Eddie And Wonder Man Vs. Joseph Marvel

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Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Marisol Morales on Aug 5, 2007, 1:32pm

Wonder Man leads Eddie to the ship's med-bay, looking to take care of the poor kid's wounds before they get any worse.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 6, 2007, 5:19am

Wonder Man looks around for any sign of instructions.

"Ah man…we always had Iron Man, or Beast, or the Panther take care of this end. Hang on a second, kid."

Eddie says, "Yar. We be pirates."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 7:19pm

"Well, well, well."

Joseph walked in.

"I heard about that guy from Alpha, I suppose he's the one who brought you jokers in our base?"


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 6, 2007, 9:51pm

Wonder Man powers up into his ionic form.

"Get behind me, kid. This shouldn't take too long."

Eddie looks like he's going to be ill, but does as he's told.

"Yeah, I guess I did…yar, we be pirates."

«From this point, I'd kinda like someone who's more familiar with Wonder Man to take over…alright, someone with more time AND familiarity with Wondy. But I will make every effort to post.»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 9:54pm

[I'm fairly familiar with him, so if no-one else does….]


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 6, 2007, 9:59pm

«I'm good with that if you're good with that. Eddie's in a bad state from being out of body too long, so he should be vaguely a non-factor.»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 10:00pm

[Alright, cool.]


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 6, 2007, 10:05pm

«Thankye!»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 10:09pm

Joseph lights a cigarette.

"Shouldn't take too long huh? Let's test that theory. I'll even let you have the first punch."

«I'm sparring Sephula for both my matches heh.»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 10:16pm

~Wonder Man~

"This… isn't a movie set, right? I mean, I could've sworn… no. Heh, you know what, though? You sound just like one of those fifties villains du jour. They gave me a crappy little script outfitted for that the other day, actually. Weird."

I wind up a punch, not taking my eyes off of him - not that he can tell under the sunglasses.

"You ever been slugged by Iron Man?" I throw the punch at his jaw. "That feels nothing like this."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 10:19pm

Before it connects though, he transforms into electricity, reforming behind him.

"Of course, you should never ever trust the word of a villain. We're dirty lying slanderous folks."

He fires an electric blast at him, moderate strength. Probably could incinerate a normal person leaving charred bones.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 10:23pm

"Damn it. That's why Carol always tells me not to wear leisure suits while fighting." I throw the jacket off - the one that's flaming now. That attack actually stung, even while I'm in my ionic form. Means I've got to watch it with this guy. Still, he's just a kid, and I'm still Wonder Man. Instantaneous reflexes kept most of it from getting me.

"Well, no. She tells me not to because of the way it looks." I glance mournfully at the jacket on the floor as it burns away. "I like leisure suits…."

I raise my fists in a mock boxing stance.

"So, you ready to go at this the right way?"


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 10:57pm

He blows out smoke.

"The right way? What do you mean, like this?"

Another electric blast, stronger.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 11:02pm

The blast throws me back and I can feel the wall behind me crumble against the force, and I slam into the ground, sliding across it.

"Okay, that one actually did hurt a little. When this is done, I'm calling Tony… I want a raise. Wait, I don't get paid, do I? Damn… I got the sucker's luck."

I tear a chunk of the ground clean off and throw it at him, ready to jump up and fly through the ceiling, instantaneous reflexes primed, if he dodges it and comes near me.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 11:32pm

Joshua doesn't move, instead he fires another blast, easily knocking it aside, and starts walking towards him. He's not really in any hurry.

He suppose he could fry his little friend on the med-table, just to piss him off, maybe he'd blame himself too, heroes do that.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 11:34pm

"Yeah, sure. I'll just lie here, or something. You know, I should get paid for this. I'm going to sue Tony. Despotic teens from a parallel universe? Yep. Definitely suing Tony."

I glance past him to check that the kid is still safely hidden, and a punch crumbles the floor beneath me. I drop down with it, and move to the part of the floor below directly underneath the room the kid's on.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 6, 2007, 11:41pm

Joseph grabs onto a stray wire in the hole he just made, and starts absorbing the ship's electricity. There's a one second blackout before the secondary generators goes on.

He jumps down, transforming into lightning and reforming. Still not in much of a hurry.

"Wonder man, always thought that was a lame ass name."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 6, 2007, 11:44pm

Before he gets a chance to move - before he gets a chance to see his surroundings - before he gets a chance to do much of anything, really, I'm on him, raining down a few punches that hit as hard as a swing of Mjolnir.

"Hey. Wonder Man is a kickass name."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 3:19am

Ok, now his arm was broken.

He was going to pay for that.

