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One Universe: Unlimited - A Marvel/DC Comics Roleplay

Ahem, so fellas, I have a weird question for you.

Hi

You know how sometimes there are more than one character with the same name? Like 5 green lanterns? How do we feel about that?

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

Event Tie-In: Terra
Location: Sherman Square, Lost Haven
Time: Afternoon – Day of Alien Invasion

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”It’s not every day you have to haul ass from the French Quarter to he…”

Fletch's raspy voice was cut off mid-sentence by a monstrous thunderclap from high up in the atmosphere that shattered whatever remaining windows were in the city. Both her and David watched, stunned, as a humongous object screamed down from high above, slamming into the city only a few blocks away.

Acting quickly, with impressive reflexes for a human, David noted, Fletch shot a rope arrow upwards and disappeared.

With the sudden impact of a enormous object from space, the ground began to buckle outwards, toppling nearby misshapen buildings, along with shaking down weakened ones. David, stunned by all these new bigger and bigger threats, simply watched, until he realized he was standing next to a certain building.

'Madoka Phoenix Academy' The karate place Maddie had asked to join with her friends, and then he remembered signing the small print. 'No refunds'.

This alien tower extended far into the sky, normally something this size slamming into the city would have destroyed the entire area, will destroy, should the resulting quakes be allowed to proceed. Lost Haven should have been destroyed by the mere after affect of this new weapon. To that, David said 'Not today'.

Although he had never done anything on this scale, he forced himself steady, stood straight, and prepared. The Earth happened to be under his charge, and he would not allow such destruction to happen so easily. Even as the violent shockwaves grew in power, shooting outwards with a terrible force, bucking cars and even buildings into the air; he spread out his arms. David began to feel outwards, towards the tower, putting the surrounding areas in his grasp; and before the resulting aftermath of destruction could doom his previous monthly installments, he forced the quakes and the debris to stop.

It took every ounce of his willpower to do this, like grabbing onto the edge of a cliff and pulling as hard as you could, or pushing yourself to finish a marathon at the end of your stamina. Control over the Earth was very much in his wheelhouse, but he had never tried this level of power. Even so, he managed to save what he wanted, the Earthquakes proceeded no further, endangering nobody except those caught in ground zero, only the heroes.

But this was too much. Miles of earth and cement were forced still as the shockwaves of the tower landing pounded on his hold like a hammer. This was like flexing and pushing a muscle well past the point it had been trained, despite the fact that it was able to, despite that it had the potential to do this, this was his limit for now. After fighting for what felt like years, David felt he should have reached his limit sooner; however, he now supposed his body was making up for the power usage in between fights, slowly regenerating.

The debris the tower initially created continued to shoot throughout the city, a torrent of dust and small debris quickly washed over him, hiding the world from him, and himself from the world. David fell to a knee in exhaustion, the energy core on his chest began to flicker and pulse throughout his body; followed by a rhythmic thumping, like a heartbeat, it began to drum throughout his chest and body. His vision blurred, for the second time today it felt like his whole world was shaking.

"Pathetic." A voice, as distorted as his own, whispered on the wind. David glanced around, for the source of the voice, but it seemed to come from all around him.

"To think, a Guardian of the Earth would be felled so easily. By exhaustion no less."

David said nothing, his chest still moving up and down in rhythm with his pulsating energy core, trying to catch his breath.

"Oh I know. You wasted so much time and power protecting those monkeys. You, yourself, are now left undefended, exhausted." A fierce flowing gust of air rushed past his ear, and down to his neck.

"If you want a fight, I'll face you." David rose unsteadily, but managed to straighten himself after a shaky rise. "But don't waste my time with talk."

The other voice didn't say anything at first, but the wind continued to whistle softly, even as tiny fist-sized pebbles blew past him. The area was still blanketed by the large rolling dust cloud.

"Hmph. I'm undecided, as to whether we will fight. But I do know that if continue as you are, you will completely deplete yourself." David felt more than he heard, some presence land nearby. "A Guardian of the Earth can't fall so quickly, so easily, not yet."

A gentle warm feeling began to engulf him, much like calling on Terra's power, except this was coming from outside. An aura of gentle, teal-colored, light flowed from somewhere outside his vision. The more this light flowed into him, the more calmer, and energized he felt. His breath was returning, and his struggling energy core returned to its solid form. A pure and brilliant white.

"And yet, our fates are tied somewhat. To let you fall here would damage my pride." The voice said, someone annoyed sounding.

"Our fates?"

"Finish the rest of this without me." The voice said, and a large gust of wind followed something up and away.

End Note

Really only included that last part so a certain character wouldn't literally be coming out of the blue if a certain year long timeskip were to actually happen.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

Arc: Igneous _^(Preview)

As a sophomore in the Lost Haven university, Haley's life had been fairly hectic lately, especially in the recent year.

There was one event in particular that struck her, the time her life had almost ended. The aliens attacked out of no where, right on the heels of the Hounds attack, whom they themselves were following up some sort of demon invasion. But she never had actually come into close contact with those threats, at least not close enough to stare down a gun barrel. Not to mention dozens of villains emerging somewhere in the city, she even heard about giant worms at some point. Does anybody think about what they'll do when its their time? When they see it coming? Her life really did flash before her eyes as an alien jet flew right up to her and a crowd of other people.

