The "World of Heroes" DC RPG Season III

[Spider-Man9X17]

"Fine then. Kyle it is," I conceded. I turned to Kyle. "Ready to get to work?"

Kyle's ring began to glow. He wouldn't show it, but inside he was smiling like a little kid at Christmas. This is just the sign he needed.

"Absolutely. You can fill me in on the way home."

Home. He was going home.

 

[Sentry2005]

Ok i'm far enough away to start using my ring again.

I make myself raise out of the water.

I see the purple guy jumping over my head.

Ok, I can't punch him.

I can't 'Ring' punch him.

Maybe, just maybe this will work.

I use my ring to wrench a piece of the pier away. It starts to crumble. Luckily no-ones standing on that one.

I make a catapult with the ring, and launch the thing at the purple guy.

My guess is he can't absorb something physical.

We'll soon see....

 

[DarkKnightJRK]

I watched as Gardner flew off towards Parasite. By the time I get there, he's already trying to retreat through the ocean.

Guy Gardner. Truely a "man's man."

I land behind Parasite, hoping to get some element of surprise. I check for something in my invintory that could take him out. He would expect the electricity, since I used it on him before. ...There, that would work.

"Parasite. Round two." I shot out a freezing missle and it lands right into Parasite's back.

 

[SuperFerret]

I place my hand on Clark's shoulder.

"I'm not going to pretend to know what you're going through right now. But I know this. After all we've seen. After all we've been through."

I look down at Kara.

"There's no one in the universe more deserving of my trust, my support, and my forgiveness."

I turn my eyes back to Clark.

"Everyone deserves a fresh start, Clark."

"Everyone."

"Thank you for your support, Diana." I look back at Kara. "I suggest we wait for her to wake before we move. Nobody knows we're still in the game right now, and we could use that to our advantage."

 

[Spike_x1]

Rudy saw the large piece of junk coming towards him. He flexed his muscles and the chunk of wood and metal slowed to a crawl and landed directly in front of him without any harm. Kinetic energy was always a hoot.

"AAaaaarrrrrrRRgggghhhHHHHH!!!!!!"

Parasite arched his back in pain as icy cold shot through him. He managed to turn his head around and see Wayne behind him just as the ice covered his head. For a brief moment, the heroes gave a sigh of relief, then the block of ice began to rumble and crack. The cold block of frozen janitor exploded with a scream.

The Parasite crouched on one knee as he readjusted to his surroundings. He used some of the small amount of emerald energy he had obtained from Gardner's energy-fists to dry himself off.

"That all ya got, Brucie?"

 

[Sentry2005]

Ok, objects are a no go.

"Hey big boy!" I yell.

Before he can turn round, i've hit him in the head with a giant, green mallet.

Seems he can't absorb it unless he focuses on it. Well thats my theory...

 

[Franklin Richards]

"Thank you for your support, Diana." I look back at Kara. "I suggest we wait for her to wake before we move. Nobody knows we're still in the game right now, and we could use that to our advantage."

"Agreed."

I look back at Kara.

"You know, Clark. Once this is all over. I think it's about time we adressed the League. The Earth needs the League and it would be remiss of us to let it languish in oblivion."

I step towards the Fortress' main console.

"Alot of heroes have been brought together because of the Unity. I believe that it is Zeus' will that we stay together. A New Justice League if you will. You and I, along with Bruce need to begin again. Kara has more than proven herself. She and the Question, along with our Green Lantern Corp. and J'onn should band together and let the universe know that the first word in Justice League is still Justice."

I step back towards Kara.

"We must make sure that something like this can never happen again."

I look at Clark.

"Are you with me?"

 

[SuperFerret]

"Are you with me?"

I look Diana square in the eye.

"No."


OOC:

 

[Franklin Richards]

I look Diana square in the eye.

"No."

It hits me like an arrow.

"I understand. You need time. After Gateway, so did I."

An uncomfortable silence fills the room.

"I should prep the Jet. Kara should recover before long."

