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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 3340701" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter Six, “The Masters of Evil”, (Avengers #270-277).The six arrive on a city street. Based upon the buildings Clarese states “We are in New York City.” “Great, the Big Apple!” Alton exclaims. Cassie looks around and says, “I don’t see any apples, there are hardly any trees at all. What does the Tallus say Clarese?”She looks at the device and says, “Nothing yet. We might as well look around.” Mojo says, “Good idea, let’s find a bar.” Cassie says, “I was thinking a book store or library.” Narg says, “The last place had books but no bar, I vote booze.” Cassie says, “The first place had no books. The last place had lots of books but I didn’t get any!” Mojo says, “I swiped a notepad off of a desk, does that count?”Narg says, “Hold on everybody!” “Trouble?” Timothy exclaims. Narg says, “Nope, hot dogs!” pointing across the street to a vendor. They all proceed over there and purchase hot dogs, leaving Clarese to make payment as she is the only won with American dollars instead of silver and gold coins. While they are eating a few passersby give them odd looks, but not nearly as many people as you might expect.They continue down the street until they see “O’Dell’s Bar”. There is a wrecked vehicle on the side of the road. A glass picture window is boarded up with plywood. Narg exclaims, “Looks like they had quite a bar fight recently.” “Sounds like a place for us,” Mojo exclaims. They head inside.A few patrons groan at the sight of them and the bartender exclaims, “Oh no, more of them.” “More of what?” Cassie asks. The guy says, “Look, why don’t you just leave. I don’t want any more trouble than I’ve already got.” “Why, what happened?” Alton asks. He replies “Hercules was in here earlier, he got into a fight and trashed the place.”Narg says, “By Hercules, you mean a local guy with that as his nickname?” The bartender replies, “No, I mean Hercules, the son of Zeus.” Mojo says, “Yep, this is the bar for us.” “So what exactly happened?” Cassie asks. The bartender says, “Hercules was in here drinking and showing off, then he got into a fight with a guy and they got thrown out the window. Then Hercules trashed a truck out there on the Street.”“Why would Hercules come to this bar?” she asks. He replies, “He lives just a few blocks down the Street at Avenger’s Mansion.” “Maybe we should go there,” Timothy comments. Mojo says, “Fine, let’s go locate this mansion. Maybe we can get a drink there, this guy doesn’t seem interested in serving us.” Timothy interjects, “Well, somebody dressed similar to us did just wreck his establishment.”They soon arrive at their destination but there is no mansion there, instead the entire city block is surrounded by a large block of black magical darkness that stands several stories high. There are several policemen and police cars around. They then see a person enlarge with insect wings on her back that disappear as she reaches human size. Clarese says, “That’s the Wasp, she’s a member of the Avengers.”They approach and the Wasp turns toward the six and begins to approach them. Clarese looks at the Tallus and says, “We just got our mission. It says we are to Defeat the Masters of Evil.” “Didn’t we just do that?” Alton states. She replies, “No that was the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, this is a different Group.”The Wasp approaches and asks, “Who are you?” Clarese says, “I am Blink, I lead The Exiles. We are here to help defeat the Masters of Evil.” The Wasp says, “Good, I’ve called for our Reserve Avengers but they aren’t here yet.” “What is going on?” Alton asks. Wasp replies, “The Masters of Evil have taken over our mansion. I snuck in earlier and saw that they had captured our butler. Captain America and Hercules went in to rescue him and then this darkness went up.”There is then a bubble in the darkness and a large muscular bearded man is ejected out onto the street. The Wasp yells out “Hercules” and rushes towards him. She checks his arm and yells out “He has no pulse!” Cassie and Timothy jump to action and cast some of their more powerful healing spells onto the Olympian. He appears to be breathing and an ambulance arrives to take him to a hospital. Wasp thanks the group for their assistance, now expressing concern about her ally Captain America who is still inside.Blink is unable to teleport into the building until they use magical Light to dispel part of the darkness to a side wall of the building that she can teleport through. At Cassie’s suggestion they teleport into the