9513/No Slaves Today

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No Slaves Today
Date of Scene: 10 October 2019
Location: Kree Empire
Synopsis: Beta Ray Bill and Grail save children from slavers.
Cast of Characters: Beta Ray Bill, Grail




Beta Ray Bill has posed:
It seems that Beta Ray Bill's quest would not be completed alone. Somehow gaining the Daughter of Darkseid's assistance, Bill gives her the coordinates of space that they should relatively be to be near their target.

-BOOOOOM-

The colorful orangeish color of apocalyptan tech heralds the arrival of the two hypertitans, and Bill seems to look out into that dark void, Stormbreaker in hand, and he points to the enemy. "Look there." He tells Grail.

Sure enough, out there were slaver ships. "If the intelligence is correct, those ships are filled with children intended to be sold to become Kree Battle Slaves. I must not allow that to happen."

Grail has posed:
Stepping out into open space at the edge of the portal that allows them to stand as if they were on solid ground, Grail stares for a long moment before shaking her head, "Always the powerful think they can control those beneath them." She chuckles softly, "They will soon realize the mistake they made."

She looks at her wrist before looking over to Bill and considering, "Well, I can see about getting us on to the bridge of the main ship unless you intend to bust a hole in their ship and risk the slaves?" She hmms.

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Beta Ray Bill looks upon Grail as she makes her words known to him. "Quite true. Which is why I'm somewhat glad I brought you along. My straightforward nature could've endangered the children, if they are yet unharmed. Nonetheless..."

He looks at Grail. "Do it. It gives us the most quiet entry, and given your slimmer frame than mine own, you are more stealthy than I. When we enter, we will clear the bridge posthaste. If you would, open your transportation. We will have to be quick or we risk detection."

So, Bill looks forward, his brilliant cape floating with the zero-G of space, which he has no problem surviving in. "Lets go."

Grail has posed:
Reaching out, she looks at the location and then at her right bracer before she opens her hand and the portal behind them closes while another opens. Moments later, the portal bursts open upon the bridge of hte lead ship and out walks Grail from it, not really waiting on Bill as she comes out. She stares at the people on the bridge a moment before spinning around and driving her fist right into the nearest person the bridge. The sound is absoutely brutal and sickening as a crunch of a multitude of bones breaking comes with the contact.

She then smirks around and considers, "Surrender? Yes? No?" She chuckles darkly as she grins, "No. Please say no."

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Grail does not need to wait for Bill. He's practically at her side the entire time! As soon as they enter on the bridge, Grail CLOCKS what looks to be one of the guards, and his body smashes against the wall of the ship with cringe-worthy impact.

Meanwhile, Bill throws Stombreaker and it hits the pilot right in the head, knocking him across the room out of his chair! With a twitch of the finger, Stormbreaker stops on its path and returns to Bill's hand!

Very impressive.

But the Captain then shouts. "KILL THEM!" the Captain looked like he was a Centaurian and many of the crew looked to be of different species. Either way, it was fight time as soldiers on the bridge opened fire on Bill and Grail!

Grail has posed:
A smirk as she raises up an arm to deflect some of the attacks from her face, she then laughs and shakes her head. She then looks to Bill, "Do they really not know how screwed they are?" She chuckles and then rushes forward with the speed of a warrior, keeping her amazing speed in check to enjoy this...and bring fear to the enemies, "Come on then!"

She simply reaches the first one and gives him a push, sending him flying back into another before she whips her right hand out. In it, a hilt appears and she flips it out to cause a scythe to appear. She then spins and flicks it out before turning it down. A moment later, another enemy's weapon is sliced in half along with a couple of his fingers.

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Bill watches as Grail charges forward like a madwoman, taking down one enemy after the next....some more brutally than others considering one of them just brutally lost some of his fingers.

Yikes.

But at the same time, impressive.

Bill throws one of the co-pilots straight into the ceiling with enough force that he -stays there- and another is smacked in the head with Stormbreaker, practically throwing him towards the ship's gunner, who takes the hit straight in and gets KO'd as a result.

Three left, including the Captain!

Grail has posed:
With a quick slash of her blade, she slices a line along one man's chest and then spins around to run two more lines along the front of his thighs. She moves like she were a puppet on strings the way she slides down to the side as he tries to hit her with the butt of his rifle. She slides like she were a champion limbo champ and then whips her scythe along the back of his thighs, leaving him likely to not be able to walk and possibly to bleed out. She then looks to the Captain and smiles.

"Your crew falls as easily as leaves from a tree." She chuckles a little, "Should I stop now? Or do you wish to continue to resist? I know what I hope your answer is but it'd be wrong to not at least give you a chance to be smart." She then glances over at the work of Bill and chuckles, "Wow, seems you really might have bit off more than you can here?" She glances over to the Captain again and arches a brow.

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Oooohhh okay, Grail seems to be on the bloodpath just a little bit. Considering that she kills a man extremely easily and makes it brutal with swings of her scythe and sword. Yeah....he bleeds out extremely quickly and passes out, most likely he will die within the next 20 seconds or so.

