EPIC M&M: Issue 6 (IC)

[Velmont]

Jeremy is walking with the two crates, and start to bend his back under the weight of the boxes. "Where do I put them? They start to be heavy."

At that moment, he sees the body of Kevin. He stops to walk and stare for a few instants, but his back bending more, he start to hurry in the direction indicated to put the boxes.

"Here, we should go, your leader should be taken care of as soon as possible."

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay grins. "Um, no, not those, I'm well aware of what they are. And if you don't mind me saying, they are very...anyway, I meant the thing around your neck. Blinking jewelry all the rage in this country?"

 

[Mimic]

"Damnit," Michelle mutters to herself, "Tara come with me, the rest of you secure this area and make sure he doesn't go anywhere." She says pointing quickly to Rao Telda.

Michelle quickly lifts herself up and launches herself out of the garage and heads towards the elevators as quickly as possible. "Vince, where is Ms. Vaile? I think she is in danger, she might have some sort of explosives on her." She tells the speedster through her communicator.

powers: forcefield, flight <hero point for extra speed>

 

[Calinon]

SAP Headquarters
Neutron
"Oh," she says. "Odd; it shouldn't blink. Let me just..." she says, reaching to unclasp the locket so she can take a look. "Unnnnnngh," she says as she suddenly stiffens, electricity dancing about her fingers and neck. The discharge stops and she collapses in the corner.

The pulsing on her locket continues to flash, getting noticably faster, nearly double in speed in fact!

The locket itself, when you try (and I know you will!) you will be able to tell that the locket is normal precious metals (silver, platinum mixture) but the flashing bit is an extremely (I do mean extremely) hard substance that would take you probably 15 seconds to transmute, despite its tiny size.

Metal Mistress
Leaving the rest of the team in the garage, you launch yourself out after Gavião de Gelo. The glassteel of the building flashes by as you follow the winged SAEF hero around the building. Well below, two elevators are making their way upwards, while another pair move downwards. People are in all of them, but you can see the black uniform of Neutron in the farthest elevator. Details are not available.

"Alison Vaile has collapsed," Gavião de Gelo says to you, eyes glowing as he starts pulling out his massive ice hammer. He heads well above the elevator and slams his hammer into the glass, shattering a huge section of the window to get at the elevator. Tara streaks down beneath the falling glass, using her wings to create a vortex to catch the shards falling towards the ground, taking them in a controlled fall earthward.

"Quickly, stop the elevator as it passes!" Gavião de Gelo calls to you, holding onto cross beam above the hole he created.

Johan
Since Vince seems to be an NPC suddenly...

You come to, groggily and in some pain, Rebound slapping your face to bring you to. Well above you, Vince is running at a blistering pace up the side of the building.

"Sorry, mate," Rebound says. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

"I got 'em all cuffed, Rebound," Loki says from somewhere behind you. "One of 'em is coming around."

October 26, 2120
Dover, England -- The York Estate
"Just hold tight, amigo," Titan replies. "If Tank has fled, you should be safe enough until we arrive. Should only take a few minutes.for us to arrive."

And true to his word, they arrive shortly after. Without much being said, loads the van into the jet and you are flown to the local hospital, where Thunder is examined and treated. The flight is relatively quiet; Lord York and Jeremy seem to be wrapped up in their own thoughts. After you land and Thunder is taken by Kodiak and Trailblazer into the hospital, Titan and Empath pulls X12 aside.

X12
"I am curious. How did Tank know you were there, and why did he attack the York's?" he asks of you. Lord York is busy in the jet, speaking with his son, Jeremy.

"From what I gathered from the damage, the battle seems to have originated in the back of the mansion," Empath says, looking at pictures the jet has taken on their flyover.

Jeremy
Your father is quietly reflective during the flight. Once people start to leave, however, he pulls you aside with the cases. Placing his hand on the surface of the case, an unseen scanner activates, taking a palmprint. He follows this with a voiceprint and finally a key to unlock the manual lock.

"The cases are keyed to open for me, you or Kevin, though I think we'll restrict that following today. I was saving them for your graduation, for when you entered the mutant corps here in England," he says. He lifts the case to reveal a small arsenal of high tech gadgets and gizmos.

"Given recent events, I think it would be an excellent choice to have you join EPIC. I have no doubt the mutant corps shall have no interest in chasing down those that attacked our home, or bringing that... false son... that creature... to justice. Both, I think, EPIC will be most interested in. Plus, the corps are not nearly as strong as EPIC, and if that armored maniac were to come with any sort of force, far more than you would find themselves endangered.

"I will use our fortune to secure my own safety, but locking you away behind guards and mercenaries is not something I will enforce upon you. You may join me in hiding if you like, but I think with these tools I made for you, and the ones I had made for Kevin, and your military training, you will be a welcome addition to EPIC.

"Of course, my funding of the school will make it nearly impossible for Thunder to say no. And it certainly won't hurt business to have York Industries devices used publicly. Quite an advertisement that will be," he finishes, a comment reminding you that he is very much the businessman.

