KH's Story

KH walked around aimlessly. Then she got bored and started fumbling with her laptop. Seconds later, the atm machine beside her spits out 100 dollars. Satisfied, she headed over to the nearest restaurant.

KH in shock decided to watch the event unfold through the window.

Kyle took the attack, his armor easily protecting him from damage. The rifle is held in place and does not budge, instead of attempting to fire or slash the bayonet, Kyle holds his right arm at the woman and fires a sonic pulse from his hand. Pushing her back, it wasn't a strong pulse. But it is strong enough to even stop a bullet in its path, of course it would push a body away from him easily.

He lowers is right arm, a chunk of metal pokes out of his forearm and a large blade forms from the unfolding of the metal, the blade has a thin gap inside it, designed to release a high frequency sound wave which could slice through metal. Using the targeting systems, he scans the woman and his surroundings. Forming a plan of action in seconds, but he does not attack any further. He always fights defensively.

"Why must you join in, sometimes I feel like existence is against me." Kyle speaks, the helmet slightly covers his voice. But it is obvious that his personality changed. He sounds like he is having fun, more like an insane person. But he stands and waits for any other strikes. Keeping in mind about everyone in the room. Any of them could attack him, so he will be prepared. The blue glowing on his back intensifies, he is ready to move at the speed of sound.

"Penance, Execution Protocols. Exits, sealed, structure reinforced. Shield the noncombatants, refuse hostile marked in armor." The calm, cold voice of Zacariah Grimm rang out as the man rose from the table, the stench of eldritch magic rising from him in waves, the breath of the draconic entering the aura he generated. "Attempted murder in the second degree, this Judicar finds you guilty."

What had appeared now became. Hands stretched and split, long, dagger-like claws hard as adamantine forming from what had been Zach's hands, skin hardening and forming into diamond hard scales, features melting into reptilian shape. A tail writhed free at the base of his spine, lashing with the anger built within the man.

There were many foolish things to do in the world, but one of the worst is committing extreme violence within the Penance Tavern in the presence of a Judicar. No escape, and hulking outlines of emerald and ruby came into sight as Molk and Tholk appeared to either side of the Dragonbinder.

"You die now."

Molk swept to Kyle's right far swifter than something as large as he was seemed possible, while Tholk flanked left. Wickedly cruel talons of force swept apart, burning wytchfires where the wraiths eyes should be flickering balefully. But they simply cut off, with their size, most avenues of retreat. Stalking forward came Grimm, baring a mouthful of fangs as he suddenly shot forward with the blinding speed of a striking cobra, slamming a claw forward with the force of a warhammer slung by a giant for the armored man's chest.

When the pulse hit Lake kept her grip tight at the kids throat. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the two colors of hands moving to the left and right. A smirk appeared on her face then. The pulse did little more then make a slight breeze around the woman as she struck then, her right hand slashing at the rifle, derezzing the thing as the identity disc made contact. Then she kicked off the kid, flipping backwards to land next to Tafari. Snapping the two discs together into one she backed from the ring that seemed to appear out of nowhere around the new fighting group.

Severely tempted to join in. The woman instead was more focused on wanting to finish her meal, happy now that the boy was disarmed. For the most part. She deactivated the identity disc. the dark red jumpsuit disappeared, once more she appeared in normal everyday clothing. Apparently now quite bored. She was tempted to call in a favor, but thought better of it. She hoped, that with her help, she might get a free drink. Or even a free meal.

A free meal....

Just the thought of such a thing made her remember something important, but as she moved to take her leave the door sealed in front of her. Great, looked like she was going to have to wait it out. She could do that. She made sure that her rifle was loaded and ready to go, and also her pistol at her side.

She could wait this one out. She had done her part.

Kyle growled in anger, he could not stand having his rifle taken away from him. But when the hands began approaching him, he went through with his plan.

Kyle's body exploded. The explosion was small but strong, anything that wasn't bolted to the floor was thrown across the room. Of course Kyle used his means of an "illusion escape". He placed small explosives at his feet and activated a hologram from the nodes attached to the explosives. Using the speed of sound, he managed to escape from sight.

He appeared behind the woman, still covered in his armor but instead he wore a brown hooded long coat to cover himself from the others. Instead of attacking, he held his metal covered hand out, "Give my rifle back and I'll leave." He spoke in a serious manor, ready to thrust his sword into the woman. He wanted to get out of this place. Things were too hectic for his liking and he didn't set up enough explosives to blow the building down.

Molk and Tholk simply altered their directions, and though tables and chairs were hurled from the blast, they broke over a field that had formed around the regulars. Of Zach, there was no immediate sign...

Until he reappeared out of the smoke over Kyle's head, twisting in the air in an attempt to slam a spinning aerial kick into the armor man's head from behind, his booted foot replacing with a draconic talon. The force behind the blow was far, far stronger than the draconic-formed man appeared to be, capable of sending full sized pickup trucks flying should they be struck. Whether or not the blow struck home, however, Zach wasn't nearly finished.

