Beyond the walls {Everyone else v Gilgamesh}

[STAFF2]

While most of the battles were taking place on the grounds of the X-mansion, it was beyond the walls where a brave few made their stand, behind them their home, before them an army crushed beneath a Helicarrier, but plenty of space in between the two.

The cunning Gambit, the wild Permafrost, the brave, if already wounded Warstar, the beautiful Nyx and the Young at heart Toon Town. Their threat? The Monster the New Order had unleashed, Gilgamesh.

[lockheed]

The air was heavier here. Everywhere else private battles raged in a desperate struggle for victory but it was different here. The battle had yet to begin and the world had stopped in a thick silence.

Chris was stood on the lawn outside the back of the mansion next to four of his newly founded teammates. There was only one sound he could here, his own heartbeat, thumping in his chest. He could hardly breathe with the pressure, the battle was about to start. His hands were shaking; Gilgamesh was huge, hanging in the sky like a demon waiting to devour the Earth. Hopper, Annabel and himself stood no chance against him, not alone at any rate, hopefully with his teammates beside him they stood a chance. There was still a thought in the back of his mind, one being that could turn the battle, perhaps it could stand up to Gilgamesh, the Dark One, but that was a gamble of long odds. Even if he defeated Gilgamesh how would they then stop the Dark One? That was a last resort, and a poor one at that. He needed to have a plan here, a way of knowing what to do next. He glanced over his right shoulder to what appeared to be a mere depression in the grass and whispered, “Your job is to protect us for now.” The great snake known only to Toontown slithered through the grass and around Chris’ leg. There was a hissing sound as the invisible companion wound herself around Chris’ body, forming an invisible shield against incoming attacks. He closed his eyes for but a fraction of a moment as he mentally reassured himself then drawing himself up he took a deep breath and turned to their leader. “What’s the plan here boss?”

[GILGAMESH]

Gilgamesh landed on the collapsed Helicarrier first, he was....just a person now, the massive tendrils and what not had faded away, all that was left was the wicked glow of red coming from his eyes. He took a moment to survey the scene, get an idea of who was coming against him. A moment later, with one tiny motion, he leapt from the downed carrier, landed firmly on the ground. In the distance of when he was in the sky, or on the helicarrier, but there was something strapped to his back, under his cloak.

He drew it out.....it was a shield, but not just any shield. It was Captain America's shield, the iconic shield he had stolen when he departed the Avengers, when he challenged Cap to take it back. "Well look at this....all of you against little old me...luckily I have this trinket to protect him." There was a pulse of light from his eyes, a moment later he sped forward, calling upon his enhanced speed to try get in a quick, cheeky strike against each of his opponents in a hit and run tactic.

[GAMBIT]

Claude stood beside their new ally, now a part of the X-family, Toon Town. An interesting chap, Claude was glad to have him in the family, it was......refreshing to see someone with a heart like his. Claude ended lives for a living....only crooks and villains who in his often given opinion deserved it, but still, so it was nice to have someone who had kept that sense of childhood and wonder in their eyes. "Now...watch yea'self wit'em Toon Town, we ain't gonna beat'im in a fist fight, tha'just math." he was however, forced to go on the defensive before he could finish. Gilgamesh rushed them, Claude pulled up his arms to protect himself but even when braced, the force of the blow from the Person of Mass Destruction that was Gilgamesh.

The New York born Cajun was knocked off his feat, but managed to roll back into a stance in one fluid motion. He pulled out his trusty revolver, taking sight of Gilgamesh before emptying the weapon.

[PERMAFROST]

Renee felt the ground beneath her rock as the thing she could only see a little crashed to the ground. She looked to the others and then back out side she had been looking for some kind of a signal from Claude and hell what kind bigger sign did she need than that " Screw waiting around" she muttered and pushed herself off the wall and ran to the door throwing it open for a second the beam of sun light caused her eyes to squint but she knew that she could not stop because if she did she was giving them a still target. Trying to pull herself into fight mode Renee only took a few more seconds to look around and seeing Claude she felt he was where her best shot of staying alive would be. Renee ran and after a few steps putting her hands out in front of her Renee was able to ice the ground below her feet , she continued this until she was close enough to her two team member. Looking at the crashed Helicarrier Renee walked off the ice her eyes glued to it, her mouth open in awe.

