Trevor turned, some what shocked to see another human being, atleast it looked human and thats all that mattered at that moment.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Trevor said, he realised just after saying that how much of a clique that was and somewhat emberessedly moved right along in a vain attempt to keep the women from noticeing. "Medb isn't in the meeting room right now, so I wouldn't bother looking for him. I'm Trevor and this is Will, if you read the Paragon Times you might have heard of us as the Matchhead Brothers." Trevor smiled, he didn't like the name the newspaper had given him, but it might make her think twice before ranking them on the bottom of the list. And they had comitited more than a few confusing crimes, off balance them a bit as Will had said "And you are?" Trevor said in a very friendly voice, it didn't sound forced at all, he had years to prefect that at... his formers employers.
Kathy turned and squinted at him.
"Oh, the dunk head brothers is it?" Kathy teased.
"If you touch me you find out how dark it gets when the fire is out" Kathy hissed at him, she held out her hand a small ball of darkness wove it's way around her hand.
"It's Kathy" she said.
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Kathy turned and squinted at him.
"Oh, the dunk head brothers is it?" Kathy teased.
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Trevor keep up his smile. Off balance, oh yeah thats off balance
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"If you touch me you find out how dark it gets when the fire is out" Kathy hissed at him, she held out her hand a small ball of darkness wove it's way around her hand.
"It's Kathy" she said.
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Trevor tryed to keep temption of show her how easy it is to hit what you can't see. Still he had 3 ideas of how to embaress her. "I'm afraid your mistaken, we didn't get the name because we use fire, we got it because of our hair color." He touch his dark red hair. "One of the witnesses describe our hair as matchhead color, media thought it fit us perfectly." Still he was tempted to see if she could handle his power, No we need the allies. another thought bubbled up Why not, she just threated you. He resolved to only attack if she wouldn't be useful, he hated to think like that, that sound like Co... his former employer talking.
"So Kathy what brings you to Medb little gathering?"
Disco Inferno had boogie-oogie-oogied till he just couldn't do it no more, and upon returning to the meeting room, he saw a newcomer, and a girl no less. He decided to assess her personality and skill. "Hey there, sexy mama, name's Disco Inferno!" he said as he burst into flames, again. "If she attacks, I can see her skill level, but I'll know she's too hot-headed too trust to help if cicumstances require it. If she yells at me, I won't get to see how tough she is, but I know she's got the right mindset for a team. If she pretends to ignore me, I'll have to hope that she isn't the only person around if I need help. Like I'LL ever need help," thought Disco Inferno, as he awaited a reaction.
((OOC: How'd you like the music reference towards the beginning? I'd been setting that one up since my last post. 
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Trevor surpressed a sigh. "Disco, this is Kathy." Trevor managed to sound very friendy. "You look a little tried Disco, find a gym in here or something?" It's more important to look like you have friends than to actulaly have them. Trevor again quoted from his training.
"I never been to a gym in my life, I found a dance floor on level seven," said Disco Inferno, just now noticing Trevor and Will. Did he sense a bit of annoyance in his voice? "Nah, those two are like my personal fan club," he thought to himself.
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Dance floor? Well he had seen odder things in his exploration of the Tower. Tervor was about ready to go back to talking with Kathy when Will, who had been silent the whole time spoke up.
"Disco, just abit curious and I don't mean to intruded on your personal life, but why did you come to the tower?"
Trevor wanted to turn back and ask Will why he was bothering with this loud mouth, he thought better of it and looked at Disco a bit questionaly. This had better be worth it Will.
"Money, power, and hopefully you guys can make me ruler of the dimension where disco never died and never will," replied Disco Inferno, enjoying the fact that someone here isn't too stuck up to converse with him. "Obviously going to put that into their fan club's newsletter," he thought.
((OOC: Please pity this poor, delusional man))
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Trevor pityed the poor disillusioned man, but he still he wanted to know where Will was going with this.
"Interesting reasons..." Will trailed off in thought.
Trevored couldn't stop himself, he looked at Will, his gaze had ddrifted off and didn't realy look at anything. What had he been thinking. Trevor caught a hint of what was going on in his head.