All of the electricity he adsorbed from the Heli-carrier blasts out at him, plus his own electricity.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 8:12am

Another wall. And another. And another. It's like the rejects from the props of 'Superhero! This is your life!' or something in here. Did they actually need these walls? I'm beginning to think that they put them up just for people to be smashed through.

"That one actually hurt like hell… you know, I’ve just gotta ask- son of a bitch, my glasses." The ones hanging at an odd angle on the bridge of my nose. The ones that he cracked. The ones that just slid off now, and fell onto the floor.

"Kid, you know that saying; you don’t tug on Superman’s cape? Superman. Cape. Wonder Man. Glasses."

I get back onto my feet and turn to the wall on my right, and rip most of it clean off, hurling it at the kid, and… what do you know? That was the wall of the helicarrier hull.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:25pm

The wall appears to have hit him, obscuring his body completely and smashing onto the other side of the wall.

Then electricity comes out of the lightbulb, reforming into Joseph.

"Alight, I'm getting tired of this banter thing. So just die."

He fires a blast at him, not only to electrocute him to death, but to knock him out of the ship.

And into the ocean.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:26pm

«God damn ocean.»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:31pm

Meanwhile, in the suddenly much more windy medbay, Eddie pondered his options.

He could die like a bitch, or he could try some crazy last ditch bullshit. Fortunately, he had some crazy last ditch bullshit on hand…maybe. But for now, he just laid there, focusing, making sure that everything was ready. It would help if the villain monologued. What did the heroes always say to start a monologue?

"Um, so, even if you defeat us, what makes you think someone else won't be there to stop you?"


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 10:32pm

The blast throws me back, but… come on. I'm not going into the ocean. Not like that - no way, no how. I go straight through the hole I tore in the hull of the ship and plummet a good few hundred metres before I pull out of it.

Being blown around by a teenager? Getting a little tiresome.

"You know, I'm really tempted to make a 'how many despotic teens does it take to screw in a light-bulb' comment… but I'm just as tempted to kill myself before I do it."

I fly straight through the wall, next to where I saw him last, aiming to grab him and slam him through the floor.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:41pm

Seeing the Cigarette smoke coming out of the corner of his eye tells him he'd missed. He already saw him flying out through the SHIELD monitors and stepped to the side.

"Did you'd really expect me to believe you'd fall in the ocean just like that? I mean come on man, you're a fucking celebrity back in my world. Hell I've got DVD's of all your movies. Brilliant shit, you see, first you hire, well not really, more like threaten to beat them to death, a bunch of guys to film for you. They get to follow you around while you were outside, filming you killing superheroes, destroying city. There was this neat scene in one of your films where you punch your hand straight through a kid, grabbing his heart. Totally hardcore. Sold rather well to the upper class. Well you seem like a pansy in this world."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:43pm

"Hey, if you guys are villains, and Wonder Man's a villain, who are the main heroes?"

I try to subtly give Wonder Man the "keep him talking" hand gesture.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 10:43pm

"Really? I mean… seriously? I think- wow. I think I…."

I smash my fist down at his jaw.

"Yeah, I think I almost threw up a little in my mouth there."

And then I catch the kid's gesture. Well, that was counter-productive on my part.

"I'm intrigued. Tell me more."

No wonder I'm not getting any work….


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:44pm

Damn it. He mistook it for the "punch him in the face" gesture. It happens. They're so similar.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:47pm

His jaw turned into electricity, as he smashed through it, reforming after the fist comes through.

"Yep, totally a pansy."

He tries grabbing him (right arm, left arm's broken), electrocuting him with all he's got, and not letting go.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 10:50pm

I'd like an Oscar for my best 'Simon being shocked by Thor' bit. The jolt would send me into a spasm, but I don't exactly have a normal physiology like this. Instead, I wrench myself free and fall back.

Keep him talking, right?

"What? You're not going to tell me your master plan? What kind of villain are you?"


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:50pm

«So for the record…does most of Joseph look flesh and blood right now?»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:51pm

«Yeah»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:54pm

"Pfft. It's not even my master plan, it's that four eyes bitch. What's her name again, Mad Thinker? I'm just here for the killing."

He blows out smoke.

"Fuck I don't even fucking like any of these guys, never even got to kill Clint fucking Barton. Stupid."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 10:56pm

"Evil doesn't get along." I roll my eyes - you can't tell. Ionic form. Sucks to be you. "Who'd'a thunk it?"

"Why not just kill 'em? You'd get more to yourself afterwards."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 10:57pm

He shrugs.

"Killing you is more fun."

He fires an electric blast.

"Besides most of the others are pretty dead anyways."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 10:59pm

I really hoped it wouldn't come to this…because while this is astonishingly effective in theory, it's somewhat embarrassing and has a possibility of either not working or working a little too well.

