Create Your Own Superhero/Villain: Bleeding Hearts (IC)

[Confederated Southern States]

(The OOC is here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=250071)



CAMERA ON

The camera’s lenses snapped to view, revealing Shade calmly sitting down at a table, hood and mask off and with a deck of cards in her hand. She quite literally kept a poker face on and eyed the camera.

“Life… it’s like a game of cards; there are no bad hands, only bad players… Life is all about how we play the cards we've been dealt…”

Shade proceeded to shuffle the deck several times.

“The greatest players win in spite of their hands…”

Shade proceeded to pull out an eight of hearts.

“Emotions…”

An eight of diamonds.

“Opulence…”

A two of spades.

“Intelligence…”

A five of clubs.

“And power… or smashing people’s heads in…”

Shade’s stare dug deep into the lenses.

“Now, who are you…?”

An ace of hearts.

“The Scarecrow…? No…”

She laid the card down. Next was a king of diamonds.

“James Hathawell…?”

Shade chucked it aside. An ace of clubs appeared.

“President Mayfield…? Getting warmer…”

Shade put it over the ace of hearts. Her hand revealed a queen of spades.

“Well, you’re certainly not me… Those are face cards, though… you must struggle to be a face card, because most people are just filler…”

She casually tossed a card at the camera.

“You've got your Johns…”

Another card went flying.

“Your Joes…”

And another.

“Your Bobs… Your butchers, your bakers, your fucking heartbreakers!"

Shade tossed the entire deck with a slight scowl of rage.

“Now which are you…? What will you do to define yourself from the formless masses… Life is all about leaving a legacy; what’s yours…? It’s not about your initial hand, it’s about your last… Are you playing your cards…?”


CAMERA OFF

Shade took the camera, inserting the memory disk into her supercomputer and sent the video to Raptor.

[Communist Androids]

Alfred
Alfred stood on the outskirts of Atlanta. Once again, by decimating the fourth wall Alfred was able to gather the necessary information to know when and where he needed to be. He, of course, had little to no idea about the actual situation, but he knew that there was going to be a situation. Such was the bonus of being able to ignore the information barrier known as the fourth wall. Alfred decided the best course of action would be to wander the city and wait. When big things happen, it isn't difficult to find out where.
Tempest
Ah, Atlanta Georgia. Here at last. Tempest thought. My revenge has eluded me for some time, but I will not simply forget my previous failures. No, I will get my revenge on that couple if it's the last thing I do. And once I have killed them and made them pay for thinking themselves better then me, I will move on to more villainly things, like world domination. Tempest thought as he wandered the city. His face was angled down and his hood was up. He had gloves and shoes on to hide his skeletal body. The entire point now was for the element of surprise, getting caught now would ruin all of that.

[Inoroth]

Blaine

The dust kicked up by the cab blurred his eyes and the exhaust made him cough.

Thanks, jerk

But Blaine hadn't tipped him for what turned out to be a very long drive, so perhaps he deserved it. But what was a guy with no money supposed to do? Blaine was here for an art festival, where he hoped to sell some of his creations and mitigate his economic disadvantage, at least for a time. He had heard from a reliable source that "several big-spenders were going to be looking for 'unique' pieces" at this festival, and if he was lucky, he might get one of them interested in his work, kickstarting a successful art career.

"Ahhh, Atlanta... it's a bit hot for my taste, but if everything works out, I won't sweat it"

He chuckled at his somewhat sub-par pun as he entered the hotel, briefcase in tow. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was the best he could afford. Walking up to the main desk, he met the receptionist.

"Blaine, Thomas Blaine. I should already have room 204 reserved. Also, have my packages arrived yet?"

The woman, in her late twenties and in a horrible mood, did not even look up as she handed him his room key and pointed to several irregularly-shaped packages bound in brown paper and wire.

"You're an hour late, Mr Blaine."

She added cooly in a southern drawl that was not at all sweet. He ignored her comment and went after one of the bell boys.

