Dinah Kord

bwa_ha_ha @ 2013-04-19T20:47:00

2013-04-20T00:56:51Z

The Hunt for the Black Beetle

Part 1--Weird Western Tales

1) Using her magic, Alina is finally successful in finding the Black Beetle, tracing him to the latter half of the 1860s.

2) Dinah, Riley, and Alina take the Time Sphere and travel back in time, where they discover Jonah Hex involved in tracking down Arkady Duvall, to whom the Black Beetle is supplying advanced weapons that could threaten to alter the course of history.

3) Together with Jonah Hex, the three heroes stop the plot and battle with the Black Beetle, who escapes into the time stream.

Part 2--The War That Time Forgot

1) Following the Black Beetle through time, to sometime during World War II, the heroes find themselves on Dinosaur Island, all having been drawn there by its temporal distortions.

2) But the Black Beetle arrived there much earlier than they did, and has brought the dinosaurs under his control, outfitting some of them with cybernetic implants. He unleashes them on the heroes, who are forced into a running conflict.

3) However, also on the island are a group of Japanese soldiers, and American GIs, who get drawn into the conflict. The Japanese have allied themselves with the Black Beetle.

4) With the help of the GI Robot, the heroes once again turn the tide, and follow Black Beetle back into the time stream.

Part 3--The Last Boy on Earth

1) The heroes follow the Black Beetle to the future of Kamandi, where he has united several of the warring tribes against the Tigermen and the last remaining humans.

2) Helping free Komandi from capture, the heroes promise what aide they can.

3) With their knowledge of the past, the heroes suggestion one last bastion of freedom against the Beetle and his armies, which the Tigermen and humans will need, even if they end the conflict today. They travel to Gorilla City, which remains a thriving place.

4) Unable to convince the Gorillas to help them, and the Beetle's army having tracked them down, the three heroes and Kamadni take on his army on their own... just long enough for their heroism to inspire Gorilla City to fight back too.

5) The Black Beetle escapes one last time...

Part 4--Vanishing Point

1) Right on the Black Beetle's heels, the heroes battle him in the timestream itself, flitting in and out of different eras for a few brief moments at a time.

2) The conflict eventually brings them to a frozen moment at the Vanishing Point, just before the universe ends.

3) The heroes go all out in battling the Black Beetle, fighting him to a standstill.

4) In the fight, Dinah damages the Black Beetles temporal equipment, causing him to slowly slide out of the frozen moment...

5) ???

bwa_ha_ha @ 2012-07-04T19:54:00

2012-07-04T22:54:27Z

use font face AR Decode plus blue coloring for Scarab speaking.

Alt. Timeline Titans

2012-05-26T03:41:20Z

Red Arrow
Lian Harper

The eldest of the Teen Titans (and not, technically, a teenager), and leader, Lian provides the younger Titans with a little bit of guidance and plenty of "And definitely don't take the T-Jet, whose keys are in that drawer, no the one on the left, out and track down the bad guy yourselves. She's eager to prove herself, but is happier playing to the slightly smaller scales with the Titans than stepping up to the big League.

Powers: Lian is an accomplished archer, with a quicker full of trick arrows, but also numerous other weapons and great fighting talent.

Robin
Dinah Grayson

The daughter of Batwoman (Barbara Grayson) and Nightwing, Dinah has held a surprisingly strife-free life, for a Bat-person. She has her serious moments, but has inherited some her father's punster streak, along with her mother's intelligence. For the Titans, she's there resident problem solver, combining a knack for computers with a knack for investigation, and a circus charm for when they need a laugh.

Powers: Dinah is a skilled acrobat and detective, with an array of bat-type gadgets. Her costume includes hard-light flight wings, allowing her limited flight/gliding ability.

Mariner
Thomas Curry

The second son of Aquaman and Mera, born several years after his older brother Arthur Jr., Thomas is a hellish throwback to Kordax. Forbidden to raise him in Atlantis, Aquaman placed him in the care of his human friend, Cal Durham. Aquaman's refusal to fight for his son led to a separation between himself and Mera, who left for the surface to be with her boy. Thomas has a relationship with his father that is politely described as strained, and an even worse one with his older brother, a member of the League. Sullen and moody, Thomas can sometimes be brought out of his shell by his Titans friends.

Powers: Thomas possesses traditional Atlantean attributes, though he is several times stronger than the average Atlantean. While he cannot speak to fish, he can directly control their actions. Thomas requires contact with water once every hour or so to maintain peak fighting ability.

Kid Flash
Barry West

The son of Wally West and Linda Park, Barry is the natural heir to the Kid Flash legacy. Exemplifying his namesake's patience, he can study a problem a million different ways before anyone else has had time to think, leading some people to consider him impulsive. Shy and awkward around girls, Barry has big dreams of being Flash himself one day.

Powers; Barry possesses the traditional Flash powerset.

Wonder Girl
Helena Troy

The daughter of Circe and Ares, aged by magic, and trained to kill Wonder Woman, Donna Troy, and Cassie Sandmark, she failed utterly and was abandoned by her parents and reverted back to childhood. Donna Troy took the girl to raise as her own, training her in the ways of the Amazons. Quick tempered and aggressive, Helena is always spoiling for a fight and always pushing herself to the limits.

Powers: Helena possesses tremendous strength, speed, and stamina, as well as flight. She's been gifted with bracelets which can generate a force field, and a lasso which can deliver powerful magical shocks.

