Marvel Universe: Shards of the Heavens IC OPEN

[Libaries]

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The Story So Far...
S.H.I.E.L.D, A.I.M, H.Y.D.R.A, Avengers and other organizations have notice five meteors crash into remote locations across the world. These have been producing large amounts of energy. What these are are unknown. It could be a new energy source, or it could be a gem which grants the wielder magical properties. When combined, the object created would rival the Infinity Gauntlet. The meteors have a defense force that gets smarter as others get defeated, as proven by several tests done by curious humans. Each group wants the meteors so they can make the object and help conquer their enemies as well as support their cause.

Medusa; Cairo, Egypt

Medusa was walking through the marketplace in Cairo, searching for some souvenirs, when her cell phone started to vibrate. She took it out, and saw the HYDRA logo on her screen. Sighing, she punched in her 24 digit code and put the cell phone up to her ear. "This line is not secure, and I'm in a public area." Doesn't matter. We'll give you the details later. Just meet us at the base of The Great Pyramid of Giza in 15 minutes. The phone shut off, and Medusa slid the phone into her pocket.

15 minutes later, Medusa was waiting at the base, with a camera around her neck. She occasionally took a photo, blending in with the crowd. Her hair was pulled back in a braid, which was held together only by it's strength. There was a tap on her shoulder, and she turned around. "Miss, do you have a moment? I'd like to get a photo of me in front of the Pyramid." The man had a thick Egyptian accent, and he was holding a camera out to her. Medusa smiled and took the camera. She started to turn it on, and then saw the green snake on the corner of the screen. "Umm, sir? I think your camera is out of batteries." The man looked at her, and then walked away. Medusa then followed a minute later, following the faint trail of green glitter.

[Starkindler]

Tony was in his basement, which has been converted entirely to a laboratory where he could work on his armor and other projects. He made great care that he could concentrate on his work down there. Which, for him meant thousands of watts worth of speakers blasting rock and metal at maximum volume. He could have solved the problem more easily by downloading music to his mind and playing it there, but, in his option that wouldn't be fun.

In another corner of the lab, a robot was maintaining the now permanent and high-capacity particle accelerator, which was producing the element needed for his high capacity internal arc reactor. The particle beam illuminated the deactivated and demilitarized old versions of his suits, situated just behind the target object to be made vibranium.

On the other side, Stark was walking around a hologram. The hologram displayed the exploded view of his arc reactor, identifying the components within, and the differential equations, physical and chemical formulas describing the exact internal workings.

If I increase the compression rate by introducing auxiliary heated air flow injectors and redirecting the toroidal magnetic field to increase confinement as well as installing more coils to provide higher poloidal fields, I can increase the power 5-fold, however I lose the variable load capacity, meaning my armor would always have to be online, and I have to get maneuvering repulsors on working against each other constantly to soak up the power. And the case of nuclear waste is still not solved. Vibranium inside an arc reactor gains neutrons from the fusion process and splits into Uranium-236 which is fissile and splits further. This supplies the neutrons for a proton-neutron fusion creating a second deuterium burning cycle. And long-lived nuclear material. However if I would further increase pressure, the vibranium would be burned faster and result in Iron-56...

"Tony!" - Pepper Potts's sound could be heard from above (at least for the one she meant to be addressed) as she walked down the stairs to the house's basement. Stark turned the volume down, and tossed away the hologram.
"Hi Pepper. What's wrong?" - he asked her back, as she came down with a tablet in her hand
"Have you seen it?" - Pepper, with a gesture swiped a news broadcast to the hologram projectors, as the graphical hardware did the magic and transformed the report into three dimensions.

... asteroids have fallen in the Egyptian desert. Fortunately, neither of them did any material damage or took lives, but NASA advises that no one should get close to them due to them believed radioactive. In other news...

And this hologram was also gone, with Tony bringing up data hacked from space agencies around the world to determine the truth. He brought up the tracks of the asteroids around the sky, then by running numbers, estimated their brightness. He concluded that the event was too bright to be true, and indeed, several Stark satellites passing by, or being passed by the asteroids registered a high level of energy from each of them, from unknown sources.

"No, it can't be... Space is a near perfect vacuum, and those asteroids shouldn't have that kind of energy... Unless... it's antimatter, or better: dark matter. See you around!"

He following his train of thought mentally commanded his armor to materialize, while he was running outside and as soon as the process was complete, the leg repulsors enabled themselves and Tony began his journey to Egypt to find out more about the mysterious space rocks.

