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 Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:00 pm
"I bet...that was awesome by the way." He looked off across the park and pointed to a partially lit up apartment building. Through the park and around the building area fires burned with men around them. "That's it over there. The building itself isn't hooked up to any kind of power grid, there is a generator in the sub-basement." He squinted looking the building over. "Looks like two at the main door, five on the roof watching out for the pickets down below. Three men at each fire...." He sighed a little and looked at Fort. "Your thoughts on our approach?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:09 pm
"I saw we take the high ground. I can drop us right in with those guys on the roof. You can work your stuff on a couple and I'll take the others. Hit 'em before they even know what's going on. Then work our way down. They'd never expect an assault from the roof." Fort said. "What do you think?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:20 pm
"Sounds like a plan. Of course the more prominent members here would likely be near the top so we might get bogged down while their reinforcements move up...if they get the chance to sound the proverbial alarm. I'm still okay with it, don't get me wrong." He eyes Fort one more time. "I know you have the swords, but how do you feel about using them? Have you ever killed someone, do you plan on killing?" He let out a half-hearted chuckle. "I only ask, because these guys won't play nice, if they get a chance, they'll put a bullet in our heads or a knife in our gut."
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:35 pm
Fort drew one of his blades from over his shoulder and spun it around so that the hilt has facing towards Shadowman.
"My blades are dulled on one side. They can still cut if I need them to, otherwise they're just really cool bludgeons. As far as if we get bogged down by their reinforcements, I can always teleport us out of there if I have to." Fort said. "Now, when we get up there I'll drop you on the north side and then I'll take the south side. We'll try to take these guys out as quickly and quietly as we can, secure them, and then start working our way in from there. Sound like a plan?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:44 pm
Shadowman nodded and the shadows that formed around him appeared to shift as it began to look more like armor plates and what to be a Mjolnir-like hammer appeared in his left hand. "Too conspicuous?" He chuckled a bit, "Ready when you are."
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:04 pm
"Nice." Fort said as he teleported his sword back into its sheath. "Alright, I'm gonna take us straight across the park. So hold onto your lunch."
Fort placed a hand on Shadowman's shoulder and teleported them off of the roof of the building they were standing on. And straight into open air. Almost as soon as they appeared he jumped them again, and again, and again. He repeated this until they were above the building they were aiming for. Fort adjusted his aim and teleported them roughly ten feet up directly over one of the thugs. Then he teleported away leaving Shadowman to fall atop the hapless gang member.
Fort reappeared on the other side of the roof with one of his sword in hand. He appeared and swung, cracking a thug across the back of the skull. Almost as soon as he made contact he teleported away reappearing perpendicular in front of the next hoodlum and slammed the pommel of his sword into the man's gut. There was one more on Fort's side of the roof so he sent the man he had just struck, making him reappear directly above the third criminal. The winded man fell atop the third and the two of them went down in a tangle. Fort appeared next to them and kicked them both in the face, just to make sure they were lights out.
Fort then turned away to see how Shadowman was handling his share of the goons.
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:17 pm
When they appeared he immediately began congealing the darkness over their mouths so they couldn't scream out. He brought his feet together hitting the unsuspecting goon and driving him to the ground, he rolled toward the other and threw the hammer at him for the few feet it took to get him. It slammed into the side of the thugs head like a bucket of bricks and he fell sideways, limp. Another hammer appeared in his hand as he brought his hand over his head to crash the hammer into the crumpled goon's head turning him from dazed and confused to knocked out.
Shadowman stood up and looked at both men to make sure they weren't moving. He then turned and met the look from Fort just as he finished up with his guys and moved to walk over to him.
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:17 pm
"Not bad." Fort whispered. "How do you want to proceed?"
((Short post, but you're running the show for now.))
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:47 pm
"Floor by floor, room by room, we'll fight our way down and out." Shadowman started to make his way to the door that led into the buildings stairwell and waved for Fort to come over. "I'll go in first, stay close behind me." He paused for a moment, "This may not be the best time to bring it up, but if I get caught in light and your in a position to take it out...please do so...it gets rid of my shadows." Shadowman put his hand on the door knob, gave Fort one last look, "Quick and quiet if we can. If things get loud, go all out."
