City of Heroes (It begins!)

[Mystic_clown]

Wherever there are people, there is crime. Where there are heroes, there are villains, and where there are super heroes, there are super villains.

And Megatropolis City is no exception.

A large city, built on an artificial island many years ago, Megatropolis has become a melting pot for ideas, technology, and cultures, and has become renowned around the United States, and most of the world. However, at the same time, the city has become a hive of criminal activity. And some of these criminals aren’t just regular thugs or burglers. Some of these criminals have abilities far beyond that of regular men, and are more than willing to endanger everyone around them in order to fulfil their own sinister objectives.

However, where there is evil, there is always good. There are those who choose to use their special abilities to combat these super powered villains to protect the peace. Whether they do this publicly, or hidden in the shadows, these beings are looked up to, admired, and adored by those who they protect. As long as there is evil, there will always be justice to face it.

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Ok, time to get this started. Any LSUs post here


The bank alarm blared, as an unfortunately brave bank teller was sent flying back by an emerald blast to the face. The rest of the hostages whimpered as the teller's body slumped against the wall like a rag doll. The killer in question growled in irritation as he lowered his hand. He was a man in his late twenties, dressed in a white shirt with a brown flannel jacket and pants. A brown eight piece cap sat on his head. The rest of the men there were dressed in a similar question, though their leader had a large four-leaf clover on the breast of his jacket. His glowing green eyes scanned the rest of the hostages in the bank.

"Well now, gues we're going to have some bloody noise after all. If the rest of you know what's good for you, you'd do your best to keep quiet and stay out of our way!"

He then turned to the vault and stretched out a hand. Swirling green enery formed around it before a blast fired towards the steel door, hitting it with a thundering explosion. The vault door was easily knocking off its hinges. As the smoke cleared, th super villain gestured to his men, who then began to run in to collect their loot. As some of the other men kept their guns trained on the hostages, the Emerald Irishman stood near the front door, looking out at the street that would soon be crawling with cops. He cracked his knuckles, a cruel sneer on his face.

"Come on ya coppers, come on ya supers. Fletcher O'Riley's ready to give you all a taste of good old fashioned Irish pounding!"

-------Meanwhile-------

A cry of pain echoed with insane laughter before a body fell from the walkway onto the stone floor below. Horrorfied workers below looked up at the crackling form laughing and standing above them.

The form was best described as a basic humanoid robot, with thin limbs. A thin glass strip atop his face marked his 'eye'. Electricity crackled around him, the same electricity that had just fried their coworker. The demented robot laughed before looking down at the frightened workers below. It said something they couldn't understand, but its body language saidsomething along the lines of "oooh, more playthings."

The workers cried out and ran as the android jumped down towards them. While its initial pounce missed, it was undetered as in a frightening display of speed shot over to the nearest worker, grabbing hold of him in a bear hug. The others looked back and watched as electricity surged painfully through the unfortunate man. The victim screamed before the android dropped him, letting him slump to the floor. The android then turned to the next worker, who proceeded to scream and run. The android quickly closed the distance and was about to leap upon him when it froze. The worker, having expected an electric hug, paused and looked back nervously at the psychotic droid.

The droid's head slowly turned, staring at one of the turbines. If it had proper eyes, it would be like a child eyeing a toy it liked. Slowly, ignoring its original target, it began to walk towards it. The worker's eyes widened in horror If that electrical lunatic messed with that thing, who knows what would happen to the plant, and the city as a whole.

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Ok, just a basic thing for starters. At the Megatropolis Bank, Fletcher O'Riley is robbing the place, while the mechanical villain Lightning Bug is running amok at the Hydroelectric power plant. Just set up these two so not everyone's fighting the same villain...at least not yet. So, choose which crisis you want to help with and let's do this. Details about the villains are in the Drawing Board.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Superbbrain was practicing his flying ability over Megatropolis City, with his invisibility powers on as well to avoid unnecessary attention. Then his eye was caught by a rush of police cars heading towards the local bank. Something must be happening there! Superbbrain boosted his speed up and flew over the buildings, enough to make it in time before the policemen. "Those guys don't know what they are dealing with! I've got to handle the villains before police gets here!" he thought.

Superbbrain landed before the front door. He opened the door, which amazed the robbers because they didn't see anyone. Superbbrain sneaked right behind Fletcher O-Riley and began talking to confuse him. "Science should be used to bring peace to the world. But you and your gang are here to wreak havoc and rob some paper money."