If she wanted to, she could clearly remember the strange shine of the metal, the humming of its engines as it hovered over them, and the flare of its guns. After that, she closed her eyes, she flinched, she didn't have the heart to stare death in the face. But when she opened them, she saw a certain hero kneeling over her, cover her with his body.

He didn't say anything, but she would come to recognize him, the hero known as Terra. A short time after that, maybe a few weeks later, she dreamt of him. Haley had a power too, the power of foresight, in it, she saw him die. Many times she would try to tell others, the things she dreamed of, but nobody would trust her. Some would call her creepy, or even accuse her of being an accomplice, she had been a prime suspect more than a few times.

Even so, she wanted to think she cared, that she was a good person. But how could she reach out to Terra, the police would laugh her off like normal, and running through the streets calling for him is definitely the wrong move.

She reached out over the table in front of her, flipping over a small selection of cards. For the future of Terra Firma.

Upright Tower, Upside down Eight of Wands. She closed her eyes and rubbed the sides of her head. Sudden upheavel, upcoming disaster, The Tower. In the coming battle Terra will be too slow to follow up on opportunities, or simply won't be able to, Eight of Wands.

She sighed, then looked towards the TV, Terra Firma was currently being filmed on the sly by a reporter team. Right now he was helping move some debris, jump starting other cleaning efforts. Apparently he was also about to help jump start a generator, he grabbed a power line, and then started screaming and spazzing out.

Her eyes widened, surely that wasn't now?

Workers nearby started to scramble, trying to cutoff the power, and then Terra started laughing. Haley couldn't help but let out a short laugh. A practical joke played for thousands on TV, not that he knew it yet. Well, this was a few months down the line, a joke like this might be alright.

She went back to it, instead of Terra, how about herself? Closing her eyes, she shuffled her deck, and pulled at it. Upright Two of Cups, and upright Death.

"Hmm.."

An opportunity to form a new partnership, could it be... that she could meet Terra? As for Death, she's being weighed down by something, she shouldn't give up.

But what could she do, how could she meet Terra? That's what the cards say, but what should she do to make them come true, to grab her opportunity? She sighed, and fell back onto her bed. The future was one thing, but she still had Professor Jones' homework to finish. Maybe she'd just put this on her blogsite and hope something happens.

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Dozens of bright lights exploded into the sky, all in their own patterns. Fireworks continued to pop off on the street around them. The Jones family was enjoying their New Years Eve in their neighborhood.

Maddison ran up and set up the next wave, the Gaia Destroyer EX (Megaton 10). That's what it said on the box. Maddie screamed in glee as she ran away from it. It had only just been lit, but was already sizzling and whining up. It launched into a spinning upwards spiral, shooting off several other explosions to its sides, culminating into an even bigger main blast. Even though it was night, it seemed like day just for a few minutes.

"This year sure was busy." Cecilia said, both her and David were sitting next to each other under their tree, smiling at Maddison.

"You're telling me." David sighed. "I feel like I'm having to fight harder and harder recently."

"I don't like that. Can't you find a Robin or something?"

"Sure, point him out." David chuckled. "Terra and Robin. Great name."

"I don't like it, I know there are other heroes too, but it always seems as if you're alone out there. Who's going to pick you up when you fall?"

David placed his hand over hers. "You will."

"Until death do we part." Cecily laughed. "Just promise you'll always come back."

"Always."

After Credits secret post (Ending J)

She went back to it, instead of Terra, how about herself? Closing her eyes, she shuffled her deck, and pulled at it. Upright Strength, and... The Lovers upright?

"Oh my."

For strength, it's the time of harvest, she should stand her ground? And the Lovers... no way right?

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

We're coming up on the anniversary of the aliens now. Would you guys have any vows you'd like to make here? Me? Maybe I'll get a shiny pokemon or something this year...

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

Terra | Fletch | Abigail

It seemed as though Icon had taken a bad hit, so David had rushed to join his side against the alien. After pressuring the stranger it seemed as if his help was no longer required, which was fortunate as the tank had found new targets in the form of civilians.

‘How are they still here?’ He mused, and rushed to the skies. With all this jumping around his attention and focus were being worn thin, his stamina might get a bit worrisome soon. In fact, a probably usually emerged around this point. So why hadn't it? But all in all, the constant jumping and running around were starting to remind him of his earlier days as a parent; except with debatably more fighting.

Returning his attention to the aliens, he noted that even while it was under constant attack, the tank found the time to shoot someone else. Even that weird tentacle girl wasn't enough to keep it occupied. Several turrets on the massive three-story tank turned to face the civilians, the timing was going to cut it close. As they lit up, David dropped from the air, in between the crowd and the tank, and held his hands forward. Half of the street rose up, answering his call, forming a wall ten feet high, giving the people a chance to keep running. All except for a mother and child who had tripped over some metal debris.

The alien weapons began to tear through the wall, turning his construct into chunks of molten rock and cement, David turned to wrap his body around the two and shielded them from the explosive beam fire. He grunted as particle flares bloomed across his body and all around them. The flash of the bombardment began to block out all other lights, filling his vision with white.

