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Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@Monochromatic Rainbow: Also, on the first page of the OP, there is a link to our discord channel. Just FYI.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Christopher Arthur III

“Welcome to the ever-sunny Pacific Point, Mr. Arthur.” The flight attendant told Chris as she opened the door on his private jet, “I hope you enjoy your stay.”

“Thank you.” Chris paused for a second so that he could glance down at the name tag on the flight attendant’s uniform. “Pam. While I’m mostly here for business, I always try to make even the most boring tasks fun.”

Just the prior day, the city of Pacific Point had been the target of an attack by an unknown villain who called himself the Game Genie. Despite how recent the event was, Pacific Point had almost already recovered. Besides a few minor repairs that still needed to be completed, life was almost back to normal. Not quite back to normal as if it never happened, but as much as it could in a world of superhumans. Chris already had prior plans to arrive in the city later that week; however, his presence was required much earlier due to that Game Genie fiasco.

As Chris descended down the airstairs, he was followed first by Maya and then Minerva. There were two limousines waiting for Chris. One was designated to take Chris to the local S.T.RI.K.E. headquarters. The other was there to take Maya to the upscale hotel that they were staying in.

“I have some business to take care of first.” Chris turned to Maya as they approached the limousines. “It shouldn’t take long. I’ll meet you back at the hotel, if you don’t mind.”

“I guess I don’t have a choice, do I?” Maya replied. They exchanged a quick kiss before parting ways, both entering into separate limousines.

“So, what do we know about this Game Genie?” Chris asked Minerva as the limousine departed towards the S.T.R.I.K.E. base.

“His real name is William Kovacs.” Minerva answered, reading the information off her tablet, “He is a recent graduate from Caltech and has registered an I.Q. of 185.”

“Well, that’s the first problem.” Chris said, boasting about his own alma mater. “Everyone knows that M.I.T. is better than Caltech.”

“We’ve contacted his family, friends, and colleagues, and they’ll all surprised that he tried to digitalize the entire city of Pacific Point.” Minerva continued, ignoring Chris’ banter about the rivalry between M.I.T. and Caltech.

“Well, isn’t that something that usually happens in cases like these?” Chris asked. “You always hear people saying that they never would have expected that person to be a criminal.”

“In most cases, yes. But this isn’t a typical case.” Minerva corrected Chris, “The Game Genie’s memories do not seem to match up with reality.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, he keeps going on and on about a hero called the Blue Blur. However, none of the S.T.R.I.K.E. databases have any record of a hero by that name.” Minerva said. “Also, besides Icon, he didn’t recognize many of the public heroes, including those who apprehended him.”

“Wait, he didn’t recognize me! I’m slightly offended.”

“Well, you better get in line, because there are about a dozen other heroes in front of you.”

“Well, unlike those other heroes, I have a VIP pass to jump to the front of the line.”

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Voyager

Eva looked down at her ratty clothes, her disguise in ruins. ”Think I’m gonna pop on home and grab a new Hoodie. My superhero costume isn’t as durable as everyone else’s, won’t take but a few minutes.”

“And while you do that, we should probably hand this guy over to the cops. Unless we wanna drag him along with us. What’s with the bathrobe though?” Hound Dog asked.

“It is NOT a bathrobe!” The Game Genie threw a temper tantrum, “It’s like the garments of the Sith, or wizards, or academics!”

As Eva began walking past the reception area and towards an open door. She closed it, then opened it swiftly turning the bland bronze knob that had seen soo much use over the years. Merlin watched her enter and snickered.

”Being saved by an Egyptian Champion. How undignifying. Still better than Hindu Gods I suppose. No matter. Be on your way.”

Eva rolled her eyes, while Merlin blurbed about Gods, she could care less who saved her although she might ask Osiris if he is another Champion, what Merlin said about him did catch her attention.”Thanks. You care soo much right, You could see that and opted not to help.”

”Be on your way.” Merlin said for a second time without any particular emotion. While Eva opened the door to her own room she saw Aunt Briley there waiting on top of her bed.

“Eva.” She ran up to her and gave her a bearhug “I saw you on the news briefly, the Newscopter saw you and Dickens but couldn’t approach, as they call him a monster. I suppose that was fortunate as your only disguise is gone.”

”Tis why I’m here. I really need to look into something better and more durable. I gotta get back out there, there’s things I need to check up on and Dickens is by himself.” Eva rummaged through her dresser and pulled out a white hoodie it had faded in color but was still white. ”Be back soon.”

