[August 8th 2010]
[Happy Harbour High School, Happy Harbour Rhode Island]
'What the fuck is Sis doing here?' popped through her mind as she watched her little sister of all people standing beside the bunch of Justice League sidekicks and evidently guarding the target. Sadly it wasn't as if she could just go over there and ask what the hell she was thinking, or what Mother was thinking if she knew, but was go to note the enemy splitting its forces.
Batman's little helper, the Atlantean, and the Kryptonian clone were leaving: Excellent. The raw power of the clone would be difficult to overcome, and the other two while weaker were dangerous tactical thinkers and close combatants despite their ages according to all reports. Now was the time to take advantage of the situation with the Martian in sight alongside baby Flash and little Artemis, she'd already be inside their perimeter before it was re-established. Mild disapproval at this flashed through her a moment.
'Father and Mother taught us better than this Sis, weakness isn't acceptable don't you remember' though these thoughts were only momentary as she moved. Shift around the tree and past the bushes silently, careful, careful, open and through the window making sure to close just as silently. Still padding forward she brought up a mini-map of the building she was infiltrating with the super imposed suspected location of the target and mentally prepared the optimal route. Trapping here, here, here, and here would be feasible she noted while still moving towards the target quickly.
Nothing fancy of course as dropped the first lot of small spheres, but it would slow the enemy, especially baby Flash. The defensive perimeter was shoddy she noted, or the lack of it more importantly as it seemed they had let it drop entirely just to see off their teammates, beyond perhaps one or two members near the target herself. They were inexperienced in this it seemed; Good. Hey, it could even be considered a lesson to her little sister too! Because if you wanted to play in the big leagues then you needed to be better than this right now. This would get her killed and that she couldn't allow...best her baby sister learn by being emotional cut than something distinctly more fatal.
She smiled beneath the mask; she'd made it to a few metres from the target completely undetected. And what's more only one bodyguard remained in place a little distance away resting against the wall while Doctor Roquette sat typing at one of high-schools computer terminals. Her hands flowed insider her robes to the many bandoliers of weapons hidden beneath, recovering the poisoned darts from their sheaths. Merely paralytics of course for orders had been fairly clear not to kill any of the sidekicks other than in extremis, but in a moment both inside the other room would be down. Then it would be feasible to consider if the target could be recovered as per alternative, or merely to slit her throat and evac immediately. But first...
She moved...silent and deadly as she had been taught painfully since childhood. Neither the target nor her would be defender even realised she'd been there as the darts flew from her hands. Her hand moved recovering one of Sai's in preparation, the 'hero' might not go down from just that dosage even if reports indicated a meta-human with unusual abilities and rather odd dress sense. It was...
...her eyes snapped wide behind the mask. Both the target and the bodyguard had vanished like a shimmering mirage as the weapons when through them to slam into the computer and wall behind. The computer exploded faintly and she made a mistake as her gaze moved to it, and then scanning for threats. She froze in position for a split second to so. Faint sounds to her right snapped her head to her right and emerging from the dark shadows of the corner of the room was a skull faced figure in dark armour and jacket, a staff of some kind with a gem held in hand and pointed at her. She had to...
'I'm sure he's handsome beneath that mask. Why am I trying to run away of all things? Best to stay here and introduce myself?' a part of her mind argued as she froze in place and gazed at approaching enemy. She had to move dammit!
'Enemy! He's a new friend! We should just stay here and listen to what he has to say' that cheerfully sounding internal voice told her full of joyful exuberance, one that sounded like herself when she was but a child. This seemed wrong...she should...should...what was she doing here?
"Surrender your weapons and yield if you please" the ominous voice demanded coldly...no warmly, friendly like...he was...he was a friend...she should obey. Because she...she should...obey...obey, and hand over her weapons...hand over her weapons...
She dropped her Sai and her hands began to reach for the clasps of her battle gear, all she had to do was...what the hell was she doing?...was...was...unclasp and then she'd be disarmed. Even the last hidden hold outs...that'd make her new friend happy...STOP! STOP!...yes it would...just need to...fight you weakling!...one done and...