"Hey you, Mr. Batter-cherry, mind giving me a hand?"

The man, seemingly offended, muttered in a heavy Indian accent.

"My name is Bhattacharya, is says so clearly on the name plate. Why does no one ever pronounce it correctly? I would not have this problem if I had stayed in Punjab. There, everyone would know how to say it right."

He attempted to load one of the cumbersome packages onto a cart, but found it to be too heavy. Astonished, he exclaimed.

"What is this made of, solid lead?"

Matter-of-factly, Blaine corrected him.

"Solid Iron, actually -- it's a sculpture... I call it War Horse. Here let me help."

The man tried to stifle an incredulous laugh. No way Blaine was stronger than he was. Using magnetism, Blaine lifted the object onto the cart. He ensured it still looked difficult enough to make it believable, but in reality he had found it almost effortless.

"There, now, I think I can take it from here. Good day to both of you... hope it's alright if i leave the others down here for a few more hours... then I'll get them out of your hair."

The bell boy's jaw was hanging free, and the receptionist starred at the 'string bean' kid, eyebrow raised and pen on the desk, right where she had dropped it upon witnessing the feat. As the elevator door closed, Blaine couldn't help but smile.

[Damak Var]

Being Vice President was not a bad deal James had come to realize. For one it allowed greater powers while not being so much in the public spotlight as the President would. It allowed him to keep his billions of dollars worth of assets including his shares of Hathawell and the critics said very little. Not that James was in this for the money. He had enough anyways being one of the richest men in the world. Plus Sierra would take good care of the company while he was away.

President Mayfield was very popular. James was popular too even before he entered the White House. Reinstating the Constitution to full effect resonated well with the American people. That whole business of James being a traitor and public enemy had been cleared up.

As for running the executive branch of government, Mayfield was more a military man. It was James who was the brains behind his administration, doing most of the work. This included setting fiscal policy, facilitating commerce, industry, research, dealing with government programs, publicity, rooting out corruption and all the politics that comes with the Presidency. Mayfield on the other hand did a stellar job being a figurehead and exercising his role as Command in Chief more actively than most presidents.

Some might say the Vice President was pretty much running the show, usurping power. But in reality the two mostly saw eye to eye on all matters and James always conceded to Mayfield when he intervened. He was the President after all.

"The President wants this new bill passed. He is very sympathetic to veterans and I for one agree that the government does not take care of those who fought for this country enough." James said matter of factly to the four senators seated in the conference room with him in the White House. They were reading the contents of the envelopes he presented for them. They were records of financial transactions to their overseas accounts. Proof of them taking bribes from Mastermind. All stared wide eyed at the incriminating evidence.

"I trust your committee will endorse the bill without reservations." James said with a smile.

"Of course Mr. Hathawell." One said back right away.

"Excellent. Then I see no further need to discuss this matter. Good day gentlemen."

[Confederated Southern States]

"Come on man, loosen up; they're not coming!"

"They better not, 'cause if they do I'm blaming you."

"Just grow a pair, will you! The chances of that happening are next to none."

"I guess."

Some time after a man in a rugged coat and dirty beanie approached the pair, hands in his pockets. He flashed them a wad of dollar bills, checking behind him for the authorities.

"Well, whaddya got?" He questioned more with his eyes than with his mouth.

"I've got high quality, fourty bucks an ounce."

"Damn. Well, give me about-" Before the vagrant could finish, an all to familar voice echoed.

"Whoa whoa whoa, dealin' drugs on a street corner? That ain't cool brother."

Sure enough, when the trio spun around Scarecrow's haunting eyes were piercing through them.

"Now, I advise surrenderin' before any of y'all do somethin' stu-"

The vagrant's attempts to pull a handgun were met with one solid punch, knocking him out cold. Scarecrow wheezed a bit before looking up.

"Stupid. Wanna surrender now?" Scarecrow questioned as if he already knew the answer; he did. The two dealers were in handcuffs the next minute.

