Saturday Super Stories - The Event 4 E

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”


“A smart man once said ‘There is more than one of everything.”

The Event 4 - Dopplegang’land E “ Jack Lazarus Versus John Phoenix, Immortal”

The battle ended or so the newsmen and women assumed.  They had lost sight of the two women and had not been able to relocate either of them.  John held a hand to his right ear and listened for any Comm chatter, but since the brief burst during the halfway point of the battle they had remained silent.

John turned to regard the man in the cell with him, a carbon copied duplicate.  He frowned.  "I remember that look," the other prisoner said.  John cocked an eyebrow at him.  "I remember that too."

"We have never before met, is that a correct assumtion?"  The other man nodded.  "Are you a time traveler?"  He shrugged. "I don't understand this at all."

"That's true, you don't understand any of this yet.  First, you do not feel the overwhelming urge to murder me?"  John shook his head.  "That is easily answered.  The urge is to kill your doppleganger, and its an urge that you cannot withstand, because it comes directly from Pandamonium who has no idea what she causes yet.  She will eventually figure it out and sacrifice herself to save the whole of this reality." 

John thought for a moment and his eyes widened slightly.  "You aren't a copy crafted by the whole of the universe, or an Echo as the 'scientists' claimed, you are unique.  Which means...somehow you are me?"

The other man nodded.  "Jack Lazarus," he held out his hand.  "I am you later in life, towards the end actually.  My last resurrection to be even more precisily.  I came back to this era because I had to, because when I was you I remember this conversation and had to be here to complete the circle."  John rubbed the bridge of his nose.  "I know this is odd, and the first and only time that I have ever crossed paths with one of my prior lives.  But it is nessessary."

"The finale?"  Jack nodded.  "Am I the only other present, aside from you that is."  Jack shook his head.  "Who?"

"The first is here as well.  This is or was your home universe in the beginning.  The Cascade claims us during this Event, and then we play in the vast multiverse for a time before coming here as you, and then returning once again as me."  John's mouth frowned.  "I know we hate time travel."

"So I guess I know what I have to do then, find Pandamonium and explain to her what the hell is going on in her universe and persuade her to find a way to fix it.  Have you kept up the journals?"  Jack nodded.  "This ought to be interesting then," he smirked.

"Oh believe me it is."

TBC

Saturday Super Stories - The Event 4 D

This is late as hell.  I have had crazy writers block for a few months, and decided to tweak an old RPG fight for this entry.  Originally it was a WonderWoman vs WonderWoman battle and now its basically the same thing with a vastly different ending.

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”

“A smart man once said ‘There is more than one of everything.”

The Event 4 - Dopplegang’land D “Amazona Versus Isabella, the Warchild”

Isabella took another deep breath and slowly exhaled sending the tension out with it.  She could do this and do it well.  She would honor her mother and her people.  Isabella walked out of the back room and onto the stage, stopping before the podium.  Her steps were sure and her body language told of a confidence and nobility that she should not have.  

Isabella stepped up to the podium and looked around the chamber.  There were so many different faces but each one had two eyes that were focused on her.  She didn't know what they thought of her or what each one was inclined to think but she would, given enough time.

"Ladies and Gentlemen it is an honor to stand before you as my mother once did.  I have earned the right to stand before you and bring with me this warning. Your world has attacked mine and today we come to exact vengeance upon your people.  I look forward to... " Isabella was interrupted by the door suddenly exploding open.

The sound of splintering wood echoed off the high ceiling of the United Nations.  Isabella and the rest gathered before her gaped at who stood before them.

"Daphne?" One of the reporters near the exit said.  He pushed his glasses back and stared at her.

Another said, "Are you here to save us?”

Isabella hands balled up into fists, knuckles turning white.  The fact that she would make an appearance before she finished her speech was something Isabella could never forgive.  

"I don't know who you are.  But for starters you lack the grace and nobility to carry yourself within my presence.  Now get out, you have no right to be here."

"But you see young woman, I am Daphne, I am Amazona, and it is you who are the impostor.  You’re not even a real Amazon."

"Yeah well if you look at it that way, neither are you.  Maybe you can fool everybody else but you can't fool me," Isabella replied.

She continued to stare hard at Isabella, "I don’t care, I am the true amazon, and you cannot claim to have defeated all until you have defeated me."

She moved very fast, at almost Blrrr speeds, its fortunate that she was moving in a straight line, she slammed into Isabella with a force at least twice that of Aeons and they both smashed through the wall behind Isabella, carried through the room and the backstage area behind.  Smoke and dust fill the air and as she walked out of it, Isabella lay in the street, She smirked, "I have the will, I have the power, you are nothing but a fly that needs to be squashed."

Isabella mentally disciplined herself for being distracted by her 'mother’s' face.  She should of had the shield around in time to absorb some of the impact.  She climbed to her feet and used the back of her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth.  

Isabella reached next to her and pulled a parking meter out of the ground with her free hand.  She rushed Daphne using her own quickness to close the distance.  Isabella brought her shield up to block while she attempted to bring the parking meter down across Amazona's face.

The meter impacted with Daphne’s face, shattering on impact, the change flying up blocking Isabella’s view for a moment, she steals herself for an attack that doesn’t come.  Wary she takes a step backwards, as blood pours from a wound on Daphne’s face where a shard of metal punctured into her cheekbone.  She pulls her hand from her face and in a microsecond is on Isabella.

Isabella feels the impact, sees the rushing world, and then sound catches up and she hears the snap of bone.  She had managed to get the shield up but her arm wasn’t strong enough to take the hit, she continues to fly backwards slamming into building after building until she stops several blocks away from where the battle started.

