[IC] The New 52 Ultra-Verse: Legacy of the Supers (A Freeform Super Hero RP)

[Yog Sothoth]

Legacy was somewhat puzzled at Spiderman not being able to recognize him, he was one of the most well known superheroes in America.

"My name is Legacy Spiderman, I am one of America's most beloved superheroes and have been fighting crime for decades" he said to the web-swinging hero. even though it was somewhat strange that the hero seemed to not know who he was Legacy followed Spiderman's plan and prepared to fight Sinestro and Clayface, when he saw Deadpool enter the fray. at first Legacy thought that it was Deathstroke since it seemed that those two were similar but then he recognized the crazy gabble of the man known as the Merc With a Mouth. Legacy knew that Deadpool was only here to claim a bounty and when he set his sights on Sinestro, Legacy predicted that it wouldn't go to well.

when Sinestro crushed Deadpool with a light construct made of yellow lantern energy, Legacy went on the attack, flying straight at Sinestro and threw a crushing supersonic right-hook towards the Yellow Lantern's face. despite Legacy's speed Sinestro manage to put up a field of yellow energy around his body when Legacy's blow hit. even though the energy field took the brunt of the damage, the sheer force of the punch was still powerful enough to send Sinestro slamming into the wall of the building. Legacy then turned to Deadpool and said, "Now listen Deadpool, you may help us detain these criminals but they are to be turned over to the authorities, you try to kill or attempt to take any of them away to secret client then i will stop you and send you to a place where regenerating doesn't help too much."

He hoped that the crazy mercinary listened to him, but now Legacy had to worry about Clayface and Sinestro. while he had been talking to Deadpool Clayface had closed the distance between them and gave Legacy a bone-crushing punch to the back. the force of the blow hurt a lot and made him smash into the ground, but he wasn't too badly hurt, just bruised. he glared at the hulking monster and flew straight at him. Legacy tried landing several punches on Clayface but his fists seemed to almost go through him like he was simply made of gooey liquid. this would be tougher than he thought, and things didn't get any better when Sinestro came back with a vengeance and shot several yellow spears at Legacy. Legacy quickly flew to his right to avoid most of the spears but one did manage to clip him on his left shoulder and he felt a stinging pain as blood began to pour from the wound. he looked at it and saw that it wasn't too bad and he would heal eventually.

[Card Captor]

Okay, so he wasn't a bad guy, just an anti hero. Honestly, that wasn't too bad. Sure, he killed a few guys, but considering the scenario, it would be considered self defense (of someone else. While his first instinct was just try and get him to calm down, that wouldn't work considering this guy was a Red Lantern, since that may or may not kill him. That left him with one other option; compromise "Sorry about that then. When I see someone shooting some kind of liquid that kills someone like that, I tend to assume they're the bad guy. I'm glad to see I was wrong. I can understand wanting to get revenge like this, I really can. However there are a lot of hero's that really don't like people killing others, even if they're a villain. I think it would be easier if we just took these guys to the police and have them take care of it. Think of it this way; if you kill the rest like you have been, they'll die quickly. But if we take them to the police, then they'll get convicted easily and get the death penalty, that way they'll get to stew for a while and suffer much longer. With as many witnesses as there are, there's no way they'll get away. Also, I think death by electric chair takes longer then death by...whatever that stuff you've been using is." Keeping his distance from the Red Lantern, he continued "I don't want to be your enemy. Clearly you aren't a threat to any innocents. If we can just solve this by talking, then that's just great." Creating a giant butterfly net, Adam scooped up the remaining Hooligans

[Krein]

Red vapor curled out from Scorn's mouth as he spoke, obviously angered at Star Adam's words. Why was it that all the other Lanterns and heroes considered imprisonment to be a more suitable punishment than death?! People like the Hooligans and all others who killed the innocent deserved death on the spot, and such a death was best granted by the Red Lanterns.

"You, like the rest of your kind fail to understand what vengeance and justice truly are. It is returning an equal measure to the individual in question so that the crimes they have committed against others is 'repaid' in full. Pathetic imprisonment, such as what you Star Sapphires do on Zamaron with those brittle crystals is an insult to those like this woman!"

