63n3515 - Chapter 1: Cartel Chronicles (New, Open IC)

[Mighty Asgard]

Soon, a man entered the secret, cartel headquarters, and Diaz was shocked by the man's breaking in...

"Eh! Gringo! What, you loco? Who you be! Who you are? Why you in here, huh, puta!", asked Diaz, as he pointed an AK-47 at Josh's copy...

Josh wasn't exactly amused by Diaz' antics, so he just waved his arm to make the gun fall apart. "If I were you I would be more careful about insulting your superiors, worm," he said menacingly, "you are not necessary, and I will not hesitate to rip your guts out and strangle you with them."

"I am Omega," he continued, "and the cartels are mine now. You will order your men to attack the national guard in the city. Do you understand?"

[CoolLand]

Soon, a man entered the secret, cartel headquarters, and Diaz was shocked by the man's breaking in...

"Eh! Gringo! What, you loco? Who you be! Who you are? Why you in here, huh, puta!", asked Diaz, as he pointed an AK-47 at Josh's copy...

Josh wasn't exactly amused by Diaz' antics, so he just waved his arm to make the gun fall apart. "If I were you I would be more careful about insulting your superiors, worm," he said menacingly, "you are not necessary, and I will not hesitate to rip your guts out and strangle you with them."

"I am Omega," he continued, "and the cartels are mine now. You will order your men to attack the national guard in the city. Do you understand?"

"Fuck you gringo. You pendejo, the cartels will never be yours! Never!", said Diaz, as he threw some innocent people into Josh, and made them start to eat him...

[Mighty Asgard]

"Fuck you gringo. You pendejo, the cartels will never be yours! Never!", said Diaz, as he threw some innocent people into Josh, and made them start to eat him...

A bunch of regular people with regular teeth trying to eat him didn't really faze Josh, he just burnt them with a lazy wave of his arm. He then walked closer to Diaz, the furniture standing in his way being violently ripped apart to clear the way for him.

"The other cartels are already mine," he said, "you stand alone. Do you think that even your own men would stand by your side when I can offer them so much more? Obey and I will give you more power than you could dream of, resist and I will destroy everything you hold dear."

[CoolLand]

"Fuck you gringo. You pendejo, the cartels will never be yours! Never!", said Diaz, as he threw some innocent people into Josh, and made them start to eat him...

A bunch of regular people with regular teeth trying to eat him didn't really faze Josh, he just burnt them with a lazy wave of his arm. He then walked closer to Diaz, the furniture standing in his way being violently ripped apart to clear the way for him.

"The other cartels are already mine," he said, "you stand alone. Do you think that even your own men would stand by your side when I can offer them so much more? Obey and I will give you more power than you could dream of, resist and I will destroy everything you hold dear."

"I do not stand alone, me and my brothers are here, now gringo, feel my wrath!", said Diaz, as he suddenly transformed Josh into a single-celled organism...

[Mighty Asgard]

"I do not stand alone, me and my brothers are here, now gringo, feel my wrath!", said Diaz, as he suddenly transformed Josh into a single-celled organism...

"Your wrath indeed," Josh said, turning back to the same masked form he had before, "you believe yourself powerful, yet in the grand scheme of things you are merely a man, no more significant than a bug." A quick wave of his arm and Diaz was pinned to the wall by an unseen force, "I believe I made a promise about what would happen if you defied me, worm." A second masked man appeared in the room, walking out through the door.

Josh held Diaz in place as the sound of screaming and gunfire came from outside, which only lasted a few seconds before the man returned to the room, dragging two of Diaz' comrades along with him.

"I will murder all your friends here, one at a time, and force you to watch. If you still haven't relented by the time there are no more men left, well... you have family, don't you?"

Josh then grabbed one of the two men, who tried in vain to wriggle free of his grasp. Slowly, and making sure to keep the man awake the whole time, Josh cut a hole in his abdomen and reached in, ripping out his spleen. One organ at a time he disemboweled the man, until he eventually allowed him to die.

"All you need to do to stop me is to kneel," he said to Diaz as he grabbed the second man.

