Armor wrapped around Niah. She was a little surprised, but also very relieved. So far though she had not been attacked. She had been so ready for Luminous to try to hurt her, she was more surprised she didn't. A lot was going on and she got very concerned about Oliver's actions. How much of this world was bleeding into them? Could she keep herself? Or would the person that was from here overwrite the person she had become? The other versions of her were still there, but they didn't have Oliver and this version did.
Matt and Cass had the right idea. And what Luminous said hit a nerve. They had attacked first. Well, Rogue had. And she was this world's Rogue. She wasn't part of their group. Niah noticed Bonnie's transformation and raised an eyebrow. Something had been going on with her friend for a while. Maybe it was time to talk to her about it. After this fight, in the next moment of reprieve. If they got it again.
"We really are from another reality." There wasn't a good way to prove it. Not really. She wasn't going to attack though. She had only touched Luminous to make sure she wasn't their Luminous. But if what was happening to them was happening to her too, maybe Dr. Doom and Luminous were also suffering the strange effects of being in a world they didn't belong in.
Location: EARTH 257: The Aerie Skills:
Matt was a little confused about the guy fighting with Cass's actions. He lowered his gun a little, there wasn't much he could do anyway. "Just helping my girlfriend here. Speaking of her not being the one from the Iron or whatever, would I be in a relationship with her if that were true? Also, does the version here have mutant powers?" He had only seen her use the suit in the fight on the train so it was unlikely.
"Take a look at us. Do we match what you believe us to be like? Why would we be working together if we were from this world? We are defending each other." He said backing up what Cass had just said. He hoped some reason would help here. There was of course the issue of some of them probably were unknowns here. Like himself.
"I mean, I think the speedster is going to be more of a problem if we don't slow her down," Flynn commented towards Maria, "So I think I'm going to try and slow her down," he added, seeing Maria seemingly absorb Hercules' powers. Yeah, that would be the more pressing issue, especially considering the fact that Luminous was starting to mess with the heads of people on their side, so she was definitely more of a big issue then everyone else. His attention was drawn away now by Bonnie's question directed towards him with regards to witches.
"Uh, I'm not sure if it'll apply to Luminous on many different counts, but not really. Wards and runes were more of meant for demons, whereas we had bullets and weaponry made out of iron in order to deal with them..." he whispered back to her. However there always was one tried and true thing, since of course, burning witches at the stake used to be a fairly common thing. So why not try that instead? His first few attempts to hit her resulted in what he expected, that being that the speedster dodged them. His third attack though, slammed into her, and lit her clothes on fire and now she was trying to put the fire out.
Location: The Aerie Skills: Electricity Manipulation, Electrical Attacks
"...Actually I didn't, not to mention not in control of the actions of others really," Sparky responded with a shrug. This wasn't going to likely end well with the fight and all, and she wasn't entirely certain how things were going to go with the fight. They kind of seemed to be evenly matched in some respects, so it was hard to tell who was likely going to have the upper hand in the fight. Before Sparky could do anything though, Luminous was behind her, and a glint of silver appeared in her eyes, as Luminous took over and her words stuck out to her.
She glanced around the area, looking at who to attack, when her eyes settled on Niah in her armor. Electricity crackled along her skin, and she sent a bolt of lightning straight towards her. Sparky's first attack towards Niah went wide, missing her, her second attack did hit her, however it wasn't strong enough to go through the armor. The third time though, that was the one that caused damage. The electricity seemingly caused something to temporarily short circuit in the suit, resulting in it turning back into a leg, and it would be very painful for Niah overall with the attack.
Update sections are organized roughly by combatants...
Cass and Matt vs Mr. Knight/Moon Knight -
"Bloody hell, that's frigid!" Mr. Knight protested, stumbling backwards as Cass struck him twice. He looked a little confused by the things that Matt and Cass were saying. "I don't know the details of your love life, bloke, but as for things not making sense - that's par for the course for me. Nothing ever makes sense," Mr. Knight admitted. Suddenly, Mr. Knight shifted in his stance and posture. He looked much more confident now, but also relaxed. His costume changed as well, looking like the wraps of a mummy, with a long dramatic white cape.
Cass had her blizzard hiding her, but Matt didn't. Moon Knight threw a crescent shaped blade at Matt, the blade missing and embedding itself in the wall behind him. But Moon Knight didn't stop at just that, this wasn't the same "I'll wait for my turn" individual from moments ago. Moon Knight rushed forward, swinging punch after punch at Matt, in a violent boxer's stance. Matt could block the majority of them, but even the force colliding against him from the block would leave a bruise. And the last one, a finishing blow, would knock Matt onto the ground, breaking his nose in the process.
Moon Knight didn't let up, raising his foot up to try to stomp in Matt's face.
Oliver v Captain America
While Oliver may not know biology (and neither does our dear GM), it would turn out the main symptoms from the severing of the Achilles tendon were, according to the Mayo Clinic, extreme swelling above the ankle, the feeling of being kicked in the calf, an inability to bend the foot or push off of it or stand on the toes of that foot, and a dramatic popping/snapping sound during the injury. In short, Captain America would be in EXTREME pain from the injury, but as long as he kept off of the afflicted leg, he could still fight. So, in true Captain America fashion, as Oliver spat on him with blood, Cap wiped the blood off of his face. He used his hands and good leg to push himself up off of the ground, his injured leg limp. Sweat was pouring down Cap's face and he spat on the ground in turn.
"I can do this all day," he told Oliver. Captain America then pressed a button on the inside of his glove, his jetpack thrusters activating and launching himself at Oliver like a cannonball. Oliver would, shockingly(?), manage to dodge this.
Maria vs Hercules
Maria managed to absorb the godlike strength of Hercules - the very strength that, in a Disney rendition of the story, had made Hercules one of Greece's best heroes. Thank her lucky stars. Hercules managed to pull himself back up to his feet. He looked at Maria, impressed. "Another empusa then," he commented, comparing her to a Greek vampire. "If you have my power, then this should be fun," Hercules said, chuckling ever so slightly, before tackling Maria to the ground and beginning to wrestle her.
Is it a brilliant plan somehow, to wrestle someone who can take your powers away with skin-to-skin contact? Is Hercules perhaps not as smart as everyone thought...?
Rogue and Gambit vs the Scarlet Scarab
The fight here was beginning to shift its favor ever so slightly. Every time Rogue went to try to absorb the powers and life force of the Scarlet Scarab, the vague outline of a hippo appeared around Scarab. The aura was so powerful that Rogue wasn't able to get through to use her powers - only Gambit's cards seemed to be able to cut on through. As it stood, the Scarlet Scarab was holding her own with surprising ease.
