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Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Sorry, on holiday at the moment. Will be back on Wednesday.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

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This was a brand new experience for Bailey. When he was Spider-Boy, he was only ever photo'd by people looking to dob him into the government. Now he was on red carpet, a sea of lights illuminating him entirely. He was wearing a bright red tuxedo with his glowing lightning bolt taking the shape of his lapels. He was alone, mostly to not draw attention to Simms or Christina. Simms had entered quietly a few minutes ago. Despite the Courage of Achilles keeping him on target and smiling and winking for the camera's, throwing a few buddy thumbs up, frankly, Bailey was bricking himself underneath. But as Achilles had told him before "Courage isn't a lack of fear, it's simply not letting fear stop you from doing what's right." and Simms had told him "Tonight ain't about any of us. It's about making the masses feel safe... As well as giving us the opportunity to network with other heroes." Making his way to the main lobby, he saw people making their way to lifts and up the grand staircases towards the ballroom. He nervously looked around, not quite sure exactly what to do by himself.

"Cap, good to see you again." The familiar voice of Captain Jordan came from behind him. "Loving the tux. Looking snazy." Hal said, before heading up the stairs. Bailey stood watching the other Lanterns walk up the stairs, before looking around once more and following.

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Just as Otto finished fixing his costume, he would hear the sounds of a someone outside the window _{"I did NOT do what i did at General Techtronics just to be called "A Wannabe" by some door-jerk with delusions of grandeur. And who else but a heroine or a god would show up riding a giant Kangaroo? I thought that would have sealed the deal, but NoOoOoOo. There's gotta be a kitchen or... Bathroom! Come on, hot-stuff."} before suddenly, a woman with a long, flowing, red ballgown and a red mask fell through the window behind him, landing on her face "Dammit! I'm ok!" Christina shouted back reassuringly. As she did, another man expertly vaulted through the window wearing what looked like a full suit of greek battle-armour, his breastplate a brilliant shining silver, leather skirt with polished brass spangles that shone like gold, a helmet with a red plume out of the top. As Jason helped Christina up, the pair looked at Otto. "Don't worry, Citizen, we are Superheroes. Well, i'm a Superhero, he's a-a-a-a... God... Demi-God- Whatever... We are supposed to be here, regardless!" Christina stammered as the pair walked out of the bathroom. "Come on Jason, we are raiding the hors d'oeuvres then i'm teaching you to tango." Jason looked entirely out of his element and shot Otto a puzzled look as they walked past.

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As Bailey finally made it into the ballroom with all of its splendor, he saw all of the different heroes, heroines and rich debonaires around. He was partly hoping to see maybe some old friends he recognized... But considering what happened previously, it was probably for the best that the likes of T'Challa and Susan WEREN'T here. Slowly wandering around, he made small, meek waving guestures to others, hoping that someone, anyone would approach him with something to say, because gods knew he had no idea. "Hi, i'm a superhero who can crush tanks with my bare hands, but mostly my brovado is a facade for having ABSOLUTELY no idea what i am doing or what's going on. What trauma's brought you to put on spandex and fight the mentally ill? Mine was being tortured and brainwashed by some freaky lady from a different timeline who turned me into a mutant spider-monster. I know, right, ain't it always the way?"

He walked past several people, most of which he didn't recognize. A few from those forum posts Christina was always showing him. Frankly, he was disappointed he couldn't see Zach Zatara around. He was hoping to get some pointers on using magic. Nope. Oh well. Before he could get much further, a glass of champaign seemed to be forced into his hands. "Excuse me, no i'm not old en-" But before he could finish the waiter was gone, back into the sea of faces. He stood looking down at the drink for a second. He was... Physically old enough... And he had the Wisdom of Solomon... That made him mentally old enough. A little sip wouldn't be the worst thing. Bringing the drink to his lips, he took a sip. The sour, bubbly squirt of expanded instantly in his mouth as he swilled it around. VERY sour. Nope, didn't like that. Did not like that at all. And that wooden aftertaste wasn't helping anything. He non-challantly approached a table and put the glass down, before taking a few steps away. That's when he saw Christina, 2 glasses of champagne in one hand, a cocktail sausage sticking from her lips as she slowly reeled it in and Jason's hand in the other hand, rushing towards the waiter that had just missed him. "Chr... You!!!" He called, trying not to use names here. Christina quickly swallowed what was in her mouth already and took a long drink from the Champagne, before rushing to Bailey.

