genessia | "We opened the door to the shadows...

"We opened the door to the shadows...

The man sat alone, back slumped against a wall as he stared down at the pistol in his hand, unloading and reloading it in silence. Over and over again. How long had he been here, ignoring the sounds of life around him and the chatter and racket from the communication device on the ground along with the discarded necklace? Days? Weeks? Months?

It didn't really matter. None of it did anymore.

Load. Unload. Reload.

"You look like crap."

The man looked up, staring upwards at his only companion for what felt like an eternity. Himself... only different, like seeing a photo negative version. The colors were all wrong and there were a few things off.

It had no eyes. He'd found that strange once before the feeling had been bled out of him.

Load. Unload.

It was this thing that had shown him the truth. It had started with whispers in his mind when he was alone and had grown from there, appearing in shadows, taking the place of his reflection and finally standing right there beside him exposing the plain, hopeless reality of where he'd found himself.

An ugly grin split the negative version's face.

"So, what's the hold up, jackass? You know what you have to do now."

Load.

Yeah, he did.

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In the early morning, it happened without warning. A shudder ran through the entire city and for just a moment it was almost as if reality itself... bent for a moment, warping out of shape before snapping out of place and one of the buildings of Genessia's skyline vanished into a rising cloud of smoke and dust.

The thing rose up out of the cloud, standing over the buildings around it. Misshapen, grotesque, it could only be called humanoid in the most generous of terms. Its body was colored in splotches of red and black, its limbs twisted with the right arm many times larger than the spindly left and it stood on legs that should have been bent and twisted too awkwardly to support it at all.

The head swiveled from side to side on a too-long twiglike neck, wide, blanket white eyes that seemed painted on searched the city and a toothless mouth opened wide in a low, groaning howl that rumbled over the city.

The creature’s body convulsed and with a chorus of sickening splits and cracks its body bristled with weapons, and they all fired as one, shearing the top floors off of the next several blocks and covering the rest of the town in burning debris.

Through the city, every communicator screamed out a deafening alert, which was followed by the voice of the AI.

“CORRUPTED ELEMENTS DETECTED. PLEASE ASSIST IN PURGING IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS”

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[The monsters spread out around Adam, forming a circle. Heavier set and equipped with thick, crushing limbs, they grin at him with their oversized teeth and then charge straight in, lumbering on all fours like apes and opening their jaws wide to chomp down.]

[Finally something to do! It felt like all Dr.Wily ever let him and the other Robot Masters do since they were rebuilt was go out on patrols. Crash Man was happy to see some action, he was built to blow stuff up, not wait around.

Helping out wasn't something he normally did, but he had to protect it because his Master wanted to rule it, not destroy it. So look out Adam, help is on the way!

Help in the form of a Robot Master shooting some drill shaped time bombs at a few of the creatures.]

Hey you! Keep away from the ones I'm shooting if you don't want to end up cooked!

...Hmph.

[he didn't think he needed any help either way, so he doesn't say anything back to the guy. instead, adam maneuvers towards a few of the monsters, slashing at them with insane speed. his attacks can barely even be seen, and any creatures that try and sneak up on him are met with a bullet from his sheath.

adam puts his sword away again after slicing at a couple of them, ready for more.]

And you don't get in my way.

Oh great, Another quick man.

[He's impressed with Adam's speed, but he's seen someone just as fast before.

...Wait, what did he say?]

Don't get in your way!? DON'T GET IN MY WAY!

[And Crash Man is already annoyed with this guy, he didn't need any sass from a flesh bag, he was a Robot Master, he was superior to this guy in every way. He'll prove it too by freaking out and jumping into the air to fire off a dozen more Crash Bombs at the next group of monsters approaching. He certainly doesn't seem to care about collateral damage at the moment.]

[... he's way too loud for adam's liking.

at least he's not a human, he can deal with this kind of individual at least. adam dodges every set of bombs this guy is bringing out as well. he's fast, moving quickly and striking his targets head on. his slashes take down the enemies with each and every hit.

adam turns to the other though.]

How did this all even start-?

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crash Man isn't really paying attention to what he's doing at the moment, he's in his element ...and it's exploding. To be honest, he's doing just as much harm as he is good at the moment, sure he's blowing up monsters, but he doesn't seem to care whether he takes out a building or two while he's at it.

After a few minutes of this he'll finally calm down and look to Adam with a sneer.]

How the hell am I supposed to know that!? I was offline when these things decided to start wrecking the place!

[...this guy is SO LOUD! adam grunts at that, turning and going back to the enemies. he's careful to analyze everything, trying to see just where they were coming from. adam slashed at a few that attempted to swipe at him, shooting another that came from behind.

he sheathed his weapon again.]

Then this is completely pointless- I need to find the source and destroy that.

[The source is currently a few blocks away, making even more noise than Crash Man and unloading fury and fire on everything in sight.]

[But Adam might not get the time to focus in on that as there's a crash and a rain of debris, as a winged horror smashes against the side of a building and sends a certain black-haired Faunus tumbling ahead of it.]