Amelia vs Aero
In this fight, however, there was a definite change. The pair had ended up going outside, fighting on essentially the edge before a sharp drop down the mountain - something that, had her mind not been so scrambled, would have been eerily familiar to Amelia. "You ain't gonna admit you're not the real Amelia, are ya?" Amelia asked, sending a spinning ball of air in the direction of Aero, in an attempt to knock Aero off her balance.
Aero jumped up, landing on the sphere and dissipating it. "You aren't going to either, mate, so don't act so shocked - we're in a stalemate," Aero said, before kicking up little 'stairs' of air almost, just controlled bursts beneath her feet, and making her way up onto the roof of the Aerie.
"So what now then? Are we just going to kill each other?" Amelia asked, doing the same exact move at the same time - as if the pair of them were synchronized.
"I'm not a killer. I don't know about you lot, though," Aero said, before swinging a punch at Amelia, hitting Amelia in the gut. Amelia stumbled backwards, blasting air behind her to keep herself from falling off of the roof, managing to find her balance again. Aero then charged forward at her and Amelia paused, waiting for the last second before leaping to the side - fully expecting Aero to just land on the ground below - but instead, she saw Aero fall over the edge, beginning to tumble down the mountain.
And in that moment, it didn't matter to Amelia who this person was or what was going on. Amelia was a hero. And heroes saved people.
Amelia jumped, diving after her double.
Everyone Else vs Luminous Basically
Fire may not have killed Luminous, but it was one hell of a distraction. The next thing Raynor knew, he was back inside of Angel's Aerie, kneeling on the ground with tears in his eyes. He sniffled slightly, rapidly trying to calm his emotions - to regain his sense of control, the mask that he hid behind in order to seem strong, not fragile or broken. But instead of feeling calm, he was horrified. He came to just in time to see Sparky try to murder Niah. He didn't see the silver hue to Sparky's eyes. He had no clue that Sparky was possessed. To him, it was like Sparky had actually snapped and gone evil, deciding that killing Niah was going to make her feel better.
"What the fuck happened between you two?" Raynor shouted, oblivious to the obvious answer (again, he rolled a 1) that Luminous was behind this. So instead of focusing on Luminous, Raynor blasted Sparky with a beam of light, blinding her and causing her to go crashing to the ground. He didn't know what Niah had done, but he figured it had to have been something. "Niah, what did you do?!"
"It wasn't Niah!" Bonnie snapped, irritated with Raynor's complete lack of situational awareness or ability to read context clues. Flynn had told her that there weren't really any runes or wards they could use, but that OMEN had fought witches with iron. She didn't know if iron would work against Luminous - if Luminous and Wanda were the sort of witches that iron would work against - but it was as good a strategy as any. Her eyes darted around the room and she spotted a candlestick base that looked to be made out of iron.
A speedster with all of their wits about them would have just run around really fast to get rid of the flames, but Luminous was ON FIRE and not thinking clearly. So, she did what any person would do - she stopped, dropped, and rolled. But that didn't seem to be working as well as it could have been. It was like the flames refused to be put out. Luminous' voice would then appear in Flynn's mind: Douse the flames!!!
Sparky, unfortunately, was still firmly under Luminous' control. In her mind, everyone she was facing was a villain she had seen before. And she would be convinced that all of these villains wanted one thing - to kill Sparky's infant daughter.
Note - this is a one-time command issued by Luminous to Flynn; not a full trance like what Sparky is experiencing
Cass - Cass will not like the idea of going to Genosha. She will begin to privately contemplate how best to destroy the nation.
Maria - A twisted emotion will dawn upon Maria. She will recall that her dear little sister, Kristina, is on Genosha. Alive and well. Happy, even. Safe. She never died.
Niah - Niah will suddenly feel an extreme urge to be near Oliver, but unlike their natural connection, this one... this one tastes much more co-dependent - like Harley Quinn's desire for the Joker. Weird, right?
Sparky - N/A
Bonnie - An immense sense of danger and urgency will overtake her, almost beyond the point of rationality. She will not go to Genosha. She will not go seek refuge with those who killed her parents. The only reason she would go to Genosha would be for revenge, to assassinate its leaders.
Matt - Matt will suddenly feel an overwhelming obsession to solve a series of murders occurring all over Europe. He suspects Oliver as the killer, but has never been able to obtain any evidence.
Oliver - Oliver will have a wonderful idea pop into his mind, one that he won't be able to quite shake no matter how much he tries. What if he killed Raynor? (Yes, I did roll for who he would target lol).
Amelia - Amelia will feel her connection to the rest of the group severed, as if she never knew them, as if they weren't her friends. She will recall another group of friends, a group of vigilantes who defend the Blue.
Raynor - N/A
Flynn - Flynn will have a horrible realization dawn upon him. He got a flatscan pregnant. Whenever he looks at Bonnie, or honestly any of the other humans in the group, he will feel a deep sense of revulsion and rage.
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: Enhanced Condition, Hand to Hand Combat
Cassandra looked at Moon Knight and gave a slight shrug towards him. "It doesn't bother me much." Cassandra said after landing two good punches on Moon Knight, she decided to drop the blizzard to be able to see again. She watched as his posture suddenly starting to change along with his costume. From a simple suit with a white mask over it, to a hooded cape masked, with some wrappings around him, which was kind of weird to her. It sort of reminded her of what Bonnie was able to do with her greek armor kind of thing that her friend was able to do.
His attention turned towards Matt seeing Moon Knight attacking her boyfriend, and managing to knock him down to the ground, Cassandra then decided to try and charge forward towards Moon Knight as he was prepared to stomp down on Matt's head. Which was something that she did not want to happen to him. "Hey i'm not done with you yet." Cass said trying to get Moon Knight's attention hoping to give Matt time to get back up.
Roll for Cassandra to attack Moon Knight again using hand to hand combat and enhanced condition skills.
Maria Novikova
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: Power & Lifeforce Absorption (Hercules' Super Strength) Hand to Hand Combat
Maria stared at Hercules as he started to get up and calling her an Empusa made her roll her eyes slightly, she sometimes did view her powers as a curse than an ability at times. She couldn't make direct skin contact with her wife, or even her daughter Diana having to fear that she might end up killing either one of them. And it did happen with the skrull Empress, which she still regretted doing and she had a feeling that Princess Anelle hated her for doing that during the Skrull invasion. And she ended up getting Monica's psyche inside of her head now as well to. "Wow, now that's really just rude calling me a Greek vampire." Maria said to Hercules as he started to get back up to his feet.
The next thing that she knew she was tackled onto the ground feeling Hercules' weight on top of her and quickly tried to fight him off of her. Maria really didn't know if Hercules was really just dumb and stupid or he was relying on his strength to try and take her out as Maria looked up at him. "Either you are really dumb or just thick skulled you know i'm taking your powers the longer you keep contact with me right?" Maria told him.
For Maria to continue to absorb Hercules's powers, and hand to hand combat on him to kick Hercules off of her.
