Fool Me Twice (Closed to LAN + Thorgron)

Zell had left Gene-tech behind for the moment. Thorgron was still on the loose and Zell had no idea when it would be safe for him to surface in public again. Zell entrusted his five S.T.A.R.K operatives to keep him safe while he finished fixing his Exo-suit and perfecting the finishing touches. The helmet was the most severly beaten of all the objects, and so Zell was busy rebuilding it. It had been five days, one business week. Zell hadn't returned to college yet, and as far as his company was concened Niall was the stand-in CEO.
   Zell was working on three hours of sleep for five days, his limits approachng, yet still off by a small ways. He took a flame torch and began welding the nanite helmet frame, the form of a feirce dragon head. He placed the helmet on his head, and the halves of the jaws shot together at lightning speed and the A.V.A.T.A.R screen was displayed. Now all he needed to do was infuse his nanites into the helmet, s that knew when to tie together and begin forming the metallic peices that actually protected him. He looked at the weaponized suit, and realized that it was still far from what he needed it. However he knew that this kidnapper would not wait forever, and in fact probably waited longer than he had wished. Zell closed his eyes and recalled in perfect memory seeing the olde rlooking man looking at him and raising up his cane.
    His Cellphone went off, glowing the sea-alien green it always did when he recieved a text message. It was from the love of his life. The only good thing in it, other than his brother. Shara was the only thing thst kept Zell fighting for his humanity, fighting for the right side...considering she was fighting for the right side too. Shara was the S.T.A.R.K operative known as Banshee, although no one knew about their little relationship they continued to make it work behind the scenes. He picked up the phone and saw a text message. He slid his thumb against the touch screen phone and opened his inbox.
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 Zell closed the phone and finished the last adjustment before putting on the rest of the suit. The metalic slivers splinterted open in the back, allowing Zell to step into it. Once he was in the splintered metal formed up, the cold metal burishing against his bare skin, fitting like a glove. He decided with Tech no see he'd be safe, and so he went out the back door and flew out. Zell had focused down, cruched the numbers and went through painstaking nights to find thsi sick sadistic son of a bitch, and he wasn't about to let him slip away. Zell found this 'King of Fools'. With a smile Zell recalled how appropriate the name was. Only a fool would pick a fight with him, and only the king could think he'd win. Zell was on his way to the Amazon.

It was almost a week since Lord Ashtyn, The King of Fools, had kidnapped the younger brother of Zell Atterrius. For those who did not understand the motive of the madman, it was only because it was the method it was being done. The King of Fools had been in Exxalibur City and watched the entity known as Ancestor Dragon foil the plots of every metahuman parading as a villain. The way he filed them was qucikly, ruthlessly, and ultimately caused more chaos then simply letting the villain do as they pleased. While the skillful Ancestor was indeed hailed as a Hero, and loved by all, he was a walking cluster of chaos. To draw Ancestor Dragon away from Excalibur, they kidnapped the only remaining family member of the current CEO of the company that was once his own. Whis this little V.I.P It was bound to lure the suited crusader right to him.
The King settled in comfortably, it was a small hut in the middle of the amazon. There was no realistic way that the suited man could make his way through the Amazon and directly find them, was there? Who cares, so long as he eventually shows up he'll be ready for him. The King had taken everything into account, and then was distracted by a shiny object, forgetting everything he had judt thought of.
"Agh whell, We'll jus Whing et!" He said, launching himself from his chair as he began to hum a plesant tune and walking to the tune he was humming. he noticed his eldest son sitting and talking to their little prisoner. He rolled his dichromatic eyes and groaned, wondering where he went wrong with that boy. Perhaps it was just because he had so much of his mother in him, although his mother wasn't exactly the nicest person on the planet.
"He's here. But we have a small complication." The Crimson Crow said into his ear, turning from a pool of blood into a person behind him, leaning into him seductivly. Of course he attempts were in vain, but she got credit for trying.
"Cahmplahcation?" He asked. He did not like that word. He did not like that word at all. Unfortunately he loved that word. Well, part of him loved it. His eyes narrowed and his brow furrowed with a slick smile on his face.
"He's not alone. He did not bring this person with him...but they are here." She informed her king with a sweet tone in her voice. The King of fools only smiled.
"Good." He remarked as he went back and sat in his chair.

Thorgron had trekked on for a full week trying to track down the person who had captured Zell's younger brother. He still did not know how he felt about Zell but he knew how he felt about kidnappings. Under not circumstance was what this man did okay. Thorgron knew first hand how devastating something like that could be on a mind. And so, he tracked down the King of Fools, which wasn't exactly easy. With his limited mind and limited resources it had taken far longer than it should have. Not to mention that to get to him, Thorgron had to cross a body of water. Ever since he was changed by Gene-Tech water was his greatest fear. He might be strong but a 2,000 pound man sinks regardless. But at last after a weak of wandering and searching he made it to the Amazon, the place where Zell's younger brother was being kept. The place was thick, the air the vegetation all of it. It bothered Thorgron, made him feel claustrophobic. So he tore it down, not the whole forest but every part of it he came into contact with. And like a bull in a china shop of ripped through the dense jungle in search of the King with no other bearing than his gut leading the way.

