I didnt know I needed a building permit I swear! (Sailor Bliss!)(Double XP)

The loud hum of the helicopters blades was all that Clover could concentrate on, to easy her nervous mind. Today marked a big day for her and her company as it would be the first major thing the young girl had done since inheriting her family’s world renowned business. Today was the day that Clover would unveil the next generation of oceanic research facilities aimed at not only helping mankind better understand the deep blue sea, but also help rid it of all the harmful pollutants that plagued it. The massive facility was located off the southern coast of California. If the unveiling was a success Clover planned to expand and have these facilities all over the world. The raven haired girl let out a small sigh as the helicopter began it’s decent into the large open hanger located on top of the large facility. The massive research center was shaped like to hexagons placed side-by-side with one large hexagon shaped pod at each of the larger hexagons vectors with one larger pod resting in the center that acted as the main facility.

Down in the hanger, staff were frantically scrabbling about to get things situated so that all the VIPs that had been invited to the unveiling would have a place to land safely. The black and green chopper touched down, and shortly after Clover made her grand entrance. The guests weren’t scheduled to arrive for another two hours but Clover wanted to inspect things before hand to make sure the unveiling would go off without a hitch.

Clover rushed down each of the pod connecting corridors ensuring that each of the Facilities nine hubs were all up to speed and in working order. Just one glance at the young business woman and you could tell she was extremely nervous. Despite everything Clover had seen in her visions, this was probably the scariest thing that she had or would ever do. Impressing the many shareholders and the rest of the world at that, was nothing compared to mastering the arcane or staring down a demon goddess. “Miss Sinclair, please calm yourself. If you continue to rush about like this you’ll have no energy left to give the actual tour.” Winston cried out as he fell behind Clover’s increasing pace.

“You know that would never happen Winston. My entire body is brimming with energy. Now hurry along, we still have two more stops to make before the guests arrive.” Clover remarked as she made her way towards the main building of the facility, completely unaware that her two hour head start had already been used up. Before the raven haired girl could get to the main pod, a small ping went off from her ear piece as someone from the hanger informed her that the guests were now arriving.

Clover looked down at her watch and let out a small whimper of anxiety as she was now running late. Instead of continuing on with her inspection, Clover quickly turned heal and blew past Winston as she raced to the hanger to great the VIPs upon their arrivals. The young girl made it just in time as the first helicopter was landing. Straightening out her hair and attire, she greeted the first arrival with a large smile. “Welcome, welcome. Thank you for graciously accepting my invite.” she finished with a polite bow.

It only took a few minutes in a helicopter for Bliss to begin to feel like a kid in the backseat of a car again. The scenery changed. Until it stayed the same swaying waves crashing against the rock heavy coasts of the California coast. An artificial creation fell back into the landscape. It never called out to garner any attention away from the waves and shorelines, content with just existing as a healthy part of the ecosystem. "I hope they don't want money."

Bliss lounged back in her seat, relaxing in a pair of jeans with a hooded jacket. In the need of any sudden change, Bliss brought along a few items she deemed necessary. One being her swim suit, and the other being her experimental sailor outfit for Monster Removal and Evil Displacement- or MR ED for short. Her clothing fit perfectly in a shoulder bag, so she could keep it with her at all time. The last thing she needed was some pimple faced coat boy going through her things.

A strip of lights ushered the helicopter in. Not wanting to fight with her hair, Bliss waited for the blades to finally stop spinning. As the sea air breeze grew to be the more dominant sound, Bliss knew she would get no such luck no matter what she did. Her tennis shoes hit the ground first. A girl about a decade younger than Bliss was on hand to greet her at the very mouth of the facility. "Nice place." A pair of sunglasses came out of Bliss' jacket, giving Bliss a quick motion to shield her eyes from the encroaching sun. "So you're making the world a better place huh? That sounds expensive."

