Lord Wraith

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Anger Management by Cal:

If you can stay in a room with Cal for ten minutes or more you've got it under control.

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Mistress Dizzy said
Right... so what he did was basically useless.

Well the copters would be forced to leave due to malfunctioning equipment. So not entirely useless :P

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Nope, he didn't tell anymore because he wouldn't want anyone to know he was watching them.

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Despite having opted out of the mission to stop Cinderblock, Cal had several of his screens displaying the local news networks whilst he tinkered with the motorcycle engine in his room. Keeping the comm channel open but turning off his mic, Cal was able to listen in on the group's chatter musing to himself while he was able to silently mimic and mock their voices. Turning his attention to the screens, he noted the unusually heavily armored officers looking at the team with disdain.

"Pause live feed four, project at a one to five scale." Cal said as his eyes focused on the armor. Standing up, he began to spin around the three dimensional projection as he magnified the armor, noting the odd technology on the man's neck and around his abdomen. "Computer, prepare a diagnosis. Analyze all possible origins of this technology. Additionally, verify the officers are in fact alive. I just finished my Zombie Apocalypse kit, not quite prepared yet for the Robot Nazi takeover."

Turning his focus back onto the team, Cal watched as Cinderblock toppled into the water before noting a quick discussion between Orbit and Fenrir. Fenrir seemed as grizzly as usual but then something changed. Cal followed his line of sight realizing he was staring right into the news camera before he began to hoof it away from the battle. Something about being recorded set Fenrir off, and if Cal was correct, the team would likely need him around. While Cal wasn't about to join the battle, he could still help from where he was. Activating the interface on his gauntlet, Cal quickly backpacked onto the news' copter's broadcast signals and entered their systems through a backdoor. Overriding the system, Cal cut the broadcast leaving behind a minor virus to slow them down without doing any real damage.

"Heh, let them say I didn't do anything for them." Cal said turning back to the now blank screens as he switched them over to Gateway City broadcasts as he resumed his work.

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The Kid Lantern said
Posted. Pay attention to detail and set-ups. ~KL~

"Rook Rhaggy! Ra Rlue!"

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Raising an eyebrow as Brick decided to adopt some of the TMNT catchphrases, Cal decided he was going to need a new nickname for the over-sized kappa. Not that it particularly mattered at the moment, what did matter was the poor display of leadership going on before him. Was Ditto seriously sending the whole team to battle one man? Even with Cinderblock's size and power that screamed overkill, it was just begging disaster to happen. Cal was not going to be responsible for the man's death due to poor judgement on some alien's part.

"Y'know," Cal started as he removed his helmet, blowing a gust of air out of his mouth to fluff up his bangs again. "I'm not feeling this right now. I think the other eleven of you can handle this. I've got crimes to track in Gateway City which are more important than tripping over the lot of you pummeling on one guy." Saluting the team with obvious sarcasm behind it, Cal paused as he walked passed Brick.

"Don't forget to yell 'Cowabunga' before you hit the bad guy. Oh and after the mission, ensure you get pizza for yourself. Maybe something with peanut butter and anchovies on it. You're well on your way to becoming a 'Hero in a Halfshell'. Turtle power dude!" Smirking Cal continued leaving as he ventured back into his dorm.

Yeah teams are great...

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I'm going to try to get a post up tomorrow, however just so you know due to my RL situation of moving I'm going to have Cal remove himself from this battle stating that there's far too many people going to fight one person and his efforts would best be served elsewhere or something to that regard. By next week I should be all settled into my new place though.

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Watching Wisteria exit the War Room with a smug expression plastered across his face, Cal walked out of the control room as he went down to speak with her. Overall he was actually impressed, the girl definitely had more hand to hand experience and skill than he did, he was much more relient on his suit. That said, Cal would never admit it to the younger girl's face and instead whole heartedly intended to give Wisteria a good ribbing. Pausing as he stopped beside the 'Ninja Turtle', Cal looked up at him and smirked as he nodded his head towards the flustered girl.

"She did alright eh? A little bit of trouble there in a middle but I think she might just be hero material yet."

