forum Your Worst Nightmare OxO || RP w/ AltrinceTheAsianBean ^-^

Started March 18, 2020 by @Moriarty

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Zeke wasn't too thrilled about the idea of taking Evelyn to his house. Truth be told, it wasn't because he didn't want her to know where he lived, even if he convinced himself that was the reason.
But no.
It was actually because he was embarrassed that his house was a shabby apartment and not very charming. Kinda dark. Kinda messy. Kinda dirty. And he may or may not have wanted to impress her.
He wasn't going to tell her that he was embarrassed, so he took her on anyways, though he got more uncomfortable as he got closer.
The apartment was one of several in a dilapidated brick building on the other side of town. His neighbors were all drug addicts or alcoholics or perverts who never interacted with him, and he preferred that they didn't. Luckily, none of them made an appearance as he tugged Lynn down the hall and up the stairs before reaching the door to his apartment.
"It's kind of a mess," Zeke said sheepishly as he got his room key and jabbed it into the lock. "I don't– I don't get many visitors."
Once he got the door open, he went in first. The place was small. Tiny kitchen. Tiny livingroom. One bedroom. One bathroom. It wasn't trashy, but it was cluttered, and it looked like he'd never vacuumed or dusted anything ever.

If she was honestly with herself, Evelyn was expecting Zeke’s apartment room to look something like this anyways. She nodded, walking inside and examining the room. She had a thought in her head, not exactly one she could do right now but perhaps later down the line.
”Don’t worry, you have your obvious reasons” she stated, waiting patiently while looking around the room. There wasn’t much she could do, of course. She did mess around with her powers though, creating a small silverly brush with her grayish color. Moving to a wall, she started brushing off some dust… just some.

(XD Yes. Absolutely. And the entire time he wouldn't know what to do with himself.)

Zeke wasn't really sure what to say so he sort of just drifted off into his room to get his Nightmare outfit– which, instead of immediately changing into, he shoved into a backpack and brought with him, because it was aggravating trying to navigate the streets in that thing in broad daylight.
He cleared his throat awkwardly as he came back out of his room and stepped over some random loose article of clothing in the floor (probably thanking God above that it wasn't his underwear). "Okay. I've got my stuff. I don't think there's anything else we need to do before we head that way."

”Oh, alright—“ Evelyn was in a painter’s mask, one she had created a little bit after Zeke went inside. Somehow, she was able to dust the walls completely clean while all the dust was also put into a bag, ready to be disposed. She lowered the mask and carried the bag of dust.
”Alrighty, let’s go” she spoke with a bit of confidence, carrying the bag of dust with her before stopping and turning to Zeke.
”Where’s the trash room?” she asked with a nervous giggle.

"The trash room?" Zeke echoed. He glanced around the freshly dusting room, wondering how she'd managed to get it all in such a short period of time. "Oh– it's– down here." He led her out of the room and to some dark room where most of the residents left their trash. The room was kinda horrible, and Zeke generally avoided it except for when necessary. "– Thanks."

(I’m gonna say it here since I can’t bother to reply there and to be perfectly honest, crowds scare me. I don’t mind how long you take to reply. I can wait as long as you tell us ahead of time, if possible, and as for having a break, don’t worry, we all have those moments where we just don’t feel like writing. So, don’t worry too much, we’re here to have fun, are we not? :D)

Evelyn smiled a bit when she heard that last bit from Zeke.
”I just felt like doing it,” she replied, dumping the dust bag into the bin within the room.
”The harbor’s not faraway from here now, we should be—“ with that, here comes the screams of scared civilians who do not have any pride in standing up for themselves.
”Not again…” she sighed, heading off outside with Zeke pulled along by his wrist. She looked outside to see a humanoid figure, very much normal-looking.
However, she’d remembered seeing this man before… somewhere.
She soon realized who he was; the newly recognized villain named Cyclone. Undoubtedly, she wanted to take care of him then and there though she wasn’t able to do that as when the villain spotted her and Zeke, he fled.

Guess that was for the best… she thought. She’d realized she’d never made a portrait of Cyclone before. She’ll have to work on that soon.

”Let’s go,” she stated softly, walking with Zeke by her side. Looking around, not a lot was done by the villain. Some cars were flipped over, not a lot at all.

Why was he even here then? She wondered.

(Somewhere nearby…)

The villain, Cyclone, escaped and landed on a nearby rooftop where a person was waiting for his arrival.

