ext_54976 ([identity profile] ineveryport.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2008-12-18 12:19 pm

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It's a regular caravan that shows up at Metropolis today.

Vehicle One: The Coraline, a modifies pick-up truck being driven by everyone's favourite bloodthirsty pirate, with a distinctly anti-killing ex-Robin in the passenger seat. The ghost of a teenage girl is technically sitting on the roof of the cabin, but sometimes she pokes her head in to interrupt the boys in their conversation.

Vehicle Two: A 1967 Chevrolet Impala, the only one blaring out tunes, while the driver and his blonde passenger sit in relative silence, not having much to say to each other.

Vehicle Three: A Porsche, containing one carefully prepared hunter and one blind woman who prides herself on not needing any preparation. The conversation in that one is a little more lively, even containing the occasional laugh from the girl.

It's a ridiculous procession, considering they don't really know where they're going. But Jack has all six of his senses peeled, looking for a young teenage girl of Chinese origin who isn't a young teenage girl of Chinese origin.

[identity profile] leto-reficio.livejournal.com 2008-12-19 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Sylar can't be as active as he'd like in acquiring new abilities. This is dictated by caution, since he can't risk news of his continued survival getting back to Eden or Darla or Chandra; sensibly, he's aware that any of them (well, except Chandra) can lay the beatdown on him, and in his own specially snowflakish batshit way he considers them dirty double-crossers who would leap at the chance to do just that.

Yeah, let's not even try to follow that last bit of logic. I promise that it's internally consistent, but when pointing out what's wrong with it according to real-world reasoning, it's difficult to even know where to start.

The relevant information which can be gleaned from all this is that Sylar is still limited to intuitive aptitude and phasing, and that he's not out stalking for brains 24/7. The narration will now expand this in order to enlighten you with the following facts: he's in the old hotel in which he currently lives with that Hannibal guy, and he's walking through the walls.

Phasing objects through other objects. Holding a phone in your left hand and letting a pool ball drop through your right. If he's to be limited in quantity, then by God he's going to shove quality skyward and master every trick that this power offers.

[identity profile] leto-reficio.livejournal.com 2008-12-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
For all that it's old, it's still fairly impressive. There was a fair amount of gore from the stomach wound, and the spray from a throat so deeply slit is quite the long-distance traveller. And you can probably imagine the mess that chiselling someone's head open makes all over the brick and concrete.

The body itself is off clogging up a sewage pipe somewhere that should be impassable. Phasing is a useful tool when you want to hide a distinctively sliced skull.
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[personal profile] galwonder 2008-12-20 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
A breeze blows through the alley, so cold it leaves ice on the edge of the bricks.

"What the %&*$? Is this my body? Am I dead? I'd know if I was dead, right? Holy #%$*!"

[identity profile] leto-reficio.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
In Metropolis, the sound of a vehicle's engine is not one you could exactly call 'common'. This sound strikes Sylar as veeery interesting, because that sound means working transport, and transport means he can search for new abilities much farther afield than he's currently able to. His older self mentioned a Kansas farm, for instance.

Yes, he has a one-track mind. Deal with it.

Cue: one surreptitious teenage face, peeking from an upstairs window!

...Oh, my. Visitors.

[identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam frowns when the cars in front of his turn sharply and follows. "Looks like everyone's getting out," he informs Leah, throwing the car in park and opening his door. "C'mon."
trickswithsticks: (listening)

[personal profile] trickswithsticks 2009-01-05 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Leah opens the door gently and finds her feet cautiously, but then she's standing with easy grace and has her stick out, working her way aroung the car to find Sam.

"Where are we?"

[identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam leans toward her when she comes closer but doesn't offer an arm. He wants his hands free, aside from the one holding the handgun. "Looks like a beat-up hotel," he replies, unsure, and starts walking quickly toward the rest. "Hey! What's going on?"
galwonder: (chee!)

[personal profile] galwonder 2009-01-05 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The snow heaped by the edge of the sidewalk flutters vaguely in a tiny breeze.

"Is he here? Is my body here? Can you see it?"

Someone's excited.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-01-06 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"God. Finally."

Jo threw her door open, pushed out of her seat and out between a sliver of space between the seat and the partially open car door.

Her left hand brushed briefly on the gun under her shirt at her back, but her hands wound their way into her pockets once she slammed the door and started walking toward the first group.

"This it?"

[identity profile] hector-aframian.livejournal.com 2009-01-06 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Dean is out after her in a second, peering around suspiciously. He's just watching, doesn't have anything to say, really.

[identity profile] hector-aframian.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Dean very carefully doesn't elbow in front of Jo as he follows, at a run.

Because that would be protecting her, and he's not that dumb.

He just ... sort of happens to be in front of her.

[identity profile] greatestofease.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Dick is not following.

Dick is, in fact, leaping up the wall instead, going straight for the window where the movement was.

That's his little sister.
galwonder: (evasive maneuvres)

[personal profile] galwonder 2009-01-07 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sparrow is following Dick. Mostly because she has to, but also because she likes him best.

"Give it back, m^&£*%&%$!*er!"
tobeclosetohim: (Playing Look Out)

[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-01-07 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
The Wall o' Winchester that sprouted before her got a glare.

But it's not important in comparison to any number of the things that might have sent Jack running into the building.

She followed on both their heels, only giving a momentary appraisal of insanity-jealousy toward Dick's body and shadow fast moving up the building wall before she lost sight of him when she made it inside.
trickswithsticks: (listening)

[personal profile] trickswithsticks 2009-01-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
People are running, huh?

Leah can't run: she'll fall over. But that's OK. She stands where she is, and extends her cane in front of her.

"You think he'll be able to escape this way?" she asks whoever's left, which she suspects is Sam, unless he's following already.

[identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Sam was going to, especially when Dean takes off at a run. Especially since they're still not quite sure how to get whatever it is out of Jubilee's body. Especially since...

Yeah, that's enough.

Swallowing back a curse of his own, Sam watches Dick scale the wall thoughtfully and looks toward the other exits of the building. "Maybe. We'll stay here a while, see what happens. If I have to run in, what are you going to do?"
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[personal profile] trickswithsticks 2009-01-07 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Look after the cars," Leah says cheerfully. "And stop anyone running out this way who doesn't give me the safeword."

She digs a hand into her pocket, and pulls out a small pebble she picked up at the farm.

"Go in 'fore you lose them."

[identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd been about to sigh, to settle in for a fight. Sam had never expected that she'd answer him with a safe plan of action.

"Oh. Um... yeah, okay."

As soon as he's finished blinking at her, anyway. "Uhm," he continues, eloquent as always, and puts a hand very gently on her shoulder. "Be careful."
trickswithsticks: (concentrating)

[personal profile] trickswithsticks 2009-01-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Leah's mouth softens into a faint smile and she tilts her head only slightly towards his hand, so her hair brushes it.

"Professional, remember? Go!"

[identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Going," Sam promises, and rushes on ahead of her.



By the time he's caught up with the others, he's quit smiling.

[identity profile] leto-reficio.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A room which Sylar is even now exiting. Quickly. Via the wall.

There's not really time for a plan much more complicated than 'get as far away from the hordes of angry people as possible', but in avoiding Eden he has at least stopped thinking of running and hiding as beneath him. It's not really a conceit you can keep labouring under when you're faced with people able and willing to kill you.

He does spare a thought for whether Hannibal is home, though only because the man would act as a barrier for the intruders to get through.

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