“I’m glad you’re safe.” Aunt Briley said as Eva grasped her door to leave back to Merlin’s Library. She thought to herself, shouldn’t tell her about being stabbed. Yeah best not bring that up.

As she returned to the City Hall of Pacific Point Dickens was staring at Gajana much to his displeasure. He looked towards Eva as she entered the room and hobbled over licking his eyeballs with his tentacles. ”Remember, don’t. No staring at people. Or trying to eat them.” Eva said under her breath as she patted his maws. ”Bit whiter than I want, but yeah. At least I can cover my face again. I’ve met Mages and Witches by the way.” As she spoke to Game Genie. ”While I haven’t met a whole lot of them, none seem to wear robes. Maybe I just haven’t met the right ones, dunno. The look is silly though. You’d look better without them, just overall you know.”

“Well, I guess you have never read or viewed any general fantasy fiction if you’ve never seen a wizard wearing robes!” The Game Genie shot back with his words.

”Right. Just saying, you’d look nicer without them. So, what’d I miss?” As she wandered about for a few seconds until she saw Voyager.

“Welcome back.” Hound Dog stated.

””Voyager, You alright? She looks terrible, like a truck ran her over twice. She gonna be alright, Ossirs. Umm, that wasn’t quite it. Orsis, no.”

“It was Osiris. Son of Osiris actually. I know you didn’t hear his name all that well after taking a beating so I understand, although here’s hoping he doesn’t mind having his name butchered.” Hound Dog said to hope alleviate tension.

“Just don’t call him Shirley.” Talus interjected before everyone’s attention was diverted towards Voyager, who was finally starting to wake up.

”...nuqDaq….’oH...” Riley suddenly mumbled weakly, still out cold after her brutal fight. ”...puchpa’’e’...luq…”

“That, it sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before. Wait, is it from Star Trek? No, can’t be.” Hound Dog questioned himself as he tried to identify the strange language.

“Pretty sure it’s Klingon, Hot Dog.” Talus tried to correct Hound Dog, purposefully calling him by the wrong name, “Either Klingons actually exist, which I highly doubt, or somebody has been watching way too many reruns of Star Trek.”

Hound Dog shot Talus an annoyed look. “Call me Hot Dog again, and I’ll give you the worst case of static cling you’ve ever had. You’ll have socks clinging to you for days, so don’t bug me Clyde.”

“Jeez, nobody can take a joke, now a days. Everyone has to be so serious.” Talus defended himself, even though pun was obviously bad. Hound Dog was about to make a retort when the recovering half-alien made a more coherent sound.

”Ohh, my head…” Voyager moaned, her eyes fluttering open for the first time. ”Wha...where am I?”

”Voyager, you’re awake. Things didn’t pan out as we thought, looks like both of us got laid out and bloodied. We’re in City Hall, hasn’t been long since we stopped Game Genie here.”

”Penny!” Voyager piped up, sounding relieved. She pushed herself up to a sitting position, tenderly feeling her ribcage through her green-stained outfit. ”Yeah, guess we both got pretty beaten up. But hey, we got the bad guy, score one for the good guys!” She still sounded strained and winded after her long fight, but some of that eager enthusiasm was starting to come back.

”You know, I thought you were some animal like meta. But green blood and tentacles are a little odd. Still glad you're okay, felt bad your first outing was kinda a mess.”

”I thought everyone had green blood,” Voyage said innocently.

Meanwhile, a couple Tri-PD patrol cars pulled up in front of city hall. Four police officers stepped out of their vehicles and entered into the building.

“We’ll take this from here.” One of the police officers told the heroes while two of his colleagues went over to the Game Genie and dragged him off the ground.

“My plan would have worked, if it weren’t for these meddling heroes!” The Game Genie cried out as the Tri-PD officers carted him off to their squad cards.

“Yeah, yeah.” Talus taunted the Game Genie as he was taken away. “You forgot about the tentacle monster! But a word of advice: don’t call it stupid. You never know what it might do.”

”Are you talking about me or Mister Dickens?” Voyager asked, groaning slightly as she finally got to her feet again.

“Really?” Talus said, barely kept himself from breaking out into laughter, “Did you think that I meant you when I said ‘tentacle monster’ instead of that big hunk of drool over there? At least have some self-confidence.”

”Well I have tentacles too, and I don’t like to be called stupid either,” Voyager retorted with playful indignance, twisting one of her head-tentacles around a slender finger.