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As she continued to screw in the arrowhead onto the shaft, Fletch listened as Iron Knight gave an inkling to the idea that the massive tank could be electronic in nature. Knowledge of this forced a smile on the archer’s face. Just what I needed to hear, she thought to herself as she felt the sudden stop as the arrowhead finally stopped being attached to the newly-formed arrow.

Finally looking up, she watched as a few more of the alien foot soldiers started to come closer to the heroes. The armoured hero then indicated that there was an imperfection in the tank’s tough exterior. It took a while to scan the surface, but the archer finally spotted the small hole that was in the side of the tank. While with a normal arrow she was confident with hitting the mark, but the new arrow tip was another question.

”You guys certainly don’t make things easy,” she replied, notching the arrow onto her bow.

Compared with the sleek shape of the arrowtips she was normally seen with, the arrowtip was crude in nature. It had a cylindrical shape to it, though most of it was hollow on the tip end of the arrow. While the casing of whatever was inside the tip was not visible, but the multiple batteries and capacitors on the outside of it. Whatever the purpose of the arrow was, it was clear that the arrowtip was much heavier than usual, so it would be more difficult for a straight shot to happen.

”Iron Knight, I’m not sure of the range of this, so try and get back as far as you can. Other than that, I need some cover to not get hit. Don’t have the fancy armour or superpowers to take a hit.” As she finished saying this, she got up and made a hell-on-wheels dash for the tank.

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The beam barrage began to fade. The smoke and dust floating in the air hung for several more moments and the tank began to focus its guns elsewhere, the sound of its engine revving, and its giant 10-meter wide treads shredding the cement, would mask any subtle sounds. Like the sound of two people running away.

“Iron Knight’s been here awhile. Let me share this burden. I will get its attention!”

The tank immediately turned several of its side guns towards David, shredding through their self made smokescreen, and tearing apart a large earthen staircase. But David remained hidden, somehow, somewhere. A sharp snap-hiss preluded to a bright blue light, piercing through the higher areas of smoke, revealing a formerly hidden David, now air-borne, the light then changed into an elongated shape. Swinging his arm around like a whip, David flung his new construct towards the tank, and a long arm of lightning wrapped around the tanks’ massive 50-meter cannon, and yanked it back.

It pulled back on him, like a game of tug-of-war, or like a fish fighting your hook. Any guns that had sights on him started firing, with others turning to try and get an angle on him. David gave it another tug, jerking the hundred something ton behemoth, the cannon on top continued to try to pull away. Its engine and alien armor began to rev horribly and screech loudly as it resisted.

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One nice thing about being a passenger in her own head, at least right at this moment, was that the smoke and noise didn’t hurt. No stinging eyes or ringing ears. It was making things harder to observe, however. She wasn’t used to anything more noisy than maybe a gunshot, so trying to parse details was getting difficult for Abigail. She was, however, acutely aware of the thing’s mood, which took a decidedly sharp negative turn as its plaything was moved.

Her possessed head whipped around as it dropped the end of the tank it had been lifting, staring with inky black, bottomless eyes at the person wielding lightning as the massive armoured vehicle thudded to the ground. The treads on that end finally caught ground again and the whole thing jerked sharply forward, though her body just sidestepped the motion with not even a glance. The eyes fixated only on the man in front of it. A multi-jawed wolf head appeared in the blackness around her for a second, snarling, then faded back into whatever lay beyond. A multitude of insectoid legs and disturbingly human skeletal arms swarmed near the ground, lifting it up slightly.

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She had to admit, the mad dash to Sherman Center had drained the archer of her energy. Her lungs burned with exhaustion. The left side of her chest screamed from overexertion. But she had to bite the bullet and push forward. Push beyond her racing mind on the verge of melting down. For now, her focus was on that gap in the gargantuan tank’s armour.

Her pace towards the tank came to a slow stop. She was 30 yards from the tank. It was a bit too close for her liking, being physically vulnerable to any of the aliens’ attacks. It was, however, also the perfect distance for a guaranteed hit. She drew up the compound bow. String to her nose and chin, she locked on through her scope and peep sight. Her heaving breath made it more difficult to get the shot through, trying with all her might to try and slow it down. Her mind racing, she focused on a happy place of her being at the archery range. After what seemed like an eternity in her mind - 15 seconds for those around her - she managed to get everything in her technique lined up as her release aid snapped open.

The heavy arrow lurched from the bow. It arched ungainly towards the tank. The shaft started to spin out of control as it went closer to the gap in the tank.

BZZZT!

The arrow tip crumpled under the impact. Electricity surged through the circuitry inside the tip. The large capacitors sparked into overload. Once done, a huge surge of an EMP that radiated out from the small gap in the tank. The outside of the tank would have been enough to possibly shield the brunt of such a pulse, but past its defenses? It would be complete havoc on anything electrical.

Sparks flew out of any small opening in the tank. Each of the smaller guns, held up by any electrical circuits, began to sink the barrels to the ground. Any shots from the guns, any movement from the treads, anything that had been controlled by an electrical system was completely shut down. Even from a hundred yards away from the impact, any weaponry from the pulse the aliens and/or heroes had were completely disabled. It was this reason why Fletch warned Iron Knight if he hadn’t figured it out for even his suit was powerless against this force of nature.