Niah hadn't expected Sparky to attack her. Sure, they probably weren't on the best of terms at the moment, but that seemed uncalled for. The group as a whole was going to need group therapy. Maybe that should be something SHIELD started to require of its field teams. Because fuck this was getting ridiculous.
The pain that coursed through Niah when she was hit with the electricity from Sparky almost caused her to blackout. It wasn't the worst pain she had experienced, but it was bad enough that she almost disassociated from the situation. "What the fuck Sparky? Can we focus on the problem at hand? How was I supposed to know Novi hadn't told you?" That honestly seemed like the only reason Niah could think that Sparky would want to attack her. She wasn't going to attack back though.
Niah took a few steps back, trying to put distance between her and Sparky. She was lucky she was still standing. And the armor, as nice it had seemed didn't seem to be able to handle the power behind Sparky's rage. At least it hadn't stopped being a leg.
"Well isn't that accurate." Matt said in response to the man in white's comment about nothing making sense. He certainly felt like half the time he was being dragged along by much smarter people who had a way better grasp of what was going on then he did. This whole mess was one of those days. At least he knew they were in a different universe though.
The man hit like a truck though. And Matt found himself being worn down by the sheer force of the blows. When knocked to the ground, his breathing restricted by his now broken nose, he saw the man's foot coming down on him. And Cass distracting him. He rolled away and looked over the man's costume. There was no exposed skin. Even with the strange costume change. Matt was used to dramatic shows of power. But sometimes it was the subtle ones that were more disturbing.
He grabbed the weapon the man had thrown, pulling it from the wall. Holding it, and testing its weight, he now knew exactly how to wield it. He moved in attacking the man cleanly. But the man countered with another weapon, a crescent dagger. Matt was starting to get an idea about him.
Oli watched as Cap managed to deal with the severing of his tendon, a bit of shock on his face. If it wasn't for his inhuman (pun intended) reaction time, he may have not been able to get out of the way before the jetpack hit him. He really didn't want to kill Captain America, even if this universe's one was somehow evil, or working for powers that ultimately were not aligned with the best interests of innocent people, and so he decided to try to deal with the jetpack, and took his sword to it. Oli, however, was very smart, but not very wise, and so he hadn't considered that this would literally blow up in his face.
As the jetpack exploded and blew him back, Oli tried to keep his wits about him. The odd thing about physics was that it didn't much care about consciousness; the things that would normally happen in too little time to perceive were very perceptible to speedsters, so as his body blew back, he was helpless but to be a spectator until the forces were more manageable. Once he landed though, he took the momentum, and headed straight for Luminous. Zipping over, he pulled his fist back, and stopped firmly by shoving his fist in her face, knocking her out cold, and hopefully clearing the battlefield of two effective adversaries.
Well, things were definitely getting interesting, starting with the fact that Oliver seemed to think it was a good idea to blow up something and probably nearly kill Captain America or something with that. When was it ever a good idea to blow everything up? Well, that didn't seem to matter too much, since he went over and knocked out Luminous too while he was racing around, though to be fair, at the moment he was getting a bit annoyed with the speedster running around at this point, since he was taking out literally everyone else, who they kind of weren't having the most difficulty with at that point.
Not to mention the fact that he blatantly ignored the whole fact that Luminous was now on the ground, but still on fire and currently burning to death probably. Seriously, a little messed up, couldn't have gotten some water or whatever to toss on her or whatever? Didn't matter though, as Flynn waved his hand, causing the fire around Luminous to dissipate, so at least she wasn't going to burn to death while they were all just standing around and letting her.
Location: The Aerie Skills: Electricity Manipulation, Electrical Attacks
She still wasn't in control of her actions, and honestly, she didn't seem to even acknowledge the words of everyone else around her. No, she was busy preparing to start shooting electricity at others, and considering the fact that Raynor had sort of temporarily blinded her, that bugged her, and she figured that she might as well retaliate, shooting off a bolt of lightning that missed him, shooting off just right by him. Sparky was a bit annoyed with that whole thing at the moment, so she shot off another one to still try and hit him.
It took her several shots of lightning to finally hit the Asgardian (maybe she was still partially blinded, or maybe it was a part of her that didn't want to actually hurt him) and the electricity slammed into him, knocking him backwards. She was getting ready to strike again when Oliver knocked Luminous out, and she froze in place, stopping herself and the electricity dissipated. "I-I-I don't know what happened... I'm sorry," she said instantly, looking at both Raynor, and Niah (who she figured based on appearances she had also attacked before). "I didn't mean to..."
Update sections are organized roughly by combatants...
Maria vs Hercules
Maria would manage to drain Hercules' life-force, but not his powers. His strength was gradually beginning to abandon the son of Zeus, someone who really wasn't known for his intelligence - someone with the subtly of a hammer in situations that required a carefully wielded scalpel. Maria managed to kick Hercules off of her, her godlike strength sending Hercules crashing into one of the structure's support beams.
The building's structure had already become unstable from earlier - and Hercules, even with his life force sapped, was still a beefy man. And he had been thrown at the beam with the powers of a god.
The entire structure came crashing down.
Maria would find herself pinned underneath a bunch of rubble, with one broken piece of wood imbedding itself in her stomach.
Cass and Matt vs Mr. Knight/Moon Knight -
Cass had managed to distract Moon Knight, although he had blocked her blows, but it was enough for Matt to roll out of the way and retrieve one of Moon Knight's weapons, using it expertly. Unfortunately, Moon Knight seemed really good at blocking. "You're light on your feet, huh, señor?" Moon Knight asked Matt. His accent was completely different - before, it had been distinctly British, and now, it seemed much more Guatemalan. Matt and Cass would both manage to identify the accent, thanks to their years of work on special ops teams. "Let's dance," Moon Knight invited, before pressing his attack again.
He threw a crescent shaped dagger at Cass, missing her. He went to kick Matt in the knees, aiming to cripple him, but Matt would manage to dodge the attack. Moon Knight swung a dagger at Matt, but Matt would manage to block it with his own weapon. Maybe their luck was beginning to change - maybe they'd manage to defeat this weirdo.
And then the roof fell down on top of them and the house collapsed.
Moon Knight was unscathed, thanks to his weird suit. Cass ended up being buried alive, badly bruised and concussed, but nothing was broken (due to her skin, basically). Matt would come to near the top of the rubble, able to free himself readily, but bleeding from his forehead.
Rogue and Gambit vs the Scarlet Scarab
The fight was definitely getting interesting here. The Scarlet Scarab managed to knock Gambit unconscious, and she was using her feathers as shields essentially as Rogue used all of her strength to try to beat the girl into submission. Their fight was interrupted however with the house collapsing on top of them. Rogue scooped up Gambit and managed to fly up and out of the rubble, escaping with no injuries. She left the Scarlet Scarab behind, unconscious, buried alive.
