Hero Complex #1

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  1. Love to Write

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    “Excuse us for the violence we offered you. If it’s that you of this drones a friend are not and instead an enemy of the chaos I would like a confirmation. A verbal agreement is enough my dear….. Steely friend….”

    "Popo, what the heck are they talking about. So weird, are they aliens?"
    "Response: Not aliens. Humans." Popo replies aloud. He turns a dented head to the twins. "Response: I am Guardian Robot P-zero-P-zero, or Popo. The drones threaten my ward. They are hostiles. Warning: Another attack will considered be a threat against my ward and you will be considered a hostile. I will terminate all hostiles."
    Milly sighed in exasperation. "Just tell them we request a truce until the other enemies are dealt with. Especially the villain near-by."
    "Request: My ward wishes to offer a truce until the termination of all hostiles."

    "A truce he offer us my sister, can we trust him?"
    "It was a promise you made, a verbal agreement is enough"
    "You claims we threaten your ward! But you threaten that young lady within you!"
    "To grant her freedom we require!"

    Milly laughed. "They think you're holding me prisoner? That's funny. Here, open up. I want to talk to them."
    "Caution: There is still danger. It is unsafe for..."
    "I don't care...OPEN SESAME!"
    The plate over Popo's stomach opened revealing the child in a yellow dress. She had a streak of blood on her forehead but was smiling none-the-less. "I'm not a prisoner with Popo!" She declared at the twins. "He's my best friend and he's protecting me. So you two had better help him too, or we won't be friends." She crossed her arms and nodded like that was that.

    Both twins looked dumbfounded.

    "A prisoner is not she?"
    "The machine is her friend!"
    "So...."
    "So...."
    "THE MACHINE INDEED DOES HAVE A HEART!!!" Exclaimed both at the unison.

    Apollo crossed his arms, a drone was about to attack him but he simple disappeared and reappeared few meters behind. Seemingly ignoring the bot he continued his talk.

    "A truce we can accept, but as friends do them offer to us. Are friends a need for us my sister?"
    "They are not my brother, but the truce is an idea I like, however, if a truce it is that implies we would be enemies afterward!"
    "I see no reason to be their enemies, but I see no reason to be friends!"
    "Still curious abo......... eoaaoaaaaah!!!!"

    Athena almost lost her balance as a drone propelled against her, she almost got hit but managed to fly backwards.

    "That is machine with heart, if as friends do you offer then my sister you should help!"
    "Myself I can defend and if not you should be of help!"
    "True it is, but it would not fit the play!"
    "Oh, how fool I was again! Then please, save me oh steel knight with a heart and the princess escorted by him!"

    The right moment it was for at least three drones approached the group.

    "You're weird." Milly said, just as Popo closed her in again and used the machine gun in his hand to blast one of the droids to oblivion.
    "I barley understood a word they said..." She continued as Popo fought. "They're like...actors from one of those stupid old plays or something. But, I do like being a princess!" She grinned. "Go forth my brave knight, Popo! And call me princess from now on."
    "Response: Very well, Princess."

    "So brave!"
    "So cool!"

    "THE PRINCESS AND THE ARMORED KNIGHT RIDES INTO BATTLE!"
     
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  2. Kaitou Wolf

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    This is getting dull... where are the big leagues?
    Blitz zipped in between the robots, smacking them around like table toys, going fast enough that his speed managed to pierce the shell of the tinker toys, ripping out wires and other bits of machinery, his scrapped and battered knuckles healing themselves over in time to hit another robot.
    Getting winded, I need food.
    He zipped past a Girl Scout stand, quickly taking money from a pocket in his tunic and switching it with a box of tagalongs. Munching on the coconut and caramel snack, he jump kicked a robot into a crew of robots. Stopping for a breather, he glanced around.
    "Looks like the area is clear," he said, arms folded. "Wonder where Scorpy is..."
    As if on cue, a giant ball of metallic something flew past and smacked into a wall. Blitz spun around and saw a giant behemoth of a man rushing towards him.
    "Well. Damn."
    Blitz dodged the first punch, and the second, before running off and grabbing Scorpius, who was slowly picking himself up.
    "Looks like a friend of ours came. Wonder what's eating him this time?"
    Scorpius grunted, and the two stopped several miles away from the giant man.
    "Isn't he technically a hero now?" Blitz wondered. "Shouldn't he be, you know, stopping the robot rampage?"
    "Like he cares," Scorpius said, jumping out of Blitz's arms. "Anyway, let's not worry about him right now. More drones to stop." The other hero jumped into the air and started climbing a building, claws shredding the side.

    Orion, meanwhile, let loose his frustration on a couple of drones. Once again, his arch nemesis had gotten away. He tossed a drone to the left, where it suddenly aged into dust.
    "Enough," a sharp, female voice said. "Your orders are to rescue civilians and WORK with the vigilantes today. Not pound them to paste."
    A girl dressed in a blue dressed that looked like it was decorated with glass walked over to him. Orion glared at her.
    "Shove off, Princess," he snapped. The girl stood firm.
    "How the government allowed you a place on GA I'll never know," Cinderella said. "You're a crook."
    "Yer naive," Orion stated. "Go play makeup with your other fairy princesses."
    Cindy glared at him, then walked off.
    "Follow orders," she said, before running away, her glass shoes clacking against the ground.
     