I enter the cockpit and wait. I won't let this stop me. The League will live again. Even if it's without the greatest hero that has ever lived. Perhaps a new HQ at Themyscira?


But I can't help feeling...



worried?

 

[DarkKnightJRK]

"That all ya got, Brucie?"

I look at him like he's insane...well, he is, but, whatever.

"You're kidding me, right?"

I shoot two more ice missles at him and as he's frozen, I quickly push him into the ocean and shoot the electric current into him.

 

[Spike_x1]

Ok, objects are a no go.

"Hey big boy!" I yell.

Before he can turn round, i've hit him in the head with a giant, green mallet.

Seems he can't absorb it unless he focuses on it. Well thats my theory...

Ow.

The blow knocked Rudy for a whole city block, smashing him into parked vehicles which eventually slowed him to a stop. He lifted his head out of a shattered windshield and heard a low hissing sound. He rubbed his eyes and looked around for the source of the noise, finally resting his eyes on a large gasoline tractor-trailer that had been pierced by debris. It was parked directly in front of Rudy, not five feet away.

"Oh sh--"

The flames engulphed the city block but it wasn't long before the fire imploded in on itself, leaving Rudy in the center, grinning.

I look at him like he's insane...well, he is, but, whatever.

"You're kidding me, right?"

I shoot two more ice missles at him

Rudy looked at the oncoming missiles and held out his hand, stealing their inertia and slowing them down enough so that he could grab onto them and hold them in place until they ran out of fuel and sputtered lifelessly. The Parasite dropped them to the ground and kicked the metal shells back to Wayne, letting them roll comically.

[OOC]

and as he's frozen, I quickly push him into the ocean and shoot the electric current into him.

Cheap shot and one-hit-knockout which wouldn't have worked when he sees it coming .[/OOC]

 

[SuperFerret]

It hits me like an arrow.

"I understand. You need time. After Gateway, so did I."

An uncomfortable silence fills the room.

"I should prep the Jet. Kara should recover before long."

I enter the cockpit and wait. I won't let this stop me. The League will live again. Even if it's without the greatest hero that has ever lived. Perhaps a new HQ at Themyscira?


But I can't help feeling...



worried?

She's worried. But, I know she understands that this would be for the best. After the Unity is defeated here, it will need to be stopped elsewhere in the universe, and it's my responsibility to do so.

Kara has proven capable of filling my shoes, and both Superboys have the conviction to hold up my mantle if she falters. The League, and the world, will be in good hands.

 

[Sentry2005]

I sniger (ooc: i know thats spelt wrong, but what can you do?). As Bat's hit him with the ice missles, and pushed him into the water, I battered the ****** with my mallet... a double jolt of lantern power and Bat's annoying ingenuity... He's gotta be down for the count.

"Nice work Bats," I call down. "Pitty it needed a man to finnish the job, or else you'd have been fine"

I snort with laughter. I rock.

 

[Spike_x1]

OOC: As much as I hate to retreat under these circumstances *grinds teeth*...

IC: Rudy telepathically contacted the Unity. "Beam me up, Scotty. The escaped prisoners have been stopped. Mission accomplished."

Suddenly, a bright blue light enveloped the Parasite and teleported him back to the Unity's ship just as thousands of unified troops began to converge on the remaining heroes.

 

[DarkKnightJRK]

I sniger (ooc: i know thats spelt wrong, but what can you do?). As Bat's hit him with the ice missles, and pushed him into the water, I battered the ****** with my mallet... a double jolt of lantern power and Bat's annoying ingenuity... He's gotta be down for the count.

"Nice work Bats," I call down. "Pitty it needed a man to finnish the job, or else you'd have been fine"

I snort with laughter. I rock.

"Says the man who kept hitting him with green malets when they clearly fuel him. Come on, let's finish this job."

 

[Sentry2005]

"You know, I can make you seem like an idiot if i use that tone,"

I land next to Bat's on the pier, my leg still stabbing with pain.

I look back towards the main land.

"Oh crap..."

An army of shock troops are approaching us.

