CVnN: NYC Invasion

@Lady_Liberty: @Lord_Johnathan:

Normally he would not care for such trivialities but his senses are picking up massive readings nearby and thus he moved there with an unnatural method. Observing that there is a hero in pain in which normally he would laugh at and a very beautiful lady which he does not know her name yet, so for the time being he would call her 'Dame' and as for the cape; It will be called 'Skullface'. Whatever is going on with that cape will ruin his future NY escapades and bring irreversible changes on the world that will impede his fun. That is unacceptable, "Oh dear... that does not look good at all"

@Lady_Liberty:

"Huh?" Graves answered blearily before a sonic wave flew right at him, his turning around preventing the SASER from hitting the cloak, and instead tearing into him and sending him flying, prompting the wanderer to scowl heavily. "Oh no, this won't do at all." He growled as he went about melting into the ground, reforming into a bird that hovered over the ground for a brief time before transforming back into his combat form drawing forth his divine steel electrostaff, vaulting down from the sky, seemingly from nowhere. "Hrmph." The wanderer snorted as it twirled it's staff before bringing itself into a defensive stance, it's lone optic scanning it's foes and attempting to deduce physical weaknesses.

@The Lone Wanderer:@Imagineer: Being aware of Tombstones powers due to my long life in the heroic business I shout. "Tomb! Teleport out! The cloak is putting thousands in danger."

Before turning my gaze to the staff swinging nano-man. "Think before you start swinging that thing."

Lastly the classically dressed magician catches my eye, and I toss him a grateful nod. "Here to help I hope?"

@Lady_Liberty:@The Lone Wanderer:

He approached the cape and analyzed the problem with his eyes, while he sets his brain to find numerous solutions. Preferably the ones which are the most discreet, yet the variables are endless.

"Well yeah, there is no point of being a thief magician if I cannot perform at one of the greatest cities on earth."

If the cloak's condition is induced by a destabilizing effect there must be a re-stabilizer but in order to do that he needs to use In-depth application by actually touching the thing. Usually he hates this heroic flair but a gentleman thief must maintain his code of honor.

"The world will never be the same after this, 9/11 changed the world and this would make that seem like an episode of Blues Clues"

He needs to make sure that his heartbeat is in tune as well, to keep the 'other side' out

@Lady_Liberty:@Imagineer:

"On it." Graves responded before teleporting a mile off, disappearing in a dark flash that the wanderer made note of, directing some of it's nanite replicas of various fixtures in the city to keep on him ordering them to try and get a dimensional anchor on him to keep him from teleporting. Turning to Lady Liberty, the nanite murderer's cape flowed out dramatically while it's cable dreadlocks slithered down to it's midsection before snaking out to grab her. As it's lone eye fired a microwave beam at the Imagineer, meant to rapidly boil the water in his body to make him explode in a shower of gore, much like what would happen to a rat in a microwave oven.

"I am sure you are aware of the track records of females and tendril appendages." It remarked with an unusual degree of coyness before kickflipping itself at stunning speeds to bring the staff to smash into the small of her head, which would send a massive jolt of energy generated by unknown sources into her to cause pain before bringing in the other half to smash into her rear, releasing the stored up energy to smash her forward, using it's tentacles to keep her from flying out of it's reach before energizing it's claws with matter disruption fields and leaping at her to make a kick slash at her abdomen, followed by a swing of it's staff at her temple, then moving to flip her over with it's tentacles and then bring the thunderhammer like end of it's staff down to smash into her stomach.

In the mean time, Graves appeared in an alleyway, but noticed a large number of pigeons had begun to stare at him in an odd manner. "I don't have bread crumbs you dumbass dinosaur rejects." Tombstone snidely chided, but the pigeons only moved closer, and closer, before they revealed their true nature, melting together to form Vivsectors, which resembled lethal, flying metal octopus' with chainsaw blades for fingers at the end of their tentacles. "Aw crap. Grave runner!" He called out, prompting his car to smash through a chain link fence and gun down the machines with a barrage of grenades from it's gatling grenade launcher before leaping into the vehicle and driving off. But now the nanite drones had a bead on him.