[JuNii]

Bored... the slender woman sat as she sent her tweet. found evidence that the client's husband is a cheating bastard. expect some excitement at the divorce hearing... mood: sad at the prospect that a divorce hearing is the highlight of 'exciting' for this week... maybe I should send the photos of the wife to the husband... Monet closed her iPhone 5 and stared at the television where some news about a meteor shower was being broadcast.

"Now, Secret Invasion 2.0... that would be something to unearth... God, can my life be any more painful?"

"Did ye say sumthin?" a voice came out from the kitchen. Theresa Cassidy said as she cleaned up the lunch dishes.

ask and ye shall recieve... forgot that the goodie two shoes is here. "same old, same old." Monet shouted back.

"Well, we could go Karaoke'ing... again." the irish member of X-Factor investigations stuck her head into the living room.

"you mean you found a place that you are NOT banned from?" Monet raised an eyebrow at the sonic screamer.

The mutant known as Syrin paused. "There's that place on... no... yeah, that bar on 7th..."

"Uh... The one that Strong Guy put the bouncer through the ceiling cuz they insuled Lila Cheney?"

"oh... yeah..." Syrin Smiled as she returned to the dishes, the phone rang.

"X-Factor Investigations... Oh, hello Scott. yes, we're between cases at the moment... non... Dr McCoy detected some unusual radiation concentration... of course, with the x-men stretched thin, I think we can spare someone to check it out... Certainly Monsuir Summers... Consider it handled."

"Theresa... please inform Jamie that I'll be handling a favor for Cyclops... be back soonish."

Monet grabbed her cell phone and opened the window. within minutes she was flying towards the first meteor crash site.

[Libaries]

Medusa; Cairo, Egypt

After walking for several minutes, with Medusa snapping a couple photos here and there, the man stopped. In front of them, about 1/2 a mile away, was a giant meteor. "Why did we stop here? Let's just take it!" The man frowned, and turned around. "We are within the invisibility field, so yes we could take it. Issue is, we'd blow up from the inside or turn crazy or something along those terms if we get closer. It messes with our MINDS. So we just wait. Until the others arrive." "Others?? I don't see any others..." "That's because we entered together. Others wouldn't see us, but only the meteor. It's odd, for sure." Medusa frowned, and sat down on a rock, waiting for the others.

Storm; Cairo, Egypt

Storm had been assigned to watch Medusa, since she recently went bad. In disguise as an old man selling cabbages, she'd go around following Medusa. The result? She found out about the meteors. Being in a foreign country, acting like a poor old man who never sells cabbages, has it's disadvantages, including not having a radio. So, when the opportunity presented itself, she ducked into a corner and changed into an old lady tourist with a floral dress and loafers. Then, she set off to follow Medusa.

As she continued walking near the Pyramid, she saw the green glittering trail. After she stepped on the trail, the glitter conveniently got blown away by the wind. Finally, she reached the invisibility field. Storm stopped suddenly, seeing the tiniest bit of movement of things behind the field, indicating a invisibility field. She waited a minute, and then walked in. Seeing no one, it confirmed that this was one of the strongest invisibility fields she had ever seen. She ventured closer to the meteor, her foot stepping in front of the rock Medusa is sitting on. A loud puff of sand went up, and then Storm realized her mistake of knocking Medusa down on the ground face forward. She then ran around the 1/2 mile mark, until she was completely opposite of Medusa's sand puff.

OOC: You might be wondering how she knew it was Medusa she had knocked down... Easy. SHE WAS FOLLOWING HER.

[Jolleus]

Chuck Robson walked through the Egyptian sands, following a man who he did not know. Chuck was dressed in desert garb, but had his battlesuit on underneath. He just wished that he could put the mask on already; the sand blowing in his face was becoming a real pain in the ass. As he trudged onwards, he let his thoughts wander to the events of the past week.

It had all started with his latest heist. It was just another bank robbery: smash into the vault, grab the cash, smash out of the vault, and get out. Unfortunately, things sort of... went wrong, when some two-bit vigilantes with laser guns showed up on the scene. The only bad thing about the super-villain gig is having to deal with the droves of so-called "heroes" that seem to show up everywhere you go. Needless to say, Kineto crushed the little meddlers, but not before his suit had sustained quite a bit of damage.

