nextgen_media:

New York City was under siege. Not by any super-villains, though that was a common enough sight. Not by subterranean terrors as usually brought up by the Mole Man and not by hordes of Atlantean warriors in fishbowl helmets. Not even by any of the myriad alien races that liked to show up and get the stuffing kicked out of them by Earth's super-heroes.

Technically, these invaders were alien. But not like most others. These were very large, three of them nearly thirty feet tall, the last more than twice that.

"Come on out, accursed Autobots!" the leader, a massive grey robot with a cannon on his arm shouted. "Why do you not defend these humans?"

wiz_kid:

"Knock, knock."

BOOM!

The mouth of the cave, formerly blocked by several tons of fractured architecture and boulders, is cleared in a flash of debris and noise. Bentley 23 pushes his goggles up and grins, wiping dust from his face. "I've always wanted to say that." He looks over his shoulder to Ben. "Ready to find things forgotten by man and time?"

onearmofhydra:

Things were going according to plan. Viper was quite please by the way things were progressing. Alliances had been made. Plans were laid and the attack against the RenTech factory had been a great decoy. The real attack had been on another RenTech factory where working Zero Point Energy Modules were being stored. Once she had her hands on an energy source powerful enough to power the weapon scientists had develop she could initiate the next part of her plan.

The weapon was almost powerful enough to blacken a large city, but Olivia had other plans. More important plans. The ZPEM was put into the weapon and the weapon was on a large cargo ship in the Atlantic a few miles off the coast of New York Habor. The weapon was powered up.

A blinding white light shot forth from the weapon and blazed a trail across the sky. The light slammed into the Helicarrier, SHIELD's flying fortress.

While the distraction of the impact of the ion pulse slammed into the Helicarrier, a small flying craft came in right behind the blinding white light. It landed on the deck while panic and chaos broke out on the flying fortress.

hotblooded:

Since his laundry machine was currently unavailable after some lab mishap and he really needed some clothes Ben headed down to a nearby laundromat to take care of it. He had on some sunglasses to keep himself from being recognized too much while he took care of it. As much as he loved his fans they could sometimes be a pain in the ass to deal with.

He through his darks and his lights into separate washing machines and took a seat to wait till they were done.

nextgen_baddie:

Zeb had to admit it: as absurd villain team-ups went, the writers could have done much worse. ( Read more... )
He turned it off, smiling. "What about you, Denk? Want to give your boy's little girl a preview, to listen to just as the view cuts back and forth from the news to her blank little face?"

onthewall:

nextgen_holiday:


You are cordially invited to attend the 28th annual Maria Stark Foundation's Winter Charity event.

Four Seasons Hotel
57 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022

Friday 21st of September
Seven O'clock pm - Midnight

Formal dress required.

Please bring a donation for Toys for Tots.


The grand ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel on 57 East 57th street was festively decorated for the holidays. A series of lit candles on every table gave off warm light and the dulcet tones of a jazz ensemble filled the room.

People, the upper elite of New York society, Hollywood celebrities, musicians, politicians and even superheroes moved around the room. People sat at tables and talked, while some moved gracefully around the large dance floor.

Tables loaded with unwrapped and unopened toys lined one wall and at one end stood a very large decorated Christmas tree. Wrapped presents sat under the tree, but they were just empty boxes wrapped for decoration. Mistletoe hung from the ceiling near the tree and people stopped to kiss.

The air was light and the mood happy and festive.

unseenpowers:

Whoever was in charge of the Baxter Building holiday decorations certainly went full out. And not just on the floors the public was allowed to go to. Giant decorated trees, lights everywhere, various hanukkah themed ones too and mistletoe randomly above doorways.

Aleron was currently floating in a doorway and staring up at the doorframe confused. Usually he'd visit Earth on Christmas to spend it with his father's side of the family, but he hadn't really been privy to the whole 'holiday season' bit. So he could only really recall that there was some tradition attached to this plant, but he couldn't remember what it was at all.