A puff of smoke came out of the waiter’s mouth as Cyclone walked towards the man, taking off his fully-covered helm.

”What did you do this time?” Arachnid asked, handing the ‘villain’ his pair of glasses.

”Knocked some cars over, that’s it. Apparently, it was enough to locate which apartment it was,” the ‘villain’ Cyclone or now more likely known as the police officer, andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), answered, pointing to the apartment where Nightmare and Pastel came out of.

”Good to know…” Arachnid answered, using his metallic legs to grab onto andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) and taking him somewhere else. Somewhere near the harbor.

(Okay, firstly: I'm terrified of crowds especially irl so like I understand XD Also yes thank you very much. And for the record I find this rp and you both very fun so it's very good. Secondly: I may or may not have flat out made the :O face when I read this last reply. XD)

Zeke narrowed his eyes a bit at the scene. He'd met enough villains in his life– heck, he was one– to know that they didn't usually do anything completely pointless unless they were flat out stupid, which was rarely the case. Of course, they had more important things at hand, it seemed, so his mind didn't dwell on what Cyclone had been up to for very long.
"How far did you say the harbor was?" he inquired of Evelyn in a low whisper. "Have you been there before?"

(Then you’re in for a ride if you think that was surprising XD. Then again, this is your first time roleplaying with me so you don’t really have an idea what to expect, right? I’ve said this to everyone I’ve roleplayed with and I’ll say it here as well: when you’re with me, expect the unexpected :P)

”Five minutes from your apartment… I think” Evelyn answered, taking him down the streets. ”To be honest, no,” she then replied after making sure no one was around. The risk was too high if one of Wisteria’s many officers was nearby. To break into a warehouse seemed a bit villainous but then again, she was wanting to be one even though she was still Pastel, the ‘rogue hero’.
True to her words, about five minutes was taken before they arrived. And again, true to her words, the harbor was way larger than it needed to be. There were too many warehouses to look through… how were they supposed to find the one they were looking for anyways.

(In a warehouse…)

”Mmhmm— hmph!!” the muted cries of the captured was terrifying to hear. Their mouth was sealed shut by a piece of cloth tied to their lips with their hands tied behind their backs and their body tied to a chair. All of the thirteen victims were treated the same.
”Oh, would you all shut up?” a figure in a coat growled at the group, dagger in hand. The said coated person was a ‘hero’ who goes by the name of Eclipse, one of Wisteria’s sidekicks.
”The new chemical is coming in soon… prepare yourselves for that—“ with that, the ‘hero’ moved around the warehouse, looking for abnormalities around the place.

( ^{I like the unexpected.} You're probably one of my favorite people to RP with here tbh. Speaking of which, if you ever want to do more RPs with me or have RP ideas that you wouldn't mind trying with me, I'm game, because this one is amazing. XD)

Zeke walked along with her, growing more and more wary the closer they got. He was naturally alert, but when he knew there was likely danger afoot, it increased tenfold. Especially with Evelyn here. He would never risk her safety. He glanced at all of the warehouses, narrowing his eyes at them and frowning a little. "Hang on. I'll be right back." He temporarily vanished– though where he went to wasn't actually immediately clear. It had to be in sight, but he must've chosen carefully. It didn't matter, because he was back quickly, this time clad in his Nightmare garb. "Mkay." He scanned the surrounding area once, looking as skeptical as anyone could– and he was still out of his comfort zone. Curse this infernal daylight. He hated it.

(Ah! Thank you! That makes me so happy! ;^;)
(Speaking of which— looks through piles on piles of unused and thrown way ideas for roleplays —if I do find one interesting enough, I’ll tell ya)

”That was… quick…” Evelyn had a small raised brow. She didn’t exactly question how he’d managed to change so quickly. She did, however, realize how vulnerable he was in board daylight. Which was why she pulled him along, towards the shade of one of the warehouses.
”We don’t really have a place to start just yet. Our only hope is to find someone who actually knows the through around here,” she stated and surprise, surprise, andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) had to show up just in time.
He gave Nightmare a really quick glance, ‘faking’ a concerned sight.
”Lynn—“ he started which immediately startled Pastel ”—I only know that the warehouse they’re in is Warehouse 52… though…” he glanced around ”—not all of the warehouses are numbered and they’re not in order” he claimed.
Evelyn was shocked by his presence for two reasons. One, because someone appearing out of almost nowhere would’ve startled any sane human being and two… because Zeke was here.

