Silver Age Universe - Silver City

Anything taking place outside of the Big Three locations in the Silver Age OFFICIAL RP will be here. Note: This will more than likely be the most commonly used thread.

[Attn: Open]

Over a week later, the insane anti-hero and his brigade of young allies make their way across the country to none other than Los Angeles, California, home of such superheroes as the Celestial Soledaz!

And speaking of such heroes...

"You know, Soledaz, for an Extra Terrestrial with psychic abilities, you sure miss the mark a lot," young Rachel says. Young Rachel Sterling says this and yet no one appears to be nearby! Who could she be talking to? None other than the alien entity that shares her body with her, Soledaz!

"How many times do you want me to say I'm sorry, Ray? I didn't MEAN to mess up your date OR destroy that billboard! Can you just forgive me already?" The purple energy being can't be seen by anyone but Rachel who she is always with. As the two share bodies, they also share powers. When need be, Rachel summons on the power of her counterpart and the two switch place in existence, Rachel taking to the astral plane and Soledaz the physical, allowing Soledaz freedom of movement in the world. She and Rachel are a two in one team that has saved the city on several occasions with other heroes such as The Land Shark and Cyber-Man.

KABOOM!

"What the devil?!" Rachel shouts. "Fine, I forgive you. Now, let's go find out what that was." Thinking quickly, Rachel dives into an alley and in a sudden eruption of what appears to be pink flame, emerges Soledaz, the purple and pink energy being that inhabited the Red Sun of a distant galaxy. This very figure then floats up from the ground and soars off to find the source of the explosion.

[Attn: Open]

Alas our hero, or 'heroes' arrive too late at the scene to stop a bank robbery. "We're too late," Soledaz mutters to Rachel.

"It looks like it. Ask the witnesses."

"You got it," Soledaz notes, floating down into the bank and landing. "Hi there, Frank. How's the wife?"

"Oh, Soledaz! She's doing good. Here for the robbery, I take it. It was somethin' awful. Some clown in this multicolor costume broke in here and melted down the safe then made off with loads of money!"

Soledaz looks over the scorch marks on the safe and thinks to herself before consulting Rachel. "Hey, who do we know out here that can burn into a safe like that?"

"I can't think of anyone except...of course."

Both girls then speak in unison with one another, deducing exactly who it'd HAVE to be. "Captain Ether," they say. It'd honestly been more an annoyance to them. He just didn't stay down when they beat him.

Captain Ether. An ex-con who'd obtained the powers of Wind, Ice, Earth, and Fire during the Evolution Shower! As powerful as his abilities were, he never'd never made good use of them! But today...

Soledaz hovers there in the bank, pondering where Captain Ether might have gone. Given the short time it'd taken her to reach the bank, he shouldn't have been able to get far. "We should probably look around for clues. He's never been this careful," Rachel says.

"Agreed." The extra terrestrial then floats around the bank in search of any other clues, hopefully ones leading to his location.

[Attn: Open]

Elsewhere, mild mannered computer scientist, Franklin Foster, sits at his desk at the local North Labs facility. Who would ever guess that this same man was the Cyber-Man! A neat superhero with complete control over all things electronic. This is insane. Ever since the Warriors West split, it's been ridiculous trying to keep up with everything. If it's not Typhoon one day it's Lady Willow the next! The hero suddenly gets a silent alarm through his watch and leaps into action, quickly leaving and heading into an alley where he becomes Cyber-Man in a flash of electricity summoned from a nearby power line. He then races off along said power-lines to reach the source of the danger!

[Attn: Open]

Cyber-Man stands among the carnage at the prison and sighs. "Well, that's a new one. Looks like we've got another extreme vigilante," he says to himself. Suddenly Soledaz lands behind him. "So I see everyone's been hearing about this one."

"We got worried when we heard about it. Every prisoner? What about the ones that might have actually been innocent?"

"Everyone means everyone," says another female voice as a woman in shark-themed attire appears before them from above as if she'd been looking at it all from the bridge. "Whoever it was, I'm not quite sure I feel too great about letting him do that."

"Killing, whether it be civilians or criminals, isn't right. No one has the right to deny another being of sentience the life they have," Soledaz says, for a minute sounding more mature than her normal persona would usually come across to be.

[Attn: Open]

"All right," Cyber-Man says, standing on a rooftop, four others standing around him. "The situation with these prisons is getting out of control. I've been able to isolate traces of hacking into the databases and found a few things that might help us out here."

"Hold the phone," Soledaz says. "I don't exactly recall you telling us this was a proposal to get the band back together."

"She right, circuits for brains, what's with this new found DESIRE to work with us?" Land-Shark queries.

"If we don't, a lot more people are going to die," Cyber-Man says. "So are you in...or not?"