[CoolLand]

"I do not stand alone, me and my brothers are here, now gringo, feel my wrath!", said Diaz, as he suddenly transformed Josh into a single-celled organism...

"Your wrath indeed," Josh said, turning back to the same masked form he had before, "you believe yourself powerful, yet in the grand scheme of things you are merely a man, no more significant than a bug." A quick wave of his arm and Diaz was pinned to the wall by an unseen force, "I believe I made a promise about what would happen if you defied me, worm." A second masked man appeared in the room, walking out through the door.

Josh held Diaz in place as the sound of screaming and gunfire came from outside, which only lasted a few seconds before the man returned to the room, dragging two of Diaz' comrades along with him.

"I will murder all your friends here, one at a time, and force you to watch. If you still haven't relented by the time there are no more men left, well... you have family, don't you?"

Josh then grabbed one of the two men, who tried in vain to wriggle free of his grasp. Slowly, and making sure to keep the man awake the whole time, Josh cut a hole in his abdomen and reached in, ripping out his spleen. One organ at a time he disemboweled the man, until he eventually allowed him to die.

"All you need to do to stop me is to kneel," he said to Diaz as he grabbed the second man.

"I shall never kneel before you!", said Diaz, as he put the forces together to make Josh die, and used his powers to fix his two men...

"Now, gringo, you shall kneel before me. Apologize, and leave otherwise, I shall kill you.", said Diaz, as he pinned Josh to the wall, and watched as Josh began to die, but if he apologized, Diaz would stop...

[Mighty Asgard]

"I shall never kneel before you!", said Diaz, as he put the forces together to make Josh die, and used his powers to fix his two men...

"Now, gringo, you shall kneel before me. Apologize, and leave otherwise, I shall kill you.", said Diaz, as he pinned Josh to the wall, and watched as Josh began to die, but if he apologized, Diaz would stop...

Josh pushed back, sending Diaz flying out through a window, and as an aside he killed the two men again, out of spite more than anything. The man honestly thought that he had anything close to the power needed to stand up to him, like many other mortals with delusions of grandeur. The second him disappeared while he jumped out through the window after Diaz.

"You're starting to annoy me," he said when he landed, "so let's try to make you understand your position, shall we?"

Space suddenly distorted around the two of them, as Josh used his powers to move them thousands of miles almost instantaneously. A violent snowstorm was raging all around them when they arrived, and the temperature was far below freezing. A normal man would freeze to death in short order in such temperatures, but Josh didn't even feel it.

"This is Antarctica," he stated, "and I will leave you here to die unless you join me. From what I've heard it's quite painful to freeze to death actually. So, join or die, those are your options."

[Ricot]

"I'm guessing that was Geogre on the phone?"
Will nodded and Zilka sighed,"I guess we should head on back to his house huh?"
When they arrived at where the house should've been, Zilka got out of the car. Veronica was hiding behind Geogre and they were talking to another person who she didn't recoginize.
"What the hell happened?!"

[Planeta de los Muertos]

"What are you?" she said, deftly taking cover behind George.

Josh looked at them, smiling sweetly at George's futile gesture of valor. "I don't think you have a word for what I am," he answered, "but an apt comparison for what this body is would be a puppet. It can't die because it didn't really live to begin with, nothing but a shell of flesh and bone."


Meanwhile another of him had discovered that the national guard had in fact already deployed to the city, and he admonished himself for not having known that until then. The mayor had failed, so one would be sent to kill him, while others worked to repair the damaging presence of the guard. They could not be allowed to get in the way of the plan. So far the major cartel presence on the streets had prevented any large scale evacuation, so it had not progressed to the point where the situation was beyond repair, but if they were allowed to operate unchecked they may well ruin everything. One of him went to visit the three most influential cartel leaders, to tell them that they had to deploy men to fight against the national guard.

"Then where's the real you?" she said. "A-and why are you doing this?"

Veronica then eyed a car pull up behind them. Zilka stepped out.

"Watch out!"

[Mighty Asgard]

"Then where's the real you?" she said. "A-and why are you doing this?"

