Outcasts Forever: Issue #2 - Bucky Must Die!

[tsadkiel]

Beast, geeking out.

"Who is Edith Keeler?"

"There was a television show in my timeline called Star Trek, about the adventures of the intrepid Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. In one episode, the ship's doctor, a fellow with the improbable name of McCoy, is given an accidental drug overdose, has a psychotic break, and runs through a temporal portal, inadvertantly leading to a timeline where the Nazis won World War II and took over the world.

Kirk and his first officer follow through the portal in order to fix things, and find themselves in the Great Depression. They're helped by a lovely, idealistic social worker named Edith Keeler, and Kirk falls in love. Unfortuantely, it turns out that Keeler is the point of divergence; she is supposed to die ina car crash, but McCoy will have saved her, leaving her alive to start a burgeoning pacifist movement which delays America's entrance into the war, giving the Nazis time to develop the Atomic Bomb, and . . . well, you get the picture.

In the end, the moment of truth arrives, Kirk stops McCoy, and Keeler is struck by a car and dies. The future is preserved, but through picking the right moment to act or not act, rather than simply bludgeoning her to death with a crowbar. We're flailing blindly here. If we go with Sandra's plan, I can't think of a single scenario in which Steve Rogers will stand aside and let a band of superpowered lunatics from the future take out Bucky Barnes, so we'll have to deal with him too.

There will be a right moment to act and a right thing to do. I only hope one of us will realise what it is. And like Kirk, there will be a price to pay."

 

[kid A]

Sandman

Jarvis entered the hall and opened the foyer closet (the one with the stash of alcohol for Mr. Stark), saying "Dear me . . ." in an almost C3PO manner.

After leaving the meeting, Flint was too wired to get any rest just yet. So, instead, he wandered the halls of the mansion, checking the place out. He was used to shacking up in the Triskelion, not a fancy manor. This place was nice!

Turning one of the many corners in his stroll about the mansion, Flint came upon Jarvis working in the foyer. He heard Jarvis' exclamation, and he walked over to where the man was standing. "Whoa! Looks like a party in there, Jarvis!"

 

[hero4hire]

Jack of Hearts

Tony lifts his head up at the call knocking one of the finished bottles off the table. "Nobooody's home but us chickens and maybe some dogs too. Tony's really sloppy voice calls back to the door.

"I should get a dog, dog's are cool. Like a really big wolf dog. YAY! Then he could be all like grrrr. Tony bares his teeth and holds up his hands with his fingers bent into claw shape. "Killer would be awsome. Obidiah, stupid frickin name. what is he from the 15th century. Killer would get 'em though.

OOC: I am assuming Tony is the singing in the electronics lab.

Jack was a little taken aback by the response he got. He entered the room and looked at his mentor's employer. "Mr. Stark? What are you doing here sir?" Immediately Jack's senses told him the man certainly wasn't pretending to be drunk. His stooped and awaying posture told him all. And that smell... Scotch and a lot of it Jack thought to himself. "It is awfully late. maybe I can have Jarvis prepare a room for you?" he asked carefully, not used to seeing a man he knew and admired in such a state. "Or maybe we should call your bodyguard?"

 

[Keia]

Inside Avengers Mansion - Foyer Area (Main Floor)
Somewhere/when/how
Early afternoon

Sandman

Flint explored the mansion, having access to the assembly room and exercise room in the basement, main floor, and upper floor with the bedrooms and individual attached bathrooms. His bedroom was fairly well decked out with a nice sound system, flat screen tv, and a masculine decor.

"Whoa! Looks like a party in there, Jarvis!"

Looking more closely, Flint noticed a 'hidden' alcohol rack that had been recently ravaged, only two bottles remained, one open and tipped on its side, broken glass of another bottle was on the floor of the closet.

"Yes, sir," Jarvis replied, his moment of shock gone, returned was the proficient butler. "I shall have in cleaned up momentarily, sir. Was there something I could get for you as well, Master Marko?"

 

[Keia]

Inside Avengers Mansion - Foyer Area (Main Floor)
Somewhere/when/how
Early afternoon

Beast, Carol Danvers, Vision, Vision IV (Jarvis, Sandman 40ft away)

"Thanks. I'll deal with it. I allways do."