@The Lone Wanderer:

Seeing the volatile caped man in trouble Fantom had no option but to help, with a random thought he spawned a relatively sized kitchen sink and added several jet thrusters to one side to accelerate it towards the pigeons. He has a no kill code, but until there has been a succinct method of classifying weird machine life then it is 'okay' to do so. Just like in the movies where robot mutilation will get a PG-13 at best whereas human mutilation gets an R rating. Besides that kitchen tools with rockets everywhere are spammed at the odd robots, priority is to keep Skullface alive so that he can get that cape off. Because damnit he may be a criminal but new york is a wonderful place to steal, and nobody will stop him from stealing the building of the 9/11 recreation site.

@Lady_Liberty:

Seeing the Dame under fire he quickly made some items to create a distance between the octopi and the woman, namely a fragile tree stump the size of a volkswagen. Something that she could probably use as a melee or an improvised projectile.

@Imagineer: @The Lone Wanderer:

"True enough my magical ally. Can you ensure that our Tombstone makes a clean escape? I will handle things here." Addressing the top-hatted magician, before turning my focus back to the nanite machine man.

He smashes me in the head with with a hard whack from his staff, then quickly whacks me in the back of the head. Grunting at the pain caused by the energy charge I only barely swat his tentacle attacks aside.

Some kind of molecular disruption attack manages to leave long scratches across my stomach, and I enhance my the strong interaction of my bodies atoms to defend against that sort of attack in the future.

Once again swatting aside his tentacles, before he delivers a couple more powerful cracks with his staff, the last one strong enough to knock me into the ground.

"Ungg!"

@Lady_Liberty:

"Use the stump Dame, use the stump!"

as he spams more rockets to smash the odd robots hassling Skullface

@Imagineer :

In a moment, the pigeons rapidly began to transform into man sized vivesectors as they flew into and merged with one another to form the horrifying alien mechanical death squids who chittered and warbled angrily as they flew through the air at the kitchen and the grave runner alike

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some being hit by streaking SAMs from the Grave runner, exploding into nanite shards as the missiles blasted them out of the air, but others kept on going, one managed to fire a dimensional anchor device at Tombstone's car, preventing him from using it to teleport out of the city, creating a field of no-teleportation around the vehcile as it flew at the Grave runner, only to be blasted out of the air by a trio of armor piercing grenades that smashed apart it's head.

The other vivesectors that aimed themselves at Fantom fired off their ruby red laser cutters to try and disable the vehicle while their slashing chainsaw claws were swung at him whenever they got close, a few being blasted out of the air by Fantom's efforts. But they seemed to be trying to corral Fantom's makeshift vehicle away from the Grave runner, while bats in the sky began to digest pieces of building to build themselves into gremlins, child sized, bat winged, cyclopean drones equipped with two small energy weapons that soon pushed themselves into the pursuit.

@Lady_Liberty:

Stepping over to Lady liberty, the Lone Wanderer had it's tentacles rush out to grab her and prevent her from using her strength by attempting to bind her in a position where she'd lack leverage. "Now...what to do with you." It contemplated as it approached her. "Kill you right away, or have a bit of fun?" It posited, craning it's head to the left before having it's tendrils snake ever closer to her face if it had managed to grab her.

@The Lone Wanderer: This time I let the tentacles grab me.

"Hey, thanks for getting so close." A chuckle.

And a massive block of freezing breath, aiming to freeze the nano-bots in a solid block of ice.

@The Lone Wanderer:

He had to admit that they do look beautiful at some aspects yet, he cannot securely 'steal' them yet as he currently has no understanding of their functioning. Bits of information are building up but to complete that understanding he needs to have a touch. Yet in this situation he is reluctant as they are intent to kill. While worrying about himself he created a hail of missiles, yet this time from a rain like pattern to create a perimeter of explosions to keep those odd robots from reaching skullface to create yet an even larger explosion. That 'dimensional' anchor is bad news, so one of the missiles home into it with two missiles behind following action. If the anchor has any backup systems that would do anything weird against the first missile then the other two behind will meet with the nearest odd robot. Fantom is playing tetris with military grade stuff as he is constantly on the move to evade those metal tendrils.

Now some of those annoying buggers have armed themselves with weapons, yet this is reminiscent of a popular game in the 2010's where the main protagonist is wearing a green power armor. With quick thinking he created automatic turrets to keep them at bay, now it was also tower defense with him moving about and littering the park with several vulcan cannons. With tracer rounds because that way it looks as if they are firing lasers.