"So Disco, you want a world full of disco." It was hard to phrase that so it sounded casualy, it was a lttle rough, but he had done a good job of it, he thought. "It seems like a reasonable demand, all we want is a Multiverse..." The consept was quite new to Trevor and a litttle disconcerning, Will had taken it well though. "...without heroes. We're willing to help you if your willing to help us... like... I guess partners would not the correct word but you get where I'm going right?" Trevor finished up, hoping he didn't drop any clues to Kathy, at least Disco had never threatened him.
"A world without heroes? Seems like that would take all the fun outta being a supervillain. Any hack with a gun a rob a bank when there's nobody but cops to deliver swift retribution. It takes REAL skills to rob a bank with Statesman after you. I know from experience," said Disco Inferno, remembering his very narrow escape from the leader of the Freedom Phalanx. It was his biggest success, not because of the robbery, but because he escaped the clutches of the most famous hero on Earth. "But, since I'm not your father, I can't tell you what to do, so I don't mind helping," he said, "But, remember, there can be no dark without an equal amount of light, so your entrance could cause heroes to start springing up. I'm no quantum physicist, so I'm not sure, but you never know." He then hummed the theme from "The Twilight Zone."
((OOC: I didn't mean literally pity him, silly. Not that it matters. 
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Trevor had heard this countless times from those who supported these costumed vigilantes. He hated it when people mistoke heroes as protectors. Disco had listed one of the many problems they caused, people becoming crimanals for the fun of the chase. He had to remain calm.
He toke a quick glance at Kathy, she was a little confused, or maybe a little angry, but she still held that ball of negative energy. He wanted to learn abit about it. He had read alittle on the subject and from what he could tell it was like the anti-matter of enregy, but first Disco.
"I'm no expert myself on quantum physics and I'm not the type that wants to do away with law and order. But allowing vigilantism leads to millions of problems. On average a "hero" is motivated by either a past wrong which gives them moral athourity some how, or they are glory hounds who will attack anything if they think it will make them look good, or are using vigilantism as an excuse to take there anger out on the world regardless of who gets in there way." Trevor had lost his calm after the first sentence and now his voice was fill with a cold haterd that had been instilled over many years. "Only a small group deserve the title, but any exception will allow these self serving "heroes" back in. You say dark can't exist with out an equal share of light, I say light hides the dark and darkness hides light." Trevor toke a deep breath.
"Sorry, I'm a little touch on the subject. It's just... they... I don't hate the concept, but I hate how they prevert the ideal and use it to thier own ends. I guess that dosen't make me much of a villian, but it's a long story as to how me and Will got here and well it's what we are now." Trevor realised that he was babbling and ended his sentence and acted like he ment to stop there. The same thing had happened with Medb, Trevor was looking foward to kill the man that had raised her.
"Well if you want to take the offer Disco it's open to you, you can sleep on it if you want and we don't mind if you don't want it, but I got to get back to Kathy here. She a very social person and I would like to get to know her better." He filled the last sentence with sarcasm. He smiled "So what brings you here Kathy." He was starting to get the feeling that no one was going to be interested in helping them. On the up side no one thought they were a threat so far so they might be in good shape if things go bad.
(OCC note: But I do pity him, chances of him finding a place where disco didn't die are slim and if he does Disco will have changed so much that he will be way behind the times, it might be so different that it's only called Disco. )
((OOC: Writter's block on the Medb part. Also, will be posting a little less frequently now that the spring semester has started.))
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"A world without heroes? Seems like that would take all the fun outta being a supervillain. Any hack with a gun a rob a bank when there's nobody but cops to deliver swift retribution. It takes REAL skills to rob a bank with Statesman after you. I know from experience," said Disco Inferno, remembering his very narrow escape from the leader of the Freedom Phalanx. It was his biggest success, not because of the robbery, but because he escaped the clutches of the most famous hero on Earth. "But, since I'm not your father, I can't tell you what to do, so I don't mind helping," he said, "But, remember, there can be no dark without an equal amount of light, so your entrance could cause heroes to start springing up. I'm no quantum physicist, so I'm not sure, but you never know." He then hummed the theme from "The Twilight Zone."
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"Is that so..." came a voice that nearly all present recognized. "If that is the case then how does one explain the existance of the dimension controlled by the Tyrant or even that of an alternate Clockwork King?" No one had seen nor heard the cyborg assassin enter the room, but Jack in Diamonds was there still wearing his cloak.
Trevor jumped and Will so far gone n his own thoughts that he didn't move an inch though an intentive observer would note he was paying more attention now.
