Odd Alliance vs AnnoyingSilence Rebute:
Victor: These are our opponents.. Common sense tells you everything about the Rulk and the Subtitle on Onslaught is a give away.
Mimic: NewSon easliy looks like Gambit from the x-men... And I know Blink... Intimately...
Victor: Yet again, I have had an epiphany. Mimic, you can Copy powers at 1/2 strength, BUT you can not copy the skills that someone has.... Misty please oblige me by saying, "ratshtron dna lirg maerd emoceb sa eno."...
Misty: ratshtron dna lirg maerd emoceb sa eno.
Northstar and Dream Girl, stunned and motionless as they are pulled together and morphed into one being...
Some things here. First, if I'm not mistaken the contenders aren't given the information in the subtitle. That's just for our own classification. So the team would see Onslaught as he is, not the Xavier/Magneto subtitle. That being the case, the best case for them is what I detailed in my write, the resemblence to Magneto. They wouldn't know anything about the Xavier aspect and thus wouldn't know to block telepathy, leaving them open to an assault by Onslaught. Also, though I didn't utilize it much in my own write up, them being open to telepathy also opens up Onslaught to seeing Dream Girl's powers and messing with her perceptions of the future, throwing off a lot of her usefulness. It's possible that they'd protect from telepathy for insurance without knowing about Xavier, but I'd like to remind voters that people never ever prepare agains everything randomly before going into a battle. How often do people enter a battle, protect themselves from telepathy, and go forward without any knowledge of their being a mental threat? It doesn't happen, so it'd be a stretch to just have a random mind protection spell placed without anything nudging it.
Also, if Gambit didn't recognize New Son as an alternate version of himself... how in the world will Mimic recognize him as Gambit? New Son's a bald guy with a blue glow... they'd have no idea who he is.
Blink's a given though, being that Mimic and the Exiles/AoA version of her dated. But he wouldn't know anything about the 616 Blink, especially her cruelty. That could be problemsome if not planned properly.
And lastly, the Northstar Dream Girl combination. This is just food for thought really, just something for the voters to think about. AS is so used to Mountjoy he probably has no problem with the idea of combining the two characters, but that's what Mountjoy is designed for. His mutant genes allow he and his "rides" to exist. Yes, magic is involved here, but neither Mimic or Dream Girl's physique are designed to be grafted. Nor are their minds prepared to be combined as one. Is it possible that, even with magic, this type of union would kill them or give them some sort of shock? I know you can often give magic the benefit of the doubt to do whatever you feel like, but I've always had a problem with that so this is a bit odd for me to accept... but not know whether or not it would or wouldn't work, I leave it in the hands of the voters to decide.
Wrong location
New Krypton! But I don't think it really matters.
As Rulk is teleported onto Mimics Back, Mimics puts all his force into gravities way... Reacting Onslaught pauses Blink, waiting and having the whole team teleported to Rulks crash site.
Doom Commands NG to stop looking towards the future and retrieve Misty(on the way down(they are hundreds of feet in the air) as Rulk squeezes Mimic with his legs and is meet by a Dooms thundering punch to the jaw, Seperating Mimic, sending Rulk tumbling into the very center of tower 1, Doom Following, Odd Alliance arriving at the Impact area....
As the team teleports to Doom, Doom: NG!
Everyone shuts thier eyes as NG snaps his fingers (blinding The Rulk)(and coincidentally the rest of the Odd Alliance at the enterance of the crash). Doom Backs off of The Rulk as Mimic and NG quickly drag him out of the building, and toss him as far out the windows as possible.
So being that Doom decks Rulk while still on Mimic's back hundreds of feet in the air, that Doom's on the surfer's board. Now, my question is... what exactly was Rulk doing with Mimic other than just holding onto him? He isn't shown doing any damage or even any offensive manuever, and he just lets Doom up and deck him? He's not stupid. He's a very military-minded, strategic character. He'd know his suroundings, and if Doom came upon him, he'd react, defend himself, turn the blow against Mimic, something. And after one punch by Doom, Rulk is out enough to be blinded and then just tossed out a window? He's taken blows by Savage Hulk, Silver Surfer, and others. This is an example of underplaying the character. This early (temporary) remove of Rulk is too easy and could have been diverted fairly easily.
What people don't understand about Mimic having NorthStars power, theoritically Northstar can go 99% the speed of light. now, half that is still crazy fast with crazy reflexes and agility, plus Mimic has his increased durability from colossus' armor to aid.
And as soon as he utilizes this colossus armor he becomes Onslaught's plaything due to his Magneto powers.
Sensing this energy in the air, Victor focus' on it, knowing Xaviers telepathy just like all powers is an energy. And as such Victor Von Doom can maniplulate it through the very power that makes the cosmos, sending a paralizing shock to Onslaughts mind, dropping his shield.
Again, Doom would have no idea about Onslaught's telepathy and thus wouldn't know to focus on it.
