Lose-Lose Makes A Happy Lucy

"I liked her better when she couldn't use her hands." Lucy reached down to feel her leg. A stream of blood slowly came out, but it only cut the skin and passed through without going into the leg. A room filled with gas always took a toll on the accuracy of any sharpshooter. It did however leave brawling a little more precise and personal. Just the way Lucy liked it.

Gracie swung her arm in an attempt to dislodge the doppleganger and allowed the hit to strike her in the face. The gas mask stayed tight over her face with a loud thud ringing through the plastic amphitheater covering her face. The maneuverer let Lucy take advantage of Gracie's back by wrapping Lucy's arm in between Gracie's arm and her back. With the grapple in place she could pinion the arm behind her and wrap her hand around Gracie's mouth to keep her from giving Andree any orders on whether or not to shoot through the smoke and around her.

Once she applied the hold on Gracie she knew the gas forming up in the room would only take a few more moments to incapacitate any normal heroes, and placed her hope in most of them passing out to keep her from getting out numbered. While she held onto Gracie she would remain in close proximity to push the button to detonate the explosives in the ceiling should she need them, but she really wanted to keep this caper as quiet as she could.

Keeping Gracie quiet also would give Lucy some leeway with the smoke screen making it harder for Prissy to navigate her way to assist in the takedown. If the situation took a turn for the worst Lucy could always make her way back into the mirror, but just like the explosives she wanted this trap wrapped up as quickly as she could.

Prissy was examining the mirror more closely, trying to survey the rough wooden corners for any buttons or switches that would unlock some sort of secret passage but when she touched it a bit to hard and the object came off its nail and crashed into pieces on the ground it was pretty obvious there was nothing dubiously wrong with it. Confused and oblivious to the event unfolding beyond the wall of gas, the heroine put away her bow and arrow and picked up a shard of the glass, tossing it in her palm for a moment. "What were you so upset about Luka..." She said under her breath.

Just then, on the outskirts of the greenish fog a little beyond where she knelt looking at the broken mirror, another woman appeared. Cypris immediately pulled her bow out again with dizzying speed and had an arrow knocked with string pulled taught only seconds after. Her blue eyes were sharp and her beautiful face was serious as she quickly aimed the weapon at the intruder's torso, still unaware of the quiet fight behind her. "Who are you? State your purpose or I'll shoot!" She was never one for subtlety or immediate trust it seemed.

Andree watched as the two girls battled in hand to hand combat. She was itching to join in but knew that, in her current state, she would probably be more of a hazard to Gracie and just get in her way. Her eyes caught sight of a little blood on Lucy's leg and a short lived smile danced across her lips for a moment.

The gas was beginning to get to her. Prissy was able to withstand it with her powers and Gracie was able to use the electricity stored in herself to keep awake but Andree had nothing. For now, she had pulled her tank top up to hide her nose and mouth, leaving her stomach exposed. But she knew this defence wasn't going to last long. And she wasn't a fan of showing off her tummy, leaving it a little more open for attack. Not that the material her tank top offered much protection. She took aim with the gun and aimed it at Lucy's arm. Her finger pulled the trigger, hopefully hitting her. "Gracie, I need a little energy." She either cried out if Gracie was still tumbling with Lucy or said normally if Gracie stood next to her. It was a request she wasn't fond of asking, she didn't enjoy the feeling of the energy getting shot into her body but she needed to stay awake.

With each step she took the girls managed to elude her. Even with the drawbacks of Grace escaping her grip with a hard bite, victory could still come soon if the girls stayed in the gas. She managed to move away from taking the full blast of the shock, but still took enough of the bridging electricity to feel her right arm go numb. The only path out of the hallway would come once they got passed Lucy, and Lucy knew she could parley the two long enough for the gas to take place. Andree called out for needing an energy boost, and given the power of Grace's electricity she didn't know if the jolt would wake her up or put her back to sleep.

As her plan moved closer to completion she heard a voice come from behind her. The third woman pointed her bow towards the disguised form of Lucy. Between the gas and the movement of the other girls Prissy would need to make sure her arrow went to the right target, and just to complicate things, she would need to do it as the ceiling collapsed on her.

As the explosives detonated an initial force shot out throwing a brutal impact into the hallway. Knowing the extent of the explosives, Lucy began moving towards the shattered glass to use the impact to move her along. As the support structuring began to falter Lucy made her final approach to the shards along the ground. One offered her just enough room to crawl through, but the wiggling she would need caused her to take sometime to pull herself through.

(I'm just going to post this here so things won't be traveling by word of mouth. Lucy Brillows has the power to travel through mirrors. And because of Bliss' absence, and the desire you all have to finish this thread, I say go ahead and just let your minds imagine Lucy escaping to live another day through the mirror realm. Now you guys can wrap up this topic and earn well deserved EXP.)

Upon, I suppose an older forum rule, topics that have been abandoned are worth no-experience. Especially when members within this thread had ample time to post.

And also, the request from Bliss is that this thread be trashed.

So.

Trashed.