Justice Avengers: Dawn over New York

Ravencroft

"Party's over, Negaduck." Booster said, holding out a hand that glowed with Repulsor energy. He floated off the ground, out of arm's reach of any of the rabble below. Meanwhile, Moon Knight snuck around the back of the building, trying to stealthily make his way inside.

Past

Darwin nodded, and focused. He focused on Master Man, latching on to-

That asshole, that asshole right there. Follow that guy!

Darwin felt the pull more than a push, like he just lasso'd Master Man and was now being tugged along.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Mary asked Rogue after she suggested to speak with Dr Fate.

It certainly wasn't a big contribution, but there was few the rookie heroine felt she could do in comparison to the more experienced heroes.

edited 13th Mar '15 9:32:00 PM by RPGLegend

The Past

Blue Diamond and Master Man exchanged mighty blows, but neither seemed to do the other any real damage.

(And neither noticed Darwin approaching.)

The Present

Access almost snorted at the poor joke, and wondered if it had been said by the A.I. or by Richards. He hoped it didn't mean anything wrong and stepped into the elevator.

"Salem it is."

The werewolf looked over at Congorilla.

"I should go, report back after."

He turned to the others. Impromptu teamups weren't really his style but it seemed like they all had a common goal.

"You call your teleporter then?"

edited 14th Mar '15 1:29:03 AM by TenebrousGaze

"Hey, Access, we decided to try to get Dr. Fate's help instead, and we know where he is," Rogue began speaking into the communicator to Access. "We are over in Yonkers and we need a quick 'port to, I kid you not, Salem, Massachusetts."

"Think you'd be able to get to Yonkers and pick up a few of us for a ride to Salem, while the rest of our group make sure we have a general location on where the Umbral Phantasm is for when we port back," Rogue asked Access, still not knowing about the current situation he was in, but turned to the others. "Blackheart should stay in Yonkers since only Dr. Fate is gonna be more knowledgeable than him."

edited 14th Mar '15 2:02:43 AM by GameGuruGG

"Oh, how droll. But I'm afraid we're still waiting on the guest of honour, so I'd rather we rid ourselves of any gatecrashers beforehand. Oh, kids?"

The mutant gangsters drew weapons. Ice daggers, vine whips and spectral glows were readied.

Baxter Building

Access got Rogue's response on the elevator in its way up.

"Doctor Fate?" he asked. Oh great, not exactly a person he was looking to meet again. As for Salem, sure, he could get them there, bless you Travel channel, he thought. And Yonkers he knew from the movie.

"OK, give me a few minutes and I'll go pick you all up" he reported back. He hoped that would be enough time to explain everything to Richards...

Raven followed the Dragon King through the facility. If she was bothered by, or even noticed, any of the pained wails and screams coming through the walls, the teen did not show it at all. She kept her eyes forward, focusing her thoughts on what she needed to do. Finally they came to the doors holding the Spear, she could practically feel it through her whole body. Her expression turned disappointed when she was not permitted to enter though. "   Its going to be difficult to tap into the Spear's power when I can't even get within five meters of it. I guess I'll just have to try and make due though.   " She said.

"Darwin!" Megan said, clutching Armando even more. "Focus on Master Man, and hold out your hand as if you were reaching to grab him!" If he followed her commands successfully, Megan would extend her telepathic control over to Darwin, trying to get him to hold Master Man back.

"I'm certain you'll manage," said the Dragon King. "You seem like a capable girl. Perhaps you could be allowed close enough to, say, summon a demon or two. We'll work our way up from there, what say you to that?"

The elevator took its time ascending the Baxter Building. However, Access may have noticed the occasional...odd happenstance on the way. Like how the polished floor beneath him was turning into white marble with concentric circles, or that blue light that scanned him for just a moment. All of a sudden, the walls and ceiling clicked, then flew away on mechanical arms. The floor beneath him joined with a far larger circular platform around it, becoming an elevator large enough to carry a car. Access found himself carried through a well-kept reception area with blue carpeting and comfy furniture. Over behind a desk by the wall-occupying window, a charming little robotic head sat plugged into the computer console.

"Doctor Richards will see you momentarily, Mister Access. In the meantime, why don't I have something sent through to keep you occupied? A warm or refreshing beverage? A magazine with gossip articles or sudoku puzzles? Or perhaps a specially designed copyright-free app game displayed on the coffee table screen?"

edited 16th Mar '15 5:13:31 PM by LizardOfAus

Baxter Building

Access blinked at the rather toy-like robot for a moment. Not exactly what he was expecting to see. But at least it sounded polite enough.

