Lady Seraphina

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

I sort of expected him to break the concrete in about a minute when I had Gloria phase him into it so I'd say that you just bought us a little more time. We need an end game or this is going to get bloody very quickly.

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

Came in like a Wreeeccckkkkinnng Ball

@Scarifar you might have missed my post cause they were so close together but Gloria was next to the body right around the time that Michelle would have been.

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

I suppose mine is one of them? I'm really sorry, I've been busy and my internet access is spotty. I'll load a page full of IC for me to catch up on and the next time a log into the actual website ready to post there's more IC for me to read. I'm trying to catch up, just give me some time.

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

Gloria - Specter

Gloria's plan had been effective in conception but in practice it fell far short of what she expected. The broken remnants of her two combat knives lay scattered at the Immortal's feet. Luckily she still had one more strapped to her arm but that wasn't really a boon at the moment as the knives had shattered on contact with the Immortal's skin. Crosscut had come in just a moment before Gloria's grenade went off, trying to stop her but it made no difference one way or another. Gloria heard the bang of the explosive, severely muffled and the Immortal seemed no worse for wear. Gloria would never have considered doing that to a normal man and with the Immortal it seemed it was overkill. The insides should have been more penetrable than the exterior.

In a vain attempt to rectify her mistake Crosscut warped into the zone materialized construction equipment inside the Immortal's body, just as with the grenade it seemed to have no effect. Gloria watched as McWizz infected the rebar with some form of energy. Finally this seemed to get the reaction of pain from the Immortal though he was no less capable of sending this plant into melt down. As the flying man made to attack McWizz he was impeded by a girl, Gloria had seen in the briefing, Gloria hadn't learned her name. The Immortal turned on her throwing the infected rebar at her. Though she was skilled enough with her power to prevent the rebar from cracking her skull the girl didn't see what was coming next, but Gloria did.

The Specter started to run as fast as her legs would move in the girl's direction but a feeling deep within her told her she would be too late. The Immortal grasped the girl by the throat and despite the noise of the area Gloria heard the sickening sound of her neck crack. She was dead. Moments later the beast the Chimera had now become came barreling past her and slammed into the Immortal enraged. Chimera hit their enemy with enough force that he actually hit the ground before retaliating violently.

Gloria stopped beside the dead girl and held her head in her arms. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I didn't learn your name and I'm sorry you won't see anything that comes after. You deserved better than this." Words echoed in Gloria's head. "I have to go somewhere else now don’t I?" "Gloria what did you do?" A single tear fell from Gloria's eyes and landed on the dead girl's forehead. "I promise you I'll make this right."

With fire in her veins Gloria stood and turned to face the Immortal. After his fight with Chimera he was very close to the wall of the plant. This granted Gloria an opportunity she hadn't had before. Gloria started to run again. Her velocity increasing with her anger. Just as the Immortal was done shrugging off the impact of Chimera Gloria hit him with all her combined strength pushing him a few meters back into the wall. As she did this Gloria extended her powers around him. Pain shot up Gloria's body as she used her power over the massive electric field the Immortal was generating. Rage dulled the pain and Gloria pushed submerging the Immortal's head halfway into the concrete then pushing his hands in too. She moved a distance from him. This wouldn't hold long.

With limited time and even more limited options a crazed plan came over Gloria, truly an insane idea and yet it might just work. Gloria glanced at the Immortal, then to the broken body of the nameless girl. Gloria started to sprint. Not towards the Immortal who for the moment was trapped but towards the Reactor Chamber.

The doors were sealed but despite being impeded Gloria didn't break stride as she ran through the hallway. As she approached the door Gloria switch her gift into active being and phased straight throw the stainless steal. Once through the doors Gloria ran down the stairs taking then three at the time. She'd seen Revel repel down just a moment ago. Sure enough there he was at the bottom of the shaft, just above the reactor itself. "Revel, I need to talk to you." She was interrupted by the sound of fighting from upstairs. The battle wasn't going well.

"Never mind what you did to my back, I deal with that later. I think I have a plan to stop the Immortal. We've been given the kill order and the Immortal wants to die. He's under the impression that a reactor meltdown is the only way to do it and he knows a lot more about his powers than we do. Maybe he's right, maybe the reactor is the only thing that can kill him. So we give him what he wants. Use the reactor to end his life but we do it in a way that won't cause an overload. If I phase him through all of the containment barriers and he rematerializes within the reactor itself with any luck it will immolate him leaving the plant unharmed. It'll royally screw up the reactor long term but short term we're down a super villain and the area is safe."

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

Looks like it won't be happening now, so I might as well come clean. Revel's plan was to coax the Immortal into letting him discharge a massive amount of electricity point-blank into his brain, disrupting his higher mental functions or at least giving him a whopping case of amnesia. It wouldn't damage the brain, but short-circuit it enough to silence the Immortal's mental anguish.

@Lugubrious

I suppose Gloria burying your whip in the ground puts a damper on that?

...Oh, and does setting off a grenade this close to a reactor have negative effects on said reactor? Like exploding?

@Lugubrious

According to a number of reactor schematics I've perused since this mission started the area we're in isn't consistent with the actual area that houses the nuclear reactor. We're more likely just in a neighboring part of the facility not close enough to actually set the reactor off otherwise all our attacks would have been a lot more careful. We're more likely on a direct line to the reactor core but not actually right next to it.

Besides, this is what the area surrounding the reactor looks like, you'd be a fool to think we were fighting here.