Days later, The Warriors West, a team that consists of Cyber-Man, Soledaz, Land-Shark, Demigod, The Brain, and The Brawn, was reborn and working together on finding out what was happening.

[Attn: Open]

Little do the lunatic and his band of misfits or the mighty Warriors West know, the prisons are already in the process of being taken care of. For on the night before the attack, each prison is broken into. There were four prisons left. One had been broken into by the master elemental, Captain Ether. The next was the doing of the insane Deadray. This was followed by a break-in at the third prison courtesy of both the dreadful Cancer and the lovely Valentina. The final prison was infiltrated simply by the megalomaniac known as Dominion. "Stay the plan," he says into a transmitter.

By the next morning most of the prisoners in each prison aren't dead, they're gone. The security cameras had been destroyed before any footage could be obtained. The majority of security personnel was dead. No one could report on what'd happened. But this wasn't any similar pattern to anything happening over recent weeks.

Meanwhile, Cyber-Man works ever harder to try and figure out how this could have happened.

[Attn: Open]

Eventually the Warriors West divide their efforts, looking individually through the prisons. There wasn't a single trace of anything. Whoever pulled this fit a different M.O and a different general pattern. The prisons had all been hit simultaneously, at that. That would take plenty of manpower and time to set up. This had to have been planned between a number of individuals.

[Attn: Open]

The next day there was a new word on the street. A group of gangsters from the lower-east side had completely disappeared. Every single member was gone. This hadn't gone unnoticed either. Soledaz heard it through the grape vine and reported this to her fellow heroes. When looking back over the area, The Brain found found something. There were traces of a peculiar metallic alloy that was familiar to his partially alien mind. It was rarely used on Earth though. The people didn't even know it'd existed. Never knew they used it when they did.

In following another lead, The Brain looks through a wrecked gang hideout where he then finds a camera. It'd been on, probably unintentionally. He then has Cyber-Man give it a bit of juice and he runs through it, seeing what'd happened. "...Dominion," he says rigidly.

[Attn: Chaos]

In a week's time, everything finally comes to light. Everyone who had gone missing...they were back, either in prison or on the streets. But with them came a random 'ghost prisoner' to every one of the prisons, all of which none of the prisons could identify via the records.

[Attn: Open]

Misty Baxter sits in the main conference room of Hero Tower alongside her ally, The Owl, both watching this event in sheer horror. The very fact that something like this would happen...it was unfathomable. But with what was said...was it honestly their fault. They had several heroes out looking for this...this lunatic. Ladybug, Silver Wind, The Star Trio...it wasn't enough to prevent this from happening though...not in the least. "I don't believe it," Misty says. "When I decided to become Madam Control...I thought I was doing the world a service. Could we really have been wrong?" She then turns to the power drone charging up in the corner. "When I created The Avatar drone..."

"Whether or not we were wrong isn't the issue," says The Owl. "The game isn't changing. We do what we always do... persevere "

"Do you think Superion saw it? He was practically like a big brother to her."

Suddenly the door to the conference room slide open. "Where is he?" Barks the red and blue clad hero in a rage like no other.

"I don't-"

"Misty, don't you dare tell me you don't know. There were cameras all over the place. You're a hacker. Start hacking. Where's everyone else?"

The rest of the Hero Armada...it wasn't quite odd that there were only a handful of heroes in the tower. Often times the world would be in peril beyond the eyes of the public. The Owl says nothing, he just watches the monitors in disgust. He suddenly feels a hand on his shoulder before being forcibly turns around. "WHERE?"

"...Superion, you need to calm down. I know how you feel but you're letting that anger cloud your thoughts. Don't allow it to control you or you're as dead as she was." Suddenly the dark hero is smacked across the conference room, slamming into one of the seats. Superion stands looming over him, his eyes glowing red before Misty manages to have Avatar lock him in a bear hug. The strength of The Avatar was great but the strength of Superion was greater. He explode from the grasp of the automaton and tears away its arms. Owl stands and takes cover behind the seat he'd landed in. "Superion, don't succumb to your anger, USE it!"

It isn't long, however, before a distress call sent by Misty results in the emergence of The Hypnotist, a member of the Hero Armada with suggestive abilities. In an instant she gets between Superion and Owl, staring into the powerhouse's eyes with her hypnotic gaze and he drops weakly to the floor before ultimately falling asleep. "It only makes sense that this would happen," Owl says as he looks over his sleeping ally. "And in cases like this, it's only the beginning."