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    Nick was just about to ram the van into the group of heroes when the robot's belly opened up and a smiling face became visible.
    "NICK!" screamed Jenny, "THERE'S A KID IN THERE!"
    "What do you mean?" asked Nick.
    "I mean that there's a kid in that golem's stomach, and were going to crash right into them!"
    "Why would there be a child inside of Finder's bodyguard?" started Nick before light dawned him, "ooh."
    "Whatever! I ain't killing no kid!" and Jenny grabbed the steering wheel and jerked.
    The van took a sharp turn, missing the heroes, but also losing grip on the concrete. Almost instantly, the speeding van turned into a tumbling heap of metal crashing straight into an alcatraz droid.
     
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    The drone exploded, and Bill gathered all of the flying metal and formed a metal suit around himself. The red-hot metal cooled down as Bill turned all of the heat into energy, which he gathered in his hands. The temperature around him dropped below zero, and his storage went up to quarter-filled once again. A drone shot a huge blast of high-energy at Bill, but Bill easily took all of that energy present in that blast, and rerouted it back at the drone. In a single, focused blast of electrical power that released all of his stored power, the drone was destroyed immediately.

    "I'm still in good shape." Bill said, stroking his buzzing grey beard. "Not half bad."

    "Whoa. Who are you?" He heard someone young ask from behind him.

    "Magnus. You may not have heard of me. I'm from the Golden Alliance."

    "You're super cool."

    "Stay hidden, kiddo. Daddio has this under control." The kid ran off to a nearby building, then Bill took some metal from a nearby shop, then formed it into several broad metal blades that soon start orbiting around his intimidating armored figure. He started walking along the road, and everywhere he stepped, ice formed on the road, which soon melted under the sun's rays. His storage once again fills to a quarter, then Magnus stops for a second, hesitating. He then takes every single Joule of heat around him, dropping everything around to almost absolute zero, filling his storage up to half. It was dangerous, but this situation called for it. Magnus stepped on a blade, then flew up into the skyline, using the blades as a platform.

    He surveyed the situation from 800 m off the ground. Lots of superheroes and vigilantes were fighting drones. He looked for anyone in dire need of assistance. A woman was running away from a drone who had his hand on a rifle. He quickly used the blades to propel him towards the ground, then shot one straight through the drone's head, then before it could use the lasers on its arms, Bill had put his hands directly onto its surface, unloading a quarter of his stored electricity into it through the hole he'd created. The mechanical menace took only a second to blow up, and Bill's metallic armor deflected the flying metal. A blade stopped a piece from hitting the terrified woman.

    "Get inside, madam. As long as they can't detect you, you and your baby are fine."
     
  5. Leviathan

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    Popo took several clunking steps back as a vehicle crashed nearby then backhanded a drone as it got to close. Milly blinked as she sensed another Meta human. Someone with magic...but she didn't know who. Were they Villain or Hero? This day was getting crazy and she was getting tired of being in Popo's cramped hollow. "Hurry up and finish beating these guys, Popo. I'm ready to...oof!" She grunted as Popo was shot by two missiles simultaneously and thrown against a building. His hollow opened as his eyes went dim. "Popo!" Milly cried climbing out, covered in bruises and cuts, and moving to his head. He was badly damaged. The armor was cracked nearly through. One more hit and she'd have been dead. The robot lay still, its whirring heart sputtering and grating. "Hey! Activate your stupid-repair function!" She demanded banging on Popo's chest. The robot's eyes flashed blue and she could hear the mechanisms working. She looked up as she heard the sound of car doors opening. Two people stepped out, looking right at her.

    The Female was the one she had sensed with magic, but with the other she sensed nothing. Both were in costumes, but neither with the G.A. symbol. That was bad. Either they were vigilante's or they were super villains. "Hurry up, Popo." She whispered.

    "The plan was damage control and exploring new avenues of profit, not crashing a company-owned vehicle."
    "Bite me, Nick. Whenever you try to 'explore' things stuff like this happens."
    Suddenly, the right car door blew away and a scantily-clad woman stepped out of the car.
    "If my suit is so much as crumpled, I'm docking your pay for this job."
    "Hah, I'd like to see you try little human."
    "Don't tempt me, now help me get out of this van and see if we can still salvage this mess."
    Jenny, gave watching heroes a meaning look and pulled the other car door from it's hinges.
    A well dressed man stepped out, straightened his tie, and started walking towards the group of heroes like he just left a limousine instead of a burning wreckage.

    "Good morning," he said amiably. "My name is Nick Kelvin, CEO of Hero Insurances, and this is Bint al-Jinni of Kaf Ajnoun." He extended his hand to the girl. "Pleased to make your acquaintance."

    "I don't like business people. They're annoying, and boring, and smell funny." Milly replied bluntly.