"Captain Marvel!" She called, giving him the french air-kiss on each cheek as a formal greeting. "Fancy seeing you at this swanky shindig! This prim and proper party! this... Bouncing Box Social." She laughed.

"How much have you drank so far?" Bailey asked.

"It's fine, i'm not sure you can even get drunk. So, i think you should have as much as you want." He watched Jason take a swig of the Champagne, seeming more confused than anything.

"That good, Jason?" Jason took another swig.

"Dionysus would be... Probably most pleased by this wine... And the popping is most peculiar. Like a frothing gyser."

"It's called Carbonation, Boo. Those Gauls may be barbarians, but they know their stuff." Christina poked his nose as she called him Boo, she then sauntered over to a nearby Ice Swan sculpture and picked up a small piece of the ice that had broken off, before dropping it into his Champagne. "There we go. Champagne Akratos." She said, before slowly swilling the champaign around in the glass, causing the ice to mildly dilute the Champagne. Jason took another swig, seeming to prefer it this way. She looked at Bailey. "Old Greek tradition. Although they used to use Snow." She smiled. "Hey, if i'm gonna have an ancient greek honey, then momma's gonna do her research to keep her sweet baby biscuit happy." Bailey nodded, impressed. "Right, you stay here, i'm gonna go see if i can find Starfire, i wanna know if that slashfic of her and Warbird i read the other day holds any water. She seems the approachable type."

"I am curious to meet Thor. Father told me of his legendary strength. I wish to test it." He smiled.

"YES!" Christina's smile stretched from ear to ear. "We need to get you and Thor into a pose-off. Like that scene from that film i showed you about the castle in the sky?"

"I've told you before, the straps on my armour are made from the finest leather, i cannot simply "Burst Them With My Rippling Muscular Prowess" As you put it." He sighed. She put a finger over his lips.

"Shhhh... Let your momma dream." Jason stared awkwardly at Bailey, as if asking how to respond, Bailey had just as little idea.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Very tempting to take Peter Parker in a completely different direction after finding this image...

@Half Pint

Well, i did make reference to Japanese Spider-man existing (And Simms having ran into him) a while ago, so anything's possible.

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@King Kindred I'll wait till i see, literally, anything resembling gameplay before i judge it.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

@King Kindred Yeah, i was wondering when someone would notice. Look, i needed a badass Secret Agent type and i have a boarderline unhealthy love for Ming-Na Wen. Also, she was a character i doubted anyone else was going to use.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Just a cute scene to have the Lanterns enter with. I'll describe their entry into the ball room proper at the same time i do Bailey and Simms... And maybe Christina, i've not decided if she's joining. Although it would be funny for her to bring her Olympian squeeze.

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^{Enter the Gala}

Hal sat in the back of the Limo desperately adjusting his little green bowtie with his symbol in the middle. It came with a purple mask, a purple cape with a green inline, a red tuxedo jacket and spatts, a yellow shirt and a green trouser. "I don't get this monkey-suit." He growled. After everything he had just been through at General Techtronics, he was actually looking forward to more ring hunting. These formal balls never sat well with him. He'd rather be scrumming with the other guys down in the mess. As the limo stopped at it's next registered pick-up point, Agent May stepped in. She was wearing a rather formal looking Hanfu dress. Pink for the most part, with an Indigo sash that draped around her and purple, blue and red accents. Her face painted white like porceline, except for some blush and her lips a deep cherry red. "Well... Damn..." He stated.

"It's a traditional dress." She sighed. "If the Director wasn't so insistant we come, you would never have seen me in it." She pulled a fan from one of the many layers of her dress and extended it, wafting her face.

"You look like a Disney Princess." Hal remarked. He then received, in response, a stare that convinced him that had her orders not been to keep him safe, he would have most certainly been in hospital with a fractured everything right now. The pair continued their small talk, until the limo made its final stop. Stepping into the back of the car this time was Sinestro, wearing a brilliant gold tuxedo jacket with blue lapels and cuffs, a black frilly shirt and blue leather boots. He was joined by Dex-Starr wearing just a collar with a cute red bow-tie. He had clearly been brushed and groomed and did not look most pleased.