NorthGirl and Mimic Vs. NewSon, Orphan(no powers) and Blink
As Onslaughts magnetic field drops, NG swoops in, knocks Blink into an open area and makes quick work of a "normal" Orphan. Dodging NewSons attack.
"Northgirl" would most likely find it impossible to dodge New Son's attack. The reason is that his speed createds kinetic energy and New Son can follow and expose that. So the kinetic energy that follows him/her would be either A) drained of all kinetic energy, which would stop the speed and still NG, or B) explode even as he/she runs/flies. New Son doesn't have to touch you to use his powers, just see or feel the energy.
As planned, Blink teleports next to Onslaught and is unexpectedly WHOOMPED by a circling Mimic with a knock out blow(his whole focus in knocking her out to clear her from battle, leaving himself open), which in return and in the same manner, NewSon after building his energy explodes leaving nothing from the opening to the middle of the skyscraper.... But Doom.
Again, Onslaught could telepathically hear Mimic's thoughts and even control his mind if necessary, and Mimic is Colossus'd up as you said earlier, so he can stop him before he even touches Blink. And most likely, since Mimic would be seeing his AoA/Exiles Blink in this girl, he'd likely hesitate a bit before doing anything to her, wondering if there is any connection. Still more time for a counter, from Onslauht and Blink both.
Onslaught wretchs the board from the air, creating a wormhole in the middle of the board, distrupting the connecting between Doom and itself. Onslaught turns his attention as Such, but is met from behind by NG whos is beating on his back is actually causing some damage to the armor of Onslaught stunning him, Mimic joins in with much harder hits. In retaliation a massive burst of magnetically/telepathically charged energy bubble rips through the tower, a desperate move for a surrounded warrior, now exhausted from the tantrum.
Doom lays motionless as the two speedsters are unaffected(Before the Release, NG grabbed Mimic and they flew to safety on the opposite side of the building outside). As the tower begins to sway Mimic beats on the already weakened Onslaught while NG grabs Dooms body. Onslaught goes the way of the tower and is done..
Onslaught can't create wormholes I don't think. But besides that, this scenerio likely wouldn't work. He should be able to mentally stop everyone around him, telekinetically or magnetically assault or kill those around him, and forcefully draw strength from the mental energies of those around him (weakening them, as he did to Dark Beast). At no point would he be exhausted or even worried at this point. And then to just suddenly be "done" when the tower falls on him. Remember, he's telekinetic and magnetic. The tower falling... wouldn't fall. He'd hold it up, and likely even use it as a weapon against those who fight him.
Onslaught's the Odd Alliance's most powerful player, and this scenerio in no way would stop or even wind him.
NorthGirl: Rulk in: 3 seconds...
And so while everyone else was fighting, Rulk was just sitting around in his tower or wherever? Dude can heal like the regular Hulk, and he can take a beating like the Hulk can. Seriously, his removal so that the rest of the team can be defeated leaving the AS team to work together against him is a bit stretching it. He would have been out and fighting them well before now. And I won't quote the whole battle but I still feel that the Red Hulk was extremely underplayed during this entire battle. He's not a brute just randomly punching around. As I said before, he's very strategic and smart. He's a soldier, and with the powers of the Hulk plus some. He's taken out the likes of Thor, Silver Surfer, Savage Hulk, and more. Mimic wouldn't last long against him and Dream Girl would be dead in a heartbeat. The cosmicly powered punch by Doom miiiiiiiigggghhhht knock him out based on a Cosmicly Powered Hulk robot thing pulling it off (after several punches though), but it's a stretch.
And honestly, the moment Rulk realizes that Doom has the Power Cosmic (as should be obvious from the first moment of hte battle due to Surfer's board) he'd target Doom and pull that power right out of him just like he did in my write up. Honestly, Doom isn't a threat to Rulk at all, and likely wouldn't even be much of a factor in the match at all, as I showed with my write up. It's the whole reason I put Rulk into the match this week was to counter Doom's Power Cosmic. To not deal with it is like putting Silver Surfer into a match and just not using his board.
So yeah, that's it. Some good ideas I feel but there were also far too many liberties. I feel that Rulk and Onslaught were both underplayed, and I think you overplayed your hand with Misty's magic doing whatever you want to stack the deck in your favor (but that could just be my bias due to my hating the "anything goes" of magic in comics). I don't believe that the team would feel a need to protect against telepathy being that they wouldn't know anything about Xavier's aspect of Onslaught, and if you use an excuse of it's just smart to prepare anyhow... then why aren't they preparing for magical attacks, and cosmic attacks, and energy attacks, and mechanical attacks, and every other attack that could possibly come? It's because you dont' prepare against any coming attack, you see what you're against, and then prepare for it. And also with Onslaught, you never had him use his telekinetic or magnetic abilities... both of which could have taken out many of the AnnoyingSilence team. In my write up I tried to utilize everyone's skills and abilities and show how my team could still overcome them. I feel you didn't give the Odd Alliance that treatment and weakened them to prove the AnnoyingSilence team the better... and thus, failed.
Anyhow, yeah.... my team rules.
Winner - Odd Alliance
