Justice Avengers: Jump City at Dusk

"Alright," Starfire flew out of the range of the fire and frowned, looking towards Wolverine and her sister. "Do you two need any help?"

She understood the honor of a warrior and so would not interfere with Thor's fight anymore.

"Hey, hey!" She-Hulk said, putting her hands up. "It's all fine. No one is going to hurt you anymore." She took one step forward, reaching out to touch him. "I just want to see if you're fine. No more hurting, alright?"

Rural Falls

The Flash stopped when Pulson Girl spoke up, suddenly turning around and snapping his fingers at her. "I'm going to stay connected to the hamster wheel, producing a possibly never-ending amount of energy, can you concentrate the machine's output into a focused point in time to produce a controlled wormhole?!"

At this time, the cryogenic pods started melting, as one by one, the halls of pods were littered with confused people, mumbling and patting themselves. Cries of 'where am I', 'where's my X', 'how did I get here', 'where's that damn Syndicate' and more filled the halls as not-quite-Wolverine quietly made his way to She-Hulk's arm, still whining like a lost dog.

Jump City

"I really," Sunspot's fire grew. "Really." And grew. "REALLY." And grew even more, cops hiding behind the police cars jumping up and down at the rising temperature in the apshalt. "HATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU!" Sunspot pointed at Thor, as heated asphalt sprouted from the cracks on the floor, attempting to wash over the Thunder God.

Blackfire followed Wolverine's commands, flying to the right and shooting a flurry of starbolts at Tantrum's right leg. But Tantrum, instead, focused on Wolverine, knowing that he had to get close to hurt him, so when the mutant made his move to slash him, the Bang Baby made his move to swat him away like a fly. "Logan! Let me and my sister handle this!" Blackfire yelled from the sky, before turning to Starfire with a smile. "Think we can handle this purple beast?"

It was at this point, watching the prisoners thaw out, that Majestic suddenly began to wonder how much he might look like what Majestros looked like when he imprisoned some of these people...And that this plan might be ill conceived.

She-Hulk patted not-quite-Wolverine in the head, and then started looking for any wounds, knowing that this was an useless quest as this man had the same healing factor as the Wolverine from her world. "See? You just gotta hook 'em in with a little bit of that human hospi—" She looked up at Majestic, and then at the people they had just liberated. "Uuuh... hi everyone! I'm She-Hulk. This is Majest—" She stopped herself, covering her mouth, looking from one side to the other. "—Superman! Yeah, this is Superman, and our job here is to rescue you guys!"

"Shulk, be careful, don't trust him!" Pulson Girl said, as she saw She-Hulk approach the feral Wolverine. He might be pretending just to get close enough to stab somebody. Even if he isn't, a scared wild animal is always dangerous.

Then Flash addressed her about his escape plan. "Mmm, sure, it might work" she explained. "I mean, I never have done anything like this before, yet I know it's possible. You could say, it comes with the hero ID package."

Then she heard the name 'Superman'. "What! Is he here??" She looked around, then realized it was She-Hulk talking about Majestic. While she could see why, for a moment she hoped the real one had shown up to rescue them!

And then she realized: what if this world has an evil Superman?

"Oh Lord. We need to get out here. ASAP."

As Wolverine was swatted away, he would at least attempt to leave a gash on Tantrum's other. Once the mutant landed, he righted himsepf up and faced againt the remaining Bang Baby. "Alright pal," let me spell something out for ya," the X-Man warned. "Solid titantium reinforced steel is like butter to my claws. Surrender now if you don't wanna know how well they do against rubber." He clanged his claws together to emphasize.

edited 24th Jul '14 7:05:47 PM by UdtheImp

Thor stood there, twirling Mjolnir, as Sunspot lost his temper, as his smile started to turn into a frown. The whole time, he twirled Mjolnir and blue-white electricity crackled along its circular trajectory, more and more frequently.

When the wave of lavaspalt came roaring at him, Thor fell to his knees and slammed Mjolnir into the ground. The hammer converted most of its stored energy into sonic, with only a brief flicker of electricity signifying its others element. It focused it as much as it could in one direction, and the wall of sound, almost solid, crashed into Hotspot's wave and exploded.

Okay, so, here's what Thor planned to do, feel free to interrupt this plan at whatever point it should stop working.

