[IC] Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

[SayZun]

Fear walked down the dark alley wiping the blood of his dagger on his maroon colored inner shirt. He laughed hysterically to himself until he reached the abandoned drug store in which he stayed. Many dead bodies hung from the roof all written on them "Boo!" He then stopped in front of a board in which magazine articles of missing people were hung some a bloody X written on them, others not.

[Experiment 249]

Chord was hired to take some weird hilts from an energy user in the city. Some punk who's hero parents were dead heroes and he was trying his best to follow in their footsteps. Guy was a dick though, constantly asking for rewards. He was someone Chord would get along with if he wasn't enabling a corrupt government that his father spent years cleaning up. He launched all 10 cables from his hands and began to scale the brick building.

"Ra, get me some data on this kid. I want to know what he does, what he looks like and if you know how to beat him." He muttered. He saw Ra’eesah flash beside him with a clipboard in her hands. 'One page? can I get a little more? I hear he's nearly killed a few baddies from my employer. Says they're rumors that he actually did kill someone." He stated with a gust of air out of his nose at the end. A light laugh followed.

Ra'eesah vanished for a moment and returned with a book this time labeled 'Registered Heroes: Energy Wielders' and opened to somewhere near the end. "First off, you're wrong. He has a perfectly clean record, don't be an asshole and get yourself killed to ruin it for him. His powers include life energy manipulation, allowing him to drain a living thing or make connections with them, as well as making explosions of some sort, apparently with the same energy. He seems way more fun than you, chord boy." She said with a heavy layer of sass. "Anything else, master?" she said.

"Yeah, what am I stealing again? A sword hilt? Why would my employer need that? he could just make one, couldn't he?" he thought as he neared a window that lead into the upper floor of his apartment. Fun thing about it was that it was locked. He retracted his right hand's cables and hug on the wall next to the window, debating his next move while peeking in occasionally. Most of his heists didn't happen midday. Ra’eesah was scanning the indoors for anything valuable while also looking for the hilts. Nothing too valuable was found and the hilts weren't in this room. He tapped the window to see if he could get the punk to open it up for him.

[BlueAjah]

Quinn sat on her bed reading a magazine about the latest heroes. MoonStar, her secret superhero identity, was fairly new and she still hadn't made her appearance in public yet. Quinn couldn't wait for the day MoonStar was in the magazines and had people talk about her. That would be a dream come true. Her eyes glittered in exciment. Maybe she should go look for crime now? Her brother wouldn't be home for another couple hours. She grinned and stood up. After putting a costume under her clothes (however she managed that) she made her way out into town.

[Cinderella Man]

Cam'Ron sat on his small pile of mattresses, jamming out to some music that he had recently downloaded while he worked on a drawing in a sketchpad that he had for designs that came to mind. The music seemed to act like literal motivation, causing him to work quicker and generally do better. Of course, then he was interrupted by a random rabbit hopping onto this chest to alert him. Cam snapped the music off, tossing his sketchpad to the side.

"Connie! When'd Snuffles get in here?" His "partner" appeared before him, staring at him directly. "I dunno, why don't you ask your front door?" Cam's face instantly took an expression of distaste. "I swear, one of these days, I'm going to get you reprogrammed. Then what?" He walked into one of the other rooms in his apartment, the snow white rabbit and AI following him as he did so. He searched through a stack of many bowls before he finally pulled one out.

"Your bowl, Snuffles." He dropped it to the ground and dribbled some food into it from a large container. He set the container onto a counter at once with a thud, his head turning to the window as he heard a tapping sound. "Can't be Chester, he skipped town a few days ago. Kooky bird." Cam looked out the window, scanning about before spotting a young man. His eyes narrowed and his eyebrow quirked upwards. "Don't know who the fuck you are, but I'd appreciate it greatly if you'd leave."

Cam focused and, out of a well of energy he created right beneath his window, an explosion happened to accentuate his point.

[DocTachyon]

"Modern art at it's finest." Jack remarked, as he beheld an abandoned drugstore. Adorning the store were myriad of dead bodies. "I dunno about you, BB, but I'd let this go if it weren't for the maniacal laughter I heard coming from inside." Jack stood on a rooftop in his full Dynamo outfit. He looked down upon the store with a look of distaste hidden behind his helmet. His MeChip manifested itself in it's chosen avatar- A simple black box. Unlike other AI's, it had no desire to emulate "silly squishy human appendages".