However, it did not seem like andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) cared much about Zeke’s presence. Maybe he was genuinely careless or he just did not care.
”Splitting up would be the greatest way to look for that specific warehouse” the police officer mentioned. Wandering off on his own to search for that numbered warehouse.

(In said warehouse…)

”Curse them…” Eclipse murmured, seeing Nightmare, Pastel, and the police officer Cyclone together and looking for the warehouse.
He returned to the first floor of the warehouse and went to his phone.
”Yeah…” he started with the phone call ”… come here, both of you. We’ve got visitors,”

"Splitting up," Zeke muttered so that andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) couldn't hear. "Doesn't this guy ever watch movies? Splitting up never works. Too dangerous and stupid. Someone always gets killed. Except for in Scooby-Doo, but that hardly counts." He let out a short huff through his nose, an irritated one. His anxiety about trusting other people were as strong as ever, but, they were always like that, so this wasn't out of the ordinary. Even so, he wasn't willing to split up from Evelyn. No sir. Let andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) go wander by himself all he wanted, but Zeke hated that plan. "I think we'll find it just fine together if we're quick enough. He'll tell us if he finds it."
Nevermind the fact that Zeke was expressing that he wanted to stay with Evelyn like a protective boi.

(Can we just acknowledge the fact that Zeke, of all people, watched Scooby-Doo and managed to make a reference even I can confirm XD)

Evelyn almost laughed at the last part of Zeke’s speech. So much for bringing up an example. She nodded and glanced around carefully. There has to be something to help locate the victims. That was when something clicked. She had read through a list of Wisteria’s sidekicks before, one of them being the easily irritated Eclipse. If she remembered correctly, that man would go insane if the sun were to disappear suddenly or in other words, the sky turning completely dark.
She turned to Zeke and absorbed the blackish colors of his clothing.
She gave him a small smile before releasing an aura built up.
”Complete Blackout…” she muttered, covering the whole harbor and its many warehouses in complete darkness.
A loud voice was heard from somewhere to the left of Evelyn which consisted of less than twenty warehouses. That wasn’t a coincidence, that was Eclipse.
”Let’s go” she invited, well… dragging Zeke along towards where the sound came from.

(In the warehouse…)

Eclipse cursed out loud to himself, not wanting to do that. One of his powers was night vision. At least that was useful here.
He went over to the victims and scowled them a bit, taking his anger out on them.

”Smart…” Arachnid watched from afar. Again, being on top of a rooftop nearby. He then used his metallic legs to propel himself towards the grouping of warehouses.

(XDDDD Just imagine Zeke alone in his apartment late at night, depressed, sitting on his couch in the dark with only the glow of the TV– specifically Scooby-Doo– to light the room, and him just staring at the screen with bloodshot eyes like, "Fred– You moron! Why the crap are you telling them to split up again? You know Shaggy and Scooby always get chased by the bad guy! Ya jerk. And why do you conveniently always take both of the girls with you while Shaggy gets stuck with the talking dog?" And then he like angrily throws a handful of popcorn at the screen, tugs his blanket up over his shoulder, and keeps watching it anyways because he has nothing better to do and he can't sleep)

Zeke, too, being nocturnal as he was, naturally had incredibly sensitive eyes– which meant he could see in the dark. He was fairly certain this one was the favorite of all her powers. He'd have to tell her that later, but for now, they had other things to focus on. He followed Evelyn as she tugged him along, watching their now darkened surroundings with a cautious eye, already prepared to fight someone if need be.

(Oh gawd XD)

They would soon come across a warehouse where the sounds of mumbled screams were coming out of.
”Here…” she mumbled, absorbed the Blackout ability and transferring all that darkness into Nightmare, boosting his abilities it seemed.
She opened the doors to the warehouse, finding Eclipse and the thirteen captured people of different ages and genders inside.

”Well well… look what have we here?” he teased, lifting the dagger from beside one of the victim’s neck.

Evelyn nearly gagged at the sight of the thirteen people. They looked awful and their eyes were filled with both tears and fear. But thankfully, she was here and Nightmare was here as well.

”Let’s see… Nightmare? And…” his eyes narrowed at the hooded female figurine.
”Whoever that is…” he shrugged and smiled maniacally, throwing his dagger towards them, aiming for Nightmare’s head.