    "Are they new actors?"
    "They must be, other way I can't see"
    "Yet dear sister, they seem to be bad ones"
    "Hoh? Can you tell?"
    "That I can't but our princess hath claimed them to be annoying and boring"
    "But funny do they smell"
    "The funny is that I can't smell them. Can't you sense their hearts?"
    "That I can, and confused I am, this person I don't like"
    "If our princess and my dear sister do not like them, perhaps it should be good of them to be aware then, however..."

    Apollo got close to the man.

    "What kind of actors would we be if we lack courtesy in front of a man who hath nicely introduce himself to us. The less we can is to do the same"
    "Right you are smart brother. I shall be the first, Sasha Milo is my name, to meet you a pleasure is"
    "No, no, no, sister, remember you're Athena Rose, it would be dumb to reveal our names, if they're villains they'll target your dear ones, they could even target your dear brother!!"
    "I can't bear that, please don't do nothing to Dennis!!"
    "Screwed it again you had, I am Apollo Thorn!!!"

    Nick continued to exhibit careful neutrality in the face of these two lunatics, but Jenny broke into smile and started laughing hysterically.
    "Right you are, girl. Nick here is the most stuffy, boring stick-in-the-butt you'll ever meet!"
    Said Nick raised his eyebrows and gave Jenny a meaning look, but she ignored him.
    "In fact, you do indeed smell, Nick. Maybe you should back off on all the expensive soap you are insistend on using." She shook her had to the girl and Athena, as if to say: 'boys, right?'
    "There is nothing wrong with proper hygiene," Nick started, but the Jinn cut him off.
    "Don't pay attention to this scarecrow, let's try this again. Hi, I'm Jenny, what's your name?"[

    "Why should I give my name to people who might be Villains?" Milly asked crossing her arms. Popo began to slowly move his appendages. It wouldn't be too long before he was back on his feet.

    Nick took offense at that, "We're not villains, I'm a legal entrepeneur who just happens to work for and employ villains just as I work for and employ normal people. If anything I aid in rehabilitation of misguided individuals, isn't that right Jenny?"
    Jenny looked a little crestfallen, "Eh? Yeah, sure, what he said. And I'm a mercenary, I work for whoever pays me, hero or villain. But I would never be part of truly heinous crimes, like kidnapping of a minor, for example. RIGHT NICK?"
    "Yes, yes, I heard you. I've done some bad things, but even I would never hold a minor captive against her will. Maybe an adult who made some poorly-considered life choices, but never someone below legal age. Because that is just terrible, isn't it?" He stressed that last part whilst intently looking at the girl.

    "Are you talking about drugs?" She cocked her head, "because I'm not even interested in that sort of stuff."

    "No, heroism, but I understand your confusion." Nick answered. "Let me ask you a few questions, you don't need to answer. Are you the GA member only known as Finder? If so, aren't you too young to be a superhero? Were you given the chance to explore other directions you wanted to take in your life? And finally, are you a prisoner of the GA?"

    Milly blinked, her heart pounding. She knew full well what a villain might do to her if she were found. "What's a finder?" She asked innocently.
    "Activating. Activating. Activating." Popo sat up, his shoulder joint had stopped sparking, the dent in his head was slowly reversing as was the damage to his armor. "Princess, are you in danger?"
    "POPO!!!" Milly cheered jumping into his arms and kissing his cheek. Then she glared at him. "Bout time you woke up stupid robot." She hit him on the head with a small fist.
    "Sorry, Princess. I will attempt not to...fall asleep...in the future."

    Nick eyed the reactivated robot. "Oh, Finder is what they call the meta-human the Golden Alliance uses for tracking other meta-humans. I don't know much else, because he or she is not allowed to leave the GA headquarters. I wanted to check if Finder agrees with those measures, because if he doesn't, that would make him or her a prisoner held against his or her will. But if you are not Finder then that is of no concern to you and I won't bother you further."
    Nick smoothly produced a piece of paper from his inner pocket and handed it to the little girl.
    "Here's my card, give me a call if you ever want to do something else with your life besides what a grown man in spandex tells you to do. Goodbye." Nick gave the girl a small smile and walked away. Jenny stayed a little longer.
    "Goodbye, little human. Shame we didn't get to know each other better," she said kindly and turned her back to the girl following the man in the suit.

    Milly watched as they left. She didn't like being stuck in the G.A. but neither did she like what the Super Villains did. Her parents and the other heroes had told her enough horror stories to scare her away from even thinking of being a villain. Still, she couldn't help but long for the freedom they had, and couldn't help but wonder, what would a life outside the G.A. look like?

    "What do you think?" asked Jenny.
    "Oh, she's definitely Finder, alright," answered Nick. Still, she wasn't a half bad liar, he was glad he didn't ran her over.
    "So the whole 'kidnap Finder for lot's of money' plan is of the table then?"
    "Certainly, I meant what I said. If you are an adult who willfully stepped into this world, you deserve whatever you get, wether it is endless fame or being kidnapped for money. But a child who, as far as I can tell, was never given a real choice in her life shouldn't be used as a glorified Google Maps. I gave her my card, if she calls me, that would be fine, if she stays a hero, that's fine too. As long as it's her choice."
    "Wow, Nick. Sometimes you almost don't sound like a villain at all," said Jenny.
    Nick smiled, "Let's go, I see a few murderers whom's services I want to hire."
    "Aaand, it's gone."
     