"Oh, I'm a little bit everywhere," Josh said, "and I shot myself to get rid of Jane, because she was being a pain in the ass and that seemed the quickest way to make her leave."

He turned to look at the woman who had arrived in a car, "hello there, nice to meet you too. We had a small disagreement here, George tried to shoot me, some woman named Jane thinks she's the protector of the universe, and I succeeded in shooting me. Nothing special."

[Planeta de los Muertos]

"Then where's the real you?" she said. "A-and why are you doing this?"

"Oh, I'm a little bit everywhere," Josh said, "and I shot myself to get rid of Jane, because she was being a pain in the ass and that seemed the quickest way to make her leave."

He turned to look at the woman who had arrived in a car, "hello there, nice to meet you too. We had a small disagreement here, George tried to shoot me, some woman named Jane thinks she's the protector of the universe, and I succeeded in shooting me. Nothing special."

"What do you want from us?" she asked the man.

[CoolLand]

"Oh, I'm a little bit everywhere," Josh said, "and I shot myself to get rid of Jane, because she was being a pain in the ass and that seemed the quickest way to make her leave."

He turned to look at the woman who had arrived in a car, "hello there, nice to meet you too. We had a small disagreement here, George tried to shoot me, some woman named Jane thinks she's the protector of the universe, and I succeeded in shooting me. Nothing special."

"What do you want from us?" she asked the man.

"Yeah mate, I wonder the same!", said George

[Mighty Asgard]

"What do you want from us?" she asked the man.

Josh grinned, "I want you to be everything you can be. These powers chance has given you are too valuable to have you just sit around here all day, wasting them. Use them to fight, to remove the cancerous parts of society for the betterment of all."

"Or you could just stay here in this comfy house and forget all the people that will die and suffer in the war in Miami. The cartels are out in full force, the police are doing their best to push back, but not even the help of the national guard has made much of a difference so far. And while you wait here thousands of bystanders will suffer for your apathy. I won't judge, but I suspect that your consciences will."

[Planeta de los Muertos]

"What do you want from us?" she asked the man.

Josh grinned, "I want you to be everything you can be. These powers chance has given you are too valuable to have you just sit around here all day, wasting them. Use them to fight, to remove the cancerous parts of society for the betterment of all."

"Or you could just stay here in this comfy house and forget all the people that will die and suffer in the war in Miami. The cartels are out in full force, the police are doing their best to push back, but not even the help of the national guard has made much of a difference so far. And while you wait here thousands of bystanders will suffer for your apathy. I won't judge, but I suspect that your consciences will."

"...Do you know where the cartels are?" Veronica asked the mischievous misfit, looking him directly in the eyes this time around.

[CoolLand]

Josh grinned, "I want you to be everything you can be. These powers chance has given you are too valuable to have you just sit around here all day, wasting them. Use them to fight, to remove the cancerous parts of society for the betterment of all."

"Or you could just stay here in this comfy house and forget all the people that will die and suffer in the war in Miami. The cartels are out in full force, the police are doing their best to push back, but not even the help of the national guard has made much of a difference so far. And while you wait here thousands of bystanders will suffer for your apathy. I won't judge, but I suspect that your consciences will."

"...Do you know where the cartels are?" Veronica asked the mischievous misfit, looking him directly in the eyes this time around.

"Josh. Is it worth it for us to possibly die? We can fight the cartels, but we do not even have to go into Miami, we could fight them from right here! Who are you to tell us what to do? We barely know you mate!", said George

[Reselia]

Jane viewed the unrolling events from another dimension - this did not make them any less saddening though. She had underestimated Josh... he needed to die - and quickly. However, she had overestimated George and Veronica, because while they were being manipulated by Josh, they had good hearts and a decent head on their shoulders. Perhaps she should have tried something other than threats... but now, it was of no moment. The trap is sprung... the Cartels and the Police Guard are massacring innocent people and Josh is trying to control both sides. Luckily, the Cartels are resisting him. I will need to talk to George, she thought...

[Planeta de los Muertos]

"...Do you know where the cartels are?" Veronica asked the mischievous misfit, looking him directly in the eyes this time around.