Fletch watched as the systems in the tank began to shut down. She didn’t hesitate to respond to the end result.

”NOW!” she screamed hoarsely as she sank to her knees from exhaustion. ”Destroy it while it is down!” From there, she allowed herself to try and recover from the trek, completely shutting off from her surroundings.

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That EMP arrow Fletch fired sent out a powerful wave that disrupted the tank and the tech of nearby soldiers. Despite not being technically inclined, even David could see that was impressive.

Had she made that on her own, maybe she had knowledgeable friends? Whatever resources she had, the archer had impressed him once again, he began to wonder just a bit if his power was that special, when people like her and Iron Knight existed.

The powerful electrical pulse counted tech, but it also disturbed the bonds between his electrical lash and himself. The ‘whip’ fell into hundreds of harmless sparks that fell onto armor or the ground. Fortunately, it was no longer needed to distract the tank.

With the tank no longer moving, now was the time to finish it off, and remove one more obstacle to saving the Earth. David swooped back down in an inverted curve, clasped his hands firmly around the tanks main cannon, and tugged back on it. The metal screeched as it was ripped from its mounting, revealing dozens of aliens underneath it, who shouted in alarm.

David spun around and threw the cannon off into the horizon, towards the sea; he vowed to remember to pick it up later.

“Get out!” David shouted to them, as if they could understand, then waved them off with his arm; he made another effort for that strange woman before returning his attention to the aliens. They started shouting at each other, some scrambling to escape out the hole he made, while others tumbled out of gun ports, or various other hatches. As soon as it looked like they had all evacuated, David held both his hands up above his head, focusing his energy, as much as he could muster here.

Your energy..

It felt as if something stopped him momentarily, his mind changed, like he was about to do something dangerous, and he focused on a different idea. Back to the root of what he wanted, what he desired for this, power, and in his head that had meant fire. Wild, living, blazing, and like nothing else. A radiant red light shined brightly above his head, a giant pillar of red hot flame shot from in between his hands and into the sky.

David grabbed this pillar with his hands, leaned back slightly, then bent as far forward as he could, swinging his searing construct down, bisecting the road and the tank in one seamless swing. The molten halves of the tank fell sideways, revealing a cross section of dozens of inner, now empty, rooms and hallways in the tank. After a few more seconds something deep inside began to shudder, an unknown energy began to shoot off wildly then exploded, taking the rest of the tank and its unused ordinance with it. The best weapon the aliens had on the ground exploded into a brilliant blossom of fire.

He fell onto the ground in front of Fletch, shielding her from the fire and the shockwaves of the explosion with his body. As all the chaos and commotion from this final act of destruction subsided, David took a step back, and gave Fletch a quick thumbs up. But she looked so tuckered out, she might not even have noticed it.

“Good work, Fletch.”

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

Did you guys seen any neat trick or treaters tonight?

My Hider

also how do you make tiny text?

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

Just another Halloween night
Arc: Golden (Black)

Everyone started to gather in the living room before heading out. Cecily had dressed up as Sally from the Nightmare before Christmas, David as Iron Knight, and Maddison as a grim reaper; complete with scythe.

"Iron Knight, again? I thought we were going to match this year!" Cecily shook her head.

"Hey, it was a gift, and I don't even have to wash it. How neat is that?" David said with a grin, idly playing with his fake helmet.

"...gross.." A certain someone mumbled.

Passing by house to house, the Jones family happily interacted with other passing families, complimenting each other, or asking about each others' costumes. Some notable costumes, at least for David, were a Darth Vader and Tie Pilot; with lights and sounds. Eventually, they found a group of kids with giant-colorful lollipops. Maddison rushed over to meet them.

"Wow, where did you get those!" She giddily asked.

"A lady dressed up as a witch! She's way over there, by the park!" They answered, and vaguely pointed off to the distance.

Well, it wasn't like they needed to hit every house as soon as possible. The Jones' casually made their way over to see a group of kids already crowding the 'witch' and her cart. Of whom was already passing out the huge lollipops they had seen. Other adults were casually watching at a distance.

David and Cecily followed Maddison in closer and the witch stopped them. "No adults. My candy is only for children with big imaginations!"

Cecily smiled at him with a raised brow. 'Oh is that right?' she must have been thinking, and he smiled back.

Like the others, the both of them decided to stand back until Maddie got her chance. Looking around, he noticed a knight with impressively reflective 'armor', and in that reflection, he noticed the witch didn't appear. Blinking, he did a double take and looked over the crowd and back again. The kids, the candy cart, and himself could be clearly seen. David looked to the witch this time, and she noticed his gaze.

"That's it, no more candy!" She shouted and started to wave the kids away, then quickly started to turn her cart away.

"What's up?" Cecily asked as David suddenly stepped forward.

"I, uh, keep an eye on Maddie." David stammered out, giving out a shrug as he began to pick up his pace.

Even with her cart she was pretty fast, and David wasn't exactly out of shape. Bringing himself to a full run she nearly lost him turning around a block, luckily he saw her enter a house. The house itself struck him as strange, it was built wider than the others in the neighborhood, even seeming to be pointer at certain points.

