The Law and The Youthful Offender

[Damien Darhk]

"Cyborg, we've got a problem. There's another prime causing problems here on Tier one. They stopped her and she pulled out a knife ang killed one and took off. They're in pursuit and requesting backup" The Sergeant chirped in his communicator.

"Gotcha ill meet up with the other troopers" Cyborg said breaking into a run. 

He didn't have to run very far as frightened citizens ran in the opposite direction. Several  of the braver on lookers gawked at the lifeless form of the trooper. 

"Hey! Get out of here or I'll arrest you for loitering, and the rest of you go home its not safe" Cyborg yelled at the now terrified citizens. They quickly gathered their things and rushed out of the plaza.   As the crowd thinned he could see the trooper laying in a pool of his own blood. Cyborg shook his head, his anger beginning to rise. 

(How can these other primes be so careless of people's lives?) He thought to himself as he made his way down the now empty plaza.

Cyborg heard through his communicator that the pursuing troopers were just around the corner, he rushed over nearly charging to the group of now stationary troopers.

"What's going on? Why did you stop" 

"We lost her in the crowd sir, one moment she was there the next... Poof" the trooper said. 

(Great just what we need, a dangerous prime hiding in with a bunch of innocent citizens), Cyborg thought as he scanned the crowd for a person who didn't seen to belong. 

"What does this Prime look like?"

" She 's small wearing a green shirt and brown shorts, looks to be about eight? I'm not good at guessing age, but young"

"Eight?! How could a kid do that to someone else?" Cyborg said motioning to the dead trooper of in the distance.

You'd be surprised.." The trooper said grimly.

Cyborg tried to pick out the prime that the storm troop had given from his vague description, but he couldn't see anyone that fit the bill. He nervously watched the happy citizens of tier one carry on their ignorant and blissful day, totally unaware that a dangerous and murderous prime lay hidden within them. Finding and appreneding the prime would not be an easy task with such a large crowd. Casualties were inevitable, but if Cyborg didn't try many more lives could be lost if he tries to hunt her down later.

Cyborg raised his blaster into the air before firing.

"EPD, everyone out of here, the area is not safe" Cyborg yelled trying to gather the attention of the civilians. For a moment they stared at the large cybernetic man, confused. Then chaos erupted, men, women ,child ran in every direction, fleeing the area of apparent danger. 

As the crowd thinned Cyborg noticed that one child had not moved from her place. He started to move into her direction when he saw the evil grin displayed across her face staring back at him.

"Quarantine the area. Make sure no civilians accidentally walk through here." Cyborg said to the storm troopers, never breaking eye contact with the child.

"Roger!" One of them curtly replied before rushing off. The eerie silence that followed sent a chill up Cyborg's metallic spine as the two primes sized one another up.

[Marisa Kirisame]

As she saw the Tin-man walk up to her she saw he talked about getting everyone out of there but then she broke the silence "Oh look its some Tin-man that works for the EPD was sent to stop me well ill kill you and more of the EPD" then she saw him change his hand into a cannon and he said "ill give you one warning, surrender now or I will have to fire."

she looked him in the eye and said "When where you the one in control" and started to run up to him he took a few seconds to register what was happening but by then she was already upon him and attacked "You are too slow for your own good" as he tried to hit her but she dodged easily and she then tried to cut the right hand off but he changed his hand just in time to stop the attack but the knife still bit into the giant hand but as she pulled it out but got hit by his fist and she hit the ground, and rolled on to her feet and said "I guess you have the brawn to give a good fight" while wiping blood off her nose on her Sweater.

she got up and turned her knife red and said "you have no idea who you are facing do you?" he was trying to figure out who she was still but to no avail did he find any information about her, and he readied himself for the next barrage of attacks.

 Word count is 270 

[Damien Darhk]

The strange sanguine blade began to glow brighter red, the grin that had played across the small girl's face grew wider as she intently stared at Cyborg. He turned his blaster into the large fist, preparing to charge the young prime in hopes to interrupt her attack but he was too late. 

Cyborg rushed at her his large metal gauntlet extended in front of him as if he were a jousting  knight. The girl began slashing in the air  in front of her furiously as large bright red projectiles of what Cyborg could only assume were pure energy. 

"Oh Shi-" Cyborg muttered as the red projectiles  connected with his metal body. Pain erupted at every impact site causing Cyborg to take a step back with each shock wave of pain. Cyborg breathed heavily as the flurry of attacks finally dissipated. As the young prime watched Cyborg    she let out a mirth of girlish laughter. Cyborg glared at her, his anger rising as he looked at the girl's amused smile broaden.  

The small jet appeared on Cyborg's back, shooting him forward as he charged the young girl. His Gauntlet connected with the surprised girl. Sending her flying through the air.

"Smile at that punk" Cyborg spat. 

He walked over to the crumpled form of the girl, transforming his gauntlet into the blaster once more. He stood over her small body, the low whine emanating from the blaster as he charged the weapon.  After a few moments Cyborg let loose a cyan colored bolt of energy. 