Unlike Cal, Tintoretto did not find Wisteria's training session to have done her any justice. The young female looked as though she lacked the strength necessary to defeat the training dummies. Tintoretto didn't understand how such a weakling - as he learned to call them - held the status of a hero.

His thoughts were disrupted as Cal approached him from the side. Tintoretto turned to the human with a flustered look. He was agitated that the man thought he was close enough to him that he could join him at anytime. He then spoke against what Tintoretto had been thinking, giving Wisteria credit she surely did not deserve. "I think I speak for everyone when I say No" the amphibian started. "She merely defeated five droids, that is not enough to impress" Tintoretto said allowing a distinguishing snarl come from his nostrils.

"Who taught you English? Simon Cowell?" Cal snarked with a small chuckle. "Or did you just get banished from your planet for bad attitude? I know you're new here and all but instead of putting the girl through the wringer, you should at least try to give her some constructive critism." Cal said as he walked outside to go after Wisteria. "I mean, I'm all up for some good jabs, but that was just downright nasty." He waved towards the blonde before realizing her back was turned as Cal jogged after her. "Hey, Owlet! Wait up!"

Wisteria was absorbed in her work, so much so that she barely heard the call for her attention. Barely, though, wasn't fully. The scattered, somewhat spherical tech in her hand shifted as her shoulders grew slack, and she turned ever so slightly to see one of the two from the War Room jog up. Her eyebrow rose, but in an instant was replaced by a small, sweet, probably fake smile,

"Cal, right? What's up?" She asked, pivoting around in the chair to make full eye contact wit the older boy.

Tintoretto sat there for a second taking in all of Cal's comments. When the young hero spoke about his banishment, something ticked in his head. He started to feel his blood boil in anger, his veins popping like the expanding kernel that puffs when heated.

He slammed his hands into the bench and pushed himself upward. He now stood taller than nealy all his teammates and started towards the hall where Cal had ran off too. His feet stomped loudly, echoing throughout the empty War Room. It seemed as though the sound richocheted like neutrons. His stomps were like bullets, rapid and booming. "Think yourself better than me!" he thought to himself as his eyes targeted Cal. He felt like ripping off some heads.

Looking down at Wisteria's hand and the tech held within it, Cal smiled as he looked up at her face before speaking.

"Hey, just wanted to say that was a good sparring session. Creative use of your draw string back there, what sort of weapons are you skilled with? Some sort of braided weapon I'd imagine based on what you did in there." Looking back to the tech, Cal's mind quickly began to piece together several possibilities for what she may have been building. "If that's supposed to be a sonic grenade, might I suggest adding a second wire to this conduit. You'd be able to increase the range of effect." Feeling the air move behind him, Cal looked over his shoulder at the obviously miffed alien who was storming towards him like a bull. "What's eatin' you Ninja Turtle?"

Finally catching up to the joker, the amphibian towered over the human. His eyes irritated from the massive amounts of rage he was holding in, but they remained open and sturdy. For a couple of ackward seconds, the giant said nothing, jus stood there in complete silence as he breathed rather quickly.

But once he was able to process what Cal had said, he instinctively acted. He took the smaller male by the arm and pushed him towards the left wall, having his back crash against it. With his left hand gripped on the human's limb, his right hand followed as it started for his face with a closed grip. But right before it came in contact with it, it tilted an inch to the side and crashed against the same wall. His exhaling breath now came in full contact with Cal's face. "What......" he took a breath before continuing. "What did you call me??!!"

"WHAT IS A NINJA TURTLE??!!!!" He cried in a full blasting growl. His entire mission to crush the boy's face in had desipated. The thoughts of banishment had vanished as well as Cal's mockery did not please Tintoretto. He even forgot Wisteria was in his presence.

At Cal's compliments she smirked, only slightly, and nodded as she listened to his insight on her match. Before she could answer any of his questions on what weapon she used, though, he turned his attention down to her hand. The smirk faded, however, when he began pointing out a few ways to make her work in progress more effective. Wisty wasn't a fan of being helped unless she thought she needed it, so that obviously wasn't a good way to make friends with her. The sudden entrance of the turtle interrupted her anger, and when he suddenly grabbed a hold of Cal she rose instantly, taking on a semi-offensive stance.