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    "Are they villains princess?"
    "Are they our enemies?"

    Artemis and Apollo looked each other, their eyes shone in excitement.

    "Do you see what's going on my sister?"
    "Our first enemy had arrived!"
    "How will this issue be called like?"
    "The Thorny Rose #2 The evil CEO!"
    "And do not forget the Golden Alliance!"
    "Which leads me to ask, dear princess. What is the Golden Alliance you speak of?"

    "Its an alliance of heroes run by the government." Milly replied. "Any meta who not part of it is considered a Villain or vigilante. But don't worry, I won't tell anyone you're vigilantes. Will we Popo?"
    "I do whatever you want, Princess."
    "See." She smiled with a nod.

    "Vigilantes?"
    "Like the pulp novels!!!"

    "Milly and P0P0, we're glad to have made acquaintances of you!"
    "And you did protect my sister, you're trustworthy"
    "A new alliance is a need for a new enemy we had just met!"

    Apollo then extended his hand at the girl.

    "Let's shake hands as is the proper way to seal a new friendship"
    "That and I hope you do forgive us for attacking you dear P0P0"

    The robot didn't nod or blink so Milly answered for him. "Of course we forgive you!" She shakes Apollo's hand. "I like new friends. I don't have many. And you guys fight like real heroes."
    "Did you hear that amazing brother? She did call us real heroes!!!"

    "For us to leave such impression our first day surely means we are talented!!!"

    Milly laughed and climbed onto PoPo's shoulders. "Now those drones will leave us along now that they know who they're dealing with!" She grinned.

    "Bad, bad drones they made the mistakes of their lives!!!!"
     
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    Shoshanna stepped forward, placing herself between Jimmy and the attacking drone. The machine fired a missile, but the projectile barely traveled a few feet before it slowed to a stop, then began traveling backwards. The rocket’s thrust was not enough to escape the gravity well Shoshanna had created around the drone.

    The rocket was quickly snapped back, like a ship falling into a sucking whirlpool. It hit the drone and exploded, but even the flames of the blast were quickly swallowed up and appeared as little more than a brief flash. Even the sound of the explosion and the sounds of the drone’s armor crumpling inward could not escape. It died a silent death, imploding like a tin can being crushed in an invisible fist.

    When she was finally done, all that remained was a little ball of smoldering metal, red hot due to the heat and pressure. It fell to the ground and landed with a thunk.

    Satisfied that the initial threat was eliminated, Shoshanna turned to Jimmy. “Your orders?”

    “Orders?” he said.

    “You’re my commanding officer, yes? Well, what are your orders? I could fight more drones, if you’d like… but that seems like an exercise in futility.” She pointed skyward, where drones were zipping amongst the clouds, some being chased by flying heroes. “Shall we procure another vehicle and continue searching for the source?”

    “You want me to give you orders?”

    “What I want was rendered irrelevant a long time ago,” Shoshanna said, pointing to the shock collar around her neck. She lifted the hem of her pants leg to reveal the tracking bracelet around her ankle as well. “The terms of my current circumstances forbid me to use my powers without the express permission of a non-meta supervisor,” she explained. “Right now, that ‘supervisor’ is you. So, orders please, Lucky.”

    “It’s Lucky Bastard. You gotta say the whole thing,” Jimmy said. “And you wrecked that droid without my supervision, so what gives?”

    “That was self defense. And you seem like a nice young man, so I’d rather not call you a bastard, if that’s okay with you.”

    Jimmy pondered this for a moment. “What if I ordered you to?”

    “I don’t care if you order me to call you the Queen of England. Unless it actually involves my powers, I don’t have to do it.”

    Jimmy shrugged. “I don’t really like ordering people around. That’s too much like indentured servitude. But, if you insist…” he thought about it for a moment, then snapped his fingers. “Hey, here’s one: I order you to wipe out all crime in Alamance!”

    “Excellent idea,” Shoshanna said, clapping her hands. “C’mon, let’s head to the nuclear power station.”

    “Huh, why?”

    “To gather fissile material, of course. Uranium, plutonium, etcetera. By applying sufficient force, I can make it go supercritical.” She put her hands together in the shape of a spreading mushroom cloud. “Boom… No more crime.”

    “…”

    “What? You don’t like my plan?”

    “Umm… a-are you sure you’re not still a supervillain?” He asked nervously.

    Shoshanna laughed. “Oh, heavens no! That’s all water under the bridge, darling. I’m a model citizen now.” She abruptly stopped laughing and stared into his eyes with a coldness that sent a chill down his spine. “But, speaking hypothetically, of course, if there were still some lingering vestiges of villainy left within me, you’ve just given me a license to kill. ‘Wipe out crime?’ Ha! Be careful what you wish for… or whom you ask to grant it.”

