Mailman Breaks In
Theres a knock at the door
Luna walks through and after a deep breath, she opens the door hoping it's not the worst thing ever. The door is now open, "hello? ...oh... oh dear." Her eyes widen. (edited)
They don't hesitate to step forward without warning and speak in a calm tone, "Mind if I come in a moment?"
"Yes I actually do mind, this is my home." Luna shakes her head, "But how can I help you?"
He responds, "I would like to have a word with Lochlan."
Luna looks up at the man and sounds annoyed. "I have no idea where she is at the current moment. Can I take a message for you sir?"
"You won't tell it right." He attempts to push past Luna and into the room
Luna follows his movements the best she can. "Hang on dude, can I at least have your name?" Attempting to push pass her causes Luna to grow increasingly defensive, especially knowing what she knows about Mailman through Cole.
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"I'm Lochlan's boyfriend. I've been worried sick about her. He brings out a small flip phone from his pockect to check a message before turning his head directly for the hallway and moving briskly towards it
Luna continues to try and block his entrance to the hallway, "hang on there! So you're Mailman aren't you!"
Mailman suddenly reaches a hand forward to grab Luna by the neck
Luna is grabbed and her hands go directly to her neck to not get choked out.
Mailman goes to throw her to theside before dashing down the hall
Luna lands on the ground hard. "YOU BITCH GET BACK HERE!" Luna picks herself back up and chases Mailman into the hall.
Mailman dashes into the hall
A couple moments later, Luna is dashing right behind him, "get the fuck back here you creep!" She doesn't feel to need any weapons just yet.
He is stopped for only a moment as he opens the door to Lochlan's room. Lochlan was sitting near the wall as she jumps from being startled.
"Is this him?" Luna asks the startled Lochlan, "He choke slammed me out of the fucking way."
As Luna takes time to speak, Mailman runs in towards Lochlan. Lochlan springs to her feet and draws her pocket knife as quickly as she can.
Luna notices Mailman run in and snaps her fingers, summoning her new longsword Viper gave her recently. Then, she follows him inside.
Mailman grabs Lochlan's arm with his free hand. His other hand still holds the flip phone as Lochlan quickly drops the knife to cath it with her free hand and jab it into Mailman's forearm.
Luna goes for a targetted slash with her longsword on Mailman's back with a grunt.
She gets a clean cut in as Mailman hits a key on the phone while keeping a grip on Lochlan's arm. Lochlan's arms then go limp. The arm holding the knife lets go and slides down to her side. Lochlan suddenly looks more scared.
Luna targets the wrist holding Lochlan's arm, "I SAID LEAVE YOU CREATURE!"
Both Lochlan's knife and Luna's blade are stuck into the same arm that keeps a grip. No blood drips from any of the wounds as he slowly turns his head to look over at Luna.
Luna's ears flatten out of fear while she struggles to retrieve her weapon, but instead of responding, she growls and grunts.
The sword comes out with no blood on it. Mailman lets go of Lochlan's arm as it falls to her side. Mailman keeps his attention locked on Luna and swaps the hand holding his phone so he can yank the knife out from his arm. Lochlan begin to breathe faster as she looks between the two of them in panic.
Luna attempts to knock the flip phone out of Mailman's hand using the blunt edge of her longsword. Words are meaningless to her.
The phone is knocked out of his hand as he jabs the knife down at the hand holding the sword.
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Lochlan doesn't help any as she stays frozen in fear
Luna quickly pulls her sword back to dodge the jab, then goes to knock the knife out of Mailman's hand to disarm. The flip phone floats to Luna encased in a sparkly purple energy. Her entire focus is on the battle at hand while waiting for something else to happen.
Mailman moves his hand with the knife back quick enough to avoid it being knocked out. With his other hand he snatches the flip phone in the air on its way to Luna. He then jabs down towards his own torso with the knife. It rips through the fabric as a liquid starts to drain from a plastic bottle behind his jacket.
Luna continues to hack and slash at Mailman's figure with the longsword, specifically targetting the torso to try and stop whatever he's planning. (edited)
Mailman moves both arms out of the way and lets her. With each slash theres more containers of liquids that are sliced open and begin to pour out. As the room begins to fill with the fumes of the substance, Luna starts to feel more and more tired and weak. Everything starts to smell and taste like fruit punch.
Luna shakes off the exhaustion and continues to hack and slash, also attempting a stab though weakened, at mailman's helmet. Her exhaustion and overloading of senses is clear though, as her movements are slowed and weak. "wha-- what thefuck..gas attack.."
