Justice Avengers: Dawn over New York

The tendrils on Gold's back swiftly erupted into a dozen razor wires that plunged into the ceiling, propelling her into the air and over the blast like a ninja stuntman. The bolt nevertheless grazed her leg, sending the wound squirming like an agitated Sarlacc.

Hovering in the air for a few seconds, Gold took stock of the area again, feeling out a plan of attack. She had a reasonably sound plan to help Booster and Beetle, but it was preferable that Booster was unconscious first. She looked to Michael with a slightly softer wilting glower.

"But if I am being honest, Booster, those are all of your strong points." She said as she hung like a marionette, her threads slicing and separating her gripped section of the ceiling into two large chunks. "They are why people like you, for some reason." Gold swung over and landed on the shoulders of one of the goons, latching her legs around his neck as she prepared to use him as cover if the need arose. The goon had the added benefit of standing in the path of the eldritch machine, making further repulser blasts ill-advised.

"Do you want to know what my problem is, Booster? Why I cannot stand you, more often than not?" She asked, balencing on the gangster's shoulders even as her back tendrils stopped short of slicing through the ceiling. She spread her arms for balence, and to beckon Booster forward.

edited 18th May '15 3:53:36 AM by Uncandescent

Jacob aimed for his opponent's weapon, trying to knock it out of the way and quickly stabbed at the ID that had hit closer to Rogue before returning his focus to the other mysterious enemy.

Nazi Base

Raven smirked as she watched the demons getting to work taking care of the heroes. She did make sure to keep her eye on the Nazis though, not exactly trusting of them. She suddenly stopped when she saw the illusion of Megan coming out of Darwin. She looked surprised and backed up a step. "   What, how are you here?   " she asked in confusion. Megan was able to reach her mind in her confusion and found something interesting. The young sorceress wasn't being controlled by an outside source. Her mind was jumbled, with the Raven the martian was used to shoved into the back. The influence of the spear was currently drawing out a part of Raven that is normally repressed.

"   Stay away from me!   " She shouted, as a burst of black energy surged from her body. The door to the room holding the spear crumbled into a small ball as she quickly flew into the room. She'd get that spear, damn anyone else.

Nazis

Using your telekinesis! Armando told Megan.

Darwin focused on Raven with her TK, gesturing with his hand. He imagined, like he had with Master Man, a rope, a lasso wrapping around her, with equal and opposite reactions and everything. He'd try to pull Raven back while he got pulled forward

Even as his guardsmen tumbled, Mr Negative laughed through his nose. "You know what I want, woman? Power, and control. You're all getting in the way of power, so you'll just have to be controlled." He made a grab at Mary's arm.

Booster fired shot after shot, determined to get Gold down from the ceiling. When she grabbed herself a hostage, it wasn't until he noticed the machine that he thought twice about shooting again. Shaking, he edged his way over at her beckoning. "Yes- No- I- What? What- What do you hate about me?"

Meanwhile, Jacob knocked the sword right out of his dueller's hands, and landed a stab on Rogue's guy. His attention drawn, that ID and the third one both swung at Jacob, and would up hitting each other's swords instead.

edited 18th May '15 3:11:59 PM by LizardOfAus

The Present

Access blinked when he entered Professor Richards' lab with the Stark drone following him. Had Richards and his friend -Ben was his name?- been yelling a moment ago?

-*A-Hem!* he coughed, to clear away the awkwardness of the situation. "Here's the robot thing, Professor. Should I try to take it back to 1942 and hope it can survey the situation inside the Nazi Zone for us?"

Just an "I'm alive" kind of post.

Green Arrow arrived home and collapsed on his bed in costume. Meeting with all those supers had been exhausting and he had an important business meeting tomorrow.

"Wait a minute..." Rogue stopped for a moment, picking up the dropped sword. "Have they hit us once yet?"

Gold's tightly wound skin writhed under the impact of Booster's near-misses as she slipped to the ground behind the gangster. New tendrils pulled taut around the gangster's knees, and she tied his hands behind his back as she inched backwards in time with Booster's approach.

"It is not because you never listen, or that you have no mind for tactics." Gold said, her normally austere gaze brimming with a vibrant energy. "Those aspects have contributed more to my understanding of humanity than any amount of time under my father's tutelage."

At that moment, the strands that composed Gold's "hair" picked up Mr. Negative's comment across the room, and she sprung into action. Taking her attention away from Booster, she withdrew the tendrils wrapped around the gangster's wrists, and flung her arm out to ensnare one of Moon Knight's discarded boomerangs. She brought the weapon to her outstretched hand, reared back, and called upon the spacial dimensions of the room and her training with the revenant.

"In addition, how and when to STRIKE." Gold squared up on her target, and let the weapon fly toward the arm Mr. Negative was using to reach out to Ms. Marvel.

edited 19th May '15 2:48:45 AM by Uncandescent

Jacob shrugged at Rogue's comment. They hadn't managed any major hits but their current enemies had proven themselves not completely useless. Using his stolen weapon again he stabbed out at the recently disarmed foe.

