Re: Who knew a baseball bat could hurt so bad?(invite only,Project Ballast)

by **Dr Everyone** October 27th 2011, 7:02 am

The Doctor saw the gang member concentrating on his hands, which were in front of him with a open space in between his palms. He thought he saw a light gray swirling, but he wasn't sure.

"How could I have not seen that? That's something I would have done before I died. I need to think smarter in the future. Make an attack they can't escape. And don't blast walls of fire at those who can fly."

A chain of fire began to slip out of Dr.Everyone's hand until it was about ten feet long. He concentrated on the hand not holding the fire chain-whip until the steel glove was again extremely and searingly hot. So hot in fact, the glove was hotter than the last time.

"As a doctor, it's my duty to ensure you make it to the emergency room. Of course, if you don't survive, I'm also able to sign you a death certificate."

The Doctor ran towards the man, and then ran sideways and jumped off the wall (thanks to a mix of speed and his flying ability), went higher into the air, jumped of the other wall, and then flew towards the aerokinetic.

He swung the chain holding hand around, launching a fire chain-whip attack against the white haired man, as he and his fiery hot, scorching punch hand flew faster towards the white haired gangster. He cocked back his hand. He was a foot away when he threw the punch, aimed this time for the middle of the man's ribcage.

by **Arcana** October 27th 2011, 8:09 pm

"This is getting tiresome." He mentally sighed, as the flame chains came at him. This would be easy, like the other attacks to dodge. With a thrust of power he moved upwards, power building in his hands. Letting it out in a sphere of whirling wind around him, chains meeting it. Falling away, as he climbed higher. The man would be a danger if he hit, it was true. Though eh was slower than Aero, and that meant he would have to try harder than that to hit him. Following the dodge with a thrust of winds, made apparent by a kick of his feet downward.

"That the best you got kid? I expect more from a hero." He backpedled, as the fist came only an inch from colliding with his nose, though he didn't even flinch. Eyes narrowing into predatory slits, as he aimed to grab the boys wrist with his power, and force him forward. Space beggining to warp,the only indication of the action, but enough to react to. If it worked, he aimed to drag the kid off balance, and into a wall.

"Wow, they seem to be having fun. Guess I should join them,maybe help out a little. After all, I did kill my weak partner."

'Who the hell you calling weak emo boy!" The female voice barked, as the burnt skin fell off like flakes. Revealing beautiful smooth skin. Picking the blade that fell to the ground from the wall tightly."You can't kill me that easily." She snarled feraly, charging full speed with a look of madness in her eyes.

"Guess we will have to do this the hard way." He spoke, guns aimed,with a pull of the trigger she fell. Face first onto the ground, looking up to only meet a blast of water that hit her against a wall. She was outclassed, but didn't recognize it.

by **Van Helcraft** October 27th 2011, 8:41 pm

He felt the push right before he was thrown into the wall, his metal bridge shifted back under him before he fell. So things where finally going to get interesting huh, he thought, as the steel wrappped around his feet into boots that fit onto a newly emerging rail. He glidded across easily pulling back both fists as humongous steel gauntlets encased his arms. Huge 18' fists barreling at Physco ready to pummel him into the ground, whether by full on punch or clothes line.

by **Dr Everyone** October 27th 2011, 10:18 pm

Dr.Everyone saw the wind coming at him, thanks to the dust that had collected in it. He flew towards the ground as fast as he could. In a bit of movement which literally happened in the blink of an eye, the Doctor fired a moderate sized, super hot fireball into one of the walls on the side of the alley. The brick quickly melted away, and Dr.Everyone quickly flew inside the hole. The wind hit the ground, sending debris and some remaining wind/force from the impact into the hole and into the Doctor. The Doctor almost fell down, but ended up fall-sitting in a couch. He quickly got up and ran back outside the hole as his whole body lit aflame.

"The two of you that I'm not trying to kill currently.......the two of you who aren't worthless thorns in my side......just the two of you not in a gang, I'd highly advise you get to the rooftops, or out of this alley. Or not."

Dr.Everyone thrust his arms out to either side of his body, and a dome of orange fire surrounded him. The Doctor's eyes closed and the fire began to burn blue, then bluish white. The air began to warm. Trash on the ground near the dome burst into flame from the heat alone.

"I would have thought your mother would have warned you. Don't play with fire, in seedy New York alleyways, occupied by formerly insane super villains."

The Doctor's eye's flew open, and the dome of fire surged outward. It burned so hot, it left puddles of asphalt, cement, and brick where it touched. Everything in it's path was incinerated. There were no ashes to speak of, even those were burnt down to nothingness. The air became so hot it was almost unbreathable. Everything in the alley either melted down to a puddle or was burnt into nothing. The dome went out in all directions, right, left, forward, back, up, down. Everywhere the blue-white fire went, destruction followed. And it wasn't just a thin dome of fire. As the fire went outward, Dr.Everyone concentrated on filling the previously occupied space with more fire of the same temperature.

A powerful attack, but the Doctor had the power. Pent up rage and fire burned in him. His fire ached for release. This attack was slightly taxing on him. He could keep the fire dome expanding for at most another 15 minutes before he'd have to stop. But by then, these wannabe villains and perhaps the heroes (if they didn't heed his warning) would either be long gone or ashes in the wind.

Dr.Everyone was only "Warming Up."

by **Arcana** October 29th 2011, 1:59 pm

His eyes narrowed upon the metal fist's barreling at him, and it was obviouc they would cause major damage if they hit. Though he had to block them somehow, as the mental shield came up, air infront of him rippling. Though that didn't fully stop the fists, as they hit him. Not as hard as they could but it still hurt like hell. Reeling back in pain, he had enough time to see the fire coming."Well, this is a developtment, I must be off hero." With full speed he flew high into the air before flying off this would not go well if he stayed.

