Log:Army of Darkness, Scene 6

Army of Darkness 2013/11/05 	 Dark Horse Expatriate Forge Ghost Harlequin Runic Ten Vajra

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When we last left our heroes. They went to the edge of the White Marsh Battlefield to help police admist reports of missing officers and a downed police chopper. What they found was a handful of cops trying to hold off a horde of fifty reanimated corpses from America's fighting past, including Native American warriors and soldiers from the Revolutionary and Civil War eras.

Harlequin opened up a gateway portal deeper into the graveyard, where the Reaper has opened a chasm in the earth that's spilling more undead out onto the surface. The Reaper is accompanied by a group up undead metas, including Invincible, Speed Demon, Electric Bill, and Warhammer, and an even larger horde of undead numbering in the hundreds.

Speed demon zips through the crowded battlefield, putting herself between Dark Horse and the Reaper. She arms blur as she grabs up a bunch of rocks, stones, and other debris. She whips them at Dark Horse with super velocity.

Dark Horse ducks under the volley of debris, tumbling to his feet. "You don't want me to get near him, do you? He's the key here."

[To Harlequin] Ten says, "You sure you can handle things here by yourself? There are still quite a few of them...."

Runic takes a look at things and then watches the one zip across and head off Dark Horse. She decides to help, so lifts her gun and aims, "Vine Shot." she whispers to the gun and green runes flare as she aims and fires at Speed Demon.

Harlequin nods. "Yes, I can handle them. Go help the others!" He thinks to himself. o o (Worst that can happen is I die after all...)

Vines sprout from the ground where Speed Demon stands, immobilizing her for the moment.

Warhammer springs forward, navigating the crowd of zombies niftily. He stops in front of Runic and tries to smash her with a forehand swipe of his mace.

Ghost flies down out of the sky, having been drawn to the location by the immense intensity of magic being released in the spot. "What's going on?" She asks Harlequin and Ten.

Harlequin says laconically. "Undead warriors here. More undead through gate along with undead metas and a demon lord. Take your pick."

Invincible right himself in the air and zooms back down towards Expatriate, leading with both fists.

Ghost glances through Harlequin's Gateway. Takes an instant to consider the situation. Looks around at the area she's currently in. "If we can't close that rift in the ground the undead are coming up from this is a losing proposition. Any idea on how we can do that either of you?" She says.

Ten says, "Sorry. I've pretty well no clue about magic...."

Harlequin keeps an eye on the undead warriors on this side as they continue their slow advance. "take out the Reaper. The big ugly one at the back. With him gone the rest will fall. Hopefully. Remove the king, the pawns fall."

Electric Bill turns his electricity from Vajra to Runic, trying to hit her with a blue-white arc of lightning.

Invincible rockets back down toward Expatriate and slams into her like an asteroid from space. She is already mericufully unconscious when her body bounces away from the impact and slams the ground hard enough to leave a hole in the pavement more than a foot deep.

Ghost nods to Harlequin. "Then we need to do that. Harlequin, unless it's not possible you should pass through the gateway with Ten and myself and join the assault on Reaper. The undead here are irrelevant to the main issue."

Vajra is too busy worrying about Expatriate to even really notice Electric Bill, as her suit shrugs off his blast completely, "S'bu! Are you alive!"

Runic had just shot at Speed Demon when the blue-white arc of lightning manages to strike her. She cries out a bit, not having expected it, not often she gets hit. She has scorch marks on her vest and skin where the electricity danced along her for a moment.

On the police side of the gateway, the remaining zombie try to swarm Ten. Others direct musket and rifle fire on Ghost and Harlequin.

Ten makes a face as a couple of zombies grab her. "Boys, boys, I know it's been a long time but that's no way to treat a lady...."

Harlequin sighs as four musket balls actually make contact with his cloak hitting with all the force of spitballs. Grey mist begins to gather in his hands.

On the Reaper side of the gate, the gathered undead fire a hail of arrows on Dark Horse's position. Zombies swarm over Runic and Vajra, attacking with knife, bayonets and hatchets.

Harlequin sighs as four musket balls actually make contact with his cloak hitting with all the force of spitballs. Grey mist begins to gather in his hands.

Dark Horse continues twisting in the air after avoiding Speed Demon's prior attack, luckily also managing to avoid the hail of arrow from the undead.

Vajra ignores the hits, as they barely regster on her suit's sensors.

