Herakles eyes the newly arrived Jason curiously;
"Χαιρετισμούς φίλε Ολυμπιονίκη! Είμαι ο Ηρακλής, αδυσώπητος γιος του Δία. Είσαι λοιπόν ο Τζέισον; Πες μου διευθύνεις ένα κόμμα Αργοναυτών σαν τον ευγενή συνονόματό σου; Με την μοχθηρή γλώσσα της Ήρας, ήταν αρχηγός των ανθρώπων, ήταν ήρωας!"
"Greetings fellow Olympian! I am Herakles, indominable son of Zeus. So you are Jason? Tell me do you lead a party of Argonauts like your noble namesake? By Hera's spiteful tongue, he was a leader of men, he was a hero!"
The musclebound demigod nods toward the building;
"The innocents hide within. An automaton of Hydra cometh to us... I say draw it away from these folk, then crush it! What say thee Jason of Olympus!?"
Grinning he slaps own shoulders and flexes, readying himself for battle...
Ted is impressed with Maggie's power. If Green Lantern's powers worked with paper then it would essentially be the same. Still, a very potent power they have in their arsenal.
As he followed behind her and her paper golem she checked his BB Gun to make sure it was ready and set on all the proper settings. Its nothing fancy, just compressed air that packs a real big punch and also has a sensory distortion affect to it.
And if things get really serious then he always has his martial arts to fall back on, but he thinks his gun will handle most hostiles. Still, at the moment combat is not on his mind, but answers to questions he has about this world, its enemies, and the potential allies they can find to help battle this Hydra.
"It is said that my mother knew him, that she admired the Jason of old. I only know the legends, but they are a lot to live up to. Yet that is true of your own legends it would seem ..."
The young man smiles
"I say yes, let us fly up to it, lead it off, enter it from above, and destroy it. It need never threaten these people in any way."
Ted notices the enemy vessel in-front of them and wonders about the technology used to create it. His goggles have wireless capabilities to communicate with most machines he has encountered; after all machine language is essentially universal in all multiverses. He attempts to get close enough without be noticed.
Herakles rubs his bearded chin and looks upward;
"Fly? Alas I have no Pegasus nor the wing'ed sandals of Hermes at hand friend Jason. If thee can bring them down to me, then we will gloriously dispatch this toy of Hydra!"
Ted moves into a crouch and tries to hide his forward movement towards the paper golem. From there he will make his way to one of the cars ahead of him and try to make a connection with the enemy vessel in-front of them.
Ted moves into position behind a long abandoned auto and listens for any radio communications with the VTOL troop carrier. The guy who calls himself The Sentry grabs the wrecked aircraft as skeletal robot soldiers wielding what Ted thinks are plasma cannons pour out of it.
The Sentry folds the thing up like a big metal taco and flies away with it at high speeds, quickly taking it out of Ted's range.
Ted can, however, hear the comms of the robot warriors. They are all receiving orders to search the area for mutants, aliens, enhanced humans, and humans, in that order of priority, and terminate anyone that they find.
Ted hears them take note of the big paper golem, and of a heat signature behind an automobile.
Half of the robots turn toward the paper golem. Purple bolts of plasma lance out from the heavy plasma cannons the hold with both hands.
Pieces of paper fly off the giant, some of them singing in the air, and what's left of its body is filled with holes. Suddenly the paper that forms it collapses to the ground entirely, then, as the giant's controller grunts, holding her hands out and flexing her fingers, more paper coalesces and the giant reforms.
The new giant marches forward, punching forward with both appendages, arms stretching forth to pummel one of the robots ahead of it.
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[ooc]Three degrees of failure, that will destroy the car.
Ten of the robots turn toward the car which conceals the adventurer whose hero name back home is Blue Beetle. Their purple plasma bolts tear through the car, vaporizing fist size holes in the car's body and engine.
The car is torn apart by the barrage, leaving Ted hiding behind a smoking ruin. The remaining skeletal bots zero in on his location. Seemingly in slow motion, the purple glowing bolts from several guns fly toward him.
Suddenly, a circular red and white striped shield, white star on a blue field in the middle, slices into the asphalt in front of Blue Beetle, catching the incoming bolts.
Ted looks left to see a man running toward him. The man wears a brown leather bomber jacket with a blue shoulder pauldron emblazoned with a white star. His sleeve is red and white striped like a US flag. He has a salt and pepper beard and hair. He slides in beside Ted and yanks the shield our of the ground. "Better move to a safer place, soldier."
One of the robots wavers in its steps and then falls to the ground, a two inch hole in its chest plate.
Maggie hears someone approaching from behind her. Turning, she sees a red haired woman wearing a mask over her mouth and a black armored cat-suit approaching, almost silently.
"You might want to take some cover. If those T-800 frames aren't tough enough, Skull-net will send something bigger to deal with you. The fact that you aren't wearing a skull or covered in chrome makes me think you might be on our side, but if not, I won't hesitate to drop you."
