Blue: "Oh man. . . Dad, I've never seen you actually fight things this big, but you better be good with that huge blade of yours. . ." *She gets out her staff*

Amphora: "Well. . . Beofre you were born, when I was young, I fought Vykkers and Big Bros with this very weapon. . . I was young, then. . . I don't think I have it in me. . . and if it's okay with you, I'm gonna go home now and get your bro. . ."

Blue: "Good idea. . . But hurry up!"

*Amphora runs off - but not very fast being an old man.*

Blue: *Looks at the rest of the group* "I hope you guys are good at fighting. . . Becausse we don't actually have a choice right now. . ."
- DH

Dementa clenched her jaw and scrowled.
No they will not have me again.... she thought as she silently took off her gloves and tucked them into her belt for safe keeping.
"I'll distract them..." she said just loud enough for Svag and the others to hear as she stepped into the shadows, "You'll know when to shoot."
If I wasn't injured this would be easy... she thought, I'm going to feel this tonight...if we live through this...
She crept through the shadows, she knew the Big Bro's eyesight was poor so she counted on that. Soon she was close enough to the Big Bro to reach out to touch him and he was completely unaware of her presence. So she did. She reached out and touched a part of the Big Bro's uncovered arm and the BBS immediately doubled over in pain screaming in agony.
"What the..." One of the other BBS's said, "Over there!"
Dementa bolted out of the way just in time to avoid a hail of bullets...which turned the nearby shrub she was in into swiss cheese...

It was in this moment of pain that Kelp siezed the initiative. Rolling right, he empties one clip into the bigbro. As they said, terminate with extreme predjudice. sprining up again, he unloads another clip, nailing the next closest character, which happened to be the shooting bigbro. Even as he began to reload, Kili was moving, seeing everything that was happening, processing, and knowing what to do in a split second. Then the rest of that second consists of her tomahawk exploding into the head of the nearest bigbro, splitting it down the middle. By this point, Kelp is reloaded. Emptying his final clips, he mows down the area where the shrub-to-swiss-cheese bullets had come from. Three bigbros collapsed, blitzpackers hitting dirt.

"There are more where that came from! RUN!"

And both he and Kili take off, only stopping to pick up her tomahawk. Then a timid voice in the backround, the voice of a dying bigbro.

"He's goin' ther wrong way... Thats ter vykker labs..."

Blue: "Hey! Wait!! Come back here you two!"

*Blue starts shooting all the pods that are decending on them with her stun beams. Some of them damage and start flying awkwardly and slowly. Others crash to the ground.*

Blue: "Stick with us! We'll take you back to the nearest village!"

*She shoots down/damages more pods that are decending on them*
- DH

The echo of gunshots rang off into the forest. Svag hurled a grenade at a pod that was about land. He saw BigBros leap from the cockpit seconds before the explosion shook the ground. The BBS's attempt to save themselves was in vain, however, as they hit the ground they were welcomed by a spray of bullets. He saw a snoozer approaching him, preparing to fire on him. Should have shot sooner, Svag thought as he riddled it with lead.

He saw Dementa approaching one of the sligs, unarmed, which he found very stange. Dementa touched the slig's arm and it fell over in agony. It was then shot by one of the mudokons; who seemed to be a feirce fighter, indeed. He stared awkwardly at Dementa for a moment, wondering how in Odd's name she did that.

He then put his attention back on the combat, which was dieing down as a result of most of the BigBros retreating back to the few operational pods. "Cowards," he muttered to himself, louder than he had intended.

He saw the Vykkers main ship flying off. In truth, he was almost disappointed with that fight. He also thought that the infamous BigBros would be just a little more infamous.

Now one question remained: Which one of them did the Vykkers want?

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*Blue is now breathing heavily, and now uses her staff for support, having eaten up her own energy after shooting all those beams, and watches the Vykkers labs ship loom away obove the treeline. She amkes a rude gesture at them as they fly off, and leans against one of the undamaged pods.*
- DH

Dementa pretty didn't really do anything else...other then draw fire and dodge bullets, which she was able to do easily dispite her injury. It did hurt but she was able to ignore it. Once the enemy had enough and retreated, she rejoined the others, putting her gloves back on as she approached them.
"That went easier then I thought it would." She commented, grinning slightly. "We make a good team. Oh does anyone need ammo refills?" She held up several clips she had swiped off the Big Bros during the fight and grinned mischieviously.

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Blue: "Ya know what?" *She bites into one of those green banna like friuts.* "Though we probably would make a good fighting team, we haven't introduced each other yet, have we?"
- DH

Svag took a couple clips, as he was running low. He loaded one clip into his gun and stuck the others in his belt. As he wiped his gun off, he spoke to Dementa. "How did you inflict so much pain upon that slig by just touching him?" he inquired.

