REVERB'S IRAQI VAY-KAY PART UNO

<BurritoWitch>: Where we last left off our hero of the story, Reverb, decided to take it upon herself to travel through the mirror realm to Iraq. Just where in Iraq is the question, the girl coming out of a small mirror in a dusty abandoned house.

Reverb coughs, brushing some dust off of her. She looks around for a nearby window.
<BurritoWitch>: There's no windows, only a door leading out into a dusty desert town, deserted. The low quality buildings seem to have been completely cleared out, picked clean of anything valuable or useful. A few buildings near the outskirts are destroyed, crushed from the outside. Its obvious that its night out.

<Reverb>: "Well, fuck." she says to herself, surveying the damage. She jumps onto the roof of the house she just came out of, using it as a vantage point to see farther away.
<BurritoWitch>: There is a small river not that far from the town and a few large hills very close, otherwise the desert seems to stretch on for miles. She can hear, though, the soft booming of... cannons very very far to the northeast, out of sight.

Reverb already knows just where to go. She turns toward the sound of the cannons, taking a few steps back. She runs and leaps off of the roof, running along the desert.
<BurritoWitch>: The desert goes on for quite some time, lucky for her she's a monstrous creature of the night. Suddenly she begins to feel the radio interference. A lot of it, its immense.

Reverb sighs, adjusting her headphones as best she can, knowing by this point it's futile. She stops for a brief second, instead plugging her headphones into a music player. She continues moving.
<BurritoWitch>: As she runs at such high speeds she feels her foot caught up in something, several hands shooting out of the ground to trip her

Reverb jumps into the air, forming a flat piece of crystal beneath her and slamming it into the ground, a sword in one hand.
<BurritoWitch>: the arms quickly disperse back into the ground, the desert dirt shifting and crumbling as she sees several bumps move under the surface. the ground bursts out, sending up a cloud of dust and sand as 5 small abominable red creatures jump outward. Their backs have glowing thoraxes that flash a million times a minute as they screech

Reverb snaps her blade in two, tossing them at two of the creatures. She tears off parts of the massive crystal slab, throwing them in threes at any creature flying through the air.
<BurritoWitch>: Once hit with the crystals the creatures immediately scream, their thoraxes expanding until they burst into an explosion. 5 of them all around her

Reverb bends the crystal slab around herself the best she can, managing to at least reduce the damage they'd cause.
<BurritoWitch>: The crystal cracks and buckles, but ultimately is able to defend her form the explosions.
<Reverb>: "Guess I must be close."
Reverb takes a moment to look northeast, at the source of the cannons.

<BurritoWitch>: She can just barely make out the silluete of an absolutely massive compound, rising out of the ground like a pyramid before plateauing at the top with 7 large cannon barrels pointed in 7 directions. Every once in a while one of the cannons fires, a mass being shot up into the atmosphere.
<BurritoWitch>: Its many miles off, though. Better get to running while you can.

Reverb sighs, instead deciding to take a leaf from Skyler's book. She makes a bobsled, laying it on the sand, and climbs on.
<Reverb>: "I cannot believe I'm doing this."
Reverb presses her hand to the ground. A pillar rises from the sand at an angle, launching Reverb into the air.

Skyler wakes up in his bed, sensing some sort of disturbance.]

<BurritoWitch>: As she sleds on through the desert at high speeds, she notices something. The cannons seem to be lowering.... and aiming at her general direction!
<Reverb>: "Heh, now we're talkin'."
Reverb leans from side to side, moving in a zig-zag to lose the cannons

<BurritoWitch>: The seven cannons fire, seven almost schoolbus sized masses are fired toward her and crash into the ground ahead of her. Through the massive dust cloud the 7 charge through the dirt and desert, upon closer inspection being some sort of organic desert sled propelled by symbiotic arms. All of them are heading right at her.
<BurritoWitch>: Out of the tops of them she can see the heads of multiple of the small demons peek out, baring their massive claws

Reverb tilts the bobsled, turning just as the sleds approach, aiming to bring down the blade on its head.
<BurritoWitch>: She manages to decapitate one of the monsters as the bobsleds charge forward, but from the side another crashes right into her and sends the sled flying in the other direction. The others follow pursuit like pack animals

Reverb lands on a ground with a solid thud. She picks herself up and forms two large lances in her hands, throwing them straight into the path of the sleds.
<BurritoWitch>: Two of the sleds are impaled upon the lances, sending the monsters inside them flying out onto the ground and skidding. From her flanks another two of the sleds charge right at her as she lances the others

Reverb stands, waiting for the two sleds to get close. The second they do she jumps out of the way, raising up a large spire as they crash into one another.

