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| SSU2 2.0: Sands of Time; One Year Timeskip. Year is now 2015. | |
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| Kamidio | Feb 6 2014, 10:26 PM Post #1 |
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Explosions lit up the night sky over the Mexican desert like fireworks. Debris rained down upon the trash-filled wasteland. "Sheathwing, those were cluster-bombs. We're gonna need you to take out the remaining parts before they turn this dump into a massive fire!" A large beetle-like shape buzzed by. Several tiny projectiles shot from it, and ripped the sky appart with several smaller explosions. "Okay, Rose, it's been handled." Storm clouds began rolling in, and with them came several massive bolts of lightning. Sheathwing sighed. "Oh great, it's Zeus." Rose grunted. "Great, just what we need- more whack-jobs to deal with. It's not like Blood was a big enough problem as it is." A streak of light shot by Rose and stopped next to him. A woman with skin as black as the night sky and sparking with electricity looked at the storm. She bounced a hammer in her hand. "So Rose, what're we looking at in terms of collateral?" Rose gave an exasperated groan and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'd say that if Zeus and Blood go at it, we're looking at half of Mexico being rendered uninhabitable. Sheathwing landed next to Rose. "Then we'd better hope that Man-XX can take care of Blood before he-" Blitz shoved Sheathwing to the ground and blocked a glowing sword with her hammer. "Blood." "Hola, Senorita Blitz. Your reflexes are as fast as ever." The man behind the sword pulled back. Rippling with muscles and clad in a skin-tight black suit with a skull-like face mask, and long, flowing hair, the man looked like some sort of freak-show. Sheathwing pushed herself up and took a small metal sphere from her belt. "Back off, Blood, or I set off this grenade and melt your face off." A bullet hit the grenade and sent it to the ground. A woman wearing a tuxedo over a corset and a tattered skirt, with a set of long lace-up boots stepped from behind Blood and blew some smoke away from the barrel of her gun. "I wouldn't do that, Sheathwing." Rose shouted. "I thought we had a deal, Man-XX! two thousand dollars for your help in apprehending Blood!" Vines shot from his back. "See, lil' Miss XX and I had a deal. Twenty thousand dollars to get you off of my turf." "And with money like that, how could I refuse? So I took the offer, and here we are. I would make a joke about a Mexican stand-off, but I think that's been made already." Man-XX leveled her gun at Rose's forehead. "I've got a special bullet for you, flower-face." Before she could pull the trigger, a bolt of lightning hit the ground between the two groups. "Put down your weapons, or face the wrath of the gods." A man with a long white beard and hair, a metal harness over his chest, and a large silver spear clenched in one hand. Blood held his plasma sword, ready to attack at a moment's notice. "No thanks, muchacho." Blood launched himself at Zeus, sword prepared to slash through the newcomer. Zeus blocked with his spear, and the two locked in place. "Stand down, Blood." "Not likely, god wanna-be." The stalemate was broken by a blast of mystical yellow energy. Blood and Zeus stepped back to their respective allies. "I'd advise you all to calm down." A man clad in black scale armor and a dragon-shaped helmet stood to the side. "Anger is a poison to the soul." Man-XX looked at her wrist, which held a large watch on it. "C'mon Blood, let's scram. We're out-numbered." "Oh no you don't!" Blitz streaked toward Man-XX. Everything suddenly began moving in slow motion around her. Black Dragon was frozen in place as he gathered mystical energy in his black scale gauntlets. Zeus was frozen in place like a marble statue as he held his spear pointed towards Man-XX. Man-XX was about ready to slam her hand down onto her watch. Blitz reached Man-XX and slammed her with her hammer. Everything suddenly happened all at once as time went back to normal speed. "What- WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Man-XX fell to the ground as she hit her watch, and was instantly pelted with a massive lightning bolt and a ball of magic energy. Dust was thrown up around her. She coughed and pushed herself up. Her watch sparked with energy and burned her skin. "Ow! Ow!" She held up her watch, and saw that something had gone wrong. "What have you done!? You idiots have broken it! We're all gonna-" At that moment, the watch exploded into a sphere of white light. The sphere consumed Man-XX and everyone around her. ~Present Day: 2015~ Blood stood within the training room of King Orichalcum's palace. Next to him stood Rose. Before them, King Orichalcum explained their next lesson. "Today, you will both learn how to fly. Rose, you may be able to fly, but today you will truly learn. I myself am incapable, but fortunately, we have a magic hero who happens to know plenty about it." Orichalcum beckoned for the door of the room to open, and through it walked an old lady. "Miss Chen is a master of mystical energies. I expect you to treat her with the utmost respect." |
