A Nice Day Ruined (open)

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon; The sun was high in the sky, the breeze was just so slight and sky was cloudless. This was the kind of day surfers dreamed of, hikers revealled in, and heros enjoyed the most. This was the kind of day even a villian hated to ruin. The streets where busy with the few buisnessmen and women who actually worked on the weekend, turiosts comming to see Hollywood and of course shoppers hoping to find bagins today. If you looked up you where blinded by the light, so you kept your eyes down and shielded with your hand , a hat, or sunglasses.

A fiery bird flew accrossed the shky. The beauty of the bird was amazing. Nothing like it had been seen in a thousand years by the mortal eyes and many imortal ones too. Not many had seen it when the last Blaze still held the mantel. The bird stopped and hovered over a tall building look down on a small square. The square was busy with the hustle and bustle of people comming out to enjoy this beutiful weather. As the bird lowered itself on to the building it changed form to that of a man with firey wings. the new figures wings lowered himself down gently on the roof. He was no longer seen by the public, but then again magic was almost ignored by most mortals, until it effected them. With a flick of his wrists the flame motifed armor and bracers disapeared and all the remained was a man.

Enter: Jake Blaze http://superhero-rpg.forumotion.com/t5706-jake-blaze, http://superhero-rpg.forumotion.com/t5717-the-blaze-knight-armory

Jake was determined to be a better man then his father. He did not want to stand back and just protect the magical world, or to be correct the world of mortals from magic. He was given this incredible power, and he was going to use it to protect everyone. The man that now stood on the roof wore a brown leather jacket witha white fur colar. On his back was a sheathed kattana and his belt a sheathed wakazashi Jake wished he had listened to his folks and had just enjoyed the day. He could have easily summoned his gear if he needed it, but he felt it would be better to be out and ready this day.

Feet clapped against the concrete, as Hurricane walked towards his destination. In company with him had been some of his engineered personnel, robotic bodyguards that would assist if anyone were to attack him. Why did he need protection? Well, Hurricane had previously attacked a few public buildings, and several government sites. Of course, he never did so at random. It always served a purpose. Though there were more widely known beings out there that were considered "Villains", Hurricane is on the list as one capable of emitting great power and devastation.

Hurricane could simply fly from destination to destination, but it would not allow him to carry company so easily. Of course, carrying the robotic bodyguards with him did draw attention to himself, though flying would do it just the same. But the purpose of his visit to Los Angeles was to visit one of his many laboratories. Hurricane usually secluded himself on a distant island far from any continent. Only when he had to would he leave. The visit to the laboratory was very important, in the sense that Hurricane had been lacking real muscle. His robotic creations would only protect him from weak humans, or minor metahuman powers. Most veteran metahumans would have no trouble destroying his personnel. Which is why he needed something more.

He had started his goal a long time ago, with very close friends to help him achieve it. However, most of them have died up to this point. Slick, a metahuman capable of secreting oil on his body, rendering him virtually untouchable by physical weapons, had been slain while trying to release Hurricane from captivity. Snoot, who only had minor non-combat related metahuman powers, was caught in the crossfire of an assassination attempt on Hurricane by an unknown assailant and bled to death. Of his close friends, only Rush remained. A gunslinger who could channel into his adrenaline at demand and surpass human speed and reflexes.

Though Hurricane had captured or enlisted several other metahumans, they were not nearly as important as these three. His friends were dying trying to see Hurricane's goal be achieved. He needed more powerful metahumans to give himself an edge against these Heroes and Vigilantes. Which is where his research labs came in.

Ghurk , a creature born of genetic engineering by some French scientists trying to enhance food flavors, was ultimately a disaster experiment. It lacked the intelligence to receive proper command by Hurricane and his subordinates, and had difficulty containing its powers effectively. The creature was eventually destroyed. The results for the scientists ruined their careers. France was heavily damaged by the catastrophic escape of the creature from their laboratories. But since then, Hurricane offered them new jobs. To continue their genetic alteration research, not for enhancing food flavors, but in hopes to create an army of powerful, intelligent metahumans. He had come to see their progress in the laboratories here at Los Angeles.

Ahead of him walked four SNK Mark VI models, as well as four behind Hurricane. They were armed with assault rifles, yet none of them carried it openly. Regardless, the presence made average citizens stay out of his 30 foot range. He also kept two SNK Mark IX models nearby, who were designed for supernatural speed and fighting reflexes, assassins by design, armed only with a katana and several swords-training programs.

