Omega Man

the New Champions

the New Champions

Warren Worthington III weighed his options. After the fall of Xavier the X-Men were in disarray; Juggernaut was on one squad while Magneto was leading another. Warren was packing away some things in a new apartment at the top of a Worthington Industries building when he came across an old newspaper clipping of himself and the original Champions team some years earlier. He was in his early twenties then. He was in his early thirties now. Warren remembered he didn't need to be a member of the X-Men or some offshoot team to be relevant. He just needed to be a hero.

His company (Worthington Industries) was an international conglomerate with holdings in advanced aviation technology, pharmaceuticals, experimental alternative fuels, etc. with nearly uncountable net worth. Warren helped rebuild the X-mansion nearly a dozen times in a decade with his wealth. Now he was looking into reworking an old experimental airplane hangar in Darkwater Tennessee into a headquarters for a new Champions team. None of the old team were available it seemed. Probably better off. But who could take the place of Hercules, Ghost Rider, Black Widow, and Iceman? And what threats would they face?

None other than the Kingpin of Crime, whose criminal empire was trying to buy up old properties of Worthington Industries for unknown purposes. Nothing that Warren couldn't handle, until mercenaries began showing up targeting his different offices and factories in the Darkwater area. Then other known rich villains such as Justin Hammer, Obadiah Stane, and Darion Agger of Roxxon also began trying to buy up what land and small businesses they could in Darkwater. But why?

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So that's the plot. Kinda random superteam in Marvel moving locations and facing off against a villain group loosely based on Scientologists and Clearwater. The rich villains actually have a plan for Darkwater but I'm keeping that a mystery till this gets going. I can probably use the Darkwater plot for just about any superhero team but the only other thing I've tried writing something with was essentially creating an X-Force type of team in the DC universe with the anti-hero Magog.

I chose the Champions concept because the team was created without any real focus back in the 70's and only lasted seventeen issues. It was supposed to also include Black Goliath on the team but that was nixed by editorial. It was meant to be a pair of mutants, a strong guy, a woman, and 'somebody with an ongoing title' which wound up being Ghost Rider. I wasn't the biggest fan of the more recent relaunches, basically making it another teenage team of heroes (to get ignored by Marvel) like the New Warriors and Avengers Academy.

What I'm looking for specifically is just based more on the archetypes of the classic line-up. In-universe, the heroes who take Angel up on becoming Champions will be on the Worthington Industries payroll. Here's what I'm hoping to find for the RP:

Strong Hero - this can be a demi god like Hercules or a random brute character

Mutant #2 - anybody other than Iceman, preferably somebody with a blaster type of power

Supernatural - tons of heroes fit into this category, just can't use classic Ghost Rider

Tech Person - every team needs one, Angel will need one specifically

Wildcard - Darkstar and Black Goliath were both meant to be 6th members, anything goes

I'm looking for an even mix of reworked cannons and originals for this. Some part of me wanted to rework the Phin Mason/Tinkerer character from the Miles Morales game and throw her into the mix as an NPC. In case somebody likes being the tech hero though I decided to hold off and just make it another archetype. There a handful of folks out there who're looking for a superhero RP that isn't quite the same old same old?

the Alliance of Liberty City

Son of Liberty couldn't really say much. Half the people fighting this alien bug horde were in civilian clothes; at least Judah was wearing a mask. Painkiller worked to get the injured civilians healed closer back to the police and EMT barricades. With the help of the other slightly older Asian gentleman the process was almost flawless. "Perhaps the two men knew each other?" Liberty Son thought silently to himself as the bugs numbers were starting to diminish. Other heroes like Yellowjacket and Little Guy joined the fight just in time to help contain the chaos.

Spellbound had been ignored by the floating female giving orders to the monstrous form of Kid Cosmo. His words didn't matter to her. However when the size altering girl squared up with Kid Cosmo the fight seemed a little more evenly matched. The orange alien grabbed Spellbound with one of his lower arms and tried using the cloaked teen hero as a weapon against the girl while also throwing punches with his top two arms. Son of Liberty surveyed the craziness and with the most of the bugs being dealt with he refocused on the girl with the horned skull mask and Kid Cosmo.