Zeke shuddered at the weird sensation as she somehow transfered the darkness into him. It felt odd. Kinda tingly. He didn't even know that was possible.
But he didn't have time to worry about that because there was a dagger hurdling straight towards his face. Thank heaven for his quick reflexes– and that the dagger wasn't a bullet, since those travel too quick to dodge. He managed to swiftly dodge the dagger, glaring at Eclipse as he grabbed his own classic knife and fingered it.
Zeke barely cast a glance towards the people who were tied up– because it was a sad sight, and wondering what they'd been through only made him sad.
He wondered how this person went to sleep at night, considering all of the horrible things they were helping do to these people. Heck, Zeke only killed bad people, didn't even torture them, and he couldn't go to sleep at night.
People like Eclipse made Zeke sick. They were monsters. True monsters.
Repulsive, vile creatures.
Shadows swarmed around him, as they tended to when he fought people. It was a reflex at this point. Anger and pity fueled him, though he managed to stay as stoic as ever as he lunged towards his foe, knife in hand. Unintentionally, his mind was already seeking out Eclipse's fears, hoping to arouse them and torture the man with them.

Somehow, nothing can be sensed from Eclipse’s mind. Nothing this man had right now could be classified as ‘fear’. When Nightmare rushed him, he managed to barely dodge and smack Zeke’s elbow before sending him flying.
”Now, now, we can talk through this…” Eclipse said coldly, summoning a small moon-like sphere on one hand and a sun-like one on the other.

Evelyn had to look around, there had to be something she can absorb whilst Eclipse was distracted. She couldn’t find anything extremely interesting… until…

”Now now, Nightmare…” he presented the sun-like sphere to Nightmare, letting it shine its light onto him. Eclipse then heard something metallic coming from the other side of the warehouse.
”Eh—“ as he heard, he was faced with a barrage of metallic vines, pushing him against a wall of the warehouse.
Evelyn managed to absorb the silverly color of her glasses, using it as metallic colors.

Once Eclipse was pushed against the wall, Lynn cut the metallic vines off of herself, locking him in place. His powers weren’t exactly useful in these sorts of situations.
She rushed to Zeke to help him up.
”We have to get them all out, somehow,” she looked at the thirteen people, some of which were children of a young age.

”Heheh… haha…” Eclipse managed to let out a soft laughter.
”Get them boys—“ he said softly as a pumpkin-shaped bomb was thrown towards Evelyn and Zeke.

She managed to pull Zeke away from the bomb which when exploded, left a layer of green flames.
”What an interesting scene…” Jack o’ Lantern, a villain known to be sociopathic commented from the warehouse’s second floor, throwing a bomb similar to the one earlier up and down as if it was a ball. Beside him was the inhuman villain Vortex whose, true to his name, head was a large open void with layers upon layers of teeth inside, spinning around with much aggression.

They both jumped down and landed near Eclipse.
”Oi, you two, get me ou—“ Eclipse’s words were cut short by Jack o’ Lantern’s gun pointed straight to his head.
”I’m fed up with you so you can just shut up while we’re at it…” the pumpkin head villain spoke coldly before pulling the trigger, shattering Eclipse’s skull without much remorse.

”Now… it’s a 2v2… a fair fight…” Jack said as Vortex let out an aggressive screech. This was going to be… interesting.

(I think extra characters add variety to a RP, so I don't mind one bit! You use as many characters as you want. As long as you can play them, I don't care if you have thirty-two XD. If it makes you feel any better, this one RP I did with my best friend IRL started off with each of us using only one character, and now I have over a dozen in that one RP. We got so many that we loved that we now have 5 different RP threads based off of the one original one, and the original one is still going too. So trust me– I love them extras! <3)

Spots of light and color were still dancing across Zeke's vision from the blinding light Eclipse had used, but he could see enough to know that they were in a pickle. But, hey, at least Eclipse was out of the picture… That guy was starting to creep Zeke out.
Though, the ungodly screeching coming from Vortex wasn't much better.
Zeke straightened himself, glaring at each of the villains and casting a glance towards the prisoners, trying to formulate some plan to get them all out. He stayed close to Evelyn– some subconscious need to make sure he didn't abandon her and let her get hurt, even if she seemed to be as capable than Zeke at this point, if not more capable. Of course, he'd never admit that.
Zeke snorted through his nose, sure that neither of these psychotic freaks were going to have any good fears for him to use against them. No matter. He had knives and a gun, though he preferred using the former, one of which he readied in his hand once again before launching it at Vortex's… weird mouth-head.

