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SSU2 Part 4; Sunny Cuba!
Topic Started: Nov 18 2012, 08:56 PM (4,650 Views)
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Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, a fleet of Aircraft carriers slice through the water. One of these massive metal beasts holds Artie, sitting close to the edge and watching the ocean spray. The sound of icy footsteps approached from behind him as Kaimana Randell entered the scene.

“Hey Artie, you ok? You look like you don’t quite have your sea legs yet.”

Artie turned around and was met with the sight of her ice prosthetics, reminding him of the irony of her comment. “Hi Kaimana. I’m not sick, just a bit worried. Man-X seems to be more protective of me than normal.”

“That’s just natural, he don’t want to see you end up like me.” He replied, sticking out her leg for emphasis.

“Ya, I’ve been meaning to ask about that.”

“One of those reds got the drop on me. Took some time to get used to them, but it’s better than the plastics if you ask me.”

Just as she finishes, the faint sound of steel drums can be heard. Music notes also start drifting around a corner. Artie and Kaimana smirk knowing full well who the cause of this bizarre phenomenon is. They walk a ways to see Man-X in a Hawaiian T-shirt and shorts playing said instrument. “Hello my teammates!” He says in a thick Jamaican accent.

“If you’re going to be random, at least pick one culture to imitate.” Kaimana said, stifling her laugher. Artie walks up to Man-X and asks “Man-X, are you going to be Ok with me being a part of this mission?” Man-X, sensing the worry in his voice, stopped playing and scooped up all the free flying music notes. Kneeling down next to Artie, he said “I’m not going to lie to you Artie; I am going to worry about you. I’m always worrying about my friends, but I don’t let it consume me. I just put on a smile and keep on trucking. As long as you’re on this ship and your creations are doing the fighting, I’ll know you’ll be safe.”

Artie smiled and hugged him and Man-X hugged back. A touching scene that Kaimana smiles at. “All you need is a cat and the family portrait is complete.”

“Oh ya, another thing I meant to ask about. Man-X, what did you ever do with Tadina?”

“I put her up with an Adoption clinic. They said they have already found a happy home for her."
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Jump cut to an old ladies lap with a very annoyed looking grey cat being petted way too hard. The surrounding room was filled with many more cats, scratch posts and other cat memorabilia.

“If I have to stay here any longer the gods only know what I’m going to do.” Tadina thought. She muscled her way out of the grannies grip and wormed her way into the kitchen and out the cat door. She needed some air and some stretching space. After a few minutes outside she was met with a familiar flash of light. Running up to it, she saw Mestavse, her savior.

“Oh thank the gods you’re here! Please get me out of here!”

“Take it easy kitty. We got to make sure Ms. Ugly Sweater over there doesn't notice that you're gone."

“Trust me, she’s got so many cats, she’ll never notice one gone. Let’s just go.”

Tadina jumped up onto Mestavse and he teleported them to a Cuban beach. Many soviet soldiers stood in the sand, preparing for their invasion of American soil. Tadina, in one massive stretch, transformed back into a human for the first time in nearly a month.

“Ah, that’s better. So, what did Tobias want me to do?”

“The flamin' devil wants you on guard duty. Just in case one of these new recruits does something stupid."

“Alright. Could you be a gentlemen and please get a lady a weapon? You wouldn’t want me to go out there defenseless, would you?” She said mustering as much flirt into her plea as possible.

“Fine.” In a burst of light he was gone for a second, then reappearing with a katana.

“Thanks sweetie.” She thanked him with a peck on the cheek. Mestavse then pulls out a radio and contacts Ellie.

“Ellie here. How are things on your end Mestavse?”

“A little warm for my tastes, but otherwise alright.”

“Same here. Nothing out of the ordinary.”

"Perfect. Sounds like it's all going to plan. I think I'll stroll around the beach, check out these new facilities. Hiss at me later if something's up."

“Actually, it won’t be a hiss. I’ve got a new form for this mission. A lot better suited for a beach battle. Plus I’m still working out some of the kinks from my battle with Blood last month.”

