And what are you hiding? (Invite only)

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For an undetermined amount of time, Brandon was slowly able to regain cognitive thought. His head hurt like a damn, but when he tried to rub his face, he found his arms were unable to move, as if they were held down by something. He struggled to open his eyes, but bright lights were all that greeted him, causing him to somewhat close his eyes. He tilted his head to see what was holding down his arms, and saw thick leather straps tying him down to a lab table of sorts.

"About time you woke up! Bloody hell boy! Your not gonna like where we are!" He heard Verlith say, as Brandon tried to get a look at his surroundings. He saw he was in an operation room of sorts. He gasped when he saw his clothes were gone in favour of a surgical gown. "Where the hell am I?!" HE asked, as Verlith replied to him "A Lab of sorts. They tried to shave ya, but your body is my body, No one will deface it while Im still inhabiting it. The clothes are a different matter. They werent connected to your body..."

Brandon flexed and tested the strength of the straps, and felt they were on tight... almost too tight. "Who the hell would do this..." He said, as he saw a large mirror at the end of the room, and stared at it. "A one way Mirror... HEY! You there! Show yourself!"

[Mr Rosen]

“We have the subject subdued, and restrained but we have been unable to penetrate some sort of protective shell sir.” the scientist refused to look him in the eyes which was always a good thing. Rosen wasn’t sure if it was fear or respect but he’d take either since both meant that his men would do as he told them. “As of now he is being kept drugged and unconscious to prevent any sort of difficulties.” Rosen nodded not needing to give the man an answer, he was only a subordinate after all.

He looked around to tell Mercy to get him another suit only to remember she was dead. It was a shame she died like that. Now he would need to find someone else to bring him a new jacket and that was almost more work than it was worth for the moment. He sighed he had liked that jacket though he would have to have it replaced shortly.

Looking through the one way mirror Rosen looked in on the unconscious boy as he...started moving. He turned slowly back to the scientist who was too busy looking at a computer monitor to notice the boy was regaining consciousness.

Who the hell would do this...A one way Mirror... HEY! You there! Show yourself!" the boy shouted out. Suddenly the scientists noticed. His head snapped up his face going pale.

“We have the subject subdued, he is being kept drugged and unconscious. Those were your exact words were they not.” Rosen said never turning away from the boy strapped to the table.

“Sir, I...I don’t know what happened we had him drugged he-”

Rosen cut him off before he could continue giving excuses. “I’m sorry but Rosen Corp has no room for incompetence, please consider your employment here terminated.”

With that Rosen moved instantaneously behind the man and fired his spirit gun point blank through the back of his head. The blast sent his now headless body crashing through the glass window leaving a bloodied corpse hanging there for the boy to see.

“Well I suppose I better introduce myself.” Rosen said walking through the side door and into the boys eyeline.

“My name is Lance Rosen and you my friend are a puzzle.” he began to slowly walk around the boy looking him over for the first time. “However I’ve always loved puzzles, the solutions are usually just so...profitable. So here is what is going to happen. I’m going to leave this room, and my men are going to come in and dissect you. You’re going to lower your shields because the restraints around your arms and legs are wired to explosives. If you break them or struggle to much a very large bomb is going to go off. However I’ve noticed you have a shield around you, we just can’t seem to crack, So instead of bombing you we’re going to be blowing up the orphans from the village we’ve been working with instead. They’re at the other end of the compound so no matter how fast you move you won’t be able to save them if you detonate the bombs. So here is the riddle I’m giving you, either kill the children and survive yourself, or lower your shield and let my men work with you.”

Rosen walked back out the door smiling as his men began to walk in. “Like I said, I love puzzles.”

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Brnadon was shocked when he saw the mirror suddenly shatter, and a dead body was partially flung through. He saw the man he had sought to protect earlier from the monster android, and realized that Rosen was the bad guy...but if Rosen was the bad guy, then Brandon realized that the monster was only a monster on the outside. When Rosen gave Brandon his ultimatum, to give up and let Rosens men take him apart, for which they wouldnt find anything useful, or to resist and kill a bunch of orphans that would not effect his life in anyway possible.

"An Intriguing offer sir, However Im afraid Im not the one in control of my...barrier that protects me. SO I am afraid I have no power to choose either option in that deal, But I can do this..." He said, as his bracelet glowed softly, as a sudden plush of energy exploded from his body, sending Rosen's men flying across the wall, causing them to crash into instruments, and getting electrocuted by the current.

