[IC] Heroes: The Fall

[rocketrobie2]

Tom was feeling pretty good about himself until Cleaver started to doubt him. This didn't discourage Tom in the slightest but it defiantly made him sad about the lack of faith Cleaver had in him "I'll have you know that even though this suit isn't exactly state of the art it'll still work perfectly fine against one that is. Also this is my fight, I don't want people growing up in a place ruled by tyrants and have to constantly live in fear of being killed by a super powered brute. I may not have any powers but that doesn't mean I'm just gonna stand by and watch this planet get pummelled into the ground." Tom let out a sigh "I'm gonna either save this world or die trying. That's what it means to be a hero. It's not about what you can do, it's about what you actually do." Tom said more calmly. He wasn't gonna let up on trying to save his Dad and the innocent people from the villains. Sure he was likely to die due to the fact he didn't have any actual powers but hopefully he'd inspire someone else to rise up to the occasion and attempt to take on the villains.

[Darkwolfsoul010]

Leena paused. She had heard about the incident. That stunt had made her barely leave her house for weeks! And to think he caused it? Of all people? Leena didn't know if she bought this story. Crossing her arms over her chest she arched an eyebrow at him and looked him over. He didn't look to harmful. He could change his eye color, so could just about anyone else. She decided that she didn't believe him after all, and with a smirk, snapped her fingers once more. A light breeze moved her hair out of her eyes. She did however believe him on one thing. She knew he had powers, just like she did. How else would he have been able to see her small explosions?

Leena stood up, quite abruptly, and nearly knocked her chair over. With a quick swipe, she dusted off the ruffles of her dress and tapped the heel of her boot against the ground. One hand ran though her bright hair and she let out a small huff of air before glancing over at him. "Well, are we going?" She asked, a bored look spread across her face. In one fluid motion, she pushed in her heavy chair, closed up the magazine and grabbed onto her iced coffee. She was ready to go. "I want to see this magic camp."

[Banba]

Moe dropped to her knees when the man glanced at the portal, and in response, her. She listened intently, letting out the breath she had been holding when he began to talk again. Peeking again through the portal, the girl confirmed that she in fact, had not been found out.
"All the same, just to be sure." She muttered, stepping back and closing the portals. Realizing the two would notice if she'd just walk out of the alley and suspect her of eavesdropping, but growing tired from the excess portal making she had done in the past hour, she looked around. There was a door on the wall opposite the wall she leaned against to peek, a window beside it. Stepping onto a box to glance inside, she saw the door lead to a storage room, empty of people. She quickly made a portal inside, opening the door and letting it swing shut behind her, making a satisfying slamming noise. Proceeding to move to the road, Moe walked up the street, not stopping to look at the two.
"I'm just a pedestrian. I don't see the bloodstained mutant and the tin man. Leave me be." She muttered, shoving a hand in her pocket, her other anxiously rubbing her shirtfront, an image of her bare stomach popping into her mind. She shook her head, tapping between her brows to distract herself, bumping into a man walking her way with a girl.
"Oh, stomach I mean- shhhi- sorry. Sorry!" She paused, straightening herself. She recognized the pair from in front of the cafe, and then realized the two would surly see the strange pair, possibly putting them in danger. "Hey, I sort of vaguely know you two! I saw you today. Thats what I mean. Wanna go for drinks?" Moe grinned crookedly, pulling at her sleeve worriedly.

[Chev]

"I want to see this magic camp."

"I wouldn't exactly call it a magic camp." Jax said with a grin as he led her towards the outskirts of the town only to run into a small woman.

"Hey, I sort of vaguely know you two! I saw you today. Thats what I mean. Wanna go for drinks?"

Jax smiled politely and shook his head. "I'm sorry ma'am. I believe you may be mistaken. As far as I know we've never m-..."

