Fast Track to Fame(Open to 1-2 heroes)

Vexus tapped her fingers feverishly on her desk in her temporary office. She had just finished with a board meeting with some other representatives of her movement, Genesis Vi. Even though they had plenty of donors, at the rate that things were going they were not going to make their goals and their funds would be heavily depleted. This was a project that Vexus refused to allow go under. Her initial attempt to draw attention to her movement did not seem to do much if anything. There weren't any casualties, which may have been why there was not much coverage on it. The part of Chicago that she had attacked was not busy and she was stopped by that Hale child and is friend boy of sorts. It was time for Elena to up her game just a little bit, this time she wouldn't be so nice to the wildlife. This time, she would target somewhere much more populated. Vexus was aiming for Los Angeles. She left a message to her coworkers that she was leaving. She never told them where to, and they never asked. She signed the paychecks. They knew better. Elena dematerialized into technomatter, and began the trip across the country.

She reformed high above the city and immediately activated her robotic suit of armor and continued to fly forward towards the ocean. She was high enough to be viewed as just a plane to civilians and had a cloaking device that repelled radar detection keeping her out of the military's reach for the time being. She flew far enough out to the water where the shore could still be seen, but the beach goers at Santa Monica Pier weren't visible. If someone was looking with binoculars, they may be able to spot Vexus in the sky however they would not be able to do anything as it was too late. 
Elena released one of her Bx3 bombs down into the water. After a few moments, it detonated sending a massive wave crashing towards the pier. It was large enough to cover the entire beach and wash up to the Pacific Coast Highway to cover the parking lots and the pier itself. Following the wave, Vexus launched five of her Miniature M.Tech Missiles to strike the hotels and other buildings. They were powerful enough to blow out the foundations, or at least most of them, to cause critical damage to them. Eventually they would collapse to cause more casualties or damage to surrounding structures.

After her onslaught had been fired, she descended and hovered inches above the water. Vexus crossed her arms and slowly began to float forward clearly revealing that she was the culprit of this mess. LA was a highly populated area, so not only would there hopefully be some civilian deaths but she could almost guarantee that there would be a brave hero or two to come to the city's aid. Just like last time. Though in addition to a hero of sorts, she could more than likely count on the military making an appearance as well. The sound of helicopters neared, and Elena could almost guarantee that they were not just news copters.They had probably been notified of the tremors from her explosion since they went off so close to shore making it obvious that it had to of been from an unnatural source, not to mention the missiles that had ben launched towards the civilian areas. This was already looking like a more successful attack on civilization. Vexus was confident that the scheduled meeting for her financial providers would be much more productive than initially though. Boom goes the dynamite.

Helia was sitting on a roof drinking a mango smoothie her dad bought her before he left her to go to some meeting in Ireland.  Helia was wearing a bonnet with some dark blue skinny jeans and brown snow boots with a white shirt and a brown fur jacket.  The wind blew gently and the cars called to eachother in a chaotic yet rhythmic tone.  Helia watched as the moon glowed and dropped towards the ocean.

"Wait the moon can't move that fast."  She said in desperation as her bonnet flew off letting her long red hair flow in the wind.

A wave was approaching from the coast and it was huge.  Helia was about to jump when a wind rushed past her and filled her nose with the smell of salt.  She cursed under her breath and backed up from the edge a little.  Then she began to sing her angelic song, Calling on him with her harmonious voice as chills filled the air.

"Gitabonan ako diha sa imong gray nga sheet ug panalipdan ako gikan sa tanan katalgman...Nefram."  She sang holding his name for a long period of time.  The verse she sang was both calming yet it was also mournful, as if written by someone who was happy with her life but at the same time was desperately missing the person she called to.

The world seemed to zoom out then a fog rushed from below and quickly encased her.  When the fog thinned out around her she was in her hero outfit.  She jumped down from the building and the fog wrapped around her and softened her landing.  She lunged forward once she touched the ground to try and stop the tidal wave but she was caught off guard by missiles exploding on buildings nearby.

"This is going to get really bad really quick."  Helia said as she jumped across a building to dodge an incoming missile.

It was obvious that missiles were just shot to destroy things with no specific target but still, it was a horrible coincidence that helia was in the line of fire of like seven.  She pulled a thick dagger out of the fog and ran forward prepairing herself for the upcoming battle.  

"Nerfram block the wave." Helia called and the fog spewed past her rushing towards the wave. After a few seconds the stream of gray turned into giant wall of thin gray. Helia knew it wouldn't last long but if she could buy the military some time the amount of casualties could be minimized. She used the small amount of fog around her as a set of wings.

