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Ultimate One Universe: Season Two Application
“We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. And to find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.” -- Richard Nixon
Character You're Applying For:
The Fantastic Four
Reed Richards – Mr Fantastic
Sue Storm – The Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm – The Human Torch
Ben Grimm – The Thing
Character You're Applying For:
The Fantastic Four
Reed Richards – Mr Fantastic
Sue Storm – The Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm – The Human Torch
Ben Grimm – The Thing
Powers And Abilities:
The Fantastic Four’s powers and abilities are unchanged from last season – in that they are almost identical to most traditional depictions of the team. Ben suffered a facial wound in his fight with Hector Hammond at the end of last season which has left him slightly more vulnerable than we are used to. Otherwise, Johnny, Reed, and Sue remain pretty much the same, other than a change of scenery for the four of them.
Season One Recap:
Since arriving in the Ultimate One Universe, Reed has used science as a coping mechanism. Having failed to fulfil his promise to return the Fantastic Four home, Reed throws himself into science once again as a means of coping. Even more so than in his own universe, UOU Reed Richards was held up as a saviour of sorts – a visionary that would chart mankind’s way out of the darkness – and this season we’ll see Reed take that mantle on with both hands. Having “lost” his family, Reed seeks to construct a new one, all the while refusing to humour that his relationship with Sue might be a thing of the past.
Having tried her best to hold the Fantastic Four together last season, Sue embraces the newfound freedom the team’s breakup presents. Away from her brother and husband for the first time in years, Sue trades in New York for a completely new environment, and finds herself mired in a world of politics and intrigue that require her to rely on her wits more than her power – with the fate of millions resting on her shoulders.
The end of last season was particularly traumatic for Ben. Mind-controlled by a power cosmic-imbued Hector Hammond, Ben was forced to beat Guy Gardner within an inch of his life and then suffered a facial wound that he still bears the scar from. But a life on the sidelines is not the Grimm way – and when presented with an opportunity to help change the world in a more direct, impactful way by an old friend, Ben takes it. Though he soon learns that his new field is decidedly more murky than the one he left behind.
Johnny has perhaps struggled most of all. His first few months in the UOU were marred not only by sadness, but a deep, impotent anger towards anything and everyone, as he failed to process the loss of his world – and most of all his close friend Spider-Man. An encounter with Spider-Woman last season managed to help Johnny pull through the worst of his pain, but the destruction of the timecraft has plunged Johnny into despair once more. He, more than the others, is lost without the meaning the Fantastic Four lends to his life. Yet he may be on the cusp of discovering new meaning in his UOU counterpart’s past.
Where Do You Plan To Take The Character This Season?:
The end of UOU Season One saw the destruction of the timecraft that brought the Fantastic Four to the Ultimate One Universe. Without a means to return home, Maria Hill (now Acting Director of SHIELD) presents them with a choice: assume the places of their dead UOU counterparts or be resettled under new identities and commit to never using their powers again. The Fantastic Four begrudgingly agree to the first option and SHIELD announce their “successful” return to distract from the fallout from the breakout at The Raft. Within weeks the strain of the facade gets too much for Ben, Johnny, Reed, and Sue, and they shock SHIELD – and the world – by announcing that the Fantastic Four are no more. Reeling from the trauma of losing their way back to their world, each member sets about carving out a new life for themselves away from the ghosts of their old life.
Post Catalogue:
1. Future Foundation
2. Poseidon Is My Witness
3. Better Late Than Never
4. Jim Hammond
5. Ka-Zar's Last Stand
6. First Class
7. Drowned
8. The Old Warhorse
10. Storm's End
11. Latveria Calling
12. Xebellian Vermin
13. The Condiment King
14. A Fool's Bargain
15. The Lake of Refuge
16. Attack on Amnesty Bay
17. Burn Notice
Ultimate One Universe: Season Two Application
“We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. And to find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.” -- Richard Nixon
Character You're Applying For:
The Fantastic Four
Reed Richards – Mr Fantastic
Sue Storm – The Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm – The Human Torch
Ben Grimm – The Thing
Character You're Applying For:
The Fantastic Four
Reed Richards – Mr Fantastic
Sue Storm – The Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm – The Human Torch
Ben Grimm – The Thing
Powers And Abilities:
The Fantastic Four’s powers and abilities are unchanged from last season – in that they are almost identical to most traditional depictions of the team. Ben suffered a facial wound in his fight with Hector Hammond at the end of last season which has left him slightly more vulnerable than we are used to. Otherwise, Johnny, Reed, and Sue remain pretty much the same, other than a change of scenery for the four of them.
