Extraordinary Regularity

Maisie laughed at his frustration. She knew what it felt like to wait for an elevator when she needed it. "Oh. I uhhh... I needed to find a bathroom. Mmhm." Yeah, he'd really believe that... She didn't really care, to be honest. Seems like they weren't actually doing anything. Kind of boring, really. She was hoping to get up to something. She'd been sitting around doing nothing for a few months now.

 

"Seven." Valencia said, her face getting slightly red.

 

The elevator doors opened, and Mr. Penton casually stepped out, smiling as he saw the intruders.
"well well well, what do we have here? I do hope that your employees of mine."

As he talked he created a bull whip out of blue and white energy and started walking towards Logan and the catgirl.

"Or you might just be on the tour, but got lost. Ether way, you will pay for disrupting my workforce's work efficiency. Oh and if you are unemployed then I'll gladly offer some of you a job..."
He then cracked his whip by the catgirl and Maisie, causing the lights above them to burst.

"depending on how well you fight."



In the chaos of fleeing employees, two suddenly stopped and transformed into guys wearing sunglasses and suits. they looked around and started talking.

"looks like the anomaly's are in that direction."

"lets go. they must be purged before it's too late."

they didn't talk much, but the started running towards the server room that was on this floor. as soon as they where clear of the crowd they drew their desert eagles out and rushed in.

 

Matthew heard and saw Mr Penton emerge from the elevator, and every single extrasensory sense he had was SCREAMING to get the hell out of there, but he couldn't run. He wouldn't leave any of them here. They'd have to kill him first.
Which, as he became aware of the two men with Desert Eagles behind him heading straight for the machines in front of him, might not be too much of an issue.

If the kids were with him, Matthew wouldn't have been too worried. They could block bullets and dismantle guns and, heck, might even have given them wedgies if they were in the mood. However, they weren't, and were in the machines. Matthew was blocking the way to the machines and he became horribly aware that if he didn't move or react, he'd be very liable to get shot. He thought about his options, then reacted the only way he could think of. Trusting Logan to protect Kitty and handle the terrifying newcomer, he sprang at the men before they could react.

The element of surprise was something he'd always treasured in a fistfight – as the men had come through the door without surveying the situation, they were not prepared for someone directly in their faces. The man on the right received a terrific punch straight to the jaw which sent him to the floor. A moment later, the second was smashed over the head by the butt of a Desert Eagle, and Matthew leapt backwards under the cover of a nearby desk, gun in hand. If they got up, at least he had a weapon.

He amended that – when they got up.


Pawn wrote it down without a moment's hesitation.
“Anything else you can think of?”

 

Logan shook his head.
"Not even gonna try, eh, Broomstick? Oh well, I couldn't care less either way."
He quickly turned his attention to the elevator as the door finally began to open.

Despite the intimidating presence of the man standing in front of them, Logan looked as confident as ever.
"This is better than I could've even hoped for. Who would've thought that the chairman of the whole company would take time out of his busy schedule to visit his guests? It's quite an honor, sir."
He flashed a sadistic smile, a look of anticipation clearly showing in his expression.
"You're gonna wish you stayed in your office, Mr. Penton. I hope you guys have a good deal going with your local insurance company."

Logan briefly glanced behind and chuckled when he saw Matthew spring into action.
"Well, look at that. Maybe he's got a little more to him than just talk."
He then stepped in front of Kitty and the lady with the witch hat and whispered to them.
"Listen up, you two. As long as you stay behind me-- and I mean RIGHT behind me-- there shouldn't be any problems. You both got that?"
As he wasn't the kind of person to actually wait for a response, he looked back up to Penton.
"I'll admit that there's something kind of...I don't know, evil about you. Almost like I'm looking into the eyes of a demon. But there's something you should know about me. I'm not afraid of demons. Or gods or angels or spirits or anything else, for that matter."
He smiled widely as he shifted his weight and raised the heel of his right foot ever so slightly.
"Try to keep me entertained for a while, at least."
He lifted his foot up and slammed it into the ground, sending a shockwave through the floor that headed right for Penton. When it got close, the ground around Penton suddenly and violently shattered and began to crumble around him.

 

"The last year I remember it being was 1579. If you ask my latest memory from that time it's me, talking to my son and wife before I depart for an impossible task. I believe I managed it, however... I may not have, my memory is far too foggy. I wish I could give more details."

Eldrich just stood around waiting for more questioning.

 

Maisie blankly watched all of this go on... She grabbed Kitty's wrist, and just kind of walked to the elevator on the other side of the hallway. "Let's let them play, or something?" She didn't really like the tone of how the guy spoke to them. However, she wasn't in the mood for fighting. She tapped the button, waiting for the elevator. She let go of kitty, checking her wrist even though she had no watch, folding her arms, leaning on the wall next to the elevator and watching. "So, Lass, why are you lot here? You aren't just hanging about, for sure."