Amelia vs Aero
These two were perhaps lucky. They weren't inside the Aerie when it collapsed, simply not built for a full on superhero brawl. But on the other hand, they had just fallen off of the side of the mountain, heading for a painful drop. "I can't reach you!" Amelia shouted, her hand extended as she fell, trying to grab onto her counterpart to save her. Her mind was scrambled and confused, but Amelia was still Amelia - she was still the person who would jump straight into danger to save people, even if she was convinced they were a weird doppelgänger/clone/imposter.
Aero had been caught off guard, her eyes wide. "You're fucking mad, now we're both going to die!" she shouted, but she reached her hand out to Amelia all the same. She didn't have her glider on her at the moment, the thing that allowed her to surf on air currents. Their best hope would be to find some way to slow their descent, and do their best to avoid being impaled on a tree or something.
"If you're me, then there's no bloody way we're dying like this!" Amelia shouted. "Now come on, if we combine our power, we'll not just survive - we'll have a fucking blast doing it."
Aero stared at her for a moment, before breaking out into laughter. "Fuck mate, you really are me, huh?"
And so, the Amelias managed to grab onto each other. They held hands and spread their bodies out, looking a bit like two flying squirrels almost, and began to manipulate the air currents around them - doing their best to propel themselves back up to the top of the mountain - or to any solid ground they could, really.
Everyone Else vs Luminous Basically
Luminous was unconscious (and rather crispy). Oliver's hand will be a bit burned from having punched someone who was on fire, but compared to his other injuries, it was understandable he hadn't quite noticed that one yet. "What the hell, Sparks!" Raynor shouted, his body twitching ever so slightly as an after effect of the lightning. She shocked him enough that it was a small miracle he hadn't developed some sort of heart condition - even for an Asgardian, electricity coursing through one's body was hardly ideal. He had thought she was just angry at Niah, but now it seemed she was pissed at him too? Well, actually, that was definitely understandable... The more he thought about it, the more he thought he knew why she had attacked him.
"I get it, you fucking hate me right now, but would you stop with the electricity?!" Raynor asked. "It's like being around fucking Thor sometimes, I swear..." he muttered under his breath. He didn't often miss his uncle. His uncle had been a rather gassy individual, and had an unfortunate habit of shocking everyone with lightning in his vicinity upon passing gas. From what Raynor knew, that had been a problem relatively unique to 257-Thor. But still, he hadn't felt the need to seek out the god of thunder on Earth-666 for that reason.
"Luminous pos-"
Bonnie's explanation of what had happened to Sparky was interrupted, rather rudely, by the Aerie collapsing around them. Luminous shockingly would end up on top of the rubble once the dust had settled, unscathed, aside from her pre-existing injuries. Raynor similarly would be completely fine and not at all buried. As would Niah and Sparky. Bonnie, Oliver, and Flynn were the unlucky ones.
Flynn's legs would be broken, the bone sticking out of his left leg, while the right one was a little better. Additionally, he would be buried under the rubble. Oliver would end up right next to Flynn, a piece of wood having gone straight through Oliver's chest, missing vital organs but still - not an ideal position to be in.
Bonnie had the worst luck of all. Although she wasn't buried under the rubble, an iron bar went through her head, killing her instantly.
She was dead.
Very dead.
And then her arm moved, and Bonnie pulled the iron bar out of her head, tossing it down on the ground next to her.
Cass - Cass will not like the idea of going to Genosha. She will begin to privately contemplate how best to destroy the nation.
Maria - A twisted emotion will dawn upon Maria. She will recall that her dear little sister, Kristina, is on Genosha. Alive and well. Happy, even. Safe. She never died.
Niah - Niah will suddenly feel an extreme urge to be near Oliver, but unlike their natural connection, this one... this one tastes much more co-dependent - like Harley Quinn's desire for the Joker. Weird, right?
Sparky - N/A
Bonnie - An immense sense of danger and urgency will overtake her, almost beyond the point of rationality. She will not go to Genosha. She will not go seek refuge with those who killed her parents. The only reason she would go to Genosha would be for revenge, to assassinate its leaders.
Matt - Matt will suddenly feel an overwhelming obsession to solve a series of murders occurring all over Europe. He suspects Oliver as the killer, but has never been able to obtain any evidence.
Oliver - Oliver will have a wonderful idea pop into his mind, one that he won't be able to quite shake no matter how much he tries. What if he killed Raynor? (Yes, I did roll for who he would target lol).
Amelia - Amelia will feel her connection to the rest of the group severed, as if she never knew them, as if they weren't her friends. She will recall another group of friends, a group of vigilantes who defend the Blue.
Raynor - N/A
Flynn - Flynn will have a horrible realization dawn upon him. He got a flatscan pregnant. Whenever he looks at Bonnie, or honestly any of the other humans in the group, he will feel a deep sense of revulsion and rage.
Whatever Sparky was thinking Niah didn't want to fight her friend. Not if she could help it. Raynor thankfully distracted her. She went to evaluate what was happening with the fight when Maria kicked Hercules into a support beam. The whole building collapsed. Niah threw her arms over her head to try to protect it.
Niah thought at this point she was used to seeing those she loved die. She was surprised she was able to avoid being buried. Looking around she tried to see who she could help. The most visible person was Bonnie. The world froze for a moment as she took in the horror that was her friend, dead, again. That was the last straw. It didn't matter anymore. Niah was done working for SHIELD. She couldn't bear it. Even though she had taken the break and thought she could handle it. She couldn't. Not anymore. This would be her last mission.
Then Bonnie moved and removed the iron bar that was in her skull. Niah closed her eyes and counted to ten. Thinking of the fear bear. She took a slow breath. And opened her eyes hoping this was all a hallucination. It wasn't. Where was Oli? She closed her eyes again. Trying to shut it out. Her heart rate rocketed. "Oliver!" She cried out. Begging the universe to let him be okay. And let this nightmare end.
Location: EARTH 257: The Aerie Skills:
Matt wasn't about to get cocky with this fight. If he slipped up even a little bit this guy would shread him. He was odd, the man in white. His voice and outfit changed with his fighting style. Matt didn't know what to think about that. But it meant to him he'd have to be even more on his toes. Maybe the guy could do even more different styles.
It didn't matter though. The building collapsed around them. Matt was lucky and was able to extract himself from the rubble. He looked around but didn't see Cass. "Shit." He cursed, ignoring the blood coming from his forehead. He figured it probably looked worse than it was since head wounds always bleed like crazy. That was a later problem. "Cass!" He shouted, hoping for some sign that she was okay.
He saw Niah, crying out for Oliver, which meant he was probably buried too. And he saw movement. Saw that Bonnie was the source of it. And saw that something was very wrong with that situation. He shunted that to the side to look for Cass. That, like his bleeding forehead, was a later problem. After he found Cass he'd worry about other things.