She didn't know what to, slowly she turned to Claude "Should we try and get in that thing maybe there's something" she began to say until another voice called over her one, Renee turned to face the Blonde man now standing opposite them. She knew she shouldn't but when he pointed out that he was out numbered Renee couldn't control the left side of her mouth pulling up into a small half smile, she hadn't been in many real fights but she believed that if he was dumb enough to fight them it would be on his own head be it. The light from his eyes did un nerve her a little. Renee went to ask Claude what he felt would be the best strike when suddenly the man was gone and as her eyes looked for him she felt something hit her in the back hard forcing her to hit the ground "What the hell" she asked bewildered scrambling to her feet. Maybe she hadn't given the guy his dues.

[WARSTAR]

Lily...or Warstar even, still had a ringing headache, but that's what happens when you take down a Helicarrier for the first time. The nose bleed had stopped, a quick splash of cold water on the face helped, but she was not 100% for this....and of course, fighting Gilgamesh really wasn't a "come into this half-assed" sort of encounter, it was going to take everything she had.

Converting her body to her "solid steel" form, even if the metal was certainly not steel, she managed to weather the blow well. Gilgamesh must have barely used even one percent of his hitting power, he could have killed them all with a punch......he was playing with them. She took a moment to shake her head free of annoyance and the headache (which turning Colossus-mode really helped actually) and dove at him from behind, she was the only one who had a chance of genuinely restraining him....and if she did, they could hit him with everything they had!

[nyx]

i'm a nightmare, a disaster.
THATS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAID.

i'm a lost cause, not a hero.
BUT I'LL MAKE IT ON MY OWN.

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Aly's breathing quickened as she watched her targets worst fear become his reality, the helicarrior crashing down from the skies and crushing him alive. It was by no means instant, though the sudden gush of life-force the redhead received psionically was a lot to take in one go.

She took in a great gulp of air as her eyes faded from deep black pools to their normal shade of aqua blue. The first thing she noticed was that people were beginning to dash out of the room, as if the battle cry had been sounded. Still slightly unaware of her surroundings, her eyes drifted to the window, where she saw what her, for less of a better word, victim had saw; the downed helicarrier.

Victim, she thought to herself, this is not time to get ethical.

Storming out of the building her only thought was to find Claude, like that in itself was the answer to all of this, if she could survive long enough to find him then it would all be fine. She was wrong. As she picked him out in a small gathering of resistance members she recognized, shielding her eyes with a cupped hand from a light blast, she also saw him...

He was the only figure to haunt her nightmares now, and as she looked at him she remembered every minute that she had blacked out of her memory, her hand falling to her side limply. His empty glare, his icy touch... She could hardly knit together a coherent thought, never mind take in what he was talking about, and before she knew it there was a searing pain in her side, her knees hitting the floor hard "Ah!"

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[lockheed]

Gilgamesh was fast. He had already hit the other resistance members before Chris had even spotted him approaching.

As Gilgamesh hit Annabel in the place of Chris, Toontown was sent spiralling a few feet backwards. He wondered if Gilgamesh knew what his powers were yet, it took people a few moments to figure it out usually, at any rate he would have no doubt noticed that he appeared to have some form of shield around him.

Warstar was making a dive at Gilgamesh, that was a good idea, she was the only one that might be able to hold him down, but she had to catch him first. Chris was closer, he didn’t have a chance at holding him down with his own hands but Annabel was a different story. His shouts seemed redundant in this situation, almost as if he was stating the obvious, only Chris could see the results of his calls. “Get him!” He yelled almost at the top of his voice as Annabel uncurled like a coiled spring and launched herself towards Gilgamesh. She wouldn’t be able to hold him down for long but the invisible restraints might just hold long enough to give Warstar a chance of catching him unnoticed. The grass around the battle was being pushed flat in a giant circular pattern as Hopper started to run, building up speed in a giant loop around the battle, he was preparing for a charge.

Chris had lost his protection now, hopefully he wouldn’t need it for a while, or perhaps Gilgamesh thought he still had it. That could come off one of two ways; either he’d leave Chris to the end or try to overcome the shields, hitting him so hard that he’d never see it coming. It was certainly a risk but if he didn’t give this battle his all then they were doomed anyway.

There was something wrong with Ally, she was quicker than that usually. If only she could see into Chris’ world, cartoons made everything less scary. As he clambered to his feet and took in his surroundings he called out to her, “Ally! You okay?” As new to the team as he was he still new that they were all going to be needed on top form, there was no room for mistakes here.

