[Godstorm] Riding Out the Storm

[ngm_foes]

The Godstorm came at New York City, gathering other storms nearby to it. It wanted power Thor's little hammer couldn't easily undo. The Godstorm had underestimated the god once. If he showed up again, he would be ready. His reach was expansive. All along the Atlantic Coast, they felt his raging wrath. Even glancing touches from his circulating clouds brought damage.

There was warning he was coming, but Godstorm cared not one whit. He want right toward the harbor, using its funneling effect and the high tides from the moon to shove torrents of water into the megalopolis. He pushed on shore, making his way inland.

He was looking for something. Not that the small people trying to survive the hurricane coming ashore knew that. Their survival was not even a concern. He just pushed on land and spread his reach. He pushed his storm inland and the requisite flooding came with it. The winds howled and shards of glass broke off skyscrapers and added sharp damage to the mayhem.

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[lil_hulk]

The storm came in and Jay was out in it. He was hulked out and ready to help where needed. He wasn't likely to be blown away easily, being a half-ton of muscle. He could be more help out on the streets that were filling with water than if he were stressing out the floors in his mom's apartment.

His loping strides caused splashes as he looked for any place to be of use.

[comic_awareness]

Bruce cut a glowing figure through the sky, doing what he could to help coordinate rescue efforts. He would do what he could, but eventually, he would begin running low of power. While a certain amount of his might was in-born, he drew a lot of it from solar-power.

"How's it looking down there, Jay?"

[lil_hulk]

Jay stopped loping through the streets and looked up at Bruce.

"It's very-" The wind pushed the rain sideways. "-blrgl."

He spit the rainwater out to the side. "Wet." The wind gusted again and sent a large shard of broken skyscraper glass right at Jay. It shattered across his chest. "And pointy."

[midori_majutsu_shi]

Reiko moved through the water filling clinic. Her patients were scared and she had managed to get the worst cases out.

"Seal the doors last." She ordered as she checked on a pair of kids huddling up on a medical table with their mother nearby. She handed out one of the last dry blankets to them before splashing in hip deep water to get back to the front room. "We have the second floor, those of you able to walk go up there, take those who can't. We're not going to get another ambulance to evac us." She wasn't leaving until her patients were safe, even if Alistaire and Alisa tried dragging her out.

[hellfire_child]

Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.

Or in this case, his hired help. A squadron of men built like doorframes bustled into the clinic, hefting patients and vital supplies and following the evac route with barely a word.

Alistaire strode in behind them, waders on over a fine suit, and holding an umbrella. He had a second one with him, in translucent pink, which he pointed towards Reiko. "That should handle things. Come along."

[midori_majutsu_shi]

She had been checking on her patients when he showed up. She gave him a small grin, glad to see him, but obviously determined to stay with her patients, most of whom huddled in the interior room, as far from glass as they could. It wasn't ideal, patients on the floor since they hadn't gotten around to putting beds up there yet.

"Alistaire, you do realize I'm not abandoning them right?" She asked after a moment or two calming the frightened patients, though she did cross to him, hugging him tightly glad to see him and his men. "Thank you."1

[poorgirlsarcee]

Mira had managed to assist some before she and the armored form of the bike locked up, the AI of the bike feeding her memories making the situation worse. A paper bag became a large eye, or twigs and branches were tentacles.

"DK... Stop, please..." At least the water they were standing in at the moment was only knee deep.

[vincent_amora]

As soon as water started breaching the island, Vincent had set out to find Mira. He didn't want to imagine what she'd be going through with her hydrophobia. He'd been teleporting around the city for half an hour (if not for the ethical implications of tagging her to be able to track her anywhere, it would have been much easier) before he spotted her.

"Mira! Stay right there!" He descended from above her.

[lilbrownspyder]

Recluse had assumed the turbulence was normal for a storm at first. She'd flown through storms before, if only rarely. But when it seemed like the entire helicarrier started rocking like a cork in a river, she knew something had to be wrong beyond her getting captured and failing her mission.

"I guess we're going down. Hope we don't break apart on the way. This ishould what happens when you have to get a Stark to design your base. You get a stupid toy that kills you as soon as something goes wrong."

Taunting? It wasn't like she had anything to lose. It was better than looking like a scared little kid. She cursed under her breath in Russian.

[symkarian_princess]

Nika sat in the security office of the embassy, watching the monitors. They had prepped as best they could and evacuated all non-essential personnel. And those that were left were mostly on the upper floors. Lisa was back at their shared apartment making sure everything didn't blow away there.

The howling winds outside made the mostly empty embassy sound spooky. Nika puffed out a breath and continued to watch for any breaks in the sandbagged walls.

[molecana]

Gina was on bodyguard duty. She leaned against the wall, arms crossed, fidgeting.

"Um, boss. You don't think any of dat water is gonna get in here, right?"

[alisa_lebeau_v3]

Alisa was in the middle of a Merc job when the storm hit. Her target had run into an old hospital in Manhattan, only to disappear. She was about to leave, herself, when the first floor suddenly flooded. Now she was stuck on the second floor, her target nowhere in sight, and the heat vision in her mask could only pick up another blip or two.

" Probably rats." She thought to herself. " I was supposed to be at a party, tonight. Tryin' to see if it was possible to reclaim what I lost. Dat looks impossible now."