"Atleast you folks ain't gonna deal with attempted assault charges. Now cooperate with the blue boys an' ya just might get out sooner than you think. Keep your noses clean."

And with that, Scarecrow was gone.

[The Abel Rex Regime]

U.S Penitentiary Atlanta

"Well Mr.Light....we really do appreciate all the funding you've been giving to our penitentiary right here," Warden Adam Sullivan was saying with a broad grin to the 19 year old businessman, as he escorted him right into the prison cafeteria area. "God knows, we need all the support we can get to keep these.....caged animals behind bars. Hell.....with the extra money you've been giving us....all the assholes in here could be living like kings."

"Everybody deserves a second chance, Mr.Sullivan.....isn't that right?" Abel replied with a curved smile as they walked passed long tables and proceeded towards the prison kitchen. "No matter how bad they are.....I believe deep down inside they still retain some goodness in themselves......not everybody is pure evil you know."

"Pardon me sir but.....if you were me and was spending 6 years guarding these freaks.....I think you would have developed a different opinion."

Abel chuckled casually as they entered the kitchen and paused to observe the prisoners working there. "What time do these fellas have their dinner warden?"

"In abouts 10 minutes or so..."

"And what are they having tonight?"

Warden Sullivan cleared his throat before saying, "Mash potatoes with some gravy, vegetables and pork chop sir....nothing fancy.....the mash and gravy are now being arrayed outside of the cafeteria as we speak."

"Hmm..." Abel was silent for a moment pondering. "I was thinking of joining the inmates for dinner but now I just remembered that I have some more paper-work to do back in my office. If you can be kind enough to escort me back to my car warden..."

"Yes of course sir....it goes without saying."

As the two of them passed by the steaming mash potatoes and brown gravy arrayed out at the cafeteria, Abel smirked as he put a hand into his pocket and coolly pricked his thumb with the thumb-tack hidden inside. Then using his haemokinetic ability, he allowed a nearly invisible strand of blood to flow out of the tiny wound and drop inside the gravy. Before exiting the cafeteria, Abel watched with satisfaction as the prisoners began to shuffle in and line up for their meal.

Outside the parking lot, Warden Sullivan asked with a hint of curiosity as Abel got into a large black limousine. "Don't mind me asking Mr.Light but.....how does a person as young as you get so much money to start a business of his own anyways?"

The 19-year old flashed him a smug grin and replied, "Who knows.....intelligence, good looks.......being special.....we all have our many capabilities Mr.Sullivan...even you." and with that, Abel closed the door behind him and sped away leaving behind a puzzled warden.

Meanwhile in the limo, Zero Origin glanced at his wrist-watch and thought to himself, "Virus should take effect within 4 days or so...until then....lets have some music shall we?" Picking up a remote controller, the psychopath began playing his favorite classical piece....Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Prelude In C Major.'

[Confederated Southern States]

"Access granted."

Alex slammed the door open with unnessecary force and rolled inside, shouting:

"Navy Seeeeeeals, flip! Well hello Jess!"

Jessica greeted him without speaking.

"Nice to see ya too. Easy day, busted some dealers muckin' about. Knocked out the buyer in one hit, bam!"

Alex punched the air for emphasis.

"Got your shift done early I assume?"

Jessica hummed an affirmative.

"Fantastic. I guess we really do owe James for takin' ArmaMax off our hands."

Alex began reheating a burrito.

"More time for asskickin'. Speakin' of which, hear anythin' from Chase? The kid's been awful quiet lately."

"You could say that..."

"I'm always the one doin' all the talkin' anyways." Alex added with a chuckle.

"What's he up to?"

"He left Rook..."

"Really? Damn, either somethin' happened between 'em or the kid's gotta reason. I'm sure you'll find out."