"Shocking...absolutely shocking..." He said, pulling a James Bond Pun. He then looked up at Rosen with a glare that was seemingly half rage, a quarter evil, and a quarter...something else, as he said "You wont get anywhere with me if I am held up against my will... My...body is protecting itself because there is hostility... These...straps, arent helping any with that..." He said, keeping his eyes dead locked on Rosen, as if he was trying to stare into his very soul. Or what was left of it.

[Mr Rosen]

Rosen was just out the door when a field threw his men back into the equipment killing them. And once again UNITY Life Insurance would be paying out, he loved costing his competition money. Still he would need new scientists now. Not to mention no one would go back in that room till he had the child properly submissive. He needed to be shown there was always a price for disobedience.

Walking through the doorway he grabbed a security cart with a giant monitor on it and rolled it back into the room putting it in front of the boys feet. Without saying another word he levered the surgical table till it was about 45 degrees so the child could see the screen more easily.

“Now see what you’ve done.” Rosen said looking around at all his dead men. “That is going to be a mess to clean up.” he started typing in keys onto the computer and four separate boxes popped up on the screen, in each box was a separate room full of children “Now, I believe we had a minor misunderstanding.” he said turning to face the boy as a giant 5 popped up on the top left screen.

“It’s not either of our faults really.” 4
“I mean we just met and we can’t always know what the other is thinking.” 3
“But in the future it might be best to avoid these complications.” 2
“So why don’t we agree to start over and speak frankly.” 1

Rosen didn’t say anything more instead he just turned to the screen. 0.

Over the labs loudspeaker a robotic voice rang out. “Decontamination protocol Specimen Room 4.”

On the screen a line of fire started at one end of the room drawing the attention of every child there. Slowly the fire started to move across the room forcing the children all onto one side of the screen. They began pounding on the wall and the door trying to get out but the decontamination protocol kept the door locked and sealed. He could see them shouting but the damned rooms had no sound. He would have to get microphones installed in the future, he felt like he was missing out.

The fire was three quarters of the way across the room now and Rosen could see the chlldrens’ efforts increasing but to no avail. They were pounding against concrete and reinforced steel, their hands would break before the wall did. Nope neither would break it seemed as the fire spread across the rest of the room engulfing everything. Almost as soon as the movement in the room stopped there was the sound of a loud explosion at the other end of the facility and the top left picture went static.

Smiling he turned back toward the boy on the table.

“I’m sorry, I got distracted where was I? Oh yes, lets speak frankly. Now there are 3 more rooms here full of poor innocent children. Children who don’t deserve to end like that. That was wrong. That was heartbreaking. And that was completely avoidable. Did you think you could just kill my men and I wouldn’t react? Really those death’s are on your head child not mine. But you can prevent more. Now you said you can’t control what is happening to your body, somehow I don’t think this is puberty. You either can control what is happening or know what can. You’re going to begin talking and I will know if you lie.” with that all the color drained from Rosen’s eyes as his pupils grew to cover them leaving them pitch black. It was more than a cool effect however, it also allowed him to see people’s heat signatures, unless the boy had experience lying he would be able to tell if the child tried to fool him.

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Brandon listened to Rosen and saw the monitor with all the children. He was scared as he saw a countdown initiated on it, and his jaw dropped when he saw an entire room of children get burned alive.

He felt like he was going to be sick. Was he really responsible for the death of all those innocent children? The idea of such a thing made him want to kill himself. "Snap out of it Brandon. This guy is obviously sick, evil...and who knows what else he has up his sleeve. He had all those children captured before he even met you, something was going to happen to them other wise..." He heard verlith say in his head, but even those words were not too comforting to him.

"Your a sick monster!"He yelled at Rosen as he threw him a harsh glare. He strained against the bonds that held him down as he added "You dont know what your dealing with here at all! Chaos Energy isn't just something you can rip out of other people!!" as he tried to figure out what to do. The restraints that held him were wired to explode, killing children. Anything he did, more children would die.... Where was Rosen getting all these children from, and no one taking notice?

Something very odd was going on here...

