(ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

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(ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:20 am

Season 2- Episode 1 "Cutting Loose."

Main Characters Featured
Zachariah Volk (PC)- after the events at the end of last season and tasting the younger McKeon's blood, his powers have altered from matter eating and absorption to matter manipulation.
Adrian Harken (NPC/PC)- now seemingly powered like the rest, but with no real indication of what his powers are, beyond 'shooting really well.'
Norman Stanley (PC)- after coming to understand his power to manipulate electromagnetic radiation, Norman is starting to display the ability to manipulate other spectrums of radiation.
Joseph Soloman (PC)- having come to terms that he is stuck with power-swapping, Joseph is starting to learn how to manipulate this power to his own ends.
Carter Campbell (NPC)- Carter remains as slimy, but still useful, as ever before, with the ability to 'see' the superhuman powers of other before they occur.
'Leviathan' (NPC)- the more likable prisoner, with adaptive powers.
Ben (PC)- an attractive, smart-talking young man aboard the prison ferry, who displays superhuman speed, leaping and a resistance to injury.
Daniel (PC)- a prison guard aboard the ferry boat who takes charge of his three fellow officers and becomes something of a leader among the prison complex survivors as they escape on the boat. At the end of the episode, he displays the ability to enhance his size and musculature.
Gerald (NPC)- one of Daniel's fellow guards. A large man, but very unsure of himself in the current situation.
The Spider- the mutant spider mother from the end of last season returns, with limited teleportation powers.

Episode Synopsis
At the end of last season, the final scene was the prison survivors on board the ferry, reaching the shore, as they encounter the army. This episode begins to show what happened before that, immediately after McKeon was shot, and just before the group have gotten on board the ferry boat.
After biting McKeon, Zach states that he isn't feeling well, and is clutching his chest and stomach, and is generally incredibly queasy. Joe stands back from Norman in shock, after he seemingly killed about 20 police, but Norman insists it was McKeon controlling him, and says he is glad he is dead. Harken repeats the need to get to the boat, as continued gunfire, explosions and the inhuman shrieking of the spiders continue behind him. They can see that there are still guards on the boat. Norman tests out the limits of his magnetic powers, and lifts the entirety of the weapons of the dead guards into the air, and then tosses them into the distance.
The camera then cuts to Daniel, Gerald and the other two guards, as they watch these weapons rise into the air. Daniel seems to be able to hold his composure, despite his first witnessing of super-powers, whilst the others are in stunned confusion. Then, their own weapons rise into the air, and are flung away, except for Gerald's assault rifle, which he clings onto.
Back with the others, Harken decides to make a run for the boat, but is shot at by guards on the outer complex walls just behind the group and takes a glancing hit and stumbles, but then keeps on running. Joe suggests to Zach to eat some of the ground to turn into stone. Zach makes a large exhalation to do so, and makes a massive crater in the ground... where Harken is, as he falls down the hole, cursing, but landing without harm. Zach, however, hasn't actually eaten the ground, and remains looking human, to which he is very confused.
Carter tells Norman to take out the weapons on the wall too, and Norman obliges, gesturing at the wall, as more weapons rise into the air. Carter then runs, but is also shot at, taking a minor flesh wound, but not stopping at all, as not all the weapons on the wall have been taken out. Leviathan follows behind, no shots are taken at him, but he hurtles ahead of everyone, running with abandon, as the others tried to round or leave the crater.
The guards on the boat watch as this crater appears from nowhere and realise how outclassed they are. Daniel orders two of the guards down below to get them more weapons from storage and tells Gerald to hand him his rifle, and then duck down, so he can engage Leviathan, as Daniel thinks Gerald might me more likely to take him down if it comes to close combat.
Ben, who has been sat in the waiting room up on deck, calmly reading a newspaper whilst all this madness unfolds, comes to the guards to see what is going on, and after some heated debate, rather foolishly agrees to go down to the dock and be a negotiator with the escaped criminals.
Joseph walks over to Norman and tries to touch him, as he moves away from Joe, yelling at him to leave his powers alone. Joe tries to tell him that isn't going to, and he is going to try something else, but Norman won't listen to him, and runs ahead after the others. Zach follows suit, and this time, tries inhaling at the ground, as he creates a massive wall of stone which rips its way up across the dock, creating a wall that obscures the view of the guns behind the group. Alas, Joseph is stuck on the prison side of the wall. Harken manages to scramble out of the crater just in time to avoid being ripped apart by the emerging wall.
Ben tries talking to Leviathan, to negotiate, but Leviathan is not ready to stop and talk for long, though he tells Ben they didn't escape because they want to break out of prison, but because they were escaping a horde of giant mutant spiders. Leviathan runs at the boat and climbs up it effortlessly, his palms sticking to the side of the ship. Ben stops Carter to try and get further information, though he mostly gives the same, whilst also adding that people seem to be randomly getting super-powers, but none of them really know why, they just need to escape before they get killed. Daniel looks down over the stern and sees Leviathan, who gives him a gruesome grin. Leviathan asks fairly kindly but hastily to be let aboard, again explaining briefly about super-powers and monster spiders, and makes it clear that he has no weapons and means no harm. Daniel lets him aboard, but makes it clear that no-one else is allowed aboard. Leviathan makes it clear that if he doesn't, then either Zach might eat a hole in the ship to get aboard, or the 'magnet guy' might tip the boat backward to get on. Daniel seems particularly unhappy when the 'magnet guy' is mentioned, but grudgingly allows everyone to get aboard, whilst telling the incredibly stunned Gerald to hole up below with the other guards.
Joe resigns himself to his fate, as he leans against Zach's stone wall... only for it partially open up, as Zach blows at it to make an opening, as Joe runs through, and the two join the others (including a very grumpy Harken, half convinced somebody was trying to kill him, but not knowing who) aboard the boat. Daniel shouts to the so far unseen Captain in the wheelhouse to cast off the boat; as the sounds and screams can be heard more clearly in the background, the Captain seems to need no encouragement. As the ship is leaving, the Mother Spider phases into existence out of nowhere onto the roof of the female detention centre.

On the ship, Ben settles back down with his newspaper in the customer waiting room on deck, joined by Leviathan and Carter. Joe decides to go downstairs and take a look at the boat's engine room, and keeps himself quiet in there. Zach has a constantly and loudly rumbling stomach, and asks Daniel for some food. The guard agrees to take him downstairs to find some. Harken and Norman remain on deck, looking out at the prison as they drift away from it, the storm still raging around them. Norman is watching the giant spider in the distance, as it disappears, and asks Harken if he has seen what he has just seen.
"What?"
"Where did the spider go?"
At that point, the spider bursts out of the water, its head coming up over the side. Harken shoots at it, but his bullets appear to do little as usual, as he calls for Norman to retreat to the cover of the waiting room behind them. Norman gestures his hands at it, hitting it with a concentrated burst of white light, holding it for about five seconds with a continued blast, though it seems to do nothing but piss if off, as he screams 'Taste the rainbow, mother ****er!" Harken retreats into the waiting room, as the spider goes after him, ignoring Norman, as it climbs over him. Harken runs into the waiting room, taking cover behind the door, as Ben asks what's going on, as the roof of the waiting room is torn right off. Ben runs, and in the blink of an eye, finds himself downstairs, in the prisoner holding room. The three guards all reactively fire, though they miss. The ship's female engineer, in the room with them, screams as Ben appears out of nowhere. Daniel looks to Zach to ask what's going on, but hears Harken shouting that the giant spider is here, and goes to rally his troops. Zach heads up the stairs and walks just out of the stairwell, to see the giant spider not far in front of him. The spider is still missing several legs from the exploding helicopter, but the wounds have closed over. Zach experiments with his newly warped power, as he makes a massive spike out of the deck and drives it into the spider's belly, pinning it there whilst Harken fires repeatedly at it, causing it repeated minor injuries. Norman surrounds himself with white leg as he grabs the spider's last remaining back leg, and melts it it off... which causes the spider's abdomen to fall, landing on Norman.

Daniel comes into the prisoner holding room, finding his guards and Ben, who explains that he seems to have super-speed. 'Okay, then you've been drafted' says Daniel. He goes to the weapon storage and gives Ben two pistols, and tells him to go and help fight off the spider. Ben actually takes the pistols and runs onto deck, running round and round the spider in an attempt to make the spider fall over, though he fails to do so. He then leaps 15ft up in the air and lands on its head, keeping balance, ready to fire, though the spider tosses its head, and flings Ben back down into the room below. Zach holds the spider's head in position, creating another spike out of the wall and ramming it through the bottom of the spider's head; it doesn't die, but is caught, thrashing in place. Carter and Leviathan use the opportunity to run down below. Daniel tells them that they should up and fighting, but Carter says he doesn't have the power to do so, and when Daniel suggests the 'spider guy' climb up onto his head, Leviathan refuses to do so, so Daniel heads up stairs with his guards to see what he can do. He leaves one guard with the engineer, and tells Gerald and the other to go to the wheelhouse to guard the captain, tell him not to stop the boat, or to look back.
Harken keeps shooting at the spider, and manages to shoot a perfect circle around the head spike and hurt it further, and Zach moves the spikes and creates more inside it, but it it seems to be regenerating, and won't quite die. Ben tries twice to run up the wall, but fails to do so, so he jumps on its head again, and shoots out two eyes. Harken shoots out another eye, managing not to hit Ben, with incredible marksmanship, but still, it won't go down. Daniel comes on deck, and reasons that having a giant spider corpse on deck wouldn't be great, so he decides to find a way to shove it off deck. Daniel shouts to ask if anyone has super-strength. Ben shouts down 'maybe you do!' When Daniel says that he doesn't seem to have any powers, Ben encourages him to give it a try.
So he does. Daniel readies for a shoulder barge, and as he does so, his arm muscles burst out in size, and he gives it a shove, but it does nothing. He moves back, and the muscles across his body expand in size as well, as he tries again, and successfully hurls the spider through the air, as its body splashes off, somewhere in the distance, lost in the lightning storm... along with Ben, who was still on its head, and was hurled through the air as well.
Harken looks at the dumbfounded, and now utterly massive, Daniel and complains once again why everything else gets decent powers. He looks to Zach and whines 'what powers have I got?'
'You can shoot really well.'
Zach then approaches Daniel, who has torn all his clothing apart from some stretchy boxers and says 'Nice shorts.'
Daniel passes out.
The camera then cuts ahead to again show the ending scene of last season, as the army and General Simms approaches...
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:29 pm

Season 2, Episode 2- “Military Intervention.”

Synopsis

The episode continues straight after the giant spider was dispatched into the sea. Norman lies unconscious on the deck after being crushed by its abdomen; Zach goes to him to confirm that he is still alive, though he is breathing with difficulty and incredibly pale, whilst Harken 'wakes' the briefly passed out Daniel, with a few face slaps. As Daniel gets to his feet, he makes it clear that his arms and legs are in some pain after he briefly transformed them, though they reverted back to normal size when he passed out. Together, they carry Norman into the now roofless waiting room for guests on board the boat, laying him across several chairs. After Daniel is reminded that he is now only dressed in (incredibly slackened) boxers, he goes off to find himself some clothing. Whilst Zach experiments with his new matter manipulation power, Harken gets rather grumpy due to his own far less apparent powers of 'shooting really well' and goes off on his own, staring out to the sea, whilst Zach turns the wall into a mirror and transforms his prison jumpsuit into a tuxedo. Norman awakens, and manages to push himself upright, though with immense difficulty from pain his ribs, and it is quickly established that he can't move around by himself.
Daniel goes down into the prisoner holding room where one of his fellow guards and two of the crew are holed up for their own supposed safety from the super-powered prisoners. Daniel receives an awkward reception as he puts on a spare prisoner jumpsuit, with Joe's jacket on top of it, as Joe throws it to him as he walks past. Daniel has a little bit of a rant at the people to make no snide comments after all the weirdness he has experienced and then leaves again, going up to the wheelhouse. Daniel asks the Captain if anybody on board has medical experience, but there is only the Captain himself, who makes it rather angrily clear he is busy trying to navigate the boat through a storm. Daniel is allowed at least to take the ship's first aid box with him.
Meanwhile, Joe finishes tinkering with the ship's engine and goes to start doing the same with van in the hold (which is actually Norman's van), when he encounters Carter and Leviathan, sat against a wall nearby, idly chatting. Carter tries to get a rise out of Joe with repeated mockery about his weirdness, but the janitor, in utter stoicism, barely responds, though he does reveal that he has a masters in engineering, despite his job role. Daniel interrupts the conversation between the three to ask if anybody can help with the injured Norman and Joe tells him to bring him down to the van. Daniel goes back up to the deck, and Zach halts his power experimentation to help carry Norman down below. Despite Joe's offer to use the van, it turns out that he isn't actually offering to provide medical help, just offering to put Norman on one of the benches inside the van. Daniel decides to take a risk and attempts to help Norman himself, using bandages to try and bind Norman's clearly damaged ribs, which he does successfully. He then leaves the escapees together as he goes to see to the rest of the crew whilst they wait to get to the coast. Zach spends the time using his powers to make himself a cigarette.

Events cut ahead as the boat reaches a beach, and the boat is surrounded by a blaze of light and the amplified voice of General Archibald Simms over loudspeaker. Simms demands for everyone on the boat to come out onto deck, on their knees with hands on the air and weapons laid down in five minutes, as they need to be placed under immediate quarantine. If they do not appear within five minutes, then he will send soldiers in force, and if they fight back, his men will respond in kind.
All of the crew go to the deck as ordered, except for the single guard, holing up in the prisoner holding room, shotgun in hand, and the escapees stay together below. Daniel runs down below to get them, reasoning that a peaceful response would be better, as fighting back will only get them killed. However, as he gets to them, they are already formulating a plan to use their powers to fight back. Daniel's assures them that this would be folly, but both Carter and Zach in particular seem certain that the military will either kill them or capture them and use them like guinea pigs. Determined to prove them otherwise, Daniel heads back to the wheelhouse, using the radio to communicate with the General. Simms makes it clear that he is under very specific orders to capture everyone on board, saying that they believe that the meteor fragment that struck the prison may be bearing some kind of virus. He says that those that do not voluntarily surrender will be subdued, and non-lethal force will be used, unless those on the boat respond will lethal force, then the soldiers will do so as well. Daniel goes to try and entice the remaining guard up on deck, but, convinced they'll be shot, he stubbornly insists he is going to stay where he can better defend with the shotgun he has. Daniel then goes back to the escapees; Joe has left the others to return to the engine room, where he is furiously chalking equations after telling Norman how to use his radiation and thermodynamics to shut down the rotor blades of the military helicopters that Norman has said he can sense. The escapees don't tell Daniel about their plan, and agree to go up to the deck having relentlessly discussed their options to fight back and escape.

As they go up to the deck, and Daniel tries to explain to everyone what is going on, Harken stands and aggressively explains how Simms will screw them all, like he screwed Harken and the unit sent in with him to the prison to evacuate everyone. Harken then exchanges glances with Zach and suddenly quietens and sits. Daniel realises something is wrong and screams out “No! What are you do-” as Norman raises his hand in the air and releases a pulse of electromagnetic energy. All eight military helicopters surrounding the boat suddenly drop out of the sky. Five of them fall into the sea, whilst the other three smash into the beach that the boat is unfortunately near... the prow of the boat is torn apart by the helicopter wreckage, as the boat is tipped up and starts to sink. A flying piece of debris cuts one of the crew hands in half and decapitates the Captain. Harken grabs onto the stern and clings on, whilst the remaining guard other than Daniel, Gerald, clings onto the deck, hanging onto Greg, the one remaining member of the crew, as the ship's female engineer is sent bouncing down the deck and into the water. Joe, Zach and Daniel are flung into the wall of the waiting room; Joe flattens himself against it without harm whilst Daniel hits it face first, and yet does so unscathed. Zach's skin turns metal just as he hits the wall, and his head dents slightly as it strikes the wall. Carter hits him whilst his skin is metal, and then Leviathan hits Carter, both of them collapsing unconscious, whilst Zach's skin returns to normal a moment later. After the vast beams of light are briefly turned off by Norman's pulse, Norman passes out from the strain and his injuries, as the lights turn back on from the several tanks arrayed on the cliff above, and the jeeps and APCs on the beach. Seeing their inevitable doom, Zach climbs to the top of the tilting wall of the waiting room, and gestures at the beach, bringing up a wall between the beach and the water that even blots out the cliff. Joe climbs down into the waiting room as the boat continues to tip and sink and manages to successfully get a life jacket from under a seat. The tanks fire upon Zach's wall, and one of them blows a hole into it which gives some of the military vehicles a firing position on the boat. Zach disintegrates the cannon from one of the tanks. Harken decides to test his power to 'fire really well' and fires at another tank, impossibly firing a bullet down a tank barrel and destroying it. As Harken celebrates finally realising the potential of his power, Zach yells at him to shoot more, as Harken shoots at the wheels of a jeep and somehow flips it into the air. The APCs on the beach start disgorging soldiers towards the gap in the wall, so Zach plugs the hole with another wall raised slightly outward from the main wall and then connected to it.
Through this display of power, Daniel helps Greg climb upwards as the ship tips, and Gerald follows behind him, as the three risk leaping into the sea. Joe manages to climb back up the boat, as it starts to crumple into the helicopter wreckage, which starts ripping apart the rest of the ship. As a rotor blade tears its way through the ship towards him, Zach and the three unconscious escapees, Joe hastily straps a life jacket to Norman. Meanwhile, Zach creates a slide, and hurls himself down it into the shallow water. Joe pushes Norman and then Leviathan down the slide after Zach. He then sees the rotor blade, as the sinking ship pushes Carter's back into it, and Joe screams out Carter's name. Before Carter becomes fully impaled, Joe tears him off the blade and throws him, woken and screaming from the pain, down the slide, and follows suit. Harken is the only one on the ship, miraculously still hanging on with one hand and firing with the other. Zach yells at him to jump down the slide, and he does. Carter pulls Leviathan's head out of the water, only to find he has grown gills, as he lets go and lets it drop back in.
The camera then pulls away from our survivors, rapidly rising into the air, as the view is overlaid with a blue HUD that outlines the survivors with blue circles, except for one, surrounded by a yellow circle, and the soldiers are shown red circles. The camera than moves a mile or so down the coast to show the spider crawling out of the sea, surrounded by a yellow circle. Unknown symbols then shoot across the bottom of the screen, and then the camera blacks out.
End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:08 pm

Season 2, Episode 3- “The Chase.”