It faded away when the alien cried out in anguish about having no knowledge of what a Ninja Turtle was. Laughter bubbled in her chest but she withheld it, instead untying the string which was still tightened around her hand. Wisty spun it around in a small circle a few times before throwing the end forward, whacking the alien's outstretched arm,

"Mr. Tintoretto, it's not very nice to bash around your teammates." She smiled another fake smile, "please let him go?" The request sounded a little forced, very fake, and there was a hint of amusmnt hanging near the end. She obviously could care less about Cal at the moment.

As the string came in contact with Tintoretto's inner bicep, the amphibian seemed to have jumped back a little. The string seemed to have left a rather stinging sensation in his arm, causing his hand to stagger without control until he took hold of it.

With that done, the unfortunate effect was that Cal stood free once again. His eyes had now turned to the female - Wisteria. Her get-up was as ridiculous as her fighting style. As Tintoretto shook off the stinger's pinch, both his hands resumed to tighten. "Teammate? This.......this.......This Ninja Turtle is not my teammate! A teammate is a fellow member of a team, but I don't see a team here! This world is a prison! Stuck here underground like a Rugdrou" he called out, using a species from his planet as a metaphor.

"I have rather died then be down here stuck with a bunch of weakling hero-wanabies!" Tintoretto finished as he walked passed them, bumping into them on purpose as he stormed off.

Cal couldn't hold himself back from laughing even while pinned against the wall by the much bigger creature. As it became flustered and asked exactly what the human had called it. As Tintoretto released Cal, the young man dusted himself off before answering.

"It's what you look like half-shell. Now no need to be so angry, what the shell's the matter with you? Hungry, want a slice of pizza?" Cal snickered clearly not intimated by the creature. He raised an inquisitive eyebrow as Tintoretto referred to Cal as a Ninja Turtle before breaking into gut wrenching laughter. "Ooh! Can I be Mikey! We both know you're Raph! Hey Owlet, want to join in, you can be Venus de Milo!" Cal said as he wiped a tear of mirth away from his eye. Scowling at the humorless alien as it rudely shoved it's way through, Cal turned to Wisteria. "If he wants to leave so badly, I'm sure I could design a rocket to strap to his back that'll get him off world. At the very least perhaps we should lock him up with the wolfman for now. See which one comes out alive, my money's on the wolf." Cal said as his face returned to a smirk.

Wisteria sneered as the amphibian pushed passed her, but before she could yell out a retort Cal was already on the move. His insults ranged from mainstream to just plain nerdy in a matter of seconds, and with each word she felt her anger growing. Finally sick of the smart aleck before her she approached, quick and silent, and grabbed him by the hem of his shirt. Once they were perfectly eye level she smirked,

"Shut up. It's not very nice to insult your teammates." Her weight shifted, allowing the taller man to hook and flip over her shoulder, landing just a few feet behind her. Then she was moving again, silent as ever, gathering up the unfinished bomb and her duffle bag. With a final sneer at the loud mouth, Wisty began to drift back down the hall, on the prowl for a silent, lonely place to continue her work.

Allowing himself to flop to the floor, Cal looked up as he watched Wisteria walk away. He was wrong about her being only kind of cute before. She was definitely cute, and more so when she was pissed. Picking himself up off the floor, Cal decided it would be best to go a different direction from everyone else as he headed up to the lunchroom to find something to snack on.

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Caleb Murdoch sat in the midst of several unfinished projects as he tinkered away with a half built motorcycle engine. Turning around to grab a new tool, he found himself suddenly caught up in assembling a thruster for the jetpack designs he had. Truth be told Cal was constantly thinking about each of the projects simultaneously however he was only a man with two hands and could not physically work on them all at the same time. He had considered building a set of additional artificial limbs but he didn't feel like screwing around with neural transmitters. He smiled as he thought of an older superhero film where the villain had trouble with such a device causing the artificial limbs to control him. Cal definitely wasn't about to risk that happening.

