Christopher Arthur III | Kelly Brown | Samantha "Sammy" Kadowsky | Zac Wilson
Things were not going as well as Chris had hoped that they would have. Instead of already knocking on Doctor Diplodoc’s door, the heroes assembled at the Sherman Center, or at least a few of them, were arguing amongst themselves. With every moment wasted, the metahuman villains were one step closer to completing their plan. However, this lack of cooperation should not have been a surprise. Sometimes, heroes like to work alone, so bringing a bunch of loners together would have imminently resulted in people butting heads, sometimes literally.
“Let me see if I understand you correct, Vigilante. The point of you taking on Effigy is that you don’t have any powers that he can mimic and therefore that would level the playing field between the two of you. However, let me show you how that logic is flawed.” “Assuming that you’ll be fighting him while the rest of the first team is engaging Doctor Diplodoc’s other minions, you will be surrounded by several metahumans, both from this board here,” Chris gestured to the electronic white board that Kelly had filled out with information just a few minutes ago,
“and from the people in this very room. All it would take for him to unbalance the scales is mimicking anyone else in the immediate vicinity. And this is not even considering whether or not this Effigy character can retain past appearances and abilities.” Chris paused for a second, gathering up his thoughts before he continued with his current train of thought.
“Also, by your same logic, the worst case scenario for this Effigy guy copying Icon’s appearance and abilities is Icon would have to take on his carbon copy. The same thing goes for Zip…” Chris caught himself before he had called Thunderbolt ‘Zippy’, as Vigilante had dubbed them. He just bit his lip and then continued,
“for Thunderbolt and Boom, assuming she comes back at all.” “And if you all are so afraid that Effigy will copy Icon’s powers, then fine, I’ll switch him out with someone on team two. However, you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. Another concern was that we’re ‘putting to many eggs into one basket’. However, switching Vigilante with Icon on the first team would not fix that. You would be just swapping one experienced member for another. Instead, we’ll switch Icon with…” Chris glanced around the room, considering the other heroes whom he had assigned to the second team.
“Bast.” “Yes! I’m on Lyger’s team.” Sammy celebrated when Chris announced who would be switching spots with Icon.
“Um…Sammy. You do realize that team one will be doing the majority of the fighting, don’t you?” Kelly interjected in order to make sure her best friend knew what she had just been volunteered for.
“Hey, don’t rain on my parade!”
“Alright.” Chris interrupted the two animal-like metahumans,
“Now that we got that sorted out, let’s get going before we get off topic again. And before we go, take one of these earpieces. They’ll allow us to communicate with one another. With this large of a group, communication will be key to success.” “Everyone who can fly or get to West Virginia in a flash, we’ll met you all there. Everyone else will be shuttled by Minerva and George to LHX*.”
OOC: * LHX = IATA airport code for Robert D. Sherman Airport in Lost Haven. RDS was already taken.
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