”Dickens does seem smart, but not intelligent. At least I don’t think he is. So tentacle hair, yeah. Must be bloody annoying to wash it.”

”Not too hard I guess,” Voyager remarked thoughtfully, running her hands along the two longest tendrils. ”Though I wouldn’t know, not having hair...

“Welcome to the club.” Talus said as he placed his hand on his head. “I only have metal plating for my skin, so I don’t even have hair. And poor ‘Siris over there has plumage on his head.”

“Wait, you mean that’s not a suit? When was anyone going to mention that?” Arachne asked, since she thought that Talus was just a regular human in a mechanical suit, like Iron Knight.

The other Immortals exchanged confused glances until Talus finally spoke up. “Oh, we kind of thought you knew. Well at least that cat is out of the bag!”

”Well. You pull off the bald look good. I’m always coloring and trying new styles.” Eva said as she was sure the Police had already gone lifting her hood, ”I’m doing this rainbow color right now, with a bit of a half shave.”

”Whooooah...” Voyager said, entranced by Eva’s brightly colored locks.

“Well, I have found that Turtle Wax does make my head shine.” Talus laughed as he rubbed his head with his metallic hand.

“You know. Takes a fair amount of effort to style this pompadour, but well. I’m sure I’ve got things to be doing here, so time to burn rubber. Oh, before I go. Here’s a couple cards for you twos. Laters.” Hound Dog said as he handed a card to each Eva and Riley who he knew them by their hero names then took for the door.

”Right. Cards.Well normally I try not to remove my hood, but seeing as there’s no point now that I had to fetch a new hoodie why bother right now.

”Oh, okay,” Voyager said, giving the card a confused look as it was the first time she noticed Hound Dog before his departure. ”...what do I do with this?”

Eva looked towards Voyager and responded puzzled.”It’s a contact card. His name and cell number likely. Why would he give these out.”

“Probably to get some more exposure or something.” Talus tried to answer Eva’s question.

”Maybe I should make some cards then!” Voyager concluded cheerfully. ”I can put something cool on it...like a Bird of Prey!”

“I’m not sure that’s quite a good idea.” Arachne told Voyager, “While it might seem like a fantastic way to network yourself with other heroes, if one of those cards were to fall into the hands of one of your enemies, you might be having someone kicking down your door in the middle of the night.”

”He must be sure of himself and his powers then. Otherwise this does seem to be a large risk. I really should look into a new outfit more durable. Something blade resistant. I’m not fond of being a pin cushion. Either way, I’m glad Voyager is okay. No one else seemed to take injuries so if we’re all healed up if we have nothing more.” Eva asked to the group not sure where things will head next. ”It’s getting late. If I have time I’ll be here tomorrow assuming nothing big happens. Good Night, and sorry for jumping to conclusions.”

”Qapla', Penny!” Voyager called after her. ”Ooh yeah, I think my friend’s going to be worried trying to find me, take care friends! Voyager out!” And like that both the knight and the alien had vanished into the night, leaving the Immortals alone.

“Well, that was...interesting.” Talus stated a loud. “They were quite the colorful group.”

“They obviously should leave this work to the professionals, like us..” Odysseus bluntly showed his disapproval of the other heroes, in a manner that one could conclude was reminiscent of something that Lyger would say.

“Oh, come on.” Talus threw his arms up in defense of the three heroes who were no longer present. “Everyone has to be a noob at some point.”

“Did any of us sustain injuries that could have been fatal and that required immediate healing from Osiris here?” Odysseus glanced around at his fellow Immortals, seeing that none of them said that they had such an injury. “My point exactly.”

“Oh!” Arachne suddenly raised her hand. “I have a healing factor, so I would be fine either way.”

“You didn’t need to use it today, so your point is moot.” Odysseus rejected Arachne’s statement.

“Well, it is getting late, so I better get home.” Arachne said, slightly ignoring Odysseus. She then turned to Firefox. “Well, I could get home on my own, but your luggage is still in my car. Can you teleport us there? Could save us from walking.”

“Of course.” Firefox agreed. She then created a portal that would lead the two metahumans where they had left Arachne’s car.

“Don’t forget we have some cleanup work bright and early tomorrow.” The Son of Osiris communicated via telepathy.

“Drat. Looks like I’m not getting any beauty sleep tonight.”

“Come on, Vol. Don’t be like Rainbow Dash and try to skip out on the community service!” Talus joked.