Main characters
(PCs)
Zach- matter manipulating escaped convict/fraudster, the surprisingly likeable anti-hero. Becoming known as the 'Tuxedo Man.'
Joe- altruistic, sometimes cowardly, power swapping janitor, and gifted engineer
Norman Stanley- well meaning, crippled delivery driver with a slightly shady side, radiation manipulator.
Daniel Anderson- the brave and responsible former prison guard struggling to keep things together. His only display of a power was increasing some of his muscular mass, which he has not attempted again.
(NPCs)
Adrian Harken- the rogue military officer with probability manipulation powers which seem to be focussed in his gun play.
Carter Campbell- the snide, rather slimy but useful escaped convict, with the ability to see other powers as visions, and occasionally is able to turn them off.
Leviathan- large Scottish/Jamaican drug smuggler, usually laid back and likeable, possesses a super power that adapts to environments and to attacks used against him.
Greg- the young, teenage ship hand, who seems incredibly nervous all of the time. No powers displayed.
Gerald- the only other prison officer with the group, a practical man attempting to ignore the more paranormal side of the current situation. No powers displayed.
General Simms- the current antagonist of the survivors, attempting to bring them in for study, or terminate them otherwise.

The episode opens with the camera passing over the scene of devastation from the end of last episode. The camera then zooms in on Daniel, Greg and Gerald in the water, having jumped off the back of the sinking boat, which is now grinding into a helicopter wreck with a sickening rending of metal. The three of them all seem quite capable of swimming in the storm addled waters. The three are surrounded by other helicopter wrecks in the shallow water, and they decide, with Daniel's insistence, to swim off to the east, using the wrecks as cover from the military in order to get onto the beach.
The camera cuts to the other survivors. Joe spies a mostly intact helicopter wreck on the beach and decides to go for it to see what he can loot, only for him to run towards the section of Zach's wall that explodes as a tank shell hits it, though Joe manages to avoid most of the flying dust and debris, as do the rest, though there are a few scratches and bruises here and there. Harken is about to be hit by a piece of debris right in the face, but then another piece hits it, and knocks most of it out of the way, though Harken is still a little hurt. That is when the military come pouring through the hole in the wall, after decamping the APCs on the beach, as they point the beams of light from their rifles and demand that the group get on their knees and surrender, though Zach, Harken and Joe are the only ones who can do so, as Leviathan and Norman are unconscious and Carter is incapacitated by the pain of the injury from the rotor blade, though conscious enough to scream obscenities at everyone. Zach and Joe both get onto their knees as ordered, whilst Harken starts yelling at the soldiers, telling them that he is one of them, they have no right to turn on him, and that his beef is with Simms, not them. A soldier responds that he has been infected and needs to get on his knees, with Harken takes offence at and draws his rifle. Whilst there is a stand off, with no shots yet fired, Joe decides to try and dive into the helicopter. Just as the soldier pointing a rifle right at him is about to fire, Zach uses his power to turn the rifles of the soldiers around him into nerf guns, just as the soldier fires at Joe, hitting him square in the chest... with a nerf bullet. Joe scrambles into the helicopter, taking a pistol from a dead soldier inside. Harken uses the confusion created as Zach effectively disarms a mass of weapons by fighting back, though he doesn't use lethal force against his fellow soldiers, instead, he seems to dispatch them with almost impossible ease, as he flings the soldiers about into each other. Whilst Joe is taking cover and Harken fighting back, Zach's own bizarre form of attack is barely obvious as he remains on his knees with his hands in the air, his waggling fingers the only indication that his power is being used. Zach's tactic is only partially effective however, as when he alters the assault rifles, the soldiers start drawing pistols. He does turn some of them into cap guns, but not before Harken is shot repeatedly; though the ammunition is non-lethal, it still doesn't drop Harken like it probably should, as he keeps running and battering his way through soldiers, including the one nearest to Joe. Zach cannot only transmute the weapons he sees, and two soldiers escape him as they pursue Harken and continue shooting him as he runs for the tail of the helicopter wreck and tries to take cover.
Zach turns his attacks upon the remaining tanks shooting at his wall and with the capacity to easily kill his friends and allies, turning two of the tanks into giant, coin-operated supermarket versions of them. Three soldiers surround him, and one grabs him and immobilises him, as another readies to put him into cuffs. Zach manages to use sleight of hand in order to move his fingers just slightly enough to gesture behind the soldiers as he says “I could really use Knuckles about now.” Out of the ground, comes Zach's dead ex-sidekick, Knuckles... or rather, a moving facsimile of him, made out of earth. He picks up the three soldiers around Zach and flings them through the air. Zach sees other soldiers dragging along the unconscious Norman, Leviathan and a swearing Carter towards an APC on the beach. Carter fights his way out of the hands of one of the soldiers, and dives into the sea, Leviathan opening his eyes, throwing a soldier onto his bottom and following suit. Whilst Carter struggles in the water due to the pain of his injuries, Leviathan's body instantly morphs into an aquatic form, as he sprouts gills, webbed digits and fins, grabbing his friend and carrying him through the water quickly. Zach sees Norman getting dragged dangerously close to an APC and orders Knuckles to 'save Norman.' Knuckles tears his way through more soldiers, getting to Norman, only to get hit by a tank shell and flung into the ocean... the blast seems to leave Norman miraculously unharmed, however.
Joe crawls out of the helicopter with his pistol, and looks to his right, to see a heavily injured Harken leaning against the tail, as shots rip around him. Joe reaches out and takes Harken's power, and uses the pistol to shoot the two soldiers with still functional pistols shooting at Harken. He takes them out with ease, amazed at his own ability, for a moment. The nearest APC then turns its mounted machine gun towards them. From the radios of the nearest fallen soldiers indicate the rage of General Simms, as his hardware is being destroyed, his captives escaping and now, his men are dying to the stone monstrosity that is Knuckles. He orders them to kill any who don't surrender, which Joe hears clearly. He reaches out his hand to Harken, and tells him to walk with him right in front of the machine gun, and asks him to trust him. However, after Joe has already left Harken to die twice, and the idea is clearly insane, Harken decides to get the hell away, and faults over the helicopter tail. Joe calls to him, mentioning Simms, to stir Harken's hatred, but the soldier responds that Simms isn't here, and decides to cut his losses, due to his repeated injury. Joe looks back in worry, and then resigns himself, walking right in front of the assault rifle which fires... and jams. As this occurs, the armed and hasmat suited General Simms gathers the crew of the defunct tanks together, and lines them along the cliff, even as Zach turns the remaining tank into a giant plastic model.
Daniel, Gerald and Greg get to the beach, getting to the opposite side of the helicopter wreck to Joe, the side Harken has just ended up on, as they cower behind, to discuss their next move, very quickly, as the fight is still raging on. Gerald and Greg aren't sure what to do, though Greg is adamant that fleeing is as futile as fighting back. Daniel insists that surrender is their only way, if they fight they die, if they show they are no threat, they might have a chance. To punctuate his point, the three see Harken running across the beach, only to get lethally gunned down by Simms and the men with him on the cliff. Harken is left a bloodied mess. Daniel, Greg and Gerald go out onto the beach and raise their hands in surrender, dropping onto their knees. Carter and Leviathan emerge from the water, seeing this, and use it as a distraction to make a run for it.
Knuckles bursts out of the ground near Norman, grabbing him and carrying him away, and some of the APCs now retreating up at the beach fire at him, but do nothing to the construct before it burrows under the ground with Norman. Zach meanwhile heads into the copter wreck and flings himself out of the window out the other side.
Joe, now with Harken's newly shown probability manipulation powers after his sudden death, runs back from the APC and it retreats and continues to fire, as no enemy bullet seems able to hit him. He drops onto his back and slides under the raised tail of the helicopter wreck as he aims a bullet down the barrel of the machine gun... and succeeds, hitting the gunner in the face. He comes out of the other side as Zach is scrambling to his feet, and to the two flee together, Carter and Leviathan not far ahead, rather surprised as the stone Knuckles, carrying Norman, bursts out of the ground behind them, and runs after them. They make a run for it, whilst Simms decides to cut his losses, and goes down to the beach with his remaining men to take their three captives.

Daniel Anderson is cuffed to a metal chair, within a plastic quarantine tent of large size, as a containment suited doctor beavers around him, and Simms, in his own suit, stands before him. Simms explains that the military realised that the meteorite that split up in Earth's orbit contained and extraterrestial virus, and upon realising that a fragment was going towards the prison, Harken and his squad were sent to try and get the prison staff out, as they didn't have enough time to prioritise prisoners. Unfortunately, the meteorite was coming quicker than predicted, so the 'copter was pulled out, only to be apparently struck by the meteor. As a result, everyone from the island needs to be contained or killed if they won't be contained. He thanks him for his surrender, as the nurse sticks a syringe into his arm and takes a blood sample.

The survivors cease their running and Zach uses his powers to make a tunnel in the cliff face as they go inside, staying close to the entrance. Zach sees fives blue balls of fire streak across the sky. As they impact somewhere in the near distance, he hears the scream of the spider and says “Thats not good.”

End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:49 pm

(A week late, but never mind.)

Season 2, Episode 4- “Power Corrupts.”

The episode begins with a view from the eyes of someone drowning underwater, bubbles drifting up in front of the camera, lightning flashing in the air, dimmed by the waves between them and the viewer. The viewer then sees hands raised in front of the camera, trying to swim to the surface, merely inches from it. Then the hands blur with enhanced speed. The camera pans above the waves, as Ben, the superhumanly fast seaman from the first game, who was last seen presumed dead, crests the waves and takes a big gulp of breath. He looks around him, as the lightning bolts rage down from the sky, and the waves continue to roil. He then chooses a direction, and swims at superhuman speed as the episode titles play.
The camera then continues with Ben as he swims to the beach with the wrecks, the devastation left by the fracas between the military and the other super-powered. As he reaches the shore, he slows his swimming speed, keeping eyes above the water but otherwise remaining submerged, trying to go unseen. He manages to emerge from the water without attracting attention. He finds three dead soldiers in containment suits, two with broken spines and twisted limbs, and the other has cracked his head open on a rock (and their brain matter is exposed.) He strips one of the dead soldiers, tearing off all of his wet clothes, and puts on the soldier's uniform, flak jacket and even his containment suit, as well as taking his weapons (despite discovering them to be a nerf gun and a cap gun, he keeps them anyway) and also takes a frag grenade and a smoke grenade. He then sees tyre tracks along the beach, in front of the bizarre unnatural wall, and decides to follow them, as he goes pounding along the beach at around the speed of an automobile. He fails to notice the five blue fiery trails in the sky, seen at the end of last episode. He does however hear the horrifying scream of the spider, in the direction he is going. Yet, seemingly now thinking himself indestructible, he carries on, though at a slower pace, to investigate.

The action cuts to Zach and the others, as Zach hears the spider's scream and says “That can't be good.” He also explains about the lights in the sky that only he saw, and his thoughts that there might be more meteors, and Joe at least partially confirms the theory when he surmises that the blue fire likely means something burning up in the atmosphere. The group generally agrees that going out of their cave with the spider about would not be clever at all, so they decide to remain in the cave. Joe decides to experiment with his powers, now that he possesses Harken's, whilst Zach suggests a game of cards to pass the time. Zach plays with Carter and Leviathan, whilst Joe concentrates on Zach, and Zach wins effortlessly, whilst Carter points out that his card hands seem to be 'impossible', and the two start trading the usual insults between each other. Zach does some experimenting with his own powers after he grows tired of hearing Carter whining about his wound from the propeller blade. Though he could heal Norman's injuries, being unable to see them, he manages to seal over Carter's wound, and after a comment by Carter, turns his back to metal as well, leading Leviathan to request a a metal finger. Antics abound as they start to discuss Zach's 'code name' of 'Tuxedo Man', and Zach proceeds to shoot down any suggestions Carter makes, as the man continues to get annoyed at Zach, and shuts his powers off temporarily, causing their rivalry to continue. Joe renames Leviathan 'Double Take', which he seems to approve of.

Events then cut to where we last left Daniel Anderson, cuffed to a chair in a military quarantine tent. Simms has left the central space where Daniel is, but Anderson notes that there are many other sections to the tent and sees that Simms has gone into a room with several people within it, that it sounds like he is briefing, though Daniel can't hear the words spoken. He notices that Greg and Gerald are being kept in adjoining rooms, and that Greg seems to be begging them not to touch him, and that Gerald is being loudly defiant, though neither of them seem to be hurt. Daniel also notices another section of the tent where there appears to be someone lying unmoving on a table. Daniel then hears the shriek of the Spider, and notes from several shocked reactions, that the soldiers and doctors do as well. Daniel calls Simms out to speak, and Simms does so, though rather grudgingly, with the several soldiers he was briefing watching, amusedly. Daniels asks if Simms heard the noise, and then explains that its the Spider he was talking about, and that its quite capable of killing everyone in the base. Simms adheres to Daniel's warning to some degree and instructs one of his soldiers to ensure that all of the soldiers are aware of the potential threat and that the perimeter is secure, but, he makes no intonation that he is going to abandon the base as Daniel seems to think that he should. Daniel criticises that he isn't taking him seriously, which gets a very angry response from Simms, who then stalks away to go back to briefing his scientists and soldiers.

Ben continues his run down the beach, stopping completely as he hears a second scream. After some pause, he hears some other sounds striking the ground, and then nothing. He then slowly and quietly continues his way up the beach, and then hears the flow of a river, and a small waterfall, trickling into the sea. He notes that there are rocks placed across the river and attempts to cross them. As he attempts to cross the river, dashing over the rocks at enhanced speed, he slips backwards and slams his head on a rock, which shatters in half. Ben, however, seems completely unharmed, as he gets to his feet and crosses the river. He sees some kind of moving shape ahead of him in the darkness, and then a bizarrely shaped, strangely burning sword flies at him. The sword embeds in his throat; the sword looks advanced, with heat flowing up the blade from the hilt through several channels in the metal. The blade seems to get stuck after breaching Ben's hardened skin, causing the wound to smoke horrifically. Ben tries to tear the sword out but fails, and as he sees a pair of metallic footsteps coming towards him, he runs back where he came. After repeated attempts, he eventually tears the blade out, but the pain of the act causes him to collapse in agony. After repeated attempts, over several minutes, he pulls himself to his feet, and leaving the blade behind, he runs off down the beach, having outran his mysterious pursuer.

The prison escapees decide that they need to go and get help for Norman as soon as they can, as they don't know the breadth of his injuries, but he still remains unconscious. As they don't know the exact way to the nearby village, and because it is so dark, they decide to go and raid the nearby wrecks to see if they can get medical supplies to help Norman. Zach uses his power to create umbrellas for the group; in his continuing mocking relationship with Carter, he turns his umbrella pink, and in Carter's typical way, he becomes furious, and as a result, Zach's power shuts down, including all of his creations. Carter punches Zach hard across the face, cracking his jaw, warning him to not try any more of his mockery, or it will really hurt. With his powers gone, Zach's usual confidence instantly fades and the loss of his defiance stops Carter from hurting him any more, his warning given. They set off down the beach back to the helicopter wrecks, where they attract the attention of sentries left by General Simms, who demand the imminent surrender of the escapees. Joe works out where there voices are roughly coming from and squeezes off five shots, miraculously killing four soldiers. Zach creates a floodlight at the top of the cliff, lighting up the remaining soldier who gets shot between the eyes by Joe.

With Simms gone again, Daniel asks one of the soldiers if there is a toilet. The soldier laughs and tells him that there is a cliff face he can piss off, not trusting him alone in a toilet. Four soldiers accompany Daniel outside, once they put him in a basic white medical containment suit, and trot him out of the military camp with a gun barrel against his back. Once he gets to the cliff edge, he decides to make his escape as he attempts to grab the gun barrel on his right. The soldier behind him notes the movement, and fires without question, as Daniel tumbles off of the cliff edge.