Thunderbolt
Malcolm Warner

Formerly homeless, this Fawcett City youth didn't have much of anything going for him until he found an abandoned subway station, home to a powerful Wizard with a boyish smile. The Wizard claimed to have seen something of himself in Malcom, and gifted him with great power whenever he said the name "Captain Marvel." Refusing to be Jr. or second to anyone, he chose the name Thunderbolt for himself, making a name for himself in Fawcett and later helping the Titans, eventually joining them. Genuinely friendly, but occasionally cynical, Malcolm walks the line between cynic and optimist.

Powers: Malcolm possesses the traditional Marvel-family type powers.

Darkstar
Caitlin Ross

Caitlin Ross, from Dakota, is a second generation Bang Baby, born of two teenage parents were involved in the original event. She grew up in a single family home, idolizing local hero Static as she got a little older. When her own powers manifested, she tried to become his sidekick, much to his chagrin. He arranged for her to become a member of the Titans instead. Caitlin tries hard at the hero thing, but isn't really great at it or using her powers just yet, often acting impulsively and getting in way over her head.

Powers: Caitlin possesses the ability to turn from human form into a being of solid dark energy, and can create and manipulate other dark energy constructs.

How to Save a Life

2012-05-21T00:37:53Z

1) When investigating a temporal disruption, namely super-intelligent dinosaurs from a variant timeline, Riley calls in the rest of the Titans to assist.

2) Though the battle starts going their way, a stray shot damages the Dinos time-machine, sending out a wave of temporal energy that sends the Titans through time.

--I will happily help provide npc work and such through the next part, but this will also require active plotting on the part of the individuals. These are also only suggested scenarios--

3) a) Ash and Cait end up back in Atlantis, many many years back, in time to possibly prevent the death of Aquababy.

b) Dinah ends up in the early portion of the Killing Joke, in time to possibly prevent the Joker crippling her mother.

c) Ruth and Jay: Back to the Gulf War, with the possibility to save Jay's dad?

d) Max: ???

e) Riley, meanwhile, ends up in the variant dinosaur timeline, and has to find his way back to the others.

--
Part 2

4) Riley manages to break back into the time stream, finding the other Titans, and bringing them back to the present. As a result of their actions in the past, however, the Titans have all essentially erased themselves from existence, as witnessed when they return to the Tower to find an entirely different Titans team (who I'll supply) there, none of who know who they are.

5) The two teams fight, until reason breaks through to both squads. The Titans quickly realize that this is not their timeline any longer. More importantly, the timeline itself has become dangerously unstable from how much alteration it has gone under.

6) The Titans are forced to go back in time and stop themselves, succeeding and eventually returning to a restored timeline.

7) But can they live with what they had to do?

And for his next trick, Ted will murder Riley

2012-01-24T00:08:50Z

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Dinah stopped cold at the Scarab's report. "Wait. Wait. Go over that part again."

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She could not have been hearing that right. There had to be some kind of bug (heh. Bug. Even under stress, she makes puns.) in the Scarab's scans.

Except they'd been so careful. There was no way that she could be...

"Secondary parasitic lifeform detected," she said aloud to herself. Real classy way of putting it, Khaji.

***

One more practical test later, and she got on the phone. "Ri...? Need you over here. Now."

bwa_ha_ha @ 2011-09-11T15:53:00

2011-09-11T19:27:59Z

Name: Dinah Michelle Kord
Codename: Blue Beetle
Group Affiliation: Teen Titans
Birthday: January 29, 1992
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Height: 5 ft 6 in.
Weight: 120 lbs
Relatives: Ted Kord/Blue Beetle (father, living), Barbara Gordon (mother, living), James Gordon (grandfather, living)

History: During a period of retirement due to a heart condition, Ted Kord met the former Batgirl, Babs Gordon, beginning what was at first an internet friendship that turned into an eventual real life meeting, which eventually blossomed into romance. (Or, as Black Canary put it, "You cybered with Beetle!") Romance became love, love became marriage, and eventually, there came a daughter, named Dinah. (This also had the unfortunate side-effect of creating a running gag with Dick Grayson, where various people would remind him that his ex had hooked up with Ted Kord).

Between the Birds of Prey and extended Bat-family, not to mention the Super-Buddies, Dinah grew up surrounded by super-heroes and with her father's sense of humor and the brilliance of both. From her mother and grandfather, Dinah learned a deep and abiding respect for the law and for standing up for those who had none. From her father and "Uncle" Booster, she learned not to take life too seriously. From her "Aunt" Dinah, she learned how to fight like nobody's business.

Dinah's childhood friend was Riley Carter, the son of Michael "Booster Gold" Carter and Beatriz DeCosta. The sheer amount of trouble caused by the two of them over the years is quite legendary.

It was no surprise to anyone that she wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps, the only real question was whether she'd take up a Beetle or Bat-based identity. She did what any responsible party would do in that situation and flipped a coin. Tails! She was a Beetle. She was eventually introduced to the Titans during a brief sojourn to the West Coast, after having discovered that the JLA by-laws had specifically been written to keep her and Riley out (she's reasonably sure this was actually a joke, but only reasonably).

Dinah was eventually awarded ownership of the latest model of the Bug ship used by her father and has put it to good crime-fighting use.

In-between fighting crime on her own and with the Titans, Dinah and Riley Carter have undertaken numerous missions for Rip Hunter to safe guard the timestream.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Dinah and Riley became a couple, after spending the majority of their lives denying it.