I have my doubts about whether it will actually puncture his skin. If it was that easy to kill him he wouldn't be seeking a fission reaction to end his life in.

You know it occurs to me that what they should be doing is disabling the reactors ability to explode...

@Puffhead

I did some research into that actually and once a reactor is deactivated it takes days for the uranium isotopes to decay meaning that even if the reactor was turned off it could still overload. Think of it like this, shutting the reactor down would be like deciding not to put any more wood on a campfire, you know the campfire will burn itself out because you're starving it for fuel but it still has enough to burn for a good while.

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

Gloria - Specter

Before Gloria could see what kind of damage her attack had done to the Immortal she heard a shout, not of pain or fear as would be expected but of anger. "Stupid bitch!" Seconds later Gloria felt pain rip across her back as Revel's whips cut into her yanking her from the Immortal. He'd attacked her, Revel had attacked her, his whips yanked her from her station on the Immortal's back. She expected to hit hard unforgiving earth but as she landed Gloria felt something soft and furry. Quickly she scrambled away to look at the thing that had helped her. It was some sort of beast, her best guess was Chimera in another form, he had shape shifting powers after all. "Thanks." she muttered.

Now on her feet and in as good condition as could be expected Gloria probed the wound on her back with her fingers. One of the hooks was deeper than the other but both were relatively superficial, if they got out of this alive a couple of stitches and a few days bed rest would see her in peek condition again.

With a murderous intent on her face Gloria turned on her powers, excluding the whips from her intangible molecules. They fell through her body and moment later Gloria touched there ends allowing them to join her field. Gloria ground the whip ends into the floor with her foot causing them not only to bend but also to sink into the concrete. Her work done Gloria released them causing the weapons to become trapped in the stone. What did Revel need weapons for after all, so far he'd been all but useless and proved that he couldn't even be trusted to allow his teammates to attack. This wasn't over, if they both survived this then there would be a serious reckoning brewing.

Gloria had however gathered some important information from listening to Revel try to negotiate with the Immortal. The ancient meta-human was apparently suicidal. Something Gloria understood all too well. He was however unfortunate enough to also be immortal. This must be the only way he could think of to end his life. Because Gloria was feeling spiteful and more than a little rage she decided that as well as stomping Revel's whip into the ground, she'd do the same with his plan.

"He has no idea." She started, her face set hard. Gloria didn't actually know the limits to Revel's power which he claimed was precognition but it didn't matter. Her story was far more believable then his. "His ability to see the future is limited. He couldn't tell you what'll happen in an hour or two. He can barely see minutes ahead, sometimes only seconds. He has no idea if you'll survive the explosion or not. He just wants to convince you not to do it cause he loves his own miserable carcass too much." She was fairly confident that Revel was bluffing, she'd gotten a good read on him, he was the kind of guy that loved to be in control. Not as a leader but to know that he had power over everyone else. One of the surest ways to show that would be to talk about his knowledge of future events yet at the briefing the only piece of future info he'd shared was that Michelle's water bottle would spill. If he'd had more he would have used it, no his power was limited so much so that he didn't know how this fight ended much less if the Immortal would die from the blast.

Pushing Revel's whips into the ground had given Gloria a rather nasty idea. Something she'd only try in the most dire situation, then again that was were they were now. The team was falling apart. No coordination, each member thinking there plan would work over everyone else's or being too scared to enter the fray. Gloria took one of the grenades from her belt and pulled the pin. She could be almost certain from the amount of damage a bullet did that detonating a grenade would do little damage to the Immortal. That was if she set it off outside of him. Gloria was capable of releasing things inside objects she phased through. Gloria kept talking as she prepared her plan. "He can't know one way or the other how this will turn out. You may live, you may die. More than likely if you survive you'll have a painful recovery or all your suffering will be over. No one can tell for sure."

As Gloria was saying this she raised the grenade in her hand and activated her ability around the explosive and her arm. With determination born of a desperate need to live Gloria pushed the grenade into the Immortal's chest. As she hand entered his body Gloria gave off a scream that could shatter glass. She'd phased through humans and animals before and it was always mildly painful but never ever like this. This was like trying to force her way through a electric grid, worse even. In seconds Gloria dropped the grenade and yanked her arm out from the Immortal. As it was exposed to air pain raced over the skin, like a burn forming.

The pressure of reintegration would provide enough force to detonate the grenade, if it really blew the guy apart from the inside out Gloria wanted a safe distance. Chimera had saved her a serious back injury and though she didn't really like his attitude Gloria owed him. Grabbing the beast by the scruff of the neck with her uninjured arm Gloria dragged both of them behind a concrete support beam. There she waited for the explosion.

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

Gloria's actions will be something interesting to work around. Revel doesn't like it when his plans are interrupted, especially by someone on his side.

@Lugubrious

Hey I told you all Gloria was impulsive.

And man, Talk about a violent guy. Can we have him court martialed? Please?

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

The rest seems to lack...murderous intend"

@Milkman

Ouch, I got credit for murderous intent. Talk about a low blow.

Besides I still need to hear from @Guess Who on if it actually worked or not.

MetaOps - Project: God Complex

I never said they weren't part of the corps, I only said why I didn't mention them. Besides they were creating the Black Power Rings out of Batman's skull and trying to destroy creation. When you have to push things to that level you know you've really jumped the shark.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Hey guys, how does the Unsubtle get off the floating Island Beacon's on?