[IC] Marvel: Exiles

[mattmanganon]

Cain was just finishing off a rogue Sentinel, his fists pounding furiously at the hull of the broken machine, before it finally caved in and he stood up, panting a little. That was surely going to satisfy Cyttorak for the moment. After a moment, he looked back across the destroyed city street. It had been the sight of a Mutant pride parade. Not many of these around and such attacks were probably going to make them all the rarer. Sure, he and the other X-Men had managed to stop this attack, but New York were probably going to decline from others in future. He saw a red blast lance just past him as Cyclops blasted one that was trying to flee. Cain gave him the Thumbs up. He then stepped down off the Sentinel, but rather than hitting ground, like he was supposed to, he seemed to start falling forever, as everything turned white around him. "FUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" he yelled as he was unable to stop himself.

Everything seemed to happen at once, next. First, there was an almightly splash as he hit water, naturally, because of his immense density, swimming was pretty much a no-go. He desperately clawed at the water in an attempt to gain some form of buoyancy, but it didn't work... Well, at least he didn't need to breathe... But what if this place had cut him off from Cyttoraks power? Cain had the sneaking suspicion that this was going to end badly, a suspicion confirmed as he finally lost his battle and he saw the surface above him rushing away from him.

"Good day, Mr Marko. I suppose you are wondering what has just happened to you? One minute, fighting for the greater good, or to thwart the forces of good, or something else along those lines. I don't care too much which for. I am here because something has happened to time itself. Something that it will take a team of people with special talents such as yourself to solve." At that point, a man seemed to walk through the water towards Cain. He then touched Cain's helmet and in a second, they were in a large meadow filled with waist-high grass, with a small hill with grass on it. Cain looked around.

"Alright, what the hell is happening?" Cain asked.

"I just told you, you are going to help us to save time itself." Replied the man.

"And... And what if I say no?" Cain asked. The man sighed.

"Well, I hope you enjoy an eternity here. I can only give you a way out of this if you accept. Unless you do so, I am powerless to help you get home." Cain stared at him.

"Explain." he ordered, his fist clenching.

"Trust me, Mr Marko, your strength will do you no good here. Due to the circumstances of your travelling here, you are unable to return to your home dimension until enough of the timeline has been fixed so that you can." He said. "Wait... Ah, here come the rest of your team-mates now." he smiled.

[Burning Kitty]

The merged Wolverine didn't come into existence peacefully, one half was at war the other half was recooperating from war. Their minds and memories were at war with each other. The constant battle over who had the right to exist instilled a beserker like rage, their creator was the victim of it, he died with six claws stabbed into his chest and ripped him apart. The merged Wolverine went on a bloody rampage killing anyone they saw, age nor gender mattered. It took the all of the X-Men to slow him down enough while a trio of the world's most powerful telepaths fought his mind tooth and nail, in the end they succeeded but it cost Jean Grey her sanity to create a psyche that was a mixture of the two that allowed the two minds to work as one.

In the intervening years he served his prison time for the slaughter of innocents. When he was finally allowed to out of jail the only telepath left alive on the planet was Emma Frost the White Queen. She was in her ninities, she released him to deal with the scourge of the Chitauri.

Before he could do anything, he was whisked away by a bright light. Suddenly Wolverine found himself in some strange place. A man was approaching he had a strange scent, not knowing what a Chitauri was or was capable of, Wolverine did what Wolverine does best, he attacked. The strange man was unfazed by the attack simply dodging each attack.

"If you would be so kind please put those pins away this pin cushion will not get stuck today. I brought you here to fix time with some others. If you want to go back to the reality you came from or to go back to the realities that which you both came from it can be arranged after you fix time. Do we have a deal?" Wolverine thought for a second, then nodded his consent while giving him a golden middle claw.

[Duthguy]

Having finally finished the suit that should allow him to safely use his gauntlets, Herman Schultz was ready to test them. Since he had no intention of doing so in public and possibly having already he had set up in empty warehouse, that he hoped to convert into a lab after having "acquired" the necessary funding and equipment.

