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It all started when a crystal dropped into existence, punched a hole in time and space and landed into the lap of one the most insane men to ever walk the Earth.
At first, the clown didn't know what he had been gifted with, stuck in his cell in Arkham, staring at the reddish purple crystal laying innocently on the dirty stone floor.
And then the voices started, telling him of another universe, talking of power and chaos beyond what he could have ever dreamed.
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LET THEM KNOW WE
WONT BACK DOWN
a marvel/dc roleplay
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 21, 2013 18:18:23 GMT -5
Gino's most recent assignment had him baffled. More baffled than he usually was, that is. He was supposed to go looking for this person called "Arizona Knight", who had broken out of a government facility. He poured over her file as he took a bite out of a slice of toast. The best thing about working with SHIELD was the canteen never seemed to run out of bread that he could toast, and butter to put on it. That was the best part of the job benefits, aside from the more-than-okay pay. Soon he would have that Mustang, and he would be awesome. He realised he was getting off topic on his thought patterns, so he went back to the file. According to this, she had her senses sharpened to predatory animal-level, and was resistant to poisons and venoms. Could be tricky. He wasn't really a physical man.
He left the file in his quarters and travelled up to the flight deck, where a quinjet waited for him. He bundled in, along with a couple of armed agents. When he was aboard, the door closed, and the jet took off, heading for LA. It wasn't a long flight, and the jet landed quietly, or as quietly as a jet could, outside of the city. Gino filed out, and headed into the city. Finding a place to sit, he sat down and closed his eyes, allowing other people's thoughts to fill his head.
"I reckon I won that round."
"He's this uptight? No wonder his hemmorhoids are chronic."
"Alright, just me and my computer tonight."
There were a lot of people, so Gino tried to concentrate his power. If this "Arizona" was around here, he wanted to find her thoughts first.
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Feb 21, 2013 18:37:18 GMT -5
Arizona, as it turned out, was just coming to consciousnesses in a sleazy motel in god knows where. The room stunk of smoke of whiskey and she was pretty sure she hadn't payed for the room, booked it, or even gone in the front of the hotel, a fact supported broken window lock. She shook her head to try and clear the hangover and stumbled away from the cheap mattress and into a dirty off-white bathroom. There was a smell of sex and cheap perfume to the air and she certainly felt like she's had sex, ughh she needed to stop drinking so much. The cool water from the tap was a relief on her throat as she drank it straight from the tap, gulping the liquid down like a woman who hadn't drunk for days. Having her fill she straightened up and stood stark naked in front of the bathroom mirror, eyes running over the lean, muscled body and the scattering of scars. There was a bite mark on her left breast that was fading even as she looked at it and the scratches she could feel closing up on her back did not feel like a regular persons, mutant was her best guess. She closed her vivid eyes, running her fingers through her hair and untangling it from her night's adventures, savoring the moment of absolute freedom, before turning out of the door and picking up the scattered pieces of clothing.
She pulled on a pair of clean knickers and a new vest top from the small backpack, delighted to find a fresh bottle of vodka and more fags nestled in the clothes. Her bra seemed to have come worst off from last night as one of the clasps had snapped. Ah well, she shoved it in her bag, it wasn't like decency was that important to her. Finally she dragged on her black skinny jeans and leather jacket, pulling her boots on. She shoved her clothes into her bag and jumped back out of the window, strolling away in the morning light.
It took her ten minutes to get into the city, which turned out to be LA, so better than she thought. She scrambled together some of the money in her wallet and bought a carton of orange juice and an apple. She was running out of money, someone in this town must need some robberies or something done for a bit of cash. She had to survive and and was going to need to pay rent for the tiny attic flat she borrowed from the elderly mutant who had taken a liking to her.
She arrived at a crossing, next to a park and stopped to lean against a wall. She was already getting creeped out looks from those around her, all scared of her sharp teeth and...weird appearance. But she ignored them and pulled out a cigarette, lighting it and savoring the first inhale. A quick shot of vodka, an apple and the start of a cigarette and she was feeling better already, working the kinks out of her back and wondering who had fucked her that hard last night?