During the Blackest Night event, Dinah's family friend Jaime Reyes was killed by the time traveling villain the Black Beetle and Dinah herself was gravely injured. Reyes willed the Scarab to pass to her, at the cost of his own life. He would later return to "life" as a Black Lantern and battle Dinah and the other Titans alongside other dead Titans, and then again against her and Riley alongside the Black Lantern Dan Garrett. Though Jaime was returned to life, the Scarab had remained bonded with her. She's carried on with his blessing.

Powers: Dinah possesses no super-human powers. She is, however, a gifted athlete and computer programmer, with some mechanical skill.

Equipment: When not flying under her own power, Dinah pilots the Bug ship, a multi-function aircraft designed by her father and featuring a wide variety of weapons and tools.

Dinah is the current holder of the Blue Beetle Scarab Khaji Da, which grants the following abilities:

Symbiotic Synaptic Interface: The Scarab's nervous system is bonded to Dinah's, letting the two share their thoughts and emotions. The Scarab communicates with Dinah as a voice in her mind (which sounds like Dinah's mother). No-one else can hear it.
Scarab Mindlink: The Scarab can mentally communicate with Scarabs that have not integrated with a host. It can also interface with Scarabs which have created full infiltrators, although this requires Dinah to breach the infiltrator's armor.

Tracking Systems: The Scarab can track anything which produces energy, be it biological, technological or mystical. It can track anyone Dinah met since it bonded with her, from at least seventy miles distant.
Scarab Sight: The Scarab can scan the people Dinah encounters, informing her of any major physical conditions (such as pregnancy). It can identify and scan metahumans. It can identify people related to those it's already encountered via genetic analysis.
The Scarab is able to identify thought-patterns, enabling it to see if something is sentient. It can identify matching energy signatures, letting it see if the energy patterns were developed from the same basis. It can also see extra-dimensional objects. It is continually aware of the electricity in the surrounding environment.
It can perceive magic, see how a magical effect can be dispelled, and see through magical concealment.
The Scarab's scans can cover at least a five mile square. It communicates the information it gleans to Dinah in a manner she can understand.

Temporal Flux Detection: The Scarab can detect changes in the timeline affecting the Blue Beetle legacy; to Dinah, this manifests as intense static.

Network Connection: The Scarab can establish a connection to communication systems, enabling Dinah to speak to the person on the other end.
Clothing Manifestation: The Scarab can create clothes for Dinah, apparently from recycled waste and skin, which melt when she takes them off.
Concealment: The Scarab is capable of concealing itself from 21st century technology (though Skeets, from the 25th century, was able to find it). It can shut off cameras and microphones in its vicinity. The Scarab has blocked a magical attempt to probe it, lashing out at the person who tried.
Healing
Host Reconfiguration: The Scarab can modify Dinah's body to a certain extent (e.g., offering to give her extra fingers), although just how far the modifications can go is unknown. It has been shown to be capable of “enhancing” her bustline.
Blue Beetle Armor: The Scarab can create a distinctive suit of armor in response to Dinah's thoughts, or when it deems use of the armor necessary. Once the Scarab dispels the armor, it retracts back into Dinah's body.

Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Agility
Environmental Protection: The armor allows Dinah to survive in a variety of hazardous environments ranging from Earth orbit, to the timestream, to the Bleed. It can survive extreme temperature and pressure. It can survive the heat and impact of atmospheric re-entry without seeming damage, even when the earth around it has been turned to glass.
Armor Reconfiguration: The armor can reconfigure itself to create a wide array of tools and weapons, including an energy cannon, a sword and shield, a grappling hook, an energy blaster, claws, wings, and a set of large powered blades attached to the hands, over a foot in length, that can shear through tree trunks.
Partial Armor Manifestation: Dinah can manifest parts of the armor - like the energy blaster - without needing to manifest the whole suit.
Wing Shields: The armor can create a pair of wings, enabling Dinah to fly and hover. They can also double as shields, should the need arise.
- Jet Propulsion: When in flight, the armor can manifest a 'jet engine', enabling Dinah to fly at greater speed, at the expense of close maneuverability.
Energy Manipulation: The Scarab can shape and manipulate the energy it stores for a variety of effects, including energy blasts, energy cocoons, small-scale solid constructs (shields, chains, etc.), and 3-D holograms. Its energy shields can block a Sinestro Corps ring's blasts.
Antagonist Adaptation: The armor can tailor its blasts for use against specific opponents (e.g., Kryptonite radiation against a Kryptonian, suppression blast against a mob). The blasts can penetrate a Green Lantern ring's shield. The armor can call up anti-magic effects against magical opponents. By the Scarab's own estimation, it can even develop countermeasures that can take on the Spectre.
Energy Bubble: The armor is able to create a temporary energy bubble around Dinah and/or people nearby. The bubble shields those inside from outside attacks, but prevents them from leaving. A Flash who tries to vibrate through it will find themselves blasted by the bubble.
Waste Disposal: While wearing the armor, Dinah finds that he doesn't need to go to the toilet, though he does still need rest.

Strength level
The Scarab's own strength is minimal. However, its armor grants its hosts enough strength to move small trucks.