Isabella shook her head to clear the fog and to ignore the pain.  Off to one side of her vision the world seemed to ripple and pulse.  She held her hand over her eye and thinks hard on a plan of action, Daphne seemed to not be holding back.

"Hey, you know you’re a hard person to track down."  Isabella looked up from her thoughts and the Paragon stood before her holding a package wrapped in silk.

Isabella held her broken arm close to her body.  She rose to her feet on shaky legs and looked for Daphne before addressing the Paragon.  "It's good to see you but as you can tell I'm in the middle of getting my ass kicked by somebody who isn't my mother."

She noticed that the world seemed to be frozen, the dust and debris in the air is still, and hovering in space, she cannot see Daphne through the haze, but assumed she is on the way.

"I see, well I come bearing gifts, it seems that it would have been more prudent to arrive earlier but alas you’re a hard person to find."  He holds out the package, Isabella took it with her good arm and pulled the string with her teeth, grunting through the pain as the silk slide away revealing another item made from the same material as the shield.  A bracer gauntlet, she could see where the shield snapped into place, the carvings were exquisite.  It was too bad that her arm was broken.

"You know this is cheating if you’re in a fight."  He held his hand out and her arm snapped back into place, the wound and pain gone as if it never happened.  She didn’t know what to say, but she dropped the shield and put the Bracer on, and it glided over her skin and was cool to the touch.  She snapped the shield into place and the weapon felt complete.  She knew that it had another feature now, one that should give her an advantage, she turned to thank the Paragon but he was gone and time was starting again.

Daphne flew at her moving close to Mach 1.

Isabella was glad to have both hands free.  She only had a moment to act and she needed to make this good.  She would only have this one chance.  This was the fight of her life and her chances of winning were slim.  Yet she would fight and count on those slim odds.  

As Daphne streaked toward her, Isabella activated the shields new feature.  Several long golden strands with an arrowhead styled tip extended from the edge of the shield.  The strands spun rapidly, around the shield, and the strands braided themselves into a rope that was hard to tell it was ever several strands to begin with.  Isabella used her right hand to guide the rope in an attempt to bind Daphne.

She looped the lasso around Daphne’s neck and used her momentum to put herself in a spin, around and around they went, Daphne at first flying then being spun by Isabella.  Isabella tightened the spin and with one full strength pull drove all of the speed and force into the street outside, the city shook from the impact, glass broke and rained down from the buildings above. 

People cried out and dove for cover.  More dust and debris filled the air, Isabella stood glad that her plan had worked so far, she breathed heavy, and the exertion of what she had just done started to catch up with her.  She started towards the crater, when the first hand hit its lip.

Daphne pulled herself from the wreckage, blood freely poured from the jagged wound on her face, it ran down her face onto her bodice, when she impacted the metal had torn itself down and free of her face, she would be scarred forever.

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Meanwhile in the Megolopolis SPIRaL holding cells...

John Phoenix sat quietly listening to the radio at the cop station.  It seems Isabella was fighting her ‘mother’, and she was destroying massive amounts of property.  But he could feel deep within his Immortal soul that the false goddess would fall and be destroyed, for that was inevitable.  He smiled and continued to listen intensely.

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They traded blows each following with another as quickly as was possible.  Daphne was still entangled in the lasso, but used it to keep Isabella in place.  They were both getting weaker, but Daphne still had more strength than her, she needed a plan and quickly or she would fall to this false princess.

Isabella staggered as another punch landed on her jaw.  Her limbs were heavy and her lungs burned for more air than she could give at this time.  Still as long as she was conscious she would fight.  This abomination would not be allowed to soil her 'mother’s' name.  Not as long as she lived.  With renewed determination Isabella grabbed the end of the lasso and jumped into the air.  Her body twisted in the air and Daphne wrapped the lasso around her arm removing any slack.  She lashed out with her foot at Daphne's back as she pulled the lasso as hard as she could.

She twisted and planted her foot firmly into Daphne’s spine, the muscle gave way and she grunted in pain.  Just as the foot connected, Daphne pulled with her wrapped arm and flipped Isabella back around to the front and slammed her into the already destroyed street.  Another cloud of dust and debris leaped into the air.

She had two breaths before the battle once again raged.  Daphne pulled the lasso again and kicked Isabella in the side driving her away as she spun out of the grapple.  Isabella flew across the street and slammed into a light post, it bent under the impact.  She heard the low whistling then, she looked up and watched as rubble started falling back to Earth, shards of rock came out of the sky like bullets, punching through the street and putting holes in cars and trucks parked or abandoned because of the fight.

She looked at the few people still on the street.

Blood filled her mouth and Isabella spat it onto the street.  Her body was bruised, battered, and broken in a few places but Isabella didn't feel any of it.  Her focus was on  Daphne to such a degree that the status of her own body became secondary.  Isabella narrowed her eyes and ran at Amazona.  She led with her shield, attempting to clip Daphne in the face with the edge.  Except it was a feint. 

She drove the shield up and over, dropping below it, underneath the line of sight, she scissored her legs between Daphne’s and kicked them out from underneath her.  She flew back and hit the ground hard, several shards hit the ground around her and Isabella heard the first of the screams.  She glanced quickly and saw a mother protecting her baby, blood pouring out of her leg, it looked like she had been shot.  She shielded her child and tried to pull herself into a doorway nearby.

Isabella turned away from Daphne and flew towards the woman.  She grabbed her, making sure the child was secure as well.  Isabella flew the woman to safety leaving her with people on the street that could help her.  Only when they were safe did she fly back to look for Daphne.