Figuring on the blast to make the lavasphalt still thick enough to obscure vision, but thin enough to dive through, he, well, dived through, accepting the new burns with glee. He dived through it with his left arm outstretched in front of Hotspot, level with the younger mortal neck, clotheslining him. He'd ram his arm into Hotspots through.

Thor spun around behind Hotspot, turning that clothesline into a chokehold, forcing Hotspot against him. His right first, still clenched around Mjolnir, tensed back aaaand-

Kidney punch, kidney punch, kidney punch, kidney punch aaaaand-

Elbow to the crook of the neck.

Thor would carefully measure himself here, considering he has superstrength and, as far as he knew, Hotspot didn't. Years of experience let him do that, millennium of experience let him tell when he was punching someone with superstrength, and how much, and how much harder he needed to hit then. He didn't want to hurt the poor boy, just

Thor let go of Hotspot when he rammed his elbow into his shoulder/neck, aiming to drive the boy to his knees, hopefully to his face. If he didn't fall on his face, Thor would help him along with a foot to the back, right between the shoulder blades. He'd plant his foot there anyways, looming over the boy, pointing Mjolnir at the back of his head. A spark would jump out, giving Hotspot a "gentle" taze to knock him out.

Hector Hammond's House

The iconic hum of energy dissipating could be heard, as the force field around Hammond's house slowly, but surely disappeared, leaving the way open. The mutated servants hurriedly tried to fix everything, but every time the wires would fizz and pop, they jumped back and ran in circles like a bunch of scared ants circling a piece of food that's still alive.

Hammond tapped his foot against the floor of the elevator, gritting his teeth as the ding indicated he had reached the desired floor. Before he was even sure of what was going on, he threw his hands in the air. "What the devil is going on here?!" He yelled, before grabbing one of the closest servant and raising him by his collar. "You, explain!"

As the servant murmured word after word, trying to explain the situation to their boss, a group of servants started scurrying around, looking for something, their hands trembling as they dug through piles of unused prototypes and lockers filled with scrap strapped to scrap.

Rural Falls

The unfrozen heroes looked up at Majestic, all of them having suspicious looks on their faces. But then the Flash walked over to Majestic's side, suddenly slapping his cheeks in a look of surprise. "Superman! You liberated all these people with your incredible heat vision! You're so good!" He nudged Majestic with his shoulder. "I'm just lucky to be on a team with you! So, maybe, we should move onto the next step of our plan!" The Flash slapped a button, opening up the door out of the cryogenic freezing chamber. "The everyone, let's get out of here and kick the Syndicate in the butt so hard they won't be able to sit for the rest of their lives which they'll spend in prison part!"

That seemed to be enough to whip the heroes in a frenzy, as they all threw their costumed, furry, duplicated, muscled or translucid arms into the air, cheering as they rushed out of the door, filling the halls outside with the sounds of battle. One could even hear Darkfire asking for help before being punched through a wall, a move which made the Tower rattle with power. "Okay, this place ain't standing for much longer." He snapped his fingers towards Pulson Girl. "I'm gonna power up that hamster wheel! We should prepare for an offensive from all forces of the Syndicate!"

He pointed at Majestic, then at the ceiling. "Make a hole for me up there, buddy?" Once he did that, the superpowered farm boy would find himself in the middle of a desolate floor, filled with energy generators, and standing in the middle was a human-sized mechanical hamster wheel, connected to all these generators. Of course, there were also plenty of doors littering the walls, which would lead into other areas of the Tower. "Get us up! Pulson Girl, the moment you get up there, start working on focusing that energy!"

Of course, the moment when they got up there, they would have found out that they weren't alone, because out of the darkness came a man holding up a modified machine gun◊, clicking it and smiling as six Iron Man-like robots◊ emerged from the shadows, pointing their hands at the heroes. "I don't know who you guys are." The man with the machine gun said. "But wherever you're from, you should know these babies. Iron Maniac made 'em himself. That should be enough to make you wannabe heroes raise your hands and come with us willingly, shouldn't it?" He asked, grinning.

Jump City

Tantrum's response was clear, simple, concise, and very, very, very carefully thought out. The purple being took one step forward, opened his mouth and roared so loudly, nearby cars flipped onto their sides from the strength of the roar. Static flew alongside them, landing near Wolverine, but it was for another reason, as Rubberband Man had knocked the young hero out and sent his metal disk flying.

