Silver Carrot

The Promise - Second Star to the Right, and Straight on 'til Morning.

Natalie Ellis

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The moment she saw the contents of the room, Natalie visibly changed. The clinical lab-like nature, the containment tubes, the lab couts and other personal equipment. Her eyes had gone wide, her pupils dilated, and she was almost snarling like a beast as her gaze darted to and from features of the room rapidly. She noticed Archie recoil at the piece of paper and frowned. She put a tentative calming hand on his shoulder, trying to be comforting and reassuring despite looking quite unhinged and terrifying.

She turned and read the paper that he had just read, and the more she read, the more she visibly started to shake. She glanced at the red residue at the bottom of the pod, then back at Archie, then gently put the paper down, slowly walked away, and then suddenly and violently punched the wall, her fist going straight through it.

"It's just like Project Lion," she trembled in a small voice, before removing her arm and staring at the rest of the group with wild, insane eyes. "No. No, this is worse. I....I'm gonna kill them. I'm gonna kill all of them."

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

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Heidi Williams

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Location: Danger Room - 9am
Interacting with:@ViolentViolet@Chev@Brioko Jobe@Fallenreaper

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Once she reached the hallway, Heidi turned to see who was following her. Jasper and Matthew. She caught them both looking up, and grit her teeth. She saw their eyes moving toward the exit sign further down the hallway Heidi was about to enter. So there was something up there. She was afraid of that. Still, she didn't slow down for a second as she entered the corridor and looked for a stairwell. She talked as she walked. "I could tell from your eyes that there's something up there. But, we don't know anything about it. We do know about the Wolf, and that the best way to take it out is to take out the signal booster on the second floor. I say we take each problem as it comes. We need to beat the Wolf by going up there. We don't know how we'll beat the next threat but it could be easier."

My Hero Academia: Raw Potential

Maeda Nadeko

Mentions: @Melpaws@liferusher@Lucius Cypher@TheWendil@Animal

Nadeko cocked her head at Donny's plan as she followed him. "Hmm, Mako-sensei did she she'll be grading us on acting heroic. We might get points docked for taking the briefcases ourselves or causing any structural damage unnecessarily. I don't think she'd fail us, though, so it would be a safe bet to get a passing grade on this exercise.

Alice gave a complex list of instructions and tactics to each of them, except for Nadeko, which slightly hurt, although instructions weren't necessary for her anyway. She already knew what she could do to help out. The buildings had metal in them. The briefcases were metal. All she had to do was find somebody with a briefcase.

"Leave getting the briefcases back to me, Nova-san. Just let me know if you spot someone carrying one away."

Junko slightly creeped Nadeko out, and she was secretly glad that the gloomy knife girl wasn't talking to her. As they were leaving, she heard Saki's voice, and stopped to wait for her as the others carried on.

"Glad you could make it just in the nick of time!" Nadeko greeted with a wave. "I'm going to head to the center of the arena now. Would you like a lift, or would you rather avoid magnets? I understand if you do."

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Sorry about that. I was so anxious about posting so that people didn't have to keep waiting that I missed several details. I edited my post.

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Mako Akane

Mentions: @Melpaws@ShwiggityShwah@Lucius Cypher@Conscripts@TheWendil@Ryonara@vancexentan@Norschtalen@liferusher@alexfangtalon@Animal

"Hmmm, if it wold get you in trouble during recess, probably shouldn't do it," Mako answered Kouji, "so no hurting other people, or trying to hurt them, or putting them in danger. I'm not trying to teach you to actually be villains, after all, and you still need to follow the school rules."

Once everyone had arrived at the ground, Mako went to the groups one at a time and led them away in secret to their starting points. Once they were there, a voice started to speak from a series of speakers dotted around the site;

"Alright, here are the rules. Dotted around the big buildings in the center of the area are ten gold briefcases resting on pedestals. The task of the villains is to find them and bring them all back to the Villain's starting area. The goal of the heroes is to make sure as many, of not all of them, are still on their pedestals when the time's up. As I said before, I will be monitoring the exercise and the Heroes will be scored not just on what they do but how they do it. Acting heroic is key. While the Villains have more freedom, actually hurting your opponents or putting them in serious danger is a violation of school rules and will be harshly punished after the exercise is over.

So we appear to be waiting for two more Heroes, buuuuut real crimes won't wait for you and neither will I. Begin!"

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Maeda Nadeko

Mentions: @Melpaws@liferusher@Lucius Cypher@TheWendil@Animal

Nadeko had arrived late, as she had to change into her gym attire, and being tired from a long day of school was making her more sluggish than usual, and she missed most of what little strategy talk there had been. Still, she managed to arrive right before Mako-sensei's explanation and the exercise's start, which was a relief, as 4 vs 6 would be an uphill battle, but 3 vs 6 would have been a nightmare.

"Sorry I'm late!" she profusely apologised to her team, as she carried on her flustered flurry of questions. "My arms got stuck in my gym uniform. Anyway, if we're sharing quirks, my arms are magnets. I can push and pull metal. Pretty simple. Is there a plan yet? What did I miss?"