"Spellbound! I've got ya, man!" Judah screamed clubbing the four armed monster with the enhanced strength granted by the torch until the alien released his grip from the young man's blue cloak. "I'll help the new girl with Dorito-face here, you think you can do something with Ruby Gloom up there?" he asked hoping Eli had time to get his wits about him.

"Where's the lady with the wings when you need her to hit something?" Painkiller thought to himself as he watched the more physical heroes finish off the bugs and refocus on the prior threats. As Xero brought another civilian to Painkiller he had to ask, "You been at this long? You're not half bad at crowd control."

Across town....

Judy Juggernaut waited as the Supercop left the Academy on the edge of town. The half cyborg hero got into his souped up squad car and took off towards the action on the other side of Liberty City.

"He's gone. Tell me where to go. I think the staff has already went home for the day..."Judy stated into the radio in her helmet.

@Silver Carrot@Stern Algorithm@Eviledd1984@Azure Bubbles@Finetales

the Alliance of Liberty City

The young woman in white with the creepy mask let herself be known, floating down behind the four armed monster that was once a hero after he'd been dealt a punishing strike by the female newcomer. As the orange alien picked himself up another new face hit the scene. Asking how he could help, Liberty Son was a bit overwhelmed now with another new hero he knew nothing about. He took a few deep breaths, noticing Painkiller had successfully got all the endangered civilians to a safer position behind police barricades that were set up.

"Interference, do you copy?" Son of Liberty voiced to his ear piece styled communicator. At a glace he though he saw Spellbound from behind what he was using for cover. However it may have just been a random kid in a blue hoodie rather than a mystical cloak.

Unfortunately, the ally back at the Fortress didn't get the call. Like weeks earlier something had happened to the technology in the general vicinity. Since the Son of Liberty's tech was based around creating electro-magnetic fields, his torch weapon was at least still functioning properly.

"Hi boss?! I don't know your name, your powers, and you drop in with that?" Judah asked as surprised as he was confused. "I can't shake that this is just a distraction. It's too random." SoL stated behind the cover of a turned over SUV.

"Listen, Sam was it..? You and the other guy here try not to get ki..." and before he could even finish something even more frightening than a four armed alien behemoth and a woman in a horned skull mask poured out of a nearby grocery store.

Dozens of large bug-like aliens burst out of the front end of the store ravenous and tearing apart the food they'd stolen. Anyone unfortunate enough to cross their paths was torn apart by their lower appendages. The former Kid Cosmo paused, as if knowing that this wasn't their fight. Painkiller jumped on to his green motorcycle and took off directly at the mass of bug creatures coming out of the grocery store. Ramping off of a damaged flatbed truck, he launched the cycle at the creatures while hitting the ground himself near injured civilians. He attempted to dodge the stampeding bugs but got cut up himself. However, his healing powers were working overtime healing his wounds as well as those of the injured civilians.

"I don't know anything really about either one of you. But there's a few dozen bugs that need exterminating. Do what you can and don't get killed. Maybe help the other guy in green save some civilians..." Son of Liberty stated running at the battlefield at first before using the power of the torch for a super leap. He landed with a thud knocking down a handful of bug creatures around him to the asphalt street.

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@Dark Light@PatientBean@DrDistasteful

If I can just get another CS or two I can move forward with an OOC/IC! I know this seems like a super niche concept but there's endless possibilities! There's feral folks similar to Wolverine, lightning manipulators, element lads, solar powered heroes, shadow manipulators, ghost girls, triplicate people, guys who bounce, people from Saturn's moon Titan, etc. There's aliens born with power like the Durlan shapeshifters, heroes who are in accidents and science experiments gone wrong, and once in awhile you'll see a hero inspired by an older hero from the 20th century like Thunder or any of the Super-people. I think Bendis even had a four armed alien from Sorcerer's World gain the helmet of Fate.

