nextgen_deviant (nextgen_deviant) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-12-04 10:44:00

Entry tags:

anya stark, bea dayspring, crosshairs, inactive - elodie lebeau, martin baum, plot-"absolute power", team - thunderbolts

Beneath The Streets
The subway tunnels and other tunnels underneath to the streets of Boston were home to some homeless people along with other non-human things. Deviants, a race of genetic 'failures' created by the Celestials, also lived in the dark places under the city of Boston. The small group hid from humanity and from their ancient enemies, the Eternals. Once they numbered millions on the surface and subjugated the ancestors of modern man, but the accursed Eternals and Celestials decimated their numbers and drove them into hiding.

Gruck moved about in the almost total darkness. He and his fellow deviants had moved into a new section of abandoned tunnels and were busy exploring. Gruck's foot struck something and he stopped to inspect it. He turned the object over in his hands and used a clawed hand to brush away some of the dirt crust enveloping the object. Light burst forth from the small cleared path and Gruck's yellow reptilian eyes widened. Blue light illuminated the tunnel.

The other deviants around him stopped and started at the object in Gruck's hands. Gruck pulled the gem in closer to his body and glared at each of his fellow deviants. It was his and he had been the one to discover it and he would be the one to keep it. He could feel the power coming from the gem and he wanted it for himself. He could read the thoughts of the deviants around him. This was the gem's doing. With his mind Gruck pushed his thoughts out to the other deviants and for a moment he felt resistance, then submission.

The other deviants dropped to their knees in front of Gruck.

Gruck smiled. The gem gave him power over the other deviants and he knew what he was going to do.

Over the next few weeks the numbers of deviants beneath the streets of Boston grew as those under Gruck's power brought more deviants into the city. Gruck's power grew with each use of the gem and he was able to control more and more deviants. He didn't stop there. He expanded his control to the humans that were also living under the streets.

When Gruck thought he had enough he led them to the surface. It was time to reclaim the surface for the deviants and enslave humanity.

Chaos reigned on the streets of Boston from the Back Bay to Beacon Hill.

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goesbothways
2011-12-14 10:40 pm UTC (link)

Crosshairs heads directly for Gluck. Some of Anya's blasts she takes, getting scraped, burned, electrocuted and perforated, but managing to keep going, after making sure, whatever the mage did, he did not time freeze Anya.

Crosshairs vaults over some of the deviants on her way to Gluck. She's pretty sure none of her handguns would do the job... so she uses an Anya.

Specifically, sacrificing as much of herself as she needs to to get there, the next electrical blast is 'blocked' with Kelly's backpack.

Said backpack just happens to contain her entire stock of plasma grenades, 8 pounds of C4, several fragmentation grenades, some homemade napalm bombs, and, for color and texture, all the fireworks left over from the 4th of July.

As she sees the blast coming, Kelly winks at Gluck.
"Michael Bay, eat your heart out."

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	magic_hands 2011-12-14 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	Superheroes are odder than he thought. "Got it." Martin helps her by putting up more of his discs as shields to seperate the civilians from the deviants but soon he starts noticing the streets are becoming crowded... "Umm...Miss? I think we have a problem." People have begun pouring out of nearby buildings and it's not making their job easy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

charmedlife
2011-12-14 11:39 pm UTC (link)

And Bea barely acknowledges him as she's ...well... dancing.

The realizations hit one after another, just before each shot at each perfect angle to bring rubble coming down right in the path of the rampaging humans, but not on them, blocking path after path as they herd more of the people grabbing at them more and more away and then.... the explosion she knew would happen.

"I believe my baby sister just blew herself up," Bea says softly, smiling.

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	nextgen_deviant 2011-12-15 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Gluck started to say something but then the things in Kelly's backpack went off. Explosions rocked the street and windows in nearby buildings shattered. People and deviants around Gluck were thrown to the ground. Gluck screamed and was consumed by flames. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2011-12-15 12:20 am UTC (link)

Martin doesn't hear what she says because he's staring at the explosion, the unusually colourful explosion. Were those fireworks?

Feeling his headache disappear he notices a glimpse of light as the gem falls to the ground. Best to not let it get there.

Martin teleports right under it, in the midst of the aftermath of that explosion and catches it neatly in his hat.

"Hey guys! I got it!" He's waving the hat around so they can see him as he flies out of the smoke.

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	charmedlife 2011-12-15 01:38 am UTC (link)
	"That's nice, kid. Iron Girl, you got your mind back? I'm going to be picking up the pieces of my sister." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-12-15 01:46 am UTC (link)
	"I am back in control of all my mental facilities," Anya said. "I've called emergency services and they're on their way to see to the wounded. I'm going to go deal with the deviants that are left." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2011-12-15 01:57 am UTC (link)
	Martin flies back over, "So that's Iron Girl? Who are you then? Oh and where'd your sister go? I kinda had to drop the telepathic link to help with civilians." He's really not very caught up on superhero names. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2011-12-15 02:03 am UTC (link)
	"My name is Beatrice, and my sister, as you may have missed, blew herself up," Bea says as she heads for the explosion coordinates, carefully looking for the biggest pieces of kelly so she'll have less work growing back. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2011-12-15 03:15 am UTC (link)
	There was a reason there was things like spatulas in Kelly's instructions. Having been at ground zero, there's mostly a few tatters of her 'I know violence isn't the answer... I got it wrong on purpose' t-shirt, some flaming paste, and charred skeletal remains that are in the early stages of regrowing some tendons. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2011-12-15 04:39 am UTC (link)
	Knives are as good as spatulas for prying any potentially useful parts off the hot ground and putting them on top of each other. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2011-12-15 04:45 am UTC (link)
	"Wait she...oh, I'm sorry, I didn't..." He fidgets a little and looks at the ground. He didn't think the woman had actually blown herself up. And now her sister was...what was she doing? At least he should offer help with whatever she's doing, "Did you need any help there with...?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_eternal 2011-12-15 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	There was a commotion in the streets as some of the deviants burst into flames. Two Eternals, Ikaris and Thena, descended from above and made quick work of the deviants in the streets. When the work was taken care of they approached the Thunderbolts. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-12-15 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	"Looks like we got some unexpected company," Iron Girl said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2011-12-16 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Martin just turns to stare, tightening his grip on his hat just a bit. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2011-12-16 09:35 am UTC (link)
	While still pretty goopy, at least Kelly is starting to look like something recognizable as being a skeletal system, and the starts of circulatory, from the human race, as opposed to chunky napalm. At least she's quiet while the people who understand the meaning of diplomacy talk to the eternals. Probably a good thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2011-12-17 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Bea's very happy that Kelly's coming together. She looks to the Eternals. "Yeah." She'll step forward alongside Anya. "Seems we had a bit of an incident." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_parent 2011-12-18 12:39 am UTC (link)
	"Your efforts with the deviants are appreciated," Ikaris said. "We will take possession of the gem now." He held out his hand to Martin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2011-12-18 12:48 am UTC (link)
	Martin blinks at the man but comes to his senses, "Yeah! Sure." He shoves his arm elbow-deep into the hat and seems to fish around for a moment before pulling his hand out with the gem and dropping it into the outstretched hand, careful he didn't accidentally let any stray magic hit the Eternal. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2011-12-18 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Glad we could be of help," Iron Girl said. Though she wasn't much of a help for her team. For the bad guys was a different story. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2011-12-19 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"Indeed. Will that be all? I've got my people to look after." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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