EPIC M&M: Issue 6 (IC)

[Calinon]

Brazilia Medical
Straightjacket
Ina nods. "Oh, I totally understand that. You answer the questions you can and I'll just edit out the ones you can't later," she says cheerfully. She starts the camera and does a quick lead in to her interview, introducing herself and then you before getting to the meat of the questions.

OOC: Just answer them as they come up; she only asks a question at a time, giving you plenty of time to answer.

"South American Pharmaceuticals has already told us that your team of international heroes and Loco helped to foil a robbery at their research facility. I know you managed to capture Mason; who else was involved in the theft attempt?"

"Do you know what they were looking to steal?"

"How did you manage to capture the most feared mutant on the planet?"

"I just saw Loco and Speed Demon brought in, and hybrid feline-human as well. How many others outside your team were injured in the attack?"

"What will EPIC do from here? Do you have any clues as to why the theft was orchestrated, beyond obvious terrorist implications?"

"What are you doing for dinner," she asks with a smile and you see the camera is off.

Outside Mai Pai, China
X12
"Sure thing, partner. Just make sure you go over it with Thunder, alright? He's had a lot of experience at that sort of thing."

Raisa
You end up going right past Empath. She comes into the plane shortly after you. She crouches down next to your seat and puts her hand on yours.

"I know it is hard to believe, but it will be alright, Raisa," she says, giving your hand a supportive squeeze. Just that action seems to make the emotional turmoil you feel seem just a little less intense, and your anger is muted quite a bit. "I know you did everything you could to save him. Do not fool yourself by believing otherwise."

In the Mountains of Portugal
Pavo doesn't answer his phone at all, no matter how much you try to call him.

"Heydon'ttouchmenothingswrongItellyouitsallinyourhead!" Loki exclaims when you try to examine him. "Itsyouthatsactingallwierdandstuff!" He dodges left and right and slaps at your hands whenever you try to check him over.

 

[Mordane76]

"Sure, I'll do that," he replies, and then makes his way back up to the caves to find Kodiak.

Once he locates the elder EPIC member:

"I'm here to help get Kevin ready for the plane ride back to headquarters," he says softly.

 

[Dalamar]

"If there is nothing wrong with you, and I am the one acting out of the ordinary, then why don't you stay completely put and say not a word for one minute. If you can manage that, then I'll leave you be."

 

[Mimic]

"Yeah, we should check it out," Tara says. "Someone could be hurt and it doesn't look like it's that far away. We're the good guys, afterall," she adds with a grin.

Yea, that we are, Michelle says with a slight smile. Catch up with us when you can, she tells Rebound as she lifts off into the air.

As they fly towards the smoke she glances over to Tara. I just wanted to tell you how well you did at the facility and I am sorry that I doubted your loyalty to the team. Your pretty much my only friend and I hope I didn't blow it because I was being stupid.

 

[Elementor]

As they speed along towards help, Vince can't help but laugh at the antics of Straightjacket's glowing dead father. "Sounds like you are going to miss being able to sneak around now though."

"I need to know exactly how those rods got into her. There is no real entry wound that I can see," he says, noting your injuries quickly as well. "Nurse, I need you to clean this boy's wounds immediately and have Doctor Mora examine him!" he calls out of your area. "It is important if we are to have a good chance of saving her," he adds to you again.

"Well Doc, there isnt really an entry wound on her. Those things were put inside her and then solidified."

 

[Deva]

"Maybe," She says with a sad sigh, "But it still wasn't enough."

Raisa looks over at Empath. "Don't do that. Don't make me feel better. I should feel like this, like I didn't do enough. I let my own petty dislike for him.... I wouldn't let him copy my powers. Maybe if he had my strength he would have stood a chance against her until we got there."

She sighs again and looks away. "Doesn't matter now, does it. All the shoulda woulda coulda's aren't going to bring him back."

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay grimaces at the look of the traffic in the big city. He stops the car, allowing it to hover in a relatively out-of-the-way area, making sure there's as little as possible to be damaged on the ground from debris. He notes the car's destination once more before hoping out and flying around to the passenger side. Opening the door he says, "Time to transfer to Air Neutron, girl." He frowns as he gets an up close look at Vida's condition. "I just hope she's at the lab," he mutters as he carefully picks her up out of the car. Holding her tight, he flies as fast as possible towards the SAP headquarters.

