[Video] [Action] Something's Stinky in Everglade

[scarlet_discord]

 [Heavy breathing. The scene is a bit shakycam--of a rooftop in Everglade. Multiple screams keep erupting in the background.]

This is Wanda Maximoff. I'm on a rooftop in Everglade near the river and we've got zombies. Big goddamn zombies. They're coming out of the dead area. [The camera shifts to focus in on one of the things--twelve feet tall, massively muscled, and lumbering along at an alarmingly fast clip. She zooms to take in the street signs nearest it.]

[These things are tougher than regular zombies by a lot. Fire won't work fast enough unless there is a lot of it. They don't get pinned down easily and blunt instruments are useless unless you smash a whole car into their heads or something. [Her voice is mostly calm but there's a tiny shake down at the bottom of it.]  Decapitation, destroying the brain stem, total destruction. Their necks are protected by a lot of muscle and their skulls are way thicker than a human's. But they can die, and if we don't get them all--

[A pause as a low, rumbling roar sounds below, coupled with a human scream. Wanda runs over to the edge, looks down, and gestures. There's a tremendous flash of blue light, followed by a heavy thud. The human screaming dwindles into the distance as the hysterical survivor gets away. She looks back up at the camera.]

There is no way I can get all of them before they start eating people.

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[scarlet_discord]

The once-over gets him an unimpressed lifted eyebrow. Having to fend off Toad has left her in a lot of experience in dealing with perviness. "Yo! Snazzy-dressed Dead Guy! Let's focus a little."

She leads him over to the far edge of the roof and points out the river. "Old city's on the other side. If there are humans over there, they're brave as hell or nuts. These things are not living. They don't go down easily enough. I don't suppose you've got a giant frickin' battleaxe or something?"

[betel_geuse]

Betelgeuse hesitated, torn between pouting at not being allowed to look and preening at her compliment on his clothes. Finally, he just shrugged, smirking on principle. He looked over at the old town, shrugging. Even if he wanted to, there wasn't much he could do for anyone living there.

"I can do better than that, babes," he promised.

Betelgeuse extended his arms and his hands transformed into giant, whirling saw blades.

[scarlet_discord]

She stood firm with the lifted eyebrow, but she looked a little troubled as she saw the shadows advancing through the fog. "Most people are smart enough to get inside pretty quick, but these things can go through walls. They'll have to cut do--ooooh holy shit!"

That really did take her by surprise. "T-t-that's a new one. Also promising as hell. Can you fly, or do you need a boost?"

[betel_geuse]

"Fly or fall, it doesn't matter much, since I'm already dead," Betelgeuse pointed out, chuckling. "Let's see how tough these jerk-offs really are!"

Betelgeuse jumped down into the middle of the zombies and began taking heads, not bothered a bit that he was getting covered in brains, blood, and other things.

[scarlet_discord]

"Yeah, but flying you can get at their heads easi--" oh hell, there he went. She blinked after him, both gratified and grossed out.

"He's like the world's spookiest Toon." She stares incredulously for a few moments before jumping back in with the hex-tossing. "I should probably buy him some tequila or something after this."

[betel_geuse]

Betelgeuse paused and grinned up at her, hearing her comment, since he wanted to know her reaction to his antics. He saw her hexes hit and laughed in approval. He tossed his voice to an owl, hidden nearby her.

"Tequila would be nice, thanks, babes. So, you're not exactly ordinary. Nice spells!"

[scarlet_discord]

She jumped a bit at the owl, then smirked lopsidedly. "Yeah, well, never met a dead person who could digest who didn't like booze, and I've...met a bunch of you actually." Five vampires, two ghosts, a Death Knight, a Banshee and one guy who might have been a zombie but kind of got better.

She raised her hands and sent a large chunk of broken concrete through one zombie's head. "Thanks. Yeah, I'm a mutant freak and a witch. I can pass for normal for short periods, but uh...it kinda never works out. Heh.

"Let's just finish up making sure as few people as possible lose their bodies over this one, and I'll make good."

[betel_geuse]

"Awww, freak's a bit harsh. I think you're cute!" he assured her, laughing. He turned himself into a giant snake and blew a giant puff of fire into the middle of a knot of zombies...mostly just to see what would happen. "Yeah, living people who can see the dead, well, there's more of us than you. Kinda hard to avoid. Who doesn't like booze?"

[scarlet_discord]

"Hey, I'm letting my freak flag fly these days. I don't even care any more." Well she was trying not to anyway, except of course she was still young enough that people's opinions meant more than they should have.

She watched the free-form shapeshifting and fire-breathing wide-eyed for a moment. "Like an Undead Martian Manhunter. The Hell are you doing that?"

And then he answered it himself, and she got a huge "aha!" expression on her face even as she tried popping a zombie's head with pure psychokinetic force. She knocked it over but it started getting up again. "Damn, not enough focus." She speared it with a chunk of broken telephone pole instead.

"You're a manifested ghost! Oh that's it! I was wondering how you could shapeshift that much with a meat body. I'm not actually a medium. I know ghosts are around, but I can't see or hear you guys yet normally. It's just that for some reason undead people seem to like me. Even a scary Death Knight once.

"I'm okay with it. I mean, if I let myself be scared away by you guys I'd never get to meet my family."

[betel_geuse]

"You thought I had a meat body??" Betelgeuse asked indignantly. "Hell to the no, babes! Of course, I'm a ghost--a poltergeist, to be exact. I guess it must be this place making me visible. So far, everyone I've encountered has been able to see me. Can't say I've ever heard of Death Knights and Martian Manhunters, though. Your families all dead?"

Betelgeuse switched back to his main form and went back to slicing and dicing the zombies. He chortled, watching her fight with part of his attention. He hadn't had this much fun in ages!