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 21, 2013 19:20:23 GMT -5
Gino started hearing some new thoughts. These were very rude thoughts. A lot of bad words were being thrown around. There were references to drinks, cigarettes and how they were, and Gino quoted, "Ffff'ed hard". With thoughts that bad, it had to be Arizona's mind. This was great. Gino had thought this would be a lot harder, but nope! Here she was, presenting her thoughts to him like she was giving him cookies. Mmmmm...cookies. Gino could use some cookies. It wasn't like she was going anywhere, with thoughts like that, and there was a place selling cookies just across from where Gino was sitting.
He got up and strode over to the store, handing over some of his well-earned money. In exchange, he got a bag of chocolate chip cookies. Gino followed Arizona's thoughts to her approximate location, while taking a bite out of one of his cookies. They were some of the sweetest cookies he had ever tasted. They were delicious, and certainly satisfied his sweet tooth for just a while longer. He looked around for any sign of his target, until he spotted her. Or at least, who he could assume was her. She seemed the type. "You Arizona Knight?" he asked her, in between mouthfuls of cookie.
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Feb 21, 2013 19:33:05 GMT -5
Arizona stayed in the same place, though she did shift down so she was out of the sunlight and more concealed from the public eye down the edge of a small alley which held bins. She raised the fag to her lip and took a long drag, the nicotine hit calming her down and soothing the withdrawal symptoms which had been creeping up on her for the last 20 minutes or so. She heard a rustling to her left and looked down to see a large tom cat darting between the bins, scaveging for a bit of old meat. 'Good luck to ya, mate.. She muttered and stubbed out the butt of the cigarette on the wall behind her, dropping it to the floor and turning to head out back into the real world. She had barely moved when a shadow blocked her out. She looked up, face to face with a fairly attractive man who seemed to be eating cookies, if her senses served her right, which they probably did. She was going to get a polite 'excuse me' from her and they could get on with their lives, but then he had to go and open his mouth and speak. 'Arizona Knight' The name echoed around her head for a moment, fear pulsing through her body, sharp and painful and she immediatly shifted into a defensive position. Her hand was at the long knife and her teeth were bared before she had even processed what was happening. 'Who the fuck are you. How do you know that name. No one knows that name. Her voice was low and threatening as she stared at him. No one...Well almost no one should know that she was that girl. She was Nyx to most, to the people she encountered, to anyone she worked with. Nyx was safe, random, untracable. Arizona was her name, the old name.
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 21, 2013 19:44:45 GMT -5
Gino tilted his head and finished his cookie. "You have a potty mouth." he said simply. "And I know your name because it's your name, and it's on your file. Plus, you know, I can read your mind." Had she changed her name recently? No, SHIELD would have that on record if she did. Or did she prefer to use her nickname, "Nyx". Yes, the file had mentioned that she used that as an alias. Why would she hide her own name. Gino had never got that about people. Granted, he had a bit of a strange name, by all standards (according to his parents, it was a German name), but "Arizona" wasn't that bad.
He quickly scanned her thoughts. They were angry. She definitely didn't want to hear that name ever again, least of all from one of SHIELD's psychic G-Men. "Alright then, Nyx." he said. "What are you doing out here? Aren't you meant to be somewhere? Or did you hate that place enough to bust out?" he mentally braced himself for another slew of curse words and angry thoughts. Honestly, the sooner he could detain this potty mouth, the better. He started eating another cookie.
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Feb 21, 2013 19:57:46 GMT -5
She nodded sarcastically to him, clapping her hands and sighing. 'Yes, I do, it's called language, get a fucking grip.' She gave a dark laugh at him, pathetic little bitch. She hated people like him, the righteous fools who thought themselves above everyone else. Her eyes widened in fear and disgust as he spoke of reading her mind. Oh good, well at least he could have the wonderful thoughts of her swearing violently and having fantastic sex and hurting the other people who his people had sent to try and capture her. Her hands clenched into fists and a scared tremble ran down her spine, eyes immediatly looking for exits. This boy had no idea, poor darling, knew nothing about her. She snorted and spoke quietly. 'Oh sweetheart you don't know anything do you, stupid little soldier. You like reading minds, how's this for fun?' She flooded her mind with the memories of her time in the lab. They were hardly supressed, they haunted her every night and plagued her every second of ever day. Her own screams and other's rang through her head, hard steel cages with a thin mattress, agonising surgeries, the branding on her back and wrists. Then further back to being captured by the mob and sold to the people in the white coats. Being hit, and beaten for talking too loudly. blind panic, running through forests as shots rang out behind her and people fell around her.