Cole's halo armor bursts through the door as it stares at MailMan a slightly distorted version of Cole's voice plays, "You have royally fucked up now"
The stab deflects off of mailman's helmet as he goes to stab Luna in the shoulder. There's a muffled laugh from under the helmet, "Royally is a way to put it."
Lochlan glances between everyone as she's still not helping.
Luna is slowed down too much and the stab impacts her shoulder. Luna passes out on the spot from the exhaustion.
Cole aims a strong punch into helmet's visor as he lets out a crackling groan of anger
Theres only a thin crack along the visor as his head is jerked to the side from the force. He takes out the knife from her shoulder and stands up right, "I don't think you realize just how well we could work together." He reaches out and grabs Lochlan's upper arm with considerable force. He brings the knife up to her throat as lochlan breaths more heavily while trying to stay awake from the fumes.
Luna is still on the ground unmoving. Her breathing is rather light as if snoring a bit.
The light in the room starts to flicker slightly as he stares MailMan down, "Let her go, I don't make deals with criminals" Cole pushes Luna out of the room with his foot as he maintains his stare
Luna is pushed out and in the hallway.
Mailman presses the blade onto her skin. His tone is cold and hallow, "The day she burned alive in the ashes of my brothers was the day she became my pride. And I will not lose it by anyone else's hand but my own."
Cole looks for any wires on him as he stays still, "Don't do anything drastic, there's no reason to act foolishly"
He sees a black wire along the side of his neck running from inside his shirt to under the helmet. Mailman's grip tightens on the handle as he raises his voice in anger, "I WOULD BE THE FOOL FOR PROTECTING SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER MINE! Atleast I won't hesitate to take from the carcus's of each and every misrable piece of fucking trash that stands in my way, including the likes of YOU."
Cole suddenly launches at MailMan as he tries to quickly get a grip on the knife with one hand and tries to rip the wire out with his other hand in one motion
The wire is ripped out as his arm is grabbed. His hand flicks the knife around to face Cole's throat as he tries to push it towards him. Mailman's second hand keeps a string grip on Lochlan's arm. Lochlan's legs give out as partly hangs by the arm, still trying to stay awake. For a moment Mailman shakes his head slightly.
Cole quickly moves his hand to grab the knife and attempt to keep the knife away from his throat as he lets out a crackling yell, "YOU WON'T KILL ME, I WON'T LET YOU"
Mailman still sounds outraged but theres a hint of confusion leaking into his tone, "Then let us go home." Lochlan suddenly lunges her head forward at Mailman's ankles and clamps her jaws on them. Mailman jerks from feeling it as he drops the knife.
Cole tosses the knife away from MailMan as he quickly pins his arms to the ground his voice still crackling slightly, "You aren't taking her anywhere, not as long as i have some say over it"
Mailman struggles to get his arms free, "Fucking get off of me-" He kicks at Lochlan's face. The kick knocks Lochlan off with significant force as she yelps. Lochlan stays on the ground.
Cole lets go of one his arms to aim a strong punch into MailMain's visor as he lets out a staticky groan of anger
Cole hears Luna call out from the hallway, her voice full of pain, "make sure you get the flip phone!"
The visor is now riddled with cracks as he tries to reach his free hand up to Cole's helmet, Trying to grab and pull at anything he can though without the ability to see through the visor.
He manages to press the visor button as the visor slides up to reveal Cole's glowing pink eyes along with tw//slight gore his partially exposed jaw he quickly aims another punch at the visor as he lets out a crackling, "YOU SON OF A BITCH" (edited)
Cole can instantly smell the familiar fruity scent as Mailman's visor shatters. The glass is nearly reduced to dust sized peices that fall into the helmet. Mailman is more stunned by the hit this time. Suddenly the flipphone starts ringing.
Cole grabs the flip phone as he quickly stands up and backs away from MailMan while trying to read what's on the flip phone
His vison is a hint doubled from the fumes but he can see it's a contact calling him named, "Jackass."
Lochlan slowly tries to sit up.
Luna is standing in the doorframe of the room with her shoulder wrapped up messily in bandages. "Ugh.."
Cole answers it as he stumbles backwards with a crackly, "Hellloooo"
Mailman stays on his back on the ground. Lochlan puts a hand to her head and groans. A person on the phone speaks, "You there? You disconnected."
"Lochlan? Do you wanna get out of this room?" Luna walks in not caring about any fumes or chemicals.
Cole quickly steps out of the room as he answers with a staticky, "Yeah"
"Uhm... yeah." Lochlan attempts to get up but puts her hand to her head again, "Ugh. My head."
The voice on the phone responds, "Where are you? You sound staticy."
