Game Shopping (Open)

[Ayen Matthews]

Ayen was on the road headed to his favorite place to shop, the Wyandotte Plaza. It had just endured a horrible earthquake that was out of place for a place like Kansas City. Kansas was known for its tornadoes, not its earthquakes. But now that it was back together he thought he'd pay his favorite store a visit. Vintage Stock for old and new means of gaming.

Ayen entered through the glass door and said hello to the woman behind the counter before going over to the PlayStation aisle and looking at their selection. They had almost everything you could hope for from gaming's past, and its future. Being a video game critic, it was 'the' place to go if you wanted new material, and he found what he's been looking for. A physical copy of Monster Rancher for the Sony PlayStation. He went up to the counter and placed it on the surface.

"I'll take this."

He got out his card ready to pay for it, when out of the blue...

[Cazador]

All around Kansas City and the neighboring towns, the sound a large sonic boom echoed throughout the air. High above the Kansas City, a spacehip was on a decent prepared to smash somewhere into the city. Kazadus sat in the pilot's chair of the cargoship trying to somehow steer it away from the city, but was having no luck. Next to him, beaten into a bloody pulp by him was some unknown prisoner that had attempted to cannibalize Kazadus on the ship. All Kazadus had on was his eye patch, some dark pants and boots that went up past his ankles. His bare chest was exposed where the prisoner H666 tried to carve Kazadus open to eat. The cut had already begun to heal thanks to his regeneration but it did leave another scar across his chest. Not that another one mattered. He was littered with them.

The cut wasn't his concern though. If he couldn't correct the ship then he wouldn't be sure he would survive the crash. Kazadus could see the buildings getting closer. The instruments in the cockpit were all going off with warnings. The only thing wasn't bothering him was the music the radio was picking up. If he died at least he'd die listening to something good. Kazadus kicked H666 in frustration as he steered the ship. He cursed the canibal for his damned hunger. The cockpit was getting hot from decent. From down below people could see the hot glowing ship coming in. Drivers on the main street going in for the morning commute could see that the ship was heading their way. They began to abandon their vehicles and scattered.

Kazadus was no pilot. Try as he might he couldn't maneuver the ship like H666 had. All he could do was try and pull the best he could. Parts of the ship were breaking off and hitting the empty cars below. If the commuters hadn’t been smart enough to leave their cars some of them would most likely be dead. Still it was no good. There was no safe spot for a crash landing. Kazadus would just have to force it down and hope he got lucky. Coming up was the Wyandotte Plaza. Seeing the open parking, Kazadus forced the ship down. The crash sent debris flying everywhere. The whole neighborhood was shaking from the impact. The sound of concrete grinding on metal could be heard everywhere. The impact sent Kazadus and prisoner H666 bouncing around the ship. Cars that were parked were torn to pieces like they were paper. The uncontrollable spaceship left a wake of destruction until it finally came to stop in front of the plaza. As the dust settled Kazadus was left with blurry vision in his eye. He was bloodied and bruised from the impact. H666 was hanging above him. Kazadus didn’t know whether or not the psycho was alive or not. He didn’t care though, as once again like before he had been teleported to this planet, unconsciousness began to take over.

[Ayen Matthews]

The sonic boom and then the loud crash and debris was more than enough to get Ayen's attention as he knew then and there that something was seriously wrong. But instinct took over as he yelled, "Get down!" and the woman behind the counter ducked for cover as Ayen used his electricity to magnetize the pieces of metal that came through the store window and land it on the floor before it could do any damage to the shop.

"What the hell is going on? Hold my game."

Ayen ran out of the store to see the metal ship on the ground. Aliens? In Kansas City? Because flying teenagers with earth powers weren't enough? Ayen shook his head and found an opening of the ship and went inside the cockpit to find a guy inside unconscious. He prod him to see if he would move, but nothing. So Ayen got out his cellphone and called 911.

"We have an emergency. A giant ship just crash landed at the plaza. Come quick!"