She stood in the crater; dust billowing in the air, the sun broke through the slight clouds overhead bathing the street in a harsh bright light.  If it had not been for the sun, Isabella would have missed the tears running down Daphne’s face; they gleamed like diamonds, cutting clean streaks through the dirt and blood.  

Then she was angry again, she flew at her flailing her arms and punching without any real strength behind them, Isabella blocked the punches, confused.  Daphne fell to her knees, actually crying now.

Isabella asked, tears running down her own face.  She dropped to her knees and wrapped her arms around Daphne.  It was her mother, but somebody was influencing her in some horrible way.  Isabella was confused and probably would be for some time but her Mother was alive.

"It's alright.  We will find out who did this to you."

Her head snapped up, and she head butted Isabella through another wall.  "That’s your problem girl, your living in the past, pay attention to the future."  Isabella landed hard and a desk fell on her as her tumble stopped.  The lights flickered in the room, some knocked out from the impact.

"CHCHHChhhhh Do you need help Double U?"  A voice came through the Comm it was very static filled and quiet.  She could hear the crunch of Daphne's feet on the rubble as she came closer.

"I have everything under control."  Isabella lied.  She wasn't in control but this was her fight.  Besides she didn't want anybody else getting hurt.  She knew how Daphne moved and fought.  The others didn't stand a chance.

Isabella grabbed the desk and threw it at Daphne.  She hopped to her feet and flew right behind the desk and then through it.  The wood splintered and shattered around her body as Isabella tried to punch Daphne in the face.

As she punched through the desk she failed to connect with the solid person behind it, then she felt the tight grip on her foot/ankle.  It pulled her back and slammed her into a wall, and another and finally the ceiling, as she traveled up through the building and back into the daylight.

Sparks rained down the hole popping and sparking around Daphne as she roared up into the sky after her prey.  Isabella was already beginning her descent towards the Earth when Daphne planted a Mach 1 kick to her midsection.  She flew backwards towards the Ocean.

Isabella's eyes opened as her body skipped across the water, she was slowing and beginning to go under when she flew back into the air.  She was confused but there was no time to dwell on that.  The major ass kicking she was receiving prevented that.  

Isabella rose higher into the air until the sun was at her back.  She took a deep breath and flew at Daphne as fast as she could, trying to bring the edge of her shield across Amazona's jaw.

The sunlight framed her as she flew towards Daphne, at the last second the Sunlight glinted in perfect form off the Oriculum, flashing across her eyes blinding her.  The shield collided with her jaw and she heard cartilage and bone snap under the hit.  Daphne lashed out, glancing Isabella knocking her a few feet away, she screamed through the pain and blinked trying to get her sight back quicker.

Isabella moved in close and grabbed Daphne by the back of the head with her shield arm.  Isabella held on tightly and lashed out with her right arm, smashing Daphne in the face again and again.  Then she brought her knee into Daphne's stomach followed by an elbow to the back of the neck.

The elbow drove her down and she smashed into some rocks below, her body lay still and shattered on the rocks, waves crashed and washed the blood out to sea.  Isabella hovered above, blood and bits of skin dripping from her fist, she breathed heavy, it seemed to be over.

She floated to the ground and stood before the fallen Daphne.  That wasn't her mother but that didn't mean her death didn't cause her pain.  It was a part of battle and sometimes it happened but Isabella never liked when it did.

She didn't understand fully what was happening on this world and why they had come here but Aeon and the others had seemed sure that this was the right course of action and she had followed like a good soldier. After all she was the Warchild and it was what she had been designed to do.

Daphne began to stir and Isabella sat on a stone nearby and watched as muscle began to knit on Amazona's cheek.  "I am more than I seem daughter of war."  She sat up and stared long and hard at her opponent.  "You were right when you claimed I was not what I seemed.  I am far more than the people of Earth understand, my people are strong and come from a lineage greater than this world knows."  Daphne's eyes softened.

"I do not understand why you are telling me any of this."  Isabella responded.

"Girl, I have killed you.  You are beyond broken and you do not heal as well as I.  Whatever it is that your people have planned will fail but I will have to sit the war out for a time because even though I will heal, it will take much time."  Isabella smiled, this woman was so much like her mother, duplicates they had said.  She looked down and saw the breaks in bone and skin, the crushed portions of her ceremonial armor.

"This is a good death..."

Saturday Super Stories - The Event 4 C

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”

“A smart man once said ‘There is more than one of everything.”

The Event 4 - Dopplegang’land C “The Commander & Sentinel Versus Soldier America & Android X”

"I don't know who you think you are supposed to be son, but this is America and I'm the one who protects the land of the free."  The Commanders fist and body seem to be caught by a stray beam of sunlight and silhouette him perfectly.

"Son I am Soldier America and I'm the one who stands against the tyranny of the enemies of this great nation, and you boy look like a commie to me."  Soldier America is highlighted by a burst of lightning that comes from the crystal skies above.

Sentinel and Android X stand quietly behind each of their allies and watch the situation at hand very carefully; their processors weighing the odds and taking scans of their opponents.

The Commander growled and took a step forward.  Soldier America matches the step.  "I'll show you who's a commie!  AMERICA PUNCH!!!"  The Commander leapt forward and his hand blazed with the song of the american eagle and the liberty bell and struck the bastard before him across the jaw, blood trickled from the crack in his lip as Soldier America grinned.

"Pussy."  He rolled both of his wrists and the joints popped beneath the skin and he slammed his palms together and clasped them in a buffalo punch that cracked the Commander across the skull and sent him down to a knee.  "PLYMOUTH ROCK!!"