[Blake manages to land on her feet, frowning. She had hoped to keep the lesser creatures away from Weiss and the Ice King while they froze the larger one's feet... and she had succeeded in that. Unfortunately, now she was surrounded by monsters of all shapes and sizes as a couple of the winged ones wheeled above her.

Just perfect.

Her eyes narrow and she adjusts her grip on her weapons, turning her head to keep all the monsters around her in sight as much as possible, just waiting for the first one to strike....]

[adam hears that sound of a crash, and he instantly turns to look at what that was. whoever this nutcase that was with him he wasn't concerned about anymore. adam took off into the direction he heard that, and upon arriving he instantly spotted blake.

he saw that she was surrounded by enemies, and before she could even strike the first monster- adam had already aimed and fired his weapon. just like she had seen before, the hilt of his blade struck a monster, only to have adam run up to the blade, grab it, and then slice right into it, killing it.

after he sheathed his weapon he turned to her.]

Look like we're gonna be doing this the hard way. [a phrase that she might find familiar.]

[The first creature made its lunge at her and she half-turned, ready for all hell to break loose.. when the gunshot rang out. She blinked, watching the sword slam into the monster, knocking it off course, and again when Adam suddenly appeared to strike the monster down with his signature entrance.

But that one wasn't the only one to strike and Blake flashes past Adam, leaving one of her images behind and cuts the monster out of the air before it can strike the other Faunus and sends it crashing to the ground.

She comes to a stop and stands back-to-back with her old partner. Despite herself and the situation, she grins when he speaks.]

Don't be so dramatic.

Edited 2014-02-02 03:30 (UTC)

[...heh, adam can't help but smile at that either.

it doesn't take much for adam to understand blake's moves, he's been with her as a partner for a while. when another enemy lunges at blake it's adam that's already there to cut it up. he fires off a gunshot that goes behind her, hitting another creature and he's doing it all with ease. this is where he feels most comfortable, fitting back to back with blake.

they don't even have to talk, they just know what to do.]

[It's like second nature. As easy as breathing. They don't need to talk, barely need to look at each other or exchange a look. They've fought side by side for so long, since the very beginning. She simply knows what he's going to do next.

When he goes right, she goes left. When he shoots down a monster behind her she sends Gambol Shroud slicing through the air to take off a limb that went for his back. Then she reels the weapon back in in time to switch places with him, finishing the monster off with a flurry of swipes from her two blades.]

[There are no openings to be found. Whenever a creature creeps into one of their blind spots, the other is there to meet fangs and claws with steel and gunfire. If it weren't for the severed limbs and purplish blood covering the street around them, one couldn't be blamed for mistaking the flurry of movement for a dance.]

[a dance was the best way to describe all this, honestly. the fluidity to their movements was unparallelled, it was like they shared one mind and knew exactly where to go.

a group of enemies tried to move all at once, attempting to outnumber them with one swoop. adam knew how to handle this though, and he had a feeling blake was ready to assist him. the man slashed at them all when they jumped, each slash quick and calculated. it was like he was juggling them with how he cut, and with them all in the air adam was waiting for the final blow from blake-]

[Despite everything, this much hadn't changed. They still move as one, moving from step to step with perfect timing.

She knows what to do almost immediately when the monsters take to the air and she leaps backward, spinning through the air to land in a crouch with Gambol Shroud combined at her side. Closing her eyes, she focuses her Aura, channeling it into the weapon until the metal seemed to hum with the energy. Then, when she's ready, she blurs forward and jumps straight through the enemy.]

HAH!

[There isn't much to see, really, just a brilliant flash from her blades at the very center of the creatures while they dangle in midair, but a quick enough eye would have seen the dozens of cuts that tore through her enemy. It's over in the blink of an eye and Blake lands in a crouch on the other side of the beings, sheathing her weapon in a quick, fluid motion a heartbeat before the things tumble to the ground behind her, unmoving.]

[just as he figured, blake finished them off with ease.

he smiled at that, but then turned around to glance around at the rest of the enemies. this was seemingly pointless, truthfully, with just how many there were. adam backed up so he was closer to blake now, his hand still on his sword.]

There's no end in sight.

[yet another dramatic phrase leaving him, but he really thinks that way. there has got to be a way to stop them.]

Edited 2014-02-03 00:59 (UTC)

[Blake backs up as well until she's back to back with Adam once again with a frown. Even with as many of the creatures as they'd brought down they were still filling the streets and creeping across the buildings. For once, Adam wasn't being overdramatic. There really was no end in sight.

Except....]

That big one is spawning them somehow.

[She glances upwards, catching sight of that jet flying overhead once again, narrowing her eyes.]

Ruby's up there... all we can do is hold these things up until she can destroy it.

[And Ruby would destroy it. She was sure of that.]

[alright, he understands now. they're on distraction duty, and he was fine with that. he would have assisted with the main group, but with blake here it was better for them to clear out the lesser enemies. they could do it quickly after all, even though there was a lot of them.]

Right. I trust that she'll defeat it soon.

[this was more annoying than it was troublesome. but after he mentioned that, a new wave of enemies started to approach them.]

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