Vision IV looked at Carol, questioningly . . . or as questioningly as a metallic robot could. "Pardon me of inquiring, Marvel Girl," Vision IV started. "This . . . preoccupation . . . with a child from an alternate timeline - is it because you have none in your own timeline? Perhaps yet another anomoly that will be rectified."

 

[Keia]

Inside Avengers Mansion - Subbasement one (Assembly Room)
Somewhere/when/how
Early afternoon

Captain America

OOC: Redwing can be taken as a 'cohort' and a mindlink established for 4 pts

"How you doing fella? You have to be missing Sam bad, I know. I wonder why you didn't return home when we lost him." Jack stared back at the bird admiring his regal build. "Don't worry Redwing, I'll take care of you. At least until we can get through all of this and back to our homes. You don't know how to fix this huge mess, do ya?"

Redwing nuzzled against Jack's hand, encouraging him to continue what he was doing. He squawked quieter in response to Jack's question . . . though if it was an answer or simply another question . . . or something else entirely, Jack wasn't certain.

"Sandra, any other info you can share on the time we will be showing up? Anything that will help us solve this problem smoothly would be greatly appreciated."

"Of course, Cap," Sandra said in a relaxed tone, "You must understand that I am doing all that I can . . . I want to give you as much information as possible to help . . . but that isn't alway easy. This time is no exception . . . The time is 1945, uniforms and disguises will need to be obtained. The location is off the coast of England. You'll have a quinjet ride of about an hour from Manhattan to the location. I've picked up several temporal anomolies around that time already so I've given you about ten minutes of additional time prior to the incident - to make certain everything happens as necessary. I don't know what the anomolies are . . . other time travelers, other cosmic effects . . . I really don't know."

Sandra paused for a few moments, seeming to look for the right words. "I understand what the Avengers stand for Cap . . . and I know that you will do everything in your power not to kill Bucky to resolve the situation. You don't have to kill him, but you don't have to save him either."

 

[Keia]

Inside Avengers Mansion – Electronics Fabrication Area (Sub-Basement Level One)
Somewhere/when/how
Early afternoon

Iron Man, Jack of Hearts

One thing immediately evident to Jack was that Mr. Stark looked much younger than you had last seen him . . . nothing significant, maybe 10 years younger. The room stank of alcohol, Jack's scanalyzer quickly identifying and segregating the different aromas for him.

"Mr. Stark? What are you doing here sir? . . . It is awfully late. maybe I can have Jarvis prepare a room for you? . . . Or maybe we should call your bodyguard?"

Standing before Tony was a young man of about six feet in height with brown hair and one blue eye . . . and a left eye that was white. The eye stood out as the rest of left side of his face was a purplish black. This coloring extended down into his neck and beyond. Tony had never seen the man before . . . if there was a man before him and not some wild hallucination.

 

[Mimic]

Vision says nothing but watches Binary closely, waiting to see what her reaction will be to Vision IV's question.

He didn't really know how Binary would react, she seemed very irrational, prone to emotional outburts, which wasn't good considering her powerlevels.

 

[Gideon]

Tony Stark, 4/6 HP, 2 L, 0 armor

Falling back out of his chair in surprise, Tony's lands hard shattering the bottle that was in his hands a moment before. "Sandi, intloooder in electronics lab. That quacker bastard ain't gettin me."

Picking himself of the floor Tony half stumbles at the purple-bruise man taking a very slow wide swing with his broken bottle.

OOC: Welcome to the Avengers, H4H!

 

[hero4hire]

Jack of Hearts

Falling back out of his chair in surprise, Tony's lands hard shattering the bottle that was in his hands a moment before. "Sandi, intloooder in electronics lab. That quacker bastard ain't gettin me."

Picking himself of the floor Tony half stumbles at the purple-bruise man taking a very slow wide swing with his broken bottle.

OOC: Welcome to the Avengers, H4H!

Great...Just what I need! Jack thought to himself as his left eye visibly crackled with energy. He attempted to grab his mentor's boss wrist and wrestle him into submission. "Whoa there Mr. Stark...Tony...If that's who you are? We don't want you to hurt yourself, or me especially."