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| trex841 | Feb 6 2014, 10:35 PM Post #2 |
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Rose suppressed an eye roll at the truly learn how to fly bit, but stayed quiet when Miss Chen entered. O.S.C.A.R floated in the background, watching the team interact. |
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| Sigma Draconis | Feb 7 2014, 08:13 AM Post #3 |
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(Sorry for taking so long. Fakey, where is Sheathwing?) |
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| trex841 | Feb 7 2014, 08:20 AM Post #4 |
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(New York I believe, but we'll still need his post to interact with.) |
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| Archipithecus | Feb 7 2014, 09:14 AM Post #5 |
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(And where's the rest of the people who didn't get the super league invites?) |
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| Sigma Draconis | Feb 7 2014, 09:17 AM Post #6 |
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(I suppose you are still helping out in Fenburg) |
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| TAXESbutNano | Feb 7 2014, 10:51 AM Post #7 |
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It was a full moon, and the moonlight was visible on the camouflaged side of Overlord Infernium's airship. A figure stood near the window... "By the way, how much progress have we made on the Quantum Snarl Generator?" "NOT MUCH," Lord Clank replied. "IT SHALL MOST PROBABLY TAKE YEARS BEFORE WE CAN USE THEM TO PROVIDE A PHYSICAL ADVANTAGE. THE SNARL-BASED COMMUNICATOR IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE OLD ONE, THOUGH." "Well, it's quantum technology," the Overlord replied. "Shouldn't really expect that to be done too quickly." "WE ARE APPROACHING THE RECYCLING CENTRE." "Ah, good." Overlord Infernium rubbed his hands together, and walked to the front of the blimp. Improvements to his forcefield generator had meant he could keep the hydrogen-bag off most of the time, as it was now a smooth enough and cheap enough surface to be sustainable. "Prepare the collectors." At the bottom of the blimp, below the storage bay, two tubes opened up. Through these, a pair of large metallic scoops exited, and were slowly lowered down. The blimp slowed and drew to a halt, and the scoops opened before crashing into the trash piles and picking up great scoops of useful stuff like metal and plastic. "We really need to make this a bit quieter," he sighed. "The police can probably hear us from the other side of the city. Good thing that most of the heroes are in that other city for now, with... wotshisface... That random evil guy keeping them busy." Lord Clank did not feel the need to correct him. The tell-tale pinging of bullets started to be heard. "Well, better get out of here before they scratch the paintwork." "INDEED." The blimp's claws retracted, since they had a sufficient amount of materials for continued Piston production. With its job done, the blimp flew up and away, into the moonlit sky. |
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| Kamidio | Feb 7 2014, 07:51 PM Post #8 |
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(Sheathwing's in New Yahk. You can start however you want. The others are wherever they'd be in one year.) |
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| Sigma Draconis | Feb 8 2014, 04:01 AM Post #9 |
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(OK then, here it goes) Sheathwing flew through the streets of New York, hiding between buildings, searching for trouble. And in a city like New York, there was always troble somewhere. You just had to find it. He extended his antennae and tasted the air, until they found traces of violence in it. Speeding up, he tracked the smell into a dark alley, similar to that in which he had lived a year ago. A mugging was taking place. Sheathwing landed silently and apprached the group. 4 muggers and one victim. Should be easy. The victim was already unconscious, so he could play the fear card. He hunched over, opened his hands wide and startde jerking his antennae. "Youuuu" He said in a raspy voice. The muggers jumped and looked in his direction. One of them dropped the knife he was handling. While they were startled like this, he rushed at them. slamming at two of them with his open hands, headbutting another one. The fourth tried to run, but he grabbed him by the nape of his neck and held him there, them slammed him into the ground. Sheathwing then checked the man that had been mugged. He´d be allright. A couple of bruises, but nothing broken. He then took out a phone and contacted the police. "Time to get back" He snapped the phone shut and shot up into the sky, heading back to headquarters. Edited by Sigma Draconis, Feb 8 2014, 05:14 AM.
