When the alarms went off, Rachel started sprinting, searching the mansion for Sinna desperately. She was not going to let the girl get hurt again so soon after waking up. Tyran and Steel were around and could hold the fort until she got Sinna to safety. No point risking injured members. She soon found who she was looking for, "Sinna!" Rachel cried out, nearly crying in relief as she found the girl and dragged her back towards the infirmary. "Come on, there's an intruder-"
The alarms were disabled then, signalling the all clear. "Huh, guess not." She relaxed and hugged Sinna tightly. "I've missed you." She whispered softly before getting bolder and kissing the mage on the lips. "And I like you too. I've waited two months to say it, you jerkface."
Hikari cursed as she grabbed her bow and quiver from her duffel bag. Her armor would have to wait. She did as Tyran told and watched out for enemies in the mansion windows, though she found none. When they were confronted with the Atlantean, she relaxed a little after listening to the conversation between the two. She typed a few commands into her tablet and disabled the alarms. "Sensors aren't picking up anyone else who shouldn't be here." She informed the other two Titans. So it seemed they had found a stray.
"There's always room in the mansion, but I say we check him out in the infirmary first." The archer suggested, hearing Rachel's voice echoing from upstairs. If she was back here, it meant Sinna was awake. Loathe as she was to bring a potential enemy straight to the two of them, they were additional hands on their side to help if the Atlantean was hostile.
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Stryder said
He actually had this idea inside of Insurrection <.<
I know, I was kidding. =__=
Really though, Grant has no idea how to read the mood whatsoever.
Comatose girlfriend who just woke up > random dude that disappeared for two months xD He's going to be ignored for a while
And good thing I read the OOC first I was about to ask when did Grant become an archer >.> Making the jump from guns to bows is a lot more difficult than bows to guns.
WitchChild said
How about a guy that throws rocketpropelled javelins? Or uses dual pistol crossbows/wrist mounted projectile weapons
Wonder where you got that from... *tries not to point at my sig*
That sucks, he was going to the superpowers wiki looking for a good one to use too :/
Hikari was panting as she fired arrow after arrow at her enemies. The sound of shattering armor and battle cries drowned out any other sound and all she could were huge oni bearing large swords, bludgeons and bows and all coming after her. She dodged, weaved and moved through the terrain easily as she picked her targets down efficiently and with amazing ease.
Once the last of the largest opponents were down, she turned around, drawing her sword and fighting back against the normal-sized creatures, meeting them in melee and moving with deadly ease. Too sloppy! Faster! Deadlier! She kept screaming at herself in her mind as she sliced through each and every one of her opponents with brutal lethality.
She spun and dodged a spear thrust, just barely, before lopping off the attacker's arm and felling her last opponent. The dim arena then started lighting up as her enemies began reassembling themselves, shatter clay and steel moving back to reform the oni that inhabited it. This time, however, they remained still. Hikari pushed the large double doors open and exited, only to find her mother standnig there.
"Every day for the past six weeks you have been down here honing your skills. Every day I watch you grow stronger in skill but weaker in your heart." She spoke as she walked back to the main mansion with Hikari. "This burden you carry, perhaps you think it is heavier than it is?"
"Mother, I failed the city. I was supposed to protect it but I could nothing against the enemy that was of use. I am a daughter of the Shirogane clan, and trained to fight since I was old enough to hold a weapon. All that counted for nothing in my battles. I cannot fail again." She replied with a heavy heart. The fact that her arrows had been next to useless wore on her. What use were her powers and skills if she couldn't even scratch her opponent?
"Nobody said the Shiroganes were unbeatable." Her mother answered with a knowing smile. "A warrior has to learn that some times, victory is simply surviving the battle. You were always able to take injuries to your body better than your pride. Every loss can be a lesson to temper and forge you into a better fighter, if you choose it." With that her mother picked up a bow as well and walked down the length of the corridor and fired it at Hikari. She intercepted it with one of her own arrows, the two projectiles meeting in mid-air and striking each other away.
"You were not able to do that six weeks ago. I think you came out a better warrior after that experience, no?" Her mother offered helpfully before leaving her to change out of her armor alone.
A week later
Hikari was back in her bar, and tending to business. It had been in good hands while she was away but now she really needed to get back on her feet and rebuild her life here. The Titans would need her, even if she didn't believe, and she wouldn't let them down again. She would fight with every fiber of her being. She kept up on the news reports of course, and knew the team was still licking their wounds.
She got on her bike and headed right for the Titans' HQ, hoping they would not fail to recognise her. She had grown her hair out and looked very different as a result. It didn't take long for her to arrive, and see a few of them going about her daily business. She stopped a fair distance from the main door and got off from her bike, walking up to the entrance and seeing Tyran and Steel out there. "I'm back." She greeted them with a smile, a new air of determination about her. "Where are the others?"
Once the last of the largest opponents were down, she turned around, drawing her sword and fighting back against the normal-sized creatures, meeting them in melee and moving with deadly ease. Too sloppy! Faster! Deadlier! She kept screaming at herself in her mind as she sliced through each and every one of her opponents with brutal lethality.
She spun and dodged a spear thrust, just barely, before lopping off the attacker's arm and felling her last opponent. The dim arena then started lighting up as her enemies began reassembling themselves, shatter clay and steel moving back to reform the oni that inhabited it. This time, however, they remained still. Hikari pushed the large double doors open and exited, only to find her mother standnig there.
"Every day for the past six weeks you have been down here honing your skills. Every day I watch you grow stronger in skill but weaker in your heart." She spoke as she walked back to the main mansion with Hikari. "This burden you carry, perhaps you think it is heavier than it is?"