[GILGAMESH]

With about as much effort as blinking Gilgamesh had floored his opponents, it was good to be the king. A moment later, he felt bullets slamming into his face, but they merely crumpled into bits of metal and fell to the floor. Claude should have known better then to try use a peashooter to stop him. Silly X-man, but that was the problem with assassins like him, just so used to killing within their means.

Suddenly a woman of metal came jumping at him, wrapping her arms around him to hold him in place, before an invisible force joined in for that extra hold. "Useless! Your all useless!" he roared before swinging his head backwards, aiming it to strike Warstar right on the nose, a moment later he unleashed a pulse of pure force, to kick off the telekinetic construct that was Annabel.

Gilgamesh attached his shield to hard light construct tendril, before lashing it out with enough force to cut through ten inches of titanium, but he was aimed for the telekinetic construct that was "Hopper," his head turned towards Toon Town, a wicked red glow still emanating from his eyes. "Did they tell you anything about me boy? I can hear a butterflies heartbeat in Africa from here! Do you think I wouldn't hear that things feet against the ground?" Then he smiled.

Gilgamesh started to walk towards Toon Town...and Aly. "All dressed up for me sweetheart? Don't worry.....once I'm finished with this lot....we'll celebrate on the ashes of this Mansion....we'll celebrate long and hard!" he sneered, before sending out a harsh boot towards Toon Town's face.

[GAMBIT]

Right....shooting him in the face didn't work. Time to move on to next plan. The New York born Cajun watched as Gilgamesh broke free from their attempts to hold him still, then made his way over to Toon Town and Nyx, he was hurting Nyx! The New Ragin'Cajun sprang into action.

He may not have been quick enough to cross the distance and stop him attempting to boot Chris in the face, but he had time to stop him turning his attention back to Aly. So with his gun in hand, just now flipped into a more suitable way of holding it to pistol whip someone, he threw himself at Gilgamesh, one arm raised preparing to beat him across the head as hard as he could.

[WARSTAR]

One moment Lily had her arms firmly wrapped around Jason, holding him in place, the next minute the back of his head cracked into her face, slamming hard into her nose, the half Russian was sent hurtling backwards. Shoulders hit the ground first before a short skid, but she managed to climb back to her feet quickly enough.

Alright, this guy wasn't a softie, she could hit him with the hard stuff. Charging towards him Warstar quickly converted back into her flesh form, before raising both arms to tap into her magnetic energies, aiming for that shield in his hand, hoping to catch him off guard and move it, slamming it into his face, timing her charge just right she switched back to "steel" skin and aimed to ram into his lower back, arms prepared to wrap around him, to vault him backwards into the ground.

[PERMAFROST]

Renee got up with a very faint wince she had hoped that this guy would be all bravado but he moved faster than she thought and even there bigger numbers where not enough to scare him. Renee seemed to for now not be of any concern of his, with that advantage Renee felt that if she acted fast enough she might in some way be able to slow him down for them to figure out a way to take him down. Getting to her feet Renee watched as Claude shot at the mans face, she got ready for what should have happened. What she should have see was the bullets travel out the other side of his head blood with them, instead they hit his face and fell to the floor.

Renee was frozen for a few minutes, she wanted some sign that this fight could be won she really hadn't come here to die. In her own head she screamed at herself to move and be of use to the others, running towards Gil she was sure that War stars hold on the man was solid but in what seemed like a blink of an eye her team mate was flying away from the man she had a grip on. Strength hadn't worked so she was going to try and freeze him there. Claude came up at his front and looked like he was going to beat him, Renee felt the chill in the palms of her hands and ran towards Gil from behind and went to grab his forearms if she could keep his arms out of action just for a moment they could win the fight.

[nyx]

i'm a nightmare, a disaster.
THATS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAID.

i'm a lost cause, not a hero.
BUT I'LL MAKE IT ON MY OWN.

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She froze up, watching her teammates try and fail to bring him down made her heart sink even lower, what if they couldn't beat him? She thought bitterly. No that was what he wanted you to think, break your reserve and then you were all to easy to take down, as a team and individually.

"...no" She said quietly to Chris, her voice sounded like a scared little girl. She wasn't OK, even if this wasn't the time to be not OK, and if she couldn't be honest with her team who could she be honest with. "Chris!" She screamed as the boot was kicked out towards her friend, it was her fault he was close, and she felt the guild of her freezing up weigh down on her.

Tears seared her eyes as she looked back at Gilgamesh, Claude, Lil and Renee were all rushing to attack while she had his attention, it gave her some courage to speak "You forget that I've been in that twisted head, and i know just what scares you!" She yelled back, her eyes pooling black.

