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Post by wanderingmagus on Apr 29, 2014 16:13:23 GMT
The enchantress motioned that weight was not an issue for now, and bent to allow the mare to take her position before darting off the high platform and sailing through a dizzying series of strange "spaces", somehow bringing them from their perch to Care's car in moments where before it took hours of bewildered walking. The ways of the Woods are strange, and unless one knows their way, even the most wiley traveler soon finds herself hopelessly lost in the ever-changing trees.
"Here we are," smiled the Lady as they alighted upon the path next to the vehicle. "You know the way, do you not? I shall fly alongside you, I think. But we must be quick. Who knows how much time we have to answer the call?"
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Post by Midnight_Aurora on Apr 29, 2014 18:53:30 GMT
"Agreed. Please stay close because most haven't seen one of the forest before." Care gets into her car and starts her up the change in the vehicle was subtle but notice able the engine went silent. no fumes exited the car's exhaust system. a voice on the dash board comes online and says, "All systems active. Silent Running engaged. Eco Friendly Care Drive Now in full operation. Good Luck Vanishing Caretaker and may your travels prove Fruitful. Careina standing by."
With this The vanishing caretaker begins her trek into and threw the city making sure that she follows the tracking marker for the signal on her GPS Care system. Within the time needed for travel, they get near the area and Care stops the car. "From here we go on wing or foot. I have the signal for the com system of siphon active on my GPS. Lets go."
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Post by Asterian Starfall on Apr 29, 2014 20:47:45 GMT
Somewhere in Maretropolis, in a dark alleyway...
Blackness. A white unicorn lay there, wearing a black jump-suit and flowing cloak. Darkness phased all around him... yet he was awake.
"What the..." The unicorn looked down at himself, observing his new garments. Suddenly, a wave of new ideas came to him. His hoof began to dissolve into nothing as he began to turn invisible. A few seconds later, his outfit followed the same pattern, leaving him completely undetectable. Just as slowly, he phased back, smiling. "Excellent..." He could hear voices not far from him, and suddenly had an idea to trail them. Testing his new-found powers would be the perfect exercise for him, and having been an agent meant... "This is going to be fun..."
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Post by wanderingmagus on Apr 30, 2014 3:27:03 GMT
The Lady grinned, spread her wings, and dashed off at a surprising speed, keeping pace with the vehicle all the way into Maretropolis, boosting her natural speed with her "new" Faerie abilities and sometimes "cheating" by using her slight dimension warping powers to minimize the distance they had to cross.
In this manner, the two of them managed to make what would have been a two-day journey in less than half an hour, and shortly they reached what had, at one point at least, been Siphon's "secret base". Of course, since the billionaire genius philanthropist wasn't exactly the most secretive of ponies, it had lost the "secret" part of the term long since. It still *did* function as a base, though.
The enchantress had cast a glamour on herself while flying in, trusting the Vanishing Caretaker to do what she did best and disappear under her own invisibility cloak; thus, it was not so difficult as it may have seemed to enter the city unnoticed.
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Post by Midnight_Aurora on Apr 30, 2014 5:18:17 GMT
The caretaker taking instantly to the nearby shadows vanishes from normal sight. Her skill as a special tactics pony kept her what she thought was silent enough. Before she did so she had passed a device to Amber and motioned for her to put it on. If and once she did so the device activated revealing a voice on the other end of its receiver. "This will allow us to communicate while we are in a form of stealth mode. However when the mini-HUD flashes red, that means radio silence and we can only see each others tracking location. Careina is a very defensive high output low input system. She was a gift from a friend along time ago and she has helped me out an uncountable number of times. If anypony tries to get info from her data banks, they will quickly find themselves up against Careina's labyrinth maze. I don't believe anypony has beaten her yet. Now, lets find this Siphon."
While in the shadows she uses the tracking system to find and get to siphons com signal. She stays in her stealth cloak the entire time, monitoring how much of her power pack's energy she has left and also checking her reserve power supplies for emergencies.