Ben comes thundering down the beach towards the helicopter wrecks, and the escapees hear his approach, all of them clambering into a wreck and hiding. They watch as the seemingly super-powered soldier stops and looks around. Carter sees a flash about him, and informs his fellows with a whisper that its the guy that was on the boat fighting the spider. They don't reveal themselves and watch as Ben attempts to climb the cliff at superhuman speed. He climbs it well, but the movement at such great speed causes rocks to fall from the cliff edge, flinging him off, as he falls towards the ground. Carter says with confidence that he'll be fine, but Zach creates a bouncy castle, nonetheless to catch Ben. Carter then explains that he would have been fine, that its another of Ben's powers. Ben seems immediately unhinged as the others reveal themselves to him, explaining that he 'can't die' and that he was attacked 'by a robot'; the group immediately start to doubt his sanity.
The search of the helicopters yields some success but the medical supplies are fairly basic, not enough to give Norman the proper medical help he needs, so the group agrees that someone needs to go into the local village and steal some transport so that they can get Norman to a hospital or someone else who can help him. Ben climbs the cliff again, this time at a more human speed, and is doing so effectively, but is outdone by Double Take, whose adaptive powers allow him to simply adhere to the cliff. The two get to the top of the cliff, as Double Take's eyes adapt to both the dark and immense distance, telling them that the village is visible on the other side of the forest, but looks like it will not be a walk they can make before it starts getting light, and the group are in vast need of rest. The group agree that Ben should use his enhanced speed to get into the village as quickly as possible, and come back with a car, which he agrees to do, after Zach questions whether he can stomach stealing, the former ship worker seems not to have a problem.
Zach creates a ladder for everyone to climb to the top of the cliff, except the unconscious Norman, and then he temporarily summons 'Knuckles' to grab Norman, and permeate through to the top of the cliff face with him. The group all watch as Ben races down into the forest, as Double Take watches, tracking his heat signature, updating the others on his progress once he quickly passes out of their sight.

Daniel awakens with an aching back, but seems relatively uninjured considering he has been shot in the back and then fell from a cliff. He presses the skin at his back and finds it to be oddly pliant. He then slowly limps his way alongside the river, heading back in the direction of the beach.
The soldiers return to the base and tell Simms that Daniel is dead... Simms meanwhile has just had one of his scientists inform him that the particular strain of the virus in Daniel's blood seems to be constantly altering. Simms demands if the soldier visually confirmed his death, and the soldier rightly states that such a form would kill any man. Simms yells at the soldier, telling him that Anderson isn't dead until someone sees him die, and says he is still out there, demanding that they go back to where they last saw him, and bring him, whether he is dead or not. Simms then speaks to the female head scientist, telling her that he wants Anderson's blood tested immediately.

Daniel runs the ten miles to the village in ten minutes. He finds a farmhouse and a car outside. It is at this point that it becomes clear that he has never stolen a car before. He smashes his way into the car with a fist, setting off the car alarm. This alerts the owners of the car and the house. Rather than run away, Ben then climbs into the car, and fails utterly to hot-wire it, having no idea how to do it. A large red bearded man comes out of the farmhouse with a shotgun, pointing it at the car, demanding that Ben (still in military garb) get out of the car. Ben takes out the fragmentation grenade he stole and holds it up obviously, demanding that the farmer throw him his keys, or he will get blown up. The farmer throws the keys, as his wife watches from the window, screaming. Ben starts the car and drives it... backwards. The car goes through the stone wall behind it. The farmer uses this chance to fire his shotgun, but misses, as Ben then drives the car off down the road, the farmer in pursuit, as the wife continues to watch and scream. Ben, completely unable to drive, careens down the road and crashes through another wall, this time carry on into a sheep field. He then flies out of the windscreen as the car drives over him. Miraculously, he is still unharmed as he gets to his feet. The farmer runs into the field, and seeing the lack of grenade in Ben's hand, fires again, and again misses. Ben runs over to the wrecked car and tears the door off. He then grabs and throws the grenade, getting it precisely on target, blowing the farmer to bits.
In shock, Double Take relates these events to the others. Zach says 'he's on his own.'

Simms watches as his head scientist injects a mouse with Anderson's blood. He has a solider shoot it. It dies as you'd expect. And then the mouse is the next cage along hisses, as yellow fangs grow from its mouth and quills from its back.
Anderson stops stumbling his way along the river, dropping to his knees, as he recalls what has happened to him, and finally acknowledges his powers. The episode ends as he laughs 'I'm ****ing Superman!' as the sniper scopes of soldiers zoom in on him...
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:15 pm

Season 2, Episode 5 “Super Men.” (Part One.)
The episode opens with Daniel Anderson, as the soldiers on the cliff that have returned to confirm whether he is alive or dead open fire upon him... unfortunately for them, his Superman revelation has caused him to alter his physical form into a more muscular shape, which also appears to be bullet proof. When this fact becomes apparent to the soldiers, they toss a grenade near him, the explosion of which, tossing him into the nearby river. He remains unharmed, and swims his way downriver, as the bullets splash in the water around him.

A new character, Hamish McCrae appears, a simple, but well meaning, bear of a man with a particular love for the sound of his own voice. Alerted by the variety of unusual sounds for such a sleepy Scottish village, he has remained awake, and comes out of his house when he hears the car alarm and shotgun blasts, and is running towards the farmer's field when he hears the explosion. He gets to the second hole in the wall made by Ben's 'driving', when the woman of the murdered farmer comes down the road, crying and screaming for Hamish's help. The farmer's name is Conner, a friend and nearby neighbour of Hamish, and the woman, Patsy, is obviously hysterical. Hamish does his best to calm the woman, but nothing will work, but he does manage to convince to go back to her house, whilst Hamish attempts to find out what's been going on. Ben, still in the darkness of the field, starts stripping of the clothing and armaments he stole from a dead soldier, and runs into the forest and back to deposit the containment suit, but doesn't have time to run the other objects back before Hamish comes into the field. The only trace of Conner that Hamish finds is his dismembered hand and his cap, but, Ben manages to escape Hamish's notice as he exits the field to go and tell Patsy what he found. As soon as Hamish goes, Ben starts running the other pieces of equipment into the forest.

Having decided to abandon Ben, and realising their need for rest, the escapees decide to find somewhere to rest out the morning, as time creeps on, though it is still very dark. Zach makes them a hole in the ground to shelter in from the wind, until Carter points out that remaining where they are means that 'the nutter' (Ben), can find them, so they move into the forest below. Zach constructs them a 'hobbit hole' to stay in, and despite Carter's complaints of having no bedding or means to sleep, Double Take almost immediately falls asleep as he lies down. Zach complains of being hungry, something they can all agree on, and he and Joe both agree that Carter should go out and hunt them something, after he complains about not having a gun (as Joe offers to lend him to use of his pistol.) Carter says there may be rabbits around, but thinks there is no chance of him finding one or being able to catch one. Joe simply smiles, making a small gesture at Carter, assuring him that he can find something. Carter still seems incredibly sceptical, but determined to prove them wrong, emerges from the hole. Almost as soon as he steps outside, a rabbit skips across his path. Carter shoots, and kills it instantly. He gives the dead rabbit to Joe and Zach, in some shock. Not at all surprised and unusually confident, Joe assures Carter that he can find another. Carter turns, and another rabbit appears, which he also kills... and then is rather sickened as he turns to find Zach biting the head off of one of the rabbit corpses; Zach simply replies 'I said I was hungry!' Joe then encourages Carter to go and hunt one more rabbit. No more conveniently appear, so he goes off into the forest to see what he can find. Soon enough, the others hear Carter cry out, as he comes running back with a massive bruise on his forehead, diving into the shelter, yelling that someone tried to jump him. When asked who, he gets highly frustrated, reiterating that he was jumped and how dark it is. Despite all this noise, Double Take remains asleep. Joe and Zach discuss what they should, at first opting for staying where they are, in safety, until Carter looks outside and gets visions, saying that there are at least five men outside in strange black armour and they all have powers; one has Joe's powers, one Normans, another seems to be able to blur in and out of existence, another seems to have some powers of command and the other looks like 'some kind of ninja.' With this reveal, they decide to make their escape as Double Take awakes, as Zach starts disintegrating the back of the shelter, making a long underground tunnel for them to escape through.

Daniel stops swimming once he is out of range of the gunshots of the soldiers, and in an attempt to evade them, still in the containment suit they put him in, walks into the forest.

Hamish attempts to tell Patsy the fate of her husband, whilst she is of course incredibly upset, as he does his best to assure her that he will find out who killed Conner and bring them to justice. She tries to stop him as he goes out on his vigilante quest, telling him that she rung the local constable and he will be on his way, but Hamish doesn't seem to hold much stock in him and heads back to the field. He knows that someone is in the field from all the movement of the sheep; Ben is there trying to move out that last bits of incriminating soldier's equipment. Hamish spots Ben and calls after him, causing Ben to run down the bottom of the field with the last of the equipment he is carrying and off into the forest below. Hamish runs after him, but loses him almost instantly. Hamish finds Ben easy to follow though, as his enhanced speed leaves heavy footsteps and results in a lot of obviously broken foliage. He follows Ben's trail deep into the forest, and hears him when he starts running back in his direction, but Ben also hears Hamish and comes to a halt, as Hamish addresses him and also recognises him; it is revealed that Hamish also works on the prison boat doing the heavy lifting for the daily deliveries but today was his day off. Hamish demands to know what Ben is doing and what he knows about this mad soldier, and Ben concocts a story that it is General Simms, a mad general after him and others and that he probably also killed Conner. Hamish doesn't entirely believe him, but stays with Ben, his only connection to what may have happened to Conner. The two head back up to the field, where they encounter the local constable, Owen McCarthy, also wanting to know what is going on; unfortunately, Hamish, on first name terms with him, isn't exactly being respectful towards the constable, as the two quickly get into shouting loudly at each other. When asked who Ben is, Hamish describes him as 'oh, just a crazy weirdo', which doesn't paint a good picture of either of them, stood right at the scene of a grisly murder. Owen tries to arrest the two of them in suspicion for the murder, causing Ben to run away at phenomenal speed. Hamish then berates Owen for making his one link to solving Conner's murder escape, to which the constable constantly reminds Hamish, that it isn't his job to solve any murder, but Hamish is continually defiant and mocking of Owen's policing skills. Owen tries to grab him to cuff him, but the larger man pushes him away and then charges off back down to the forest, declaring that he is going to get to the bottom of what is going on.

Ben goes to Hamish's house to wait for his return. It being a (usually) quiet sleepy village, Hamish left his door open, so Ben lets himself in, and spends much time enjoying Hamish's house whilst he is away. Eventually he gets bored, and decides to go back to the beach where he left the other survivors. He thunders over their tunnel, and having no idea they are below him, whilst Carter gets a vision of him and warns the others about him. The camera then cuts to where in the forest Ben stashed the military gear he'd stole, as the ground collapses where he'd buried it. The gear falls into the improvised tunnel created by Zach, after hours of marching. This happens just as Hamish and Owen are not so stealthily approaching the area, and Daniel is approaching as well, all alerted by both each other, and the collapsing area of ground. Hamish and Owen first react to Daniel, rather noticeable as he is still in a white containment suit. Daniel's recognises Hamish, as they also know each other from the prison ferry, and Hamish recognises Daniel's voice. Daniel takes his helmet off briefly, showing that he now has a completely different looking face of a Clark Kent-like persuasion, and Hamish thinks he's had plastic surgery. When Hamish calls him by his name, Daniel says that Daniel died, and that his name is 'Dynamo.' Hamish, despite how odd Daniel seems to have become, lets Owen know that Daniel is also an officer, though Daniel responds to that with 'not any more.' Owen is concerned by this, but more concerned by the hole in the ground and the voices he can hear coming from it. Owen turns on his torch and shines it at the hole. Joe uses his probability manipulation power to turn the torch off, but Owen already knows there are people down the hole, so he squeezes down it, bringing some of the ceiling down with him, as he chases the group, closely followed by Hamish and Daniel. Carter shoots at the officer's legs to slow him down, but only hits with a flesh wound that doesn't slow him, due to his immense fat taking the blow. He passes the gun to Joe, who hits the officer twice more, only with further flesh wounds, but it is still enough to make the constable fall. Hamish charges forward after the convicts as they retreat, Joe and Double Take carrying Norman on his stretcher. He stops Carter, not fighting him, but demanding to know who just shot the constable. Carter doesn't own up for, but stalls Hamish, as the others carry on running. Zach turns back, using his power to drop the soil roof of the tunnel on Hamish and Daniel, though avoids hitting Carter. With his back turned to Zach, Carter doesn't notice the save was Zach's doing, and yells thanks to Joe, which Zach responds to sarcastically. Hamish and Daniel burst their way through the soil piled on them, and though Hamish seems a little winded, he is mostly fine, and Daniel is still unhurt in his new more muscular form. Owen calls out, and Hamish calls back, telling him he's fine, and to go back into the village to get medical help for himself whilst he and Daniel hunt down the others. Owen rightly points out that he has been shot three times, but Hamish doesn't seem phased, and insists that Owen get to his feet. Owen manages it, and seems to start his walk back to the village with surprisingly steady steps.
As they are running after the others who now have a head start, Hamish explains Ben's story to Daniel, including the work of 'Simms', the mere mention of, raises ire from Daniel, telling Hamish that Simms tried to have him killed and that he is the enemy, and has captured some of their mutual friends from the ferry, and hints at the idea of going to the military base in the future.

Zach gestures at the ground above his head and rips it apart, creating a hasty exit for his group. The camera cuts to Carter, who gets a flash, grins, and then stops. As soon as Zach steps aboveground, something drops from a tree behind him, landing in the opening Zach has just made. The silhouetted figure stabs Zach in the shoulder with the same burning sword used against Joe in the previous episode, and then is hurled through the air, rolling down a small grassy slope, screaming out and clutching his shoulder, which continues to burn. Joe fires repeated shots into the back of the armoured warrior, cracking the plates at the back, and causing it to turn towards him. The warrior they face is clad in a black, segmented metallic battle suit, showing no skin, with a red faceplate visor across the face, where the blur of vague facial features can be seen, but no distinct features are possible to see. As Zach gets up and runs off into the forest, the warrior turns away from Joe again, then gives chase. Another then steps from the trees, with identical armour and weapon. It gestures at his pistol, which floats into the air... and is then crushed like a can. Another warrior also appears, gesturing for Joe to get on the ground, which he does so, before fighting the control, standing back up and deciding to run back into the tunnel. The other warrior goes after Zach, whilst the magnetically powered one waits where it was standing. Joe runs past Daniel and Hamish, as does Carter, Joe telling them that there are some kind of hi-tech soldiers, to which both of the do gooders assume its the work of Simms and charge out to the attack, picking the only visible target, the magnetic warrior. Hamish uses his mighty strength to grab one of the enemy's arms and hold the seven foot tall man in place, whilst Daniel enlarges the muscles in one arm and punches the warrior hard enough in the chest to dent and buckle the armour... and then he clutches his chest and passes out. Double Take runs past them, running to Zach, being pursued by six of the warriors. He leaps in the way to help his friend. Zach looks at him, thanks him for the help... and runs into the woods, as Double Take curses him for leaving him behind.

TO BE CONTINUED!
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:04 pm

Season 2, Episode 6 “Super Men”, (Part 2.)

The episode continues exactly where we left the characters last night, as they engaged in battle with the mysterious warriors...
As Zach flees into the trees, leaving Double Take with six of the seven warriors, Double Take yells mockingly at Zach as the metallic-armoured warriors ignore Double Take and continue on right after Zach, leaving only one warrior, grappled still by Hamish. The warrior holds out a palm at Hamish, and magnetically focusses on his belt buckle, forcing him backwards a foot, not far, but enough to break the grapple. The warrior then turns his back on Hamish, going after his fellows. Hamish notes for the first time (as the sun starts to rise and rays of light break through the trees) that , as the armoured warrior turns it's back, it has a massive, prehensile tail, also sheathed in armour. Hamish tries to grab onto the tail, and does so, only to get lifted into the air and flung onto his back briefly. Hamish, typically, will not relent, and yells after the warrior, trying to goad it back to him to continue the fight as it totally ignores him. Ben comes running towards the noise and then slows and sneaks through the trees, ending up the slope from Hamish's assailant as he leaps out at the creature, also goading at it to fight. Ben tries to bring his elbow down on it, but misses it completely. As Double Takes a step forward, the single warrior is almost surrounded, as it looks between its targets. And then three of the six warriors that went into the forest come back into sight, advancing on their new enemy. The magnetically powered warrior uses its power to float its burning 'sword' into the air and then hurls it at Ben. The sword barely misses Ben as he outruns it, causing it to sail over his shoulder and embed in a tree. Of the three returned warriors, one of them flickers out of existence and re-appears behind Hamish, stabbing at him, but he manages to avoid the attack. The warrior then distorts his body in and out of phase with reality, flickering in and out of solidity. The other two warriors stand waiting in defensive stances but don't make any attacks.
Double Take strides over to the burning sword stuck in the tree, closes his eyes, and lightly presses a hand to the blade, allowing his body to adapt to it after suffering the small burn, as his skin becomes oily. He then turns towards one of the warriors, showing he is ready for a fight.
Whilst is occurring, Carter continues to run down the underground tunnel away from the fight, and though Joe stops and sees no-one is following, he fails to persuade the criminal to slow down, Carter being convinced they are all dead. Joe shouts for Carter to help carry Norman, but Carter says that he is just dead weight and that they should just leave him. Joe refuses to do so, and focusses his probability manipulation power as his eyes glow white, and he manages to pull the stretcher all by himself.
Back at the fight, Ben concentrates on the magnetic warrior, repeatedly attacking it, and clumsily so, never landing a hit. Hamish fights the phasing warrior only for his hands to phase through once he seems to grab a tail. It then blurs further and a copy of it steps out, who proceeds to fight Hamish, forcing both to solidify. Hamish rams their heads together, but it doesn't seem to harm them, armoured as they are. Double Take attracts the attention of one the other warriors, who leaps through the air and stabs him in the chest; as the strike lands, Double Take's body warps, becoming more dense, and the oil from his skin immediately extinguishes the heat of the blade, leaving him without harm.
Norman comes to consciousness, and Joe removes the straps keeping him to the stretcher to allow him to stand, but he is unable to do so. Joe concentrates his power on Norman, allowing him to be able to stand, despite his injuries, as the three head further away from the fighting.
The fourth warrior steps forward, after the magnetic warrior seems unable to touch Ben, who though unable to hit with any strikes, seems very difficult to hit. The warrior raises its hand up, and Ben's sees a series of bizarre images in his mind, images of an alien volcanic planet, and of some kind of komodo dragon-like lizard, having its brain split open by one of the burning swords. Ben winces in horrid pain at the images, and hears the warrior say in a deep, disturbing voice. “You should have run when you had the chance.” And so he does so, leaving the others to fight.
Double Take's enemy gestures at him, and for him to get on the floor, and though he tries hard to resist, he is forced to do so. Hamish screams for him to get up, and when Take says he can't, Hamish tries to loudly encourage him, but nothing works. He picks up Double Take, suggesting to throw him like a caber, but cannot seem to throw the huge man, despite his muscle. The telepath approaches him, making Hamish wince as he sees images of a metallic wall, filled with more of the alien blade, and of one of the warriors from behind, without a helmet on, showcasing a bald, red, scaled head, as the helmet is placed on. As Hamish clings onto Double Take, who is yelling at him to run, advice he ignores, Hamish is repeatedly stabs. He hears the telepath say 'No Witnesses.' As Hamish drops to the floor, he calls out for someone to help him... as he lies, dying, he watches bullets rip their way out of the trees at the alien warriors, and sees a soldier move out of the trees to Anderson's unconscious body, before being cut in half by a flying sword...