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

The four unimprisoned members of the infamous and villainous Team KAOS stood atop a large building overlooking the Atlanta Penitentiary with thought. Their leader IceFury was imprisoned within its walls and they were going to get him out. They all prepared to strike.
"Alright lets make our move." Lady of Light said as she opened up a portal of swirling energy and motioned to Firestorm and Electroman. The three of them stepped through the portal and were transported away into the Courtyard of the Prison. To say the guards were surprised was an understatement. They were stunned.
This gave the three jailbreakers an edge right off the bat. "Team KAOS attack!" Lady of Light shouted as she created a huge flash of light that blinded the guards and prisoners in the area. She then created four orbs and fired them at various places around the Courtyard causing small explosions which threw the guards and prisoners around like rag dolls.
Firestorm lit his hands on fire and bolted around blasting guards and prisoners on fire and setting various things on fire. Boxes, clothes, anything flammable. He then spotted a room filled with gasoline tanks and fired a blast of fire igniting it all. The room exploded and caused parts of the surrounding wall to crumble.
Electroman fired blasts of energy at the prison walls and cell areas. He then spotted the cell they were looking for and fired an energy beam in a square shape at its wall cutting right through it. This allowed the prisoner inside to push the piece of wall out and Team KAOS looked up to see their leader IceFury standing in the hole smirking.
"Well if it isn't my dearest friends Team KAOS come to break me out of prison. First I have some business to take care of. WILD WIND!" The last member of Team KAOS, Wild Wind flew down into the cell and nodded at IceFury. Wild Wind walked over to the cell bars and placed his hand on the lock. He then raised the temperature high enough inside the lock that it melted meaning IceFury could just walk out and torture the prison. Wild Wind flew outside and joined in the fight.
"Time to help everyone in here chill out!" IceFury said to himself as he pushed opened the door turned, and used an icy frost to turn the two guards running at him into ice sculptures. He examined them. "The ugliest ice sculptures I've ever seen." He walked throughout the prison and froze the hallways along the way so everything looked like an icy kingdom. When he entered the Courtyard he looked around at Team KAOS.
"Now lets show these fools what we can really do." Then they slowly advanced towards the prison doors with the guards being powerless to stop them all together. Though none of the guards had any powers so they wouldn't have been able to handle one of them.

[Confederated Southern States]

Just as Alex was about to hit the shower, his messaging system began to flash.

"Come on, wonderful timin'." He complained. His demeanor went sour when he saw it was the APD.

"Hello"

"Scarecrow, we have an issue! IceFury and his gang are causing havoc at the Penetentary, we need a super here ASAP!" The dispatcher announced, slightly panicked.

Alex scowled and nodded.

"Roger, stay safe. Be there in a jiffy."

Alex sighed and put his mask back on.

"You're comin' with." He told Jessica, who rolled her eyes and went to put on her suit.

"Catch up, I'm headin' out."

Scarecrow got a running start and headed towards the mayhem.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury impaled six more fleeing prisoners with ice daggers as his companions caused more mayhem. "Oh it feels so good to be out of that cell!" He shouted to high heaven. Firestorm laughed as he blasted a prison truck with firing blowing up the engine. Lady of Light blasted a line of guards holding rifles on a wall with orbs and they were thrown about screaming. Wild Wind blew the guards and prisoners around and around with wind and air. Electroman used electricity to shock guards and energy blasts to blast the place apart.

[Confederated Southern States]

Scarecrow soon arrived on the scene, taking note of the combatents.

"Hrm, elemental manipulators. Too easy. 'Ight folks, y'all get outta, I'll take 'em from here!"

Raptor, who was in the area, arrived soon as well.

"Was in the area. Need help Alex?"

"Sure. Eyes peeled kid!" Scarecrow announced, firing shadow blasts at Lady of Light.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury was there to protect Lady of Light as he created a huge and strong wall of ice in front of her and the shadow blasts blew the ice apart but Lady of Light was safe. And free to launch five orbs at Scarecrow while IceFury launched a hail of six ice daggers at Raptor. Firestorm and Electroman attacked from above as they ran along the roof of a cell block and Firestorm blasted Raptor with five balls of fire while Electroman sent five blasts of energy at Scarecrow. Wild Wind hovered above and fired various strong gusts of wind at the two. All in perfect fruition and unison as the Team worked together perfectly.