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Post by Clockwork on Apr 30, 2014 11:50:02 GMT
Laserbolt's eyes narrowed very slightly, and mumbled very quietly, "Where do I know you from..." Suddenly, his eyes widened, when he mentioned his name. "Oh, okay, gotcha. That explains it. Although... hm. Never mind, it's not that big a deal. Hey, listen, have you seen anything weird around?" Down the street, a couple of ponies were walking out of a hospital, one of them carrying a folder. One of them tapped on the other's shoulder, and pointed to the group. The second one's eyes widened, and they began to walk quickly away. Infernid took pause, scratching his chin "Weird, as in a way that would entail we have all seemingly somehow been transported into a fictional plane of existence, as evidenced by the page of a comic book in which I found my name? Or do you perhaps mean an oddity I have encountered on my way up the wall of this building from the alleyway I came from?" Infernid began to pace left and right, his spindly legs clicking across the roof to the edge in a pondering movement. "I would regret to say that aside from what I may have already mentioned, I have encountered nothing too odd on my breif travels..." he notices the two ponies below, and how they seemed to balk at the sight of the three costumed individuals "...perhaps, however, those two may know something. I believe we should ask them..." he added, crawling over the wall down to the street level. |
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Post by Asterian Starfall on Apr 30, 2014 15:13:45 GMT
Deeper in the darkness, Nightwing could tell that whoever—or whatever—it was that was approaching had simply vanished, just as he could have... But there were other means of detection.
He had an idea.
Instantly, the area was blanketed in a layer of dark, black shadows, blinding anypony who might be there, save for Nightwing himself. His own powers had no effect on him, and he could still see clear as day in the devoid-of-light area. He looked around for anything, even a small sign or trace of existence, when suddenly, he spotted something. His shadows were bending themselves around a figure. Nightwing smiled menacingly, not that they could have seen it. He trotted up to the pony and came inches within its face, only his balaclava-masked face visible to them. "The light is fading..." Suddenly, his eyes turned pitch-black, as well as his mane and tail. They whipped like the shadows around him as his voice changed and blades appeared along his fore-legs.
Nocturne had awoken. A harsh, dark laugh rang out, followed by, "What are you doing here?"
(( Putting a counter for Shadow-Drunk in Nocturne form. Counter always starts at 10%; must be reduced to 0% to exit Nocturne form. ))
Umbra Ebrius: 10%
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Post by Midnight_Aurora on Apr 30, 2014 18:11:03 GMT
Care saw the shadows approach the area and before they over took her she activated the night sight of her glasses, so her training as a special operations pony be wasted. she looks through the now teal glowing glasses at this new shadow pony and says,her voice distorted by some sort of device, "This way leads to sompony who called me. Now if you will excuse me I have a potential patient to visit." She attempts to move past the shadow like being in order to continue on her way to meet with this siphon. As a precaution, she flips a switch on her pack reversing the healing flow of one of her two healing guns and draws it to be at the ready just incase there is to be a conflict.
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Post by Asterian Starfall on Apr 30, 2014 18:38:54 GMT
Nightwing trots over to halt the pony, appearing in front of her. "You did not answer my question. You said where you are going, yet you neglected to mention why you set hoof here."
Nightwing smiled maliciously as he began to influence the pony. Suddenly, phantoms of himself shown before her, giving her a sense of being overwhelmed. "Why are you here?"
Counters and effects:
Umbra Ebrius: 14% (+4%)
Paranoia active on Care Heart; Care can see four phantom images of Nightwing, giving her a sense of dread.
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Post by Midnight_Aurora on Apr 30, 2014 18:45:16 GMT
Care sighs and says, "For somepony I just meet, you really know how to upset a mare. Fine, I will answer your question. I am here to do my job and that is to tend to patients far and wide, to save their lives. Now I have to go and you will not like it if you continue to halt the progress of medical treatments that must be done before long." Care doesn't make an aggressive approach and because of her training as a doctor she knows a bit about manipulating the mind. She shakes her head vigorously to clear the phantoms away as well as the feeling of dread and makes to continue her travels. All this time everything that was said was heard by another. Lady Amber could hear the conversation through the com device she had been given.