"I doubt the police would share that sentiment." Black Box responded dryly. "You're right. This villainous fiend is depriving the good people at the city morgue of a job. Have at thee, villain!" Jack said(mostly to himself), pulling out his two .45 pistols. One could argue that his powers took away the need for firearms but they were fun to play with and an excellent backup while charging the energy needed for a powerful kinetic strike.

Jack jumped from the building, hitting the ground in a roll, while constantly absorbing the various forms of kinetic energy from the jump- The friction from contact with the air, and the ultimate mechanical energy from contact with the ground. Coming out of his roll, he sprinted forward at the best speed his powered armor would allow, taking in energy from each footfall of his.

Reaching the door of the drugstore, he raised a boot and smashed it down, supplemented the blow with energy to ensure the door fell. "Honey, I'm HOME!" He shouted bringing his pistols up to bear. "Just so you know dude, having a building with dead bodies all over it is basically saying 'hello yes, I'm a supervillain, will a hero please come and swiftly kick my ass?'." He focused his senses and quickly honed in on the kinetic energy generated by footfalls of someone in the building. He ran towards the source, ready for a fight.

[Gummi Bunnies]

((Hopefully some NPCs that are pretty much Corentine's development team is fine.))
[Maaske Scientific Developments Inc., Special Tech Division Underground Facility]

"Hey Corentine! I think that's enough testing for today!" one of the lead scientists, Krauss Darlton, could be heard through the intercom in the top secret facility, or more specifically the exceptionally large testing chamber that Corentine was in. Just moments ago, she had effortlessly cut down one of the steel structures that were used for these test runs, and it wasn't just some rough cutting edge that she was creating here. Due to the high frequencies of her gunblades, the steel structure that was in front of her was clean cut into many different pieces, and you could see the heat signatures that came out of the freshly cut areas of the steel. This wasn't just her swinging the blades around either, because Corentine was currently airborne as well, and the Energy Wing system happened to be smooth enough for her to achieve great speeds. Allowing her to cut down this steel structure with no problem. Though, it was a good thing that this testing chamber was so wide open despite being underground and away from public eyes, it allowed a lot of time for her and her development crew to finally finish what would be the very first F.E.C.A.S. Not that it would be every publicly be mentioned due to it being a very top secret invention, and even just mentioning it would guide other companies to attempt to making their own. Instead, Corentine had the plans to use it for the better, to make a use out of herself.

"Sure thing Doc!" Corentine sheathed the blades into the back of her suit, using the build in codec system in her helmet to contact the development team in the observation deck. In a steady pace, she glided over to the stationary deck that would lead her back into the hallway of the facility. Once landed, she disabled the Energy Wings of her suit, also having the helmet retract back into the suit. Since she wasn't exactly authorized to leave into the other parts of the facility or even the company's main building aboveground, Corentine had to head back to the storage chambers so she could safely store away her F.E.C.A.S. Though, once all of the enhancements and last minute check-ups were done with for the day, then maybe she would gain the authorization and the support to use the suit in public under the name "Tempest Gale." She knew that this is what her father would like of her to do, to work for the greater good, and with the advice and support of her father's friend Krauss, then Corentine was determined to use the suit to the advantage of the people of the city. For now...it would take a bit longer until that door to come out as the "Tempest Gale" would become a thing for her.

[MonsieurShade]

In a downtown duplex located in what would be considered one of the nicer areas to live in Dimitri sat in a chair situated in front of a large opened window with a glass of scotch in one hand, and a cellphone pressed against his ear,"So, i'm to just oversee this shipment of yours and nothing more? Well of course i'm going to take out whatever officer gets in the way, provided they aren't on your payroll. Half an hour? I'll be there.". Dimitri went to hang up the phone, then froze, "One last thing, if one of those so called "heroes" shows up, then my price doubles.No, it's nonnegotiable, fighting meta-humans isn't exactly easy. Very well then, i'll be seeing you.", Dimitri hung up the phone and drained the glass of scotch, "Blank, we have work down at the docks. Do you still have that escape route for if things get hairy?". Upon being called, Dimitri's MeChip conjured up the image of a man in a black suit and a pair of sunglasses, "Which one? Pre or post transformation?", Mr.Blank asked with very little emotion, "Pre would be preferable. And before you ask, one of the non aquatic routes. The people at the dry cleaner gave me some odd looks last time I showed up with a bag full soggy clothes covered in seaweed.". Mr.Blank smirked ever so slightly, "I'll be sure to check for a route that doesn't require that you swim." he said before disappearing. Dimitri set his glass down onto the coffee table beside his chair and got up, "Alright, time to make some cash." he said as he began heading towards his door, pausing just long enough to grab his jacket -and the walther pk380 tucked in one of its pockets- before slipping out.