A sudden announcement echoed through the town as a cold emotionless voice cut through the everyday chatter. "Attention to all citizens. The town of Duskfall is now under lock-down due to suspected vandal activity. Any attempting to leave the town without permission will be executed. All citizens are to be tested for signs of mutant traits. Anyone found with these traits will be held until such time they are found to be not a threat. Anyone who attempts to resist these actions will be executed. Please return to your homes to be scanned for abnormalities."

Jax turned to look at the two of them and shook his head. "We've got to get out of here." He said as he heard a thrumming sound from all around them and a large wall of electricity shot up from the ground and began to surround the town and tall figures began to walk out of certain buildings.

"You might get to see my abilities a bit sooner than I've planned." he said quietly as they were approached by a small group of metallic figures with red eyes and each had an arm with a series of sharp looking instruments. "This isn't good." He said quietly as he closed his eyes and began to concentrate.

[Sep]

Well, this guy had a bleak view. "If you go out expecting to die, you probably will." With that he clipped his helmet back on and he began walking away. Though something nagged at him, he could hear one of his inner voices telling him not to look back. It was a bad idea to look back. Then when he did turn back around he could hear it shout and scream. "Listen Kid, you might not be able to do something right now. Go practice, fix your suit. You'd do a hellova lot better after some training. Yes Iron Man himself had little training but those were different times. He didn't have to worry about the adversaries you have to worry about-" Then the alarm began blaring and the voice over the loudspeakers in the town could be hearing. Again he swore to himself, if this Iron Legacy person hadn't lifted him up he would have been pursued by the police and they wouldn't have to shut down the entire town and put god knows how many other mutants at risk.

He sighed, forgetting to turn off his microphone as he did so allowing the sigh to be heard by the Iron Legacy. He looked at the wall of electricity, that would hurt. That would really hurt. "I'll be back in a minute." He ran, picking up speed as he approached it. His muscles not needing the same rest as people without abilities like his he just kept going. Approaching the wall of electricity he planted the pole end of his scythe in the ground and used it to pole jump slightly, however he still went through the actual barrier feeling thousands of volts burn through him. He tumbled slightly though still managed to hold most of his composure upon landing. For some reason a group of two girls and one man caught his eye upon landing as he could see some people move towards him.

"I heard you were looking for me."

[rocketrobie2]

"I'm not going out there expecting to die. I got enough self preservation instinct to last me two lives over but I'm willing to do what's needed to be done siry" is what Tom would have said if he had the guts but instead he just said "yeah, yeah your probably right". When told that he should get training in with his suit he didn't think that was such a crazy idea. Sure iron man didn't have any training at all but he also had a suit of armour with the ability to contend with aliens and gods. Tom was pretty sure he couldn't take on any aliens or gods with his current model of armour but maybe with some training he could be able to get a few good hits in there. Just then the alarms began to ring and Cleaver ran off into the force field that had gone over the city. "Well I guess this'll be some pretty good training" he said as he began to walk over to the force field to see what was going on with Cleaver. He noticed he was near some people over on the other side. One of the people looked like he was trying to use the facilities standing up but the real distracting thing was the red eyed doomsday robots heading towards them "dang. Gotta find a way over there" Tom said looking around.

[Chev]

"I heard you were looking for me."

Jax couldn't respond at the moment as focused for a moment as his eyes turned color once again. "Stand back." He managed to grunt as his muscles began to ripple and began to rapidly expand as his skin began to take on a green skinned tone. The robots which were focusing on the group turned to look at Jax and each of their eyes flashed rapidly. "Extreme muscle mass is detected. Level 8 mutant abilities detected. Initiating termination mode." The bots intoned in a tone devoid of emotion as Jax's body finally completed it's transformation.

Where Jax once stood, a behemoth with green skin and blue eyes stood. Jax let out a soft chuckle as he turned to look at Leena. "Told you." He chuckled as one of the bots threw a punch at his head. The speed that the punch was thrown at him would most likely have killed Jax. Of course, he really wasn't Jax anymore.

