Ark 20 Episode 71: The Strider & The Blue Devil!

Participants

 * Leon Ryoji
 * Kevin "Koa" Chan

On Patrol!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3lmGFvT52A&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl&index=44 )"FWIP!---Smack" would be the sound made as Kevin slung a web twoards the surfave of another building corner! swinging high as the eight story buildings around him in district 2, Kevin would swing horizontally around a buildings edge, and loop his body on a sharp turn, releasing the web and letting his body glide forward for a second, before shooting a web and pulling his body forward with a sudden yank of the web! "Llet's seee what kind of trouble I can spare to get into today eh?" Kevin would end up taking a long drawn out swing, looping around a horizontal flagpole a few times, before letting go, and cutting a few balled up back flips and shooting upwards landing on the peak of a church tower. Kevin perched on the towers's peak would scan the city streets taking in the high sights hr loved to see so much. his blue and red outfit ddarker tinted in the night time. "Hmm...I need to see what else is going on on the Heroes Inc rouge list. gotta put some heads on my rouge gallery." Kevin's eat price would pick up a call and he'd tap it once. "Strider speaking, tonights special consist of justice served cold." "Strider, is Leon. Need a favor." Kevin would stand upright on the side of the church tower peak. he'd casually pace back and forth talking back to Leon. "REALLY? sure man! I'm glad you trust me enough to handle it! what am I doing?! steak out? infiltration? recon?" "Sorry kev, but thats what I'm doing tonight. tracking a thing they call "it". its like something out of a horror story... none the less need you to buckle down and tackle this task for me. I'll hook you up with something nice if you cooperate." "Bet! I'm on it boss! brief me on what I'm looking for! "This guys not your average every day freak of nature. He's a freak of nature with the ability of Teleportation on the spacial level.. With this, he's literally become the "go to" guy for infiltrations on higher level scales than anyone else on our rogues list. He's been tapping common high security museums and banks for a while, simple stuff, until he started breaking into science labs and stealing computer data on flash drives. All of these facilities were testing facilities for harnessing light into a form of offense. Similar to Ochigi Ryoji's Light force technology, which focuses heated light into a form of physical attack. This ones simple: bad guys stealing weaponry right? What's funny is it's only the schematics...you'd need the parts to even construct the weapon, so where would he be keeping those? No way this is a one man show, Track the culprit, infiltrate the hide out, secure all valubes, and let the KPD take the bastard to the asylum, along with the crooks who're helping.” Kevin would scratch his head. “Whoaaaaaaaaaa. This sounds like some next level shit yo. I’l be on it! and I’ll get it done! Where is his next hit?” “It’s rumored he’s about to hit a weapons facility in the far northern side of district. It’s a high tech base, so you’ll need to either sneak in, break in, or at least wait til you get sign of him. use that stirder sense to it’s fullest you hear? I’ll be done here soon and if you need it I’ll back you up.” Kevin nodded. “right! I’m off!” Kevin got the cooridnates on his strider rador, and immidiatel fwiped a web to the side of a building and took off into the night! Landing on the edge of a building, he’d look to the tail of a passing helicopter and sling a web to it, pulling himself forward and over it, before perching on the tal of it and propelling forward, zipping himself towards the wall of the building! Kicking off of it, he’d spin his body in a 360 twirl before slinging a web and pulling himself elsewhere yet again, running up the side of the building, and front flipping over its’ width, using his adept muscles, and web yanking himself forward again. (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s70/mysticdensukez/Spider%20man%20gifs/32181af4050afc19d5c3e3d1f1fe69a5_zpsnxzp5llx.gif ) continuing his fast pattern, he’d arrive   in no less than five mintues and perch himself on a high end building, over looking the facitly as it was.