These days, the only people with both the resources and the willingness to repair Chuck's battlesuit are Hydra, and it goes without saying that they don't do it for free. They took care of the suit, and in exchange, they had a job for him. As it turned out, some crazy meteor had just crashed down in Egypt, and Hydra had an interest in it. They needed some muscle boys to secure the site, and that was where Kineto came in. They gave him his suit back, and sent him to Giza.

He met a disguised Hydra agent at the pyramids, who was now leading him towards the site of the crater. "Try to keep up, Kineto," the man called back over his shoulder as they reached the edge of the invisibility field. "We're almost there."

(OOC: I'm not entirely clear on the whole invisibility field thing. Will I be able to see Medusa and the other Hydra guy?)

[Libaries]

Chuck Robson walked through the Egyptian sands, following a man who he did not know. Chuck was dressed in desert garb, but had his battlesuit on underneath. He just wished that he could put the mask on already; the sand blowing in his face was becoming a real pain in the ass. As he trudged onwards, he let his thoughts wander to the events of the past week.

It had all started with his latest heist. It was just another bank robbery: smash into the vault, grab the cash, smash out of the vault, and get out. Unfortunately, things sort of... went wrong, when some two-bit vigilantes with laser guns showed up on the scene. The only bad thing about the super-villain gig is having to deal with the droves of so-called "heroes" that seem to show up everywhere you go. Needless to say, Kineto crushed the little meddlers, but not before his suit had sustained quite a bit of damage.

These days, the only people with both the resources and the willingness to repair Chuck's battlesuit are Hydra, and it goes without saying that they don't do it for free. They took care of the suit, and in exchange, they had a job for him. As it turned out, some crazy meteor had just crashed down in Egypt, and Hydra had an interest in it. They needed some muscle boys to secure the site, and that was where Kineto came in. They gave him his suit back, and sent him to Giza.

He met a disguised Hydra agent at the pyramids, who was now leading him towards the site of the crater. "Try to keep up, Kineto," the man called back over his shoulder as they reached the edge of the invisibility field. "We're almost there."

(OOC: I'm not entirely clear on the whole invisibility field thing. Will I be able to see Medusa and the other Hydra guy?)

(OOC: Sorry about that! No you won't. But you can hear them, and see their footprints appearing, and sand getting kicked up. So you can sorta tell where they are. The meteor has it's glitches, and the invisibility field is one of them. We'll get to see the others later, once we all advance into the mind field.)

[Firstaria]

Daredevil, along witgh several SHIELDS agents, was literally attached at the pyramids wall like spiderman; the reason was simple: althoug he could see the vibration in the desert, the wind mixed at the sand created difficulty for him too.

He didn't know why he accepted, probably he was too worried that one of those meteors could fall on New York too, and that would be a real problem. So helping the big bosses like a sort of Avenger was not a bad idea for now. He even took the promise of them not searching for his identity: to be fair, it was hard to find out who was in reality a blind lawyer.

[Rupudska]

Perrine was having a blast. A real, genuine, blast. She was on an Xbox 360, on her account, playing Battlefield 3 on one of her favorite servers, one of the few that the X-Men and SHIELD had access to. She was feeling good, so she was going easy on the many newbies and casuals on the server. It was rather surprising - considering the number of SHIELD agents online, it should have been at least challenging. There was, however, a light in the darkness. One particular 12-year-old seemed to have at least a fair amount of skill. And this 12-year-old was a SHIELD agent, to boot.

This will be fun.

She was about to unleash several million gallons of whoop-ass on his poor soul, when she got a phone call. She didn't pause, she simply picked up her cell phone and continued playing, proceeding to crush him and his team.

"Hello? What is it?" She sniped one of his teammates without even really trying. Or using cheats.
"That meteor outside of Giza? Yeah, McCoy, I've heard of it. A bunch of conspiracy theories on the - Merci pour encore debout vous connard! - I'm sorry, the newbie was so full of himself. Had to bring him down a few dozen notches. Anyways, there are a ton of conspiracy theories on the net, both classified and non." She paused to blast another newbie in the skull. Only the king SHIELD 12-year-old was left on the enemy team.

"You want me to go in, in case there's a computer? Well... sure! But can't you just send in - Goûtez l'arc en ciel! Vous avez le cervau d'un sandwich au fromage! - Sorry, I just took out their leader and won the match. Which means I have no excuses as to why. But still, can't you send in Storm or someone?"

"..."