Cyborg blinked as the bolt connected with the ground, scorching the plaza's pristine tile.  Cyborg whipped his head back and forth, confused at the now missing child. A girlish laughter echoed from behind him as Cyborg slowly turned to face the prime. 

The girl spat a small glob of blood onto the floor, smiling as she watched the bewildered look appear on Cyborg's face.

"I guess you're not as slow as I thought Tin-Man." She quipped "But you're not as fast as me!" She yelled shrilly as she disappeared once again. 

She appeared once again right in front of Cyborg as she brought her foot across his face. Using the momentum she pushed off her larger opponent, landing lightly in front of him. 

Cyborg laughed as he straightened to his full height once again.

"Bring it on kid" he said, spitting blood as he prepared to attack once more.

[Marisa Kirisame]

As she saw him laugh she said "well given i am weakened here and I still have got to regain the determination I lost but since that is out of your technology's ability's I will say I am in a better position than you Tin-man, also do you want to help me find the wizard of Oz and follow me on the yellow brick road." she "glitched" and then said "well if its any consultation prize you are just being annoying to me.

she then charged up her Slashes and he tried firing to see what would happen to the slashes she had started to sweat a little from the strain it had on her to keep up her offensive strategy though she had an idea though she would have to get up close to him. after fireing a couple times from his gun, he looked around for her as she had dodged again and he could not see her "Darn systems not working" and then he felt her stab into the fleshy part of his arm and she pulled out the knife the "Glitched" away  he said "is that the best you can do?"

she had a strange urge to continue to fight even though she though she could not win it was like she felt an urge to not dampen her families reputation as warriors and not cowards. she felt like yelling something at him "You don't know what i've been through I died then I came back and I have lost both of my family's to the idiots that took them away I just want my brother back, I just want to go home." and she kneeled up into a ball and started to cry rocking back and forth after dropping her knife, but Cyborg didn't know what to make about the situation unfolding right infront of him.

[Damien Darhk]

Cyborg lowered his blaster slightly as he stood dumbfounded by the girl's sudden change in personality. The once psychotic manic youth now huddled in the corner mirrored what Cyborg would expect from someone of her age. However she had brutally murdered one of the storm troopers, a crime not so easily forgiven, even if she was only a child. 

Cyborg began to walk towards the youth, assuming that her submissive was an act of surrender. 

"You still committed a crime, I'm sorry about your family but you can't let your past turn you into a murderer. I'm sorry kid but you're under arrest, you need to come with me" Cyborg said plainly, stretching out his hand to help her from the ground. 

The prime swiped at Cyborg with her knife, if it hadn't been for the cybernetics that covered most of his body he would have been missing the tips of several of his fingers. She stood to her feet, leaping towards Cyborg's face she attempted to stab and claw at the small area of vulnerable flesh still left on his face. Cyborg grabbed the girl by her neck  and tossed her to the side, she hit the ground with a thud.

"Now you're just pissing me off little girl. I tried to give you a chance. I might have been inclined to help you if you had just surrendered. Now I'm bringing you down, hard. You're under arrest for the murder of an Empire Storm Trooper and the assault of an EPD officer." Cyborg said with a smirk. He had felt sympathy for the girl's sob story, and true to Hus word he would have helped, but no more. She was a dangerous murderer who needed to be stopped, for the safety of the Empire. 

Cyborg fired his blaster several times at the girl. She juked left and right avoiding the plasma bolts with ease as she made her way towards Cyborg. He quickly understood her movement pattern and shot slightly to the left. The girl dodged right into the bolt, hitting her in the leg as she fell to the ground once more. Cyborg smiled as he approached her. She looked visibly fatigued, her soft brown locks fell in front of her face as she slowly peered up at Cyborg. Sweat ran down her face but her eyes, her eyes looked empty, except for the the slight fire that still burned in them. She flashed that creepy grin before she disappeared once again. 

Cyborg cursed his hesitation, he needed to stop viewing her as a helpless little girl an more like the criminal that she was. Cyborg scanned the area, but the girl had hidden her self well. 

"Come on out kid, hiding won't help you, I will find you and I will bring you in" Cyborg said with finality in his voice.

Cyborg let out a heavy grunt as the girl landed on him, nearly bringing him to his knees with the sudden surprise of her weight. She began punching, kicking, stabbing, biting. Anything she could think of yo end the large man's life. Once again his metal hide saved him from most of the damage being done.  Cyborg changed his blaster into its natural state to have both hands free. After fighting with her on his back for a moment he finally grabbed ahold of her, yanking her off of him. He held her at arms length by the scruff of her neck as she snarled and kicked, the fight never leaving the small form. 

Cyborg punched her in the jaw before brutally throwing her to the ground.

Stay down kid... ,Cyborg thought as he watched the dazed girl.