It was a nice enough day outside, hardly one to be wearing a turtleneck and jacket, however for Dimitri who had literally been made for desert warfare, it was somewhat chilly. The hired gun walked out into the parking lot to retrieve his vehicle -a fairly inconspicuous green jeep- and began his trek towards the docks, already spending his reward money mentally.

[SayZun]

As the man ran towards Fear he nonchalantly looked back at the man hands in pocket. He then secretly pulled the pin off of his smoke grenade "oops." He said sarcastically. The grenade then hit the floor then in a quick flash the room filled with thick dense smoke. Fear then the quickly cloned two more of of himself. One stood in the same spot he was spotted, another sprung onto the roof slowly crawling around the man. As for the original fear he hopped through the window.

"Sweet dreams..." he said lighting a match. He then threw the lit match at a desk full of newspapers in the drugstore. Staring at the light for a few moments he then jumped into a nearby manhole attempting to make a quick getaway.

[Yog Sothoth]

The sight of the bright stars as flew through the vacuum of space was beautiful and John was reminded of his love of adventures in the final frontier. His last act of heroics was when he had help fight off a fleet of alien raiders on a peaceful world and stopped them from destroying the planet's core, saving billions of lives in the process. The aura that protected him from the dangers of space was glowing a bright blue and to a person looking from far away he looked almost like a comet except that he could change direction rapidly. He soon entered the earth's atmosphere and he felt no pain thanks to the field of energy. After not too long he saw the sky begin to turn blue and the stars disappear as he descended closer to land.

It feel good to be home and soon the city came into view and he saw the people far below point up to him. He gave them a wave as he flew by and decided to do a flyby of the city before he would head back to his home. He was curious to know if crime in Millennia City had changed while he was gone, but knowing this town, John guessed not. AT least it would mean that he would have work to do on earth and not just in space.

[Experiment 249]

Chord retracted his body as he saw a rabbit looking at the window followed y a muffled voice. He couldn't tel what it had said and turned to his MeChip. He turned it on and Ra'eesah appeared, a coffee in her hand and a bathrobe on. "How can I help you oh so great thief?" She asked, taking a long sip if her virtual coffee. Her eyes were half open and her usually perfect makeup was nonexistent. Christian didn't even know she could do that.

"Can I get that audio enhanced? I could bare-"

An explosion cut him off. below him and to the left. Directly below the window. It threw the young thief into the air, but all of his chords stuck firmly to the wall and quickly retracted him back. "Fuck was that" he thought to his MeChip. While she reappeared he began climbing to the roof. He was going to need to get this guy's hilts. He got to the top of the building and began to reassess his plan. He was hoping the guy would be awake and gone by now bu apparently he was wrong. He sat on the roof and turned his attettniong to Ra'eesah who was back with a big book, the same one from before.

"Well, idiot, I told you he can make explosions. And guess what he did? He made explosions. I also did some searching for you, These hilts are basicallly the opposite of your dumb sword you bought. They take an energy wielder's energy and make it into a near solid blade made of energy. It's a rare and expensive material that I don't have an appraisal value in my database for." She closed the book and pulled out a clipboard. "Also you need to make it to your father's house in 3 hours and 36 minutes.. He said he had a present for you. To quote him, the invite said 'Christian, I have a present for you. Something for that fancy glove of yours. Meet me at 17:00' it is currently 13:24"

He nodded and continued thinking. That's when he checked the floor plan of the building. The place was built with super villains in mind. No exits other than doors or windows, personal heating and cooling, no vents. It was a very hard to break into building. A green jeep drove by down below on the streets. He was reading the floor plan intently when a warning sign flashed in front of his screen. Straight from his anonymous employer.

The warning read "Chord, plans have changed. We no longer need your assistance. We have had another operative kidnap one of the developers and they informed us of a much larger heist opportunity after some persuasion. Sadly he died in the process. We are offering a 6 million unit reward. A mechanized suit developed by Maaske Scientific Developments Inc. We do not know of the location, we do know it is underground however. We do intend on rewarding you 2 million units for discovering the location of the suit, the following 4 million come from retrieval of the suit." The notice closed with a due date of a week form today.

"I have to take this Ra. I need that money." He said. He looked back to the ground where the jeep was now out of sight. He knew of the Maaske Scientific Developments building, it wasn't exactly hidden. Maybe someone there knows about it? He decided to pay it a visit. He stood up and looked to the building. Maaske Scientific Developments Inc was spelled out in huge letters. It was only about 3 miles away, he should be back home by dinner, he had a week after all.