And then everything goes white and rapidly rewinds. The camera cuts to Hamish, back running down the tunnel with Anderson after the others. Hamish stops Anderson telling him that if they go ahead, he will die, and the others will be attacked by the strange warriors. He doesn't say they are aliens, but does say that he is certain they are not working with Simms. The two agree to head back to the village, as only disaster lies in following the others, and Hamish is still more interested in finding Conner's killer.
Joe hears some of what Hamish says echo down the tunnel and tells his fellows, who also decided to divert their course, as Zach turns around back towards the village, making a new tunnel. As a result, they never meet the aliens.
Ben continues running through the forest, and as there is no fight to divert his attention, he runs back to where he left the others above the beach. When he does not find them, he runs back to the village. He comes across the back-up that the local constable called in, as he runs up into the field where he murdered Conner, and encounters a female inspector and a bearded constable. They fairly quickly try to arrest him, and though the inspector does grab hold of him, it isn't for long. Ben, unaccustomed to combat despite his power, tries to fight back, but can't land a hit so ends up speeding off, going back to Hamish's house to sleep.

Hamish and Daniel end up rejoining with Joe, Zach and the others has they emerge above ground near the village, the sun now shining, as it is around 9 in the morning. They are drawn to each other by their conversation, and as they are all exhausted, Hamish offers for them all to use his house, after Joe explains that Norman needs urgent medical attention at a hospital (despite being able to walk, courtesy of Joe, who is having to keep his power focussed on Norman.) They encounter the new constable, though the inspector is not there, apparently waiting for Hamish with Owen at his house, as the only current witness with regards to the murder, with the other being so impossible to catch. The constable tries to stop them breaking the police cordon and coming past him, but Norman magnetically pushes his car down the hill, forcing him to run after it, as they pass him.
They get to Hamish's house, where Owen and the inspector are stood outside, the inspector's police car parked there (unbeknownst to them all, Ben is still asleep in the house.) The inspector tries to have them arrested, but Joe pulls a gun on her and intimidates her to back off, whilst encouraging Carter to get in the police car and hot-wire it. Owen tries to stop them, only to be pushed onto the floor by the stronger Hamish, who then gets into the front of his own car, loudly yelling at the others to follow suit. A military helicopter flies into view as Simm's voice is heard; he tells the people of the village that any newcomers they see are bearing a very infectious disease and that the city is being put under quarantine. Everyone should go inside and lock themselves in. Joe, his gun still on the inspector, tells her to go inside and follow the advice. Ben is awoken by the loud announcement, and Hamish is surprised to see him as he gets into the passenger seat, and no-one notices him leave the house. Carter gets fed up at Hamish yelling at him to go when everybody isn't in a car, so when Double Take gets into the police car (which Zach has turned into a sports car with tiger stripes upon Joe's suggestion to make the stolen car more conspicuous) Carter drives off, swearing at Hamish.
When the inspector looks like she just might fight back, Anderson takes off the helmet off of his containment suit and changes his face, to show her the nature of their infection, and Joe takes off the shades Zach has created for him, concealing his still white-glowing eyes. With that, the inspector completely backs off, looking at her hands in shock, as Joe, Anderson, Norman and Zach are all forced to clamber into the back of Hamish's car. As they set off, the helicopter fires its assault rifle, but Hamish manages to avoid the gunfire with some amazing driving. Ben looks back, and is the only one to see six soldiers leap from the helicopter with bare arms which grow out bat-like wings, which he mentions, and everyone just assumes he is being as mad as usual. Zach looks back, and to slow the helicopter down, creates foam on the windscreen, as the helicopter spins round in confusion.
Norman is in great pain due to the three men in the back of the car squeezing against him, and so Hamish yells at Ben to get out of the passenger seat, as Anderson reminds me him that he can keep up with the car himself. Ben resists the idea, but everyone else is against him, so he opens the door as the car is still moving very fast and is flung out of it, going crashing through a stone wall. He stands up, dusting himself off, unhurt, as he sees the winged soldiers fly above him.
A pair of soldier's feet land on the roof of Hamish's car, as gloved hands load a pistol.

TO BE CONTINUED!
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:06 am

Outbreak Season 2, Episode 7- “Super Men” (Part Three- final part.)

The episode opens where we left our 'heroes', as the soldier landed on the roof of Hamish's car. (These soldiers still have gas masks and partial containment suits, however the skin of the lower arms and legs are exposed, and their feet and hands are only partially covered.) The soldiers extends out his toes, adding gecko pads, so they cling to the roof. He then moves forward so he can see above the front windscreen, and shoots at Hamish, shattering the windscreen and dealing him a flesh wound. The car skids, but Hamish manages to keep control, and the soldier stays clinging to it. He calls in the soldier teamed with him, who flies down the road, assault ready, as he lands on the road and fires, but the deceleration and kickback from the gun completely throws his aim and he horribly misses. The helicopter, blinded at the front, stops its spinning, hovering in place, allowing the machine gunner to fire, though Hamish's driving proves expert in avoiding the gunfire in every attempt made by the gunner. Zach uses his matter manipulation power to create grease on the roof, causing the soldier atop it to slip along the top of it. As the soldier slides off the roof, he manages to grab onto the back of the car, hanging off the registration plate before he hits the road, clinging on. Joe attempts to use his probability manipulation power to male the soldier let go, and though his grip starts to slip, he still manages to just about hold on. From still being squeezed into the back of the car, Norman once again passes out from the pain, as Joe continues to concentrate part of his power to keep him alive. In an attempt to avoid further fire from the helicopter, Hamish takes a left turn, bringing back in the direction of the village, but providing cover from the helicopter, unable to turn due to the obscured windscreen. The soldier hanging on the back of the car punches his hand through the back windscreen, morphs his hand into a tentacle and wraps it around Zach's neck. After gaining some insight into his own powers through the soldier's use of it, Anderson morphs a hand into a metal blade and slashes at the tentacle arm just as Zach is being pulled out of his seat. Anderson manages to slash off a tentacled-finger, but isn't able to stop Zach being torn out of the car, as the soldier holds him over the road. The other soldier comes pounding down the road at superhuman speed, firing at the car, but due to the kickback, is unable to hit whilst running at such speed, once again.
Whilst this is going on, Carter keeps his own car powering on whilst the helicopter turns its fire against him, and has no more luck. Two soldiers fly along in pursuit, but are unable to hit Carter either as they fire their pistols.
Ben is meanwhile engaged by a soldier that appears to be General Simms with Anderson's powers and his own modified containment suit, and another particularly large soldier, identified as Warlow. Ben angrily tries to take on Simms, but can't land a blow on him. Simms meanwhile grapples onto Ben's neck, turns his body to metal, and lifts Ben into the air and starts trying to choke the life out of him. Warlow morphs his hands into claws and plunges them into Ben's back. Simm then lets Ben go and drops him onto the floor, readying to finish Ben off, and the man unexpectedly leaps into the air... hundreds of feet into the air. Ben decides to find the others and lands back on the main road where he sees Carter's very obvious 'modified' police car and runs after it.
Realising that going back to the village won't help them escape the police, Hamish turns the car sharply round, and the soldier on the back, still holding Zach, clings on still. Zach looks behind him and creates a cushioned chair on wheels and attaches it to the back of the car.
The second soldier runs at the car, firing his gun and still unable to hit against Hamish's amazing driving. Hamish then drives his car into the soldier and kills him, smashing his bloodied body through the already damaged windscreen, covering Hamish's face in blood.
Zach creates several chains around the soldier holding him, and then anchors them to trees in a neighbouring field, a stone wall and also creates a giant stuffed bear as another anchor. The soldier is torn away from the back of the car and left hanging in a field from the chains, whilst Zach is thrown through the air and lands in the chair he connected to the back of the car. Hamish drives the car back out onto the road they started on, leading out of the village, following close behind Ben, as the helicopter fires upon both of them once again. Ben decides that the helicopter needs dealing with and leaps into the air towards it. The soldier chained in the field bulks out his body and bursts out of the chains, then he grows wings and flies into the air after Ben, seeing the helicopter in potential peril.
The two soldiers pursuing Carter and Double Take land on the roof of the car. They both fire through the windscreen and Carter takes a grazing shot with a bullet, and yells for Double Take to get onto the roof to take them on. Double Take grudgingly does as instructed as his hands morph to stick to the roof as he partially climbs out of the window of the passenger seat. He grabs the ankle of a soldier and tosses him into the road. The combination of deceleration and repeatedly bouncing down the road turns the soldier into a bloody smear. The other soldier increases his muscle mass and throws Double Take from the car, throwing him through a wall; though he takes no harm, he watches helplessly as Carter drives off on his own, unknowing, with a soldier still on the roof, as he drives further up the steep hill and out of sight.
Simms and Warlow leap into the air to pursue Ben, only for him to be above them, and so they land on Hamish's retreating car. Simms radios that they have targeted the Tuxedo Man, and orders Warlow to 'deploy the Cure.' They both draw pistols each loaded with a single dart and fire at Zach, trailing the car still in his chair. Warlow misses, but Simms is on target as his dart hits Zach right in the neck. His skin turns metal in response, but the dart manages to rip through it as it releases what appears to be blood contained in the dart, and then Zach's skin turns back to normal. Hamish swings the car left and right, and Simms and Warlow cannot gain traction on the still grease covered roof. Simms is flung off the car and lands partially through a wall, unmoving, whilst Warlow manages to grab onto the already hanging registration plate, and then throws himself into the air. Warlow turns himself into metal in mid-air and drops in front of the car, slamming both fists on the engine, causing it to explode as he ducks and takes the explosion as Hamish sails out of the broken windscreen and is flung about twenty feet up the road, and then slides another ten feet on his face leaving a bloodied trail, and not surprisingly, is left unmoving. Joe is thrown out of the back of the car and 'miraculously' avoids the fireball entirely and lands in the seat with Zach, just as the chains are blown apart and the two are sent rocketing down the hill. Warlow raises his head to see Anderson, also turned to metal, just sat in the burning wreck of the car. Anderson looks down and sees Norman, clothes smoking, but body unharmed.
The flying soldier flies left and right at Ben, but can't land a blow on the man as he hurtles past, and Ben ploughs past the gunner and lands in the helicopter, punching a hole in the left hand side of the machine. Ben grabs onto the gun and using it to knock the gunner out of the helicopter... who also has a modified containment suit, and shape-shifting powers, as he climbs right back up into the helicopter, turning his arms and legs into hairy bear-like claws, gripping onto the copter, slashing at Ben.
Warlow stalks through the car wreck towards Anderson, showing the full belief that Anderson is a criminal and a monster, and needs to be taken down. The two metal men lock arms with each other, unable to make any ground against each other, their strength equal. Anderson morphs their two hands together, melding them, and then he starts to turn Warlow to glass. Down the road, Zach stops the potentially deadly descent down the road by turning the bottom of the chair into Knuckles, as he stomps his way up the road, carrying Joe and Zach... until a leg shatters, and then piece by piece, Knuckles shatters as Zach clutches his chest. As his tuxedo turns back to his orange prison jumpsuit, Zach panics, telling Joe he's lost his powers as he touches at the wound in his neck, and the blood contained in the dart.
In the air, the flying soldiers reports his findings (heard only on his his side by the audience) as he flies back to the army base after reporting that at least half the team is down, and the helicopter under attack. As the soldier flies, the helicopter spins round and round, and Ben is left hanging out of the hole, hands gripping onto the slowly tearing metal as he tries to hang on. He fails to, and falls, landing through the roof of a barn below.
Anderson concentrates turning Warlow's arms into glass, only for Warlow to fight back, as Anderson starts to turn to glass as well. Whilst the two are fighting in a bizarre battle of wills, Zach and Joe walk up to the car wreck and see Norman lying unconscious, and pick him up, moving past the fight. They see Hamish. Joe goes over to him and lifts his face, seeing the right side of his face ruined, an eyeball hanging out of the socket. Deciding he is dead, the two leave Hamish, and carry Norman out into the field onto their right.
Carter brings his car screeching to a halt, further up the road. He steps out of the car, gesturing up at the soldier on the roof. In a super-villainous moment, he monologues, explaining to the soldier that since he learned he could turn powers off, it got him thinking that he could **** with people's powers in other ways. Spikes pop out of the soldier's skin, which seems to surprise him. Carter then says 'lets see what happens when you grow those on the inside. The soldier is eviscerated from the inside, exploding into bloodied chunks. Carter gets back into the car and drives it up the road.
Anderson struggles against Warlow in his battle of wills... and loses. Warlow's arms and shoulders are left as glass, but the entirety of Anderson is turned so. Warlow then turns his arms back to metal, and shatters the rest of Anderson, as the pieces of glass fall in slow motion to the ground. The camera shows half a human face, made out of glass landing on the ground as Warlow's boot then shatters it. Warlow turns round and walks over to Hamish's body; also assuming he is dead, he walks past him, looking around for the other, hiding in the field just on the right. Hamish then staggers to his feet behind Warlow. He tries to sneak away from Warlow, but steps on some glass. Warlow turns around and squares off against Hamish. Hamish charges him. Zach and Joe see that Hamish is still alive, but as Zach seems to think its clear that Hamish is unkillable, he decides to carry on retreating. Joe watches as Hamish tries and fails to grapple and lift the soldier and decides to give him a hand, concentrating on Warlow, who seems to have his balance weakening as he fights Hamish and drops to one knee. Hamish then grabs the soldier, lifts him up, despite him still being made of metal and throws him at the ground... which seems to distort as the soldier goes through it.

The powered gunner in the copter orders the pilot to land in the road. Though Ben doesn't seem to have come out of the ruins of the barn, the gunner knows from experience that he most certainly isn't dead. He stalks his way across the field, reaches the burning ruin of the barn, and starts tearing his way through the rubble with claws until he minds Ben's unconscious body. He takes out a syringe, and takes a sample of Ben's blood. He then deposits it in a pouch and reaches for a magnum. As he reaches down to the holster, Ben awakens, and quickly swipes the syringe. Just as the gunner goes to shoot him, Ben leaps up into the air, as the heavily accented Scottish soldier curses, having a particular beef with Ben now. Ben looks at the syringe of blood as he leaps his way, and decides to drink it.

Carter drives his car, whooping in success for having escaped, fist-pumping the air, as he turns a corner and comes across the military blockade. Twenty soldiers, and then more in an APC with a mounted machine gun. The car screeches to a halt as bullets rain down upon it, and bloods seeps down the driver's door.

Zach looks up to see Ben leaping down towards Joe, Norman and Hamish, as Hamish comes into the field; 'Oh no, its him again' sighs Zach. Hamish shows confusion at what he did to Warlow, and Joe explains that he got the soldier's blood and so now his powers are different. Ben explains why he has an empty syringe and about the soldier taking his blood, and Zach slaps his face when he realises Ben had a sample of his own blood, as Zach says that he has no powers, so needs someone else's powers to get new ones.

Double Take comes striding up the road. He sees the soldiers. He sees them dragging Carter's corpse out of the car. He yells out Carter's name, and he increases his stride towards the soldiers. He call for him to stop, he ignores them. They fire a bullet. He takes it, and increases his stride into a run. Then bullets rain down on him. They bounce off.

End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:52 pm

Outbreak Season 2, Episode 8- “Public Enemies.”