[Mr Rosen]

"Your a sick monster!" The boy yelled as he watched the children die "You don’t know what your dealing with here at all! Chaos Energy isn't just something you can rip out of other people!!" hmmm chaos energy? Still the boy said it couldn’t be ripped out of him. But that didn’t mean it couldn’t be observed or learned about.

He smiled at the boy. “Hardly a monster,” pressing a few buttons on the console. “Those children had no purpose to me anymore.” a timer appeared at the top of the second screen, this time displaying twenty minutes. “They probably would have gone free but your presence here gives them a purpose again. Really if it wasn’t for you, those kids would be back safe in the village. Granted the orphanage they used to live in mysteriously burned down. It was a tragic event, but not nearly as tragic as the deaths you caused.” 19:50

“But now you have a chance to redeem yourself.” Rosen said turning back towards Brandon. “Those children are held in what is known as a gravity chamber. A wonderful invention my friends at UNITY loaned to me. In...ninteen minutes and thirty seconds now the chamber will activate increasing the gravity to 100x crushing their poor little bones. BUT! It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m a businessman and I’m offering you the deal of a life time. I’m going to draw your blood, I’m not going to kill or threaten you.” he said pulling a long syringe from on of the containers that hadn’t been destroyed. “If you lower your shields and tell me about this chaos energy I will enter my personalized passcode which will open the door to the chamber thus freeing that group of those poor children from their fate. The choice is yours my boy, save the children or don’t but once again their fate is entirely on your head.”

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Brandon saw that the timer for the other children had started. He didnt know what to do at this point in time, as he heard Verlith say "Let him take a sample. The power isnt in your blood anyways. He will just learn that you are a regular human, with no Ki abilities." as Brandon sighed. He closed his eyes, as the red shimmering barrier around his body slowly dissipated. "Fine, a Sample is all you get, Just release the children." He said, getting nervous as Rosen approched.

Brandon hated needles, but had learned to tolerate them to an extent. "Chaos Energy is like Ki, However it has a much higher potential to be shaped in any form the wielder desires. Only 7 people in the universe can have such power at once, I am merely just one of them. A Mere fragment of a power that had been split and scattered long ago." He said, only given ROsen a taste of the knowledge that he knew.

If/when Rosen would take the blood sample and scan it, He would see that Brandons DNA was actually tainted by another strand of DNA, as if he was a hybrid. But this DNA wouldnt be active. But if Rosen were to divide the two strands of DNA, and construct a physical image of the mysterious DNA< He would see that it was actually Dragon DNA. "Now Let the kids go!"

[Mr Rosen]

Rosen was reluctant to approach the boy. While he seemed like he wanted to be a good person he didn’t know his motives enough to know if he was willing to kill a child in order to get revenge on him. Instead he ordered a lab tech in to draw the blood. While the girl was afraid, he knew that the child might kill her, if she tried to refuse Rosen he most definitely would kill her.

She approached him slowly but drew the blood without incident.

“Good, now scan the sample and send it to our lab in Central for analysis.” he said turning his back on the girl. She had served her purpose admirably, while she was nervous she had done her job and hadn’t publicly embarrassed Rosen, there was no need to make an example of her.

Smiling now he turned back to the boy strapped to the table. The cold metal slab had to be uncomfortable but still he seemed to be holding up well. He had shown he was capable of lowering his shield if the situation suited him. It was only a matter of setting the proper variables. Soon enough the boy would be dissected on the table and Rosen could go back to his office in peace.

He listened closely as the boy explained the type of energy he used noting that there were 6 more like him. Perhaps if he could obtain their DNA as well Rosen could combine them to harness the energy at it’s full potential. Something that powerful he could use to literally crush his competition. UNITY and Admin Corp would tremble at his new found power. It was enough to bring a genuine smile to his face.

"Now Let the kids go!" the boy on the table shouted.

“Oh what?” Rosen had actually completely forgotten about the children. Looking up he saw that he still had 15 minutes left before the gravity chamber in the room would activate. Still….

“Yes, yes, you may believe me to be a monster but I am a man of my word.” and with that Rosen entered his code. The door to the chamber opened and a series of lights went on directing.

“There, now that only leaves two groups lef-” before he could finish his sentence an alarm started going off.

“Elevator breach detected, elevator breach detected…”

Rosen looked at the monitors as his camera’s captured the creature from earlier descending seemingly unhurt.