"Mother, I failed the city. I was supposed to protect it but I could nothing against the enemy that was of use. I am a daughter of the Shirogane clan, and trained to fight since I was old enough to hold a weapon. All that counted for nothing in my battles. I cannot fail again." She replied with a heavy heart. The fact that her arrows had been next to useless wore on her. What use were her powers and skills if she couldn't even scratch her opponent?
"Nobody said the Shiroganes were unbeatable." Her mother answered with a knowing smile. "A warrior has to learn that some times, victory is simply surviving the battle. You were always able to take injuries to your body better than your pride. Every loss can be a lesson to temper and forge you into a better fighter, if you choose it." With that her mother picked up a bow as well and walked down the length of the corridor and fired it at Hikari. She intercepted it with one of her own arrows, the two projectiles meeting in mid-air and striking each other away.
"You were not able to do that six weeks ago. I think you came out a better warrior after that experience, no?" Her mother offered helpfully before leaving her to change out of her armor alone.
A week later
Hikari was back in her bar, and tending to business. It had been in good hands while she was away but now she really needed to get back on her feet and rebuild her life here. The Titans would need her, even if she didn't believe, and she wouldn't let them down again. She would fight with every fiber of her being. She kept up on the news reports of course, and knew the team was still licking their wounds.
She got on her bike and headed right for the Titans' HQ, hoping they would not fail to recognise her. She had grown her hair out and looked very different as a result. It didn't take long for her to arrive, and see a few of them going about her daily business. She stopped a fair distance from the main door and got off from her bike, walking up to the entrance and seeing Tyran and Steel out there. "I'm back." She greeted them with a smile, a new air of determination about her. "Where are the others?"
cepheus said
P.S. i'm new :) hello!
There was a new CS, just saying.
"I... like... yo-" Those were the last words Rachel heard from Sinna before the mage blacked out. The girl had panicked, ill-equipped to help her here in her underground hideout and unsure what was wrong with Sinna in the first place. It was Rachel who had brought her back to the base, hooked her up to the IV in the infirmary and kept the system monitoring her before locking the room out. Only the Titans would be able to enter and leave the room, and no one else. She did not want anybody sneaking in and finishing the job of killing Sinna, after all.
"I like you too, so don't you dare die on me!" Rachel whispered in the unconscious girl's ear before planting a soft kiss on her head and leaving the room. Over the next two months she would sneak in when nobody was around and visit Sinna, leaving behind newspapers and checking on her condition. Two months, and Rachel had spent most of it underground. It wasn't by choice, Phantom had leaked the footage of her battle with her own parents to the media, and now she was public enemy number one - it was the most solid piece of evidence that condemned the Titans as killers and for their sake, she had distanced herself from the team.
It was also why she was now standing at her parents' graves, silently cursing her fate. She had loved them and despite their involvement with Phantom's plans, she couldn't find it in her heart to disown them or hate them. There was no other way the events at the hospital could have played out. She only wished she could come here as Rachel, in civilian clothes, and not in costume or hidden from sight. She had been working hard to chip away at the villain's operations, but so far she had little success. Whatever cells she did shut down were dangled in front of her by the man. It seemed he was downsizing his operation and letting the heroes do the job for him - there was nothing of value at any of the locations she attacked except the men she had captured and arrested.
She sighed and left the cemetery with a heavy heart, all the while being very careful not to be detected. That was when she received a message on her communicator. Sinna had woken up. She had set up the infirmary's sensors to inform her when that happened, and hoped the girl had not yet wandered off somewhere. Rachel raced to the tunnel systems she used for getting around the city, and revved up her car, speeding to the nearest exit that led to the mansion. It took all but fifteen minutes, since she didn't have contend with traffic or speed limits underground, and the vigilante was bursting through the door and calling out as if her life depended on it. "Sinna?"
"I like you too, so don't you dare die on me!" Rachel whispered in the unconscious girl's ear before planting a soft kiss on her head and leaving the room. Over the next two months she would sneak in when nobody was around and visit Sinna, leaving behind newspapers and checking on her condition. Two months, and Rachel had spent most of it underground. It wasn't by choice, Phantom had leaked the footage of her battle with her own parents to the media, and now she was public enemy number one - it was the most solid piece of evidence that condemned the Titans as killers and for their sake, she had distanced herself from the team.
It was also why she was now standing at her parents' graves, silently cursing her fate. She had loved them and despite their involvement with Phantom's plans, she couldn't find it in her heart to disown them or hate them. There was no other way the events at the hospital could have played out. She only wished she could come here as Rachel, in civilian clothes, and not in costume or hidden from sight. She had been working hard to chip away at the villain's operations, but so far she had little success. Whatever cells she did shut down were dangled in front of her by the man. It seemed he was downsizing his operation and letting the heroes do the job for him - there was nothing of value at any of the locations she attacked except the men she had captured and arrested.
She sighed and left the cemetery with a heavy heart, all the while being very careful not to be detected. That was when she received a message on her communicator. Sinna had woken up. She had set up the infirmary's sensors to inform her when that happened, and hoped the girl had not yet wandered off somewhere. Rachel raced to the tunnel systems she used for getting around the city, and revved up her car, speeding to the nearest exit that led to the mansion. It took all but fifteen minutes, since she didn't have contend with traffic or speed limits underground, and the vigilante was bursting through the door and calling out as if her life depended on it. "Sinna?"
So is the base abandoned or what?
*more titty pandering*
Btw, I never did get an answer on Arsenal... Yay or nay?
(And I really want to keep her disability, please?)
(And I really want to keep her disability, please?)
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