Season One Recap:
Since arriving in the Ultimate One Universe, Reed has used science as a coping mechanism. Having failed to fulfil his promise to return the Fantastic Four home, Reed throws himself into science once again as a means of coping. Even more so than in his own universe, UOU Reed Richards was held up as a saviour of sorts – a visionary that would chart mankind’s way out of the darkness – and this season we’ll see Reed take that mantle on with both hands. Having “lost” his family, Reed seeks to construct a new one, all the while refusing to humour that his relationship with Sue might be a thing of the past.
Having tried her best to hold the Fantastic Four together last season, Sue embraces the newfound freedom the team’s breakup presents. Away from her brother and husband for the first time in years, Sue trades in New York for a completely new environment, and finds herself mired in a world of politics and intrigue that require her to rely on her wits more than her power – with the fate of millions resting on her shoulders.
The end of last season was particularly traumatic for Ben. Mind-controlled by a power cosmic-imbued Hector Hammond, Ben was forced to beat Guy Gardner within an inch of his life and then suffered a facial wound that he still bears the scar from. But a life on the sidelines is not the Grimm way – and when presented with an opportunity to help change the world in a more direct, impactful way by an old friend, Ben takes it. Though he soon learns that his new field is decidedly more murky than the one he left behind.
Johnny has perhaps struggled most of all. His first few months in the UOU were marred not only by sadness, but a deep, impotent anger towards anything and everyone, as he failed to process the loss of his world – and most of all his close friend Spider-Man. An encounter with Spider-Woman last season managed to help Johnny pull through the worst of his pain, but the destruction of the timecraft has plunged Johnny into despair once more. He, more than the others, is lost without the meaning the Fantastic Four lends to his life. Yet he may be on the cusp of discovering new meaning in his UOU counterpart’s past.
Where Do You Plan To Take The Character This Season?:
The end of UOU Season One saw the destruction of the timecraft that brought the Fantastic Four to the Ultimate One Universe. Without a means to return home, Maria Hill (now Acting Director of SHIELD) presents them with a choice: assume the places of their dead UOU counterparts or be resettled under new identities and commit to never using their powers again. The Fantastic Four begrudgingly agree to the first option and SHIELD announce their “successful” return to distract from the fallout from the breakout at The Raft. Within weeks the strain of the facade gets too much for Ben, Johnny, Reed, and Sue, and they shock SHIELD – and the world – by announcing that the Fantastic Four are no more. Reeling from the trauma of losing their way back to their world, each member sets about carving out a new life for themselves away from the ghosts of their old life.
Post Catalogue:
1. New Frontier in Ruins
2. The Marquis of Death
3. Doom
4. 4th July
5. A Reed Moment
6. Enter: Guy Gardner
7. Interlinked
8. Magic Beans
9. Conflict Resolution
10. Imperius Rex
11. Unfinished Business
12. Home Sweet Home
13. Two Stretches
14. Mission: Fantastic
15. The Surfer Cometh
16. Prisoners
17. Specks of Dust
18. Righteous Fury
19. Snot-Nosed Punks
20. Great Responsibility – @HenryJonesJr
20a. Great Responsibility – Arachne
20b. Great Responsibility – Blubbing
20c. Great Responsibility – Uncle Ben
20d. Great Responsibility – The Promise
20e. Great Responsibility – Flame On!
21. Al Capone
22. An Invisible Woman Scorned
23. Some Egghead
24. The Eye of the Storm – @Lord Wraith
24a. The Eye of the Storm – Freedom
24b. The Eye of the Storm – Invincible No More
24c. The Eye of the Storm – Murderous Intent
24d. The Eye of the Storm – Homeward Bound
25. Fireman from Mars
26. A Question of Risk
27. Guy Hard with a Vengeance
28. No More Monologues
29. Mary Storm
30. It's Clobberin' Time
30a. It's Clobberin' Time – Chrome Dome
30b. It's Clobberin' Time – Supernova
30c. It's Clobberin' Time – Let Gods Be Gods
30d. It's Clobberin' Time – White Lies
31. Superman Returns
The banner is great.