"Now it's time for the missiles." She said and she jumped up towards an incoming swarm. The fog that was acting as her wings spilt and began to strip the missiles falling closest to her. She couldn't get all of them but she tried to stop the ones that would cause the most casualties. As she destroyed missiles she flew towards the ocean where the wave began to seep through the fog.

"...that seems a bit much for an old building that I'm pretty much going to be rebuilding from the ground up." Connor stated, taking a sip from a glass of red wine he had just taken from a waiter who was passing by. "You know that CRDI can bring in more revenue for the city and you know that where ever one of our buildings go up plenty of charity work follows. Selling me this building will only benefit yourself, this city, and the people that reside inside. So as I stated, my offer stands."

"You drive a tough bargain and I know about how generous your company has been to America. Some people seem to think you'll drive it to the ground if you keep expanded and trying to 'fix' everything." A well dressed business woman stated, shuffling through a series of papers of research she had done on CRDI. Suddenly, from outside the two could here screams. They were inside the dining hall of a hotel on the santa monica pier. Connor and the business woman got up, looking out the large windows to see that a giant wave had just crashed against the peer.

"...What could cause such a massive..." Connor looked up and spotted something in the distance, his eyes widened when he realized what they were. "Everybody down!" Tapping the equip on his belt, he had a bubble shield spike in his hand which he planted in the ground. The missiles collided and glass shattered all over. The buildings main supports were hit and the building was falling apart. "Everybody evacuate!" The bubble shield died, it took everything it had to deflect the blast of the missile that impacted. Even then people in the dinning hall died, or were injured.

The building started to fall, Connor ran for the fifth floor window and leapt tapping the equip simultaneously. As he dropped his suit appeared around him and he shot his grapple which latched to some of the falling building. It slowed his fall enough that he could hit the ground and roll safely. There wasn't anything he could do for the people inside the building. AIVAS had already called 9-11 and reported the attack.

There seemed to be another hero on the scene, a young red head woman who seemed to manipulate some sort of fog but Connor hadn't the time to figure out who she was; he had to discover the source of the attack. Looking out to the ocean he could see an armored foe approaching. Obviously they wanted to take full credit of this scenario. Tapping the equip, Connor equipped himself with a .50 caliber sniper rifle and took aim. "Let's see how you like armor piercing rounds." Connor aimed for the shoulder and fired, normal human beings would find that their shoulder would be blown to smithereens.

The attack on the beach front property was successful having knocked down a hotel or two. Although as expected there had been metas too the rescue. The one that she saw appear seemed to manipulate a strange fog. It took a solid form and slowed the large wave she had sent towards the pier. She would readdress the lack of flooding later. Elena picked up the pace that she was flying over the water and started to head towards the red head that was attempting to foil her plan. Using the suits ability to aid in her physical prowess, she enhanced the suit's durability (+2DUR) and the speed at which she can travel (+2SPD). She went up to full speed, but was then knocked violently off of her path by a very powerful bullet. She skidded on the water for a moment, and quickly recovered back to hovering above its surface. Tracking the possible trajectory paths based on the impact point she was able to locate the shooter. This just makes two more casualties.

Vexus drew the two laser guns she had on her person and began to open fire at the both of them even though their distances were significantly different. She moved rapidly towards the woman who was controlling the fog and began to concentrate her firing on her. In addition, the yellow whip like extension flowing off of her helmet extended and shot towards her looking to make contact any way it could. Ideally it would wrap around her arm or leg, violent run massive volts of electricity through her body, and then throw her into a building or down on the ground. Vexus kept moving forward and past the woman even if the whip did not make contact. She would land on a mid point between the two of them and continue to fire her laser weapons at the both of them. 
At this point she was unaware of either of their abilities. All that was known that the woman with red hair could manipulate a strange fog like substance that she could not identify with her sensors at the moment. As for the other man, all that could be deduced was that he had excellent marksmanship skills. The onslaught of laster attacks was to first judge their abilities, if they were struck and taken out by the first attacks then they wouldn't have been worth her time and effort anyways and Vexus would continue her assault on LA. While attacking, she heard a police broadcast over the radio about the incoming authorities in addition to military force. Elena had a little bit of a feeling that the inbound military attack would prove more difficult to deal with than the two Metas she was facing.

Red successfully hit his target but it seemed that all he did was slow the person down and with the barrage of laser heading towards him; pissed the person off to. The thing about lasers is that they are hard to spot and even harder to dodge and with the bubble shield inoperative this wasn't going to be an easy maneuver. First things first, he had to see the lasers to dodge which was made possible by switching to NV (Night Vision). The lasers emitted enough light which with the dark backdrop of the ocean made them easy to pick out. Red only had seconds to react as the first wave of lasers reached him.