Despite being certain his suit would work, he was still a bit about activating his gauntlets the first time. The second his thumb pressed down on the trigger of the right hand gauntlet, everything went white. His first thought was that something had gone wrong after all, but he quickly discarded it as he felt no pain. Just as sudden the white was gone and Herman found himself in what appeared to be a desert. In the distance he saw a humanoid figure and not knowing what else to approached it, with both his arms stretched out in front of him and his thumbs near the triggers just in case.

"I assure you Mr. Schultz, or Shocker if you prefer, there is no need to use your weapons. Not they would work anyway." the figure told him after they were in hearing distance of each other. "Who are you?" The man seemingly ignored him and kept talking. "This place exists outside of time. You and several others were brought here because reality was damaged, badly enough that unless fixed you're stuck here. However if you agree to help me fix it there is a good change you will be able to return to you dimension."

Herman thought things over for a few seconds. "I don't have much choice, do I. Either you're telling the truth or you're some kind of insane being powerful enough to teleport me." He was barely finished talking before he found himself in some kind of meadow along with some guy in metal armor and a huge helmet.

[SparkyCutie]

Amelia had been standing in a dark alley with her glasses off. She likes how they give her eyes a normal appearance but they hurt the side of her head and the bridge of her nose. She noticed her surroundings changed and quickly slipped her glasses back on. She saw a few people and heard that something had happened to time itself and knew she needed to help if she can. Her whole family including herself knew the importance on balance. She learned how ideas are key to balance and Time was a big one. She spoke softly almost unnoticeable, "Im in". She wasnt sure if someone heard her so she gave a thumbs up.

After giving her answer she took in her surrounding. She saw others which made her tense slightly but kept a neutral face. She isnt afraid to admit that the people she is seeing so far are extremely intimidating. She pushed her glasses up more out of her insecurity of people seeing them without them on. When she felt she had a good look of all of them she plan to only use her nickname when speaking to them. She felt warm thinking of her nickname because her parents gave it to her and it fit her personalty and her mutation perfectly. She whisper hoping if she says her name now she wont have to speak much later, "My name is WallFlower". Her eye twitched slightly a sign her glasses was digging into her again but she refuse to remove them.

[RumikoOhara]

@mattmanganon@Burning Kitty@Duthguy@SparkyCutie

Freedom's Shield

Emily

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Lost Between Worlds
Emily is Rescued

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Emily had been spinning in limbo long enough to reach an equilibrium with her situation when she suddenly found herself becoming aware of a rapid change to her surroundings as her perception of up and down suddenly asserted itself telling her that she was falling in an ascending 20 degree ballistic arc and would reach apogee in .34 seconds at a height estimated 14 meter to the nap of the earth. There were people to her right and the biggest already setting off her FOF which added even more critical need she land and use as much of her kinetic energy as she could to give her a defensive separation that allowed her time to access her situation before acting.

So it was after weighing her options the patriotically clad blonde landed and tucked into a roll that she cut by half in the interest of throwing off any chance of a ranged attack coming before she could lift her shield into position. She didn’t draw her side arm once she’d Identified Cain Marko and someone who resembled Wolverine of the X-Men but was too differently clad to be the one she’d been briefed on. Next was a blonde with green eyes whom didn’t even register as a known and the Shocker who seemed relaxed as were Cain and Wolverine.

This lead Emily to deduce that this was one of those absurde times in the universe so she too relaxed even flipping her shield over her shoulders to mount to her back.

Well either things just got interesting or my mind is compensating in a complicated hallucination; I chose the former over the latter said Emily with the hint of an amused giggle

[mattmanganon]

@RumikoOhara@SparkyCutie@Duthguy@Burning Kitty

The man looked out at the 5 of them as they had now all arrived. "Excellent, now that you are here, I can explain in proper." he clapped his hands together and, in a small flash of light, a strange golden device appeared on each of them, the golden pattern coiled around their wrist and down, almost halfway to their elbows, with a large, red orb right on the wrist. "This is a Tallus. This is your lifeline when in service to Time, this will allow you to travel between the broken universes, as well as it will tell you where you are and what has been broken." he explained.

"Alright, skip to the punchline." Cain demanded. "Where do we go, who do we beat up, what do we fix?" Timebroker looked almost annoyed at the brute.

