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Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Azure Bubbles @Eviledd1984 @Silver Carrot @Finetales

Eileen leaned back in her chair and breathed a sigh of relief as her allies came out of the fight victorious. Though she regretted not being able to be out there in the frontlines with them, she had gathered a good amount of data and should have some new capabilities soon. She watched through her drones as the heroes gathered together and sent a drone towards them. "Hey, if you all are gonna meetup at our HQ, I can start taking pizza orders," Eileen offered. After taking down everyone's preferences, Eileen called up a local pizza place and drove over to pick up the order; she didn't want it getting delivered to the HQ, not even to the apartment building that it was hiding under. She had heard about how people could tell there was going to be a major military operation when the Pentagon started ordering a bunch of pizzas, and Eileen wasn't stupid enough to allow herself to be tracked in such away.

She returned to the HQ with the pizzas in tow and tried to tidy the place up as much as possible without overstepping her status as a guest in Judah's late mother's base. She may not have been much help today, but at least she can throw the other heroes a decent welcoming party.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Azure Bubbles @Eviledd1984 @Silver Carrot @Finetales

As the other heroes began taking the aliens out one by one, Eileen found that she was regaining control of more and more of her disabled drones. This not only suggested that whatever was disabling her tech was linked the aliens' consciousness, but reclaiming her drones gave her back more scanning power, and she could specifically analyze any signals that seemed to suddenly decrease with every downed alien, allowing her to zero-in on the cause of the disruptive effect. Still, within the safety of Lady Liberty's hideout, Eileen could contribute nothing towards the effort to quell the chaos in the city. She considered how rapidly things were spiraling, escalating out of control. Was this a portent of things to come? It felt like all she could do right now was take a step back, observe, and attempt to plan and prepare.

Eileen felt a wave of relief as her drones captured footage of the golden hero descending like lightning upon the four-armed giant. Right now, the Queen of Gold seemed to be the most powerful hero in Liberty City, so her presence was always reassuring, though this power discrepancy unfortunately bred a certain degree of condescension from the powerful entity. But if all a so-called 'hero' like Eileen could do was sit back and hope for victory, then the Queen in Gold had every right to be dismayed by her 'peers'. Still, Eileen hoped that, despite her inaction, she was in the process of laying the foundations for future success. If one hoped to win at chess, then one must learn it first. Figuring out how to disable powers, figuring out how to shield her tech from interference and in turn figure out how to interfere with her opponents' tech should grant her unprecedented control on the battlefield against other superpowered individual. She only needed one last piece. Magic.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Azure Bubbles @Eviledd1984 @Silver Carrot

As Son of Liberty went off to deal with the emerging situation, Interference stayed behind at the HQ to continue researching into Lady Liberty's files and systems, though she sent a handful of her drones to follow him, offering support. Yet as the stampede of aliens emerged, the drones closest to the creatures were knocked out by the strange field, though Interference reacted fast enough to have those further away pull back to avoid getting affected. Interference couldn't believe her luck. In three missions, she encountered twice something that disabled her drones and once a device that could disable her own powers. Not a great start for an up-and-coming superhero. She had to learn how Lady Liberty managed to shield her inventions, since Son of Liberty could seemingly continue to wield his torch no problem. Knowing she could do little to help in this situation, Interference commanded the drones that hadn't been affected to start scanning, certain that whatever was causing it had to be somewhere on the electromagnetic spectrum, which meant that it was a form of 'light', something that she was a master of. perhaps with access to Lady Liberty's blueprints and data from this encounter, Interference would be able to improve her drones to shrug off this kind of disabling effect.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Azure Bubbles

In the weeks since her 'graduation', Eileen had presented Omniac with the data of her scans of the anti-power device so that Omniac could analyze it as well as search for more information in government records that they had infiltrated. In the meantime, she was accompanying Son of Liberty to what appeared to be his mother's secret hideout. She found the patriotic regalia a bit much but decided to keep that opinion to herself. With Son of Liberty's permission, Eileen started rifling through the computer systems and trying to understand how Lady Liberty organized her data.

