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The girl with metal wings; Anyone is welcome to join in
Topic Started: Nov 26 2006, 01:38 AM (4,220 Views)
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Misery looked down at him when he stirred and smiled. "Yes, there is food in the cave. Peanut butter is quite good on a hot dog. Well, at least to me."

She moved some hair out of his eyes, then made Asher get up. She gathered the things he slept on and pulled him to the gave, then inside. She had things already set up, including sleeping places.

She stirred the fire she had made at the opening of the cave and warmed up a hot dog and handed it to Asher on a bun. "Here is the dressings and such." She said, holding up some ketchup. "And the PB and J." Misery added with a grin.

"You can sleep some more after you eat if you are still tired. I hid the car too, so if anyone come poking around we can hide out in here and they will be none the wiser." Misery pointed behind her, "I even set us up a little area."

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He stood with her, keeping her close for a few moments, then he put an arm around her, and chuckled slightly, walking with her before he took a hot dog and grinned, putting some jelly on it before he took a bite

"Thanks a lot..."

He looked around at everything she had done, and she had hidden the car too...? He took another bite and swallowed, then he leaned over and kissed her softly

"You're really amazing, you know that don't you....?"

He finished eating, then he lay back down, but with his head in her lap again

"I think I'll just lay awhile... I set something else up before... should keep them from detecting you... something of a jammer. Hopefully it buys us a couple days, at least, you know...?"
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"Jelly I see." Misery said with a grin, "And you are welcome."

She blushed when Asher kissed her, "Well. Your amazing too. Just as amazing as you say I am." She looked down at his face, the soft blush still on her cheeks. "If you set it up, I am sure it will work. We can just take these few days and relax as much as we can."

She enjoyed just gazing at his face then, allowing him to rest a little more.

As she sat there, her mind wandered to Solace again. What was she after, exactly? She seemed intent on getting something inside Misery. Was there something inside Misery that was important?

"Asher....do you remember seeing anything abnormal inside my chest when you scanned me?" Misery suddenly asked, staring off at the cave wall.

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"Yeah, well... I'd hate to go back on my word from earlier, you know?"

He laughed a little bit then, and looked up at her, watching her as she watched him. Neither of them were really used to this sort of thing, were they...? That was alright, though... if there was anyone he wanted to learn this sort of thing with... well he would stay with her always... even if he would get older and she wouldn't... it didn't matter... he sort of snapped back to reality when she spoke, then, and he thought for a few moments

"Um... well... thats the heaviest concentration of nanites, is all I can really say... even the scanner couldn't penetrate the area, they were so thick there... maybe there is something in there that she was after, something either important to how your body works, or... maybe that key your father talked about?"

He frowned a little bit

"I really can't say..."
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Misery put both her hands over her chest then and closed her eyes worriedly. "I am scared of what might hide inside me. What if this key is something horrible?"

She was silent for a long moment, then she smiled and opened her eyes. "Well, for the next few days we should worry about anything, right? If it is something horrible, I will worry about it when the time comes." Even though Misery said this, she knew her mind would not forget the subject, but at least she could try. "Maybe is just a shield to protect my fragile heart!" She joked.

"Still is sort of frustrating not knowing anything about myself. I mean, you can just look it up in a text book if you need to see how your nervous system works....but....." Misery gave a sigh, then bonked herself on the head lightly, "Listen to me! All I do is worry and complain."

She took out a deck of cards then, "Shall we play something? Or perhaps make a challenge for ourselves and try to invent something with only the materials we have at our disposal and see who's is better?" She said with a laugh.

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"Misery... I dont think anything horrible could ever come out of you..."

He shook his head then, and took her hand, holding it gently in both of his as he smiled

"Sorry if that sounds silly, but it's how I feel about it. And I think you're right, we should take the time to relax, and not worry about that kind of thing. I'll get the scans out, though, and see if I can find anything else, alright? I can do a lot with what I brought, I have all the data. There might be something I missed before, that would explain what she was after."

he patted her shoulder as he sat up, laughing

"You're not that fragile. Youve already proven youre a lot tougher than I am, and I think anyone who underestimates you is going to be in very bad shape. Which is why I worry about challenging you"

He grinned a little bit

"Up to you. You want to play cards against someone who is impossible to bluff? I see the future, kiddo"
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Misery sighed, "I hope I wont disappoint you if there is actually something bad inside me. I would feel bad...."

She smiled then and held up the cards, "Well, lets just have fun while we can. We can do some of the boring research stuff later." Misery said with a smile. The research wasn't really boring to her, and she was pretty sure it was actually fun and interesting to Asher to learn new things.

"We see about the bluffing." Misery said with a grin. "I have a good poker face you know. Even with your future-seeing abilities, you are still going to loose. Since I am going to win anyway, I will let you pick the game and deal. that sounds fair enough to me." She said with a grin, holding the cards out to Asher. "Pick any game at all. I bet I will beat you."

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"Research? Boring? Pah"

He laughed a little bit at that, then he shook his head and snatched the cards from her, dealing them out quickly

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Asher opened his eyes finally early the next morning, and he sat up a little bit, looking next to him where Misery lay - having stolen most of the blankets. He rubbed his eyes a little bit and put his glasses on, then he stood to walk outside and splash some water on his face - he felt all... sluggish... not ALWAYS a morning person after all... After he had done what he set out to do, he sat back by the edge of the falls a moment, and yawned again

"I really need to stop it with the nightmares...."