“Wait. Did you just make a My Little Pony reference?” Firefox asked. “You’re not a brony, are you?”

“What’s a brony?” Odysseus asked. “Is is like a guy who signs up for Girl Scouts?”

“No, no. We’re...um...I mean they’re...I mean…” Talus stumbled over his own words. “You know what, I’ll let you know later.”

“Well, at least we know his weakness now.” Arachne said. Then, she and Firefox departed through the portal.

“They’re never going to let that one go, are they.” Talus sighed.

“I assume not.” The Son of Osiris said.

“Them?” Gajana laughed. “I’m never going to let you live that one down!”

While Eva had long left Arthur took his time lingering around, examining some of the rooms within city hall mostly out of curiosity. And when he had returned to the group he had found them all but gone as the last ones already began to make their leave. ”Oh. Yeah fine leave the Greatest King behind.” With a sigh he floated over towards a doorway. ”Used to being alone anyways. Young Punks.” Arthur said in frustration.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Aubrey Adkins | Kyra Muller | Jeffery Zimmerman

It seemed like the day had been won. All the video game characters had disappeared and the remaining citizens of Pacific Point were released from the digital prison that the Game Genie had trapped them in. While the video game characters did cause some havoc around the city, the actual amount of damage was actually not as catastrophic as one would think it would have been. Sure, there was some property damage, but it wasn’t like entire blocks were not leveled to the ground. Thank goodness it wasn’t like the Avengers’ movie out here, or the bill to fix up the city would be ridiculous!

While Kyra was preparing to create a small portal to get us back to city hall, I saw an intact store window with a television playing whichever local news that happened to still be active. The news station was showing coverage of the aftermath of a fight between one of the video game characters and a local hero. Although it seemed as if the hero had won, it was not a good sign that she wasn’t moving. At first glance, I didn’t recognize her, but after the newsreel continued to roll, I think that I might know who the injured hero was.

“Hey, Kyra.” I asked Firefox, which interrupted her concentration on the portal she was trying to make. “Is that that alien girl we ran into at city hall?”

“Alien girl?” Kyra replied back. Her brow as furrowed. “When did that happen?”

“Oh, yes. You were still trapped when that happened. We might want to make a quick pit stop before we met up with the others. That girl doesn’t look so hot, after the beating she probably just took.”

“Just give me a sec.” Kyra told me as she concentrated on creating a portal to where the crowd had formed around the injured hero, who as several blocks away from our current location. She held her arms out in front of herself, touching the tips of her fingers against one of them. She then pulled her hands apart, almost as if she were pulling something apart between them. As the space between her hands drew apart, a portal began to appear.

“Alright, let’s go.” Kyra at least said after she had finished crafting the portal.

“I just remembered how much I hated my first experience going through one of those things.”

“Well, at least you’re not being thrown through one of them this time.” Kyra winked at me. She then gestured towards the portal, showing that she wanted me to go through first.

I took a deep breath and stepped forward towards the portal. When I was only inches away from it, I inhaled a second time, closed my eyes, and took a few more steps forward. After a few steps, my curiosity could not help itself. I peeled open one of my eyes. However, instead of finding some weird interdimensional limbo world, I discovered that I was still in Pacific Point. In fact, I was where that alien girl had passed out, with the ever-increasing crowd had formed around her.

“See, it wasn’t that bad, right?” Kyra elbowed the side of my human torso.

“Whatever.” However, our joking mood quickly turned sour when we got a closer look at the condition the girl was in.

“Oh, God. She looks worse than she did on the news.” Kyra gasped when she saw Voyager. The alien-girl that I momentarily met back at city hall definitely took quite a beating from whatever she was fighting. One of her legs appeared to have been broken and she was losing quite a bit of blood, which was eerily green colored. And who knows what other internal injuries she had sustained.

“I’m going to grab Osiris so that we can move her without doing any more damage. While I’m gone, just try to keep pressure wherever she’s bleeding.” Before I could even voice my opinion, Kyra had already formed another portal and hopped through it.

I looked down at the poor girl, who was now lying down in a pool of her own green blood. That strange tint of her blood made me hesitant to touch her, since I wasn’t sure what was causing it to turn green. Sure, I have a healing factor, but I’m pretty sure that it’s standard practice to try to avoid direct contact with fluids like blood. Therefore, I took the makeshift approach. I tried to cover the obvious wounds with a coating of webbing. I hoped that it would at least apply some pressure while I waited for Kyra to get back here.