While relentless, Tombstone's attacking methods proved repetitive as he twice targeted the enigmatic Impero's Achiless tendon, a pattern effortlessly identifiable by a battle-seasoned Grandmaster of the most elite martial arts. Managing to avoid the grim hero's teleportation-based assaults with an appropriate counter combining his legendary speed and the teleportation technique of his specialized Keijijo Geijutsu kunai, Unfortunately, the Keijijo Prodigy found the continued use of Gaibu Dengen on his already exhausted body after his extensive use of Lightning Yoso, to be a source of sporadic jolts of anguishing pain in his body. Wincing in pain, his expressions were cleverly concealed by an iconic mask of supernatural properties. In the brief period of pain, he was struck by a precise elbow strike from his skull-faced opponent. An artery in his arm had been exploited as he grunted in the combined pain of the attack and the immense toll of Gaibu Dengen on his body.

However, through sheer self-control and legendary composure, Ishin retained his flawless movement and managed to avoid a lethal jab with a lightning-fast dodge to the side, countering with a perfectly executed jab of such fearsome speed and power that a dragon-shaped mass of immense chi-imbued air pressure shot towards the skull-faced hero, condensing into a single point before releasing the built up chi-enhanced air pressure in a colossal explosion of monstrous concussive force. Unaware of the outcome of his attack, Ishin responded to the approaching bats by conjuring a flock of his trademarked chi-enhanced crows for the purposes of pure interception. Dashing to the side, he maintained his sharp vision on his primary opponent, having forsaken his attention on both the Azure Lightning and the Green Lantern. Soon his esoteric chi-based senses detected an impending burst of massive energy from the accumulating power in Tombstone's vibranium, "You fool", he scoffed, baffled by the hero's choice to continue fighting while presenting an impending apocalypse to the entire city.

Diverting his attention from him, Ishin focused on the arriving heroine, Lady Liberty and a rather manic sorcerer it seemed. Clearly, they were there to halt the progress of the explosion's instigator, a robotic entity intent on destruction it seemed. An inherent obligation to prevent such needless disasters overtook him. And while his performance would no doubt be impaired by his sustained radiation burns and the combined injuries from his overuse of Gaibu Dengen, Ishin was left with little choice. There was little time for introductions, he simply reached Liberty with a telepathic message, "If the explosion proves inevitable, I have something to stop it", he revealed, executing a flurry of immensely fast standing strikes at the Lone Wanderer, each strike moving at a maximum of 10,000 miles per second, generating not only colossally powerful chi-imbued blasts of ridiculously fast vibrations, aiming to not only externally ravage their target but internally dismantle its technological integrity. His concluding attacks came in the form of a secondary flurry of immensely fast punches, using sheer speed and friction to set ablaze his strikes, shooting several flaming blasts of red chi. Dropping to a single knee, Ishin was continually impaired by fatigue, his muscle tissue was beginning to tear as his bones weakened in structure. "I can't keep this up for long", he realized, pulling out his Keijijo Geijutsu scroll.

@Impero:

He tossed a regenerative fluid vial towards the masked man, something to use in a flash should he need it as he is occupied by dodging energy projectiles from the little guys,

@Imagineer: Managing to catch the vial, Ishin responds with a calm thankful nod in the sorcerer's direction. Undoubtedly it would replenish his physical energy and endurance, but sadly, nothing could prevent the eventual massive chi-consumption and physical drawbacks of Gaibu Dengen.

Fantom did not notice the reply as he was also busy as he had to multitask between helping skullface, spawning turrets to keep some at bay and creating a trail of proximity mines to keep those odd bastards away.

@Imagineer:

The first wave of vivesectors went down in moments, their bodies being chewed up by a hail storm of ammunition and being sent unceremoniously onto the ground. The second wave fared about a second longer before meeting the same fate, but the third wave did something uncanny and unexpected, they burrowed into the ground. Slashing into the asphalt and concrete below, they disappeared into the earth before clawing their way through to come up behind him from the ground, flailing and slashing at him.

But this wave was promptly run over by the grave runner at about three hundred odd miles per hour. But just to be sure, he drove back and forth over them, listening to the scrunching of the metal to make sure they stopped squirming. "Come on, we got to haul ass if we're gonna get out of he-" Tombstone started before a car began to shift and remold into a triangular reflex light tank that then fired off a 40mm shell which pinged off the armor of the grave runner before being chewed up by the gatling grenade-launcher.