Dementa frowned slightly when he asked that.
"I suppose I should tell you..." she said, fighting the memories that where threatening to overwhelm her again, "Basically...I am cursed. When ever anyone touches me or I touch them with skin to skin contact they double over in pain for a few seconds. That's why I warned you not to touch me before." She sighed sadly, "Its the same curse that has been keeping me alive for the past 300 years..." she hung her head, shedding a tear, "300 years of misery and having no choice but to make do with whatever the fates threw at me."
She shook herself off, regaining her composer(sp). She didn't mean to reveal that much..but it was too late now...

Svag pondered for a moment on what Dementa had told him, then tried to think of something comforting to say. He was never much of a way with words. Her sadness almost made him wish he'd kept his mouth shut. But he never cared for other people. What was making him care now? Probably just a phase, it'll pass soon. Svag thought, not wanting to bear the fact that he was going soft.

"I am Svag," he said, responding to the stange mudokon's earlier question, " I come from the north." Maybe I should tell them more... thought the slig. Yes, a voice inside him seemed to answer. Tell them about the factory, about the mudokon, your father and how he treated you, the voice went on. tell them about the voice on the wind that called you. You ARE still following it... Svag shuttered. Where did that voice come from? It wasn't the same one that called him on this journey, this voice was harsher. No. Svag said, contradicting the voice. They will know when I am sure they can be trusted.
But when will that be? was the voice's final question. Svag himself actually wondered when he COULD actually trust these newcomers.

He shook off those thoughts and looked back up at the group; trying act as cool as possible...

"How rude of me..." Dementa said when she remembered the Blue muds question. "I am Dementa...last of the Drakkics." She didn't know for sure if she really was the last, but she hasn't seen another of her kind since the Cartel attacked 3 years after she was cursed...so she was assuming that she was.

"you know who they were looking for don't you?" said raznet"no"savg replied"no i don't"
"they were looking for me,you see i am nuber 12 and i gave my self the name raznet snice that was what the scrub called me,he was my only friend,but now you MUST chose,kill me and not draw ation or don't kill me and find out what happens." the group looked around "well you have to chose and i would think the beast time would be NOW!" he barked "even though you killed as many as you did they will keep looking for me,the vykkers wan't to make a evil race of killers based on my DNA there for they wan't me alive i don't know why they did'nt just go for me....have any of you ever been capured or teasted by them.....becuse they might wan't to use your DNA also".....

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OOC: um Abe's son...all the enemy sligs have retreated...they are long gone. Try to pay attention please.

meanwhile, Kelp and Kili had picked up one of the other pods. Kelp took his ammo back, and laughed.

"Made it! Now, to rearm. Excellent, they have pistol ammo."

He took the controls, and steered towards the cleering, checking his ammo supply. Then he wheels towards the clearing. As he lands, everyone looks towards him as he comes out, both pistols drawn. Kili is right behind him, with tommahawk ready.

"now, my sligly little runaway, we will see what my masters can think up as punishment for running away. Oh, and if the drakkic so much as moves, i will blow her frackin head off. the same goes for all of you. Kili, knock out the magic one..."

Kili moves forward, and suddenly swingning viciously at blue's head with the tomahawk.

"don't make me kill you"said raznet"me a savg could take you down no problem"he armed his arm canon and his net gun"now"said raznet aiming the wepons at them"do you wan't them dead or alive?"...

"Looks like a made a slight error in judgement, sorry about that Svag." Dementa quietly. Then she looked at Kelp and chuckled. "You obviously didn't hear my tale before...." She grinned, almost evilly. Kelp did not know she was incapable of 'perament' death. And as a indirect side effect of that knowledge...the power of it can overwhelm her sometimes...like it is now. Her tail twitched in a preditor's fashion and suddenly she shoot forward...Too fast for Kelp to react. She dove, twisted around and kicked out with her feet, Striking his hands and knocking the pistols out of them. Then she rolled and lept onto Kelp's back, careful not to touch him skin to skin yet.
"Move jerk and you will feel the pain." she scowled. "I don't need my gloves off to hurt you with my harm touch...any part of my body will do..."

(OOC: This was done after a rather confusing session on MSN Messenger)

Blue: *Has thrown her shield up just intime to block Kili's blow.*

Kili: *Makes a recovery swing, and aims it at Dementa.*

Dementa: *Hears the tomahawk just in time to dodge.*

*It hits Kelp full in the back, just missing his spine and hitting his metal ribs. He spins around and dives for the pistols.*

Kelp: (Yells) "You will die for this!" *Fires a clip in Blue and Dementa's direction. It bounces off Blue's sheild. Kelp has just enough time to swing his sniper rifle off his back, and take aim at Blue. He is thinking it will shatter the shield, being the equivalent of a 5.5 Caliber. He fires.*

Dementa: *Ducks, spins, and smacks Kelp in the face with her tail. Harm touch effects him.*

*Kelp screams, and rolls. Kelp's rifle bullet shattered the shield, but missed Blue on the other side. Blue simply re-activates the shield.*

Kelp: *Recovers, and is now panting.* "Ugh. . . Stalemate. . ."