I jump into the body of my secret weapon. The one creature that could even this all out. It's small enough that no one's noticed it around…yet. And eventually, I'm going to have to do a LOT of explaining to the Avengers. Maybe evil me had it on board. No, no, I can't lie to Captain America, I suppose I have to own up to this.

South American tree frog. Secretes a neurotoxin powerful enough to paralyze almost instantaneously, if I get him in the eyes. Sure, it might kill him, and that would be horrible, but otherwise…he could kill both Wonder Man and me, and maybe more people. Definitely more people. Also, it might not work, depending on how his reflexes work. But it's worth a shot. If it doesn't work, and I make it out of here, I may never live this down. But I have to try.

A flash of neon green…then…PTUI.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 11:01pm

A good bracing'll do wonders, especially when you're one of the most durable earth born heroes.

Yeah, I'm not stupid. I'm not going to stand here talking with him without being prepared to defend myself. I block the blast with an arm and it spirals off, leaving me unharmed.

"Seriously? You're going to share the killings later with them if you don't just wipe them off."

I've never liked the 'keep him talking' strategy. Always preferred the 'punch him until he can't talk' one. I hope the kid hurries up.

Huh. Looks like he was quicker on the draw than I thought.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 11:03pm

«I can think of a way to kill him by having him fall in the ocean… Wonder if I should…»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 11:04pm

«The ocean fall is just so classic in this mission. I can just see low tide tomorrow…»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 11:06pm

[::).

At least mine was incinerated. And if that wasn't going to happen, was going to have her head blown off. She did fall in the ocean, though, but she got back out >_>. Dreadnought's was the best ocean one.]


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 11:08pm

«Bah, Ocean it is.»

He ignored the kid, the stupid kid. Sprayed something in his eyes fuck. He could feel his body freezing almost as if it's going in slow motion. A thousands thoughts raced through his mind.

An omega level mutant, successor to one of the greatest killers of all time, mass murder, and this is how he died. Because of some stupid brat and his fucking frog? No, not like this.

His body is already starting to transform into electricity, half solid, half electric. His body is numbing, the transformation is slow. But he was going to kill that kid. It was difficult to keep his body together, but he could.

He walked towards him, aiming to incinerate his body.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 11:13pm

"You know, that just doesn't work for me on too many levels."

I glance back at the kid and point at the half burned jacket and the broken glasses.

"Hey, kid, this doesn't work out for me, can you throw those in Carol Danvers face? And laugh. She'll like it, trust me. Sure, she'll be pissed at first, but she'll like it later."

I turn back to the teen despot and - well. This is a little rash, isn't it? Of course, that thought comes into my head when I've already jumped at him, trying to tackle him off out of the helicarrier, the power he's packing running through me - ripping through me as I do so.

I should be able to make this. I should. But if I don't… I'm good with that, too.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 11:14pm

Well this was an unforeseen wrinkle. His mutant metabolism is letting him stay up longer…and I'm all out of crazy electric guy defenses. The medbay isn't very big, even with Wonder Man randomly enlarging it. I back away slowly, but my body feels just as sluggish. Like a deer in the headlights.

Come on, Wonder Man. Come on, Wonder Man. Come on, Wonder Man. Otherwise, I'm totally screwed here.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 7, 2007, 11:21pm

Joseph gets tackled and falls towards the ocean. His body still transforming, into his electric form.

When I'm going to get up there, I'm going to kill that kid, no, first I'll kill his hero right in front of his eyes. Destroy his hope, fry him so there's nothing left. Then I'm going to torture him, set his nerves on fire, make him scream…

His hits the water, almost fully electricity.

I'm going to kill everyone, everyone on this fucking planet. It'll be the largest mass murder ever done and no one will be able to stop me, no one. Fuck these people, fuck mutant superiority and all that bullcrap. There's only one great thing in life, to kill, to maim, to listen to people scream. It was what I was made for, it was… it was…

Then he realized to his horror, what was happening to his body. It was dissolving, deconstructing, the ocean carrying his current away, dispersing over it's mass. Mind still numb, couldn't hold himself together. He was going to die, his body disappearing all because of the…

"Fucking ocean…"

And his body dissolved away into nothing.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 7, 2007, 11:25pm

«ROFL, that's awesome, Doodle.»


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 7, 2007, 11:40pm

Cap used to always tell me about how pain can make an instant drag out a lifetime - so that the pain is something you're intimately familiar with. If the pain of an instant is sharp enough - strong enough, then you'll carry it to the grave with you.

It's how he feels about Bucky. About not being able to save the kid. He's told me all about it enough times; enough that I almost feel that way about the poor kid, myself.

