Murderworld 2012

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

The sound of spotlights coming on could be heard, and the darkness that had embraced the people within the room had disappeared. Instead, they were on what looked like an elaborate stage... something out of a reality TV show like the Bachelor. As if things could not get stranger, a large, 65" LED TV came to life, showing a young woman in a white jacket, green shirt, and a horrible yellow and orange polka dot tie.

"Ah! Our lovely contestants have woken up! Welcome, welcome one and all to Murderworld 2012!" The neuro-implants in the sides of her eyes began to glow a bright green in color, and her face had a large smile upon it. "These contestants were carefully selected to take part in the most fun, and dangerous version of Murderworld yet! Winners get to live, if we have any winners, that is. And the losers? Well, they get to die horribly painful and elaborate deaths!"

Comments

[poorgirlsarcee]

Mira had remembered leaving the club at least, when the spotlights came on above her she blinked, shading her eyes.

When the person spoke her eyes flicked about to see if she knew anyone else there, the 'hostess'? Could you really call her that? Looked familiar...

The vampires. She thought as she caught the rest of what was said.

"Wait... What the hell's going on here?" She had caught the murder bit, and well, without her bike she had a feeling she was ill equipped for this.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary squinted in the glarin, swearing in Skrull.

This definitely wasn't good. But who the hell was this floozy and how the hell had they been captured like this?

She was already starting to bulk up. She was mostly Skrull, but the cosmic radiation in her blood had left her without a limit on how much mass she could increase or decrease, along with a natural immunity to flames. If it was a clobbering required here...

[fourshelled]

Athos vaguely remember Pete was supposed to go on a trip to New York with some... adult. The turtle didn't keep track of which one. That he was waking up on a stage was not all that heartening. He grimaced as he pushed himself off the floor.

He shaded his eyes with his hand against the glare of lighting. "What's that barmy bleeder wigwagging about?"

[tangledwebs]

"Funny," Spider-Man grumbled, sitting up. "I don't recall sending in an audition tape for MTV's Real World: Panem." He rubbed the back of his head and looked around. "Oh, hey. Motley crew. As in us, not the band. Although, I mean, if anyone here plays the drums..." He shook his head. "Probably not why we're on TV."

Cowboy World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Mary was dropped into what looked like a complete replica of the wild west. She was dropped in the middle of an old west town. There was a saloon, general store, jail, cathouse, and a stable for horses. People wandered about, not changing their patterns or showing shock to Mary's sudden appearance in their world. Not even the horses stirred. It was creepy and unnatural.

Re: Cowboy World

[stormy_skrull]

"...Yeah, this is the part where the guys in the black hats show up to raid the town or the Indians attack," Mary said, looking around cautiously.

She took a few steps forward. As she did, patterns of rocky armor appeared upon her body in various spots, providing some measure of protection for what might be coming.

Re: Cowboy World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

A few hats were tipped to Mary as various townsfolk passed, even a few smiles could be seen as well. These beings walked and acting so naturally that it made you question, were they human? Were they captives like she was?

As Mary past the Saloon, a man dressed all in black came out. His face showed no emotion, and he had two guns strapped to his hip.

"Hold it right there, Miss." he spoke in a monotone voice. The people who had noticed when Mary crashed into the world began to cower in fear and close up shop... just like in an old western when there was to be a gun duel. "You're new in town. Wanna explain yourself, pilgrim?"

Re: Cowboy World

[stormy_skrull]

"Pilgrim?" Mary asked. "Really?"

She morphed into a stereotypical Pilgrim woman, complete with bonnet. "I think you're getting your eras mixed up."

She morphed again, this time back to her Skrully-self, but in a cowgirl outfit. "I'm more of the tough hombre type."

Space World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Mira found herself dropped into what looked like a space station. There were glowing buttons and angry flashing red lights all around here. Soon, the gravity was turn off, and she was left floating helplessly. Soon, a computerized voice came across the station.