*Blue deactivates her sheild, and takes careful aim at Kili with one of her stun beams. Kili dives behind a tree. Blue runs up and grabs Kili's tomahawk, stopping her from using it.*

Kili: "Hold! Back off and lets talk this out, I don't wanna kill nobody!

Blue: "Neither do I, but you're the one who started this fight. . ."

Dementa: *Growling* "You shouldn't assume all sligs are runaways. . ."

Kelp: "Fine, let's talk."

Dementa: *Wants to say something sarcastic but keeps her mouth shut. Instead she leans back against a tree.*

Kili: "Before we start talking, let's all throw our weapons down. . ."

*Kelp tosses his pistols and rifle towards Dementa.*

Blue: *Lets go of Kili's tomahawk, and puts her staff away.*

Kili: "Now, whaddaya know about the mudokon resistance leader, Asmitt?"

Blue: "Who?"

Dementa: *Raises a brow.* "Never heard of him."

Blue: "Me niether."

Kili: "The mudokon we are hunting, the one with the giant sword."

Dementa: *Shakes her head.*

Blue: "The only Mudokon I know with a weapon that's even close to a big sword is my dad, the mudkon that ran off a few minutes ago. He has this massive blade."

(OOC: We had to stop here. Oh yeah, Oddite? Why don't you get MSN Messenger?)
- DH

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Svag smiled. He was beginning to like the drakkic. As Kelp was stuggling with Dementa, Svag aimed his machine gun right between his eyes. Svag grinned menacingly at the mudokon, daring him to make a move. As for Kelp's friend, Svag figured the magic one could take her, she seemed strong enough. "Surrender now, young fool. Or would you rather join the others?" Svag siad threateningly, as he motioned toward the bodies of BigBros that littered the ground. Svag kept a strong hold on his gun, still aiming it in the same spot on Kelp's head. He cocked his head as if to say, 'what are you gonna do now?'. Svag began to move the barrel of his gun around from the mudokon's forehead, to his throat, to his chest, to his stomach, and back to his head. He staed at his target malevolently and said,

"Checkmate."

Edit :(OOC- *sighs* I started writing this before DH's post. Just insert this in between Dragadon's and Dark Hood's posts.)

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Dementa frowned when she remembered that Kili said that they were 'hunting' a mudokon resitence leader.
"So you two are bounty hunters..." Dementa said casually, hiding her distaste, "Working for the Cartel no doubt."
She had no love for anyone that willingly worked for the Cartel. They didn't know that she had helped the mudokon resistence whenever she could...as well as the slig revolution. It was a way she could 'pay back' the Cartel for destroying her kind.
Now her disgust showed, her face tentacles folding up and her lips curling into a sneer. She also didn't like mudokons that willingly helped the Cartel and she glared at Kili.
"What made you turn against your own kind mud?" she asked, plainly, "What made you hate them so much that you want them to stay as slaves and a source of food for the main destroyers of Oddworld: The Magtog Cartel?"
Dementa silent moved their weapons behind her with her tail and feet, just in case they decide to rush to grab them.

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(OOC- I think I have MSN messenger, DH.)

Svag looked at the ground, he knew little of the Cartel. For some reason, Dementa had little taste for them; and he was willing to bet she had good reason for it. The little Svag knew about the Magog Cartel, was that they owned the factory his father worked at. He remembered well the visits of the High-Ranking Glukkons. On those days the adult sligs kicked him out of the way more than usual. He was too young to fight back, then. It was the Cartel that was so afraid of the secret of the factory explosion leaking out. His father worked at a weapons factory. One day, an explosion caused by a reactor defect killed his abusive patriarch and many others. The guards were reassined, the slaves resold. However, he was left among the ruins, scarred badly from the explosion. His skin healed, but not a heathy green, it became an ugly black. He forged a shelter out of scrap metal, and salvaged other things, as well. Yes, he remembered that northern factory well.

He looked back up at the two bounty hunters, then down at his machine gun that was lying on the ground. He felt insecure without it, and was anxious to pick it back up...

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(ooc: if you do have MSN, my addy is: dragonzone@earthlink.net )

(OOC- Never mind, my msn messenger doesn't work right.)

*raznet begins holding his ristes*"what the..."suddenly the armour on his arms fall of to revel that clear sacks filled with what looked like lizerd embroys(sp)on each arm"what is this?"said raznet"A.L.F"he said aloud"what is this?"scaning.......................scan complet,aperntly you have formed some type of eggsacks on your arms,maby haveing to do with that you unisex"so....your breeding?"said blue"appentley so"said raznet.....