Ayen hung up the cellphone and put it back in his pocket as he would stay with the man until help arrived. It was the least he could do.

[Cazador]

H666 hung over Ayen and Kazadus. His presence above them was only betrayed by the blood dripping from his orange jumpsuit. He could barely open his swollen eyes. Kazadus had done a number on him, but the former prisoner wanted his meal. Now he had two delicious morsels to feed on. The cannibal attempted to remove his belt to drop down on Ayen. Kazadus opened his eyes as he felt blood trickling onto his face from H666. He must of still had some energy if his body was healing from the impact. Kazadus's wounds began to close leaving only his blood where his injuries were. It was a good thing he healed up at least a little bit. Kazadus's eye widened as he saw H666 dropping down. He quickly pushed Ayen to the side and grabbed the dropping H666 by the throat as he fell on them.

"Any last words before I rip your God damned head off."

"Kaz wait! You need me! Who's gonna fly the ship if you kill me?!"

"Sure as hell won't be you."

"Wait! Wait! Let me feed on our guest and I promise to pledge myself to you. I swear that…."

Kazadus didn't let him finish. He threw him out the ship. H666 crashed into the police car windshield that had just pulled up. He was about to follow him outside to finish the job, but noticed a small package on the ground with some unknown language on it. Amnesia or not, Kazadus recognized what it was. He opened the small box and pulled a cigarette out. H666 could live a few seconds longer. He looked over at Ayen.

"Got a light?"

He motioned the cigarette at him hoping that he'd have a lighter.

"Where am I anyway?"

[Ayen Matthews]

Everything was happening so quick that it was hard to stay focus on what was going on. Another body dropped from the ceiling and was now engaged with the guy who was unconscious only a few seconds earlier. Then the guy in orange was thrown off the ship onto a police car window and the guy with the eye patch was asking for a light.

"Seriously? You need to smoke right now?"

Ayen would've rolled his eyes, but it wasn't his style.

"You're on Earth. More specifically, Kansas City, America, and I'm afraid I don't have a light."

[Cazador]

Upon hearing Earth, Kansas City and America, a flood of images and memories came flooding into Kazadus's head. He had been here before. America, the land of the free, they called it. How long had it been. He couldn’t remember. It felt like a far off distant memory. He could see his past self walking into a building from a reflection on a window. It was an abandoned building. He looked like a young man in his twenties. He was heavily armed and ready for a firefight. Kazadus could see the burning anger in the eyes of his former self, or at least what he thought was his former self. Kazadus could see dozens of men firing on him as he easily penetrated their defenses and drowned the building with their blood. None were left alive. As he exited the building, he saw his reflection again. His face and body were covered in blood. He looked like a red devil that had gone through hell. He picked up a piece of newspaper that was flowing through the air to wipe the blood from his face. The cover had been talking about the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kazadus came back to himself, realizing he had been in a daze. It barely registered on him that Ayen had just said he didn’t have a light. Kazadus just grumbled and tossed the unlit cigarette away in frustration.

"Too bad… Well I might as well finish off that psycho out there before he wanders off."

While Kazadus and H666 might have had a temporary alliance, it looked to be dissolved since he tried to turn him into a meal. Still he had to wonder where a cannibal picked up piloting skills. Not that it would matter in a few minutes since Kazadus was planning on feeding the bastard his own ass before killing him. Meanwhile outside, the police had already began pulling H666 off the windshield. The fire department and also arrived with the ambulances not far behind either. Several more police cars also showed.

"Jesus Christ he's still alive. Looks like this guy was thrown out of the ship." Said the first cop.

"Yeah, but after it had already been crashed… someone else must be inside and by the looks of him they can't be friendly."

Several police officers were about to go in until H666 regained consciousness and started biting into the officer that was about to hand him over to the paramedics. He yelled out as the cannibal bit into his throat. As he feasted on his lunch the other officers turned around and began firing on H666. The bullets merely bounced right off of him.

