002: I'll say.
Nobody asked you. Now keep quiet or I'll bring in one of the other cyborgs..!
002: Good! I didn't want to be here in the first place!
Oh really? Ok, fine! You'll just stay here then, since you don't want to be here! Fear my mad logic skills, puny mortal! Muhahahahah!
002: ...Somehow I think I was better off with Black Ghost...
Anyway, I made the battles short mainly because since there are nine OCs to introduce.
I could've spent more time, but those were really just an intro into the OC characters and their powers. Plus, I figured an army of forks and a bunch of falling rubble would be disconcerting enough to throw off 006 and 007, who are used to more, ah, structured villains. There'll be more action later on in the story though.
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing, not even a single stock share! Isn't it sad.
On the other side of the city, a young african man could be found swimming in the local pool. Aside from one other person watching him, he was alone. This was good, since most people didn't wear wetsuits in normal community pools. However, Pyunma and G. Junior were not exactly most people.
"You'd better hurry if we want to meet up with Dr. Gilmore and the others on time. After all, what good is a visit if we're all off in different places?" Junior rumbled, leaning against the wall.
"Okay, okay. I just needed a little swim, anyway." Pyunma agreed, pulling himself effortlessly out of the water.
Neither noticed a dark haired woman wearing thick gloves, despite the unseasonably warm temperature or the darker man holding a rosary crouched next to her high up on a balcony overlooking the pool.
"Huh. Don't look too crazy to me." The woman commented, looking down on the two cyborgs.
"Careful, Maggie. Things are often much different from what the eye percieves." The man replied in his usual vague manner.
"Don't I know it. Anyway, you all ready, Casper?" Maggie asked her companion more out of habit than need. She knew he could easily expand his lungs large enough to hold his breath for ten whole minutes.
Removing a bottle of water from a leather satchel around her neck, she removed one of her gloves and stuck a finger inside the water. Almost instantly, a thick cloying gas filled the air, knocking the two men below them out with ease. Casper, still holding his breath,
jumped down from the balcony and picked up the two rebels. His rubbery legs had absorbed most of the shock, leaving him unhurt. Several seconds later, Maggie appeared from the stairwell, slightly out of breath.
"Nice of you to wait for me." Maggie said, grinning.
"Not as nice as the complications you added to this whole operation. To simply touch the pool itself would have worked much better." Her companion replied with a wry smile as they darted out the door and into one of the various back ways to a certain harbor.
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Several blocks away in an almost deserted park, a small girl skipped ahead of the blond,
bespecaled man apparently in charge of her. He was obviously unused to having small children about.
"Yay! We gonna go see the Ghostie now, are we, are we?" The little girl exclaimed, delighted with the park, play equipment and Tokyo in general.
"Er, not exactly Dolley. We're looking for a blong lady and a baby with blue hair, so you tell me as soon as you seem them." The man told the child.
"How come? Are they part of New Family too, Eric?" Dolley asked him excitedly.
"No, these are not nice people. We're just bringing them back to Black Ghost, nothing more. And after that, we can all go home, okay?" Eric replied slowly, trying to figure out how to explain something like this to a six year old. This would be so much easier if Dolley had been imbued with the same technology as Ivan Whiskey, the baby they were looking for. Poor Dolley had been taken from her family after an 'accidental' fire at age three. Still, she had all the innocence of a normal child, affectionally referring to Black Ghost as 'The Ghostie' and had taken to calling the other cyborgs her 'New Family'.
Well, except for Jack.
"Hey, what's that?"
A shout from Dolley snapped Eric out of his thoughts. He looked up to see the girl racing down the path and quickly ran after her. He quickly caught up with her, as she had stopped to talk to a young blond woman with a baby sleeping beside her. Eric mentally hit his forehead with the heel of his hand. Dolley must have been looking for the renegade cyborgs after he gave her the description, and inaverdantly discovered them. Eric just hoped 001 didn't wake up, or things could get messy.
Meanwhile, Francoise, pleasantly suprised but a little wary at the arrival of the small girl with a odd looking doll who kept staring so intently at her, attempted to strike up a conversation with her.
"Um, hello there. That's a very interesting doll you have there. It's not like any toy I've ever seen." Francoise said, smiling at the girl. There was something about the plaything that seemed oddly familiar, and yet so alien at the same time.
"He isn't a TOY. He's Jack." The girl informed her coldly.
"Oh. Well, where did you get it-er, HIM from?" Francoise replied, taken aback.
But before the child could answer, both she and Jack slowly rose into the air.
"001? W-what are you doing?" Francoise cried, recognizing the toddler's telekinetic abilities at once. Ivan only used his powers when those around him were in danger, but this was only a little girl and her doll!