As he searched though, he slipped and dislodged some of the rubble. It came tumbling down around him. Now he was like most of the others, trapped.
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: (Hercules' Super Strength)
Maria continued to struggle with Hercules as she felt more of his lifeforce going into her, she was not trying to kill him only to just weaken him enough to make things a bit easier to fight him. Then Maria spotted an opening and used all of her strength that she had taken from Hercules and managed to kick him off of her. She however miscalculated where she was kicking him towards and sent him directly into a support pillar. Then all hell started to break loose as she heard the loud crashing sound and rubble started to fall down all around them, Maria cried out in pain as she felt a large piece of wood impaled itself into her stomach and then the weight of all the rubble falling down onto her as she closed her eyes.
When things stopped falling Maria opened her eyes and started to look around, she was completely buried under the rubble, Maria looked down seeing the wood was still stuck inside of her. She tried to get the rubble off of her, but she wasn't able to as Maria cried out in pain, every inch of her body was in pain now. She tried pulling the wood out of her again but the pain was to much and barely managed to pull out half of it.
Cassandra Reed
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: Enhanced Condition
Cassandra got into a fighting stance against Moon Knight and started to instantly pick up on his accent was from Guatemala now by the sounds of it, due to her years working with SHIELD and going on various missions you picked up on some accents from people. Which she thought was really weird after seeing his suit changing and his accent to, which she thought was really off to her, he tried to throw one of those crescent daggers at her and missed. Not that it would have really hurt her that much since her skin was really hard to pierce.
Then Cassandra heard a loud crashing sound just as the roof of the Aerie came crashing down on all of them her eyes going wide as she looked towards Bonnie, seeing her best friend going down, just as something hit her on the head rather hard. And everything went black for Cass. A few seconds later Cassandra slowly opened her eyes again, she was laying on her stomach her ears were ringing badly and her whole body started to hurt and she was completely dazed and confused.
She quickly started to push herself back up using as much strength as she could and started to move the rubble up and out of the way from her. Cass eyes started to hurt as she managed to see some light and started to panic she couldn't see Matt at all, she looked over to see Bonnie again her arm moving and pulling out the metal bar out of her head like something out of a horror movie. Moon Knight seemed unscathed but she wasn't worried about him right now as Cassandra was focused on searching for him, and quickly started to move the rubble away. "Matt! Are you alright?" Cassandra called out as she managed to find him and started to unbury him as quickly as she could and noticed that he was bleeding.
Support beams were important, or at least, that was what Oli thought as somebody who had no formal training in architectural design, and in the grand tradition that Oli's life seemed to engage in, he was right, and it didn't much matter. Before he could do anything, things were falling around and on him. Holding his breath, he knew that he couldn't get out of this situation, even with his speed, and so the one thing he could do was control variables. If he accepted the fact that he was gonna get hit by something, he might be able to control how that happened. And, just as he thought, at the small of his back, he felt wood start to pierce his skin and, thanking himself for his super speed, he shifted his body ever so slightly, and tried his best to make sure nothing important was pierced.
And it seemed like it worked, as with everything said and done, he wasn't dead, though he was impaled and in ungodly amounts of pain. He coughed, and blood trickled down his chin. He was pretty sure that if he phased out now, he'd be fine, his speed healing could keep this from making him bleed out, but god he was having trouble muster up the energy to not just collapse here. It was then that he heard Niah's voice, calling out to him, and he knew he had to reach into that internal reserve of power that was there in all of us when it needed to be, and power through it. Phasing himself through, and lightly grabbing Flynn as he did so, Oli popped out holding his asshole of a comrade, and met eyes with Niah as he collapsed on the ground in front of the rubble, barely managing to set Flynn down as he fell forward. "Not dead but um." He coughed, holding his wound, "I really, really don't want to ever have a building dropped on me again."
Flynn wasn't sure what to think with regards to Sparky attacking people, he was more of paying attention to what was going on around her, apparently Bonnie had figured out what was going on. Then of course, before that could be resolved, someone decided to knock out the support beam that was holding the unstable roof decided to come crashing down on all of them. That didn't end well, at all, as he ended up pinned underneath the rubble, and he could feel his legs snap and the pain shooting through his body, but he was currently buried, and unfortunately could not really move.
Luckily, he didn't have to, since apparently he had ended up near Oliver, who proceeded to more or less dragged him out, before collapsing to the ground himself. He sort of propped himself up, able to see that his legs were at weird angles, not to mention the bone that was painfully sticking up out of his one leg. One thing he noticed, was that Bonnie looked to be okay, but based on the reactions of a few other people, something very weird had just happened or something. Honestly he wasn't paying too much attention to what it was. Though she looked to be okay at least right?
Location: The Aerie Skills: Jack of All Trades (Medicine)
Well, things went from bad to worse. Raynor was yelling at her, wondering what the hell she was doing, and Niah, she remembered now, had yelled at her too. Neither of them had seemed to hear what she had said, either that or they both just chose to ignore her. Bonnie knew what was going on, but then the entire roof decided to come down on them all. Luckily, she wasn't hurt at all, but others clearly were not that lucky. Namely, what the hell just happened with Bonnie? How had she done that. She had looked very very dead, so how was she suddenly not dead and pulling the bar out of her head.
However, her attention turned back towards Raynor and Niah, before she snapped at them both, "If you had been paying attention or I don't know, listened to me you would know that I wasn't in control of my own actions and basically got mind controlled? Or no, you all have to make everything clearly all about you!" she said, before looking at Bonnie. "You, don't move until you are looked over considering the fact that pretty sure you it looked like you died and then pulled a metal bar out of your head like it was nothing. You are pregnant, and we don't know what sort of effects whatever the hell just happened might have. So I get, people are kind of hurt, but we also don't have the medical gear necessary to do much from here right now, so stay there." Now she didn't care that Bonnie was technically the team doctor (or Battle Nurse really it seemed like at this point), something weird just happened, so her moving around was probably not a good idea.
People were starting to get out of the rubble at this point, which included Oliver and Flynn, who both looked to be in bad shape. She went over to Flynn first, "Hold still, this is going to hurt," she explained simply to him.
"Uh what? Also, what the hell were you talking about with regards to Bonnie what happened?" he asked, confused as he only heard the tail end of her rant, namely with regards to something having effects on her or something? Sparky didn't answer, it took her second attempt (the first only resulted in shooting more pain through his body) to snap his bone back into his leg.
"We'll have to maybe make a splint or something for it a little later to at least hold it in place until we can do something better..." she muttered, before moving over to Oliver, looking at the piece of wood embedded in his chest. "We don't have the proper gear to do the surgery or whatever to patch you up... So best we can do is at least shorten this to make it a little easier to move or something like that for now," she explained, before she broke off a piece of shrapnel that was poking through his back, shorting it so it was only a little bit away from his skin or whatever, before she proceeded to do the same to the part sticking out of his chest, knocking his hand away, "Don't mess with it, you actually could make it worse."