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

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Heidi Williams

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Location: Danger Room - 9am
Interacting with:@ViolentViolet@Chev@Brioko Jobe@Fallenreaper

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"I have a plan b," Heidi answered, a tiny bit of panic starting to show on her face. "I have so many plans, but they're all complicated and unformed and I need to pick one." She turned to look at the rest and saw Matt looking at her. He was telling the group that Heidi should be the one to coordinate them! Heidi was starting to sweat now. Her position right now was like one of somebody who never learned to drive being asked to taxi some people in a rocket car just because she happens to own a rocket car. And she'd better not crash. And she can't say no. And she can't take it slow and careful because they're in a hurry. She'd had these powers for just over a month now. She still wasn't entirely used to using them normally, let alone under pressure and with this much responsibility riding on her shoulders. If her plan went wrong, or didn't work, or worked but they lost anyway, she knew that they'd all lay the blame squarely on her shoulders. "You're supposed to be smart!" they'd say.

Heidi cleared her mind. A paranoid spiral was a million times more dangerous when processed at the speed she was processing it. She saw Jasper, now inside the room, tell her that the CPU was on the third floor, and there was 'something else' on the second. Heidi had wandered about this. She had assumed the beast was an entirely closed system with its own CPU but now it was confirmed that it was remote-operated. Which meant that the 'something' on the second floor was probably a signal booster. There were now three very simple ways to defeat it.

The quickest but hardest would be to destroy the signal receiver inside the beast. However, this could easily be located somewhere very hard to get to. Its casing was tough and earthed. The second way would be to take out the booster while the beast was kept on the first floor. This would be the easiest option if the Beast was programmed to behave like a wolf. If it was programmed to protect itself from threats, it would be harder. The final way was to reach the third floor and disable the CPU. But with every floor they went up, there was a greater chance that another threat would be set upon them.

The second plan was the one they should try first. This entire train of thought took less than a second after jasper had conveyed the information. Heidi immediately snapped to action to help Ronnie brace the door, taking the power cable from the back of the television and togging it hard at an angle until it snapped off. She used this cable to help tie the handles of both doors together.

"Quick," she commanded to the rest of the group in as few words as possible. "Jasper and me, second floor. The rest of you, keep the Wolf busy! Retreat upstairs if you can't!" And with that, she headed towards the corridor that Matthew hadn't blocked with a table, scanning rapidly for any sign of a stairwell.

The Promise - Second Star to the Right, and Straight on 'til Morning.

Natalie Ellis

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After the plan had immediately gone wrong and the map had proved false, Natalie was far from relaxed. Every time the backtracked, she visibly tensed. And what Lynn had said about people watching them was playing on her mind too. She felt too exposed here. If there were a threat, she wouldn't be able to see it clearly, and they could come from the mouth of any tunnel they passed. At least Archie and Packet seemed fine now. Finally, the found the door, and Natalie let her whole body relax briefly as the anxieties playing on her mind were temporarily put to rest.

Natalie resisted the urge to ask if Packet was okay after opening the foor had caused his nose to bleed. Instead she said "Thank you, Packet. I hope we do see each other again." Natalie watched as Lynn's collar was finally taken off, and Archie stepped through the door. It closed behind him as a second door opened, and he ventured out. Lynna followed shortly after. With a shrug, Natalie went next. May as well have the three most formidable team members on point as a vanguard in case anything happened.

She stepped through, and felt gravity get weaker as she quickly grabbed a railing, which helped her steady herself to the point where the change in gravity didn't affect her at all. As she walked along, she looked up and for a brief second, stopped. Right in front of them was Earth. It was slightly above them, putting into perspective that from Earth's POV, the Promise was upside down. Natalie didn't like that sensation, so she ignored it. What she couldn't ignore was just...the knowledge that this planet was Earth. All of Earth. Everywhere she'd ever known and everywhere she heard stories about or saw on the news. It was all up there. Natalie had spent a lot of the time on Earth that wasn't hazy now, in labs, basements or facilities. Most of her memories of shops, grass, trees and ordinary people walking about going to school or work, were now memories of The Promise. But up there...It really made her start to feel trapped down here. For the first time, she wanted to go back to Earth.

Making her way to the end of the tunnel, Nat pressed the activation pad, opening the door for the next person.

My Hero Academia: Raw Potential

Well, that didn't happen. Really sorry, guys. My sister was moving house this weekend so I was busy with that. This coming week sometime, things move forward. Wednesday at the latest.

My Hero Academia: Raw Potential

On Saturday, things are going ahead. I feel we've all had enough time to post.

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

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Heidi Williams

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Location: Danger Room - 9am
Interacting with:@ViolentViolet@Chev@Brioko Jobe@Fallenreaper

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"Two hallways either side of reception," Heidi answered to Ronnie's commands, letting go of Matthew's arm as they slipped into the building and guiding him towards the direction of the reception desk at the back, where it's safest. His power usage had drained him, and if he used it again so soon, it might drain him more, and it wasn't very appropriate in this situation. Besides, they'd very likely need such a useful power later on. Right now, he needed to keep himself safe and recover a little.

Looking back at the door, Heidi shook her head. "Can't lock it in a way that'll keep it out forever, and this room has enough space to fight. I'd rather take the robot out now then get caught off guard on a stairwell." For a split-second pause, she began cycling through plans in her head, given what she actually knew about the powers of everybody in this group. She finally settled on a simple (to her) but effective one. She turned to Jasper.

"Back then, you stopped it by getting into its head, right? Do you think you could find out where exactly its CPU is located?

She then turned her head slightly to Ronnie, making sure both girls were in her field of view. "I'm not sure how good you are at control yet but how well can you accurately aim paper? I think I have a plan but it's going to need all of us, Daniela included. And we'll need to be fast."