"Dolley! Hey! Hold on for a second!"
A shout from a few feet away caused Francoise to look up. A blond man was rushing towards them, but he was too late. In the time it took for Francoise to look away, Jack had grown to the size of a full grown oak, with Dolley sitting in the middle of his palm, scowling. With a growing fear in the pit of her stomach, Francoise realized just what Jack reminded her of. In one fluid move, Jack's other hand scooped up the other two cyborgs,
breaking 001's telekinetic powers and sending them all to the ground.
"Well, I was hoping we could try this with a bit more tact, but this'll have to do." The blond man said, standing in front of them.
"They attacked me! Not my fault." Dolley shouted stubbornly from atop Jack.
"Let us go! Just because you've got 0013's abilities doesn't mean you have to obey Black Ghost too!" Francoise's voice interrupted them, bordering on panic.
"Actually, Miss Arnout, Dolley and Jack are a more advanced version of 0013's skills. But that really doesn't matter. Just come with us and everything will be fine." Eric told her calmly.
"Go where? You can't just walk off like this! You're in public, don't you think this'll attract a little attention?" Francoise shouted down at him.
"Which was why I didn't want to have to use Jack if at all possible. But that can't be helped now." Eric said with infuriating calmness.
"The baby tried to lift me an' Jack up in the air, Eric! I don't like her." Dolley pouted from atop Jack.
"Listen to me! You don't have to do this! Black Ghost is nothing but evil!" Francoise persisted.
Both of the other cyborgs seemed to go blank for a moment at this. Just as suddenly, however, they changed back.
"Don't be ridiculous. Dolley, put them down. We'll have to walk to the Seabird." Eric said to Francoise coldly, a sudden change from his calm, know-it-all attitude the minute before. Seeing no way out, Francoise picked up 001 and followed the two cyborgs(and the now much smaller Jack).
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Indira Taner looked out over the bridge and into the water. She was in a public garden,
and a very nice one at that. From what she had seen of Japan so far in their little excursion, this seemed to be normal. But that didn't really matter. She was just here looking for someone named Albert Heinrich. One last person and she didn't have to have anything to do with Black Ghost ever again. Plus, the garden was mercifully empty. There was a reason that only she was here. Her abilities worked best one-on-one. That and nine didn't divide equally.
The sound of two men talking nearby caused Indira to look up. A silver haired man was talking to an older gentleman over by a tree. That was a little weird, but Sevro had said something about an old man. Besides, witnesses would not be a good thing to have.
"Whatever you say, Dr. Gilmore. I just don't think Black Ghost is done for good." Albert told his smaller companion firmly.
"Well" Gilmore began as a low rumbling from below the surface of the earth interrupted them.
"An earthquake?" Albert asked, leaning against the tree for balance.
"Worse." The doctor replied tightly, pointing at the tree 004 was leaning on. What had at first appeared to be a simple knothole was now a gaping mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.
The cyborg yanked his hand away seconds before the mouth closed.
"Something's not right here..." Albert muttered under his breath, casting a wary eye around their surroundings for any more unpleasant 'suprises'.
He didn't have long to wait. A boulder the size of a Great Dane sitting by a nearby pond suddenly started to slide towards them at a frightening speed. If it hit them, the results would not be pretty.
Both men started to run from the rock, but ended up tripping over a tree root 50 feet from the nearest plant, catapulting them into the koi pond. While the German just got a faceful of water and a bruised ego, Gilmore's head crashed into one of the rocks surrounding the pond.
"You and your unconscious friend are coming with me. Quietly. Unless you'd like another rock attack..?"
004 spun around to see a slender Indian woman standing behind him. She would have been quite pretty if not for the dangerous look on her face at the moment. He could already tell that it would be a good idea to listen to her. At least, for now.
"Any particular place?" Albert asked her, running one hand over his metallic hand. One wrong move on her part and Albert wouldn't have a choice but to fire a few warning shots.
"Just down to the harbor to meet up with friends."
Well, that's the last of them! Our mini recap:
Maggie DeLuca(0025): Can change the material of whatever she touches into something else(water to iron, grass to pencils, ect.). Gio's sister.
Casper Radhen(0028): Can strech any part of his body, internal organs included. Based on 007's technology.
Dolley Krol(0020): Her doll, Jack, can grow to astonishing heights in oder to destroy the enemy and listens to only 0020's commands. Based on 0013's technology.
Eric Brekke(0021): Designed for information gathering rather than actual fighting, he learns new things much quicker and easier than a normal person and has a perfect memory.
Indira Taner(0027): Can modify reality to fit her current needs.
R&R please!