A glare of flames caught Hurricane's eye, but he didn't want to check it out for himself. It was too distant to see whether or not it was metahuman, as he was perched upon a rooftop. A simple glare at one of the SNK Mark IX model assassin droids signaled it to break off from the group and investigate. Hurricane was only a few feet away from the laboratory to stop what he was doing, and fly over to introduce himself. The sleek model droid ran at intense speeds unreachable by any human, until it approached the building that Jake was positioned on. Instead of flight or stairs, it didn't stop it's rate of speed, and began running up the side of the building as if it were merely just another form of solid ground.

Once on the rooftop, it landed on its feet in a squat position near Jake, and examined him with his singular infrared eye, relaying data to the other droids that accompanied Hurricane. It was quite possible, that the flames were created by Jake. It sat there perched for several seconds before talking.

"Are you a human or metahuman?"

"So beautiful out!" Alex called out just before taking a gigantic bite out of a double stacked hamburger, forcing much of the condiments out the back of the buns and drop onto the ground. Chewing his food to ensure he wouldn't choke, Alex starred out into the city to see what was new and interesting. Off in the distance he could see people redirecting their routes, and it seemed like something was spooking the general populace. "Wondering what's goin' on over there." Alex said to himself, standing up and tossing his burger into the near by trash receptacle. Brushing his hands together to knock off the bread crumbs, Alex decided he would go investigate, what else did a super powered 14 year old boy had to do.

Jogging over to the source of every ones concerns, Alex looked around until finally spotting the most amazing thing ever. "Whoah robots!" He openly blurted out, cautiously walking towards the robots. One of them broke from the group, and at great speeds ran a way to probably go do something. Alexs' father had robots, but they were clunky non-humanoid pieces of steel. The robots before Alex now were like from the movies and who ever built them was obviously brilliant or something. 'Maybe the guy who designed these bots can help me.' Alex started to make his way around the bots, keeping pace with their walk until he spotted the man. "Hey! did you build these robots?" Alex called out, hoping this man was the one who built the machines.

Los Angeles, also known as Lucifer's new home. He need a change of scenery and moving across America seemed to be the way to go. He had travelled around the US like a nomad. He was trying to find the perfect home and took refuge in New York for a little while. But New York was just a little too disastrous for him now, there was just too much going on for him, which is saying something. Plus, the weather of California was always to die for, almost always sunny, something a pyrokinetic like him could really appreciate. New York always seemed a bit gloomy for Lucifer's liking, but that part of his life was now behind him. He now had a small loft where there was a beautiful view of the beach, it was the good life.

As of right now, he was wandering around, looking for something interesting to do. He was in his normal attire: black pants, black shoes, blue dress shirt with rolled up sleeves and a black tie. You could see his tattoos on his forearms. The last time he was here, he was helping some water manipulator named Sean stop a bank robbery. That was a long time ago though and things have changed. He wondered how Sean was doing now? Probably still apart of the Talons. He wished him the best of luck. As Lucifer wandered around the city, he stared up into the cloudless sky and saw something out of the ordinary: a phoenix was flying through the sky in broad daylight. Most people wouldn't have noticed because a lot of normal people are oblivious to supernatural events, but not him.

He had never seen a phoenix in person, so he decided to follow it. This could possibly be something that could excite his day a bit more. He ran in the direction of the phoenix's trajectory at a blinding speed, barely dodging people along the way. The phoenix soon landed on the top of a building. The building wasn't too far, so he got to the base of it within seconds. He stopped at the base, looked up and saw someone else running up the building, he was really fast, probably just as fast as Lucifer. He then backed up a couple of feet and started running up the side of the building, pushing 250 mph. Some cars couldn't even go this fast. Reaching the top didn't take long, only a couple of seconds behind the other person. He used his momentum to help him jump over the ledge of the building and onto the roof. He then swiped his hand over his face. His mask appeared in a fiery blaze. He then shouted with excitement "NOW! Where's that phoenix?!" He saw a man with a brown leather jacket and a white fur coat and then what looked like an android. He raised an eyebrow that was unseen behind the mask at the weird scene. What was going on here?