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[lockheed]

Toon Town was caught directly in the face by the boot. As cried out in pain there seemed to be a slight ripple in the air as his final ‘friend’ manifested itself into the solid world. The air seemed to grow old as the rippling air currents began to take their form. Chris’ face suddenly became riddled with fear but strangely it wasn’t because of Gilgamesh but at the ghostly figure appearing in the midst of his vision. Didn’t need nor want to make use of The Dark One yet and it took every ounce of his willpower to swallow it back into his imagination.

He needed to put some distance between himself and Gilgamesh. Hopper re-manifested just in front of Chris already at running pace. As Chris flung his arms around the imaginary rabbit he was dragged away from the battle, he wasn’t paying attention in which direction nor how far, he wasn’t a fist fighter and just needed the distance. Eventually stopping he examined his face briefly. His nose felt broken and there was blood pouring down his face, he couldn’t take too many more hits like that one.

He took his momentary pause from the battle to reset himself, Annabel wrapped around him once again, reforming his protective shell and Hopper paused beside him. He took a moment to observe where he was standing, he was closer to the Helicarrior now, that was good, it gave him somewhere to run if all else went wrong. Ok so he could hear Hopper’s feet could he, that meant he needed a way to counter it, whispering was no good either, he would certainly hear that, but perhaps with his back turned Chris could convey his ideas through signals. Hopper began jumping around at maximum pace with an unpredictably erratic movement, the intention of this wasn’t to do any damage but if Gilgamesh’s hearing was that good then hopefully this would do something to even the sensory playing field somewhat, even if just to a small degree.

He wasn’t sure exactly what it was he was going to do next, he was still fairly new to combat and he was struggling to keep his plans rolling in as it was. Both his friends were occupied now which left him fairly useless in a battle but hopefully he could still serve as a distraction. “I may not know much about you!” Toon Town called out across the battlefield to Gilgamesh, “But how much do you know about me?” He was really hoping the answer would be nothing, at any rate he was disinclined to reveal anything, from his experience surprise usually worked well for him. “Oh, and for the record, butterflies don’t have a heartbeat!”This was one fact that Chris was certain on, he liked butterflies, they were pretty and so it was one of the few things he had dedicated himself to studying. Hopefully his combined efforts might just distract him long enough to make a difference. He wasn’t sure why Gilgamesh had appeared to pick on him at the start of the battle but if it was going to continue then the Dark One was going to get out, and if that happened he wanted to be as far away from both his friends and the mansion as possible.

[GILGAMESH]

Attack kept coming from all directions, the first fresh attempt to take him down came in the form of his shield suddenly flying up and slamming him into the face, it stunned him for a moment, but that moment was all that was needed for the Warstar to ram into his back before hurling him upwards, an initially successful technique, but clearly she didn't expect that he'd be able to recover himself in air, before promptly coming down on her hard, he swung his foot with enough force the impact would be physically felt in an after shock from fifty feet away, coupled with a blast of energy, hitting the girl in the side of the face.

He brought himself back down to the ground once Warstar had been sent flying, before returning his attentions to young Nyx as she decided to speak up. "You know what I'm scared of? Is that right?" he asked, not even turning his head as Claude hurled himself at him, instead casually leaning backwards to avoid the blow, before delivering a swift elbow strike to the Cajun, smashing him chest first into the floor, before following up by driving his foot down onto Claude's back, pinning him down, hard.

He extended a hand towards Aly, aiming to roughly grab her around the throat before turning to face Toon Town, a snarl taking over his face. "Pathetic Wretch." spat the son of the Sentry, before a pair of beams exploded from his eyes, twin beams of pure forced aimed straight to the child minded individuals chest.

After his blast towards Toon Town, he felt a hands grab him by the forearms, frozen over an instant later. "I wonder how long you can keep that hold on me? I'll make you a deal, the longer you can hold it....I won't attack your friends." he asked with a sinister twinge to his voice. A black tendril emerged from under his cape, aiming to coil around her head, keep it in place. Gilgamesh started to generate an energy field, a heat based one, almost like an aura, starting something of a pushing contest, his ability to produce heat against her ability to remove it. He twisted his form until he could look into her eyes, before his started to glow red before unleashing another pair of optic blasts, but while the beams he fired at Toon Town were just pure force, these were heat based beams, and he was hoping to get her right in the eyes.