Vocalia

Fateful Convergence

"Y-Yeah, I think..." Hayley replied, breathing heavily as her heart raced with fear and worry. "Isaac, we're back... We're actually back home... and we're still alive! How did we get here? Where's that posh jackass?!" she asked, looking at her familiar kitchen. The fact that she could feel Isaac's skin and his own frame holding her still convinced her that she wasn't imagining things. "Did he hurt you? I'm sorry I tried to step in... I shouldn't have done that and put you through so much danger. Still, my head feels empty and I can't recall anything after I passed out. What happened?"

Fateful Convergence

When Hayley actually stirred and opened her eyes, she found herself on her bed inside her bedroom with no memory on how she got back home in the first place. "Ngh... What happened?" she groaned and sat up, trying to make sense of what had happened to her and why her mind felt like a big blank canvas. "I... went out to get some groceries with Isaac, then went home, then..." Mulling silently for a while, her eyes widened when she remembered what happened before she lost consciousness. "Isaac!!" she screamed in panic and barged out of the door to look for her friend, not caring about herself.

Fateful Convergence

'Hayley' stood up and looked at Isaac's outstretched hand. "I cannot accept your symbolism of cooperation. You and another figure identified as Vincent are categorized as high risk presences and there was an existing record of Vincent putting the operator under imminent termination. I currently lack sufficient data about you and Vincent to alter my database for the present time. I will maintain my primary directive until there is sufficient information to trigger a hypothetical major update. Until such event occurred, you and Vincent are designated as high-risk individuals and I shall keep you both under strict surveillance. Be advised that the operator may act on her own directives and her observation will differ significantly, but I will override her directives should either of you prove to be a legitimate threat."

As if sensing something, she briefly closed her eyes, then opened them and looked at Isaac. "Hayley Summerland has regained consciousness. Releasing vital control and initiating observation state." Without warning, her body fell limp to the ground as the black sludge poured into her shadow and disappeared as if it had never existed. What was left was Hayley's body, pristine without physical injuries and as naked as the day she was born.

Myth Academy (PG-13)

No pressure, but I'd LOVE to see a finished version of that sketch, Spawnling.

Also, LOL @ Berzie. XD

Fateful Convergence

"I do not have an affixed term or name to my identity. My primary directive is to protect this bio-organic body and the operator by any means necessary. The foundations of my powers are shared with Hayley Summerland, but lack of external necessity has left the operator with insufficient data on basic usage," she replied with a robotic precision and lack of emotional hint within her words. "Nigel Howeland's assault and what appeared to be accumulation of neural stress have triggered the permanent deletion of my dormancy state, upon which I was able to assume direct control of this bio-organic body."

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'Hayley' remained silent even as Isaac desperately tried to call out to her, but she then gently crouched down with one knee on the ground. Gently pressing the fingers of her left hand onto his forehead, the distorted voice told him, "The presence identified as Hayley Summerland is unresponsive, but secured. You are advised to remain calm. Proceeding with bio-organic recovery." The sludge covering her left hand and forearm crawled away from her skin and moved onto Isaac's body, gently slithering around like a living body lotion. Isaac would feel as if his own flesh was moving around, giving him something akin to a tickle around his injuries as 'Hayley' was actually repaying him for saving Hayley from Nigel's attack.

Fateful Convergence

'Hayley' was forced to let go of the beast when he had the figuratively bright idea of creating a deafening distraction. She instinctively moved to protect herself, but by the time she managed to blow away the smoke, the beast was long gone. She didn't appear to feel any hint of disappointment, or any emotion to begin with, and she merely stood still in response. The blast had finally inflicted injuries on her, albeit minors ones, which soon began to heal on their own, her body repairing itself in real time. The black sludge had regrouped, except the portion keeping Isaac restrained. "Priority threat out of sight. Pursuit ineffective," she said with the distorted voice that was silenced during the battle.

The woman then walked towards Isaac, looked at him in the eyes and said, "Presence identified as Isaac Ryder. Threat risk categorized as high and imminent. However, prior observation shows lack of retaliation and existing information reveals multiple accounts of cooperation and assistance. Approaching with extreme caution." Gently lifting her hand, she slowly moved it down as the sludge began to melt away, giving Isaac his freedom back.

Fateful Convergence

Seeing that brute force was ineffective against her enemy, 'Hayley' waited patiently as the beast charged at her, now resorting to a melee attack. Instead of trying to slow the beast down, the black sludge began to gather around her hands and forearms, thickening her sludge 'gloves' to protect her limbs from the fire. With both claws aimed at her, she grabbed him by the wrists in a vice-like grip, fighting his considerably monstrous strength with her own. She looked into the beast's eyes, but her own eyes reflected nothing but cold, calculative thinking. "Information updated. Proceeding with elimination of Nigel Howeland." Instead of trying to tip the beast's body, she began pulling his claws in as if she was trying to dislocate his shoulders or, worse, break his own arms instead.

Fateful Convergence

While she managed to absorb the spheres just as she did before, the towers of inferno emanated heat and light so intense that 'Hayley' was forced to back off before she was burned off. The concrete came with little warning as it flew past the fire and straight for her. At the speed it was going and the weight of the concrete chunk, she had no time to deflect or absorb the attack. Instead, as the concrete was inches away from her torso, she steeled her stance and aimed a hard punch, shattering it into smaller, less dangerous pieces. When all was said and done, the woman seemed to barely broke a sweat. With her super strength exposed, she decided that all bets were off and returned the beast's gesture in kind, breaking a chunk of concrete herself and flinging it at him.

Fateful Convergence

In response to the attack, 'Hayley' began to elegantly weave her hand around like a wave. The black sludge slithered up to her and formed an elastic, concave wall in front of her to receive the fiery spheres. The wall stretched when the first sphere struck it, then stretched even more as it held back the fiery spheres. With a slurping noise, the elastic wall broke off from the ground, engulfing the blazing spheres as it exploded and keeping 'Hayley' from harm. Letting out the resulting smoke from pores that formed all over it, it melted back into the gathering pool, then lashed out like a whip all of a sudden, moving to attack the beast.