[hr][hr][center][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/6g8onsz41/6a8a04c0ca1b1adbb23631ae5dfd661b.png[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/4dQsmzHq/f831c0dc99a75377dfc6eb52b2202e06.png[/img][hr][img]https://media.giphy.com/media/UJ5I7921pAOEU/giphy.gif[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@Natsu][@Trainerblue192][@The Man Emperor][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b] May 17th, 2021[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr][hider=S.H.I.E.L.D. Internal Announcement][center][b][h3]FROM THE DESK OF DIRECTOR HILL[/h3] THE FOLLOWING IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: 1. ALL SUPERHEROES MUST REGISTER WITH SHIELD AND REVEAL THEIR SECRET IDENTITY 2. SUPERHEROES MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD 3. SUPERHEROES MUST PASS SHIELD TRAINING - EXCEPTIONS INCLUDE TRAINING FROM THE X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR, AND AVENGERS 4. ALL SUPERHEROES ARE SUBJECTED TO THE SUPERVISION OF SHIELD VIOLATION OF THESE WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE EXTRACTION TO THE RAFT. MINIMUM SENTENCING IS THREE YEARS HOUSE ARREST. JUVENILE OFFENDERS WILL BE TRIED AS ADULTS. REPEAT OFFENDERS HAVE A RECOMMENDED SENTENCE OF TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT. ALL VIGILANTE ACTIVITY KNOWN TO SHIELD PERSONNEL MUST BE REPORTED TO THEIR SUPERVISOR OR LEAD IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING! [/b][/center][/hider][hider=The Daily Bugle][center][b][h3]CAPTAIN AMERICA ON THE RUN?!?! IRON MAN TAKES CHARGE![/h3][/b] [color=84B4E2][b]5:59 PM Update[/b] - Iron Man is holding a press conference at the Stark Foundation Headquarters. He is joined by superheroes Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Mister Fantastic, the Human Torch, She-Hulk, the Invisible Woman, and the Wasp. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU_kH_1zizE&ab_channel=FandomEntertainment]CLICK HERE[/url] to view the livestream! [/color] We here at the Daily Bugle just got a tip from an anonymous source that the Avengers have split up! Iron Man has claimed leadership of the group - we haven't been able to get a quote from the Playboy Billionaire, but our plucky team is on the case! We'll be updating this story once more details come in, but please if you know anything about this situation or have spotted Captain America, call us out our toll free hotline here: [i][b]1-800-SPIDER[/b][/i]. If you want to read about more Avengers news, check out our piece from last Thursday where we explored the affair between Iron Man and Black Widow! J.J.J.[/center][/hider] TO: jjj@dailybugle.com FROM: jewel@thepulse.com SUBJECT: [Pulse] Iron Man's Press Conference --- --- Jonah, This isn't going to be pretty. I can cover this beat for you, but you need to promise no civvies will be out on reporter duty. I'm sure you've seen the conference - Captain America is public enemy number one. The Avengers are going to war. Also, my usual fee will be doubled for this - let's call it hazard pay. Keep it sleazy, Jewel P.S. I mean it. If I see a single civvie pounding pavement for this, I'll break your face in :-)[center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]St. David's Hospital - Cardiff: 1:10 A.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr] The ride had been relatively short to the hospital. Once both Niah and Oliver left the vehicle, the chauffeur gave them his card and said they could call if they needed another ride. The car then left, leaving the two of them on the pavement outside of the hospital. As it was the middle of the night, there weren't very many visitors present if any. In fact, the hospital was relatively empty. They wouldn't see anyone else there to visit a loved one. The front desk was unattended, with a piece of paper next to the sign in sheeting saying [i]Be back soon!! :)[/i] in purple pen. Per the map nearby - and due to Oliver's familiarity with the hospital - they would know that his mother's room was on the third floor at the end of the corridor. [url=https://youtu.be/N6lPKzu-Eas]Easy listening music[/url] played from the speakers, creating a relatively pleasant and calm environment. The hospital gift shop was closed, but the vending machines were an option if either of them were hungry. Neither of them would see any doctors or nurses - but then again, they were in reception. It wouldn't make sense to see them here anyways. [center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]The Gates - Mojoverse: ???[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr] Had Maria ever talked extensively to the original X-Men team or perhaps Serval Industries' X-Factor group, she might have heard about the Mojoverse before. Unfortunately, she hadn't. This would all be new and strange to her. If social media and reality television could have comprised a universe, this was it. Floating advertisements covered the skies. Everyone dressed like they were characters from the Capitol in the Hunger Games. There wasn't much to do here besides getting into the line and heading towards the gates. The Cube in her hand had one side - the side she touched - glowing a soft, eerie green. [center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]New York City: 6:10 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=f6989d]Bonnie Chase[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.postimg.cc/8k67nDb4/image.png[/img][hr][hr][b][color=f6989d]Location:[/color][/b] 