“Don't get me started."

“At least you didn’t have to share a plane with him. Anyway, I ‘ve got to go”

“Roger. Over and out.” Mestavse hung up and looked over the preparations that were going on around him. “Why the Premier would want to capture this place, I will never know.”
Edited by trex841, Nov 18 2012, 08:57 PM.
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(Wrong. Reread Ellies conversation. She dropped them off a month ago.)
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(I am not going to skip over a giant chunk of Blood's character development just because it's 'inconvenient'. That'd be like skipping over the part where Captain America gets frozen, Wolverine discovers his past, or where Bruce Wayne's parent's die.)
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(You can write a seperate story for it.)
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(And you two start arguing in the first two posts. Great job, guys...)
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(I need to keep the order. It's my job.)
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Ikabod stood on deck, assembled around him were a menagerie of various different lizardmen all prepping their weapons. A few snarled in anticipation for the coming battle, they knew what was needed of them. Nothing needed to be said, what man did to his fellow man was no more. Times have changed.

He looked to his right as they passed one of the massive air craft carriers, on his own carrier the USS Nixon. Ikabod was beginning to enjoy the cool air of the ocean, he tried awkwardly to light a cigar but the breeze kept on blowing his match out. He opened a hatch door and descended below deck where the sounds of men cheering and the roaring of excited lizardmen could be heard.
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(You do not realize how long it takes for me to write a story. I started writing my Superman fanfiction a month ago. I'm still working on the first chapter. Last time we skipped an in-game event, it was because Canis felt the urge to play a Nuzlocke run. Please, for the sake of continuity. I've been planning this since part two. I have no back-up plan for 'Huur durr nope. Blood gon be in Cuba.')
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"Hope the voyage is going alright for you all," General Haifisch said as he walked up to Artie, Man-X, and Kaimana. "Don't want you all puking your guts out when we land. It'll look too much like chum to me, and I won't be able to resist."

"Quite a disgusting habit there, General," Borys said, his head appearing beside General Haifisch. The rest of his body resembled a thin snake peeking out through a crack in the deck floor. His quarters were right below where general was standing after all. Soon after, the rest of Borys's body followed and coalesced next to the general.

"Sure glad you decided to come with us to Cuba Borys. Once we're done here, I give you my full permission to join the army stationed at the Polish front."

"Much appreciated general. So I don't believe you've told us the full strategy of our invasion yet general."

"And I don't believe everyone else is here. Collect everyone in the debriefing room. I'll tell you there." Suddenly, the general spotted a breaching dolphin out of the corner of his eye. He ran over to the side of the deck and licked his lips hungrily. "Borys, I need you to do me a favor," he said as he started taking off his uniform and shifting into his sharkish form.

"And what would that be general?"

"Tell the captain to stop this boat at once. I'm hungry, and I like my dolphin rare." Fully transformed now, he squatted on the deck like a football player ready to snap the ball. Then he took a head-first dive into the ocean began to chase down the dolphin that had just caught his fancy.

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Mestavse started wandering through the camp, wiping his brow. He did not like this oppressive heat, not one bit. If there were a tall, blonde, busty, female freezer nearby (OOC: freezer here implies a superhuman who can produce and control ice at will. Sort of like Iceman from "X-men" or Frozone from "The Incredibles), he would propose to her right then and there. Surely there would be one of those in the Russian military, but he had never seen one.

He walked into the hangar, temporary abode of Temudgin. If there were some cold-as-ice babe around this Cuban sauna, she would be there. He walked through the door of the hangar, slyly throwing on a pair of shades.

"Is it hot here in Cuba, or is it just me?" Mestavse said, leaning against the wall.

"Eez jest you," Tobias said, walking up behind Mestavse and slapping him on the back, causing him to face-plant onto the floor.

"So what, are you saying I'm not your type there big boy?"