Prep Time
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJsvd5fWZ74&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl&index=47 ) “so this is the place huh..lets see if I can actually get my way in here the right way…but how….gah. Leon makes this crap look easy!” Kevin would huff sitting down on the roof and being furstraited with a frown…he’d then feel his utility belt and pull out one of those “smart” pills Densuke told him to take. He didn’t believe it would work….but it couldn’t hurt to give a shot regardless. Kevin lifted the mouth of his mask and pop the pill. This smart pill…was actually an Adderall. Adderall is a psychostimulant pharmaceutical drug of the phenethylamine class used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. Adderall is also used as a performance and cognitive enhancer, and recreationally as an aphrodisiac and euphoriant. The medication is a mixture of amphetamine stereoisomer salts and inactive ingredients. By salt content, the active ingredients are 75% dextroamphetamine salts (the dextrorotary or "right-handed" enantiomer) and 25% levoamphetamine salts (the levorotary or "left-handed" enantiomer) Adderall works by increasing the activity of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, which results from its interactions with trace amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) and vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2). Adderall shares many chemical and pharmacological properties with the human trace amine neurotransmitters, especially phenethylamine and N-methylphenethylamine, the latter being an isomer of amphetamine that is produced within the human body. In short: These pills will put kevin in a completely cognitive state of mind, allowing him to not be so dense during combat and actually sutdy things. Kevin’s mind…went blank. As his pupils dialated he looked at the base….and then he LOOKED at the base. “Ah….i see. First…iinstead of breaking in…maybe I can get a listen in on the people inside….get a pass code or area of a vulnerable person.” Kevin would look up and see the satellite tower, and web zip to it. placing oone of his spider tracers on it. he’d then repeat this process and put one on every single satellite around the base, and the perch on the side of one, and begin to listeni on some of the converastations…he continued scrolling through frequencies dealing with what’s for dinners, how peole fuck their wives, and a lady sucking on some dick. Kevin finaly after about an hour of perching heard something worth while. “Hey mac, what’s your pass code to get in this place? I usually keep min on me, but I left it at the crib. I’m gonna step outside for a smoke.” “Oh no   problem rob it’s uh…2230.” “thanks” Kevin hung up and glared. “Good…” Kevin would then quietly make his way over the fence..his sense telling him where every single camera was near his area, so he’d have a heads up on which ways to and not to go…he’d make his way to one of the doors and put in the code. The door opened, and kevin would immediately jump to the ceiling, clinging to it, and opening up the vent inside. “ I swear these industrial places have the biggest vents…” Kevin would begin crawling through it..heading to the weapons development center to see if he could possibly intercept the culprit if he was going to show up. he’d need materials to be able to form any of these things what so ever…kevin would make his way there, peering at signs along the way to guide himself very easily. He’d never felt this competent in his entire life. He’d final made it to the   room. “ahhh looks like they’re all starting to clear themselves out it seems! Good…now we play the waiting game.” Kevin would quietly open up the vent, and lower himself down   hanging by a single web. Lowering down, he’d lay wait…and wait..and wait. Until he’d heard a POOF noise. Kevin’s strider sense picked it p and he turned his head in the direction of a strange looking man! his skin was blue and he had a sharp pointed tail like a devil. He was heading towards the vault crawling on all fours, like some kind of animalistic freak…aparantly he didn’t notice kevin..until he sniffed the air.



the blue demon spoke to kevin, in almost a whipseer, but it was loud and menacing. Almost like steven segal but less bitch made. “What are you doing here..strider.” Kevin would tilt his head to the side a bit. “Ahh so I’m getting famous in the villan circle…interesting….glad to know my reptutation proceeds me…” the two would start to circle each other while talking. “Well it’s not hard..your face is plasterd all over the place..people love you…villan circles resent you and your merry band of hero friends. You’ve all made quite a name for yourselves. But you. The circle I know of is just itching to ride of you…and itching to bring that blonde brute over to the dark side.” Kevin stoped. “Circle? Theres more of you?! You run with a   crew!” The blue demon smirked. “Speech is silver…silence is golden. Sorry but I can’t let you stand between me and a paycheck.” “HA! Crime doesn’t pay!” the blue demon was silent for a moment before he’d leap at kevin! Two swords appearing in his hands, as he’d come in with two horizontal slashes! Kevin would   dip backwards avoding the slashes with along strided backflip taking his stance again! and just like that the fight was on!