'Was this always here?' He wondered, then shook his head. 'No, this is definitely not a house from here.'

Trying the door, he was surprised to see that it wasn't locked. Obviously, he was being led in, but perhaps changing into Terra would be premature. The inside struck him as very 'haunted' looking. Cobwebs, strange paintings and faded wallpaper made up the interior. Aside from looking abandoned, the entire first floor seemed normal enough. Though, it was here he began to regret taking the likeness of Knight for tonight, doorways began to feel tighter and tighter each time, and it wasn't the donuts or candy. Venturing upstairs, he found one particular door, mostly white, seemingly made of fog. A gush of air rushed by as he passed through.

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"David! David!" Cecily shouted as she attempted to follow David's path, while Maddison followed behind her, lollipop in hand, and a plastic clinking from her scythe hitting the ground.

"Ooohh.. is this." Maddie quickly looked around them, and then whispered. "A superhero thing?"

"Who knows.."

After a little more walking around, trying to trace David's path, they eventually found someone in an Iron Knight costume, and they called out again.

"David?"

"Dad?"

The figure suddenly turned towards them, waved, and casually walked over to them.

"What happened?" Cecily asked, and David replied with a noncommittal shrug.

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Sometime later, the family, or rather, Cecily, had decided enough trick or treating had been had. Maddison's pumpkin bucket was nearly overflowing with various sweets. Despite protesting on her part, even though she had yet to finish the earlier lollipop; she even attempted to get her dad to argue some point for her, but he was silent through the entire exchange. Just watching.

Yet this bothered Cecily, throughout all their time with their child, David had been the one to coddle her. Especially when it came to treats. For the last hour he had acted oddly, quiet, stiff, and his eyes would look glassy occasionally. She waited until they were alone together in the bedroom, before he had a chance to take off his costume.

"Are you feeling okay?" She asked, and he nodded with a smile. Cecily dived towards the bed, reaching for the shotgun underneath, pumped it, and unloaded a shell into 'David'.

"Agh!" The man grunted, but still stood straight as an arrow. The 'armored' parts of the costume were apparently bullet resistant, meaning this was the original costume, but without the original man. She pumped it again, another one, one shell staggered him, and the other put him down. Without making another sound 'David' collapsed and faded away with a soft pained-moan, and his costume fell apart like loosely assembled legos.

"M-Mom!" Maddison stood in the doorway shocked, but there was no time.

"Stay home, it's a superhero thing!" Cecily shouted as she sprinted out the door, loading the shotgun at the same time.

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David woke up, with a strange pain in his chest and his head, he was feeling slightly sluggish too. His thoughts were foggy, just realizing his condition was enough to make him tired all over again. He wasn't sure how long, but he realized he was trapped in some kind of chamber, and he saw that 'witch' right outside.

Occasionally, his vision would fade, then be replaced with something else. A park, with kids all just standing around, sometimes just standing on one of the sets, some of them just sitting surrounded by toys.

"W-where are we?" He stumbled towards a nearby boy, with no response. David winced as he struggled to keep going, and turned him around. The boy's face was pale, his eyes were glazed over, as if staring at some far off sight.

His hand rushed to his head as his vision changed again, back to the chamber, and the witch. She pulled a kid into view, and placed a hand over his head. Her fingers began to glow as the kid turned paler, just like the boy from his dream.

"What's going on?" David shouted as loud as he could muster. "What are you doing to the kids?"

"Oh?" The witch turned around, surprised. "Ah, of course you can see it. You are, after all, a guardian of the planet. Terra Firma, was it?"

David banged a fist on the glass. "What are you doing!" He demanded, determination slowly filling him with energy, but not enough.

"Only kids with imagination. I said that. You see, I feed off imagination, the pure creative willpower found in young humans. Adults usually taste bad, but you, you have a pure source of power I can feed off. Your connection to Gaia perhaps?" She put a finger to her chin.

"Ngh, maybe I'm just lucky.."

"Ohh, could be!"

A clock somewhere began to chime. From where he was he couldn't see it.

"Ah, it's time! I'll see you later!" She gleefully shouted and disappeared somewhere, a distant cackling followed her out. Leaving him alone. David tried to break out on his own again, to no avail, then tried to call out Gaia's power. But it wasn't coming.

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"Oh my god..."

"What is that.."

"Someone call someone!"

Random bystanders were watching as a giant pumpkin emerged, taking the place of a former house. Kids were also coming out of nearby houses, with listless eyes, marching towards it, parents and other adults tried to stop them. Someone on top of the pumpkin started shouting and laughing.

"Yes, yes, come! Ride with me to a world of dreams!" She cackled. Very much like a proper witch now, Cecilia thought. She also thought about shooting her, but she was very much out of range. Besides, she was a doctor, not a soldier.

"Get a hold of yourselves!"

"Go back home!"

Other parents were shouting. She recognized some of the kids now, they were also at the cart with the lollipops. No doubt the same was happening to Maddie. Cecily thought about rushing back, she even took an absent minded step towards their home, to try to force her back inside. However, from watching the other parents, she knew that whatever was happening wouldn't be stopped there. Kids began to walk in, overpowering the adults trying to save them, vines began to rise from somewhere forcing back the adults, and even drawing more kids in.