Scorn pointed to the woman as he said this. She was now watching the two Lanterns, and it was easily evidenced in her eyes that she seemed to fully approve lf what Scorn had done and said so far. As Scorn saw Star Adam round up the other Hooligans, he rose in the air above them and looked down....

And the entire grouped was enveloped in red rage power from Scorn's ring, causing them to cry out in agony and tears as they were reduced to a crisp.

"Look at her, Star Sapphire! See the joy in her eyes as her son's killers have met a suitable fate! The rage and hatred of the Red Light induces the most excruciating pain possible, physically and mentally. It is worse than any punishment or torture!"

[Card Captor]

Adam winced as he watched the Hooligans killed right in front of him. "It's because as long as they live, they can suffer and pay for their crimes. Those men however will never suffer again. You know, being dead and all." Dismissing his butterfly net, he continued "and for the record; it's Star Adam. I've never even met another Star Sapphire. Well, unless you count a message left for me on my mother's ring. But other then that, nothing." With that said, he flew over to the women still holding the body of her dead son "is there anything I can do to help ma'am?"

[Krein]

Scorn growled and flew over to grab Star Adam by the neck, more vaporized napalm blood curling from his mouth.
"People like them don't even deserve to live. With a single burst of the red light, they experience a lifetime of suffering in the seconds it takes to fry them to a crisp. They see and feel all the rage and hatred of those they have wronged as they perish."
Scorn let go of Star Adam and looked at the woman, who by now looked grateful but visibly frightened.

"Consider your son avenged..."

[Card Captor]

Now fully understanding that the Red Lantern and him were using to completely different schools of logic, he decided to drop the issue. He hadn't really even committed a crime, so there wasn't much Adam could do anyway. "Let's...let's just agree to disagree" he offered. Turning his attention back to the women, he began to ask "will you-" paused, quickly realizing how much of a stupid question that was. However, since he couldn't think of a better way to word it, he continued "will you be okay?" A hesitant nod from her was all the answer he got, but it was enough. "Alright then, I'll be on my way. Please make sure you see someone, take it from me; this is the kind of thing you need to talk with someone about" while a squirrel didn't compare to a son, he had been emotionally dependent on the tiny creature, so he felt he had at least some idea how she felt. Another nod from the women was enough to satisfy him "try to take care" and with that, he was off. 'I'm sick and tired of New York. I've had nothing but trouble since I got here' A wry smile worked his way onto his face 'hell, I might have a better time in Gotham' and with that, he was off to the oddly named city. As part of some strange bet with himself

[Torack]

The enemies of earth were before them, Thor noticed, coming up and trying to encircle them when another hero appeared from the sky. Another one to take the glory, Thor thought to himself as a couple of lightning strikes blasted the ground beneath him. Wherever these villains came from, Thor was sure to send them back inside, beaten, defeated, and lost of all moral. It fascinated him how they thought to take on an asgardian, but just as well, he knew the strengths of these criminals and when teamed up they would pose a threat, even for him.

That's when a strange voice came from the roof of a nearby building and suddenly everyone was looking at the figure before having a face of annoyance or disgust, Thor having both. Spider-Man ignored the lunatic who couldn't die and began giving out targets before he was blasted away himself by the green goblin, then the idiot who called himself Deadpool attacked Sinestro haphazardly and gotten himself killed at least several times over.

Fool, Thor thought as he saw Deadpool get smashed by a large anvil and turned his attention towards his enemies. "So," he began walking closer to them. "Who gets the honour of fighting the mighty Thor?"

Not having for any of the asgardian's haughtiness, Mandarin blasted him with a beam of ice followed by a roundhouse kick with his long legs. Goblin Queen on the other hand stood in the background, watching her supposed partner have his fun with the asgardian, a small smile plastered across her face. Should the Mandarin get his ass blown off, she would be there to finish his job - the strong ones are always last after all!