"Where's that noise coming from?" wondered one of the thieves. Superbbrain turned his invisiblity off and quickly drew something from his pockets. He pushed it on back of Fletcher O-Riley's head and opened his mouth again. "Surrender the hostages or you'll die." Superbbrain said. Fletcher O-Riley already was about to panic thinking it was a gun, but one of his gang members hurried to point something out. "It's just a remote control, boss!" one of them said.

Fletcher O-Riley turned around but he didn't have time to do anything. As our hero pushed a button, the villain's molecular structure was changed and he transformed into a plant! "What the heck just happened?" the gang wondered. "Don't worry, he won't be like this more than half an hour, then he's back. Also, he can still move and speak." answered Superbbrain. Fletcher O-Riley already fell on the ground, trying to move. Then he yelled. "Don't just stand there, shoot that blue overalls man!"

Superbbrain waved the 'remote control' as if he was playing Nintendo Wii as the gang opened fire towards him. The shots just reflected back directly to the attackers' guns, breaking them. At the same time, the police appeared.

[Mystic_clown]

The sparking android giggled like a lunatic as it staggered towards the turbine, its body jerking and twitching with each step. The electricity crackling off of it soon made contact as it extended one skinny arm towards the machine. However, before it could make contact, there was the sound of an electric guitar, a sound loud enough to fill the whole room. Lightning Bug felt itself thrown off its feet by the accompanying shockwave, sending the droid sprawling.

“Didn’t anyone tell you it’s dangerous to play around with such machines?”

The droid slowly climbed to its feet, its face looking upward. Perched on the walkway above it was a young leather clad man. Dressed like a masked rock star with spiked white hair and a black electric guitar in his hands, the young man gave a cocky smile in return. The remaining workers looked up at their saviour with relief in their eyes.

“Chord! You’ve got to do something!”

The android ignored the workers, letting out a stream of high-pitched gibberish. Chord’s wolfish smile widened further.

“So sorry. I don’t speak insane droid,” he taunted. The droid let out a shriek as it suddenly turned and dashed towards one of the walls. Electricity crackled at its feet as the magnetic forces caused it to stick to the vertical surface. With an almost frightening speed, the droid ran up along the wall and leaped onto the walkway, and without even breaking a beat charged towards Chord. The young hero quickly sprung to his feet and readied his guitar. With a single loud strum, another shock way threw the android back, over the walkway.

This time however, the android managed to grab onto one of the other walkways, quickly yanking itself up and charging back towards Chord. Chord smirked and fired another shockwave at the approaching android. However, this time, Lightning Bug leapt off the walkway to avoid the blast, landing right near him and shooting towards him.

Chord felt a sharp jolt of pain the instant Lightning Bug’s fingers made contact with him. He let out a yell of pain, causing a small shockwave around him to push the droid back. Lightning Bug recovered and prepared to grab hold. Despite being shocked though, Chord was able to recover just in time, starting to play his guitar with a zeal most legendary rockstars had. The droid found himself unable to get closer, as a bubble of sound seemed to keep the two apart. Chord glared at the droid as he played.

“Fast little bugger aren’t you?” he muttered, his voice drowned out by the playing. He had to be more careful. That single touch hurt like heck, and he wasn’t prepared to let that thing grab hold of him. But this thing seemed more resilient to his attacks than human thugs. He had to think carefully.

-------Meanwhile-------

Many of the thugs rubbed their hands after having their guns literally shot out of their hands…by themselves. The few who managed to recollect themselves charged towards Superbbrain, determined to beat him down with their bare fists. The genius superhero ducked and weaved between punches and kicks, returning some of his own, though they were enjoying an advantage of numbers.

Fortunately, salvation would come in blue.

“Freeze!”

The thugs all turned towards the police that had just burst in, all brandishing proper guns this time. Unarmed and their ace in the whole a talking plant, it didn’t take a genius to guess their response. The thugs quickly rose their hands in surrender, and the police quickly swarmed on them with handcuffs. A couple worked together to lift up the now cursing plant-like form of O’Riley as the criminals were all lead out of the building. The chief of police approached the hooded hero.

“Got to hand it to you,” he said with a smile, “Those gadgets of yours would greatly assist the police force, provided you’re willing to give us the specs.” This wasn’t anything new. Superbbrain had to deal with many people wanting his gadgets, on both sides of the law.

Meanwhile, the plant O'Riley was loaded into a police car and driven away.

Post people! Just know that the O’Riley story isn’t quite over yet. Hehehe.