WARNING. WARNING. SPACE STATION HAS BEEN BREACHED. THE SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. REPEAT, THE SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. THIS SEQUENCE CANNOT BE ABORTED. ALL EMPLOYEES PROCEED TO THE CART AT THE BOTTOM PLATFORM.

The computer monitors before Mira began a countdown from five minutes. Arcade was not kidding when he said he would drop her in the hardest level of Murderworld.

Re: Space World

[poorgirlsarcee]

Mira actually groaned a moment when she realized what was going on. "Crap crap crap." She wasn't build for space travel! Her bike was, but it was missing, the band was there, but the familiar buzz of it being nearby was just... gone. After so long it was a little unnerving.

Bouncing off a wall she threw herself at the doors at the other end of the chamber. She'd seen enough space movies to know hull breech was more dangerous in space than in the water, and there was no way she wanted to be in an outer room.

"When I get my hands on that red eyed jerk so strangling her."

Re: Space World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

As Mira floated towards the door, the alarms continued to blare, and all the lights in the shuttle began to flash. With the lack of gravity, it was even more disorienting. As her hands touched the door, she could tell there was a problem. It was sealed shut.

Re: Space World

[poorgirlsarcee]

She hit the door once and scowled turning to look for another way deeper into the station. Seeing a vent she jumped for it, shaking the feeling of knowing how this movie ends. No way was she going to get herself killed this early in the game. Not when she and Vincent were officially kind of sort of more than just hanging out buddies.

Pulling the cover of the vent loose she peeked in carefully at first to see if it was clear.

Nuclear Town

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

As Athos came to, he would find himself in the middle of 1950's suburbia. Well, what looked like suburbia, anyway. There were mannequins dressed up in 1950's fashion, appearing to be doing everyday things. Checking the mail, looking as though they are walking a dog, reading a newspaper, getting a turkey from the oven...

Suddenly, bomb sirens began to go off in the town, and an announcement came over the loudspeaker.

"Please evacuate the area! Bomb testing is to begin in five minutes! Please get to the bomb shelter immediately! If you are unable to get to the shelter, just duck and cover under a table or desk!"

Re: Nuclear Town

[fourshelled]

Athos blinked up at the 'sky' and picked himself up from the middle of the street. He brushed off his legs at he looked at the loads of mannequins. He wasn't sure when the old timey clothing was from, but he didn't puzzle over it too much when the announcement was made.

"Pike it!" He looked around and then ran down the street. He tried to figure out where a bomb shelter would be. He doubted he could run far enough to avoid the fallout in five minutes.

Re: Nuclear Town

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

As Athos ran, he would pass various buildings. A Bank, a Police Station, and then a school which had the universal "Fallout Shelter" logo attached to the side of it. It was the size of a book, yellow and black, with a symbol for nuclear energy upon it. Hopefully he saw it as he ran by!

But even if he did see it, did he have enough time to find the actual shelter in time?

Re: Nuclear Town

[fourshelled]

The bank had possibilities to Athos' mind. The vault might be shielded enough. But he wanted more certainty. He doubted there were any lead-lined fridges around.

Though he knew the nuclear symbol when he saw it. The turtle skidded to a stop and ran back toward the school. He hoped the school and its shelter weren't as fake as the population of this suburb.

Athos ran up to yank a door open to get inside.

Medieval World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Spider-Man found himself falling through the sky, and then eventually landing in a pile of hay. He was in a quaint Medieval village, with a castle in the distance. The people around him paid him no mind, continuing on their day as though nothing strange was going on. They continued to shop at the market, butcher animals, and go about their primitive life.

But in the distance, he could hear bells tolling, and the shouts of a man being brought to an area outside of town by carriage. He appeared to look out of place, dressed in a white lab coat and wearing glasses.

"Someone help me! For God's sake! Stop this maddness! Help me!" He continued to shout, as he was dragged from the cart, and brought up to an executioner's block. "Oh God... this cannot be real! It can't be! Help me! Someone!"