Though that black-backgrounded Blue Beetle amidst a sea of other heroes on more natural looking backgrounds is going to make me burst a blood vessel.
Though that black-backgrounded Blue Beetle amidst a sea of other heroes on more natural looking backgrounds is going to make me burst a blood vessel.
Vinson Massif, Antarctica
The sky darkened above Antarctica's highest peak. The sound of the clouds rumbling brought a frown to William Johnson’s face. It was his forty-seventh ascent up Vinson Massif and he’d never once known the clouds to look so heavy and dark. Every part of him felt like they should turn back, but the small expedition group he was lead were only six hundred feet from the top and he knew well enough they wouldn’t turn back now – even if he ordered them to. He had to hope that the heavens didn’t open on them before they made their way back down.
“<Sounds like lightning.>”
Pierre was the most level-headed of the four civilians in Johnson’s group. He was a French extreme sports enthusiast that had traded in banking for a life of risk. He was also the only other person making the climb that had any experience on a mountain. Johnson could tell from the look on Pierre’s face that he knew the clouds were a bad omen.
“<Lighting is the least of our worries. If there’s a downpour there’s no way we’re making it back down the mountain in one piece. It’s tough enough making the descent in good conditions.>”
The Frenchman nodded anxiously and continued to trudge behind Johnson. The Americans following after them were struggling for breath. Despite what they’d been told months before the expedition, none of them had bothered to prepare for the expedition, least of all the forty-two year old that seemed to think climbing a sixteen thousand foot tall mountain would be as easy as running a half marathon. They were morons to the last of them but Johnson was used to it. He’d been leading men with more money than sense up and down these slopes for decades.
There was another loud crack from the clouds above them. This time the group stopped as the rumble of the thunder made the entire mountain shake. They could almost feel it in their chests. They stared at the clouds, scared stiff of a coming maelstrom, until one member of the group pointed a finger towards them.
“Can you see that?”
“We need to keep moving,” Johnson called back to them bullishly. “The weather is not going to get any better and I know you didn’t come this far to turn back now so we need to keep moving.”
“<There’s something falling.>”
The anxiousness in Pierre’s voice caught William’s attention. He stopped despite his reservations and peered up at the object that was falling from the clouds. It was tough to make out among the swirling winds. He reached for his mask, pulling it away from his face, to better see the thing falling from high above them.
“It must be a bird,” Johnson muttered. “What else could it be?”
Pierre braved the bitter winds by plucking the mask off his face also. “<A bird? At this height? That doesn’t make any sense. No bird can survive in this cold.>”
Another shock of lightning in the distance shook the mountain. This time William was forced to hold Pierre’s arm to stop himself from losing his footing. The other men murmured in disbelief as the brief moment of clarity the lightning had provided revealed the object’s true form.
“<It looks like a person.>”
“That doesn’t make any sense,” Johnson said with a shake of his head. “It can’t be.”
A sudden gust of wind sent the object barrelling towards the men. The closer it got to the five of them, the clearer it became that Pierre was correct. It was a person, as improbable as that seemed, and it was heading straight towards them. Johnson shouted a warning to the civilians, yanking on the rope that bound them all together in an attempt to move them out of the falling body’s path. A particularly unfit member of the group struggled to jog out of its path and the Frenchman Pierre shoulder-barged him to the ground at the last second.
The body landed with such a heavy thud that it felt almost like another thunderclap. The mountain shook, jarring the sheet of snow that was resting on top of it, and Johnson looked up at it with despair. If the rain didn’t get them, an avalanche surely would. Some snow knocked loose but to his relief the sheet held and the shaking mountain seemed to steady beneath them.
Pierre made his way towards the body and used his gloved hand to lift its head. “<It’s a man – and he’s still… he’s still breathing, William.>”
“Have you been living under a rock for the past year?” An American shouted over at Pierre. “That’s not a man, you idiot, that’s Superman.”