Jax's hand shot up and caught the bots hand and crushed it with little effort. Sparks began to shoot out of the bot and Jax finished it off by ripping it's other arm off and then punching a hole in it's chest. The bot hit the ground with a thud as Jax turned towards the other bots.

"I'm gonna turn you into scrap-metal." He chuckled as he launched himself at the bots.

[Banba]

Moe's already panicked state became nearly hysterical.
"Ye Gods! We're all gonna die!" She said, frenzied. Things were happening all at once. The man she had been spying on not minutes before had queried the other two, the man responding by turning into basically the hulk. Without much thought, Moe took off running towards the forcefield, opening a portal as to the other side. She skidded to a stop, seeing the suit.
"Oi, oi! Protect the city!" She called, motioning to the portal. She left it open, but went and took cover behind a tree, peering around it to gaze at the battle playing out.

[Darkwolfsoul010]

Leena let out a gasp. For some reason everything just skipped by her in a flash. One moment she was talking to the man who approached her at the café, and the next he had turned into a huge green version of himself. She had to say though, now she believed him.

Leena recalled the semi-usual checkups the government did in search of mutants or freaks. She often had to hide during those times, keeping herself locked in a small basement or fleeing town for the day, but it seemed that now she couldn’t hide any longer. In fact, she couldn’t hide at all.

She stared as the man fought the huge robots, her mouth opened in surprise. He was focused on the few directly in front of him, but a few were quickly approaching from across the street. Someone must have signaled for assistance, calling them over.

With a sigh she ran a hand through her hair. With one arm she waved at the new girl, and other man to watch out. “Might want to plug your ears. Could be a bit loud.” She muttered towards them, lifting one hand towards the running robots. Then, she snapped her fingers.

The entire end of the street disappeared in a huge blast. Black smoke swirled towards the sky and a hot wind rushed over them from the impact. The robots were gone, and somehow, Leena had managed to do minimal damage to the street around her.

[Sep]

Cleaver watched as the behemoth took shape. He didn't say anything, nor did he say anything when the woman snapped her finger and destroyed some of the behemoths. He turned around as a beam of energy came flying towards the girl from behind her, standing in its path it drove itself through his visor and into his face, luckily it wasn't a sustained beams or his memories and everything that made him himself would have been gone and it let up before it got to his brain. Standing up he turned to the girl trying to forge a smile, however he realized that it would of had the opposite effect than reassuring her as his face slowly reconstructed itself on front of her. Once it was finished he tested his jaw before taking off the now useless helmet and tossing it to the feet of one of the robot type things that the hulk style creature was fighting. "You know, that was expensive." He ran up at it, jumping as it lunged at him and running up its arm before grabbing his scythe and swinging it round and through the mechanisms neck removing its head from its torso. The body still moved around for several seconds before it collapsed. He watched as it fell on a nearby car and exploded, throwing shrapnel in all directions.

He looked over at the Hulk and hoped he had some more control than the original. "We need to leave. The longer we stay, the higher the chance off someone big and bad turning up and civilians getting hurt. If we leave, they'll follow."

[rocketrobie2]

Tom nodded towards the girl that had came running through a portal from the other side as he went flying through the portal. He didn't catch what Cleaver had said but decided that it was some sort of plan he had to take down more robots. Tom flew straight at one of the robots and began firing his shoulder mounted gun at it which did little damage and when he got close enough the robot swatted him to the side and onto the ground. Tom got up and realized there was a huge dent in the chest plate "dang it.." He said as he got up to face the robot aiming its laser right at him. As it fired at him Tom quickly shot his arm and fired a repulser blast at the robot while jumping to the side. The blast opened up a chunk of the chest of the robot which Tom used as and opening to fire three rounds of his shotgun hand into the opening deactivating the robot. Tom then quickly went over to the group of people "so what's the plan?" he asked as he looked over at the portal girl behind the other side of the force field and motioned her over. These people seemed to know what they were doing and he didn't want to leave the lady, that had helped him get over here, behind.

