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Xenomorph
Hish
Night Thrasher/Dwayne Taylor
Silhouette
Nova/Richard Rider
Kymaera/Namorita Prentiss
Rage/Elvin Holiday
Scarlet Spider/Peter Parker
Firestar/Angelica Jones
Justice/Vance Astrovik
Speedball/Robbie Baldwin
Dagger/Tandy Bowen
Turbo/Michiko Mushai
Timeslip/Rina Patel
Moon Knight/Marc Spector
Darkhawk/Chris Powell
The air was thick almost sticky.
Strange insect like creatures buzzed and flitted about. The peaceful planet would soon have guests
for the Beyonder had a game in mind. The
Beyonder was a cosmic being of great power and he liked to observe the behavior
of other beings in the universe when put in extreme circumstances. If humans liked reality TV shows, well the
Beyonder was the Jeff Probst of cosmic beings.
In space, you could almost hear the computerized voice asking the age
old question once posted to Matthew Broderick in War Games. “Would you like to play a game?” For a long time now the Beyonder had been
observing the young New York based superhero team called the New Warriors. At times, they functioned as a family and
others they appeared to be more dysfunctional than Kane and Daniel Bryan. Now for him to find the right way to create
an extreme situation.
A few light years away part of the
solution presented itself in the form of bug like creatures. In all of creation through untold galaxies
these bug like xenos were feared and considered a near perfect killing
machine. They possess acid for blood
which can eat through titanium. They had
no real hands but claws and long tails both razor sharp. Also, their jaws were mouths and within were
other retractable jaws. Seeing one of
these xenos usually meant your planet was infested. Their queen would nest in moist dark places
and breed millions of creatures. Some
were known as face huggers that latched onto any organism forced its tail
around your throat and jammed parts of itself down your body causing you to
become an incubator. These were just the
nice things you could say about them.
Next on the game board of the
Beyonder’s mind was the Hish, oftentimes referred to as simply Predators. This does not mean Predators like the police
would describe them. No Ma’am these
creatures came from the stars and hunted the biggest game of all and they did
so with a twisted sense of honor. If you
were armed, you were fair game and they declared open season. They stand almost 9 feet tall carry
retractable spears, throwing discs, razor mesh nets, shoulder mounted plasma
cannons, and cloaking technology. If the
universe has a sick sense of humor and if there are things that balance out
others the Hish are the ultimate hunter to the ultimate killing machines in the
Xenos. Hunter and prey becomes yin and
yang. If it will put up a good fight and
they think it will make a good trophy the Hish will hunt it down. The only problem with the trophy idea is the
Hish tend to try and take your head and spine from you while you’re alive.
Now that the threat has been
understood you must understand the type of heroes that face it. A brief introduction is in order. The team was formed due to random heroes
coming together to stop Terrax the Tamer one of Galactus Heralds during an
attack on New York. After banding together,
the media dubbed them the New Warriors heroes for the 90’s. After years of being together they began to be
seen as a younger rawer version of the Avengers. Their abilities and personalities are as
diverse as the individuals they belong to.
Dwayne Taylor also known as Night
Thrasher, Dwayne is a man of no powers but he is the team leader. He is a man obsessed with ending crime with
his vast inherited wealth after his uncle under control by a witch killed
Dwayne’s parents. Dwayne dedicated his
life to stopping evil in any form. This
African American man fights with an Olympic level athlete’s body in a suit of
body armor. He employs escrima sticks, a
2-inch dagger, grapnel lines and incredible martial arts skills.
Dwayne’s girlfriend Silhouette is one
of the more unique of the bunch. Sil,
for short, is paralyzed from the waist down due to being shot in the spine by a
gang member. This however does not slow
this brave young African American woman down.
Sil is a mutant with the ability to access the Darkforce dimension. She melds into the shadows and strikes with
an array of weapons installed in her crutches.
Nova is the hard head and perhaps the
most powerful of the group but he doesn’t really realize it. He possesses all the powers of the Nova
Force. When his helmet is on Bucket Head
as his friends call him is encased in a suit of armor giving him powers of
flight, strength, and gravimetric pulse blasts. Nova is also known as Richard
Rider.
Kymaera, also Richard’s girlfriend, is
a woman displaced. She’s still learning
where she belongs due to an odd change in her body. Kymaera has blue skin and wings on her
ankles. She is half Atlantean and half
human and the people of Atlantis have tried to convince her that she is a clone
of a long-lost queen. Kymaera is a
fierce warrior, with super strength, flight and energy absorption powers.
Elvin Holiday is the true powerhouse
of the team. He is a 16-year-old African
American boy due to a toxic waste accident he finds himself trapped in the body
of a 7-foot-tall muscle bound behemoth of a man who is nearly
invulnerable. He answers to the name
Rage for that is what fuels him.
