» Part VI

[Nearphotison]

We find our heroes at the famous and historic Stonehenge, which has been desecrated by the followers of Eris, Goddess of Chaos and Discord. The imposing stone monuments have been lined with equally massive speakers, creating a circle by which untold volumes can be heaped upon anyone. Standing in the center is Eris herself, having just arrived from who-knows-where.

With the departure of Zaraki Kenpachi and his subordinate Yachiru, Ichigo and Gambit are left alone with the mysterious Alucard. With the arrival of the goddess, all of the workers suddenlt stop what they are doing, and gather around her, heaping their praises onto her. The vain Eris smiles, waving off her devout followerd.

"Now, now, my children," she says in her faux British accent. "There will be time to admire me later. Now, I need you to, like, totally capture these infidels that dare to trespass on our most holy of rituals!"

At her command, the mass of people turn, focusing on the three men who stand around the fallen Punk Rocket. Eris points, extending one perfectly manicured nail towards them. On cue, the mob charges. Thinking quickly, Gambit charges a handful of cards and flings them directly int he mobs way, blowing dirt into the air and buying them precious seconds to prepare themselves.

"We musn't hurt dem," Gambit yells over the building roar of the crowd. "Dey're jus' civilians, so use yo' kiddie gloves, capiche?"

[aroseinthedark]

Deep in the mountains, far away from the battle that was beginning against Chaos' minions, a S.H.E.I.L.D agent wandered through the woods. He took a cloth out from his pocket, and used it to wipe the sweat from his brow.
"Probably shouldn't have worn my suit for this mission." he mumbled to himself. He pulled a crumpled map out from his pocket, and stared at it for a long while.
After another hour or so of wandering around, he found himself at a small cabin. With a relieved sigh, he trudged up the hill towards it. He stopped abruptly as he heard the tell-tale sound of a gun being set behind him. His shoulders drooped. Why did he always get the wierd ones?

"You don't look like you're dressed for a walk in the woods, friend," a young, cocky voice said behind him. "I suggest you leave before you get hurt."

The S.H.E.I.L.D agent put up his hands, trying to show the man that he meant no harm.

"You're a hard man to track down." He said calmly. "And you're right, I'm not on a nature hike. I was sent here by S.H.E.I.L.D to rucruit you. We're in need of good fighters right now."

"And why would I help you?" The young man sneered, "I've been living here - by myself - at your organization's. . . request - for years now."

"Exactly," the agent responded. "This is your chance for redemption. We're ready to offer you a life where ever you choose - after a brief probation period, of course - if you will help us with this case." The agent turned around, and was relieved to see that the young man had lowered his gun. "Plus, I can guarentee that you will get to have some fun."

This last statement made the young man smile. He flipped his long black hair with a smile. "I must admit, this case does sound interesting. Just tell me where to go."

The S.H.E.I.L.D agent smiled. "Stonehenge."

The young man nodded, and began to float up into the air. "Just be warned. If I get bored, I'm out," he said, before flying away faster than the agent's eyes could follow.
The agent stuck his hands in his pocket.

"Jeez. The guy could have at least given me a lift out of these mountains." with a deep sigh, he began his journey back to civilization.

[royalpayne]

Back in Jolly Old England, the GIV team was having a hard time fending off the zombified worshipers. Ichigo had pulled his blade, but was forced to use mostly the hilt as he tried not to damage the bystanders too much. Gambit and Alucard were having similar difficulties, but so far they had managed to hold the horde off.

"We need to get out of here!" ichigo yelled, knocking a young man out with the hilt of his sword. "There's too many of them!"

[Nearphotison]

Gambit used his quarterstaff to knock down a row of attackers. However, like the preverbial hydra, many more stampeded forward to take their place. Thinking quickly, Gambit turned to run.

"Where the hell are you going?" Ichigo yelled after him, stuck where he was as he fought the onslaught. Gambit ignored him, getting a good distance between himself and his attackers. Turning on a dime, he headed back towards them, jamming his pole in his path. Using the sudden break in momentum, he catapaulted over the crowd, leaving his weapon behind. However, he drew several cards from his pocket, charging them and throwing them at Eris. The goddess could only smile as she waved her hand, scattering the cards with a force of wind. The explosives landed all around her, kicking up dirt but leaving their intended target unscathed.

"Damn," Gambit whispered, his momentum running out as he tumbled to the Earth, and into the waiting arms of the mob.

[aroseinthedark]

As Gambit was being swallowed by the mass of people, he heard the sound of something landing beside him.

"Oh, my. There's so many of you." a young voice said. "What should I do?" He chuckled, and took a fighting stance. Rather than begin to attack, however, the young man began to yell. As his voice echoed through out the valley of Stonehenge, a strange energy began to emanate from his body. As it's force grew, it began to stir up the dirt around the man's feet, and before long it was strong enough to push back the Godess' followers, giving our heros a brief relief.