"I was told there would be food provided. This is the only reason i have acquiessed to your request of my illustrious presence." Hal looked at Dex and then at Sinestro.

"You know what? That tux on you is even stranger than the talking cat." Sinestro raised an eyebrow. "You REALLY need to learn to take a joke." Sinestro's eyebrow turned to Hal's shoes.

"And what, may i ask, are those?" He sneered.

"Don't go ragging on the shoes." Hal frowned. "You're the Gold Lantern, what's with all the blue?"

"I might ask the same about the red?" Sinestro retorted.

"Well, buddy, you're skin is almost red. Kitty there is red. It's about time i got some Red on me." Hal laughed, before screaming in pain as he looked down to see Dex had dug every claw in his left front paw into Hal's leg.

"You will refer to me as Dex-Starr or My Master. If you call me Kitty again, i will take great pleasure in gauging your eyes out and using your skull as my litter box." The cat replied, before slowly (and painfully) retracting the claws. The 3 sat in silence for the rest of the limo trip. The only sound breaking it was the music tuned playing some of the "Golden Oldies."

_{"Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York"} the hushed lyrics catching all 3 of the other passengers completely offguard as they heard it waft through the limo. As Sinestro caught the others staring at him, he instantly shut up. The 4 stared awkwardly between them as the music slowly faded away into the next song. Hal looked to see the typical New York traffic jam and guessed they would be here for a little more. As the next song got underway he saw Sinestro slowly tap his foot. Hal smiled as he waited for the song to reach the chorus.

"And i guess that's why they call it The Blues. Time on my hands, could be time spent with you. Living like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder. Under the covers." He pointed at Sinestro, who rolled his eyes.

"And i guess that's why they call it The Blues..." The rumble from the cat almost shook the car as even Dex seemed susceptible to the croonings to Elton John. As the piano continued, Hal went back to starring awkwardly.

"Just stare into space. Picture my face in your hands. Live for each second, without hesitation and never forget I'm your man" Sinestro let out.

"Wait on me, girl" May joined in.

"Cry in the night if it helps" The four sang in unison.

As the limo pulled up to the front of the gala room, the 4 stepped out, met by a blinding sea of paparazi taking their photographs as the 4 of them strode confidently into what promised to be an interesting evening for all of them.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

I'll give y'all 3 guesses as to who'd be playing Solomon in that post.

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^{The Battle of General Techtronics Tower: Part 2}

1 year and 1 mysterious reality-breaking event ago, F.E.A.S.T.

Bailey sat reading his book. A rather beat up copy of The Hunt For Red October, missing half of the front cover. Jack Ryan's Harrier had just put down HMS Invincible, when Tabitha opened the door and walked in, sighing. "Hi, Bailey." She called, collapsing on the ratty sofa of their room. She wiped her brow.

"Any luck?" Bailey asked, looking at her.

"You'd think with President Lord removing all of the mutants from their jobs that we'd get a better market." Bailey looked at her with a look of shock. "Hey, i don't LIKE it, but i'm trying to look on the bright side. She sighed. "This is why we don't support Facism. They don't solve problems, just create scapegoats." She then looked at Bailey and outstretched her arms. "Come give mom a hug. I need it." She called. Bailey got up and walked over to her, collapsing onto the sofa next to her and embracing her in a hug. "I swear a hug from you makes this whole dystopia thing seem bearable." There seemed to be a commotion from down the hall, screaming and wild animal sounds.

