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Now that CHESS is taking me seriously, they finally got a court order so we can take care of that potential gateway for the Slaad to invade from the Shadow Dimension.
Manning met us on the roof of his building. He was pretty pissed off about this, and I am sure he was miffed at me for representing CHESS. He's my boss, so I may just be out of a regular job. Not that I care right now; keeping demonic frog men from another dimension from invading Earth is more important than stroking Manning's ego. That lawyer of his is there; she's a hellion herself! Nemesis Kid ticks her off a little; he's got balls!
Anyway, Stormbringer, the Kid, the Moevian and I go to remove the stuff from the torch on the Colossus. There's only room for two of us, so Kid and I go in, as we have more practical experience with this kind of stuff. The other guys are heavy hitters, so it was a good thing we went in.
While I'm working on removing the pieces of Orikalk, something is coming up the arm. Kid spots it, and it appears to be an armored man. They tussle, and I notice it, and try blasting it. I sear through part of the armor, but it nails me back kind of hard. I get knocked out of the torch, and grab a railing so as not to fall (I could fly, but I am trying to get my bearings, as I wasn't expecting it to his hit so hard).
The four of us fight with it, and it's tough. My armor takes serious damage; worse than when we fought the zomborgs. At one point, Kid breaks the railing, saving me from getting hit by one of it's blasts! He also pushed the Moevian out of the way of one as well.
Stormbringers calls up a storm, but it does nail him, and he goes over. the Moevian gets impaled on claws that sprout from it's hands. It then targets Stormbringer and I, and I get hit with another blast that almost wrecks my armor, and knocks me out cold.
When I wake up here in the infirmary, I get the rest of the story:
Nemesis Kid did a leap off the torch, and lands on the armored man (which we find out was a robot of some kind). He's able to beat it down, but he almost passes out himself. That kid is pretty damn tough with those gauntlets. He's pretty spunky too. Anyway, Stormbringer saves us all by manipulating the wind currents of the storm he called up to slow us down as we were all falling.
So here I am, in the infirmary. I got one nasty black eye from the demon, and my jaw hurts. I'm pretty sure I have at least 4 cracked ribs. The Moevian is looking better; I'm kind of amazed because he was impaled by both sets of claws. Stormbringer seems to be ok, and Kid's just a little worse for wear.
I don't know if Manning had a hand in that robot attacking us, or if he's really ignorant of some of the people who work for him doing illegal experiments on his dime. When I heal up, I think I need to sit down with Carter, and have a long talk about his father. While I'm at it, I should probably help him finish that suit we're working on.
As for Glare: The Octopus came to see me earlier. He handed me a set of blueprints. They look like the Glare suit, but I see he made a few improvements: more armor (which I was planning on doing anyway), and some other stuff I need to decipher.
With Elusion, Dark Warrior and Modi gone, the world is a darker place. Incorporeal Demons. Extradimensional Frog Men. Illegal experiments by corporations. Robots with high power energy weapons. The more I think about it, the more I start to realize I'm more out of my league than I first thought.
However, as much as I doubt myself, the fact remains that I'm seem to be the leader of a new team of metahumans dragged into working for CHESS. Like it or not, I have to step up. I've got plenty of doubt, and lots of regret. But I also have a lot of anger. Anger at all these inhuman things that want to harm humanity.
When I get out of here, I think I'm going to talk to The Octopus, and see if we adapt one of those Slaad power cells for my armor. And if CHESS will let me, maybe, just maybe, I'll see if I can work some of this Oricalchum into Glare MK II. These new guys are all more powerful than me, and I need an edge. I need to be ready, because it feels like a storm is coming, and I don't have a raincoat.....
Out of character note: Man, this was a rough one! With all the heavy hitters gone, Glare is finding himself actually getting hit, and more importantly, getting hurt. Before, Modi and Dark Warrior would draw most attacks, but with them gone, Glare is now one big shining metal target. My armor was wrecked, I got knocked out, and if Stormbringer hadn't done a power stunt, would likely be dead. And I loved every minute of it! I especially love all this mystical and other dimensional threats, as it allows me to play on my character feeling out of his depth (being a scientist and a high tech hero, this stuff freaks him out). He is now the expert on Dimensional Physics (Wally knew that, but he's gone, so now I'm it).
John suggested I take a weakness (I'm assuming it would be a Phobia) based around his guilt. He feels guilty about Brother Deacon dying, and not being there when Elusion died. It fits, so I'm sure we'll discuss how that will affect the character. I'm also starting to have him go a little mad scientist, trying to find ways of making his armor more powerful, as he feels some of the threats he's run into recently require more than his armor can currently handle. Should be fun to run with that long term.
Anyway, need to get some sleep. Hope you enjoyed the new entry for our last session
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