She wasn't sticking around here. That guy was in a fucking building and shattering the floor beneath him. She wasn't going to fall through and hurt herself because of what he was playing at. "Do these people always get you into this trouble?..."

 

Kitty looked around nervously. "Well I... Kinda just met them... Ehehehe...." Kitty looked back at Logan and Mr. Penton fighting. "But I promised I'd help." Kitty started to speak in a hush tone. "We're here to find someone, It's kind of a long story so it will have to wait, It's not safe to talk about it here." Kitty held onto Maisie's hand, She was afraid. She's seen powerful people before, but there was something different about Mr. Penton.

 

"Uh....." Valencia stammered, unsure that any of this was actually happening. Meanwhile Violet was laughing in her head. "N-No... that's it." She said, her face growing redder.

 

As the elevater opened, there was a guy who looked like a priest. He looked at the two girls as he felt a certain demonic power that was very familiar to him.

"where you two lassies just about to leave? that'll be smart of you two because that man down the hall is Very dangerous."

Micheal could not believe what he was feeling. Lucis, alive? after all these years? He summoned up a pair of long bayonets as he ran towrds the demon lord.
"So, you survived the desert I see Mr. Penton. Well it looks lik I'll have to make sure to be more thorough this time. "


Penton leaped from the floor and in an instant was behind Logan.

"Careful what you say by dear boy!" he said as he flung Logan into a wall with just a movement of his hand.
"It's all because of you that I'm out of my office. I actually really wanted to meet all of you personally." He smiled as he used his demonic forces to throw him through another wall and into another office. Lucis laughed as he walked towards the office doors.

" You know, since I like to meet my test subjects first before anything bad happens. Oh, and don'y worry about security.... they won't be coming to save you tonight. Gave them the night off." from the corner of his eye he saw another guy coming down the hallway. And this guy meant business as well.
"Oh look, another opportunity to test something from the R&D department!" Penton keyed in a code on his phone, and smiled. through this man did look familiar, he had no time to face him. He was still busy with "entertaining" someone after all.

"Have fun with these, would ya? we need to see how far they can go." As penton casually walked into the office where Logan was, two huge cat-like android mech's came ripping up thru the floor. Looking strait at Micheal and the two girls who where avoiding the fight.

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As Matthew hid behind a desk, the agents left their hosts and left behind where two office workers. they found two workers who decided to hide among the chaos. they came up from behind Matt and started firing, completely missing.

 

As Logan slowly made his way to his feet, a close look would reveal that he still has a slight smirk on his face, despite what just happened to him.
"Wow. I got careless there, didn't I?"
His power kept him safe from most of the impacts, blowing the walls away from him rather than crashing into him, but he was definitely caught off-guard at first. He wiped the blood from his cheek and chuckled to himself.
"I hope you enjoyed that while you could because you won't get another shot at it! You see, I've figured out your little game, Mr. Penton."
His red eyes began to glow and the wind around him swirled as his power began to manifest itself fully.

"Demonic energy. That's what you're using, right? Didn't I tell you that I'm not afraid of demons? You've seen part of my power, but that's just scratching the surface."
Although the man in front of him was too powerful to fully suppress, Logan's Energy Negation ability was still quite effective and would surely limit how much power Penton could use all at once.
"Good luck trying to fling me around like a ragdoll again. Now...I think it's my turn."
Logan ran up to some of the desks around the office and gave them a solid kick. His power turned those kicks into a tremendous amount of force that sent the desks-- computers and all- flying towards Penton, turning them into very large, very deadly projectiles. But even then, they were just a distraction for what he was really up to. He dashed towards Penton using the flying desks as cover, looking to land a punch that would send him across the room and probably break every bone in his body.

 

Maisie looked around. She remember how much she hated the city. The floor can't have been stable now. Think of all the holes!... She quickly rushed into the elevator, pulling Kitty along with her. "Och, ah cannae be doin' with this! Come on, Kitty. We're leaving." Damn city folk. She didn't have time for these metal cats. Or falling through the floor. She slammed the button to go DOWN. Damn right she was going down. "I ken' they're your friend and aw' that, but I'm not breaking' ma legs or my back. Sorry." She didn't seem to happy. She got more Scottish the more stressed she got, or something.

 

Kitty let go of Maisie's hand. "I'm sorry, Maisie, but I can't just leave them. I promised to help." Kitty, despite just meeting her, gave Maisie a hug. "Good luck with whatever you do, Maybe we'll get to see each other again." Kitty looked over to Michael and the large robots and ran up next to him, getting her claws ready. "I don't know who you are, but you are clearly not with Mr. Penton."

 

Instantly, Matthew realized the workers were being possessed. That meant if he shot them innocent people would die. That said, if he let them just keep shooting, he could die.
Then he thought of the kids - HIS kids - in the hands of these creatures, and he knew what he had to do.
He came at them with a fury only a man with something to protect could summon, far deadlier than any gun. His hands were curled in fists of rage and his punches were unrelenting and savage, yet his face never changed beyond that of a cold stern glare.
His fists crashed into joints and necks and both workers were on the floor. Matthew took their guns and hurled them into the corridor, before backing away from the bodies, heart pumping, teeth gritted.