    An awkward silence settled between them, punctuated by distant sounds of gunfire and explosions as the drones continued their assault elsewhere in the city.

    “So… ummm…” Jimmy rocked on his heels. “Just to be sure, you’re not a villain anymore, right? Can we at least get that straight?”

    “Would you believe me if I said no?”

    After a pause, he slowly nodded. “I want to see the good in people,” Jimmy said. “I’ll never give that up. Doesn’t matter if you’ve killed one person or a thousand, if you tell me you’re ready to change, I’ll be there for ya.”

    “What if I’ve already changed?”

    “Into what?”

    “I haven’t the slightest idea.”

    Jimmy sighed and peered down the street, which was now nearly empty of civilians. Two people in odd 1920s-era attire were standing nearly a block away, surrounded by the wreckage of many drones. They seemed to be the only ones around and anybody dressed like that pretty much had to be a superhero, right?

    “Maybe you should be around other heroes more. It might do you some good,” Jimmy said as he handed Shoshanna’s briefcase back to her and began to walk toward where these other ‘heroes’ were. Heck, maybe they weren’t heroes at all, just kids cosplaying.

    “If you insist,” Shoshanna said with a shrug as she followed. “But does a walk amongst the gazelles do the lion any good?”

    “Depends. Are you the lion or the gazelle in this metaphor?” Jimmy asked, growing tired of her cryptic bullshit.

    “Neither. I’m the poacher in the bushes.”
     
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    Santiago's bored expression cracked as he watched a pair of heroes start to do battle: a tween girl and her overprotective robot, and the annoyingly energetic Apollo and Athena. But they quickly changed their tune and made up. Santiago snarled and his left eye twitched involuntarily. With supernatural grace, he glided forward, his feet barely touching the ground, and came to a stop by Milly's robot, PoPo.

    "Really? I mean, really?" Santiago demanded, his eyes glowing bright crimson from under his dark hood. He pointed his rapier at Apollo and Athena. "You guys are going to give up that easily? This was the only interesting thing going on, and then you stop before you even begin." He turned to PoPo and glowered at him. "Can't you shoot them? At least once?" he pleaded.
     
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    Blitz had dashed all over the city when he finally spotted the group of other people, including one giant robot. He ducked behind a building, and watched them, pretty sure they were GA.
    Dammit, I don't have time for this, he thought to himself. Looks like they wasted the drones around here, though. That's good.
    He wondered if today was a team up with the GA then go their separate ways day, like the time Herakles and Hippolyta had done so with himself and Scorpius, or if this was a day not to test his luck.
     
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    Mr. Clockwise circled around the metallic remains of their fallen enemies, disgust on his face. "Apparently there was a mistake made here...goes to show you technology can't always be trusted."

    Era nodded. "Or, maybe somebody hacked into the system."

    "Exactly my point," he said, studying the symbol engraved into the robot metal. "The Golden Alliance wouldn't be able to be hacked if it weren't for these."

    "Seems we've got a mystery on our hands then!" Era said dramatically and pointed a finger to the sky, blowing a slight breeze. "Oh, and seems we have visitors."

    "More robotics?"

    "No, people. A man and woman heading this way...rather quickly." Era said. "What should we do?"

    "Talk to them, of course." Hero, villain, or citizen; didn't matter, they'd always get a word out of him. Mr. Clockwise stood up straighter and adjusted his tie, putting on a smile. "If they decide to do anything funny, follow my lead." He said out of the corner of his mouth before he broke the distance between them.

    "Hello, Ma'am, Sir." He acknowledged them with a tip of his hat. "How may I help you?"
     
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    "Can't you shoot them? At least once?" he pleaded.
    "Response: They are not hostile. There is no need to shoot them."
    "Yeah. Who put fire ants in your pants, Mr. Vampire?" Milly asked in a mocking tone. Perhaps if she were older, she would have not have been so unwise as to mock a vampire. But alas, being a child, she enjoyed making fun of strange looking people.
    "Caution." Popo warned. "Princess, it is better if you try not to instigate a fight."
    "I'm not fighting..." She replied, tapping her bare heels against his chest as she held onto his head. "Cause you wouldn't let me. Hmmph."
     
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    Repentance while not paying attention to the bullet flying towards his head was avoiding other bullets being fired at him from the robots the bullet wizzing past his head as he flew in to the air and away from the action quickly. "This is to much for me... I can't let this vessel get seriously hurt." he started flying away from the robots quickly and away from over people. "I'll let the Demons deal with the sinners for now... hehehe..." He sighed. "I'll fight the Demons when they're weaker... i'll just be waiting in the shadows..."
     
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    The droid’s hand short forward clasping around one of Joe’s ankle, snapping it like a twig with its metallic strength but its grip loosened once Tomorrow had slammed her helmeted head into the drone sending it off balance.

    All three tumbled back to the ground.

