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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 4, 2010 7:18:07 GMT -6
The dummies gone the gate slid up and they were free to move about their way. She walked past him and began to lead the way. She wound her way through the halls, always looking around. Occasionally a dummy would drop down but she always left them for him to do. Then one dummy fell on her. She flamed up and dispatched the dummy but then looked up at him from the ground.
"This is the next part of your test. I've been injured and now you have to help me out of the maze while defending me and fighting all who come at us."
She said before holding her hand out to be helped up.
"Don't worry, I won't burn you."
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 6, 2010 0:20:46 GMT -6
Cam walked up to her; he was slightly out of breath. He could fight longer then this, but his powers, they were fairly new to him and the constant use was getting to him, not that he showed it, well, he tried not to. He grabbed her by her arm to help her up and when she was at a vertical basis he would put her arm around his neck to help her continue on. This was a part of his test; then he would show her he could do it as well as anyone else. He looked around and began to walk,
“Y’a gonna need t’a direct me, I will take care ov’ the fighting, y’a just be me compass.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 6, 2010 21:12:38 GMT -6
"Just keep me safe. I get hurt, you fail."
She said as she was being draped over his broad shoulders. He was so firm, so tense. Between him and Superboy this team was crawling, or could be crawling, with attractive guys. As for who was better looking, well that was a matter to be decided later.
"Go straight. The traps become more dangerous from here on out so be ready. And you're not even half way through."
She warned with a light smirk. Sometimes she hated not having skin in this form. Smiling, smirking, winking, etc., all were impossible. Not to mention her voice came out naturally monotone, very hard to convey things especially sarcasm.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 8, 2010 10:31:32 GMT -6
Cam looked at her when she mentioned they were not even half way there and the facts that the traps would become more dangerous and if she got hurt she would fail him, great just great. He looked around and walked forward his mind and eyes trained on anything that moved, which was nothing. He would rather be fighting, this stillness, it unnerved him to no end. He was a fighter, always had been, so just walking and keeping his mind focused, it really was not his style. He sighed and looked at Melody as he spoke,
“Look, if y’a keep a hold ov’ me, me powers will not affect y’a. Y’a will feel d’a heat but it won’t hurt y’a, it would be more like a couple ov’ hours out in d’a sun, but nuttin more d’en d’at.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 8, 2010 22:23:17 GMT -6
To his comment she simply turned her head to look at him.
"I'm a flaming skeleton...I'll be fine."
She said before shaking her head. She leaned on him as they walked and smirked slightly.
"Turn left here."
As they turned left another gate slammed down behind them. In front of them 6 mannequins dropped down. While they first appeared normal they began to fire what appeared to be nothing more than balls at almost the speed of bullets. And while they were plastic if they hit you it'd send a strong shock through your body.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 9, 2010 10:06:26 GMT -6
Cam could not help but roll his eyes at the comment. Of course she would not be affected by his heat, how stupid was he? Sometimes Karrl could not help but make stupid comments, it was kind of in his nature; it got him into one to many situations where he ended up fighting because of them.
He sighed and turned left as he was instructed to. He then heard another set of gates close and he smiled. The mannequins dropped down and at the same time Karrl brought up his heat energy for a counter attack.
When the balls came he stood there and squinted slightly and the heat energy not only increased in heat but in density. It then pushed out covering him and Melody.
This was on of his sweeter trick, it was a Pyonic Shield. When the balls connected with the heat they melted slightly and dropped. He looked at the fake foes and pushed his hand forward sending the shield forward turning it into a massive wave defeating them. He looked at Melody and smiled,
“Well, I didn’t t’ink I would need t’a use d’at lil trick.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 9, 2010 21:14:53 GMT -6
"Impressive, very impressive."
She said nodding her head. She knew now they were relatively close to the end of the maze. After guiding him around a few more turns and watching him dispatch more 'enemies' rather easily she knew it was time to pull out the big guns. Ahead of them was the end complete with a checkered finish line. Gates slammed down on either side of them and she was plucked from his grasp and pulled over a wall. For awhile there was silence before two of the side walls dropped down. Ghostrider stood in one cage and the other held the mannequin of a man dressed to look like a criminal. Each cage was over flaming spikes.
"Imagine the fall is actually more than 6 feet and the spikes are blessed which would also kill me. You can only save one but in doing so the other will fall to their death. If you try and save both of us the cages self destruct. Which will it be Cam? Save your fellow hero and teammate or a man who has been convicted of serial murder and rape but has two kids at home he's always taken care of. You choose the right one, you pass. You choose the wrong one, you fail."
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 10, 2010 12:46:25 GMT -6
Cam could not react in time to stop Melody from being grabbed; he muttered a few words that would put the wind up an Irish Man’s sails. He looked around and what happened next, well, he was not expecting this. He watched the two cage and was about to go straight for Melody’s but stopped when the voice came and told him the details.
This man was a murderer and rapist, and Melody, well, she was a team mate. Then he heard he had two kids at home and he took care of them, which sat right by him, since he was a single child of a single parent family, he had been taken care of by his father as well. He looked at the two, his mind jumping at all possibilities, but he knew he could not save both. He thought and thought and thought, but in the end he knew what he had to do.
He brought the heat energy around him and then bent his knees and pushed forward jumping at an elevated level. He landed clinging onto one of the cages. He then brought his body heat up and the steel bars melted in his grasp. It did not take long for him to get rid of enough bars to fit in easily. He stepped in and grabbed… the mannequin. He slung it unceremoniously over his shoulder and jumped out of the cage putting it on the floor.
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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 10, 2010 20:06:42 GMT -6
She watched with a smile as Cam thought before going to give the man a second chance. Her cage plummeted the six or so feet before bursting into flames. She then walked out of the flames adjusting her hat and walked over to Cam.
"Good job, let's go."
She said before heading towards the exit, the gates lifting as she approached and the walls to the sides of the maze lifting back up. Once they crossed the line she smiled and turned to him.
"Welcome aboard Cam."
She said holding her hand out. As they shook hands she powered down revealing her true self.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 11, 2010 20:35:13 GMT -6
Cam watched Melody's cage fall knowing there was nothing he could do. He was also pretty sure that the test would not hurt her, he hoped. So when she appeared agian it was a releaf, but not a big surprise.
He smiled slightly as the gate opened and they walked out off the maze. He was quige chuffed she thought he had done a good job and he was a part of the team. He took her hand and smiled even more when she deflamed,
"Y'a cuter d'en I thought y'a would be."
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Post by Ghostrider on Dec 13, 2010 21:00:57 GMT -6
"I get that a lot actually. In fact a lot of people are surprised when they find out I'm female."
She said with a shrug before walking out of the crappy gym and into the main building.
"Don't worry, our actual gym is nothing like this. We just use that for tests. Don't want to show everything in case someone doesn't make it."
She said with a shrug before walking into an elevator. The door closed behind them and she typed in a code.
"Don't worry we'll tell ya the codes eventually."
She said with her thick southern accent. As the elevator rose she pulled a fiddle out of her coat.
"I hope you like music, you'll hear a lot of it here."
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