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Anybody else out there watching this? We just need a couple more players to get this off the ground!

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@PatientBean White Witch would give us an opportunity to dive into the mystic stuff with the team! I wanna say at some point she was also a Black Witch. Her right hand guy IIRC was always Blok, a big rock guy. Sorcerer's World was always a location I thought DC could've done more with.

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MF Starboy

Name - Thom Kallor
Alias - Starboy
Age - 20
Home World - Xanthu

Powers - Enhanced physical attributes; flight; cosmic energy blasts; energy form

Weaknesses - standard human weaknesses when not in his energy form; gas tank style energy reserves (after a few hours he's tapped and needs rest to recharge); mental stability

Personality - random, awkward, aloof, charming, reckless

Appearance -



Brief Bio -

Thom lived and worked on a science outpost orbiting the planet of Xanthu with his parents. After a comet struck the outpost and sent it hurtling towards the planet's surface, Thom was exposed to gasses trailing the comet as well as radiation from the energy core of the science outpost. Within minutes his body became solid cosmic energy before he and the remaining part of the outpost crashed on the edge of a city. With his parents dead, Thom became a hero of the people of Xanthu for a short time. However, the trauma of falling from space and losing his family broke his mind. With the meds he was given he's completely normal, but when it begins to wear off he starts talking random gibberish and becomes even more reckless.

Background Legionnaire - Thunderhead (for Thunder) - blue alien chosen to wield the power of Shazam.

Notes - Depending on the version of Starboy, he's had similar powers to Superman or gravity based powers that come off like telekinesis. I went with the Superman esque cocktail with energy blasts and an energy form to change it up a bit and made him a little more cosmic. The telekinetic or electro-magnetic type of powers can be somebody else's.

Also... here's some micros of the rest of the cast!

More Stuff

the Alliance of Liberty City

The Son of Liberty, Interference, Painkiller, as well as Pitbull and mister late-to-the-party Stampede were all now at the Freedom Fortress. Stampede powered down and was hitting the weights and gym area of the HQ while Pitbull and Painkiller were working with a sparring robot repurposed from what looked like a Silverwing android. Interference was working through computer files and looking at some of the tech within arms reach when she glanced over at SoL's torch weapon he'd placed on the edge of the large computer station.

"Do you know how your torch works?" Eileen offhandedly asked Son of Liberty, "I mean, I assume it was designed by humans, and not say, aliens, for example; I mean, why would aliens design a weapon that resembles a symbol of our nation. It's not magical is it? I figure Spellbound would have said something by now if it was."

"It's just regular tech my mom worked on with the guy who was Megaplex. At one point she had a crown that worked in tandem with the torch to give her short term giant growth too but she only used it once or twice to help 'Plex. I'm using her first torch, manipulating electromagnetic fields to give me strength, durability, and that super jump. The one she used later manipulated EM fields enough to give her flight and an energy blast of sorts from the torch but I get sick easy and have shitty aim." Son of Liberty explained picking the torch up and placing it back down again.

"There's an alert up in the left corner of the main screen, you check that out yet?" SoL asked Eileen.

Eileen looked where son of Liberty was pointing and moused over to expand the notification. "Oh my! There's an attack in the city!"

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Moments later the Son of Liberty leaped into action next to the new face in town. Painkiller was a few minutes behind him on his green motorcycle. The block of the city was a wreck, and the four armed orange behemoth that was once called Kid Cosmo was the one behind it all.

"You look like you could use a hand! I'm the Son of Liberty, you got a name?" Judah asked the new girl as Painkiller pulled up and immediately took to getting civilians healed and out of harm's way...

@Stern Algorithm @Silver Carrot

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@KactusPunch I only liked it because the option to LOVE something isn't available. And I dig that your background character ties into your guy's story.

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I'll get a CS posted up for my take on Starboy sometime tonight or tomorrow hopefully! Don't be shy if you're watching this, there's room for just about every type of hero!