"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." If it was designed by humans, then it stands to reason that the technology could have been applied to other things belonging Lady Liberty, and if her computer systems ran off the same tech, knowing how it worked would make this job much easier. Eileen was also looking for potential clues, anything that was slightly out of the ordinary, things that might look like mistakes or organizational errors. After all, Lady Liberty had died under mysterious circumstances and Eileen was sure that fact was gnawing at Son of Liberty. Perhaps she left breadcrumbs.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Crimson Flame @Finetales

Hearing that the fight had ended, Eleen picked up the device and returned to the building to rendezvous with the others. At Supercop's praise, Eileen shook her head. "Good work? We were caught with our pants down. It took all of this to take down a single villain, and it was mostly thanks to this outsider, no offense." Eileen nodded at Kate. "We even lost Fire Fist. That crazy woman made a mockery of this institution. What did she want, anyways? Just to kill fledgling heroes?" It didn't make sense. It was like poking a beehive, sure you'll kill a few bees, but you will get stung, and in the end, was it worth it? "I'm sorry Supercop," Eileen continued, "None of this is your fault, but I guess it's safe to say that I'm a bit shaken. We were lucky this device even worked on her. I thought for sure her powers were magical in nature."

"That said, there's no turning back now. This city is dangerous and has our number. I agree that teaming up gives us the best chance, not only at survival but at making a real difference," She turned to follow Liberty Son out of the building and headed to the trunk of her car, exchanging the joke mask she was wearing for classes with her real mask. Returning to Liberty Son and Spellbound, she directed a locust-shaped drone to fly into each of their hands. The device folded into a compact, prism shape. "Sure, we can exchange numbers, but keep those drones handy. They also work as communication devices but have better signal and are practically unhackable, though I suppose that hasn't been fully tested. It won't record anything without permission, but can be woken up by tapping it or saying the word 'Omniac'. You get one too." Eileen sends another drone to Painkiller, then looks at the angelic figure.

"I haven't had the chance to thank you yet, so thank you for supporting Spellbound against the attacker." She took care not to say 'help' or 'save' knowing Spellbound's complex of being seen as younger and inexperienced. But they were all inexperienced, and today proved that. "You had some harsh words for us back there, and deservedly so. I am not thrilled by our performance and we could really benefit from having someone who knows what they're doing showing us the ropes." Eileen remembered seeing news articles of the 'queen in gold', only she had been painted as some sort of villain. Fortunately, Eileen had dismissed all that as sensationalist drivel, but clearly this hero could stand to have some better PR and seemed a fish out of water in her own right, though Eileen was unable to put her finger on why.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Crimson Flame @BunniesOfDoom @Finetales @Eviledd1984

Eileen looked over the notes she had scrawled into her sleeve. This would have to do. She'd wasted enough time as it was; any longer and she'd rouse suspicion, and she didn't need Supercop breathing down her neck. Turning the device on, Eileen took a step back and made sure her powers still worked. She could still hear the couple arguing in their apartment five blocks away and see the UV light coming down from the sun overhead. Good. She examined how the device operated from afar. Was it emitting a sound? Or was it sending out electromagnetic waves? If it was either of these things, she could potentially replicate it herself. Most likely though, it was psionic in nature and not something she had the ability to reproduce using her powers alone.

Eileen considered joining the fight, but it wouldn't make sense to put herself at risk and become a liability, further hampering the other heroes' efforts. She had to test what the device would do to her if she stepped into its range. Walking forward in front of the emitter, Eileen felt the effects immediately. At first, she thought that she had been rendered blind and deaf, only to realize that she could still see and hear within normal human parameters. But to have so much of her sight and hearing disabled, to lose infrared, ultraviolet, infrasound, and ultrasound was momentarily debilitating. So, this was how normal people saw and heard the world; how limited. The sensation hit like a wave of nausea and nostalgia all at once, since it reminded Eileen that, as a child, this was how she used to perceive the world as well before her powers manifested. How easily she had forgotten. Still, this answered her question, if she tried to fight, she would be less than helpful in this condition.