<BurritoWitch>: The sleds comically collide into one another, crashing and bursting apart. From behind it seems the last sled as gone airborne, torpedoing itself into her back
Reverb pushes the sled off of herself, turning in midair to punch it direct in the face.

<BurritoWitch>: She punches the sled down with her night empowered strength, sending it flying down as the monsters inside it jump out to the sides. Below her it seems the passengers have gathered around, sharpening their claws and looking up at her en masse

Reverb makes a pair of battleaxes in her hands, tossing them into the horde as she lands, replacing them with a pair of blade linked together like scissors.
<BurritoWitch>: The beasts all jump up to attack her, their vorpal claws scratching outwards to tear at her

Reverb snaps open her blades into a twin-bladed polearm, spinning it around herself as she runs into the group of creatures, liberally extending and shortening the blades as she does so.

<BurritoWitch>: Many of them are torn to shreds, limbs flying every which way. Even as they are torn apart, they don't seem to die. The arms and legs kick back up to slice at her, pushing through her iron defense to get a few stabs at her.

Reverb growls, hopping out of the swarm and beating them into a huddled up group instead. As soon as she can, she stabs the ground to form walls, attempting to corner the horde.

<BurritoWitch>: As she does so the creatures punch and push at the walls, craking them. She starts to hear their voices on the inside of her head, empty threats and insults creating quite the headache through her head like the one Skyler was subjected to.
Reverb sighs, instead pushing the walls down on the horde.
<BurritoWitch>: The walls smash down upon them, finally killing the monsters and silencing their false voices.

Reverb sighs, continuing to make her way toward the fortress.

<BurritoWitch>: One of the cannons points down to her, firing once more. This time there's what seems to be a red flash from the barrel and the projectile much smaller and propelled by what seems to be steam. It isn't long before a new sound fills her ears, overpowering even the music. A bloodcurdling screaming battlecry coming right towards her

Reverb laughs. This one is going to be fun.
Reverb takes a leap backwards, a sword at the ready.

<BurritoWitch>: The steam cloud coming out from the small projectile sprays out even larger as it gets closer and closer and gains speed. It seems to be some kind of armored red monster resembling some kind of ant with its massive sharp toothed maw open in a rage filled scream. Another burst shoots from it and by the time Reverb can blink the monster has crashed against her.
<BurritoWitch>: The force of it would have turned her into pink mist if it wasn't for her vampire abilities.
<BurritoWitch>: http://s28.postimg.org/t2hg7f7v1/Wrathy.png

Reverb laughs again, digging her heels into the ground and pushing back, punching at the monster's abdomen a few times.

<BurritoWitch>: The force is enough to send her crashing straight into the dirt and creating a crater, though. A massive dust cloud mixes with the fog of steam to completely blind one's vision for a few moments.

Reverb stays on guard, swords at the ready.
<Reverb>: "Alright, come out lil' guy."

<BurritoWitch>: She can barely make out a silhouette, the 'lil' guy' standing 7 and a half feet high and almost half as thick. The antennaes on its head twitch for a moment and the monster bullrushes forward with a brutal amount of speed, swinging down a fist to slam her to the ground.

Reverb manages to jump to the side, barely dodging the monster as she turns just as quickly, bringing her sword down on the nape of his neck.

<BurritoWitch>: The monster misses, his hand crashing into the ground and splitting it apart into a chasm 10 feet deep that throws her off her balance as she tries to swing. "WRONG MOVE" he growls as the blade only bumps against the armor on his neck, swinging back with the same hand
Reverb grunts, getting sent several feet back with that single punch. She uses her swords to ground herself, quickly changing them into heavy gauntlets.

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath lets out some steam, jumping into the chasm and kicking at the side facing Reverb. The ground from the edge to behind her buckles and completely shatters, sending up a wave of rock and dirt at her from the front and below.
Reverb growls, punching the ground in return, channeling the radio interference to send her own wave of earth right back at Wrath.

<Reverb>: "So I'm guessing you're the one called Wrath, huh?"
<BurritoWitch>: Wrath charges forward through the wave, using the dirt and rock and dust as cover for his charge as he slams his head right into her. "I'M GUESSING YOU'RE THE ONE CALLED DEAD!"

Reverb slides back a few more feet, sporting a nasty cut on her forehead. She slowly shifts the gauntlets in her hands, making the sleeker and smaller. As the trickle of blood reaches her lips, she licks it up without a care, knocking her fists together.
<Reverb>: "That right? I'd like to see you try, bitch."