[Confederated Southern States]

Raptor's armor nullified the ice daggers, and the shattered harmlessly. The fire however heated his aromor, so he turned the tempature down and began firing shotgun blasts at Firestorm.

Scarecrow put up a dark barrier and tossed smoke pellets, knowing Raptor had thermal imaging. Scarecrow followed this up with dark lightnng blasts at IceFury.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury quickly froze the shotgun bullets heading at Firestorm as Electroman fired blasts of electricity into the smoke. Lady of Light quickly sucked IceFury into a portal and transported him to nowhere and then back as soon as the energy blasts were gone. IceFury smirked into the smoke. "Come now Scarecrow, you can't possibly hope to beat us all." IceFury said right before he fired a massive wave of water into the mist. He winked at Electroman who would fired a blast of electricity into the mist and since water is a conductor of electricity it was probable that the two opponents would get a lot of pain.

[Confederated Southern States]

Raptor absorbed the electricity, but Scarecrow took quite a bit of damage.

"No..." He managed.

"But Shade can!"

Just then, Shade appeared and attempted to choke Electroman psychically.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

Lady of Light portalled up to the roof of the cell block and attempted to punch Shade in the face before Electroman was strangled. But before she did Electroman grabbed Shade's arm and fired bolts of electricity out of the hand holding her arm.
Meanwhile knowing that Raptor and Scarecrow were soaked IceFury sent out an icy frost which began to freeze all the water into ice. Including the water which covered Raptor and Scarecrow.

[Confederated Southern States]

Shade used her wrist-computer to redirect Electroman's shocks to Lady of Light, dodging her punch and kicking away Electroman.

Raptors suit heated off the water, but Scarecrow had to blast off the ice. Raptor went to tackle IceFury.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury concealed an ice dagger within his left sleeve as he dodged Raptor's attack and then aimed a kick right at his head as Wild Wind flew down to help IceFury. He kicked at Raptor's head as he was coming down to the ground.
Lady of Light was thrown back from the shock but Electroman had another surprise for Shade he aimed his hand down right between them and fired an energy blast which would send both of them flying.
Firestorm jumped down to the ground and created two fire whips and began swinging them at Scarecrow.

[Zeinbrad]

Savior,Ka'jung and Inspector
Savior and Ka'jung where flying, Savior was carrying Inspector.

'So brother, whats it like being free from the holding of hell" Savior asked.

"Good" Can the answer from Ka'jung

Savior was about to ask again when she noticed Crow and Shade fighting some asshole, and co. Savior and Ka'jung flew down, Savior placed Inspector on a roof.

Savior floated to Scarecrow.

"Need help?" She asked.

[Confederated Southern States]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury concealed an ice dagger within his left sleeve as he dodged Raptor's attack and then aimed a kick right at his head as Wild Wind flew down to help IceFury. He kicked at Raptor's head as he was coming down to the ground.
Lady of Light was thrown back from the shock but Electroman had another surprise for Shade he aimed his hand down right between them and fired an energy blast which would send both of them flying.
Firestorm jumped down to the ground and created two fire whips and began swinging them at Scarecrow.

Scarecrow made sure to stay away from Firestorm.

"Fuck, I hate pyromancers!"

Raptor took the kick and returned with grenades.

Shade landed on feet after taking the hit, and fired armor-piercing rounds at Electroman.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury noticed the grenades and froze them with ice and then tossed the ice grenades into the air as they exploded and then pulled the ice dagger out and plunged it right towards Raptor's left hand. Firestorm kept flinging his whips as he then dispersed one and exchanged it for a chance to heat up the air until it was boiling around only Scarecrow at a temperature of 110 degrees.
Lady of Light used a portal to transport those bullets heading towards Electroman so they would appear behind Shade and come racing out towards her. Electroman rolled away in case Shade ducked.
Wild Wind grabbed Raptors right hand and began to raise the temperature of his hand to 100 degrees which would bring searing pain.

