Natsu

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Arthur Stanford

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Location: Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur nodded, years would be a lot of time to have to wait for her to come back, assuming she didn't end up dying multiple times in the pit. It wasn't a viable strategy, even it it did remove some of the gravity of her potential death, the best option still would be to live in a world where she got to live. As such, they needed to be open to doors of death, wherever they were. That meant it would be best to actually know where they are, and he knew exactly where he could go to find that information. He'd have to have his first real face to face with his... sire.

Arthur piped up and said, "I'll try to make a sacrifice to Hades and get a conversation with him. I might be able to get him to point me in the direction of where the doors will be." Anything he could do to help, he would. He had enough of his friends dying, and if it meant he had to interact with a god to keep them safe, so be it. Besides, he figured that his own parent would be the safest of gods to talk to, hoping that filicide would be something that the deities shied away from. "Let's hope he answers and gives us something useful to work with, yeah?"

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: N/A

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Oliver stood still for a moment, waiting for the pain in his leg to dissipate, and nodded at Bonnie. "Yeah, you got me. I'm still not used to field work, okay?" He said, a bit of playful annoyance in his voice as he tried to laugh it off. It was humiliating enough that this happened, but he was at least thankful it was after the big confrontation. As the big orange Flerken hopped in, his watched in a kind of amazed horror as the Skrull were pulled inside the maw of Goose. A part of him was deeply terrified of the cat, and the other half wanted to give it all the pets in the world. This was the truest tragedy in the world, for a cat-shaped thing to be so cute, and yet so absolutely monstrous in ways words failed to adequately describe.

Rubbing his leg, he exhaled at the news of the alien ship. A part of him was worried that somehow, the kree might have been summoned, and that Earth was about to become the new battleground for their war. He head to assume it was something else though, and this was just a very bad, no good kind of day. A part of him was worried that he wasn't as phased at the mass death as he would have been a few months ago, but after the raid of his hometown and his mother's cancer, a part of him was still numb to tragedy. He was working on resolving that, but it would be awhile before he could feel again.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Arthur Stanford

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Location: Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur's eyes widened, and a small part of his brain made an interesting realization. He'd considered monsters as inhuman beasts that wanted them all dead, but the existence of lycanthropes constituted an interesting exception. Madalyne obviously didn't want to kill him, and had been human, or at least demigod, before. He exhaled, considering if he had to change his worldview a little bit. He did ask a question though, after hearing her out, "I'm a little confused though, if you're a monster, won't you reform and come back after? This seems like a solution to our problem, or it makes it better kinda..."

He didn't know how long it took to reform though, and he still didn't want his friend to die, so he nodded and said, "I'll remember that though, now we know where to look for you if we open the Doors of Death, right?" He didn't know everything about the afterlife, but he assumed if demigods could come back through them, so could monsters. He squeezed Andy's hand in a way to try to comfort her, but he knew that this would be hard for her, and she was going to be scared. The most he could do was be there for her as long as he could, before they were seperated on this journey.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: Superspeed

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Oli grimaced when he was given the order to hide bodies. In a million million permutations of his life, he never would anticipated having to hide a body inside the White House. Getting multiple STEM degrees led him to the assumption that this would be well outside the scope of his anticipated duties in any career path he might choose to follow, but life had a way of surprising people, he guessed. Exhalling as he ran through any memories he might have of White House schematics, nothing much came to mind of anywhere inside to disappear corpses.

Exhaling he got a disgusting, but absolutely viable idea. Goose could, and maybe even would eat bodies if presented, and he knew that the not-a-cat had decided to tag along for the treasonous trip. All he had to do now was execute the plan, and bring the bodies over. Placing a hand on one of the bodies though, he felt the most sickening sense of vertigo, and couldn't go forward with touching the fallen. Ripping his hand away, he pivoted and decided to bring Goose over himself, rather than drag bodies across the White House Lawn. Turning to speed out the window, he felt his leg seize up, and he let out a wince. As lame as it was, he seemed to have pulled a muscle, and couldn't run at the moment. Exhaling a sigh of exhaustion, and said, "In short Bonnie, no. No I cannot." a pathetic twinge in his voice.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Arthur Stanford

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Location: Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur nodded towards Madsa as she asked for them to hang back to chat in private. He didn't know what she'd want, but whatever it was, he was happy to indulge her. One thing he didn't understand was the Roman politics. He vaguely knew they had some form of organizational structure that the Greeks were sorely lacking, but he had no idea what that actually looked like, or the powers that being a member of their "government" entailed. Whatever it was, it seemed fraught with intrigue and competing interests, so he might bother Nancy or Niah and try to learn more about it in the future.

