Honoree (Forcie and Pat)

The first part of her plan worked, but Deathbringer didn't fall on his sword. Bliss put no effort into planning for that other than blind wishing, but she wished pretty hard for something to come her way. The smell of cinder rose from the blade, filling Bliss with enough of an idea to hopefully save herself from an untimely death. The car behind her would begin to lift, hopefully with a full tank of gasoline. The Bringer of Death would cut down an innocent person, giving Bliss enough time to hurl the vehicle towards Deathbringer, hoping to put the fuel tank right on his blade.

In an effort to shield herself from everything that would happen when the vehicle erupted, her telekinesis all went into keeping the shrapnel and flames from burning her to death. Given how most of her plans played out, this one would probably keep her half alive, and since she was only about sicxty percent alive, she would hope to be about thirty percent alive. Bliss hoped her number would outweigh how alive her opponent still looked after everything happened.

With this battle so far having been about Deathbringer's attempts to impale her with his mighty blade and Bliss' attempts to stop him with telekinesis, he decided to attempt something slightly different to mess up whatever game plan she had in mind. As fun as this was, and yes it was very fun, Deathbringer couldn't let this go on too long. No, he needed to end this quickly before someone showed up to interfere. So this time he engulfed his blade in flames. This surely couldn't backfire, but it would.

As he prepared to attack Bliss with the flame sword, she lifted up a car and sent it flying at him. "You're going to have to do better than that." he said to mock her as he swung his sword to cut the car in half so that he would not get hit by it. Even though he successfully cut through the car, Deathbringer's sword would go through the gas tank and things got out of hand. It resulted in an explosion that sent him flying backwards and away from Bliss. He would hit the ground sprawled out and looking pretty banged up. His sword fell a few feet from where he had. For a moment it appeared as if he were dead before laughter started coming from him. Deathbringer then quickly sat up to look over at her "You are definitely a fun opponent. It's been awhile since I actually enjoyed a fight. I'm actually beginning to think about letting you live, but I just can't think of a reason to do so that outweighs what I could accomplish by killing you." he said and reached over to grab his sword as he got back to his feet.

Bliss spent what little energy still existed in her. Holding onto the wound in her torso, Bliss began to move away from the desolate street, robbed of life from the confrontation. "This guy just won't die." Bliss sat up as best she could. "Killing is so permanent. And how long does it last for? A day. Two. Not a whole lot of time really. I mean isn't chopping someone up in front of a crowd fairly pedestrian? Wouldn't you much rather come up with an overly convoluted death trap or I don't- Just let me go!" If Bliss didn't watch it she would probably break even more of the bandage she barely managed to patch up using the bandages she got from her half sister. Neat little trick to have at her disposal, but she would need a few more. "I feel like you are really downplaying every aspect of being a villain. In all actuality this night has been a colossal failure at every point this night. What even was your plan for this? Did you have a plan? It seems like you just walked in with your dick in your hand, landed some lucky shots, and then failed miserably when I woke up. Is that about it? Am I summing up the night for you right now? Pretty sure I nailed it."

Deathbringer had staggered to his feet to continue to try and kill the superheroine known as Bliss. His clothes were torn and some burns now covered parts of his body. Despite these wounds, his determination had not lessened. In fact it had kind of grown stronger. He started to slowly walk back towards her to try and finish her off. Yeah, it was definitely time to end this.

Deathbringer kept walking back towards her as she was saying something. At first her words flew past him unnoticed until she said something that caught his attention. She was talking about how he operates. Saying his means weren't up to par. "I wouldn't expect you to like my methods since the endgame of today's plan is you dying." he said laughing off her initial attempts at playing him. She kept going however, and Deathbringer stopped to listen. He wanted to hear what she had to say. He wanted to know exactly what she was up to just so he could beat her at her own game before killing her.