[Marisa Kirisame]

As she fell to the ground she felt a feeling in her jaw that she had not felt before she still felt her knife and saw Tin-man right up next to her and he scooped down and fireman carried her she smiled and "Glitched" though still a little dazed by then she yelled "I hate humanity, you people have done much wrong to me and my family!"

Cyborg turned around and fired where she was and said "Well I don't care you killed a storm trouper either you are going to jail, or you are going to die!" his voice fairly angry as she was just becoming a nuisance. She felt that she had a third choice and that was to run "no, I won't run ill just have to play this smart" as she looked for any part of his body that was not covered by his armor she se saw that most of his body was covered by this armour of his except for a few parts on his head, arms and legs he was fully protected, but she did remember that her slashes did a lot of damage to him so that was what she decided. she "glitched" to where she could him him in the back and it was on a box "where did you go?" he said and se said "right here Tin-man" he turned right around and was hit by the slashes. out of the dust she could tell that he was done with her games and he charged something "Alright I have given you more that enough times to give up and im done with you games.

[Damien Darhk]

It was time to finish this. Jail would be a blessing compared to where this insane child deserved to be. Ramblings of hating humanity, when she herself was human? That would be a one way ticket to Arkham Asylum  for sure. As Cyborg charged forward he noticed the growing level of fatigue on the young girl's face. He smiled, apparently her teleporting and red projectiles she kept annoyingly throwing at him drained her energy significantly.   Cyborg once again transformed his blaster into the large gauntlet as he neared the girl.  She tried to roll out of the way bit was to slow, the gauntlet connected with her stomach, causing her to gasp as the air left her lungs abruptly. She kneeled down clutching her chest has she desperately gasped for air.

"Hyper beam now online" chirped his internal computer. 

Well that was perfect timing , Cyborg thought with a smile. 

A small metal like door slid open on Cyborg's chest revealing an already charging cannon. Much like his normal blaster that replaced his hand a high pitched whine echoed  around the plaza. The cannon began to emit a brilliant light as the whine grew louder, the intensity caused the girl to cover her eyes, a look of dismay spreading across her youthful features.  

"Booyah!" Cyborg yelled over the ever growing noise.

After a shirt time a large white beam erupted from his chest, engulfing the youth. Smoke began to ruse from the area of impact covering the impact zone. 

With a gasp, the beam abruptly ended, leaving Cyborg feeling exhausted, a slight smile played on his face as he for the smoke to clear. 

"Energy based weapons offline. Recharge needed" the computer brightly quipped.

"Start recharging all energy based weapons"

"Affirmative, recharging in progress. Estimated time untill  basic weapons are fully functional : Two minutes. Estimated recharge time for hyperbeam: inconclusive, information not found"

Cyborg rolled his eyes. Seems like he would ha be to manually recharge his cannon. He would worry about it later, he wouldn't be able to fire off another one of those so soon anyways. 

Tier 1 offensive Super move-  Target Lock used

1SP used
0/1 remaining

[Marisa Kirisame]

Looking at the tin man after she had got hit by his blast she felt some pain over her chest from the impact she had not prepared for, "huff, puff really got the stuffing beat out of me, but that does not matter I already have my soul I needed" as she limped forwards she saw that he was not firing his gun at her so she charged up her shot and fired but he dodged. She felt weak and tired like she just wanted to take a year long nap. She tried to keep away but she just felt like she had no reason to stay awake, her knees crumpled under berth her and she collapsed and blacked out. Cyborg looked at the psychopath he just fought and saw her just collapse and she was not moving at all. He walked up to her and grabbed her knife from her hands and said "bring the medics here she needs medical attention."  

I don't have my computer with me so if this is bad I'm really sorry.

[Damien Darhk]

Cyborg looked at the unconscious form of the girl. It was interesting watching her sleep, she appeared so innocent in this state, but when she was awake  Cyborg saw the cold, calculated and murderous look in her dark eyes that proved she was definitely guilty. The brutally murdered stormtrooper, who would never see his family again if he had one was further evidence of this.

"The threat has been eliminated," Cyborg said into his communicator.

"Roger"

Shortly there after a group of stormtroopers appeared to take the girl into custody.

"Great work Cyborg!" The commanding  Storm trooper said slapping him on the back. Cyborg nodded and smiled, but he still felt sympathy for the youth. Dangerous ad she was, they way she broke down cried during the fight really unnerved him.  Could she have been more than just a murderer?

Cyborg began to feel light headed once again as his electronic eye began to fill with static. 

She was a threat to the empire, You did the right thing, she was a threat, A voice chimed in his head. Or was it his own voice? Cyborg wasn't sure anymore but he knew he had done the right thing in brining the punk kid in....

The trooper placed handcuffs on the girl before hoisting her up onto his shoulder, he nodded once more in Cyborg's direction as he headed for EPD  headquarters.

A virus that I have hinted at in other posts has infected Cyborg, hence the reason his motivation seemed to confusingly change, only giving this away since this will be graded.