His mouth opened, and from it issued the sound of thunder as he belched a powerful lightning bolt at Kyle's armored body. With the senses of a dragon, he could perceive the man's sonic speed, and now resorted to a tactic that moved even faster. Lightning struck before its own thunder, after all.

"Shit." Kyle cursed, he wasn't prepared for this. He had taken the blow to his head, throwing him onto the ground. The lightning did not affect Kyle, although it did heat him up a bit. The metal was non conductive, electricity would have no effect when he is fully armored. But the shock of the kick damaged the armor. As the armor self repaired itself, Kyle had to fight without targeting systems.

Kyle swung his sword at the direction of the lizard thing. He wasn't aiming to hit the man, instead, he fired a high frequency sound wave towards him. He had previously set the sword to fire a sound wave that could cut metal. But, it was a one and only fire. Kyle couldn't fire another sound wave until he can set the frequency with his targeting systems.

"Dude, didn't you hear? I was asking for my rifle back and then I will leave. Please respect that" Kyle spoke, still angered with the fact his rifle disappeared.

But, Kyle had planned ahead already. This guy could see through his tricks, so he thought of a way to deal with that.

The trouble makers smile graced her face. Her arms crossed as she watched the ensuing chaos. When the explsoives went off she barked a warning to Tafari to cover his vision as she did the same. Thankful for the moment of the forcefield that covered the innocents.

She waited but a heartbeat and when she heard the voice of the child asking for his weapon back she snickered. She never took it physically. For the nonce it was gone. So instead she said with a snicker. "Do you have a permit." Even if he did, it'd be some time before he got his weapon back. At least, once he answered some questions.

Then it all happened at once.

She spotted something behind the cloaked kid, recognised it, and leaned backwards nearly to the ground as the kid sailed over her to the ground. She flipped back to her feet and stepped aisde. Once more smiling her troublemakers smile, "I say again child. Do you have a permit." She highly doubted it. She was out of the range of the Dragonbinders line of fire however. Her arms still crossed.

Tail slapped ceiling, and Zach slammed onto the floor with one foot to evade the sonic slash as the sword had begun to swing. Reptilian eye noticed the armor was repairing, and Zach snarled. "Too late for that, kid."

And that's when instead of lightning, a line of acid blasted from his mouth with the force of a fireman's hose, tracking up from the floor to flip up the length of Kyle. Abruptly stopping the stream, Grimm followed the second breath weapon with that same blistering speed, lunging forward and twisting to bring his free leg up and over, continuing the twist to add to the momentum of sending his heel, and the jagged spur of talon on it, slamming down like a pickaxe in the hands of an enraged dwarven berserker for Kyle's chest.

It was the startling contrast of what most would expect from the Dragonbinder, for despite his ferocious strength and speed, he was calmly in control of that blitzkrieg ability. Smooth transitions, flowing from one draconic talent to the next, all to enact the most basic form of justice in the world.

Eradicating a threat to its people.

"Why the fuck do I need a permit! Just give it back, please! Or help me here and we can leave. I'll buy you food, and I promise I wont attack!" Kyle shouted to the woman as the lizard man reacted to his sonic wave. He noticed that the lizard man wasn't done.

Kyle firmly placed his hands on the floor and fired sonic pulses from him, throwing himself in the air. He professionally used his powers as he fired pulses from his hands and feet to maneuver himself away from the lizard man. As soon as he landed, he swung his hands in the direction of the lizard man. Small ball like objects flew towards the man and detonated in front of him. They weren't explosives though, instead he used flash bangs to temporarily blind the lizard.

As the flash bangs detonated, he moved at the speed of sound again towards the woman.
"I'm begging you, that rifle is everything to me." He pleaded the woman as a couple sparks flew from the side of his head and the blue holographic targeting systems came back online.
The armor repaired itself quickly, the damage wasn't that bad anyway. It was just a kick to the head.

KH was frightened, but watched in awe as the dragonbinder used his power.

KH continued to watch from the tavern window. She has seen the likes of Kyle's machine before... If given a reason she might be able to shut it down remotly.

Flashbangs. Zach couldn't see, but that's when Kyle really did manage to finally piss him off.

Portions of his body twisted, protrusions stretching and molting as six other heads wrenched free of of his back, turning baleful glares on the armored man's back as five of them reached back to issue bursts of breath, while one uttered menacing words of draconic. A sphere of force encased Lake, separating her from Kyle.

While Kyle was then subjected to the heads of a Blue, White, Red, Shadow, and Deep Dragon spewing a line of lightning, a cone of frozen energy, a cone of fiery inferno, a cone of enervating, energy sapping power, and a cloud of chlorine gas, all at once. As well, the size of his tail stretched, expanding to be the thickness of a tree trunk.

Which, leaning forward and embedding talons in the floor, he swung around with the power of a wrecking ball to lash across the room into Kyle, the tail end chasing along the Penance's protective field and the force sphere to continue its devastating path all the way into the rear wall of the Tavern, anchored in the bedrock foundations of Wing City above.