Meanwhile, a pair of undead warriors pick up Expatriate and begin to carry her towards the chasm.

Ten attempts to twist her way free from her undead captors.

Ten slips easily out of the grasp of the undead, flings out her to grab a tree, and hurls herself rapidly through the portal, aiming herself as she passes through at Electric Bill.

Ten slams into Electric Bill and knocks him backwards, where he crashes into a bunch of zombies on the undead-choked battlefield.

Back in the original mass of zombies, Forge continues to battle the undead forces. He also strongly considers investing in some kind of zombie repellant - they make that these days, right? Forge takes a few glancing blows from the swarming hordes of undead before he manages to get the breathing room he needs to start fighting back again.

Dropping to a crouch, Forge takes a step forward and rises up into a baton uppercut. On the down-swing, he twists and lashes out with both batons, attempting to flurry strike a zombie in the face and chest before spinning again. This time, Forge aims to scissor-strike another zombie between both of his batons.

Forge smashes one skeleton fighter to bits and busts open the rib cage of another. It's still up, however.

Vajra dashes over to the zombies carrying Expatriate away and tries to grab her away from them, "Sorry~! But no stealing my friends!"

Vajra grabs the unconscious Expatriate away from the zombies and hugs her to her chest, "Mine!"

Harlequin releases the grey mist from his hands. He seems to be trying to target the already damaged undead but is getting three close together nonetheless. The mist seems to eat away at the magicks holding them together.

The mist claws at the undead then shudder and collapse in dust and bone fragments.

Runic gets to her feet, but isn't a happy camper. Better to be standing though than laying on her back. She lifts her gun and sights it at Electric Bill after all he is the one that blasted her first. She whispers to her gun, "Ice shot." and blue-white runes glow for a moment and then she aims and fires at Bill. What looks like shards of ice fire from the pistol and then break into multiple shards as they try to strike him.

The ice shards crackle as they hit Bill, with lighting arcing around his body to protect him from the bulk of the damage.

Speed Demon's form blurs as she vibrates super fast. She steps out for the vines that held her trapped.

Dark Horse continues to move toward Reaper, vaulting over another couple of undead.

Warhammer presses forward through the crowd of undead and tries to strike Runic with his mace.

Warhammer misses.

Invincible turns his laser eyes on Dark Horse, burning a swath of destruction through the battlefield, striking friend and foe alike.

Invincible incinerates at least a dozen undead with his deadly gaze.

Ghost steps to the side a single pace to press up against a convenient tombstone. "Give me a shout if something nasty is creeping up at my back." she requests of the heroes still nearby. Then her right arm lifts to brace against the solid stone and she fires a Penetrator needle at Reaper through the Gate.

Dark Horse leaps to the side, tumbling to the ground just in time.

The needle lodges solidly in a bit of exposed bone at the Reaper's rib cage. It doesn't seem to phase him.

Ghost expresses herself. Any linguist with a passing knowledge of Old Saxon might well feel his or her ears burning.

Electric Bill climbs back to his feet slowly. He tries to hurl lightning back at Runic.

The electric arcs into the ground to Runic's left.

Speed Demon zooms over to Dark Horse, and stands over him, still using her powers to remain intangible.

Runic shakes her head as she almost gets blasted again, she is getting picked on it seems. She leaps to the side to give herself some room and then lifts her gun, "Blinding Shot" she whispers and it glows and eerie white and then she sights and fires what looks to be a bullet at Bill though it explodes in a blinding flash trying to cause him to go blind.

The blinding flash seems to affect the undead meta.

Speed Demon tries to grab Dark Horse again.

Speed Demon grabs Dark Horse by the arm and spins with hyper velocity. She uses her angular velocity to slingshot Dark Horse, tossing him 60m further away from the Reaper and surrounded by undead.

Dark Horse lands and tumbles to his feet, grumbling to himself. "Hopefully someone will hit SD while she was busy with me. I can't believe they wasted so much time attacking me. Was I that much of a threat to this Reaper guy?"

Warhammer gives up on trying to hit Runic. He turns and leaps through the battlefield gracefully, landing next to Vajra. He tries to hit her with a round house kick.

Ten decides too much is at risk, and despite her not inconsiderable fear makes for the Reaper itself, running at full speed, leaping and pole-vaulting over the undead masses, till at last she can hurl herself at the demon....

Vajra easily shakes off the kick, "That didn't even take off 7% of my energy buffer."