Weaknesses
Green Lantern Corps: The Scarab originally saw the Green Lantern Corps as the 'enemy. Under Jaime’s tutelage, this largely passed. As Dinah has not spent much time around Green Lanterns, how the Scarab will react with her is unknown.
Truce With Nature: The Scarab will not hurt nature, or the magical creatures thereof (beings who draw their power from the Green, for example), of its own volition.
Alien Sentience: The Scarab's sentience is distinctly alien; while it won't hurt /nature/, it has shown no such reluctance when it comes to humans, being willing to injure or kill them. Fortunately, Dinah has so far prevented it from killing anyone.
Reach Tech: The Scarab's armor can be breached by the weapons of other Scarabs. Equally, however, the Scarab is able to breach other Scarabs' armor.
Originally, the Scarab was unable to attack the Reach and their technology. Dinah overrode the Scarab's programming, 'reprogramming' it so that it was able to fight the Reach.
Magic: While the Scarab is aware of magic, it doesn't understand it. It's able to perceive, absorb, and disrupt magical energies, but little else. As a result, creatures of magic are often a significant challenge. The Scarab can't analyse certain mystical creatures, and so is unable to develop countermeasures for them. When faced with certain other mystical entities, such as the Spectre, the Scarab panics, offering Dinah ever more powerful weapons to take them on.
Magnetic Shielding: Strong magnetic fields block the Scarab's ability to track DNA.

bandwagon jumping

2011-06-25T04:58:05Z

1. Truth or Dare: Post a scene idea as a dare. It can be in-canon, or it can be AU. You can challenge any of mine with any of yours. I can take the dare, or turn it down, by offering an honest in character answer to any question you want to ask. If I take the dare, you can set up the scene and we'll play through it.

2. Putting the 'R' in RP: So most of the time, rp comes down to casual social or big mod-run plots. This is neither, so let's spice it up. Your dare-scene challenge must involve either A. gratuitous violence, B. gratuitous nudity (I'm willing to play out sex scenes if they make sense, or hint at them) C. gratuitous crack. - because these aren't going through moderation, they can't really change anything, no new powers, no big item acquisitions, but gratuitous hero battles or villain of the week-ish stuff should be ok. Multiple choices from A, B and C are also possible.

3. Pay it Forward: As usual, if you take this challenge and post a scene idea, you also need to put this up in one of your journals, and offer some or all of yours up for scene challenges. Now the tricky part - if I take a dare, I will temp at least one of the npcs needed, if any are. I will not require you to NPC for me, no. Instead, you must temp at least one npc in any dares you take.
And, why yes, this is an effort to get people to temp occasional npcs for others in order to encourage rp. You have an easy out in any scenes you're truly not comfortable with - you can always take 'truth', and I may, not every scene will fit my characters or my fancy... but the idea is still to encourage rp, get people doing scenes and playing with characters, whether AU or our canon, and doing the little things to help get scenes going.

For this, I'm putting up the following:

Traya Smith
Whirlwind
</a></a>tiny_tornado

Dinah Kord
Blue Beetle
</a></a>bwa_ha_ha

Wendi Tyler
Hourgirl
</a></a>3x2_9yz_4a

Joey Mason
Element Son
</a></a>the_element_son

Aleea Strange

N/A
</a></a>rannsofaraway

Victoria Craft
N/A
</a></a>just_a_stranger

Cat Grant
Wildcat
</a></a>cat_fancy

Alphonse Vertigo
23
</a></a>touchofvertigo

Lindsey Majors
Doll-Woman
</a></a>not_a_doll

Jenn
N/A
</a></a>thesonsdaughter

Robin Kane
Flamebird
</a></a>raisingkane

Asleif Thorsdottir
N/A
</a></a>godlierthanthouAwesome Andrea
N/A
</a></a>awesome_andrea

Antoinette "Toni" Rhodes
Toolbox
</a></a>toni_rhodes

Joseph Marko
N/A
</a></a>cant_stop_this

Steve Barton
Swashbuckler
</a></a>swashbuckler

Marrina McKenzie
Neried
</a></a>sea_shelly

Argo
N/A
</a></a>son_of_hercules

Rachel Summers
Marvel Girl
</a></a>marvel_girl

Rose Logan
Wild Child
</a></a>rose_logan

John Walker Jr.
Patriot
</a></a>american_idol

Michelle Clarke
N/A
</a></a>bite_me

Sydney Davis
Beetle
</a></a>dont_bug_me

Mina Wagner
Brimstone
</a></a>kidfuzzy

Stephanie Barton
Hot Shot
</a></a>hot_shot

"Rocket" Red Panda
N/A
</a></a>needsmoredakka

Grogg
N/A
</a></a>kaiju_can_do

Sophia Lehnsherr
Magneta
</a></a>fatalatraction

Rikki Cargill
N/A
</a></a>anger_issues

Dawn Roberts (im_a_librarian)
</a>

</a>

bwa_ha_ha @ 2011-05-05T23:09:00

2011-05-06T02:43:51Z

Meme!
List one of your characters, and one of mine, and pick either:

1)Friendship
2)Their first date.
3)Future.
4)Their first time.
5)AU/Possible children(please pick either or as I won't do both)

And I'll list 5 facts about any of them.

Something's Different About You

2011-04-19T03:31:33Z

Dinah had to admit, the whole relationship thing with Riley? That was really nice. It really made all the time they had wasted not being a true blue couple seem like such a waste. Though, all things considered, they'd pretty much been one, except for the whole making out thing.

Which she had to admit, was really nice. Having a couple of rooms at the Tower where they could do it without her dad trying to prevent it? Or where they could lock Skeets in the closet if he got too nosy? Also good.