Suddenly, another portal opened up a few feet away from me and the little injured alien-girl. Kyra was the first to exit out of it and she continued to concentrate on it in order to keep the portal open. The Son of Osiris followed shortly afterwards. He held his staff out in front of him and towards Voyager and slowly raised the staff. As the staff rose, so did Voyager, until she was floating a couple feet of the ground. Then, the Son of Osiris slowly turned and send the alien-girl through the portal, with him following close behind.

“Alright. Let’s get out of here.” Kyra finally told me once the girl and the Son of Osiris were through the portal. Then, we each took turns entering the portal. Once we both went through it, we found ourselves back in city hall, where the other Immortals were, along with that girl with the sword and some other guy who I did not quite recognize. There’s so many new heroes popping up across the country. How am I supposed to keep track of them all?

When we arrived, the Son of Osiris was in the process of gently lowering the alien-girl down the ground, making sure he wouldn’t cause any pain. Once she was resting on the ground, the Son of Osiris raised his staff up into the air. A bright light began to grown on the little Egyptian symbol that was on the end of his staff. After enough light had built up on his staff, it then rained down in the form of a beam onto the injured girl. As the rays of the light were soaked into the girl’s skin, the wounds that she had sustained began to heal until they were gone. It was almost as if nothing had happened to her. Her green blood was still crusted on her skin, but the at least she was not in critical condition any more.

After he had healed the girl, the Son of Osiris fell to one knee, almost as if the process had tired him out. He closed his eyes and rested for a moment. Once he had recouped some of his energy back, he used his staff to pull himself back on his two feet.

The Game Genie’s plot was foiled. Pacific Point has been saved. Even some of the people who needed immediate medical treatment were healed. But the real question that probably was on all of our minds was what’s next.

Absolute Comics: A Brave New World

Sorry about the short post. I just needed to force something out to get back into the groove of things.

Absolute Comics: A Brave New World

The Amazing Spider-Man

Peter Benjamin Parker | Mary Jane Watson-Parker

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^{"Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to those with whom destiny has surrounded you"
~Marcus Aurelius' Meditations VI.39}

Mary Jane sat on the edge of her bed, rubbing her arms against her legs. Just minutes ago, she was panicking about her recent situation, where her lower body, up to her waist, had been magically replaced with a giant spider by an ancient Egyptian ring that by chance had fallen into her possession. But now, after receiving some helpful information from this universe's local Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, MJ was able to reverse the effects caused by the ring.

"Alright, MJ. I've got to take that ring back to the good doctor. Especially if I want to get any sleep tonight." Peter was still in his Spider-Man costume, with only his mask pulled up off his face, when he inquired about the Egyptian artifact.

"This is an interesting situation." MJ muttered aloud.

"You're not thinking about stealing it, are you?" Peter asked, shocked at what his wife was saying, especially since she was quite startled by the powers of the ring. "That sounds like a terrible idea, especially since we would have one of the most powerful sorcerers and a prestigious museum hounding for that artifact."

"Don't be silly." MJ brushed off Peter's initial concerns, "Even if I did want to steal it, you're guilt-complex would be quite problematic."

"Then what are you suggesting?"

"Well, since you're the only one with the superpowers in this relationship, maybe it might be insightful to walk a few days in your shoes, so to speak."

"It's still stealing." Peter continued to protest the idea of his wife committing a crime.

"Still stuck on the stealing thing?" MJ placed her hands on her hips and rolled her eyes at Peter. "We won't be stealing it. We would just ask Doctor Strange if we could borrow it for a little bit. He even said that he was going to talk to the museum about transferring the item to his possession to further safeguard it. If whoever was trying to steal it is planning to make another go at the ring, we would have the benefit of surprise because they wouldn't know that we have the ring."

"I don't know about this..."

"Please just ask."

"Fine." MJ bounced off the edge of their bed and planted a kiss on her husband's cheek. She then handed over the Egyptian ring, so that if Doctor Strange wanted Peter to give it back, he wouldn't have to come all the way back to their apartment to do so. "I guess I'll be back."

"I'll brainstorm some costume and name ideas while you're gone." MJ had already started to pull out some paper and art supplies even before she had finished her sentence.

"Great."

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Aubrey Adkins | Ross Barber (Gajana) | Odysseus Laërtiades | Kyra Muller | Joel Vaughan (Talus) | Jeffery Zimmerman

“So, did you get all of that?” Will asked me after he had finished giving me a brief overview of the game that Ryoma was from.