Jake watched as a parade started to walk the streets. Jake didn't like the look of this. He remmbered military parades when he was an JROTC student, but this had a feeling of gloom behinde it. At this range he couldn't tell who the man in the center was or what his guards where armed with, but he knew it wasn't good. Suddenly a figure burst away from the others and came straight at the building that Jake was on. Running up the side and landing just a few feet away from him. "Are you a human or metahuman?" It asked him. Jakes back was to it now. As Jake turned around his jacket burst into flames and he flicked his wrist, the leather braclets on them chaging shape to form gauntles, the flames around his body solidified and became midevil armour, and his head was now incased in a helmet. Jakes face was hidden from the nose down by a face mask. The only part of his face that could be seen was his eyes.

As Jake turned around he excpected to see one figure, but now he instead saw two. With the fiery blaze complete his swords changed forms, now in their trure form. "NOW! Where's that phoenix?!" the second figure said not so much to Jake or the other figure, but to himself or in general.. With that Jake now new who had said what to him. Jake turned his attention first to the kattana weilding atomoton that had posed a question to him. "One would argue I am human," Jake said, "Others would argue I am a meta-human that predates what we consider Meta-humans today. I would say though I am neither, but yet I am both." Jake reached behinde him and unsheathed his sword. The metal screached acrossed the wwoden sheath and echoed in it. "Now State your buisness. Who is at the center of the armed convoy and what are they doing here?" Jake asked with a cold almost definative tone about him. For the moment he ignored the other figure. He posed no threat and seemed to be looking for the Phoniex, and since Jake was that Phoniex he would never see it again unlesss Jake changed forms, and currently Jake had no reason to so the man was on a wild goose chase.

Attention had been attracted to him like moths to a flame. He hadn't wanted this at all. Yet, it seemed none of them had recognized him. It was fine for now. But he needed this attention to disperse. As soon as Alex ran up and approached Hurricane's area shouting, the robots sprang into action. Not taking any course too aggressive, two of the droids near Hurricane faced Alex and blocked his route to intercept Hurricane. A slight humming could be heard from their backs as the droids began charging up their firearms incase of emergency.

"Cease at once, Citizen." One of the droids spoke for Hurricane. Hurricane, however did not stop walking or even turn his body to acknowledge Alex. Instead he proceeded into the Laboratory where an automatic door closed behind him. The other six droids blocked the entrance to the structure, and looked about alertly.

"He is in fact our creator. However, he has no time today for idle chat. Please, desist from the area and go." The droid commanded, extending a palm out and aimed at Alex. It held no weapons, it merely indicated that his attention presence was unwanted.

Atop the roof, Jake was getting a bit too excited. However, the droid saw no reason to back down. The value of the droid was minimal compared to the value of information on the newly perceived metahuman. Data relayed to all the droids as they began compiling information to Hurricane's personal database. Jake revealing a sword also gave information, but also indicated a threat. However, it wasn't a threat to Hurricane as long as he was at this range. The sword should be incapable of reaching him. However, it was picking up on Jake's tense behavior. It could strike the droid at any moment. The droid reached for a katana behind his own back, but only placed a firm grip on the handle, ready to draw the weapon at any moment.

"You are conceived as a possible threat, therefore action has been taken to watch you carefully. The man below is of no threat to the area." It gave in a specific, but short reply.

Indoors, Hurricane was instantly greeted by a man with an outstretched hand, expecting a handshake. He read the nametag of the head scientist, as Charles Wentworth. Clasping his hand for a brief moment, he made it apparent he was only here on business.

"I hear you have something to show me. Progress, I hope." Hurricane blandly stated. He wasn't interested in anything else, and hoped the scientist had not wasted his time with the invitation.

"Yes, right this way." The scientist replied, leading the way towards the experiment chambers. "We've been trying to harness the sheer power and abilities into their most superior state, then combining them into a humanoid form. This is subject 139."

The scientist stopped at a holding area housing a creature with a size and body of a humanoid form, however the grotesque head of a bat. The creature had a large leather and steel casing over it's mouth, as if to prevent it from opening.

"While the powers can be harnessed..." The scientist continued, "The greatest difficulty is the creatures intelligence. Even if it were equal to our own, training it to be a soldier would take years. In our development of 139, he only has the peak intelligence of a 12 year old boy, and is incapable of speaking any language. In fact, our improvements of the sonic power he possesses, leaves his mouth only useful as a weapon.

"I'd like a demonstration of it's abilities." Hurricane requested.