The Commander spit some blood to the ground.  "You hit like a woman."  Soldier America swore and the two went at it wholeheartedly, screaming catch phrases at the top of their lungs with each strike.

LADY LIBERTY!!
THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!
THE SECOND AMENDMENT!!
WASHINGTON FIST!!
THE LINCOLN TUNNEL!!

Android X finished analyzing Sentinel and sent a salvo of missiles right at him and the ground around him as the Commander and Soldier America's fight started to move away.  In the brief moment that all of Sentinel sensors were obscured the back of Android X opened and a man slipped out and fled the scene, Jarod Blacknell was now loose in the city, this world, and soon he would find the people responsible for the actions against his dimension and make them pay for what they had done.

Sentinel sent a small pulse through the air and disabled Android X easily and turned back to the battle.

HOME OF THE FREE!!
LAND OF THE BRAVE!!

If he was capable of sighing he would have, The Sentinel continued to watch.

TBC

Saturday Super Stories - The Event 4 B

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”

“A smart man once said ‘There is more than one of everything.”

The Event 4 - Dopplegang’land B “Jack Rabbit Versus Blrrr”

In the farthest reaches of Antarctica the Adventurers of the Undiscovered were exploring a fault line crack that burrowed deep into the crust beneath the glacier surface.  Barnabus adjusted the harness and released a bit more of the tension on the line lowering Warren further into the crevice. 

“Do you hear a buzzing sound Barney?”  Jeremy asked.  Barnabus Alexander also known as Jack Rabbit of the WMD looked up at him and began to speak as Jeremy vanished in a spray of blood and death.  A streak of red blurred fast and it was only his accelerated vision and brain power that allowed him to keep track of it at all.

The red began to slow down and stopped at the other edge of the crevice, the red it seemed was only what was left of his cousin and the man’s suit was in fact silver and white.  “I wouldn’t do that if I were you chief.  Bad shit lies beneath the arctic sheath.”

“I, who…what did you…”  Barnabus couldn’t find the words to express himself in that moment.

“The names Blrrr, your universe invaded mine and my team and I were sent here to negotiate your surrender.  But I’m going to go ahead and kill as many of your people as I can before I get pulled back to my universe.  Also I really mean it, you should stop what you are doing, gonna get that guy killed and release one of the universes most horrible things like ever on the universe.”

Confusion racked Barnabus’ brain and he still couldn’t get everything to work, he already felt himself releasing the harness and the line begin to slide away from him as his body began to move into its speed zone.

“Thing you are exploring down there is called Horizon, super evil she-bitch time traveler.  Real name is Josephine or so she told us when I released her on my world.  Us hyper-kinetics always seem to be science guys, and we always have a group, be it challengers, adventurers, or explorers, doesn’t matter the universe we always come here and release this abomination against reality.  My group is also called Horizon, we named ourselves after the thing we united against and killed to save the universe.”

“WHAT ARE YOU?!” Jasmine screamed.

“I am he and he is me.”  Then Blrrr was gone and time reverted to normal speed and Barnabus realized that the fight hadn’t even started and it was over and he had lost, blood poured from the holes punched in his sternum and then he heard Warren slam into the ice below.

Jasmine ran to him and tried to call the WMD and warn them but it was already too late, the end had come and they were to slow.

Types

Types

The Star Force Imbued - are individuals burdened with portions of the Star Force, they are similar to the Star Forced.  The Family absorbed a small portion of one on their way through the Kaleidoscope Cascade.  The noble blooded of Immortia seem to possess some kid of Star Force imbuement.

The Star Forced - Very unique individuals who house a whole Star Force, ones that came from the evolution of the universe.  SuperDude houses Dawnbringer, while Humongous Man once housed Eclipse, and the stone of Central Park became the progenitor of the Star Force Centurions.

Human - Just your standard baseline normal person from an Earth, be it Prime or II.  Sometimes the most dangerous of the species.

Augments - are humans that were tested on by the government using the blood of Arien Blackwood.  They have super human abilities and number in the hundreds.

Aliens - Species not of the Earth.

Genetic Hybrids - The children of the augmented that are imbued with greater than human abilities.

Immortals - Humans who do not die through any conventional means.  Some live forever because of a curse (the 4 Woes), others are immortal because of noble blood.  Immortality always comes at a cost and most come with a curse.

Scions - Individuals who are genetically perfect to house the Entities God Seed, they then become his Scions and spread chaos through the universe so that he may feed.

Groups & Teams

Groups & Teams

WMD - The Weapons of Mass Destruction formed during the Harvester Crisis, led by the Dark Avenger and SuperDude, this team saves the world on a weekly basis.

IED - The Improvised Explosive Device are a group of the less powerful superhumans of the Super U’niverse, they are a sub-team of the WMD and as such handle lesser problems when they arise and the WMD are too busy to handle it on their own.

The Family - Led by Richard Reader aka Spectacular, this family of superhumans gained their abilities from an extra-dimensional accident that led to a war with a parallel earth (THE EVENT).  Other members of the Family are Visible Lass, Richard’s wife Sadie, Sear and Clobber, Joanna and Robert Garvey, husband and wife.  They tend to deal with some of the more serious cosmic threats like The Entity and his Scions.

Freedom’s Legacy - They were a group of six people led by The Commander during World War II, who answered to the Allies.  The Commander and Sentinel have since made their way into the future to become members of the WMD and assisted during the Harvester Crisis.

The Raven Institute for the Academically Gifted - A school for the augmented and genetic hybrids of the world, opened by Alejandro Raven on the outskirts of New York City on the Ravenswood estates, and future site of Super University.  It was closed down sometime after THE EVENT.  One of the students would become the first Protégé of the Dark Avenger and later become Zero a threat to NeoGothic City and the hero known as Black Sapphire.