The American tried to turn the man over but was unable to lift him. He signalled to the others and his friends trudged through the snow to help him. In unison they bent their knees and rolled the body over to reveal a tattered, blood-splattered costume that bore an insignia was familiar to all of them. It was Superman, alright – though there was something different about him. His face was flecked with stubble and there were thick streaks of grey hairs along his temples.
Pierre eyed Superman’s wounds anxiously and then looked at the expedition leader Johnson for direction. “<What do we do? He looks hurt.>”
Johnson reached for the radio on his lapel. He was about to call for help when he noticed that Superman’s eyes had opened. They were glowing red. The first word was barely out of Johnson’s mouth when his jaw was disintegrated by a beam of the Man of Steel’s heat vision. Blood splattered across the snow and sprinkled Pierre’s face. He let out a scream as the expedition leader fell to the ground with a thud.
The Frenchman instinctively started running. His frozen feet were trudging through the blood-splattered snow when a gust of wind sent him barrelling to the ground. He lifted his face from the snow and noticed that in the blink of an eye Superman had torn through the rest of the group. They hadn’t even had time to scream. Pierre’s heart was pounding in his mouth as the red eyes of Superman rested on him.
Pierre screamed out for mercy in every language he could speak. He was using his hands to claw his way through the snow in vain as the Man of Steel approached him. His world turned upside down suddenly as Superman lifted him from the ground as easily as if he were weightless.
Superman stared down at the dangling Frenchman through blood-red eyes that were teeming with malice. “Where are the Fantastic Four?”
The four paragraph rule exists for a reason. Don't try to be creative in getting around it because all that's going to happen is your sheet won't get approved until you can condense your character's history to four paragraphs.
Also, as much as I understand that some people on this site seem to enjoy writing sheets almost as much as posts, could we save posting sheets for Season 2 until the season has actually started? If you have specific questions regarding an idea you have, direct them to the GMs via private message, don't crowd-source them in the OOC thread. It can (unintentionally) dissuade other people from putting their name forward for characters because they feel like they are "taken" before the season has started.
That's not how we run this here ship.
Also, as much as I understand that some people on this site seem to enjoy writing sheets almost as much as posts, could we save posting sheets for Season 2 until the season has actually started? If you have specific questions regarding an idea you have, direct them to the GMs via private message, don't crowd-source them in the OOC thread. It can (unintentionally) dissuade other people from putting their name forward for characters because they feel like they are "taken" before the season has started.
That's not how we run this here ship.
And with that rather meagre conclusion, consider the F4 wrapped up at The Raft and for the season.
It's not much, but I think it's fair to say I'm all written out after the past couple of days. I'm still sitting on my epilogue, of course, so I'm hoping I'll be able to follow that whimpering conclusion up with something slightly more impactful.
It's not much, but I think it's fair to say I'm all written out after the past couple of days. I'm still sitting on my epilogue, of course, so I'm hoping I'll be able to follow that whimpering conclusion up with something slightly more impactful.
"Thank you. For showing me... the way back."
The Raft, New York
Amid the carnage, Scott Free’s words had given Susan Storm reason to hope. If Free could claw his way out from beneath Darkseid’s control, then perhaps anyone could. Though their world was out of their reach now, perhaps there was hope for it yet. Sue comforted herself with that thought as she held her brother Johnny’s hand tightly between hers. He was still unconscious. Deep unconscious at that. With the Surfer defeated, the other heroes had made swift work of holding what remained of The Raft together and the Fantastic Three had joined Johnny on the other side of the bridge.
“He’s gonna be alright,” Ben said confidently as he stared down at the Human Torch. “It’ll take more than a little supernova to put Matchstick down. The kid’s tough.”
Reed nodded in agreement. “Ben’s right. Johnny’s vitals are already looking encouraging. There’s no reason to think that he won’t come be able to recover from th-”
“I know that.”
Reed seemed taken aback by the abruptness of his fiance’s response. He looked to Ben for some kind of explanation, but was greeted with a shrug. Sue was still holding Johnny’s hand as tightly as she had ever done, staring down at him protectively, whilst the two of them watched on. After a few moments, Reed summoned up the courage to speak again.
“What’s wrong, Sue?”