Bliss was question Deathbringer's motives and actions tonight. Deathbringer smiled as he answered her. "My plan for tonight? You want to know what my big plan was?" he paused to take in his own amusement. "I was just hired because someone wanted to stage an attack on this little ceremony in the auditorium. A simple job for a quick payday. I'm not so petty that I'd refuse to undertake such a task." he said and paused again to take a step closer to her. "So yeah, I didn't come up with the plan. I just saw an opportunity since the plan involved replacing you with an android duplicate with a bomb inside. You see, if the bombing plan fails, then so be it. If it succeeds, I can possibly take credit for it. Regardless of whether or not it succeeds, I intend to be responsible for killing you." he explained and took another step towards her, but instead of attacking like it was probably wise of him to do, he kept on talking. "I bet you're wondering why I want to kill you. If it's not obvious, it's because you're such a key piece in this game. The successful businesswoman and protector of New York city during its darkest hour. That's the reputation you have garnered, and reputation is important. I intend to improve mine, and I'm here to do it at your expense."

Feeling like he no longer needed to talk, Deathbringer decided to finally try and end this. Wait, had somebody actually called 911? Oh, things were going to get difficult for him, weren't they? There wasn't going to be any time to enjoy this, was there? Grh, might as well do it anyways and then get out of here. He could celebrate later when it becomes public knowledge. With that thought in mind, Deathbringer aimed to attack again.

An idea appeared. A wild idea. It could be super effective if Bliss could just catch hold of it. The monologue turned to a dialogue. And this guy could talk for some time. Bliss moved her hand over the ground, feeling the support from the rebar in the concrete. When Deathbringer got close, Bliss would pull the rebar out from the ground and throw it all to ensnare Deathbringer. Once the rebar took root and trapped Deathbringer, Bliss would continue to keep her hand on the ground, sending vibrations through the ground, tightening the bars around Deathbringer. "You're a loser. You will always be a loser. I'm awesome. I will always be awesome." Deathbringer could swing his sword all he wanted, but Bliss was done with dealing with this guy trying to leech off of her god name. Hell, her good name didn't even come attached with all the things making Bliss a terrible person.

A helping force pulled Bliss off the ground. Bliss looked around as a a red headed helper came out of invisibility behind her. "Hey, Bliss I'm here. I guess you forgot to invite me." Standing with a red formal dress, Abby gazed into the abyss of Bliss' glare. "Don't worry I brought a gun." Opening her hand bag, Abby pulled out a small hand gun much to the surprise of Bliss. "So do I shoot him in the head first?"

"What?" Bliss felt her head decline with the very downplay of her voice.

"Do I shoot him in the head, or do I hit him with the gun first? Is there a way to do this?" Abby waved the gun in front of Bliss' face while still holding her boss.

"What the Hell is wrong with you? Why is everyone wanting to just kill everyone off the bat this week? What happened to subtlety?"

"Okay, so no killing, but since he's all wrapped up in rebar I pistol whip him right?"

"The fuck is this place anymore? Thank you Abby. That will be all for tonight." Focusing on the legs of Deathbringer, Bliss would telekinetically fling the evil doer as far as humanly possible from her.

Putting the gun away, Abby pulled out some of the cloth bandages from her bag. "Okay, so I brought some bandages from Mitsuko, so I'll just go ahead and..."

"Wait, who?" Bliss slowly lowered herself down to the ground and assumed a sitting position.

"Mitsuko, your half sister, you met her last week and..."

"She's my half sister? Why don't people tell me about stuff like this?"

Abby started to wrap the bandages around Bliss as the healing power began to close up her wound. "I don't know; I guess some of your adventures wrap up sooner than others."

"I hate waiting for adventures."