'Jade why aren't you fighting like I taught you? You were a weakling in the end!' an angry voice demanded, sneered, at the back of her mind, her Father's and the anger boiled up at the sound of it. At him, at herself, at all this, she had to fight...
...obey, because he was her...
'Jade! First you runaway and now give up without a fight! What happened to you?' her mother's voice sounded sad and disappointed as the enemy neared her frozen form. Enemy...yes he was the fucking enemy! What was she doing? What was he doing to her!! HOW FUCKING DARE THIS JUMPED UP HERO WANNABE THINK HE COULD BREAK JADE NYUGEN! SHE WAS CHESHIRE NOT SOME FUCKING WEAKLING! TIME TO PUT SKELETOR HERE IN HIS GODDAMNED PLACE!
She snarled as she broke the invisible chains and fog upon her mind, the mental training of years reasserting itself violent as her body began to move. Skull masked man had realised his mental attack had failed even before she'd started it seemed, shifting into a defensive posture even before she threw herself forward at him feet forward. His staff blocked her feet together kick, but her hands were already moving to the ground to recover the dropped sai, and withdraw another from within her robes.
Kick, one hand to ground for weapon and balance, and the other hand into her robes was all in one perfect simultaneous move just like she'd had beaten into her for years. To her annoyance it merely staggered her foe a moment as he staggered back two steps, before straightening again and swinging his staff around his body into a ready position on his right as it was a spear, while leaving his left hand free. Nothing seemed to change in his eerie tone though as spoke again while she readied herself.
"You are stronger willed than most it seems. So be it, I offer one last chance to yield? I shall be merciful"
She twirled her sai, shifting her balance as she came out of the rolled and readied herself to attack. Then grinned feral and warmly beneath the mask...Oh this fucker was gonna regret this "Oh big talk little skeleton man! That little mind trick won't work on me so looks like I'll just have to beat the location of Dr. Roquette out of you!" she shifted her right foot a fraction "...and I'm going to enjoy doing it let me tell you!"
On the screen of her mask the words 'Secondary Deployment authorised, Black Spider, Hook, aid Cheshire, attack and eliminate Target' indicating Sensei had been following her mask-cam and was aware of the initial attempts failure. Fine, all she had to do was deal with this 'sidekick' and then they could extract the location of the target from this fucker or one his friends.
As long as Artemis was unharmed...or not harmed with long term injuries...she was even looking forward to it as she launched herself forward once again. Stab with the right to test the waters. Block, twist backwards to duck the sweeping staff swing, kick, blocked...twist right and kick, contort body, he's slower it seems...
...kick blocked, staff moving back...
...she caught it with her sai, then with the other as he tried to twist it away, apply downward pressure then sudden upward thrust to the side...
'And there goes the staff..." she thought with a grin as she moved in to stab her now weapon less enemy...
...then twisted herself backwards to duck under the sudden eruption of flame that erupted in a wave blast as skull-mask parted his hands before him. Her back thudded off the ground as she watched the flames fly through where she'd stood just a moment ago. Okay...this is new she mused wondering what sort of goddamned hero tried to incinerate the person they were trying to arrest. But only as she used the chance to brace with her back and kick upwards at her opponent's crotch. That'd teach him the fuc...
...gloved hands grabbed her ankle just before it could hammer home as intended. Not giving skull-mask a chance to capitalise on his success, she pushed back on her elbows and used the leverage of his grip to swing her other leg up at his face. Smacking home with a solid impact that staggered him momentarily to the side, freeing her ankle again, as she used the momentum to roll herself back up again despite the screaming of her muscles at said demands. She was standing now, so time to fuck up skull...
...what felt like a goddamned a truck slammed into her chest and sent her flying across the room, painfully slamming into a table, and then the wall, in the course of her journey. To her annoyance she'd also lost her two Sai in the flight, groaning into her mask a moment at the momentary pain, and the confusion of what had happened. Great a fucking meta-human with enhanced strength, pyrokinesis and mind control. Just fucking great she mused shoving herself back up and drawing the high-tech snap-click katana the League of Shadows had provided her. Easy to conceal and with a click of a button it extended to become the perfect killing tool by the wonders of technology.
