[video] you're lucky it only took him a day and a half to notice

[third_alternative]

[Rex has been a tad preoccupied all week. First and foremost on his mind was updating his journal, keeping track of everything. He can't predict when he'll blank out, but he can prepare, and that's what's been on his mind. In fact, it was only when he stepped out of the apartment building to get some more photos that he began to realize something was off.

He got a photo of some eight-legged spider-llama before it opened its mouth and assaulted him with spider webbing. With him immobilized, it dragged him into the forest to a clearing filled with various animal monsters. It led him to the middle and the animals appeared to start...cheering? They closed in on him, but thankfully Rex managed to escape and fly up above the horde. It's then that he finally gets a closer look at the animals. The spider-llama, an oversized beetle with three mouths, a bear-spider, a suddenly animate tree...and a large rabbit with sharp, jagged teeth.

He tests his hypothesis by trying to cure the group of animals...and succeeds. He rushes back to town to see what's happening there. Destruction, EVOs running rampant...it's not pretty. He doesn't know how long this has been going on for, but now's as good a time as any to explain what's going on.]

[video]

Okay, everyone stay calm! Good news, I know what's going on here with all the monsters.

Bad news, the monsters all around town--they're EVOs! I don't know how it could've happened, but there must be nanites here, inside everyone by now, probably. They don't normally do anything, but they can turn any normal person or animal or even a plant into these EVOs! They usually get turned into monsters who don't know what they're doing, but not always--it can pretty much be anything.

Long story short? If you're noticing anything new or weird about yourself now, chances are you're an EVO too.

The other good news is, I'm an EVO too--and I can cure other EVOs. I don't know if I can get every single one, or cure everyone before someone gets hurt...but that's not going to stop me from trying.

Just...whatever you do, don't kill anything--they could be your next door neighbor. And if you spot an EVO, take it down without killing it! I don't know how this started, but I'm going to put an end to it.

Comments

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

Smartass little...

*And then, later.*

In the lobby! Look, hurry up will you? This is weird!

[third_alternative]

Yeah yeah, I'm coming. No need to get your beard in a bunch!

[He enters the lobby and approaches Kotetsu.]

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

Oh har har, real cu --

*It's about at that moment that SOMETHING crashes down the ceiling, accompanied by a lot of debris and water. It looks like it MIGHT have been an octopus at some poing, but now looks like something out of a Lovecraft novel, with tentacles in the wrong places and angry mouths all over its body.*

GYEEEEEEE!

[third_alternative]

[Rex attempts to cover them both with his giant hands, but it's not perfect coverage, and some debris/water rains down on them anyway. When he's sure there won't be any more damage from above, he grips his hands into fists and gets into a fighting stance, facing the monster.]

Great, it's big, dark, and ugly! [He turns his head back to face Kotetsu.] You may wanna step back for this.

[He faces the creature again.] Come on, feo!

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

You're not seriously fighting that thing by YOURSELF, are you?!

*Not that you can really do THAT much, old man. The octowhatever doesn't seem to think much of Kotetsu as a threat anyway, as it immediately swings its tentacles in Rex's direction anyway.*

DON'T JUST IGNORE ME YOU FREAKING PIECE OF CALAMARI!

[third_alternative]

What does it look like I'm--

[He doesn't get to finish the sentence because he gets smacked by a tentacle into a wall. However, he recovers quickly and dislodges himself from his Rex-shaped hole in the wall and launches himself at the thing to punch it in what he assumes is its face.]

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

*One of them anyway. It tries to move a tentacle to block, but mostly just gets its own tentacle in the face and gets knocked back, destroying a lot of property in the process.

Crap. Kotetsu realizes there's the potential for a LOT of innocent standerbys to get caught up in this. Now is not the time to be ego-tripping about his lack of ability.*

Damnit, whatever! Keep it busy! I'm gonna get people out!

[third_alternative]

Oh, I'll do better than just keep it busy!

[Rex jumps back from the monster and allows one of his arms to turn into an improbably huge cannon. He lowers the bottom end to dig into the floor and grab a chunk of the ground into the cannon and then fires, the ground-chunk cannonball aimed directly at the monster's face.

...Yeah, Rex was never very good at avoiding property damage.]

I'll cure it!

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

Christ, kid, and they say I break stuff too much! Just be careful where you aim that thing or you might hit someone innocent!

*He finds the stairs and bounds up them to round up bystanders.*

[third_alternative]

[He turns the upper half of his body to face Kotetsu as he speaks, knocking the back of his cannon into a rising tentacle from behind. The tentacle falls over, injured and limp.]

Please! There's a lot more tentacle here than there is anything innocent!

[With that, he lets the arm transform into a giant fist and gives the monster one last punch for good measure before determining it sufficiently pulverized for a curing. He places his hands on its body and, with some glowing blue tron lines, the Lovecraftian terror begins to shrink, faces disappearing, until your run of the mill octopus flops about on the floor.]

There. One down...a whole lot more to go.

[all_onis_are_true]

*Montfort is so terribly, terribly confused right now.

Kotetsu, meanwhile, continues to make sure nobody was hurt in the firefight. Apparently he's forgotten about the powers thing for now.*

[third_alternative]

[Rex turns around, having cured the creature, expecting to find Kotetsu there, but instead just sees a trashed hotel lobby.]

...Hey! Where'd you go?