“Damn it, what had Anri done?” It was so hard to find good help these days.

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Brandon didnt like getting his blood drawn, but it had to be done. And with Rosen true to his word, he let a room full of kids go, rendering another restraint harmless. When he heard the warning that something was illegally entering the lab, Brandon took the chance for his escape.

Looking directly at Rosen, Brandon shouted "FUS RO DAH!" causing a suddenly huge burst of energy from his mouth, as anything that would touch said energy would get blown back against any wall behind them like a huge tidal wave would of hit them head on. "Nice one Brandon. Your Thu'um is very strong now." He heard Verlith say, as he pulled his right arm against the cuff that held it down, but to no avail.

"Brandon, I have an idea. Use your Dragonstar Technique to make the metal binding you stretch out, and weak, so you can slip out of it!" Verlith said, as Brandon smirked. It was a good idea, and worth a try rather then just wait for that monster come to get him. He started to focus his energy into his right hand as a small fireball grew in his hands. Flames snaked around his lower arm, as he saw it starting to heat up the metal.

He could feel it getting close to burning him as he used his shield to hold off some of the heat, as the metal would soon start to glow orange, closer to white. Feeling the heat, brandon slowly lifted his arm up, pushing the heated metal up enough for it to stretch slightly. It was soon after he found that the metal was about to snap and give way, but he had gotten enough room to barely slide his hand through, as he did so. He heated up the other cuff on his other hand, and slowly pulled that free.

He continued with his legs but realized that his feet were too big to slip through the metal without breaking the connection. Stuck on that situation, he tried to think of what to do next. "Ah Screw it! You cant make Egg salad without breaking a few eggs..." He said, yanking his legs free of the heated restraints, finally breaking free of the table.

Wanting his own revenge, He used the dead body hanging in the broken mirror to climb into the control room, and walked straight up to Rosen to grab him by the shirt collar, and look him dead in the eye. "If you want to live, You better give me a damned good reason NOT to kill you right now, or leave you to your new incoming guest with 2 broken legs. TALK!" He said, his voice growing more angry by the moment as his eyes would slowly turn from brown to a blood red. Something in him was stirring again, as he had no idea what was coming down the elevator to come after them...

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New Technique: Unrelenting Force - After a long time of practice and research, Brandon had managed to 'cash in' the Dragon souls he had absorbed, and convert it all into a Full Shout. Unrelenting Force. An Energy wave emitted from the mouth that sends any opponents under his powerlevel flying. While the wave itself causes no damage, opponents may be injured depending on what they fly into. Each Shout has a 3 post cooldown period.

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It was true Anri had left the creature wander off, it was also true that he didnt really care and it was also true that he enjoyed a good hunt, which was exactly what he had in mind. Years ago back on his home world he had spent many a summers when the planet was facing straight towards the bright blue star hunting in the vast wilderness of Riva; with hunders of thousand of the wilds sometimes he would spend more than a few weeks just trying to find his way home. Though his people as a race were very advance in the compasrison to the other creatures of thier world they had decided to leave as much of the forests, montains and ocean alone for as long as they could, at least 85% of the planet had yet to been colonized by cities or really any type of infrastructure; no roads, no farms, no builings at all for miles and miles in every direction that one would look. If a traveler from another world had crash landed on Riva they might think it was an abandoned world with no signs of intelligent life, it would have been years of traveling before said traveler might ever see any signs of civilization.

Durring these vast times of isolcation Anri would spend it surviving through whatever the rough wilds of the world would throw at him, anything from poisonous waters, deadly plants and creatures that would make a T-rex shy away in shame. The super gravity on the world gave birth too a exotic spree of lifeforms; the fauna were typically board chested and large, weighing much over 5 tons for the smallest and ranging up too 300 tons. The flora life that existed on Riva wasn't so much different than that of the fauna, their thick trunks combined with the vast amount of energy from the sun made the jungles of the world grow like a wild fire, with so much fierce competition between the greenery the trees would strech for miles towards the sky trying to gather as much sun light as they could.

Even though the under ground lab didn't have the same appeal that his home world did the idea of a hunt brought the fuzzy memories back to him of killing creatures with his bare hands as if they were simply made of dough. Dropping down after the creature was where Anri had lost any sight of him, already the creature had a head start not to mention with all the levels that he was passing as he fell it was hard to tell which it was that he might have stopped at. However if he really was casing after Rosen then he would have most likely gone into the level at which the elevator had stopped at.