The first guest to arrive was none other than the illustrious Bliss Fukuyama. As Clover rose from her small bow she was a little surprised to see that Bliss had arrived in casual attire. Though having never truly listed whether or not the even called for formal attire, Clover still expected someone of Bliss’ status to at least arrive a little more ‘dressed up’. Regardless of The woman’s reasoning for dressing casually Clover was not going to argue. “Money should never be an option when it comes to doing the right thing.” The girl said in a preppy sort of tone, almost akin to an infomercial. Clover peered slightly past Bliss to notice several more privet choppers just some ways out, feeling that her being in the hanger to greet everyone was a waste, Clover motioned for Bliss to follow her shortly after instructing one of the nearby staff members to direct the arriving VIPs to the central hub.

Clover led Bliss to a large ball room located in the central hub. The room was decorated elegantly and offered a stunning view of the open sea. There were several circular tables all arranged so that those sitting at them all had a direct view of a small podium that sat in front of the ball rooms largest window. Once the tow had reached the elaborate ball room, Clover pointed out a snack table and told Bliss to take a seat anywhere she liked.

----Several minutes later----

Shortly after Bliss had gotten seated, the rest of the unveilings guests began to file into the large room. Many of them impressed with the magnificent view to even notice or care that Clover was greeting them as they entered. To many of these people they were unaware what their gracious host looked like, and mistook the elegantly dressed young lady as just another chaperone. Eventually all the guests were seated and the unveiling could get underway. Clover would cautiously approach the podium at the front of the room and greet the attendees before going into a lengthy and wordy speech about the facility and the impact it could have on the ocean and the world as a whole. Most of Clover’s speech was fluff, but the majority of it was true and backed by extensive scientific research that she had helped with. To further help drive home the importance of the oceanic facilities benefits was a video that played on the window behind her, that had darkened itself into a screen for the ball rooms overhead projector.

As the festivities got underway, Clover approached the table that Bliss was sitting and sat down opposite of her with a smile on her face. “Pretty impressive right?” she said to the woman, partially fishing for compliments and to see how someone as successful as Bliss would evaluate her performance thus far. Servers would come by shortly after with everyone’s orders and dinner would get underway before the tour of the facility would begin.

"I would say that's adorable, but it sounds like you are being serious, so I'll just say 'that's adorable'." Bliss held tight to her bag as she walked alongside Clover. A few glances from the staff around the facility tried to garner exactly why Bliss did not bother to look the part, but it also looked as though they needed to do other things besides be the fashion police. Bliss could deal with it, but a good image could help out as well. "I think I might change into something more spectacular before this shindig turns to a ho down."

Bliss slipped into the women's restroom and locked the door. Taking her costume out of the bag, she slid into her black and purple outfit, without any magic girl transformation sequence. The purple skirt fit perfectly, the black boots and gloves only moved when she needed movement. The black one piece only did wonders for her form and the purple ribbons around her outfit. "Better. I guess people can now say 'wow, how awesome' instead of 'you look like Ellen Page'."

While her outfit drew attention, it did not draw any immediate offers of interest beyond the simple questions of her identity. Most of Bliss' lack of social skills to get off her phone long enough to make conversation also warded away would be interest, but Bliss would find something else to blame it on. "Google, reasons people in ballrooms are idiots. Go." Using her phone as a mirror, Bliss began to apply a level of make up to make her outfit pop.

Bliss lifted her attention to the video playing behind Clover as the young hero made her statements about doing the right thing. She sounded like Danny, but was not as threatening or commanding. She did ring up demands a little but, but overall, Bliss seemed to like this girl. "I bet Chelle will love giving her money." And Bliss went back to her phone, getting the process of a kickstarter going with absolutely no rewards for people who donated to her.

The return of Clover brought Bliss back to the party. "I can see it being a little better, but for the most part I think people liked it." Bliss kept applying purple eye shadow over her brow to continue fitting the style to boost her appearance, and give her attention back to the people in the room she so gracefully neglected.

The young entrepreneur’s eyes lit up like diamonds after hearing Bliss’ words. It was as if a massive weight had been lifted from her shoulders, and all the anxiety she had was gone. If the facility struck it big it could prove to help cement Clover’s vision in reality. Shortly after the dinner Clover approached the podium once more to announce the beginning of the facilities tour. Clover beckoned the guests to accompany her as they would begin their tour of the central hub before splinting into two groups that would tour opposite sides of the massive underwater structure.