As Herakles and Jason discuss their families and their intentions for the enemy, the drop ship, well, drops into the street outside the bookstore. Its side doors open and disgorge robot troops carrying plasma cannons.
Maggie has been moving forward behind her golem, flexing her fingers with arms outstretched. A very, very perceptive person might notice gossamer-thin threads--yes, of paper--connecting her to the paper giant. She's controlling it like a marionette.
Fully in combat mode, situational awareness keys in. She tries to keep track of Beetle while also controlling her familiars, but then senses the motion, smells weapon oil behind her. A woman. Stealthy. Assassin? She speaks a lot for an assassin, though.
Maggie has plenty of cover. It takes but a thought to summon it. She doesn't have time to explain that to the woman, however. She gives a curt nod and a "Ma'am," and holds her position a moment longer, before she glances over in horror at the barrage incoming to Beetle. She chides herself inwardly for letting the woman distract her, because she could have protected him.
But Beetle is protected, fortunately. Her comic book theories seem to be holding as she assumes the new arrival is the Captain America himself, if more grizzled than the Hitler-punching person she described to the others. The woman must be... Red Sparrow? No, that's a different book. Not important right now.
She can't rely on reinforcements to help her and her allies. She must be more vigilant.
The Sentry moved so quick, the robots spilled from the ship like an open barrel of monkeys. He leaves the ship to fall from an altitude of five miles near the foothills of Rocky Mountains and returns to battle causing another sonic boom.
Arriving on the scene in a flash, he engages in melee with one of the robots. He tries to punch right though it, but his momentum carries him past the machine, like the novice he is.
Turning to Herakles, Jason smiles, "Some of the best decisions in life are the ones we need not make; the opposition is here now. Once upon a time, I did receive a lesson about being patient. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Uncle Hermes ... thinking about it, I'm fairly sure it wasn't Ares either. In any case, shall we?"
Lightning seems to flash in his eyes as he surveys the robots
"Who's first?"
As Sentry flies back into the ruined parking lot, he takes note of the man talking to Blue Beetle and holding a round shield, the masked red haired woman talking to Maggie, and a third figure on the roof of a blasted out building behind the red haired woman. That man has a sniper rifle and appears to be targeting the robots.
On any world, Herakles knows that Hydra, and indeed all fascists, are good for only one thing. With a mighty cry, he leaps through the broken window. "Thou hast made a fatal mistake, iron servants of evil! Mayhaps the natives of this realm quell in fear at your approach, but not so the Lion of Hellas!"
Herakles' mighty fist slams into the titanium allow of the robot's skeletal frame with a ringing sound. They are not hard to hit, but they are hard.
Ted looks at the shield hero with a bit of awe, like he would at Batman or Superman. "Sure," he answers and looks for a safer place to hide while he plans out his next move. He was intending to try and hack into the ship's systems to collect some information, but that seems to be a Plan B idea now; Plan A is trying to defeat these Skull Robots.
Trying his best to be useful in dealing with killer robots he tries to line up a shot where he can hit one with a concussive blast and have it be pushed back into another robot to disrupt their aim.
Air Blast: Move Object 10, range: 50/100/250 ft, push 25 tons away from user, DC 25, Damaging (Crit 20)
The Air Blast slams into one of the skull faced robots, throwing it backward into one of its fellow robots. The hardened air punches a hole in the robot's chest plate.
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Out in the City
The robots split into three fire teams to deal with the threats facing them.
Round 3: On Tactical Map. BB, Sentry, Maggie have a round worth of actions.
On Tactical Map Too. Jason should make lightning attack, then I'll attack, then Herakles and Jason again.
Cap sets himself behind his shield, obviously well acquainted with using it to take attacks and protect those around him. As he leans into the defense, he can still talk, "So, soldier, that is quite an outfit you have on. You inspired by a hero you read about or something? I haven't seen anyone dressing like a superhero for years. Courageous choice. I approve. You wanna kill some Terminators?"
Another robot drops after a 2 inch hold appears in its chest.
Hit
The Sentry gets hit again and arches an eyebrow. Changing tactics, he hops to the end of the line of robots. He takes a deep breath and sees how far he can blow these robots away.
Turning to Herakles, Jason smiles, "Some of the best decisions in life are the ones we need not make; the opposition is here now. Once upon a time, I did receive a lesson about being patient. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Uncle Hermes ... thinking about it, I'm fairly sure it wasn't Ares either. In any case, shall we?"
Lightning seems to flash in his eyes as he surveys the robots
"Who's first?"
Jason lashes out at the nearest robot, lightning flashing from his eyes
Seeing Sentry try to handle the group in front of her, hoping he is successful, she moves toward Cap and Sentry. With one hand, she gestures to the red haired woman to go with her if the woman has remained visible.
She waves her hands, and the battered giant collapses, and paper flies up and forms a wall in front of the robots (about 10 foot high, bent to protect the group). They'll take it down quickly, but it will block their line of sight for the moment.