The episode begins where we left Double Take, striding at the soldiers in fury, as bullets rain upon him to no effect. The camera then cuts to Hamish, Joe, Zach and Ben (with the still unconscious Norman) as they hear the enemy fire continue to rain down from further up the road, reasoning that Carter and Double Take must be in trouble. Ben is eager to go and help (or more accurately, to go and fight more soldiers), but Zach isn't concerned, convinced Double Take can take them. He is busier worrying about himself, trying to think of a way to get his powers back. The soldiers shooting at Double Take call for a bazooka and fire a rocket at Double Take; the rocket soars past him, but catches him in the edge of the explosion, throwing him partially burned to the ground. Hamish is meanwhile puzzling about his altered powers, and then realises that he must have thrown Warlow through time, which gives Zach a eureka moment. He excitedly tells Hamish that he can throw him back through time and send him to get Carter's powers. Meanwhile, Double Take gets back up, the right side of his face and his right arm burned, he staggers towards the soldiers still with a distinct limp, as his clothes cling to his presumably also burned right leg. A soldier throws a grenade at his feet, and Double Take is thrown backwards through the air.
A silenced bullet fires and takes off Hamish's hanging eyeball. Zach and Hamish rush into the nearby copse of trees for cover, whilst Joe is still in the field, hauling Norman and Ben leaps off once again. Zach then quickly shares with Hamish his plan; Zach doesn't explain precisely how he can get hold of these powers (by tasting blood, of course), which Hamish seems a little confused about, but Zach does explain that Carter was unconscious on the beach after taking the end of a rotor blade through the back, and that he could get to him at that time, get his powers and not alter anything further than that.
Double Take stands up again, no more harmed than before, and continues the inexorable limping march towards the soldiers. They call through on the radio, calling for supersoldier assistance, as nothing will take down the 'infected' before them. The camera cuts to Simms extracting himself from a stone wall, responding to the affirmative. Down the road, the other remaining supersoldier at the scene is going back to the helicopter, as Simms orders him to come with him to engage Double Take, and orders the helicopter back into the air for covering fire.
Zach tells Hamish to send him back about an hour before midnight, and that should be enough time. So Hamish grabs and Zach and hurls him at the ground and rather literally through time. Zach lands on the ground, still in the grassy copse. It is night, and the rain is pouring down, the storm still going on. He steps out of the wood and looks at the village, and to the west, where he can see the many spot-lights of the fleet of many helicopters as he heads down into the village.
Back in the present, Hamish gets grabbed round the neck from behind, as Warlow explains that Hamish should have thrown him further back in time than three minutes. And then Hamish himself gets thrown, through a tree, which splinters apart, and is cast out into the field, landing not far from Joe, unconscious as he hits the ground. Joe tries to defend both Norman and Hamish, both unconscious, as he has an ensuing gun battle with Warlow. As Joe is focussing part of his power on Norman, he can't hit the supersoldier at all, but neither can Warlow hit Joe, as he strides across the field, firing his sniper rifle.
Ben lands in the road behind the military blockade, seeing the soldiers stood around the APC. He leaps onto the back of the machine gunner's position, and snaps his neck, and then throws his corpse casually aside. He then takes control of the machine gun and sweeps it around at the soldiers. He has the strength to hold it in place due to the kickback, but no skill at firing such a weapon, and so his accuracy is low, though he does manage to kill two of the soldiers as most of them take cover from the obvious sweeping pattern he employs. The soldier turn on him with a massive barrage of machine gun fire, but the bullets bounce off without harm as he laughs maniacally and continues to fire. Double Take gets in close range of some of the soldiers, as one of them stabs a knife into his right shoulder, drawing blood. The soldiers cries out triumphantly that he can still be stabbed, as another stabs the criminal, and the knife shatters, as Double Take's skin hardens and he says 'Sorry, it won't take.' The soldiers then scatter as a buffalo sized Simms comes storming down the road and slams into Double Take. Neither seems able to harm the other as they exchange heavy blows with each other. Simms morphs his hands into claws and slashes at Double Take, though that has no more effect on the laughing Jamaican/Scotsman. Bored with his own fight, Ben looks up, and sees the other supersoldier flying above. He grins, and leaps at him to take him on, as he sees the helicopter rising in the background.

Back in time, Zach heads his way down into the village during the night's storm. As he walks past a bus stop, the hermit who sits inside notices Zach, and decides to follow him. Unable to get rid of the hermit after a few verbal tries, Zach just leaves him to follow, as he heads out of the village into the forest. As Zach watches the helicopters fly far ahead of him, and hears they explode miles in the distance as he walks through the forest he sighs and curses Hamish for not sending him back early enough. He then decides to tell the hermit, called Thomas, or Tom, as Zach calls him, everything that has happened, just to talk (though he leaves out his own acts of minor cannibalism.) The two walk on for hours, until Tom stops, convinced he can hear something in the trees. He looks up to see one of the suited aliens, staring right down at him. (The same aliens who stalked the team and had killed Hamish, until he reversed time and ensured the team never met them... this is what happened to them instead.) Tom gets the same psychic flashes is in his head received by the others previously and the same words in English of 'no witnesses' as is drops out of the tree. Tom decides to run. Zach, ahead of him, seeing Tom, also runs, and keeps ahead and out of sight of the aliens, as six drop from the trees, all descending on Tom as Zach disappears off in his own direction.

Warlow ignores Joe's pathetic shots as he walks over to Hamish, and repeats to the unconscious man that he should have sent him back in time and that he better deal with him before he does. He then shoots Hamish point blank in the face, blowing his face off, as the camera shows in slow motion the exposed brain for a moment, as its blurs white, and something seems to blur into Warlow, as he staggers back... and then talks to Joe, in Hamish's clear voice, and looks down at his own body. He fights against Warlow's will and then tosses back Warlow's own mind so far back in time, that the Earth hasn't even formed yet. Warlow body's tears off the gas mask and morphs its face into Hamish, as Hamish tells Joe that he has full control and suggests that they head back to the village and take shelter, after Joe reiterates that getting through all the military to a hospital such a massive distance away will be near impossible.
Ben misses the super-soldier, leaving him exposed in mid-air as the helicopter fires a rocket, throwing him at the ground, as the super-soldier lands to fight him.

As an alien teleports in front of him, Tom readies his stick and swings it at the alien... as it shatters off of its armour, as the alien stands and draws its bizarre sword. Tom runs around it, and tries to escape as it teleports in front of him again and stabs him in the belly. As Tom screams out, everything slows down. He hears his own massively slowed scream, he sees the steam from the blade rising incredibly slowly, it sounds almost like gunshots as each raindrop hits the ground. He decides to walk away, and does so, realising that he can't feel the rain against his skin. He then turns around and sees his own body being stabbed and looks down at the transparent version of himself that has left his body. He walks his seemingly ghostly form over to the alien stabbing his physical body and plunges a hand into a face, screaming at him, as the alien recoils in pain. Keeping his hand phased through the face, he then commands the alien to attack one of the other aliens. Then time speeds up and Tom collapses to the floor, passing out from the pain. Rather than turn to finish off Tom, the alien does indeed turn on and another alien, and the other aliens emerge from the trees, silently watching as the two battle each other, seemingly without using their powers.
As Tom lies unconscious, Zach is drawn to the sounds of the fighting, and watches, unnoticed. The uncontrolled alien has the visor on its helm melted open by its opponent's sword, revealing a humanoid, red scaled face, whilst the attacker has the torso area of its armour melted open, allowing the other to stab it and kill it. Tom awakens just the victorious alien is about to land the finishing blow, but as it drives it home, the other aliens notice Tom stagger to his feet. One of the alien blades is hurled at him, and the immense pain drops him to his knees and once again slows his senses. His second self extracts the blade and walks over to the alien with it, stabbing the blade into its armour. He then reaches his hands into the head of another alien and screams 'Run away!' As time reverts to normal once again, and Tom collapses for a second time, the alien does indeed run away.
Whilst the aliens are distracted, Zack sneaks over to the alien corpse. He bites its chest. And then he disappears.

Ben and the super-soldier exchange heavy blows with each other, neither able to harm the other. Ben then manages to grapple onto the super-soldier and throws them both into the air. He leaps right at the helicopter rotor blades with the screaming soldiers still in his arms. The soldier manages to disengage at the last moment, as Ben goes right into the rotor blades. They slam against his harden skin and the rotor blade comes right off. Ben back in the field once again. He watches as the helicopter crashes. And ploughs over him.

An alien stalks over and stabs Tom in the back, who is conscious this time, but in too much agony to move or resist. As the blade stabs down, time slows for Tom again, and without 'touching' the alien this time, he commands it to attack the others. It once again does so. Another alien grabs it around the head as it fights one of the others, and telepathic flashes blaze in its mind as it then drops to the floor. Tom takes a gasp of breath and tries to get to his breath once again, only to be once again stabbed, as time slows one more time, as the 'astral' Tom yells at them to both run away. Which they do. A few minutes later, with many wounds, but all of them cauterised by the blades, Tom staggers to his feet. One of the fleeing aliens has dropped a blade, and another lies by the corpse. He picks up both of the blades and staggers off.

The supersoldier lands by the helicopter wreck, tearing apart the burning pieces, looking for Ben. Across the road, Zach teleports in front of Hamish and Joe, telling them he has got new powers. He also explains about how he met the aliens, who he left fighting this 'heroic hermit'... who then comes walking up the field towards them, having spent several hours walking through the forest. 'That's him' explains Zach. Seeing the supersoldier tearing his way through the wreck, they decide they should probably do something about him. Hamish asks to borrow a sword and throws it at the soldier... and misses. Tom says that no-one is having the other one. Zach concentrates and teleports the soldier into the copse of trees where Hamish had sent him back in time. The soldier decides that it is pointless fighting them all, and flies up the road towards Simms. Zack then suggests they make a quick exit, 'but first!' The camera cuts to Simms, he hands turned into tentacles around Double Take's neck, trying to choke the life out of him. Double Take grins, as slits open up along his arms, and he doesn't seem to choke at all. Zach then appears, grabs Double Take's shoulders and smiles, asking if he can borrow him. The two disappear. The other soldier, identified as Murphy lands. Simms then alters form, becoming a much taller, thinner man. Murphy tells him what's just happened. The soldier that was masquerading as Simms then radios the real Simms, updating him on the circumstances, as the troop of soldiers head down the road, to find Zach and the others all gone, though Murphy says that Ben is still under the wreck, and probably still alive. The other supersoldier, Timson, then radios Simms again, telling him they have lost the infected accept for one. The camera cuts to show the survivors teleporting outside of a hospital.
The camera then cuts to Simms, who assures his soldiers that they have the village secured, and that they can take whatever powers they need. He is surrounded by hanging packets of blood, some marked with 'Simpson', some with 'Whitehouse' and most with 'Harken upon them.

End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:38 am

Outbreak, Season 2, Episode 9 “War Time.”

(This episode constantly flits between Ben's situation and that of the rest of the escapees. For ease of recounting, these two tales will be recapped in full one after the other.)

The episode opens as the armed unit and the two super-soldiers march their way down the road, coming across the helicopter wreck, still aflame. Murphy tells Timson that Ben is somewhere under the wreck; the two soldiers turn their skin to metal, climb the wall and head into the burning wreckage. Unseen by the soldiers, Ben crouches behind some of the wreck.
Meanwhile, down the road, the camera cuts to the smoking wreck of Hamish's car, and the glass shards scattered in front of it that were once Daniel Anderson. The shards suddenly start to slither together, forming a glass hand which clutches at the sky, and then the opening titles roll.
Ben catches Timson by surprise, sneaking up right behind him, unnoticed. He grabs his neck and twists it round... but there is no snap as the soldiers head is turned 360 degrees, as the very alive man calls to his ally for help. His screams are cut out as Ben booms out 'I want your blood!' and bites into the soldier's neck. Ben is then forced to release the soldier as he is gripped by massive chest pains, weakening him. His body distorts as his existing muscles grow rapidly, and other muscles appear. He grows in size by several feet, though his true size is diminished as his back arches forward. Two extra arms grow out of each elbow and his face distorts as a second, partially formed head starts to grow out of it; the second face doesn't speak, but the eyes move where the other eyes moves. The skin remains intact, though Ben screams at the distortion of his body, and the long rotor blade scars stretch and become more obvious. Down the road, the glass shards reform into a vaguely humanoid, but obviously not human, form. Anderson looks at his inhuman, glassy face, reflected in his own hands and breaks down in shock onto his knees. The soldiers have failed to notice him, their sight drawn, rather obviously, to the now 15 foot high Ben. Murphy moves behind Ben, morphing his arms into claws, but the slashing does nothing to affect Ben whatsoever and Timson's metal fists make no difference either. Ben grabs onto each of Timson's limbs and his head at once and then pulls, attempting to tear him apart. Murphy continues to slash at Ben to no avail, and Timson grow spikes from his skin, but it simply causes Ben to laugh in a horrifically distorted voice.
A rocket is fired at Ben by one of the non-powered soldiers, and the explosion seems to do nothing at all, and Ben continues to laugh in response as he tears Timson's right arm off and flings it aside casually. Murphy yells for Timson to turn to metal, as he follows suit, as he climbs up Ben's back and drops a frag grenade into his ear, leaping to the ground again. Ben shakes his two-faced head and the grenade flies through the air. Ben is caught in the edge of the detonation, but the wave of heat does him no damage whatsoever.
Anderson comes to his senses, somewhat, as he has flashes of memory of being captured by Simms, as he registers the army's presence and stomps up the road towards them, screaming out Simm's name in a monstrous streak, which immediately grabs the soldier's attention. The front row of four soldiers fire their assault rifles, though the shots bounce off him.
Ben finishes tearing Timson to pieces, and tells Murphy 'you're next!' Murphy bulks out his form, and repeatedly punches at Ben, who blocks each punch with his multitude of eyes. Murphy screams '**** you!' to which Ben responds 'you're the one that's ****ed!” and launches Murphy back into the helicopter wreck.
Anderson yells at the soldiers as the bullets continue to bounce off of him, slightly cracking him in places, but not stopping him. The soldiers retreat as he suggests, though the machine gunner on the APC still fires, blasting off a chunk of Anderson's torso and part of his face. In the background, Ben grabs onto Murphy, pinning his head and arms to the helicopter wreck. Anderson looks down at his damaged form, closes his eyes, and turns his glassy form molten, and he seals over all the cracks and rebuilds his body. As more bullets rain against him, Anderson punches out in anger against a nearby soldier. The hardened fist tears right through the gas mask and pushes it into the soldier's face as he drops in a bloody ruin. Anderson looks at his own bloodied hand in shock, not wanting to kill the man. Ben squeezes tightly against Murphy's head and causes him to pass out. As the soldiers retreat further down the road, to frightened now to fire upon Anderson, he finally notices the other monster that doesn't resemble Ben really at all any more. He watches as he repeatedly slams someone against the helicopter wreck, though he can't see who. Full of regret, Anderson busts his way through the stone wall and runs through the fire as he turns his body molten once again. He leaps through the air, as everything goes slow motion; he punches Ben across his double-face, instantly knocking him out. He then stops, realising that he has saved one of Simm's soldiers. Utterly broken and not knowing what to do, Anderson goes over to the monster, and tries to wake him up. When he is unable to, he sits on his giant chest and waits for him to awaken.
When Ben awakens, he is more confused than angry, and does not attack Anderson. As their voices are different and their physical appearances barely human, neither immediately recognises the other, but as they talk, they quickly come to realise their true identities, as Anderson climbs off of Ben.
They discuss what has happened to them, and how they acquired their powers after meeting the escapees from the prison. Ben manipulates the angry and confused Anderson into believing that everything has gone wrong since they met the escapees; its their fault that they've become monsters. Ben knows that they had taken Norman to the nearest hospital, and that is where they agree to go, as Ben picks up Anderson and leaps up into the air with him. (This was actually the final scene of the episode.)

Zach, Hamish, Joe, Tom, Double Take and Norman, finally regaining consciousness appear at the relatively small St Dunbar's hospital in Thurso. Since Joe has got bright glowing eyes, Double Take is obviously hideously burned and both he and Zach are still in their orange prison jumpsuits and Tom is carrying a really obvious alien sword, they don't exactly blend in as they stand right at the entrance into the hospital grounds, a main road behind them. A man drives past in her car, sees them, obviously shows some distress, and then carries on driving, reaching for his phone. Worrying about what might happen if this man spreads word of the group's existence, Hamish attempts to leap onto the car. As he is mid-leap, Zach gestures at him and teleports him into the front seat of the car... unfortunately, his momentum continues and he is propelled through the front windscreen of the car. Hamish's body seems to take no damage as it hits the tarmac, but as he stands, the car spins 360 and the rear of the car batters into him. The super-soldier's body he is possessing flattens against the car, and as he extracts himself from it, he has taken no injury. With new insight into the powers of his chosen body, Hamish turns the arms into chains as he comes around the front of the car and shoots the chains at the drivers, wraps them around him and tosses him into the round as his head strikes the tarmac and he is knocked out. Norman and Double Take, both very injured and needing treatment, watch on rather dumbfounded as Joe urges them to wait as Hamish seems only to make everything work. Tom decides to hide behind a tree, but doesn't make a very good job of it, as he still holds his very obvious sword. Zach decides to go and get clothes for disguise purposes, thinking of the nearest clothes shop and appearing in a charity shop. He teleports the old woman behind the counter into her own bed, and then sets about acquiring sun glasses for Joe, clothes for himself (which of course includes an old cheap tuxedo) and a shirt, trousers and long brown overcoat for Double Take, along with a large hat to help cover his burned face. Joe urges Hamish to make a barricade across the road as more cars are seen coming down the road, and Hamish complies, but not quite in the way Joe expects. Hamish, enjoying himself rather too much, tries to turn himself into a metal wall; what results is him elongating his arms and legs and widening them, then fusing them together and turning his face to metal. A woman screeches her car to a halt before the Hamish-barricade who booms 'None shall pass!' at her. This causes her to scream and then faint. Joe and Hamish then go to pick up the two unconscious people and start to carry them towards the hospital. Zach re-appears with the new clothes and he and Double Take remove their prison clothes and put on the new clothes. Another car breaks before the two cars now left across the road at bizarre angles, forming an unintentional barricade of its own. The angry Scotsman inside comes out of his car, yelling at the other cars, until he realises they're empty. He then notices Tom, and yells after the tramp, asking to know what's going on, and then gives hot pursuit when he sees that the tramp has a weapon. As he goes to run up the path after him, he sees the others, and calls for them to help. Joe responds, saying that the two people they are carrying are in need of urgent attention, and that's why they left the cars in the middle of the road, and they don't exactly have time to deal with 'the tramp.' Zach uses his new mass displacement power to create two copies of himself, who step out from 'behind' him and says he will send his two 'brothers' to move the cars for the man, who grudgingly accepts the help. The group then head into the hospital.