[Nearphotison]

Gambit looked over his shoulder as he stood up, smirking. Turning back to the crowd he shouted, "Aye, they would 'ave to send the likes of you, n'est-ce pas?" Backing away from the crowd of fallen people, he pulled his stick from the ground. "What rock did dey pull ya out from under?"

[aroseinthedark]

"You should know, mon ami" the young man sneered in a horrible accent. "Wasn't it your group who sent me there in the first place? On the threat of deactivation?" He kept an eye on the mob as they slowly got back to their feet. Looks like we're not done here, yet. He thought with a smile.

[Nearphotison]

The mob began to charge again, but this time our heroes had a little extra muscle behind them. Quickly cutting their way through the mob, it was a matter of minutes until they had Eris in their sights.

"It seems you have more friends than I would have thought," she said, throwing one of her golden apples at the group. There was a brilliant flash of light as the apple hit the ground at their feet, and soon thick vines began to sprout from the very earth. Entangling our heroes, and not a few happless underlings, evwen the newcomer was powerless to break free from their magical influence. Eris slipped closer to the foursome, and cradled the newcomer's face.

"Mmmmm... And what a handsome friend, too..."

[aroseinthedark]

The young man could do nothing but smile as the strange goddess fondled his face.

"How about you release me, and I'll show you just how handsome I really am."

[Nearphotison]

Eris smiled, "Mmmmm ... tempting. But I'm afraid I need to keep you hear for now."

Eris sauntered away from the small group, leaving them as she attended to her faithful worshippers, who bowed before her. Gambit began working to get his hands on something, anything, he could detonate to free them. As he did, Ichigo leaned closer.

"Hey, who is this kid anyway?" he asked, pointing with his lips towards the mysterious youth. Gambit smiled as he fidgeted.

"I don't know much about him, save he's an android of some sort. I bet he was made in Japan, all ze cool robots come from Japan."

Ichigo scoffed, "Well, I never saw him there. What's his name?"

"Don't know that he has a real name, I've always just heard him referred to as 17. Probably a code name or something."

OOC - Needed to get the identity thing taken care of. For mor info, go here: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Android_17

[Angelina Giovanni]

(OOC: Just for continuation, and so you know I haven't disappearance ofcourse. Also I suppose Charrie development is important )

With the slight roar of an engine, Angelina's car finally pulls up to the Hotel she happened to be staying out and from the looks of it, it looked to be the best that this town had to offer. Several Stories tall, the buildings design nothing short of elegant and she had it all to herself as it should be, with the staff waiting on her hand and foot. Afterall she was the only one that mattered when she was in town and they would serve no one else.

"Boss, Looks like that chump didn't get the message."

Angelina's passenger couldn't mean anyone else but the valet who stood infront of the Hotel, ready to pick up her car and park it for their guest but for whatever reason, Angelina pulled up beside him with a scowl and nodded towards her passenger who grinned and cracked his knuckles before opening the door to the vehicle and stepping out.

"Look you little punk, didn't you get the message the first time? No one touches this car but me!"

This man would follow this statement up with a low punch into the valet's gut, doubling him over before pulling his arm back and repeating the process only this time his fist moved upwards catching this kid in the chin, throwing him backwards to the ground. Angelina by now had moved out from her car, and moved around to the front of her expensive car to watch the show with a grin.

"Enzo...."

She called out sternly which stopped the now named passenger she had. Turning his head slightly he just caught glimpse of Angelina tossing her keys in his direction before moving past the two of them, just barely getting by as Enzo lifted this kid up and delivered a final blow, a headbutt to the poor kids face which would without question leave a mark. It wouldn't be long before Angelina entered the doors of this Hotel and almost instantly she was bombarded with Hotel Staff greeting her back hastily like annoying rodents begging the exterminator to not destroy them, something she would answer not with words but yet with an angry scowl which got the point across, resulting in their disperse by the time she had reached the elevator in the main lobby and pressed its button.

"Come on...Come On!..."

She growled as she tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for that elevator to hit ground level, and within a short few seconds it did and she would enter and press a button inside the Elevator entitled "Suite 1". Within a minute or so, Angelina had reached the elevators destination, stepping out into a circular room, the walls around this room littered with art and paintings, double doors which were dead ahead from her upon stepping out of the elevator. Now normally Angelina would have taken the time to admire the wonderful craftsmanship of this room, it was quite nice, and it really showed why this was reserved for only the most powerful or influential of Europe but what distressed her the most was infront of those double doors stood two of her croanies which had been standing guard, but even more troublesome was the fact they had what looked to be an employee on his knees, holding him down with an armlock of sorts.

"Boss, We caught this guy snooping around you room, looking through your bags....."

As refreshing it was to hear a lack of true details from these men she had hired she neither had the time nor patience to deal with this matter. She had to get ready for this ceremony. As she drew near to the door she would stop infront of this employee and look down upon him with a look of disgust and hatred but within a split second and a wave of her hand her decision was made.

"Kill him..."