OOC: uh AS...do you have an actual plan layed out for your character? It doesn't seem that way...it looks like you are just randomly throwing situation with us with no build up at all. Please stop it...it is getting annoying.

Oddite: have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling MSN?

(OOC:

AS: yeah, why not plan before you write?

Oddite: Then again, MSN Never works right in the first place, but anyway, we still use it. Try what Drag suggested.)

Kelp was feeling quite put out. "who said that we were working for the cartel. No, the vykkers hired me, and she it tagging along, probably with some personal vendetta against asmitt. I DETEST the Magog Cartel after they thought that my size made me weak. I killed two glukks and a few bigbros, then said frack it and blew the whole damn place sky high(OOC:this is NOT the incident that Svag was speaking of). SO, now, whaddaya know about Asmitt, before i get jumpy... Might twitch, if you get my meaning..."

"I don't think any of us present knows about him." Dementa said, calming down a bit but still keeping up her guard. She didn't like Vykker's either... "Why are you looking for him?"

"how'd you think we eat?" kelp replied.

"No...I didn't ask why you work for the Vykkers...I am asking you why you are looking for this 'Assmitt' other then for the money." Dementa said, "And you don't need money in order to eat...you can live off the land like I do."

Kelp smiles "oh, not me. Simply professional. She has some sort of vendetta against him, i think. never bothered to ask. Partners in war just leave such things unsaid. But no, i dislike most vegetables, although nuts and fruits are fine. I prefer scrab well roasted."

Blue: "My faimily also live off the land. We reside in a group of 5 houses on the edge of Pyke, and we live a very happy life, even if we don't have very much moolah. Even if you don't like vegeatables, you can always hunt. I never hunt, beacuse I don't like or need meat, but lots of my friends do."
- DH

Kelp grins.

"well, since we are getting nowhere..."

He enters the pod he stole, grunts and tosses out a bedroll, grunts again, and tosses out another. He steps out and unrolls one.

"you 'naturalist' types can find beds in your own homes. I will sleep here, and kili can do as she wishes with her bedroll."

Kili takes her bedroll.

"thanks, i'll sleep in a tree."

So saying she climbs into a tree, slithers into her bedroll, and promptly dozes off. Kelp is but a few minutes after.

Dementa shrugs.
"NiteOwls..but then who am I to talk. Considering some of the 'jobs' I have done for the resistence in the past."
Damn I shouldn't have said that... she thought cursing her loose tongue. She didn't trust Kelp and Kili yet...especially after that last fight...and she wasn't too sure about Svag's stance either. The other mud she felt comfortable with though.

Svag thought about how much msn messenger sucks because it doesn't work on his computer!

OOC- (Hahaha, just kidding. I needed to say that.)

Svag made up his mind to go to sleep last, lest the bounty hunters try anything. He could probably find a tree or something to lean against for the night. He heard Dementa say something about her helping the mudokon resistance, than looking like she was going to kick herself. He almost laughed at the conversation about 'living off the land'. He'd never grown (or eaten) a vegetable in his life. "One of us should probably keep watch." Svag spoke up, "The Vykkers, or something else, could come looking for a meal or test subject." He slung his machine gun over his shoulder and said, "I'll take first shift." After all, the less he slept, the less nightmares he had to experiance...

raznet whent and layed down on the side of a tree"well"he said"since i don't realy need sleep....i'll be half awake"then he closed his eyes....

[OOC: Hehe... Held at gunpoint and you guys still find time for a debate about the merits of vegetarianism... You've got to laugh, haven't you?]

(OOC: Oddite, you seem to have forgotten - it is still morning. LTBB's charrs have gone to sleep because they apprantly were awake all night.)

Blue: "Humph. Well, since it's still only morning, I'm off home now. However. . ." *Notices one of the Vykker pods, which is intact* "Hmmm. . ." *She gets in, and closes the top.* "I wonder how this works. . .?" *She presses a button. The pod immediatley starts hovering, making a loud noise* "Yeow!! Hey, I remember, I think I flew one of these before eons ago when I was about 5. . . Dunno how I managed to do it, but hey. . ." *She grabs the joystick* "Turn left. . . Turn right. . . Hover up. . . Hey, this is easy! Check this out!" *she files in a circle, then lands again, and gets out* "Heheheh, cool! Hey, Dementa, there's room for two in there, you wanna come back to the closest Village of Pyke with me?"
- DH

"No thanks..." Dementa said with a shake of her head, "I don't have a need to go to town right now. I tend to avoid populated areas...I will however...go hunting. I'll be back in a bit."
At that Dementa lept into a tree and bounded off...

(ooc: I'm trying to hold off Dementa coming into Pyke until the Malice plot is finished...might not make it though....)

"do they have any thing of use for me there..say....wepons? or do you think i'll scare the natives?"...