<BurritoWitch>: The beast of a man keeps up his assault, swinging his massive fist at her
<BurritoWitch>: "I WILL FUCKING TEAR YOU APART FROM THE INSIDE OUT" the toothed maw bellows

Reverb swings her own fist back, again channeling the radio interference as a massive sonic boom, all concentrated into one punch.
<Reverb>: "Oh yeah? Well I'll TAKE YOUR FUCKING TEETH OUT ONE BY ONE AND MAKE YOU EAT 'EM"

<BurritoWitch>: The sonic boom actually manages to move him back, his fist still clenched and pushing against her. Wrath uppercuts with the deadly sharp edge of his elbow to break the tie. "YOU'LL BE LEFT IMPALED ONTO MY BACK AS YOU BLEED OUT AND I FORCE YOU TO WATCH YOUR WORLD BURN"

<BurritoWitch>: The push is taken and rather than pushing back, Wrath leans back and uses it to grab her easier. "CAN'T SEE SHIT WITH THOSE SLANTY EYES, HUH BITCH" he whips her over his shoulder to slam her into the ground

<Reverb>: "I'M SURPRISED YOU CAN BREATHE WITH ALL THAT SHIT YOU SPEW" she replies, using her landing to emit another sonic attack, a massive shockwave in all directions.

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath holds on as the sonic boom echoes out, blasting into the air to lead into a bodyslam powered by jets of steam shooting from his back.
Reverb rolls aside, planting her hands on the ground, a spire rising out of the earth direct for Wrath

<BurritoWitch>: "JUST HOW FUCKING DESPERATE ARE YOU WEAK LITTLE PUSSIES ANYWAY? THEY SENT BOTH A WOMAN /AND/ A CHILD TO FIGHT ME, A CUNT AT THAT" Wrath slams into the spire, causing it to break under his weight as he hits the ground and forces another crater into the pocked landscape.

<Reverb>: "DESPERATE? HOW DESPERATE IS THAT SHITTY BUG ATTACHED TO YOU? 7 BILLION PEOPLE AND IT CHOSE YOU?" Reverb uses the fragments to channel sound, like a cage of pure, white noise.

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath rises out of the ground, shaking off the debris as he looks around. His antennae twitch and he takes a deep breath in. "FUCK YOU!" the red symbiotic declares, at the end of his expletive breathing out a stream of hyperheated steam that blasts and scorches everything in front of him, Reverb included.
<BurritoWitch>: The crater made forms a scar in the earth for its trajectory, the torn apart ground burning like embers in the intense heat.

Reverb coughs, gasping for air as she tries to escape the intense heat. She forms a wall in front of herself, trying to catch her breath.

<BurritoWitch>: Even the crystalline wall begins to crack and buckle under the blast and the air itself burns to breathe. The edge of the impact zone even has sparks of fire form from the dirt due to the heat.

<Reverb>: "God FUCKING dammit!" Reverb punches the wall, sending out an intense sonic wave at Wrath. She begins to prepare a batch of small crystal spheres, leaving them to gather power from the radio interference.
<BurritoWitch>: "HAHAHAHADIE!" Wrath ends the steam barrage and crashes through the walls, slamming both of his fists together into her

Reverb flies backwards, snapping her fingers as she does so. The spheres all explode at once, each one with the power of a thousand decibels at the least. She scrapes against the scalding hot ground, groaning as she picked herself up one last time.

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath is blasted back by the spheres, skidding along into the dirt as steam seems to rise from him even more. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS LITTLE FUCKING CHINK WHORE, YOU DIE NOW AND YOU FUCKING STAY DEAD" he growls in a voice that intimidates even the hardiest of veterans

<Reverb>: "...Try me."
Reverb is bruised, cut and burnt badly. She still stands, carrying a sword in her working hand.

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath rises up, the plates of his armor lifting to let out another cloud behind him before quickly shutting them. He wastes no time bringing both of his hands together to crash her into the ground, making a direct hole as if he was hammering a nail
Reverb tries to move aside, Wrath's attack still connecting and flooring her, leaving a massive crater behind, with her at the center, her body smoking and singed.

<BurritoWitch>: "NOW FOR THE COUP DE FUCKIN GRACE" Wrath's feet let out jets of steam to propel him up into the air. Once he reaches the height he laughs. "YOU KNOW WHAT? I LIKE YOUR FUCKING TENACITY, CUMBUCKET. I'LL GIVE YOU THE HONOR OF HAVING AT LEAST A DROP OF MY BLOOD SPILLED!"

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath tears at a plate in his arm, steam shoots out of it and he digs a finger inside of it. As he falls he spins, his blood spreading out into the crater. Only... the blood isn't normal. Its ungodly hot like magma, setting the crater on fire and turning it into a flaming pit.