[tangledwebs]

It was the shouts that got Spider-Man moving. One moment, he'd just been laying in the bale of hay, looking up, trying to see where the door that had thrown him down here had been. The next moment, his spider-shaped Longxu hooks were out, thwipping him towards the executioner's block. He landed on top of it and raised his hands. "Hey, hey now. Did anyone at least ask the guy what he wanted on his tombstone?" He paused for effect. "Tombstone pizza, I mean."

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

No one in the audience got the joke, as it would be about a thousand years before a Tombstone Pizza was invented. Instead, the Executioner, who was nearly eight feet tall, and holding an axe just as big, tried to take a swing at Spider-Man. The man in the white lab coat rolled off the block, trying to get a safe distance away from the executioner.

"Spider-Man!" The man in the white lab coat shouted. "Look out! He's one of the strongest robots in the simulation! You need to find a way to disable him before he can call the other ones to help! If he does that, we won;t survive!"

[tangledwebs]

Spider-Man nodded. He didn't question the man - who he was or anything - but having the confirmation that this was, in fact, not an actual medieval place? Well, that helped.

He pivoted, turning towards the executioner, and shot out with a bioelectric venom blast, sickly green light surging and crackling from his fingertips, lancing towards the executioner.

"He's not the Norse one, is he? Amora's lapdog?" Because these things were good to know.

Reunion and Final Battle

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Now that everyone had escaped each of their worlds, it was only a matter of time before they caught up with everyone else by the center section of the room. Before them was a large door that appeared sealed shut and there did not appear to be any keypad or button to get it open with. It was sealed from the inside.

"Perhaps that scepter you picked up could be of some use, now. We could use it to pry the doors open." Francis pointed out to Spider-Man, before giving a meek wave to the rest of the heroes. "Hi, not an automaton. Just a scientist with Autism. Don't mind me!

[tangledwebs]

"I'm still not convinced that he's not secretly an Autismaton, but that's what happens when your parents employ an LMD babysitter for you as a child." Not that he'd ever actually complained about Babysitter Cheesecake.

He turned to the door and looked down at the scepter. "Nope. This is for clubbing." Tucking the scepter under his arm - honestly, he was going to stick it between his legs but that would have been far too awkward for far too many reasons - he brought his hands out and whispered, "thwip thwip," before loosing his spider-hooks. They embedded themselves into the doors. Taking a huge breath, Spider-Man stepped back and pulled with all of his spider-strength.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary carefully removed the papers from the flesh pocket she had created. "Any of this mean anything to anybody? It's a little too egghead for me, but I think it's talking about the lady we all saw when we got brought here."

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Francis moved over towards Mary to take a gander at the papers.


"Ah-ha! Here we go! Yes... these were the implants we gave Ms. LeBeau on request by an Alistaire Shaw. These notes are mine, since I warned of the umm... problems we had with them. Arcade managed to hack into the other recipients of the implants and made them... do things, and then killed them off. My boss over-rode me on the order not to use them, unfortunately. He said that you cannot ignore a Shaw's money." He paled a bit when he found the news articles in all the paperwork that Mary held. "If he had listened to me, so many people would still be alive."

After-Math of Murder World

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

SHIELD came in to investigate how so many people could have easily been kidnapped by Arcade without anyone noticing that. Not just that, but how Arcade was able to go under the radar so easily. No one appeared to be able to trace him, despite the fact he was able to broadcast everything that happened to Youtube... and one cable network station that had been hi-jacked to broadcast this horror show.

Alisa had been spared being taken into SHIELD custody, but they would want to question her on what happened... should her brain ever recover enough to let her do so. In the meantime, she would be taken to live with the Future Foundation. All in hopes of repairing her neurological implants or finding someone to take her in should that fail.

Francis appeared to have gone missing, and no one could find him. It was like he was a ghost. As for the Tech-Sync employees thought "dead", they were all alive and well. They were held in a separate part of the building, having realistic automatons made of them. The little weasel had lied and acted strangely... plus the other co-workers at Tech-Sync said they never had an employee by that name.

So many question, so little answers, and so many young heroes and people traumatized by these events.