Pseudo shook his snifter, stiring the contents. He contently grinned. "Isn't it a pity when I'm brilliant?" he smirked taking a drink. He almost instantly spat it out, eyes wide open. "WHAT is that STRONG new life energy?!" he bellowed.
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The mutant sniffed the air. Prey drew closer. It waited as a scout flew by low to the bush. It Immediately sprung, savagely ripping the metal to shreds. Loud was it's belch as it spit out a mess of wires. It lumbered back to the bush, taking a hiding crouch, waiting for the next prey..
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"So, we meet again." the voice called out. Multex froze in his tracks, hiccuping and turning around. A young man with slight cybernetic plating stepped into view. "NICK!!" Multex yelled. "I thought I killed you!" Nicholas Deen smiled. "A bullet to the brain won't stop me, even if it was one of your holy silvers. Ready to die?" Multex held Markior back, whispering. "Fellow agent, Schtay back!" He then belched and readied the quicksilver. "You may be from Losscha, but no agency beats me, not even opponents!" "But I'm just as skilled as you now, and you're drunk. You're no match for me now." Nick snickered, drawing a pistol from his pocket.
"You have my gun, the Apton Platinum, so you'll have to settle with a normal bullet." Nick grinned. "Fine by me!" Multex hollered back. The two took fighting stances. A minute passed, and all was silence. Then the two compedators lunged. Multex pumped a shot of laser fire into Nick's shoulder, while he loaded a bullet into Multex's. The two groaned, but kept up the assult. Both flipped away from each other. Even drunk, Multex was faster to the draw, nailing Nick in the left hand with a blast. Nick growled and fired back, hitting dirt as Multex rolled to the side. "Cyborg or not, you're gonna die!" Multex called out. "That's what you said last time!" Nick replied.
Multex stood straight up. clenching both fists, he bellowed once again. Nick fired, but his bullets stoped right infront of Multex. As 707 gave another cry, a dark aura flared up around him and the bullets turned about, slamming into Nick's chest. In a swift movement, Multex drew a long, glowing black foil and leapt. Nick wasn't fast enough to dodge. The sword impaled him clean through the middle. Groaning, he fell to a kneel. Multex growled a response. "Dodge this.." Moving fast he punched Nick clear through the torso, then beheaded him with the foil. Panting, he put the foil away and wiped the blood off on his coat.
Wearily he walked back to the Markior and gestured to Nick. "Do what you want with the remains, and wipe that worried look off your face, schmokey. It doeschn't become you."
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A cloaked stranger crossed through the foliage. calmly he stepped up to Artemis, Fang and Friaz. "I mean you no harm; I only want to aid you." he stated in a slightly familiar but lighter voice. slowly heremoved an ornate box from his cloak and opened it, holding it out. "These are elemental stones. Take whichever suits you best and It'll alter you into a form that adds that element. They only work when you focus on them. Kill Sir Pseudo Havering with them." He waited until they had each picked a stone, then closed the box, slipped it under his cloak and walked off
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The stranger calmly crossed a war zone. It was so casual a walk, it seemed he didn't even mind all the fighting around him. A fighting Zealot and Zergling crossed his path. "Move or suffer.." He calmly stated. seing the two resume their fighting, he extended a palm, incinerating the two on the spot with a mighty blast. He blew the smoke off his hand and continued on, aware many were looking at him.
The cloaked straner immediately stopped and turned towards a bush at the edge of the battleground. "Freak...you're no challange.." he muttered, turning and walking again. He silently stood on the edge of the battlefield, waiting for his next meeting to occur.