    I cried out in pain and fell to the ground as soon as the drone had dropped me, I looked at my foot, it was twisted in an awkward angle. "Son of a...!" I said wincing, I began to crawl over to my scythe, doing my best to ignore the searing pain in my ankle, I'd need something to fight with and something to lean against to stand.

    Tomorrow rolled to her feet and quickly went back on the offensive only to meet the metal fist slamming into her jaw and sending her smashing into a car down the street.

    I grabbed my scythe and stood up, leaning on it for support. "Hey ugly, over here!" I shouted, wanting to distract it, hoping that Ms. Tomorrow would be able to do something, I wasn't in much of a condition to fight, every second that I was standing on my broken ankle felt like pure agony, I wouldn't be able to move all that well...

    The drone turned slowly raising its damaged gun at Joe, its red eyes seeming to glow.

    "Well... now what?" I wondered, I did the only thing I could think of doing, I rolled out of the way, muttering a slew of obscenities as my broken ankle was jostled around in the process."Hey pervert in the coat!" Tomorrow shouted picking herself up and flanking the drone coming up behind it, doing her best to headlock it. "Cut it down to side." She said wrenching its neck and forth to keep it in place.

    I nodded. "Got it!" I said, I'd have to correct the 'pervert' thing later. I raised my injured foot to take the pressure off of it, and slammed my scythe into the ground, upturning the concrete around it, and then flung myself toward them quickly, and just as I was coming into range of them, I brought my scythe back and then quickly sliced through the weakened part of the robot, just barely missing Ms. Tomorrow behind it, and quickly flipped around with the swing, slamming my scythe into the ground and swung myself onto grip, stopping myself before I slammed into the two.

    Ms. Tomorrow let out a heavy breath watching the robot topple to the ground; she bent over letting a yawn escape her lips and quickly turned her head back to the sky.

    Damn!

    It was only getting worse.

    "There are at least seven or more other people getting into with these things.” She said looking at the flashing codes and colors upon her visor. "But the heroes seem to be beating them back."

    I sat on my scythe, closer to the blade so then I wouldn't cause it to pull itself out of the ground, keeping my broken ankle off of the ground. "I see... you wouldn't happen to be able to do anything about a broken ankle, would you?" I asked, I couldn't fight in this state and I'd rather not sit back and wait while others fought and I just twiddle my thumbs.

    "Nope." She replied bluntly. "Did you bring your van?"

    "Van...?" I asked tilting my head. "...! A-Ah! It isn't what you think, I'm a detective, not a pervert or a kidnapper or something." I said, rubbing the back of my head awkwardly, clearly flustered. "Well, not to say that I'm not a pervert, I mean, I think everyone is a pervert in some capacity." I said shrugging. "Uh... I guess we've gotten off on the wrong foot, uh... I'm J- I mean... The er... Detective..." I said, rubbing the back of my head. When someone had prompted me for who I was, I told them that I was The Detective and it kind of just... stuck, as lame as it is. "It's nice to meet you!" I said smiling.

    Tomorrow eyed him carefully. “Are you gonna explode?” She asked. “If I shake?”

    "Uh... not to the best of my knowledge, unless you put a bomb in me and you shaking is somehow the trigger." I said, the comment clearly going way over my head... that or I just made a joke, one or the other.

    "Goooood." She said nodding and lightly grabbing Joe's hand. "There is a bit of a problem in the future with criminals suicide bombing heroes with micro explosives implanted in their palms."

    "The future...?" I asked as I shook her hand. "Uh... I'll keep that in mind the next time I shake a potential suspect's hand, thanks." I said, there've been way more ludicrous things that have happened to this world than a time traveler, not even going to question it.

    "Anywho." Tomorrow's feet levitated slightly off the ground, the sounds of gunfire, energy attacks and missiles going off in the backround. "Any idea who is responsible for this....aren't these droids from the prisons?"

    "Huh...?" I asked, I looked at the droids. "Oh, you're right, they're from Alcatraz, can't those Brainwashed Government Puppets do a single thing right?" I asked crossing my arms. "Or is this some way to expose vigilantes?" I asked.

    "You think the Golden Alliance would kill this many people to make a few arrests?" She shook her head. "Maybe we should try and meet up with the others. I can carry you since you left your van at the school."

    "I honestly wouldn't put anything past them." I said looking at the ground. I then got up and leaned against my scythe after pulling it from the ground. "It's fine, I can walk... kinda... and I rode a motorcycle here... and why do you say school?" I asked tilting my head.

    “Well where else would a pervert park.” She said grabbing the back of Joe’s jacket and taking off into the sky.

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    The two soared through the sky; tomorrow doing everything she possibly could to make Joe hurl his breakfast. “That damn thing is still moving.” She sighed seeing the large military robot that she’d knocked out of the sky along with two fruity looking twins.

    Golden Alliance?

    Maybe.....

    They had to be involved somehow

    This creep she was lugging to safety was pretty handy with his weird farming tool, she came to stop mid flight glaring down at the gathering of meta humans. "Hey John, you think if I get you close enough you can cleave in half that robot with your weapon?"

