Past
"Making a big mistake!" Darwin said, "I told, I told them this was a bad idea! Listening to a guy who wears scary armor and a green cloak who wants you to nab a magic spear is something a bunch of murder hobos do! That's not us! Why did we come here!?"
Darwin twitched and eyeballed M'gan and Iron Man, "Oh, don't let her hurt him! And please don't hurt her! I dunno want happened to me back there but I hafta guess it took a whack at all of us!"
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Chloe
Chloe was nervous, and as much of a jerk Tony had been she still wanted to help him and Darwin. "Come on Chloe, think how could you distract a super powered Martian, with mental powers?" she thought.
She put her hands on her bag and got a flashlight from her bag and then she whispered so Megan couldn't suspect her intentions, in case she read her mind. "I am going to blind her!", she said as she aimed the flashlight directly at her eyes so she would be temporarily blinded, and hopefully Tony and her teammates could escape.
edited 19th Oct '14 8:02:19 PM by RPGLegend
Forgiveness is beyond justice, faith is superior than hope, redemption is better than perfection and love is greater than them all.
Bitch pills
JARVIS felt the armor being manipulated, swiftly shutting down and adjusting systems to stay on the ground, turning his head towards Storm. Whatever is affecting all of you, you must resist! I will not hesitate to do whatever I must to protect Mr. Stark!
For his part, Tony just curled up on the ground, still clutching at his head, gasping for breath and trembling from the onslaught of Miss Martian's assault.
Bucky heard the pop behind him, and swiftly rolled to a side, trying to aim his gun for whoever was behind him. "Steve, there's other attackers here!"
Steve turned his head at the shout, gritting his teeth when he caught sight of another woman appearing, wind kicking up. "All right, guys, new call, take these people down hard and fast, we'll sort it out after the aggressions have stopped!" He drew back his shield and immediately sent it pinwheeling at Miss Martian's back as hard as possible, snatching his sidearm out of the holster on his hip to aim towards the Iron Man armor.
Easing back into life one step at a time
Past
As soon as Raven passed through the veil of some corrupting force, the whole world seemed to start spinning. She had never felt something this powerful before, it completely floored her how she couldn't sense that she was walking into something. For a moment everything seemed to go white, as if her mind was violently trying to reject the influence of whatever this was. She stumbled and slumped against a tree in the forest. She barely had the energy to stand, as all of her focus was going towards trying to make sense of what was flowing into her mind. She could hear voices, and for a moment she thought they were speaking to her. That wasn't exactly true though, they were speaking to something she kept forced down deep in the recesses of her mind.
Her eyes shut tight as pain seared through her mind. Whatever this power was, part of her was sending intense warning signs through her body to get out of there. It was too late though, as things slowly started to make sense. Why everything kept going wrong, why the people were so ungrateful, and why they felt the need to tear down their saviors. Humans are filth. She understood now why she distanced herself from everything. It wasn't from fear of getting hurt, it was from disgust. Why should she have to help the inferior?
Four glowing red eyes opened under the half-demon's hood as she rose back up to her feet. She shouldn't, no there was a better alternative. A better way to ensure that the superior would rise and claim this world as their own. A way to fix the flaws with this world and make it better for everyone. There wouldn't have to be any more pain if everyone knew their place from the start. Yes, now Raven knew why she was brought into the past.
With only a slight glance she noticed that her former allies were wrapped up in some sort of conflict again, this time with the heroes of this age. Good, let them waste time on each other. It was no concern to her, she had work to do. With no movement from her, Raven rose up off of the ground and started gliding through the forest. She moved away from the others and towards the source of this great power she was feeling. She would need it to carry out her plan. She needed this power to bring order to this world and fix what is inherently broken in humans.
All in Trigon's name.
"Coo-ee!" Raven suddenly found her path was impeded by a girl in a domino mask and bright costume, who was bouncing directly in front of her by means of long boots with pogo-like springs attached. "Hey there, Miss Dark and Scary Flying Girl! You have very pretty eyes, Miss Dark and Scary, and so many of them! I don't know anybody else with so many eyes, although I know a couple of girls and boys CALLED four eyes, but they just have glasses and don't really have four eyes like you do, and they can't make their eyes glow either. But you can make your eyes glow! Very pretty red, like an old campfire! It must be very useful when you're reading in the dark."
"Nab a magic spear?" echoed the Destroyer, gears turning in his head. Then came the thunderclap, and Destroyer turned just in time to see Storm blow the arrows off course. He huffed angrily, and let Darwin go. "First, we put a stop to this. Then we can talk about if I trust you or not."
Meanwhile, a line of web stuck to Tony's back, and gradually tugged him into the bushes.
The blob man just about mustered enough control to stop laughing for a moment. "...In...In the cfff...cafeteria...down the hall, fourth on the right...nng...'s got this...this magic mask...flashed at me...made me s-" He exploded into a torrent of mad cackling, which slowly trailed off into giggles and pitiful sniffling.