We can't just attack them one at a time. Her reflexes are tuned to what she would expect her sisters to do. Michelle would take them out with a volley of arrows. Michelle wasn't here. She tried to remember what she read in the American comics.
She calls to the newcomers. "Cap. I'll protect him. Can you throw your shield?"
The Sentry gets hit again and arches an eyebrow. Changing tactics, he hops to the end of the line of robots. He takes a deep breath and sees how far he can blow these robots away.
The twelve closest humanoid robots are swept away in the tempest of The Sentry's breath. They fly away, slamming through walls of the buildings behind them, as though thrown by a tornado.
Jason's lightning hits the murderous robot in the chest. Its titanium endoskeleton glows red and melts as the electricity overloads its systems. It wobbles and topples to the broken asphalt.
The red haired woman follows Maggie, taking refuge behind the paper wall. To Maggie, she says, "Nice to meet you, stranger. You are some sort of paper controlling mutant? You aren't on any of the registries, but the Sentinels can still detect you, right? How have you lived all this time. Where are you hiding out?"
As for Cap, he looks at Maggie in a way that makes her feel completely seen and analyzed, but she also has the sense that he completely understands her and values her. That sense of "this isn't quite right" continues to ring in Maggie's mind.
"You keep these people safe, and I'll take the fight to them."
Cap stands from his protective position, leaving Blue Beetle behind as he hops onto the roof of a 1990s SUV. He throws the round shield, which ricochets off of the titanium fuselages of the attacking robots. The adamantium-vibranium alloy of the shield, combined with the expert attack of this super-soldier, cuts through the robots like a knife through butter.
Only one of the robots closest to BB and Maggie remains in fighting form.
"My genes were altered," she says to the woman. "I don't know if that can be detected."
She's not going to answer the last question. Even if she had an answer, the infiltrator/spy she assumes the woman to be should understand that you don't tell a total stranger where you were hiding.
The "not quite right" feeling: is it simply that this isn't "616" or is it that something else feels off?
Ted looks upon the lone Skullbot and fires his BB Gun at it. The pressure of the compressed air should be enough to spend it flying back.
Air Blast: Move Object 10, range: 50/100/250 ft, push 25 tons away from user, DC 25, Damaging (Crit 20)
As fires a concentrated jet of compressed air, slamming the robot in the chest and lifting it off the ground. It slams into a car and then skids across the street into a building. The robots glowing red eyes dim.
"My genes were altered," she says to the woman. "I don't know if that can be detected."
She's not going to answer the last question. Even if she had an answer, the infiltrator/spy she assumes the woman to be should understand that you don't tell a total stranger where you were hiding.
The "not quite right" feeling: is it simply that this isn't "616" or is it that something else feels off?
The obvious conclusion here is that this is Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, and Bucky Barnes. At least obvious for someone who has super-literate as a power. But the moves aren't quite right. Cap doesn't seem quite as easy in his movements as you would expect. Widow doesn't have an accent and doesn't feel quite super-spy cool.
The robots seem confused by the sudden array of targets. But they quickly make a decision and turn their fire toward the Star Spangled Man with a Plan.
Meanwhile, back with Herakles and Jason:
The flying transport rises into the air and hovers in reverse, probably to provide air support.
With a target so near their grasp, the robots closest to Herakles turn to melee attacks. With no thought for their own safety, their fists pummel the Mighty Mortal.
Their risk does not pay off, as they land only two hits.
Fighting plasma with plasma (lightning is plasma, right?) The remaining robots turn their fire on Jason.
Round 4: Heroes Go!
This "Cap" was perhaps not as invincible as he seemed. This needed to end. Frowning, Maggie increased her concentration, pulling in the paper wall as well as all that was scattered everywhere. The tornado of paper again swirled together and this time formed a massive snake, which tore through the ground, tunneled beneath the parking lot, and then burst out of the ground, jaws wide as it attempted to "swallow" the remaining robots.
Sentry nods in accomplishment to himself when the robots blow away. Then, he stares in confusion at the snake of paper attempting to swallow the robots. Since the machines are the enemies, he assumes this paper creation is from Maggie. He waits to see if the robots are consumed.
If any of the robots survive, he stares at it. The crimson twinkle in his eyes grows to blinding orbs the size of this eyes and then sends two beams of into the robot.
This "Cap" was perhaps not as invincible as he seemed. This needed to end. Frowning, Maggie increased her concentration, pulling in the paper wall as well as all that was scattered everywhere. The tornado of paper again swirled together and this time formed a massive snake, which tore through the ground, tunneled beneath the parking lot, and then burst out of the ground, jaws wide as it attempted to "swallow" the remaining robots.
[dice=Attack Robot 1]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 2]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 3]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 4]1d20+6
Sentry notices that the robot that Blue Beetle shot into the wall has reactivated and is standing up. He blasts it with fire from his eyes, cutting it in half.