Two of the robots stopped in their tracks and immediately moved to intercept Alex who was approaching from behind. It was quite a site to behold, at least for a 14 year old boy such as himself, and the sudden humming coming from them made the boy slightly nervous. "Wow, your amazing!" Alex blurted out, examining the robot and getting a good look at it. "Here me out mr roboto. I need his help with a problem and if he can make you than I am sure he can help me out." He paced around the bot, ignoring its order to vacate the area. Alex saw which building the man went into and had to ask. "Is that is laboratory? Did he create you guys there or somewhere else? There is a lot of money involved!"

Alex was lying, there was absolutely no money involved but if he knew scientists well enough than he knew they were always in need of more money. Surely, he thought, building so many robots was very expensive so perhaps it might peak the interest of this man despite what ever business he was on. The problem though lied in convincing the robot. "I mean, you aren't to shabby of a robot..." Alex made a full rotation around the bots, smirking confidently. "But I have seen way better working with my father. State of the art, and you guys could use some of their ingenuity."

Lucifer watched as the android questioned the man with the leather jacket. The man then turned around and his entire outfit changed. He seemed to be covered in flames. He put the pieces together and concluded that this man was in fact the phoenix or somehow connected to it in some way. This man was in the same location the phoenix landed and he also seemed to be able to manipulate fire. It seemed that some trouble might have been brewing, as the man with the leather jacket unsheathed his sword and the android gripped its sword's handle. The air was tense with suspense, it's like they were both waiting for each other to make the first move.

While the two were at an awkward standstill, Lucifer cleared his throat loudly to get both of their attention. "So, I'm guessing you're the phoenix that I saw earlier" he said while pointing at the fire cloaked man "and you're an android that is somehow connected with that commotion down there." From what he could pick up, this man was worried about an armed convoy below, which implied that he was the good guy, as he seemed concerned about the whole occasion. "I just wanted to see a phoenix to be honest, but it seems I've stumbled upon something more... interesting." He said with a smile behind his mask. Lucifer didn't plan on attacking anyone soon, that would just lead to chaos, so he would watch and see how things panned out. But just in case, he summoned his katana. It appeared in a black fiery blaze into his right hand, it looked almost natural in his hand. He held the katana, named Phoenix, down. It was to show that he was no threat, until he was provoked.

Jake watched the robot very carefully and cautiously. “Any man who had the need for guards as armed to the extent you and your mechanical brothers are, is a threat rather they realize it or not.“ Jake said and then turned to the man who had appeared last. He had shown an eye for deductive reasoning based off what he had just said.. Since he stated, he figured then mad deserved a response. "You could guess that,"Jake said simply. He was on edge now, even more then before. He had to warriors before him. Both wielding katanna's like himself, but this new one had summoned his almost like Jake normally did. Was it possible this mans sword had similar origins. As the last Blaze Knight it was his responsibility to keep artifacts of magical origin out of the hands of those who would abuse their power. If this mans sword was of magical origin it was his duty to determine if he deserved to wield it or not, and if the magic that forged it was dark magic it was his duty to seal it forever in one of the Blaze vaults.

As of now though Jake could wait to fulfill his duty, there was another threat at had, and so he turned his attention back to the android. “I answered your question, now answer mine.” Jake said with a rather determined and annoyed tone in his voice. “Who are your protecting and what is he or she doing here?” Jake looked determined to find out. “You have entered my protectorate, and that of my ancestors. I desire to know what threat your convoy presents to the people of the City of Angles.“ Jakes attention was no longer on the convoy he missed them entering the building, but with the arm guard just outside the building it would be easy enough for him to find him again.

"The test subject isn't ready yet, sir." The scientist responded. "His mental condition is still unstable. It is possible he could pose a threat to the city and it's inhabitants if he were to somehow lose control. We have several chemical agents in his bloodstream that are keeping his actions mitigated. Though, he is officially, a Class 4 Metahuman. He could have surpassed the chemical agent's effectiveness and his status could become compromised."

"Release the harness and begin demonstrations. I want to see the effectiveness of his metahuman abilities." Hurricane responded. He didn't care what the consequence would be. It was of no relevance to him if a monster was unleashed on the city. The only thing of consequence was that his experimentation on metahuman soldiers had a chance to be a success. That small chance was worth the risk. If needed, Hurricane had the power to put him down. At least, he was arrogant enough to believe that.

