Super Hero RPG: Chronicles of Los Diamantes

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog did not stop, nor did it even notice the van following behind it. Every strange or frightened look it was given didn't seem to give it pause either, the animal simply staring forward with a blank expression.

[C S]

The van came up to the curb of the street ahead of the dog. A few seconds after, the officers exited from the rear doors, the former driver wielding the net while his assistant carried the capture pole. With visible trepidation, they stepped out in front of the canine, wondering how it would react to them...

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog merely walked around the two, doing so with surprising ease, considering it had been stumbling around not too long ago.

[C S]

The assistant spun on their heels as the dog passed, their movement quick and their breath caught in their throat. They held the capture pole out over the dog's head and slipped the snare over its neck promptly after. Their arms trembled despite the aloof behavior of the animal and all they wanted now was for the thing to be in a cage...

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog looked back at the two, then down at the snare around its neck. A seam began to appear around the base of the dog's neck, its head lifting off its shoulders with insectoid-like legs, exposing its bone and muscle but strangely did not bleed, which allowed the snare to pass underneath before the head was brought back down to connect to the rest of the body once more.

[C S]

"What..." was all the poor person could say, their voice barely above a whisper as they watched the pseudo decapitation that occurred right in front of them. They dropped the capture pole and instantly began to rub their eyes, convinced that what happened was just a strange hallucination, a vivid dream. Their companion was rubbing their eyes with the sleeve of their light blue uniform, also in a state of disbelief. When they were finished, they only stared after the dog that was already departing. Another van was pulling up to the block from the opposite end. They would not have better luck with the creature...

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog acknowledged the appearance of the other van with only a glance, still unaffected by what was happening around it, not realizing that it was being pursued.

[C S]

Two more officers stepped out onto the pavement after parking the van, one holding a capture pole while their assistant brought out a dog kennel. They regarded the other two with confused looks, wondering why they seemed to be in a daze when the strange dog was literally a few feet away. One of them even dropped their animal catching gear! "Get ready" the lead officer said to their assistant, the officer then putting the kennel down at that moment and opened its door of metal bars. The other approached the dog without hesitation, dangling the snare as they lined up the dog's neck...

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog's body seemed to collapse in on itself, reducing its height to about half of what it was, allowing it to waddle under the snare and away from the animal control officers.

[C S]

"What in the- how the-...!?" the officer stammered. "The snares don't work! It just...walks through them!" one of the two previous officers said, their voice betraying just how confused and disturbed they were. This thing wasn't natural. Just a few days ago they laughed about the rumors of mutants in the city, then this thing appeared. "But- but!" the first started to say but found himself unable to complete his thought. His assistant rushed forward at the dog, leaping at it with the kennel in their grip...

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog sidestepped the man with surprising agility, before walking off as if nothing had happened...

[C S]

The man crashed onto the concrete, grunting loudly while the others stared, dumbfounded. It looked like a dog, but it was far from any normal stray wandering the city. "Uh...you two!" the lead officer said suddenly, looking at the first two animal control units. "Go tell dispatch about this; tell them this isn't a damn dog and to get a squad car or something over here!" he ordered before storming off after the dog, tackling it to the ground and wrapping his arms around its body, trying to restrain the mind boggling creature...

Elsewhere, soaring over the swamp land, Galaak approached the incident, the spires of the city looming off in the distance...

[Godzilla Forever]

Max was beginning to grow bored with lying around- he needed to do something constructive with his time. Yawning, the superhuman quickly got dressed and exitted his room, intent on working...

Aya began to patrol the streets, doing what she would usually at this time....

Jackson grumbled before he headed out of his chamber and went for a walk in the downtown area of the city. He'd better go check out the bank to see what kind of measures they had to protect it... he'd procrostinated for far too long....

[Hopeflower]

At the buzz of his phone, Sam looked up from the book he was reading and reached for the vibrating device. He opened the new message, stared for a few seconds, and felt a grin slip onto his face. "Atlas, you brilliant son of a b*tch," he crowed, jumping up and very nearly running to the door. He had to tell Lydia – they had today off, but she’d already be at the lab anyway, taking notes of their subject’s progress. In the time they’d been doing this, she’d never missed a day, never opted out of the job, even refused to sleep if one person’s condition was quickly worsening. Her tapes were key, the heart of it all, and she sealed each one in a protective plastic bag and kept them in a safe which only she knew the combination to, just in case.

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog seemed to become drastically thinner and much longer, snaking out of the man's arms like some sort of serpent, before returning to its "normal" form in front of him, staring down with a blank expression.

[C S]

The animal catcher's mouth quivered, their eyes were wide. The officer visibly shook and trembled before the creature that- despite it showing no malice- horrified the person. The others were in a similar state of disbelief, frozen in place with their tools locked in an iron grip. What kind of abomination of nature was this thing?!

[TyrannoTitan]

The dog continued to stare at the man, as if only just now realizing the humans wanted its attention. But rather than flee or attack, the creature simply stood as still as a statue, staring.

[C S]

Being in such close proximity to the anomaly was starting to take its tole on the officer. Their heart raced and hairs stood on end. Their eyes stared into the brown eyes of the dog, its features that of any other dog, yet clearly it was no regular animal. That clash between what their eyes told them and what they thought was overwhelming their sanity and so the officer laid on the concrete, being gripped by confusion and fear...

[TyrannoTitan]

After staring at the officers for several minutes, the dog turned and continued down the sidewalk, away from them.

[C S]

The officers still standing were all fighting a mental battle, in which they had the choice of pursuing the reality defying creature, or staying where they were, accepting the fact that the situation was way out of their league. They settled for the latter, dropping the capture gear and rushing over to their almost catatonic comrade, trying to bring him back to terms. The radios in the van chattered and crackled as Animal Control dispatch demanded an update on the case.

E-doch swung overhead the place of first sighting, the Ascatian seeing the cluster of vehicles down the way. The humans were quick to react to the situation Galaak acknowledged. He approached the area, lowering altitude as he did as much as he could while still remaining undetectable. From the unanswered transmissions he was picking up, he inferred there were complications and he needed to assess the scene himself...