Without much remorse or even a second thought about what she had just subjected this man too, she entered her room, her door shutting as one of the men pulled out a Handgun with a Silencer on it and pointed it to the back of the mans head before pulling the trigger without hesitation. This unfortunate man being nothing more then a second thought pushed out of Angelina's mind, not caring about what had just happened to him,. afterall she had bigger things to attend too.

[Nearphotison]

Back at Stonehenge ...

The magical vines which enveloped our heroes still held them fast, keeping them locked in the center of the ancient stone ring known as Stonehenge. Eris had chosen to ignore them as she hurriedly commanded her worshippers towards finishing the preparations for the big ceremony, as daylight leaked by.

After a few hours, a trendy red sports car pulled up in the visitor's parking. From this car stepped Eris's representative, who had met with Angelina Giovanni earlier in the day. Still dressed in his suit and gloves, he smiled as he made his way towards the scene, the confidence in his steps hiding his blindness.

"Ah, Mr. Muchitsujo!" Eris cried happily, waving towards him. The man smiled and gave her a small salute as he treaded up the grassy hill. When he reached Eris he knelt to one knee.

"Madame Dischordia, I bring you both good news and bad," he said.

"Yes, yes, get on with it."

"The bad news is that Ms. Giovanni is reluctant to accept your generous offer. Instead, she demands more power in exchange for her ... talents."

Eris scoffed, "Does she? Well, what's the good news?"

Muchitsujo smiled, "She will be here for the ceremony."

An evil smile spread across Eris's face, "Good, good ..." She twirled one strand of her golden hair as she spoke, "Although that reminds me... We had company while you were out." She gestured to the trapped heroes, even though Muchitsujo could not see them, "I've set them up in the middle of the circle, hopefully their flesh will please my father and create thrice the chaos we had originally hoped for."

Muchitsujo stood up, taking off his sunglasses. Behind them were pale white eyes, which stared blankly forward, "Then the day was not a complete waste, afterall."

[Sexxxybeast]

Unknown to everybody, who was too busy dealing with their own problems, was a black symbiote crawling across the ground. While the conversation continued it crawled onto "Muchitsujo"'s foot. It was trying to crawl up, but was slipping off as the man was slightly bending his legs, after the car ride.

[Nearphotison]

Muchitsujo does not notice the alien symbiote scurrying about his feet. Instead, he makes his way to the captured heroes in the middle of the stone ring. With his hands clasped behind his back, he examines them.

"This will do quite nicely. Our original sacrifice was ... depressing, to say the least. But the power seeping from these individuals ... We may take out all of England!"

Muchitsujo's joy was almost palpable, as a wicked grin split across his face. Eris was smiling as well, and even burst out in a short fit of cackles before regaining her composure.

"It's almost too good to be true," she said. "I really must thank Mr. Fury for his contributions to our cause."

Muchitsujo began preparing for the ceremony, as the workers all began to clear out. He removed his shades, revealing the sunken holes where his eyes had once rested. He then removed his expensive suit from the waist up, revealing the large scars that decorated his body. Android Seventeen recognized them as spelling the Japanese kanji kon and ran, meaning chaos and disorder. Here was a true disciple of Dichordia.

The clearly disturbed man levitated himself up onto one of the stone structures, perched opposite Punk Rocket, who Eris had moved earlier. Recovered from his ordeal with the Genesis IV team, he was now ready to shred on his guitar, which had been hooked to the circle of giant speakers that rested against the stones.

"C'est tres mal," Gambit said. "If those speakers go off anything like they did 'fore, we'll be torn to shreds."

The hour was fast approaching, and the ceremony would be held shortly.

OOC - Now would be a good time for Angelina to arrive, I'd say.

[Angelina Giovanni]

The roar of an engine was all it took to break the "happy" moment if you will of both Eris and her associate. Causing both to look in the direction of it, Eris obviously being the only one who could see that the source was an all familiar car, coming to a stop next to that Red Sports car the man she had spoken to earlier arrived in, the only difference was infront and to her back there were separate cars, no doubt filled with her men. As the engines died down, the passenger side of her car opened slowly, showing that she obviously had let Enzo drive this time. The other cars followed suit, doors opening and men in suits and shades piling out, Angelina certainly didn't come alone.

Enzo
"Boss, I don't like the looks of this."

Her driver calls out to her silently as she makes her way infront and around her expensive car, certainly she didn't care too much for the looks of this either, it looked a little too shady, but that was also the business they were in and she wasn't unprepared.

Angelina Giovanni
"I got this Enzo, Just be ready should anything go wrong."

Turning her back to the man who just nodded his head at her, she turns back to the "Stage" thats been set up, her eyes automatically locking in on Eris who just stood out from the rest of these people. She slowly approached her with eight of her men in tow, all looking as professional as can be, and all looking to be ready to pounce should anything get ugly, protecting Angelina was the highest of their priority.

Angelina Giovanni
"I presume your the one I need to speak with."

Cutting right to the chase as always, Angelina merely stood there, looking quite annoyed to even be here in the first place, infront of Eris. Turning her gaze however she noticed the trapped hero's, that look of hatred in her eyes, much like when she was informed of that man breaking into her room.