[Banba]

Moe watched in awe as the four easily took out the robots in the span of a few minutes, while she herself stood back and watched. She disn't like feeling helpless, but she wouldn't be much help dead, either. Closing the portal from before, she opened a new one against the tree, connecting in the middle of the group. She leaned out, feeling the heat from a breat down robot husk on her cheeks.
"Alright, gang. Whats the plan. Evidently we's all mutants and heros and such, and being so, we's gonna get caught and diseccted or somethin'. I can get us outta the city, or into a locked building, or something. Just make a plan I can't keep up these things long." She stepped through fully, closing it was she spoke. The bigger the portal and the farther the portal made it harder for her to keep them up while staying awake. She had experemented once, keeping a portal on each of her bedroom walls open until she passed out, the portals dispersing. Didn't want to be stuck in the middle of one ehen it closed, either. She had tested that with a stick, finding it sliced in half, burn marks on the cut ends.
"Are we hidin' or high tailin' it?" She moved from foot to foot, anxiously wringing her hands.

[Chev]

"We need to leave. The longer we stay, the higher the chance off someone big and bad turning up and civilians getting hurt. If we leave, they'll follow."

"You've got a point." Jax grunted as he grabbed a newly arrived bot and ripped it's arms off with a single grasp of his hands and then threw a punch at it's head which sent it flying off into the distance as it continued letting sparks out of the area where it's head had been detached. "I think we've already got problems. These new bots are starting to set up a circle around us. Possibly trying to soften us up for something else. It's possible someone bigger and badder is already on the way.

"Alright, gang. Whats the plan. Evidently we's all mutants and heros and such, and being so, we's gonna get caught and diseccted or somethin'. I can get us outta the city, or into a locked building, or something. Just make a plan I can't keep up these things long."

"Try and get us away from Duskfall." Jax instructed. "Keep us away from any cities or towns as well. The less people that know about us the better off we'll be. Word will spread about us but it won't be as fast if it's just one town."

Two streaks of flames appeared in the far off sky. They were coming directly at them at high speed and Jax motioned urgently to the portal. "Time to go. Those are most likely enforcers for one of the bosses in this area."

[Darkwolfsoul010]

"Alright! So let's fuckin' leave already. What are we standing around for?" Leena's exasperated voice called at the group. With an arched eyebrow she snapped her fingers and knocked a nearby robot off of it's feet. It took a few moments but the metal heap stood up again, coming at Leena faster this time. Just as it was about to grab her, her fingers snapped once more. This time the explosion was underneath her own body. It was weak enough to not hurt her, but strong enough to send her sailing over the robots head. Spinning in mid air, it was obvious that she had practiced this, she landed perfectly on her feet, her arms outstretched for balance. With a huff of air Leena blew some red strands of hair from her eyes and looked at the group again. All this action was draining her body, especially from the big explosion before. Her cheeks were pale and a sheen of sweat lined her forehead. Leena had never used her power this much at one time before.

[rocketrobie2]

"Yeah we should probably get going. Mrs Bombshell isn't looking to good" Tom said referring to Leena "so where exactly are we going to go?" Tom asked no one in particular but asked non the less. He was excited to be around other powered heroes even though he himself had no powers. This had always been a touchy subject for Tom due to the fact that there were tons of powered forces out there that could probably easily rip into his suit and scrap him out like the inside of a clam. Tom walked over to Leena and asked "you need help walking around now that your white like a vampire?" He said referring to her paleing skin.