"Very well, Mr Marko, if you insist, why don't I just give you all a hands-on lesson in what you will be doing." he said. The orb on their wrists started glowing before everything went white again. Then suddenly, everything faded back in, cloudy skies, a biting wind, the crunch of wet sand beneath their feet, the roar of the sea and the sounds of distant explosions. The sun was almost up, but due to the cloud coverage, it was difficult to determine exactly where it was in the sky. It took Cain a moment to get his barings, he looked around.

"Where in the hell are we?" he asked. He then remembered the Tallus. He looked down at it. "Oi, Tallus, what's going on?" he demanded. He shook his wrist and then walked over to the others, that had come with him. He looked around and saw them. A Captain America girl, another small girl, One that he could swear he'd seen in the Daily Planet before, probably one of Spider-Man's villains and... "Logan?" he asked, walking towards him. "They dragged you into this too, did they? Don't worry, we'll get back to Chuck soon." he asked. It was then that Amelia's Tallus spoke up

"Captain America, June 6th 1944" Cain turned around and looked at the girl in a confused manner. "Did... No..." he looked at the Captain America girl. "You... This isn't... Can it?" he pointed at her. "That fat little... He didn't, did he? I swear to god, if we are where I think we are, i'm going to break that little-" Cain's head was buzzing with the number of thoughts careering through it like he would through a mountain. He then looked out at Sea as the sounds of distant explosions could still be heard. He then grabbed the girls wrist and stared at the Tallus more. "What do you want with Captain America?" he asked. He then backed away. "Alright, we need to crunch fast. I need names, I need abilities." He walked over and stood next to Logan, he had a sneaking suspicion that Logan wasn't his Logan, didn't look right, but he doubted their was a universe where Logan wasn't a metal-clawed slicing machine. He pointed over to the rest of them "I'm Cain Marko, Juggernaut. I run fast, smash things and am damn near indestructible. What can you lot do?"

[Burning Kitty]

The Wolverine growled. "Back off bub." He popped all six claws, one set was gold another set looked like stone. "We don't know you, we know of you. we know from three different realities, all villians, in one you were murdered by the X-Men becuase you gave them no choice, it cost Professor Xavier everything he had mentally, he slipped into a coma and eventually died. We owe him our sanity, amongst others. We'll never be friends in any reality."

[SparkyCutie]

@mattmanganon@Burning Kitty@RumikoOhara@Duthguy
Amelia watch as a man who she learned is Cain going wild with frustration. She knew he had a just reason for being upset but didnt like his request too know about them and their power. She took off her glasses knowing if they were to work together is to get out any surprises out of the way even harmless ones. "All you need to know is to call me Wallflower, and I can do plant manipulation", she spoke more clearly so people can hear her. Her voice cracked slightly when she spoke in a clear voice but ignored it. She looked at her glasses as she fiddle with them wanting to put them back on, but she needed to make sure everyone saw them.
She noticed that in a way she recognized some of the names on like Logan and Professor Xavier. She never seen their faces but knew her parents had spoken to them before. The talks they had with Professor Xavier was leaning towards a schooling program when she was older and had more time as a regular citizen. Amelia looked through the group and whispered "Im glad, Im not the only girl". She will admit she wouldnt have been a bit discourage with her being the only girl for two reasons. One is when certain insecurities come out a girl is more likely to understand or let them vent without remarks. And second the one thing she ashamed about is, ever since a man killed her parents she has been slightly timid around them.

[Duthguy]

@Burning Kitty@SparkyCutie@mattmanganon@RumikoOhara

Like Caine, Herman quickly picked upon where and when they were sent. He didn't have a lot of knowledge of the people in the group but he figured it might be smart to try and get on their good side so when asked to tell about himself he decided to neglect the less then legal parts. "I'm Herman Schultz, though Shocker is also acceptable. I used to work at Stark Tech where I designed these gauntlets, they let me fire off concentrated blasts of air. And since it might be useful in this situation, while not fluent I do speak German." He made sure not to mention his sonic staf since he had only one and he might need it against "teammates."

