Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[DM_Matt]

"Is everyone alright? Are we safe now?" Star asks, shakily. "Good job getting everyone out, Nightweaver."

"Definately a clean getaway. Anyone on that ship will be too busy trying to survive to follow us...and they probably don't have anything left fast enough to anyway," Jacobson says.

 

[kirinke]

ooc:
Mean you are, very mean.
Hmmm... What's your opinion on my idea in the OOC discusion, that the major reason why Hope has been acting... Irrationally is because of something that's affecting her artificially, something like a curse that no one has really noticed by now. I'd think that either Viridian or Wren might be able to sense it. Especially right now, because she is exhausted enough that her shields both physically and mentally are down.

IC:
As dream sorts itself out from reality, Hope's gut twists and she looks at Wren beside her. The reality was, she had screwed up, majorly. Her dreams was her mind trying to protect itself, but hay, she didn't have that luxury anymore. She had almost killed Wren and would have if he didn't have regeneration.

"I'm sorry," she said, her eyes haunted, sorrowfull, no masks or shields. She wasn't hiding behind anything. "I nearly killed you through my own f.cking arrogance." she admitted, looking at Wren beside her. Her expression twists as that unnatural rage flickers through her. She battles it down visciously.

 

[Victim]

"Definately a clean getaway. Anyone on that ship will be too busy trying to survive to follow us...and they probably don't have anything left fast enough to anyway," Jacobson says.

"...'Kay." Star heads for the bathroom to recover from her combat stress in relative privacy.

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian collapses into a seat and rubs her forehead.

"I guess it was pretty stupid to think we could just...beat him, just like that," she says. "He's been around for so long. If he was easy to beat, he'd have been beaten by now. Still...for a second there I thought we had him."

She looks at the wounded, in their trauma units and field dressings.

"And we nearly lost half the team doing it. What did we do wrong? How can we make sure this doesn't happen again? I mean, we're going to be fighting Barrington eventually...we have to be ready."

 

[kirinke]

Viridian collapses into a seat and rubs her forehead.

"I guess it was pretty stupid to think we could just...beat him, just like that," she says. "He's been around for so long. If he was easy to beat, he'd have been beaten by now. Still...for a second there I thought we had him."

She looks at the wounded, in their trauma units and field dressings.

"And we nearly lost half the team doing it. What did we do wrong? How can we make sure this doesn't happen again? I mean, we're going to be fighting Barrington eventually...we have to be ready."

"Alot of our problems... Everyone in our group is mostly used to either working solo or at best in two man teams." Hope replies quietly, painfully propping herself up. "Down in the freighter we were all doing our own thing, with little coordination and minimal planning. My arrogance almost made us loose Wren. Our combined arrogance almost made us loose the entire mission."

She shook her head. "We don't even know what the others can do exactly, at least I don't. We certainly don't know what our every strength and weakness' are. And that can be.... Fatal. We need to learn how to work as a team. That can only come with practice and honesty about our powers and abilities."

She smiled a little. "We still dealt him and Barrington a blow they didn't expect. But we can't expect that luck to continue. Eventually Fortuna turns her attention elsewhere."

"Don't expect Ares to be dead. I thought I had killed Faust, but he's still breathing and Ares is that much older than him and much more cunning." she said quietly, hands clenching unconsciously at the bitter memory.

"We should have never went down there like that. It should have ended in disaster, it would have, if Wren hadn't teleported us away." she said, the past clear in her mind, her own powers not letting her hide behind false dreams. She laid back or rather collasped back onto the pillows that the medic had placed down for her.

Well at least she didn't have a headache. Or much of one. "We need to learn how to be a team, instead of a group of people acting on their own."

 

[Elric]

Viridian collapses into a seat and rubs her forehead.

"I guess it was pretty stupid to think we could just...beat him, just like that," she says. "He's been around for so long. If he was easy to beat, he'd have been beaten by now. Still...for a second there I thought we had him."

Nitro gets to his feet. For being savagely beaten by a very sharp weapon, he's still feeling it a lot. Something to do with the properties of Ares's strange alien weapon (incurable- so Nitro is still staggered).

I can't believe I lost to that guy. Maybe I've been cursed. That could probably explain why I lost. There's really no other explanation for it. Surely I never do anything dumb, get in over my head, or am simply outmatched, right? Wait... I didn't read my horoscope this morning- that's got to be it. Should read that more closely in the future.

"I can't believe I lost to that guy. I sort of knew that you can't beat everyone all the time, but I never thought losing would happen to me. Oh well. At least we got the info we wanted and captured Ares' sons."

Nitro turns to Hope. "Of course he's not dead. I'm a wrestler and even I can tell you that. You don't need to be so melodramatic about it."

 

[kirinke]

Nitro gets to his feet. For being savagely beaten by a very sharp weapon, he's still feeling it a lot. Something to do with the properties of Ares's strange alien weapon (incurable- so Nitro is still staggered).

I can't believe I lost to that guy. Maybe I've been cursed. That could probably explain why I lost. There's really no other explanation for it. Surely I never do anything dumb, get in over my head, or am simply outmatched, right? Wait... I didn't read my horoscope this morning- that's got to be it. Should read that more closely in the future.

"I can't believe I lost to that guy. I sort of knew that you can't beat everyone all the time, but I never thought losing would happen to me. Oh well. At least we got the info we wanted and captured Ares' sons."

Nitro turns to Hope. "Of course he's not dead. I'm a wrestler and even I can tell you that. You don't need to be so melodramatic about it."

"Well, losing tends to teach you a valuable lesson in humility. Well, according to my teachers at any rate and at least you didn't accidently skewer your own team-mate." she scowls, regret and pain flickering across her face.