She looked up, lips twisted into an ugly smirk. 'Yeah, I broke out. Now if you don't mind, I have places to be. I'm sure you are a lovely, if stupid, guy, but I really don't fancy being taken into SHIELD's headquarters.' Arizona knew what they would do to her. They'd say they weren't going to, or promise something, but they would kill her. She was a failed experiment, she was the final flaw in a perfect cover up. She had to go. Oddly enough she didn't really want to die and she would happily stab this boy if she had to.
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 22, 2013 5:57:23 GMT -5
Gino hadn't been expecting that. The sudden rush of negative memories sent him stumbling backwards. He almost, ALMOST, dropped his cookies as the dark and overpowering thoughts filled his mind. In a moment, he thought that it was he who was on the receiving end of the horrifying surgeries. He clasped both hands over his head as he felt fluids slip down his cheeks. It was either his eyes were watering due to the intensity of the visions, or, more likely, he was crying. What these people had done to her...it just wasn't right. He couldn't fathom how anyone could be that cruel to their fellow human beings.
Of course, he pulled his mind out of Arizona's, only to find that the target planned to escape yet again. He shook his head vigorously, in an attempt to rid himself of the visions, and reached into her dangerous mind once again, this time, with a single command in mind for her. He had to exert his powers over her in order to prevent her from escaping. The command was simple, but effective. A word that had tumbled empires, destroyed conquerors, and thrown away all opposition. That one word, which would compel Gino's charge to do the same. "Stop!"
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Feb 22, 2013 6:29:49 GMT -5
She saw the way it affected him, the tears streaming down his face, the way he held his head in agony. Good, it was nice to know someone could finally feel what she felt every day of her life and could understand what it was like to walk around with these...additions, like someone else's clothes which didn't quite fit. She turned to make her escape, ready to run out into the sunlight and away from this stupid city. But then...She couldn't. She tried, she really did, tried to pull her body away from him. But a clear, vibrant, almost painful thought was burning its way onto her brain. STOP. It took a few moments in her confused state to realise what was happening. It was him, he was in her brain giving her orders. For a second everything froze and Arizona started to realize that this was probably it. Years of avoiding authorities, commiting crimes and she was going to die cause some stupid boy wanted to do his precious little job.
She fell back against the wall, she could still move, just not to escape. She let out a fustrated scream, hand tight around her knife. 'They will kill me. Ok, they will murder me. I'm not human to them. I'm an animal.' She brandished her wrist at him, the numbers etched in to the skin in dark ink, like an animal. Sure he probably didn't care, he did work for them after all, but it was worth a shot, otherwise she was going to have to try and kill him and she didn't know how strong his mind control powers were.
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 22, 2013 13:18:40 GMT -5
"I know...I know..." Gino nodded solemnly. "But you have to go back. I don't know if they'll continue the experiments on you, but you'll have to tell the story from your side, if you're interrogated. Fury's not unreasonable. He'll hear you out." It wasn't a guarantee. If anything, it was more of a consolation. It sucked having to put the job first sometimes. But, such was the way of being a SHIELD agent. It wasn't anything that was going to change completely anytime soon, so Gino had to play by the book. How it infuriated him so.
He mustered up the courage to delve back into Arizona's mind. This time, he wasn't looking to hurt himself or control her again. Instead, he was looking for something different. Even with all the bad memories she had, somewhere in there had to be a gem among the dirt. One good memory that he could bring up for her. If he wanted her to go with him back to headquarters, he wanted her to be happy. He sifted through her deepest, most repressed memories, trying to find something that would make her feel happy, truly happy, for what was probably the first time in a long while.