"What the-"

9 months and 1 mysterious reality-breaking event ago, The Farm

"Eugh. Another failure. Throw it on the pile and bring in the next one." Madam Monstrosity sighed as she looked down at the barely breathing, malformed cat-like creature. As a pig in a labcoat nodded and moved to the head of the gurney to begin wheeling it away, suddenly there was a loud bang sound. Then a gust of wind. "Oh joy, more distractions. Deploy the Horde and bring me whoever is causing that disturbance on a slab." Suddenly, the door caved in as an enormous humanoid-crocodile flew through it. A number of people stood in the now-opened doorway. At the head of them was the small Spider-Boy. "Oh, #5, you returned. And you brought some more meat. Excellent work. She said, before walking over to the computer and beginning to type on it. A bone spike flew from the doorway, straight through the monitor. She looked around and saw Spyke had thrown it, before fist-bumping Spider-Boy. "You do know that killing the monitor doesn't do anything to the files, right? Typical dullards." She sighed, before pressing a button. "Horde, kill them." She then looked at the clearly pregnant Storm among them. "And bring me the mutant with child, could prove useful." Almost instantly, an explosive Vibranium shard hit her arm and exploded, blowing her arm clean off. Madam Monstrosity looked down at the severed stump, then at Black Panther who had thrown it. "Owww..." She stated, before a few seconds later, sinew, bone and other gore exploded from the stump recreating her arm. Suddenly, the roar of countless animals came from behind them, Black Panther patted Spider-Boy on the shoulder, before turning around to face the incoming horde.

"I'm here for my mother." He growled, stepping forwards. The battle going on behind him as if it was miles away.

"Good, you may take her." She waved a hand over to the gurney being removed by the pig. Bailey looked over in mute horror at the writhing mass of flesh and ginger fur with cat-like eyes staring back at him. "Subject #31 proved unreceptive to the process, i have higher hopes for Subject #47... Or maybe even the mutant, which from now on shall be named #82" She sighed as she walked over to a computer and began entering the information. The Pig in the lab coat backed away as he saw the trembling boy walk over to the horrifying remains of his mother.

"M... Mom?" He trembled. The mass looked back at him with its malformed features.

"B... Ail...Ey?" It wheezed. Something that might be considered a smile began to creep across its face. "Yo... U... Alwa... Ys... Make... It... Bet... T.... Ter..."

"Mom..." He pulled the mask from his head, tears streaming down his face. The face of sorrow unimaginable quickly proceeding to the second stage of grief.

"Don... T... Be... Cr... Uel..." She begged, but Bailey had already turned back to Madam Monstrosity.

"Fix... Her..." He growled. Not his usual chipper self. Madam Monstrosity didn't even look away from the computer.

"#31 is beyond fixing. An utter failure." She didn't seem to notice the Fwip sound as a web shot past her head, but instinctively ducked as the Spider-Boy catapulted himself towards the computer she was working at, his feet going straight through the monitor. He turned to look at her cold, unfeeling face as tears streamed down his own.

"FIX HER!!!" He screamed, so loudly that his voice went a little hoarse at the end.

"Did your hearing fail along with your obedience? She is dead already, anything left is merely dying neurons firing off." She sighed. "But take sollace that #47's chances of survival have been raised a whole 4.63%. It's a noble sacrif-" At that point, Bailey's hand lashed out and grabbed her face, instinctively, the spider-hairs on his palms dig into her skin as he ripped down, tearing a considerable chunk of skin from her face and leaving a palm-shaped bloody mess of her face. She stood there staring at him, before the skin grew back rather quickly. "An interesting use of your powers." She sniffed, before touching her face and wincing in the only display of anything other than mild boredom that he had ever witnessed from her. "And the pain inflicted is quite unbearable. This is very fascinating." Bailey looked down at the skin on his hands that he had ripped off and stared, horrified at what he had just done. The skin seemed to slop off and melt away. Then looked back to see Madam Monstrosity begin jotting down notes.

"This is for the threats to my queen." the familiar voice of the White Wolf came from behind her as Bailey's face was splattered with gore as Madam Monstrosities chest exploded with the White Wolf's vibranium-clawed hand burst through her stomach. She looked down at the heart that was clutched in his hand. He continued to squeeze it lightly to force the blood to continue pumping through the expertly un-severed veins and arteries. "Tell Mr Briggs the location of the rest of your victims and you may yet live." Monstrosity looked down at her heart.

"An expert bit of surgery, worthy of my own efforts." She sighed. "But there are far worse things than death. And this body is but a shell. The High Evolutionary still has use for me... Unless i tell you of his plans." She looked back at Bailey. "We will meet again, #5" She sneered, before her heart suddenly stopped and she slumped forwards. White Wolf continued to try to pump her heart manually, but quickly gave up. At that point, an explosion rang out. In typical villain fashion, Madam Monstrosity had set her base to self destruct in the event of her death. Supervillains were nothing if not sore losers. Bailey tried to approach the horrifying remains of his mother, but was grabbed by Black Panther.