Holding out her hand to help Darwin with his TK lasso, Megan continued to shower Raven's mind with memories meant to draw out the one she remembered.

"Raven, you know who I am and you know who you are!" Megan yelled, clutching the memories with the same intensity as Darwin's. "Now, remember, and come back to us!"

M.s marvel

"There are things more important than power like friendship and l—-," that's when me negative caught her by surprise. She opened her eyes widely in panic as she had failed to follow Coulson's advice.

Luckily gold, sister of her friend Mercury, helped her by reaching negative's arm.

Still Even if his touch was brief Mr negative's corruption touch seemed to affect her somehow as Mary touched her head in confusion. Trying to fight me negative's influence.

You don't deserve that power...

Mary knelt to the ground while trying to clear the invading thoughts of her mind.

edited 20th May '15 3:08:48 PM by RPGLegend

Coulson had decided that this was more than enough, and aimed his finally-charged gun at the Eldritch Machinery and opened fire with Asgardian-Simulated fury.

Moon Knight took the opportunity, while Gold and Coulson and everyone else had his attention, to get in close to the Negative Man.

"Please. Shut up." He muttered, bringing out a Moonarang and trying to slit his throat.

After shooting up mook trying to grab Mr. Negative, Rocket was hit by a wave of pain. He powered through, fighting the urge to pass out, and then aimed his pistol at the Negative man again. Moon Knight then leaped in, seemingly ready to finish off the villain by slicing his throat open.

GO ON AND GUT HIM LIKE A FLOUNDER!! Rocket would have cheered, but instead of coughed up some blood. The raccoon decided to, instead, aim his pistol at Negative again. He set the pistol to the kill setting in case the Holy Magic filled undead failed to put down Negative.....

Richards considered this, then nodded. "Yes, that does seem like the best solution. If you can maintain the drone from a secure enough distance..."

"Can't ya poof back ta the past right now?" said Ben, "G'wan, ya don't need 'is permission."

"...Come to me, Tyler..."

Ty crumbled to the ground, his cloak pooling around him. His hands pushed against his head, as if holding in something threatening to break out. Tandy tried to get a grip on his shoulder as he grunted in pain. "Ty! Ty, what's wrong?"

"N-...N-N-No..."

"Ty, talk to me, please?"

"Tyler, come to me..."

"No! I won't listen to you anymore! I won't!"

"There is no choice...You have gathered the components...Bring the rest to me now!"

"I am not your slave anymore!"

"Bring them to me..."

"I am not! your! slave!"

"Yes you are! You are my slave, and you will do as I bid of you! Now, bring my the components, or I shall bring you suffering!"

Ty moaned in pain, as Tandy desperately tried to talk to him. It took a moment for them notice the bright light that was approaching.

Coulson's beam struck the machine and sent up a bright orange crescendo, as a large chuck of the metal was burst to bits and scattered across the room. This did not go unnoticed for long at all.

Deeper in the building, one of the ID's crumpled from Jacob's blow. The others raised their swords for an attack, when all of a sudden, the room was filled with noise. A deafening howl of rage came from every shadow, filling the whole building. As the echoes died down, even the ID's were looking around nervously. "That...was not a good sound," one of them said.

There was a rushing noise, as something moved through the shadows themselves at terrific speed. In the lobby, the assorted crowd saw the shadows of the corridor seemed to get darker as the whooshing drew nearer. Then, as it hit the light, the dark shape burst out of the ground, and pounced upon Coulson, winding around his neck and limbs like an octopus from hell. "You...have made...a grave mistake, mortal..." hissed Karkull, as it squeezed his windpipe and limited his blood circulation.

Meanwhile, Mr Negative wasn't doing so well himself. Gold's moonarang knocked his hand away from Mary, giving him a slight cut, before Moon Knight himself came in for the kill. Negative's hands flew to his neck, but his enhanced reactions could only do so much. There he lay, with a cut on his neck, and a more serious gash along the back of his hand. Together, they condemned him to a slow death indeed.

His minions, distracted by the affair with the machine, soon noticed their fallen master. The inverted Booster screamed, and literally flew to Negative's side. He tackled Moon Knight to the ground, and punched him again and again, while the other gangsters threw themselves on top of Negative, burying him in their own meat shield.

Fairly used to weird freaky noises due to a career as a supernatural adventurer, Jacob used the opportunity to lash out at the remaining I Ds with his stolen weapon and claws. After his attack, the werewolf furrowed his brow, having figured out the reason.

"Karkull"

edited 21st May '15 11:41:18 AM by TenebrousGaze

Present

"...Well, if Richard thinks so..." Access said, looking at the Professor for approval. The whole notion of time travel -especially under his own power- still made him uneasy. "First make sure this -probe- is connected to your lab, or whatever you need."

After Richards had done so, Access, gulping a little, touched the robot-armor, and focused on how he had felt when had jumped through time. And, a second later-

-POP!-

...they reappeared back on 1942, right outside the invisible Zone of Nazi Influence he had already fallen under once. Just thinking about that made him shudder.

