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Prep
The Polka-Dotters appear in a deserted Tokyo, introductions are made for the newbies, and information is downloaded directly into the team's brains.
Giraud, a.k.a. the Phoenix of the Guardians of the Galaxy's universe, knows Starhawk extremely well. Thor is likewise well aware of the Silver Surfer's bag of tricks, as well as Spider-Man's abilities. Supernova knows Ray Palmer, although the addition of light powers to Khell's version takes him by surprise. No one really knows anything about the Prince of Orphans beyond what Khell's description provides.
Nobody on my team's particularly geniusy or inclined to invent things, so they'll primarily be relying on their own powers. They are, however, mindful of good tactics, so Supernova and Patriarch teleport around and scout out a nice, secure location--a two-story office building--to act as a base and rendezvous point if they need to fall back. Meanwhile, Nemesis hacks a computer, finds a nearby army base's location, and, with Patriarch's teleportational help, raids its armory--easy, considering it's entirely deserted. She pockets a few guns and grenades to complement her swords and genetic concussion grenades, and then she and Patriarch head back to the base and set up a perimeter of mines to greet any unwelcome visitors.
Knowing all about Starhawk's spotty but useful cosmic awareness, Giraud advises that the team stick together to avoid letting the Inquisition pick their targets. Other than that, all they can do is exchange strategies and prepare for the coming battle...
Battles
Giraud erects psi-shields on the Polka-Dotters' minds with his own prodigious telepathic power and the team sets out from the base, sticking together while they search the surrounding area for signs of their opponents. Instead, they find what appears to be a small boy crying in an alleyway.
Thor notices the boy first. "By my troth! Yon child hath wandered into our battlefield. We must protect him ere our impending battle endanger him further." He flies toward the boy to help.
"No, you idiot," Patriarch objects, "we're the only people we've seen in this whole city so far! Why would just one lone, random child be here when the entire city is otherwise abandoned?"
"The why of it matters not, villain, only that an innocent may be in peril. I do not expect thee to understand, but I warn thee, if thou try to stop me, thou shall face my divine wrath!" Thor reaches out a hand to the boy. "There, there, child, dry thy tears. No one shall harm thee here."
"Too bad," the boy replies, "because harming you is all I had in mind." The boy-shaped hologram ripples and fades, revealing a shrunken Ray Palmer who shrinks further until he is out of sight to all but Supernova, who immediately shrinks himself to keep an eye on him.
Thor, meanwhile, is greeted by Starhawk, phasing up from the floor. He quickly phases Mjolnir through Thor's hand, only to have it slam to earth the moment it's out of the god's grip.
"Foolish mortal," Thor taunts, "dost thou not know my hammer is protected from thy unworthy hands by the magic of almighty Odin himself?"
Starhawk ignores Thor, releases the hammer, and erects a simple rectangular energy construct around it. Thor tries to summon Mjolnir back to himself but finds it unable to move.
The element of surprise on their side and one of the Polka-Dotters' major powerhouses diminished, the Spanish Inquisition presses their attack...
Ubers
Thor is helpless to stop Starhawk from hurling him into the sky with a massive energy blast. Giraud goes to help him but finds himself distracted by an energy-charged right hook from the Silver Surfer. The ubers spar in the skies above Tokyo while below a more personal battle takes place...
Others
Patriarch vs. the Prince of Orphans
Patriarch sets his sights on Thor's inert hammer, but his vision starts to turn green as a mist surrounds him. He teleports himself out of it and onto a nearby rooftop, eager to get away from his bleeding heart teammates and handle a foe by his own rules. The mist follows and coalesces into the Prince of Orphans. Patriarch, being Patriarch, decides to taunt him. "I'm more powerful than you in every way, you know. This fight will not--"
Patriarch is cut off by Aman's foot connecting with his jaw. "The time for talk is past."
"Fight or die, then? Fine by me." Patriarch, knowing he is no martial artist himself, feints with a punch, which Aman moves to parry but instead finds a portal opening beneath his feet. He reappears in the sky but immediately switches to his mist form. While he glides gently down to earth, Patriarch opens two portals in the center of his mist form and moves them outwards from each other, splitting Aman's mist form and teleporting one half to the north pole and the other to the south pole. "I don't know if you can re-form yourself from that, but if you can, it will certainly take more time than your cohorts have." Patriarch smiles and sets off to help his teammates.