"Come, Bailey, you need to live." Bailey squirmed against the vibranium claws, before quickly being caught in a hurricane carrying the both of them out. The Humanimals remaining were fleeing, the heroes who had come to help him giving chase, not that he was watching or caring. He kept his eyes on the malformed mass of flesh that used to be his mother until the very last, as flames began engulfing the entire building.

As they stood outside, Bailey stood staring at the burning building, tears streaming down his freckled cheeks. "I know you hurt now, Young Bailey, but your mother is in... A better place now." Another hand patted his shoulder, looking up to see the form of Spider-Man.

"Killing her wouldn't have helped... No matter what dog-boy over there thinks." He scowled lightly at White Wolf. Bailey broke down to his knees and began crying, tears flowing that he never even knew he had.

Meanwhile, stood next to him, Captain Briggs stood watching the scene unfold with tears flowing down her own cheeks. "I... I don't understand. Who are these people?" She asked, before looking at the crying boy. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME!!!" She screamed, tears flowing down her own cheeks as well. She constantly wiped them away. "Let me out of here, you super-powered little- She raised the rifle up, before suddenly finding herself in the highstreets of New York. She had grown up here, she had had a life here, she had... She'd done so much... But when the invasion happened... Wait, what invasion? The Fire Trolls? No, that wasn't it. She walked down the street again, passing people she didn't recognize. Someone on TV giving a speech, their podium had the Presidential Seal on it. Who was that? Not any president she recognized. Moving to a shopping mall, she walked in and saw to the right of her, a book shop. A new Clive Custler was on sale... Somebody she knew would love that. Who was it...? Nobody she could put a finger on right now. The door to the store seemed to be engulfed in a glowing light. But, to her left, was the army recruiter office... She looked in her wallet. Down to her last $20... Whoever wanted that book... She needed her own life to think about now. Turning left, she walked to the door, only to suddenly be stopped as something shoved her back. A shadowy black figure. Featureless, vaguely an outline, like something you were only looking at out of the corner of your eye.

"Look, kid, i don't know what you are or what you want from me, but i have to get on with my life. Sure, we all have regrets, but we need to move forward." Tabitha grunted. She moved forwards again, only to be stopped once more by the figure trying to shove her, but this time, she managed to grab and pull the shadowy figure into a headlock, before kicking it out of the way and turning to run through the door to the recruiters office.

Suddenly she was in her old appartment. This was wrong, she got evicted after the company went bust and she couldn't afford the rent. She walked around, mildly comforted by everything being exactly where she remembered it. Her bedroom, the en suite bathroom, the spare bedroom... Why was there a baby cot in here? Of course, yeah, one time she thought she was pregnant after that one night stand with that jerk over in Coast City. But turned out to be a false alarm. It's weird though, how many times she kept thinking about that baby that never was. Every so often, she would find herself looking in a bookstore and thinking that she should buy something for the baby when it came, only to remember that it was never really a thing to begin with. She shook her head and walked back out into the living room to see the diminuative captain Marvel stood before her, his Silver Lantern costume adorning him, the cloak over his head.

"Tabitha Briggs. You... Know my Sorrow." He wheezed.

"Sorry, kid, but i don't." He raised the ring to her, wisps of silver energy swarmed around her, forming into shapes that she didn't recognize. She waved them away. "Enough, kid."

"Please..." The voice that came was less echoed, like the Silver Rings weilder had previously been, it was more... Sincere. /"Please know my sorrow." He begged.

"Look, i thought i was gonna have a kid, then i didn't. End of story, i'm not getting hung up over this." She walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, hunkering down to her knee's to come face to face with him. "Look, kid, you lost your mom. That sucks, it really does. I lost mine too... Granted not to something QUITE that horrifying. But you gotta move on. She's gone and she isn't coming back. She'd want you to move on." She pulled him into a hug. He started crying again, but this time, it was REAL tears. Tabitha used the distraction as her hand moved down his arm and to his finger. Grabbing the ring and trying to quickly wrench it off, instead Bailey let out a scream of purest horror.

