The Architects RP

[Kan]

OOC: You do realize that you just faced a bunch of those bots against someone who is able to create a EMP at will don't you?

IC: I don't stand a chance, not being able to see, but I do know one thing I can do, "You've confused me with a country bumkin you jackoff!" I yell before charging up my powers.

I quickly build up more and more power, drawing it in from the building and power lines around me, before letting it all out in a Electromagnetic Pulse. The wave explodes in 360 degrees around me, it hitting the Liana units and the surrounding buildings, all electronic devices being all but destroyed.

I fall to my knees as the last bit of the pulse emanates from me, "How you like me now?".

[Ty]

At a safe distance, Cain used his inhuman strength to jump up to the roof of a tall building. At this point, he didn't care if people recognized him.

They're all gathering in one place, he thought. That will just make things all that much easier.

Above the dark black abyss where the fight was progressing, large clouds were starting to form.

***

Still in the desert, Aurum had set his plan underway. But first, he needed to check on things on the battlefront. Harnessing the power of the sun, he began firing pulse after pulse of white light into the sky. He wasn't sure exactly where Yamino was, but he could sense the direction well enough to direct the light beams toward him.

Arriving at their destination, the light beams cut through the darkness, punching large holes in the thick canvas of black. Rather than damaging anything inside, though, the light beams simply reflected off of everything in the area, then flew back to Aurum. The beams effectively gave him a crude image of the battle. He could see Yamino with his blades in hand, Marks electrocuting things, and another Architect he didn't recognize.

"Wow, this is turning into quite a party," he mused. "Guess I'd better bring a party favor."

Aurum waved away the image, and the light beams faded, also plunging the battle back into darkness aside from the few holes created by their initial breach. He then returned his attention to the project in front of him.

"Darkness likes to play with knives, huh? Well, let's raise the bar a little bit."

Aurum held his hands out straight. Sand from the desert floor began flying into a tight vortex in front of him. At the center, the tiny particles of rock were being crushed tighter and tighter together, creating a substance harder than diamond. As he focused, the stone substance started to take the shape of a sword, growing larger and larger.

"Keep him busy, Marks. It won't be long now."

[The Spy]

"Cataclysmic Electrical failure, Systems shutting down." They all say as they crouch down and place their blade capes around them in a cone.

I stand silent for a second.

"You're absolutely kidding me, we need to fix that." I say after facepalming.

"What? now it's just two on one?" I ask as I look at Shakes and back at Marks.

"I don't think so...." I say as I lower my hand at Marks and gravity starts to press him into the ground, making him heavy.

I then raise my hand at Shakes, lifting him into the air.

"I'm going to make you both work off the damages you both caused me." I say as a team of my men come out with security foam guns and they spray them both.

OOC: Don't worry, you guys will be held but your characters will not be harmed.

[Kan]

OOC: Heh, I am playing this one for reals.

IC: I slam into the ground with a thud and a grunt as gravity is increased around me. As the foam guns come out to play I generate a anti static field around me, generating a reverse static cling effect, keeping the foam off and away from me.

"Not gonna be that easy".

[Oct-taku]

Shakes struggled against the foam that was rapdily surrounding him. Despite the Architect's ungodly (pun intended) strength, he couldn't get the crap off completely, no matter how much he tore away. And what was left kept spreading.

So, he did the one thing he could think of. Icy-blue eyes wide in concentration, Shakes began to, well, Shake. A rather large icicle sprouted from his chest, followed by more. Then, they rapidly retracted, and sprouted again. It would destroy the foam, but it would probably hold it off.

Plus, anyone who got close would become shis-kebab.

[The Spy]

OOC: By the way, that thing dries instantly and is as hard as concrete. >_>

I look at Marks keeping the foam off of him with an anti static cling and Shakes trying to rip it off of him.

"Why must people always make things harder?" I say as more of my men spray Shakes with the Security foam, the ice shards suddenly start to become smaller as most of it is kept within Shake's body.

"Men, concentrate on the Popsicle there." I say, as I drop him on the floor with a resounding thud.

I then turn my full attention to Marks who is now up and charging electricity at me.

"Enough, just fall unconscious already." I say as I raise him high into the air and I quickly slam him down into the pavement, hard.

I raise him again and I slam him down again, each time harder than the last.

I then raise him up and I send him flying into a light pole.

"Troublesome cur." I say as he smacks right into it.

More of my security forces come out into the street, surrounding Marks and Shakes.

"There's an Architect who has the ability to kill us all and you two are here trying to fight one who has actually FOUGHT that Architect two hundred years ago, idiots..." I say, levitating towards Marks.

