Roleplay:The hunt for elements

This roleplay is invite only!

Overview
In Westopolis, a city in the middle of the United Federation, a group of elementals seem to have come together through odd circumstance, these people are hunted for their gift and many never make it alive. Whether it be by chance or by fate this ragtag group will have to work together in hopes of overcoming the challenges in their wake. Can this group of misfits ever hope to survive against an organization dedicated to harming these people, or will they be thrown to the wolves?

Participants
NeoExlucky

Zapor888

Saren the Dark Lynx

Rapidthehedgehog (AKA Zerofuse)

Involved Characters
Maggie Chrome (Neo)

Seamus the Swashbuckler (Neo)

Cole the Collector (Neo)

Cole's soldiers

Ray the Mouse (Z888)

Mars the lightning wolf (Saren)

Xavek the Techno Organic (Saren)

Raje Spite (Rapid/Zerofuse)

Zerofuse the Hedgehog (Rapid/Zerofuse)

Cerberus the Chao (Derpy)

Flare the Gecko (Derpy)

Xai the Hedgehog (Derpy)

Gigawatt the Wisp (Derpy)

Part 1: By fate or chance
Running and breathing heavily. That's what Maggie has been doing for quite a long time. Ever since she got close to this city all she's been doing is running from these people who have been trying to attack her. If it wasn't for the magic that she has, she'd have died. The echidna manage to make it into town, but now had to play the hiding game in order to lose the guards that have been chasing her ever since. She looked out from an alleyway into the street, and found a couple of guards around the place. "Damn, this could get tricky..." Maggie mumbled.

A light blue mouse sitting near the alley stretched and hid behind a garbage can, looking at what the echinda was doing.

"Ack! No no no no no NO!" Xai yelled as he was pursued by guards. Cerberus hovered along beside him, and Flare was dashing along a nearby building. The trio ducked into the alley.

A red and yellow hedgehog had quickly jumped up and grabbed a ladder that was partially hanging down from a balcony. He ascended it quickly, jumping on top of a building so he could both hide and observe what was going on below him.

Maggie looked over to the trio with a confused look on her face. "The hell are you doing here?"

"The same could be said for you.." A lime gren wolf with a double colored tail composed of lime green and azure blue retorted to Maggie.

Ray slightly came out from his hiding spot, moving to the group.

"What do you think? Playing the clarinet? We were running from those strange people!" Xai replied to Maggie.

The red and yellow hedgehog quickly scaled down the building, landing beside Maggie.

Xai and his comrades held a combat stance. "You again?!" Xai yelled.

The red and yellow hedgehog laughed. "Me again? Are you surprised?" He asked sarcastically.

"To be entirely honest, nope. But seriously. The heck are you doing?" Xai replied.

"Shhh!" Maggie shushed the group. "For the love of light you're gonna get us caught!" The echidna looked around. "Okay, we need to get out of here, really quickly. We're gonna have to do something about some of the guards around, or we're going to have to sneak out. I think if we get to the Lion's Pride Inn, we might be able to find some help."

Ray walked and peered out the alleyway to the street. He saw guards around them.

The red and yellow hedgehog lowered his voice to a whisper. "Running from some...people." He replied. He looked at Maggie. "Lead the way, cutie." He said with a smirk.

Cerberus' voice sounded in Zerofuse's head. ''Do you call every woman you meet cute?! ''he exclaimed.

Mars was busy deciding on wether or not he should take his chances.

The echidna rolled her eyes and looked back out of the alley. "The Lions's pride inn is just a couple of blocks south from here." Maggie said. "If we sneak up onto the rooftops we might be able to get to the inn with no problems."

"Great." Xai said. He immediately scaled the building, up to the rooftops. Flare simply stuck to a wall and walked up it. Cerberus floated upward.

Ray climbed up the wall.

Zerofuse looked at Cerberus. "I flirt around. Once I find a girlfriend, I'm more uh...uh...faithful." He said, lowering his voice after every word. He was afraid of being heard and deemed nice.

"Sure you are." Maggie told Zerofuse, aimed her hand at the ground, and jumped to the rooftops.

Once at the top, Ray looked around for a route to get to Lions' Pride Inn.

Zerofuse replied in a more defensive and irritated voice. "You don't know me. I've had one girlfriend. Anyway, what do you care?" Zerofuse growled a bit.

On top of the roof, a strange creature waited. It appeared to be an albino Crimson Wisp, however the three tentacles on its underside were much longer than normal, and two other, shorter tentacles sprouted from its sides.

"What a pain.." Mars said as he scaled the building and looked around for the Lion's Pride Inn. Once he found it he started jumping across rooftops in order to get to it, electricity arcing off his fur as he did so. "Whoevers chasing you guys might come after me.. I'd rather not deal with it." Mars though to himself.