Hope looks in the direction of the drugged prisoners. "We shouldn't keep them in the main base. Even if we remove their arms and armour and clothes before that, Aron probably can track them down through their blood-bond alone. From the looks of it, alot of the Trust tech is based off that alien stuff right? He'd be able to circumvent that in no time flat."

 

[Elric]

Nitro remembers something suddenly.

"Viridian. You should scry on that mystery superhero from the Foundry. I think it's really important.

Remember that attack in Israel, that we just learned involved Hiroshima Shadow (HS), who was supposed to attack the nuclear power plant. But it seems like HS killed all of those random people in the apartment who were the terrorists he was supposed to work with. Well, what if it wasn't HS at all. What if the Mystery Super (MS) killed all of the people and we just think it was Hiroshima Shadow because they both use radiation. That makes more sense- MS finds out about the attack and kills the people responsible. Then she captures HS.

But how in the world did MS find out about the attack that early? After all, no one anticipated any of the other attacks that day and Barrington isn't an idiot. He probably wanted the attack in Israel to fail. They captured HS with the MS's technology. So wherever they're holding HS, the MS can't be far away and that means that if Barrington can track down his own captured ally he'll be able to capture the MS's technology, which is what he's looking for. He doesn't care about blowing up random nuclear power plans in Israel- he wants to complete this device and he needs MS's technology to do that."

 

[Victim]

Bleh. Okay, I'm mostly done shaking now. I didn't get anything on my face or costume? Okay. After a few minutes, she emerges, having overheard at least some of the comments.

"Remember the teleport recall thing that Ares did. We should destroy or neutralize their armor right now," Megan adds. Just because his adopted culture has certain technologies doesn't mean he'd be able to circumvent it anymore than you have backdoors into all Windows machines. But since he's been keeping at least some of his stuff running for thousands of years, it's safe to assume that he's an expert. And there's no need to take chances.

"So do you have any specific issues for the rest of us, besides generic 'work together' crap?" she asks Hope, skeptically. We shouldn't have gone down there? BS! My plan worked - we snuck on board. The illusions lured them into concentrating their fighting guys so we could hit them all at once instead of fighting a running battle through unknown, possibly trapped, areas. While we were getting beat up, we were still winning. Until your reckless quest for vengeance took out both Wren and yourself of course.

"That's an easy thing to say, but what should we actually be doing? Obviously we screwed up the first time Thess took away the weapon, but it's hard to keep track of everything with 10 or so people chucking powers back and forth. I think that most of us, at least, avoid any major coordination issues. There ought to be a way to have Nightweaver fighting in darkness or shadows without her being by herself or us being unable to see, however." If she could use her full power, then maybe she wouldn't suck even more than me. Well, if I could effectively use my - don't even think like that.

"If it makes you feel any better, Nitro, we didn't last long once you got taken out." I guess he's still the most imporant one of us for fighting. And good figuring things out, again.

 

[kirinke]

Bleh. Okay, I'm mostly done shaking now. I didn't get anything on my face or costume? Okay. After a few minutes, she emerges, having overheard at least some of the comments.

"Remember the teleport recall thing that Ares did. We should destroy or neutralize their armor right now," Megan adds. Just because his adopted culture has certain technologies doesn't mean he'd be able to circumvent it anymore than you have backdoors into all Windows machines. But since he's been keeping at least some of his stuff running for thousands of years, it's safe to assume that he's an expert. And there's no need to take chances.

"So do you have any specific issues for the rest of us, besides generic 'work together' crap?" she asks Hope, skeptically. We shouldn't have gone down there? BS! My plan worked - we snuck on board. The illusions lured them into concentrating their fighting guys so we could hit them all at once instead of fighting a running battle through unknown, possibly trapped, areas. While we were getting beat up, we were still winning. Until your reckless quest for vengeance took out both Wren and yourself of course.

"That's an easy thing to say, but what should we actually be doing? Obviously we screwed up the first time Thess took away the weapon, but it's hard to keep track of everything with 10 or so people chucking powers back and forth. I think that most of us, at least, avoid any major coordination issues. There ought to be a way to have Nightweaver fighting in darkness or shadows without her being by herself or us being unable to see, however." If she could use her full power, then maybe she wouldn't suck even more than me. Well, if I could effectively use my - don't even think like that.

"If it makes you feel any better, Nitro, we didn't last long once you got taken out." I guess he's still the most imporant one of us for fighting. And good figuring things out, again.

Hope closed her eyes, the concussion making the light rather painful at the moment. "We need to learn how to coordinate in battle-situations, learn how to anticipate each other's reactions, how to modify our reactions to the situations we find ourselves in, more importantly, we need to learn how to effectively deal out our attacks on the enemy as well as learning how to maximize each others defenses so we don't get so badly creamed. We can't do any of that at the moment, at least with the lack of practice we've had. I'm sure Black and the more military minded of us an think of other reasons. That's all apart of working as a team." Hope said pointedly.

"Before in the FBI, I was using my offensive powers as a last ditch method of protection. In AEGIS, it was the same way. Mostly, they valued my investigative skills and my ability to both see the past and let others see as well, more than my powers to manipulate the weather." her lips curved into a small smile. "Postcogs and precogs might be a dime a dozen, but the power to let others see is rare indeed." she opened her eyes and looked at Star.

"I'm as new as working in a 'super team' as you all are." she said honestly and thought a little at the nightweaver comment. "You know, the past few days, I've been able to sort of 'see' in the dark. I don't know, haven't had much time to try it out or really explore it. That's what I mean by practicing with each other, learning our powers." she said, looking troubled and truth be told, more than a bit afraid.

Why are my powers suddenly developing.... My last big 'evolution' was in my teens. Why now? I know the docs say that they're progressing normally.... But.....