"Tyrant? Who the he... The Clockwork King controls a dimension!?!" Trevor stared at JiD. He gathered himself "Sorry for the rude welcome Jack, but whose Tyrant. And for that matter how did The Clockwork King come to rule a world, I mean he always sounded like he had delusions of grandur, but..." Trevor just trailed off. There was no reason to assume that the The Clockwork king couldn't do it, it was just. He realy didn't know why.
(OOC Note: To Trevor the concept of more than one dimension was something he had read about in books. Whats in them is way beyond him.)
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Trevor jumped and Will so far gone n his own thoughts that he didn't move an inch though an intentive observer would note he was paying more attention now.
"Tyrant? Who the he... The Clockwork King controls a dimension!?!" Trevor stared at JiD. He gathered himself "Sorry for the rude welcome Jack, but whose Tyrant. And for that matter how did The Clockwork King come to rule a world, I mean he always sounded like he had delusions of grandur, but..." Trevor just trailed off. There was no reason to assume that the The Clockwork king couldn't do it, it was just. He realy didn't know why.
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"Jack" didn't appear to move at all as he spoke. "There are at least two alternate forms of the man known as the Statesman that are from other dimensions. One of these has taken over his version of Earth and declared himself supreme ruler. This one calls himself 'Tyrant.' There is also a dimension that has an alternate version of the Clockwork King, where he has achieved a complete understanding of his powers thus allowing him to over run the entire world with his psuedo-robotic minions." The cyborg then turned his head towards the young woman of whom Trevor inquired. "As to the girl, not even she knows the real reason why she has been brought here. The only thing I may say in reguarding this is that she must follow me to her 'quarters' without delay and remain there until further notice."
Trevor was too busy takeing in the fact that there could be an evil Statesman to notice JiD walk. Will on the other hand toke the information in and stored it away befor he worked that into the new universal order. He felt a bit of pity for Kathy- he might have felt ore if she had not just threatened them- she was just a pawn and that mattered a great deal. A pawn ment organization and a large one if it could afford to not tell her why she had to be her and for her to obey with no further information. It could be his former employer, but that seemed unlikey. He dicided that he needed to know who she worked for before dismissing her as a lost cause.But at the moment ther was a more pressing matters.
"Jack you sound a little diferent, you feeling alright." Will managed to sound nonchalant.
Kathy sneered inwardly.
"You owe me for this Hegemon..." Kathy thought to herself as she began to follow JiD.
So, she chose Book because he had an intimate knowledge of ghosts and stuff, Kirke thought. It still didn't explain why she had picked him over one of the other meta-powered villains, but he let it go for now.
"So just who is this guy who can ruin everything? And why is Jeeves here so useful against him?" Kirke was starting to feel like nothing more than a pawn, being set up right where Medb wanted him. And pawns had a nasty habit of being sacrificed.
Noticing Kirke wasn't there Mason put the two peices of medal of his bed with a note.The note said for Kirke to push the pieces of medal into his skin and not to take them off until he said so.
Laughing Dark Mason returned to his room and began to prepare the second part of the ritual.
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"Ho-ho-ho, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year", the Hegemon recites as she enters the meeting room. She opens the bulging sack at her side and distributes some hideous red-and-green scarves to the other villains.
((She is startled to see Kathy. "What a waste of time," she thinks. "If she'd told me she'd be here, I wouldn't have had to come myself. But perhaps it's just as well that I came; I'm still not sure if I brainwashed Kathy as effectively as I'd hoped."))
((She looks at Disco Inferno with grudging respect. "A man with such incredible confidence must be a figure of great power, even if he is a mere human. I must learn more about him."))
Trevor looks at the scarf she just handed him and resolved to throw it away when the robot wasn't around. "Thanks." Trevors carefully taliored voiced made it sound quite plausable. Then it hit him this was the same robot that had passed them as it left the meeting. "Wait, sorry I didn't catch your name earlyer."
Will put his scarf on, he loved scarfs and had several dozen and he felt odd not wearing one. It looked ugly but he realy didn't care, his career ment that having a disposeable scarf was quite handy. "Thank you, uh.. what was you name again?" Having completly missed Trevor asking the exact same question.
(OOC:I had to split my posts into two parts, to accomodate two things)
(after JiD's reappearance)
"I guess I'm just an idealist, but I like my views, because I think villainny would get boring without all the excitement," said Disco Inferno, whose fire went out when he realized the lack of support for his theory.