The creature noticed something behind it. It was a guard that had climbed the building. The Crimson Wisp-similar creature turned and blew the guard backwards with a bolt of powerful electricity from one of its tentacles. It then hovered into the air and headed towards the others.

Maggie smirked towards Zerofuse and winked. "That's the thing; I don't." She turned around and looked to the wisp creature and the wolf. "Things I never thought I would do today..." She mumbled. "So, who exactly are you?"

The wisp creature responded. "I am Gigawatt! I surpass all other Wisps!"

The wolf just shrugged. "The name is Mars, I prefer to enjoy the scenery but with people chasing me I'm guessing that won't be possible." Mars said with a sigh.

"I am currently pursued for unknown reasons. I have calculated that the most safe route, however humiliating, shall be to accompany you and your comrades." Gigawatt said.

Zerofuse sighed, slightly annoyed by Maggie's remark. He shrugged it off and looked at Gigawatt. "Wait wait wait. Pursued by whom?" He asked.

Gigawatt pointed a tentacle at the knocked-out guard. "More like that fool."

"So you're going to come with us?" Maggie asked. "Well, alright but just so you know...I'm an elemental..."

"An elemental? Of what sort?" Gigawatt curiously asked.

Zerofuse lit a flame on his finger, demonstrating his powers without having to speak.

Ray blinked and wondered what an elemental was.

"I'm an arcane elemental." Maggie said.

"I command the great power of electricity! I have minor light powers as well, but they only extend to infusing my electricity with light energy." Gigawatt said.

Xai lifted his hat to show everyone the spike of ice growing from his head. "Ice elemental here!"

Flare generated a small fireball in her hand, showing that she was a fire elemental.

Ray made an ice spike form on his hand, showing he was an ice elemental.

Zerofuse sighed. "Are we going to sit around and show off? Or can we get to our damn location?" He said, his voice getting groggy with exhaustion.

"Wait, you're all elementals?" Maggie asked. "No wonder they're so many here! They're-"

A couple of guards somehow managed to get on top of the roof. "They're over here!" One called out.

"Uh..." Maggie started. "Run." She turned and ran across the rooftops towards the south.

Zerofuse smirked. "I got this." He said, turning to the guards. He shot some fireballs at them, trying to kill them off so they wouldn't be followed.

Ray followed Maggie and ran.

Xai, Cerberus, Gigawatt, and Flare ran across the rooftops. "Knock them out and get over here!" Xai yelled to Zerofuse.

"Let me do it." Mars said as he called down lightning to strike the guards, not really paying attention to how much voltage he put into the lightning as he followed Maggie. "The wisp isn't the only one who's a lightning elemental ya know."

"Upstart." Gigawatt muttered.

Mars heard Gigawatt thanks to his canine ears. "Can the peanut gallery keep the commentary on the down low please?" He asked in an offhand manner, as if he were talking to a spoiled child.

Zerofuse's fireballs were mixing with Mars' lightning, creating a devastating mix of elements. "Alright. That's enough. Roll out." He said, easing up on his attacks.

"Yeah, that should take care of anyone pursuing us. Hopefully it will delay them as well." Mars agreed as he stopped shooting lightning and kept moving.

Zerofuse nodded and followed behind Mars.

Maggie led the group over the rooftops till she stopped at a blue roofed building. "This is it." She said. "We need to get in there, and find some people to help us." She dropped to ground and entered the dimly lit building, filled with several shady characters all about. "Ugh, it smells awful in here." She grumbled.

Mars jumped down in a similar manner to Maggie and followed her in. "You're telling me, I swear it reaks of urine, alcohol and desperation... Kinda like back home." Mars said in a whistful tone.

Ray jumped down and walked in as well, looking for people he knew were in there.

Xai's trio dropped down inside. Gigawatt grabbed onto a wall with his three long, mutated tentacles and clambered down.

Zerofuse chuckled at Mars' remark. He lit a dim flame on his finger and put it up to his nose, the smell of fire overpowering the stench.

Before Maggie even had the chance to do anything in the pub, a grey mobian wearing a white jacket and black pants approached. On his belt was an odd looking silver rapier with what looked like a colorful revolver above the handle. "Excuse me." He said in a slow, meticulous voice. "Would you happen to be Margot Chrome and company?"

"Yes..." Maggie said. "I'm Maggie Chrome."

The grey mobian smiled maliciously, looking over the entire group, particularly Mars and Zerofuse. "Interesting..." He said.

Zerofuse looked at the gray mobian. "And why does it bother you?" He asked, a fireball in both hands.

Mars looked at the man, observing his every movement down to the twitches in his facial muscles as small black sparks started arcing off of his hands.

Ray looks at the man, wondering who he is.

