The Visitors ((Open RP))

VGX-3 righted itself, as the Pod had died, the gas cloud lifting meant it could now see the group of heroes rather than the bio scans and thermol it had been using to keep track of them. Before it was the long shollow crator it had made by pure mistake when it hadn't of enganged the support clamps before the full power beam blast.

Slowly the robotic armour bot started to move up the cretor, it knew it's group would pay for the damages caused by it mostly, still it's progarmming was going mad at it's self for not following everything to the letter. Has VGX-3 got to the level where it could clearly see the green goo covering, the dead pod and the stream of orange glows it took a moment to study them then noticing that they appeared to be flowing towards the hero on the ground, it quickly sped up it's pace and went to move the hero out of their way.

The flow of orange lights sped past the fallen hero to meet with another river of fireflies as they began to coalesce into one seething pool of light. The goo surrounding them began to follow and as the orange lights became one glowing ball of energy, the alien fluid rose up around them, scooping itself from the ground to form a growing tower of green ooze with the orange lifeforms as its glowing heart.

Brian and Amber watched as the tower grew in size, adding mass as more of the alien fluid seeped across the sidewalk to combine with the rest of its kin. The orange lights massed at its centre like a metre wide ball of angry bees, swarming over each other and buzzing with frenetic activity. It was hard to tell whether the alien activity was aggressive or just panicked. Without looking down at his daughter, Brian asked the question.

“You’re the hero here pumpkin, is this supposed to be a good thing?”

The Amber Banshee shook her head, watching the glowing ball as it ascended the tower of gloop that now stood over fifteen feet tall. The buzzing sound had returned, growing in pitch as the mass increased.

“No,” she replied. “Normally it means it’s about to hit the fan.”

Firearm landed heavily on the sidewalk, skidding slightly before his jets whined to a cooling stop.

He clanged together the massive blisters on his forearms which housed most of the hot-suit's weaponry. They were almost out of juice - anything more than a few more minutes of another big fight and he'd be just one more bad-tempered nut in an iron suit.

He sighed as he looked around at the tired heroes, and then up at the not-so-jolly green giant.

"Aw, fer cryin' out loud..."

The vast pillar of ooze rose high. It's orange core glowed vibrantly. The irritating noise slowly returned. Union's ears withstood it, but it was still unpleasant.
He glanced briefly at Amber Banshee and the towering Brian as they watched the pillar of alien slime. A hypothesis formed.

"Looks like it could be a gestalt entity." he said. "A fusion of all the cloned heroes, complete with cloned powers and abilities." He gave another glance at all the heroes present before returning his gaze to the ever growing pillar of ooze.

"If so, then yeah. We're in it up to our eyeballs."

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

Bill stared at the tower of goo and glowing things ..” yep , its going to be a very long shift this one “

he strolled over to the growing group of heroes ...” so , who is meant to deal with outer space crooks ..?”

Adjusting his helmet strap Bill slide out his big blade , a Rikti made death machine of a sword .. .."so we taking pictures or are we arresting it ??”

"Arrest ... THAT!", Nightseye called out... "You have got to be kiddin here... If it is as hostile as those clones we better find a way to destroy it."

She looked at Brian and then to Amber... "Any idea's Amber? I don't think my claws will be much good on this thing. Maybe the winged girl... she had some effect on the meteor earlier with the gravity effect."

The leader of The Militia just stared at the rising tower of goo, not sure what to do.

“I’m not sure if arresting it is an option,” she said, backing away from the thing. “I think we’re going to need a very big gun or a lot of salt.”

The tower, once at a height of thirty feet started to take on a shape. Forming arms and legs out of the slime, they appeared to solidify into recognisable shapes, massive versions of the heroes it had copied, a hideous amalgam of those present. The area where its face should be though, a blob that seemed to be a head, remained blank as if it didn't know what to put there.

“It’s trying to find a form,” muttered Brian, slightly awed by the whole event. “I think those lights may be the aliens themselves, banding together.”

He would have said more but at that point, the creature slammed its foot into the floor, causing a localised earthquake. Heroes were sent flying by the huge impact before the monster began to walk off, stomping its way towards the sea.