The Strider & The Demon!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY3l3AAxLZQ&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl&index=206 ) “SHIG SHING, SHI-SHI-SHING!”   Kevin would wave, slip, and bob each slash that came his way with a surprisingly different style of fighting. Rather than his usual iraddic movements and manvuer,s his dodges were swift…clean…finiessful. He even seemed to be stratitigizing as each dodge he made, he was never more than 3 inches away from the blue demon, almost as if he was trying to stay in his comfort zone. (kevin would be the guy with the straw hat minus the sword http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s70/mysticdensukez/Martial%20Arts%20Gifs/Aura%20Gifs/Emotion%20Gifs/Swordplay%20gifs/7d6b4cc43af6c78792afa04f1d8baceb_zpsb20eab28.gif ) “Intersting...” Kevin noted, as he’d continue dodging the slices before steping back a few feet. “that sword style! It’s French isn’t it! you’re a fencer!” the blue demon smirked. “Very observant, but useless in this case…my skill is unparallel!” then “POOF!” Kevin’s eyes widened he was literally….GONE. in the blink of an eye! Kevin looked around for where he might be…he couldn’t see em! Then suddenly kevin would have a sword impaled through his shoulder! “NGH!!” Kevin would reach behind him, gripping the demon by his neck and attempting to slam him forward! But “POOF!” The blue demon would disappear AGAIN! Kevin would take his ready stance again only hearing poof, after poof, after poof. Kevin would close his eyes…focusing..his strider sense…concentrating everything he had. Into that one sense… he user can detect objects around them by detecting their movement, allowing them to see even objects that are invisible or obscured (by fog for example), as long as they are in motion. In order to do this the chip combines a mixture of infrared, microwave, ultrasound and tomography and utilizes the Doppler Effect to detect the distortions caused by the waves hitting or passing through a moving object. Not only would kevin get a clear, three dimensional image of what’s going on in the area of one mile around him (it’s limit) but he can detect and literally “see” moving objects around him or towards him. each time the demon poofed he’d leave waves in the air…when he disappeared. And reapeare. Kevin just needed to discern which waves were the reaparing ones…and thanks to the Adderall… The user can create strategies and plans several steps ahead of the opponent seeming like the user can see into the future.The user is able to elaborate complex plans and strategies and apply them in not just in battle but any other activity that involves cunning intellect.E.g Strategic games. Most of the users of this ability are very analytical and can understand or anticipate the enemies moves. Kevin would then cross his arms across his body and shoot his webbing upwards…and “FWAP!’ the webbing would connect right on the blue demons’ chest! “H-how!?!” “Leon would be proud! HUAAAAAAAH!!!” Kevin would begin a while spinning frenzy with the blue demon’s body! Swinging his body overhead and knocking him into all sorts of objects along the way before finally turnig his body arund,t he blue demon with him, and slamming his body face first into the hard ground!



the blue demon would groan in pain, before standing up, holding himself up with one of his blades! He’d galre at kevin, and kevin would glare back. “You ready to quit and tell me who’s backing you?” The blue demon would growl and “POOF’ teleport away, out of sight and out of mind…or so he’d thought. Kevin would stand up and chuckle. Sorry pal….” Kevin would reach into his belt and pull out a strider tracker. “I love these things. Muwahmuwahmuwah!” Kevin would kiss it. during his webbing maneuver he’d actually have stuck a strider tracker on the end of the web and stuck it to the demon’s chest! These special trackers were designed for Kevin as what they sound like; tracking devices. Each device has a link to Kevin's Strider Sense. This allows kevin to "feel" the location of where he's going and track the perp to their location easily by following the sense alone. For those who want specifics: When the Strider Sense sends the echolocation back, the tracker sends a specfic toned frequency back to kevin, allowing him to pick up the location and seek it out. With that kevin would make his way out of the base, and begin swinging through the streets casually, letting blue demon think he’s escaped.

Tracking Like A Pro!...The Tension Rises!
Kevin would take to the skies! Calling leon on his communicator line I the strider chip, Kevin would speak out, whole talking to Leon! “Leon! I need your help man!” “Dammit kevin did you fuck up already? I can’t pull you outta the water every single time.” “No! this time it’s different! I broke into the base!” “y-…you did? Well if the cops are chasing you I can’t reall-“ “NO they’re not! I went undected! Got in, fought the guy a little bit, and then dipped as quick as I could! Then I fought the teleportation guy and figured out his pattern! He ran from me BUT I put a tracer on him! I’m following him back to his stronghold now to see where all the hidden materials are! I figure you could back me up here!” Kevin continued his swings though the city, rounding sharp corners by yanking the web, sliging a separate oen and pulling himself fin another direction! “Damn Kevin. You’re impressive to say the least. You must’ve taken an adderal I’m assuming. None the less, link me the coordinates. My arms good again so I’ll met you at the base to help you. “It” will have to wait.” “Thanks man! I’ll see you there!” Kevin kept his swing speed, weaving left and right, and cutting over buidlings with short zips and pulls.



