[color=598527][h1]The Warden//Episode One//Why do we Even Have These Droids[/h1][/color]

The Warden realized on raising himself up to the top that he didn't really know what to do now. [i]There has to be somewhere that controls the combat droids...something that let them malfunction in the first place...[/i] The Warden in general didn't keep up with the technical side of the base, but did know that the main control room had a few emergency shutdown buttons, one of which was for the training room. [i]That would do for starters....[/i] he thought, before hearing the telltale sounds of another droid, this one entering the lobby. He quickly dove to the side, taking the still unpowered Najee with him in a protective roll as the Supergirl droid dove at where the two were standing a second before. Two more entered, a Warden and a Starman. Quickly getting back on his feet, Warden assumed a fighting stance as the three bots started circling him. [color=598527]"I could really use Shazam right now..."[/color] he said to the boy he assumed was still behind him - until he heard the pitterpatter of a small child running, and turned around in time to see Najee disappear around a corner. [color=598527][b]"NAJEE"[/b][/color] he yelled, as the Starman bot pushed him up against the wall with its powers. 

Forced to engage, The Warden rolled from his fallen position, coiled his vines behind himself and launched himself at the Starman clone, fist first. Smashing a hole in the bot's midriff, he followed up with the brambled vine, hitting the starman clone into the wall, HARD. Ducking, he dodged a vine attack from the Warden clone, tripping it with one of his own vines before getting hit by a spurt of heat ray the supergirl clone was attempting to control. Knocked back closer to the Warden clone by the painful blast, the Warden took it in stride, laying into the still fallen clone with a strong kick. Dodging a shot from the shorting out Starman clone, the Warden sent out two vines at the Supergirl clone. it dodged the one aimed at its head, but the other came from the other side straight at its hips, and sent the robot sprawling. As he was doing this, he began to close the distance with the Starman clone before he felt his entire body just... stop ...

The Warden clone pulled harder on his vines as The Warden resisted its powers. He could feel the tears forming on his spine as the clone controlled him by his plant half, before getting thrown into the wall. Picked up again, he was teed up for the Supergirl clone, who flew into him HARD. Slammed into yet another wall, the Warden struggled to get up, trying to focus his own powers as his clone again grabbed him using its plant control abilities, this time slamming him into the roof. as the Warden fell, he threw another one of his acorns hard at his clone. as he did so, he grabbed onto the rafters with two vines, dodging a shot from the starman clone and sending the brambled vine at his clone. Focusing into the acorn, it began to sprout, until his clone noticed it, and focused all of its power on stopping that growth. The acorn dinked uselessly off of the robot, which was then blindsided by a vine wrapping around its neck. The warden squeezed tighter, and the robot's illusory appearance began to fade as the vine wrapped further around it and crushed the machine.

As this was happening, The Warden turned his attention to other matters, namely dodging the attacking supergirl clone. He still got caught in its flyby and took a hit to the chest that probably broke a rib, but he also managed to catch it with a vine by the foot. pulled for a bit by its flight, he was eventually able to swing the now completely busted warden clone into the Supergirl and knock it off balance, and began dragging it towards him. Meanwhile, his final vine began jousting with the already heavily damaged Starman clone, slowly getting the better of it, smashing its head off of the rest of its body. Meanwhile, the Supergirl clone was slowly dragging him towards it by his vines. Pulling himself towards it, he punched hard, while taking a punch from it. they sparred that way in the while for a small while, before The Warden was able to catch it off guard with a kick after moving his vines a little funny. From there, he grabbed the back of its head and kneed it in the crotch repeatedly until the illusion faded and it became nothing but a set of parts. quickly grabbing out with the vine that defeated the Starman clone, he caught himself on the rafters as the formerly flying robot fell, and established himself up there as he checked for obvious wounds. 

Wiping his mouth gave him a clue to the first major wound, as blood leaked out - definitely a rib or two. He couldn't see his spine, but he definitely felt the dull pain thudding along it, the bonds between his two halves torn at and frayed. [i]Need to minimize further contact...initiate on my own terms...also need to find Najee - but is saving one at great risk to my own life truly worth endangering the lives of everyone to the hordes of robots?...[/i] he considered this as he extended a vine to recover his acorn, returning it to its seed form. [i]Am too weak to try and find him...perhaps he is on a mission of his own?...[/i] he looked up, and to the left, to the ventilation shaft. He might not know the technical side of the building well, but he did know its physical side in and out, both through maps and his own exploration. He could get to the main control room in just a few minutes, mostly silently, and without running into more bots - and hopefully disable them in one fell swoop. Removing the cover, he climbed in and re-attached it, and made his way to his next goal. 


([@Afro Samurai])