The scientist nodded and began touching the controls, evacuating all staff from the test subjects chamber. Bipedal robotics began to enter the room, however, posed no threat to the bat-like metahuman. With a few toggle switches, the test subject's encasing that covered it's mouth deactivated, and fell off from it's head.

"Subject 139 has increased speed, strength, and durability past human limitations. Conventional weapons are ineffective against his skin, which proves as an exoskeleton."

The robotic creatures formed weapons, firing rapid bulletfire at subject 139, only to have the bullets impact and fall to the floor. However, it seemed he was annoyed by the barrage of fire. It ran forward with immense speed and ripped the droids to pieces with relative ease. It was lethal on that aspect, but it had not yet used its Sonic weapon capabilities.

"It's not so easy to get him to use his metahuman power for Sonic capabilities. But I think if we antagonize him, he will resort to using it." The scientist continued his demonstration. Hurricane was slightly interested, but didn't deem him a high class metahuman as the scientist stated yet. Enhanced speed, strength and durability weren't enough. He well knew metahumans would try to stop it if he were mass produced. It had to live up to that challenge. Hurricane gave the go ahead to test it's durability to it's limitations in order to antagonize it. New robotic droids appeared to rechallenge Subject 139, this time with a highly focused beam of electrical charge. Unsuspecting the attack, he was hit in the torso with the electrical beam of energy. Recoiling in pain, he lashed back at the targets with a powerful sonic burst emitting from his mouth. The droid was instantly destroyed, along with the walls behind it. The beam continued to travel through the entire structure, puncturing the front doors to the outside city.

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The droid looked back to Alex but remained silent until he was finished. Hurricane had enough financial support to aid his research, however the droid seemed to not recognize the need for material assets. Still, he would transfer all data to Hurricane's databanks as to regards the encounter with the young man.

"Financial aid is inconseque-" the droid was cut off by a large explosion emitting from the building. The front doors blasted open, flaying glass and metal shards outwards towards anyone outside. The droid who was speaking instantly had it's head sheered off it's shoulders. The body collapsed to the ground. The rest of the droids began communicating wirelessly to each other relaying information of the incident. The rest of the droids achieved their weapons which were previously secured and began pointing it at the opening of the structure.

The subject 139 exited the premises, finally free of captivity. Yet, it was incapable of understanding what the outside world was like. The robotic personnel perceiving it as a threat opened fire, only to have fire returned back at them. His metahuman body made the attacks ineffective. A beam of sonic energy emitted from the creature's mouth blasted all eight of the droids to pieces in a single blow. Sparking circuitry flayed into the air as they collapsed into fragments of what they were.

The droid that was on the rooftop encountering Jake disregarded all that he said once the incident occurred. Instead it leaped down from the building, tumbling to break it's fall. Then began cautiously approaching the humanoid test subject, trying to assess weakness.

A large explosion cut off the droids speech as the initial shock wave blew glass and steel all over. Luckily, everyone had vacated the vicinity due to the arrival of the robots and only Alex was left to defend himself. Alex took cover behind robot he had just been talking to which had now lost its head and fallen on the ground. He waited for some of the smoke to clear before standing up and taking a look at what just happened. Standing up from laying behind the robot corpse, which was now riddled with metal shards, Alex looked at the source of the explosion only to find the other robots attempting to fight some sort of monstrous bat like creature. Any attempts that mans robots made to attack it ended in vein as it tore through them with some sort of sonic attack.

"Oh man!" Alex said to himself, looking around as anyone who was near by spying on the event was now running for their lives. "What are you?" He whispered to himself, standing up and swallowing back a mouth full of saliva as his legs trembled in fear. 'What if it's sentient and just trying to escape captivity? It's best if I get cover and wait for a hero to show up to take care of this. After all I am just a kid, but what if it uses that sonic blast on people instead of robots?' The thought of what that sonic blast would do to humans ran across his mind making him wince in disgust. "Maybe..." Alex quenched his fist, taking a deep breath. "Ok, maybe I can talk to it...reason with it or something and there doesn't have to be any kind of fight."

"Heh!" Alex called out, his voice cracking forcing him to clear his throat. "HEY! Can you understand me?" Every fiber of his being wanted to run, and to get away from this monster. He just had a very bad feeling about this creature. "Are you sentient?" Alex could feel himself shaking, but at this point there was no turning back. Honestly, he couldn't have run if he wanted to considering this thing could probably easily keep up with him.