Thor saw the Mandarin coming and simply maneuvered around the ice beam before smashing Mjolnir onto the ground with a mighty roar, sending sparks and electricity to concentrate within that area. A large dust cloud rose from an area that had a radius of six feet, and inside clashes were heard - Thor fending off the Mandarin who apparently dodged most of the massive attack. Although bloodied, his punches and kicks didn't lose any of their force and Thor had to admit they were far stronger than any other human he had faced; on any other day he would have humored the man however, and enjoyed the fight, but not today. He wasn't having it. He'd already taken care of an army of demons and didn't need a mortal giving him a hard time. "Enough!" Thor shouted and swung Mjolnir at the Mandarin, hitting him square in the chest. The impact sent the villain flying out of the dust cloud and crashing through a nearby building, no doubt broken and incapacitated.

[Dblade26]

James also picked up the sound of what to him was obviously a fight in the distance. But he hadn't been evading SHIELD, his parents and multiple groups of supervillians and heroes just to drop it because there was a super-powered fight going on in the city. Besides, this girl seemed to need his help and he was sure that whichever heroes were currently fighting would have the situation under control without his direct intervention, or at least that's what he hoped anyways.

"Don't worry miss! My information and sources are pretty reliable! I'm sure that one of these restaurants will work for you, and I'm fairly certain the food there won't be anywhere close to bad."

In fact he had risked quite a bit of exposure getting a hold of those recommendations, and if he stopped to think about it then helping this girl was probably risking his cover even further, but not helping someone out, especially if there was no one else who would, was something that would bother him all day long.

"Let's get going then, no sense waiting when there's food to be had right?"

James started walking towards the place on his list that was considered the nicest overall restaurant, though he did so slow enough that the girl could follow him or stop him if she had further objections.

[VitaVitaAR]

Forgetting whatever commotion was occurring in the distance for the moment, Valeria at least approved of this guy's attitude. Helpful and clear. Like that one girl in the grocery store, but Valeria was pretty sure that was what she was being paid to do. Regardless, the blonde girl liked it when people were helpful and clearly, and not blatantly morons. They could at least hold back and stupid nature that may be inherent to them. Still, there was the chance this guy was some idiot who had no idea what he was talking about. At the same time, the small girl really had no choice at the moment if she wanted to eat. And he at least sounded knowledgeable.

"I suppose you're right," she replied, simply, in response to his question, arms still folded tightly across her chest as she began to follow the guy to whichever restaurant they were heading for. Part of her continued to wonder about the source of that noise from earlier... but it was a city, so it was probably just some people being idiots or something. Nothing a hero would have to go running after, right? There wasn't anything that Valeria needed to concern herself about otherwise, right?

[JonxlatheLion]

Deadpool looks at thor, and was a little confused. At this point he would find the mighty hammer slung across his frontal lobe. He shrugs, and sets his eyes of Clayface. "you would be way too easy, chump. I'm going after the glowstick. He is more fun." He starts walking toward Sinistro again, and smiles "Hey! Blue man! fight me some more! The free massage is always nice!" He finds a giant fist slam into his face, shattering his skull. He falls to the ground for a while, and a gurgling noise sounds from his throat. After a while it becomes a obvious laughter. "Hooo, that was interesting. The smurf is getting angry." He gets up and runs at Sinistro, dodging hands made of light as he went, and puts a shotgun into Sinestro's face. "Checkmate, buddy." He does not fire, but stays there. He get knocked back when Clayface kicks him away. He shoots the shotgun, but it goes through Clayface and goes towards Mandarin.

[Yog Sothoth]

Legacy maneuvered around Sinestro's constructs and landed a powerful punch to the Yellow Lantern's abdomen. Sinestro was knocked away for several feet, but just as Legacy punched the yellow lantern, Clayface came at him with his massive fists intending to pound him into the concrete of the rooftop. Legacy jumped back out of the way of the oncoming clay fists decided to use his Star-Force ability. he charged up a blast of energy in his hands and shoved his palms out. he then fired a ball of concussive energy out of his hands and but the ball went right through the hulking monstrosity. it seemed like that didn't work, he had to figure out what it was that made Clayface vulnerable and he had to figure it out fast. Right after he fired the blast, Sinestro flew above Clayface and had a yellow colored saw blade that his ring constructed. he swung the spinning saw at Legacy, attempting to cut him to ribbons and Legacy barely managed to dodge the spinning blade by shooting up into the air at lightning fast speeds. he then dove back down at insane speeds and tackled Sinestro to the ground creating a crater.