So yeah. Things were going pretty good.

"...Hey, what's with the stopping? The kissing was just getting good."

bwa_ha_ha @ 2011-02-05T22:24:00

2011-02-06T03:05:46Z

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ:
Email:
AIM (if you have one):
Character Name: Helena Wayne
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight): Tallish, athletic, dark hair
Age: 25
Birthday: August 12
Codename (if using one): Batgirl
PB: (If using one.)
Abilities: trained detective and legal mind, athlete, standard Bat-equipment
Weaknesses and flaws: Utterly mortal otherwise. Helena also pretty much lacks the standard bat “edge,” hardness, and suspicion that characterizes most wearers of the cowl.
Character location/Home: Gotham
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Team: possible BoP (taking Avia’s place as she’s going more indepented/JLI)
Relatives (living/dead?): Bruce Wayne (father, living), Selina Kyle (mother, deceased), Dick Grayson (adopted brother)

Backstory: On an alternate world, Batman started his career in much the same way as on countless other Earths. Early in his career, however, two things made rather important changes. The first of which was that he caught his parents killer, the man called Joe Chill. The second was the adoptions of young Dick Grayson as his partner. Both of these aspects slowly started transforming a grim avenger of the night into a figure who operated on the basis of providing a symbol of hope and safety instead of fear.

By the time he had been operating for about ten years, the urban legend rumors of the past were completely disregarded. Batman and Robin made frequent public appearances, operating in broad daylight just as often as night. People actually moved to Gotham because it was such a safe place to live.

During this time, Batman convinced Catwoman to turn herself in for her crimes, just after having revealed his identity to her. She turned herself in, plea bargained, and earned an early parole for good behavior. When she got out, he was waiting for her. They got married that very day. Not long after, they were blessed with a baby girl named Helena.

B y this point, Batman had, by and large, retired, going out only on special cases, and otherwise left the guardianship of Gotham to the now adult Robin. Helena herself excelled in school (as well as training from her parents), graduating early, and going on to college and law school. After finishing school, she joined the law firm of Cranston and Grayson, one of whose partners was Dick Grayson.

Approximately two years ago, criminal Silky Cernak blackmailed his old boss Selina Kyle into resuming action once again as Catwoman, an act which eventually led to her death. Helena, deciding to bring Cernak to justice, created a costume for herself, fashioned some weapons from her parents' equipment and set out to bring him in. After accomplishing this, Helena decided to continue to fight crime, under the code name Batgirl.

Helena’s heroic actions earned her both her father and Dick’s blessing and when Dick himself decided to begin retirement to devote his time to his own family, Helena was the natural choice to take his place in the Justice League.

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?:
What are you planning to do with this character?
What do you want to see happen with this character?:

bwa_ha_ha @ 2010-12-28T20:30:00

2010-12-29T01:16:32Z

The Scarab has displayed the following abilities since its bond to The bonded Reyes, and will display similar abilities as bonded to Dinah Kord. It can opt to use its powers of its own accord, though it typically defers. However, if the bonded doesn't want the Scarab to use a power, he/she can override it. Should the bonded fall prey to a body-controlling power, the Scarab will take control of the armor.

Some of the Scarab's powers can function regardless of whether the armor is active or not; others, however, only work when the armor is in use. Those powers that depend on the armor are listed under its heading.

According to The bonded, the Scarab has a number of 'options' beyond those listed below, some of which are apparently capable of destroying a city.

Artificial Intelligence: Normally, the Reach's command sentience parameters, stored in a Scarab's database, give a Scarab sentience and serve to make it obedient to the Reach. An infusion of magical energies sometime in the distant past altered the Scarab, denying the Reach control. When the Scarab's infiltrator mode was triggered, the Scarab was able to develop its sentience without being in service to the Reach. It also had the opportunity to access the programming of other Scarabs as well. As a result, the Scarab has its own mind, with full access to its own programming,

Symbiotic Synaptic Interface: The Scarab's nervous system is bonded to The bonded's, letting the two share their thoughts and emotions. The Scarab communicates with The bonded as a voice in his mind (which sounds like The bonded's mother). No-one else can hear it.
Scarab Mindlink: The Scarab can mentally communicate with Scarabs that have not integrated with a host. It can also interface with Scarabs which have created full infiltrators, although this requires The bonded to breach the infiltrator's armor.

Tracking Systems: The Scarab can track anything which produces energy, be it biological, technological or mystical. It can track anyone The bonded met since it bonded with him, from at least seventy miles distant.

Scarab Sight: The Scarab can scan the people The bonded encounters, informing him of any major physical conditions (such as pregnancy). It can identify and scan metahumans. It can identify people related to those it's already encountered via genetic analysis. The Scarab is able to identify thought-patterns, enabling it to see if something is sentient. It can identify matching energy signatures, letting it see if the energy patterns were developed from the same basis. It can also see extra-dimensional objects. It is continually aware of the electricity in the surrounding environment. It can perceive magic, see how a magical effect can be dispelled, and see through magical concealment. The Scarab's scans can cover at least a five mile square. It communicates the information it gleans to The bonded in a manner he can understand.

Temporal Flux Detection: The Scarab can detect changes in the timeline affecting the Blue Beetle legacy; to The bonded, this manifests as intense static.

Network Connection: The Scarab can establish a connection to communication systems, enabling The bonded to speak to the person on the other end.

