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"The Dominion will not be purchasing any of your creatures today," Timeport said. He changed his posture, standing in what seemed to be a type of battle stance. "He will be getting all of your creatures, which I'm afraid will be less than what you had this morning." Chi clenched his teeth as a low growl emitted from his throat. Timeport was threatening to kill his children and then abduct the rest. Timeport suddenly disappeared and Chimera felt a tickling on the back of his neck. The hair there stood on end. "You go first." A whisper said. Chi used the enhanced speed he had borrowed from a cheetah to dash to the side. He whipped out both of his sabers and commanded Kyrie and Argo to help only if needed. This man needed a lesson taught to him personally. Chimera jumped at him, blades whirling to block the axe. Timeport teleported over a few feet. Chi let go of his speed and absorbed the ferocity of a female lion. "You will kill none of my children," Chi snarled. His guards slowly began creeping behind Timeport, but Chi raised his hand for them to stop. "Give us some room," he said to the guards and commanded his beasts. They stepped back, giving Chi and Timeport a few meters to fight. Kyrie was ready to fly over and attack the man with ferocity if Chi commanded. A few bird creations hovered above, ready to shoot down and attack Timeport. "Your move."

Welcome back! I became a member a few months after you left, I believe, but I'm active now. I'm also LDS. If you don't mind me asking, where did you serve?

Yes. Rather important, as he said. But it doesn't disprove Wayne trading with him.

I almost had her affect the pigs, but then I remembered her limitation, so yes, she affected the baskets. Haha, when I wrote that, I thought of the same thing.

Hahaha They'd have a lot harder time with one of the Destructors. They'd be killed before they got anywhere close enough to grab one.

Altermind would probably end up dead with Nightblood in his chest. Chi could probably use it for a bit, but he would be very nauseous. Flashpoint would be very nauseous, but probably not die. The Destructors would all die.

The Destructors aren't actually in the Dalles. They will be in Astoria when that comes, but for now they're in Washington, and the closest city we have is the Dalles, hence why its posted there. When are we going to do What Happened in Astoria? Thanks. I'm glad you enjoy her, I do too. It's nice to write as a more human character who still has cool powers. And it's fun to write her thoughts (especially about eyebrows.).

First Destructors post up.

Readers: this post does not actually take place in The Dalles. These Epics are in Washington and will be making their way to Astoria. For now, their tales will be posted here. Most gyms didn't have weights heavy enough for Jag's strength. Therefore, he usually modified the weights he found in gyms after he had conquered a town by combing weights from multiple machines. Working out was something he did everyday. Sometimes Smasher joined him too. Jag's strength was triple his regular abilities, so working out increased his overall strength. Turn the pain into power. That had been a motto of his during his life. His childhood had had much pain and he had turned it into power. Now, he had risen past that. Black Jaguar knew that he had been born to rise. Calamity had blessed him with powers to aid him. All of his fellow high Epics were supposed to rise too. Jag had decided long ago that he would use Calamity's gifts to become greater. He would rise above his past. Black Jaguar dropped the modified dumbbell he was lifting at the thought of his past. He cursed and lifted it back up and put it back on his "shelf", which was just a bunch of barbell weights stacked up. He was done for the day. It was time to move on. Fircrest had been good to the Destructors, after they had conquered it, of course, but it was time to move on. Jaguar had decided that Connell was going to be their next hit. It was smaller than Fircrest, but would get them closer to Oregon, Jag's next state he had planned. ------------------------ Jaguar was driving the Ford Lighting with his five Commandos. One next to him, two in the back seat, and two in the bed of the truck. Each of the Epics in Black Jaguar's crew had five humans in their employ. All were killers. In each set of five, there were two heavy weapons specialists, a close-combat expert, an assassin, and a sniper. They were all proficient in each area, but had one speciality. The Lightning had been outfitted with two machine guns in the back of the bed and a grenade launcher on each side of the truck. They were for the Commandos to use or for Metalmech's purposes. Metalmech was able to control mechanisms close to him. Each of the Destructors' vehicles was customized with weapons to be controlled by Metalmech. Hawkwing drove a former Government Escalade, complete with armor plates and added guns. Smasher had a large Jeep Rubicon Unlimited and Metalmech's commandos drove him in the tank. He focused on the mechanisms of all the weaponry to be able to take command of them in case of attack. To allow him to remotely drive all of the vehicles if necessary, the four drove in a diamond formation; Jag at point, Hawkwing and War Smasher on the wings, and Metalmech in the back. They stayed within Mech's range so that he could take over. Connell was in view when Black Jaguar told Hawkwing to scout above. Hawkwing tossed his white-and-gold suit coat onto the backseat, jumped out of the Escalade, and took to the skies, using his back wings to fly. His two MP7A1s were in his hands, ready to rain bullets on anyone who attacked. The personal machine guns were very effective, Jag had to admit. But he preferred his skills and machete to the bullet-spitting guns Hawk used. "Guards in positions scattered along the border, no gates or wall. There appears to be concrete poured around the border, but it's no more than a couple inches tall. I can't see why they'd make such a small wall. Epic powers?" Hawkwing reported over the secure mobile connection to the other three Epics. He made sure that he was in front of the sun so that any of the guards that happened to look up would see only a bright light and if they saw anymore, would assume that it was an afterimage. He was used to scouting out locations and had become pretty skilled at it. Jag responded, "Concrete powers? Possible. Don't discount it." War Smasher responded as well, having learned strategy from his time playing and coaching football, "No one lays out two-inch high concrete around their territory unless they can use it. Count on there being a secret to it, either traps or powers." Hawkwing replied, "Affirmative. Center of power is an old steel factory in the southeast part of town, couple hundred meters from the border. Not many soldiers on the streets. Concrete is used excessively." He figured there must be an Epic with some type of concrete powers. Traps wouldn't work as the concrete was spread across town, even in civilian and headquarter areas. Jag said, "Begin assault. Beta formation attack at southeast corner. Wings, plow and sweep to Power Center. Mech and I will drive straight through." Hawkwing interpreted the orders instantly. After so many assaults, the jargon became natural. Jag had ordered Beta formation, which meant that he, Smasher, and Hawkwing's squads would line up and hit the border, Jag's squad slightly to the left of center so that Mech's tank could fire through the gap, but not be targeted exceedingly. Plow and sweep meant that the wings, Hawk and Smasher's groups, would circle around from their starting attack point and drive directly to the steel factory, hitting it from opposite sides. Metalmech and Jag would drive straight through town after distracting the border police to meet at the steel factory. "Roger that," Hawkwing replied to the orders. War Smasher and Metalmech did likewise. Hawk would leave his Head Commando in charge of his squad down below and would cover them from up here. He watched as the vehicles below arranged themselves in beta formation and approached the border. Hawk flew lower and began shooting at the guards who had noticed the invaders. He took out the ones in the way of his squad's Escalade. They would be the first to sweep around to the factory.