"You meddling adults, look at how they're always trying to stop you!"

No time to stand around, she continued to sprint towards the pumpkin. More than a few vines tried to stop her, but her shotgun proved too much, and she made it into its giant maw. A few minutes later and the pumpkin began to sink into the ground, with no trace it had even been there. If the cops or anyone else had been called, they would never make it.

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"-ear me, get down!" A voice shouted, David realized he had been about to doze off, but tried to obey. For some reason he knew he could trust it, and dropped to the ground. With a loud bang, the glass around him shattered, and he felt his mind clear up. The fog began to lift, both literal and figuratively.

"David! David are you okay!" Cecily ran over to him, and looked him over. Checking his eyes, his pulse, and other key points before trying to help him up.

"Heh.. and I'm supposed to be the hero.." He managed a weak smile, before taking Cecily's hand. The floor shook, like an elevator going down, and the walls began to rumble. David braced himself by holding onto Cecily.

"David, can you do it? You need to save the kids!"

"Yeah.." He took a breath in, and motioned for her to stand back. A bright light covered the area, a warm wind rushed around them, ribbons of energy danced around, then gathered and coiled around him.

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The giant pumpkin was almost halfway down, parents were yelling at each other, some had even brought out their own firearms, but nothing was working, and suddenly the pumpkin shuddered. Suddenly, quicker than it was sinking, it began to rise. The ground exploded outwards as the pumpkin flew up, with Terra Firma underneath.

"I knew it was too good to risk. I should have killed you, Terra!" The witch had taken to the sky, circling around the pumpkin.

"Your mistake, was messing with my family!" He shouted back as he set the pumpkin back down, kids began to rush out, followed by a certain woman shortly after. She gave him a thumbs up.

"Damn you!" The witches' hand shook, her whole body began to shudder, and then her image distorted. It was a strange shape, not at all like the form from before, and he began to wonder if she was at all what she seemed. Instead of skin, neither rubber nor leather, she now had a carapace of some kind, along with strange features all over her head down to her back.

She rushed forward, and he met her charge. Their fists collided, a blast of wind escaped from in between their clash, setting off several car alarms, and David realized that this fight had to move. Disengaging briefly, he slammed his fist to the ground, and the earth they were standing on suddenly shot up. Despite no longer having human facial features, he could tell this creature was surprised, so he grabbed it, and flung it towards some under-construction buildings a little ways off.

He briefly laughed at his good fortune, had those buildings been completed, traffic would get a hundred times worse in front of the neighborhood. Now the project might be scrapped. 'Christmas came early.' David swooped down after the creature, attempting to punch it as it rose back up again, but it rolled, and slashed him from behind with its limbs.

"Gah!" A small shower of embers escaped from his backside, David turned and delivered a solid punch as the creature came closer, sending it reeling back several steps. Another punch, but it dodged by bending back, all the way. Caught in the motion of his own punch, the creature rushed forward, and coiled itself around his head and neck. However, David easily broke free, wrenching its arms free he threw it to the ground. With a powerful thud that sent steel girders crashing around him. He tried to deliver another punch while it was grounded, but it rolled away again. As more and more of the building crashed down, dust and debris began to scatter and rise, obscuring it from him. David lost it.

Needing a solution, he remembered a move from watching a certain cartoon with Maddie, and clapped his hands as hard as he could. The resulting gust cleared the air, but he still couldn't find it. The buildings had been thoroughly demolished, no more metal falling, no more metals clinging and clanging, but now there was laughter.

The creature suddenly appeared in front of him, but before he could do anything, another appeared from its side, then another, and another. "What can you do? How will you fight me when I am dozens, hundreds?" It kept laughing and he spun to try to keep track of the copies.

'I've seen this before, they're all illusions..' David thought, but a copy from behind slashed at his back, another at his side, more from the front. The copies began a dance of death around him, each slashing him as they passed by, some giving him a good kick or wrenching his body a certain way. "Agh!" David was pushed back, onto the ground, as he tried to get up he was attacked furiously again. The crest on his chest, his power core, began to pulse throughout his body; the sound of a heartbeat began to drum and echo throughout the area.

'This again?'

"I won't let you!" David pounded his hand on the ground, even as he was slashed from behind. The ground began to shake and rumble, and the copies all fell over, stumbling over each other trying to reach David. He shot his hand up, as if reaching for the sky, grasping at air, then he balled his fist and brought it back down. The night sky was clear moments ago, but clouds quickly gathered, and giant streaks of lightning crashed onto the dozens of creatures.

"Aaaahhh!"

"AAAAHH!"

They all screamed, except for one, it shot some kind of yellow-green blast at David before lifting off, flying away faster than David could, and he knew it. He quickly flung his other arm at it, lightning crackled and danced around his arm before lunging towards the fleeing creatures' back. It screamed and flailed mid-air before dispersing, fading in a show of oddly shaped particles exploding outwards. The copies, whom were writing in pain on the floor, simply faded.

"Hooah.." David 'breathed' out.

"That was cool!" A voice shouted. David turned to see who it was. Maddison was cheering, jumping from the side of their van, while Cecily leaned on the gun.