While Clover led the guests on the first leg of their tour, Winston, her butler, made his way to the control tower for a status update. Upon his arrival all things seemed normal save for a couple of unexplained blips that continued to pop up on sonar. Surveillance cameras lining the facilities exterior showed no signs of tampering or intrusion but the intervals that the blips were appearing began to get more and more frequent. Not wanting to take any chances or alarm Clover after she had just settled down, Winston formed a small party and instructed them to investigate the areas where the blips had been appearing.

At the same time the team put together by Winston was heading out, Clover had led her group into one of the many areas in the facility that was designed to clean out pollutants from the sea water and then filter it back out into the ocean. Clover approached a set of tanks that were side by side, in one was semi murky sea water and in the other was crystal clear water. The raven haired girl faced the small group that was with her, her emerald eyes took in the many looks of intrigue and confusion as to what was exactly going on, so she decided to elaborate. She went on to explain that along the outside of the structure were several intake valves that sucked the surrounding sea water into the take on her right(the murky water). That water was then treated in the central unit by pollutant eating nano bots and then filtered into the tank on her left where the clear water resided before being pumped back into a series of tubes that vented the water back into the sea miles away from the structure.

In the middle of Clover’s explanation, the tank to her right filled with a slimy green and blue liquid, which was even a surprise to the young girl as she had never seen anything like it before. Knowing that something was awry she asked a nearby staff member to escort the group on the rest of the tour while she stayed behind to try and figure out what exactly found its way into the tank.

Bliss finished up the last of her make up adjustments as Clover continued to canvas her meet and greet. The young businesswoman held a strong connection with the room, making Bliss feel like whatever Clover needed, she could get on her own without money from Bliss. The best kind of business style. But, Bliss still needed to make sure Clover felt like she needed Bliss, all the while covering up the tiny fact Bliss had no money anymore.

An older woman with blue pant suit walked over to pay tribute to Bliss. "I hope you don't mind miss, but that is an interesting get up for a formal dinner."

"I would never mind. I know I look good." And with a pucker of her lips, Bliss turned around and walked from the table. "Now, where is that kid?"

The tour involved technical readings from Clover that Bliss found herself losing interest in. Most of the group looked interested, but no one would understand this stuff quite like Clover, and the excited girl sounded like she was explaining calculus to a third grader. "Machines." Bliss nodded. "Cool." Her tone drained on as she looked over to the substance building up within one of the tanks. The look on Clover's face did not sell the operations were running as expected, neither did the sudden change of schedule with Clover staying behind.

As the group was ushered out, Bliss hung in the back of the group. Once they passed a door close enough to a corner as to hide Bliss from any suspecting eyes among the staff, Bliss used her telekinetics to pop the lock on the door and slide into her hiding spot. Losing the most lavishly dressed of the guests would not go unnoticed for long, but it would give Bliss some time to get back to Clover.

When the group of guests was ushered out of the room and Clover felt that she was free of prying eyes, she got down to work. Opening up a panel that rested in between the two tanks, Clover was granted access to a large screen. Her thin fingers began to type away furiously at the screen as she issued a diagnostics test to be carried out by the nano machines.  After several seconds the reports came back inconclusive, and the machines began to shut down. The unknown substance was stroking the girl’s curiosity. On one hand this liquid was hampering the effectiveness of the facilities cleansing pumps but at the same time this was the sort of thing the facility was built for.

Wasting little time Clover rushed off to a corner of the large pumping station and retrieved a small glass container and a ladder. She returned to the corrupted tank and scaled the ladder with cat-like agility, glass container at the ready. Without thinking about possibly using her telekinesis to lower the glass into the tank, Clover rolled up her arm and dunked it into the tank, scooping up as much of the green and blue liquid as possible before climbing down. Clover reached the bottom of the ladder and immediately felt light headed, not enough for it to show, but she could definitely tell that she shouldn’t have done what she did.