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Feb 22, 2013 13:46:04 GMT -5
'Go back?? There is no go back! She shook her head violently and clenched her hand into a fist. 'That place is gone, it's a disused lab in a forest. It's dead. Trust me, I've seen it. There is nothing for me with you apart from death. I am an animal and I need to be destroyed, America can never know about me.' She fell against the wall, looking up at him with pure disgust in her eyes. This was why she hated the good guys, because they were blind soldiers who followed their orders, even if it meant killing a young woman who they had already destroyed. Her hands fell to rest by her side, one still holding onto the knife like a life line, turning it and playing with it in her hands. It was the length of her forearm and wicked sharp, able to cut through flesh in a heartbeat. She loved it, it kept her safe, it was her protection. She felt a stirring in her head and she knew he was in there, rooting around in her past, looking for something. Her anger grew, building up in her as white hot rage that threatened to tear her apart. She laughed quietly, almost manically and looked up, licking her lips, the knife still turning between her finger tips. 'Get out of my head. You have no right to be there. Just leave me alone. Just walk away now. Because I'll kill myself. I promise you I'd rather die than let them kill me. You and your mind games can't be there to stop me 24 hours a day.' She smiled up at him, a genuine, warm smile.
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Feb 22, 2013 18:53:27 GMT -5
"Never know? We already know! That's how I found you, because we know." Gino said, a hint of exasperation showing in his voice. Man, this woman was a bit behind the times. That, or SHIELD was just being secretive. Again. Wouldn't be the first time. A lot of things in Gino's debriefing package had been blacked out, leaving him to fill in the blanks. Somehow, he'd come up with SHIELD making weapons out of easter eggs. He didn't know how he'd come up with that one. But, that was a tangent. Back to the matter at hand. Could he really let her go? She was a rogue. A loose end that really, REALLY, needed to be wrapped up.
"You're right." he said, retracting himself from her mind. "Sorry, I was just looking for a good memory. Looks like they're all gone." He tried to keep his voice as sincere as possible, but a plan was already forming in his mind. He wasn't entirely sure of all the limits of his mind control ability. Was it possible to input a long-term command? "I can't just let you go. On the other hand, I've realised what you went through, but I disagree. Under all your rage, and pain, you're still a human being. Still capable of...living. So, if you'll allow me." He forced his way back into her mind, avoiding all the memories, and focusing on one solitary command. "Get out of here, and live your life."
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Post by Arizona 'Nyx' Knight on Mar 1, 2013 13:59:03 GMT -5
She sneered nastily at him, like he was the scum of the earth and she knew it. 'You truly are an idiot. Not SHIELD. America, the people of America, the world. Do you think they know about illegal experiments on millionaires daughters? Try not to be the stupid puppet they have made you into. She felt his delve in again, and heard that voice. That command that echoed through her again and again and some how this time it was worse. Because this time he was trying to be good and noble, but he had no idea. He thought telling her to live her life would make her a good person? Who saved people and tried to be the better person. He thought she could change. How sweet. This was her life, her existence and she coped with it. He could send her into the world and there would just be a different person hunting her down, or running out of money because she couldn't get a job, or having to hide in case someone reported seeing a 'weirdo girl'. It wasn't like she had a choice. She turned, walking out towards the sunlight, looking back at him and smirking. 'Get out of my fucking head. Cause you know there is no way out of this life. If you want me to change you might as well kill me, sweetheart.
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Post by Gino "Indigo" Perry on Mar 5, 2013 14:59:36 GMT -5
Fine. Gino thought bitterly. Give me one good reason to command you to be quiet. You know, for an emo kid, you sure do a lot of talking. He was confused. What had brought on these darker thoughts. He didn't like them and tried to unthink them. They were stuck in his mind for now. He guessed what Fury told him was very much true. This girl really did bring out the worst in people. There were a couple of people in his life who did that to him, but they were no contest compared to Arizona Knight.
Oh, shut up! he thought, willing with all his might to engrave that command in her mind. He wanted her to hear him out while she still had a chance at life, and preferably, while being quiet. "You wanna die? That's okay, that's your choice." he said. "I'm not gonna stop you. You know, 'cause I...'cause I could." he said, making a little bit of a childish threat. "Buuuuuuuuuuut I'm not about to give up on you either. Let me ask you a question. This has been burning in my mind for a...couple of seconds. If you want to die, alright, if you really wanna kill yourself, why haven't you done so already, eh?"
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