It appeared like this woman would be fine, while she was unconscious there was no excessive bleeding anymore. With a sigh, Alpha alleviated the pressure with his hands, though he was still applying it telekinetically, just long enough for the paramedics who had arrived to pick the poor woman up. Chaos was still abound, but it appeared that chaos was not as bad as he had priorly thought it was. All of the commotion had been annoying, but it came with people trying to crash things of this nature, always chaos and especially when it was the meta-humans that were doing it. With that done, he would scope out for Danny, the one person that he had a feeling he would need to find in this moment. His eyes darted about, looking for Danny and eventually settling upon her as he would approach her. ”Miss.Tamamoa, if you would give me a few moments of your time.” he would start off examining her physical condition and then the people around.

”I’ve been meaning to talk to you actually. Don’t worry, I’m not planning to tie you up like last time.” Travis would say with hands held up. If she believed him or not, well that wasn’t his problem. With things calming down, Eta had sort of petered off to talk with Colin who had taken to the kid well enough. ”If I remember correctly, you’re a part of a small heroic group in Los Angeles or somewhere around that area. I…was hoping you would take a few more members, a couple at most.” He would request with a genial smile, hoping she didn’t punch him in the mouth. If anything, that would have been a very Danny thing to do. ”If so, you could count on my resources backing this group of yours.”

You know, come to think of it, people seemed to be getting harder and harder to kill. So many seemed to survive things that should have ended their lives through sheer luck or something of pure absurdity. Like some random ghost man arriving just in time to save the life of a rich lady, and he wasn't actually trying to kill her. She would have died through her own incompetence. Speaking of people dying, it's time for Bliss to die. That's exactly what he'll do once his blade reaches her.

Deathbringer was about to strike her down when something came flying out of the ground through the concrete and started attacking him. He didn't realize that it was a metal bar until it had wrapped around him to keep him from attacking. A really thick and durable metal bar. Dammit, it seemed fortune was smiling upon this one too. He just could not catch a break could he? Then again, he could simply find a way out of this and proceed with what he had been trying to do. All he had to do was cut through the metal that had wrapped around him like a snake wraps around its prey. This might take a moment or two.

As he was attempting to get free of this metal bar by slowing cutting at it with his blade since his hand movements were very limited, some woman appeared literally out of nowhere to help Bliss. This mystery woman had a gun on her and was talking about shooting him. Deathbringer laughed a bit since he knew that bullets did nothing to him. He had managed to halfway cut through one part of the bar as he told himself to remember to acquire some more efficient means of offense to use in the future. Being just damn near unkillable wasn't quite cutting it.

Something hit him and sent him away. Deathbringer landed hard on the ground with this damn metal bar still wrapped around him. Cursing at the predicament he was in, Deathbringer struck at it as well as he could with the blade until he managed to cut through it. His hand was now free and he began to cut through the rest to get himself free of it. After a few minutes he was free of it and got back to his feet, but felt like his window of opportunity was near enough closed. Yeah, he could hear the distinct sound of sirens approaching. It was time to leave without managing to slay the person he had attempted to. At least he got a decent amount of cash out of this, and it was rather entertaining. This trip wasn't a complete waste of time at least.

Feeling a bit disgruntled with how things could have gone better, Deathbringer decided to do one last thing before leaving. He swung his sword once more and for perhaps the final time today and sent another air scythe towards Bliss and her friend before saying his goodbyes. "Fortune smiled on you today, Bliss. Maybe we'll meet again, maybe we won't. If we do, I intend to defeat even fate itself." and he would leave the scene to wreak havoc another day.

On three different occasions, Danny wanted to tell Travis to shut up and go to Hell, but each time he end with something non-confrontational (except bringing up her past captivity). "Join Prodigy. It's called Prodigy by the way, you called them to ransom off Not-Gamma-Anymore. By the way what did you demote her to? I kinda feel bad; her self esteem was probably- I guess I can always talk poorly about her the next time I fight her, because that will one day happen again." He struck up a good deal. Even Danny could not say no to it without good reason. "This seems one sided and kind of dumb." She had good reason.