"Just stop, you'll receive my utmost protection from said Architect..." I say as I pick him up from the ground and looking at him.

I turn towards Shakes, who is fully encased in the security foam and I drag his tree ornament like body over here with my powers.

"That goes for you too, I already know the full extent of your powers Conduit of Ice, but you will still be of use to me in defending me and other Architects." I say, looking down at him as he's rendered immobile by the foam.

"What do you two say, stop being idiots and fighting someone who's offering to extend your lives, or cause me endless grief and a monstrosity of repair costs which I will take out on your lives?" I ask, looking at both of them with extremely serious eyes.

"Think about it, The Architect in question has the ability to destroy us all, and it is his directive to do so, Human fundamentalism even though he ISN'T human, and neither are you two." I say, grinning at them both.

"Make a choice, and I implore you from my non existent heart; let it be the right one." I say, releasing Marks from my grasp and using my powers to expand the foam around Shakes, making it fall off of him.

I step back from them and cross my arms, Marks grasping his throat and looking at me in bewilderment and Shakes, with the equal amount of amazement and on the pavement on his back looking up at me.

"I await your answers." I say, straightening my tie.

[Kan]

I groan as I stumble up, my hand held up and a certain finger held up and presented to Yamino, "At least I have to the good grace to know right from wrong, I may not be human, I don't care, but until I die, I'm going to make your life a living hell" I say to the man.

I step back and charge up a blast and send it flying at him, with him on the ground it does full damage as it strikes him dead center mass.

[Ty]

Engulfed in a beam of light, Aurum launched himself across the continent to Yamino's headquarters. He slowed to a stop and hovered just beyond the dark cloud surrounding the combatants.

"Let's shed a little light on the subject, shall we?"

Aurum carried his masterwork weapon at his side. It was shaped roughly like a scimitar, but the blade was almost three times the length of Aurum's entire body. He held up the sword with both hands and started channeling energy into the blade, which began to shine brilliantly. Tightening his grip, Aurum made a wide slice, and a long wave of energy cut through the darkness, completely dispelling the clouds and bathing the whole area in bright sunshine.

***

Cain was slowly making his way closer to the action. He watched with interest as Aurum arrived on the scene.

Good, he thought. The more we can eliminate in one day, the less human blood will have to be shed in this war.

From his pants pocket, Cain pulled out a cell phone and held it up. The signal was weak, but it was probably enough to make his call. He dialed the number and held the phone to his ear.

"John. It's me... Yes, of course I'm fine. He just wanted to talk, that's all... Abort the mission. Your target has left San Pedro... Yes, that's right. I'm looking at him right now... Just stay put for now and try to track the locations of the nearest Architects. I'll call you later with further instructions. Keep the faith, son. A decisive battle is about to be won."

[The Spy]

The moment the bolt hits me I stagger back and I quickly reciprocate from it.

I look up at Marks and I grin.

"Fool, I gave you a chance." I say, charging towards him and punching him right in the face, hard, sending him reeling into a mailbox.

I pick him up by the throat and I slam him on the ground again and I stop on his face several times.

"Do. Not. Anger. Those. That. Are. Stronger. Than. You!" I stomp on his face neck and chest with each word said.

I then kick him in the chest sending him sliding across the pavement, and just as I'm about to jump up and drop kick him a sudden flash of light appears in the inky black darkness that I created and disspells it.

"What the hell? what now?!" I shout as I cover my eyes from the light.

[Oct-taku]

Shakes simply yawned while Yamino was blinded.

"You know, it might be because of Architects like you that the HLF is trying to kill us all." he said, standing. "You're, what, CEO of a massive evil corporation? I work the register at a fast-food joint in Mercer. Hello. Serious difference there."

"I mean, think about it. What harm have I caused? None. Okay, there was that miniature ice age in the arctic regions after I arrived, but I was bored, and that area's uninhabited. Aurum made frigging sand castles (no offense, Aurum). And that Architect, whom I knew for three minutes before you blew up San Pedro, hasn't done anything yet that I know of."

Shakes began a springy little walk towards the Gravity Architect.

"You know, the only really evil Architect I can think of is you. Maybe the HLF'll be satisfied with that." Shakes said, stopping about a yard away from Yamino, on top of a manhole. The Ice Architect looked down.

"Oh, good."

And the ground began to shake.

[The Spy]

I quickly recuperate.

I raise my hand and I quickly negate Aurum's ability to levitate, sending him smacking into the ground with a thud.

"I'm not evil, I'm just misunderstood." I say, as Marks tries to get up.

Marks tries to get up again and tries to charge another lightning bolt at me but I quickly kick him into a wall about 3 feet away from us.