"Josh. Is it worth it for us to possibly die? We can fight the cartels, but we do not even have to go into Miami, we could fight them from right here! Who are you to tell us what to do? We barely know you mate!", said George

"This infighting isn't going to get us anywhere!" Veronica said, now standing in front of George. "We need to rally together and fight the vicious cartels until peace is restored. Can't we put our differences aside for one measly moment and join efforts to protect the innocent lives that are being terrorized right at this very moment? Is that too much to ask?"

[Ricot]

"Josh. Is it worth it for us to possibly die? We can fight the cartels, but we do not even have to go into Miami, we could fight them from right here! Who are you to tell us what to do? We barely know you mate!", said George

"This infighting isn't going to get us anywhere!" Veronica said, now standing in front of George. "We need to rally together and fight the vicious cartels until peace is restored. Can't we put our differences aside for one measly moment and join efforts to protect the innocent lives that are being terrorized right at this very moment? Is that too much to ask?"

Zilka walked closer to the trio, "Look my cousin is in Miami and I would more than love to go and kick the cartels out of there ASAP. But I'm not good at controlling spirits, so I need to get my hands on some weapons. We need to do exactly what Veronica said, and after we're done. You people can settle your child fights elsewhere."

[CoolLand]

"This infighting isn't going to get us anywhere!" Veronica said, now standing in front of George. "We need to rally together and fight the vicious cartels until peace is restored. Can't we put our differences aside for one measly moment and join efforts to protect the innocent lives that are being terrorized right at this very moment? Is that too much to ask?"

Zilka walked closer to the trio, "Look my cousin is in Miami and I would more than love to go and kick the cartels out of there ASAP. But I'm not good at controlling spirits, so I need to get my hands on some weapons. We need to do exactly what Veronica said, and after we're done. You people can settle your child fights elsewhere."

"Fine! We shall fight the cartels, but if any of us die, it isn't my fault! The innocent people are going to have a time frame of evacuating from Miami, from 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM, the National Guard will try to protect the citizens, but the cartels might try to pull something, and maybe even attack.", said Georgd

[Reselia]

Zilka walked closer to the trio, "Look my cousin is in Miami and I would more than love to go and kick the cartels out of there ASAP. But I'm not good at controlling spirits, so I need to get my hands on some weapons. We need to do exactly what Veronica said, and after we're done. You people can settle your child fights elsewhere."

"Fine! We shall fight the cartels, but if any of us die, it isn't my fault! The innocent people are going to have a time frame of evacuating from Miami, from 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM, the National Guard will try to protect the citizens, but the cartels might try to pull something, and maybe even attack.", said Georgd

George, do not react. Please, do not react. My presence - and ability needs to remain a secret. This is Jane - fortunately I was able to cobble together a hasty servant from another dimension to talk to you, as my powers are limited. But more important, is what Josh has been saying to you. Josh has been manipulating you to attack the Cartels, which he controls. I advise you to leave the house with Josh not knowing your true intentions, and contact the one called Simon. His vast army of policeman would be an assist to have with you, or at least their neutrality would make your task easier. I will explain further as you progress. You have no need to do as I say... it is merely recommended if you wish to remain independent from Josh.

[CoolLand]

"Fine! We shall fight the cartels, but if any of us die, it isn't my fault! The innocent people are going to have a time frame of evacuating from Miami, from 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM, the National Guard will try to protect the citizens, but the cartels might try to pull something, and maybe even attack.", said Georgd

George, do not react. Please, do not react. My presence - and ability needs to remain a secret. This is Jane - fortunately I was able to cobble together a hasty servant from another dimension to talk to you, as my powers are limited. But more important, is what Josh has been saying to you. Josh has been manipulating you to attack the Cartels, which he controls. I advise you to leave the house with Josh not knowing your true intentions, and contact the one called Simon. His vast army of policeman would be an assist to have with you, or at least their neutrality would make your task easier. I will explain further as you progress. You have no need to do as I say... it is merely recommended if you wish to remain independent from Josh.

