Subject Zero

The Unwanted. Superpowered RP with a hint of horror.

Nate furrowed his brow as Jennifer made her call, knowing exactly what was happening. How very dare she? Trying to cancel his contract? And Harrison was such so spineless that he'd probably do it just because she told him to. Hell, if Nate listened to everyone who told him not to do something, he never would have jumped off of that moving train that one time...Okay so he did end up with a broken collarbone and a concussion after that so it was probably good advice but if he hadn't he would have ended up in Detroit and a few broken bones are a good price to pay, considering.

"First of all, you owe me a lot of money." He informed J.J. "And second, you're adorable. You really think I'm just going to just let you walk away after all the time and effort and bullets I wasted getting you this far?"
"Nathan." said the duplicate. "It almost sounds like you're suggesting we kidnap her."
Nate made annoyed face at his clone and replied "It's not kidnapping. It's a surprise adoption."
Duplinate looked at him in a way that was eerily reminiscent of the way his mother used to look at him and said "We can't do that. She has a life to get back to." He raised an eyebrow then at Nate and Nate mirrored him.
"You're right." said Nate as he grabbed Jennifer by the hand and pulled her over to undo the cuffs. When they were off, he said "Well goodbye, Jennifer. It's been nice knowing you. You have fun with your drugs and the boyfriends who want you dead and the cops who want to arrest you for mass murder and the families that want you dead for that mass murder and the general downward spiral. We're gonna go actually find a solution to some of our problems but I'm sure we'll come visit you in rehab slash prison someday."
"If we're not too busy that day." added the clone.
"If we're not busy." Nate echoed, agreeing with his clone. He then leaned over Jen and opened the door for her before leaning back with one arm resting over the seat and the other waving at her. "Byeeee" he said with a smile.

@Xandrya
@Rawk

The Unwanted. Superpowered RP with a hint of horror.

Ok, time to take a break and let @Xandrya post now ;)

@Rawk

Agreed.

The Unwanted. Superpowered RP with a hint of horror.

The car suddenly jolted to a stop when Duplinate slammed on the breaks, causing Nate and J.J to almost slam into the back of the seats as a car behind them honked its horn and swerved around them. Nate managed to hold onto J.J to stop her from smacking her skull and quickly began attatching her seatbelt.

The clone shifted in his seat to face Vin and asked him "Let me get this straight. You want us to go back to a crime scene where there's not only a dead body that you killed with your tattoos and three other bodies that we killed while trying to save your ungrateful ass but also a metric fuckton of cops by this point all so you can play angry birds?" He stared at Vin like he was angry at the mere suggestion that they go back. Like it was the dumbest idea anyone had ever had.

"I think we can do it." said Nate in the backseat, completely contradicting his clone. "We still have FBI credentials. We could go in, get what we need and get out. We've done harder things." And that wasn't even a lie. Nate's background was in special operations and covert, undercover operations were definitely something that he had experience with. Dealing with local cops seemed like child's play. He hadn't used his undercover credentials since leaving the military but he still had them. Dig deep enough into his false identity and someone would probably find out that his credentials weren't valid but he doubted the local cops would do that.

"You're forgetting that they're already looking for us." Duplinate pointed out.

"So we'll send 3 in. He's back at the safehouse doing nothing." replied Nate before looking at his phone. "And if the selfies he's been posting are any indication, he has time stamped photographic proof that he, and therefor we, weren't at the scene at the time...Although I'm not sure the shirtless one is entirely necessary...He can get douchebag's phone and meet up with us later. If they recognize him and arrest him he can probably talk himself out of it. If not, it at least means they won't be looking for us anymore...Or me anyway. Meanwhile, we'll be figuring out why we have the world's worst case of split personality and these two clowns can figure out why they're so weird too...I guess."

Duplinate mulled the idea over for a second then turned to Vin and asked "Good enough?"

@Rawk
@Xandrya

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@Subject Zero If it was me running it, I would say yes, but the stuff he clones breaks a lot more easily, and he would have to concentrate on everything he wanted to clone.

For example, if he wanted to clone a pistol, he'd have to focus on all the moving components and how they connected, and he'd probably only get a couple shots off before something broke. And if he didn't remember to think about cloning bullets...

@Thundercrash

Yeah I was going to put some limits just like that. I don't want it to be too overpowered. Plus I don't think he'd learn this ability for quite a while anyway. He's only just starting to learn how to use his powers. Cloning the stuff that he has on him is just instinctual at the moment I think. I dunno...This whole power is kind of confusing.

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@Subject Zero

So when Nate clones himself, he is also cloning everything else on his possession? (i.e. weapons, armor, etc).

@Rawk

Pretty much. Occasionally it may not work though. So one may turn up without a gun or a phone or clothes...But let's hope that never happens.

I think he may actually be capable of duplicating individual Items in his hands, if Acer's okay with the power being stretched that far.

The Unwanted. Superpowered RP with a hint of horror.

Short post is short but...whatever.

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Nathan Hunter

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Both Nates started to laugh like something was absolutely hilarious and Nate, sitting in the backseat next to J.J, remarked "No, you should always watch the Twilight Zone marathon." Duplicate spun the car into another street right before a police cruiser zoomed into the street where they had just been. It was almost like he had experience avoiding the cops. The laughter died down and Nate introduced himself. "I'm Nate, by the way. This is also Nate." he said as he introduced his clone. "And this little lady of the night is Jennifer. Say hello Jennifer." Jennifer was currently unconscious so he planted a hand atop her head and bobbed it up and down like she was a puppet as he adopted a high pitched tone and said "Hi, crazy stranger. You got us into a lot of trouble. But that's okay because you're going to help us solve a mystery."