Stumbling out of the device's range, Eileen felt her supersenses flooding back in and it was like getting flash banged. Such a powerful, wonderful device; Eileen couldn't wait to try to make one herself. But she could try to help from out here. What they needed sorely was a way to coordinate. "THE DEVICE HAS BEEN SET UP," Eileen bellowed in a voice loud enough to penetrate the whole building, "I CAN HEAR ALL OF YOU. SPEAK IF YOU WISH TO CONVEY ANYTHING TO THE OTHER HEROES." She then did a quick broad-spectrum scan of the building. "TARGET IS IN THE OFFICES ON THE TOP FLOOR. SHE HAS A HOSTAGE. ANGELIC HERO APPEARS TO BE ATTEMPTING TO NEGOTIATE." Sure, it looked and sounded like flirting, but you had to act a little crazy to deal with crazy, Eileen could tell. She'd seen the news of this mysterious hero, and in Eileen's opinion, she had gotten an unwarranted negative reputation. There wasn't much Eileen could do from this distance, but she could at least try to prevent infighting.

Eileen sent a sonic pulse through the ground to get a sense of who wasn't in the building yet and sensed something unusual. People stuck in the ground. Those that had been completely buried were already dead, but Pitbull was only half submerged and being rescued. "An interesting power," Eileen thought to herself. Eileen sat down on the pavement and placed her palms on the ground. Sound waves traveled better through solid matter, and the best part, thanks to a concept known as total internal reflection, the waves won't affect anything above ground. If the chaos woman tried to escape through the earth, Eileen would have something waiting for her.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Crimson Flame @BunniesOfDoom @Finetales

Making sure she was in a relatively safe location with no cameras looking at her, Eileen placed the device down on the ground, still attempting to scan its insides. She occasionally glanced over at the fight happening in the sky before noticing that the attacker dived into the building. 'Was that in the direction of Son of Liberty and Spellbound?' Eileen thought to herself, hoping they could hold their own. Eileen rolled up the sleeve of the labcoat she always wore, took out her makeup kit, and started using her eyeliner to frantically scribble down notes and schematics, as much information as she could glean from this device, so that she wouldn't have to try to recall everything from memory later if she ever tried to replicate it. To think that the government had the technology to just shut off a super's powers. Stealing this technology seemed like a golden opportunity, but she didn't want to leave her allies hanging for too long. Although Eileen was unsure how much help she could provide; without her tools, pinpoint attacks against fast moving targets was almost impossible. Waves liked traveling in all directions and dissipated at range, making Eileen's attacks short and tend towards the indiscriminate without sufficient focus, focus which her tools provided, but which were banned from the training facility due to their ability to record everything they see and hear. The only boon that such a prohibition provided was that the camera density at this location was thankfully low, allowing her the opportunity to scan this device away from prying eyes. Well, if this facility was destroyed, then it was Supercop's own damn fault.
Due to awkward positioning, only one of the Centauri Alien's scythe-like flippers connects, but Anvi successfully blocks it with Talos' free hand. As she swings the alien around by its tendrils, Anvi can 'feel' them give slightly. As her axe kick lands on its head, the tendrils tear out of its mouth along with glowing, pulsing, likely voltage-generating organs connected to their ends as monstrous ichor splatters everywhere. The kaiju lets out another otherworldly shriek, though in losing its tendrils, it is now free of Talos' grasp.

"Excellent work, Anvi," Helen's voice came over intercom, actually sounding proud for once, "We've gotten enough data. We're having the Pegasus bring you your scythe. Finish it off." At these words, Pelorus scrambled out of the bridge and raced over to the hangar. In all previous fights, Pelorus' duties had been minimal, so this was the first time he had been ordered to deploy, and he clearly wasn't prepared. Meanwhile, the technicians of the Achilles connected Talos' scythe to the Pegasus' underslung carrying arm in preparation for Pelorus' arrival.

Though they continued to writhe, the severed tendril's in Talos' grasp began disintegrating, as expected of any kaiju body part that had been disconnected from the main body. The Centauri alien takes a mighty leap backwards and away from Talos, injured and wary. Crouching down, the spines along the ridge of its shell begin to glow, sending arcs forward which gathered impossibly into a large, sustained ball of lightning just above the creature's bleeding, upturned mouth.
Dr. Eileen Fang

