That's awesome, Ramble.  Fun characters, for sure!

I decided to use Andy Topple at the last minute, figuring it would be better to use somebody at least some of them (though none of the PCs on this adventure) had met before.  I mean, I was looking for a 'evil corporate dude', and he fit the bill nicely!  Also, during the adventure, the Guardians' android servant Delphi was able to relay that "Guardian files indicate this Andrew Topple was involved in a matter a couple of years ago that involved some Guardians' affiliates; it is believed he was in league with the Zodiac, though no charges stuck".

I'll probably do that, they're really awesome, well-developed characters, and a lot of fun to use! 

From the other end of the tunnel, you can see Psypher and Helios.

A shot after the boy has been rescued and Army Ant knocked out.

Finally, the villains surrendered.  Flea attempted to run (upper right), but that didn't go so well for him (as Helios could easily fly circles around him, and Warlock had 'marked' him so he could be tracked anywhere).

Glad to hear it, Baretta!  I'll be posting a few more soon, from an adventure run at GuardianCon 12.  One GM ran a tale he's been talking of doing for years, where the squirrels and raccoons are having an all-out war in Central Park! 

The squirrels had also done a ritual where they called forth a Cthulhu-esque horror.  When we finally destroyed the beast, there was a circle of squished squirrel carcasses!

#395 – [Name Redacted] – Psypher and Halley race the child to safety; Perihelion seems shaken with his companion vehicle gone.  Army Ant awakens and refuses to surrender.  He runs through tunnels up to a field on the surface, but Helios flies after him with Warlock and they drop him again.  The others make their way there, and each time the villain comes to and refuses to relent, the team takes him out.  Eventually agents from F.I.S.H. arrive, but all present are stymied by how to incarcerate the 19-foot, 9-ton behemoth.  Finally, C.H.E.S.S. personnel transport the felon back to his native Congo, for authorities there to deal with.

Years ago C.H.E.S.S split off from U.S. and became more of a world entity (answerable to the U.N.).

F.I.S.H. remains a U.S. entity, answerable to the Department of Justice (just like the F.B.I.); M.E.D.U.S.A., though they haven't come up much at all, reports to the Department of Defense (like the C.I.A.).

So C.H.E.S.S. doesn't usually have authority to take action on U.S. soil, unless given permission.  In this case, F.I.S.H. couldn't handle things, so they allowed C.H.E.S.S. to step in and lend aid.

After the attack by Shadow Slayer at the Guardians' base, their sentient android assistant Delphi shares what she's found with the team:

At the abandoned coal-fired power plant, they confronted Black Seer and his minions:

And towards the end, when the only opponents standing were Cestus and two creatures (actually solid energy illusions):

Here's the collection of mercenaries the Guardians went up against:

#399 – The T.O.T.E.M. Strain – Goliath remains missing.  The team gets counseling for Perihelion, who was rethinking his decision to be a superhero due to his accidental slaying of Deadly Wasp.  There are reports of internal power struggles within T.O.T.E.M., with a group supporting Adalwolf contesting another faction.  Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) begins to affect paranormals.  Rune and Ragnarr travel to an archaeological dig site in Tennessee, where an ancient Viking ship was unearthed.  Quiasar, Neutron, Compass, and Phase respond to an explosion at the Shops at Georgetown Park.  They find wounded citizens, but there doesn’t appear to be any serious casualties.  A darkly clad stranger present refuses to surrender, responding instead by shooting each of them (except Frostpaw) in turn with a blast of energy that washes over and through them without causing harm.  Their opponent vanishes, and the heroes learn that they each now have a slight variance on a cellular level.  In the wreckage they find a metallic box with strange symbols.  Neutron sets up monitoring equipment on the four affected teammates, who quarantine themselves as a precaution.  Scion confirms that the markings on the box are Alteran and say “need source blood”; he suggests that he (or someone he trusted) made the device.  The next day, C.H.E.S.S. alerts the Guardians that T.O.T.E.M. villains Bjorn and Panthera were assassinated in prison (killed by Silent Shadow), though details are unclear.  A short time later, C.H.E.S.S. responds as if they’ve never heard of them before, and no record can be found of them ever existing; only the four Guardians remember the pair.  The adventurers are contacted about a death at a water reservoir on the outskirts of D.C., where they discover the deceased body of Jedi Guardian.  Paradigm arrives and confirms his identity.  Jedi Guardian’s corpse disappears, and later others there (including Frostpaw) do not recall Paradigm being present.  Both vigilantes appear to have been erased from history, again remembered only by the quartet.  The group finds markers in the water, apparently there to test flow.  Neutron queries the cosmos and ascertains that Adalwolf is both Patient Zero and the “source blood”.  They learn that both the box and the armor worn by the mysterious stranger are made of the same dimensionally-locked alloy, then deduce that their armored opponent was a female martial artist.  They realize that the entire party (including Frostpaw) are infected by MERS, and begin to coordinate with C.H.E.S.S. and Dr. Peter Embarek, who is analyzing the strain.  Together they reason that they are also affected by a second condition, carried (and masked) by the MERS, retarded in the four of them due to the cellular variance.  They construe that Frostpaw likely has less than a day to live!

Your stuff is crazy awesome and totally gets me riled up to play!  I love all the custom pieces.

Though we've slowed down our regular pace, I plan on still doing occasional Guardians sessions (not ready to completely end the campaign).  In fact, for this session, one old regular (who hadn't joined us for nearly a year) was able to make it.  He even talked about eventually coming back and reinvigorating the campaign! 

So I put something together for just three players, and ran it on Monday (as I have the whole week off).

Here two heroes (the third player hadn't joined us yet) are ambushed by ninjas: