Natsu

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Arena
Skills: N/A

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Scritching the ears of the puppy, Arthur frowned for a moment when he learned it was a Hellhound. It wasn't that he didn't think it was any less cute, but he wanted more than a dad that would send him things in leu of being present in his life, but he would accept the dog if it was from the Underworld. It wasn't right to mistreat an animal for any reason, and he still thought the puppy was adorable. He nodded along with Andy's name recommendation, and said, "Chocolate is a perfect name for him, and he is a very good boy yes he iiis!" He said, going full in on petting the pupper.

Arthur was not about to get involved in anything that involved the drawing of swords; he was way happier to spend the time he had with Andy and this adorable dog. He did frown for a moment as he took the candy from Leda, "Thanks for the snacks!" He started to say, before continuing, "But... which one of us is gonna take Chocolate? Or do we wanna leave him here?" Arthur asked, a touch of sadness in his voice. He didn't want to take the dog away from Andy, and even if he ended up doing that, it wasn't the problem; he just didn't want to think about them splitting up.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Subway
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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The number one priority Oliver had was getting back up to the train, not only for fear of becoming solid where he was standing, but so he could actually try to keep his team from getting slaughtered. Almost like he was swimming, he reached a hand into the train, and pulled his hand down, along with pulling his body up. After a few moments, he was standing on his knees inside the train. That was certainly something new for him, but he really didn't have time to focus on any of that now, given the scene before him. His mind briefly went to running, but he saw how impossible that would be given the number of downed people.

As their team surrendered, Oliver swallowed hard. This wasn't going to end well, but it really seemed like their only option if they wanted the chance for everyone here to survive. Even then, this was about as unideal as possible. Oli put his hands up, before noticing the arm that had grown back. He had so many questions, but figured the evil version of Cass wasn't going to be very amenable to explaining anything to them. He looked over to Niah, and sighed in relief as she started work on Sparky. "Yeah, fine, you win." He said through gritted teeth. None of this was good, but they still had future avenues to work with.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Arena
Skills: N/A

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Arthur watched Leda carefully, and nodded. He didn't know if she was telling him a lie to comfort him or not, but he did know that, broadly people here did what they could to ensure mutual survival, and so it was an attempt to help him in some way. He took it at face value, and said, "Chocolate sounds good, thank you Leda." He said, before turning more of his attention on Andy. He made small circles on her hand with his thumb, and exhaled. He really didn't have a way to convince her things would be fine, because he himself wasn't convinced of that.

Arthur gave a surprised look as the puppy materialized out of nowhere. The quiet, slightly paranoid part of his mind was worried that this was some sort of god or magic thing that'd be watching them and waiting to screw them over, but the much louder, 12 year old part of his brain wanted to pet the very very cute dog. Arthur very quickly responded to Andy with, "If nobody claimed him in the next minute, he's ours forever.", before scratching behind the ears of the mystery dog. Dogs were soft and cute and good, and he wanted very much for this to just be an easy thing.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Subway
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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Thankfully for Oli, he was able to keep himself from phasing through things, but this fight was still going to have him at a major disadvantage if he had to be spending this much mental effort to not pass through things. That meant that this had to be ended as quickly as possible, so the best avenue for that was probably getting that armor off of Other!Cass, and the easiest route to accomplish that would be to simply phase it off of her. Closing the distance between himself and his alternate universe boss, he went to try to rip it off of her, only to walk straight through her.

Oli had another option though, he could just cut off the armor with his trusty flaming laser sword. Giving it a flourish, his fingers slipped, and accidentally turned it on while spinning it about, resulting in the blade cleanly cutting through the arm of the Cass in front of him. "Oh fuck." He said, as the arm fell to the ground, the metal clanging to the ground. "Shit, I'm sorry, I honestly didn't mean to- I'm sure you can reattach that." He said, the shock and survival instinct telling him he needed to phase, and so he did, too successfully in fact, falling out of the train entirely.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Subway
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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Oliver was barely able to keep himself solid, so he was devoting most of his mental energy and focus to not losing that. If only for Niah, he wanted to stay solid as long as possible. He nodded along to the different ideas for how to fix this, and neutralizing his powers for sure seemed like the best option. "We could also kill me." he said jokingly, and then continued, "Assuming we could bring me back right after, that would probably work to reset things too." He felt bad as soon as he said it, not wanting to trigger Niah, but that would actually probably work.

Once they got on the train, Oli was very nervous about losing focus. Getting split up was the worst thing they could do, and he was scared of phasing through the train itself. He was therefore, very concerned when when they were dropped in on from above. Blinking quite a lot as he looked between Casandra and her doppelganger, thinking they actually might have a shot at convincing her that way. Oli couldn't especially fight right now, given him barely being able to keep himself from phasing through solid matter, so he had to hope they could talk their way out of this.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Arena
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Arthur listed with rapt attention as Leda spoke, talking about how Tartarus was the pit and an absolutely monstrous and dangerous place. He gritted his teeth at the information, a success rate of two people didn't bode well for getting Mads back, and he didn't want to go on a suicide mission for the hope saving Mads, but he knew he would if he had to. He wouldn't let anybody else suffer if he could prevent it, especially somebody Andy cared about so much. As Leda asked for his word, he bit his lip internally, and thought.

There were, of course, multiple ways to go about circumventing that promise, alone is a pretty subjective word. Arthur could argue that, as long as Andy was alive, he was never truly alone, but he didn't know if magical promises made on preternatural rivers that flow through realms he had previously thought non existent were that amenable to technicalities made on oaths sworn them. He exhaled and said, "I don't intend to go off into the deepest. scariest place in all the world alone, I can promise that." Arthur said carefully, squeezing Andy's hand.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Subway
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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Oli looked at his shaking hands, and felt a kind of clear and curiosity that was quintessentially him. He knew this wasn't a good thing by any means, but god he wanted to know exactly what he body was doing to keep it in this state. If this was something he could turn on and off on a whim, it would be a strict improvement to his phasing abilities, but he could think about that all later. Right now he needed more specifics. Taking a slow step forward, the ground felt soft, but able to be traversed. He thought he could probably go through the ground if he wanted, but for now, he was tangible enough to walk.

Taking a breath and hold it, Oliver had an idea. He might be able to turn this off by oscillating his molecules back to the regular frequency. His body continued to shake for a few moments, before slowly evening out, and leaving Oli looking mostly normal. He knew though, that he was just barely holding onto tangibility. It was like he was phasing, but in reverse, and that wasn't great. Breathing out, Oli said, "Uh, I can travel for now, I feel like I'm one slip up away from going back to being a ghost though so... let's get somewhere we can plan and coordinate sooner rather than later."

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Arena
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Arthur was about to explain himself, but Andy seemed to have a grip on doing that, so he was happy to remain mostly nonverbal. It was honestly painful to try to process his feelings into words for the benefit of other people, and he really didn't have the mental energy to try to do that right now. A part of him understood that they fundamentally cared about him, and that that was why they were asking, but sometimes the care of other people felt like a burden rather than a relief. It was because people cared about him and Andy here that he couldn't just leave, he had to stay, or they'd be hurt.

Arthur squeezed her hand back, not wanting Andy to be upset, but it was everything he had not to go into an emotional meltdown right now. All he could really do was enjoy the fact that, at least for now, they were both together. He wanted to feel every second, as much as he could, but he knew that as the night grew longer, he would feel worse and worse until it was too much. Breaking down in front of all their friends didn't at all sound fun or particularly great for his reputation, so he was gonna do everything he could to keep that from happening.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Times Square (257) -> Subway
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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Oli rubbed his temples, and thought about he situation in front of them. He made the logical jump that, if the subway camera system was Stark tech, these probably were too, and he would almost certainly have a lot of trouble hacking into it. However, he did have another approach in mind. He didn't know how these scanner worked, but he knew that, whatever they were doing, it came down to something physically interacting with their bodies, and if that was the case, then the same trick he used to phase through floors could potentially be used to override this system, and keep their DNA from being registered.

Taking a moment, Oli explained, "I have an idea, if everyone takes my hand and believes really hard, I might be able to vibrate our bodies at a frequency that the scanners won't be able to read us at." He said, realizing that he sounded an awful lot like a pseudoscience Facebook page, but he was at least eighty percent sure this was possible, and confidence was the other twenty percent. Then, taking the hands of everyone who would do this with him, he closed his eyes and centered himself. The way his powers worked mechanically was still largely a mystery to him, but there was just something deep within him that knew and understood what he had to do, that guided him towards the impulses and frequencies he needed to do this. For a moment, a small pulse went through everybody, before going off again, and again, over and over until there was a small but constant twinge of energy flowing through each of them. Leading them all through the scanner, once all were through, Oli let go of them all, and expected the oscillation to end naturally for himself, but he still felt it. His eyes grew wide, and he experimentally knelt down, and dipped his hand into the floor. "Um, slight complication guys..." He said, a bit in awe at his new state.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Arena
Skills: N/A

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"Today has been... A lot. " Arthur admitted to Kiera as she approached the two of them. He wished he had better words, but he just didn't. His head was aching, he felt like he could cry at any moment, and a real part of him was just absolutely terrified of the reality before him. "What about you? Have you been doing okay, or have things been awful for you too? " Arthur normally tried to play his feelings a bit closer to his chest, but it was just too difficult to manage that right now.

Arthur didn't want to be dramatic, but he honestly had no idea how to contain himself right now. He just felt raw, like the world he was starting to get comfortable in was moving out from under him. He was sick of friends dying, he was sick of being sad, and he was sick of not feeling safe. If he lost Andy from this, that would be it for him. He didn't know what he would do, but he knew it would be self destructive, dangerous, and would have severe consequences for everyone who'd hurt him thus far.