What's the difference between self discovery and self destruction

[iamtetsuo]

WHO: Tetsuo Shima and YOU
WHERE: Any city; just place it in the subject line or mention it in a thread. He'll be doing a lot of roaming around.
WHEN: Month of September
WHAT: Catchall open log for chaos or general activities - Tetsuo's been unleashed on America and intends to play garrys mod with it. If you wanted an excuse to fight an out of control psychokinetic, here it is
WARNINGS: General villainy (property damage, violence, possible drug use mentions, theft...) and potentially interrupting Kanedas at the end of threads

[It's a brand new month, and a brand new start; and with it comes so many brand new ways to find trouble.

You can expect to find Tetsuo engaged in normal shenanigans, like any ordinary sixteen year old. Things like threatening natives! Causing accidents or generally ignoring all traffic laws! Raiding drug stores! Hanging around on park benches or generally wandering aimlessly! Suffering from extreme migraines! All this and more in your hometown!

He's taken his motorcycle and psychic powers and hit the streets of America on a quest for ... you know what, we just don't know. The good news is, beyond checking churches for Crane, and making sure that his (glove-covered) wrist could say CRIMINAL from here until forever, he doesn't seem to have any set goals in mind on what to do. All that's clear is he can do what he wants, and he's not taking no for an answer to anything.

Feel free to fight him, talk to him, join in, what have you -- you're free to stop him but he's going to either run at the end if it's clear he can't win, or get you out of the way somehow. If you'd like to change this, talk with me and we can work something out.

I'll throw starters out on request, but please feel free to make your own. If you'd like to fight, check out his permissions first, but this is a general invitation to fight without any preamble or excuses.]

Comments

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< ...still a pointless gesture. It won't help you. >]

[iamtetsuo]

[Straightening back up. Ow. Holy hell ow.]

I don't - who cares?! You're dumber'n you look, aren't you!

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< You're just pulling yourself from your own accident. >

What's that about?]

[iamtetsuo]

Shut up!

[Aaand... that's a shockwave of pure force aimed at Mewtwo. How mature.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[The blast is enough to make Mewtwo fall back. But his own psych potency catches him as he levitates back to his rightful posture, his eyes now full of a stern ominous glare.

He reaches forward, his own telekinesis seeking to pick up the other psychic.

< I warned you several times. Was that not enough? >]

[iamtetsuo]

[Tetsuo can feel himself rising into the air. Honestly, he's never faced another telekinetic before. This is a very new sensation, and one he really doesn't like. HE should be in control of this, not someone else!]

GO TO HELL!

[If Mewtwo gives him any time, he'll attack again to try to break out of the hold before ...something happens.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[He rises and Tetsuo rises with him. He's had a rough couple weeks and the last thing he's willing to let happen is a human boss him around.

They stop when he figures he can leave Tetsuo dangling.

< This is another of your baseless insults. They mean nothing to me. >]

[iamtetsuo]

[Nope. This stops right the hell now. This time, when Tetsuo yells, there's no coherent words at all - just rage.

And yet another attack aimed right at Mewtwo. It doesn't matter if Tetsuo falls - he can catch himself. What matters is he takes this - this ... whatever the hell this is right he hell down with him]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[Distracted by well, holding Tetsuo, Mewtwo relinquishes his hold on the psychic instead hurtling through the air like a deflating balloon.

He regains his momentum, now speeding right back at him as he allows Tetsuo to fall and watch with a cold stare. He's still here, what are you going to do now?]

[iamtetsuo]

[Falling. Excellent. That means he's under his own power now. Tetsuo catches himself, at first drifting down slowly, then stopping midair, legs shifting underneath him...

With a flex of his mind he's shooting forward towards the thing, trying to pull his legs around in time to take the impact first, aiming to slam down hard into his opponent. That's what now.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[Incredible. It's not admirable that he can do that, but admirable in how stubborn the boy is.

Tetsuo flies toward him like a high range missile. He doesn't have time to get out of the way. So rather than that, he begins to build a ball of telekinetic energy in his arms, stretching as an intermediary between him and the Tetsuo missile.]

[iamtetsuo]

[There's only one real way this can go.

Tetsuo slams into it, hard. It feels like the whole world flashes white for a second, and the next he's flying in the opposite direction with equal speed. It's everything Tetsuo can do to not slam into something else, though he has a close call with a building before he manages to psychokinetically shove against it enough to stop.

Ow. OW - it's like for a second, his legs landed in elastic fire. He wasn't quite sure how he expected that to go, but he was expecting something a lot better than this. That - that bastard.. now he's really gonna pay...

You'd think he wouldn't have failed to miss the similarity between that and his own shield - except he's never encountered the wrong end of his own abilities.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[Mewtwo was no pacifist, make no mistakes. But he was no pokemon that sought fights, yet seeing someone who deserve it whole-heartedly get it? It's a priceless feeling.

Once he skids the opposite direction, Mewtwo floats above Tetsuo all harsh and judgmental. This is what happen when you play with things you don't understand, kid.

< Why do you keep fighting? >]

[iamtetsuo]

Cause you piss me off!

[Well, that and freak him out. He doesn't have a better answer to that.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< That's it? That's the only reason? >

You better cook up a better answer now.]

[iamtetsuo]

I only need one!

[SCREW OFF HIS REASON IS FINE]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< If that's your only reason, then even winning would be a waste of time. >]

[iamtetsuo]

Wh - the hell's that supposed to mean?!

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< This fight won't be over petty human concerns. >]

[iamtetsuo]

Fine. Then just stay there and die!

[Tenses, readying to get back in the game here-]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[Don't you even try.

< I'm not planning on dying here, especially by your hands. >]

[iamtetsuo]

[Oh he's gonna try.]

Oh yeah? You said you weren't gonna fight!!

[And.. launching himself off the building to get in range, aiming to kill his forward momentum with another shockwave through the air aimed at Mewtwo.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[< I'm not. >

The shockwave nearly sends him spinning out of control, this time taking more effort in getting reoriented since ouch that actually brought some hurt.

But Mewtwo isn't going to let a brat tell him to do anything. Instead he flies right towards Tetsuo, starting to push with telekinetic energy as if to hold down Tetsuo. Down, boy.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Good. GOOD. The monster finally shows its teeth, huh?

Tetsuo's already forcing his power further, getting ready to follow that up, when suddenly there's a force actively holding him in place. He can feel his concentration slip, instantly vanishing from his hold leaving only pain behind.

Crap. That shifts him from the offensive to purely defensive, and fast.

The kid snarls back, using his own power to shove against the monster's telekinesis, aiming to force it back until he can't feel anymore. He's not sure what this thing'll do to him. Tetsuo's not planning on finding out.]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

[Push yourself to the limit, that's what he wanted to test, right? But not like this. Not for someone whose reasons are so weak and pathetic and petty.

He pushes further, further, as if he could chain the human with psychic energy alone. The assumption is proven false as Tetsuo forces him back in the way a bubble bursts. He whirls back from the blowback of his own psychic energy.

This is getting to be a waste of time. He better leave soon. But one souvenir for the human: energy builds between the pokemon fires a ball of psychic energy in the road near Tetsuo, hoping the debris will make a cloudy cover for him.]