Rudy stared at Gold for a second or two.
"...fine," he grumbled. "Straight and narrow for me, whatever. Now gimme!" He greedily tore off some of Attack Dog's pant leg, and clung to him until his knuckles were white, drinking up all that biological energy.
"Well, now, let me think. Joseph Webber, Terence Case, 'Wild Whip' Wallace, Paul Sloane, Arnold Etchinson, and, oh yes, a few little security guards by name of Fred Barker, Edward Roberts, Ted Pogue, and Mike Dickerson. If you could sort them out, darling, that would be just wonderful."
edited 15th Oct '14 3:50:27 PM by LizardOfAus
"You can relax now," Rocket assured the blob monster. "We'll handle Cletus." As he spoke, the raccoon holster the Zap Stinger and instead pulled out his mace, activating the electrical current. He then took off running towards the cafeteria, following the monster's instructions while leaving him there, slowed down only by the weight of his heavy weapon.
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
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Mary Marvel
Mary wasn't sure if she could have helped the monster, and simply looked down. Whoever this "Cassidy" was, he had to be stopped. Mary flew behind Rocket to support him. "Could someone like Cletus Cassidy be redeeemed?" Mary wondered.
edited 15th Oct '14 11:57:22 PM by RPGLegend
Forgiveness is beyond justice, faith is superior than hope, redemption is better than perfection and love is greater than them all.
Past
Raven came to a stop as her path was blocked by an unfamiliar girl. She just stared blankly ahead as the girl went on and on about nothing. Humans are such incredibly flawed creatures. The demonic girl simply raised up a hand that started glowing black. The springs on the domino girl's long boots started glowing black as well and lifted into the air. She flipped her over upside down and lifted her up into a tree. She made sure that the branches of the tree tangled with the springs before continuing on her way.
"We won't know until we see the guy, but I have a feelin' that's doubtful at best," Rocket said to Mary.
edited 17th Oct '14 4:08:58 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
Vampire Hunter
"Wait, we need a better plan of attacks so we don't end up like them," Rogue said, flying after Rocket and Mary.
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Wizard of science.
"Sure thing." Raze turned around, walking past Pyro and grabbing him by the collar of his shirt. "Come on. Me and you are gonna clean some trash outside of the district."
Merry seemed not the least put off by being tangled in a tree. "Oooh, I get it. You're not really the talkie type. You look more like the hurt-people-badly type. Well, sorry, but it's my job to stop you doing that. Hope you aren't mad later!" With a couple of grunts, Merry tried to break free, but found she couldn't budge. Not to be kept down, she reached into her pocket, pulled out a yo-yo, and threw it. The yo-yo travelled incredibly far, its rope extending an absurdly long distance, before wrapping around Raven's ankle and catching.
Closer to the ground, the fight continued on. While Sun Girl and Cap tried to take down Ms Martian, the Challenger turned his attention to Storm. Picking up the nearest thing to hand- an arrow blown aside -he threw it like a javelin aimed at Storm's side.
The closer the heroes came to the cafeteria, the dim, flickering lights gained more of a red hue. They started to find strange implements embedded in the walls. Plastic cutlery, table legs, coins, door handles and otter ordinary objects, all welded and woven together into warped blades and pointed weaponry.
Pyro stumbled along as he was dragged out the building. "Y'know mate, you could stand t' work on yer skills of persuasion. 'sides, I don't clean trash. I incinerate it.... Y' get it? 'cause the fire? Too obvious?"
Wizard of science.
"Yes on both." Raze replied, before standing on the door of the building they were in. "So here's the deal. A bunch of creeps were buggering Mystique at the prison. We're here to get rid of them or, and this is only on very special cases... use them. I want to use them to bring Rog— my sister to our side. Do you know where to find any of these people?" He said, before listing out the names Mystique had given to him.
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"Learn your place, mac—" Megan said, before being sharply interrupted by Cap's shield, which hit her in the back with a resounding thud, sending her to the ground. Once she hit the floor, the girl returned to her green, younger form, but was apparently unconscious.
"We'll thinking of a plan right before we head into the cafeteria, but right now have to get.....there......quickly.....?" Rocket trailed off and slowed as he looked around him as he headed deeper and the lights became more and more red. He looked around, obviously horrified, but not by what he saw in front of him, but from having seen this sort of thing before......
"Gideon help us," he said. "Deterioration already reached this level in just hours?"
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
Past
"M'Gan!" Darwin shouted as watched her go down, "Damn it! I don't care if you're General Assembly, if she doesn't get back up, Cap, I will hunt you through time and ice!"
Black Forest, 1942
-*POP*
Access disappeared before Bucky could shoot him.
He reappeared on a nearby tree branch, from where he could see most of the fighting people. As he looked for a new target, two things suddenly happened.