Legacy then began to pummel the super villain with a series of powerful punches hoping to break through Sinestro's shielding, but right as it seemed like he was about to, Clayface backhanded him on the side of his face. the force of the blow sent Legacy flying into the side of a building and the impact knocked a good amount of bricks from the wall. he was still determined to beat these villains and send them back to jail where they belonged.

[Sora1297]

"LET GO YOU MEDDLING WEB-HEAD!" Green Goblin shouted aggressively as he continued to throw punches at the teenage hero, who narrowly dodged them. "Not a chance, Gobby! I'm having too much fun!" Dylan shouted happily as he tossed one final punch at Goblin, clocking him directly in the forehead. The glider had been flailing about uncontrollably for the past few minutes now, and the two super humans continuously brawled onboard as it swerved and rocketed through the skies of New York. By this time, Electro had already recovered and was fast in pursuit of the smoke coming from the Glider, thoughts of revenge of the most gruesome sort floating around in his mind. Spidey knew that this pointless battle needed to end soon, it had already been going on for twenty minutes and nothing good was coming from it. In an attempt to end the brawling, Dylan jumped from the glider and swung down to its belly, before he struck a deep hole in the hull and forcibly ripped out some important wiring. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! NO!!" Green Goblin shouted as black smoke began to emanate from the newly created hole in the glider, indicating that a fire was going off somewhere within. Spidey looked up and saw that the glider was on a crash course with a nearby skyscraper. "Sorry Gobby, but I don't think this is my stop." Spider-Man joked before he jumped from the glider and slung a powerful strand of web towards the edge of a nearby building. With his right hand, he fired a web at Goblin's back and tied it to the one that was stuck to the smaller building. Just before the glider hit the skyscraper, Green Goblin was forcibly yanked off of it and pulled towards the building, safely hanging from a strand of webbing. He struggled to free himself from the powerful substance, but soon he was covered in a massive bundle of webs, restricting all movement but his head.

"Aw, sorry to 'leave you hanging' Gobby, but I've got a little electrical issue that needs sorting out." Spider-Man said in a mocking tone before he laughed triumphantly and swung off into the night, hearing the curses of the Goblin echoing behind him. As he swung towards Electro's location, he saw a small purple satchel full of Pumpkin Bombs. Hm, those could be useful.. Spidey thought before he webbed the bag and yanked it towards himself. After properly securing it around his neck, Dylan grabbed one of the bombs and ignited it as he saw a stream of electricity rapidly approaching. Spidey jumped into a nosedive and tossed the grenade at the street. Thanks to his expertise aim, it landed not two inches away from a fire hydrant. Electro was fast approaching, and Spidey landed on the ground just as soon as the villain came into sight. Electro wasted no time in opening fire upon Spider-Man, launching bolt after bolt of electricity, which Spidey expertly dodged. "Sparky, your aim's worse then your haircut!" Dylan called out as Electro continued to shoot at the hero. "YOU'VE SHORT CIRCUITED MY PLANS FOR THE LAST TIME, SPIDER-MAN!! THIS IS FOR ME, HYDRO-MAN, AND ALL THE OTHERS WHO YOU'VE HUMILIATED IN THE PAST!!" Electro shouted, his voice filled with absolute rage towards the hero. As one of the bolts zapped Spider-Man directly in the chest (forcing his heart to momentarily stop before another bolt started it again), Electro swooped down and gripped the hero by the throat, charging up his free hand with powerful electricity to fry the Spider. Desperately gasping for breath, Spidey pulled his fist back and launched it in a swift arching motion, smacking the side of Electro's face. The villain jumped back as he was hit, but soon recovered himself and finalized his charge. Come on Goblin.. Lets hope you're good for something.. Spider-Man thought as Electro's body was consumed by the electrical energy, turning his skin bright blue as he reached maximum charge. Finally, the pumpkin bomb's timer went off and blew, forcing the fire hydrant to break from its foundations. With a quick 'thwip' and a powerful yank from his webbing, Spidey launched himself towards the hydrant and held it so the water fired out at an angle: aiming directly at Electro. "Lights out, Sparky!" Spider-Man called out as the water came rushing towards the villain.