"She's already there? All right, I'm on my way then. Let me just log off..." She quickly logged off of her account on the 360 and wiggled the mouse of a nearby computer, bringing it back online. She pushed away the rolling chair and substituted a heavy wooden one. She took a runner's pose on the chair, pointing herself at the computer.

"Allons-y!" She jumped into the computer and traveled through cyberspace at lightspeed, bouncing off of servers and computers from Armenia to Zimbabwe on her path to a small internet-connected kiosk about a mile away from the Great Pyramid, in her normal wear (Her costume was in a backpack. She slowly walked towards the pyramid - and therefore Daredevil, and therefore, most likely, the meteor, which she could not see from her position, even if there wasn't an invisibility field around it.

[Jolleus]

"We're here, Kineto," said the HYDRA agent quietly. "Go ahead and gear up. I'll let you know right now that this meteor has been causing some rather strange phenomena to occur, including an invisibility field which will obscure other agents—and hostiles, if present—from detection. We must proceed with caution."

As they continued towards the meteor, Chuck donned his mask. A strange, soothing sensation washed over him as the suit powered itself up. He felt like he was walking on air. The HYDRA agent began to slow down, scrutinizing the area as though searching for a specific spot. Soon, he stopped and said, "I see that you and Medusa made it here safely."

Kineto had no idea who or what the guy was talking about; then, he was surprised to see the sand shift a few feet away from him and hear a voice reply!

[Libaries]

Medusa

"Yeah. Though you might wanna be quiet. Somebody managed to push me down on my face earlier, so there's others." She sat back down on her rock after brushing the sand off her. Might as well start thinking of a plan soon... Like how to crack open that meteor and get that gem on the inside.

Storm

Storm was standing on the other side of the meteor still, and heard faint noises. Realizing others had arrived, she started to get her plan in action. Clouds started to gather overhead, slowly, as if natural. Every once and a while lightning would flash. It was a brutal thunderstorm, ready to attack.


(OOC: You may start your attack plans. Please show at least one effect of the meteor, or else you're god-modding and your character will get damaged to where they won't come back in until later. And don't say you take it instantly after facing the meteor. I also require you to face a difficulty of another character (e.g. running into them and falling on the ground). The meteor has a gem inside it, and that is what you want.

[Prometheo]

Not ten minutes after Luther Lee recieved a call on his cell-phone, he was in a helicopter and headed to egypt. He stared moodily at the ocean passing beneath him. The last time he has been in egypt, he had nearly taken a missile blast to the body. Needless to say, he felt a little trepidation at returning, though he knew this feeling was not logical. But, then again, emotions rarely are.

One Hour Later

Mephisto was dropped off within sight of the pyramid where the meteor had supposedly crashed near. Making his way towards the pyramid, he began joggin. The pyramid loomed up before him, and Mephisto paused, turning his gaze to the sandy waste about him. At first, he had no clue where to begin his search for the meteor, until he spotted two figures moving away from him in the distance. Squinting, he studied their shapes as they slowly moved awaySuddenly, they disappeared.
Meephisto's eyes went wide, a complete contrast to his previous expression that might have made any onlookers laugh, if said onlookers had a very simple type of humor.

"If thats a mirage, i'm an Avenger." Mephisto made his way in the direction he had seen the strangers moving.
"Probably some more of the team," he said to himself, and that gave him pause. He walked another step, then stopped, frowning.
"But what if..." Mephisto hadn't been told of any other X-Men being called to the scene, though he was sure there were. But he was also pretty sure they wouldn't be the only organizations on the site. He resumed his walk for five minutes and stopped again. he couldn't see anyone in sight, not in any direction.

On the verge of disappointment, Mephisto began walking again, keeping a lookout for other people. Mephisto grimaced, as his leg began to cramp very quickly, almost siezing. But the feeling passed almost as soon as it came. I took my medication... it shouldn't be bothering me... That was when Mephisto noticed the slight, almost non-existant shimmer in the air before him. Almost right in front of his nose, he was so close. An energy field of some sort?

Stepping in, Mephisto gasped as he watched his body disappear. He heard shuffling, even a muffled whisper to his left. He couldn't tell from where these sounds came, though. A light flashed overhead, and Mephisto looked up. That was when he noticed the gathering storm. He hadn't been told to expect any rough weather, and he was sure he would have been told if he was being sent into the Egyptian desert during a storm. Making several connections in his head in rapid succession, two words popped into Mephisto's head.
Invisibility field.
Mephisto crouched low, realizing Storm, his fellow mutant, must be near. However, he had no idea who else was present that he couldn't see.