[Banba]

"'Bigger 'nd badder?' No way. We's getting out of here." Moe took off running down the street, headed for a line of cars. Going down the row, she touched the handles of the car, bringing up images into her mind's eye. The fourth one she tried was what she was looking for. Using a portal to get in, Moe sat in the drivers seat, opening the glovebox and pulling out the keys, turning them in the ignition. She double checked the gas meter- it was full. Recently filled to the top. Smirking a bit, Moe drove to the group, skidding to a stop.
"Get in the backwards car, we're going on a road trip. Hulk-dude, grab the top or something. Someone watch explosion girl. I know its tight but hold on, its gonna be bumpy for a bit." She waited until everyone has squished in before flooring it, using portals to leave the city and then to move the car even faster down the road. She soon had to stop, though, her vision blurring and her head spinning.
"Right, mates. I ain't got any juice left, we's gonna have to use your powers until I can get a nap in. Are we still being followed?"

[Chev]

"Right, mates. I ain't got any juice left, we's gonna have to use your powers until I can get a nap in. Are we still being followed?"

Jax got off the top of the car and smiled a little bit when he saw the fact that there was an imprint of him on the top of the car. "Heh. Funny." he muttered as he turned to look at the sky and saw the twin trails of flames heading in the opposite direction that they were in. "Looks like we're in the clear." He rumbled as he took another look around the area and noticed a few familiar landmarks in the area. He let a small smile appear on his face.

"We're not too far from where I make my home." He said as he began to concentrate as after a few short moments his body returned back to his human form. He pulled a pair of sunglasses from his back pocket and sighed with relief when he noticed that they were unbroken.

"Sorry, I kind of figured that they might be looking for a hulk look a like." He said quietly as he put his sunglasses back on.

[Darkwolfsoul010]

"You need help walking around now that your white like a vampire?"

She shrugged the man off and shook her head. "I'm fine." Leena muttered as she made her way to the car, blinking hard to keep her vision from spinning. Her head was pounding. It didn't really help that their version of 'driving' meant swerving and racing down the road. She leaned against the window in the backseat and cloased her eyes. If she looked out the window for too long her head would start to spin again and her stomach would ache. With clenched teeth Leena tried to settle her stomach, how embarrassing would it be if she were to be sick right as they stopped the car? First impressions 101. Leena was not weak, and she would not let them think so. She swallowed hard.

By the time they had stopped the car, Leena's headache was gone and her vision wasn't blurry anymore. Her stomach, however, was still uneasy, but that was more so from the driving and portals than from her over use of powers. As she crossed her legs, Leena's voice carried through the car in a manner of fact tone, "Ya know, I had never been attacked by robots until I bumped into all of you." Although her sarcasm was loud and clear, Leena strained to keep from swearing or insulting her new travelling companions, it wasn't worth making enemies of the people she had just risked her life for.

[rocketrobie2]

As the crew of misfits finally got out of their car that had been teleported around like something out of the twilight zone, Tom got out of the car and stood for a minute looking up into the sky. Tom smiled under his mask as he had just been a part of one of the coolest fights of his life, fighting robots with other mutant people just like the avenger.

"We're not to far from where I make my home"

"Well then what are we waiting for strong arms let's get going" Iron legacy said ready to get moving. Tom was exited to be a part of this group even though they would probably split ways after a days time it would still be awesome to be a part of a team for a day than keep working solo.

[Sep]

Cleaver got out of the car after the dizzying trip when they appeared to stop. The Hulk dehulked, explodagirl complained and the IronMan wannabe was all for the team up. He merely raised his hands to his face and cracked his broken nose back into place so it could heal properly. He checked his gear, making sure he had everything that he needed. Which was only really the scythe after abandoning the ruined helmet in the town in the little skirmish they had against the automatons. He could remember when technology was advancing a lot of people were worried that robots would become too advanced. More or less his point had been proven.

He clapped his hands together as he looked at the group. "Not that this hasn't been lovely. Though I should really be off. I got some more people who need beheaded as I wasn't able to finish my job and I need a new mask as I got dragged into a bit of a skirmish because ScreapHeap challenge over there decided he'd ruin the entire plan. Though it doesn't matter I guess. I got out, met new people. Did new things. So I can't really complain!" He looked around. "Anyone able to point me in the direction of the nearest traintrack or should I just start walking?"