Standing up to stretch, Cal swayed slight to the blaring sound of music as it echoed around the small room. Picking up a dart off a nearby cluttered desk, Cal lined it up with a holographic projection of not just any human brain but a live feed of his own. Various areas of the diagram glowed as Cal tuned into the numerous noises and other stimulus around the room. Behind him, a literal wall of monitors displayed a multitude programs, ranging from the news, to documentaries, to reruns of Firefly. Taking it all in, Cal was testing his limits, seeing how much information he could manage to process in detail while keeping it separate and organized within his mind. It was amazing watching his brain at work, unlike an actual human, he didn't just focus on one thing at hand, he didn't just multi-task, Cal was literally able to take in everything his senses picked up and perfectly remember it. Or at least, he would be able to once he had fully explored his abilities and learned how to control them.

Despite being part of the Young Justice initiative as suggested by Blue Beetle, Cal felt obligated to keep an eye on Gateway City as he still hadn't managed to track down his mother's killer. Despite years of hunting down numerous leads over the years, the trail often went cold every time. That said, Cal had still managed to make a significant impression on the city's criminal underworld with Blue Beetle's help. Without Kord, Cal wouldn't have been able to get his hands on the resources required to design and create his equipment. Before Kord's involvement, Cal had been using weapons made out of hardware tools. He had however managed to create a rather versatile weapon out of a nail-gun, nothing in his current arsenal even came close to representing that.

Picking up another dart, Cal turned his attention from the diagram of his brain to a 'Conspiracy Web' he had put together of Gateway City's criminal underworld. He could swear that there was one man behind it all, or at the very least an inner circle at the top to which all the lesser gangs reported to. Perhaps on some down time from the team Cal could zip down to Gateway and check it out. By car, the city was barely three hours away from Star. That was one of the good parts about Star City also being on the West Coast of the United States. Turning to his wall of monitors, Cal tuned back into his show just in time to mouth 'Big Damn Heroes Sir' along with Zoe as the climax of the Firefly episode played out behind him.

Allowing his mind to wonder again, Cal began turned his attention back to the barely completed jet pack before he turned abruptly on his heel and strolled across to his armor rack. Looking over the upper half of his armor, Cal examined it for a way to reinforce it while he began to go over the crime statistics for Star City in his head. If he was going to wear a jetpack, his armor would need to have some sort of under-laying harness installed in order to support his back and shoulders while also ensuring the jet back didn't just directly tug on one part of his body and instead the force was distributed equally.

Truth be told that was the easy part, Cal spun around and threw another dart as he slipped on a gauntlet and tapped the holographic interface along the shock pad. Projecting a holographic screen into the center of the room, Cal began to drag parts as he assembled a mock up for the jet pack and ran a couple diagnostics to see how much weight the projected design should be able to lift, to what altitude and at what speed. Pausing as he heard noise outside of his room, Cal shut down the interface and paused his monitors as he opened the sliding doors and poked his head out. Based on the noise someone was using the war room a few floors below prompting Cal to go watch as he turned around to lock up his room. Shutting off his monitors, he nearly banged his head off his shelf that he had lined with scale models ranging from the Serenity to an Imperial Star Destroyer, to the USS Enterprise E. Exiting the room and making his way down in the elevator, Cal stopped at one of the War Room's observational windows as he looked in on another one of the new recruits, the alien turtle.

Deciding he was going to screw with the 'Ninja Turtle', Cal made his way up the stairs in he control room as he began to set up a pool party simulation complete with bikini clad woman and the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. However before he could hit run, the alien had finished his session and was training places with Wisteria Adams, or as she preferred to be called, Owlet. Intrigued, Cal cancelled the simulation he had programmed and allowed her to input one of her own as he looked down to watch his potential rival. They had a lot in common in terms of their preferred weapons and M.O. but to Cal's understand, Wisteria was not a Metahuman. That said, Cal couldn't help but find himself lingering on her longer than necessary, surprisingly he found her attractive it would seem.

Giving his head a shake, Cal's thoughts cleared up as he went back to designing the motorcycle and jetpack while also analyzing Star City's crime statistics, all while he watched the Owlet strut her stuff below.

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