Bravado jotted it down. "Who did you serve? Where did you die? Why dragon slaying?"
"A noble profession," Theraploferous added.

Pawn cocked his head. "Then I ask that you take this." He held out a communicator. "It will allow us to stay in contact and arrange delivery."

 

"Okay." Valencia said taking the proffered device.

 

Maisie shrugged. "Good luck, Kitty." She gave her a small wave, as the doors closed and the elevator started to go down. She was a bit nervous. She didn't come here for this. She folded her arms, closing her eyes a little... She probably wasn't considered a big deal. She hoped so, at least. "Kids these days..." She took off her her hat, dusting it off a little, putting it back on. She wasn't getting into anything she didn't need to be involved in. She didn't know anyone up there, even Kitty. This was why she hated going in towns. Too many buildings that people weren't supposed to go in.

Even elevators made her kind of uncomfortable. They were just big boxes of metal, and they feel like they rumbled on the way down. She'd still have to get used to them.

 

"I served myself and accept contracts from the kings of many lands far and wide. My death... I am alive, so I couldn't have died what kind of trick question is that?! But to go along with you, I don't quite remember when I died." Eldrich paused for a moment as to why he had a reason for dragon slaying.

"When I was growing up dragons were pretty common, and they had a ferocity to them. The details are hazy but around the age of 20, I found myself cornered by 2 dragons, Big ones if I'd say so myself, one of the bastards bit me and swiped at me pretty good. I was bleeding out and afraid for my life, then suddenly I blacked out. The details are still hazy to me but I have pieced my memories together. I seemed to have created a sword out of thin air, the exact sword you see me holding today. I've imbued it with dragon scales and teeth to destroy my enemies. Anyway, during the fight one slammed to low on a bite and I jumped on its head and stabbed through is neck it tried to fly up but I swiftly pulled my blade to the right and removed it's head, the other one began flying, and I jumped from the one that was falling onto it's legs, I crawled scale to scale, until I got to its wings. This was the only time I ever did this. I ripped off one of its wings with my hands, he went plummeting down to the earth and his chest was stabbed through by a tree. I believe I got launched into a giant boulder. I got up unscathed and never understood how. From then on, I swore to protect the land from Dragons, and walked the roads alone looking for my targets, the kings noticed me and wanted me to do contracts for them and participate in wars. If they had the gold I had the capability."

Eldrich pointed to his garb where an allegiance was supposed to be on his torso it was just a ragged old shirt covering chain mail. You could see some of the chain mail, mostly just really dirty white.

"As you can see I bowed to no man, I was a simple farmer before I slayed dragons."

 

Gabriel's eyes were shining brightly as he was completely enraptured by Eldrich's story.
"Whoa...he's been slaying dragons ever since he was 20? And he took on two of them at once?!"
He jumped up and down and squee'd a little.
"So cool! I can't believe my knight's a really real dragon slayer who really slayed dragons!"
He listened intently to Eldrich and Bravado, mostly to see if Eldrich would tell any more awesome stories.

 

Penton saw the desk coming strait at him. He could have avoided it, but he didn't. instead he took the desk head on. But instead he took a punch to the side. It sent him back into the hallway where he saw Matthew taking on the Agents he rescued. Lucis just laid there and started to laugh.

"That actually sent me flying.... that was fun!"

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Micheal looked at Penton with a slightly puzzled look, but then remembered what Lucis was really like. he saw the two tiger mecha's come up thru the floor like it was nothing. The priest took up a defensive stance as he got ready for a fight. He looked back as he heard what Kitty told him. He chuckled and smiled as he took out a huge sketchbook from a satchel on his belt along with a semi fancy fountain pen.

"I can say the same about you from the looks of things. but since it seems we're both on penton's bad side, we could work together." as he talked he was quickly sketching out a Siberian tiger.
"I was hoping that scottish witch would be here as well, but it looks like she's been scared off." after he'd finished his sketch, he tore the page out and threw it out in front of him. The drawing then seemed to detach itself from it's page and grew into a full size tiger, ready to lash out and attack. All he did was point at the two android tigers and the huge and very detailed tiger leaped and attacked the one on the right.

"Typical scott witch. thats why I don't put my trust in them. Oh and to keep things short, I'm Farther Micheal, and I'm here to see if rumors are true or not."

As Micheal talked he watched the android on the left as it was starting to come after both him and Kitty. he then summoned up his dual bayonet swords and got ready.

"If you want to help out, then get ready for a fight lass!" the mechanical tiger lunged at the priest, but Micheal was ready and dodged, slashing into its side.

 

Maisie heard you was talking shit and you didn't think that she would hear it. She burst through the wa-... Hahahah! No. She was out of there. She just waited in the Elevator as it slowly descended, only hoping that Kitty and her friends were blessed enough to make it out so that they could meet again. She could go for a coffee right now, or something...