With a sigh, she continued to search the abandoned hospital and carry on.

[weapons_mistress]

Millicent was really starting to wish she could just say "sod it" regarding this job, but that's not what professionals did. She didn't know much about this bloke in the hospital, only that her employer wanted him alive and safely extracted from the hospital. Of course it had to be done while the mother of all storms was pounding the American east coast. Adrienne was securing a means of a quick escape from the building, Millicent had to be ready so her friend would not have to wait long.

[atlanteanhellion]

There weren't too many storms that humans dealt with that intimidated (most) Atlanteans. Ever try dealing with angry kraken? Yeah, didn't think so. When the weather reports started calling The One Storm to End Them All and other such hyperbolic madness, Kassi did what any reasonable person would do.

She got out her surfboard.

[agent_of_venom]

Venom was assigned to assist with rescue operations where possible. The storm was not normal. It understood that.

The fear of those around it was tantalizing, but it wasn't their mission. It pointed people in the direction of safety, and its terrifying appearance didn't make others question it. They just wanted to get away from the black-clad creature.

Every little bit helped.

[aqua_gambit]

The safest place Remi knew where his family could stay was Pier 4. Well, technically, the safest place would have been the bottom of the ocean, but Alexa couldn't breathe water. Pier 4 had defenses that the buildings around them didn't. It had it's own life support system for some Dr. Doom-related reason.

So, despite some of Alexa's father's offers, they stayed at the Pier. The howling winds steady rumble of waves crashing on the building didn't distract him from pacing. Even if they were safe here, the ring he had hidden at the Blauzes could wash away. But Alexa and their daughter would be safe. That's what counted, right?

He could always find some other shipwreck that would have a different, less-perfect ring. Or maybe he could find some high tech thing... that he could never afford. He rubbed his hand down his face and tried not to stew in his worry.

[soulstealingstark]

Guin was in the tank, half floating and half napping which would probably freak Alexa out had she not seen her child do it numerous times and was pretty certain it was normal all things being considered.

"You look really stressed out and I can't figure out why."

[theamericandream]

Peggy was just really, really, really glad that her leg was waterproof. And self-heating because damn that water was cold.

[harlem_knightress]

Dani reminded herself to keep calm though many people around her were losing their minds. She tried to point people in the direction of safety where possible.

"Hey! Do you know if any other back-up is coming? My chi is pretty great, but not stop-a-storm great!" Dani said to Peggy.

[avengingwarbird]

This storm was unlike any that Roxie had seen before...but she'd heard stories of Poseidon creating storms just like this one.

Did she think he was behind this? No. Possibly not.

She wasn't sure.

The only thing she knew was that, for now? The city needed her.

[the_next_avenger]

People needed help. That was all Joe Rogers needed to know when it came down to it.

He headed down the streets, directing people to safety where he could while he looked around for any other heroes he knew. They'd be out in force today and he wanted to help wherever possible.

[light_as_a_rock]

Eva was on one of the top floors of the mostly evacuated Worthington Building. Although it had been built by her great-great-grandfather, around the turn of the 20th century, the structure had been retrofitted since, even using some not of this world technology and materials from her father's X-Men contacts. Still, this storm was unlike anything she'd ever seen, and she eyed the windows with concern.

She clutched her mostly useless phone as she paced. Even with a satellite uplink, the signal was very unreliable now. The satellite internet wasn't much better, but it was functioning for now. She watched as the last of the important data from the building servers was backed up to the Worthington locations in San Francisco and New Mexico, then switched the feed to a live stream of the Weather Channel.

[iced_cherub]

A certain clone paced one of the halls, she was trying to avoid listening to the news as she passed common rooms where it was being played.

Getting to the end of the halls on the main level of the school she turned around, heading back the way she had come. The winds weren't as high there yet, but it was still a bit much for her to go outside, and she wasn't going to risk getting stuck in the Danger Room if power went out. Not to mention she wasn't allowed to run a program on her own yet.

There was a stack of homework she probably could do to occupy her mind, but she really didn't want to try to figure out equations.

"... Projections for this storm are ..."

Bobbi covered her ears tired of hearing what people safely away from the storm were saying would happen. It wasn't like they were actually there. Something hit the window she was near startling her, making her jump. "Okay really I need to stop drinking so much soda."

[wild_child]

"Relax, Feathers," Rose said. "It'll take more than a little rain ta bring this place down."

[leafygreenvagoo]

Lex was ill-prepared for a storm of this magnitude. Granted, no one was really prepared for it, but Lex was less-so than many.

Though by the same token, she was better-equipped for it than many of her neighbors, simply because she was taller, younger, and stronger than most of them, which was how she'd gotten roped into helping the nearest ones evacuate.

Bob was tied into the mesh pouch at her hip -along with a few essentials, including bandaids, antiseptic ointment and a pocket knife- and was, for lack of a better phrase, shaking like a leaf in the wind.

She had just gotten her next door neighbor to the nearest shelter and was headed back to the building to make sure no one else was there, leaning her whole body against the wind as she went, when a window above shattered and she yelped, jumping back out of the way, one arm up to protect her face, spitting a fairly impressive string of curses as she did so.