George was shocked at this, and teleported an alternate version of himself to the dimension Jane was in...

"Who is this Simon fellow? I never have trusted this Josh, but how can I trust you, when you said you were going to destroy my house?", asked George

[Reselia]

George, do not react. Please, do not react. My presence - and ability needs to remain a secret. This is Jane - fortunately I was able to cobble together a hasty servant from another dimension to talk to you, as my powers are limited. But more important, is what Josh has been saying to you. Josh has been manipulating you to attack the Cartels, which he controls. I advise you to leave the house with Josh not knowing your true intentions, and contact the one called Simon. His vast army of policeman would be an assist to have with you, or at least their neutrality would make your task easier. I will explain further as you progress. You have no need to do as I say... it is merely recommended if you wish to remain independent from Josh.

George was shocked at this, and teleported an alternate version of himself to the dimension Jane was in...

"Who is this Simon fellow? I never have trusted this Josh, but how can I trust you, when you said you were going to destroy my house?", asked George

"I apologise for that, George. I needed to force a confrontation of some kind - but I realise that was not the best path to take, threatening your house." She laughed. "Simon is the policeman you met on the beach, and he has taken over most of Miami with a most interesting power - he can turn people into exact replicas of himself and have them obey his orders indefinitely. Josh... Josh is controlling Simon and his hordes, and the Cartels. He has an appetite for death and destruction, it seems. If you wish to halt the war, you will need to deal with Josh - or Omega, as Simon knows him... I will aid you indirectly... but I am limited. You have no need to listen to me, of course." she sighed drily.
"Feel free to be Josh's puppet."

[Planeta de los Muertos]

Zilka walked closer to the trio, "Look my cousin is in Miami and I would more than love to go and kick the cartels out of there ASAP. But I'm not good at controlling spirits, so I need to get my hands on some weapons. We need to do exactly what Veronica said, and after we're done. You people can settle your child fights elsewhere."

"Fine! We shall fight the cartels, but if any of us die, it isn't my fault! The innocent people are going to have a time frame of evacuating from Miami, from 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM, the National Guard will try to protect the citizens, but the cartels might try to pull something, and maybe even attack.", said Georgd

"Alright." Veronica said. "George, is it possible for you to both take us to the scene of the fight and somehow ease Zilka's spirit control?"

[Mighty Asgard]

"Alright." Veronica said. "George, is it possible for you to both take us to the scene of the fight and somehow ease Zilka's spirit control?"

Josh clapped his hands, "good to see you've found your consciences already. You might also want to know that there are several dozen superpowered criminal lunatics roving the streets, fighting everyone and everything that gets in their way. Just thought you might like a heads up before you go rushing in, wouldn't want you to run into any nasty surprises, would we?" He pulled out a photograph from his inner pocket, it showed a picture of a middle-aged Hispanic man, and on the back some notes were scrawled. "This is a picture of the leader of one of the smaller cartels," he explained while handing the photo to Veronica, "the address of his home is written on the back. He should be able to tell you where the others are hiding."

Next he looked at Zilka, "if you need weapons to fight, I'd suggest talking to the national guard. Those weekend soldiers are sure to have some extra guns lying around."

[Katyuscha]

As Simon stood in the street, a copy approached him with some relatively bad news.

"Sir, we've got word that the national guard has been called into Palm beach." Said the copy through his riot mask which muffled his voice a bit.

"Well, that's not good." Responded Simon with a troubled look on his face.

"But sir, they were sent to Palm Beach, not Miami." Replied the copy confused.

"Well, if they sent the guard to Palm Beach, then it won't be long before they start marching into the streets of Miami. We can't have that." Responded Simon who began to walk down the street, followed by a horde of copies. He then turned to the horde behond him.

"I need a team of you to travel to palm beach and get rid of the national guardsmen there as quickly as you can." He said.

He turned back to the copy who was talking to him earlier.

"I've heard word of the location of one of the most successful csrtel bosses in Miami. " Simon started. "I need you and a team of copies to head to his headquarters and take him out."

"Yes sir." Replied the copies and two teams took off to their assigned missions.