"Also not to order anyone around, but it might be smart if we find some disguise for All American Girl over there at least, in case we got placed at the wrong side. Don't want any unnecessary attention over all."

[RumikoOhara]

@mattmanganon@Burning Kitty@Duthguy@SparkyCutie

Freedom's Shield

Emily

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Emily Chats with her new friends

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Emily looked at Juggernaut with a smile and said I find it interesting that someone who is in possession of the Aura of the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak’s power a bit more than than someone who spends his time running around and smashing things.

James Howlett also known as Logan, Wolverine or Weapon X; a mutant known for his ability to survive such injuries as would kill any other person.

Herman Schultz also known as the Shocker because of the use of your vibro-smasher gauntlets; talent for invention

Then she turned to Amelia with a puzzled smile You I have no information on you in any of my briefings so I am leaning towards your being new to all of this or from an alternate a dimension that you have no corresponding representative in my own.

I am Emily Freedom Rodgers call sign Freedom’s Shield though at one time they did think of calling me All American Girl but tossed it aside for the FS moniker and in my own dimension I am an Auxiliary Avenger, if you know anything about Captain America’s abilities then you have some idea of my own. And while I agree that anyone that sees me will know my affiliation they are also locked in the struggle of D-Day and my uniform will at least draw fire from only those of the Axis forces in the area; besides I can as presently clad serve as a distraction force.

Finished Emily smiles at Amelia with a friendly and open flash of teeth knowing that besides their shared sex they are also both the youngest members of the strangely assembled group.

[mattmanganon]

Cain looked down at Logan as he drew his claws and claimed there was no way they were going to be friends in any universe. "Look, I don't think we have time to figure out who killed who in whatever universe it happened, there is a reason i'm wearing this." he motioned to the blue costume and the X-Men logo on his belt. "Now I don't remember my history lessons, but I was in the army, so I know that whilst we can hear explosions, we're fine, because that's Allied ships bombarding one of the beaches, if this is June 6th 1944. I don't know if we're at Omaha or Utah, but whilst they're bombarding, they're not going to be launching troops." He then walked over to Wallflower and inspected the Tallus. "Come on, say something else." he said, shaking it lightly. He then looked at Emily as she signed off on all of the information she knew. "Look, I don't work for Cyttorak, not at the moment. He just keeps feeding me power because I keep smashing things that try to hurt Chucky and his lot." he said, before starting to inspect the Tallus on his own wrist. He prodded it, hit it, then spoke into it "Tallus?" he asked. "Helloooooo..." He then frowned. "Damn thing's worthless."

He then saw Herman and Emily talk about her attire. "Look, either way, we're going to get shot at. Axis or Allies, personally, i'd say it's probably for the best she remains looking like that. Hell, with all of these crazy universe, for all we know, Captain America in this universe IS a woman, that could be useful. All we got to work with is a name. And Herman, I doubt the germans will be shouting anything other than Die, capitalist pigs." He said, putting on a fake german accent He stopped and listened... Then another round of explosions and he breathed easily. "Look, the moment those guns stop, it's go time. If we have to be a team, we need a leader. Last time I tried to lead a team, I ended up giving up command to Captain Britain, now, sadly, Brian isn't here right now. So, in the interest of fairness, I nominate Lady Liberty to be team leader, then we'll need a plan..."

[Burning Kitty]

"With our lack of information, there is only one plan needed, kill Nazis and find out more. There is one constant in the multiverse the Nazis are the enemy. As for getting more information, best way is for Lady Liberty to go find the Americans and inquire about the current war effort, and for one of us to go behind Nazi lines capture some Nazi scumbag and interrogate with extreme prejudice.

Juggy ain't going to get that job done, he'll stand out like a sore thumb, so he should probably go with Lady Liberty. Wallflower is too timid, no clue what she could do. If Shocky can speak German well enough he could be our translator maybe even trick one of those scumbags into coming back. On the other hand I could go in decimate their lines giving the good guys the chance to advance and save one for interrogation. Either way I am going over there and slicing my way through Nazi flesh like a hot knife through butter. So anyone got any better ideas?"