Considering the visor is broken, Luna watches her step to dodge any broken glass while going up to Lochlan. "Lochlan, lemme get you out of here and then we can work on first aid." Luna snaps her fingers and Luna and Lochlan disappear.
mailman is laying on his back still. The floor is covered in stains of red from the liquids. (edited)
Cole walks in and opens the window as he grabs MailMan as the both of them disappear
Cole and MailMan appear in the grass of the backyard as Cole plants his foot on MailMan's chest
Mailman lazily looks up at Cole. The glass bits have shifted out of his eyes and Cole can see them past the helmet.
Cole closes his visor as he remains standing there without a word
Mailman is remaining still for now while he gets fresh air
Mailman begins to stir after awhile and puts hand to Cole's foot in an attempt to move it off.
Cole puts more pressure on his foot to prevent it from being moved as he lets out a crackling, "Don't attempt it, i'm not in the mood"
Mailman huffs, "I don't care who you are or what mood you're in, I have places to be." Mailman tries to kick at Cole
The flipphone rings again
Cole looks at the flip phone as he sighs and responds, "Well I'm partially repaired and IN A LOT OF PAIN, so i suggest you close your god damn mouth" Cole digs his heel into MailMan's chest
Mailman grumbles, "You're not the only one in pain fucker." Mailman uses his hands to take his helmet off
The flipphone is getting another call from Jackass
Cole lets MailMan take his helmet off as he answers the phone and responds, "Hello again"
Mailman Tries to chuck the helmet at Cole's hand.
Cole quickly moves his hand out of the way as he glares at MailMan
The helmet lands in the grass nearby as Mailman spits at Cole. He has a few glass shards in his face yet no bleeding. The voice on the phone responds, "Ok so when you said hostage did you mean like Tee-Hee! Hostage! Girls night! or like Boo Hoo we have your loved one. Comply please?"
Cole looks over at MailMan then responds with, "Are you....mentally okay cause this is a come get your fucking physcopath hostage situation"
The person on the phone huffs, "He's a funny lil guy, not a physcopath. But how am I suposed to get him if I don't know where he is, what you want, or why this is happening... this isn't about poker night is it?"
Mailman rolls his eyes and grumbles to himself
Cole shakes his head, "Physcopath is the correct term considering what this asshole just did, also NO THIS ISN'T ABOUT POKER NIGHT I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE" Cole's voice crackles as he yells
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They respond, "Well where is he? He's ganna miss poker night."
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Mailman yells back, "I DON'T WANT TO PLAY POKER."
Cole takes a deep breath, "I don't think he cares about poker night, look just tell me who you are and i'll tell you where this fucking asshole is"
Mailman begins to yell out the address
Cole kicks him in the side of the head as he starts talking, "SILENCE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE"
His head jerks to side as he's hit. The phone on the voice sounds worried, "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Mailman!!! Are you ok???"
Cole snaps at the person on the phone, "Tell me who you are or i swear to god, you are not getting him back"
They say in a sassy tone, "I mean you saw the contact name, you should know exactly who I am~"
Mailman grumbles quietly, "...I changed it since."
Cole shakes his head as he responds, "The contact name isn't clear can you just fucking say"
The person on the phone sighs, "Ok! Fine. It's Gambit. Now can you give me back the goofy little guy?"
Mailman throws his arms up in frustration, "WHY THE HELL DID YOU TELL HIM YOUR NAME?!?!"
Cole lets out a crackling laugh as he responds "Ohhhh Gambit, why didn't you say that?!" he hangs up and stares down a MailMan, "Why do you hang out with these people?"
Mailman says in a joking tone, "He's less of clown than you bozos."
Cole looks over at MailMan, "Who's on the ground with a minor brain injury and glass on you?" Cole doesn't seem like he's in a joking mode
"You do know you're fighting for the wrong side here right?"
Cole opens his visor as he stares down at MailMan, "Does it look like i know what right and wrong is?"
"That's what I'm saying. You want power right?"
Cole glares as he rolls his eyes, "Unless you can get me a weapons contract with the goverment, you can close your mouth"
"Does it look like I'm closing my mouth?"
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Cole stares for several seconds, "Start talking before that prick calls again"
Mailman's mouth curls to a grin, "You help me and you can get anything you want on that planet. Every being on that forsaken island will be bowing to your every little need and giving you everything you want if I had my way."
Cole lightens his pressure on MailMan's chest, "What do you want?"
"I want Lochlan back under my thumb so I can keep getting blood from her. I don't want her resisting like she has lately from the way you've been talking in her ear. Without her compliant, my plans won't work as smoothly, and it would take much longer to get you the power you want."
The pressure on MailMan's chest increases again, "I will get you the blood, understood?"
Mailman looks uncomfortable again, "There's no power over anything if she's not under the power aswell. It would defeat the point of having influnce on everything."
