Outcasts Forever: Issue #1 - Red America

[Radiant]

Binary

Wow.
Carol had felt a lot of things in her life, even having all her powers drained and she does not particularly care for that feeling. Still it was incredible to have the burning power silenced for a moment. If not for the little law commonly known as gravitiy she might have enjoyed the feeling for a while. As it is she just thinks one thing about her situation.
"Well, s h i t!"
She allows Darkstar to reach for and tries to grab the women somethere as thy fall, she doesn't care as long as she gets a decent hold.
As she's quite used to race with high speed towards some possible messy death she stays calm as they fall and at the last moments before impact, concentrates to calls upon the starlight she knows must be someone. Even if her link is cut of she mobilizes every last reserve that might be left in her to transform for a split second and catch her fall, hopefully saving herself and Darkstar.

ooc: Spending a hero point to increase the plasma form power by 2, hopefully giving me those 2 levels in flight again to save myself and Laynia.

 

[Nuke261]

Captain America (1 stun)

Madison and 43rd Street
Manhattan
Early afternoon

Battle Before the Baxter Building

Cap looked down at Mr. Immortal's body as he pulled his returning shield out of the air. What's wrong! This can't be how long it always takes, can it?

"Reed, good to see you. Thanks for all your help. We need to gather up my team and get out of here pretty quick. You have anything in mind?" As he mentioned his team, Moon Knights last message rang through his head. And what happened to Carol?

"Falcon. You and Redwing have any luck? I also seem to have lost track of Binary."

 

[Mark Chance]

Madison and 43rd Street
Manhattan
Early afternoon

Battle Before the Baxter Building

"Falcon. You and Redwing have any luck? I also seem to have lost track of Binary."

"No dice so far, Cap. We're still looking."

 

[Keia]

Interlude . . .

Avengers Mansion
Early morning

The chauffeur pulled the limo around through the front gate entrance of the Mansion and the black stretch maneuvered effortlessly around the large circle stopping in front of the front entrance. The black uniformed, impeccably dressed chauffeur quickly exited the car and opened the rear door of the limo.

From within the limo sounds of loud rock music, girls laughing, and ice tinkling in glasses shattered the illusion of the arrival of some formal dignitary. Instead, Anthony Stark had arrived at Avengers Mansion.

The young professional had received a call earlier in the morning (9:30am . . . far too early to exit a bed full of gorgeous women) that a urgent secure message had arrived at the Mansion’s computer – encrypted so that apparently only Anthony Stark could access it. Two hours later, Tony arrived ready to deal with any situation that came up . . . or so he thought.

OOC: Intro . . . Iron Man. Only run off of your background and what I’ve presented so far. Have fun!!

 

[Keia]

Madison and 43rd Street
Manhattan
Early afternoon

Battle Before the Baxter Building – Out of rounds (at the moment)

Falcon scanned the streets with Redwing in tow, the pain in chest and back growing more intense . . . a nagging reminder to his injuries. Between the pair, Moon Knight is spotted, laying face down along the side of a building. No one was within fifteen feet of him . . . and he wasn’t moving.

Carol grasped at Laynia, catching hold of her wrist as the pair fell from the sky. Glancing down, it didn’t seem that anyone had taken notice of the battle . . . or it’s soon to be final results. With the pavement rapidly approaching, Carol dug deep within herself to try and summon forth the fiery energy of Binary. The power was slippery . . . like trying to squeeze mercury . . . but with only 50 feet to go it burst forth . . . dimly. Binary tried to climb in flight to offset gravity’s demands . . . and it seemed to be working.

Laynia screamed in rage . . . anger . . . and a fair amount of pain as Carol changed back into Binary. Her eyes pools of darkness, she concentrated on her fury . . . and changed as well. Instantly, the two powers canceled, and the pair fell the remaining distance to the ground . . . hard. (a) Laynia landed awkwardly, air expelled from her lungs in a heavy whoosh.

"Reed, good to see you. Thanks for all your help. We need to gather up my team and get out of here pretty quick. You have anything in mind?"

“I understand, Liberator,” Reed replied. “I would expect the rest of the Supreme Soviet here within a minute, maybe less. Thank goodness they don’t have a teleporter, yet. It was an honor working with you, but Sue, Ben and I have to go to ground as soon as possible. I was expecting some . . . outside assistance . . . but I was counting on your help. I’m sorry if I’ve drawn you back into the public eye before you were ready.”