"Fresh meat. Fresh blood. I haven't felt this strong in ages."

As H666 spoke, his injuries quickly healed as the frail prisoner grew in muscle and height. In a few seconds he stood 8 feet tall. The towering cannibal threw the patrol car to the side as the police continued to fire on him.

"This world is ripe with a feast to be devoured. You will all nourish me. Come to me my morsels. Let me taste you so that I may regain my power."

Kazadus couldn't see what was going on outside, but could hear some kind of commotion going on outside the wrecked ship. He looked to Ayen.

"Your world usually welcome newcomers with gun fire?"

[Ayen Matthews]

"Depends on the newcomer."

Ayen just felt the urge to say that with how the few people who knew about mutants treated them when they were in the known. Though usually cops didn't fire their guns without reason. Ayen headed out of the ship to see what was going on and noticed that the man in orange was now eight feet tall and throwing cars around. Look like he was going to have to reveal his powers. Charles always said they should help protect the humans as well as their own kind and that what he was going to do.

"Hey! Over here!"

Ayen yelled as his hands engulfed in electricity and he was ready to fire.

"Why don't you try picking on me."

[Cazador]

Kazadus followed after Ayen to see what the commotion was. The first thing he saw as he exited the ship was H666 or at least what he thought was him. Was this really the same little bastard that had been flying the ship. Kazadus looked over to Ayen to see that his hands were now engulfed in electrical power. He wasn't expecting it from the man but then again he didn't know him or anything much about Earth except for that strange flashback he had. Hell, he didn't even know if Kazadus was his real name.

What would he say? 'The voice in my head says my name is Kazadus.' Wouldn't sound too sane. What he was about to do wasn't exactly sane either. Upon hearing Ayen call out to H666, Kazadus took action.

"Get in line! This bastard is mine!"

Kazadus charged at the 8ft monstrous H666 with nothing but his fists. It went exactly as anyone expected. H666 merely grabbed Kazadus by the leg and began to smash him into the police officers shooting at him before laying him out across the side of a fire truck. Kazadus let out a groan from the pain.

"You stay right there Kaz. You'll be dessert."

H666 looked to Ayen

"Now then my appetizing friend… what was that about picking on you."

H666 licked his lips in anticipation of his snack.

[Ayen Matthews]

"You really want to call dibs on that?"

Ayen pointed to the monster now in front of him before watching the stranger charge and get his ass handed to him. Ayen wanted to face palm, but with the electricity in his hands that wasn't a good idea. Now that the monster's attention was back on him he threw his hands forward and sent two torrents of electricity towards the monster to shock him enough to harm, but not kill.

[Cazador]

H666 charges at Ayen only to be met by heavy voltage. Currents of electrical power streamed from his body and tensed up his muscles. The electrical blast slowly pushed the beast back. He could feel his stomach growling in anticipation as his prey fought back. His mouth began to water. H666 began walk forward slowly through the bolts of lightning. The excruciating pain could not match up to his hunger.

"I'm coming for you my sweet."

Kazadus didn't really know what to expect when he charged at H666. Maybe he was hoping for an easy take down, but the bastard had probably 300lbs extra on him and was nearly 2ft taller.

"Get up Kazadus…"

He was hearing voices again.

"You're not losing your mind Kazadus…"

"Who are you?"

From his point of view only, he could sorcerer in dark garb begin to take shape from the light itself.

"Does it matter who I am? I've come to instruct you on how to use your power like you used on the last planet."

Kazadus took a moment to ponder. He didn't know how he managed to use his energy before, but he thought that he'd better remember at that second.

"Show me how."

[Ayen Matthews]

"That's nice of you, but I only date women."

Ayen put more power behind the torrents to make it harder for the beast to push on through, but once the prisoner got close enough Ayen flew up into the air and generated a wall of electricity from his hands and sent it slamming down on the head of the eight foot tall beast now below him.