There was a sound off to the side of him, and he looked over to see Misery standing there, looking at him rather blankly. He smiled, and started to say something, but then his eyes widened, and he managed to jump out of the way just in time - before the copy's fist smashed the rock he had been sitting by.

"Cant you leave us alone!? Shit!"

It came at him again, but this time he was a little more ready, as if there was anything he could do... his thoughts turned to his arm, and he shut his eyes

DO something!

He brought his hand up to try and block the blow, and the tiny flecks of solver suddenly grew like wildfire, and tendrils shot out, wrapping around one another into a sort of mesh that blocked the blow easily - and a bit more. There was a brilliant flash and a bolt of lightning, and the copy staggered back, stunned. Asher looked at it through the shield, panting sightly - it obviously had to draw on him for power...

"Well... had enough yet...?"

There was more movement then, and he looked around, horrified to see still more copies around him. His eyes widened further, and he shook his head

"Oh I have no luck..."

The one behind him lifted a knife and started to move...

at the same instant, there was a sound like the world itself tearing open, and a brilliant flash appeared in the air, pitching a human shape out of the center of the light. The form hit the ground, but then it blurred forward and grabbed the copy by the wrist

"You will not hurt this human..."

The light faded finally, to show who had saved him as Asher turned

"What the...?"

There was yet another white-haired woman there, but she didnt look like Misery - she did to a point actually, a little in the face, and the skin and hair were the same pure white, but it ended there. The new woman was tall - she had to be at least seven feet tall - and her hair was much longer, almost to her waist. She had icy blue eyes that glowed just slightly as she looked around, and then fixed them back on the one whose arm she now held.

"I am in the wrong place... no matter... if you attack the human again I shall make you a target."

She released the android and stepped nearer Asher, looking at him oddly as the silvery substance receded back into his arm and he looked at her in shock.

"Are you hu-"

She started to ask, but the android with the knife attacked again, and she turned back on it. As fast as the machines were, she seemed even faster, and her hands came around faster than even Asher's heightened reactions could track. One hand latched around the knife and the hand and twisted - there was a shriek of metal and a snapping sound as she tore the mechanical hand clean off. Her other hand made a fist and slammed directly into the fake Misery's face. There were more sounds of breaking and snapping, and the android flew back, bounced off a tree with a sickening crack, and vanished into the bushes.

"You were warned."

Again her speech was without emotion, almost anyways - she sounded almost... sorrowful. The rest of the copies seemed to drop their stance slightly, as if ready to attack, and the woman, closed her eyes.

"Very well... I seem to have no choice..."
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Misery was sleeping soundly, but woke when loud sounds erupted in her ears. She sat up quickly at first and looked around groggily. When she didn't find Asher there, she stood and emerged from their tent, rubbing her eyes.

When she spotted all her doubles, she immediately went on the defensive. Worst of all there was a strange woman between her and Asher, as well as these copies all around her. All the copies began to move at once then and Misery moved in the same second. At first, Misery thought this woman might be the ring leader and if she were destroyed, then the others might fall.

However, as Misery neared the woman, she felt something within herself. Something similar...yet different. This woman was not their leader. She knew that once she got closer. In the same instant, Misery changed her target and went after the copies. Her first target was the one closest to Asher.

She grabbed the copy's leg and kicked with her own, severing the leg almost instantly. However, something within Misery stirred again and she was compelled to look up. The one that was almost exactly like Misery was coming after her again, and she seemed stronger that last time.

Her hand slammed into Misery's chest and Misery was pushed back, leaving indentations in the ground. Misery grabbed Solace's arm, but she pushed back, her hand going deeper and deeper within her chest....

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The new woman looked back at Misery for a moment, her head tilting a little bit - this was the one all the others had been copied from, she was sure of it... copied badly... but still... As allt he copies attacked, she seemed to vanish entirely, just a white blur as she attacked, ivory hair flying in the wind, her blue and dark gray jumpsuit impossible to track as anything,broken copies crashing to the ground in her wake. One managed to actually attack, driving a fist at her, but she punched back - and rather more effectively. Her fist met the androids and punched right through it, shattering components all up the length of the arm before her fist finally tore through the chest, decapitating the machine. Asher even managed to fight, still awkward with his new... well whatever you wanted to call it - augmentation? The silver substance flowed up his arm, making a sort of glove, it seemed, and when he hit one of the things... well it went down - hard. A little surprise,d he whipped around and blocked another attack, but he was barely fast enough - and compared to the Misery, not to even mention the new woman... when he saw Misery come out, though, and then get attacked...

"No! Get off her!"

There was another attacking him, though, and it was all he could do to not be killed just then...

The new woman had seen, though, and she leapt into the air, hand tearing through the arm of the one after Asher as she did. She landed gracefully, almost like a dancer, before she spun around and snap kicked Solace directly in the head. There was a loud crack and the sound of a cracking skull as the copy flew away, hit the surface of the water, and actually skipped before sinking like a rock. The woman whirled around once more, drew a pistol from her side, and shot the last remaining copy once in the head, watching coldly as it dropped to the ground

"I believe the term is 'cheap knockoffs'?"

She looked to Asher first, then Misery, looking curious to see if she was right
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