Despite their disguises, the receptionist is immediately alarmed by them due to the combination of injuries and the fact that Tom is still very poorly hiding his sword (though Joe does a better job at concealing his pistol.) Joe and Hamish do their best to calm the receptionist, and this seems to work, though it doesn't stop her pressing a red button behind her desk and doing her best to conceal a phone call she makes when saying she is calling through to a doctor. The receptionist informs them that the hospital is only a small one and perhaps doesn't have the best facilities to deal with all their injuries and that they are in the GP's building, but adds that someone will be through as soon as possible to help them. Norman looks down at his own chest, as he switches his eyes to the x-ray spectrum and sees that not only are most of his ribs broken, but one has punctured his heart; he shows obvious shock at this, which Hamish notices. Soon enough an Indian doctor (with a Scottish accent) appears and leads them through to see different doctors. Hamish and Tom wait in reception whilst the others go to see other doctors. Joe and Zach accompany the woman, Joe using his probability powers much like his first power to 'find' Zach's degree certificate, as Zach explains to a doctor that the woman who saw Hamish shape-shift is in fact psychologically unstable. After ensuring she won't be a problem through this ruse, the two head back to the reception. Norman is properly X-rayed, and the Indian doctor is amazed that Norman could be alive at all; the internal bleeding should have likely killed him by now. Worried that he is going to die without Joe near him, he asks the doctor to have Joe sent to him.
Zach's 'brothers' come back inside the building, constantly complimented each other and the real Zach. Hamish, noticing the receptionist's eyes constantly on the blade under Tom's seat gets infuriated with the man, and tells him to go and find something to hide the blade in.
Tom goes outside for about ten minutes, attempting to find some kind of receptacle, but cannot find anything. As he comes back onto the main path, he then sees the SWAT van, and the ten armed policeman coming towards him, identifying him as being identified of in possession of a deadly weapon as he runs inside the building. As they order him to to come out with his hands raised and to get on his knees, Hamish then pushes past Tom and stands in the doorway. He then turns his skin to kevlar and stretches himself across the doorway, as the police look at each other dumbfounded.
Hamish once again yells 'None shall pass!'

End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:39 am

Outbreak Season 2, Episode Ten , “Two Monsters.”

The episode opens with Ben leaping through the air, Anderson sat upon a shoulder (as Ben is now 15ft high), landing a few miles away from the village of Fallow's End. Ben questions the wisdom of the decision to go to the hospital, rightly stating that everyone will be running screaming from them, that they are nothing but monsters now, and that no-one will listen to them or help them. But Anderson is in a state of shock, unable to remember more recent traumatic events that occurred to him, and still leaving that the others at the hospital may be able help them.
Ben makes it clear that they should instead take on Simms, knowing they both want to take him down, but Anderson, despite past enmity, doesn't take the rise to this that Ben expects, and is instead, (rather rightly) fearful of the two taking on an army. Ben, insulted by Anderson's squirming, and slaps him across the face. Anderson suddenly shows a complete change of disposition and tone of voice, as he decides to join Ben after all in snubbing those at the hospital and going to take on Simms.

We cut to the hospital, where Norman has asked for the nurse to bring Joe to him, upon realising that without Joe's powers, he may die. Joe is in the men's toilets, wiping a runny nose with a tissue. He fails to notice that the tissue has blood on it, as he throws it into the bin. He then heads out of the toilet and is called by the nurse, as he is taken in to see Norman, and his doctor, Doctor Iman Shakur.
Outside, the ten SWAT police are arrayed in front of the entrance where Hamish is stretched across it, his skin turned to kevlar. He yells defiantly, which the cops summarily manage to ignore; despite being obviously freaked out, the Sergeant manages to keep his unit calm, telling them to act like this is any other op. The Sergeant takes out his megaphone and announces that they know that there is a man with a dangerous weapon inside, and demand that he come to the door with the weapon on the ground, get to his knees and put his hands on his head. The Sergeant then adds that they have five minutes. The camera zooms in on the eyes of Hamish's host, as they flash white. The face then turns back to that of Warlow's and the body returns to normal size and shape, collapsed in the doorway. Warlow's brainless eyes stare glassily at the sky as drool drips from his mouth. Seeing the way clear and indicates to his soldiers that it seems there is no need to wait five minutes after all. The Sergeant sends two SWATS to left and right of the building, whilst he and the remaining five head inside. As Tom was only just on the left of the door, the SWATs quickly surround him and demand his surrender. Rather than do so, Tom picks up the alien sword, and starts swinging it at the SWATs, as the police try to restrain him. Zach and his two duplicates step out into the centre of the waiting room and raise their hands. “We surrender”, all three say, and then, continue to duplicate. The waiting room fills to bursting with Zach duplicates who barrage the SWATs and bring two of them down very quickly just by sheer momentum and force of numbers. The police fire back, and the Zach's flinch as the bullets fly; their molecules displace as the bullets would otherwise strike them, causing the bullets to go through them instead, as one policeman going into the hospital and approaching the reception area via a side entrance is nearly gunned down by his own men.
Above, Doctor Shakur is obviously suspicious of Joe and Norman, due to the conflict down below. Joe and Norman both try and concoct a story between them, but the Doctor doesn't believe them at all, telling them they are lying. When Norman asks him to explain how he knows, the Doctor explains that Norman's breathing is erratic, his skin colour pigmentation has changed and his sweating has visibly increased... and then he admits that he isn't sure how he managed to notice that. Joe tells Iman the truth, admitting that they are from the prison, that they aren't prisoners, and that they are infected with a virus which has given them, and the Doctor, super powers. He then takes off his sunglasses, and shows his white glowing eyes, to prove the point. The Doctor backs away in shock, reaching for a scalpel behind him. Joe tries to convince the Doctor that he is safe, but the Doctor, not knowing to what extent he has been altered by this virus, is hardly capable of listening to reason. Norman looks down and uses his ability to see in the x-ray spectrum and sees the army of Zachs and the fight below, but, due to his injuries, decides to lie back and let things take their course, as Zach seems to have things in hand. Joe, unable to convince Shakur further, heads downstairs.
Though several SWATs go down very quickly, the Sergeant and another remaining policeman still attempt to grab Tom, as the Sarge orders to get the man out of there. He radios his other men, and calls them back round to the front of the building, calling a retreat. Tom manages to fight off the police, and then whips the sword upwards, as he cuts off the ballistic vest of one of the men, who staggers backwards, patting at his smoking chest. Joe appears at the bottom of the stairs, gesturing at the man, as he then trips over a small coffee table and bangs his head on a chair, passing out. The Sarge decides to leave Tom behind, and makes his retreat out of the door. As he does so, he grabs Warlow's comatose body by the legs, as the other SWATs run over to him, and begin hauling Hamish's prior host body down the path. The Zachs burst out of the hospital after them, as the duplicates surround the police, battering the police enough that they drop Warlow's body onto the path, as the Sergeant is frantically radioing in for assistance (not mentioning that the force overwhelming his team is an army of duplicates, of course.) The Zachs manage to take more police down, until the Sergeant calls for a continued retreat, and the remaining police run through the Zachs as they phase out of the way. The Zachs stop their pursuit, Zach leaving his duplicates to guard the front of the hospital, as he returns inside.

As Ben heads for the army base, he notices the army forces that have now headed into the village. Anderson makes a point that attacking the army base would be rather suicidal, but liberating the village may be worthwhile, to gain allies against Simms. Ben is convinced that they can possibly bring the soldiers onside by terrifying them into no other option. Agreed on their course, Ben leaps into the village, deciding to land on a building with soldiers within, as the soldiers make their way around the houses to enforce the quarantine. Ben chooses none other than Patsy's house to land on, as he brings the roof crashing down, killing everyone inside, including Patsy, Connor's wife. Having killed around ten soldiers in one foul swoop Ben, roars at the soldiers nearby, Anderson helping him to intimidate them, as the two monstrous humanoids do manage to intimidate the nearby soldiers into lowering their weapons. However, Murphy has already given Simms intelligence with regards to Ben, and so the soldiers are given orders to aim for his ears, eyes and other vulnerable areas, as his skin is bullet-proof; and so the bullets rain down upon Ben, as Anderson is mostly too small a target compared to Ben to be focussed on. But, Anderson does come under fire when missiles are launched from mobile platforms at Ben's head. Ben leaps around the village, smashing through more roofs and killing more soldiers, as well as flipping two of the four armoured vehicles in the village through the air by landing on them, as well as landing among groups of soldiers and easily tearing them limb from limb. Anderson mostly attempts to threaten the soldiers into surrender of joining them, but as they leap across the village, it is difficult to intimidate the soldiers enough as a wider unit, though it works in small groups at first, until they start causing Ben great harm with their aimed shots, especially from the missiles. Anderson uses his glassy body to create a prism effect, altering the shape of his arms to target the sunlight into a laser, ripping an APC in half in the process. Anderson is later blown off of Ben's shoulders by a missile, and gets his body massively cracked as a result. He managed to incorporate part of the ground into his form, repairing the damage done. Ben, does not fare so well, as his face is slowly blown apart, he eventually flees, leaving Anderson behind, as leaps out of the village off to the west, unfortunately, in the direction of the military base, where the APC containing Carter's body is heading, as they fire upon Ben, and bring him crashing down. Seeing that the fight is lost, Anderson burrows into the ground and disappears. Ben's face is blown open as the machine gun rips through one of his original eyes, into his brain.

Back at the hospital, Zach walks over to Warlow's comatose body, realising that Hamish is no longer in there. He gets help, and carries him upstairs, putting him into a bed. Then he goes to each of the escapees and rallies them for a united attack on General Simm's base, with the exception of the injured Norman, who he leaves to wait for the helicopter to the hospital in Inverness. He proposes to teleport his allies with him into the base to sabotage Simm's labs. They are discussing their plan at the front of the hospital as Anderson in his monstrous, unrecognisable glass form bursts out of the ground. Zach panics and gestures at Anderson; every time he tries to move, Zach teleports the body back into a standing position, essentially freezing him. Tom then charges Anderson with the alien sword.
Warlow's eyes blink. He sees a ceiling above him, looks around and sees nobody else. “Damn”, says Hamish's voice, as he goes back in time to the point where he jumped before, still stretched across the door before the police. Since Warlow's body remains covering the door this time, the police don't charge into the building, as Hamish calls inside for Zach to do something whilst he keeps the door blocked, whilst the police keep issuing demands towards Hamish.
As the fight has not begun as previously, attention is drawn to the police outside by Joe and Norman. Norman, without getting up from the bed, concentrates his vision on seeing metal, and sees through the walls, and can see the SWAT police outlined clearly. He concentrates, and sends eight of the ten officer's weapons floating into the air, depositing them on the roof, whilst the sergeant, and another officer, manage to cling onto theirs. Joe then stands at the window, deciding to aid his friends subtly, as he concentrates on one of the soldiers, giving them a very improbably timed angina attack. Doctor Iman Shakur gets more of an active demonstration of their powers, and stays back, still hanging onto a scalpel as before, though Joe assures him that they mean no harm, and tells Shakur the truth of the alien infection and being pursued by the aliens, and Shakur comes to realise he may be infected as well.
Zach looks outside at the SWATs seeing the confusion being sown, and draws his two duplicate 'brothers' into him. He then summons the sixty duplicates he summoned before behind the SWATs. They start to the fight the SWATs, but this time they don't have the ability to charge in and swarm as easily, so the police have more success in fighting off the very minimal fighting ability of the Zachs.
Double Take comes towards the fight, as it takes longer to trigger than before, as Hamish tells him to 'get out here!' Double Take gets enraged by Hamish's ordering tone, reminding him that he doesn't have the right to give orders, but Hamish won't back down, enraging Double Take.
Zach recalls all of his duplicates, and concentrates on the SWATs, doing what he did to stop Anderson in the previous time, but he does it on en mass. Double Take finally gets past Hamish, to find there is no fight, and makes this clear, angrily, to Hamish. Hamish tells him to go and 'deal' with the soldiers whilst they can't fight back, which gets a response of venom from Double Take, who reminds him that he was a smuggler, not a killer. This lengthens and embitters the argument between the two. Joe is drawn downstairs by the argument, and Norman, decides to come with him, and so Shakur follows.
Hamish ends up enraging Double Take to the point of Double Take striking him, but Warlow's flexible body takes the strike without harm. Hamish head butts DT, but the man immediately hardens his skin as the blow strikes. DT then hits Hamish... and again, and again, as he adapts further, growing spikes from his knuckles, as he finally draws blood upon Hamish's stolen body. When Hamish still refuses to drop or apologise, and Hamish then threatens DT, storms off. Zach tries to go after him, but is outpaced enough that he gives up and then confronts Hamish for getting rid of his friend, and a powerful ally. Hamish is quick then to calm and apologise, and claim that he can fix everything. Whilst the group all gather together to discuss Hamish's next mad plan, Shakur approaches Joe (having decided that there is no use in trying to defy these people) and points out the blood coming from his nose, and the fact that some of his hair is coming loose, are signs of radiation sickness. It becomes apparent that he has been irradiated from all his time carrying the unconscious Norman, not in control of his radiation generating powers, and so Joe is dying in the process of saving Norman, who in turn is only alive because of Joe. Anderson then appears, but as the group are all in discussion at the doorway and rather distracted by how things have gone wrong, does not receive hostile reaction as before, getting time to explain who he is, as his friend Hamish quickly recognises him. Anderson explains that Ben took on the military, failed and is dead; Hamish modifies the plan he was already thinking of, claiming that, if they can find Ben's body, he can stop Ben dying, Double Take leaving, and all of these terrible things happening.
He wants to time travel back in time through Ben's body, and he also wants to save his friend Connor from dying, knowing that Ben appeared around when he died, he says he needs to reach Ben's body, in order to go back through his timeline. The others ask if they can go back in time as well, though they do not make it clear to Hamish what it is they will be doing whilst he is trying to save Connor, but he agrees nonetheless. Zach acquires a smart phone as uses it to get onto google maps to work out where he needs to teleport the group to get to Ben's body, and Joe uses his science knowledge to make an 'educated guess.' Through the combination of Joe and Zach's powers, they teleport right by Ben's shockingly mutated corpse. Hamish chooses his warped powers to 'hurl' Zach, Joe, Tom, Norman and Anderson back in time. He then walks over to Ben's corpse and transfers his mind through it, back through Ben's timeline.

Zach and co find themselves in the pitch black, still at the same roadside. Double Take had watched Ben execute Connor, so they know that at this time, their past selves were on the cliff above the beach, so they decide to go to them. They have been sent back a minute before Connor dies. And so, in a line, they teleport in front of the past versions of (some of) themselves; of course, their past selves have just left a far less mutated Anderson surrendering to the military, and the group still has Carter and Leviathan, who are quick to note their absence among their supposed future selves, something that takes much convincing for the past selves to believe; eventually, they are convinced when the two Joes end up in an argument about how stupid it was for their future selves to meet their past selves, with the sheer amount of temporal paradox that will cause. The Zachs, ever egotistical, get on immediately, and the old Zach is quickly convinced he is with his future self and is intrigued by the difference in powers.

Hamish goes back to just a few seconds before Connor's death, having had no idea that Ben had committed the murder, so is rather surprised to find himself in Ben's body, just as he is trying and failing to steal Connor's car. Ben fights Hamish's control, but Hamish is able to take enough to control to open the windscreen and call to Connor is his own voice. Unfortunately, the not so smart Hamish, forgetting that he is in Ben's body, clad in a soldier's containment suit and armaments, and therefore not looking like Ben, decides to up front tell Connor, who has had no experience of anything supernatural, that he is possessing a man's body. Connor, logically, thinks its Hamish in a costume playing a prank, and won't run as Hamish tells him. Ben then wrests control, and throws the grenade, killing Connor, just on his drive, as opposed to in the field, as before. Hamish goes back again, trying to warn Connor through Ben again, and again failing, as Connor once again dies. Ben then drives off in the car, crashing it, as before, whilst Hamish transfers his consciousness into Patsy and runs after Ben.

The future Joe tells the past selves the following; the Carter is killed (he specifies that he dies 'heroically') by the military after they get super-powers, that aliens are after them and that they should avoid meeting a man called Hamish at all costs; he only causes trouble. He also tells his past self that he is dying by radiation, and educates his younger self in the use of his powers, getting him to miraculously 'find' lead on the beach. He then tells the younger Zach, who still has matter manipulation powers, to turn the lead into armour and to wrap it around Norman. Zach shapes into medieval armour with a lion motif. The future selves then agree that Norman needs to get to the hospital as quick as possible, so future Zach teleports their past selves right to St Dunbars. After this occurs, the future versions warp and then seem to disappear out of existence.