The fire came in a torrent, and he had little time to act. With allt he power in his grasp, Aero foreced the air to form a sphere of high speed winds around him. Fire touching it, and swirling wih it, as he was protected. Managing to preserve some of the oxygen, just barely enough to hopefully last till the fire died down. Whoever this man was, had to be insane, or just stupid.

"Well this is an annoyance." He grummbled, as the fire bloomed into a dangerous dome. With a deeps igh, he spread his influence out, pulling all the water possible for him. Feeling the slight strain, as it reacted. Rushing to him, mostly from an eccentric plant seller nearbye, her beloved plants drained of their water. Now just dried husks, as the water rushed to Sean. About 300 gallons in total, surrounding him in a torrent, and forming a sheild of highly pressurized, and moving water.

The fire met it, but only curved around it. This guy had some power, but not enough to do anything to him, not close enough. With a tentacle of water, he had pulled the waqrrior girl into the shield, protected from the fire."Why the hell are you helping me? That fire could destroy me, and you saved me?" She was confused, and somewhat resentful.

'I don't like the fire guy, so I don't want him to get the pleasure of killing anyone. Especially not my opponent." It had been three minutes, so he woud ahve to finish this little skirmish quickly, or let Sean take over the fight. As if he would do any real damage to these people, well except if one murdered someone. So maybe it would be interesting when he finally got his turn.

by **Van Helcraft** October 30th 2011, 9:42 am

Several words went through his mind, most that would make a sailor blush if he had said them outloud. He forced out metal out of his guantlets, their size not changing, and had it wrap around him in a giant thick sphere. Things would probably get uncomfortable for him but he'd survive. About three minutes in his sphere felt like a suana, all his focus was on keepin the superheated metal outside his shell, he couldn't move the dome or his bridge up while the torrent continued, doing so would probably get him badly burned.

by **Dr Everyone** October 30th 2011, 3:45 pm

The Doctor concentrated on his surroundings through the fire. To Dr.Everyone, his fire was like having more eyes in a way. He could close his eyes and mentall see where his fire was, and all that was in it.

That's how he knew that Sean was protecting himself and his target from the fire with water, the metal manipulator was shielding himself in a ball of metal (which he was keeping from melting), the psychokinetic gangster had run away., and the aerokinetic was protecting himself with a ball of air.

With the situation analyzed, Dr.Everyone began to think. "How could I defeat that aerokinetic? He's surrounded by fire in a....that;s it! He's surrounded by fire. Even if he;s in a sphere of air, he's surrounded."

Dr.Everyone concentrated. He made 6 fists made of fire materialize in every direction of the aerokinetic. Above him, below him, in front, in back, on either side. Besides being surrounded by extremely hot fire, the aerokinetic gangster was now surrounded by 6 large, incredibly hot, fire fists. And all six of them lunged for him at the same time. If they hit, they'd each impact with about the same amount of force as a full forced punch from the Doctor. Six full forced superhuman punches, one target.

by **Arcana** October 30th 2011, 4:07 pm

"That bastard, thinks his little fire can kill me?" With a deep breath, he planned to flex his full power. Show this overconfident pyro what he was dealing with. Power welled up within his gut, and his air grew restless, before rushing out in every direction. Meeting the blaze, as it pushed. Backed by even more fo the air, slowly but surely the fire would go out.

Though then came the fist's of fire, and that spelled a different danger altogether. He couldn't stop them completely, but possibly enough to weaken the damage they would do. So with another blast of air, the fist's came down. Well the aftermath of them after they hit the air, but it burnt like hell, as his shirt fell away, and torso suffered second degree burns. He flew back, glaring at the man hatefully. Noticing too late, as his back was filled with an unimaginable pain. Falling to the ground, and it all going dark .Did he hear a gunshot?

"Looks like I got a win. Now for you girlie." He looked down to see the girl already gone, water shield having dropped. With a sigh, he put the pistol away, walking up to the now dead criminal. He had about a minute, and a half left."So Sean, you wanna jump back in, or wait a little longer?"He mentally asked, but there was no answer. Did that mean he was being ignored, or that Sean was giving himt he okay to keep on killing?
Well if he was,that meant the fire guy could die now right?

"No, you can't kill him ,not yet anyway."

"Well that was an impressive display of power. Guess I know why my employers want you so bad mister Collin. Though I wouldn't let that go to your head, theres much to be done." He turned to see no one standing behind him, which was odd. Who the hell was that?

"Well that was fucking weird." Sean muttered, just realizing he had control of his body once again.

by **Van Helcraft** November 5th 2011, 5:28 pm

Ballast felt they fire fade away he opened his metal ball and let himself drop to the ground. he started recompressing all the steel he had unleashed back into his rings, he hated that this took some time so he decided to wait til later and check the gangster that was left, his opponent having run away. The aerokinetic was badly burned and wasnt breathing, he knew holding back was a bad idea in fights but moderation was always nesicarry for the final strike. He couldnt tell from the burns if the death had been intentional or not but it had happened there was no changing it, besides he believed that justice always condemned criminals even without a heroes help. The girl with the sword had also seemed to have escaped. "well that was fun, now would anyone mind explaining to me why a bunch of gangsters have super powers?" he asked completely bemused now that his adrenaline was declining. He knew alot of people had powers but randomly running into 3 of them just seemed off, aswell as the fact that to other people with powers had just fought them with him. Maybe that was just newyork, he thought, full of supers waiting to jump into fights.

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