"No, bad idiot, bad." I scold him and I place my right boot on his cheek.

"Anyway, I highly doubt that was "'Miniature' about 400 people froze to death, I was there, and Aurum destabilized the entire economy back in 1942 when he found out he could make diamonds at will, causing several million people to go into poverty and die from starvation." I say, crossing my arms and still having my boot on Marks cheek, making myself look like I'm doing the captain Morgan pose.

"Marks here has not done anything wrong, other than being a f*cking idiot, if you'll excuse my language." I say, holding his arms and neural pathways down with my powers.

"And I swear to Me, if you even move Marks, I'll crush you so flat, your electrical currents will become displaced polarons." I threaten him.

[Oct-taku]

"Yeah, but you're the only one who's done anything recently, and consistently." Shakes said, as a gout of water burst forth, propelling the manhole cover Shakes was on into the air and emptying the nearby sewers. Shakes pushed the cover out of the jet of water.

Falling, Shakes was engulf by the water, which began to freeze and take form.

[The Spy]

"Ooooooh no." I say, raising my hand and plucking him up from the sky.

"Nobody is going anywhere until we come to a truce." I say, turning my head towars Aurum.

"AND THAT INCLUDES YOU TOO!" I yell loud so he can hear.

[Kan]

"This is gonna hurt" I say before trying to get out from under Yamino, only to be crushed into the pavement. I let go of any will to survive and let my body disperse into the air via electrical sparks.

I can still reason while in this odd state, a form of half conscientiousness, I can 'sense' whats going on around each of my individual sparks and molecules.

I manage to will myself away from the building before I lose all awareness and start to reconstruct.

[Ty]

OOC: Wow, Hira, you make such a good argument for Cain's ambitions. We really are all a bunch of asshole demigods, aren't we?

IC:

Aurum landed on his feet, leaving a sizeable impact crater on the pavement. He started walking toward the group, but otherwise made no aggressive action.

"Oh, so now you wanna to talk? Where was that reasonable side of you when you had half the people in San Pedro killed?"

Aurum cocked his head and stared hard at Yamino. He pointed to the oversize blade he had in his right hand, with the flat edge resting on his shoulder.

"I didn't make this little number to slice bread with, alright? I'm here to send a message. You can't just go around doing whatever you want whenever you want. We all have to share this big spinning rock, and if you can come to terms with that and learn to play nice, then maybe, just maybe I won't carve you up like a holiday ham."

[The Spy]

I look at him and I raise my 8 blades at him and make them point at him.

"We're at a duality, You're my exact opposite, even if we fight again and again, you and me will always come to a draw, unlike those two however, they control element, I control evil, you control the holy." I say to him.

[Ty]

"Alright, fair point."

Aurum scratched his head. In the moment of downtime, he was starting to notice the weird looks they were getting from the several bystanders that were brave or stupid enough to come outside and watch what was going on.

"So... I take it I missed something, what with being unconscious and wandering around in a desert for the past 24 hours. What prompted this whole truce discussion?"

[The Spy]

I flip out my cell phone and I dial my limousine.

"Bring the car around." I say as I look at Aurum and Shakes.

"Shakes, you try to run again, I'll ask a friend of mine to melt you into vapor." I tell him as my limo rounds around the corner.

"Both of you, get in, we're going to the lab." I say, opening the door, showing a dark leather and dimly red lit interior."

[Ty]

Aurum was a bit puzzled, but decided he'd better go along with it. If Yamino was trying to make peace, one of two things had to have happened. Either he had an unlikely attack of conscience, or something really scary was going on.

"Alright, I'm game," he said, then turned to Shakes. "As long as we're all going. If something weird goes down, I want to know I've got backup." He turned back to Yamino. "I'm guessing you wouldn't have room in the trunk for my new toy, though. Hang on a sec."

He held up his blade, admiring his own handiwork as the sunlight danced along its edge. He spun around a few times like an olympic hammer thrower, then hurled the blade into the sky, aimed toward his desert home. His power was embedded in the object, so he knew he'd be able to call it back easily enough if the need arose.

"Okay, let's go." Aurum walked toward the limo and looked inside. "Is this one of those fancy limos I heard about with the minibar in the back?"

[The Spy]

OOC: Gonna do exactly what my sister would do, Commit a horrible thing and think it's okay and take it in stride, tell me how well I did it. Lol.

"No, this is the type of fancy limo with a jacuzzi and Holographic Emitters inside." I say, stepping inside after Shakes and Aurum.