Force 11 - After Arien Blackwood escaped custody by the government he went to the Show of Force bank and trust and committed suicide, his vaporous remains would imbue twelve people in the bank with amazing abilities and reawaken a dormant Star Force called the Pariah and in turn wake the Messiah deep in space.

Adventurers of the Undiscovered - A small group of family members who explore the world in search of answers to life’s mysteries.  Jack Rabbit of the WMD is a member of this group and through them discovered Amazona and her people before they were wiped out and found a god to worship and take the mantle of.

The Column – The governments’ government, super spies who watch everything and protect everyone.  Former directors include Jackson Black and Gregory Haines, the current director if Nicolette Q. Chalm, daughter of Jackson Black.

The B Listers - A sub-group of elite soldiers within the Column command structure.  They are led by Gregory Haines, the ex-director who had replaced Jackson Black after the death during THE EVENT.  They handle missions that threaten the American way of life.

Horizon - A group similar to the WMD from Earth II, made up of anti-heroes who were easily corrupted by the overwhelming influence of Pandemonium when arriving of the Super U’niverse Earth.  The team fell during THE EVENT, only one member managed to remain after the collapse of the Kaleidoscope Cascade.

Aliens

Aliens

The Harvesters - An alien species that lives in between the universes.  They hunt down and feed upon beings that possess the Star Force.  They are on the verge of extinction with the last of the species now trapped in the Super U’niverse.  They found the universe after Arien Blackwood breached the Cascade and landed on Earth, his minor Star Force signature was enough for “The Erroneous Bleed” to track him down.  At the time they were being guided by Genesis, another being of immense power trapped in the space between universes.

They were defeated and imprisoned on Earth in The Column and the SPIRaL ARC facilities, after their leader Genesis fled the battle and abandoned his troops.

The Entity - Is a cosmic being that feeds upon the chaos that is sowed by his Scions.  One of the last beings of his kind in the universe after his people fought in each other to the death in the War of Sorrows.  His true name is unpronounceable in the human tongue; Spectacular once built a universal translator that took a few days to finally spit out ‘Ted’.

The Scions - Are beings that were once normal until the God Seed filled them and turned them into the Entity’s ‘sons’.  They go about the universe and cause destruction and the energy of the chaos caused by them feeds their master.

The Catalogers - Are a species that are virtually unknown to the whole of the universe.  They chronicle everything that happens, and are able to pass between the fabric between the worlds.  Everything they collect is stored in The Knowledge, a massive hunk of extra terrestrial quartz, which is found in the center of the complex in which they live.  The Chief Archivist oversees all of the activities of the Catalogers and is able to navigate The Knowledge with ease, plucking information from it and allowing others to relive the data.

The Star Force Centurions - Fueled by an alien Star Force that had been bound into the Harvester Ship “The Erroneous Bleed”.  Freed during the formation of the WMD and IED when the Harvesters assaulted the Star Force imbued beings of Earth, it picked another Star Force that had been bound in the rock of Central Park in New York City and chose it to spread the word and find hosts to divide its power and police the universe.

The Antianeira - More commonly called Amazons, The Antianeira are high borne noble-women warriors that were exiled to Earth millennia ago.  The Amazon myths came from them.  Originally led by Penthesilea until her death, currently those who remain after the Purge are led by Daphne the daughter of Penthesilea who is better known to the world as Amazona.

Saturday Super Stories - The Event 4 A

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”

“A smart man once said ‘There is more than one of everything.”

The Event 4 - Dopplegang’land A “SuperDude Versus Aeon”

“Remember when we cross over to protect the device on your waistbands, it is the only thing holding you together in that world.  If you lose it you will be pulled back to this world, because you will act as a negative to the positive of their world, pushed away from them.  We do not know if the transfer will be safe, you might perish.”

“We are attempting to align you to your counterpart and you should appear near them.”

Aeon hovered in the air in front of Superdude and smiled.  “So you are the one who is just like me?”  He looked him up and down as SuperDude did the same in return.  “My abilities are many and are very powerful, they stem from a sun I ate during the imprisonment at the hands of my people.  I was forced to evolve and destroyed them with the very thing I was imprisoned with, it was quite ingenious really.”  Aeon paused his speech as SuperDude stopped and stared at the symbol emblazoned on Aeon’s chest, two angels ripping apart a helix of DNA.  “You are making me tell you all of this somehow are you not?”  SuperDude shrugged and smiled back at him.

“It’s part of the abilities within me, I inspire confidence in those around me, and I make other people better.”  He explained as Aeon snarled in response and attacked him.  SuperDude caught his rushing fist and launched into a grapple that Aeon reversed and twisted free of.  “We are equally matched and you will not win.”

“Oh I will win, and I know your one real weakness, this place, this world, I will take the fight to it if you do not surrender to me without a fight.  Your people attacked my world and you will pay for it.”

“My people, what are you talking about?”

 

“The one called Reader and his Family attacked my home and are now the prisoners of war.”

“I really do not think that’s the greatest course of action seeing as we have only just met and that’s a very bad idea.”  SuperDude shrugged back at him.  “I will be better than you because I must be, and you will never have a chance to hurt this world.”  In a blink SuperDude was on Aeon and then they were hurdling through space.

Nearby…

Android X watched the exchange and his onboard computer systems tracked the trajectory and calculated their destination as the asteroid belt just past Mars.  It appeared as if SuperDude had warped spacetime around him and blitzed them across the distance in several hops.