Clothing Manifestation: The Scarab can create clothes for The bonded, apparently from recycled waste and skin, which melt when he takes them off.

Concealment: The Scarab is capable of concealing itself from 21st century technology (though Skeets, from the 25th century, was able to find it). It can shut off cameras and microphones in its vicinity. The Scarab has blocked a magical attempt to probe it, lashing out at the person who tried.

Healing

Host Reconfiguration: The Scarab can modify The bonded's body to a certain extent (e.g., offering to give him extra fingers), although just how far the modifications can go is unknown.

Blue Beetle Armor: The Scarab can create a distinctive suit of armor in response to The bonded's thoughts, or when it deems use of the armor necessary. Once the Scarab dispels the armor, it retracts back into The bonded's body.

Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Agility
Environmental Protection: The armor allows The bonded to survive in a variety of hazardous environments ranging from Earth orbit, to the timestream, to the Bleed. It can survive extreme temperature and pressure. It can survive the heat and impact of atmospheric re-entry without seeming damage, even when the earth around it has been turned to glass.
Armor Reconfiguration: The armor can reconfigure itself to create a wide array of tools and weapons, including an energy cannon, a sword and shield, a grappling hook, an energy blaster, claws, wings, and a set of large powered blades attached to the hands, over a foot in length, that can shear through tree trunks.The armor's equipment is mutable to a certain extent, most noticeably in the wings; initially, they were composed of the same solid 'carapace' which comprises the rest of the suit, but later, they began manifesting themselves in the form of a colorless, translucent material. Whether this is because of changes in the suit's capabilities, or because The bonded intended the alteration, has not been made clear.
Partial Armor Manifestation: The bonded can manifest parts of the armor - like the energy blaster - without needing to manifest the whole suit.
Wing Shields: The armor can create a pair of wings, enabling The bonded to fly and hover. They can also double as shields, should the need arise.
- Jet Propulsion: When in flight, the armor can manifest a 'jet engine', enabling The bonded to fly at greater speed, at the expense of close maneuverability.
Energy Manipulation: The Scarab can shape and manipulate the energy it stores for a variety of effects, including energy blasts, energy cocoons, small-scale solid constructs (shields, chains, etc.), and 3-D holograms. Its energy shields can block a Sinestro Corps ring's blasts.
Antagonist Adaptation: The armor can tailor its blasts for use against specific opponents (e.g., Kryptonite radiation against a Kryptonian, suppression blast against a mob). The blasts can penetrate a Green Lantern ring's shield. The armor can call up anti-magic effects against magical opponents. By the Scarab's own estimation, it can even develop countermeasures that can take on the Spectre.
Energy Bubble: The armor is able to create a temporary energy bubble around The bonded and/or people nearby. The bubble shields those inside from outside attacks, but prevents them from leaving. A Flash who tries to vibrate through it will find themselves blasted by the bubble.
Vibrational Frequency Manipulation: The Scarab can negate the vibrational frequencies of extra-dimensional objects, pulling them into this reality. The area of effect of this latter is unknown; it has been seen to affect objects at least the size of Brother Eye. According to the Reach, this should be impossible. The Scarab can also shift The bonded out of phase with the universe, making him invisible and intangible to anything apart from Reach-tech.
Bleed Diving: The bonded can shift into the Bleed, the space that connects the various universes. He can utilize the Bleed's unique properties for various effects, such as instantaneous teleportation, or shifting back in time a few minutes to appear in more than one place simultaneously. At best, he has only enough energy to dive into the Bleed three times in quick succession.
Translation: The armor can translate Mother Box communication into a form comprehensible to The bonded.
Waste Disposal: While wearing the armor, The bonded finds that he doesn't need to go to the toilet, though he does still need rest.

Strength level

The Scarab's own strength is minimal. However, its armor grants its hosts enough strength to move small trucks.

Weaknesses

Green Lantern Corps: The Scarab sees the Green Lantern Corps as the 'enemy'. In The bonded's first few days as the Beetle, the Scarab did everything in its power to get him away from the Lanterns - up to and including shifting him outside the universe. As The bonded's experience with the Scarab's armor has developed, the Scarab has taken a more aggressive approach against the Lanterns, urging The bonded to kill them. The Green Lantern rings, for their part, fear the Scarab, responding in different ways depending on their wielders (e.g. John Stewart's sparks, as if afraid, while Guy Gardner's induced what can only be described as a 'super-migraine', along with an intense desire to kill the Scarab's bearer).

Truce With Nature: The Scarab will not hurt nature, or the magical creatures thereof (beings who draw their power from the Green, for example), of its own volition.

Alien Sentience: The Scarab's sentience is distinctly alien; while it won't hurt /nature/, it has shown no such reluctance when it comes to humans, being willing to injure or kill them. Fortunately, The bonded has so far prevented it from killing anyone.

Reach Tech: The Scarab's armor can be breached by the weapons of other Scarabs. Equally, however, the Scarab is able to breach other Scarabs' armor. Originally, the Scarab was unable to attack the Reach and their technology. The bonded overrode the Scarab's programming, 'reprogramming' it so that it was able to fight the Reach.

Magic: While the Scarab is aware of magic, it doesn't understand it. It's able to perceive, absorb, and disrupt magical energies, but little else. As a result, creatures of magic are often a significant challenge. The Scarab can't analyse certain mystical creatures, and so is unable to develop countermeasures for them. When faced with certain other mystical entities, such as the Spectre, the Scarab panics, offering The bonded ever more powerful weapons to take them on.

