notinplainsight (notinplainsight) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-05-27 22:12:00

Entry tags:

alex quill, azura/abel, jack murdock, jean-louise reece, kalypso, lady devil, plot - "courting death", rocket red panda, team - avengers, team - guardians of the galaxy

Courting Death - Signs
Kalypso wasn't sleeping, she didn't need to sleep, but she was letting herself doze a bit and let her mind wander. Jack was asleep next to her and she was aware of his rhythmic breathing. She idly wondered what he was dreaming of and while it was tempting to peek into his dreams, Kal respected his privacy.

Her mind wandered.

Then came the warning from her mother. "Stay away from Olympia!" Then Sersi's mental presence was gone. Cut off as quickly as it came.

Kal quickly sat up in the bed. "Mother?" she sent out.

No response.

She searched for other Eternals and found none.

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	nextgen_kree 2013-06-23 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	The Guardians' efforts slow the undead kree down, but their efforts aren't stopping them. The kree start reforming almost immediately. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	needsmoredakka 2013-06-23 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	Red had shifted his weapon for a missile launcher. "Boooom! Am exploding you!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladydevil 2013-06-26 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	"Holy shit." Eliza was surprised at the reforming undead. That didn't slow her down though. "What's doing this to them?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2013-06-26 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Being more aware of his surroundings, Iason grabs Azura - possibly losing a hand in the process, but more important is getting her to higher ground before she's overrun as they keep coming back. "I don't know what's doing this. No energy signatures. In fact, an absence of them - trying to read them on a molecular level is like staring into a black hole." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2013-06-27 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Azura struggled to get out of Iason's grip and was very unhappy. She just glared at Iason. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_kree 2013-07-02 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	The resurrected Kree just kept coming. Every living thing in their path was killed and turned into an undead thing. Everything that was done to stop them didn't work. They started to reform the second any damage was done to them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2013-07-02 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise does her best to scatter as Iason suggests, working from a distance, but soon is clutching her head, the web of scars on her face flaring. "What the hell..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	needsmoredakka 2013-07-02 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	Red had swapped out his missile launcher for a plasma rifle. "Please to have the decency to be staying dead when I am shooting you!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2013-07-02 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Iason is about to say something, when he pauses. A pulse blast goes out from him, scattering zombie Kree to buy himself some space. "The Eternals... Kal says they're missing. All of them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2013-07-02 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not one to normally say this, but let's get the hell out of here. We need to figure out what the hell is going on." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladydevil 2013-07-02 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	"What the hell." Eliza almost stops firing. "We need to get out. Something's seriously not right." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	needsmoredakka 2013-07-02 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	"I am saying we should be taking off and nuking them from orbit," Red opined. "...Is being only way to be sure." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2013-07-03 12:25 am UTC (link)
	"Let's grab whomever is still living and get out of here," Azura said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

spacepalm
2013-07-05 07:08 pm UTC (link)

Alex just looks at the chaos unfolding all around him, as the rate of refugees filling escape vessels slows. The entire planet has been evacuating at this point, hearing the horrific news. The dead are winning, and the chances of being overwhelmed are increasing by the minute. He does the math in his head, fighting off the prescient moment trying to overwhelm him.

"My son... this one is so sorry for the purpose you may be burdened with."

There's no way all the living are going to make it off this planet before being... turned. He grits his teeth, reaching for his communicator even as he keeps firing.

"Kid... you're a better soldier than I ever was, and smarter to boot, thank your mom for that. You always see a way out. A way to get your team through the door before it closes.

But no matter how smart you are, there's going to come a time when the damn door shuts before you want it to. The universe is too big and scary a place for that not to happen. Those are the hard choices. That's what you're going to be facing if you want to lead.

Can you face it?"

Damn it. Damn everything.

"This is Lieutenant Alex Quill of Knowhere, acting as security vanguard for the Galactic Council. Requesting immediate relay to Commander Peter Quill, Praetor Kallark, and Supreme Accuser Ronan. Priority access code - Eternity Tau Epsilon Red." Within moments, he has the ears requested, even as he directs the Guardians to keep pulling back. They've done all they can. "I'll keep it simple. The dead are rising, and are spreading the condition. My expert with me in the field says they are void of the very basic levels of energy to exist. This is a Technarch-level infection event.

I need this planet destroyed."