"And you both look confused, If I wanted to kill you Shakes, I would I know the limitations of your powers thanks to my spy network, Aurum on the other hand I can't kill, been fighting with him since the dawn of time, you know...The Night Turns to day and Day turns to night shit." I say to them both.

I finish what I was saying and I open up a mini fridge and I pull out a bottle of blueish liquid, semi viscous like blood.

"The only thing Cain was good for is killing Leira, that weak Architect, Her blood is delicious though, had her exsanguinated and she filled up about 7 bottles worth." I say, pouring a glass for me.

"Here's the recording of me and Cain's encounter.." I ask and I hold the martini glass filled with Architect blood in one hand and I pull out a Audio Recorder with my other hand and I toss it to Aurum.

"Would you gentlemen like a glass of this, it's positively sublime." I ask, grinning as I down the contents of the martini glass in one gulp.

[Oct-taku]

Shake's eyebrow twitched as Yamino drank the "positively sublime" liquid.

"Excuse me." the Ice Architect said, rolloing down a window. As soon as it was down, he poked his head out.

There was a wet noise, and then the sound of ice hitting pavement. Shakes pulled his head back into the limo.

"You sick basta-" he began, only to stick his head out the window again. The noises from before were repeated. Shakes was probably having such an adverse reaction because of his elemental closeness to Leira. Ice and water are like PB&J, after all.

After Shakes threw up again, he looked at Yamino, with a sickened expression on his face that no one, Architect or not, would never be able to replicate.

"I swear to me, drink any more of that, and I won't bother sticking my head out the window. Can you imagine having to remove frozen puke from the upholstery? I'm tempting to do it now. I just...'scuse me."

Shake's head popped out the window again.

[The Spy]

I chuckle to myself and I take another sip.

"I'll catch it with my powers and compress it into a singularity, besides it's quite delicious, I know of a good friend of mine by the name of Noxious who showed me this, ingenious man he is." I say, reminiscing, taking another sip of Leira's blood.

I see Shakes sticking his head out the window and vomiting again.

"I guess you won't be having any, it's quite good, some of her blood has coagulated into some very tasteful mounds, like that 'Bubble Tea' these humans drink." I say, waving the bottle around.

[Ty]

"I think I'll pass, thanks." Aurum looked uneasily at the bottle. "The blood of the innocent irritates my throat." So, Leira is dead? I really did miss a lot...

He pressed the play button on the recorder and started listening to the playback of Yamino and Cain's conversation. He seemed pretty bothered by what he heard.

"Wow, this is serious. Who the hell is this guy? Why haven't we heard about him before now?"

[The Spy]

I press a button and a holographic closeup of Cain's face and a holographic representation of his body is shown aswell.

"Recognize him?" I ask, taking sip of it again,

[Ty]

Aurum shook his head. "Sorry. Should I?"

(OOC: Aurum doesn't/hasn't been able to watch the news, and they've never met because Cain has been in hiding as a human since before Aurum arrived.)

***

Cain followed the limousine from a safe distance. Aside from some roof-hopping, he was making no use of his powers anymore, so they couldn't sense his presence. For now, he was still out of his element. Once he knew where they were going, he'd be able to plan his next move.

[The Spy]

"He's the life and death Architect, he's the only Architect that has the powers of duality, to give life and to take it, while we only have on power on one attribute, you with light and stones, me with Darkness and Gravity." I say.

We turn a corner and we're on the highway.

"It'll be about 20 minutes till we get to the lab." I say.

"So it's safe to assume you're worried about your mortality?" I ask, lighting a ciggarette.

[Ty]

The situation was finally starting to sink in. For a rare moment, Aurum was totally speechless. He looked down at the still-playing recorder, then back to the hologram.

"One way or another," the recording said, "the Architects must leave this world..."

Aurum turned to Yamino. "You know, those things'll kill you," he said ironically, pointing to the cigarette.

[The Spy]

The hair on the back of my neck stands on end as the recorder says that.

"I've fought him before, we nearly destroyed each other." I say, ashing the cigarette.

I toss Shakes my pack of Kools.

"I know you like to smoke, Aurum you want one?" I ask.

[Oct-taku]

"I think this might be the nicest thing you've ever done. For anyone." Shakes said, lighting up. He breathed a sigh of contentment, and started at the recorder.

"Unlike a good number of Architects, I watch the news. Right now, I think I understand where the HLF is coming from."

In that short time, Shakes had already smoked the cigarette down to the butt. He jammed the remains onto his hand, smiling at the half-second-long feeling of warmth.

[The Spy]

I cast Shakes a venomous glare.

"You're an idiot, don't you value your life?" I ask, taking a drag of my cigarette.