She hastily waved over a nearby researched and passed the container over to them. “Take this to the scientists over in the research center and whatever you do, don’t let it touch your skin.” She said to the overly concerned staff member. As soon as the lady turned around to go deliver the container of strange goo, Clover collapsed to her knees. Whatever that liquid was, it was doing a number on her small body and fast, she attributed her consciousness to the energy that flowed through her body. A few staff members rushed to Clover’s side, “Ms. Sinclair!” the collectively shouted as the young girl waved them away.

“I’ll be fine. Go check with the other hubs and make sure they haven’t encountered the same problem.” she said, catching her breath between almost every word. As the staff members ran off, Clover struggled to rise to her feet, she was less concerned with the current state of her body than she was with the current state of affairs plaguing the facility.

The door to the closet opened, letting Bliss slip out. The ushering came as way too hurried, and Clover seemed far too eager to brag about her works to just cut it short. The sounds of distant footsteps began to wear away as the sound of mechanical tinkering became for pronounced. A number of staff still remained in the room, giving Bliss far too much company for her to be comfortable seeing.

The problem did not seem isolated. Not from Clover's tone or from her instructions. Something serious began taking place. Someone wanted this place shutdown, but who would try to hit an anti-pollution company? Any energy companies would welcome it as a way to skirt laws. Something fishy was going on, and Bliss did not know how accurate her analogy was.

"Let me help you." While Clover struggled to get to her feet, Bliss put her hand under the younger girl's arm and helped lift her. "Any clue as to what is going on- wow, you look really bad. Can you even stand on your own?" Bliss put the girl's arm over her shoulder and tried to get her over to a chair. Maybe a quick breather would help out.

As Clover staggered to her feet, she was relieved to feel the slight tugging at her arm as Bliss helped her get off the ground finally. Despite the pain, fatigue, and fever she was experiencing at the moment, Clover couldn’t help but smirk knowing that Bliss had found a way to slip out of the group unnoticed and sneak back into the cleansing room, especially when Clover had just sent all her help away on errands. She finally seemed to get her footing just as Bliss asked if she was okay to walk. “Yeah sure. I’m totally Fi-” Before she could finish her sentence she collapsed back down to her knees. Rather than asking Bliss for a hand or attempting to stand back up Clover felt it was probably better if she rested for a bit.

“I’m so stupid. I shouldn’t have just dunked my arm in a container filled with a mysterious liquid. This….This is definitely someone’s fault.” She took a moment to catch her breath before continuing. “One of the guests has to be responsible for this right? Yeah that must be it. Someone knew me well enough to know I’d investigate the tank myself and would be foolish enough to stick my arm right in.”

Clover was either being delusional from the effects of the mysterious liquid that she had now deduced to be poison, or she was on to something, and one of the VIPs wasn’t what they appeared to be, regardless, Clover had to get to Winston and the main control tower. The young girl turned back to Bliss with a childish grin. “You wouldn’t mind giving me another hand would you?” she said offering left arm as it was the one she hadn’t dunked in the tank.


---Control Center---

As Clover and Bliss began their slow crawl to the command center, Winston had his hands full as the serious of concerning blips had begun to flourish all over the facility. The esteemed butler rushed about the control room as he organized more patrols to investigate the areas where the blips were most prevalent. Each team that was sent out came back with the same result however as none of them could discover what was setting the sonar off. “Get one of the engineers down here and have them take a look at this blasted machine. And I want each of the patrol squads back out on their routs asap!” he shouted to the small group of people standing before him.

Something wicked was amiss and he was not going to let it get in the way of ruining todays unveiling. Little did he know of Clover’s current status or the extravagant conclusion she had come to. At this point it was unsure if they’d be able to act in time to prevent any harm from coming to the guests or researchers stationed at the facility.

Bliss reached down and pulled Clover to her feet. "Not at all. I guess this is always the problem with inviting people anywhere." Clover assumed someone would be behind this endeavor, taking away any chances of maintenance errors from the equations. "Do you know who you invited here? Any contacts outside of their own equities?"

If Bliss could access a computer, she could begin to get to the bottom of what Clover's computer systems knew about this situation. "Mind if I look through your mainframe? I want to check your security feed. Then, I'll start going through whomever you let in this place, run it through a government information cache and see what everyone's tax return shows they- wait, you invited rich people right? Hmm, they probably don't even pay realistic taxes. Well, I guess maybe if they are a dumb rich person, they might show up. Oh, and I'm not really asking for permission as much as I'm asking for directions to the closest terminal."