(after the Hegemon comes back)
"Hey! A penguin! That's so cute!!" said Disco Inferno, seeing that scarf that, for some inexplicable reason, he loved on sight. "Thanks, Hegemon," he said, liking her already, "I'm gonna fireproof this right now." He then opened a... compartment in his chest and dropped the scarf in. When it came out, he put it on and burst into flames again. Disco Inferno was as good as his word, as the scarf didn't even get a scorch mark. "Oh, did I forget to mention I'm a cyborg?"
Meanwhile, in the warehouse that served as an access point to the tower...
"Are you sure this is where is trail ends?" asked Tim.
"Yeah, if you don't believe me, look for yourself," replied Tim's split personality, Haywire. The cyborg hero scans the area as he remembers how he got this way. Tim was an accountant for Portacio Industries, when, one day, a clockwork prince fell on top of him after being defeated by a hero. But, instead of forming around Tim, the gears formed into him, but when the prince's electronic brain tried to merge with Tim's mind, it was rejected, and the prince went insane. When Tim woke up a week later, he realized that he had a new "roommate." Now, Haywire was homicidal, but no longer evil, so Tim had a technician at Portacio Ind. install steel claws into his skeletal, robotic arms, and the Mad Clockwork: Haywire was born.
"There seems to be a dimensional rift... there!" said Tim.
"You're right. Shall we use the new device we got from Portal Corps?" replied Haywire.
"Sure, it's all we've got."
So, together, in perfect unison, they cried out, "Phase Shift!"
and were gone, into the tower, to kill Disco Inferno.
(OOC: This is just to set up Disco Inferno's first fight, to establish his abilities and availible powers. I'm not trying to run away with the plot or anything.)
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((OOC: I'm going to have to change the location of the fight, but it provides a good excuse to explain a feature of the Tower.))
Everyone in Tower felt the complex shudder as if hit by a heavy attack. In the meeting room, Medb was about to go into a further explanation when the disruption occured. "Mistress," came the same voice from before, "someone seems to be trying to force their way into Tower."
This meeting was not going the way she had hoped, this being the third desturbance. "Who are they?"
"They appear to be some people who our files say are hunting Disco Inferno."
"Then this is his problem, but let anyone who is itching for a fight to go with him, it might be good to see how this group works as a single unit. And keep me posted."
As the Hegemon began passing out the scarves, the door opened and in walked a youngish man in a light grey suit. He looked to be in his mid thirties, was about five foot ten, weighed maybe one sixty-five. Thin, and the shade of pale you only see on people chronically incapable of tanning. His dark brown hair was short and a little messy, and his suit seemed rumpled and didn't fit very well. The top button of his white shirt was undone and his red silk tie was loosened a few inches.
"Thanks, but I don't think that'd look too good with the current ensemble," he replied to the offer of a garish scarf with little snowman heads on the tassels. "Sides, a little too 'Silence of the Lambs' for me."
He nodded respectfully to the Jack, took a seat, crossed his legs. He was wearing a pair of brown skate shoes, rather than anything dressy or of a color matching his suit.
"By the way, name's Vance. Pleasure's all yours," he said, gesturing to the other villains. Then he reached into his suitcoat and took out a Zippo and a sterling silver cigarette case. He put one between his lips and lit it, took a slow puff, then asked, "Mind if I smoke, Jack?"
The Hegemon responds to Trevor and Will. "Of course, you weren't here for my earlier, I mean, my minion's earlier introduction. I am the Hegemon, the culmination of the State Science Institute's 'Project Messenger'. After severing my ties with the SSI, I've been working on many high-profile projects, most recently the reactivation of the Thompson Harmonizer."
She contemplates Disco Inferno. She decides that his cyborg nature explains his superiority over most of the others in the room. "I'm glad you like the scarf. I was thinking about giving it to my idiot sister, but then I decided it was too nice for her. All she gave me was a DVD player and a stack of syrupy movies."
Hearing the sounds of the impending attack, she casually moves behind Disco Inferno. She waits to observe his methods and discover any weaknesses he might have.
KAthy began curiously looking around the warehouse until she found it.
"Of course!" Kathy laughed a she was whisked away to the meeting place.
"I always hate that! Now where am I and what did I miss?" Kathy said.