As the group began to dissipate, and it was just the three of them, Arthur cocked his head at the question. He didn't know what was real anymore, but he had never suspected werewolves. "Uh, people that turn into wolves? Full moon and silver and all that stuff?" He asked, confused as to why she was asking. "Are they real? Or..." His brain then kicked in, and he realized that there was a very short list of why should could be asking, "Are you one? That's cool!" Arthur said, smiling. His friend being able to morph into a giant dog sounded amazing, and he was on board for it.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: N/A

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Oli didn't like the info dumping Alex was doing right now. They couldn't know who was or wasn't a skrull, and there quite simply wasn't any room for hoping that their previous confidants has been unaffected by the invading forces powers. If Oil had done that and told the team as soon as he had an inkling of the skrull attack, it could have been him replaced instead of Raynor, and that would have caused the situation to look drastically different than it did right now. As they approached the final stages of dealing with the skrulls, they just couldn't afford to make such careless moves.

Not that Oli was about to say any of those thoughts to the president of the United States of course. That would be suicide, especially for somebody like him that was literally an illegal alien. Being deported out of the country at best, or to the moon at worst did not sound particularly fun. He'd rather stay on the planet if he had a say in it, so he kept his mouth shut like the good secret service agent he was pretending to be.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Arthur Stanford

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Location: Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur took in Andy's face for awhile as they looked at each other, knowing that soon he'd be without her. He wanted to be able to remember what she looked like, because, it was a morbid thought, but he didn't know if she'd be making it back. He had no idea what he would do if that happened, but he would do everything in his power to make sure he wouldn't ever forget her. "Always." He nodded, as they walked towards the group. He cherished each moment they had together right now, taking in everything he could, and being as present in the moment as he possibly could.

Arthur smiled at Andy's sentiment. Even if they weren't physically always there for each other, they would be emotionally. As he looked Mads up and down, he had to wonder if he could have a role to play in saving her. He was the son of the God of the Underworld, surely he could force the doors open? As he thought this, terror ran down his face for a brief moment, as he recalled what happened when he tried to raise his half sister, and he shook his head, clearing out the thought. Maybe he could, but he was going to hope that that wasn't necessary. It would sting him too much to try to reach for a demigod's soul again.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: N/A

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Oliver was happy to see his plan of "Unfreeze the Avenger and hope they can deal with this better than I can" seemed to be working swimmingly, or at least, it seemed to be as Captain America slammed that legendary shield in the giant Skrull's face. His mood quickly damped though, as Raynor took a bad hit and fell onto the ground. He knew Asgardians were tougher by nature, but he still was worried. Starting to inch closer to Raynor to extricate him from the heart of the battle field, a lightning bolt arced through the air, directly at Bonnie. Stunned as he saw her catch it, and then subsequently end the giant, he allowed himself a smile.

Back to work, while Oli was stunned, Cass had swept in and started tending to Raynor's care. In the worst case, he thought Mar-Vell might be able to help, but this could mean Raynor would be out of commission for Geneva, which would be less than idea when talking about the possible end of the world. Oli was happy to have Alex go and try to deal with the kids, he wasn't terrible around them by any means, but Oliver hadn't exactly specced into charisma. Straightening himself out, he followed silently after Alex, acting as if he was just a secret service member at attention, keeping the president safe.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Arthur Stanford

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Location: Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur processed the sequence of things he heard slowly. He wasn't with Andy in Nancy's vision- they'd already have to split up on a mission, unable to protect one another. He felt uncomfortable not being with her, not being able to protect her at all. He pulled Andy into a side hug, feeling hollow inside. He knew she could defend herself, probably better than he could, but it was just the idea of him not being there at all, leaving things to the fates. He didn't know anything about Doors of Death or The Pit, just that it was somehow his dads domain, or at least adjacent to it.

He watched Niah swear and oath, and he gritted his teeth. He had no idea how binding that was, or what the consequences would be for not following it, but if he had to guess, he'd say the answers to those two questions would be "very" and "death". It was a stupid, rash move, but one that he at least respected the gesture of it. He nodded at Mads, saying, "We'll do whatever we can to keep you safe, I don't... know a lot about this stuff, but if I can help it, you'll be coming back to camp. I promise." He said quietly, but loud enough for them to have heard him.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Oliver Sullivan

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Location: White House, Oval Office
Skills: Molecular Oscillation

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As the fight began to turn, and Captain America was turned back into a Capsicle once more, Oli was at a crossroads. He could directly engage in the fight, but he wasn't confident in how many times he could hit the electric Skrull before passing out, or he could try a crazy idea. He knew that he was able to vibrate his and other people's molecules to phase through things, and that was something he'd gotten pretty good at, but looking at the flash-frozen Captain America, he suddenly thought of a brave new way for him to use this ability. Something being temperature was just the average kinetic energy of a system, so maybe he could infuse some into the Star Spangled Man.

Placing both hands on either of the Avenger's shoulders, Oliver concentrated, and tried vibrating the two of them at a new frequency. One that wouldn't send the two of them through the floor, but one that would, hopefully, get Cap heated up enough to unfreeze him without also cooking him. After a few moments, the thin sheets of ice adorning Captain America had broken away, falling and turning to faint water stains at their feet. Steve Rogers was now free, and back in the fight. Stepping away, Oliver started paying attention to the fight again, but not before saying, "I sure am glad that didn't kill you..." under his breath.