As he did the   masked men would slowly start to get up and scurry away! Thougher than they looked it seemed…Leon would look to Kevin. “Looks like you handled things pretty well on your end huh.” Kevin would rub the back of his head before smiling. The blue demon would snarl. “We aren’t finished here! Not by a long shot!” Kevin would hold his hand out to leon. “I got this…I’v seen all his tricks….hahahah!” kevin would run up to the blue demon and be met with a horizontal right hand slash,! Kevi would dodge, and sling a web at his hand, and let the line connected to a wall off way so his hand was stuck! The the demon attacked with his other hand, kevin would weave that sword strike and repeat that process! Leaving the blue demon’s hands stuck! Kevin would then web his feet to the floor, and even his tail! “THIS CAN’T HOLD ME!” the blue demon would teleport. ‘POOOF.” Kevin smirked. “I know.” As the blue demon reappeared,   kevin would turn to him and slap his hand out of the way, only to strike his neck. He’d then begin a countering all of blue demon’s attacks like clock work! Utilizing his found knowledge of wing chun, he made it look effortless, like it took little to any work at all for him to counter this man? Kevin really had noted the man’s style of fighting and was now acting upon it, countering it as if blue demon was a child! Kevin ended his   combination by palm thursting the blue bastard right in the chin! Teeth and spital flew up was the blue demon’s body arched back! (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s70/mysticdensukez/Martial%20Arts%20Gifs/ipman1stfight1_zpsa0e55524.gif )His head hit the ground first before the rest of his body followed! Kevin would clap his hands together dusting them off and sighing. “Ahhh. A job well done.” Leon would nod and push abutton on his watch. The watch would start taking pictures of the area   in general, snapshot sof what was going on in here, taking it all in and sending it to the Heroes Inc comuter. Leon would also conphiscate one of the rifles for further study, and pick up Blue guys’ body throwing it over his shoulder. “C’mon. Let’s head out. I’ll grab us a bite to eat. My treat.” Kevin would clap for joy”WOO! Free food, lets get it!”

Male Bonding
//Later on// (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfLc_ZznA74&index=296&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl )Leon had delieverd the body to Heroes Inc for questioning and he and kevin sat perched on a frooftop, eating cheeseburgers and chilling out for the night really. Kevin had his cowl lifted eating and Leon would glance over at him. “you know you can take the mask off to eat.” “Nah. Never know who’s watching. Speaking of watching Leon   I wonder something about you.” Leon finished his burger and sighed. “If you’re going to get all personal I ask that you don’t. really don’t want any of this male bonding type deal.” Kevin would belch before asking. “what made you become a vigilante? I mean hell. I’m doing it cause I feel cool when I do it. kind of a nobody but as the strider? People cheer for me! People love to see! Bad guys hate me! It’s a thrill! And I’m known it’s like…people flock to me! And I just can’t help it I love the attention!” Kevin laughed a bit. Leon nodded to his story. “So what’s your game Leon?” Leon replied sternly. “I fucked up. that’s why.” Kevin furrowed his brow, even visible through his mask. “you’re   insanely good at your job….and kick more ass than most people your age and brooding group…because you “fucked up’?” Leon would stand up, and palce his hands in his pockets. “I’ve done and seen some things I’m not proud of. Before all of this….i was an experiment. A blood thirsty beast, looking for his next meal…I alienated everyone who was important to me. In the quest for power…power I thought was all I needed to kill one man.” Leon closed his eyes. “ I fought that man. and he beat me. Let me live when he could’ve killed me. It was then I realized why. He didn’t forsake anyone. He carried them with him. all the way. The entire time he fought with me…I wake up every night. Tasting the blood of the people I killed. I hate it. I regret it…and it’s a constenet reminder of the things I’ve done in my past..but now. I’m carving a new path in my life. One I can follow and instead of forsaking, I’ll protect every one   come across. I’ll do it until I attone for the wrongs I’ve done.” Kevin would look down for a moment before looking back up at Leon. “Who’re you seeking attonement..from?” Leon remained silent. “Even I…don’t have that answer.” Leon’s hover bike would zoom through and pull up infront of him. “I’m heading out. If you need me call me. You did good work here tonight Kevin. Just remember. Ina business like ours…be lucky you’re an outcast. The closer the people you have to you, the bigger the risk you’re taking. I learned that before I started this job…” Leon would rev his bike and take off into the night. Kevin stood there for a moment, taking in what he’d heard. Kevin nodded. Saying nothing. No smart remark or rebute. Nothing but pure unadulterated respect is what he had for Leon. Kevin at times questioned Leon, but now he understood why he did what he did…and why he was so good. He had a purpose. A drive. Kevin looked at his hand, twiddling his fingers for a second. “What’s…my drive.” Kevin pondered this for a few hours before finally deciding to make his own way home for school tomorrow.