@Impero:

@Lady_Liberty :

For a moment, it seemd that the duo won, the combination of being frozen and then hit repeatedly appeared to shatter the wanderer into pieces, leaving only a few slivers of it's rust red body. For a moment, all was still, but the pieces then seemed to melt into quicksilver, although the pieces, frozen by Lady Liberty and then shattered by Impero, were each no larger than a man's finger nail at best, they had enough active nanites to begin regeneration protocols. With unusual speed, the remaining nanites devoured their deactivated kin, then they ate the ground and reproduced at incredible speeds.

The grey goo then began to reform into the wanderer once again, sliding and then locking into place to form the robotic murderer. Flowing into a solid shape, the wanderer was reborn, having literally eaten it's way back into existence, leaving noticeable holes in the ground as it scavenged matter for resources. The tentacles that were once wrapped around Lady Liberty seemed to flow off of her, the tiny nanites disappearing into the ground before, it seemed a bit frazzled in it's movements, as if it hadn't fully recovered it's senses.

"Impressive." The wanderer noted before bringing out it's M-brane blaster and aiming at the two, firing off a single shot of dimensional destabilizer. The impossibly coloured orb flung itself into their midst before exploding. A sucking noise beyond any description was followed by a dull throb as the barriers between dimensions broke down. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, they all became as one in a single moment. Such effects were catastrophic to those caught by them, but it could be dodged, even as other objects such as cars, lamposts, the road itself, and so on were caught and turned into messes of impossibility that even Salvador Dali would reject as too surreal.

@The Lone Wanderer:

This rarely happens in castle defense genres but then again it is expected to happen when fighting odd machines that seems as if they came from Stan Winston's brain. Yet he counters with an equally odd yet familiar setting, with his suit came pouches upon pouches to set the mood. Now they are replaced with caricatures of Ahnold holding big rectangular guns that would make military man cry because of their waste, gunmetal and barrels that looked like it was supposed to be a toaster or the exhaust of a car. In essence it was a series of tubes that looked like a bundle of plastic straws arranged ornately in its own way to resemble a honeycomb. Held by buff-macho man-turrets that serve to caricature the old action heroes of the 70's and 80's, whereas aiming is compensated by ammunition casings the size of pepper shakers. With spider treads for mobility as they hop around while pointing and blasting. The casings are enough to make people trip on them.

Yet he was slashed at the back, luckily it didn't sever his spine or he would be seriously screwed. He does have an alternate form but that is the physical form of his hidden satyriasis, His cape dissipated and his neat suit is covered in blood. His back is something that can be recovered with regenerative fluids, as he had given the unknown man earlier. He will call him, Patternface because of the ornate mask. Fantom kicked a grenade to the back as he keeps moving, this time fashioning skates to get around easier. While metal barbs spawn around the scenery, which are complete as they are met with full automatic salvo.

"Hey skullface let me help ya"

OOC: I've got family, dinner, and whatnot going on right now I might not have a reply up until tomorrow. Apologies!

[will reply later]

@Lady_Liberty: (No worries girl ;) Have a good one :))

@FakeSmile: (awesome name and love the look)

@Quintus_Knightfall: (Thanks! :D)

@Imagineer:

"Keep on moving, don't stop for a second, and call me Tombstone." He started before the ground began to shake beneath the streets, alligators in the sewers who were "digested" beginning to merge with one another to form something even larger and more horrific than a vivesector while more of the flying metallic death squids kept on coming, being shot out of the sky with 40mm grenades and a hellstorm of bullets, with a few missiles being fired to blast them whenever they clustered together tightly enough. CHK CHK BZT CHK, the reptiles went as they merged together, making a fascimile of the famous sound effect from transformers before merging to form a colossal metallic serpent, a Disembowler

The fifty foot long horror smashed it's way out of the ground, it's claws piercing through the asphalt with ease while the enormous beast lurched out of the Earth. "Drive! DRIVE! DRIIIVE!" Tombstone barked as the Grave runner fired off at the approaching Disembowler, which responded with a deadly green ray from it's optics with a mighty FREEEEEEM!!! before lashing out with whip coils sprouting from it's back meant to ensnare and trap Fentom while the snake beast slithered at obscene speeds, swatting cars out of it's path as it picked up momentum. Half ton vehicles went flying into the air as if they were toys in the path of an angry child.