The Scarlet Spider is one of the
newest team members. His real name is
Peter Parker but he thinks it might be Ben Reilly. He is the original Spider-Man. He has the ability to stick to any surface,
swing on webbing of his own design, and can sense imminent danger. He also has the proportionate strength and
speed of an arachnid his size. He is
also a scientific genius.
Firestar also known as Angelica Jones
is one of the founding members and is also very much the heart of the team. She’s a mutant with the ability to manipulate
microwave energy which she uses for flight as well as offense and defense. In terms of raw power Firestar doesn’t know
her full potential.
Justice or Vance Astrovik is a
troubled man. He has been hero then
prisoner and finally a hero again. Vance
was sent to prison for killing his father.
Vance is a mutant telekinetic and for years his father would beat him
for being born with a mutant gene and using his abilities to help others. One day in defense of himself and his mother,
who tried to stop the beatings, Vance used his powers screaming “No More!” When the tests were run it was found that
Vance had turned his father’s bones to powder.
Now having served his prison sentence Vance has stopped being the hero
known as Marvel Boy and instead answers to the name Justice. Vance is also the boyfriend of Angelica.
Speedball aka Robbie Baldwin is
perhaps the most bizarre fellow of all of them all. When his powers are active it almost seems as
if a rainbow of bubbles has vomited.
Robbie and his cat stumbled on an experiment in the small town of
Springfield where both were exposed to cosmic rays allowing them to harness and
manipulate kinetic energy. Speedball
uses his powers to bounce, repel and charge objects.
Tandy Bowen aka Dagger is a very
tragic heroine. She is probably one of
the most emotionally scarred by life people you will ever meet. Tandy and her good friend Tyrone are part of
the crime fighting duo Cloak and Dagger and used to be runaways living on the
street. Daggers, mutant powers of light
manipulation were discovered when she was subjected to a near lethal amount of
drugs. Tandy has since used her powers
to help others.
Turbo aka Michicko “Mickey” Mushai is
a rookie to the world of superheroes discovered a suit created by humans and
aliens. The suit consists of a helmet,
along with a thin armor and both ankle and wrist mounted turbines. All these things grant her flight, energy
disruption, concussive air blasts and superhuman strength.
Rina Patel is an accidental member of
the New Warriors. Rina is a time
traveler known as Timeslip. When Rina
goes to sleep, strange things have been known to happen. Somehow Rina has the ability to send her
consciousness back and forth through time.
She has already saved Speedball’s life due to her visions. As of late Night Thrasher has been training
her in hand to hand combat to help the young Indian mutant defend herself. The Scarlet Spider has been helping her hone
her time manipulation powers.
Moon Knight is a more recent member as
well. Better known as Marc Spector/Jake
Lockley/Steven Grant. Moon Knight is a
man who uses multiple guises. He is a
former mercenary who was rescued by the Egyptian god of vengeance Khonshu after
nearly dying in the desert. Moon Knight
employs a bo staff, a moon shaped helicopter, crescent darts and great fighting
skills to fight crimes. When the moon is
full he gains superhuman strength.
The final member of the team is
Darkhawk aka Chris Powell. Chris
discovered an amulet while following his father a policeman collecting a bribe
from a crime boss. The amulet gives
Chris control over armor he controls by his mind that is accessed through
another dimension. The armor gives
powers of limited flight, energy blasts, shields, a cable claw, an accelerated
healing factor and superhuman strength.
The Beyonder sat back secure on his
throne deep in the cosmos and began to scheme.
The game would soon begin and he would observe. Such as the Beyonder’s games went things
could easily turn towards the strange.
Now began the transportation of the unsuspecting parties.
Angelica and Vance were shopping and
had just exited the local Costco when she noticed an odd man in what appeared
to be a full Tweety Bird colored beekeeper suit. The letters AIM were on the helmet of the
suit the man was wearing. He opened the
trunk of a forest green Chevy Malibu.
Two vans black in color pulled up and more men in strange attire began
to emerge. “Vance, It’s AIM!” “Summoning the rest of the rest of the team
now. Secure our stuff in the car and
then proceed to attack plan 203.” Vance
reached in his pocket and hit his New Warriors comm badge.
At the New Warriors crash pad Elvin
and Robbie were playing video games when the comm signal came across the screen
with Vance and Angelica’s coordinates.
Robbie jumped up and slammed his palm on a concrete wall using the
kinetic energy to change from Robbie Baldwin to Speedball. He yelled loudly for the rest of the team to
hear. “Warriors get your war on!” Dwayne began quickly assembling his armor
and yelled "Chord, Frenchie, fire up the choppers as of yesterday! You heard the bouncing boy let's get our war
on!"