Clover chuckled as Bliss ranted on about how she could use one of the facilities computers to figure out who was trying to sabotage everything. She let out a small delirious laugh as the poison continued to course through her body. “The nearest terminal is in the command center.” she said faintly as they continued down the long connecting hall. While Bliss and Clover continued their slow crawl to the central hub, Winston was dealing with a plethora of problems.

The patrols he sent out continued to report no strange anomalies or signs of tampering on the outside of the facility. While that continued to prove quite frustrating is seemed as though two of the VIPs had been reported missing, one being Bliss and one other. As things continued to go sideways the next round of reports came in this time however while they were in the middle of reporting, all hell broke loose.

Several explosions rocked the facilities perimeter instantly flooding the areas that had been breached. The state of the are facility immediately went into lock down mode sealing the areas as best they could, to prevent further flooding. One of the explosions happed several feet ahead of Bliss and Clover, the resulting cascade of water blowing them back against one of the hallways bulkheads.

Despite her condition Clover had enough presence of mind to throw up a barrier of greenish-blue energy to prevent the rushing water from pinning them against the door. At the same time the bombs went off, the command center was broken into and assaulted by a group of tribal looking people wielding advanced weaponry. All of the researches and staff including Winston ducked for cover as an all-out siege took place for control of the command center.

All around the base entire platoons of these tribal people were flooding in through the holes generated from the bombs. They struck out methodically and precisely, taking control of each of the hubs and taking Clover’s staff hostage.

Back in the connecting hall the rushing water seemed to slow down and ease up. Once to girls were able to get their barring’s they would be greeted by a mysterious figure. Upon further inspection the figure turned out to be dressed like one of the guests. He appeared to be in his mid-thirties to early forties, stood around six feet tall, had tanned skin, and looked reasonably built.

”Ah there you are Ms. Sinclair. You’re looking rather well for someone who should have been dead by now.” the man spoke in a suave, nonchalant tone. He seemed to know that Clover had been poisoned which only led to one conclusion, this man was the one responsible for orchestrating this underwater assault.

Bliss had no idea why Clover kept giggling to herself, but given the fact the poison could very well be lethal, Bliss guessed dying while laughing could be a good way to go out. "Central control sounds great. I can get in, figure out who you invited, and then we can get this whole thing back into gear." A rumbling shook over head. The moaning of metal turned more violent, shaking the floor beneath Clover and Bliss. The hallway hosting the two women quickly began to fill with water, held back only by Clover's generation of a shield.

"How long can you hold this?" The poisoned girl would only have so much strength, meaning Bliss would need to locate plan B. "I think I got an idea-" Just as Bliss located the next door they would retreat behind, a second explosion went off. Several seconds later, a third. The entire building seemed like it fell under attack all at once. Eventually the water began to subside, leaving a major problem aside, but bringing in a bigger one. "So, you poisoned a water purifying plant. That doesn't even make sense."

A few explosions broke through the walls. But, this man came by himself to face off against two superpowered humans. "You poisoned a seventeen year old." Bliss looked down to Clover. "Seventeen, right?" Her hand gestured the estimation somewhere in that range. "Poisoning seventeen year olds is pretty up there in the 'look how evil I am totem', but I've got an idea. You and me fight right here. I win, you leave, and say you're sorry. You win, well, you won't, but if you do win, I'll be your number one hostage. So, you want to fight right here? I do."

The man let out a foreboding chuckle as he took a few steps forward. “This facility is much more than a purification plant. It’s a research center first and foremost.” He stared Bliss down as she had become the one wild card in his plan. “This girl would have ruined everything had I not intervened.” his cryptic words catching Clover’s attention.

“What the hell are you talking about? I’m trying to make things better. Just who the hell are you?” The young girl said, still powering through the poison and trying to stay as conscious as possible. She shot a quick glance to Bliss and nodded her head confirming her age before look back to the mysterious man for answers.