He retrieved files and began to cross reference the battles being waged across the Earth and watched readings begin to flood in as more and more cracks in reality began to appear.

This Event that were a part of was going to end all of creation.

Saturday Super Stories - The Event 3

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.  Some people and places are the same regardless of the world on which it lay, it spreads like an infection.”

The Event 3 – Horizon

“Thank you all for coming, I know that we do not have the best of relationships but the Department of Superhuman Affairs needs your help.”  She stood in front of a massive monitor that covered an entire wall; a map of the Earth filled the screen, several small red dots blinked.  Several technicians were watching these points vigilantly.

“My name Agent Powerhouse and this is my wife Agent Frost, we are in charge of the DSA in North America.”  He clicked a device at another screen and photos of the HelixONE breach started as a slideshow moved the show on without anyone clicking anything more.  “Two weeks ago we suffered a dimensional breach that has ruptured our space/time continuum.  The breach tore into a villain’s base that we had been tracking, his name is Alpha and he has been targeting a hero named Black Sapphire.”

“We have reason to believe that Alpha has been repeatedly breaching into this parallel Earth, for what purpose we do not know, but we feel as if he thinks we are at war.”  Agent Frost continued.

“What do you need from us?”  Aeon hovered slightly above the ground, his air of superiority filling the whole of the chamber they were in.

“We need the members of Horizon to traverse the void and enter this other world and try and stop whatever it is that Alpha is trying to accomplish before we end up in open conflict with another universe.  Each breach is fracturing the structure of reality itself and if this continues for much longer everything will be over.”  Frost waved over another member of the DSA he smiled at them all.  “This is Breach, he is one of our powered agents.  He has the ability to enter anything, breaching as it were including the veil between worlds.”

“Sometimes that is, I sort of teleport between places by bypassing the veil that lay between realms, I can also pick locks very well.”  Breach spoke quietly.  “I can use one of the fractures to gain access to this other place easily.  We have found an issue related to the whole process though, we can only take people who have a copy on the other world, anyone who doesn’t have an analog gets rejected.”

“How do you mean rejected?”  Soldier American asked.

“Pushed back away from the fracture, non-violently, so we sent a probe through and did a scan for identical energy signatures and cross matched them against our datatbase’s and called Horizon in.  We found matches on the other side for almost every person on your team and so we ask if you will help us stop a war by going into another universe for the sake of our universe and humanity?”  Powerhouse followed.

The members of Horizon talked amongst themselves for some time before responding.  Aeon spoke up and agreed to the task set before them.

“There is one last stipulation.  We have three prisoners from this universe and we want them return to the authorities there.”  Powerhouse asked Aeon directly.

Aeon nodded, “Let’s do this then.”  Breach nodded and the Horizon and agents of the DSA transported the group to the closest fracture.

John Phoenix, Immortal.  Born a completely normal person until his genes kicked in and he became a flame specialist, then one fateful day he was murdered during a mission and passed on from this mortal coil that is until he woke up again.

Aeon is also known as the sun eater.  He was exiled into a sun by his people where he escaped and absorbed the sun from within which in turn led to the death of his people.  His stance on justice is skewed which is do it part in

Soldier American was once a normal man until D-Day when the massacre at the beaches of Normandy led to the slaughter of thousands of allied troops, he absorbed the souls of all the men slain and gain their insights, strengths and stamina.  He led the charge and won the day almost single handedly in this reality.

Isabella, the Warchild is a warrior from worlds unknown, a perfect fighter who knows no losses in combat.  Unlucky in love and all the more bitter for it, works with the men on Horizon with great trepidation.

Odin is not the actual deity but an immortal who has taken the title for his own purposes.  Odin has lived for millennia and has mastered hundreds of styles of combat, but his personal weapon is a glaive called Ban’deth the Unrighteous Blade.

Android X is cobbled together from parts pulled from various robot threats that world has faced through the years.  Built by Jarod Blacknell and Mr. Amazing to assist with communications and tactical support.

Blrrr is capable of pulling speed from the Earth’s rotation, and cybernetically enhanced, his brain has been augmented to process information at a much faster rate while he is in speed mode.

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Saturday Super Stories - The Event 2

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

“Many things have been culled from this universe, many lives lost, some heroically, some fruitlessly, but everything and everyone met has had an impact.”

The Event 2 - Opening Salvo

Alpha stood over the pile of rocks that had once been Robert Garvey, the stranger from another universe, and frowned.  His installation had been attacked and compromised and he had been personally assaulted by a woman he had found inferior to him, and he had underestimated her, it would not happen again.

The pile shifted slightly it’s ‘face’ turning to look at him.  “You were not alone were you rock man?”  Alpha asked, “My agents within the DSA claim that three more people were taken into custody the night you arrived, each bearing strange abilities.  My people here in the Epsilon Facility have determined that you came from another universe and your ‘body’ is infused with cosmic radiation similar to that of a star.”

“I don’t know nuthin’ about all that, we got here by accident.  We was investigating a space anomaly and this guy showed up and then we were crashing into the earth.”  Bob’s voice was gravely like stones scraping against one another, which in a way was exactly what was happening.

“Hmm, there is power in the stone of Earth, and in the other elements, they all destroy everything that they touch, everything.”  Alpha reached down and took hold of Roberts stones and poured energy into them, he began to scream as they began to fuse together, the screaming grew louder and, louder until they cut off all together as Robert lost consciousness.

But still Alpha poured his energy into the stone and watched as they fused into a shape of a man, each piece locking into place like a puzzle until the whole of the man lay before him, “My gift to you.”