"This could be fun,"

 

[rex26]

X fired grapling gun and swung to a near by roof. As he landed he crouched, he razed his left arm and fired a X shaped projectile from his palm, the projectile grew in size as it got closer to Deathstroke.

Slade watched him land and raise his left hand, instinctively he dodged the projectile coming at him. He watched the X grip around a piece of rubble behind him. Slade was impressed with the kids arsenal, he had some pretty nice gadgets.

Deathstroke had better ones.

He pulled out his automatic rifle and began spraying rounds at the Red X. The shots forced Red X to start dodging bullets rapidly, then in the distance Slade saw a flash of blue light. Time to get out of here before things got out of control.

"Sorry Junior, we're going to have to mark this one up as 'to be continued'."

Slade threw the rifle over his shoulders and smiled at the kid, he had potential, just need some grooming.

Then, suddenly, Slade was gone in a flash of blue light.

 

[Johnny Blaze]

Garth stood inside a giant white room. The room had a sterile look to it, almost like a doctor’s office. Garth was surprised at his new surrounds, and began to look around when the voice returned.

“Now then, we will be able to talk without any inconvenient distractions, Garth Ranzz. As you may have surmised by now, I am the Unity.”

Garth said nothing, his head was still a jumble of mixed feelings and he just stared blankly into the white nothingness of the room as the voice of the Unity came from seemingly all around him.

“You’re allies think of me as an enemy, an evil plague that is destroying this planet, but they are wrong. I do not bring evil with me, but peace. Order. Look, Garth Ranzz, upon the harmony I have brought to countless other worlds and civilizations. The same harmony I now bring to Earth.”

Garth’s mind was suddenly flooded with images of hundreds of alien cultures that the Unity has brought it’s message of peace to. As the images flashed in his mind, Garth felt consummate peace wash over him; the very same feelings that the creatures in the images felt. The images flashed in his mind so quickly, flooding him with tranquility, that he was almost overcome by them. But, just when Garth was about to be overwhelmed, the images stopped.

“You not only see the peace I offer, but feel it as well. On each and every world that I have visited, I have eradicated violence and chaos in all forms. Forever gone are the crimes and evils of each race, replaced by nothing but joy and peace.”

“That may be, but your peace, however tempting, has it’s price: Free will.”

“When weighed against the horrors of war and malevolence that I abolish, and the billions of lives that will be saved because of this, it is a necessary and worthwhile trade.”

Garth’s mind spun as he felt himself agreeing with the Unity’s logic. His mind was not right as all the conflicting emotions he had felt since coming to this time reared up again in their fullest. Garth’s knees buckled under the mental strain and he fell back into a chair that materialized out of the white nothingness of the room.

“I know your pain, Garth Ranzz. Help me in my quest to bring peace to this world, and I will take your troubles away. When it is all over, I will even send you and your friends back to your own time.”

Garth’s mind was a conflicting mess. Part of him, deep down, wanted nothing to do with this Unity. It wanted nothing more than to spit at it’s offer…but, that part of Garth was slowly fading away.

Since coming to this time, the Unity had slyly scanned the Legionnaires with it’s awesome psychic might, and, in Garth, it found the seed of insecurity buried deep within his psyche. The seed was small, but, over the time they’ve been stuck in the past, the Unity has cultivated it, making it grow stronger. Now, the seed of insecurity has finally grown large enough that it has taken hold of Garth’s mind, making him susceptible. It was what the Unity, always looking for another pawn, was waiting for.

“Y-yes”, Garth stammered under his breath, “I’ll…help you bring peace to the planet.”

“Excellent. Rise, Garth Ranzz, my new champion.”

Garth rose to his feet, and was immediately bathed in a blinding white light. The light disappeared quickly, but he still had spots in his eyes. Garth’s vision was blurry, and his right arm was tingling, it would…his right arm was tingling?

Garth looked down at his artificial limb, forcing his vision to clear so that he could see what was wrong with it. When his vision returned to him, Garth’s eyes went wide as he was visually stunned.
His faux limb was no more. His arm, his real arm, had been returned to him. He was whole again.
A smile found it’s way to Garth’s face, one so large that threatened to engulf his entire head.