Bill hauled himself upright , patted the dust and rocks from his clothing , and felt the fresh dent in his helmet ...

“well I think that was a fairly clear case of resisting arrest , looks like we will have to do it the harsh way .....”

a moments consideration and Bill selected the energy sword , more controllable in a tight spot and the green glowing energy blades seemed to suit the sci fi theme this outer space critter was laying down ...

“OK I am going for the legs , rest of you pick a spot and do your thing ..”

rocket boots fired up once more , but this time Bill gained no height , keeping low , just above car roof level , Bill slowly turned up the boots thrust to catch up with the space beast , ...

this was Plan L for Leg chops ...keeping low and out of the reach or any arms , Bill plotted a series of high speed passes of the monster lower legs , with each pass he would swing in the energy blades making a rapid slash and hack as he flew past ....either forcing the creature to stop and face him , or hamstring , and remove one of its legs ....

The prone body of Helena Hammond was sent rolling some distance as the alien form attacked. Her bodysuit was ripped to shreds as she continued to roll, ending up rather unceremoniously squashed up next to an overturned trash can.

Wake up! Her mind screamed out but her body refused to respond. At least hit that mediport thing!.

Union clambered to his feet after the shockwave had knocked him off them. He quickly surveyed the area. Other heroes had joined Bill in attacking the vast creature, their efforts looked hopelessly futile. Unions first concern was the safety of others. Behind him he saw that Annie was still unconscious, but reasonably safe in the shadow of the broken pod. Further out onto the battle field he spotted the motionless Helena lying next to a spilled trash can. He worried that any effort he made would be too late, but he had to try.

Union darted toward Helena. The vast viscous creature was busy with the other heroes and appeared to ignore him. He reached her and carefully checked for a pulse. After a few seconds he found one. It was very faint, but she was still alive. He let out a quiet sigh of relief. Gently, he rolled her into the recovery position. There was nothing much he could do except activate her mediport. He checked to see if she still had it on her.

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

Annie's still form began to shiver. Her clothes were cold and wet from the moisture they had absorbed from the green goo she was lying in.

Annie was in a deep sleep, bought on by a concussion. Her dreams were filled with monsters and a never-ending fight. The world was turning to ice around her. She felt the need to stop the monsters; nothing she did had any effect on them. Then the monsters attacked Annie and her dream turned into a nightmare.

VGX-3 had almost lost it's balance when the monster had stomped on the ground, however luckily there was a wrecked car next to the suit which it had grabbed hold of quickly to steady it's self. Before once again slowly making it's way towards Helena, then noticing Uinion darting across to her side, VGX-3 stopped in it's tracks before slowly walking up towards him.

"Target Hero: is she ok?" VGX-3 asked, it's voice was more sounding like that of a computer progarm A.I than human given it's emotionless tone.

Helena's mediport device, although a little cracked, seemed to work fine as Union found it and actviated it.

Her body flashed out of sight.

But her mind, still very much insistent that everything was fine if only her body would wake up, reached out at Union's touch.

The orange glows, focus on them. I don't know how to fight them but you must destroy them.

The beast continued to move. It was thirty feet tall and appeared to be impervious to most attacks. It wandered idly forward, swatting away any heroes that were stupid enough to fly near to it. The Amber Banshee had taken to the rooptops, leaving her father to help clear up the mess the meteorite battle had caused. She’d left him with instructions to open up the Militia base, The Dugout, to anyone who needed to use it for recovery and co-ordination.

Meanwhile, the remaining heroes were forced to take up a running battle with the monster as it headed towards the sea. Saffron was particularly watching the orange glow that sat in the heart of the beast. Like most of the other heroes present, she agreed that they formed the power source for the creature, an amalgam of the lifeforms that had attacked them. What she wouldn’t give for psychic right now she thought as she leapt over another tower block, rebounding from the concrete structure’s natural resonance. The glow was deep in the chest of the glowing monster and difficult to reach, despite most heroes’ attempts to harm it. An idea hit her and she paused for a second to talk into her com unit.

“Hey, I’ve got an idea,” she said. “We’re reaching the top end of King’s Row here. Has anyone spotted a Paladin recently?”