[DocTachyon]

"Fancy powers, bro." Jack remarked, sensing two more kinetic energy signatures in the room. Heat was a form of kinetic energy, so he was able to detect the presence of two new forms. He sensed the original leaving, one taking his place, as he dropped a smoke grenade. He also detected a massive and sudden flare up of energy- a fire had started. Crafty bastard, he couldn't let the fire just go on, it could burn down surrounding buildings.
"Fire is NOT COOL!" He shouted, firing shots at the two clones. Given the smoke, it was nigh impossible to see, he'd have to rely on his sense. He closed his eyes, focusing on his power, Due to the many natural sources of kinetic energy in the room, he had a fairly accurate map of the place, while still keeping a bead on his fleeing adversary. The fire was diluting the map somewhat. He sprinted towards it, but being careful to knock over the clones with kinetic blasts. He jumped into the fire, feeling the raging heat. But his armor was protecting him from the worst of it. The coat surrounding the black armor began to burn at the edges, as he focused on absorbing the energy of the fire. He felt it quickly dissipating, while his opponent still fled, further and further. He could tell he was underground, based on the how low his kinetic energy was compared to that of the fire.
Finishing absorbing the fire, he sprinted away from the desk, and jumped out the window, but not before shooting another kinetic blast at each of the clones. He hit the ground, absorbing the energy of impact with his power. he could feel that his legs were singed underneath the armor- That would be a tough one to explain to the doctor.
"BB, get me city sewer maps." He said, leaping through the open manhole cover.
"Why? With your powers you'll know where he is." BB responded.
"I can tell where he is, I can't map the whole damn sewer, unless you want me to sit on my butt for a while." Jack responded, refocusing on the quickly fleeing kinetic energy signature.
"Accessing maps now, oh master..." BB responded, his voice thick with sarcasm.
"Good." Jack said, before taking off sprinting to the source of energy once more.

[SayZun]

Fear then spiriting down the dirty dark sewers felt his energy restore a great amount. "Awww...my are giving up" Fear said jokingly, "Well he probably heading this way then" He then spawned 3 more clones. "Wow that takes alot out of me" He said imitating an old man. The clones laughed as instantly almost on command.

"Shut up!" He shouted, "Now I want you to hold off this masked superhero or whatever and bring me his head!" He then used his remaining amount of energy to sprint deeper into the sewer.

Two of the clones clung onto the walls doing there best to remain undetectable. While one of them stood clear in the center equipping two of the daggers.

[SayZun]

double post wtf

[MonsieurShade]

"Alright gentlemen pick up the pace, we aren't exactly out on a leisurely stroll!" Dimitri barked to a group of men carrying boxes into a warehouse for transport. The drive to the docks had been uneventful save for a bit of traffic. A few of the men grumbled, however they picked up their pace as per request as Dimitri whipped out his phone once more and sent a message to his current client. "Mr.Blank, any suggestions for in case this job goes south? There's been a bit more police activity around these parts than usual." Dimitri said aloud, "Well-" Blank began as he appeared, "As far as a conflict would go, there are plenty of cargo boxes and people to use as obstacles or to obscure your presence depending on whether you choose to fight or flee. If you're going for a straight up fight, the crates towards the entrance to the docks create a sort of bottleneck, forcing a group of enemies into a concentrated point. You could use the ensuing chaos to circle around them by climbing the boxes, then you could topple a pile of crates onto them or drop down and take them out either hand to hand, or just flat out shoot them, though i'd save shooting them as a last resort if I were you.", "Hrm...and what about the other option? What if I choose to run instead?", "Well, you wouldn't get paid, and it would look unprofessional. But if you really must, yet again you could use the ensuing chaos to slip away, though your car is parked about three miles away, so you'd have to be sure that you weren't being followed.". Dimitri nodded a bit as he weighed the pros and cons of each decision, "Ok, so what about if a meta-human shows up?" "It would depend on the type. So far I can only think of one option that could definitely get you out of that sort of situation." Blank said, tilting his glasses slightly as he turned to examine the men moving the boxes, "Though if you resorted to doing that, theres a good chance you'd destroy the merchandise and kill most of the workers...", Dimitri sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, "Lets hope I don't have to resort to that. Transforming gives me such a headache.".