Nemesis vs. Spider-Man
The sky darkens with clouds as Thor summons lightning for his battle high above Charis. Soon it's almost as dark as night on the near-empty streets of Tokyo.
Nemesis watches as Patriarch teleports out of the Prince's mist form and moves to follow, but stops herself because of an empathic feeling--someone is nearby. "Show yourself," she demands.
"What fun would that be?" a voice replies from a dark alleyway. She fires a few shots in the direction of the voice, but her empathic feeling changes directions. She raises her stealth suit's shield behind her and bullets bounce off of it. "I've got guns, too."
Charis and Spider-Man play cat-and-mouse like this for a while, each dodging bullets or webbing or both, enhanced spider-sense and empathic warnings canceling each other out. Finally, Spider-Man decides to test the extent of Charis' empathic warnings. He swings down and lands behind her. She ducks his punch and stabs at him with a sword, which he dodges easily. Unlike his spider-sense, Charis' empathy only warns her by giving her early impressions of malicious intent. With Spider-Man standing right in front of her, filled with malicious intent, she must rely on her own fighting skills while Peter still gets the advantage of a vastly improved spider-sense. Things do not go well for Charis, and although she manages to block Peter's webbing and most of his bullets with her shields, her Kheran physiology is pushed to its limit and she can't manage to hit Peter.
Spider-Man winds Charis and she slumps down to her knees, clutching her midsection. With no other options left, she reluctantly pulls the last trick she has left up her sleeve. "I... didn't want to... have to do this, but you... leave me no choice."
"What? You can't expect that grenade you think you're hiding is going to fare any better than anything else you've tried at this point, can you? You've lost." Peter points his wrist-mounted gun at her face. "I promise," he says, "I'll make it quick."
"You should know... it's not just any grenade." Charis triggers the grenade and raises her full-body shield in time for Peter's bullet to bounce off her cocooned face. The grenade flies to Peter, genetically locked onto his irradiated blood, and explodes, warping his physical form into an unrecognizable mass of flesh and cracked bones.
Supernova vs. (the) Ray Palmer
"I've got your white dwarf belt, Ray," Michael calls to the man who looks identical to his friend, streaking by at nearly light-speed before him. "There's nowhere you can go that I can't follow." Supernova teleports as he shrinks, gaining ground on Ray with every jump.
"Who says I'm going anywhere?" Ray stops suddenly and Supernova teleports ahead of him by accident. He seizes the opportunity by blasting Michael from behind.
"Ow, Ray! Low blow, man!"
"Stop talking to me like you know me. Who the hell are you, anyway?"
"Oh, just the guy that's gonna kick--" Ray blasts at Supernova again but he teleports to Ray's left; "your--" another blast, another dodge; "ass!" Supernova finishes, landing an energy blast of his own to Ray's back.
"Neat trick," Ray grunts, "but can you keep up with a guy who's literally made of light?" He zooms off again, dodging electrons and quarks. Supernova teleports after him but Ray's speed advantage is too great. He streaks around, landing unanswered blows on Supernova from seemingly every angle at once. With Supernova on the floor, dazed, Ray shrinks himself down further, intending to enter Supernova's brain and make his own personal light show.
Out of options, Supernova uses his suit's teleporter to trap Ray in the Phantom Zone. He tells himself this Ray wasn't his friend and that it had to be done. It doesn't help.
Ubers
Things are not going well for Thor. He is an able fighter and he blankets the sky with the lightning that is always his to command, but without Mjolnir he is defenseless against the energy attacks of both the Surfer and Starhawk, who frequently switch opponents, dominating the battle completely. Phoenix does his best to protect Thor, but he can't stand up to two cosmic powerhouses on the scale of Starhawk and the fully powered Silver Surfer by himself. Currently, the Phoenix and Thor find themselves trapped in an energy bubble provided by Phoenix that is nearly about to shatter under the Surfer and Starhawk's combined attack.
Patriarch, having defeated the Prince of Orphans while the ubers' battle still raged in the sky, makes his way back to Mjolnir and teleports it out of Starhawk's energy construct and back into Thor's hand. "A gift, from me to you," he calls. "Don't forget it, godling."