"KNOW MY SORROW!!!"

Immediately, Tabitha was blasted by a thousand memories, labour, birth, taking home her baby, holding him as he screamed all night, watching him in the ICU as he barely struggled to live through Scarlet Fever, taking him home, 10 whole birthdays, that time he played Soccer in the appartment and broke her mothers vase... But she still had that vase... Everything flooded her mind at once, she closed her eyes, desperately trying to block eveyrthing out. Suddenly, there was a bright flash of Orange and everything stopped. She came to her senses. Looking around, she could see the rest of the team on the floor, most blubbering incoherently. The Spider-Creature was in front of her, biting the head off of an orange construct.

"DON'T WORRY, MOM! I GOT YA!!!" Boyd yelled, devouring the glowing orange SS officer. She looked down the hallway to see Captian Marvel destroying more of the Orange nazi's, he seemed to be flanked by a pair of beings made from flowing tears, they looked like the people she had seen in her vision, the Black Panther and Storm. The Storm construct shooting bolts of lightning made from the tears, while the Black Panther simply decapitated others with his claws. The man in the jet-black costume seemed to finally come around, shaking his head and reaching his hands under his mask to wipe away the tears.

"Dammit, i never wanted to relive that one again." The old man growled. He reached a hand down to Tabitha and pulled her back to her feet. "The Captain seems a bit distracted." He grunted. "I suggest we grab the others and fall back for the moment, let them tire each other out while we regroup. When are your experts getting here?" Outside of the building, there was 3 lights in the distance, glowing stronger and brighter. Green, Yellow, Red.

"That'll be them." She replied, quickly finding her gun from the floor, quickly checking the magazine and the chamber, she grabbed one of her fallen team and began pulling him down the corridor away from the battle going on in front of them, meanwhile, Sims had webbed the rest and was pulling them down the corridor with no effort.

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Up on the roof, Christina was regretting her choices not to come down with them. Frankly, it was freezing up here. Maybe she should call her boyfriend. After all, his hot, muscular abs would definitely keep her warm up here... As it on queue, though, instead 2 men and a cat landed nearby. They all seemed to be colour-coordinated. WAIT A SECOND, she knew them from the forums "HEY, LANTERNS!!!" She called. The 3 beings turned to her. "What the heck are you guys doing here? Don't worry, Captain Marvel has this under control, you can leave." She smiled and waved. "Also, can you give me a lift down to the ground? It's kinda breezy up here." Hal moved towards her.

"Look, civilian, we are here to deal with 2 incredibly dangerous artifacts." He said. "Do you know where they are?" He held up his ring to her. "They look like this, but one is silver and the other is orange." Before Christina could answer, a call came in over Hals earpiece.

"Captain Jordan, this is Captain Briggs, we need IMMEDIATE assistance, Captain Marvel has been taken by the Sorrow Ring and..." She paused for a second. "We need immediate assistance." She repeated as she swallowed her words. Hal looked at Sinestro.

"Damn, Marvel has been taken over by the Sorrow ring." He called. He looked back at Christina. "Stay here, and stay safe. Captain Marvel has been compromised, do not approach him under any circumstances, he's EXTREMELY dangerous in this state." Horror flashed across Christina's face.

"N-No! You gotta take me with you, i've got to help him." She walked towards them, but then, the door to closed door on the roof exploded in a violent erruption of Orange energy and Banjo burst through the roof. He floated there, slowly strumming the banjo.

"He has access to another powerful arcane artifact... This presents a greater problem." Sinestro growled, adopting a defensive stance.

"MY BROTHERS!!!" Kurt cried out, laughing maniacally. "YOU GOT 2 CHOICES. HAND OVER THE RINGS AND WALK AWAY, OR I'M GONNA PRY THEM FROM YOUR COLD DEAD FINGERS!!!" He roared.

"He's just a fat guy with a ring, what's the worst that could happen?" Hal sneared.

"Green Lantern, you have never faced an already empowered individual who has been taken by a Ring. The powers can interact in ways you cannot imagine." Sinestro looked deadly serious.

"Oh, and you got the good captains little [EXPLETIVE] girlfriend. Kick her off the roof while your at it, her kind deserve little else." In immediate response, Hal put himself between Christina and Banjo.