With his heavier than normal body Anri fell like a bolder down the shaft increasing his speed with every passing second, with out any idea of how long the shaft went down he wasn't exactly sure when he would find the elevator but it would any be a matter of time before he would cra- Slamming feet first into the steel cabled box Anri's feet tore the cables and metal chucks that held the box afloat and sent it cascading further down into the shaft, with his quick reaction time at the sudden impact he had manged to grasp his hand through the cement wall that made up the elevator shaft its self. Cracks ran their way up and down along the impact sight, were the wall had stood no chance against Anri's raw muscle power, though this was not impressive from a man that could lift mountains if the need arose from him. It appeared as though he had found his stop, that was unless someone else had managed to use the elevator before he had arrive but he though it was a slim chance of that happening.

With his other hand danging off to the side he pumped it into a fist and tore through the metal that composed the doors that led out into one of the hallways that would have run the length of the structure. Like punching through butter the weak metal proved no match as he pried the door open for his larger board shoulders, even so he could feel his plates scraping against the door way as he did his best to semi-walk through the opening he had made from himself.

Once he was fully out on the other side he gave a few glances around the area to better gather his bearings, it still wasn't clear that the creature had gone this way yet just from the looks of the surroundings but that didn't discourage him, it sometimes would take days to find the trail of the smallest creatures and it was something he thought he had enough time to partake in. Though Rosen's life could possible be in danger he really couldn't pass up the chance to track something and then watch as the life drain from its eyes with his iron grip on their wind pipe.

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Neah prowled slowly through out the ventilation shafts. His anger clouding his judgment a little as he was lost in the vents for what felt like hours. Though it would did give him time to cool off about Rosen and the aliens rude interruption. He licked his lips as he finally found a hatch and quietly picked it up with his tail and hands and silently put it on the ground. he sluggishly crawled out of the vent and sighed and little grunt as he stood up. His legs had almost completely fallen asleep and it took him a few moments to stand up properly.

He arched his shoulders and twisted his back to the sides and let out a muffled sigh. He felt his power had increased a little after the little skirmish he had up on the surface. He rotated his wrists clockwise and the cartilage snapped loudly a soothing sound to say the least to him at the moment. He quickly turned his head and spotted a camera and smiled at it and waved. "Look ma I'm on tv hehe I'm coming for you rosen!"

He chuckled and slowly walked out of the room and blasted through a elevator door and stepped into a hall way. Now where was rosen he wasn't far he could almost smell him. Well not so much smell as hear from the sounds coming from below him. He chuckled and laughed and jumped in the air and dug his claw into the ground and penetrated the ground and pulled up a piece of the floor revealing the next floor down. He stopped in his tracks for a moment and turned his head. The large power he had skirmished with before was around the area he could sense his energy. he would continue to suppress his energy as low as possible and jumped down the hole after tossing aside the ground.

As he jumped down there were two armed guards and they were startled by his appearance. they quickly drew out there machine guns and opened fire on him. Neah placed his arms out in front of him as his body was riddled with bullets. He continuously said ow loudly as the bullets hit his skin. A cloud of smoke coming off from the impacts. He grunted as the bullets fell to the ground dented He wiped his arms of as if he had dirt on them and turned his head to the side. "That was a nuisance i dont like nusicances!." the guards trembled as he used his high speed and impaled both guards through the chest and ripped out there hearts. the muscles beat within his hands dripping the live giving essence of blood onto the floor.

He smiled and began to hum to himself as he walked down the hallway. He hummed a old fashioned song his tail slithering behind him as he hummed mister sandman. He felt he was getting closer and then started to sing it aloud in a low guttural voice yet had surprisingly amount of decent tone. "Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream(Bung, bung, bung, bung)Make him the cutest that I've ever seen(Bung, bung, bung, bung)Give him two lips like roses and clover(Bung, bung, bung, bung)Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over." He slowly walked around the corner and tossed the hearts at the feet of the boy who had fired his energy blast at him and slowly grinned. His eyes lighting up as he caught sight of rosen. He smiled and quickly fired a kienzan at at angle straight towards the arm of the dragon child severing his hold over rosen while leaving rosen unharmed. He would then turn his head towards rosen and say in a guttural voice "Hello Friend! You never call you never write how rude"

[Mr Rosen]

“FUS RO DAH!” he heard before a wave of sound hit him sending him flying through the one way glass and into the control room where he hit his back against a wall of computer monitors sending sparks flying everywhere.