XD you're right. I forgot that part of the rule. Damon. Hey, Lucy, I've seen your analysis before. Do you have anything to say? When I GMd, your analysis of the write up helped figure out the Ghostbloods a lot, any idea this game?

Cool! I wondered if it was too subtle. I decided that she is one of the more human Epics, what with the power restrictions and all, but that when she did use her powers, she becomes callused and uses her Epic name more. Mare does the same thing with calling herself Night-Mare.

Well, I'm bringing this back up. Damon. You were supposedly inactive last cycle, but didn't get a vote placed on you. That means you were able to send in orders or make PMs. If you're active enough for that, help us out here.

Sorry, once Edgerunner starts using her powers, she gets violent. She also stops thinking of herself as Emma. Yeah, I thought of the same thing with Voidgaze. Her and her ability to use white.

Arsenal's eyebrows always betrayed his emotions. Currently, they were sliding up in surprise and anger. Edgerunner had always found his thick eyebrows funny, but had never voiced that opinion near Arsenal himself. If she ever had, it would've led to a long lecture about "being an example" and "inappropriate remarks" all the while, his emotional eyebrows would be making it harder and harder for Emma to hold in her laughter. Arsenal's voice brought her back to reality, lIt started just twenty minutes ago. We started getting calls from the soldiers around the city limits. They reported animals coming out of the countryside and approaching the city. All instances of the threat were described as giant pandas, standing on their hind legs and carrying wooden weapons. There wasn't any time to respond to the threat before they started launching flaming arrows." Edgerunner giggled inside. They really were being attacked by pandas. Unsurprisingly, Arsenal didn't seem to like the large, fluffy animals. He would probably rather pet a tree trunk. Arsenal scowled and began one of his regular rants about laziness, "The invaders have stationed themselves all around the town, like they expect to besiege us. They've established wooden structures to camp out in--which our patrols should have found, if they weren't caught up in the sloth and complacency that plagues this town. Sloth and complacency." Arsenal hissed. Emma had predicted it. Standard rant. He continued, "That's what plagues this town, and that's what'll finish it. Mark my words." Arsenal stopped and then immediately started talking again. "What the sparks?" Arsenal shot his head towards the sound. Emma looked too. The sky darkened and a high pitched squeal had begun. She couldn't quite place the sound. It was something familiar, but not something she had much experience with. As the darkness came closer, Edgerunner recognized it. Pigs. That's what they were. Flying pigs. She laughed at the sight. The anti-aircraft guns began shooting in the sky. Pigs dropped to the ground. Arsenal turned to Edgedancer and Glamour with a glare. "Do you hear that?" he demanded. "That sound you hear, of the town going to hell in a handbasket? That's the sound of you two slacking off. Battle stations, both of you!" He turned and left. Squirrels began dropping out of the sky as well. The pigs had them in baskets. They'd dump out the squirrels and they glided down, furious and biting. Edgerunner left Glamour and hurried off, increasing her gravity in the direction she was running, to her battle station. Lucy should be there. That gave Emma a smile. Lucy was one of the better Epics in town. Glamour was useless, Arsenal was too strict, and Deathwish was scary. Lucy didn't like other Epics' company too much, but Emma enjoyed her most of all the Epics in town. Edgerunner switched her gravity, throwing herself into the air, and whipped out her knives. She began slicing and stabbing the pigs as they came near. She became angry at them for bothering her town. Her annoyance with Glamour burned in her. Edgerunner increased the pigs' baskets' friction, causing the pigs near her to be held back as the baskets dragged through the air. She killed those and they flew snout-first towards the ground, eyes closed. After killing the pigs who impeded her on her way to her station, she finally arrived and dropped down to the ground lightly, landing right next to Scribbler.

So, the Soothed man was converted, yes?

Now I did. And wow...

Damon. Argh! I want people to get on, but I also don't think we need a lynch. Jasnah will already get a vote if she doesnt get on soon, so, she doesnt need this one.

PM, as 9 am PST has already passed.

Wow. That was great. It felt a bit like the Silmarillion. That's a compliment, by the way.

Lucentia+Hawkwing=Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds(and machine guns). I added the Destructors and the Connell Epics last night too. Speaking of those, Mail-mi will be adopting Metalmech, for at least the Connell invasion (and probably in the long run) and Hundred-Eyes. Voidus will take control of Maodun.

Nice. I was trying to think of one for them.

I had it vaguely imagined that in this AU, Altermind had fled Portland during the CM War, heading for Newcago. Sounds like an SE character.

Well, thanks, Im glad you enjoyed it. Of course there are.