The minute the power blasts of water hit the villain, sparks and explosions of energy began to fire out from his body. The amplified screams of Max Dillon echoed all around New York as the electrical energy consisting of his body began to fry his skin and force an electrical burn-out. Once the water ran out, Electro's body pulsated and shook like he was having a seizure, but Spidey quickly roped him down with webbing before he could do anything. It would be at least 48 hours before Electro could use his powers again. Plenty of time for the cops to arrive and take both him and the Goblin back to the Trekelion Institute. With a nod and a salute to his fallen enemy, Spidey launched himself into the skies and swung his way back to the scene where he had last seen the Sinister Six. Watching the scene from above, it looked as of the heroes were getting pummelled. Clayface was a major issue, mainly because he couldn't be harmed normally. Then, Spider-Man got a sudden idea. Knowing that the super criminal would survive the blast (but it would surely catch him off guard and keep him down until the cops came), Spidey activated another pumpkin bomb and sealed the Goblin's Bomb Bag with his webbing. As Legacy was launched towards the wall of a building, Spidey swooped down and called out "INCOMING!" before he jammed the bag deep inside of Clayface's Stomach. As the criminal tried to swipe him away and missed, the bombs went off inside of him and blasted the monstrosity to smithereens, leaving remains of the wet substance making up his body all across the streets and building sides. As Spidey landed beside Legacy, he helped the hero up and said "Improvisation: it really helps when fighting guys practically made of liquids. You okay, man?" After witnessing the defeat of his ally, Sinestro began to charge at Spider-Man and Legacy, creating a massive mace that would crush the two if they didn't move quickly. "Watch out!" Spidey yelled before he fired a web at Sinestro's face, then at the yellow ring generated mace. With a smile, he jumped behind the villain and yanked down on his hands, forcing the mace to crash into its creator. Wounded, but not down, Sinestro swiped the webbing off his face and prepared to attack both heroes.

[Tenebrous Gaze]

Blue Lantern flew through the skies on seeing the signs of battle and sped up when he noticed the familiar yellow light. He saw Spiderman, Thor, Deadpool and Legacy with the Green Goblin and Electro taken down and narrowly avoided being hit by a lump of Clayface. As Spiderman managed to force Sinestro into hitting himself the lantern corps member burst onto the scene.

He created a large dense construct in front of him and sped towards the yellow lantern, hitting him in the back.
"Hope burns bright villain! And there is nothing to fear!"
He fired another simple energy blast at the villain and flipped mid-air in order to dodge a construct blade as Sinestro turned. Ducking to avoid another, he held his ring aloft and pointed it at the villain.
"Fear is nothing when there is hope."
As the blue ring glowed, it drained energy from the yellow ring. As he acted, Sinestro's power gradually drained.

[JonxlatheLion]

Deadpool took it instead, taking out an expanse of rope he.. found near one of the stores nearby. He ties up sinestro, and starts lugging him off towards the station to collect the bounty. But before he went off, he looked at them, and said "Blue guy, thanks for the easy payoff" He smirks, and walks off with the blue-skinned alien. He did expect to be stopped by someone, but he does say "Don't worry spidey, he's in good hands. I'm going to take this one down to the station while you fight off the ugly and the mustache. Ta-ta!" He goes into an alley.

Gordon shows up in the police station, and immediately has guns on him. Going into a station with guns on you is not the best thing. He puts his hand up, and throws the now-tied up Leaper on to the floor. "Relax, gentlemen. I'm just here for any reward on this guy." They do calm down a little just in case he tries to attack. They look up the man on their records, and Gordon gets a few Benjamins for the job. He stuffs them in his pocket and walks out.