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| Archipithecus | Feb 8 2014, 01:20 PM Post #10 |
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Black Dragon dove off the highest building in Fenburgh. Over the last year, people had started getting used to the mysterious beast that would traverse the city at night. Some still stopped and stared, but most were either too scared, or just to busy. As he neared the street, he spread his wings and landed near a storefront, where he saw two men harassing a store owner. They ran away as they saw him coming, and Black Dragon noted something unusual. They were short, had flat noses, and ran with strange, sort of bow legged gait. Black Dragon turned into his human form and faced the store owner and asked, "Are you all right?" "Wh-h-ho are you?" the man stuttered. "Just call me Danny. What were they doing?" "N-nothing! J-just collecting the money I owed them!" "Who were they? They didn't look quite human." "They're from the Fenburgh Syndicate!" Danny paused. He had heard that name on the news before. Some sort of gang, he thought. "Thank you for your help." And with that, he transformed back into the Black Dragon and leaped up onto the roof of the store, disappearing into the night. |
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| Sigma Draconis | Feb 8 2014, 01:35 PM Post #11 |
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(I was wondering when we were going to see your ape thugs.) |
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| Kamidio | Feb 10 2014, 01:08 AM Post #12 |
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~The Mexican Desert, Present Day~ A blast of white light ripped apart a cactus. The blast separated into six beams of light. The beams spread out across the planet, scattered by the explosion. The light faded and revealed the form of Man-XX. "Damn fools didn't listen. Now I'm in who knows where." She covered her eyes with her hands and looked around. "Another desert. And it's got these weird spiny things pokin' up, too." Man-XX pulled up her watch. "Let''s see here-" She tapped on her watch and a screen popped up. "Huh, I'm right where I was. That's weird." She tapped on her watch, but the thing just sparked and sputtered, shocking her. "Oh great, the damn thing's busted. Looks like I'm gonna have to hoof it." ~Meanwhile, in Australia~ A beam of white light soared over the horizon and slammed down into the waters just off of the coast of Sydney. Miss Chen walked up to Blood and Rose, and looked them each over carefully, observing their faces, and occasionally feeling their hands. After giving the two a once over, she nodded. "Alright. You two have been trained well. But now, you will lean how to fly. And I don't mean throwing an ax or wasting valuable energy that you could use for other tasks." Miss Chen pulled a small paper butterfly from his long sleeves. She whispered to it, and the little piece of paper came to life, fluttering around as though it were alive. "I will be teaching you a very basic technique at this moment, and that is levitation." Miss Chen tapped her walking stick onto the floor, and it rose up into a landscape of blocks. "While some may think it worthless, levitation is actually very valuable. I know a girl who can only hover a few feet off of the ground and produce flashes of light, and she has apprehended more criminals than any other student of mine." |
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| trex841 | Feb 10 2014, 08:49 AM Post #13 |
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Proan sat upon his throne and continually went over the data he had gathered. It had been a full year, and he still couldn’t find Man-X. He scanned every inch of Fenburgh with no sign of him, and he had drones in every major city in the U.S.A. Still nothing. He balled his fist in anger. It took the year to get this far, and there’s still so much ground to cover over the rest of the country, not to mention the rest of the world. With all this racing through his head, he could only think of one thing. “I need better drones.” Suddenly his computer blared to life, scanners detecting a disturbance in the fabric of the Multiverse. As he went over the new data, he noticed it looked familiar. It looked as if a hole had been punched through the fabric of space. He hadn’t seen an event like this since… Proan leapt from his throne and started typing in the coordinates. No time for drones now, this required personal observation. The portal opened into the Mexican Desert and stepped through, closing the door behind him. Pulling a chip from his inventory, he plugged it into his gauntlet, causing his armor to be cloaked, nearly invisible to the untrained eye. Now that everything was prepared, he began his surveillance of area. ------------------------------------- Rose stayed silent, but was legitimately impressed at the concept of flying without burning through her energy. Without Man-X around to act as a willing battery, she had to conserve power as much as she could. The prospect of kissing people who were either on fire or had a mouth full of razor sharp teeth wasn’t a fun one, even by her standards. |
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| Sigma Draconis | Feb 10 2014, 09:05 AM Post #14 |
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Sheathwing quickly arrived at HQ, and after making sure he had not been followed, he entered the premises. Scorpion was nowhere to be seen, but she was probably out or still asleep. Sheathwing shivered. As part of his training program, temperatures inside headquarters were kept cold so that he develop a resistance. So far, he had found that Coke seemed to work. He opened the fridge door and grabbed a can quickly, before the cold really got to him. Cracking it open with a finger he drank a large gulp, whw¡ich cleared his head. He sat down on a chair and waited for Scorpion to appear, while sipping his coke. |
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| Archipithecus | Feb 11 2014, 01:39 PM Post #15 |
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Danny sat on a gargoyle on top of a building, thinking about the thugs. "How to find their headquarters. I'm not connected to anything useful, so pretending to join them is out. Besides, they would never accept a kid barely out of high school. I could track them down at night, maybe see if they show up again at that store. If I find their headquarters, I'd have to be sneaky. They probably have machine guns, and last year showed that I'm not immune to those."
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