[Yog Sothoth]

While john was flying, his attention was drawn to a fire at a drugstore and he quickly flew in the direction of the store. He soon landed down and spoke to MeChip.

"Crone please notify the authorities of this fire and tell them that there are bodies hung all over the building" he told the MeChip.

"Sure thing boss" Crone replied. John looked around and saw Jack. guessing that he was a hero, John ran up to him and said.

"I'm good guy, do you know what happened here?" he asked the hero.

[DocTachyon]

Sprinting at the maximum speed he could without using his powers, Jack detected three more entities forming- Clones, by the looks of them. The original energy signature was still running, but Jack was gaining. "There's gotta be a way to cut him off..." Jack said to himself. Just then, BB brought up the city sewers maps in his Heads-Up-Display inside his helmet.
He imagined exactly where his adversary would be on that map, and then ducked into a side tunnel of the sewers. If he ran through them quickly enough he'd emerge right in front of the guy. He willed his kinetic energy to flow to his body, he felt the energy coursing through his veins, and his speed began to increase. He felt himself clocking what he estimated to be up to fifty miles per hour while he sped through the tunnels, and finally emerged in front of his opponent.
"You should know, you can't hide from me. I was always the best at hide and seek in school." Jack said, raising his pistols to his opponent. "Give up. Unless you'd like to receive a lead sandwich, which I'm fully willing to deliver."

[SayZun]

Fear stopped as his pursuer appeared before him. "Give up. Unless you'd like to receive a lead sandwich, which I'm fully willing to deliver." The man said. Fear then raised up his hands false surrendering. Mentally he was ordering his previous clones to come to his location. "What do you have to hide behind that mask anyway?" Fear asked calmly "Is it to protect your love ones?"

"Well that seems kind of selfish...If you really loved your loved ones you wouldn't be going around risking your life like this" He continued hoping to waste time. "Also what do you have to prove by this?" He said cracking a grin "That you're a big shot superhero". "How do you know I'm not the one doing the good around here"

"How do you know I'm even real?" he mumbled. Then in an instant the three other clones dropped in almost out of no where and surrounded the man. One of them them charged at the man only to fake the attack and toss a whole smoke grenade into his face.

[Gummi Bunnies]

[Maaske Scientific Developments Inc., Special Tech Division Underground Facility]

Once she made it to the specified storage chamber, Corentine was assisted by some of the research staff to remove the suit, and that kinda made the teen wonder when the suit would have a 'self-assembly' feature so she wouldn't have to manually put it on every time. "Hey Typhoon, mind auto-locking my suit?" Corentine asked her MeChip, and briefly the white-haired boy appeared next to her.

"Sure thing, and..er, you think the techies can give me a few more features, it's pretty boring to be locking and unlocking your suit," the boy whined, and at the same time, you could hear the suit powering off for now.

"I'll ask and see, alright," Corentine said, she was pretty sure that Krauss had some new features to give the MeChip and test it out. Typhoon jumped for joy before disappearing for now. She began to head up to where Krauss's office was in this underground facility, it was time for the discussion for letting her use the suit outside in public...oh how she hated the formalities...

[BlueAjah]

After wandering through town, Quinn decided to investigate the docks. As she arrived she noticed, men loaning boxes and a strange man giving orders. She decided to ask Rose about it. Thankfully she was far enough that they couldn't see or hear her.

"Rose? Should I intervene or no?"

A silver haired princess appeared with a smile on her face "they are trying to keep a low profile and load quickly. The situation Is highly suspicious. The man in charge is Varanus. He's a highly skilled villain." Rose quickly told her some knowledge about the villain. Quinn decided to act. She changed into her superhero outfit and made her appearance. She was a bit nervous to be honest but still excited.

" I don't know what your doing but it ends here." MoonStar yelled out, standing on top of a stack of boxes. It felt amazing being a hero but she kept it serious.

(Wait can mechips look up people for you? If not I'll edit that. Sorry I wasn't sure lol)

[DocTachyon]

"Shit!" Jack exclaimed as the grenade nailed him in the face. Admittedly he should've seen that coming but he hadn't been tracking Fear's clones, so they managed to get the drop on him.
"Lucky me, I have no loved ones left to protect. And yeah being a hero as fun. And lastly, I know I'm right because you sir are an asshole." Jack said. The smoke obscured his vision, but failed to obscure his kinetic sense. It was like the clones were in a formation around him.
"Cowabunga." Jack said under his breath, expending the kinetic energy he had amassed so far in a powerful outward blast 360 degrees around him, to blast Fear and his clones with the fearsome attack.