"That is not a sight to see..." Kyle was confused at what he saw. In fact, he felt ill...

Then he was bombarded with attacks from the heads. Kyle activated heating systems to counteract the frozen energy, the fire did nothing but made Kyle feel he was in a sauna. Kyle felt tired and the blue light on his back dimmed. It was a good thing filters are at the air intakes. Otherwise Kyle would have choked in the gas.
But then Kyle was hit with immense power. He was thrown into the wall, he then dropped onto the floor. He groaned in pain, things happened too fast and there was too much going on. He couldn't focus on them all.

Kyle tried to move, but his limbs did not answer. He struggled and struggled but there was no response. Then he realized:
The power was drained from his MechAr, meaning the defense systems were on minimum. The shock of the tail must have busted the connections of the MechAr to Kyle. That was the main downfall of the Mechanical Armor. It was built to be permanently connected to the central nervous system, depending on the body for it's energy supply. Which was why Kyle fights defensively and tries to stay out of trouble, he will get tired very easily due to having to supply his body and the armor with energy. The connections being damaged made Kyle temporarily paralyzed so the MechAr can repair itself. It was a system Kyle built in to quickly repair major damage.

"Look, can we talk this out? I said I will leave when I have my rifle, I won't return here. I was planning on leaving wing city anyway." Kyle seemed to have reverted to his previous personality as he spoke in mono tone yet again.

"Why aid you when you neddlessly shoot a man." The woman asked, clearly bored apparently before she raised a hand up to call a halt to the fight to the Dragonbinder. Only it was too late as the force shell landed directly in her line of sight. As it sprang up around her she was momentarily startled. What the slagging hell ? She pressed a hand against it. Energised glass of some form, it moved with her hand. But when the fire came it solidifed and redirected the fire from her. Great.

She struck her identity disc at the forcefield, it did nothing in reaction to the disc edge touching it. Drats. This sucked.

All she could do was watch as the boy was dashed around until he finally came to a halt at her feet. Trying to talk. She could hear the boy clearly. her hypersenitive hearing could hear everything as long as she focused she could drown out everything else. She focused on Kyle, his voice, she noticed the change in it as well. She cast a glance towards the dragonbinder and crossed her arms as if waiting.

She was.

She was waiting for the forcefield to be dropped. But until then she could at least speak her mind. So she did. "You needlessly shot another. One that was unarmed at that. You need only answer why you fired. Lucky for you the one you shot will be fine. Leaving town might be your best option." She said, as if going down a list of items. "As to your weapon. Due to its structure and design, you have me wondering how a boy your age could get his hands on such a weapon. Hence why I ask if you have a permit."

She cast her gaze to Grimm, hopefully stalling the dragonbinder long enough she continued speaking to Kyle. "As soon as you explain to me why you do what you just did. Why you shot an unarmed man. I will return your weapon to you out of kindess." She said. Hopefully striking a deal. "I am quite sure you did not come here to fight, but to eat and drink your fill then take your leave as I myself was planning to do. If you will merely explain why you fired as you did. This can all go away." Her tone made it clear, she did not want another to kill someone out of cold blood. Not when she was in need of food and drink.

Apparently hell just froze over.

Lake One, the voice of reason, yeah right.

This was not going to go well.

A snarl on his face, Zach dropped the force shell, retracting the more potent of his body's alterations as he sneered at Kyle. However, as his tail returned to size it grew wicked spikes, claws expanding in size until his balled fists were the size of mace heads. Glaring at Kyle as the last of his changes finished, he spoke. "Talk, and talk fast. Or I find your explosives, peel that tin can suit apart, and stuff them up your ass."

Just as a precaution, he let slip the Black's breath weapon and took up the Shadow's. It seemed to work the best.

He did not, however, drop the Penance's lockdown, and watched the two wraith's come to a halt on either side of Kyle once more, glowing talons held in readiness to snare and rend the hooligan before he could cause more trouble.

"I was hired to kill the man." Kyle spoke out of breath. He was too tired and still paralysed. "He didn't pay up to this dude so he hired me to kill him. That's why I entered here. Made it look like I was just here to waste time. I was actually waiting for him to leave so I could strike. But being with you all appearing I thought it wouldn't happen in a long time." Kyle took a deep breath after explaining himself. "As for the rifle, it's made up of the two guns my mother and father used before they were executed. I wanted to keep their profession with me. That rifle is the last thing I have of my parents." Tears ran down Kyle's face, but it was covered by his armour. It was obvious he was crying by the way he was quickly breathing.

"Leaving town is an option, but I have no means of transport. Killing thy guy would pay the expenses." Kyle sighed. He didn't know what to do, but he was planning something. Just in case.

Kyle giggled at the lizard's threat. "I would like to see you try. As soon as this armour is disconnected from my body, a built in dark matter explosive will detonate. It's a defence mechanism of a terrorist" Kyle spoke towards the lizard, he didn't care anymore. If the armour was removed, the DM explosive would probably rip a hole in the planet.

KH saw an opportunity to speak up. "Actually... that bomb would be useless"