Magnetic Shielding: Strong magnetic fields block the Scarab's ability to track DNA.

Dispelling The Armor: Dispelling the armor originally caused The bonded intense pain. As time has passed, however, The bonded has found the process getting easier.

Beetles to Battle!

2010-12-28T07:22:38Z

El Paso, Texas, was under attack. A swarm of black-armored, mechanical scarabs had descended upon the peaceful town that was home to the third Blue Beetle. The property damage toll was already high, the death toll rising. And in the middle of it all was a man in crimson and black beetle-based armor of his own. The terror of time, the so-called "Black Beetle", which Dinah had pointed out once that the name didn't make sense if a majority of his armor wasn't black.

No one knew where he came from, but he was an enemy to both Time Masters and Beetles alike. And now, he was making a very personal strike.

El Paso's champion, secretly local dentist Jaime Reyes, had sprung into action, the powers of his scarab armor making him more than a match for any individual scarab in the warm, but their numbers soon threatened to overwhelm him.

"No.

"No.

"Not that one either.

"No. We're not destroying the town in order to save it!"

He looked to soon be overwhelmed, and his thoughts turned to Traci, the love of his life, to his sister Milagro, to his parents, and his dear friends Brenda and Paco. And to Mr. Kord, who always insisted he call him Ted, and who had been the best mentor a fledgling hero could have asked for. I'm sorry guys. Guess my best wasn't good enough...

Bolts from above shattered the scarabs around him to dust, and he looked up to see an even bigger mechanical beetle in the sky, only this one was bright blue. Weapons ports along its edges and antenna were blasting away. A voice came over the Titans emergency frequency he still kept active, just in case. "Hey, Doc, need a little help with this procedure?"

He had never been more grateful to hear the voice of Dinah Kord. Certainly, she and that green-haired boyfriend of hers could be trouble, but their hearts were in the right place, and in this case, he wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. Freed of the immediate trouble, he converted his armor's hands into cannons, blasting away at still more of them as he took to the sky on wings of energy. "Right now, I'd take G'nort!"

"You calling me a dog, Reyes?"

And then there was no more time for jokes, only for fighting. Together, they began to take back the city. More and more mechanical scarabs littered the city, but compared to the prospect of not living another day, the citizens would welcome the chance for clean-up. Soon, it appeared they were all gone.

The Bug hovered over the city, the Blue Beetle right next to it. "This feel... too easy?" Dinah asked. "I mean, yeah, those things were tough... but not exactly Blacky's usual standard. And where is he, anyway? I know those were his robots. When he's supposed to show up and gloat?"

"Been wondering the same thing," Reyes replied. "Scarab's not finding anything. Which is bad."

A power blast shattered the cockpit of the Bug. Its engines kept it afloat, but its pilot began to fall to the ground. Recovering quickly, she fired a grappling line from her BB-Gun, swinging to the street below. Reyes raced after her.

"Oh, well done," a voice said, and they turned to see the Black Beetle standing before them. "Did you enjoy your last heroics, Jaime?"

"We've beaten you before," Reyes said, charging weapons. "We'll do it again."

"I think not. History is quite specific. Today is the day you meet your maker. At my hands."

Dinah shook her head. It wasn't possible. Rip surely would have said something. Or Riley. If he knew. Did he know about this? Was this solid time? Or could it be changed...?

"Puh-lease," she taunted, intent on distracting the Black Beetle. "You done monologuing yet? Some of us have places to be after we kick your ass."

Well, it got his attention. The Black Beetle turned and fired an energy beam at Dinah and she saw her life pass before her eyes. Reyes moved faster, throwing up arm shields and intercepting the beam.

Or rather, that's what he tried to do. The beam ripped through the shields, ripped through him, and ripped through Dinah as well. It hurt, but only for a moment. And then she couldn't feel anything.

"History did not lie, Jaime. And all your heroics for nothing. You couldn't even save the girl." With that, the Black Beetle was gone.

Dinah could just manage to look down, see the hole punched through her. And she knew she would not live. Love you, Ri...

"Khaji Da..." she heard Jaime whisper. "Can you... save her...?"

A pause.

"Don't care about me. Can you save her?"

Another pause. "Then do it. Host transference.... begin."

"Jaime..." she tried, her voice a croak and blood in her mouth. "Don't... you'll die..."

"Better me than you, Di..."

She felt something slip inside her. Felt herself starting to get better. A strange voice echoed its way through her head, by-passing her ears and going straight for the brain, felt new flesh knitting itself until she could turn her head to see a very naked, very dead, very holey Jaime Reyes beside her. She could move now, crawled over to the body and pulled herself up.

"No!" she cried, tears fogging her goggles. She ripped them off. "No!"

"No..."

bwa_ha_ha @ 2010-12-01T20:44:00

2010-12-02T01:49:53Z

Cameron Carter (CeCe to her friends)
PB--Marimoon
Codename: Goldbug
Team: Teen Titans
Ht: 5 ft 8 in.
Wt: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Green
Age: 17

Powers: Uniform allows for flight, force field generation, power-blasts, and limited super-strength.
Abilities: Cameron is a skilled computer programmer and tinkerer.