"His hammer," the Surfer notes. "We can't let him--"
"Thou canst do naught to prevent me, shining sycophant of Galactus! The son of Odin is complete once more, and by the hoary frosts of Niflheim, thou shalt pay for thy earlier deceit. So swears Thor, prince of Asgard and thy doom!"
Thor, having been humbled for much of the battle, is understandably pissed and he lets loose with a barrage of power unlike any the Surfer has seen save once--when Thor, corrupted by his own insanity in the form of a dark Valkyrie, fell wholly into the throes of warrior madness. (That's the Blood and Thunder crossover, for anyone who doesn't know.) His strength amplified ten times, Thor lays into Starhawk with a lust for combat neither friend nor foe can equal.
"No!" Starhawk exclaims. "This is the future I sought to prevent! I thought if I could remove his hammer from him, he would be defenseless, even in the throes of his insanity. But now--" Starhawk is cut off as Thor reaches him and shatters his energy shield with a single blow. He breaks through everything Starhawk throws at him, constructs and energy blasts alike, and Starhawk finds his only option is to turn tail and try to buy time to regroup. The Surfer tries to help him but Phoenix intercepts him, seizing the opportunity Thor has presented him with.
Phoenix vs. the Silver Surfer
Phoenix tries a mental blast on the Surfer but finds his mind shielded by the Power Cosmic. The Surfer responds by transmuting the air around Phoenix into hydrogen, which Giraud's cosmic flames ignite and blast him backwards. Staggered, Giraud is unprepared when the Surfer presses his advantage. The Surfer launches a volley of energy blasts but Giraud recovers enough to block the last few with telekinetic shields. Giraud teleports behind the Surfer and blasts him with cosmic flames, but the Surfer absorbs them and responds with a strength-amplified punch that sends Giraud hurtling through a building. Just as he is about to go after him, however, the Surfer notices Thor standing over Starhawk's one-armed body...
Thor vs. Starhawk
Patriarch, enjoying Thor's newfound ruthlessness, attempts to help him by teleporting Starhawk's arm off while he flees. Starhawk cries out but quickly responds with a blast that knocks Patriarch out cold. Unfortunately, it's given Thor enough time to catch up with him. In severe pain and unable to muster any kind of defense that would stop the mad god's assault, Starhawk is simply overpowered in short order.
He plummets to Earth and Thor stands over him, ready to drive his hammer down through Starhawk's skull, but the Surfer knocks him away with an energy blast.
Thor and Phoenix vs. the Silver Surfer
Thor recovers quickly and hurls Mjolnir at the Surfer, who dodges it and blasts it farther away so it'll take longer to return. By the time he turns back around, however, Thor is leaping at him like a crazed badger, his fists buffeting the Surfer's head back and forth. A full-body energy discharge knocks Thor off his board, but Giraud sneaks up with telekinetic blast that knocks the Surfer from his board. It follows him and catches him before he lands, though.
Faced with two opponents, one of whom is an insane brute at the moment, the Surfer decides to play them against each other. He attacks Giraud, who retaliates with cosmic flame, but the Surfer dodges and lets it hit Thor instead. Thor, enraged and now in possession of Mjolnir again, flies to Giraud and brings Mjolnir crashing into his head. Giraud, his strength and durability unamplified because he was focusing on energy combat against the Surfer, falls like a sack of potatoes.
Thor turns to his only remaining opponent, who has been absorbing ambient energy while Thor had been fighting Giraud. He unleashes it in a huge blast, which Thor takes straight in the chest, not even thinking of absorbing it with Mjolnir because he's not really thinking at all. Thor is bowled over and the Surfer streaks after him, landing a barrage of strength-amped punches that take Thor off guard.
But Giraud is awake again and shrewdly switches tactics from openly attacking the Surfer to simply supporting Thor with well-placed shots that keep the Surfer off guard. If the Surfer dodges a hammer throw, Giraud herds him back into Thor's direction with cosmic flame for a follow-up punch. If the Surfer tries to muster energy for an attack, Giraud distracts him by launching chunks of buildings at him. It doesn't take too long before their combined assault ultimately brings the Surfer down.
The Polka-Dotters win and leave, Tokyo is restored to normal, and everyone lives happily ever after.
(Until next week.)