(I shouldn't be amused by the fact that Vortex is screeching at them, because that should be terrifying, but like?? I'm insane and very much amused. XD)

(I was thinking that Vortex’s screech would sound something like… a Wendigo? Then again, we’re both not sane to some degree so :/)

As his name would suggest, the knife went into his… abomination of a mouth and completely disappeared. That wasn’t gonna work would it. Of course, being a mutated, Vortex had low self-control and upon being attacked by Nightmare, rushed at him and tried to swallow him whole if that was what he was hoping to do.

Jack o’ Lantern, on the other hand, took the time to attack Evelyn who was seen as a more threatening foe at the current moment. He summoned two of his pumpkin bombs, both of which he threw at Lynn.

Pastel gave Zeke a very quick glance before reaching out her hand to absorb the color black. The warehouse was small yet big enough to use the lower tiered abilities.
”Blackout—“ she managed to mutter as the entire warehouse turned to complete darkness. She was getting tired with this changing of colors but it was needed. Before the pumpkin bombs could explode on her and cause further damage, she absorbed the silver color of her glasses again and threw the bombs outside into the water using the same metallic vines she used to trap Eclipse.

Something the two villains who came in did not realize or did not think through was their visual and structural design. Jack o’ Lantern’s head was glowing in the dark and was easily seen. Vortex did not glow in the dark but he would make gurgling noises every now and then.

Vortex’s attack stopped when the warehouse turned dark, he couldn’t see a single thing and it was bad for him now that he was perhaps not 6 feet away from Nightmare, known to be a nocturnal villain by nature.

(Ordinary people are boring, so being insane is the best.)

Zeke was upset that his knife had been essentially eaten by his adversary. That was a first, truth be told. But, the good news was that he managed to evade getting swallowed whole, and that everything had went dark thanks to Evelyn– because that gave Zeke the advantage. The only problem now was that he had no clue how to kill Vortex. He pulled out his gun, debated on aiming it towards Vortex's weird head before thinking better of it and sending the bullet through the monster's chest instead, aiming right for his heart. Assuming Vortex had one, that is.

Upon getting shot, Vortex stumbled back, reaching to his chest where he had been shot. Blood was present and before he knew it, Vortex had fallen onto the floor, presumably dead.

The pumpkin head wasn’t extremely fond of the sound it seems as he threw his glowing pumpkins towards the direction of the falling sound. That bomb did nothing to his advantage, hitting almost nothing but the floor.

Evelyn wanted to fight Jack o’ Lantern herself but decided against it. She had more potential in saving the hostages than Zeke. As she knew where he was, she silently walked up to him and whispered: ”You can take care of him, I’ll go get them” she stated before silently walking towards the hostages.

Jack o’ Lantern was still looking around, a bomb in each hand ready to throw at anyone who he sees close. His night vision was definitely not as great as the rogue nor the infamous.

"Okay. Be careful."
Zeke had no idea what caused the bombs to detonate or whether or not it would do him any good to approach Jack o' Lantern, but he did anyways. He teleported nearby and swiftly kicked one of the bombs out of Lantern's hand and sent it launching towards his pumpkin head. Whether or not it would detonate on impact, Zeke had no clue, but he teleported himself out of there immediately to avoid either the blast or the Halloween themed villain's rage if the bomb happened not to explode.

The bomb did not detonate but at the same time it would seem like the villain was confused as to what hit him. Maybe that was because when he moved around he couldn’t find anyone. When the Jack man moved around, a part of skin was shown on the back of his neck. And that seemed to be his only revealed part.

(Okay so I know I need to stop making new RPs but I'm debating on making one in a bit, and I'm still working out the kinks, but– it's a little bit dark but it's fine. Anyway I'm not sure if I'm going to do oxo or a small group but either way I was just going to let you know that if you wanted you're welcome to it when I make it. And if you don't that's also 1000% fine.)

Zeke noticed this and decided to take advantage of the situation. Even though his knife had been swallowed by Vortex, that wasn't his only one, and a nice stab to the back of the neck– right in the spine– would be enough to kill the villain. At least, he hoped. He attempted it, anyways, rushing the guy from behind and driving the tip of the blade deep into the revealed part of Jack's skin.