He stood up slowly his head hurting and his legs shaking under him slightly. This was the second time this child had tried to injure him, this time he had succeeded. He saw the boy he had restrained slip his hands out of the cuffs but the leg restraints were still in place. Seemingly without a thought the boy shattered out of the leg cuffs, almost instantaneously he heard the sound of multiple explosions across the lab. He couldn't tell how many but one thing was certain. Those kids were dead now. It brought a smile to his face.

A man who wasn’t afraid to take charge of his own destiny. There was nothing wrong with valuing your own life. The boy had made a clear choice, his own life was more important to him than a bunch of strangers. And why shouldn’t it be? Who were those children to him? Why should he be obligated to suffer so that they don’t. The boy made his mind and acted, it was refreshing to see that kind of decisiveness. If he wasn’t determined to kill the boy for his actions he’d consider hiring him onto Rosen Corp.

The boy however seemed to be upset by this. He climbed into the control room and grabbed Rosen by the front of his shirt issuing some vague threat. The child had a bit to learn but over all his form was quite good.

“And why should you kill me?” Rosen said reaching out with his telekinesis and grabbing hold of a number of live wires that were damaged when he went flying into the control room. “You made the choices that cost those kids their lives not me.” He lifted the wires that were directly behind the boy. His telekinesis didn’t require ki so there was no way for the boy to sense it and he kept the wires directly behind the child so he wouldn’t see them in his peripherals. “You decided that your life was more valuable to you than theirs was. And why is that wrong? You did the right thing.” he said moving the wires closer looking the boy right in the eyes.

He was preparing to drive 50,000 volts into the child’s back when he heard singing coming from down the hallway. A moment later the second creature from the attack on the surface appeared.

“Of course everyone wants to join the game now.” Rosen muttered under his breath.

With a quick remark the beast threw an energy disk at the boy holding still holding his shirt. Rosen took advantage of the distraction the beast provided to drive the wires and 50,000 volts of electricity into the boys back. No matter how strong you are science can’t be stopped and that much electricity fries the water in your muscles, it makes it so you can’t move an inch. With any luck the child’s muscles would freeze up long enough for the disk to cut off the boys arm.

“Damn it Anri you had one job to deal with this nuisance now where are you?”

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Brandon glared with Hatred at Rosen. "Oh Im going to enjoy giving you new holes to bleed from... No more will you harm innocent people!" He said, as he raised up his arm to break Rosens face with a solid punch.

But commotion suddenly stopped Brandon from killing Rosen, as he saw that things quickly turned chaotic, and out of control. "Brandon! Behind you!" He heard Verlith say, but before he could turn to see what was going on, he felt a sharp burning pain in his back, as the voltage ran havoc in his body, causing his body to spaz out.

His arms twitched with the current that was electrocuting him, causing the disk for a near miss, only causing a deep cut into his arm. "Nnnnngh!" He sia,d gruntign as he fell to the floor, twitching like he was having a seizure. "Goddamn it! I cant control your body with all this electricity!" Verlith said, as Brandon was now temporarily at everyones mercy.

But even then, his mind temporarily blacked out as Brandon finally fell unconscious....

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The still fresh chemical smells of the cleaner used to make the hallways shine was ever present as Anri marched his way down the hallway, the smell was something that was all to familiar too him, spending rather a large amount of times in the medical wings during his period of service he was around the chemicals for more time that was probably necessary, even though he was on a another world, maybe light years away from his home the scent never seemed to change. Thuds followed in his wake as his feet pumped against the sleek metal floor...or maybe it was stone, it was hard to tell the alien often found that the designs of buildings varied greatly over the span of the vale, some even used wood treated to look like steel, it was such a strange place to exist in, so many different life forms in such a small span of space, and there was no doubt that they had only just begun to understand what the vale had to offer.