"Umm, no thanks" he responded to the robot's query. "In fact, tell Richards I have to go do something important, but that I'll be back in five minutes, tops."

And with that, he *popped* away.

Yonkers

Access teleported at ground level on a street but saw nothing unusual. Not that he expected to. He then teleported to the highest rooftop he could see, and from there looked all around until he located the alley where Rogue and the Howling Commandoes were.

He blinked again. Was that- a gorilla? And a werewolf? And a mummy!?

He shook his head. It didn't matter, he guessed, if Rogue (and other heroes, most of whom he didn't recognize) seemed to be OK with them. Besides wasn't he palling around with a talking Raccoon not that long ago?

So *pop* he went again, this time right beside the Mutant Southern Belle.

"Access, Master Teleporter, at your service" he said, with some pride. "So Okay, who's coming to see Dr. Fate? I mean, I *can* take the whole lot of you along, but I'm not sure he'd appreciate that. A small group might be better."

Mary Marvel

While everyone was talking Mary was just busty hearing at everyone, this was one of those times it was wiser to just listen before doing anything. Then the mysterious new teleporter popped in front of them.

"oh...Hello there. You must be Rogue's friend. I am Mary Marvel, rookie superhero. Nice to meet you Mr Acess," Mary closed her eyes and smiled to greet the new arrival with her right hand. "Teleporting is such a cool power, I would never arrive late to sch- work! and visit so many places" she said excited.

Then to answer Acess's question she added "I would like to go with Rogue," she said trying to sound serious.

Past

Before Darwin could attempt anything, and while they he was having blows with Blue Diamond, he would surely notice that the nazi was starting to bleed on his nose. Nevertheless he still had the intent to escape and flew just a few meters to try to kick Blue Diamond without him being able to hit him.

edited 16th Mar '15 9:37:41 PM by RPGLegend

The Present

Access looked over in Mary's direction when she greeted him. He didn't exactly recognize her, but felt like there was something familiar about the young woman.

In any case, she seemed very polite - nobody had ever called him MISTER Access, for one thing, much less told him his power was "cool". He couldn't help smiling at her.

"Pleased to meet you, Mary." Hmm, odd name for a hero, he thought. But then, his wasn't exactly average either.

"So that's two. Anybody else?"

The Past

"Ohh no you don't!" Blue Diamond said, as he grabbed Master Man's leg, and was promptly picked up along through the air. He was NOT letting the Super-Nazi get away again!

The werewolf stepped forward towards Access.

"Me also. Our team needs someone in on this."

Yonkers

"We decided that Blackheart would be staying here since he's got the most magical knowledge of us," Rogue pointed to Blackheart, then to each of the others in turn. "This is Werewolf By Night, Congorilla, and..."

Rogue frowned a bit as she pointed to Ty and Tandy, since they might not want their true names revealed.

The robot stared at the space where Access had been. It looked around, completely lost.

"...But...But y...W...Is there any protocol for this situation?!"

"Call me Dagger!" Tandy announced. "...Y'know, cause...I can shoot, like, daggers...made of light...and stuff."

"You have a superhero name?" asked Ty.

"Well, sure. I've got costumes and powers now, haven't I? Oh, hey! We should totally come up with a name for you."

"What... I don't know."

"Aw, c'moooon! You could be something cool and shadowy, like, uh, 'Shadowraith' or 'Darktaker' or-"

"Cloak?"

The teens turned to look at Blackheart, perplexed. "...Well, he does have a Cloak, but that doesn't s-"

"Come, it's so obvious. Because your name's Dagger? Cloak and Dagger?"

Stares.

Blackheart stared incredulously, then groaned turned his back on the group. "Fuckin' kids..."

"I will stay behind to rendezvous with the other Commandos, and we'll see what to do about this shadow-ghost from this end. He gave an informal salute. "Good luck to you over there!"

Yonkers

Access stared at the new heroes. They sounded like total amateurs. Should they even be involved in this?

And that pale guy (Blackheart) there was something- creepy about him. Not just his looks, but his presence- his alien-detecting power identified him as being akin to Raven. A demon maybe?

Whatever, he had no time for this now. "Look folks, sorry for insisting but, I'm REALLY in a hurry right now, so one last time: is anybody else coming along, or can we leave already?"

Ravencroft

Holy shit... Wasp looked out at the crowd of inmates and mooks that filled the Ravencroft lobby, having zipped up to take in the scene from the relative safety of light fixture on the ceiling. Had he zapped all of them?