Vin received a quick but light hearted punch to the arm then from Duplinate who informed him. "That's for almost getting us killed, by the way. What the hell was all that about anyway? Did you owe those guys money? Did you give one of them chlamydia or something?"
"My money's on the second one." said Nate as he tried to balance J.J. in the back seat so she stopped falling over onto him.

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BTW, if it gets to that point, should we consider doing collaborative posts to keep dialogue moving along between characters?

In other words, sharing each other's drafts and adding into our character's dialogue as needed before actually posting the final? That being said, I use Google docs for all my posts before copy/pasting onto here, so I can easily share/edit with another Google users.

Just a thought for the future, or chime in your suggestions.

@Rawk

Well Xandrya and I used Pirate Pad for a collab between Nate and J.J. and that worked well. Just be aware though that collab's can get very long and I know not everyone likes reading long posts.

We could do a quick collab between Nate and Vin while J.J. is out though.

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Shit just got real.

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Nathan Hunter

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Rooting around in the pockets of the unconscious crazy, Duplinate hummed a tune that had been stuck in his head all week. He didn't find much. Car keys, some loose change and a packet of mints. But one thing was interesting. There was a small stack of photos in one pocket of the man's jacket. Photos of a young woman. Initially, as he flipped through them, Nate didn't think much about them but then one of them struck at a memory lodged in the back of his head.

He knew this girl. He didn't know her name or even anything about her but he had seen her before. It took a moment to place her but then...there she was. As clear as day. A memory washed over him. A memory of the last day he had felt normal. The day of the charity gala. He had seen this girl there. He remembered her. He remembered her smile...She was so happy.

And then she was gone.

They were all gone.

Dead. Like so many others that night.

Suddenly, the air of cool calmness left him and he frowned at the photo. He glanced up at his attacker, suddenly understanding so much more. He knew why he had tried to attack them now. The news had reported than he and J.J were wanted for questioning in regard to that night. This guy must have thought they had something to do with the nightmare that that night had become. He must have thought that they were responsible for killing this girl, whoever she was. Everything suddenly felt so real. So painfully real. Nate shifted from his knees to his backside and dropped his head into his hand for a moment. He had tried his hardest to push the memories of that night to the back of his head. He had tried not to think about the people that had died. Their families. All the people who loved them. But sitting here now, seeing the faces of one of them and confronted by someone who was so grief stricken that they would seek revenge...It all caught up with him.

He felt nothing but sympathy for the man in that moment. "Oh god." he whispered as he stared at the photos in his hands. He wished he could explain this to the man. To give him some kind of answer. But he had none to give. Not yet anyway. But that was what he was trying to do. Get answers. Some kind of explanation for the horror. He wished he had time to give him some kind of comfort but he knew there were more pressing matters. He took one last look at the photos he held, separating one from the others and staring at it. After taking a deep breath, he placed the photos back in the man's pocket. He kept hold of the one he had separated though, placing that one in his own pocket.

"I'm sorry." he said quietly to the unconscious man next to him before he got back to his feet and back in the car, quickly speeding off.

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Nate was too distracted to notice when Jennifer started doing her thing on the almost completely out of it Vin. If he had, he would have stopped her. He had already seen the drawback of her powers, taking on an element of whatever she healed, and he didn't like that she was making his job a lot harder. He was supposed to keep her safe and she was far from safe right now. Not only were there bullets whizzing around but she was actively harming herself too. Hell, Nate may have admired that kind of thing in anyone else. Anyone he wasn't supposed to be protecting.

By the time he noticed what was going on, it was too late to stop it and he could only bare his teeth at the entire situation to express his annoyance. Well that and fire bullets into people, which was what he was trying to do right now. He felt slightly better when one of the clones nailed one of the attackers in the arm. The other was well covered though and kept firing, causing both clones to duck.

When Vin began complaining about being shot at, Nate retorted "It's not my buddies shooting at us, moron. It's yours. Apparently they objected slightly to you murderizing beardy weirdo over there." At the suggestion that he call in backup, maybe even an air strike, Nate ducked back around behind the dumpster and planted his back against it next to Vin as he he thought about that for a rather long second before shaking his head and saying "Nah. That'd be fun but slightly overkill...But I do like the way you think."

The air strike ultimately proved unnecessary. One of the clones dropped the goon that he had already wounded, making this an entirely unfair fight. The last attacker apparently knew this and began back peddling out of the alley. But right as he did so, a car pulled up at the street and out stepped Duplinate. He quickly and and almost casually fired at the last goon, dropping him in a heartbeat. With that out of the way, he yelled at the others "Get your shit and get in the car! We gotta go!"

Hearing the sound of sirens quickly approaching, Nate reacted even before his clone had finished his sentence, snatching up Jennifer and carrying her to the car where he placed her in the back seat and got in beside her. The other two clones were almost as quickly on top of Vin, whom they grabbed by the arms and hauled him towards the car. "Sorry but you need to come with us. No time to explain."
"Your car's at at a crime scene with two flat tires and four dead bodies. One of which you're responsible for." said the other. "You'll be arrested if you're still here when the cops show up."
"...Apparently there is time to explain." added the first.

The clones shoved Vin into the passenger seat of the car next to Duplinate as Nate shoved a hand out the window which they both grabbed hold of and seemed to instantly vanish. The group were quickly gone from this latest disaster, leaving chaos and the sound of sirens behind them.

@Rawk
@Xandrya