He could see the castle where the enemy held the Spear of Destiny from here; he guessed that's where the other heroes should be right now. Depending on exactly WHEN he had arrived of course...

No sense worrying about that now, he decided. He pointed to the castle and then told the machine: "Go there. Find the heroes and help them, any way you can!"

edited 21st May '15 11:51:30 AM by Sijo

Coulson let the gun drop to the ground. Stupid thing was going to take another two minutes to charge all the way up again, and he probably didn't have two minutes to live. He kicked and squirmed and flailed, before desperately pulling out his sidearm, pointing it up and behind in the area of Karkull's face, and squeezing the trigger until it clicked.

Moon Knight was stupid to let Booster surprise him like that. And now, he was stupid, and being choked to death. Booster was stronger than him with the power suit on, and he could feel the man choking him with an insane, desperate strength. Even if he couldn't die from a lack of oxygen, his larynx could be crushed, or his spine, or Booster could squeeze his neck till his head fell off.

Which is why he was sograteful when Skeets finally flew in through a window, zipping down to Booster's level.

"Michael!" Skeets cried, trying to get his friend's attention. "Michael, stop this! You're a good man! Don't you remember why you came back in time in the first place? To help people! To be a hero! You're better than this! Don't let this man control you! Listen to me! I'm your friend! Remember?" Skeets blinked and displayed a holographic video of what Booster had said to him when they'd first joined STRIKE.

edited 21st May '15 10:12:47 PM by SonOfSharknado

The suit seemed to acknowledge Access' urgings. Activating its thrusters, the drone shot off into the sky and homed in on the Nazi base. A small camera Reed had provided let Access see what it could see.

Meanwhile, at the base itself, it seemed like the tide was starting to turn. The two infiltration groups burst in from either side, ready to beat demon and nazi scum alike to a pulp. That is, until the shrouded nazi official raised his hands and cackled sinisterly. Then, Iron Man and five other allies were compelled to start beating up their own team-mates, as the controller shouted something along the lines of "Gods zemselves shall bow to zer vill of BRAIN DRAIN!"

It was all very overdramatic.

As Skeets burst into the room, Booster whipped around and aimed his blaster squarely at his little buddy's eye. As Skeets gave his speech, Booster said nothing, but simply stared, breathing heavily and bearing his teeth murderously. Then came the holographic picture show, and his expression softened. Even through the visor, it seemed like a look of clarity passed over him. His hands trembled, and he shook his head about, wracked with internal conflict, even as red and dark blue was replaced with light blue and gold.

Karkull snarled as Coulson emptied his revolver into his head, loosening the grip on most of his tendrils to the point where it was just a thread holding onto each limb. "I have waited too long...put in too much work...for my labours to be spoiled by the likes of you..." He raised one of his incredibly long and sharp claws, ready to tear Coulson's face off.

edited 24th May '15 3:35:58 PM by LizardOfAus

"That's it, Michael!" Skeets encouraged, pumping his little clamp-arms triumphantly. "Fight it!"

Rogue

"Screw these idiots," Rogue replied to Jacob, picking Jacob up to carry him, and taking flight, having decided that fighting the IDs was a waste of time. "We need to take down Karkull!"

While slightly surprised by Rogue's plan, the werewolf just went along with it. He looked out for heat signatures again and pointed once he found them.

"Over there."

Black Suit Mary

While the others were distracted Mary crawled herself behind a table.Her magic fought the corruption as transformation was canceled to protect her mind, returning her to a little girl. Luckily she was behind a table and she was hidden from view of others.

Mary Batson could see Coulson being in moral danger. She said her magic word again " SHAZAM!" to go back to help her friends and help to save his life.

Everyone would see the lightning hitting as her powers flowed to her again◊...but this time something was different. The friendly warmth of her eyes was gone and she was now wearing a full black suit, with the golden lightning symbol on her chest being the only thing that wasn't black

She wasn't under Mr negative's control, but she wasn't Mary Batson either. Rather her powers while protecting Mary. Focused all her negative traits, Mr negative's corruptive powers and her fear of becoming a monster into another personality that embodied what Mary Batson could become if she abandoned her love for others.

"Much better,"she said with malicious grin. while watching her hands, electricity still running outside her body

Mary Marvel punched the ground down to make a hole, that would probably help Mr negative escape. But her true intent was to test her strength.

She then crossed her arms and put herself infront of Karkull, facing the heroes...

edited 23rd May '15 2:02:12 PM by RPGLegend

Arrowcave

"Well, here's the Arrowcave you guys." Green Arrow told his new group of teammates that included Duos, Rahne, and Cypher.

"We'll train here, plan missions, and play Chutes and Ladders when there's nothing to do. Any questions about who we are or what we do?" Green Arrow asked his new team.

"Uhm," Duos said, scratching at his uniform with one hand and rubbing the back of his neck with the other. "Where are we going to sleep?"