The Year 2199, Super U’niverse

Titan stood in the window of TitanCorp Tower and watched as the sun set on New York City, the shadows swallowing the city bit by bit, all encompassing darkness creeping in.  Some days he missed the stars, the lights of the city drowning them out, all except the three burning in the heavens watching down on the world.  He sighed, he missed the old days before the Mega-Corporations ate the world and there were parts of the countryside left, when nature was allowed to grow.  “I really hate the future,” he mumbled.

Then something slammed into the side of the building and the whole of it began to rock back and forth.  “What the frell?”  He walked over to the computers and found that three whole stories had been struck by an object that was slowly moving deeper into the building towards the main central supports.  He pulled himself into his armor and grabbed his gun and concentrated his mass enhancing as his muscle strength increased.

He strode down the hallway after the elevator had deposited him on the appropriate level.  A large robot was in the process of ripping into the walls next to one of the support beams as a large round hole in its chest began to spin and power up.  "Who in the twelve hells do you think you are, coming into my home and wrecking this much havoc, do you know who I am?"  He roared.

"It matters not, I have been tasked by Doctor Johann Spindlar to remove this structure from the world, and the ImpossiBot does not fail when given a task."  The machine replied.  Titan raised his weapon and aimed.  "I would advise against that, if you were to breach my core I would go into meltdown and much of the city would be lost."  Titan smirked and fired, the weapon appeared to do nothing but a low hum and the instantaneous vanishing of the robots head proved it had worked.  He smiled, and then quickly noticed the energy weapon still charging.

"Building prepare jettison, level 18 through 36, cache artifacts into the tesseracts and launch orbital displacement."

CONFIRMED

The building rumbled and was launched into the air like a rocket, inertia engines pushing the whole of it into space as the ImpossiBot exploded and destroyed the building, Titan grimaced as his armor strained against the force and fell into blissful unconsciousness as the attack claimed him.

The Present Day, Earth II

"This will be the second attempt at attacking the new universe, my calculations were off by .0003% and the ImpossiBot landed in that worlds future, the target was dead on but the year was wrong.  My second creation the ImprobaBot, a newer design, one that cultivates the Chaos and Order spheres of magic and is reinforced magically."  Johann Spindlar, Doctor and Super Scientist spoke to Alpha and a small camera that was recording the entire situation.

"It will work this time?"  Alpha questioned.  The doctor nodded and slammed a palm down on a large red button that triggered the launch.  The platform shunted the robot into the parallel reality like a cannon shot.  They turned to watch through a view screen, that was taking advantage of the fractures in reality that the HelixONE's breach had caused.

Meanwhile in the Super U'niverse

The sound was like fabric tearing and the building shook in its foundation.  Almost immediately the fire alarm sounded and the sprinkler system activated.  "RIPTEARSUNDERDESTROY"  The ImprobaBot wailed into the room and it began to rip apart the support structure.  It only took a moment for the main support to collapse and the building to crumble.

Sometime later...

SuperDude hovered over the massive sinkhole in New York City and listened to Dawnbringer as it explained what he was witnessing.  He called to the rest of the WMD and as they each arrived to the scene to investigate the ImprobaBot scanned each and fed the information back to the Epsilon Base.

'Soon...'

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Saturday Super Stories - The Event 1

"I have pulled from The Knowledge tales from the Event that ravaged two universes.  I start at the beginning and will tell the important parts, and while there are many stories to be told, this will be quick."  Chief Archivist of the Catalogers.

The Event - The Family Part 1 (Escape from Dimension X)

<The Omega Sanction>

"WE HAVE INCOMING!!!" One of the techs screamed at Alpha just as the roof caved in with a gigantic explosion. Fire and shrapnel ripped through the main computer room, sparks shot from the various devices stored in and around the main hub, smoke began to billow and swirl around.

Alpha stood as the last pieces settled on the ground, he surveyed the area and found his entire technical staff dead, 90% of the machines inoperable and a large ship punched through with its engines winding down. Across the bow, the paint badly damaged: HelixONE.

Alpha sighed and strode to the hatch of the ship. He reached out and grasped it by the hinges and wrenched as hard as he could, the metal quickly cooled, then cracked and shattered under the pure PSI of his grasp.

"I know that you are in there. Please exit the ship quickly." He called into the opening, his voiced echoing back at him.

"I'm coming, and I'm all alone! I'm coming out." A massive pile of rocks shifted into position in front of the door, started to climb out, then collapsed. "But I think something went wrong." It mumbled.

"No shit," One of the wounded not quite dead technical staff whispered.

"Grab that...whatever the hell it is and bring it to the Gamma Labs. Send in two teams to search the rest of the ship." Alpha walked away before his anger destroyed the creature and before he could get some answers.

<Inside HelixONE>

Richard Reader watched from one of the still working monitors. Robert Garvey had saved them for a few minutes at least. "I don't know what to do." His wife, Sadie, hissed at his side. "I can't stop glowing." He shot a harsh look over his shoulder at her.

"Be quiet. I'm thinking," He whispered.

"Don't do that, this is affecting all of us," she retorted. "You aren't alone here."

"Yes, DEAR," He replied. "But unless you have a plan in that glowing bosom of yours I suggest you be quiet." Her mouth opened and closed but she remained silent.

The entire ship shuddered as the zone next to it exploded in a million shards of icy death, flying into the corridors and wrecking havoc. 

"I think perhaps, things outside have gotten worse," Reader spoke, "We need to move now, before something even worse happens." He grabbed his wife's glowing hand and motioned for the super-heated Jordana to follow them. He led them up the length of the ship and towards the landing gear compartments.