Reed grinned and added, “I knew you weren’t dead.”

Cap glanced around at the falling hunters and managed to spot Carol light into Binary only to fall to the ground as a normal again (and it didn’t look like she landed well). When he looked down to Craig again, he had completely faded away.

The Thing jumped down near the downed armored form of Titanium Man, and picked him up by his neck. Titanium Man rose without motion of his own in the Thing’s stony grasp, limbs limp . . . heavy with the worn armor.

OOC: Summary Hp’s spent (Binary 2) Damage levels (Cap 1 stun hit, Binary 1 lethal and stunned, Falcon 1 lethal hit and disabled) Mr. Immortal, dead, Moonknight, unknown. And now . . . actions?

(a) Carol: Damage save base of 7 vs. a Damage DC of 20 (lethal) rolled a 6, failing by 7, becoming stunned and injured (one hit). Laynia failed by the same amount, also stunned and injured

 

[Radiant]

Binary

Brood Carpaces, Kree battleship armor, the strange metal of a skrull palace...
Carol had been smashed through a lot of things in her life but if you ask her nothing beats good old concrete then it comes to hurting.
"Ouch."
This very wity comment is all she can manage as she tries to lift her head and gain some semblance of balance.
"Can we stop now? This is realy no way to start a day."

 

[Gideon]

Tony Stark, 6/6HP, Full Health

I've got to remember to call up Doc Conners sometime and see if that regeneration research will work on brain cells. Or maybe just something to cure hangovers. Turning around and looking back into the squirming back seat "Bye ladies. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. Have to go be a genius now, sianara."

Closing the door he walks bye the driver with a smile and a nod and heads up towards the front door of the mansion. A charming boyish smile spreads across Stark's face at the reunion with his most prized butler.

 

[Nuke261]

Madison and 43rd Street
Manhattan
Early afternoon
Battle Before the Baxter Building

“I understand, Liberator,” Reed replied.
“I would expect the rest of the Supreme Soviet here within a minute, maybe less. Thank goodness they don’t have a teleporter, yet. It was an honor working with you, but Sue, Ben and I have to go to ground as soon as possible. I was expecting some . . . outside assistance . . . but I was counting on your help. I’m sorry if I’ve drawn you back into the public eye before you were ready.”

Reed grinned and added, “I knew you weren’t dead.”

Cap glanced around at the falling hunters and managed to spot Carol light into Binary only to fall to the ground as a normal again (and it didn’t look like she landed well). When he looked down to Craig again, he had completely faded away.

A flash of light caused Cap to turn his head in time to see Binary and Darkstar falling to the ground. This is not going well at all!

"Reed, I have a team inside the Soviets headquarters, right now. They're gathering Intel we need to put things right, here. This team was here to keep tabs on the Soviets and make sure they didn't return to find my covert team. Is there anything you can do to help us?" Not to mention, I would really like to hear more about this Liberator.

As Jack looked down to check on Craig, he could see through his body. Mr. Immortal's form seemed to fade from sight until it had completely vanished! Cap muttered quietly, "Is that how his power works?"

 

[Arani Korden]

The Invisible Beast

Once he is certain that he is heading the right direction Vision will activate his comm. "I have found network cables and are following them back to the source, once I have located the server room i will give you directions."

"Understiood," Hank said. "I'll be ready."

 

[Keia]

Interlude . . .

Avengers Mansion
Early morning

"Bye ladies. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. Have to go be a genius now, sianara."

As soon as Tony closed the door and nodded to the chauffeur, the man spoke up, “Excuse me, Mr. Stark . . . flowers and small personalized gifts as usual , sir?”

After answering, Tony made his way up to the front door. Like clockwork, the door opened to a familiar just as Tony placed his first foot on the porch in front of the door. “Greetings, Master Stark, it is a pleasure to see you again. I have been left word that the computer message was located in the secure . . . meeting room . . . on sub-level two.”

As the front door closed and Tony’s eyes adjusted to the indoor lighting, he noticed subtle differences . . . a picture in a different place, the rug seemed to have a different design than he remembered. Nothing significant . . . or really surprising considered the people who live here and the dutiful butler employed here as well.

OOC: See OOC thread for comments and discussion.