The creature stabbed a silvery Honda mini-van, still loaded with a mother and her family with one of it's claws before hurling it at the Grave runner, the occupants of the vehicle screaming as they flew through the air before it fired a green beam as it flew above the two vehicles, causing the car to erupt in a fiery explosion that spread deadly shrapnel in all directions with a thunderous KRAKADOOOOOOM!!! as the Disembowler alternated between crawling on it's legs with it's tail held up like a scorpion's, and slithering along it's massive tail like some form of alien snake. Going along the walls of buildings, or when Tombstone tried to lose the serpent by turning a tight corner, smashing straight through an office building, bulldozing it's way through solid concrete and steel rebar as if it were tissue paper, firing off it's back mounted turrets at any occupants in the building it came across, killing dozens before emerging on the other side, sending chunks of masonry flying outwards in all directions as it let loose a high pitched warble SKREEEEEOOOOWWWWW!!!!.

"Shoot it! I don't care where, just shoot it!" Tombstone barked through his Car's speakers as a pair of missiles streaked out from his car and smashed into the Disembowler's underbelly even as vivesectors were flying underneath through the sewer systems to try and set up an ambush. The missiles caused the metallic monster to stagger, almost halting as it reeled from the impact as a mighty KABOOOOM!!! split the air, but the colossus soon began to pick up momentum again. Still, it did put some distance between them and the beast. However, that giant, multifaceted, glowing green optic certainly didn't look as well armoured as the rest of it's body. Perhaps a barrage of minigun bullets to it could blind the beast.

@The Lone Wanderer: The nanite man reforms his body, literally eating some of the ground in order to do so.

Leveling some kind of weapon at me, and firing he shoots some type of reality warping... thing... in my direction. Violating the fundamental laws of physics, seeming to crush reality somehow. Looking at it feels like knives are being driven into my skull.

I hate reality warping.

The effects, however, were relatively slow moving. More importantly the man with the cloak was out of danger for now. That was the important thing, for I did not come here to engage in a silly brawl on the beach.I came here to prevent a horrific disaster.

But now I could hear the beginnings of unnatural volcano in India a horrific massacre about to begin in Africa, mystical portals were opening inside of Saturn and the fusion energy levels of the Sun were.. strange.

These were my problems. Some nano-guy with a fancy gun wasn't a problem, he was a distraction.

With a thought I reverse my mass, from positive to negative. An object with mass moves at speeds less than the speed of light. The more energy, the closer to the speed of light an object moves. A rocket flies faster than a plane, for example.

The amount of energy required to accelerate something with mass to light speed is infinite. Even one molecule would require more energy than exists in our entire universe, or even ten universes. Its infinity, a billion universes wouldn't have enough energy. Even I with all my power cannot reach light speed, although there seems to be no limit to how close I can get.

But an object with negative mass has the opposite effect. It is always faster than light.. and the more energy applied the closer to light speed it moves. That means more energy slows you down, instead of speeding you up.

Because I control my mass, I can go from standing still to moving faster than light with a thought, just by altering all my mass to negative mass.

This has a few interesting effects. To start with it is what allows me to move at great speeds inside the atmosphere of earth. Moving any faster than .2c would put the world in danger as I left a trail of shattered hydrogen atoms in my wake. But because moving at speeds vastly greater than the speed of light required almost no energy, my passing left almost no effect when I moved quick enough, because the energy levels were roughly that of a person walking down the street.

A whisper of air, a tiny breeze, not a thunderclap, announce my exit. Because I'm moving so much faster than the photons of visible light very few of them bump into me, I just seem to vanish.

Just like that I am drifting in that empty black void, staring into a tremendous orange ball of nuclear fire. Plasma interwoven with magnetic fields, so massive as to boggle the imagination itself. Ahh.. there were unusual microwaves emitting from the Photoshere.. some alien craft or...

The creature stabbed a silvery Honda mini-van, still loaded with a mother and her family with one of it's claws before hurling it at the Grave runner, the occupants of the vehicle screaming as they flew through the air before it fired a green beam as it flew above the two vehicles, causing the car to erupt in a fiery explosion that spread deadly shrapnel in all directions with a thunderous KRAKADOOOOOOM!!!

