Bleak Out

[jla_extras]

Dancing red-and-blue lights lit up the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, a well manned police barricade blocking the entrance.  In fact, all traffic across the Hudson and East Rivers was suspended, leaving Manhattan in a state mandated quarantine.  High powered flood lights pointed from several angles into the city,  but none broke the eerily

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[earthborn_angel]

If there was one thing Linda Danvers didn’t enjoy, it was being plunged into a blackout. There were too many terrible memories associated with things suddenly going pitch black, and none of them were things that she wanted to think about just then. She looked out of her hotel room and into Manhattan, seeing…absolutely nothing. She cursed then. Loudly. Was there no place she could escape to that wasn’t going to have some problem to it? Unbidden, her back started to feel hot, and she cursed again. It was her powers. Acting up again. Forcing her into action when all she wanted to do was to sculpt, drink, and mope.

But she had no choice.

Bright wings of divine fire erupted from Linda’s back, searing through her white, long-sleeved cotton tee-shirt.

Fine. She’d go out, she’d fight whatever it was that wanted fighting, and then she’d come back to the hotel and crash. That was that, she promised herself as she burst through the windows of her room and out into the cold, starry night.

[barda_the_big]

The audience was astounded. As Act I drew to a close and John Cudia sent the chandelier crashing to the ground in a fit of rage, pouring his anger out, all the lights went off

[azure_avenger]

Beetle's VTOL aircraft hovers in neat the tunnel's mouth - Ted slides out of the craft acrobatically dangling from the access line. He didn't want to risk the Bug being affected by whatever was putting the lights out in Manhattan.

He makes his way through the crowd to the tunnel - activating the light amplification filters on his goggles.

"Huh."

[bleak_boy]

Teekl's ears twitched as he let out a low, cautious growl. "Brother," he hissed in Klarion's ear, "They come for us."

"Not to worry, friend," the youth replied, "I've set traps. Our fun won't soon be ended; the Grundy Men will make use of themselves." Pointing a slender index finger towards the sky, Klarion drew a cruciform in the air and grasped its glowing form tightly.

מבהה

[bleak_boy]

Letting out an emphatic "Hmph!", the sullen boy looked with agitation towards the West. "These Soldiers of the Silver Cities are proving to be more persistent than Submissionary Judah, and greater pests than all of the Submissionaries combined!"

"Join with me, Brother, and we will make for them a worthy adversary," purred Teekl.

With a wicked grin, Klarion kneeled down as if in prayer, and began chanting muffled, long dead words--Teekl circling in a wide berth, his tail whipping the ground as he trod. Digging his hands into the ground, the boy pulled up two fistfuls of dirt and held them high above his head. The chanting grew feverish, his hands clinched so tightly blood began seeping from where nails pierced tender palms. Flinging his fingers wide, a baptism of dirt and blood rained down upon him; two glowing letters stained into each palm: בה and הה. Finally, Klarion erupted in rapturous screams, "Behemot, Behemot, Behemot" and slammed his palms back against the Earth. The ground shuddered, orgasmic, and split before him;

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[earthborn_angel]

Linda managed to reach the scene of the - well, it wasn't really a crime - bad juju right when the behemoth rose from the, er, womb of the Earth.

That Klarion and Teekl had managed to, er, fertilize.

I really miss the days when it was just me fighting Buzz. Or Chemo. Or, you know, hating on Lex Luthor.

"Can I bepunch it instead?" she asked, swooping in towards the terrible little threesome.

Re: מבהה

[bleak_boy]

Klarion grasped his cruciform, the control bar of his Behemoth marionette. Invisible strings of mystical energy bound the beast to the boy's will, and turned the great lumbering monster--visibly male, of cedar and stones--smashing one of its massive tusks against the angelic warrior.

Re: מבהה

[earthborn_angel]

"Hnngh!" Cripes, she had not been expecting that. Still, she went with the blow's momentum until she could regain herself, and then she rushed back at the Behemoth, attacking it first with a barrage of telekinetic blasts.