[Cazador]

Ayen was so close that H666 could nearly taste him, but much to his dismay he jumped away from his large hands.

"Your persistence is so savoring. I can't wait to have you inside me."

He grinned as he jumped up after Ayen. Just as the beast thought there would be no where for his prey to run, a large wall of electrical power came slamming into his entire body and blasted him back down to earth. The impact left a small crater and blanketed the area in a dust cloud. As it cleared a small hole could be seen where H666 body should of been. He was burrowing underground. The ground rumbled slightly as he quickly dug around the area.

One by one, each of the officers that laid unconscious on the ground was pulled under the ground by H666. A voice came from the hole.

"You've been a naughty boy my sweet. I didn't want to have to tenderize my dinner but you are leaving me little choice."

His voice grew more angry and more deep the more he spoke until at least it only sounded like the roar of a predator. The ground erupted as a larger beast revealed itself. What was once pale skin had turned ash grey and rock like, it's eyes were the color of blood red and vertical like a snake, his muscle mass increased again and his height grew even larger to 10ft, his teeth began to protrude from his large mouth revealed sharp fangs. It looked at Ayan and let out a might blood thirsty roar. Spikes poured out from it's knuckles, knees and elbows while it's fingers became more like claws.

It was hard to believe that this creature once looked human but with its transformation came a dark revelation. It gained power from feeding on people and unlike the planet he was stuck on, Earth was brimming with life. H666 had to of been dumped on that planet to either starve him or allow the Apex predators to kill him. It was clear he was deranged but whoever decided to experiment on a lunatic and upgrade him with such a power had to of been out of their mind.

What was once considered H666, pulled giant chunks of the destroyed concrete and threw them at Ayen like they were as light as a feather to him.

Meanwhile Kazadus was still talking with his personal phantom. He got back up as his body slowly healed up.

"How can I beat this bastard?"

"Use your own Spiritual Energy. You may not have any weapons like before when you infused it with your turret earlier, but you can still use yourself as a channel to form it from your body."

Kazadus couldn't see the mage's face with the hood covering it, but something about him seemed familiar and felt that he could trust him.

"Like I did before…"

[Ayen Matthews]

This situation just gone from bad to worse. It was even bigger now and even more inappropriate a specimen. If you could call this fat ass a specimen. Ayen thought about getting away from this location, but was afraid it would do more damage to the rest of the city if he was chased, so he decided to keep it centered at the Plaza.

Ayen flew over the blocks of concrete that was thrown at him and landed a few feet away from the creature and created a fist of electricity to wrap around the creature's massive body and squeeze it while electrocuting it at the same time.

[Cazador]

Once again H666 was coated in electrical power though not to affect Ayen may have been hoping for. The monsters skin had become dense, thick, and rock hard. With the electricity running all over him and closing in on the monster, it's body grew red hot and began to steam. The pain of the burning heat was overwhelming but, H666 was going make Ayen pay for his evasiveness. A few feet was all it needed to close the distance in a short time. For a large creature, it moved incredibly fast.

Just as the freak was about to reach Ayen, it found itself being blasted in the back by a raw energy beam.

"I'm back asshole!"

H666 stopped his charge before reaching Ayen. He turned to look Kazadus and growled. His hand was pointed at the monster like a gun and his index finger slightly smoking. He thought to himself, "Damn it I was hoping that would of done more." Even after that beat down he received, covered in blood and dirt, Kazadus wasn't ready to give up. With both Kazadus and Ayen working together there might be a chance though of taking this beast down.

"Hey Sparky! Let's kill this son of a bitch!"

[Ayen Matthews]

"Don't call me Sparky."

That was one nickname that never really stuck for Ayen. Upon seeing that his electricity was just making the monster bigger and badder, Ayen decided for another tactic now that Eye Patch had his attention. He focused his telepathy on the pain receptors of the brain to cause him agony while his focus was elsewhere. It was amazing how a telepath could affect the mind when he wanted to.