Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Wren will indeed create the movable tethered apparatus, which the other can easily use as transport as he flies them back in tow to the location that Ms. White stated. When there, he is ready to head wherever is needed.

This makes it easy to get to Ms. White almost instantly, and she instructs everyone to touch the person next to them. Mr. Black arrives in time to join. "Hanger!" She says, teleporting everyone to the hanger outside the city, where the soldiers and the other prisoners are ready to move. She touches the prisoners and the guards and says "Guest Area," causing them to disappear. Then she links with the rest again, and says "Sigma Wing," teleporting everyone to your area of the base.

Red had been doing various tests on Star and administers pain medication, when White flashes in. It doesn't take long for her to heal Star. Red talks to Star to distract her as she takes some blood. "So I hear we captured a major materials scientist. Maybe he could come up with some kind of film that will protect your hands, or at least not interfere with stuff as much as your gloves. It looks like you're alright, by the way. Try not to go overboard between now and the next time they ship you out though."
"Unfortunately, thats like a couple hours," white adds.

Meanwhile back at the rest of the group...

Mr. Black says "We have a couple urgent developments. For one, in seven hours Anatole Voderac's cloaked cargo ship will dock in Cyprus, probably to make some kind of arms deal. We have the general path, and would like to hit it before it docks. That way, we won't have to fight his customers as well"

Second, apparently, Jonathan Grant will be having a major product launch gala for a new energy drink his company has created next week. It seems that the Trust already had another operation in mind with respect to that gala, since we expect that the launch will be so massive and important that some of his shadier business partners might show their faces there. We transferred a guy from another team who happens to be a musician, and got him the gig playing the event -- fortunately its a "hip" energy drink, so they wanted a rocker. We want to get you guys used to working together, so he's going to be going with you when raiding Voderac's ship. He'll be by as soon as White gets back from the infirmary with Star. By the way, the prisoners from the Fine house, including Fine, are with the troops in a shielded area so they don't find out where this base is. The ones you took at the warehouse were teleported to our main prison. You should probably talk to some of these folks while you have a little bit of time.

Mr. Black turns aside to Nightweaver and says "By the way, Nightweaver, I heard what happened at the Fine place. Ya know, I'm always looking for other powered individuals to train with. Throwing around the troops for their own good only does so much for my skills. "

 

[DM_Matt]

As soon as they land, Hope turns to Ms. White. "How is she? All I got was that she'd be ok. What happened?" she asked, concern and fury colouring her voice and expression.

Previously:

"Asad shut her flying power down and she crashed. She's pretty banged up, but I can heal her"

 

[Victim]

Shooting Star's relief at recovering her power is short lived. Useless. I didn't do a single thing - except need saving. So that's actually worse. Her teleport is amazing though - it's probably not even the kind that technically kills you like ones based on matter assembly.

"I thought it was less like capturing and more like him going into protective custody," she says, refering to Ben since he was apparently more skilled than his father. Megan considers the plan without giving it any hope of success. "I'm not sure how that'd help protect me from my power, but it might make fighting other people with fire powers less terrifying. That'd probably help." It's blasting out from my hands, rigth? So any protective thing would have to work inside me.

"Yeah, well, everyone else would probably be better off if I wasn't able to make it on the next mission." People always need to take care of me. That's pathetic for having powers for 18 years. She can heal me all she wants, but that's not going to fix me.

 

[kirinke]

Previously:

"Asad shut her flying power down and she crashed. She's pretty banged up, but I can heal her"

"She's going to need couseling," Hope reminded White. "That sort of thing can really screw you up,"

She had been through near death experiences enough times not to let it bother her as much, but it still did affect her and at times, only her sheer stubborness kept her conscious long after most would have gone under.

 

[Shayuri]

"Megan," Thessaly says gently, taken aback by the tone of the other girl's comment.

"What happened wasn't your fault. That could have been anyone. It could have been Wren or...anyone at all. The fact is that your powers made that whole raid possible. Those little energy...things...you made went in and cleared the path for us. If you hadn't been there, the whole thing would have been ten times more dangerous. And you got through the fight just fine. Asad just got a lucky shot is all."

She reaches out to muss Megan's hair with a smile.

"Believe me, I've felt useless more than once. Like in the Foundry, when we were up against a bunch of robots and half my spells wouldn't work on them. But you guys helped me pull through."

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"She's right, Star. There's one thing you need to remember; we're a team now, not individual supers trying to make a name for ourselves. That's why we are here together. To benefit from each others strengths. We all have areas where we would like to be better at. Even me."

 

[kirinke]

After talking with White, Hope walks in and overhears their conversation and walks up to the foot of the other superhero's bed.

"Star, stop thinking and talking nonsense," She said firmly and grinned ruefully down at the young woman. "Lookit what happened to me, a coupla shots from big and nasty and down I go. I cast fire spells and get punch-drunk. I can't work with ground or earth based magicks at all. I don't have supertough skin or regeneration or any of that. I'm not even the fastest flyer around." she said ticking off her weaknesses one by one.

"And look at you. You are probably one of the fastest fliers I've come across, you've managed to find away to use you powers effectively and you use them in spite of the fact that they hurt you, you survived a fall that would have killed most anyone else, you can make your energy balls go where you want and have them explode when you want. You're also one of the best computer tech's I've seen." she stalked around the corner of the bed to the girl's side.

"So what does that tell me?" she said leaning down and looking at the girl in the eye. "It tells me that you are not useless or helpess or weak or whatever it is you are thinking about yourself right now. You have never been any of those things. So stop that little negative spiral right now!" she said, tapping the girl firmly on the head to emphasise what she just said.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"I would still like to speak to Ben and Sarah, as they might have more information than they gave earlier. I hope that their stay is not permanent, and that they choose to help us in whatever way they can."

With all the girl talk, Wren is happy to take his leave, and go and talk to the two kids that were taken in earlier. If anyone else would like to tag along, then the more the merrier. He's not worried about going alone, as it's a restricted location, and well guarded.

 

[Elric]

"It's OK, Star. Not all of us can be nearly invulnerable. Not all of us can fly. Not all of us can be good looking. Not all of us can be smart. Strengths and weaknesses, you know?

Hope you feel better in a bit. I'm off to do some TV interviews tonight. I always have trouble finding it on the TV, but if you can figure it out look for me on Channel 4."

 

[kirinke]

Hope pulled up a chair, looking tired. It's easy to forget that she too nearly bought it back there and had been seriously injured. One of her coworkers called her the fracking energizer bunny because she never seemed to know when to stop, unless of course dropping from exhaustion was a clue.

"Lookit... Star, what I'm trying to say is this. Seperately, we could have never done what we've done in the past few days. Together, we can. We have to. Alot of innocent people are depending on it, are depending on what we, on what all of us, do. We have to pull together, have to put aside our petty differences in order to get this damned job done. Because... No one else can."

She raked back her hair tiredly. "A hero is defined not by intent, nor by a fancy suit or mask. A hero is defined by one's actions, one's willingness to stand up. To make a stand. To act. To do what is right, even when everyone else thinks its wrong." she looked at the heroine

"You've done that, everyone here has done that. That is what makes you a hero. Super just means you have powers. Hero is the important part of 'Superhero'."