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	notafailure 2013-07-06 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise stuck close to the others. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladydevil 2013-07-08 11:14 am UTC (link)
	Oh God. Eliza feels her gut just clench. She had never seen this side of Alex. Never wanted to see something like this either. She wants to go see her family sometime soon. She has the sudden urge to hug them all. This won't get to happen for a while. She knows things are going to get busy. Fast. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2013-07-08 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	While Quill was calling in a strike to destroy the planet, Azura swapped with her brother. Abel would be better at the next part. "Let's get anyone living off this plaent!" he yelled and flew in to start gathering what living beings he could. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

needsmoredakka
2013-07-08 11:26 pm UTC (link)

While Red had, technically, been responsible for the destruction of Kaiba-5, that had been a small, Pluto like planet that was probably going to be blowing up anyway.

In a few hundred years.

But it had been uninhabited, except for the scum he'd been chasing.

This was... something quite different.

He zipped along on his rocket-hoverboard, scooping up a small child.

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nextgen_misc
2013-07-09 11:47 am UTC (link)

It only lasts a few moments before the replies come.

"The Kree Empire approves, and pledges support."

"The Shi'ar Empire approves, and pledges support."

A longer pause.

"Peter Quill of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Galactic Council, acting as witness to approvals."

It can't be more than a full minute later before ships begin emerging from hyperspace all around the planet. Photon charges and space-to-surface missiles start coming down first. Already, it's obvious that the damage is going to be beyond repair.

The real horror comes for those who understand these are just range and targeting calibrations.

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spacepalm
2013-07-09 11:53 am UTC (link)

"...run....

RUN!" Alex screams, physically and mentally, as loud as his lungs and mind can muster. "Ride, we need immediate exit, now!" He calls to his ship. "Don't touch down. Guardians, I need flight or propulsion solutions for the entire team." He vaults over a piece of wreckage, driving his boot through the face of an undead Kree.

If the ship actually makes ground, they'll be overrun, and it won't matter if it's the living or the undead doing it. Already, evacuation ships are starting to have to take more... aggressive measures to close their doors and move out.

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cosmic_son
2013-07-09 08:55 pm UTC (link)

Iason provides a lift to the transports for whoever needs it, then sets to running a perimeter, trying to make sure there's no zombie ships escaping the quarantine.

And then a jolt of inspiration. Horrible, horrible inspiration.

"Quill, you MUST stop this. Destroying the planet... will only serve death." he calls over coms.

"These things are empty... they don't even reflect the normal cosmic radiation on low levels of most basic objects...they absorb... eat everything, like a void. Something greater is behind them... we must contain and study til we find the source."

Which may come too late.

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only_half_here
2013-07-09 09:24 pm UTC (link)

Azura was yelling about Quill's stupidity in the back of his mind as Abel swooped down and grabbed two kids. He spotted two more and grabbed them as well. He moved one around to his back and the kid held on by wrapping his arms around Abel's neck. One was in front of Abel with her arms around his neck. The other two were tucked under each arm.

He flew as fast as he could toward Ride.

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	needsmoredakka 2013-07-09 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Red poured on the speed. "Kid, if you are not stopping with the screaming, I am going to be leaving you behind!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

spacepalm
2013-07-10 08:06 pm UTC (link)

Alex's insides twisted, but there'd only be time for self-recriminations and wondering if he'd made the wrong call later. Right now his mind kicks into overdrive. The door isn't shut yet. Okay, planet needs to stay mostly intact. Loss of life was inevitable, and for those not able to evacuate, it's probably still a better deal than that... unlife.

"There's no cancellation protocol for a strike like this. There's nothing the assault crews will respond to for that...." He snaps his fingers a few times, trying to think, before inspiration strikes. "But they can respond to a change in payload!" He rushes to the ship's console and begins typing out communiques in a flurry of motion, telekinesis allowing him to work with more than just his two hands.

A minute later, the bombardment of explosives seems to halt here and there, before restarting with different projectiles. Energy signatures begin changing as well. The undead are struck by the attacks and begin to dissolve, even if they reform almost immediately. The living seem unharmed, and the undead are slowed across the world.

"I don't care what's repairing those bastards, they're still made of necrotized flesh and bone right now." Alex growls. "It's an old Kree protocol for containing biological plagues. Hardly even used anymore these days, but with what their military bureaucracy is, nobody ever bothered taking it off the books or out of the budgets, so it's standard to all their ships. Shi'ar can copy the energy signature. Closest Terran equivalent is... is... like putting maggots on a wound. Only with lasers."

He finally picks his head up, looking at the planet out of the main window. "Structural damage... infrastructure... this planet's never going to be what it was again, but this is at least the best chance for evac we have." He opens a channel to the reinforcement ships, giving orders to corral all evacuation vessels for inspection.

Gods forgive him, because he wasn't likely to forgive himself anytime soon.

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	notafailure 2013-07-11 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise is still fairly in shock. "...let...let me know if you need anything turned into anything else," is all she can manage. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)