[Torack]

Once the dust settled, Thor turned his attention towards Queen Goblin. "Come, wicked woman! I will show you the might of thunder!" Thor said pointing Mjolnir at Queen Goblin. On the side, he noticed the others had taken down most of the sinister six, the only ones remaining being Queen Goblin and Sinestro who seemed to have gotten himself in a bind by getting roped up by that psychotic, honourless, fool of a mortal, Deadpool. Better he focus on Sinestro rather than her, he smiled to himself as he walked towards the she-villain. He could tell she was strong and this would be a fight he would surely enjoy.

Queen Goblin raised an eyebrow at him, a smirk appearing on her lips. "You silly Asgardian, you really think you can beat me so easily? I'm not so weak as Mandarin, you'll find that out soon enough!" She laughed as she summoned a number of demons and goblins, commanded them to attack him, and quickly disappeared with a magic act. The demons, eager to follow their mistress's orders, rushed at him with incoherent screams and war cries, and the foremost of them swiped at his head with a massive, clawed, green arm.

Thor ducked from the demon's swing and answered with a swing of his own hammer, sending the winged creature several kilometers into the air. Turning his attention towards the rest of the oncoming demons, he threw Mjolnir at them, felling a number of their group before the hammer returned. He planned to charge at them and take down what remained of the summoned monsters when a painful force hit exploded against his back, causing him to propel towards the demons and crash into them, the remaining demons saw the opportunity and rushed at him and effectively pinned him to the floor.

"Looks like your mighty fall wasn't so graceful, god of thunder," Queen cackled as she came into Thor's view, who was struggling against the demons that had him pinned. "Say goodbye, I'm going to end you're reign forever!"

The cement under Thor's body suddenly turned to quicksand and grey hands from the ground began wrapping themselves around him, slowly pulling him into the earth to suffocate and die. In a last ditch attempt to try and stop himself from being sucked in and killed, he summoned lighting from the sky which ricocheted off of Mjolnir and went towards Queen Goblin. The lighting distracted her enough to put up her psionic shield, temporarily solidifying the ground and allowing Thor to escape both the demons and ground.

Not allowing a second to go by he flew at his enemy and swung at her, his hammer being deflected by her shield. He swung again and again, each time her shield deflecting the blows, but the force she had to put behind them was clearly evident when she fell to her knees heaving. Taking the opportunity presented to him, Thor kicked her across the face and sent her flying a few meters and began walking towards her, Mjolnir glowing with anticipation as he made his way to strike the finishing blow. But just as he raised the enchanted weapon, a bright flash blasted out of the queen's hand.

The pain Thor felt was unlike anything else, the only way he could begin to describe it was as if the force and pressure of Asgard all converged within his head, crushing it from the inside. He yelled in pain and fell to his knees, clutching his head. It took a while after the pain subsided enough for him to look up, and saw a large, heavy bruise on the side of the queen's face where he kicked her. "W-what have you done to me, witch?" He asked as the pain of a thousand migraines coursed through his head.

"Just a little payback," she said and kicked him across his face.

[JonxlatheLion]

Deadpool sighs, and drops the yellow lantern. "Thor, you so owe me one now." He runs, and slams into Queen Goblin. His shoulder actually breaks in two at the force he put into the blow. While his bones fuse back together, he pistol-whips Queen Goblin in the back of the head, and then finds himself in the air when Queen Goblin uses magic to teleport him. He lands on the ground, his legs shattering and making his calves a bloddy mess of bone and muscle. "Hey! That's not nice!" He takes out a gun and makes pot-shots at the woman. "You really are quite annoying, Wade" She flings him to the side, making his bullets pierce his head. But they miss the center of his head and graze his left frontal lobe. Deadpool gets up, his legs healed, and wanders off, making strange sounds like a zombie would.