 

[Velmont]

"There will be no way to get out the businessman out of you, even in dire situation" reply Jeremy with a smile. "Remind me Kevin... if he didn't wanted to prove himself so hardly and hastly as he was trying to do, he would have made a great businessman. He just need to control himself a bit more..." continue Jay, sadness filling his face.

"You are right. I am a man of action, and staying hidden will kill me more than a bullet. Going into the corps would have been great, never thought to go into EPIC before. Now, I think it may be better. They are more active throught the world... I'll ask Thunder, or anyone taking the lead while he is hospitalized, and try to convince him not to take me for your funding, it won't help the team to take me as a weight, but for my skills."

Jeremy move to the case and open it. He looks inside the gadget made by his father industry.

"Seems pretty sophisticated. Pretty impressive. With that with me, I think I'll be able to defend myself."

He close it.

"I'll go see... I think it is Titan there, I'll ask him. Tale care father. Too much York's blood have been spilled lately, I'll take care of myself, and it will be better if they accept me."

Jay give a military salute to his father, and after lowering down his hand, he smiles at him and adds "I'll find that duplicate and bring him to justice."

He walks down to Titan and ask him.

"Sir, can I have a word with you?"

 

[Mordane76]

"I don't know that Tank actually expected us to be there," X12 says. "Kevin's errant duplicate was with him - I think they were after something at the mansion. The Yorks should inventory the wreckage as soon as possible, so that we can find out what, if anything, was taken.

Lord York seemed to think that there was some mistake in the communication that Thunder sent about Kevin's death - I assume that the duplicate contacted him for something. You'd need to question him about the reasons New York was at the estate; I hadn't thought to ask."

 

[Dalamar]

"It is okay, Jackson," Johan says as he tries to gather his thoughts. Hearing Loki's comment, he gets up and walks over to the recovering duplicate.
"I would really like an explanation on this, if you have one, please," he says, still not really feeling top-notch.

 

[Agamon]

"Well, damn," Sanjay says, looking at the slumped form of Ms. Vaile and her blinking locket. He sees the others fly towards the buliding out of the corner of his eye, but continues to focus on the problem at hand.

Realizing the increased speed of the blinking probably means he's short on time, as well as the fact that the material of the locket is an especially difficult substance, he concentrates on the locket, attempting to entomb it in nonconductive lead before pulling it off her neck.

 

[Calinon]

SAP Headquarters
Neutron
The transmutation works flawlessly, coating the locket in a thin layer of non-conductive lead. With a tug, the clasp breaks and you notice two microfilament wires sparking for a short second where the clasp was. Without a complete circuit, the electrical charge quickly disappates. Even through the lead, however, you can feel it tingle along your hand; it was a powerful little charge.

With the thought that this thing might blow up in your mind, you can't help but wonder just how big an explosion this little thing with the big attitude might make. Of course, that thought momentarily gets shaken, along with you as you hear a loud explosion of glass above you, then are violently jolted as the elevator stops its upward moment suddenly! You manage to maintain your footing as you see a large, bearded man perched on a beam just above you, swinging a massive hammer towards the glassteel wall of the elevator across from you! The window cracks moments before the ring of thunder assails your ears and Vince bursts headlong into the car, shattering the window and sliding painfully and awkwardly into the wall between your legs.

"Ow... by dose," he grunts. His huge horns are uncomfortably close to Monica's personal territory.

Metal Mistress
As you follow the winged hero's instructions, your magnetic field brings the elevator to a screeching halt. The cable, still wanting to continue, snaps and flies upward, leaving the elevator in your grasp alone. You see Neutron and Ms. Vaile in the elevator. She appears unconscious and he's holding a small locket with a flashing end. The pulses appear to be nearly continuous.

Gavião de Gelo swings his massive ice hammer down from his perch, driving it into the elevator's glassteel wall, sending a massive ring of cracks through the wall as he tries to shatter the glass to get inside. A burst of red and black zips up, then flashes out from the building and finally crashes through the glassteel wall as Vince finishes Gavião de Gelo's work, ending up in the car with Neutron and Ms. Vaile. He slides face-first into the other wall, between Neutron's legs, his horns frightening close to delivering a coup de grace vasectomy on the spot.

"Ow... by dose," you hear him faintly say.

Johan
"You stole my brain!" he shouts at you angrily.

"Brain..." the unconscious duplicates all mumble, without waking.

"Woah..." Jackson says.

"That was so cool! Do it again!" says Loki, obviously starting to feel better. "Brains!" he says, doing a zombie walk towards the 'brainless' Johan.

You consider this just momentarily when you realize that you still have all mental capacity you did before, but lack any ability to duplicate. He, on the other hand, seems to have that down just fine. Your gear is in fine shape, while his appears to be shoddy and in ill-repair; it is unlikely he can spin gadgets from nothing, though he certainly seems to remember being able to do so, or at least being smarter.

Gonna be a few days for me to do an update for Britain... I need to find Jay and remember what gadget's he's gonna get

 

[Agamon]

"Your nose?" Sanjay says, stepping over Vince. "Watch where you point those things." He steps out of the hole in the elevator and nods thanks at the hammer-weilding fellow as he flies out. Seeing Michelle, he hucks the amulet into the air and yells, "Metal Mistress! Push that thing as far up into the air as you can! I think it's going to explode!"