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Post by Jakazul on Feb 10, 2004 14:37:29 GMT -5
Shadow raised an eyebrow. "Hero?" He flexed and tried to sense if anyone was there, testing his powers. "I would hardly call either of you heroes, but you're right. We need to figure out how much this is happening..." He cracked his knuckles. "And stop it."
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Post by Falcon on Feb 10, 2004 23:15:00 GMT -5
Rachael stopped ontop of the clocktower and let out a sigh as her Titans-next gen.(Teen Titans and A-next?) com went off and she answered it. "ArachnaBird here, whats up guys?"
>>Do they KNOW that they've been merged? in the amalgam they didn't. So im just curious.<<
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Post by Jakazul on Feb 10, 2004 23:18:14 GMT -5
>>I'll let Rage take that, but I just was gonna say: Harm's a like...demon...and Batman has an unbeatable mind, so they prob'ly wouldn't be as affected.<<
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Post by nightwing on Feb 11, 2004 0:31:30 GMT -5
Nightwing raced across the rooftops of Bludhaven, leaping across the gaps without a second thought. This was what he always lived for. The insane rush as he jumped off a building and fell towards certain death only to fire a D-cell line at the last possible moment!
It really helped him considering all that had been happening in his life recently. Blockbuster had discovered his real identity and had been throwing a full onslaught against Dick Grayson and Nightwing. As a result he lost his job, Haly's Circus had been almost destroyed and he and Barbara had broken up.
But lately he had been wondering if his estrangement with Oracle had been just waiting to happen. There had always seemed to be an invisible wall between the pair that Barbara wouldn't let him cross.
As Nightwing flipped off the roof of a Bludhaven office building, the world altered....
His costume was still black, but instead of a blue image across his chest, it was now blood red. Around his waist was a red belt, that had two holsters tied to his legs. In the holster was two escima fighting sticks, that had special... attributes about them. He now wore a black cowl with horns, and the lenses of the mask were a crimson red.
But the most shocking thing above all, was that he could no longer see.
He was blind!!
But of course... hadn't he always been?
Nightdevil landed on the a near by rooftop in a graceful croutch, the sound of the impact creating a sort of echo-location image of the rooftop in his mind's eye.
He was two block from his apartment. He knew that he should get some return home and rest. As a District Attorney, Matthew Grayson did have a duty to be semi-well rested.
"This is all wrong," said a ethreal voice from behind. "Search your heart Richard Grayson, and you will know that something is amiss."
Nightdevil turned around to face the empath Raven appear out of a puff of smoke. "Raven...? What are...?"
His mind seemed to recall the young woman. Images flooded his brain of himself dressed in a bright red, green and yellow costume fighting alongside Raven and a robot man and a red headed boy moving as fast as lighting. There was also a perfect beauty who flew like an angel and fought like the devil. A green child who changed to different animals, and gorgous golden skin alien princess.
"Look for your mentor, Richard," Raven said. "There you will find the answers you seek." Before Nightdevil could say anything, Raven was over taken by her Soul-Image and vanished in another puff of black smoke.
Nightdevil watched through the echo-image in his mind as Raven left the rooftop.
"Who's Richard?"
>> Don't worry, I'm not playing Raven. But since she's a free chracter (I think) I decided to borrow her to get Nightdevil involved.<<
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Post by Marx on Feb 11, 2004 2:07:43 GMT -5
(Yeah and Threshold is telepathic, so he sensed something was off and figured it out by tapping into NM's mind. And Harley's got Raven last I checked. No harm done though.)
"Arachnabird we need you and the rest of the Titans to get here as fast as possible." Rage gave NM a glare as he realized it might be too late to stop the transformations.
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Post by Falcon on Feb 11, 2004 14:47:54 GMT -5
Arachna looked at the clock tower and sighed. Ohwell, she already ten minutes late for curfew as it was....
"I'll be there in as soon as I can." Rachael said as she flipped off of the building and fired another web-strand and swung across the New Gotham Skyline.
It was weird.....a few minutes ago(Unknown to her, the minute she changed from Falcon and spidergirl into Arachna Bird) her Spidersense had been going off like crazy... ... ... But it wasn't as if there was any kind of 'physical' danger, more like something was veryout of place.
Being the daughter of the true spider-man and then sucked into THIS dememnsion was probably just bugginh out her powers.....just a minor glitch(HOW many times have I heard that one before?)
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Post by nightwing on Feb 11, 2004 14:58:50 GMT -5
Nightdevil landed on the roof of his loft and slipped inside without making a sound. He pulled back his cowl revealing white pupiless eyes. Slowly he pealed off his black and red unform revealing a lean and muscular body covered in scars from years of fighting for the people.
He had been eight years old when the Mob King Pin Wilson Zucco had made a hit on his family. Growing up Matt Grayson had been the youngest member of the circus performers: THE DAREDEVIL GRAYSONS.
When Pop Haly had refused to pay insurance money, Zucco had his parents killed. While they had been preparing for their act, Zucco had shot both of Matt's parents. When little Matt tried to come to his parent's defense Zucco blinded the boy with a vile of chemicals.
Matt was rushed to the hospital, and while they had been able to save his face, he would never be able to see again.
At least not in the conventional sense. He had apparently developed a sort of sonar, where he could see things in his mind through sound waves.
