him; he was very faintly green, but whatever he had done to get control of his emotions, it had worked.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:24 pm
[Enter CARLIE JORDAN from AUDRA AILITH]
Carlie kept up her speed, going steadily faster, until she finally reached Gotham. "Huh... Looks like I win," she said to herself, before she noticed a flare of light-- these were Terry's rocket-boots, but she didn't know it. Curious, she moved to investigate.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:29 pm
Terry saw the green light out of the corner of his eye at the same time his rocket boots were spotted. His eyes widened, then narrowed, and he shot off in the direction of the light. As he got closer, he realized that it wasn't a Green Lantern he knew. Great. "Wherever you came from, fly back and get some reinforcements. Now." As he spoke, he threw a quick glance behind him; Doomsday would likely be much more interested in a lantern than he was in Terry. All the more reason to wrap this up quickly. How old was this girl, anyway? Older than Kai Ro, sure, but...
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:40 pm
Carlie just grinned. "Oh, I've got reinforcements, alright..." she said, rather cockily.
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