“Nothing is wrong as such. I mean, not nothing – look around us, there’s clearly plenty wrong. I just… Nothing is going to be the same again, Reed. Whatever happens, there’s no way we ever go back our lives the way they were. Not the way they were back home, not even the way they were here before Hammond attacked. Things are going to be different now, for all of us, and there’s nothing we can do to stop that.”
“Differen’t don’t have to mean bad,” Ben piped up from behind Reed. “Different can be good sometimes, Suzie. I mean, I’m as torn up about the craft being destroyed as can be, you know that, but that doesn’t mean that our lives are over and done with. We can still go on living.”
Sue shook her head. “Not the way things were.”
Reed opened his mouth to speak but stopped as he noticed that Sue was pointing out into the street. She hadn’t so much as turned her face to look where she was point. Reed followed her finger’s path and noticed several television trucks that were packed up across the street. Their cameras were pointed directly at them. From behind the cameras, came half a dozen voices shouting Reed’s name at him. He stared at them unblinkingly for a few seconds before he realised his mistake. One of Reed’s stretchy arms pulled Ben in front of them to block the cameras views.
“So the world knows that we’re back,” Reed shrugged. “So what? They were always bound to find out sooner or later, weren’t they? What were we meant to do? Spend the rest of our lives hiding in SHIELD facilities. Maybe this will be a good thing for us. Maybe we can finally starting living a-”
“It’s not us that they’ll think have come back home, Reed. It’s them. Their Fantastic Four – their Reed Richards. We won’t get our lives back because our lives here don’t exist. We’ll have to live out their lives in the public eye until our dying days. Is that what the two of you want? Because it’s definitely not what I want and I can’t think it’s what Johnny would want either.”
Ben sighed. “What choice do we have, Suzie?”
Her shoulders sunk in defeat. Despite her reservations, she almost knew already how this was going to play out. Ben was right. Though every part of her disagreed with it, they really didn’t have much of a choice at all. She would have to pretend to be the Sue Storm that grew up with a father around – and worse still, she would have to live up to her promise to Namor. Her mind raced with all of the millions of potential unintended consequences of their remaining in this world she’d suppressed. This was it. This was their lives now – and, perhaps in more ways than one, there was no going back.
And then unexpectedly Johnny’s hand tightened around his sister’s. Sue glanced down towards him and his eyes had crept open somewhat. She flung her arms around his shoulders and let out a relieved laugh but Johnny’s exhausted eyes seemed confused by all of the commotion. He waved his sister away from him.
“What happened?” Johnny asked in a voice that was so weak it was almost silent. “Did I get the Surfer? Did I save everyone?”
“Too right you did, kid. You shoulda seen the way Chrome Dome went down after you lit his shiny behind up like the fourth of July.”
Johnny smiled weakly before drifting back into unconsciousness with a smile on his face. “Good...”
Sue shot Ben a disapproving look and he shrugged his shoulders. “What? What did you want me to tell the kid? That he swung and missed? Let Matchstick have his moment. When he wakes up in the morning, he’ll barely remember what he had for breakfast this morning, let alone a little white lie. Gimme a break, Suzie.”
Another wave of camera flashes interrupted their conversation and this time Ben's large torso wasn't enough to block Reed, Sue, and Johnny from their path. Sue attempted to shield her brother's face from them in vain, despite knowing he'd likely been photographed hundreds of times during the fighting, until finally Ben lifted the wounded Storm into his arms.
"Let's go home."
"Home," Ben muttered as he scanned the New York horizon as if looking to be directed. "Remind me, Stretch, where exactly is that again?"
Understood. Still, it opens up some other avenues and changes some stuff I already wrote
Okay, great. I'm glad to hear that our sprawling, at points chaotic event has opened up avenues, rather than closing them.
On the avenue-closing note, a little @Lord Wraith shaped birdy tells me the last Thor post – and therefore penultimate main MME post – is done. We're happy to wait on anyone that's doing clean-up/side mission stuff to get finished to put it up, but unless said parties announce themselves in the next hour or two, we'll be forced to push on.
So here's your chance.
Okay. Consider that my last post with the Surfer saga barring any other post Surfer interaction.
Gotta rework my epilogue otherwise.
I did not write it expecting the Raft to be totally destroyed haha
It's not totally destroyed. Just heavily damaged. Certainly repairable over the three month period given enough political will on the city's part.
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