    "Uh... what'd you call me?" I asked, that was pretty close to my real name... "Er... never mind, not important right now, I think I could..." I said, gauging the distance and the relative condition of the robot.

    "Alright." She said. "I fought it a little earlier, I'm thinkig maybe if you can damage it we can get some info and even if not....well....might as well take it down. Might be Golden Alliance."

    "Alright, think you can make the shot? Because once I attack that thing, it'll probably be able to turn me into a bloody red paste preeetty easily if I don't get a direct hit." I said.

    "I'm positive.....ready?" She breathed.

    "Ready." I said, holding my scythe tightly, ready to fight. Tomorrow dove down towards the street stopping just enough before she and her new ally smashed into Earth; instead she pulled up rocketed herself at Popo.

    Tomorrow’s hands left Joe’s jacket and The Detective found himself hurdling through the air straight OVER Popo, Apollo and Athena.

    She'd over shot it!

    BAM!

    Joe crashed face into the ground at Santiago's feet. Ms. Tomorrow winced. "Ouch." She turned around deactivating her suit's flight code and quickly landed looking at Joe's now unconscious crumpled form. "Hey...." She gave an awkward smile to the four. "I'd prefer you not shoot or attempt to arrest me."

    "You....you um alive John?" She asked poking him with her boot. "
     
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    "My name isn't John... and I thought you said you could make the shot..." I said groaning softly on the ground, my only saving grace had been that I had time to cover my face with my arms before smashing into the ground in front of the man. I sat up slowly. "Trust me, a fall like that won't kill me that easily." I said, I reached over, grabbed my scythe and used it to get up and lean on for support. "I get the feeling she doesn't quite like me." I thought looking over at Ms. Tomorrow, I looked around. "Er... hiya, thought I should drop in." I said smiling awkwardly, waving to the four.
     
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    Santiago leered at PoPo's shoulders, where Milly was perched like a spoiled brat. "You're a fiesty one, aren't you?" he remarked coldly. "Why don't you come down here so I can bite your neck and turn you into a vampire? Wouldn't that be fun?"

    He took a single step forward, preparing to pull down the girl from PoPo's shoudlers, when he was distracted by a boy whizzing over their heads. He was accompanied by a futuristic-looking female with a bombshell body. Santiago hadn't felt lust in a long, long, long time, but he thought he felt something as he gazed upon the lovely specimen before him.

    "Hey...." She gave an awkward smile to the four. "I'd prefer you not shoot or attempt to arrest me."


    Santiago smirked. She was gorgeous and witty. A winning combination. "Are you on the menu, my darling?" he asked her, his full Spanish lips stretching even wider.

    "Er... hiya, thought I should drop in." I said smiling awkwardly, waving to the four.

    The blundering boy's voice popped Santiago's bubble of happiness and he turned to give him the most disgusted glare that he could muster.
     
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    "And I thought my boyfriend made horrible puns," a dark, harsh voice said. A figure dressed in armor that barely covered anything, though with a tunic to go over his torso. He folded his arms, one long clawed finger tapping against his bicep. His green eyes narrowed. A good looking red head, but one not to be messed around with.
    A sudden flash of movement and another figure stood next to the other, this one with blonde surfer hair, his tunic and sandals reminding one of a Greek hero. He tapped one bracelet against the other.
     
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    Ms. Tomorrow and a boy crashed before she could respond to the grumpy pants vampire.
    "Hostile detected!" Popo declared aiming his gun at Ms. Tomorrow.
    "Hold on, silly. Was your visor damaged?"
    "Affirmative."
    "Well, That's Future Lady. She's not a hostile, she's a vigilante." Milly said wiping his face with her hand. "You...aren't hostile? Are you? Cause you did kinda just throw that guy around...is he a villain?"
    Her eyes flashed white as she read them. "No...he's a vigilante too, I think. Detective John...or DJ I like to call him...I think. Unless there is someone else with your abilities."

    Then the men in Greek outfits joined the rapidly growing party. "Ew!!!!" Milly shrieked and covered her eyes as she caught sight of Scorpio's outfit. "Just because you can super fast and have super strength doesn't mean you can walk around in just a skirt covering your underwear! Gross! Popo, tell him to put clothes on."

    "Princess requests that you Quote: 'put some clothes.' End Quote." Popo said in monotone, his gun still at the ready.
     
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    I looked over at the two newcomers and grinned. "Eh, what can I say, I'm very punny." I said, I was hoping to diffuse the tension, I looked over at the red head's features and blushed slightly, I liked men, so ignoring his figure would be preeeetty hard to do especially when so little was covered. "Uh... you're gonna catch a cold if you keep wearing stuff like that, ya know." I said, I then glanced over at the girl sitting on the robot, backed up a bit at the sight of the gun, and winced and let out a soft hiss when I used my broken ankle, I'm glad that she hadn't thrown me directly at the robot, I'm guessing its that girl's guardian, they seemed close... I didn't really wanna piss her off.