Outside the gear's hatch in an adjacent hallway, two of the Omega Sanction employee's were working on cutting into the ship from below, and were taken completely by surprise when the outside of the hull exploded outward in super-heated metal. Their deaths were instantaneous.

Reader dropped out and then helped Jordana and Sadie down in turn. She gasped at the melting, burning corpses, and then began to cry. Reader's eyes narrowed. "We don't have time for this, we need to find Robert and escape from wherever we have landed, without 'starting shit' as Black put it."

"I think we're too late for that," Sadie responded.

He smirked, "You may be right, dear." He began to move.

<The Omega Sanction>

Black Sapphire walked from the hole she had created down from the surface along side of the crashed ships impact point.  Freezing the soil down on an angle and boosting her strength to its maximum before punching and shattering a hole down into the underground complex.

“ALPHA!!” She screamed out.

She strode through the debris of the earth, metal and ship as she searched for her opponent.  She heard a chuckle from the ground near her feet and she looked down and saw a computer tech buried under the rubble, a pool of blood slowly spreading out from him.  “What’s so funny jackass?”  She asked as she knelt beside him.

“You, you’re here…cough…to die, just as the shit starts to hit the fan…cough…heh, Alpha is going to kill you, we know everything there is to know about you,” his eyes slid shut and he breathed his last breath.

“Not everything retard, I hardly ever use all of my powers.”  Sapphire stood back up and stepped over the corpse and continued to make her way through the hallways leading out of the central computer zone, she noted as she exited that the walls were painted like a hospital with colored arrows leading to different parts of the complex.  She noticed some blood on the floor heading towards the Gamma Labs and Central Offices; she started down the hallway in that direction.

<Deeper in the Omega Sanction>

"I have no idea what is going on but we need to find Robert and exit as soon as we can."  Richard hissed.

"These tubes..." Sadie pointed as an explosion shook them violently in their housings. "There are people inside of them." From behind the glass a woman in the nearest tube stared at them, her cheek crossed in a scar. "I think she's awake."

"It doesn't matter. Let's move." Reader pulled at her and they continued deeper.

<The Epsilon Center>

Sapphire walked into the Central Office and found a maze of cubicles and a large empty room.  Large flat screen televisions were scattered around the room, several had the rainbow of a dead signal, but one showed a group of technicians fighting a pile of rocks and Alpha talking to them as they struggled.  She snarled and stepped back out and began to run down the hallway towards the Gamma Lab.

<The Gamma Lab>

Sapphire kicked the sliding doors of the Gamma Labs inwards in an explosion of glass and metal shards.  She snarled at the technicians frozen in shock at her entrance and they began to back away from her.  Alpha smiled at her.

“Welcome child,” he spoke loudly and his voice carried.

“Asshole it’s time I took you down for all the crap you have put me through,” her knuckles popped as she leapt at him.  He responded with a single fist, the shockwave rocked the floor.

<The Surface>

Agents stood around the massive wounds in the Earth, their weapons at the ready, just as Reader and his people breached the surface nearby.  The Agents pivoted on the new opponents.

Reader stared back at them.  "We Come in Peace?" He spoke quickly.

Agents Frost and Powerhouse moved to the front of the group.  “We’re with the DSA and you will submit to containment until the scene is secure and we have had time to question you thoroughly about what has happened.”  Reader nodded.  Several Agents moved up with handcuffs, two of which were bulky and when placed on Jordana and Sadie shut their abilities off. 

“Interesting,” Reader mumbled.  The Agents led them to a van and placed them in the back and closed them inside and moved back to secure the scene as the sounds of battle began to waft up through the holes and the ground began to vibrate from the conflict that raged beneath the surface.

Saturday Super Stories - Stand Alone 11

She is alone floating in a kinetic void of dimensional space, saved by chaos and chance.

Stand Alone 11 - Echoes across the Face

The first sound she heard was music, the music of the spheres.

The second sound was her screaming.

The last sound was her crying.

She floated in the endless expanse of the void, fluid below her and a white gray sky above.  She hovered in between them cruising at several dozen miles an hour, the force of the concussion carrying her across the dimension where her powers had pulled her to protect her from death.

Sapphire pulled her eyes open, forcing them to view her surroundings, the sky wasn’t just endless white and gray overtones it was filled with other earths and planets.  She looked at her body and saw the burns and blood, the damage the explosion had caused her before she ended up in this place.  She didn’t feel the pain internally but she knew deep within her soul that she should probably be dead right now.

Whatever it was that had saved her must be linked to her abilities, the power source that was similar to the Star Force but not actually alike at all, a source that bordered on the cosmic.

So she floated in this kinetic ether, she neither slowed nor sped up, just maintaining the speed in which she had entered.

It gave her time to think and to plot.

Whoever had done this to her was tied into her search for the Protégé that came before her, that much she was sure.  The 5 had popped onto the screens after she had viewed the last class of students at the Raven Institute before the Event had shut down the school.  That narrowed the search down to a handful of people.  The voice that had announced the ‘One’ was male and Walters had recognized it, but also seemed confused since she had the feeling that the Protégé had died in the past at some point.

So Protégé had either faked his death or was left for dead and now he was back for revenge, which apparently began with her and ended with the destruction of the cave and Walters.

He hadn’t counted on whatever happened to her then, an unknown ability being triggered by the explosive force that had slammed into her.  So she had surprise on her side and no way as to how she was going to take advantage of it, stuck in this musical floating hell.

She closed her eyes again and meditated on calming her center and focusing her energies inwards as Dune had taught her as a child.  Her mind began to drift backwards and brought with it memories that she had attempted to push aside.

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