Stylishly acrobatic theatrics cloaked around the impossible swung through the emerald induced eruption of potential heart wrenching death and fire. A fully expanded caped silhouette of a stranger grasped on all sides by the mother and her children swooping from the blast radius to a nearby roof. Shielded by the micro woven sophistication of his cape's threads allowing the stunned matriarchal mother and her young ones to land absent injury. His uniform dark and frightening to the mother did little to sway her children's affections as they smiled and stared in admiration inducing just the slightest smile curved corner lip of the Dark Knight before the moment was interrupted by the low resonating whining of an unknown jet like engine. Its unseen VTOL like propulsion allowing the streamlined black mirror plated aircraft to hover behind the stoic hero as he turned and vaulted into the cockpit before rocketing off as mysteriously as he had arrived.

Famed heroine Lady Liberty was the first to respond to the overwhelming attack launched by their robotic opponent. While his priority remained his obligation to support the extremist morally intriguing cause of the superhuman community, the enigmatic Impero harbored an inherent duty to prevent unnecessary disasters of purposeless disruption. With the previously impending nuclear catastrophe seemingly dealt with as a result of unquestionably swift responses of sheer innovation, a threat remained, the nanite-based instigator of the previous attempted nuclear reaction. Sheer destruction could not have been his purpose, otherwise he would have surely bombarded his surroundings with immense destructive force upon his immediate rival. No, his motives lied elsewhere.

He was no longer of any relevance to the masked Grandmaster. Severely injured and fatigued not only from his overuse of the forbidden Gaibu Dengen martial art/technique, but the resulting effects of his strenuous battle in the beach that unfortunately had him sustained prominent radiation burns on various sections of his body, Ishin was no longer suited to continue. There was no encouraging reason to. He had come to accomplish a task of delaying any attacks on Kratesis, and in the process, managed to gather invaluable information on various members of the Court of Arcani's potential future opposition. No longer relevant to his enigmatic plans, the mysterious Keijijo Prodigy opted to depart as he collected his dropped Keijijo Geijutsu kunai. Quickly however, the chi-drained Impero's perceptive, calculating eyes spotted a supposed quantum singularity that commenced an apparently unstoppable rampage of environment distortion. Disinterested in the situation at hand, the poised strategist scoffs arrogantly in response to the attack.

Physically unfit to rely on his legendary speed to escape the intense the pull of the singularity, Ishin simply accesses the esoteric Keijijo Geijutsu tattoos on his arms, using the established metaphysical link between himself and the Keijijo Geijutsu kunai in Asteria's possession to instantly teleport away from the battle-scarred beach. Disappearing abruptly, he quickly manifested before Asteria, collapsing on the ground unable to move, his bones had been broken, his muscle fiber torn, and his chakra-points significantly drained of their chi. Panting in complete and utter fatigue, still he maintained admirable composure. And while the regenerative vial given to him by his temporary manic ally on the beach would undoubtedly replenish his energies and restore his condition to perfection, he opted against it, choosing instead to keep the vial for further studies, perhaps something of use could be developed from it.

"Take me to a place I can heal properly", he requested, briefly glancing over to Asteria, "As you can see, I can't move. My chi reserves are currently nonexistent", he concluded, dropping to a knee, relying on his admirable willpower and physical endurance to remain conscious.

@The Lone Wanderer:

The roller blades re-modify themselves into a much faster configuration, "Call me Top Hat then, and lets keep moving." He 'installed' several components after analyzing the opponent's he is fighting, a more efficient version of autopilot so that he can switch this into a 'Rail Shooter'. Now all he wants to do is to simply shoot, the current worry is not about if he can hit the target, because in terms of accuracy he has no problems whatsoever and considering the simple fact that he can whip out literally anything he needs for the current situation makes it all the better. Now he has a Mechem NTW-20, because anything less than Anti-Materiel will not work against something that looks like that.