“I think so.” I confirmed. Or at least I understood it as best as I could under the current situation. “I better jump in now because that Ryoma guy is giving my colleague a run for his money.”

“Just be careful.” Will advised me.

“Don’t worry. I will. Love you.” I responded back before hanging up and tossing the little device back towards Talus.

For the last several minutes, Odysseus and Ryoma had been locked into a stalemate. Their blades were flying about, and with each attack that was made by one of them, the other parried their foe’s movement. If I had not known better, I might have guessed that this entire duel had been choreographed beforehand. However, something suddenly changed the swung the momentum into the samurai’s favor. The red-garbed samurai paused for a moment. After that, some sort of purple light that appeared out of nowhere rushed toward Ryoma’s torso and then it irradiated away from him in a ring shape, like those around Saturn.

“May your blood crust my blade!” Ryoma shouted before he launched another attack. However, this time, the samurai slammed his foot into Odysseus’ stomach, which caught the Greek man of guard. Then, Ryoma raised his divine blade above his hand with both hands grasping the hilt and slammed it down upon his foe. Odysseus was quick enough to throw his sword up to protect himself, but it would not enough. Just like the force of a hammer that beat metal on an anvil, Ryoma’s sword crashed into Odysseus’ blade. An explosion of electricity accompanied the blow of the samurai’s sword, and the force of both threw Odysseus to the ground.

“You fought well, Nohrian.” Ryoma told Odyssey as he held the tip of his blade up to his foe’s neck. “So, as your reward, I’ll give you a soldier’s death. Quick and painless.”

Well, I guess this is when I need to jump in. When Ryoma raised his sword arm up in preparation of one last fell swipe, I rushed forward and grabbed his arm, preventing him from completing his swing. While I did get there in time, the armor I would kind of impeded my agility. It was not that the armor was heavy, since I have superhuman strength. Instead, I was just not used to wearing any sort of armor like it. And the heels. My God, who in their right mind would wear heels for running, let alone going off to war! But that’s enough of a rant about that.

“What the?” Ryoma was shocked when he could not break out of my grip.

“Alright, that’s enough of this whole ‘killing’ thing that everyone seems to have now a days.” When I saw Odysseus scrabble for his sword again, I glared out him. “That means you, too.”

“A Nohrian lecturing me on violence? Don’t make me laugh.” Ryoma continued to struggle against my hold on his arm.

“Yeah, yeah. Nohrians are pure evil and all Hoshidans have hearts made of gold. But do you really believe that siding against you doesn’t tear your brother’s heart?” From what Will told me, the protagonist of this game was forced to choose to go with one of their families, either his adopted one or his real family.

“Ever since he became the lap dog for that bloodthirsty kind of theirs who he calls father, I doubt that he can even feel any pain.” Ryoma, seeing that he could not move his arm, tried to pivot his wrist so that his sword might by chance nick me. In response to that, I repositioned my hand so that I had a better grip on the sword, too.

“Could he not be trying to at least keep one hand on the steering wheel when he sided with Nohr?” I think I might have to start using ‘us’ and ‘we’ while referring to Nohr. It probably would be more convincing that way.

“A steering wheel?” Ryoma asked. Great. I forgot that these characters are supposed to be from a pre-modern era. So there would obviously not be any cars.

“Um...one hand on the reins? What I mean is that he might trying to restrain Nohr from doing as much damage as it would have if he were not on our side.”

“If he really wanted to save his Nohrian siblings, he should have sided with us and spared them himself.” Ryoma countered. Well, I guess it’s time to use my last resort, even though the writers of this game made it incredibly contrived. I mean, who would have come up with this?

“Also, apparently King Garon has been transformed into a slime monster and Corrin needs a magical chair in your land to reveal it. And if he were to explain to anyone, he would instantly die.” Very contrived indeed. And quite convenient (or inconvenient, mattering on your point of view) that the main character cannot divulge some extremely important information.

“What?” I was pretty much expecting that type of reaction from the red-clad samurai. That was almost the same reaction that I had when Will explained the plot and lore of the game to me. “What sort of lie is this?”

“Do you really think that someone in the Nohrian royal family would call their father a slime monster?”

“Well, I suppose not.”

“And I know that it sounds crazy, but please trust me that it’s the truth. So, truce?”