Library, which is currently unoccupied. Mojo and Narg both consume potions of Giant Strength.From there they head into the adjacent conference room, which has four villains inside it, namely Claw, the Wrecker, the Smasher and Whirlwind. A quick fight follows with Alton casting Heat Metal on the weapons held by all three as Cassie throws a Silence over Claw’s sonic amplifier. Mojo uses his hammer to alter the Whirlwind’s trajectory, sending him into a wall. Narg ducks under a sweeping blow from the wrecker and then hits him with full giant strength, throwing the villain back into a wall. Narg then swings his Nargbalde into Smasher, slicking off the villains leg and causing him to collapse in pain. Claw and Wrecker soon feel the pain of their red-hot weaponry with Wrecking dropping his crowbar and Claw collapsing unconscious in pain. Blink teleports all four villains outside to the waiting police.Wasp decided to scout out the Mansion and shrinks down into insect mode and flies off under the doorway. Meanwhile Alton negates his spell and goes about cooling the metal objects, as they decide to take them with them. The female flying insect soon returns through another doorway but as she enlarges she seems to be wearing a totally different costume. Clarese declares that it is a female villain named Yellowjacket and not the Wasp and so Cassie uses a Web spell to capture her. She is knocked unconscious placed inside a jar with holes punched onto the top.The real Wasp soon returns and announces that three more villains are in the next room guarding Captain America but due to the silence spell did not hear the sounds of the fight. They therefore still have the element of surprise. The villains are described as being the Executioner, an Olympian demigod, Moonstone, a cosmically powered villain and Blizzard, who shoots ice and snow. They decide to approach as two teams.The team assigned to the direct assault are Narg, Mojo and Timothy. They charge the group from one doorway into the room. Executioner takes one look at their garb and concludes they are “Friends of Thor” and orders the assault. Meanwhile, from doorway at the opposite end of the room Blink teleports herself, Cassie and Alton. Cassie throws a successful Hold Person spell onto Moonstone while Alton counters Blizzard with his own Control Weather spell. Blink then teleports Blizzard outside to the street where the police are now in force (and where Thor arrives in short order).Meanwhile, Narg and Mojo have their hands full fighting the Executioner, who narrowly misses hitting Narg with his axe. Narg is more successful, cutting off the demi-god’s axe arm. He screams out in pain, grabs his axe and arm, and plane shifts away from Earth.Unfortunately for them, the scream attracts a villain from the next room, namely Goliath, who grows to the height of twelve feet upon entering the room. Mojo hits him full force with the hammer then Narg and Mojo double-team the giant with their own giant strength until he is unconscious.Wasp returns from the room Goliath is in stating that one villain remains in their guarding the Avenger’s butler Jarvis. The villain is named Boomerang and once his powers are described both Narg and Mojo decide he sounds so lame they should be able to talk him into surrendering. So Narg bust’s down the door while Mojo creates a new door through the wall, sword and hammer out and ready. Narg declares, “I just cut off that Executioner guy’s arm and he teleported away. I guess you’re next!” Boomerang begins to throw a boomerang but Mojo’s flying hammer hits it and breaks it into two as Mojo exclaims, “Unless you give up.” Boomerang surrenders.A search of the mansion reveals one more villain, Blackout, who is maintaining the darkness even thought unconscious. They surround Moonstone and shake her from her Hold. Weapons out, they demand to know who is controlling Blackout. She replies, “I am.” A deal is soon negotiated with her and the darkness is dissolved.The party has not immediately teleported away this time, so they decide to go do some shopping. They quickly discover that places will not take their gold pieces so decide to go to find a security exchange, taking a taxi cab to the main one in Battery Park. The bank men have just seen them on the news saving Avengers Mansion and mistakenly take them for being Asgardians, so have no difficulty exchanging their ‘Asgardian’ gold and silver coins for cash. They get $ 280 for each silver coin and $ 575 for each gold one, each person cashing in three or four coins. Before they can go shopping though they teleport away.</blockquote>

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