By the second kidney punch, Hotspot clenched his fists and roared just like Tantrum did, his body growing to even bigger temperatures, to the point that he was hot enough to melt the asphalt under him and cause minor damange to anything near him. This wasn't the full point of his attack, however, as it was meant to merely weaken Thor, jsut as something wrapped itself around the god's neck: Rubberband Man's arms. Not wanting to spend a lot of time near the in flames Hotspot, Rubberband Man tightened his grip around Thor's neck and pulled, attempting to tug him (with or without Hotspot) and then send him flying right into Static and Wolverine.

Pulson Girl, who had been brought up to the Hamster Wheel floor by Majestic, merely smirked at the armed man's comment. "Oh yeah? We'll see!" she snapped back. Then she went to face the robots! That probably looked suicidal to everyone else in the room, but she had a plan (namely, just as she had beaten Majestros at arm wrestling by warping space so his movements redirected, she would also turn the robots against each other.) The gunman she was fairly sure the others could handle. Heck, Flash alone would likely disarm and clobber him.

Her hands crackled with her trademark blue-black fire.

Majestic groaned as the man with the gun and his Iron Men stood between himself, Flash, Pulson Girl, and the "hamster wheel." While Pulson girl tried dealing with the Iron Men, he made his way toward the man with the gun.

"I don't know who you are.." He said, hands balled into fists. "But you're in my way. I'm going to fix that."

Jump City

"I think we can," Starfire said as she flew up into the sky and prepared to blast Tantrum with Starbolts at Blackfire's cue, which she would do unless something interfered.

edited 24th Jul '14 8:57:38 PM by GameGuruGG

"Iron Maniac?" She-Hulk scoffed, glaring at the armed man. "Are you guys even trying anymore?" She asked, putting one hand on her hip as she moved forward. "I mean, come on. You could have come up with a super creative name, couldn't ya?" She asked the armed man, her other hand behind her back as she walked closer to him. "A man like you certainly seems like he has a big... mind."

During this obvious attempt at distraction, Majestic would be able to see that she was pointing at the ceiling with the hand behind her back, indicating that he should attack from above.

Majestic noticed She-Hulk's hand and, on the off chance that the masked man wasn't going to fall for a distraction that was transparent even to Majestic, he put on some extra speed so that he couldn't be seen as he flew up to the ceiling, then dove down again, hoping to put the masked man through the floor, and also hoping that this would be the first person he fought today that wasn't invulnerable.

Daredevil's ultra-enhanced hearing would soon pick up a third figure entering the ventilation a few seconds behind the Black Panther. Said figure's extremely silent movement^* audible to nobody except Daredevil himself gave away its identity as Psylocke.

A short moment later, they reached Daredevil's position within the ventilation shaft. "Right," she telepathically sent, indicating a nearby grate that led to a pitch-black hallway. With a tap of her finger on her arm, she drew one of the kunai locked onto her bracers. She then inserted the point into the edges around the grate, slowly but silently^* and with a little help from her telekinesis prying it open.

A faint crick signaled the grate giving up; it began to tip forward into the hallway, but not before Psylocke deftly caught it with one hand. She set it aside, then quickly slid out of the hole in the wall, landing on the hallway floor with nary a sound.

"Archives ahead," she sent to the two, motioning ahead of her; sure enough, the door to the archive room was lit with pale-red emergency lights - one of the sections that was unaffected by her earlier generator sabotage. "Side entrance to disposal area behind, then left twenty paces. Might be something we could use in there." She idly wondered if she should add a pin camera to her armor for situations like this. Oh, right - 'doctored image' argument. Still...

As usual, she didn't wait for a response - they were on a strict time limit, after all - and she began heading for the archive room door, wary of any redundant precautions Hammond might still have.

edited 29th Jul '14 1:33:09 AM by Demovere

Black Panther took heed of Psylocke's directions, and made his way to the disposal area, and hoped there wouldn't be anything too offensive for his super-senses there.

Hector Hammond's House

Unfortunately for Black Panther, he would find piles upon piles of garbage, both in the mechanical and the organical sense. Going through the piles of mechanical scrap were two small henchmen, wearing protective suits thanks to the unusual nature of whatever was in the organical piles. It glew slightly, so clearly it wasn't supposed to be touched.

On the archives room there were also two small mutated workers, although they were busy trying to call up their boss. "Try the other line!" One yelled. "This is the other line!" The other replied.