In less than ten minutes the Costco
parking lot had filled with AIM soldiers and they began opening fire on cars
and people. People were screaming and
diving for cover. Vance was trying to
shield people with telekinetic force fields as they ran. With so much chaos going on he was having a
hard time. Angelica had summoned
microwave energy to herself and was searching for a vantage point to make
herself a human/ mutant sniper. She ran
to avoid attention and rounded the back of the warehouse store and flew up to
the roof. Plan 203 was a stalling tactic
till backup arrived where one New Warrior would play defense and crowd control
and the other who could fire projectiles would cover as a sniper. Angelica skimmed the roof like a jet flying
below radar cover. Once at the edge of
the front of the building she began scanning for targets. She spotted and AIM agent threatening two
small children and their mom. Angelica's
blood boiled in anger she hated when the bad guys wanted to harm children. due to her mutant manifestation of powers and
continued usage she was unable to have children. No child would suffer because of her inaction
to save them. She focused microwave
energy to the smallest beam she could formed a gun shape to her hands. FSASH!!!!!! She struck true right in the
face. With her element of surprise now lost
she began aiming and firing as quickly as possible. Vance spoke in her comm badge. "More AIM
agents coming. They're yelling
obscenities about people with powers.
Chord says ETA five minutes. We
can do this Sweetheart." Two
minutes passed and Nova rocketed by her.
"Backup is here Red. Good
shooting” Kymaera skimmed the roof and dove low. Firestar just loved seeing that Human Rocket
and Blue Blazing woman fly into battle.
Moon Knight and Night Thrasher dropped from a ladder hanging from the
Moon Copter and landed assessing targets.
Silhoutte teleported from a chopper and began using her power over the
Darkforce Dimension to move people to safety one at a time. In the chopper, the pilot Sprocket
yelled. "Elvin where do you want me
to drop you?" "Find the
biggest cluster of AIM agents and open the bomb bay doors. Rage wants out of the cage." “Sprocket, Rage wants a TRE(target rich
environment). Standing by at the bomb
doors just give the signal.” Sprocket
was a hard woman but a dang good helicopter pilot. “Chord, tell Rage he’s on in ten and Dwayne
said to bring Speedy.” “Copt that.” “5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” Chord mashed the button and the bomb bay
opened. Twenty AIM agents got hit by a
500 lbs. human bowling ball and the impact was astounding. Whatever Rage didn’t hit, Speedball sent
blasting away with kinetic energy. Part
of the team had stayed at the Crash Pad in reserve and after the efforts of
Justice, Silhouette, Night Thrasher, Kymaera, Moon Knight, Nova, Rage and Speedball
it seemed the only thing left to do was cleanup. Night Thrasher, had already alerted the rest
of the team and was currently calling S.H.I.E.L.D. to come take care of the AIM
agents.
Rina Patel, shot out of bed from her
nap hit the intercom system on the wall in her room at the Crash Pad and
yelled, “Tandy, it’s Rina come to my room quick. Tandy was in the training room under the
supervision of the Scarlet Spider who turned off the simulator for her. They both knew from Rina’s alert and the
sound of her voice she had been through one of her visions of the future and
they were needed immediately. The
hallways in the Crash Pad were so massive Dagger could fly down them with
Scarlet Spider web swinging with neither of them getting in the other’s way. They found Rina sitting up in bed literally
shaking with sweat pouring from her body.
“Rina, what is it?” Ben
Asked. “It’s Speedball and all of
you. Something terrible is about to
happen to the entire team. Monsters from
space, a jungle like world. A lot of
violence it was horrible.” Tandy reached
for her comm badge. “I’ve got to warn
the others.”
The Moon Copter and the Warriors heavily
modified Apache AH-64 were headed back to the Crash Pad when Tandy contacted
them. She had gotten midway through her
tale of Rina’s dream when Rage turned to ask Speedball a question when he just
vanished. Rage was about to exclaim
something when suddenly he was gone.
Chord looked in the back were the two young men had been previously been
sitting. “Sprocket, I know we picked up
Rage and Speedball after the fight, where did they go?” Frenchie was piloting the Moon Copter and
began reporting one by one the New Warriors were disappearing. Angelica and Vance had just finished at a gas
station when they disappeared and the car went of the road into a ditch. In moments Darkhawk, Turbo, Scarlet Spider,
Dagger and Timeslip disappeared from the Crash Pad as well. The entire team found themselves on a jungle
planet. Every one of the New Warriors
looked down to find themselves in full costumes with all their usual weapons
and gear they used to fight crime. With
almost military squad like precision Night Thrasher had the entire team fan
out. All team members that could be
airborne lifted off to provide air cover for the ground combatants. “Comms on radio silence.” Night Thrasher spoke into his helmet. This was not the first time they had
mysteriously ended up on a planet. They
had all practiced for hours for such weirdness.
Unbeknownst to the New Warriors
business was about to pick up. The
planet they appeared on was about to touch them with an air of cosmic yin and
yang and by all manner of reckoning flat out kiss them deadly. Firestar and Kymaera were about to meet up
with some old sparring partners from the planet Dagobah. The air was thick with mist when the twin
suns did appear they were the color of egg drop soup.