[Jolleus]

"Notice those clouds--they aren't natural," muttered one of the Hydra agents, softly enough that only his three companions could hear. "Be on guard; weather manipulation is most likely a sign of hostile presence. Let's start moving towards the meteor; we need to examine it before anyone else gets there." The Hydra agent started moving, with Kineto sticking very close to him for the agent's protection. On the few occasions that Kineto had worked with a team, his role was that of a tank, since he was completely invulnerable to any kinetic damage.

It's times like these that I'm glad no one's heard of a small-time supervillain like me, thought Kineto. The enemy probably won't have as much data on me as they do on Medusa. Still... I've got a very bad feeling about this. I've never gone up against the likes of... $#!@, just who the hell are we going up against anyways? Kineto groaned inwardly.

As they made their way closer to the meteor (presumably along with Medusa and her guide), Kineto began to get lightheaded. He heard a high-pitched whining noise inside his head... and every once in a while, he could swear that his vision was flickering. He felt like an old television set getting very bad reception.

"What the hell--"

"It's... it's the meteor, Kineto," gasped the guide. "Just be quiet and try to... to focus."

(OOC: I'm presuming that the two guides are equipped to analyze the meteor? Or are there other Hydra scientists already on the scene?)

[Rupudska]

Overclock looked up as the clouds started forming. Giza, or el-Gīza to the locals, rarely got rain, even in May, the rainiest month of the year for them: An average of one-half inches of rain was all they got for May. At least it never got too hot. Not much hotter than Lafayette in the summer, at least. And best of all, it was only dry heat here. So she was fine.

Still, the unnatural rain was more than welcomed. "Nice job, Ororo." She broke into an even jog towards where she thought the meteor was, which turned out to be a pretty decent guess. Unfortunately for her, that guess meant she had to jog quite a distance, something she was not used to doing. The problem wasn't her weight, the problem was her lack thereof - At 119 lbs, she was rather skinny, although not quite anorexic. She blamed her metabolism.

Eventually, red-faced and wheezing, she made it to the dust cloud surrounding the meteor. "I'm... haahhh... I'm okay.... I just... haahhhh... need a moment to... haah... catch my breath... damn, that was a long way... haaahhh..." She said this to no-one and nothing in particular. She couldn't see a thing. She would probably run right into Storm if she kept walking.

[Asterdan]

Gale Austins had been sitting in his office at the zoo, reading up on a few new animals that were coming in. He smiled, noting about two that he would give a little 'special attention'. It was then that his phone rang. He listened for a minute then answered it. Gale listened to the voice on the other side of the phone. He nodded, and said okay. Gale clocked out, went home, and stripped down, removing his glasses as well. He grabbed a red mask, wrist-band things, tights, and boots, slipping them on, becoming Andalite.

Opening the window, he smirked as the sensations of falling overtook him as he shrank. As this happened, a pattern began drawing itself on his arms. As the falling sensation stopped, the pattern began to rise, turning into true feathers. His bones crunched, moved, his organs rearranging, but it didn't hurt. His fingers elongated, along with other changes to his body. Soon, there was no Andalite, only a red-tailed hawk perched on his window. He began flying, headed towards Cairo.

After a few hours, Cairo was in sight. Using his intense hawk vision, Andalite flew towards an unusual storm cloud. He recalled everything he knew about Cairo, and knew that this wasn't normal. He landed on a nearby stand, and slowly morphed into his masked, human form.

"Cool." he said, jumping to the ground.

It was then he saw the meteor. When he saw this, he started to morph. His muscle bulged and brown hair sprouted all over his body. Claws grew from his nails and his teeth grew as his mouth and nose sprouted forth into a muzzle. As the morph completed the grizzly bear, Andalite, let out a roar. Barreling forward, he noticed Overclock.

<So the X-Men are here too?> he asked her, using his telepathy.

[Libaries]

Medusa

Might as well try to get in now, before anyone else starts their plan... She slowly let her hair grow out and then shot them forward, towards the meteor. She was about to touch it, when they started bending crazily. The hair strands went left and right and up and down, doing the worm, and bunch of other funky moves. Then they stopped, and zipped towards Medusa, hardening. Her hair was about to hit her, and then suddenly stopped. They hair fell limp, and landed on the ground. What the-?!