Raynor held his hands up defensively - even though Sparky being angry at him worked for his plan of pushing her away, in order to keep her safe. She deserved someone better than him - someone safer than him. "I hate witches," Raynor grumbled in explanation. He didn't hate all witches - his grandmother, for instance, had been a rather wonderful witch. And he knew his multiversal sibling, Runa, was a talented witch - something that amused him. But witchcraft had never been Raynor's thing. It was too messy.
It is not your time, the voice whispered in her mind - Athena's voice. Bonnie's mind was split into what to worry about, somehow managing to panic over several things at once. She didn't need Sparky yelling at her to remind her that she was pregnant and everything that had just happened had to be terrible for a pregnancy. Even just heightened levels of stress were enough to trigger a spontaneous abortion. Then there was Flynn and the rest of her team, who were mostly either buried in the rubble or severely injured, without any medical supplies around to help. And lastly, the horrifying realization that she had died... and it hadn't been the first time either.
She had died before - back when they had faced the Black Order. Much like this time though, something brought her back. Bonnie's eyes darted towards the metal bar on the ground, covered in her blood - and what looked like fleshy pink brain matter. Bonnie then raised a hand, feeling where there should have been a gigantic, fatal wound in her head - but there was nothing there. It was tender as hell, definitely bruised, but fine.
Bonnie then swallowed thickly. No one aside from Sparky had really said anything about what had just happened. And Sparky, ultimately, was right - Bonnie, despite being their best doctor, shouldn't move at the moment for her unborn child's sake. So instead, Bonnie explained what was happening to her, to the best of her knowledge: "I think there's a god in my head."
Raynor then turned, looking at Bonnie as it clicked into place in his head. "Ah, shit," he muttered. "I'm sorry, Bonnie." In his experience, gods could be weird when it came to their avatars - or champions, as they were sometimes called. Asgardians never saw the point in having a mortal host to act through - his uncle had briefly tried it once with someone named Donald Blake and ended up regretting it pretty quickly. Raynor didn't say anything else though, before turning to work on the rubble and those trapped there.
"Hold on, sugah, this ain't a job for you," Rogue said, flying down and setting Gambit down gently. She then rolled up her sleeves, showing off her muscles, before she started picking up the pieces of rubble and tossing them aside one by one, easily throwing them off of the mountain. Soon enough, Rogue had everyone uncovered, wiping a stray sweat off of her forehead.
"Nice view, chère," Gambit joked, looking at Rogue's ass.
"Remy!" Rogue scolded. "Now, where are my moms and that lil human girl at?"
Rogue and Gambit weren't the only ones making a flying entrance. Amelia and Aero gently lowered themselves to the ground as well, clasping hands. They had fallen off the side of the mountain and made it back up together through pure willpower. Aside from the difference in clothing (Aero was in a superhero costume), the two of them looked identical - like twins. "Why the hell am I not surprised you all brought the house down?" Amelia complained. Her memories were still fuzzy and scrambled - but in accepting that Aero could also be her, she had accepted that maybe, just maybe, the people here were telling the truth. "I don't know who you mates all are, but I'd like to figure that out."
"If you killed my friends though, I will end you all," Aero warned, seeing her companions laid out on top of the rubble, all seemingly unconscious. Rogue had been nice enough to get the Avengers of the Blue out as well.
"Our friends," Amelia reminded Aero.
"Right, that's what I said."
Cass - Cass will not like the idea of going to Genosha. She will begin to privately contemplate how best to destroy the nation.
Maria - A twisted emotion will dawn upon Maria. She will recall that her dear little sister, Kristina, is on Genosha. Alive and well. Happy, even. Safe. She never died.
Niah - Niah will suddenly feel an extreme urge to be near Oliver, but unlike their natural connection, this one... this one tastes much more co-dependent - like Harley Quinn's desire for the Joker. Weird, right?
Sparky - N/A
Bonnie - An immense sense of danger and urgency will overtake her, almost beyond the point of rationality. She will not go to Genosha. She will not go seek refuge with those who killed her parents. The only reason she would go to Genosha would be for revenge, to assassinate its leaders.
Matt - Matt will suddenly feel an overwhelming obsession to solve a series of murders occurring all over Europe. He suspects Oliver as the killer, but has never been able to obtain any evidence.
Oliver - Oliver will have a wonderful idea pop into his mind, one that he won't be able to quite shake no matter how much he tries. What if he killed Raynor? (Yes, I did roll for who he would target lol).
Amelia - Amelia will feel her connection to the rest of the group severed, as if she never knew them, as if they weren't her friends. She will recall another group of friends, a group of vigilantes who defend the Blue.
Raynor - N/A
Flynn - Flynn will have a horrible realization dawn upon him. He got a flatscan pregnant. Whenever he looks at Bonnie, or honestly any of the other humans in the group, he will feel a deep sense of revulsion and rage.
Niah didn't listen to Sparky. She was done and just wanted to make sure Oliver was okay. He was bleeding and that concerned her. Even if he said he wasn't dead. Niah reached for him, checking that he didn't have any bits sticking out of him that shouldn't be. She sighed relieved but still terrified. How much of that terror for him was from the her that lived here? She didn't know. She didn't care.
She did care though about what Bonnie said. A god in her head. That made sense in a weird sort of way. She had been different since the Thanos stuff. Niah hadn't been there for that fight, but she knew it had been nasty.
"Can we not fight? Can we just talk about this and solve the problem? I want to go home. If you all would just start from the baseline of we are from another universe and we can work it out from there please." She felt petulant saying it. But really she was rather done. She looked over at Cass who was checking Matt over. Begging her mentally to take charge and get things figured out.
Location: EARTH 257: The Aerie Skills:
Matt was relieved to be uncovered from the disaster. Cass had saved him, which was sweet, though he wished it had been the other way around. He dusted himself. "I'm fine, really. Headwounds bleed a lot. Are you okay?" He asked Cass and looked around at the others. He cleared his throat a little and said quietly to her. "Do you want to speak with Bonnie before we try to hash out differences with the group of people that we just fought?"
Oliver had nearly killed their Captain America so that probably was gonna be held against them. There had been a lot of fighting going on so he expected the fallout from the fight would not be as easy to get over as Niah seemed to think it was. But she looked tired. He sighed and steady himself on his feet. Assessing what damage had been done to the people. "Maybe move out from the destroyed building?" It was too dangerous for them to keep standing in the rubble. Especially if they decided to talk wasn't as much fun as kicking each other's asses.