Background: Absolutely no one was surprised when Dinah and Riley got married. In fact, the only thing surprising in that was what took them so long to get around to it. Not long after CeCe was born, Dinah, already having been out of the game from the pregnancy, willing agreed to be the one to step down, so that there was at least one "normal" parent, though in-between beginning to run things at Kord Industries, she worked to provide technological resources and computer-fu for her fellow heroes, as well as being willing to suit up for emergencies.

CeCe grew up, at least partially, in the future, at Riley's insistence. She returned in time to mostly grow up with the others and proved herself an extremely worthy heir of the Blue and Gold legacy. She seems to be absolutely unable to take anything seriously, always with a joke on her lips, but no one can deny that she's put herself on the line just as often, if not more, than the rest of them.

The Pack (Titans villains)

2010-07-02T04:49:48Z

The Pack

Based out of Zandia, the Pack are some of the most dangerous mercenaries the world has ever seen. Originally all independent operators (except for Jackal and Hyena), they were brought together for a specific mission several years ago, and decided they could be much more profitable if they worked together. The accomplished several missions and were eventually hired by Intergang to deal with Superman.

Their initial outing, even with Intergang weapons, proved to be a spectacular failure. Following, Intergang sprung them from prison and outfitted them with upgrades that included power armor, genetic engineering, and cybernetics. While they still failed to be a match for Superman, they continued their criminal careers. Even without their upgrades and powers, each member of the Pack is a deadly fighter and killer, skilled in various fighting techniques and weapon-usage.

Coyote

The leader of the Pack is really wealthy industrialist David Riker, who at the age of thirty, tired of the life of an inherited ownership of a company and inherited wealth. He sought thrills and turned to big game hunting and during one such hunt, he accidentally killed a member of his hunting party. On that day, a lust for blood was born. People were paid off and the incident was forgotten. A few months later, he entered the mercenary scene.

Brilliant, cunning, and devious, Coyote is responsible for planning all of the team’s missions. He is extraordinarily good at figuring out all the angles and has a plan ready no matter what goes wrong.

Weapons: Coyote wears a suit of power armor which emphasizes speed and agility over strength. It possesses razor sharp claws, lasers built into the gauntlets, and a vertigo-effect inducing beam.

Coyote: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Xanatos3.jpg
Coyote armor: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/260px-Coyote1.jpg

Fox

Janine Renard is the daughter of industrialist Halcyon Renard, one of the most trusted and respected men in his industry. Though she enjoyed the life of privilege her father’s wealth afforded her, she had no interest in strong moral principles such as integrity and responsibility, preferring a life of excitement and scheming. She met David Riker early on and fell in love with him; later on, she joined the Pack when Riker set it up, becoming its second-in-command.

Powers: Fox possesses the ability to transform into a monstrous were-fox, with incredible strength, speed, agility, and senses, but no ability to speak. In either form, the fox-head tattoo over her eye remains.

Fox: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Fox2.jpg
Fox (were-fox form): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/240px-Fox7.jpg

Dingo

Originally from Australia, Harry Monmouth to Mariah Monmouth, a poor, single mother. As a young boy, he came home from school one day to discover that his free-spirited mother was gone. He was greeted by John Oldcastle at his home, who informed Harry that Mariah had run off again, when in fact he had murdered her. Oldcastle raised Harry and taught him to be a thief. Harry was part of Oldcastle's gang, working over the years with Oldcastle and his accomplice, Pistol. Eventually, Harry moved on and became a mercenary.

Though decidedly a criminal, Dingo is the least “bad” of the Pack and tries to eliminate collateral damage and tries to make certain his targets do not suffer.

Weapons: Dingo wears a suit of power armor, heavier than the one used by Coyote and focusing more on strength and firepower. It has boot jets for flight, sensors, enhanced strength, and numerous weapons systems.

Dingo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Dingo1.jpg
Dingo armor: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Dingo2.jpg

Wolf

Eric Hakonson, an American of Scandinavian descent, and former professional wrestler who was kicked out of the sport for bloodlust. He turned to mercenary work after that, and took great delight in not only killing people, but doing it bare-handed whenever possible. So long as the Pack keeps him in money for beer and prostitutes, he’d happy to take orders. He’s not especially liked by the others, but he doesn’t like them much either. Dingo, especially, is repulsed and a little frightened by Wolf. Since his upgrades, it is even believed he has become cannibalistic.

Powers: Wolf was genetically engineered into a man-wolf hybrid, and unlike Fox, he cannot resume his normal human form. He possesses great strength and agility, claws, and enhanced senses. He can also increase his power, becoming more monstrously wolf-like in the process, but at a proportionate increase of loss of intelligence.

Wolf: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Wolf2.jpg

Jackal and Hyena

Rex and Olive Gates are siblings who were originally recruited by the CIA while in college. They took what they learned from the CIA and disappeared, reappearing later as mercenaries. While brother and sister, the two could not be more different. Jackal is cold and fussy, with a strange fixation on death, while Hyena is fiery and passionate and more than a little kinky, as well as taking delight in torture. When the opportunity for upgrades occurred, the two opted to become cyborgs, replacing most of their body with cybernetics. The two are also… unusually close, for siblings.

Powers: Jackal’s cybernetics include a mechanical eye, enhanced strength, razor sharp claws (which can also be fired as missiles), and enhanced speed.

Hyena’s cybernetics included extendable limbs, claws, palm lasers, and enhanced speed.

The two are always making upgrades to their cybernetics.

Jackal: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Jackal2.jpg
Hyena: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/the%20Pack/360px-Hyena2.jpg