Ben emerges from the car wreck, aware that Hamish was somehow in his mind, and so runs towards his house. Future Hamish realises where Ben is going, but is not fast enough to reach him in Patsy's body. He exits it, sending his consciousness after Ben, only for it to be turn torn out of existence.

The past (and now only) Hamish is now at the front most ground floor window, watching outside, hearing the explosion, as he was in the previous timeline, as Ben barrels in, and grapples with Hamish, who doesn't recognise Ben at first, still garbed as a soldier. The fight goes into the kitchen, as the incredibly strong Ben knocks Hamish to the floor, and shoots him in the legs. Hamish refuses to lose consciousness, grappling for the gun, as he turns it on Ben, shooting him in the face, as the show goes into slow motion as Ben's mask flies off, the bullets embedding in the skin, but not penetrating him, as Hamish then knows that his old work colleague is trying to kill him. Ben then lifts up Hamish by the collar, and jumps upwards, smashing through the roof, as they go a mile into the air. He then drops Hamish. As Hamish's body hits the ground, everything goes white, as with his old power, as he finds himself alive again, staring out the window. He hides. Ben storms into the house, screaming for Hamish. Unable to find him, Ben turns on the gas on all of Hamish's hobs on full, and then leaves the house again. Hamish waits a few minutes before he emerges and turns the gas off. Incredibly shocked, Hamish calls the police, telling them that someone has tried to kill him.

Ben runs back to the cliff where the escapees were waiting after he volunteered to go into the village to steal a car. When they aren't there, he decides to go to the hospital where he knows they were heading.

Zach and the others appear at St Dunbars, still in the dark. Now without alien swords, horrendous injuries, bullet holes in clothing and with Zach still able to transmute the prison clothes into normal clothes, they head into the hospital, grinning, having succeed in their mission.

End of episode.

End of season.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:06 pm

Okay, so, as the team of characters got so split apart so that Hamish had never actually met anyone bar Ben and Anderson, this has thus caused a SPIN OFF series set in the village of Fallow's End, as Hamish finds a different way, and different allies, to deal with the weirdness facing him. Outbreak will also continue, but first comes QUARANTINE!

Quarantine Season 1 Episode 1- “Redo.”
The episode begins at about eight in the morning with Hamish being interviewed by the two police officers who appeared last season and were unnamed. The camera zooms in to reveal that the female officer's name is McKensie (the Chief Warden of the female detention facility in Outbreak Season 1 also had this surname), and her constable is named later as Threep.
Hamish is interviewed on what happened, as he recaps the end of Season 2 of Outbreak; however, in this time, he never actually fought Ben, and never actually saw under his mask, but he remembers what his past self saw, and in his trauma, confuses events in his confession to the officer, who is clear that there could have been no fight here. He is also further confused by flashes of memories of things that never happened to Hamish in this timeline. He knows Ben was disguised as the soldier, telling the inspector that he recognised his voice and physique, though this isn't the true way of how she discovered it. She doesn't think he is lying, but it is clear that he is traumatised (as he claims that Ben appeared at his house almost immediately after Connor died, which to her, would be impossible) and she says she will return to talk to him later. What she does know, is that whether this soldier was also Ben Harrison or not, he killed Connor with a grenade, which she has an eye witness account of from his wife, Patsy, who also confirmed his military garb, meaning there must be some military involvement somewhere.
McKensie and Threep team up with the local constable, Owen; McKensie tells the two constables to go house to house, telling people about the murder and what they might know or have heard, and to urge them to try and stay inside, as the killer could still be on the loose. Whilst Threep and Owen follow these orders, McKensie drives off to the army base to find out more.

Tom, from Outbreak Season 2, is re-introduced, as Owen speaks to him, but Tom doesn't know about anything other than the explosion, and doesn't know exactly where it came from. It is established that the hermit is quite well known around the village, and as Tom has been out in the night's storm, he is most certainly in a very ragged state. Not wanting to wish the hermit any harm, Owen unlocks his house for Tom and tells him to stay in his house and use the shower.
Threep hammers away on the door of a house, until an incredibly tired looking man, Robert James, is introduced, the local well-to-do 30 something school teacher. Robert claims he knows nothing of what happened the previous night, he didn't even hear anything. Threep raises an eyebrow, as he points out that there was an explosion, and that it was in the drive of the house beyond Robert's. Somewhat embarrassed, Robert reveals that he is an incredibly heavy sleeper, and seems genuinely to have no idea what is going on. Robert is in his dressing gown and goes back to sleep when Threep departs.
Owen speaks to another new character, Jonathan Shaw, who is also addressed as 'professor', and seems to be somewhat lacking in social skills as he writes away on a notepad, not making eye contact, whilst Owen talks to him. Apparently, he didn't sleep during the storm, but can't give any information on the killer.

Inspector McKensie drives to the military base where she sits down for a meeting with General Simms, and with him, is another new character, Lieutenant Craig Adama (to which many Battlestar Galactica jokes are made) who has a tattoo of the wolf from Nordic mythology, Fenris, on one arm. When McKensie questions about Ben Harrison and the soldier gear he has obtained, and his identity as a worker on the prison ferry, Simms tells her the partial truth, in explaining those who had escaped the prison as bearing a dangerous virus, which appears to have affected Harrison, and made him incredibly dangerous, as well as mentally unstable. He doesn't hint at super-powers at all, and Adama doesn't seem knowledgeable of this factor of the virus at all. Adama is introduced as a young man actually from Fallow's End, and Simms agrees to send him to the village to lock it down for the safety of the inhabitants, whilst the infected escape fugitives like Harrison and the others, are located. Adama asks McKensie very intently about the welfare of his own family, but not being from the village, and leaving the other officers to conduct interviews, she does not know, though Adama does not seem at all happy about this. He asks Simms if he can go into the village to ensure that his family is safe and everything runs smoothly, and Simms agrees to attach Adama to Warlow's team (adding Adama to the team of supersoldiers that appeared in the helicopter in the previous timelines of Outbreak Season 2.)
McKensie is interested in investigating the attack that Simms mentioned by those on the ferry boat, and Simms agrees to send a group of soldiers with her to investigate.

Hamish is haunted by flashes of memory that make no sense to him, being memories shared with the Hamish's of the previous timelines that have been featured in Outbreak, especially memories concerning Ben Harrison, and Warlow, making him both fear for his life, and due to Ben's military garb, fear the aims of the nearby military base. He feels that he must work out why Ben was trying to kill him, what the military involvement is and what the source of his strange abilities and visions is. To help him, he goes to get aid from others in the village. He goes to Jonathan Shaw, wanting him to use his logistical abilities to help, and eventually gets help from the recovering schizophrenic, though he seems very sceptical of Hamish, and convinced that the odd reactions Hamish is having as a result of his bizarre 'memories' is the result of him developing a mental illness of his own. They then go to Robert James' house, having to wake him by ringing his house phone in his bedroom, to get his attention. They end up going into Robert's house to discuss Tom's murder and the psychopath on the loose, and Hamish voices his paranoia about the military as well. In the end, they agree that they need the help of the local constable, before they go looking into any murder. However, before they can leave, the military helicopter appears, with Adama speaking through the megaphone about the village quarantine this time around, explaining that the meteor that crashed in the sea has borne some kind of infection and that there are infected prison escapees on the loose. The three ignore the warning and head off to Owen's house, and manage to circumvent the flight path of the helicopter enough to avoid being spotted, though they are surprised to find instead of Owen, Tom, having had a shower, being dressed in a towel, washing his clothes. Hamish is well disposed to Tom, deciding to let the hermit join them in their little mission, as he continues to harp that he doesn't trust the military, as he starts to get flashes of mutated super-soldiers, Warlow in particular, though he never tries to explain the flashes he gets.
Hamish suggests they go back to his house, and discuss things further over breakfast, even though it is closer than lunch time at this point. Adama spots them in the helicopter, and calls over the megaphone, reminding them to stay indoors. Warlow insists that he goes down to the house, and ensure that they aren't going to make trouble. Adama lets him do so, but it becomes clear that the two don't like each other, Warlow has a hair trigger temper and Adama seems to see him as a psychopath. Warlow and two unnamed super-soldiers come down from a wire, followed by Adama. Whilst Adama heads off in the opposite direction, saying he has something else he needs to check on, Warlow and the other two head for Owen's house.

McKensie is driven in a jeep down to a cliff overlooking the beach, following the river to the sea. As the soldiers climbs the rocks with her, they find what appears to be a roughly human sized, partially buried, metallic capsule.

Warlow and the two supersoldiers come into Owen's house, immediately suspicious, having noticed the police car outside, and the other evidence that this is the local constables house, and seeing the unusual occupants. Hamish, in his typical way, comes to a verbal disagreement with Hamish, and tries to grapple with him, only for Hamish to end up grappling Warlow. Hamish doesn't notice, but Warlow's muscles start to grow a little, as the two soldiers lock eyes with him, and then Warlow reduces the muscles to normal size. The soldiers point their guns, and Warlow manages to intimidate Hamish to let go of him, or be shot at. Warlow then tells him he is under military arrest, which Hamish reluctantly agrees to. The episode ends as the cuff comes down onto his wrist.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:29 pm

Quarantine Season 1 Episode 2- “Rebels.”
Craig crosses the village on his own, going to a house that is part of a terrace. He slams his fist on the door, as a man opens the door, and Craig steps inside, shutting the door, and then removing his mask. The man says Craig's name in pleasant surprise, and gives him a tight hug. The man looks similar to Craig, but is about twice his age, dressed in a white vest, military tattoos showing on his arm, and is revealed to be Craig's father. It is also revealed through their conversation that Craig's mother is ill in a long term fashion. Craig tells his father what has been going on, and tells him to stay inside and keep out of trouble; he puts his mask back on and heads back outside.

Warlow has not only cuffed Hamish to the radiator, but also Robert, Tom and Jonathan, who do make it clear to Warlow that his reaction is a bit extreme, though Warlow, highly amused by the situation, makes it clear that he doesn't care what they think, as he leaves the house, leaving one soldier to guard the miscreants as he leaves with the other supersoldier. Walking down the path to Owen's garden gate, they encounter Craig. Warlow explains to Craig about the suspicious four in the local constables house, but makes it clear that he doesn't really consider them any more than a nuisance. Craig volunteers himself to go and talk to them to find out what they were up to, which Warlow agrees to, clearly having had enough of Hamish after their brief encounter.
Craig enters, ordering the other soldier outside, to guard the door from anyone else being able to enter; the soldier voices some concern, but Craig reminds him that the prisoners are unarmed and cuffed to a radiator, and no harm to him, so the soldier grudgingly agrees to go outside.
As soon as the soldier goes outside, Craig removes his mask and says “Hamish, what the hell are you doing?” It is immediately clear that everyone knows Craig, and Hamish seems particularly fond of the lad.
Whilst the others talk, Jonathan is still making notes, and comments his own surprise at his neat hand writing, as he looks out the window, writing out troop movements as the military convoy rolls into the village. Two military doctors enter the house, and get agreement of each of the men present to take their blood samples. The doctors explain that the samples need to be returned to the base and tested, to see if any of them are infected or not, and if they are, then they have a means of curing them, which is why they need them to remain inside, to ensure that no-one is further infected. The doctors then leave to go and collect more blood samples. Hamish tells the others that he is suspicious of why General Simms would want their blood, as he gets further flashes of memories experienced by the Hamish of the old timeline, but does not explain that these are the reason for his suspicions. Craig laughs him off, fully confident in the General, and having no reason to suspect him, or believe Hamish's story, especially when he starts going on about super-powers.
Hamish urges Craig to go and find out more about the infection, and Craig, mostly to shut Hamish up, agrees to do so. Rather than speaking to the scientists he has already spoken to and raising suspicions with them, he heads across the village and goes to another part of the convoy, and using his rank, questions another scientist. He tells Craig about the attack on the beach by those who escaped the prison on the prison ferry, and confirms what Hamish says about super powers, though Craig's instinct is to not believe him, though the scientist is insistent, describing in particular the 'transmutative' abilities demonstrated by the one that the escaped captive, Anderson, recognised as the Tuxedo Man. He also tells Craig that they have in their possession a man immune to the infection, who they believe can cure other people that are infected. Craig thanks the man for the information, and goes back to the others, walking past Hamish's house as he does so, as a pair of hands rest against a windowsill, watching him, as Anderson's reflection appears in the window.
Craig returns with his information, and Hamish voices what he fears Simm could do with their blood, if any of them are indeed infected, but Craig still seems adamant that Simms will only help them and cure them. Craig then takes notice that Robert has been repeatedly scratching the backs of his hands, his neck, shoulder-blades and back. He then also notices, along with others, that the areas Robert has been scratching have become considerably thick with hair. Jonathan notices something more; the skin on the palms of Robert's hands have become thicker and segmented, and his nails longer. To demonstrate his point, when Robert doesn't believe he has anything more than a massive itch, Jonathan drags Robert's nails across the table, and creates a massive scratch across it. He then gets Robert to (very grudgingly) poke a finger with a knife, which fails to draw a drop of blood. Craig starts to panic, realising that he might be infected with whatever the virus is. Then everyone starts ignoring Craig, and addressing Jonathan, as if he had been saying what Craig had said. Jonathan points this out, receiving several 'who is Craig?' responses. Jonathan points to Craig, but the others seem convinced that Jonathan is seeing and hearing things, and needs to take his meds, which makes Craig panic more, as he yells at the others 'I'm here!' and they don't notice. Eventually, Craig calms, and to the others, he appears out of nowhere... which causes Craig to panic, and thus, disappear from existence, to everyone but Jonathan. Jonathan gets everyone to be quiet, and they do so, allowing Craig to become noticeable again.
The group agree that they need a larger base of operations if they are going to be able to act on Hamish's suspicions about the military's treatment of the infection, and, as the village pub's garden is behind Owen's house, they agree that that would be the best place to make it to. Jonathan has been monitoring the flight patterns of the helicopter, which all the super-soldiers have now returned to, after Craig insists over radio that he is continuing to interview his 'captives' and can handle them himself, and Robert works out how long they have to exit the house before the helicopter circles back and sees them. They agree to go one at a time, after each pass of the helicopter.
Craig is first across; though the helicopter is easy enough to avoid, there are still several soldiers about in eye line, going from door to door, but Craig uses his specialists stealth talents and gets to the back door of the pub, without being spotted. He opens the back door of the pub with a spare key which Hamish has, as a regular and trusted punter of the local pub. He sneaks into the kitchen, and through the little porthole in the door, looks into the bar area and sees the short but bulky, bearded, large stomached and rather angry looking Rufus prowling back and forth by the front door. Next across is Tom, who manages to be the very opposite of stealth, as he very slowly and clumsily clambers over the small stone wall ringing the pub. Soldiers on the ground notice him and radio up to the helicopter. Warlow in turn radios Craig, who guarantees that he has the situation in hand. Warlow, not convinced, orders the helicopter to swing around and to watch the pub for any sign of trouble. Tom makes his way into the kitchen, making a significant amount of further noise whilst he does so. He then heads into the bar area and ducks behind the bar itself. Rufus hears the noise, and turns, barrelling into the kitchen. Craig manages to wedge himself between the top of the fridge and the ceiling, as the angry Rufus stomps his way into the kitchen seconds later. Tom makes more noise in the bar as he goes to grab a fire extinguisher as a weapon. Rufus spins about, seeing Craig, just as he is silently climbing down from his hiding place. Rufus goes into a loud tirade of soldiers invading his home and place of work, focussed at Craig... as Craig then finds his feet leaving the floor. He goes directly upwards, crashing through the ceiling, and then through the roof, screaming all the way. Though the supersoldiers are watching, they only see the hole in the roof burst up and outward, they can't see the flailing, screaming Craig. Warlow radios Craig to find out what's going on, to receive Craig's screaming about going up in the air. Warlow has the helicopter swoop in to the back of the pub, just as Hamish is leaving the house. Murphy, on the minigun sees Rufus, shaking his fists and ranting at the soldiers, the ceiling hole right above him, and takes his orders and fires upon Rufus. Rufus flings himself to the floor as the bullets fly over him, but takes a few glancing hits to his back. Rufus looks up, seeing Hamish racing across the grass towards him, calling out his name, as Rufus rants about being attacked by the treacherous soldiers, gesturing over at the helicopter, clenching his fist. As the helicopter falls out of the sky, landing on Owen's house.
Inside, Jonathan spins round, as the rotor blade rips through the wall. He leaps onto a chair and leaps out (and through the window)... hitting the ground on his back, rolling, not intentionally, but with the blast of force as the house collapses. Robert leaps out behind him as wings tear out of his back and through his clothing, but having never flown with wings before, they just propel him away from the ground, away from the explosion, as he lies still. Jonathan attempts to clear the wall, and does so, but still with immense clumsiness as he then awkwardly runs for the back of the pub.
Hamish comes into the kitchen just as Tom does so, using his first aid abilities and his immediate resources to stem the flow of blood of Rufus, whose ranting becomes very confused as he notices Hamish. Hamish tries to help Tom, as he goes over to grab the first aid kit, whilst Tom is using cloths to hand to do his job. As Hamish goes over to a cabinet, he hits his back like a stone. He seems to be fighting gravity itself as he climbs his way up the cabinet to then reach the wall to take off the first aid kit attached to it. He then turns to Rufus to administer aid; he can see Jonathan running towards them, and also the helicopter wreck, as Warlow rends the metal aside, as he and three others of the seven supersoldiers emerge from the wreckage. They draw assault rifles and walk calmly down the slope towards the back of the pub, firing at Jonathan. Jonathan twitches with the sound of each shot and manages to avoid being shot by each one, moving at the last moment. Hamish and Tom keep down, kneeling over Rufus, tending to the man as he passes out. Craig falls back down, and manages to grab onto the edge of the hole in the roof, and lowers himself onto the floorly safely.
Jonathan goes into the bar and starts pouring alchohol on the surface of it.
As the four supersoldiers enter, one is left to cover the three men on the floor. The other three storm into the bar, weapons ready.
The episode ends here.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:44 pm

Quarantine Season 1 Episode 3- “Hindsight.”
The episode opens to events 'not long ago', as Owen knocks on the door of the house on the right of his own. Owen tells the man at the door about the events involving Connor's murder and that he needs to remain inside. The camera then moves up the stairs and into a bedroom above where the conversation below at the door can be faintly heard. Lying on the bed, typing away on a laptop, is a spectacled, tall, skinny ten year old boy. He is an intense internet conversation, trying to find more about the meteorite fragment that fell the previous night; when asked if its the military, one of his net contacts, called LittleJohn (the child identifying himself as WillScarlett), reminds him that he's the one who lives near the military base, which is also where the meteorite dropped. The boy's father calls 'Ralphy!' has the boy comes less than enthusiastically down the stairs. The father, Adam, relates Owen's news to Ralph, whilst Owen still stands at the door. Owen attempts to be kind to the child and offers him a jelly baby, but the obviously highly intelligent child seems to lack in social skills and ends up calling Owen stupid and fat enough times that Adam sends him back to his room.
It is at that point that the helicopter flies over, forcing the quarantine, as Owen, exasperated that his house is simply next door, is forced to close the door and stay in the house. The credits roll.