Connor was no expert acrobat but he did take a few lessons in pakour. Heading towards the hail of lasers, he ducked a weaved through them planning out his route to the edge of the pier. Ducking behind cover for lasers he couldn't avoid and dodging ones he could. Finally the hail was gone but it seemed see was after the fog controlling red head probably seeing her as the bigger threat at the moment. This gave Connor an opportunity to thing but without any pre-planning he had only his basic equipment on him. His strongest weapon was the sniper rifle he still held in his hands, in the back of his mind he wished he had the LNR 'Guilty Light". It would make sure work of this armored adversary.

'May be a gamble but my strongest weapon may be that fog lady but I need to give her time to do her thing...if she has a thing.' Connor took aim with the sniper rifle and started rapping off rounds. Normally the kick would kill the heck out of somebodies shoulder but his healing factor kept his shoulder in tact to fire off so many rounds. Connor also wished he could call upon the Hercules, but that was back in Chicago still incase Blue needed it. Connor hoped that he could turn the attackers attention away from the fog girl by pestering her with fifty cal, which was a scary plan considering fifty cal pestered her.

As helia blew up another missile the fog wrapped around her and began to tingle across her arm. She stopped going forward as a dim red beam slipped past her at bullet speed. She turned to see a swarm of bullets heading in her direction followed by some lady in a robot suit. Helia jumped back in shock then landed on the ground and began to dodge the bullets. She pulled out the dagger and swung at the bullets that she or nerfram couldn't block.

"What is with this lady?" She asked herself as she jumped backwards into nerfram. Multiple bullets exploded on nerfram but he seemed sturdy.

Helia was about to lunge for the lady when the fog threw her to the side and split down the middle letting a long yellow rope like thing touch a nearby wall. An monumental amount of electricity rushed out of the rope and seared into the brick causing it to crumble and melt in places. Helia looked in awe and shock at the rope as it forcebly unlactched itself from the wall and began to return to the lady.

Helia looked at the lady thinking she was a good ways away but when she turned she was flying straight past her. Time seemed to slow as they looked at each other for a second. Helia had a look of shock at the speed the lady was going at and she saw a type of scanning look from the lady, like she was trying to really see who it was opposing her or that's what she thought she saw. Wind flew through her hair as the lady flew farther down. That's when she noticed a kind of shiny red and black dot far off.

Helia reached for the fog that was holding back a now calm wall of water and called for it to come back. It took a second but the fog responded and a huge chunk began to rush towards her and surround her in thin ring of fog before returning itself back to the fog that was snaking up next to her. Helia looked at the fog and nodded before jumping to go towards the lady who just passed her. Whether she did it or not the lady that just past her was her prime suspect and she was going to find out if she did it or not very soon, she just hoped she didn't find out the painful way.

Before she reached the lady she pulled another dagger from the fog to fill her other hand. "Nerfram don't hold back." She called out and the fog responded by rippling then lunging forward at an immense speed, helia holding on by a dagger she stabbed into the fog a few seconds after it left.

The two individuals who decided to oppose her were being a little bit of a nuisance. Further developments revealed that the fog appeared to have a mind of its own as it defended the girl with red hair from her electrical whip. It most certainly was not normal fog as it did seem to have a level of solidarity to it allowing it to protect from attacks as well as execute offensive maneuvers. Elena would need more force than just her guns in order to properly handle this one.
On the other hand, the individual in the red based outfit was nimble enough to avoid her laser onslaught proving he must have had extensive training in more than one form of combat. He was wearing a mask so there was a good chance that there was some sort of visional programming that helped him. The most predominate issue was his weapon, which he had moved to a rapid fire tactic. She would need to deal with this one first and then focus her attention on the other girl. For now though, she fired two blast of Technorganic Matter from her right arm cannon at the incoming woman now holding a dagger. They were not very well aimed shots so hopefully she would be able to dodge them. However wherever they landed, whether it be concrete, brick, sand, even the water, the globs would morph into very large creatures which instantly moved to attack the woman controlling the fog. One of the two beasts created would bear wings allowing it to fly. This should hopefully keep her occupied for a few moments.