"Ah, that would make you the guy making the Nazi's we heard about." Hal cracked his knuckles and sneared sadistically. "I'm gonna be honest with you, i've always wanted to punch a Nazi for Uncle Sam, so thanks for making the dreams of this man come true."

"Did you say this one was a Nazi?" Dex called. "The cultist made her disdain for your kind very much known to me. I will enjoy stripping the flesh from your bones." Dex growled Filpot snapped his fingers and the staff of the gods raised up to him.

"OH CRAP, HE'S GOT THE STAFF!!!" Christina called.

"The what?" At which point, Kurt opened his mouth and a horde of SS officers seemed to burst forth in a stream at Christina, Hal, Dex and Sinestro all raised a construct shield to deflect the blast, but with a zap from the staff, the shields were shattered and the 4 were tackled off the roof by the horde. Hal grabbed Christina as Sinestro and Dex simply carried themselves into flight. They looked to see the horde streaming from the roof shatter on the ground 500ft down. The 3 flew a little away to keep their distance. Meanwhile, Kurt simply wrapped himself around the staff of the gods as Jormungandr coiled around the roots of Yggdrasil. Dex then let out a roar of frustration and charged. "Alright, Dex has him busy for a bit. Sinestro, what's the likelyhood of him running out of energy and us taking him quietly?"

"Unpredictable. He has 2 other sources of immense power interacting with him. Maybe minutes, maybe years." He growled.

"Look, we gotta find Bai-Captain Marvel. If we can get him to the staff, he'll be able to take it back." Christina called.

"Far too dangerous." Sinestro called. "With the indicated strength, speed and power Captain Marvel possesses, that Sorrow Ring will make him more dangerous than even the Orange. Taking you to him is suicide." Sinestro floated to her.

"He would NEVER hurt me." She scowled at him.

"In this current state, he will hurt everyone and everything." Sinestro tapped his own earpiece. "Report status of Captain Marvel" He put it on loudspeaker so everyone could hear.

"Captain Marvel seems to have reverted to the form of... A boy, looks physically 10-12 years of age." The voice replied.

"That means he's given up The Power." Christina called to Sinestro. "Yo, lady, did he ever say the word Shazam?"

"Affirmative." She replied.

"That means he's just a normal kid now. Get me down there, let me talk to him. I can get through. Sinestro threw her a sideways glance.

"The only thing you can get through to is the ring and it will be indifferent to your plea's." Sinestro replied, floating and trying to think of a different solution. The orange and red energy dancing in the background as they watched the fat guy fight the cat. Christina looked up at Hal, who was still holding her.

"Gold, we've gotta give it a try." He sighed.

"How many times must i tell you this, Green Lantern, the rings do not work that way. They are the most raw and unfettered representations of emotion. You cannot simply appeal to their humanity as they have no humanity, just their emotion." He sighed.

"Then let me appeal to his emotion." Sinestro looked back at the battle, then down at Christina.

"Fine, but be it on your own head." He sighed, before flying down towards where Captain Briggs was.

"WAIT, SERIOUSLY?" Hal called. "WHY DO YOU NEVER GIVE UP THAT EASILY WITH ME?!"

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Somewhere, Bailey walked through a swirling silver void, the silvery wisps not able to touch him, though, as if a barrier was up keeping them exactly 4 meters away, no matter how far he walked. He didn't quite recognize where he was or what was happening. As he continued to walk, he heard the roar of a warrior and the whoosh of something running past him, he turned, but saw nothing. a whoosh of supersonic air past him, the death-roar of a mighty lion, so many sounds. "Ummm... Hello?" A crash from above, he looked up and saw the spectral outline of something holding the barrier above him up. "Atlas? Is that you?" He asked.

"My dear boy... We are all here. Always with you." Bailey turned to see a man stood in fine regal attire, his dark skin radiating a kindliness to him, a crown atop his head, he also appeared to be wearing a lion pelt as some kind of sash.

"King Solomon." Bailey replied. The man nodded.

"It is rare that i get to talk with the champion like this, come, we have much to discuss." The kindly man becked Bailey to follow him. Bailey did so, walking into a bright light.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

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