"Strong fellow aren't you? Let's see how you like..." she started to stay before skull-mask mouthed something incomprehensible and waved a hand in her direction. Hard taught instincts kicked in, and she moved...
...just in time as fucking tentacles of all things, black and shadowy, seemed to erupt from the walls and ground all around her and lunging. She twisted and twirled with every scrap of agility and athleticism she could muster from her body; lashing at the black things with her katana as they attempted to enfold her body, jumping and bouncing off the walls, tables, whatever she could to avoid getting ensnared as the whole room turned into some kind of horror film...
'Oh my fucking God he's some goddamned villain whose escaped from a Japanese Hentai...and I'm an Asian girl! Abort Mission Jade! Abort the fucking Mission! Time for a tactical retreat girl!' her mind screamed at her frantically as threw herself over a school table, then flung it back at the black mass chasing her with all her might. Staying calm was becoming increasingly difficult as even the League of Shadows tended to avoided messed up shit like this in their operatives...oh my god he was on her baby sister's team!
'Save self first, worry about saving her second' she told herself desperately, rolling away from the grabbing and roiling mass around her. Slash, slash, move, twist, slash, windows blocked, need too...
Fear and Horror seemed to wash over her. She dodged and slashed again, forcing herself to glance in the direction of the...whatever she felt...and saw skull-mask striding towards her as the very darkness itself seemed to coil around his form and she felt Fear. Something she immediately suppressed, moving to her left away from the grasping attacks, flinging some darts with her free hand at skull-mask...whatever the fuck it was, and raged inside as the weapons seemed to strike some invisible barrier around the Thing...
"NOOOOOO!" she managed to shriek out...not at all like a little girl she told herself...as this particular nightmare slithered around her left leg and arm. Held in place a moment she lashed at the tentacles with her katana trying to frantically free herself...
"You are better than I'd expected, unfortunately for you. Sorry about this, but I need to take you alive and can't leave you here while I aid my allies" Skull-mask was saying, but Jade Nyugen wasn't paying attention as she managed to desperately pull her arm free and tried to pull the leg away. Nor did she notice the staff in the hand of the skull-masked man draw near to her...
...everything was growing bigger before her eyes as her mind became befuddled and foggy a moment, hints of pain and terror gripped her as skull-mask and the room around her seemed to grow into giants before her very eyes. Confused she rested on her hands and feet...where had her weapon gone?...and swished her tail...
...swished her tail...
...tail...
...she had a tail...
...her eyes snapped open in horror and screamed as a giant hand wrapped around her waist and lifted...
"Mmmmeeeoooowwwwww!'
Skull-mask was before her now, his giant masked face and red glowing eyes of terror gazing into her helpless form "Hello Kitty. Now be good kitty while I go about business and I'll turn you back to human! Don't...or try and escape and you'll regret it let me guarantee you!"
She hissed at him with all the defiance she could muster. He stared back impassively with those terrifying eyes of pure uncaring evil and she wanted to be anywhere but in this particular nightmare. Why couldn't she wake up? Come'on wake up? Please let me wake uppppppp!!!!!!!
"Oh don't be like that!" IT told her firmly holding her with one hand, staff resting against his shoulder while he waved the other in her direction threateningly "If you try escape you'll die, or be trapped as a cat. You don't want that I assume?"
"NO! PLEASE NO!" she stuttered, though it came out as a pathetic and despairing "Meaowwwwww"
"Good Kitty, that wasn't so hard now, was it..." came back from the demon of night and shadows as it rested her against its chest firmly with one hand, took the staff in the other, and began to walk through the dark shadows of the night towards the doorway "...so let's go deal with your little friends that mine are talking about...oh by the way, Serling wasn't here at all. Fun fact; did you know you can remotely access computers these days..."
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