616 169th Street, Queens [b][color=f6989d]Skills:[/color][/b] Blessing of Athena, Intuition, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Perception [hr][/center] The man with the metal arm was out on the fire escape. Kwassi had hit him with a paralytic, and at first, it seemed to have worked. Unfortunately, the Winter Soldier wasn't so easily defeated. The compounds pumping through his veins, keeping him alive, weren't going to let him lose the fight so easily. He rose to his feet, looking around quickly before moving forward and turning the corner, spotting Kwassi. He threw a punch, narrowly missing - his fist hit the brick wall of the apartment building, leaving a small crater. Meanwhile, inside the apartment, [color=4C52FF]"I don't like hitting a woman, but I'll do it if I have to,"[/color] Captain America said to Cass, shaking off the paralytic that he had been hit with. Only one of the three shots made at him had hit and it didn't slow him down at all. Another agent had tried to do something, although he didn't quite know what. It seemed like he was trying to poke him? Definitely an unusual fighting style. Bonnie noticed the slight glance Matt gave her. It telegraphed his intentions and she nodded ever so slightly. She did a dramatic and attention grabbing leap over towards Captain America, spinning as she aimed a butterfly kick towards his head. He deflected it with his shield, but his attention was all on her. It was the perfect opening for Matt to attack and he would be able to move flawlessly. Hawkeye let three arrows fly - one went towards Bonnie just as she spun for the butterfly kick so it missed, another went for Cass and although it hit, her skin was impenetrable. The last arrow went for Matt and hit him square in the shoulder, lodging itself painfully and limiting his range of motion. [color=7851A9]"Would it kill you all to just surrender and realize you're on the wrong side of history?"[/color] Clint called out. The Falcon had gotten up from the ground and he went in for a punch, targeting Bonnie. She ducked under his fist. She tried to sweep his legs again, but his reflexes were fast this time and he grabbed her leg, knocking her to the ground on her back as she struggled to get free from his grasp. [center][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]New York City: 5:00 P.M.[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=FFB795]Amelia Baptiste[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.imgur.com/e9ADpSo.png?1[/img][hr][hr][b][color=FFB795]Location:[/color][/b] 177A Bleecker Street, Manhattan [b][color=FFB795]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A [hr][/center] Strange's mouth twitched into a smirk. He couldn't help but laugh ever so slightly. Among heroes, he wasn't known for having a particularly helpful bedside manner. [color=53A981]"I was wondering when you would come to ask for that favor,"[/color] Strange mused. [color=53A981]"I suppose you finally decided to go fetch the boy?"[/color] He traced a circle in front of him, glowing golden lines appearing, before he tossed the trap containing Mephisto on through. Strange then retraced the lines and the hole closed, as if he had just accessed an interdimensional closet. [color=FFB795]"Where did that thing go? Do you have a special magic shoebox or something that you can hide things in?"[/color] Amelia asked. She then experimentally waved her arms through the space where the glowing portal had appeared, half expecting to feel the cage with her fingers - but there wasn't anything there except for air. She grinned, completely and utterly bewildered. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing that she had left S.H.I.E.L.D. Maybe she could stick around here and enjoy the craziness of the wizard's stuff. [color=53A981]"It's in my vault, of course,"[/color] Strange answered her. [color=53A981]"Don't - "[/color] he began to say, as Maria picked up what looked like an ordinary cube, [color=53A981]"touch that... Oh well. I'm sure she can figure out how to come back."[/color] He had warned them after all not to touch things that didn't belong to them. And in the order of things he absolutely had to do, helping an agent undo their own mistake was low on the list. His daily schedule was rather full as Sorcerer Supreme and he just couldn't miss his haircut appointment later that evening. [color=FFB795]"... Is she also in the vault?"[/color] Amelia asked, her eyes wide. She glanced at Astrad, as if to say [i]are you seeing all of this too??[/i] Sparky seemed right at home with all of this weirdness. Amelia backed away slightly from a pillar near her that contained a bottle with a rose inside of it, not wanting to touch it and end up vanished to Doctor Strange's magic closet. She'd rather get a closer look at his cloak anyways - it let him [i]levitate[/i]. How cool was that? [color=53A981]"Hmm, there are five possibilities. She could be in the astral plane, Otherworld, Limbo, the Mojoverse, or Nightmare World,"[/color] Strange answered with a shrug. [color=53A981]"Now, Dr. Sparks, do you have anything of his? I'll require something that belonged to him for the tracking spell. If you don't, then the hair of someone related to him would also do nicely."[/color] He paused for a moment, tilting his head. [color=53A981]"Although I don't suppose your baby has any hair yet."[/color]