The super-soldiers storm into the bar and fire at Jonathan. Rather than show the result, the camera cuts away from the scene, to Hamish, who hearing the shots, closes his eyes and concentrates. There is the customary white blurring flash and then a very quick rewinding of events, as Hamish opens his eyes, finding himself once again in Hamish's house before they left it, as he suggests that they don't leave the house yet after all, and try to come up with a more solid plan of what they need to do. In order to explain himself better, Hamish reveals that he is able to send his mind back in time, so he knows going to the pub will only end in disaster, and he believes that just leaving the building in any manner that leaves them in open view of the military will have the same result. To further defend his corner, he explains that he has already used the power successfully before, to learn from his mistakes.
Meanwhile, outside, Daniel Anderson is seen fully for the first time in Quarantine, sneaking, or attempting to sneak towards Owen's house. He manages to avoid the sight of some soldiers, but he doesn't avoid the eyes of an inquisitive Ralph Scarlett, who sees his head just over the garden wall at the back of the house. Having no sense of subtlety whatsoever, Ralphy starts yelling at Anderson, trying to ask who he is, and what he is doing. Rather than answer Ralph, Anderson runs to Owen's back door, trying to get there before anybody else notices him. Four soldiers, not surprisingly, are alerted by Ralph's shouting, and like in the previous timeline when the others were seen going to the pub, they radio Warlow in the helicopter. Warlow radios Craig as before, who once again assures Warlow that he has things in hand, and then silently warns his fellows that someone is coming in through the back door of the house. Hamish goes into the kitchen, giving out a cry of 'Anderson!' As as an officer at the prison who often did shifts on the ferry runs, Anderson is drinking buddies with Hamish, and though not a resident of the village, he is known to some, and the alert is quickly calmed as Craig tells Warlow a lie that the man has been knocked unconscious (and he certainly doesn't mention that it is the fugitive Anderson.) When the helicopter passes over, Ralph (donning his covert spy pyjamas) ties a bedsheet to his bed and climbs out of the window, going through the open back door of Owen's house. Hamish knows Ralph as well, confirming that he is known as rather a bright child, and having some rather unrealistic (but characteristic) faith in that intelligence. Robert is rather defensive of the child, as both his teacher and private teacher, constantly admonishing the others for swearing around Ralph (though Ralph swears a lot himself.)
For most of the rest of the episode, the impromptu team start to come up with a plan; they decide that they need to stop General Simms getting his hands on the infected blood samples, after Hamish reveals that his 'flashbacks' have told him that Warlow and his fellow soldiers are infected themselves, and from the description, Anderson reveals that they have stolen his powers by using his blood, which angers him. They start to form a plan to try and break into the military base, which seems to centre on Anderson's volunteering to use his shapeshifting abilities to find a way to tunnel them out of the village.
Whilst all this discussion is going on, Robert attracts more and more attention to himself, as he continues to scratch, and every visible inch of skin eventually gets covered in a thick, coarse black hair (causing Ralph, apparently obsessed with cats, to start calling him a 'werecat.') It is also clear that his muscles are becoming more pronounced, and he ends up getting immense pain in his eyes, forcing him to close them until the pain dies. When he opens his eyes, the irises are red, and his permanently sees heat signatures. Tom also notes bizarre points of muscle sticking out of the bottom of the back of his shirt, which are soon enough revealed as the bottom tips of wing muscles that have grown out of his back. Robert looks into the mirror on Owen's wall, and tries, upon request from the others, to open them out; the massively strong wings punch through the wall on his right, bursting through the plaster of the wall to the downstairs toilet.

Owen, sat watching the television next door, with a mouth full of jelly babies, hears the deafening crash next door, from his own house. Knowing only that Tom is there, he ends up yelling his name as he runs out of the house to his own, and is spotted by the helicopter, which swings round to get a better look. Owen opens the door, and sees Robert with his wings fully stretched out and feints in shock, as Hamish tries to pull him inside, the helicopter coming into view at that very moment. They see Craig rather clearly in the house, his mask off, with at least one obvious mutant, and several others who likely do not live in the house, and declaring Craig a traitor, Warlow orders Murphy to open fire with the minigun. Ralph goes up to the window, yelling mockeries and sticking up his fingers, as Anderson leaps on him, getting him out of the way. Craig goes to the same window and opens fire at Murphy, striking him, but seeming to do little other than throw his aim off as the minigun spins into life, whilst Robert is running upstairs. The minigun fires too high, demolishing the upstairs of the house, leaving little but Robert left as he instinctively wraps the highly muscular wings around him. The bullets bounce off the wings, harmlessly pinging off of the helicopter. Hamish concentrates, and jumps back in time, just before Robert flexes his wings and tells him to be more careful, avoiding the soldiers turning up whatsoever. He also has to jump backwards briefly when Anderson is demonstrating his shape-shifting skills, turns into brick, and then tries to cover Ralph's ears, accidentally crushing the ears, until Hamish ensures this event never happens.

Hamish gives Ralph the job to go upstairs and research through newspapers, as Owen hoards them, having newspapers that go back at least twenty years, trying to see if they can get any more information about things going on in the area with regards to the army base. Ralph takes money as incentive for the job, and goes up to Owen's bedroom; rather than do the job he is supposed to, he goes online. Jonathan, who has already identified Ralph's autistic tendencies and managed to calm his immense temper once, goes upstairs after Ralph. In questioning Ralph about what he is really doing, Jonathan manages to stress Ralph out, which causes the light bulb, turned off, to turn on, and then spark out, as the lap top shuts down, and despite Ralph's best efforts, won't turn back on. He goes back downstairs, complaining about his predicament, and Jonathan reasons that as he shut down the laptop, he should be able to turn it back on. Ralph concentrates as the camera shows an x-ray of his heart as it beats slower and slower, emitting a massive electronic pulse, as the laptop turns back on.
Hamish has a brain wave, and decides that Ralph would be integral to getting into the military base and out again, with Craig using his powers to hide him, Ralph could turn the power off, allowing them to steal the blood samples.

End of episode.
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Re: (ACTIVE) Mutants and Masterminds- OUTBREAK

Postby TrollChris » Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:34 pm

Quarantine Season 1 Episode 4- “Deep.”
The episode opens to show Crossmoor prison from above; along the bottom of the screen appear the words 'many hours ago', as the prison is still shown in the darkness of early morning. The male detention facility is still aflame and smoking, a crumpled ruin, and there is much destruction around other parts of the facility, caused by the now dead giant spiders. The camera then zooms in to show a woman sleeping among the ruins of the male detention facility, dressed in clothes stretched and ragged that no longer fit her, wrapped around her like a blanket; the woman is Sully, the last survivor of the team of four soldiers that Simms sent into the prison at the start of Outbreak Season 1, no longer in her monstrous, ape-like form. Several shadows cast across her in a circle as she continues to sleep. Then she opens her eyes, seeing red-visored faces, and burning swords, raised up, points down, as the camera cuts away, showing the shadows plunging up and down. Sully produces nothing more than a brief pained gurgle as the camera cuts away.
Across the bottom of the screen appears the word “Now” as the camera follows Inspector McKensie climbing down the cliff face she was last seen on the other side of with the accompanying escort of six soldiers. They climb down to the beach, where, even though the tide is out, there is a massive chasm in the sand, filled with water; the shape is almost round, but with three channels running off of it. McKensie enters the water and pulls out a chunk of flesh covered in black hair, but it doesn't appear to be human flesh. None of them are able to recognise what it could be. Out to sea, as the sun shines, three coast guard rescue boats can be seen approaching the still smoking prison complex. McKensie flinches and then there is a flash. A soldier behind her is shown in a crackly grey vision reaching for his radio and radioing the military base, telling them to tell the coast guard approaching to hold back as the prison will still likely be infected. Everything flashes back to normal colour as McKensie spins upon the soldier, who is still reaching for his radio, telling him that he has to let the boats rescue the people at the prison, as her sister is there, and could still be alive. The soldier raises his hands calmingly, saying that he can call for their copter to be sent in and they can see to the well being of the people in the prison, and ensure that no-one is infected, before more coastguard are sent in, which McKensie reluctantly agrees to. The group head off across the stones that make a crossing across the river near to the crater, as McKensie notices the very rock where Ben Harrison was attacked by an alien and fell and smashed his head in Outbreak Season 2, commenting on the bizarre nature of the smashed rock, though the soldiers are not concerned. The soldiers glance at her, then at each other, as one whispers a query as to whether the woman is infected; the response is 'keep an eye on her.'

Credits roll.

Things then cut to Hamish and his group of rebels as we have a MONTAGE as they prepare their plan to get the blood samples. Anderson morphs his arms so that the muscles are particularly massive and turns the hands into huge metal shovels that he can rotate around. Hamish tears up the floor boards of Owen's house, allowing Anderson to dig into the ground, which he does at amazing speed. Robert finds a compass and a map of the local area, handing both to Tom, volunteering his natural navigation skills as a wandering hermit. Tom, Rob and Hamish all head down into the hole as Hamish collects the soil Anderson digs into pillow cases and other containers, Tom directs the digging and Robert uses his immense strength to carry the floorboard, and together they work to attach them to the ceiling of the tunnel as braces. Jonathan and Ralph remain inside, as Jonathan continues to map the movements of the soldiers and Ralph spends hours hacking. Jonathan notices the departure of the helicopter, and also how some soldiers leave after a few hours, along with one of the APCs and all of the scientists. Ralph hacks into the ministry of defence to get a map of the military base. Craig tests out his power, seeming to gain control of it as he goes out into the village, completely unnoticed by any of the soldiers. He goes to one of the APCs and takes a set of biohazard suits, again without notice or even a reaction that the suits have gone, as he returns to the house. The camera then cuts to McKensie, who finds the alien sword partially buried in the sand that Ben had lodged in his throat and threw away in Outbreak. Reminding the soldiers that they are all armed with weapons and she is investigating, not an enemy, she manages to keep hold of the sword, though the soldiers are even warier as a result. Craig then sets out again to the south east of the village past Hamish's house, as he drives off with one of the APCs with a missile launcher trailer, and none of the soldiers react at all.
He drives the APC into the middle of the forest south of the village, walks back into the village, and then heads into Owen's house and down into the tunnel, after the others.

As Hamish and the others tunnel below the forest, occasional they surface, as Tom confirms their location and then has them continue until they reach the APC Craig left, and then wait for him, as Robert and Ralph head down the tunnel with him. The group then discuss the next phase of their plan as Craig, Jonathan, Robert and Tom don containment suits and Jonathan very quickly then jumps into the driver's seat of the APC, Craig taking 'shotgun.' Hamish initially decides that he is going to stay behind to make sure that the tunnel entrance is hidden, but he puts Anderson to this task, after realising that someone should be in Owen's house, to also guard the tunnel from the other end, a task that he volunteers himself for, as he heads down into the tunnel, wishing the others luck. Anderson disconnects the missile launcher trailer from the APC and hides it in the trees near to the tunnel entrance, keeping watch. Ralph gets in the back of the APC with the others, bringing his laptop with him, on which he has a map of the base. He won't fit in a containment suit, so they attempt to hide him in the back of the vehicle. Robert manages to fit in a containment suit, though it is a rather tight fit for him. Anderson hides in the trees and bids them farewell as they drive off for the military base.

McKensie and the soldiers come across the mostly submerged prison ferry, though her gaze is more drawn to the eight submerged, fallen helicopters. When she asked who could have done such a thing, she gets a vision of Outbreak's Norman, seemingly in a hospital environment, magnetically picking up an armoured alien and throwing it a wall. The soldiers also add how the escapees from the prison attacked them, and elaborate that the virus is such a worry as it bestows superhuman abilities. McKensie finds more dead soldiers, which confirms the soldiers view of these fugitives, and seems to start impressing on McKensie. She finds other signs of the beach battle, eventually coming to the tunnel made by Zach, getting a vision of him, also in a hospital, gesturing at an alien's sword, turning it to water. She turns to the soldiers and reflects that if the powers here are evident of anything, these enemies are far beyond them.

The villagers approach the military base in the APC by the time that night has fallen and the gates are opened for them. A soldier approaches Jonathan's window and has him roll it down, asking about the missing missile trailer. Jonathan manages a very standoffish answer, to which Craig manages to cool, explaining that the trailer was left in the village for defensive purposes. The soldier finds this answer to be what he expects and waves them through, though not before giving Jonathan the finger. Craig directs the APC into the vehicle storage area, where only one other APC is currently stored, where two mechanics are also contained.
The team then take several minutes arguing about what to do next. While this is going on, Jonathan looks at one of three code-locked drawers at the back of the vehicle and manages to work out the code, opening it up, to find frozen blood samples with his and Hamish's name on (along with several others, though the viewer only sees the aforementioned names.) Due to the amount of time that no-one exits the vehicle, a mechanic approaches, knocking on Craig's window. As the window rolls down, the mechanic asks Craig if everything is all right. Whilst Craig is responding, Ralph decides to pipe in. Jonathan keeps him out of sight and puts his hand over his mouth, but the mechanic has already heard a child's voice and has an understandably shocked reaction. Rather than explain further, Craig knocks him out. The other mechanic sees this and starts running for the doors, yelling for help from the guards. Craig runs him down and knocks him out as well, but by this point, the guards outside are already alerted. Robert decides to cause a distraction and runs out of the APC, unfurling his wings as they immediately tear the containment suit in half as he tries to fly, flapping his wings, but doing nothing more than small bounds, as he slams into the doors, flinging them open. One soldier is hurled to the ground by the doors, and another is pinned between the door and wall, getting knocked out by the force. The two soldiers who leap clear out of the way turn and fire their assault rifles, as Robert's wings fold around him, the bullets bouncing off, one of the bullets killing one of the soldiers. Using Robert's cover, Jonathan exits the APC, Craig heads to a wall near the door of the vehicle bay and Tom heads into the other empty APC. The remaining visible soldier radios that there are mutants loose in the vehicle bay, and that there are men down. Not surprisingly, the alarm is sounded; Simm's voice booms over speakers, ordering the soldiers to shoot on sight.

More soldiers come running into Robert's sights; clear that bullets aren't working, a grenade is tossed at Robert's feet. The grenade blast launches him into the APC that still contains Ralph, as the APC is flung through the air and flipped over, as Robert, mangled into the door, then gets pinned between it and the rear wall of the prefab building, whilst Jonathan gets a leg stuck under one of the wheels. Ralph gets battered around, but manages to cling for dear life onto the back of the driver's seat, screaming all the while. The APC Tom is in is also flipped over, but lands on its roof. Tom's face is smashed into the ceiling (now the floor) as everything slows around him and he watches his own blood seep from his head. When Tom realises that he is looking at his own unconscious self, he tries pushing at the ceiling of the roof with his transparent hands, and flips the APC back over... unfortunately cracking open his own head in the process. He reaches into his own open skull and seals the wound shut, as his eyes open, and he finds himself back in his own body. Craig manages to stop the soldiers storming in as he reaches out a hand and focusses as Simm's voice speaks again, this time telling the rapidly growing number of soldiers outside to hold their fire.
Robert flexes his wings, launching the APC through the air, as Ralph continues to cling on to the seat. The APC crashes through the front wall of the building, stopping as it collides with the wall of the next nearest building. Realising what he has done, as he hears Ralph's scream, Robert runs over to the wreck, closely followed by Tom, able to run in the view of the soldiers without being shot at. Ralph's APC is now also upside down, as Ralph hangs, fingertips slowly slipping off the top of the seat he clings to. His heart beats rapidly as the camera shows an X-ray of him, as the heart beats out electrical waves. The spotlights shining on the scene turn off, as the night-vision goggles of the soldiers also deactivate.
“We're in deep now”, a soldier comments.

Episode ends.
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