Cole puts more pressure on his chest, "I WILL get you the blood, unless your ribcage destroyed i suggest you comply"
Mailman grunts, "I don't think you understand what that thing is. There's a reason we have to keep her from figuring things out. We're doing the equivalent of never letting a lion know it can close it's jaws so we stick our hand in."
Cole growls with a crackle, "Are you deaf? Do you understand a word i'm fucking saying?"
"I can't give you what you want if I don't have the protection I need. Either I have Lochlan back under my thumb or you find a way to keep her from rising up the moment she doesn't like what's happening." (edited)
Cole stares for several seconds, "How much blood do you need?"
Mailman responds, "As much as possible. The more, the faster this can be done. Though I have a feeling someone like you thinks they can deal with a Tropo on your own. I wouldn't advise it, but if you die then I guess I still get what I want either way."
Cole thinks for a couple seconds, "What are you doing specifically and if you stutter and try and buy yourself time i will show you how strong my legs are"
"We made a Tropo so we could convince one of the richest families in Haze borough to fund us. With more money we will have enough resources to put the island in its place... including Gambit."
Cole seems confused, "Why did you pause before saying Gambit? Are they really that stupid?"
"He thinks all I'm doing is managing funds and trying to get his carnival up in bigger towns doing this. Not exactly the brightest, though he was smart enough to consider me his favorite."
Cole opens the flip phone and starts looking for Gambit's number as he nods, "I see, and what if i could get you a near infinite supply of the blood?"
Mailman smiles, "Sounds inmossible but that would mean you would be head of the world as soon as we hire enough workers and get to work."
Cole sighs as he shakes his head, "Never underestimate what a insane man can do, i would need some time to study the blood but i could probably do it"
"So I'm good to go then? Do you want to deal with the Tropo or should I?"
Cole starts lifting his foot off, "I'll deal with it, just get out of here"
Mailman gets up and dusts his jacket off despite most of it being shredded. He picks up the remains of the helmet and looks at Cole, "Keep her away from fire. It'll make things easier." He starts to walk off towards the woods.
Cole nods as he turns to head back inside
Cole appears wearing his usual outfit and leans next to the hallway as he pulls out the flip phone and starts idly looking through it
Hinata waves, "yo what's with the phone? I thought you were a phone and you didn't want to deal with phone stuff or something like that?"
Luna is unnaturally focused on Datrs and didn't even notice Cole return.
Cole shrugs, "MailMan forgot to ask for it back, so it's fair game"
"It's his? Okay. I'm still highly confused as to what happened. And now his name is coming up on Datrs. Something with that assassin Sage chick and that uh Gambit guy." (edited)
Cole sighs as he explains, "He broke into the house wanting to get Lochlan back to the cult and it turned into a fight that i had to assist with, did some mild torture and got information from him"
"The fact that you can say you performed mild torture with a straight face is highly concerning." Hinata shakes her head, "but okay."
Cole shakes his head, "It's not everyday i get to say mild torture" Cole continues idly looking through the phone
"Wait backstage? Please don't tell me Rowan's also part of this circus too..." Luna sighs
Lochlan speaks up, "Rowan is Gambit's son sort of. Kinda has too... more like a glorified room mate at this rate."
Luna looks over at Lochlan with wide eyes, "So wait, the only people who have nothing to do with the carnival are... you and Icarus. What the fuck."
Luna then gets a spark of insight, "Wait, so does this mean Rowan has a daughter then? That first time we spoke to 'Gambit's son' on Datrs, he was letting his kid go to the carnival before working there himself."
Lochlan looks very confused. "Daughter? No he's just a little bit younger than Gambit. With how Rowan acts Gambit always calls him a kid."
Luna looks confused as well as she goes to check over her notes and the datrs log.
"Right, okay, definitely not his daughter then. Makes sense."
Cole slams the phone shut as he mutters, "I'll be back" then disappears
"And there he goes once more." Hinata sighs.
"If hes kidnapping Rowan again i sware..."
"I certainly hope not? Especially after apologizing."
"How's your head feeling Lochlan?" Luna asks, worried she didn't do a good enough job on the stitching.
"Its getting sore but thats just how healing is. Nothing im not used to." She shrugs
Luna smiles, "okay good to hear. And this is why I learned first aid because I cannot have any healing powers."
"Yeah. I already gathered that from getting stitches."
Luna nods
Spider walks in and heads over to her chair placing her phone on the arm as they go.
Luna waves, "yo."
They glance over "..hey"
Hinata gets up and walks out for a bit, "be right back."
Hinata had returned at some point in the middle of the night. She lays next to Luna on the couch.