He watched Helena vanish, satisfied she was safe. Union thought he heard words coming from Helena, but she hadn't spoken. Something about the orange glows. He rose to his feet and turned to the ensuing battle.

The monster was swatting heroes out of the air like flies, and it shook the ground with each step it took. The thing was was being hit with every type of blast imaginable, and shrugging them off as the monster lumbered on. If it could just be knocked off its feet, it would buy a little time for the rest the heroes to act.

Union leapt into the sky and began circling. He needed to build up speed. Once more he forced his power into his flight, gathering velocity. He was approaching 400mph. It would have to be enough. He turned and fired himself straight toward the monster, aiming directly at the orange core. The irresistible force collided with the immovable object.

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

((Originally I was just going to leave this as Annie having a bad dream, hoping someone would wake her up. But it is an opportunity to introduce another players RP character and I am happy to help. Sorry it’s so long, I got carried away.))

The monsters in Annie’s dream started to take form beyond the usual grey shadows and fog that haunted her.

She slipped on some ice underfoot. There was a crunch of a booted foot as it ground the ice into the concrete next to Annie’s head. She looked up to see Fanservice bearing down on her. It took a moment for her to register the orange glow on the forehead. Annie scrambled away, tripping over her own wings. She saw another clone this time of Bill, his orange glow very obvious on his pale complexion. She changed direction and ran past more clones, a Nightseye clone took a swipe at her as she barrelled straight into the broad chest of Commander Union.

“Thank the hea….” Annie’s sentence was cut short as she looked up and saw the now familiar orange glow. She took a step back. “But the clones are dead, this can’t be real!” Annie started to panic, there had to be someone else here. She changed direction and ran again. Her panic was rapidly turning into fear as the only things she could find were more clones, each attempting to attack her, forcing her to change direction. An Amber Banshee clone clothes-lined her when she blindly changed direction. Annie kicked at the back of the clone’s knees forcing its legs to buckle under its own weight. A Gall clone stepped up and aimed a punch at Annie’s head. Annie moved quickly so the clone only hit the concrete where moved from.

Back on her feet Annie saw an opening and she ran for it. Breaking through the line of clones Annie stood before the glowing meteor, she took a step toward it. She looked down as something brushed against her leg. She looked down as saw a hand, it belonged to the PPD Officer she had seen trying to manage the crowds. He was badly cut up. Annie knelt down and felt for a pulse, she couldn’t find one. She closed his eyes; a terrible sadness welled up in her. Combined with the fear Annie already felt, she burst into tears.

After a moment she composed herself and wiped her face. She looked around; the clones had disappeared but she saw another body. She ran over and checked for a pulse again, nothing. There was a sudden shaft of light that burst through the gloom Annie saw all of the hero’s she had been fighting along-side at the crash site. All of them, dead. Even the robot had been smashed to pieces.

Annie took a step back, her tears flowed freely. Terrified that whatever had manifested itself and caused this damage, would come back or worse. Be rampaging its way across the city. No-one would be able to stop it if it could cause this carnage.

Annie sat down hugging her own knees and rocking.

Un-noticed less than two meters away stood The Knightmare . He was nothing more than a thick black smoke that disappeared into the fog of Annie’s dream. The only visible sign he stood there, was the violet glow of his eyes. Now this was a feast he had not been expecting.

“NO! It can’t be! It can’t be!” Annie kept repeating as she rocked back and forth.



Back in the real world, Annie looked like she was sleeping peacefully. She shouted out a single word “NO!” and fell further into a fitful sleep.

VGX-3 Glance up at the 30ft high monster now that was swating away the flying heroes and stomping it's way further into Kings Row, it's scanners once again flared up and scanned the area of the city and the monster. It showed that the glowing bits now at the monsters core was most likely the "power source" for the thing, and that it was slowly heading towards the main part of Kings row.

Results: Life forms merged: New life form: Unknown.
Actions: Destruction of target: POD cause.
Course of action: Attempt to destory life form: Protect city.
Power Supply: Medium: Cores At: 50% Effectively: Drained.
Resupply: Unable no power cable: Course of Actions: Return to base: or Fight: Answer: Fight monster.
Best corse of action: Find pilot human: use merge systems to: Enable meta mode.
Heroes: best chioce: willing: Unknown.