Meanwhile, Vexus activated her M.Tech Defense Discs which shrouded her in a powerful forcefield deflecting all of the armor piercing rounds that this man was firing at her. She flew over in closer to him hoping that he would realize that his bullets were doing nothing and cease fire. Elena dialed up the width of the lasers that her guns fired and began to shoot at this man at a closer range. Assuming he would find a way to weasel his way through the blasts, she would adjust her suit to aid in her close combat fighting (-2DUR -2SPD +4FS) and engage him to see where he actually stood as far as his hand to hand combat abilities.
Vexus would attack with well timed kicks and punches with the added difficulty of the yellow elcetro-whip that would be trying to latch onto any part of his body that it could get to pump lethal amount of electricity through his body. Even if he did out class her in terms of martial art skill, her defense discs were still active and she doubted that he hand enough strength to harm her through the field surrounding her. She would need to quickly deal with these two as the power of the air force would be upon her soon. Elena didn't think that they would attack her in a residential area, but maybe another explosion or two would change their minds...

'Good' Connor thought to himself as it seemed that the terrorist had turned her attention to him. However, after letting out the final round in his present clip he noticed that none of his shots were making impact, even the ones he knew were on their target. She was rapidly approaching, the sniper rifle would was useless so he dropped it to the ground, reaching onto his back and unsheathed the Lightning rod. Its blade resembled a katana, only dulled but once activated it produced a blue hue. The attacker unleashed a hail of laser bolts at him again, this time he wouldn't be able run through them like he did previously, and without the bubble shield he couldn't stand his ground.

Jumping rolling to the left, Connor avoided the majority of blasts, the few which where within the wider spread of fire that were still in danger of hitting him he masterfully deflected with the LR (lighting Rod for short). Once on his feet, it was to late and the woman was upon him letting out a furry of kicks and punches. She was damn good, and what made it worst was the yellow whip she was flinging around obviously trying to get a hold of him. Red deflected the yellow whip with the blade. Each time they meet they created an phase fault arc, illuminating the vicinity they were in. It was almost like a light show. What bothered Connor more was that every time he blocked a kick or a punch with his sword the shocking effect of his blade seemed useless.

Suddenly, the whip wrapped around his sword and he let go. Performing a few back summer saults to put some distance between himself and the attacker. Dialogue, he had to get this person talking and maybe start getting some answers. "What the hell do you think youre doing? What are you trying to accomplish!" Connor tapped the equip and had the LNR Bolter equipped in his left hand, loaded with shock rounds as he tried to think of a plan.

Helia saw something fly past her face then something almost latched onto her leg but she let go of her dagger and rolled onto a roof below her. There was a loud latching sound and helia knew the woman missed but when she began to run the sound of twisting metal and crumbling rock stopped her. She turned with her fog quickly u-turning and coming to her side dropping the dagger into her other hand. Two body like beings began to limp towards her and she was going to just blow them off when they began to run.

Helia jumped back in shock but braced herself for her fight. They quickly caught her and began the onslaught of punches and kicks. helia put her daggers into her fog quickly and began to fight with her hands making it easier to counter them. She flipped backwards and swung her feet to counter some of the hits they made then her fog wrapped around her and twisted violently into a spiral. She jumped forward and began to swing at the both of the creatures she was fighting while she fluidly jumped over one to dodge the other. Her fog wrapped around her and occasionally threw in a few punches to aid in her altercation.

He was doing well. His close range combat skills were on par. The boy was smart to toss the gun, and following was a sword which had electricity coursing through it. To anyone else, being touched by such a blade would be extremely painful however with her field activated when he used the weapon to block her attacks she was unfazed. Looking over, she could see the woman with red hair was more than occupied with her Technorganic creations. Elena wouldn't have to worry about her for a while more than likely, which allowed her to direct most if not all of her attention to the man before her in the red.
The electro-whip that was making things complicated for him was able to wrap around the blade he was wielding. As a reaction it seemed, he let go of the weapon and flipped backwards putting distance between the two of them.

"What the hell do you think youre doing? What are you trying to accomplish!" 
 
He yelled out to her, but Vexus would not respond no matter how much he pestered her with words. With the yellow tendril, the flicked the sword so that the artificial extension was holding it on the handle. She lowered her Defense Discs and changed her physical boost from her combat skills, to speed. (-4FS +4SPD). Remaining in the same spot, she opened fire at him once again and sent the yellow tendril rushing forward looking to impale him with his own sword. Since it held the ability to hold a charge, Vexus coursed her more powerful level of electricity through it not only making it near deadly to the touch, but also red hot. Due to the exceptionally higher levels that were being sent through it, it was heating up quite a bit. It kind of was ruining the structural integrity of the sword, so it would more than likely break after a few hits. Elena didn't view this as a very high quality sword anyways, she was sure he would be able to find or make another one...