The Polka-Dotters appear in a deserted Tokyo, introductions are made for the newbies, and information is downloaded directly into the team's brains.
Giraud, a.k.a. the Phoenix of the Guardians of the Galaxy's universe, knows Starhawk extremely well. Thor is likewise well aware of the Silver Surfer's bag of tricks, as well as Spider-Man's abilities. Supernova knows Ray Palmer, although the addition of light powers to Khell's version takes him by surprise. No one really knows anything about the Prince of Orphans beyond what Khell's description provides.
Nobody on my team's particularly geniusy or inclined to invent things, so they'll primarily be relying on their own powers. They are, however, mindful of good tactics, so Supernova and Patriarch teleport around and scout out a nice, secure location--a two-story office building--to act as a base and rendezvous point if they need to fall back. Meanwhile, Nemesis hacks a computer, finds a nearby army base's location, and, with Patriarch's teleportational help, raids its armory--easy, considering it's entirely deserted. She pockets a few guns and grenades to complement her swords and genetic concussion grenades, and then she and Patriarch head back to the base and set up a perimeter of mines to greet any unwelcome visitors.
Knowing all about Starhawk's spotty but useful cosmic awareness, Giraud advises that the team stick together to avoid letting the Inquisition pick their targets. Other than that, all they can do is exchange strategies and prepare for the coming battle...
Battles
Giraud erects psi-shields on the Polka-Dotters' minds with his own prodigious telepathic power and the team sets out from the base, sticking together while they search the surrounding area for signs of their opponents. Instead, they find what appears to be a small boy crying in an alleyway.
Thor notices the boy first. "By my troth! Yon child hath wandered into our battlefield. We must protect him ere our impending battle endanger him further." He flies toward the boy to help.
"No, you idiot," Patriarch objects, "we're the only people we've seen in this whole city so far! Why would just one lone, random child be here when the entire city is otherwise abandoned?"
"The why of it matters not, villain, only that an innocent may be in peril. I do not expect thee to understand, but I warn thee, if thou try to stop me, thou shall face my divine wrath!" Thor reaches out a hand to the boy. "There, there, child, dry thy tears. No one shall harm thee here."
"Too bad," the boy replies, "because harming you is all I had in mind." The boy-shaped hologram ripples and fades, revealing a shrunken Ray Palmer who shrinks further until he is out of sight to all but Supernova, who immediately shrinks himself to keep an eye on him.
Thor, meanwhile, is greeted by Starhawk, phasing up from the floor. He quickly phases Mjolnir through Thor's hand, only to have it slam to earth the moment it's out of the god's grip.
"Foolish mortal," Thor taunts, "dost thou not know my hammer is protected from thy unworthy hands by the magic of almighty Odin himself?"
Starhawk ignores Thor, releases the hammer, and erects a simple rectangular energy construct around it. Thor tries to summon Mjolnir back to himself but finds it unable to move.
The element of surprise on their side and one of the Polka-Dotters' major powerhouses diminished, the Spanish Inquisition presses their attack...
Ubers
Thor is helpless to stop Starhawk from hurling him into the sky with a massive energy blast. Giraud goes to help him but finds himself distracted by an energy-charged right hook from the Silver Surfer. The ubers spar in the skies above Tokyo while below a more personal battle takes place...
Others
Patriarch vs. the Prince of Orphans
Patriarch sets his sights on Thor's inert hammer, but his vision starts to turn green as a mist surrounds him. He teleports himself out of it and onto a nearby rooftop, eager to get away from his bleeding heart teammates and handle a foe by his own rules. The mist follows and coalesces into the Prince of Orphans. Patriarch, being Patriarch, decides to taunt him. "I'm more powerful than you in every way, you know. This fight will not--"
Patriarch is cut off by Aman's foot connecting with his jaw. "The time for talk is past."
"Fight or die, then? Fine by me." Patriarch, knowing he is no martial artist himself, feints with a punch, which Aman moves to parry but instead finds a portal opening beneath his feet. He reappears in the sky but immediately switches to his mist form. While he glides gently down to earth, Patriarch opens two portals in the center of his mist form and moves them outwards from each other, splitting Aman's mist form and teleporting one half to the north pole and the other to the south pole. "I don't know if you can re-form yourself from that, but if you can, it will certainly take more time than your cohorts have." Patriarch smiles and sets off to help his teammates.