It was distant shots that flowed down the corridor that caught Anri's attention first, being lost in his tracking of the creature he had almost forget that it would have posed a threat to others that weren't at his level of strenght, surely normal humans would lack any such power to fight against the creature. The sounds were a sure sign that he was indeed somewhere in the building but with his limited skills in sensing power levels it only gave him an weak outline of where he might be, it was a shame really, after spending so much time traveling he would have though the ability would have been picked up on his person, oh well, there was no reason to dwell on things he could not change and right now he had bigger concerns to attend too. Finding the creature would be more difficult since he was not fimilar with his power but there was one person that he could sense; Rosen, he wasn't too far off and after the few encounters with the man his power was one he was familiar with. From the looks of it though he was not alone, next to him seemed to be another signature...maybe it belonged to that of the man that had been foolish enough to intervene into Anri's affairs, how he would like to rip the man asunder, limb from limb.

Glancing towards the location at which Rosen's energy was coming from he guessed he could make his way there in no time, but there was one factor that did separate them apart and he meant that literately. Thick walls were between him and his targeted location, there was only about fifty feet that held them apart and not to mention since the structure was under ground he would have to deal with that as well...lucky rock never seemed to stop him in the past. Turning towards the metal wall Arni reared his head back and slammed it against the reflective walls as it gave in under his force, one simple hit was more than enough to buckle the steel and sending shrapnel flying off in many directions.

"Well that's a start but I think I'm going to need a little more power." He grinned as the tunnel he found himself in began to grow hot from the heat his body began to put out.

It wasn't really necessary for him to power himself up but he found it just made everything all the easier, not to mention time was money and he just wasn't sure how long Rosen would last  against the creature. Their power levels seemed to be about the same range but without anyway to really read them it was beyond him if there really was much of a difference; playing better safe than sorry he though this was best the choice of act in the situation.

Fully powered with the weights that were strapped to his frame he pulled his arm back to as far as it would stretch and slammed his fist into the exposed rock on the other side. Without seeming to have any strength of its own the rock exploded turning into a puff of dust at this touch, continuing this method he made his way to the exposed soft earth not even stopping to take so much as a break, it wasn't the best training but he was still getting used to the idea of the weights strapped to his body. Extra weight on his being wasn't something that was new to him with the extra gravity on Riva and with weights this seemed like a walk through the park in comparison.

Seeing the shimmer of steal agasint the dull brown of the earth he stopped in his tracks as he listened to the sounds that was going on around him, Vennor hearing wasn't what anyone would call the best but years of training to pick up on small sounds more than made up for what he originally lacked. Even through the thick metal that separated the two groups he could make out some of what was being said but he was in no hurry to act, it didn't appear that Rosen was in any danger plus if he jumped out now it would ruin his element of surprise. Resting his shoulder against the rock he laid back and listened to their conversation, it wasn't until he heard the raised raspy voice of the creature that caused him to prepare himself.

Pulling a ball of heat into the palm of his hand he raised it towards the location of which the creature of was, being much closer now it was more clear of exactly were he was standing and it was a probability he was aware of his location but his speed was much higher than the creature would never be able to match. Hearing the shots fire and the yells of pain it was his time to launch his assault, it wasn't his plan to hurt Rosen but it was a chance they took during times of war.

Punching through the walls with both of his plated fists around that of Rosen's being, the steel screamed with wails of pain as it stripped off into ribbons at his touch. With one hand he held the fiery ball of energy which he launched at the creature, being at such a range that they were it was very unlikely that it would be able to dodge it and with Arni's power level as high as it was he knew the creature had no way to counter it. With his other hand he would grasp onto Rosen's shirt and pull him through the wall, it wasn't the fanciest way to get him out of the fray but he knew Rosen was unlike a normal human and would fair the shredding better than a normal one.

"Long time no see deary, did you miss me?" He joked as if they man's life had not just been in danger.

"If you have any bitching hold it off till later, I mean I won't give a damn then as I do now, but for some reason you humans love to bitch a lot. I might give me a reason to knock you around some if you get the picture." He grinned.

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I am commenting on this thread because of actions that happened in Brandon Potter's post. Since he is currently involved in the Earth saga thread which occurs in present time, therefore this thread takes place before hand and he can't die in this thread and be in the Lookout saga thread as well.

Rosen's attack wasn't lethal not only because his inferior power level but also because it's intent as written wasn't meant to be lethal. Only to immobilize him