"You were my hero, always will be." She said.

David gave a thumbs up.

Note

Haha, another half baked post. I barely made it this time, maybe i missed if our timezones are completely different. Anyways I had to do this, Terra Firma really is a hero for all seasons holidays.

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Kuat Drive Yards - Space Battle

Despite the ship's inertial dampeners keeping them from jostling around as the pilots no doubt were sending the craft every which way, a certain stormtrooper couldn't help but feel as if things were going badly. In fact, he felt like he could feel the ship wildly scrambling side to side. This trooper undid his safety harness and rose to his feet, personally intent on seeing just how their trip was going.

Despite not being a pilot herself, Mara had enough experience to know better, and stayed seated. But she did make the effort to grab his arm.

Suddenly the engines cut, and the retro maneuvering thrusters cut in, reverberating loudly throughout the frame. The hull made a strained groaning from the sudden redirection of inertia, of which had proved to be too much for the internal dampeners.

Mara hung onto her harness with one hand; the other she used to keep the trooper from flying across the cabin.

The intercom suddenly came alive. "Hang on, Hang on!" A man's voice shouted as several muted alarms bleeped in the background.

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Kuat Drive Yards - Space Battle
5 Minutes earlier

Liam pulled on the yoke to get the Reaper climbing and banked hard to his side to evade an oncoming wave of laser fire. The bolts of hyper-accelerated energy brushed against the underside of their belly as he tried to put them in a spin. The energy of their shields flared as it clashed against the lasers.

"Getting real hot up here.." Liam muttered as his eyes danced across his window and computer displays. The Kuat Drive Yards had formerly been an important Imperial shipyard and had been assigned appropriate defenses. Defenses which were to be used against the rebels were now aimed at him and his comrades, and just numbers alone were not going to stop them forever.

"You're doing good, keep it up." Ben said from the co-pilots seat. The sooner they got this little jaunt over with the sooner he could be back in an interceptor. The hospital ship was lightly defended, only a few laser cannons designed for asteroid defense were mounted on its ventral and dorsal sides.

Meaning it was easy prey for a squad of pilots. Liam thumbed off the safety on his missiles and synced them to his squad. A blossoming trail of ions left them as a sphere of missiles launched simultaneously from all five of their ships. A fiery explosion burst out as the exhaust from the engines quickly died out, sending out bursts of dying energy and bits of nearly vaporized durasteel shooting out.

"It's disabled, that's one." Blanche added in a cold tone.

"Guys, I spotted Rogue Squadron!~" Maran suddenly shouted over the squad comm, setting off Liams' nerves, putting him into a small sweat. "Sector C-24, looks like business is good for them."

Liam entertained the information and sent an eye over his computer display. Yeah, the Rogues had plenty of other TIE pilots to duke it out with. But his squad bombing a hospital ship had caught their attention, and they had all performed a sudden turn-around.

Rogue squadron was coming for them.

"Boss, lets hit'em!" Maran happily suggested, and before their squad captain could even reply Liam angrily spoke up.

"Not on a Bantha's backside we are! Me and the cap are flying a support ship, if they get serious about nailing me I'm dead weight!"

"Ahh, he's right, and he's got that weirdo agent in his back." Jarael said. "Let's try and not get our teammates dusted."

"Whether you like it or not, Rogue is going to be on us soon." Maran said flatly, loosing the flippant attitude from before. "O-7, think you can make it?"

Liam's eyes went wide, Rogue-1 was going to be on him in just a few more moments. The dip he did to avoid a missile only shortened that time. Ben flipped a switch to his side, deploying some kind of flare, intercepting a proton torpedo from a certain X-Wing, as Liam spiraled upwards. Their original mission of invading Kuat via Hangar 5, the same one the hospital ship was docked in front of, was looking harder all the time.

"The Hangar's defenses are still up, we can try to lose Rogue in the chaos with other pilots." Liam offered. "Maybe get some help. Everybody wants a kill after all."

"Could take a while. Rogue has a better kill ratio than all of us." Blanche stated a fact they all would have done without hearing.

"We still have most of our missiles, if we really try we could blow our way in. We'd still take a lot of fire going in though." Jarael offered over the crackling of her radio.

"Your call O-1." Liam said as the ship shook from incoming fire. Missile alarms were constantly blaring now, despite Liam shuffling the ship around as best he could.

"We're going in." Ben said, making a forward motion with his arm. Their ships all dipped, climbed, or blasted to their respective sides, creating a wide flower-like pattern with their Ion trails.

Liam banked again and opened fire, holding down his trigger as hard as he could, as if the pressure would make his lasers hit harder. The rest of his squad did the same, and a river of fire streamed toward the anti-air towers. Liam hit the firing stud for his missiles, sending a volley towards the shield generator on the side of the hangar doors.

The defense towers answered their sudden offensive with their own wave of lasers, sudden movements and quick strafing kept most of the squad more or less safe. Though nobody made it without a scratch. Missile alarms continued to blare, but with their objective being so obvious, not even the defense flares would be enough.