Nemesis vs. Spider-Man
The sky darkens with clouds as Thor summons lightning for his battle high above Charis. Soon it's almost as dark as night on the near-empty streets of Tokyo.
Nemesis watches as Patriarch teleports out of the Prince's mist form and moves to follow, but stops herself because of an empathic feeling--someone is nearby. "Show yourself," she demands.
"What fun would that be?" a voice replies from a dark alleyway. She fires a few shots in the direction of the voice, but her empathic feeling changes directions. She raises her stealth suit's shield behind her and bullets bounce off of it. "I've got guns, too."
Charis and Spider-Man play cat-and-mouse like this for a while, each dodging bullets or webbing or both, enhanced spider-sense and empathic warnings canceling each other out. Finally, Spider-Man decides to test the extent of Charis' empathic warnings. He swings down and lands behind her. She ducks his punch and stabs at him with a sword, which he dodges easily. Unlike his spider-sense, Charis' empathy only warns her by giving her early impressions of malicious intent. With Spider-Man standing right in front of her, filled with malicious intent, she must rely on her own fighting skills while Peter still gets the advantage of a vastly improved spider-sense. Things do not go well for Charis, and although she manages to block Peter's webbing and most of his bullets with her shields, her Kheran physiology is pushed to its limit and she can't manage to hit Peter.
Spider-Man winds Charis and she slumps down to her knees, clutching her midsection. With no other options left, she reluctantly pulls the last trick she has left up her sleeve. "I... didn't want to... have to do this, but you... leave me no choice."
"What? You can't expect that grenade you think you're hiding is going to fare any better than anything else you've tried at this point, can you? You've lost." Peter points his wrist-mounted gun at her face. "I promise," he says, "I'll make it quick."
"You should know... it's not just any grenade." Charis triggers the grenade and raises her full-body shield in time for Peter's bullet to bounce off her cocooned face. The grenade flies to Peter, genetically locked onto his irradiated blood, and explodes, warping his physical form into an unrecognizable mass of flesh and cracked bones.
Supernova vs. (the) Ray Palmer
"I've got your white dwarf belt, Ray," Michael calls to the man who looks identical to his friend, streaking by at nearly light-speed before him. "There's nowhere you can go that I can't follow." Supernova teleports as he shrinks, gaining ground on Ray with every jump.
"Who says I'm going anywhere?" Ray stops suddenly and Supernova teleports ahead of him by accident. He seizes the opportunity by blasting Michael from behind.
"Ow, Ray! Low blow, man!"
"Stop talking to me like you know me. Who the hell are you, anyway?"
"Oh, just the guy that's gonna kick--" Ray blasts at Supernova again but he teleports to Ray's left; "your--" another blast, another dodge; "ass!" Supernova finishes, landing an energy blast of his own to Ray's back.
"Neat trick," Ray grunts, "but can you keep up with a guy who's literally made of light?" He zooms off again, dodging electrons and quarks. Supernova teleports after him but Ray's speed advantage is too great. He streaks around, landing unanswered blows on Supernova from seemingly every angle at once. With Supernova on the floor, dazed, Ray shrinks himself down further, intending to enter Supernova's brain and make his own personal light show.
Out of options, Supernova uses his suit's teleporter to trap Ray in the Phantom Zone. He tells himself this Ray wasn't his friend and that it had to be done. It doesn't help.
Ubers
Things are not going well for Thor. He is an able fighter and he blankets the sky with the lightning that is always his to command, but without Mjolnir he is defenseless against the energy attacks of both the Surfer and Starhawk, who frequently switch opponents, dominating the battle completely. Phoenix does his best to protect Thor, but he can't stand up to two cosmic powerhouses on the scale of Starhawk and the fully powered Silver Surfer by himself. Currently, the Phoenix and Thor find themselves trapped in an energy bubble provided by Phoenix that is nearly about to shatter under the Surfer and Starhawk's combined attack.
Patriarch, having defeated the Prince of Orphans while the ubers' battle still raged in the sky, makes his way back to Mjolnir and teleports it out of Starhawk's energy construct and back into Thor's hand. "A gift, from me to you," he calls. "Don't forget it, godling."