Bill then approaches the Captain, when he tries to pull a gun on him, Bill brings the axe-end of Stormbreaker up to the man's throat. "I wouldn't."

"Wha-What do you want?!"

"The children. Where."

The Captain seems to try and resist, but then he feels the pain of Stormbreaker just barely pressing into his neck and he immediately gives up. "Aft bow! Two levels down." "Thank you." Bill then proceeds to strike the Captain across the room and he lands in an unconscious heap.

"Lets go get them."

Grail has posed:
A grin as she looks over at the Captain and then shrugs, "I guess off we go then." She then looks over at him, "Likely means the kids are in the same spot in every ship." She nods her head as she moves with Bill toward that spot, "Should make things faster but I can't help but want to make an example...at the minimum show them the error of their ways." She nods again, "Later though, I suppose. Children first."

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Beta Ray Bill nods. "You can exact your justice on all of them assuming we can find the children and his words are correct. Yet, I find that fear is an excellent motivator." Bill just shakes his head as he gets to moving. "Its entirely possible that the ship heard the commotion we made, but we're not far at all from the children from this position, so I doubt we'll have an entire ship after us."

A light shake of his head.

"So then, what does bring you here, Grail? The usual reputation of Apokolips is not one of good faith."

Grail has posed:
A twitch and Grail whips her blade around with a speed that would make a Kryptonian blink. She has it aimed at Bill and her eyes glow brightly as she stares at him, "I am not of Apokolips...never assume I am of Apokolips." She clenches the blade tightly, "Mind your words..." She then pulls the blade back and turns to keep walking, "My reason for being here are my own..."

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Beta Ray Bill looks at Grail for just a moment as she suddenly aims her blade at him. Though for some reason, he doesn't appear to be very intimidated. "Yet your eyes, gear, and weaponry say different." Yet, its not something he seems to pursue.

Possibly wise. He doesn't know the full extent of Grail's abilities.

Nonetheless, Bill keeps his eyes on her. "and those reasons are?"

Grail has posed:
"My own." She states simply as she slides her blade away and keeps walking, "Know only that I wish them to be free. That is all." She nods her head, "I think it best that we finish this before anything else happens."

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Bill briefly keeps his attention on Grail for just a little moment longer before he just shrugs and gets back to the task at hand. Eventually though, he extends his hand towards Grail as if to stop her movement. A gesture follows that says to listen.

Children are knocking on the door ahead. So he walks up to it and he puts his hand on the locked handle, looking at Grail.

The look in his eyes suggests that she has full permission to kill all hostiles.

WHen she's ready, he will literally rip the door off of its hinges with the greatest of ease.

Grail has posed:
Moving up to the other side of the door, she looks at him and then looks toward the sound. She frowns a little and then she clenches her fists. She glares at the door and then takes a breath and looks inside as soon as the door is open. If anyone, anyone at all is near a child, her eyes glow bright red before the omega beams fly.

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Sure enough...

There's about three men holding weapons to the heads of children to try and use them as bargaining chips, but as soon as that door is open? They have freaking laser eyes coming right for 'em! Omega beams fly forward with a complete disregard for regular physics. They go straight, then they jerk to the left, then the right, then through multiple geometrical shapes and angles before in that brief instant, all of those men just slump over dead.

One of the children, in tears, immediately runs for grail, attempting to embrace her for saving their lives.

Grail has posed:
A blink as a child rushes her. She stares in a slight bit of annoyance as the child hugs her. She stares down for a moment and twitches before reaching down and patting the girl on the head before looking over to Bill and then looking around for other threats. She twitches a little and states, "I suppose they are safe now." She looks around briefly, "We need to get the others and then get them to whereever you intended to take them."

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
Bill watches the child rush at Grail and embrace her. "So it would seem." there was about Thirty children in the room with them. Though when they heard Grail's words, five of the children run up to the pair. "There arn't any others. We're the only ones. They worked some of the other kids too hard and they said they 'ejected' them. What does that mean?" Bill's expression goes from curiosity to pure rage. "Take the children to these coordinates." He seems to pass on the information to Grail on the planet they were intended to be returned to. Seems they were all coincidentally taken from the same one.

"I'm going to finish this."

Grail has posed:
A look over at the kid and Grail blinks a few times. Slowly she raises her hand and a boom tube appears. She points to it, "Go." SHe states to the child nearest her and then starts ushering them to go, "Everyone through...now." She then looks over at Bill and squints at him, "Hold on..." And then she disappears in a burst of speed. A moment later she returns. In her hand is the Captain. He seems to be totally surprised by what just happened. It's unclear what her plans are but she is holding him by the mouth so all he can do is struggle and make noise, "One needs to survive..." And with that she makes sure the kids are through and walks through herself, dragging the man with her.

Beta Ray Bill has posed:
The -instant- that Grail is gone, Bill looks up towards the ceiling and he lifts Stormbreaker above him, then with a mighty hurl, he makes a hull breach as he makes a flight escape. Once outside, he calls upon the powers of the storm, using Stormbreaker as the catalyst, he summons a COSMIC STORM.

Suddenly, the slaver's ship goes up in literally a blast of glory. The storm lasts even after the blast.