"Everybody shut up." A very angry Bliss walked in with Abby in tow. "Is that my plaque? Give it to me." Waiting really did make the heart grow fonder.

"Travis, this is Bliss, Bliss-"

"I don't care who Travis is. Some one tried to replace me with a robot and I need to-"

"This is-"

"Don't interrupt me. Never interrupt me again or I'll beat you with this plaque I got for peace."

"Travis wants some people from his 'pod' to join Prodigy."

"I don't care. I don't care. Abby, do I care?"

"You should. That guy tried to kidnap you." Abby found out the identity of Travis using her creepy invisibility to stalk members of the gala to discern their identities to try and get a new job away from Bliss. Little did she one of them would actually come in handy. "But, before I tell you-" Abby peaked from Bliss to Travis. "You don't happen to be hiring. I know you're rich and famous, and good looking and-"

"A jerk." Danny added.

"An empty suit."

"I was going to say successful, but-"

"Abby, if you don't say it, I'm going to hurt you." Bliss said as she turned back to Abby.

"He is technically Alpha."

"Who?" Actually oblivious to the name, Bliss still remained transposed with the battle with Deathbringer.

"The guy who tried to kidnap you and didn't try to murder you."

"Oh wow, you just won the better by comparison awards." Bliss held up her plaque. "Let me give it to you across your face."

"Um, Bliss, Ashley is being taken to the hospital and you can ride along if you-" Before Abby could continue reading the rest of the message from her PDA, Bliss bolted across the room. Now Abby felt the awkwardness of having removed the identity of a villain without the protection of the heroine she needed. "Well, this is awkward, but yeah, we can take people in Prodigy. I should know because-"

"You're not in Prodigy Abby. You work for Bliss as a spy. Oops, I gave up your identity." Danny shot back while standing next to her sworn enemy. "Give me the files on the people you want and I will look them over. If they can fill out our ranks, then we can take them and put them to good use."

The punch never came luckily, if anything Alpha’s face was grateful for that one. Once he was sure there was no hostility between them, he lowered his hands and made sure to properly remember the name of the group he would throw money at. If anything, people would eat up the fact he was supporting a hero group, it was just too good to pass up. ”I fail to see how it’s one sided.” He said with usual confidence, busying his hands into his pockets and digging around for a cellphone. Eventually he dug it out and the real Bliss would begin to…make a scene.

Not that he could blame her, the woman did go through an attempted kidnapping scheme, granted Alpha had not been made aware of Dethbringers desire to kill Bliss. Regardless, keeping the act up was all that was in his mind so he continued to do so with admirable gusto. One thing he did learn about Bliss from this interaction, or at least the beginning was that she was a very animated person. Well, things were going well until this unknown woman had revealed that he was behind her kidnapping, but seemed to leave out how he also helped avoid potential damage.

How she found out was unknown, telepathy did not seem likely, so either she had managed to follow him unseen or he was getting sloppy. Regardless, he would have to make this work to his favor. Luckily, Bliss did not seem to care or know who Alpha was, meaning the name within her hands at the moment was about as useful as a spitball. ”Wait….he tried to kill her?” He questioned blinking a couple of times genuinely confused at that, until he rationalized that it was possible Deathbringer was enough of a psychopath to want to.

In one moment he was about to be plaqued across the face, and the next Bliss was running, leaving the three alone. ”You’ll have the files before the day is over, and…as a show of good will, the first contribution towards your group. Monetarily I mean, I need to prep your members before they can actually do anything.” Hopefully Danny could understand, if not then she would be left confused. Turning towards Abby with an almost steely glance, he smiled almost sweetly. ”About that little name you now know. How about we keep that a secret?” The threat was unspoken but it was there as clear as ever.

”Now if you ladies will excuse me, I have a little business I need to attend to elsewhere.” With a casual wave goodbye, he would dismiss himself. Though he did impart one last statement to Danny.

”Oh…and keep up the good work Danny.”