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Endgame

Page history last edited by Capellan 4 years, 5 months ago

187

Six months later ...

Xo is flying home to Oz

Danny and I are there to meet her

Xo goes through customs in the "superpowers to declare" line

Xo and Danny reunion!

It all goes wrong in the car-park

Pretty Boy Kane and the Chain Gang

... don't last very long

But it is a diversion!  Danny is missing!

A Queen of Hearts card is left behind

 

 

188

Red has burned his bridges with Bear and with Mars

He's drinking in a bar at 2pm

Mars is on TV talking about his initiatives to help combat superhuman crime

Gabe stages an intervention

Red's all "Mars learned something about the nanites and he won't share his toys with me!"

Gabe has little sympathy

Wright's telling me this is a new player - there are a lot of them right now

I talk to Barrage about getting help from Mars.  He's not real encouraging

Red would like to help

Xo says he can use her warehouse lab

Red manages to bodge together a "Danny tracker" based on when that alien hunter came to Pacific City

Danny appears to be just off the shoreline

I tell Xo, who races out there to find a ship

When she gets close, she wipes out and starts to sink

I arrive just in time to dump Red on the ships deck and try to grab Xo in a net

There are bad guys in playing card regalia here

I clamp the one apparent bad guy in a ball and chain

Time to find Danny ...

 

 

189

We go looking for Danny

I get stomped by a bad guy

Xo gives me super-fast medical treatment

And from there we rapidly turn the tables

Red finds an interesting tablet

It gives us access to the Big Brain's Game

 

 

190

Red is hacking the Big Brain's systems.

"Make the Big Brain worth a 1,000,000 points"

Xo has taken Danny back home

We give the Game player data to AEGIS and the Pacific City PD

Bear welcomes Red back to the labs

Bear has mad technobabble exposition skills

Bonesaw is working out well at Opportunities

Red gets to work on the technobabble stuff

Friday night, I am at Opportunities

All the Stormers suddenly go puppet mastered and walk out

I call Red - he tries to track the signal that is affecting them

Three targets: Pacific Vision, Mars Tower, AEGIS

Red does Red stuff

I try to shield Pacific Vision to give Red time to block the signal

Red succeeds in blocking the signal

We relay it to Mars and then repeat the process at AEGIS

A back to his senses Bonesaw helps me take down Doomsquid

Red has tracked the source of the signal

Mars wants to talk to us urgently

 

 

191

We go to Pacific Vision to see Mars

Things are bustling with the aftermath of the puppet show

Angie meets us on the roof

She legal talks at Red.  We nod

This was a worldwide attack on labs researching the Silver Storms

Xo is helping with the clean-up

Red and Mars SCIENCE~!

The signal is coming from an old research facility for extradimensional travel

This probably means AEGIS black op, or someone has infiltrated AEGIS

Oh hey it could well be Doc Shock

While the stormer rampage was happening, stuff was nicked from Mars

SCIENCE stuff!

Red determines that Doomsquid was not actually mind-controlled

He tracks down several others who were faking it, too

Red interrogates Doomsquid.  Who is even more of a jerk than you might expect

We decide to head out to the research facility, and tell Xo where we are heading

Mars tells us the Sons of Humanity may also be heading there.

Yay.

 

 

192

We approach the facility, which looks like an oil rig

There's a fight going on between Doc Shock's Lady Legion and some mercenaries

We ignore it in favour of looking for the origin of the Storm Signal

Red picks up earth tremors - something BIG is moving

We head toward the source of the Signal but get attacked by Ramraid

We wrap her up and leave her hanging

Elevator shaft.  Red scans for traps and stuff.

No traps detected, but the place is falling to pieces so we have to be quick

Downstairs, we find two more of the Lady Legion

We defeat them and grab the canisters they were trying to steal

The rig collapses into the sea behind us

And a large domed craft lifts off from the ocean floor

Teliax the Redeemer monologues at us

We have no idea who that is

We focus on rescuing drowning people and he flies off

 

 

193

I focus on rescue operations and getting people out safely

Red will try to find out who Teliax is and where he has gone

Teliax is some ancient, super powerful alien

There are no accessible records about why "the rig" was built - maybe with an upgraded security clearance?

