where's the kaboom? there was supposed to be an earth--oh, found it

[williamkaplan]

Couldn't breathe, couldn't move, couldn't think--

the world was tearing apart

A sound like jaws opening, flesh ripping, everything a perfect blue that stretched into forever. He needed to get out. Now.The energy rippled and moved around him like a live thing, pulsing and pushing and sending him through, bursting out into the open sky like a dam

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[spoiled_bat]

"You're telling me," a voice to his right said. When he turned, he'd see a young, blonde woman in a black and eggplant costume with a shiny gold stylized bat emblazoned across her chest. Her cape whipped around in the breeze, as did her hair. There was a bright, perky smile on her face. "Although, you know, I give you an eight for landing. You seemed a little shaky there."

[williamkaplan]

There was a blue spark as he startled; he must've landed without noticing her. The eggplant shade made him think of Kate for a second, before he slowly returned her smile. He reached up to reajust his headgear, giving her a little shrug.

"As far as landings go? I've done better."

He stole a glance at the golden bat--god, why did girls always have to put the decor right there? Awkward--and his eyes traveled back up to her face. Quickly. He'd seen enough to know that it wasn't any insignia that he recognized, and he knew a lot of hero symbols.

[tommyshepherd]

"He really, really has," a voice zoomed past the two of them, accompanied by a rustling of the wind that tugged on both of their capes.

A figure, dressed in white and green, stopped between them, a cocky, arrogant smile on his face. "Hey, there," he said, looking Batgirl up and down. "Love what you've done with the all of it." He looked at Billy and nodded. "I'd say the same to you, but really, that could be gross for a number of reasons."

[spoiled_bat]

Batgirl grimaced and shook her head. She held her boom stick up a little bit, just enough that light shone off of it and glinted in the platinum-haired boys goggles.

She caught Billy and Tommy both looking at the golden symbol on her chest - for wildly different reasons, judging by the expressions on their faces - and wasn't sure whether to smile or be disgusted.

She was a healthy mix of both, really.

"Batgirl," she said, more to Billy than to Tommy.

Metropolis

[holyevilbatman]

The Metropolis Energy Solutions Expo had quite a few well-known scientists exhibiting their newest inventions. The exposition was meant to garner public support for developing technologies that were being created to help combat the growing energy crisis.

Any technology that was a success could possibly help mitigate the world's growing energy shortages.

Dr. Helmond Kettering, a professor from Ivy University, and his team of scientists are there to present their newest invention to the public: an antimatter generator that, with some work, could be a possible solution to the world's energy shortage problems.

That is, if it's not taken first.

And it will be, if these villains have anything to say about it.

Re: Metropolis

[holyevilbatman]

Energy. Livewire loves her some energy. At first, it had been the energy she'd get from being a shock jock, and putting down 'heroes' like Superman, Booster Gold, and Captain Marvel.

And boy, if she still had that position, would she have a ball. There were twice as many heroes now, each one worse than the other.

Now it was more the electrical kind. Which, hey, she was living electricity. It was the way that humans loved water.

Which she didn't.

Water was the mongoose to Livewire's king cobra snake.

The lights start flickering at the Expo, and then suddenly everything snaps into dark as crisp, blue lightning shot out from electrical outlets.

The bolts strike together, sizzling and forming a distinctly feminine form dressed in black, with a very revealing, plunging, lightning bolt-design neck.

"Hello Metropolis!" Livewire says in her naturally loud, jaunty, and snarky tone. "Shocking, I know. Didn't expect me, didja? Don't worry. I just stopped here for a quick power lunch," she added. Livewire chuckles and shoots her hands

Re: Metropolis

[holyevilbatman]

"Did we have to bring the loudmouth with us?" asks Sandman coursing into the room and knocking screaming convention-goers off their feet with a wave of sand.

Re: Metropolis

[holyevilbatman]

"Our crass compatriot has her uses," says Grodd, tossing Science Police officers out of his way like rag dolls.

"Unfortunately, promoting a quiet and contemplative atmosphere isn't one of them."

[holyevilbatman]

What device? You mean the one currently in the hands of the ethereal-looking creepy guy holding it right now? That device?

[williamkaplan]

Oh for crying out loud--

He took his eyes off it for like, ten seconds--

To stop a guy who was about to shoot someone--

What kind of karma was that?!

The fail kind, clearly. Today was just not his day.

The shield around Taskmaster evaporates as he concentrates on getting the generator back; unfortunately, he's a bit too hyped-up right now to put this one to sleep, and he can't think of anything that could contain the...creepy...dude...thing...and keept the generator safe at the same time.

"Okay--so who's Zuul over there?"

[arach_nerd]

"Really, the Ghost? What, are we having a supervillain convention now?" Spidey commented.

[thatskullfucker]

Taskmaster glances over and clicks the safeties of his gun off, scowling as he makes his way towards the heroes, and Ghost. "That's the Ghost. He was a Thunderbolt, and an old terrorist. Intangibility, invisibility, neither at the same time, but he can make other objects invisible and intangible as well." He glances at Canary. "One of your little songs should take him down pretty easily."

He didn't want to be here all day. Take the hint, Dinah.

[doc_richards]

Word of the trouble had reached the Baxter Building, but by the time the Fantasticar arrives, most of the villains are unconscious. Reed's torso stretches out of the vehicle as it lands - holding a gun. He fires a few bursts of what seems to be fast-hardening restraint gel at unconscious villains, to keep them from getting back up.

"What's the situation? Is the area secured?"

[arach_nerd]

"Is the Hulk big, green, and prone to smashing stuff?" Spidey responded.

"Looks like it anyways. All that's left is for us to make sure they go to jail, and try to keep the citizenry from trying to kill Speedball."

[psionic_phoenix]

Jean lands next to Spider-Man and Reed, her eyes surveying the crowd around them. The Phoenix raptor around her fades as she says, "Though it's not usually the way I like to operate, if we need to, I can distract the crowd from trying to go after Speedball." Though she was dead for the Civil War, she was already very well aware of what had gone on in her absence.

The joys of being in the white hot room.

[arach_nerd]

Spider-Man cocked an eyebrow, crossed his arms, and turned to Jean.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, because I am, but really, does St. Peter have a photo of you posted on the Pearly Gates with Do Not Serve written under it?"

[suestorm]

Once the governmental types have gone, Sue looks around at the remaining heroes and says, "I think we should get together to talk about things.... Reed and I have room at the Baxter Building for everyone to relax, get patched up if need be...get something to eat. We'll help transport whoever needs a lift that way, too."