DarlingRascal
MaeB
ihinka
Redking0380
Ikan
Dioxide
Aku the Samurai
Dane
Karma Love
Haruka & Shizuka Takashiro.
Once they reached the safezone set up around the NEST Headquarters, Lihua left the group with her baby - the twins and their aunt were now on their own. Then, at the gathering area Akemi said she had to look for someone - while the older Takashiro seemed a little confused, Shizuka could guess that she was talking about that NEST agent, Holly. He simply waved her off before he dragged his brother towards where most of the Metahuman remnants were.
However, the sight that greeted them was worse than they had expected.
Many of the survivors sustained a certain degree of injury - some were even at the brink of death by the time they were brought in - and it was apparent that there was a serious shortage of those with healing abilities around to help relief the grim situation.
It's almost like this place was the eye in the middle of a hurricane.
Instead of searching for familiar faces among the crowd of casualties like what Haruka had been doing, the younger twin's mind was still on the slime mutants he had fought - twice - and tried to re-assess what he could gather about them...anything that might help him to gain an edge to deal with those pests if he had to encounter them later. "---Oi, Shizu." In which Haruka had to resort to pull his sleeve to get his attention. "You...have a scary look on your face. What's wrong?"
"Just thinking about those pesky, disgusting minions," Shizuka exhaled and replied back in Japanese, running a hand through his graying hair. (Haruka swore it was only his imagination that those stray black strands were even fewer than before.) "Judging from how they attacked the Metapeople and all, I'm pretty sure they don't have much of a brain of their own - there must be a main commander remotely controlling them from somewhere."
"Makes sense." Haruka lowered his head as he thought about what his brother had said. Well, if he had to take a leaf out of Shizuka's book of sarcasm, whatever that's happening now was like a horror-apocalypse B-movie turned real.
"Even though it's only momentarily, when I touched the monster and expanded my intangibility to it, it seemed to stop moving all of a sudden." Shizuka stared into his left palm. "My power does allow me to pass through things like TV and phones, but not the electrical current that flows within them, not even signal waves... Hang on."
"Now what?" Haruka went rigid at Shizuka's sudden exclamation. Though they were twins living together ever since they were born, he still couldn't keep up with Shizuka's thinking pace.
"'Control'... 'Current'... 'Signal'... Yeah, that's it!" Shizuka slapped a hand on his forehead. "Jeez, I can't believe I'm soooo slow!"
"Seriously, what the heck are you trying to say?" Haruka was feeling a little annoyed at the (pointless) suspense.
He got a smirk as response from Shizuka. "Say... What if telepathy is useless against my phasing power?" Well, 'disrupting the telepathic link' would be a more accurate way to describe what he had in mind, but that wasn't the most important thing right now.
"Te...'Telepathy'? Those creatures are actually linked together mentally?" Then a sudden realization hit him, and he gripped onto Shizuka's shoulder. "Please don't tell me you're going out there again just to test out your theory."
"Nah." Shizuka shook off his brother's claw with partial phasing. "I'm not stupid enough to throw away my life for nothing, pussy." He meant what he said - it's definitely a great discovery, but he would hold his excitement back for the time being.
First, let's see how the rest of this world-ending drama is going to unfold...