nextgen_misc (nextgen_misc) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2009-08-18 21:52:00

Entry tags:

awesome andrea, kristoff vernard, npc - stature, team - fantastic four, vincent vernard

Time travel: not for the faint of heart
The Fantastic Four’s new location was, as it had been last time, in the middle of a busy square. The architecture of the buildings was different, more advanced and with an oriental feel. There was a garden in the center of the square, well cared for and vibrant. Not very far from the square there was a Sphinx. If the unwilling time travelers at first assumed that they were In Egypt, they could not be faulted. However, there was a landmark that would place them in New York City: the Statue of Liberty. At least that was it had been. Now Lady Liberty was transformed, now bearing a striking resemblance to one member of their team: Cassandra Lang.

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	quitethecharmer 2009-08-19 06:15 am UTC (link)
	Vincent cringes at the sight of the edifice. "That's just in poor taste." Sensing Andrea's discomfort, he moves close to her. "Shut down your data-stream receptors if you think there's any danger of feedback. I'll keep us covered, you just try to stabilize." A few gestures and words, and the party is shielded from sight. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_citizen 2009-08-19 06:37 am UTC (link)
	Almost as soon as they disappeared the policemen of the era, armed and acting more like SWAT teams, had them surrounded. Their guns were pointed at where they had been. Several of them fired. Their guns weren't loaded with bullets but teargas. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	discardedheir 2009-08-19 06:42 am UTC (link)
	Kristoff hand moves quickly to trigger the facescreen and ventilation of his armor, but there's already some effect, and it's hard for him to do much more. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

awesome_andrea
2009-08-19 07:03 am UTC (link)

Andrea had barely shut down her receptors when the attack began. While she did require a certain amount of air for cooling cycles on her internal components, she did not truly need to breathe and is thus rather immune to the effects of the gas.

There was already too much gas around them for her to throw up a force-field; she'd trap just as much with them as without.

Instead, orange rocky armor worked its way up her arms and she brought those arms together quickly, as hard as she could, trying to use the shockwave to blow some of it away.

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	staturity 2009-08-19 07:17 am UTC (link)
	Burning, her whole face was burning. Cassie yelled and dropped to the ground. Her first reaction was to close her eyes but that only trapped the teargas inside her eyes. She kept blinking, encouraging her eyes to tear up and cleanse the irritants away. In the meantime it still really, really stung. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2009-08-19 07:35 am UTC (link)
	Trusting his brother's armor and his girlfriend's inhuman condition to preserve them, Vincent moves for Cassie, carrying her skyward away from the gas, feeling it's effects as well, but not so severely. Grabbing her keeps his hands too busy for a healing spell, but the imperative is to escape from the initial bombardment. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_misc 2009-08-19 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	Vincent couldn't get far as an invisible force field blocked his ascent. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2009-08-19 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Vincent grunted in discomfort as he collided with the force field. Thankfully he took the impact, rather than Cassie. Thinking as quickly as he could manage, he descended again, hammering away with his increased strength at the ground. Their best hope at this point was that the force field didn't extend underground. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	discardedheir 2009-08-19 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Kristoff, of course, was at the point of panic the minute Cassie hit the ground, and watched his brothers admittedly-minor collision in horror. Shooting the curs that had done this was clearly not an option, yet, so he just hurried forward to take Cassandra if Vincent was trying anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2009-08-19 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Enough." He was mostly obscured from view but Kang's figure could easily be seen. "Cease your futile antics and I will lower the force field. If you continue to resist," He held aloft an object issuing sparks of electricity. "This has proven itself to be quite effective." Strange how his voice sounded different from the Kang they knew. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	discardedheir 2009-08-19 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Vincent, stop," Sounding strange or not, the cold hatred present in Kristoff's voice is very obviously not aimed at his brother. "Whatever gets Cassandra clear air sooner." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	awesome_andrea 2009-08-20 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Kang was... Kang was bad on a level that, if represented on a graph, would consume enough paper to repopulate a section of the rain forest. Kang also made Andrea's processor twitchy when she attempted to place a given encounter on the timeline with other encounters. "I am afraid Kristoff is right. Cassandra is our priority." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2009-08-20 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Vincent, eyes tearing shut, pounds afist into his palm, relenting in his attempt to escape. "FINE!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2009-08-20 05:55 am UTC (link)
	"I'll believe it when I see it," Kang says, stepping forward. Soon, the forcefield is dropped, the forces -- and Kang -- close in. He reaches to touch her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	discardedheir 2009-08-20 05:58 am UTC (link)
	It takes every ounce of self-control Kristoff has not to attack him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	staturity 2009-08-20 06:06 am UTC (link)
	"No..." Cassie struggled to keep her eyes open. She was hardly in any position to resist. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	awesome_andrea 2009-08-20 06:10 am UTC (link)
	It was not logical, but Andrea did it anyway, acting on something similar to instinct. It wasn't much, just a thin disk of invisible force, but it was there all the same, between Cassie's face and Kang's hand. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_baddie
2009-08-20 06:48 am UTC (link)

"Andrea," he addresses her calmly. "While your pretense at 'defending' her is richly ironiic, I think you are underestimating how much I need to know this is not a trick, or overestimating how much I am willing for the three of you to continue existing."

Kang's other hand, hooks around and touches Cassie's hair briefly. Then there's a few sounds from the armor and he checks something at the wrist, eyes flicking back to them.
" It is her. "

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	discardedheir 2009-08-20 06:50 am UTC (link)
	Seething over his efforts to restrain himself, Kristoff pulls her close in his arms and steps carefully back immediately after that. "Yes. And you have hurt her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2009-08-20 06:54 am UTC (link)
	There's not enough space for Vincent to directly put himself between Kang and the others without forcing an immediate physical confrontation, but he flanks him. "You've seen her. Now bring your filthy carcass away from her, you sad insipid little hybrid of Napoleon and HG Wells." He hisses, dozens of mystically-fueled combat scenarios already boiling in his mind. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	staturity 2009-08-20 07:08 am UTC (link)
	"I'm fine." Cassie's eyes were still stinging but her vision was clearing. And the more she could see the more confused she became. "You're not Kang." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2009-08-20 07:12 am UTC (link)
	"The irony of your 'concern' is even richer," Kang says to the brothers before staring at Cassie for a moment. "Oh, but I am," he says softly. "But you are correct if you mean..." And he reaches and pulls his helmet off. "That I am not Nathaniel Richards the Fifteenth." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	staturity 2009-08-20 07:16 am UTC (link)
	It was like her whole body turned to ice. Even though he had to be decades older, Cassie recognized him instantly. "No..." She moaned. "Please no." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	discardedheir 2009-08-20 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Kristoff sees it almost immediately after Cassie. "Cassandra, it's some kind of trick. Or a deviation in the timeline too profound to have any re..." But he trails off, just staring in horror. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quitethecharmer
2009-08-20 07:26 pm UTC (link)

Vincent is not so composed or quietly horrified as his brother and older-sister figure.' He also adjusts to this rather freakish incident with acknowledgment, rather than denial.

"You've gone absolutely stark raving mad!" He points a finger at him viciously. "I should never have given you any robot toys!" He glares fiercely, mentally retreating into absurdium to cope.