The Reaper weathers the attack. Throughout the encounter, he hasn't reacted to much. Instead, his attention seems to be elsewhere.

Ten breathes a sigh of relief as she drops to the ground. She'd rather the Reaper *not* notice her.

Ten's sense of relief may be premature. Invincible floats in her direction. His chest expands as he sucks in a deep breath. He exhales powerfully, with icy-cold breath that threatens to freeze the air around Ten.

Vajra triggers her flight boosters and shoots up into the air, carrying Expatriate. "Hang tight guys~ I need to get S'bu to safety!" As she flies, she tries to call her fiancee using her radio systems. <> >>What's up Su-chan, I was in class?<< <> >>The Reaper!? Damn, I knew he was coming, but... get to safety Su-chan! I'll be there as fast as I can. Love you!<< <>

Ten sighs, this time not in relief, as she's encased in ice. "Huh, you're doing the mindless-minion-protecting-your-master thing? What's a big tough guy like yourself doing being lackey to anyone?"

Ghost ponders as she sees the strange inaction of the Reaper. She attacked him. Ten hit him. And while the undead supers are defending him, Reaper himself seems to be otherwise engaged. Letting her Sight come to the fore she tries to make out what the Reaper is truly doing.

Ghost turns to Forge, "You look strong. Knocking or throwing the Reaper into the chasm would probably close it off. The chasm is a gate to his home dimension. Unless it can be closed there'll be a never ending stream of more undead arriving. Can you do it? Can you send the Reaper back?"

"Still standing?" inquires Forge, noting the zombie he just struck who's still on its feet, though in pretty bad shape. Forge whirls a few times, smacking away attempts to grab, stab, or hack him to death from the Horde, to take note of two more zombies on their last legs. The metal man starts to swing at one of the zombies, but pauses as Ghost calls to him. Bobbing and weaving in place, Forge quirks an eyebrow. "I can give it a shot, sure," replies Forge, his metal legs gaining some raised detail that makes them appear to be embedded with springs.

Angling toward the portal, Forge takes all of two steps before there's a loud *SPROING* that sees him launching up and over the Horde toward - perhaps even through - the wide open gate.

Undead swarm around Dark Horse trying to grab him and hold him down. Runic and Forge are both surrounded and attacked. Two undead manage to walk through Harlequin's open gate to the police side of matters.

The zombies fail to pull Dark Horse down under their weighty numbers.

Harlequin takes a step back through the gate as he shouts to the police. "Time to leave gentlemen! You can outrun in your cars! Get other heroes to hold the line! As for you two..." He lets the grey mist leap from his ahnds one last tim at the two who stepped through just as he lets the gate close.

One of the zombies is shattered to bits by the eldritch attack. The other continues to shamble along.

Ghost looks at the spot where the gateway just closed. "Mmm... You might have waited for me to psss through it, Harlequin." She says in an irritated tone, speaking Fae. Then she shrugs and looks at the zombies around her. She can help keep them off the police anyway.

Zombie archers take aim on the heroes close to the Reaper, showering them with arrows.

Forge hits the ground hard, head bobbing to take in the scene around him. He doesn't get long to do so, however, as undead swarm him again. The metal man bobs and weaves as best he can, most of the zombies' strikes merely glancing blows that shower sparks over the environment but do little else. One strike sends him sliding backward a few feet, right into a zombie that drives a bayonet into Forge's back.

Letting out a pained grunt, Forge tries to break away as arrows start to rain down on him. Several arrows embed themselves in Forge's metal flesh, though he rips those out with apparent ease before he breaks free of the bayonet formerly embedded in him.

"Just for the record, you guys are ruining zombie movies for me."

Harlequin looks down as an arrow falls to his feet then up at Reaper. "Really? When do you break out the catapults?"

Ghost comes off the support she was using to brace against and draws Stormcast. "Silver Lady, time to go to work." she speaks to the sword in Sercian, smiling as she feels the slight warm of the hilt in her hand. Crossing to the damaged zombie that emerged from the gate she slices at it.

The four police by Ghost get into our cruisers. "Hey! Tell your guys to keep an eye out for our missing guys and the downed chopper, ok!"

Ghost sighs as the zombie falls away in two halves. If Silver Lady wasn't dormant there would be only ashes left.

The police get into their squad cars and retreat.

Undead soldiers grab the ice-encased Ten and push her towards the edge of the chasm, threatening to topple her into the abyss.