Zell was in the clearing, he landed just off of the heart of the Amazon, going over his checklist one more time. The Protonic Blasters were there focused in, Zell had just replaced his old power-cell with a new one to keep his Ethereal toxiciy at a minimum. The Rift Generator was dialed in, his missles were set, and the nanite responsiveness check had green lights the whole way through.
     With a crashing behind him, Zell turned to find that a familiar red-headed person was there. Zell cursed and readied himself. His Exosuit was still trashed, despite being repaired and even improved, the scars of their battle just a week ago had really left lasting marks on the suit. Zell didn't even bother to rise his protonic blaster, he just shrugged and dropped his defensive posture. This red headed man was still the same, while Zell had grown in a few weeks, he had remained the same. Zell envied him almost, not NEEDING to evolve to survive, to be so secured in the position of 'Apex' that he no longer needed to truly fight or adapt. This man was easy to read though. He was breathing a littl ebit heaver than normal, his eyes were jumpy. He was uncomofrtable being surrounded by all the plant life it seems.
    "I told you already, you can kill me later, I'm here for my brother, nothing more." Zell said, turning and walking off in the direction of the King's very strange biosignature.

He sat in his chair, waiting, watching as his children and the Crimson Crow surrounded him, looking off in the direction of the loud crashes and the source of birds flocking away. It stopped just outside the hut's land, but then suddenly in appearance was the Ancestor Dragon, and his apparently new friend, or temporary ally.
"Well you never cease to amaze me dragon." The King said, his secondary personality leaking through a moment. He caught himself and smiled like a twisted asylum patient. "Now the parteh's all here. Let's get dancin!" The King said in his happy and insanely cheery voice. He slammed his staff against the ground, standing on his own two feet, and his children all looked at their 'targets'.
"Twins on fire-ball over there, Leo and Austin on the Dragon. The King commanded, and the children complied.
The twins charged at Thorgron, while the youngest child went invisible to the human eye to go behind Ancestor Dragon and surprise him. Austin ran on to take the mechanical hero one on one with a good right hook. Lord Ashtyn Nyxion himself just watched and observed wondering who would be the first to fall and how he could gain the advantage. This was going to be a wild night.

"You think I'm here to kill ya?" Thorgron laughed. To him his intentions were obvious. Kidnapping was wrong it was as simple as that and this King of Fools had robbed Zell of his younger brother. It didn't matter who Zell was or who his brother was, the king needed to die. "King's got your brother right? Look we can fight all we want after, I'm jut here to save the kid." Thorgron was surprisingly calm in the matter. The sight of Zell still left a sour taste in his mouth but there was more at stake here. A child's future lay on the line and Thorgron would not let their feud TT in the way. So like ships passing in the night he too ignored Zell and continued to crash through the dense jungle. And wouldn't you know it wasn't minutes later until he and his obscure traveling companion came upon thei target, The King of Fools. Surrounded by his little minions he commanded them after the two of them. Thorgron got the twins. "Little brats" he scoffed as he reached out to two nearby trees. His fists planted deep within each as he lifted, uprooting them. Two large trees now hung from his fists as the twins came at him. He figured it being two against one that they would try to divide and conquer so be decided it bet to force them together. Taking his now arbor clad hands he slammed them together, arching the thick trees out in front if him. If the twins were not fast enough to avoid it or strong enough to leap over they'd be crushed between the two massive objects. Thorgron wasn't messing around, this guy needed to be stopped and fast, he didn't have time to mess wih his henchys.

Two on one for both Zell and his temporary ally. Things just kept getitng better and better. Zell watched the kid run in and pull off a successful right hook, but Zell was a bit disappointed by the lack of physical strength behind it. He shot off a light protonic blast and hopefully caught the kid off guard. If the protonic blast hit him, it would knock him into the ar a bit, and Zell would drv the arm of his exo suit down into the back of his head, which would temporarily discourage him form getting up if nothing else.
    The other one who vansihed still wasn't anywhere to be seen yet. Zell watched as Thorgron took two trees and began beating to bring the trees down on the poor little 'brats' as he called them. Zell focused on his own enemy, still not sure of how he was faring, or where the littleist one had vanished to.

The twins had their work cut out for them. The trees were almost upon them when Gage was crushed, almost killed if it had not been for his immortality. Max however took the opportunity to charge at the Ancestor Dragon from the side. Austin, managed to keep himself away from most harm He took the first blast of energy and was lifted from the ground, but as the arm and elbow came to strike, Austin leaned forward, shifting his weight and did a handstand as the elbow came down he pushed off his hands and shot up into the air, over the man in the exo suit. With his back to the man in the exo suit he ran off to his younger brother, the wounded twin. He managed to weave in and out of anything thrown at him and when he reached the downed twin he released the miasma that made smog over the area little Gage breathed in the some of the smog and began to fix up just as good as new. Of course there were tons of damage done, and there was hardly anything Gage could do right now, but at least he was alive. Austin watched as Max went to take out not only his own strength, but the strength used to harm Gage out on the man in the exo suit. The invisible twin also moved in synergy, playing a little trick and positioning himself underneath the Ancestor Dragons legs, so the punch would knock him over, if it hit. The field had shifted quite a bit. Austin stabilized Gage, for now. Max had moved to attack the Ancestor Dragon, but The king of Fools wasn’t done yet.
Lord Nyxion summoned up Predators, beasts who knew nothing but instinct. Eight of these ferocious beasts crawled from the glowing runes in the ground and glared at the large man in the center of all of them. Three of the fearsome beastas attacked, knowing that individually they could do nothing, but together they may provide insite to the way this other kid worked.
“Don’t hold back now.” Lord Ashtyn reminded

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