He was whole again.

He was whole again!

And he felt stronger too. As though his body coursed with more electrical energy than he had ever felt before.

OOC: As much as I hate to retreat under these circumstances *grinds teeth*...

IC: Rudy telepathically contacted the Unity. "Beam me up, Scotty. The escaped prisoners have been stopped. Mission accomplished."

Suddenly, a bright blue light enveloped the Parasite and teleported him back to the Unity's ship just as thousands of unified troops began to converge on the remaining heroes.

Garth’s joy was cut short though, as the purple monster known as the Parasite appeared in the room right across from him in a flash of bright blue light…

 

[wiegeabo]

My eyes are closed as I struggle with the net. I can hear the ocean waves getting cloaser as I fall. And then...the burden lessens. The weight fades away. I sigh with relief. Gardner must have thrown something up to take some of the pressure off of me. I open my eyes and see...

NO!

Damn him! DAMN HIM!

The Parasite had murdered all the people! Everyone I had fought so hard to save. Everything I had done was in vain! A waste!

The others begin to destract this...this...creature. I see my opportunity. I begin dropping the temperatue of my net to siphon his energy away, and start to close it around him. But...damn, too slow. He's leaped away.

I drop my net and ready my ring for an attack. If I'm fast enough, he won't be able to...the others press their attack on the Parasite. He's taking damage. Deathstroke is distracted, Superman has left holding the other Kryptonian in his arms, and Parasite is alone and outnumbered. We have him.

And he disappears.

FRAK!

I drop down to the ground with the heroes. My eyes burn with fury and Qwardian energy.

"Where is HE!?!" I say with venom in my voice.

 

[Spike_x1]

AS the Parasite looked around the white void of the Unity's ship, he absent mindedly rambled on to his employer about how the job went down. "Don't worry, 'U'. We got alla them escapees for ya. An' I suppose you already know about Kent's betrayal. Oh well, never liked Smallville much anyway, let alone trust hi--" Rudy was cut short as he looked up to see Live Wire looking back at him.

...

"Hey, I know you. Yer that smartass who flash-fried me." It didn't take a genius to figure out why the kid was there and 'U' hadn't told Rudy to kill him yet. "Welcome to the team, Sparky."

Then Slade appeared.

 

[rex26]

Slade appeared back aboard Unity's ship feeling satisfied after wasting the prisoners. It'd probably be the only killing the Unity would allow for some time. He looked around and saw Parasite talking to one of the kids he saw in Metropolis during their last big brawl.

Parasite wasn't trying to suck him dry, so obviously this kid had flip-flopped too. Slade sat down and lit up a cigarette, antsy from not finishing off that little punk Red X. He took a deep drag and while exhaling, looked over at the new kid, "So we replaced Superman already? What can this kid do?"

 

[DarkKnightJRK]

"You know, I can make you seem like an idiot if i use that tone,"

"How quickly we forget the last time you tried to fight me."

I land next to Bat's on the pier, my leg still stabbing with pain.

I look back towards the main land.

"Oh crap..."

An army of shock troops are approaching us.

"This could be fun,"

Normal people. No need for the suit with regular people. Besides, my added stamina and strength from my...temperary insanity (Yeah, that sounds stupid. If I had a sense of humor, I'd laugh), should help me. I rip out of the suit and I'm back in the "good ole' Kevlar."

"Sure, Gardner, just try not to make an even bigger mess then we're in right now."

 

[Supergirl]

"There was always hope, Clark. I'm glad you found your way back."

I turn back to Kara. I pull my medicine pouch from my belt. I feel bad for taking it from Io, but circumstances being what they are, I don't think she'll mind. I apply a salve to Kara's wounds. Her breathing begins to steady. The magical balm begins to do it's work. Thank Athena.

"She'll be fine. Her Kryptonian endurance is already embracing the balm. Now I've got to ask. Are you allright?"