The brains need to find a solution for the nanites

They'll need volunteers to test on - I scrounge up Bonesaw and Rampage

SCIENCE is happening

An anti-mind control serum seems to work on Rampage

Meanwhile, all the stormers are being controlled by Doc Shock, who threatens to kill them all.

 

 

194

What are his demands?  Stop tampering with the nanites

We discuss alternate plans - mainly punching Doc Shock

Shock seems the best way to lure him out

Mars may have a way to contact her

Oh hey it turns out he used to be a supervillain

Babbage is an alien brain thing

He manages to put us in touch with Shock

She agrees to come home, if her cousin will teleport her

Mars invites all the brains over.  And Crazy Steve

We are planning ways to protect the Stormers

And then some extraterrestrial hijacks Doc Shock's signal

And sends the Stormers after him

And then Shock gets teleported in

Red will stay to work on Mars's ruined spaceship

Shock and I will go see Doc Shock and make sure his bad day doesn't turn fatal

 

 

195

Doc Shock's base is out near the Canberra crater

Shock detects a hidden tunnel; she distracts the stormers while I dig for it

We find a 1950s nuclear bunker turned mad science laboratory

Doc Shock comes quietly

We take him back to Mars's lair of former villainy

Doc Shock didn't originate the Silver Storm, he just tried to take advantage of it

"Something" has been manipulating the human genome

Oh joy the stormers are following us

I put up a barrier while the others scramble to produce antidote serum

Ugh, it's Lord Darkwave.  But at least he is mind-controlled

Shock agrees to listen to Teliax's spiel

So Teliax (claims he) is trying to stop The Nothing.  Sorry "The Devourer"

For this they need all three reality warpers: Shift, Epiphany Jones, and someone we don't know

We agree to look for the three and persuade them to help in exchange for him not mind-controlling people.

"Save the universe, THEN deal with the crazy robot from the dawn of time,"

 

 

196

Sentinel has an idea - let's get Shift back and use his reality warping to find the other two

We need energy-generating tech beyond human capability

Let's go see Shock's dad

Shock's cousin teleports us to an alien planet

Daphne the Space Pirate

Shock's dad is a jerk

But he eventually agrees to give us the power source we need - it'll take 48 hours

Meanwhile, we will have Shock and Bonesaw locate Epiphany Jones

Shock promises Jones a big punk festival in exchange for her help

And she does it!  The third signature is ...

 

 

197

... in orbit.  On the dark side of the moon.

AEGIS teleport Shock, Xo and I up to their space station

From there, we take a space ship ... piloted by Crazy Steve

We find a possibly Nazi, possibly Skoviak base

We sneak to the prison sector and shut down the power bars on their cells

Cross!  Kate!  Mr Neptune!

Neptune appears to be the reality warper

We get Neptune to our ship

I pooper scooper a Skoviak freighter out of there for the other victims

Mr Neptune is freaking out, but Awesome talks him down

Back on Earth, we get Gabe to watch over Neptune

The space battery is charged - let's fire up the portal!

Red, Xo and I go through, emerging near Canberra

"Halt, in the name of the Allied Earth Defence Force"

 

 

198

Xo falls unconscious

Red expositions

We talk to a soldier and are taken into custody

Being nice doesn't work

We break out and steal a shuttle

We track down Area not-51 from an earlier issue

Red uses the tech here to find signs of Shift

Jamaica, mon

We find Shift and persuade him to come home

And then we sneak into the base in Canberra

And enter Professor Panic's old portal machine

We successfully gate back home

We are just in time to hear that something "small and fast" has entered the solar system

It's a dude with a staff

 

 

199

A falling star!

Shock and Xo are watching it fall

It's me

"I think it's safe to say he's not friendly."

He's like some wacky Star Shepherd

Or you know, a Not Herald of Not Galactus

Fighting!

Everything is going wrong everywhere, but we have more immediate concerns

After a big fight we beat him

Remember that everything that was going wrong everywhere?

Mars has a plan for it!

 

 

200

We fight a giant robot.  Poorly.

Then a bit better.

Pinata defence, activate!

Shock manages to damage him but gets blasted out of the fight in return

Sentinel joins the fray!

I finally crack his shell

And Xo finishes him

Victory celebration!

Pacific Vision will refocus on preparing SPACE FORCE to defend Earth

 

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