That's how it had happened. Wasn't it? Raven's words continued to echoe in Matt's mind.
"This is all wrong. Search your heart Richard Grayson, and you will know that something is amiss
Something did feel... off about everything all of a sudden. His memories were all there, but there were flashes of images that didn't seem to fit with the others. Walking over to his computer which was designed with a brale keyboard and with speakers that sent the information to the vigilante.
"Computer, begin search for subject: Shadowbat and open a secured com-link."
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Post by Marx on Feb 11, 2004 15:24:19 GMT -5
A teenage boy walked out of a rugged house. He had a black bandanna oh his head and wore dark blue jeans and a black shirt. He has no name, he used to bare the name Banner, but that was before the...accident. The media has called him Doom before, but that's in his other form, his monster form. At one time he fought against it, but no more, he's come to embrace his inner monster and despise all who didn't help him and decided rather to attack him after his change. He looked back at the house, he would hide no more. If everyone saw him as a monster then a monster he would be.
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Post by Jakazul on Feb 11, 2004 15:57:47 GMT -5
Shadowbat's head was still buzzing as Bruce Wayne and Lamont Cranston fought to gain control. He tried to ration out his origins. His parents had been killed when he was only twelve, forcing him into a need for vengeance. He had gone through intense training around the world, much of it in the orient where he had learned not only martial arts, but how to shield his mind and open it up into the telepathic realm. He coould cloud men's minds to make himself seem invisible or even, at some times, other objects. He had been inspired by the police... Was it the GCPU?... And took up a carreer in crimefighting. His gloved hand clutched against the heat. 45s by his side. Guns? Batman didn't use guns, but... Batman? Who was Batman... He was Lamont Wayne... The Shadowbat!
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Post by nightwing on Feb 11, 2004 16:03:45 GMT -5
The computer let out a high-pitched beep before speaking to Matt Grayson in a electronic female voice.
"Subjet: Shadowbat Located. Com-Link opened."
Nightdevil hadn't spoken with his mentor, Laymont Wayne in a long while. All though Laymont had raised Matt after his parents had died, they had grown apart over the years as their skills and methods opposed each other. Shadowbat was willing to use guns and take extremes. Nightdevil loathed guns. They had been used to take his parents from him.
Still, Raven had never lied to Nightdevil in the past. Maybe it was time to make up with the past.
"Nightdevil to Shadowbat. Please responde."
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Post by Jakazul on Feb 11, 2004 17:20:04 GMT -5
(Yeah, I know... The guns conflict with his personality... They may not use bullets or they may be what helps resolve the conflict, haven't decided.) Batma...Shadowbat... Snapped out of thought and pushed a batsignal button on his costume. "Shadowbat here. What is it Nightwi..." Pain shot through Lamont's head. Nightwing? What was... it sounded so familiar, but he knew this wasn't... "Nightdevil?"
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Post by Marx on Feb 11, 2004 17:35:17 GMT -5
Rage noticed Shadow's slipup. He hadn't completely gone mentally yet. Rage's psychic linking with the ones who weren't tranformed yet was keeping his two minds separated, hopefully Threshold's mental abilities could keep them separate or he would be in the same boat as everyone else.
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Post by nightwing on Feb 11, 2004 17:37:28 GMT -5
Nightdevil frowned. Did Shadowbat just call him 'Nightwing?' That wasn't like Laymont to make such an odd mistake.
"Um... look, I know we haven't spoke for a while, but that doesn't give you a right to forget my name 'Mont," Matt said in an uneasy humor. He had always been known to use humor to guard his feelings, and right now he was slightly nervous. The breaking of their partnership ended on... shakey terms.
The long silence on Shadowbat's end didn't help.
"Yeah... anyway, I'm just wondering if anything big has been going on with you? I mean, I just ran into Ra..." Before Matt could finish the name just seemed to vanish from his head. "Um... well... someone who said I should get in contact with you."
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Post by Jakazul on Feb 11, 2004 17:48:46 GMT -5
Shadowbat had opened his mouth to say "don't call me 'Mont", wanted to say Bruce for some reason and fallen silent until this point. "Alright. You're in contact. I'm busy right now, so make this fast. Rage and I are seeing if the am..." He felt pain again. What was going on? New Mentality starred on. Nightdevil, Shadowbat? What the... "Listen, Batman... Er... Shadowbat... The amalgamation's started. Who's this Nightdevil guy?" Shadowbat shuddered. Half his mind was screaming to fight back. Batman. He was Batman. He had to be. In his mind he could see a grandfather clock with a tall man, similar in looks to him, dressed in a bat-like costume with the cowel down, but the image was spinning into the abyss of his mind. It was like some kind of amnesia. "Am...Amalgamtion?" "Yeah. C'mon...What's going on?" He turned to Rage, desperate now. "Tell him! You've got to know what's going on... What is going on... I mean..."
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Post by nightwing on Feb 11, 2004 17:57:47 GMT -5
Nightdevil felt his temper building up. He hated it when Shadowbat treated him like a child. "Cut the attitude crap 'Mont." he growled in a low voice. "Your telepathic mind tricks aren't going to work on me like it does the everyone else. Remember who my teacher was."
"I've been told that something big is going down. They said and I quote, "This is all wrong.' And that YOU could give me the answers to what that means. So make with the answers all ready."
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