Earlier:
As Kara drifted near death and Kal flew her to the fortress, memories and flashes burned through Kara's unconscious.
She remembered landing on Earth. Not once but twice. Once in a field near Smallville. Once in the harbor near Gotham.

She remembered her parents, Alura and Zor-El and her home of Argo City.

She remembered witnessing the destruction of her planet. Not once, but twice. Once in a rocket on a chunk of the dieing planet. Once in her home under the Dome of Argo City.

She remembered being given her costume. Once sewn by her own mother using their family crest so her cousin would know her. Once by her "Aunt" after she had proven her worth.

She remembered living on an island, but also growing up in an orphanage.

She remembered the names Fred and Edna Danvers. They seemed that they meant something to her.

She remembered picking the name Linda Lee for herself, not once but twice.

She remembered fighting villains for years that had not yet come.

She remembered fighting alongside the Legion of Superheroes one thousand years in the future.

She remembered... Querl and how he had loved her.

The most prominent memories to appear though, were of two fights.

She remembered sacrificing herself for her cousin, and her hero, not once but... twice? She foggily recalled fighting in some wierd place where her powers didn't work to their fullest, and destroying something that was threatening... everything? She remembered the last words she ever spoke to Kal.


"C'mon Kara. Don't give up. Pl..Please... Stay with us.

"I... I can't. B... but it's okay... I knew what I was doing... I wanted... you to be safe... You mean so much to me... So much to the world."

"Y-you succeeded in destroying the machines."

"Thank Heaven... the worlds... have a chance to live. Y-you're crying... Please don't. You taught me to be brave.. and I was... I... I love you so much for what you are. For how... good you are......"

But they weren't her last words were they? She remembered dieing. But she didn't did she? Was she dead?

As these... memories? Is that really what they were? As they flashed through her mind a name came to her. One she had often heard in passing but someone she had yet to meet. Donna. Donna Troy. Maybe she could help figure this out.

Time had passed and the salve that Diana had applied began to work, the bruises and cuts began to heal and Kara drifted back out of her dream world. As she opened her eyes she recognized her surroundings. The first part of her life on Earth had been spent here. Had it though? Or had it been spent in Midvale Orphanage? She was in the Fortress. She saw her cousin. He wasn't wearing the black sacrilige he had been.

"Kal? Is it really you? Did I do it?"

 

[Red]

Slade watched him land and raise his left hand, instinctively he dodged the projectile coming at him. He watched the X grip around a piece of rubble behind him. Slade was impressed with the kids arsenal, he had some pretty nice gadgets.

Deathstroke had better ones.

He pulled out his automatic rifle and began spraying rounds at the Red X. The shots forced Red X to start dodging bullets rapidly, then in the distance Slade saw a flash of blue light. Time to get out of here before things got out of control.

"Sorry Junior, we're going to have to mark this one up as 'to be continued'."

Slade threw the rifle over his shoulders and smiled at the kid, he had potential, just need some grooming.

Then, suddenly, Slade was gone in a flash of blue light.

X landed on the ground his caped draped over him and his fist tightened, Deathstroke had got away
"They always run when they know they are going to lose"

 

[Sentry2005]

"How quickly we forget the last time you tried to fight me."



Normal people. No need for the suit with regular people. Besides, my added stamina and strength from my...temperary insanity (Yeah, that sounds stupid. If I had a sense of humor, I'd laugh), should help me. I rip out of the suit and I'm back in the "good ole' Kevlar."

"Sure, Gardner, just try not to make an even bigger mess then we're in right now."

I use my ring to make a construct around me.

I give my self a bright green suit.

A bright green Batman suit.

"I'm all paranoid, I hate everyone. I wish I didn't have to write in a diary to communicate my feelings, I have possibly illicite relationships with the children who dress as Robin." I growl, in my bestest Batman impression.

Before he can get angry at me i've jumped into the crowd of troopers.

The ring gives me added strength. I take down a few of the troops.

I create what I call a 'Lantern-a-rang' and throw it.

This is getting old, but I just know its pissing off Bats.

I send a blast of ring energy to push back the troops that have now circled me.

This is fun.