With his setting the ammunition is infinite as he can spawn them faster than they empty out, with that certain precision that makes jamming nonexistent. Yet in terms of design this rifle is specialized in terms that it has the properties of a certain SHIELD issue handgun that can be wielded by a certain red berserker to be used to kill yet another gamma irradiated scaled berserker. It’s got a sound supressor built, no louder than a BB gun. The suppressor also works as a muzzle brake to keep it from tearing his arm off. Plus partitioned bullets for maximum soft-tissue penetration. He shoots something, the tip goes right through them and the rest of the bullet mushrooms up and bounces around inside of them.

A tentacle tore a rip through his top hat yet he was away because he did a gravity defying lean that mimics Michael Jackson's in Smooth Criminal, to the back as he points his gun. Not even bothering to aim as he keeps an eye on Tombstone. Luckily some man saved a car nearby from imminent death, and with that reassurance in Mind Fantom used one hand to fire the first bullet. Aiming at the centerpiece at the top that resembles a cyclopean visor , following with two more shots just to add insult to injury.

@Quintus_Knightfall: Cassius watched from a far his eyes firmly fixed, focussed through the long range binoculars at the infamously stealth like moves of his cousin, He had previously seen quite a show from the unknown individuals who fought in the streets with some sort of giant clay golem .But he knew his cousin would eventually turn up he always did and Cassius would always try to be there to see. Watching his least favourite cousin swoop down from the sky all fancy suit and gadgets plucking a mother and child from the very jaws of death .Placing them safely aloft on a nearby roof Cassius thought he spotted the hint of a smile on good old Quietus's face. He always did like the heroics its was something in Quintus he admired. In his mind Cassius was just as fast, just as strong, just as well trained but something was missing in him.

Reaching for his belt and pulling his red hood slightly ajar Cassius spoke into a weirdly structured audio device, resembling a cannibalized walky talky with bits sticking out it all over the place it wasn't pretty technology but it worked. His cousin jumped and vanished from sight ,now was the time. Pressing a button the talky became live and started to broadcast a wide signal knowing his cousin would hear it along with anyone else nearby " Hello cousin (the statement smeared with sense of disgust and bile), i have been watching. I will see you again soon. Say hello to the others for me."

With a quick thrust of his palm, the Keijijo Prodigy generated an enormous blast of mystical chi-enhanced lightning towards the Azure Lightning. As his blast adopted the shape of a roaring dragon, its purpose would be to induce both external and internal damage. Its explosive power was designed to utterly eradicate his opponent, while should she prove resistant to its electrical properties, the chi imbued in the blast would quickly seep into her exposed chakra-points and cause a temporary disruption in her body's chi flow, rendering her in a state of brief paralysis as well as greatly reduce her physical attributes .....

....... In an instant, the bike became a small nuclear bomb, detonating with the force of fifty tons of TNT

Mere moments after the explosion caused by the skull-faced hero, a shrouded figure appears on the beach. He pays no attention to the fierce fight between the mage, the robotic menace, and the woman as he weaves through a sea of debris and corpses that had been scattered on the beach until finally arriving at the motionless body of a girl. She lay on the sand, heavily bruised and severely burned. ... Why did they send you?

Carefully, he lifts her up into his arms then teleports to an unknown location.

Asteria

Her eyes and body having healed enough to function the mutant mercenary rises.. unsteady and in pain, yet denying the impulse to cringe or wince. Resting a palm on the shoulder of her ally, establishing a contact connection for him to replenish his energies and heal himself.

Kratesis

Armored and armed, the cybernetic slayer slaughters dozens of Cape Killers within moments of arriving inside Fort Hamilton. Her stupefying martial skill holding back several successive waves of Cape Killers, however their powerful weaponry begin to wear down her energy reserves.

Nonetheless she bought enough time for Strigidae to charge the center of the grounds with a large degree of energy she had absorbed from the superhuman Jaak.

In a fighting retreat Strigidae and Kratesis managed to escape through a quantum wormhole. Shortly thereafter the energy charged into the grounds detonated, inflicting serious casualness to the Cape Killers bunched up in that area.. and utterly annihilating the American flag at the center of the only fort inside an American city.

Shortly thereafter the heroes were able to defeat the remaining clay creatures, which had been invading the city.

Peace.. but at a price.

OOC: Alrighties, its been fun! But this has run its course. There will be an update to the NYC thread detailing the events of invasion, and there will be a feedback thread that everyone can offer their thoughts on!

Thank you to all who took part and all who read!

Lock please :-)