[OPEN] [2nd Story] As if it couldn't get any worse...

[Mister_X]

The officer lowered his gun, "Go ahead, give me your best shot", he said as his eyes turned into an even brighter purple glow and his voice suddenly changed...

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[PlasmaSabre]

The junker couldn't believe this turn of events, but as he reached for his knife he saw a horrifying, inhuman appendage extending from the officer...

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[lIceColon]

Roderick aimed at the appendage, and smacked his hand and knife - right onto a thin purple veil that intercepted the attack, and it instantly decimated his weapon, and the appendage was not done yet - it flicked a bit and shattered his right arm.

[nOmnomnOm]

Roderick was now a cripple. (you wrote 2 sentences there. technically fixed)

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[PlasmaSabre]

Roderick lunged at the officer, but just as he touched him everything went black.

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[Karamanjdji]

He felt somewhot famillar, and nice feel, as he woke up, he noticed that his ijuries were gone, and that he was perfectly well, but he had that feel, so familiar yet so distant...

[nOmnomnOm]

As he was still figuring out his mixed feelings he moved his left hand and then started moving his right but as he looked to the side we saw it was not his own hand but a mechanical one.

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[PlasmaSabre]

As Roderick got up he looked around realizing that he was in an escape pod and thought to himself "What on earth happened?"

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[oZoneRanger]

Back on planet manhattan, agents investigating the slaughter and explosion on the landing pad, put out a Liberty wide, high priority all channels BOLO (Be on the Look out) alert for an individual not yet Identified, but seen holding a pipe and confronting the first slain officer.

[nOmnomnOm]

As for Roderick, the escape pod he was in was drifting in space, heading straight for the star in the system of New York!

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