    "Er... Detective John...? Uh... I'm just known as The Detective, that's all." I said, rubbing the back of my head, smiling nervously, she was a BGP, but... I really couldn't hold it against someone that young... they probably recruit early, she might not have even had a say in the matter.
     
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    "Oy vey, I'm being chewed out by a kid," Scorpius groaned, massaging his head. "Hey, Blitz, could you-"
    A pair of shorts suddenly appeared on Scorpius, in the blink of an eye. The redhead glanced at the blonde.
    "Did you.... never mind."
     
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    After finishing talking to Milly, Nick noticed the vampire and walked up to him.
    "Well, well, well. Santiago, as I live and breathe," he said without a trace of sarcasm.
    "I didn't know you were in town, should I fire my agents who where tailing you or did you eat them all?"
     
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    Santiago stopped glaring at "The Detective" (the vampire doubted that the little twerp could solve anything more complex than a Scooby Doo episode) and turned to Nick. His frown turned into a wry grin and he stepped into Nick's personal space.

    "Nick Kelvin, I presume?" Santiago purred like a tiger. He looked the handsome gentleman up and down, drinking in his splendid figure. Nick wasn't a stunner like Ms Tomorrow, but he wasn't half bad. He had the whole "preppy bad boy Chuck Bass" thing going for him. "Yes, they're all dried-up husks of skin. I should thank you...for once I didn't have to go looking for a meal. It came to me." His grin lessened a tiny fraction and he reached out to smooth a wrinkle on Nick's sleeve.

    "Why were you spying on me, Mister Supervillian Lawyer?" he continued in a bored drawl. "All you had to do was invite me into your little firm." He winked saucily and waited for Nick's reply.
     
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    "Are you on the menu, my darling?"

    “Oh…..” She titled her head curiously. “Are you evil? You really scream evil……” The baddies of her time sure did dress a lot stealthier.

    "You...aren't hostile? Are you? Cause you did kinda just throw that guy around...is he a villain?"

    "Are you freaking hostile kid!?" She snapped eyeing the weaponry on the machine she'd tried to destroy TWICE now. "Are you really lucky or just hard to break?" She snorted
     
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    "Are you freaking hostile kid!?" She snapped eyeing the weaponry on the machine she'd tried to destroy TWICE now. "Are you really lucky or just hard to break?" She snorted

    "Correction: Luck as nothing to do with my survival rate." Popo responded.
    "Hey! It was just a question. You don't have to be rude! I just kept Popo from shooting you so you should be grateful!" Milly retorted with crossed arms. "All you adults, always rude. Well, Popo isn't." She patted his head. "I still want icecream."
    "Response: We should be returning."
    "Awwwww..." Milly grumbled dropping her chin on his head. "I don't wanna..."
     
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    "Woah, calm down," Blitz said to Ms Tomorrow. "It's just a machine trying to protect the kid. Hey, kid? Want a girl scout cookie?" He gave a genuine smile to the little girl, and held up the box of cookies he had bought earlier. Scorpius tried hard not to roll his eyes, and turned to Ms. Tomorrow.
    "Scorpius," he said, holding his hand out to shake. "You're that woman from the future, right?"
     
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    “Clockwise and Era,” Jimmy whispered as they were walking toward the costumed duo, but still too far away to be heard.

    “Pardon?” Shoshanna said, unsure if she’d heard him correctly.

    “They’re Clockwise and Era, Golden Alliance heroes,” he replied. “She’s only the most awesome wind master in the universe and he… well, I don’t really know what he does. Makes copies of himself or something. Oh my god, I can’t believe it’s actually them.”

    “You’re a fan?”

    “Just a little.” Jimmy briefly removed his cap to slick back his unkempt hair. He adjusted his jacket and glanced down to make sure his sneakers weren’t scuffed or dirty. “How’s my hair? Do I have anything on my face?”

    “Just a stupid fanboyish grin. Other than that, no.”

    “Alright, cool. Follow my lead. I’ll do the talking.”

    Shoshanna sighed and followed him as they approached the heroic duo.

    "Hello, Ma'am, Sir." Clockwise said, with a gentlemanly tip of his hat. "How may I help you?"

    “Good day, fellow heroes! Fancy meeting some fellow GA members here,” Jimmy said with a dramatic bow. “It must be my lucky day,” he added with a wink before straightening and offering an enormous smile. “Jimmy B, aka the one and only Lucky Bastard, at your service. And this here is my friend Sho-”

    Shoshanna cut him off. “Shoshanna Underwood. Article four, section twelve of the Alamance penal code dictates that I am required, by law, to inform you that I am a convicted supervillain currently serving a probationary sentence. The details of my trial can and will be made available at your request by the Alamance police department’s office of records, where it is filed under Case #3987342, Galatea v. United States Department of Justice.”

    Well, that was a mouthful. She paused to take a breath. “Pardon the formalities," she said. "I try to be extra careful around you Golden Alliance types." Shoshanna extended her hand to the man with the cane. "The pleasure is all mine, Clockwise. And you as well, Era." She smiled. "It's okay, I don't bite. And it's all thanks to people like you.”
     
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