With that scrolled across it's visor, the suit took flight, towards the monster and the group of heroes.
Maybe one of them would find out how powerful this unknown battle suit was, or maybe it would once again take on the monster like it did the smaller ones.

Taking point on a corner of a building, Saffron breathed a sigh of relief. A giant Paladin, another of the Clockwork King’s huge creations was lumbering around aimlessly a street away. Having watched the alien blob stomp its way to the sea, she reckoned it would only take a little bit of manoeuvring to get their paths to cross. Even better was the electricity substation that was only a little further away.

“Ok, I’ve found one,” she spoke into the comms again. If we can get them to meet, I reckon we can use the Paladin as some sort of conductor for an electrical charge against the alien, get them to carry the voltage rather than one of us.”

It wasn’t the best of plans, but it had to do. If that thing made it to the sea, the orange glowing aliens would escape and it’d be next to impossible to find them again.

Nightseye called out.. "Fine by me.. let's try it!"

With that she made a jump to wards the paladin and hit him full force. He turned and started blasting her. So the only thing she could do was dodge them. But at the same time she pulled back a bit.

The Paladin needed to follow her a bit if he wanted to hit her. Slowly he walked to wards the corner. The alien animated mass right on the other side.

"If you need to set things up for this plan of yours Amber... Do it NOW! Here he comes..."

The air rippled as Union collided with the beast. The monster stumbled and staggered about. Union fell to the ground dazed. The creature still remained on its feet, though a large portion of the orange glows flickered as they had with the clones. They faultered, but did not extinguish.

Union clambered to his feet. He shook off the dizziness and composed himself. He was just about to take off for another go, when he spotted the huge copper coloured hulk that was the Paladin stomp around the corner.

"You have got to be kidding me!"

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

Seeing the giant metal man arriving stage left Bill went for Plan E ..exit stage right , and flew clear of both of the monsters ...

" before any one offers odds, remember sports gambling is still illegal ..."

circling around Bill rejoined the clump of Heroes ....

"ok whos plan is this , and what do i need to do ?"

VGX-3 flew up behind Bill, it's roar from the booster jets died down as they switched over to hover mode.

"Target Heroes, how can this Unit assist you?" Its voice echoed out, knowing that most likely like before noone would take notice much of it, nor give it something to do and it would have to make up it's own attack plan.

Gall retrieved his ninjato, sheathing the sai in favour of the more offensive weapon. He cleaned the blade of green ichor before sheathing it on his back.

"So, we're doing what?"

Bill looked at VGX-3..
" hmm come up with some smart way to defeat that thing .. and be quick about it .. as it looks like we are about to get clockwork problems as well "

swinging round as Gall spokes , Bill considers .." we are having a bad day i think ..." he points to the income Paladin .." and it just goes on and on and on ..sheeh "

As it strode forward, the alien blob virtually walked into the Paladin as it pursued Nightseye back towards the group of heroes. Sensing danger, the two behemoths ploughed into each other, both attacking immediately. The blows from the blob dented the copper plating of the Paladin easily but the raging electricity storm around the machine seemed to have an interesting effect on the orange glow inside the alien. Rather than the solid mass of writhing life forms, each time the Paladin hit, it seemed to jar them further apart. Small sparks of electricity could be seen jumping between them.

The Amber Banshee leapt down amongst the heroes, staggering slightly. “It’s the electricity,” she said. “I figured if those things have a brain between them, a large shock would fry it completely! If we can get them just a little further down the road, we might be able to bring down one of the pylons on it.”

She smiled nervously then proceeded to go bright red as she realised she was probably addressing far more important heroes than herself. The blush illuminated her numerous freckles before she turned back to the raging monsters who seemed to be stuck in an ongoing battle. “If we can just get them to move down a little... we can use the Paladin as a sort of lightning conductor.”

She looked up at the flying machine, wondering if it would pull out that big gun again. "Think you could blast them back a bit!?"