[Duthguy]

@Burning Kitty@SparkyCutie@mattmanganon@RumikoOhara

Both Emily and Cain brought up some good points about her costume and why disguising might not be as smart as Shocker thought it was. That said using a young girl as a target didn't sit right with him, but on the other hand it meant less bullets coming his way. He didn't really appreciate the big guy mocking him for telling he knew German. "I know it might not come up but I figured that if we get a chance to get some info from one of the Germans, we don't want to waste time figuring out who can talk to them."

He agreed with the fact that they did need a leader. "Normally I would object to a teenager as leader but if she was an Auxiliary Avenger, she is probably the best choice." After Wolverine told the others his plan he decided he would be the best choice to go behind enemy lines.
"The second suggestion seems a bit extreme to me as most Germans probably don't agree with the whole Nazi thing, but since they will try to kill us I'm not gonna go out of my way to keep them alive either. That said due to my speaking German I'm probably the best choice to infiltrate, though I would have to dump both my gauntlets and protective suit to avoid drawing attention and if I get found out I'm most likely dead, so I really hope someone else has a better idea."

[Burning Kitty]

The Wolverine didn't wait for apporval they took off, neither one of them was a team player. Once they wer close enough to smell the Krauts he adopted stealth over speed. Luckily he was wearing a suit designed for stealth, though it was designed stealth in a more modern era, it should work for this era. He came across a small group of Krauts on patrol. The first's head hit the ground before he could even realize he was attacked. The second and third had claws through their neck that severed their voval cords, they finished the attack on those two by yanking up splitting the heads into three pieces. The fourth one they grabbed and snapped his neck, he needed a uniform not soaked in blood after all. They pulled the cowl down and put on the Nazi uniform on over the stealth suit. Grabbing the Kraut's gun, and made their back to the Nazi camp. They played up the shell shock factor to hide their lack of German language skills. The one known as James at this moment was regretting not taking his Captain America's advice and learning German. Once in the camp they were taken a doctor who looked them over.

They listened for a while, they knew a few words like officer ranks. Turns out the commander for this operation was a just two tents down. They snuck out when no one was looking, they ran to the armory and set up an improvised timer to detonate everything in the armory and any lucky enough to be in the blast zone. With seconds to go befor the explosion they walked in to the commander's tent and grabbed him. "We know you don't understand us, but you are the lucky one today."

[mattmanganon]

@Burning Kitty@SparkyCutie@RumikoOhara@Duthguy

Cain looked at Wolverine and nodded "Ah, the old "Subtle and intricate as a well-played game of chess" strategy." he laughed, thinking back to an old episode of The Simpsons "Well, i'm up for that." He then listened again to hear the sounds of explosions stop. He waited a minute and no more sounded. "Uh oh..." he walked back to the rest of them. "It's go time. I don't think we have time to do this the sneaky way." He then looked at the rest of the party. "We're gonna need to head up the beach to where the explosions were coming from, anyway." he said, setting off at a light jog so as to not leave any of the others behind.

As they got closer, soon they saw the emplacements. Cain turned to the others. "You lot ready?" he asked. "Because we are about to wade into one of the bloodiest shit-shows in history." He looked at Wallflower, seeing how young and innocent she was, he couldn't help but frown. "If you want to stay behind on this one, I don't think anyone here will blame you." It was at that point that he heard some shouting, when he was then hit in the back by a loud and rather painful volley of heavy machinegun fire. Cain frowned and turned, waving his hands in the path of the bullets as though trying to swat away flies. "OY YA NAZI BASTARDS, CUT IT OUT!!!" he yelled.

[Burning Kitty]

Wolverine of course was not serious, this Nazi piece of shit was not lucky. He was in fact the most unlucky bastard on the planet right now. Before long he would be begging to die. While dragging the Nazi he was forced to to fight off numerous attacks. During one attack he lost his grip on the Nazi he grabbed a gun and shot out both knees.

While he finished shooting several more Nazis the Nazi with out knee caps dragged himself away very slowly. Eventually Wolverine caught back up and finished dragging him back to the others. "Shocky got a prisoner for you to interrogate. Get him to talk, make sure he knows that the more he cooperates the less pain he will endure, but he will endure pain and die. How much is up to him."