Tobias groaned, annoyed by Mestavse already. He was glad that Mestavse was back in action, but wished that the coma he was in would alter his mannerisms at least slightly. Apparently he was perfectly fine. And perfectly annoying.

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Viktor stood there on top of the hastily-constructed tower. Some metal-controlling super had produced a ten-foot tall metallic wall, composed of two layers. Between each layer were large electric generators, creating a strong electric charge that would repulse any American supers who dared cross it. Of course, the ground was not very firm. On both sides of the wall, the ground was simply sand. If the Americans had convinced his brother to fight, as he was convinced they had, he would have no problem getting in between the walls and shutting off the generators, allowing for a large-scale American force to push through.

This was why Viktor was standing on the wall. Well, it was more of a stone platform constructed to give guards a place to stand, but it allowed him to survey anything coming near the wall from the American or Soviet camps. If Borys came near this wall, Viktor wanted to be the first to confront him.

Viktor had volunteered for this guard duty. Usually, Tobias chose the guards out of the new recruits. Viktor was sure that the cat lady he had heard so much about would, at some point, be joining him on the wall that he, having been in the military for over a year now, did not have to guard. If it were not for his bloodlust and his strong desire to confront his brother, he would be hanging out in the hangar with Tobias, Mestavse, and Temudgin. But his desire to take Borys down overrode all his social desires.
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(Look, I can't just let this chunk of story line happen in part 4. It will distrupt to much of the main plot. But I think I have a compromise. I can set up a side story thread for you where you can write out the story in your own time. I can even set it a month ago so you can talk with Ellie.)

Man-X worried for the dolphin, but he thought it could handle it's self. "Shale we go and gather the others?" He asked the group.

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Tadina followed Mestaves into the hanger, entering just in time to slam his head to the floor. She laughed s she grabbed the sunglasses off the floor and handed them back to him. "And here I thought you didn't swing that way."
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(Thank you. Now to put into play what I had in mind for part five.)

One Month Later...

Blood sat Shock onto a stand and pushed a button. A forcefield shot up around the device, keeping the retired weapon safe.

"Thanks, bro. It was nice to have one last fight at your side." running his finger down the forcefield, Blood turned and left his room.

As he passed down the stairs and into the living room, he picked up a set of papers stolen from Raphael's office during his siege.

"Karla! Let's look at who we'll be selecting."

Karla strode in and sat next to him, spilling out the photos of various people the CIA had gathered intel on.

Blood instantly pointed to a picture of Viktor.

"We could use someone like him. A bit violent though..."

Karla just stared at Blood like he was an idiot. "Blood, you're calling him violent when you nearly destroyed both the Statue of Liberty's torch and the airship moor on the top of the Empire State Building."

"Yes."

Karla punched him in the shoulder, breaking a bone. Blood healed the damage.

"Ow."

"Well besides the bulb, who else?"

"Hmm. We hold a quasi-tournament between them all. To Cuba!"

Blood jumped off of the couch and moved into the adjacent room, filled with windows and an a set of controls.

*imaginary camera pan-out*

Blood's trailer lay on the underbelly of a zeppelin, complete with the Byrneblyt family seal painted on the side. The massive sky whale turned northward and began its flight out of Brazil. The course set, the body of the ship morphed into a flat landing strip, revealing the entrance to a previously hidden garage.

(Notes: The Bryneblyt family is very rich with a lot of money to spend. This airship is something they had lying in a warehouse, gathering dust. Blood offered to take it so he wouldn't be a land squatter anymore. He took it and it fused with the trailer(which was a fusion itself), creating the floating base seen here. This is the final transformation of his Cube.)
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(Fakey, the Hindenburg still happened in this timeline. As such, airships are about as widespread as today. As a result, the Empire State Building still does not have an airship moor (which I know was why the Empire State Building was initially constructed). Blood traveling in a family-owned airship is fine. But there is no public airship transportation)
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(I know this. The tower on top still has the hook thingy for mooring though, even it's not used for that pupose. Both in our universe and their's.)
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(Ah. So that's what that little rod is for. Very well, carry on)
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