Time Spinner watched how Zerofuse and Mars both looked ready to fight and smiled. "I really do hope you try something." He looked back to Maggie. "You see, my dear, I am a chronomancer, I walk the timeways, consult the time vortex, I can see the life of anyone I walk by, everything and anything that can happen to them I see." He sighed. "Here's where things happen to get complicated. Right here is a fixed point in time, in which I am here and your group is not. No matter how I look at the time stream, you all shoud not be here. No matter what time stream I look at, some of you are dead, and the others are gone, in this time stream, none of you should be alive, but here you are." He looked around and grimaced. "As a chronomancer I have to deal with that, and make the call to decide whether I destroy you, or help you."

Zerofuse heard the word destroy lightly. "Destroy? Heh. I wish." He said, his balls of fire getting slightly bigger.

Cerberus hissed. ''Time... I too can view it, being based off of Silver's DNA. We should not be here. We should not exist. But here we are. We persist against all logic. ''Cerberus' voice sounded in everyone's head.

"Yes, destroy." Time Spinner said. "But...it always come down to the same question. Are you here by fate, or by chance?"

Zerofuse shrugged. "Does it matter?" He asked, not really having an answer.

Ray shrugged at the question.

Mars just looked at the man with a bored expression. "You can rave and rant about fate and chance all you want. The fact is we're here. Don't know why, but we are. So unless you're here to help explain a few things to us, you are wasting your time.. Have a nice day good sir." Mars said, clearly irritated at the loony bin material coming out of Time Spinner's mouth while still trying to be civil at the same time.

"Oh? But ranting is something I am very good at." Time Spinner said. "For example, I can tell you all about so many different things, time, life, adventures, chaos, darklings, sprites, oh there is so much to talk about." He cleared his throat and looked directly at Mars. His irises never seeming to stay the same color for long, and his pupils seem to hold huge amount of knowledge and power within them. "Let's narrow it down then, the fact that you all are here now, means that time, space, matter, energy, and the elements have been defied, and they don't like that. The last time this happened, was near the beginning of time, and was when the chaos emeralds were created, and a new source of power was form; chaos energy. Now it happens again, and all of the elemental spirits are ready to go to war. That can't happen, so I have to decide how to handle it, so I'll ask once more; Mars the lightning wolf, do you think that you are here because of fate, or was it all by chance?"

Mars just stared with a bored expresssion. "You can ask all you want, you'll get the same answer. I don't care if it was by chance or fate, i'm here now defying pretty much everything that defined the universe and to be honest, I find it funny how a chronomancer would be able to survive going to the beginning of time when such a thing would have ended up killing you." Mars told him.

"I said chronomancer, didn't I?" Time Spinner said. "What people say is so interesting isn't it? You can never tell when people are lying." He stifiled a laugh. "Regardless, I knew the minute you all walked in here that I would help you. I can take you to the end of the city, but that is where we must part ways. You'll find a washed up pirate around those parts, make sure you take him with you."

"Wait you knew you would help us?" Maggie asked. "So, what's with all the dumb question?"

Time Spinner smiled. "Just wanted to see how you'd answer this time."

Mars just facepalmed out of sheet annoyance.

''I can't do anything you can do, but I can view time streams to an extremely limited extent. ''Cerberus telepathically spoke to Time Spinner.

Zerofuse shook his head. "What a loser..." He said to himself under his breath.

Cerberus whirled in midair and pointed all three of the extremely sharp claws on his tails at Zerofuse's face. ''Choose your next words very carefully. ''he spoke telepathically.

In a fluid motion, Mars had drawn his knives and placed the tips very close to Cerberus's neck and heart. "I'd suggest standing down unless you want this place to be your grave." Mars said in an authoritative tone.

"Guys, knock it off!" Maggie shouted.

"My, what chaos you have in this group." Time Spinner noted. "Of course, chaos won't get you anywhere in this life. If all of you cannot work together, then you're all going to die alone, and that just would not do, would it?"

Ray shook his head.

Cerberus teleported across the room from Mars. ''Funny. You actually think you can hurt me with those. I'm an engineered creature, designed to have raised reflexes and uncanny attack speed. And these claws? An amalgamation of some of the strongest materials on Mobius, honed to a razor edge by ME. ''Cerberus spoke telepathically.

"Yeah yeah, let me know when your gonna put the lotion back in the basket and stop trying to assert a non existent form of dominance you annoying telepathic waste of flesh... By the way, you can brag all you want about your genetic augments and razor sharp claws, but when it comes down to experience.. I have you beat." Mars said in an offhand manner.

"Next time you show any sort of hostile behavior I won't warn you so much as I'll just jam the knives in your chest and throat."

Zerofuse laughed and had his hands encased in fire as well as carrying fireballs.

