Villainy without Pier!

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Pier Four, headquarters to the World Famous Future Foundation!  A place of science and learning, pushing the boundaries of tomorrow...TODAY!  But today, science has come under attack!  The forces of wickedness have been secreted into the building by parties unknown, using powerful teleportation technology!

The Dreadknight, ghost bound to a suit of living armor, with his enchanted sword and shield stalked the halls...

The Blizzard, master of molecular motion and captain of cold, left a frosty path through the building...

Electro, the vampy villianness of volts, sizzled through the corridors....

Cardiac, beta-powered punisher of heroes, wielder of wicked weaponry that served as a conduit for his energy, made his own way through the labs...

And Boomrang, master markman and tricky tosser, prowled the building....

All of them searching for something... and all of them ready for trouble...

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[realstarpower]

Ryan Grimm had been inside his suite at Pier Four, running lines for an upcoming audition he'd had when he heard something going on outside. Whatever it was, it wasn't Jacob or Remi messing with things.

No, this was...serious.

Dropping his script, Ryan walked over to the window of his suite and threw it open.

Trouble. Must be Wednesday.

He leaped out the window, his casual clothes morphing into his costume.

He turned a corner around the building to see...

"Well, holy crap."

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Unfortunately for Ryan, at the same time he was spotting a super-villain, the super-villain was spotting him.

"Hey hero!" Blizzard shouted. "You better run! Otherwise, I can't guarantee you won't have a... chilly reception!"

He lobbed a stream of icicles Ryan's way.

[realstarpower]

"Name's Stellar, bud!" Ryan yelled back as he threw up a forcefield of shimmering purple cosmic energy. "And I can shield myself from the cold well enough!" He pressed forward. "Can you shield yourself from some real star power, though?" He loosed shimmering purple spikes of energy towards Blizzard.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Blizzard raised a thick shield of ice in the spikes' way, blocking them solidly.

"Oh, I'm just beginning to get warmed up!"

Technically, his power was not cold or even the draining of heat. What he actually possessed was the power to stop molecular motion. Cold and ice were the most common byproduct of that, however.

He gestured, encasing Ryan's flying form in a cube of ice.

[realstarpower]

He fell.

Because he was an ice cube and he couldn't fly.

Thankfully, though, he was encased in ice, not made into ice himself. This meant that he didn't shatter when he fell.

The ice did, though.

Ryan snarled beneath his breath and shot straight up into the air.

He seemed something like a shooting star going the wrong way.

Bricks of cosmic energy surged forth to batter Blizzard.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi was in one of the labs when the alarms sounded. There had been a few unresolved scientific problems that had been put by the wayside when his daughter had been born. They were getting put there again as Remi headed toward the door.

"Lock this lab until given the All Clear," he ordered before he went out the door. He didn't wait to hear if the door locked behind him.

He was flying through the halls, heading toward where he thought Alexa and their daughter might be.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

This would bring him directly into conflict with the Dreadknight.

"Zounds!" he shouted as he saw Remi approach. "Yon Atlantean doth appear with all due speed! Very well! Let him taste the flat of my blade!"

He swung his sword around as Remi drew closer.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi cursed as he stopped his forward momentum to put up a shield. He put an invisible sword in one hand while attaching the invisible shield on the other forearm. It'd been awhile since he'd trained this way. He hoped he wasn't rusty.

"Flat of your blade? What are you going to fail to do? Spank me?"

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

The Dreadknight's blade smacked against the shield with a satisfying, sizzling sound, leaving a trail of energy behind it.

"Perhaps thou wouldst try thy blade skills against mine? It seems thou wouldst make a worthy opponent."

[aqua_gambit]

He grit his teeth and strengthened his shield. He would need it to stand up to multiple hits from that energy sword.

"You're standing between me and my family." The Atlantean didn't see a way around the man that was safe or wouldn't hurt his own pride. "So, I'll go through you."

He pressed forward with his shield, leaving his sword hand back to strike if an opening came up.

[stormy_skrull]

When the alarms started going off, Mary started moving, shifting her clothes into her white and black Future Foundation uniform.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Electro came walking down the hallway. She could not help but smirk as she saw Mary run towards her.

"Well, well, well! Isn't this a SHOCKING turn of events!" She laughed, extending her fists and firing an electrical bolt at Mary.

[stormy_skrull]

"Hey!" Mary shouted, stretching and shifting out of the way of the bolt. "Puns are my department, sparky!"

She rolled herself into a ball, bouncing along the walls, picking up speed as she did.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Her eyes narrowed as she continued to toss electric shocks towards Mary, missing each and every time. She was fast, and this was not what she expected! Electro then watched the pattern of Mary's bouncing, and threw a bolt of electricity at the wall Mary was just about to land on, giving her a nice jolt.

[stormy_skrull]

"Yeeeouch!"

Mary bounced painfully off the wall, hitting the ground and unfolding back to her default form.

[bunny_battery]

Katie was fighting the urge to grimace. She'd known this was a possibility ever since she'd somehow let herself be talked into working here. She was, allegedly, retired from the game.

"Okay people," she shouted to the rest of the lab. "We've trained for this. Lab is on lockdown. You know the drill."

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Boomerang ran towards the lab. He had his orders, and he was no doubt willing to obey them. With weapon in hand, he waited, waited for his prey to leave the lab, and then attack. All while trying to remain in the shadows.

When it became apparent that the lab was on break down, he took out an explosive boomerang and thew it at the sealed door, trying to blow it open so he could enter the lab.

[bunny_battery]

The door shuddered and shook, but held for the moment.

Inside, Katie did her best to keep the other scientists from panicking. Idly, she reached over and grabbed an empty beaker, disintegrating it in her hands. Enough energy for a quick shot, if it came down to it.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

He continued to toss explosive boomerangs at the door, until a hole managed to form. Grinning at this, he tossed in a boomerang through the hole in the door. At first, it looked like a dinky, wooden boomerang. But once it hit the floor, it began to fill the room with sleeping gas. If something was not done soon, everyone in the lab would be put into a deep slumber!

[bunny_battery]

"Chemical fumes precautions, engage!" Katie shouted. Instantly, fans in the ceiling activated and started sucking up the gas. But the hole was still there.

"Everyone, get to the secondary fall back position," she directed.

"What about you, Doctor Power?" one asked.

"I'll hold this bastard off! Just go!"

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Cardiac, meanwhile, was searching for any members of the team that might remain. There was supposed to be some big rocky guy... and maybe some chick too. Nothing he couldn't handle.

[clobberin_kid]

And there was a big rocky guy! Jacob charged down the hallway toward the intruder. "Trespassing's illegal, buddy."

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

"Holy crap!" Cardiac shouted, taking a couple steps back. "Didn't realize you were this huge!"

He put up both hands, firing bolts of energy down the hall.

[clobberin_kid]

That was right, creep! Tremble before his mightiness! Or something.

Jacob did his best to duck and dodge, but even though he was agile for his size, he couldn't avoid them all. The ones that hit, hit hard and knocked him back a few steps. He knew he had to push through, though. His best chance was to get in close.

Aftermath...

[stormy_skrull]

They'd had SHIELD on their door soon enough to take care of the villains. Those that they'd been able to capture anyway. The one Ryan had fought had escaped.

Worse, various pieces of technology were missing. Someone or something had somehow gotten to them during the fighting, though the security cameras showed nothing at all. Not to mention the damage to the facility from the fighting.

"Well," Mary said. "This ain't good."