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 Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:26 pm
"Ah, ******** you too, Skulltap," Anatoly muttered. He flicked Giga Arm off and on a couple times to get used to the weight change and the sheer power he could feel in it. "Take what you can get. Let's do it." He stood and took a stance favoring the Giga Arm for a defense/offense combo. He couldn't wait to see what a jab with that would do.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:01 pm
He couldn't see his opponents, because he had been blasted through a wall. He looked around, calm but alert, waiting for the strike.
And it came.
When he looked to his right, he felt a strange pulse to his left. Anatoly whipped his head around and felt a strange moment of what could only be described as vertigo. Then he felt a heavy impact against his right arm - it felt heavy, and he had Giga-Arm equipped - before he went flying in the direction he was looking.
He shook off the impact easily enough and found that there was...no one in the building with him. That was
BAM
he felt that vertigo again before hitting the ground. OK, that was weird. Something was
SLAM
He was back where he had started, only he was on his back. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a flicker just before that vertigo, but it was nothing. Then an idea occurred to him.
He stood, waiting. Then there was that sense. He looked to the left, against his instincts and away from where the vertigo was. There was a flicker and then the vertigo came from the other direction. He was going to get hit.
Perfect.
His Giga-Arm flicked out and he felt it make contact. He looked back to see a slight man go flying back, his spine snapped from impacting the 60mph Giga-Arm with his 80mph attack. He bounced out of the building and was gone.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:05 pm
"Oh s**t, oh s**t, is he dead?" Anatoly muttered. He glanced around and went to look for the body and check for a pulse, keeping Giga Arm up. He sent a very, very light exploratory impulse to Skulltap, trying to see its response.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:22 pm
Nothing from Skulltap.
Anatoly rounded the corner. The body was there; it was definitely dead. Plenty of blood on the ground from where it impacted, and the back was twisted in a way that couldn't be alive.
What was more, Anatoly could see a Sticker on it. Without a doubt, it was the Sticker that allowed the man to move like he had been. The problem was that the body was out in the open. The corner it had gone past was the corner beyond which the Blazers had last been seen. The question was, would he risk getting attacked to seize that Sticker?
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:32 pm
"Shiiiiiit. He's dead," Anatoly stated unnecessarily. He now had to balance several factors - the danger he'd be exposing himself to if he went for it, the danger of another Blazer picking it up, the advantage of obtaining himself. Not that he knew how to use it, so... best to stay near it and jump anyone who went after it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:22 pm
A wise idea. Anatoly realized that his Lightning Sticker would be better suited to defense from a distance, so he dispelled Giga-Arm and powered it up.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:24 pm
Anatoly had nothing to react to yet.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:28 pm
Since he didn't move into a better position or look around, he was vulnerable to the fireballs that rained down all around him.
Like, on his back.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:32 pm
Anatoly felt the fireballs before he heard or saw them; a dim awareness of the activation of a Mysticker behind him. He rolled sideways, a fireball scorching his hand. "s**t," he muttered, looking up and around for his target. He flexed the burnt hand, feeling the energy building up in it, as he sought his next enemy.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:39 pm
He saw a large man standing above him on the roof, grinning as he tossed a fireball up and down in the air. He threw it down and it split in the air, raining more fire at Anatoly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:12 pm
Anatoly stared at the fireball. He was sick of this. Sick of being dragged into fights he didn't want. Sick of being a pawn in other's games. That fire-happy Blazer should just... "******** off!" Lightning sprung from the already-darkened fingers. By his measurement, the fact the lightning traveled instantly meant he'd have time to block with Giga Arm after shooting instead of readjusting his aim after dodging.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:16 pm
The bolt hit some sort of barrier, and the man stumbled back. The strike wasn't enough to finish him, but there was a flash at the same point that the bolt hit the barrier, and the man's head exploded in a shower of gore as he fell out of Anatoly's sight.
He didn't have time to think about it, though, because two people, a man and a woman, rounded a corner to face him. He would have to react quickly.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:39 pm
Come on Skulltap, what's going on? It took ages to find you again; I didn't think I would ever find you after Indigo Rose attacked the Blazer Black Base.... Looking one of the Blazers in the eyes hopefully (but expecting nothing) he rushed forward with Giga Arm, using its overcharge to bring him to close range before tripping Pitch Black.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:27 pm
And, indeed, nothing happened with Skulltap. It was still blank.
Anatoly's move, however, was cleverly executed; he was starting to think like a Blazer. He closed the distance faster than expected, and the opponent, the woman, had no time to charge her Sticker before Pitch Black closed off their view and Anatoly slammed into her.
They fell back and the man shouted, but Anatoly had knocked the wind out of the woman, so she gave no response.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:34 pm
In the dark, Anatoly deactivated Giga Arm and operated off his instincts, feeling in the dark to find her head and rapped his fist against her temple for a nonlethal knockout. He dropped down into a crouch and listened carefully, ready to initiate Giga Arm at the slightest sound.
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