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Post by Asterian Starfall on Apr 30, 2014 19:06:08 GMT
Having gotten his answer, Nightwing could move aside, letting the mare pass through. "Thank you for your cooperation," he said in his dark voice. He calmly lowered the phantoms, freeing the mare's mind from its mental grip. "You will not get there safely without assistance. Do you even have a plan?"
Counters and effects:
Umbra Ebrius: 12% (-2%)
Paranoia target dropped. No active target.
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Post by wanderingmagus on Apr 30, 2014 20:10:54 GMT
The Lady of the Elves had been ready to cast the impudent psychopath into a parallel dimension and throw away the key, but seeing as that the Vanishing Caretaker had the situation under control, decided not to intervene, yet. However, noticeably or not, the space within several blocks of the three was slowly warping, isolating them from civilians and other eyes, creating a sort of arena-ike environment in case the situation turned violent. Hidden with her Glamour, honed for a hundred million years in the unfathomably ancient and unaging hooves of the Faeries, the Lady watched warily and stayed back, ready to defend her ward if need be.
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Post by laserbolt on Apr 30, 2014 20:14:48 GMT
Laserbolt's eyes narrowed very slightly, and mumbled very quietly, "Where do I know you from..." Suddenly, his eyes widened, when he mentioned his name. "Oh, okay, gotcha. That explains it. Although... hm. Never mind, it's not that big a deal. Hey, listen, have you seen anything weird around?" Down the street, a couple of ponies were walking out of a hospital, one of them carrying a folder. One of them tapped on the other's shoulder, and pointed to the group. The second one's eyes widened, and they began to walk quickly away. Infernid took pause, scratching his chin "Weird, as in a way that would entail we have all seemingly somehow been transported into a fictional plane of existence, as evidenced by the page of a comic book in which I found my name? Or do you perhaps mean an oddity I have encountered on my way up the wall of this building from the alleyway I came from?" Infernid began to pace left and right, his spindly legs clicking across the roof to the edge in a pondering movement. "I would regret to say that aside from what I may have already mentioned, I have encountered nothing too odd on my breif travels..." he notices the two ponies below, and how they seemed to balk at the sight of the three costumed individuals "...perhaps, however, those two may know something. I believe we should ask them..." he added, crawling over the wall down to the street level. Laserbolt looked over at the pair, and his eyes narrowed again. "Yeah... we should ask them." He jumped to street level, and began walking towards the two ponies, who began to pick up speed as they realized they were being chased. "I should have known something like this would happen!" Cross said, turning into an alleyway, trying to hide from the group. "Shut up, and keep your head down, I don't think they saw us go in here." Back Stitch flipped open the file, and began skimming it, trying to find some information on their target. |
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Post by Midnight_Aurora on Apr 30, 2014 21:25:02 GMT
Having gotten his answer, Nightwing could move aside, letting the mare pass through. " Thank you for your cooperation," he said in his dark voice. He calmly lowered the phantoms, freeing the mare's mind from its mental grip. " You will not get there safely without assistance. Do you even have a plan?"
Counters and effects: Umbra Ebrius: 12% (-2%)Paranoia target dropped. No active target.Care looks to him and says, " Plan? For me it is to stay to the shadows, heal when and where I can if noticed am gone like a light going out. I am The Vanishing Caretaker." Care continues on her path to find the source siphon's com signal and hopefully Siphon himself. |
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Post by Asterian Starfall on Apr 30, 2014 21:28:52 GMT
Care looks to him and says, " Plan? For me it is to stay to the shadows, heal when and where I can if noticed am gone like a light going out. I am The Vanishing Caretaker." Care continues on her path to find the source siphon's com signal and hopefully Siphon himself. Nightwing had to cackle at that sentence. " You tried that and I found you with ease. You are going to need an escort, or at the least, assistance."
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