 

[Calinon]

Brazilia Medical
Vincent
"That explains the look of the wounds. Thank you," he says, quickly leaving your area as an older nurse comes in to tend to you. Unlike in most other places, nobody seems to have any negative reactions to your appearance for a change.

Doctor Mora turns out to be an elderly gentleman with white hair, likely in his 70's. He is quite spry for an aging man.

"Ah, Mr. Pratchett," he says in Portuguese. "Still getting in trouble I see. Let's have a look at those gashes shall we?" You hear a sqeal and a slap from outside and catch a glimpse of SJ's dad in action.

In the Mountains of Portugal
Johan
As expected, Loki is not able to comply with your request, though he manages to stay still and silent for all of 8.23 seconds before resuming bouncing off the walls of the van. That is when you notice the small stream of white smoke coming from the back of his neck, rising through his hair.

"Hey, what's that smell?" Rebound says from the drivers seat. "It's like... burning dog hair or something."

Michelle
Tara shrugs and is silent for a long while, until you start getting quite close to the smoke. "That just really hurt my feelings, you know?" she says. "Hey, there it is," she adds as the cause of the smoke comes into view.

At the base of a ravine, the smoking wreck of a limosine lays, the bubbled remnants of an SAP logo still visible on the hood. The windows have been blown out, and the car is a tangle of steel. The rear door is off its hinges and a charred arm dangles out from within.

It is obvious that the wreck happened within the last few hours. But what strikes you odd is that most flying cars you've seen do not use internal combustion as their power source, but magnetic propulsion. Yet the car has been scorched.

"Oh my god," Tara says. "Is that an arm?"

Flying Without A Ferarri
Neutron
It's easy enough to park the car, though no matter what you do, debris will cause some damage. You park it in the air, away from people and in an area you feel will be least affected before taking Vida and flying away from the vehicle.

You make your way through the air, avoiding the worst of the traffic. Vida does her best to hold onto you and let you focus on flying, though her strength is rapidly flagging. About two minutes after leaving the car behind, you see a small group of flying cars bearing the SAP logo fly by below you, heading towards where you left the Ferarri. Perhaps thirty seconds later, you hear the explosion of the car in the distance and glance back to see a ball of flame shoot up from behind a building.

SAP Corporate Headquarters looms ahead, stretching far above you. You know from experience that Ms. Vaile's personal laboratory is on the second highest floor, below her penthouse offices and personal living quarters.

Outside Mai Pai, China
X12
By the time you arrive, Kodiak has carefully enclosed Kevin's body in a sealed bag. You see that Rising Sun has wasted no time getting to work rounding up the injured and beaten gang members, including the badly injured mutants among them. He uses what you at first believe would be an ineffective method of containing everyone; plastic zip-cuffs. When placed on a mutant, however, the cuffs emit a white glow.

Sho, Havok and the Shadow are all so cuffed and their powers appear quite neutralized. Missing are the brother and sister you first defeated. Oddly enough, Kajo remains unbound, still holding onto Dara and standing close behind Master Wen who is leaning on Li for support.

Kodiak turns to you when you come up.

"I will need help to carry him down the hill," the hulking man says down to X12 in his russian accent. It seems a strange thing for someone with his strength to say, but you do not doubt his words. His shoulders are somewhat slumped, much like your own. "This shall be a dark day in memory for all of us. Did you stop the woman who did this?" he asks.

Raisa
"No, they will not," Empath says softly. "The questions; the maybe's; the what ifs. They will be with you forever. But I can tell you, Raisa, that you did not kill Kevin. You are not to blame for his death. In time, you will understand that," she says, stroking your hair as she speaks. "And I won't use my powers to remove your pain," she adds. "Only to lessen it, so you can think more clearly."

Michael boards the plane, and Empath excuses herself to go to speak with him.

 

[Mordane76]

"They took her into 'custody,' one of the Red Star Brigade," X12 says, kneeling down to take one of the ends of Kevin's bodybag. "I would have... ended her... like she did to him... but Michael protected her from me. I'm sorry... it doesn't seem just, suffering her to live, after what Mia's done."

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay flies up to the laboratory floor, and disintigrates the nearest window, quickly replacing it once once he and Vida are inside.