Elsewhere, Capitol-Man and Mr. Amazo find themselves locked in heated combat with the cretin known as Eye-Clops, a giant beast with several dozen eyes. The monster swats at them and throws Capitol-Man out of the air and into a building while Mr. Amazo jumps from the Hero Armada Jet and dives toward it. Once he began to gain momentum, nothing could stand in his way and it showed as the giant toppled over the instant he made contact. A short time later, Mr. Amazo stood on top of Eye-Clops and Capitol-Man hovered over him as people begin to return to the area, taking pictures. In due time, The Eye-Clops reverts to his regular human state, passed out and Mr. Amazo leaves a power suppressor on him to keep him from transforming back. Reporters and media begin to flood into the area. "Capitol-Man, Mr. Amazo, what do you have to say about today's victory?"

"It only makes me regret that we couldn't get to this sooner and prevent the damage he'd done," Capitol-Man begins. "But we will be paying for the damages."

"And what about the damages done to the superhero community earlier today?" Asks another reporter.

"I beg your pardon?" Mr. Amazo responds.

"You mean you don't know? Someone killed Dream Lasher this morning!"

The shock of this news has the two heroes turn to one another before leaving instantly, heading back to Hero Tower. They arrive in time to find Madam Control, The Owl, and Hypnotist all sitting around the long, white table of the conference room. "Is there a reason we didn't know about this?" Capitol-Man demands.

"We knew you were going to find out eventually," Hypnotist says, her arms crossed. "Won't be long til all the others hear about it too."

"I move we hold a meeting on what to do next," says Madam Control.

"No," Mr. Amazo responds. "This doesn't change anything. It just adds another enemy to the roster. We're not going to allow one new one to change the way we do things."

The room then grows silent as everyone finds themselves looking around at one another. Finally the silence is broken. "He's right," The Owl agrees. "This is just something we'll have to deal with and act on like any other scenario. We managed it when Deadwave attacked the planet and when Commander Doome threatened to take over the world. We can deal with this psychotic. But first thing's first. There's a funeral to be had. Jinx and Champion King are down at the scene. They're bringing her here before anyone can try to further insult her memory by dissecting her."


Meanwhile, at the scene, Jinx wraps the body in a part of her cloak while Champion king pushes back raving media. "Vile turncoats, back! Ho!"

"I knew it was only a matter of time before something bad happened like this," the goth heroine mutters to herself.

"What say we leave this place now, dark one? There is nothing more for us here."

Jinx then nods and presses the button on her belt, calling down one of the Hero Armada jets and boarding with Champion King before flying off. "This is Jinx radioing in. We got the body and we're on our way back."


The next week, a private funeral is held between the heroes of the team to honor their fallen ally's memory. They stand there, most in their civilian guises while others stay to their superhero costumes. By the time the funeral is over, the heroes all leave. Capitol-Man, Mr. Amazo, Warrior-Woman, and Madam Marvelous all sit around a coffee shop table in their civilian attire as Donald Yank, Conrad Banks, Betty Nelson, and Goldie Harper. They were hardly saying a word to one another. In that time, several more people had died.


The repairs to the city were also being taken care of and the prison was soon full of criminals once again, now being watched over by the heroes of the city to assure that this didn't happen again. One particular cluster of the heroes had the pleasure of coming across Backlash. Luckily, no one was badly injured. But this wasn't the problem now. The problem was with Superion. He stands by the window of an office in Hero Tower and looks over the city, often times seeing characters in bright costumes flying about. But his own mind isn't a place for anyone at this moment in time. He was formulating something.


Some time later there is a building burning down and three heroes inside to take care of civilians while Zephyr flew around outside to help in putting the fire out with the firefighters. The three inside were War, Champion King, and Ricochet, all of which regularly getting out to drop off civilians they'd found. Other more appropriate heroes for this job were off fighting a global crisis unseen by the public again, leaving these four to this issue.

[Attn: Open]

Crowne City, Michigan...these psychotics were getting closer to large metropolitan areas. The Hero Armada was in hot pursuit. Where in one town the prison would be completely void of prisoners and filled with dead guards, the next prison would hold dead prisoners and disabled guards. It was a cycle of death and wanton destruction and this was where the pattern of movement led to. It wasn't long before they'd reach Wonder Hills or even Manhattan...no, the heroes of Manhattan wouldn't hesitate to take BOTH of these psychotics down the instant they made an advance on the border. But Crowne City suffered a lack of potent Superheroes. There were a couple here and there but none that could do anything about THIS situation.

It was for this reason that the Hero Armada was beginning to dispatch more heroes. To this particular location, they'd sent Superion and the Star Trio of Captain Cosmos, Astro-Girl, and Mister Infinity. More likely than not, the latter three were sent to babysit the former. Given his personal agenda for the situation, it was wise.

Superion floats in front of the prison with Mister Infinity while the other two patrol the city in search of anything suspicious. "Do you intend to try and stop me on the occasion that I do anything drastic?"

"It is what I have been instructed to do," Mister Infinity remarks.

"But will you?"

The two then float there in silence, Superion with his arms crossed, Mister Infinity with his behind his back.