Epic M&M: Issue 5 (IC)

[Calinon]

October 10, 2120
Mega-City of New York
EPIC Institute
3:30PM
It took a long while for Doctor Johnson to treat all your injuries, and even longer for Thunder to get him to let many of you leave and avoid an overnight stay. The trip back was short, and Thunder took the jet controls while Rebound drove the van.

The debriefing was thankfully brief. Thunder went over the information you'd gathered from both locations, all all indications point towards a theft of some kind of virus or cure from SAP. Given the nature of what SAP does, it could either result in terrorist activities or simply be a theft for profit. He lets you all go soon enough without any lectures, letting you know that Chef is making a mid-afternoon lunch for you since you missed out on eating, and you all head off to your rooms for a shower and change.

Johan
Rather than head to your room, you head for the shop and Sanchez in the hopes of repairing the unsightly dent in your new armor. You find her and Anna hard at work, Anna on her battlesuit which is looking nearly repaired, and Sanchez on a large device that looks like a bigger version of the nano-bot scanner you acquired at Lockheed.

Loki
As soon as you enter your room, a waiting message is blinking on ARIS' monitor. Oddly enough, ARIS doesn't say anything.

Michelle
You enter your room and undress so you can shower. When you turn around, there is a single rose about three feet away floating in mid air with a card attached. Almost immediately the ARIS terminal bursts to life and Tara is on the screen.

"Look what I got!" she exclaims, also in a similar state of undress, a rose pressed up to the screen.

Neutron
"You two both need showers, badly," Monica says, twitching her whiskers as she drags you and Rebound along the halls towards your rooms. "Get in there, sport," she says, somehow opening your room without your key, and shoving you inside. "I'll be back in a minute to make sure someone doesn't go to the mess hall first," she says getting behind Rebound and shoving him along the hall towards his nearby room. "And you better be there when I get back," she purrs.

"Hey, I think... Neutron might need help and... he could slip and crack his head..." he complains, looking back down the long hall to the mess wantingly as she shoves him into his room and follows him in, the door slamming behind them.

ARIS greets you as you enter. "Hello, Neutron. There is a message from an unknown sender in your inbox."

Vince
ARIS speaks when you enter your room. "Hello, Vincent. There is an urgent video-mail message from a Doctor Leah Worthy and a message from ... from... Srrrtch." ARIS falls silent, though the terminal itself appears to be functioning perfectly. You can see two messages flashing on the screen; one from Dr. Worthy and one with no name, just an icon of a bat with flapping wings.

Straightjacket
"I tell you boy," your father says as you enter your room. "You could do worse than hooking up with that Methesda girl." He beats you to the bathroom right after saying that, the shower starting up as the door closes behind him.

"Hello, Straightjacket. There is an e-mail message from Stephanie Methesda in your inbox and several pieces of fan mail I have placed in a seperate folder. I also have a video message from a Mr. Murphy for you," ARIS says.

 

[Calinon]

October 11, 2120
Lancheng, China
Master Wen's Academy
11:30 AM

X12
You wake up before the helicopter summoned by the small hospital arrives to rush Nova and Carl to a state hospital in Shanghai. You sit on the steps of the local hospital building, completely exhausted, sick, dazed and with a lot of muscle pain. Master Wen is standing beside you.

"Xi says you brought Nova back from the dead," he says in Mandarin. "That is a very powerful gift you have. The doctors will do what they can to help both her and Carl in Shanghai," he says reassuringly. "How do you feel?" he asks with some concern.

You notice you have several scrapes and a few burns that aren't healed, nor do you feel them healing at all. The overall weakness you feel is rather disconcerting. From atop the hospital, you hear Dara yell down. "I still can't find him, and after what he did, I don't really care if I ever do!"

Raisa
You have been focussing on helping the village out and thankfully, Xi has been keeping you focussed to keep your mind off of Carl and Nova who are being rushed to hospital.

You've been putting out a few remaining fires, freeing trapped villagers and cleaning up rubble for the last hour. Dara is standing on the roof of the hospital, hands stretched out inland. She's trying to find Kevin mentally and has been for the last thirty minutes.

You put that out of your mind, however, as you look down into the stockade where several hogs are trapped beneath the semi-collapsed roof of the barn. The debris in there is no danger to you, though you really would rather not hop down there for a bunch of pigs. The farmer, having seen your amazing feats of strength already, is begging you to save his animals. His concern escalates when he sees his son trapped beneath a large beam in the center of the stockade.

Maonchen, China
Kevin
Male Lieutenant 21, Female Lieutenant 21, Kevin 16 (5S), Gang leader 7, Gang Members 5

Note: You won't get your stun hits back until you can rest yourself, and you are starting off badly hurt. I've given you one stun hit recovery for the hour of the chase.

Both flying people keep firm grips on the children they are holding as they exchange quick glances and cold grins and advance a bit towards you. Both fire in concert, trying to hit you with pulses of some kind of energy. You twist out of the way of one blast, but the other hits you in the leg, spinning you wildly over in the air. The energy numbs your leg quite badly, but you right yourself quickly, your dragon letting out a flame filled roar when you get hit.