@Omega Man @Crimson Flame @BunniesOfDoom @Finetales

Just prior to the attack, Eileen had felt unusual vibrations in the ground, and could barely believe what she was 'seeing' with her echolocation; people being dragged into the liquid ground and left there. But as the chaos ensued, Supercop tasked her and the others with setting up an 'anti-power' pulse field. Turning to Son of Liberty and Spellbound, Eileen stated, "I can't fly or even jump good, so I'll do one of the ground floor ones." Taking one of the devices, she headed in the opposite direction than Stampede as per Supercop's instructions. This took her away from the action, but she was completely fine with this. Without her tech, she had limited offensive capabilities, and even with her tools, she had little to no defensive capabilities; she couldn't imagine how poorly she'd fare against a 'reality warper'. Still, her super hearing let Eileen hear the crazed woman, now hovering in the air, asking for 'heroes who could end her', which sounded like a cry for help, leading Eileen to ponder on the overlap between poor mental health and supervillainy. Just another sign of how the failing system let the downtrodden slip through the cracks, forcing them to resort to violence. But that wasn't important right now.

Cradling the device in her arms, Eileen sent waves of sonar into it to analyze its internal structure, while her eyes scanned it with every light frequency imaginable to determine its composition. She needed to gather as much data on this device as she could while she had a chance and attempt to memorize it so she could attempt to make one of her own in the future. She would likely need such a tool for her eventual plans.


As part of the Colossus pilots' regular training, they were taught how to fight kaiju according to the knowledge and experience that had been accumulated over the years. "Kaiju are notoriously difficult to kill," Dr. McCulloch lectures in a darkened room, her arms crossed while flicks of her wrist direct the red dot from the laser pointer in her hand to point out relevant points on the screen, and clicks on the device advance the slideshow. This was her in her element; an academic, a professor. She spoke with an almost nonchalant manner about dismantling mankind's greatest existential threat, hiding her own hatred of the creatures. "Apparently, the Hyperian name for kaiju roughly translates as 'the legacy of a star', whatever that means, but it's why we've started referring to them simply by the star systems that they supposedly originate from. According to what we've gleaned from the Hyperian ship's logs, kaiju are wholly unique existences unto themselves. The death of a kaiju is literally extinction for that species since there are no others, a somewhat comforting thought. But as such, kaiju are primed for self-preservation, capable of rapid regeneration and the ability to consume vast quantities of energy to heal. Defeating a kaiju requires preventing it from gaining access to the specific forms of energy it consumes. But this is not enough. They traveled lightyears to come here; their energy reserves are more than enough to keep them floating in space for millennia. In a fight, they will keep regenerating unless their core is exposed and extracted." The slide begins to play a movie, snippets of recordings of fights between the Hyper Men and various kaiju. In each fight, the Hyper Men finish with attacks that pull some writhing, alien heart out of the kaiju. The kaiju's body disintegrates, and the core is taken into custody by CETM. "The core can be located anywhere in the kaiju's body, though usually in the head or chest. During this fight, you must locate this core as quickly as possible. So far, CETM has had the audacity of keeping these in storage, however, I would have you destroy them if given the chance. Dr. Park plays a dangerous game, and I would rather he have fewer toys."



"GO! Anvi!" Shinobu calls out, elated that Talos seemed to have the upper hand against the Centauri alien. This was the first fight against a kaiju without a combatant from Project Olympian, and hopes were running high. Since his father left, Shinobu had borne the responsibility of being Earth's sole protector against the kaiju, and the burden had taken its toll. Was he really rooting for Anvi, or was he merely happy to pass on the responsibility?

As Anvi grabs the Centauri alien's tendrils, it reacts in surprise and attempts to pull away. Unable to do so, the tendrils spark with electrifying energy. Talos' cockpit readouts show minimal damage; despite being a large metallic machine, it seems the mech is quite well insulated. Recalling McCulloch's lecture, the kaiju's core would need to be located. However, it's head had a shrunken, almost vestigial look to it, seemingly without the space to hold a 'brain'. Most likely the core was in its chest, where such a creature's heart might be located, which was a bit of a problem, given how well-armored the creature's torso was.

"Electricity," Dr. Park muses, "Did Oleander know?" He looks over at Helen, who only glares back but can't hide a smirk. Obviously, she would not design something that would simply short circuit at the first sign of an electrical attack. but the thought was troubling, the coincident too glaring.

The kaiju's tendrils wrap around Talos' arm trying to constrict it, but to no avail; they writhe and seek out weaknesses and openings in Talos' armor but fail to do that as well. Finally, it brandishes the two menacing claw flippers and take a wild swing at Talos.
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