Daniel pushed open the door and rushed down the steps, his movement was silent , executed with a practiced ease. The stairwell was dark, and a motorized hum resonated from one of the floors below. A single like three flights of stairs down was all that remained for light in the trashed stairwell.
He reached the door to the tenth floor and pushed it open enough to slip in, the sound of music hit his ears and was taken aback by the classical operatic song that was playing. What the hell... An old fluorescent light flickered on for a few moments to shine above two men who stood on either side of a doorway where the music seemed to be coming from, they were about forty feet away. "S**t..." He mumbled unable to do anything until the old light decided to quit working for a few moments.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:58 am
Fort was only a couple of steps behind Shadowman being careful to make sure that his swords did not crack against anything as they slipped though the building. They stopped when an old light bulb flicked on. Fort realized that Shadowman was waiting for the light to go out so that he could use his powers more fully, and to approach unseen.
Fort reached out and placed a hand on Shadowman's shoulder again. "Think fast."
Fort teleported them directly to the light bulb. They reappeared next to it, upside down, on the ceiling. Fort reached out immediately and twisted the bulb loose to disconnect it form the electric current before gravity grabbed him and began to pull him down. Fort had appeared with his feet against the ceiling and pushed off putting himself into a spin so that he would come down feet first.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:31 am
"What?" Next thing Shadowman knew he was upside down above the thugs and the light went out. Immediately the shadows latched his feet onto the ceiling and he reached out grabbing the two men by the side of their heads and smashing them together. As he did so the shadows began to harden on them making them into two statues that seemed to form together vaguely into an arch where their heads came together.
His feet released and he dropped down next to Fort, "Want to see whats behind door number one or the others in this hallway?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:47 am
"Let's start here." Fort whispered. "It seems like there's something going on here and we wouldn't want whoever is in there escaping while we're putzing around with rooms that may or may not even have any occupants."
Fort was enjoying himself. As a masked vigilante had had broken up some small time gang activity before, but never something as big as raiding a gang's base of operations. And he'd never worked with a partner before. Much less a partner who was also a masked superpowered vigilante. It was a nice change of pace. He felt like they were making a bigger difference here, disrupting gang activities on a greater scale. And it really made him feel like a superhero.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:10 pm
Shadowman was nervous, something didn't feel right, but he nodded to Fort and faced the statue men, the shadows pulled at the two until they were firmly against the wall and out of their way. He reached out and grabbed the door knob and looked back at Fort. "On three then go and I'll be right behind you." Alright here we go... "One, two, three..."
Shadowman twisted the knob and threw the door open revealing and impeccably furnished apartment there was a table straight ahead with four guys playing cards another two could be scene in what looked like an open and fully furnished kitchen with a bar on one side, they were talking there. Women's laughter could be heard off in another room and in the corner stood a stereo playing the classical music. Two scantly clad woman were making their way toward the kitchen, giggling and laughing to themselves as they looked back toward where they came from. The room was well lit, with a small chandelier above the table, and a more modest light in the kitchen.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 3:28 pm
Fort scanned the room quickly before teleporting across and reappearing atop the table the men were playing cards on. His swords were in his hand and he lashed out to both sides, swinging his blades to crack across two of the men's heads. As soon as he made contact he vanished again, reappearing behind one of the other men. His swords were back in their sheathes and he struck out with an elbow at the man's kidney.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:53 pm
I gotta kill those lights...but should I go loud...no I better not. Daniel moved in, the shadows peeling away like old skin till he was walking in with his mask, his brown trench coat, and his Punisher shirt bared. He quickened his pace toward the closest targets, those at the table, watching as Fort swiped his swords into the heads of the two men on the sides and appear behind the one furthest from him taking a strike at his ribs.
The girls start screaming and running back toward the room they came from, the others finally starting to react to the initial conflict. Daniel jumped into the air doing a flip, his knees landing on the thug's shoulders as he placed his hands on the man's head and drove it hard into the table with a loud thud and crunch. He rolled with the moment bringing a foot hard on top of the assailant's head, whom Fort had just struck with a good blow to the kidneys.
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