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: (Hercules' Super Strength) (Healing Factor)
Maria was still in a whole lot of pain as she was about to try and get herself unburied again when she started to see some light, she was expecting Hercules to unbury her and start round two. But to her surprise it was actually Rogue that had unburied her, and slowly started to stand up, wincing and groaning as she did. "Thanks for the help there Rogue" Maria said, she had a feeling that if her sister actually saw that then she'd probably end up getting scolded by her or something for getting buried and fighting against a Greek God.
Maria turned her attention towards Bonnie seeing her standing and alive and well again she was actually relieved to see that and went over towards her. "Are you alright?" Maria ended up asking her, as their Amelia and this universe's version of Amelia came down to the ground. "I'm not going to fight unless ordered to, or if you attack us." Maria said, as she looked over towards the group of unconscious Avengers who weren't going to get up and attack again for now anyway. "Where is Darcy anyway?" Maria ended up asking hoping that she was actually alright she had gone off somewhere to hide.
Roll for Maria to pull out the piece of wood thats in her stomach so her healing factor can kick in.
Cassandra Reed
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: Enhanced Condition
Cass looked towards Matt for a moment her ears were still ringing slightly as she looked over at her side slightly seeing the bruise that was forming and nodded towards him her head was pounding still to. "Slightly concussed and bruised but i'm fine." Cassandra told him as she stood up and offered a hand to help Matt back up. She didn't answer Matt as Cass quickly went over towards Bonnie and pulled her into a hug, she was glad that her friend was alright. "We should get you checked out as soon as possible make sure that you and the baby are alright." Cassandra suggested she knew that Bonnie was somehow a lot different now since their encounter with the Black Order, she wasn't sure what a god wanted Bonnie for but saved her friend twice now. She looked up to see Aero and Amelia coming down, she was glad that their Amelia was alright.
"I think we all got off on the wrong foot here, we are from another reality like I told your weird hooded guy who can change suits on the fly. We are simply just trying to look for two people our version of Luminous and Doctor Doom, who somehow got here through some portal in our world from the prison we call the RAFT in our world." Cass said to Aero and Amelia, hoping that they'll at least listen to her. "We won't fight you anymore if you all don't I think we have some medical supplies from the craft we flew in on, unless you all have some so we can treat our wounded. We are simply just trying to get home that is all we want." Cassandra told them, she really wasnt in the mood for another round of fights right now if they couldn't help it.
Flynn was very confused as to what was going on, but the main thing that stuck out to him currently was the fact that everyone seemed to be okay, aside from various people being injured. Himself included in general, since right now, his legs felt like they were burning from the pain shooting through them. Yeah, a pair of broken legs was not going to make things any easier over all, since now he couldn't even go race over to check on Bonnie to make sure that she was okay! Since from the sounds of it, she shouldn't be?
The thing she said about having a god in her head, that also made no sense to him. He knew that gods were real (well, depending, he at least knew that the Norse gods were real) but what sort of situation was going on with this right now? Raynor seemed to figure out what was going on, which honestly was not that surprising when he thought about it. Anything god related or magic related, the guy seemed to know about. So what exactly was going on with Bonnie? He had no idea honestly at this point, but he was not sure how best to ask what the hell were they talking about.
Location: The Aerie Skills: Jack of All Trades (Medicine)
"I am serious, don't mess with that, you put too much pressure, you cause it to shift, and then you'll likely bleed out rather quickly. Hence, don't touch it. I just made it so that you could move around a bit in general for once we get a way out of here. So I'll reiterate, don't move, and don't touch your injury," she said to Oliver, before she went to move away from him to check to see what all was going on with the others. Of course, she kept thinking of what happened with Bonnie.
With that in mind, Sparky went over to where Bonnie was to give her the once over. "For my own piece of mind considering what just happened, and since you shouldn't be moving or whatever, just going to make sure there isn't anything obviously wrong, and first chance we get we need to likely run some tests to make sure, okay?" she said to her, before more or less just giving her the once over to make sure that she was okay. Considering what just happened, she was in pretty good shape, no injuries or anything off that she could tell without any sort of medical equipment nearby. "Alright, you seem to be alright from a glance, but still, you probably shouldn't be getting up and moving around too quickly yet... And as I said, likely needing to run tests the first chance we get to make sure everything is fine..."
As the piece of wood embedded in him was snapped off, Oli had his heart jump a bit. He knew he'd need surgery sooner rather than later, but he couldn't focus much on that right now. He needed to make sure that this situation didn't turn into a fight again, because he was pretty sure he'd die very quickly. He smiled up at Niah, and cautiously looked at their combatants. He knew that he probably hadn't made any friends with the whole "Almost murdered an Avenger" thing, but he had to at least hope that they could let bygones be bygones.
Oli stayed exactly where he was though, he wasn't gonna ignore Sparky's advice here. He knew that the less he moved m, the better, his mind racing with the possibilities of sepsis and the like. He liked having his insides inside him, and not spilled out along this hellrealm of an alternate universe. He just managed to cough out, "I am sorry about the shield, I really didn't know that that would happen." He said honestly, his head light and dizzy from all the damage he'd taken.
"I know, I don't need you all to treat me like a child," Bonnie said, slightly irritated with the number of people telling her that she needed to be examined, that she ought not move, that the entire experience had been weird. None of them had attended medical school, sure, Sparky had some limited medical knowledge but it wasn't what she specialized in. In fact, Bonnie's particular medical specialty was dealing with the dead - making her uniquely qualified to understand how weird, in fact, it was that what should have killed her hadn't managed to stick. She also knew that most likely, the baby was fine - babies could live for minutes inside the womb after the mother perished. And by Bonnie's estimation, she had been dead for seconds.
Maria would manage to pull the wood out of her stomach with relative ease, her healing factor then kicking in. The wound began to clot and close up, her body stitching itself back together. It wouldn't be fully healed yet, but it was beginning to become less and less of a life threatening liability - she was going to be fine.
Niah's cries for talking things out would largely fall on deaf ears - as everyone except for the Amelias, when it came to the Avengers, were thoroughly unconscious. Similarly, Captain America wasn't awake to hear Oliver's apology, and only the Amelias heard Cass' pleas. Aero sighed slightly. "The shield was historical, but whatever." "Where do you think they went, the Doom and Luminous you're looking for?" "Our ship is at the base of the mountain, there's some supplies there." "But you all might wanna hurry, Herc is cranky when he wakes up."
Right on cue, thanks to her ability to see the future no doubt, Mystique, Destiny, and Darcy re-appeared. They came from the one bit of the Aerie that was still standing, the only unharmed structure. Mystique's eyes darted towards Rogue and for a moment, a flash of relief crossed her face. But then it was soon replaced by annoyance as she saw Gambit had survived. "Great. The idiot made it."
"I long for the day I foresee his demise," Destiny said to her wife, the sunlight reflecting off of the golden mask that hid her face.