[Yog Sothoth]

Legacy was glad for Spiderman's assistance and replied saying, "Thank you Spiderman, I am fine"

before he could say anything more, Sinestro tried to attack them again and Legacy quickly jumped out of the way of the yellow hammer. when he saw Spiderman force Sinestro to hit himself with his own hammer, Legacy was about to go in and assist when a Blue Lantern came into the fray. it seemed to Legacy that Sinestro was being taken care of by the others, so he decided to go in and help Thor who was pinned down by the Goblin Queen's psychic powers. when he saw her engage Deadpool and knock eventually cause him to shoot himself, he flew in quick and knocked her a few feet away with a quick punch. she gave a grunt of pain from Legacy's attack and recovered fast. she stared at him and sneered, "Ah Legacy, the patriotic Superman wannabee. you may have superhuman strength and invulnerability, but your mind is as weak as any ordinary simpleton."

Legacy was about to fly at her to knock her down, when his mind was attacked by a powerful psionic blast. he gave a cry of pain as he felt his head being wracked with agonizing headaches. the pain was great enough to bring him to his knees, and he clutched at his head, trying to ease the pain. John had developed many powers from his family's long line of heroes, but resistance to psychic attacks was not one of them and he was helpless against the Goblin Queen's powerful onslaught. the pain made it hard for him to think and he tried to think of a solution to the problem.

[Dblade26]

"Right then, let's get going since there's no sense hanging around here!" Secretly part of James's eagerness to keep moving on was due to the superhero battling that seemed to be going on nearby. It wouldn't make very much sense to have spent a full year evading everyone only to get caught in the end like that. So he started walking through the streets while stopping only to check up on the map from time to time and make sure Valeria wouldn't get too lost and could keep up with him through crowds and traffic.

This was probably a good thing, as the routes he took to their destination involved a lot of direction changes and obscure turns. It didn't actually take very long to get to their destination this way, or at least not too much longer than it otherwise would have, but he had to make sure he weaved around areas where it was likely that anyone affiliated in any way with his parents or SHIELD might see him, not to mention that he was so used to dodging pursuit out of habit that he wasn't even conscious of doing it at times.

Still, they made fairly good time and he tried his best to make all the twisting and turning easy for the girl he was supposed to be guiding, and according to everything he'd heard, the place they were going to was pretty amazing in terms of their food, and not just for hamburgers.

"Sorry about all the direction changes, I wanted to make sure we avoided any heavy traffic and delays while we walked, but we're here now."

That was true, in a way. If SHIELD or worse yet an enemy organization had found him, James was pretty sure their would be a very sudden increase in crowds and traffic and, depending on who found them and what happened after, a very, very long delay. Naturally now that they were here, James briefly scanned the restaurant then held the door open for Valeria and let her walk in first. Partially because his father had taught him to ALWAYS be a gentleman, and partially so if any enemy took time to attack him now, she would be in a place with some relative cover.

[VitaVitaAR]

Valeria followed along with the guy, raising an eyebrow as the path they took weaved through allies and went just about all of the place. Her patience wore thinner and thinner, and she raised an eyebrow with a frown as she strode along behind the boy. This was taking forever! But... at least there weren't a lot of crowds or anything. And she didn't hear anymore crashing or whatever. What was all that, anyway? ... Was it something she should have responded to? She didn't think it was... wouldn't something like that have come up on the news or something? Though... she did miss it...

... Were they ever going to actually get to this stupid restaurant?! Valeria was starving! If they didn't get there soon, she'd-oh there it was.

The restaurant wasn't a very big place, but it had a kind of homey air around it. Large, rectangular windows, allowing a view into the warm-looking insides filled with diners and tables. At least it looked nice... but Valeria wanted to know if the food held up.

"Hmph!" Valeria huffed as she walked to the door. "Well, it looks nice at least..."

She paused when James opened the door.

"... Thanks..."

And with that, she headed inside.

[Krein]

Scorn had been growing restless since the Hooligans had swiftly been eliminated by his napalmic blood. He could still feel his red power ring goading him forward to seek out more beings in need of punishment, and Scorn would sure as hell carry this out. Still, where? While killing people like the Hooligans was part of his duty as a Red Lantern, he was certain that killing their kind wasn't all he had been led here to do. No, there were supervillains roaming the world, all Scorn needed to do was find them...