Attack rolls: 10 (miss), 18 (hit)
Damage save: 18 (14) [1S]

Kevin is up.

 

[Velmont]

"What? You kill her!" The image of Nova burning come back. "You kill her..." that time there was no conviction in his voice. Seeing the two lieutenant, Kevin sees he have no chance. "Tell Mia the next time she is in my path, I'll take care of her, for good." shouts Kevin, try to get an intimidating voice, which obviously doesn't come out well. At that, he fly away (Extra Effort: Gain Super-Flight, spend HP to not become fatigued, if didn't spend a HP on some save.) to Wen's Academy.

OOC: Raise all roll against resist power at 15 for the use of HP, 10 for damage roll (I have protection at 8, right?).

 

[Mordane76]

"I... I think I broke something inside me," X12 says, putting his head between his knees. "But it worked... that's all that matters... but I think I might need to see a doctor... my wounds aren't healing on their own, Master Wen, and I feel horribly sick."

"Who's Dara looking for," X12 asks.

 

[Calinon]

Lancheng, China
X12
"She is looking for Kevin," Master Wen responds simply. "After he immolated Nova, he flew off after that pathetic gang of thugs Xi told me." His tone of voice is very level, but the intensity tells you he is both very upset about Nova and Carl, and very angry about Kevin. "Do not worry about your injuries, X12," he adds. "I can sense your powers have just shut off. Probably temporarily. You are just feeling," he says, pausing to find the right word, "normal." He pats you on the shoulder. "Your wounds will heal."

"I found him. He's coming back," Dara shouts down from atop the hospital.

Maonchen, China
Kevin
You burst away with a roar of flames, and looking back, you see neither lieutenant give chase, instead simply turning away and floating back down to the ground as they vanish behind you. About ten minutes later, you quickly come up on Lancheng. Smoke still rises from a few areas, and clean up has begun. As you approach you are assaulted with a wave of raging anger, nearly knocking you from the sky. You see Dara glaring at you from atop a building near the center of town. You feel another wave of anger wash over you before she vanishes down through a trapdoor in the roof.

 

[Mordane76]

"He left us," X12 questions with some disbelief. "I can't believe he would have left us lying in the street... especially after the blast of energy that came off him when he took Nova's powers."

"He and I are going to have some words," X12 says, darkening a bit. "He almost cost Nova her life... and then he left us there, decimated... I've backed him up... but I can't back him up on this."

X12 tries to stand up when he hears Dara call down that Kevin is returning.

 

[Dalamar]

"Good evening, ladies," Johan says as he walks in to the workshop. He starts taking off the armor, creating duplicates to help in the process.
"How are your projects processing?"

 

[Velmont]

Kevin starts to land on the road near Wen's academy, when the fire dissapear. Kevin rolls on the ground, and finish on his back. It takes a whole minute before he stands up. He walks inside the academy, his eyes fixing the air, his body shacking like a leaf in the wind, his skin white as a ghost. His lips are barely moving, and a rambling whispers can be heard, always repeating the same words.

"She trust me and I kill here. She was one of the rare person who had trust in me, and it cost her live."

OOC: All the power he was mimicking are now gone.

 

[Agamon]

"You two both need showers, badly," Monica says, twitching her whiskers as she drags you and Rebound along the halls towards your rooms. "Get in there, sport," she says, somehow opening your room without your key, and shoving you inside. "I'll be back in a minute to make sure someone doesn't go to the mess hall first," she says getting behind Rebound and shoving him along the hall towards his nearby room. "And you better be there when I get back," she purrs.

"Hey, I think... Neutron might need help and... he could slip and crack his head..." he complains, looking back down the long hall to the mess wantingly as she shoves him into his room and follows him in, the door slamming behind them.

ARIS greets you as you enter. "Hello, Neutron. There is a message from an unknown sender in your inbox."

"Um, but yeah, foo.." Sanjay says, looking down the hallway the other way. "I don't need no shower..." he says to himself, smelling under his arms, "...or maybe I do," he adds, wrinkling his nose.

Closing the door behind him, ARIS's message finally clicks in. "Unknown sender? Go ahead and read it for me, ARIS." he says, getting out of his uniform. "Oh!" he excalims, "And Sandstorm...anything from Thunder? No probably not, he hasn't been here, either. Geez, I gotta go talk to him..."

 

[buzzard]

"Hello, Straightjacket. There is an e-mail message from Stephanie Methesda in your inbox and several pieces of fan mail I have placed in a seperate folder. I also have a video message from a Mr. Murphy for you," ARIS says.

"Well Dad, it seems like she agrees with you. Hmm, I also got a message from that Murphy guy. I don't know if I like the looks of that one. I think he's bad news. ARIS, please play the message from Stephanie, after that I'll check out the one from Murphy." he says as he sits carefully down in a chair, groaning from his injuries.