"Guys, I don't see Blue Beetle anywhere..." She whispered over the STRIKE frequency, peering around. "I'm gonna go looking around." Booster could handle this, right? Making a rude gesture at Mr Negative, she took to the air again and started searching around the closer corridors and offices, doing her best to stay hidden.

Present

"The- there was one more thing," The man said, "I wanna help! I really do. This- shit! Ya gotta- it's all coming back to me in bits and pieces and..."

He put his face in his hands, "After the first time, I pretended nothing happened. A-after the second time, when nothing showed up on the news, I just- just kept telling myself it was a nightmare. I don't think anyone found that guy's body. It could still be down in that- in that ditch.

"But... I remember... I remember when that- that man. That mother fucker," His face lifted up, scowling, "He did this! He-" He clenched his hands, "He said that-"

Once Rocket had him outside the diner, he froze up and his eyes became distant. Suddenly he pushed himself off his chair and fell on the ground. Twisting his body so he was on his back, he made himself face Rocket. His eyes glowed red and he stank of malevolent magic, "Find them all and you will find me. Solve their puzzles and you will solve mine. The game is simple. Inside their minds, behind their psychosis, through their memories and nestled in the core of their madness, I have hidden memories of places. Each series of memories have differences and similarities. Some of these places are traps. Their is one memory, one place, they all have in common, and that is where I am."

The man collapsed again, the power leaving him and leaving him groaning.

Past

Darwin did as M'gan told him, holding out his hands as if he were going to grab Master Man.

Even in the mindscape, Armondo was miming the same thing, his face scrunched into focus as if that might help.

edited 18th Mar '15 12:56:52 PM by God_of_Awesome

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edited 18th Mar '15 12:56:44 PM by God_of_Awesome

Rocket was listening intently as the man talked again. But then the man suddenly threw himself off the wheelchair - "WHAT THE HECK?!?"

The raccoon immediately went to the man's side and helped him up. He then stank of evil magic, and suddenly the man was spouting some sort of cryptic riddle. Luckily Rocket recorded it. As soon as the man finished, the bounty hunter lifted the man back up and put him back in the wheelchair. "You alright?" he asked, concerned.

Past

Masterman tried to escape and he almost succeeded until blue diamon grabbed him on his legs. Sure he would have raised him above the skies as well, But his strength coupled with Darwin's suprise attack threw the nazi to the ground.

As he tried to get up, leaving him vulnerable to an attack, he said calmly, "I have a proposal for you Americans..."

Past

"Oh sure, now you have a proposal, when we got you pinned!" Diamond scoffed. "Why should we listen to you?"

Present

Yonkers

On seeing nobody respond to his querry, Access assumed that the 'party' he would teleport to Salem would be composed of Rogue, Mary, the werewolf and himself. "Ok, here we go. Good luck to the rest of you."

Then, turning to his 'party': "As usual, a reminder there will be slight dizziness in the dimensional hop for first timers. Here we go!"

POP!

And suddenly the universe became a swirl of multicolored lights and a sensation of floating in a void for them. Fortunately it only lasted a few seconds.

POP.

They materialized in a street in Salem, Massachusetts.

"OK, from here you are on your own. As I said, I need to go really badly. I'll explain later. But call me if things go- poorly, OK?"

And with that-

POP!

He was gone.

Baxter Building

POP!

"OK, R-2, is Richards available yet?"

edited 19th Mar '15 2:30:00 PM by Sijo

As Wasp searched the corridors, she started to hear a faint whining sound. This was followed by a small arc of electricity striking her from behind.

"Knew we shoulda sprayed for pests first," said Negative Beetle with a smirk.

Access's escortees dropped down right in the middle of the prosperous Massachusetts town. There were pastel coloured buildings stacked side by side, trees and quaint lampposts down the middle of the square, and an old-fashioned galley tethered at the dock along the way. Such a pleasant little locale, you would hardly think that this was once a hive of superstitious paranoia and baseless discrimination.

The robot hadn't quite finished spluttering yet. "Now see here, sir! With all the greatest respect- you can't just go galavanting off when an appointment is due! That's what the waiting room is for! To wait for the appointment with the individual you're intending to see! Now, what if you time had come up, and you hadn't been aro-"

There was a small ping, and a door opened to the left. Dr Richards stepped through, one arm remaining behind the door and out of sight. "Hello there! Very glad you could drop by, Access, real pleasure." He shook Access' hand. "I see you've met my A.I. assistant, H.e.r.b.i.e. He tells me you're here about a new ability you've developed, is that right?"

edited 20th Mar '15 5:14:44 PM by LizardOfAus