One was that Miss Martian was knocked unconscious, ending the mindlink.
The other was that Raven was suddenly emanating a magic so alien, so evil, that his mystical senses were overwhelmed by it. Whatever she had become, it filled him with fear, a fear greater than the control the Nazi spell currently had over him.
"Raven!" he suddenly screamed. "She's heading- for the Spear. We must stop her! Or we are ALL doomed!"
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Tony was dimly aware of getting pulled away by something from the battle, but he was too out of it to protest, just still holding his head and keeping his eyes closed, waiting on some internal reboot to complete before he could get himself back into action. Tarantula would have definitely noticed the sight of something with a familiar blue glow shining through Tony's shirt, however.
When the guy Bucky was aiming for vanished, he stared for a moment before starting to swear in every language he knew, scrambling back to his feet and putting his back to a tree, calling out. "Steve??"
"Get up here with the rest of us, Buck. I got the woman..."
Bucky moved quickly to do so, as Cap moved forward carefully, keeping an eye on the standing armor and Storm, intent on reclaiming his shield without getting attacked. "Listen here, folks, we don't want to fight, but if you're part of the Nazis or HYDRA, we aren't going to let you stop us from carrying out our missions."
I can assure you, Captain, we are neither, JARVIS spoke from the armor, though he kept his hands up, the repulsors still primed to fire. We are working on a mission of our own, yet some of our group suddenly seemed to lose control of themselves. None of us would want to hurt you, your team, or any innocent people.
Easing back into life one step at a time
"Captain." Black Marvel had pondered JARVIS' words. "If these strangers have lost control of themselves, then perhaps they are affected by the Sphere of Influence."
The three should found their way through the deadly atmosphere, and into the cafeteria. There, they beheld a disturbing sight. Tables had been cracked and thrown to the walls. Fires were lit in the corners of the room. Bodies lay on the floor, clothes torn, twisted into strange, semi-artistic shapes. The ground was painted with neo-cubist imagery and written on in gibberish. Over on the far wall, overlooking it all, there was someone trussed up on a makeshift crucifix. The figure was wearing patients outfit, held in place by a straightjacket, and his face was covered by an almost featureless gold mask.
"Oh, yeah, sure, they live just 'round the corner of 'How The Fuck Should I Know?'. Look bud, if they were givin' Mystique a hard toime at the asylum, then odds are they're still down there. 'nless, o' course, they were employees an' got sent 'ome for a noice bit of R&R after such a rough day."
"Hold it!" Rocket raised his arm from stopping the three heroines from just charging in*. "This here is an obvious trap," he clarified. "We go slow, and watch for anything. Also, be careful of that mask, it might be the magic one the blob spoke of."
He then crept very slowly through the cafeteria towards the masked being.....
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
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Mary
"I agree, what do you have in mind?" Mary asked Rougue, before she noticed that Rocket was aproaching the masked man "Please be careful!" Mary told to Rocket as she resited the urge to fly and touch the masked man, before him , so he couldn't get hurt.
Chloe
Meanwhile Stark was distracted Chloe took the chance to take pictures from her "flashless" phone's camera.
edited 19th Oct '14 8:29:40 PM by RPGLegend
Forgiveness is beyond justice, faith is superior than hope, redemption is better than perfection and love is greater than them all.
Vampire Hunter
"Be quiet and let Rocket try to get the mask," Rogue whispered to the other two, following Rocket's lead, though keeping the blunderbuss pointed at the one in the mask as if she was afraid it would suddenly come to life and explode their heads.
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King of Lame-Style
The past
Question grumbled in irritation at the sight of Raven going grimdark and evil "well of course... we were warned" he stood up from his hiding spot and told Chloe "those never see the light of day, alright?... and please punch me if I ever say something similar" before hanging the gym-bag onto him and walking out of hiding "What's this sphere of influence?"
The graceless warrior, wielder of the edgeless blade, prophet of the old religions, writer of fluent nonsense, saviour of soul and song.
"I can probably take down Storm," Darwin said, his voice becoming hard as he eyed the last one who so obviously seemed to be under control of something else. It seemed to have only affected the women, except Chloe. Sexist ass mind control. Okay, so it tried him, but him, Stark and... well, he didn't know what was going on with Access, but Access was not going bug nuts so...
"She's the only one without telekinesis. If someone could toss me at her hard enough before she could make wind happen, I can maybe put her in a choke hold."
edited 19th Oct '14 9:07:14 PM by God_of_Awesome
The Black Forest, 1942
-*Pop!*
The sound came right from behind Bucky. If he turned around, he would see a young man in a red and blue costume - not too different from him in fact- about to strike him with a tree branch; Access was trying a hit-and-run on the American heroes. Whether Bucky tried to dodge, or proceeded to finish trying to shoot the Green Girl (and risk getting brained) was up to him.
edited 15th Oct '14 11:44:12 AM by Sijo