“No tricks?” Ryoma asked again.

“None.” I peered down at Odysseus again, giving him a quick glare to make sure he doesn’t ruin everything I have done.

“Fine. Then we have a truce, then.” I released Ryoma’s arm after we came to a compromise. He then took his sword and placed it back into its scabbard.

We then heard a giant boom originating from the other fight that was happening, along with a bright flash of light. The giant cyclops that Gajana and the Son of Osiris had been fight, who was the target of that attack, crumbled to the floor, dropping the trident that had been in his hand.

“Hey, do you all need help over there?” Gajana called out to us.

“Um..I think we have everything under control.”

“Alright, I’ve finished it.” Talus announced before activating the cube that he had taken from the Game Genie while the mastermind behind the attack on Pacific Point was fleeing the scene. Even before the figure of the character had been completed, it began to dash towards the stairs and ascend up to the top floor where the Game Genie was waiting for the Blue Blur.

“And what is that supposed to do?” I asked, since Talus had not shed any light into his plan.

“Oh, you’ll see in a few seconds. Right about now.” Somehow, Talus timed it perfectly so that that the character that he had summoned dropped the Game Genie, who was now tied up with some ropes, on the floor in front of us and then run out of the doors. He was moving so fast that I could hardly tell what he looked like. Definitely blue, of course.

“Blast you, Blue Blur!” The Game Genie cried out in defeat. His black hood had fallen down while being carried down the stairs to the bottom floor, revealing that the villain was just a pale ginger. “I’ll defeat you one of these days!”

“Alright. Time to turn everything back to normal.” I commanded as I picked the Game Genie off the ground. For a few seconds, he tried to struggle, flailing his feet since I was hold him a foot or two of the ground. But when he saw he was beaten, the Game Genie finally gave up.

“Fine! The controls are in my cloak.” The Game Genie told us. Talus then searched the now-powerless villain and found a small tablet that the Game Genie had been using to run his operations. Immediately, Talus plugged himself into the device and began deactivating the video game characters and freeing all the people that the Game Genie had captured. Now that Talus had the controls, I dropped the Game Genie, who landed with a thud.

One by one, the video game characters disappeared. Ryoma dissolved into thin air and Selena and Beruka disappeared right after him. Even the character who had captured the Game Genie only had a few moments left to taunt the villain.

“You’re too slow!” The blue hedgehog mocked the ginger villain before dashing off again until his physical form was no more.

“What!” The Game Genie yelled. “That’s not the Blue Blur! That’s Sonic the Hedgehog! I’ve been bamboozled! This is so not fair!”

As the video game characters were erased from existence, something struck me. SInce Kyra and I were freed by Talus using the same method that the Game Genie utilized to summon all the video game characters in the first place, would that mean we would disappear, too? When I looked down at my feet and over at Kyra, we both started to become transparent as we began to fade away.

For a moment, I found myself back in the same place where I was trapped when I was captured. The dark abyss that had all the neon green ones’ and zeros’ strolling around in every direction. However, I didn’t have a long wait to return to the real world. I discovered that I was back where Kyra, the Son of Osiris, and I first encountered the cubes that started to capture the citizens of Pacific Point and storing them in digital prisons.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it is good to be back to ‘normal’, if being a drider somehow could be considered normal in the first place. While a skin-tight costume is definitely not the most fashionable outfit to wear, at least it beats that armor that I had been wearing. I mean, my superhero costume covers me from head to toe. Now I know that it could be worse

“Arachne!” I heard my name called out from behind me. When I turned around, I saw that Kyra, now dressed in her Firefox costume, hurrying towards me. Her nine fox tails trailed behind her as she dashed over here.

“Thank God that is over.”

“Well, it wasn’t that bad looking like a video game character. It was kind of like cosplaying, except a little more serious.”

“Says the one who did not look like a cross between a knight and a stripper.”

“Guess I was lucky, then.” Kyra smiled at me. Then, trying to change the subject, she started to speak about a more pertinent matter. “I probably should be heading back to city hall. That Game Genie guy must still be ticked that Talus tricked him.”

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@nitemare shape: Get well soon, NMS!

Absolute Comics: A Brave New World

I'm going to try to get a Spider-Man post up sometime tomorrow.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@KaiserElectric@VATROU: Arachne post is up. Sorry about the delay. I would have had it up yesterday, but I decided today that I would wrap up the post where I did instead of adding on more. Hopefully I only need one more post to wrap things up.