Reverb looks up, spitting out some blood as she tries to stand up once again.
<Reverb>: "Go fuck your mother, once everyone else is done with her."

<BurritoWitch>: Wrath lands to the side, laughing full of satisfaction and bloodlust as he looks down. Reverb is surrounded by fire at all sides, a horrible heat consuming the very air to breathe and sucking the very life out of one's bones.
Reverb manages to get on one knee, coughing up some more blood. She clenches her fists.

<BurritoWitch>: "I'LL BE TOO BUSY FUCKING WHATS LEFT OF YOURS WHEN THE BOMBS HAVE DROPPED. PROBABLY NOT THE FIRST IN YOUR FAMILY TO DIE LIKE THAT EITHER" he taunts cruelly
<Reverb>: "Shit man, your material is weak. My grandfather did a better job than you did." Reverb said slowly, forming a shovel in one hand, the other pressing down on a wound on her side.

<BurritoWitch>: "HAVE FUN BURNING TO DEATH, SLUT" Wrath turns, beginning his trek back to the base as the burning crater Reverb is trapped in bellows smoke and light across the dark desert night.
<Reverb>: "This isn't over, Wrath. I'm going to fucking destroy you." she said, using the shovel to kick up dirt over the flames.
<BurritoWitch>: The mocking laughter echoes out through the night until she can hear no more of it.

Reverb climbs out of the pit, groaning. Most of the pain has subsided due to the healing factor, but there's one thing that remains.
Reverb can feel it burning slowly in the pit of her stomach. She's going to get that fucker, and she's going to make him suffer.

Reverb looks through her bag, still undamaged in the battle. These things are made to last. She takes out the set of vials, looking them over one by one.
Reverb drops the salmon vial onto the ground, and crushes it beneath her feet.

<Reverb>: "No cure for you. I'm gonna beat the fucking fury out of you."

<BurritoWitch>: The landscape around her is a burned and destroyed mess, craters and chasms and fire spread all around and still miles off from the compound.

<BurritoWitch>: "You're not going to be able to just rush in, you know" the voice of a boy is heard, couldn't be any older than her.
<Reverb>: "The fuck said that?"

<BurritoWitch>: Standing a bit of a distance behind her, once she turns around to look, is easily the least expected sight she could have expected out here. Its a young teenaged boy, seems to be an altar boy at that, who stands in a friendly and calm posture despite the destruction.
<BurritoWitch>: http://s10.postimg.org/5amhdgq7t/Ro_Ro.png

<Reverb>: "...and you are?"

<BurritoWitch>: "My apologies, I'm Ronald. A guardian agent for His Holiness' protection forces." the boy bows then approaches her. "I came to investigate, and you seem to have... similar goals?"
<BurritoWitch>: It slightly hurts for her to look at the cross around his neck, another reminder of the vampirism

<Reverb>: "Kat. I- sorry, wounds are makin' shit hard to focus. Uh, yeah, I'm here on more of a 'rescue mission'."

<BurritoWitch>: "So have the five other agents that were sent before me. They... haven't gotten back from it. Pleased to meet you, Kat" he shakes her hand in a friendly manner, although sending chills up her spine telling her he can be bad news for people with fangs.
<Reverb>: "Yeah, y-you too. So,what was that about rushing in?"

<BurritoWitch>: "You just experienced what happened. Just running in isn't a good strategy. I was watching from afar about to help before you, well" he motions his eyes to the burning crater "You've healed, though! Do you need somewhere to rest?"
<Reverb>: "Yeah, rest..."

<BurritoWitch>: Ronald puts an arm around her to support her, giving her an understanding pat on the shoulder. Another of the canons rings out through the air, the mass heading straight towards them and Ronald not seeming to mind. Right before it could hit them an impossibly bright light shines behind him.
<BurritoWitch>: A spear made out of some kind of heavenly light is thrust out by an arm only barely visible through the air, stabbing through the bobsled of death and the light spreading throughout it before it explodes.

<BurritoWitch>: "Come now, this is nowhere safe for a young lady" he says, keeping his innocent tone as he begins to walk out of the flaming wreck of the battle with her.
<Reverb>: "Ugh, if you insist..."
<BurritoWitch>: A bright wing wraps around them, blocking one's sight and disappearing into the night. The two reappear back at the small abandoned town, a makeshift camp having been made in one of the houses.
<Reverb>: "Just, not so bright, yeah...?"

Reverb sighs, grumbling about the bright light as she drifts in and out of consciousness.
<BurritoWitch>: Ronald lies her down on one of the makeshift beds, smiling and keeping watch.