Storm

The storm stopped overhead, and lightning started to flash. Storm ran towards the meteor, ready to snatch the gem when it got cracked open. She watched the lightning fall onto the meteor. Then suddenly, it bounced upwards, as if it had been refracted. Looks like THAT plan failed

(OOC: BTW, everyone can see the lightning)

[Jolleus]

Kineto and his guide had gotten within ten feet of the meteor when the lightning bounced off of its protective field. Kineto's suit absorbed the thunder, but his guide wasn't so lucky. The HYDRA agent fell back onto the sand, clutching his head. As if the meteor's mental distortion wasn't bad enough, being so close to a lightning strike really ruined his day. Kineto looked back over his shoulder at the now-useless guide, and then looked around him warily. This wouldn't be so bad if he could actually see his enemies. As it was, he felt like a helpless child.

Cautiously approaching the meteor, he remembered what the HYDRA agent had said about the crystalline power source being inside of it. Saying a quick prayer for good luck, he swung at it, discharging a massive amount of kinetic energy in an attempt to crack it open. He was partially successful; a large chunk of external rock broke off. Unfortunately for Kineto, the physical contact only worsened the mental effects. He collapsed to the ground, clutching his head as a high-pitched scream and vivid flashes of color tore through his mind.

[JuNii]

M circled the area. she had already 'tagged' several SHIELD and HYDRA agents... but not this meteor that she was sent to investigate.

reports indicated that it was examined by several experts when they died under mysterious circumstances...

no signs of hostilities... so no one is fighting for the rock... funny... what the hell!?!

above the clouds, M circled back. yep... a psycically dead area. a rather large one... someone very powerful was doing their damnedest to not be noticed.

she tighened up psychic shields and glided down below the clouds.

she blinked and shook her head. even with her shields, the psychic effects was overpowering.... instead of seeing desert sand, she saw a double exposure of a crater being overlapped by the sand.

she watched as people, animals, vehicles, all swerved around the rim of the crater.

nice... she keyed her com unit. "Scott... I'm in Egypt at the moment... nothing to report..." she keyed her com unit off and stopped. no, that wasn't what she wanted to say... something altered her thoughts... that pissed her off. she wasn't as strong as Professor X, Miss Frost, or even the cookoos... but she was no pushover in the psychic department... she positioned herself over the crater and dropped straight down.

"No one plays with my mind... big mistake..."

she hit the sand and stood up. she looked around... puzzled. She should be in the middle of the crater... but...

she looked out as the sand stretched out for miles.

"what am I doing here?" she glanced at her watch. noon... Lunch...

she was about to launch herself upward when her com unit beeped at her. "Got it M. keep looking for that Meteorite." Scott's voice responded.

@^#$!*@*#! she bit her tongue to keep such unlady like words from pouring from her lips.

she again, reinforced her shields... and again the double image that hid the crater appeared. she missed the crater by 50 yards... whoever was doing this was strong indeed... she focused on the meteor and began walking towards the crater.

She keyed on her Comm. "Scott... got a strong psychic effect here... I need you or someone to keep reminding me to search for the meteorite..."

"Got it M... how often."

"give me a 15 minute reminder."

"Do you think it might be someone else looking for the meteor?"

M paused... she started turning to the left of the crater. "Not sure... but give me a reminder every minute... damned effect is strong."

"Storm's in the area as well, I'll contact her to give her a warning." Scott replied. "Give us a call when you find that Meteor."

"Merde Summers... and will do. M out."

[Starkindler]

Meanwhile, with a loud sonic boom, Iron Man exited from his super-sonic flight over Cairo, closing to the meteor from above, like a daredevil, at high speeds. His HUD displayed the cross-section of the space rock as JARVIS described what he would see from it.

Tony, the meteor is made of an unknown stone-like material with a center core in it identified as the source of energy radiation.
Can I carry it together?
Negative. The object is too large for that. Also, there are zero contacts around the meteorite, who doesn't respond to IFF signals, possible hostile. (OOC: as the meteor is emitting a psionic sign, I thought JARVIS can see everything, however, Tony wouldn't hear anything of that because he is - naturally - affected.)
Great, at last there will be no opposition. Any civilians there?
Negative, all civilians are out of range. However, zero contacts are identified as possible allies in the immediate area.
Show me a sitrep.