Liam realized, he wasn't going to make it if he didn't change his vector. He sent the engines into as hard a burn as he could, then cut them and smashed his hand on the maneuvering thrusters. The Reaper suddenly spun 180 degrees. Inertia continued to carry the ship on its old vector, but now the bow was pointed 'backwards'. Ben quickly caught on and started adjusting the navigation display. He split the screen into fore and aft.

Using his finger he clamped the trigger down and rapidly hammered his thumb on the missile stub, quickly leaving a volley of laser and an unpredictable wave of dumb fired missiles in their 'wake'. The X-Wings following them weaved and waved off to avoid his attacks. Liam guessed they probably left without a scratch. The wave of missiles and lasers already on their way crashed violently into his ship, creating a corona of fire and destruction in front of the cockpit window that made it impossible to see through, forcing him to rely on his computers cameras.

The towers continued to barrage them, the ship rocked heavily as Liam attempted steer appropriately, adjusting their approach, with the hangar opening swiftly growing larger on his screen.

"Hang on, Hang on!" He shouted into his radio. They entered the hangar at what felt like lightspeed. The force of their entrance shot a concussive wave throughout the hangar, blowing over technicians as they desperately attempted to scramble out of the way, spare fuel containers flew and detonated somewhere on the edges of the hangar, several maintenance machines were completely crushed as the rear of the TIE Reaper bowled right through.

Liam tried the rear thrusters, the ship slowed, but not as much as he wanted. The Reaper slammed into the far wall, both he and Ben jerked heavily in their seats, the force of the G's nearly blacking them out for a second, held only in place by their safety harnesses. His thoughts dwelled on his passengers for a moment, he assumed they went through exactly the same thing, but with their armor and harnesses they'd be fine.

After regaining his senses, Liam took a glance around the cockpit. Smoke spewed out from behind loose panels, and sparks shot out from half the consoles. Apparently the shields had collapsed at some point, the engines were blown out from the laser fire, at some point they had lost a wing, and the cockpit window had more than a few cracks in it.

Ben coughed a few times as he recomposed himself and performed the same checks. "Looks like we'll need a new ride out of here."

Liam adjusted himself and looked out into the hangar itself. Several rebel security personnel, or soldiers, approached the ship with their pistols drawn. Damage control personnel struggled to put out fires or carry out injured.

"They're reenergizing a shield over the hangar. Atmosphere is stable." Ben said as he tapped at the flickering computer.

Liam stood up and opened the door into the cabin. "Feel free to get up and move around the cabin." The sight of a stormtrooper already on the ground, struggling to get up sent a worry through his mind. While the others quickly stood up, eagerly shouting, their commander wasting no time in ordering them around. A certain dark figure approached him.

"We survived, good work." The Hand said, standing. She readied a blaster pistol. "But that was just the easy part."

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

More soldiers continued to flow into the streets, one had to wonder if the rest of the world was really under attack with this many soldiers here.

David planted his feet, clenched his hands as if grabbing something, then brought up his arm, and circled it in a wide motion around himself. At the same time, a giant line of asphalt and cement sprung up. Bits of debris fell off as it emerged, hanging in the air for just a moment. Despite the cement being formerly rigid, completely solid. It now seemed like a liquid, enslaved to his will, slightly bending the other way just before David acted. The earthen 'limb' then lunged toward the hundred alien soldiers marching down towards them in a wide-long sweep, latching or merging onto their legs. As David swung his arm they all flung sideways, upside down, and then right down onto the floor in a hard crash.

"Deyah!" David shouted as he waved his construct toward a building, launching the unconscious bodies of the soldiers into the nearby buildings. Several of them made soft groans as they faded into a harsh sleep, the rest stayed peacefully at rest.

“Guardians, is anybody going to do anything about the tentacle monster rampaging through the streets?” Iron Knight's voice came through David's communicator, how he was physically hearing it though? He wasn't quite sure yet.

"Monster? Where?" David asked as he spun about, and found what Iron Knight was talking about. A very creepy looking and ominous feeling girl. Strange feelings accompanied the foreboding feeling he felt as he gazed at her, feelings like, a very vague form of recognition.

'Have I seen this before? Has... Gaia?' David thought to himself. It rarely occurred to him, but he never did find out what exactly exterminated the ancient humans, and for what reason his power existed.

The girl was making mincemeat of the aliens, a gruesome sight to be sure, but perhaps not unwarranted? David felt no love for these aliens, he wouldn't kill them, not yet anyways, but to defend them? It was a weird feeling to wrestle with morality now of all times, considering these invaders had commuted heinous warcrimes, but for now 'she' would get to have her fun, and if she was still here when it was all over. He would face her.

"Priorities right? I don't like it, but I'm staying focused on the aliens right now." He replied back, and hoped that the communicator was still functioning normally.

It was one thing after another today. The booming and crashing on the other side of the battlezone drew his attention, and he flew out towards it. Spotting Icon flying out of a building, David decided to land next to him.

"I'm backing you up! Are you hurt?" David shouted out, extending a hand to the fallen Hero. Then addressed the same foe that had done this to Icon.

"Iron Knight is right you know. Earth's closed right now."

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Just as an fyi, I'm on another server with NMS and it seems like his area is going through some severe thunderstorms. He doesn't have any power right now and probably won't for a couple days at least. nice mando, you gonna fight for the darksaber too?