Maggie walked over to Mars and put a hand on his shoulder. "You done throwing a temper tantrum?"

Mars just sighs. "Times like this I wish Nox was here." Mars said before he shuddered and split into two to reveal an alien like creature that resembled a wolf of sorts

"So good to get out you know." The alien chuckled.

''EXPERIENCE?! EXPERIENCE?! I LEFT SAREN ARCTURIAS ON THE GROUND SCREAMING! ''Cerberus's voice sounded, louder this time.

Xai tapped Cerberus on the shoulder. "That's a Darkling. I don't advise messing with it." he said.

Flare tapped her visor and confirmed that the creature was a Darkling.

The wolfish darkling just chuckled. "You realize that those were more or less screams of delight right?"

''Did you actually see what he looked like afterwards? Just looking at it made me throw up. ''Cerberus stated.

"If I might cut in on this..." Time Spinner started. "We have a town to escape, with very little time left, before the people trained solely to kill the lot of you appear, the ones we should actually be scared of. Because your elemental powers, won't work on them. So, we need to get moving. When we're finished, I won't be with you, so you can have your little ****ing match then."

''Yeah. I just realized we need to get the heck our of here. ''Cerberus said.

Zerofuse rubbed the back of his neck. "So let's go. No time to waste."

Nox just nodded his head and looked at Maggie. "Well, it's your call boss lady."

"Then let's get going." Maggie said.

"Excellent." Time Spinner agreed and walked through the door to the inn. "It's time for this tale to unfold."

Part 2: Escape the city
Time Spinner looked around the empty street as he exited the inn. "We're about 5 miles from the city's radius." He informed the group. "We need to leave as quickly as possible, because if we don't hurry, we're going to have a couple of problems on our hands."

"Then we move as fast as possible." Maggie said. "But we need to stick together."

Ray nodded.

"Create a diversion?" Nox asked.

Zerofuse shrugged. "Just blast through any trouble?" He suggested.'

"No, that'll draw them in. We need to sneak out." Xai said.

Zerofuse nodded although he was itching for a fight.

"No, if we create a diversion we run the risk of losing someone." Time Spinner remarked.

"Right, no one is getting left behind." Maggie agreed. "Sneaking through might work, though."

Ray agreed.

Zerofuse nodded. "Well let's quit wasting time! We've got some sneaking to do." He said.

Mars/Nox just nodded, just wanting to get out of this place. "I never got your name.." Nox said to Maggie in his way of making conversation.

"Right, we need to go." Maggie nodded and looked over at Mars. "I'm Maggie, Maggie Chrome." And with that she led the group down the road, though as they traveled, Maggie waited until Time Spinner was away from the group and whispered. "What do you think of this Time Spinner guy?"

Zerofuse had a slight smirk on his face. "He's a square." He insulted.

Ray shrugged and made a motion with his hand that made it look like mouth, (he talks too much). But then pointed to his head. (He seems smart,)

"So tell me, Black Arms creature, are you an alternate form of that wolf, or a parasitic organism living off him?" Gigawatt quietly asked.

"He seems a little weird..." Maggie admitted. "But doesn't he seem...different?"

''Yes, he's different. I'm practically overwhelmed by the energy emanating from him. He's not your average Mobian. ''Cerberus' voice sounded.

Zerofuse shrugged. "He seems to know what he's talking about. I don't like him though." He replied.

"Neither do I..." Maggie said. "But...he seems really powerful...almost in a scary kind of way."

Zerofuse laughed a bit. "Scary? Really? He's all talk." He said, a devious smirk on his face.

"I can sense his magic power." Maggie told Zerofuse. "It's...frightening. Not even the grand cleric had that kind of magical power, and he's one of the greatest wizards ever. Plus, he said he was around near the beginning of time, that can't be normal." She looked over to Time Spinner, who seemed busy looking around the area as they walked. "I don't think he's mobian."

Ray took a note out that said, so he's a spiritual entity?

Zerofuse nodded. "Well why are we here then?"

"I don't know." Maggie told both Zerofuse and Ray. "But the way he does things, the way he looks, his dialect doesn't even sound like anything I've ever heard. There's no way he has a higher magic level than the Grand Cleric normally. I think there is something up about him."

"Stop." Time Spinner commanded. "We've been spotted."

Gigawatt looked up. "Oh, no. I really don't want to have to fight."

Xai nervously held a fighting stance. "I have an idea! This hat is an extradimensional storage space, meaning I can put some pretty large stuff in there. I think my Extreme Gear is in there, if we need any extra speed. It's an Air Ride, we should all be able to fit on."

Flare snarled.  she signed.

Nox just shrugged as black lightning arced off his fur. "Let's get this party started then." He said in a bored tone as he yawned.