"Ah can hear ya!" Gambit complained, but neither Destiny or Mystique made a move to apologize. They really didn't their son-in-law - at all. Some things didn't change regardless of the universe. Rogue put a gloved hand on Gambit's shoulder to comfort him. "Don't let them get ta ya," she reassured him. "I love ya no matter what happens."
"Uh, guys?" Darcy called out. "I think something's happening... Beyond all the crazy shit that already happened. Like, more crazy things. Like, space shouldn't look like that." She pointed towards the area right to the left of the group, where the rubble had made a roughly even surface. There, space seemed like it was beginning to shimmer and spark, with weird sounds growing gradually louder and louder, until a group of people POPPED! into existence. The distortion ended, going away as if nothing had ever happened.
But the people were still there - people who they would be able to mostly recognize. "The X-Men," Amelia recognized. "Shit, I hate these blokes," Aero complained. "Bunch of privileged assholes who get off on killing kids." "They have no business being in the Blue - no right to be here," Aero agreed.
"Seriously? These are the X-Men now?" Raynor scoffed. Back when he had been in Earth-257 last, he had led this team. He didn't even recognize everyone in front of him. Two of them were obvious - the "evil" versions of Flynn and Maria. Then he recognized what somewhat looked like Colossus, but as the Juggernaut? That was weird. There was a girl with metal claws who Raynor guessed had something to do with Wolverine (where was Logan? Logan had been on Raynor's original team and he didn't die easy). The girl with her brain on display didn't ring any bells. Nightcrawler was easy, purely because he was a famous X-Man back in Earth-667, even if not currently active with the team. The boy with all the eyes and the man dressed in yellow were similarly mysterious to him.
"You have a problem with that?" Wolverine asked.
"No offense, kid, but back when I ran the team, we had Wolverine on it."
"Actually, I am Wolverine," Wolverine said.
"Woah, you're all covered in swirling red energy..." the boy with all the eyes said, whistling slightly. "It's beautiful. If not terrifying. Also, Firestorm, Syphon, those two are a 99.99999999% match to you," Eye-Boy then added, pointing at Flynn and Maria. "Best I see, they are you."
Niah tried to reassure herself that Oliver was okay, but that was really hard to do when he had debris sticking out of him. She tuned out almost everything trying to bring herself back to the center. Niah had worked on that during her break from the team and had gained an eerie calm after the fight with the fear bear. She tried to pull herself back into that. It was a fight, which wasn't helped by yet another group of people and copies of their group members appearing. They were in no state to fight so if this group decided they were gonna go murder hobo they'd be dead.
She sighed. And then looked at the new group, still standing by Oliver, still ready for something terrible to happen, but at least she wasn't near hysterics anymore. "Cool more people to try to explain what is going on." She said mostly under her breath, probably only loud enough for Oliver. Then she added, "We need to get you taken care of before much longer."
Location: EARTH 257: The Aerie Skills:
Matt was glad Cass was okay. Everything else seemed low on the importance spectrum. He had taken her assistance in standing back up. And of course, something else was added to the mix. This world's X-men group apparently. He agreed with Niah's sentiment, even if he didn't hear what she said.
"Well before shit goes sideways again, how about you all let us deal with the wounded we have. Once everyone is awake and not dying we can have a conversation that doesn't come to blows." Maybe. He hoped. But he was ready, his muscles on edge to fight again if he needed. It would be too soon and they were too hurt to do it though.
Cassandra looked at Bonnie for a moment she could understand being a little bit annoyed, but dying a second time while being pregnant still was a risk to both her and the baby to. "We are just concerned is all." Cassandra told Bonnie she still couldn't help but be worried about her closest friend. Her attention turned towards Aero and Amelia, saying that they did have some medical supplies on their craft that they came in. "If you are alright with lending some aide that would be great." Cassandra said as her attention turned towards her Amelia asking where their Dr. Doom and Luminous were.
"I have no idea where they could be our Luminous would be really hard to track down, having her magic and speed she could be anywhere in the world. As for Dr. Doom maybe Latveria, if that is a thing here and if he's evil in your reality or not it could be trouble if they decide to work together." Cassandra answered their Amelia's question and looked at her teammate. "We'll try and get you fixed you came from our reality originally." Cass said to her, when her attention turned towards Darcy, Mystique and Destiny as the three of them came out, she was actually glad that Darcy was alright.
Cassandra then turned her head where Darcy had pointed out as a group suddenly popped into existence, most of them she didn't recognize however she did easily recognize Maria and Flynn standing amongst the group. She closed her eyes for a moment and sighed slightly she really didn't want to fight anyone at the moment they were all injured at the moment. "Great some more people here." Cassandra said as she looked at them all.
Maria Novikova
Location: The Aerie - Earth 257 Skills: (Hercules' Super Strength)
Maria started to wince as she pulled the piece of wood out of her stomach letting out a loud groan as she managed to get it out of her, feeling some of her blood coming out of the wound, before her body started to slowly knit itself back together. Maria looked down at the bloody stake now before tossing it to the side. "Being impaled and buried like that isn't fun really.." Maria said to herself as she looked over at Oliver, who had something similar going on with him to. But unfortunately for Oliver he didn't have a healing factor like she had as her wound started to become less and less life threatening.
She could understand Bonnie being more than annoyed with being coddled like that, though she could understand that the others were worried about Bonnie as well to. "I'm glad that you are alright Bonnie." Maria said as she looked at Aero and Amelia they werent going to be fighting them by the looks of it which was a good thing then. "He isn't the brightest bulb is he?" Maria said jokingly seeing as Hercules didn't even try to avoid making direct contact with her. Then Darcy, Mystique and Destiny started to come back again, she gave them a slight wave seeing that Darcy was alright then she pointed something was going on to their left.
Then a group of people suddenly appeared right in front of them, she didn't recognize the group before her except for obviously seeing this realities version of her and Flynn suddenly appearing. Syphon turned to look at Aero and Amelia and stared at the two of them and rolled her eyes slightly and shook her head. "Thats not really nice to some guests to your country you know that right?" Syphon said to the two of them, as she stared at herself which was really weird to her as Eye-Boy spoke up saying that the their two counterparts were exactly like them. "So are they clones or something?" Syphon asked him before turning her attention directly towards Firestorm. "So what are your orders Boss Man?" Syphon ended up asking him.
As Maria stared at her counterpart she started to get flashes of Syphon's memories, from the night that her family had to sneak out of their house in the very early morning and being smuggled out of the Iron. And settling in her new life in Genosha, eventually meeting her now wife Prism who was Novikova in thier world. Though oddly she had her own memories from their original reality as well to, as Maria turned to look at the others in their team. "I'm still me, for some reason I have both some of my memories here and her's to." Maria said as she gestured towards Syphon.