'Kill her' Came the voice from within Connors head. 'Hasn't there been enough suffering?' Connor was ready for the attack, he was at the disadvantage after losing his sword especially since his opponent was turning his own weapon on him with those yellow tendrils which were proving to be problematic. Not only that but the volley of lasers she kept throwing at him didn't make things easier on him.  She had lowered those disc though, which meant that the shield she had up was gone but bullets weren't going to penetrate that armor.

'Out of time' Connor started running, keeping his distance the same from is opponent as he circled her. Something was different, with the kind of fighting skill she demonstrated early and the type of weaponry would suggest her aim would be better but that wasn't the case any longer. However, directing the tendril seemed to be more her style. Aiming the Gauntlet, Connor fired the grapple which latched onto a piece of rubble which jolted him away from the attack and into the air. While in the air, he equipped several throwing discs and threw them at the villain. They were a distraction, for within the bundle of discs he threw was an EMP grenade which landed by her feet.

The creatures Helia were fighting were tough. Helia has already bashed their head together and slammed them on the ground but they still kept fighting. Helia gave a deep sigh then raisied her hand. She looked at the creatures gently and then looked away closing her eyes. "It's over." she said as she swung her hand into a jay ending it perpendicular to the side of her body.

There was a pause in the world as if everything stopped in sync for a moment to acknowledge her. The fog twisted around her body then thick tendrils pushed towards the creatures. They were able to dodge some of them but once one of the tendrils grabbed them it was over. The fog wrapped around them then stuck them together as it dropped a scythe into helias hand.

Helia took it with a little regret that she had to do this to the unsuspecting creatures but as she thought about how they attacked her without thought she knew this was better than what she could have done. She jumped into the air spinning along with her daggers closing in like a pendulum. There were multiple cutting sounds as metal repeatedly sliced through metal and rock.

"The Teeth of nerfram." She said then the fog let them go and the creatures fell to the ground not moving. She didn't know if they were dead but she took this time to rush to the aid of the other guy who was being attacked by the lady from earlier. But this time she wasn't curious about the lady or her motives. She just wanted to pound her into the dirt and let nerfram feed on her dead body...hopefully she was strong enough to achieve this desired outcome.

The boy in the armor nimbly avoided her persistent shots from her guns. She cursed under he breath seeing as he may figure out her ability to switch her dominant skill set, but no matter. He would more than likely be done away with before he had the chance to come to any sort of realization. In the next few moved of his, he shot a gauntlet of sorts that contained a grappling hook which pulled him away from her. While in the air he threw a couple of discs at her, which Elena effortlessly blasted out of the air. Though she soon came to realize that had only been a distraction. An object landed in her peripheral line of vision and was almost immediately identified as a grease of sorts. Using her full speed she boosted herself away, but was still caught up a little in the explosion.
As she was flying away, there was something wrong. The blast had not done as much damage as anticipated, and some of her flight systems were failing. No, most of her systems were beginning to fail and she began to plummet to the ground. She increased the durability of the suit slightly, still leaving a boost to her speed (-2Spd +2Dur) so that the impact on the ground was not as harsh. She would have done more, but her options were extremely limited based on her constantly failing systems. Upon crash landing she bounced once, skidded across the asphalt of the street which turned into a violent roll. From the rolling she was able to get up to one knee and skid to a halt. Vexus stood up slowly and patted dust off her shoulder nonchalantly. There were now a handful of dents and scratches on her armor. These were going to be a bitch to buff out...

It was going to take a minute for her systems to properly reboot. That grenade had now obviously been an EMP. It was the only logical explanation as to how anyone would be able to scramble her systems so severely. It had seemed like the woman had dealt with her Technorganic Monsters in a daily swift manner and was now coming after Vexus herself. Seemed somewhat foolish, but she must have some promise considering she was able to take out both of her little creations. Not always an easy task. As she was incoming, Elena was sure that the man in the red armor would soon follow. She was grounded for the time being, her flight coordinator still offline, be though as it may she still had some of her weapons. Putting away both of her guns, she raised her arms up aiming them at the two fighters and launched off all ten of her Miniature M.Tech Missiles. Five for the man and five for the woman. Discrimination was wrong after all, everyone should be treated evenly. 
They were seeking missiles, and very agile due to their small size. There was no holding back and if they were struck they would be hit will the full force of the explosion of all five of the missiles. Hopefully this attack would buy enough time for her suit to fully reboot. Just launching these missiles and keeping them on target was taking an unnecessary amount of computing power. Sooner or later she would ned to make her exit and allow the authorities take care of the mess she's made.