On the HUD a cylinder showed. JARVIS had rendered it marking the positions of all contacts around it, however neither Tony, nor any other human or mutant could read anything but the meteor clearly marked on it as it clearly masked itself using psionic waves.

Yep. You can see that there are no-one there. Get a vector on the weakest point and send Fox One down.
Altough the computer knew that there were others, he launched the missiles nevertheless against the meteor from a few meters above the target object.

[Rupudska]

Gale Austins had been sitting in his office at the zoo, reading up on a few new animals that were coming in. He smiled, noting about two that he would give a little 'special attention'. It was then that his phone rang. He listened for a minute then answered it. Gale listened to the voice on the other side of the phone. He nodded, and said okay. Gale clocked out, went home, and stripped down, removing his glasses as well. He grabbed a red mask, wrist-band things, tights, and boots, slipping them on, becoming Andalite.

Opening the window, he smirked as the sensations of falling overtook him as he shrank. As this happened, a pattern began drawing itself on his arms. As the falling sensation stopped, the pattern began to rise, turning into true feathers. His bones crunched, moved, his organs rearranging, but it didn't hurt. His fingers elongated, along with other changes to his body. Soon, there was no Andalite, only a red-tailed hawk perched on his window. He began flying, headed towards Cairo.

After a few hours, Cairo was in sight. Using his intense hawk vision, Andalite flew towards an unusual storm cloud. He recalled everything he knew about Cairo, and knew that this wasn't normal. He landed on a nearby stand, and slowly morphed into his masked, human form.

"Cool." he said, jumping to the ground.

It was then he saw the meteor. When he saw this, he started to morph. His muscle bulged and brown hair sprouted all over his body. Claws grew from his nails and his teeth grew as his mouth and nose sprouted forth into a muzzle. As the morph completed the grizzly bear, Andalite, let out a roar. Barreling forward, he noticed Overclock.

<So the X-Men are here too?> he asked her, using his telepathy.

Perrine nodded. "If you can't tell, Storm is here too. Figuratively and, of course, literally." She completely dropped her accent as she talked. It sounded almost as if she was from Seattle, not the heart of Acadia.

She sighed, looking into the cloud of sand, then up at the clouds of oxidane. She thought for no apparent reason of the huge oxidane scam online, similar to the DHMO in how it worked, and what its subject was - oxidane was nothing more exotic than water.

She thought about how to crack open the meteor. If it was made of metal, she could pump enough electricity to fry it. But that would be rather draining on her. She could also try punching it. She snorted. Like THAT would work. Luckily, she had another trick up her sleeve - literally. She shot out her right arm at a 45-degree angle downward. The massive ribbon on her uniform slunk downward and formed a drill, which she quickly charged with electricity.

Once it was suitably filled (It had begun to glow purple, which meant it couldn't take any more electricity without first releasing some), she pointed it straight at where she thought the meteor was (Again, an accurate guess) and charged towards it, drill first.

"This will be fun."

[Libaries]

EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS

The meteor (because it has it's own mind) realized that it was going to be difficult to protect itself. So, it let it's current mind messing stuff go away. But, in it's place, everyone that's invisible becomes visible and it disappeared.

Storm

As she was formulating a new plan, she got an incoming call on her com device. She whispered, "Hello?" Scott here. We need you to check up on M every once and a while. "Okay." She ended the call and was about to call M when she saw a bright flash of light. Suddenly, she saw everyone around her.

Medusa

Medusa had just pulled her hair back together, and was about to try again, when there was a flash of light and people started to appear out of nowhere... WHAT THE?! Just gotta try again... She was about to shoot her hair towards the meteor again when she saw the meteor was gone.

[Asterdan]

Andalite smirked mentally, and mentally laughed at Overclock's 'Storm' comment. He knew it wasn't a joke, but oh well. He then looked towards where the meteor had been, sighing as it appeared to have been gone. Looking around, he shook his big, grizzly head, slowly shrinking, the hair leaving his body. Soon, he was back into his Andalite form.

"Let's see, German Shepard or Timber Wolf?" he thought aloud, then smirked.

Black and brown fur sprouted on his body, and he went through a similar transformation as before, only this time shrinking instead of growing. About a minute later, where there had been a shirtless guy in tights, there was a tough-looking German Shepard, hair on his back bristled and his teeth bared. He let out a bark, and then headed towards where the meteor had been. That's when he got a whiff of something not from earth. He smirked mentally.