Jump City

"Logan!" Blackfire yelled as she started shooting at Tantrum, flying around him but on the opposite direction as Starfire. "Use this chance! Attack him!"

Rural Falls

"Take your words back you green wi—" The armed man said, pointing his gun at She-Hulk. When Majestic flew up, the armed man didn't notice, but he did notice the sound of something coming towards him at an incredible speed. As fast as possible, he reached for his belt, pulling out a sharp, golden-looking blade, and slashed wildly at the air in front of him, hoping to hit Majestic, before being sent through three floors and landing on the basement. If Majestic was slashed, however, he would feel a burning pain that would not cease for a small time, as his wound did not regenerate quickly.

The Iron Maniac robots quickly got into action, flying towards each of the heroes on the room and attempting to pile up on top of them. Two went after Majestic and two went after She-Hulk, whilst the last four focused on both Pulson Girl and the Flash, deeming them unimportant. The latter, focusing on the mission, dodged them and got to work on running on the giant hamster wheel, the generators around the room crackling with electricity.

Wolverine dodged Thor by jumping up into the air, leaping over the Norse God, and then he charged straight for Rubberband Man - *shnkt* - and aiming a punch at the Bang Baby with a bare fist.

edited 2nd Aug '14 5:05:36 PM by UdtheImp

Pulson Girl proceeded with her plan of warping space around the Iron Maniacs attacking her so that they would hit -and hopefully destroy- each other; she would go back to helping Flash form the portal to their Earth after they were safe.

Majestic let out a cry of shock and pain as the golden blade bit into his shoulder. Everything was hurting him today. The burning and the bleeding distracted him enough that he didn't even notice the Iron Maniacs until they were already upon him, and by that point, all he could do was let loose his heat vision, not even bothering to see if they were man under the metal.

"These suckers are durable!" She-Hulk yelled as she attempted to drive her fist through the head of one of the Iron Maniacs- but only after making sure they weren't human. "Majestic! Burn 'em up!" She asked, trying to throw the other one in the air.

Starfire began firing at Tantrum when Blackfire did so, in coordination with Blackfire's movements.

Thor got up, dusting himself off. He showed quite a few signs of grievous injury, skid marks and gruesome burns, but he didn't seem to be bother.

"Aaaalright then."

Jump City

"What the hell?!" Hotspot yelled out, glaring at Thor. "You're still standing up? How?!" He asked, completely ignorant of Rubberband Man getting punched right in the face, knocking him out with one move as he flew into a police car, landing neatly inside.

Tantrum, meanwhile, was having trouble trying to reach for one of the two princess sisters, before trying to cover himself from the incoming fire. Slowly, Blackfire stopped, as she heard the sounds of crying coming from the little ball which Tantrum had curled up into. And then, almost as if a magician was revealing his tricks, the giant purple beast turned into a meek young boy◊ wearing nothing but his green shorts, now a bit larger than usual. "P-please stop!" He sobbed, trying to protect himself.

"What is this sorcery?" Blackfire muttered under her breath.

Rural Falls

Pulson Girl's plan seemed to go swimmingly well at first, with one Iron Maniac robot exploding the other robot's head with a clean shot, but her enemies seemed to get what she was doing, and now they were dodging any redirected blasts, instead choosing to move the fight to close quarters, trying to land a hit on Pulso N Girl.

She-Hulk's fist drove through the head of one of the Iron Maniacs, and Majestic's laser sliced clean through one, leaving behind only three, who seemed to be learning and mimicking their enemies movements, just as the generators started to crackle with more energy. "PULSON GIIIIIRL!" The Flash yelled, now nothing more than an unrecognizable blur. "DO IT ALREADY!" He yelled out, closing his eyes, feeling the Speed Force taking him, embracing it on his arms...

... and amongst all this confusion, Majestic would be able to see, sticking out of a pile of rubble four floors below, the armed man's hand, holding onto the golden blade whose cut was still on his face. It shined, shimmering, splendid, beckoning for Majestic to take it, to find out more about the blade that had cut his normally invulnerable skin.

Majestic swung at the Iron Maniacs as they attacked him with punishing blows, his attention torn between Flash beside him and the sword far below him. He couldn't risk the chance of getting left behind, but the sword...something about it. It was so...beautiful. Putting on a burst of speed, Majestic flew down through the hole he'd made, as fast as he could, reaching out to grab the sword, hoping to grab it and fly back through the hole before the man he'd punched could stir and attack again.