“I am king Karth and this facility threatens the safety of my people.” He held his hand out in front of him, water from the flooded room rushed to his palm and began to swirl around in it. “For thousands of years we have watched as the land dwellers squabble over territory. Taking everything for themselves and destroying all else in the process. The very existence of this facility threatens my people and I will not sit idly by and wait for you greedy humans to take my home from me.”

Karth prepared for battle, removing his suit top and revealing a torso covered in various odd tribal tattoos. Without Hesitation the Man thrusted his arm forward, sending a spiraling tendril towards Clover and Bliss. The tendril eventually collided with another barrier from Clover who was beginning to look more and more pale as each second passed and with each use of her power.

Clover turned to Bliss, the fatigue very obvious in both her appearance and tone of voice. “I’m not entirely sure I can keep this up. You might have to take him. I’ll support you as best I can.” Her arm lowered and with it her barrier fell.

Karth looked on in frustration as the young girl continued to defy all logic and still persevere through the poison he had used. He turned this frustration towards Bliss by sending five more watery tendrils in her direction.

"Wait are you like bug people or something?" Bliss kept a force field up in case of any discharge, but also wanted to be ready to throw every bit of energy into knocking out a wall and getting Clover out of here. Water began forming around his palm, changing Bliss' guess. "Crab people? Are you mad because you're delicious? Because I should be mad, because it is so hard to get meat out of those little legs."

A shot of water came out, not swayed by Bliss in the slightest. It collided with some grandeur against a barrier Clover set up. "Okay, just give me some time to work this out-" Bliss looked down to Clover, whom looked worse by the minute. "You need to get out of here. Now." With a combination of selfless heroism and flashy, over confidant heroism, Bliss used her telekinesis to punch a hole in the lower wall, followed by another pull to try and throw Clover into the vent. "I'll meet up with you after I beat this guy-"

Before Bliss could turn her head around two tendrils slammed into Bliss, pinning her to the wall. With some quick reflexes, brought on by how great her outfit looked, Bliss swung her legs in the air. Two tendrils slammed into the wall just below her. The final tendril slammed inches next to where her head had been seconds before. The tendrils below her made great leverage for Bliss to put her arms in an advantageous enough position for her to send a wave of telekinesis to the tendrils holding her pinned to the wall.

With her new found freedom, Bliss rolled off the tendrils beneath her and onto the ground. Coming out of her roll, Bliss threw a blast of telekinesis right towards King Karth. "Like I said. You aren't winning. And you're a dick for poisoning people."

Clover had little to no energy to put up much of a resistance to Bliss’ forcefulness. She sure as hell didn’t have the strength for it. "I really don't think that's a good-" before Clover could finish protesting, she was hurled into one of the maintenance shafts just below the hallways floor. Water rushed in behind her, but with Karth using the water in the hallway as his only weapon against Bliss not much poured into the small crawlspace.

Karth looked on not visibly impress with Bliss’ quips or display of skill and power. He was more concerned with protecting his people and preventing harm from befalling them. For that reason alone, Karth found all the strength he needed to face his foe head on with a clear conscious and outright ferocity. Though the muscular Atlantean King could have probably over power Bliss with sheer strength, he continued to flex his mastery over water as an element. Bliss’ telekinetic blast hit Karth square in the chest and sent him back a few feet, though his fall was broken as the water seemed to rise up and support Karth from below, before placing him softly back on his feet.

Below the fierce battle, Clover found herself barely able to crawl as her muscles wanted to give way beneath her. Luckily for the young girl she was literally a walking power plant, and her supercharged cells did everything in their power to prevent the girl from succumbing to the dangerous toxin that flowed through her system.  

After being safely secured by his ally, the water, King Karth immediately went back on the offensive. The imposing Atlantean lunged forward and swung his arms forward sending a wave of air at Bliss to distract her from his next move. “You land dwellers are all the same. You believe yourselves to be a superior species. Your arrogance blinds you!” he roared as the drew in all the hallways water towards himself. Karth swung his arms forward once more this time sending two massive torrents of water at the woman.

While the battle waged on in the hallways, the siege for the command center was gaining little ground as Winston and several of the security guards on duty did their best to prevent the invading Atlanteans from securing the central hub.