[Confederated Southern States]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury noticed the grenades and froze them with ice and then tossed the ice grenades into the air as they exploded and then pulled the ice dagger out and plunged it right towards Raptor's left hand. Firestorm kept flinging his whips as he then dispersed one and exchanged it for a chance to heat up the air until it was boiling around only Scarecrow at a temperature of 110 degrees.
Lady of Light used a portal to transport those bullets heading towards Electroman so they would appear behind Shade and come racing out towards her. Electroman rolled away in case Shade ducked.
Wild Wind grabbed Raptors right hand and began to raise the temperature of his hand to 100 degrees which would bring searing pain.

Raptor yelped in as he clawed his attackers away.

"Ah shit, get offa me!"

Scarecrow decided to fall into a black mist form.

Shade put up a psychic barrier, then threw a table at Electroman with her mind.

[Decius]

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury noticed the grenades and froze them with ice and then tossed the ice grenades into the air as they exploded and then pulled the ice dagger out and plunged it right towards Raptor's left hand. Firestorm kept flinging his whips as he then dispersed one and exchanged it for a chance to heat up the air until it was boiling around only Scarecrow at a temperature of 110 degrees.
Lady of Light used a portal to transport those bullets heading towards Electroman so they would appear behind Shade and come racing out towards her. Electroman rolled away in case Shade ducked.
Wild Wind grabbed Raptors right hand and began to raise the temperature of his hand to 100 degrees which would bring searing pain.

Raptor yelped in as he clawed his attackers away.

"Ah shit, get offa me!"

Scarecrow decided to fall into a black mist form.

Shade put up a psychic barrier, then threw a table at Electroman with her mind.

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury laughed like a maniac as he looked around for Scarecrow. "To think Scarecrow after you took up near two months to get me into prison I was only locked up for about two weeks. And now I'm out again. Such humiliation." IceFury turned back to Raptor and fired an icy frost at him to turn him into an ice sculpture that would take about four hours to thaw out. Wild Wind flew up and made the wind around Raptor swirl around and around so he couldn't escape the frost.
Firestorm decided instead of Scarecrow he would go after Shade. He jumped up onto the cell block roof and began to use his fiery whips against Shade while Electroman fired bolts of electricity at her and Lady of Light use flashes of light to blind her temporarily.

[Confederated Southern States]

Shade decided to bail; Raptor was getting frozen and Scarecrow wasn't prepared to deal with a pyomancer. SWAT teams with anti-super rounds had begun to raid the building, with the survivors a safe distance away. Shade dragged Raptor along, putting up a psychic shield as Scarecrow covered them.

"Until next time, douchebags!" Scarecrow called out.

[Decius]

Shade decided to bail; Raptor was getting frozen and Scarecrow wasn't prepared to deal with a pyomancer. SWAT teams with anti-super rounds had begun to raid the building, with the survivors a safe distance away. Shade dragged Raptor along, putting up a psychic shield as Scarecrow covered them.

"Until next time, douchebags!" Scarecrow called out.

IC: Team KAOS

IceFury smirked as he motioned for the rest of Team KAOS to line up behind him. He then created a giant wave and sent it splashing down on the SWAT Teams dousing them in water before they could react. "Now Electro!" Electroman shot a single high voltage bolt of electricity at the water and it was enough. Enough to electrocute all the SWAT Teams enough to either kill them or knock them out.
"Lady of Light would you mind getting us out of here and to our hideout. We must find out what new orders the Society of Anarchy has for us." Lady of Light created a portal and they all stepped in and were sent to the Team KAOS Atlanta Hideout.