"His hammer," the Surfer notes. "We can't let him--"
"Thou canst do naught to prevent me, shining sycophant of Galactus! The son of Odin is complete once more, and by the hoary frosts of Niflheim, thou shalt pay for thy earlier deceit. So swears Thor, prince of Asgard and thy doom!"
Thor, having been humbled for much of the battle, is understandably pissed and he lets loose with a barrage of power unlike any the Surfer has seen save once--when Thor, corrupted by his own insanity in the form of a dark Valkyrie, fell wholly into the throes of warrior madness. (That's the Blood and Thunder crossover, for anyone who doesn't know.) His strength amplified ten times, Thor lays into Starhawk with a lust for combat neither friend nor foe can equal.
"No!" Starhawk exclaims. "This is the future I sought to prevent! I thought if I could remove his hammer from him, he would be defenseless, even in the throes of his insanity. But now--" Starhawk is cut off as Thor reaches him and shatters his energy shield with a single blow. He breaks through everything Starhawk throws at him, constructs and energy blasts alike, and Starhawk finds his only option is to turn tail and try to buy time to regroup. The Surfer tries to help him but Phoenix intercepts him, seizing the opportunity Thor has presented him with.
Phoenix vs. the Silver Surfer
Phoenix tries a mental blast on the Surfer but finds his mind shielded by the Power Cosmic. The Surfer responds by transmuting the air around Phoenix into hydrogen, which Giraud's cosmic flames ignite and blast him backwards. Staggered, Giraud is unprepared when the Surfer presses his advantage. The Surfer launches a volley of energy blasts but Giraud recovers enough to block the last few with telekinetic shields. Giraud teleports behind the Surfer and blasts him with cosmic flames, but the Surfer absorbs them and responds with a strength-amplified punch that sends Giraud hurtling through a building. Just as he is about to go after him, however, the Surfer notices Thor standing over Starhawk's one-armed body...
Thor vs. Starhawk
Patriarch, enjoying Thor's newfound ruthlessness, attempts to help him by teleporting Starhawk's arm off while he flees. Starhawk cries out but quickly responds with a blast that knocks Patriarch out cold. Unfortunately, it's given Thor enough time to catch up with him. In severe pain and unable to muster any kind of defense that would stop the mad god's assault, Starhawk is simply overpowered in short order.
He plummets to Earth and Thor stands over him, ready to drive his hammer down through Starhawk's skull, but the Surfer knocks him away with an energy blast.
Thor and Phoenix vs. the Silver Surfer
Thor recovers quickly and hurls Mjolnir at the Surfer, who dodges it and blasts it farther away so it'll take longer to return. By the time he turns back around, however, Thor is leaping at him like a crazed badger, his fists buffeting the Surfer's head back and forth. A full-body energy discharge knocks Thor off his board, but Giraud sneaks up with telekinetic blast that knocks the Surfer from his board. It follows him and catches him before he lands, though.
Faced with two opponents, one of whom is an insane brute at the moment, the Surfer decides to play them against each other. He attacks Giraud, who retaliates with cosmic flame, but the Surfer dodges and lets it hit Thor instead. Thor, enraged and now in possession of Mjolnir again, flies to Giraud and brings Mjolnir crashing into his head. Giraud, his strength and durability unamplified because he was focusing on energy combat against the Surfer, falls like a sack of potatoes.
Thor turns to his only remaining opponent, who has been absorbing ambient energy while Thor had been fighting Giraud. He unleashes it in a huge blast, which Thor takes straight in the chest, not even thinking of absorbing it with Mjolnir because he's not really thinking at all. Thor is bowled over and the Surfer streaks after him, landing a barrage of strength-amped punches that take Thor off guard.
But Giraud is awake again and shrewdly switches tactics from openly attacking the Surfer to simply supporting Thor with well-placed shots that keep the Surfer off guard. If the Surfer dodges a hammer throw, Giraud herds him back into Thor's direction with cosmic flame for a follow-up punch. If the Surfer tries to muster energy for an attack, Giraud distracts him by launching chunks of buildings at him. It doesn't take too long before their combined assault ultimately brings the Surfer down.
The Polka-Dotters win and leave, Tokyo is restored to normal, and everyone lives happily ever after.
(Until next week.)