I would know more than others, though, having died already, myself. I think… I think that the strongest pain that I'll take with me was regret. About my brother. I hated my brother, you see. I loathed him with every single iota of my being. That wasn't all, though. I hated him, yeah… but I loved him, too. I loved him, and I blamed myself for how he ended up. Still do, really.

I didn't have that the first time around. All I had was the blame I needed to place on my own head - for the way I'd turned out, and what I'd done. What I'd died doing.

I think I'm going to take that to this not so shallow grave. The pain I'm feeling right now? The pain of his power, his electricity ripping into my ionic form, running through me and jolting to my form with every moment that my heart should be beating, but isn't? It's pulling out this time between the moment I fell out of the helicarrier and the time I'm going to hit the water, sure - but I'm going to forget all about it in the moment that I black out just before I hit the water, and I won't know why I'm in there when I come to, and drown. Bottom line; in the long run (that's actually really short right now), it just isn't important.

I'll remember my brother, though.

Hank would be calling me an idiot for this. Except, he'd be using some twenty-nine cent word to say it, some word I wouldn't even be able to repeat. He'd tell me that I should've been smarter. Should've just hit the kid out of the hole. How'd I know the kid couldn't fly back up? For all I knew, he'd shoot right back up if I didn't drag him down. Carol… she'd just be kicking my ass for it. Heh. Not like she'll get the chance.

Last second - I see the water right below me, and Eric's face comes into my head just before I hit. Just before I black out.

***

Air rushes into my lungs, and my head starts spinning. Next moment, I realise I still have lungs to fill, and a head to spin… but that means I'm not powered up. I shift into my ionic form - groggy. No idea how long I was down there for, but it couldn't have been more than a minute, otherwise I'd be gone already… I was powered down. I just thank whoever I have to thank for the fact that I wasn't down long enough to drown, and shoot back up, making another hole in the wall of the helicarrier, and crashing in next to the kid.

"Cancel the obit… give me- give me my glasses…." I slump over the floor, powering down again and blacking out for a moment, but quickly coming to again. "Kid… my glasses… come on."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 8, 2007, 5:01am

We…won. We won.

I grab the fractured glasses and silently pass them over to him.

"Uh, thanks for that."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 8, 2007, 8:52am

I nod, but I don't really say all that much; the fit of coughs makes that a little hard. I take the glasses and put them back on - and no, I don't care that they're broken. Well, I do, but seeing as my other pair's now in the ocean, I'll settle.

Pushing myself back to my feet, I glance at the kid.

"Look up, kid. You kicked his ass. I should be thanking you."

Now that I'm standing, I stagger over to the hole in the wall and look down - long way down. Long way down. Bad news is, I don't see a body. You never count them for dead if you don't see a body, and not always when you do. A little worrying, yeah, but I'm not going to bring it up with the kid; best I can do right now is just hope that he is gone. Sure as hell felt like he was going when we hit.

"Now let's get out of here before I start reminiscing like a girl. Again."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 8, 2007, 7:08pm

I move to follow Wonder Man, obviously.

"Well, if it's all the same to you, I'd prefer if we kept the frog between us, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal, and I don't want to have it confiscated and stuff…"

Make that absolutely sure it's illegal…and that the San Diego Zoo is quietly looking for it.

Reminiscing…girl…

I pause.

"Hey Wonder Man? Can I ask you a weird question?"

Without really waiting for a response:

"If a girl sort of seemed to like you, but you weren't sure, how could you tell if she did or didn't?"


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 8, 2007, 7:11pm

[You hate me, don't you, Hav :)?]

I stop in my tracks, but to be honest, I didn't have that much of a track to stop in. Still pretty groggy from all of that.

Did he just- he… aw, no. Where the hell is Carol when you need her?

I should really be quicker to respond in the future. 'No. No, you can't ask me a weird question.'

"Kid, I'm no good with hypotheticals. You're gonna have to give me specifics."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 9, 2007, 10:07pm

"Oh, um, well, never mind."

I blush, but get back to doing the serious superhero gig. I guess.


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 9, 2007, 11:57pm

"Whatever you say, kid."

I should say something to him, but… girl advice. The kid just asked me for girl advice. I kind of planned to hold back on having to do anything like that until I had kids. So, you know, never. And I wouldn't be able to hear the kid even if I did try to give him advice, and, so, you know….

I'm a bad person. I'm a bad person, and I set the requisite for Masters of Evil. I'm as bad as the Red Skull. Worse, even.

"Yeah. Okay, come on… let's just get out of here and see if we can't help any of your friends."


Re: Eddie and Wonder Man vs. Joseph Marvel
Post by Ixnay on Aug 10, 2007, 5:17am

"Yeah."

I head off…into another topic.


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