So, it's invisible, huh? Good thing it has such an odd smell! he thought, then barreled towards it, ready to snatch it up and be gone.

[Firstaria]

Arriving late with another S.H.I.E.L.D. jet vehicle, Daniel finally reached Egypt and started moving towards the main group. He had a serious attitude and a strong voice, almost like a sergeant of an army.

"So, what's the situation? " He asked and the agent near him answered " The meteor seems to mess with our equipment, and also our radar says we are surrounded, but we don't see any hostiles or friendly. Clearly it's messing with it too. "

Daniel looked at him, and then felt something in his Gauntlet " Radars may not be wrong at all, although this may be the meteor effect too. " He said to himself. He didn't have however time to check this, as a bright flash surrounded the area. Suddenly, there were a lot of people around the impact site, but no meteor at all?

" Mind tricks...well, this thing has become interesting. " He said to himself, and then looked at the people around " Identify yourselves, this is a S.H.I.E.L.D. operation and... " but it stopped in mid sentence, almost laughing " Oh, sorry, I can't go anymore further with this acting serious. All of you, name and motive of being here, before I get angry. "
He seemed a lot more relaxed now, looking more like himself. To be fair, he was into S.H.I.E.L.D. only for this motive, not for actually acting all hero-like.

[Jolleus]

Kineto staggered back to his feet as the meteor's mental attack subsided. He felt dazed and confused--he had no recollection of what was going on. He looked around. He seemed to be in a desert, with several figures nearby--including some that looked very familiar. Superheroes?! Kineto tried to get his bearings, but before he had a chance to really think, he noticed a gigantic dog barreling toward him. He checked it off as not being a threat, and decided to ignore it unless it attacked. Then, he heard the man shout.

"Identify yourselves, this is a S.H.I.E.L.D. operation and... " but it stopped in mid sentence, almost laughing " Oh, sorry, I can't go anymore further with this acting serious. All of you, name and motive of being here, before I get angry. "

SHIELD? Oh, f*ck, thought Kineto. Ignoring his better judgement, he decided to take the aggressive approach.

"Name and motive? Why doncha ask your mother, prettyboy," said Kineto, stalking towards Daniel. "I have NO idea what the hell I'm doing here, and if I don't get some answers RIGHT F*CKING NOW, the last thing to go through your mind will be fifteen hundred pounds of pressure, ya SHIELD lapdog."

A few faint images of a meteor crater and a HYDRA agent flashed through Kineto's mind, but the wisps of thought floated away as suddenly as they had arrived.

[Firstaria]

Daniel looked at the guy from top to feet and said smirking "I'm sorry, your trash talking is very convincing, but with that costume you stole from Pepsiman I can't take you seriously at all. " Then he made gesture to his man to surround the area " This meteor likes to play hide and seek, but no way it actually moved; it has to be there, only invisible or something. "

Then he looked at the guy and said " This is now S.H.I.E.L.D. propriety, so go buy me a drink, since you already have the suit. "

[Asterdan]

Arriving late with another S.H.I.E.L.D. jet vehicle, Daniel finally reached Egypt and started moving towards the main group. He had a serious attitude and a strong voice, almost like a sergeant of an army.

"So, what's the situation? " He asked and the agent near him answered " The meteor seems to mess with our equipment, and also our radar says we are surrounded, but we don't see any hostiles or friendly. Clearly it's messing with it too. "

Daniel looked at him, and then felt something in his Gauntlet " Radars may not be wrong at all, although this may be the meteor effect too. " He said to himself. He didn't have however time to check this, as a bright flash surrounded the area. Suddenly, there were a lot of people around the impact site, but no meteor at all?

" Mind tricks...well, this thing has become interesting. " He said to himself, and then looked at the people around " Identify yourselves, this is a S.H.I.E.L.D. operation and... " but it stopped in mid sentence, almost laughing " Oh, sorry, I can't go anymore further with this acting serious. All of you, name and motive of being here, before I get angry. "
He seemed a lot more relaxed now, looking more like himself. To be fair, he was into S.H.I.E.L.D. only for this motive, not for actually acting all hero-like.

Still running towards the meteor, the German Shepard heard Daniel's voice. He smirked mentally, let out a howl, and then returned to grabbing the meteor in his jaws.

<Yo, Daniel, you see the German Shepard? Yeah, that's me.> Andalite said, <The meteor's still here, just invisible. I can smell it, and man oh man does it stink!>