Guardians above

The sky above was calm and the sea below was just as well. To the outside looker, that's all there was over this spot of the ocean. Just an average day off the coast of England. Up in the clouds though, hidden with technology there was a floating fortress. Reflectors lined the bottom of the ship, rending it invisible from below while a cloud generator masked it from above. Truly a masterpiece of stealth technology.

The inventor sat inside, tapping away on a key board. A multitude of screens full of different crisis around the world played in front of him. The tipping stopped as Jeisen rested his hands under his chin, just staring at them. A mask was laying on the desk along with a small black device. Reaching his hand over, Jeisen grabbed the communicator. In a gravelly voice, Jeisen spoke over it

"Calling all Guardians."

The message would be relayed to every guardian communicator. Jeisen set down the device and put his mask on. Time to get the gang together.

Annie was sitting in her small apartment. She had finally managed to get her own place to live. After scraping together some cash by doing varying meticulous jobs, she had managed to scrape together the cash for a dirty hole-in-the-wall in the London slums. It was ghetto, sure, but she was happy that she could at least find a place in the city she grew up in, rather than somewhere in America. The thought of that scared her.

It had been awhile since any action had happened. Things had been calm, which was generally considered a good thing, although she was bored.

Suddenly, she felt her pocket vibrating. She pulled out her patented Guardians communicator. It had been given to her by one of the only people she truly considered a friend in the world. And it was his familiar voice that she heard over that communicator. She knew what she had to do. Pressing a small button on the device, she was instantly transported to the giant invisible fortress in the sky.

A young man stood in the bedroom of an apartment building in Chicago, looking at themselves in a mirror. He was worried about how he looked because of plans to meet up with someone they kind of considered special later on today. He was aiming to dress to impress, and well, felt like he was failing. "Nice outfit, check. Combed my hair, check. Cleaned up, check. Confident and ready to go, not check. This is going to be horrible."

"Oh will you stop worrying so much?" John said as he sat on his bed, reading a book that he had just bought the day before.

"I can't help it man, I'm worried." Kyle said abashedly. "I don't want to mess things up."

"How you look will have nothing to do with that. Also why did you have to do this at my place?" John asked, not taking his view away from the book.

"My dad is drinking again. I don't want to be doing this while he's doing that." Kyle sad now sounding kind of upset.

"Oh." he said, finally looking up to show concern. "Sorry about that."

"Don't worry. It will only last a couple of days, then I'll have another few months of peace before the next one. Plus I have a chance of getting a new video game." He concluded, trying to sound pleasant. "What time is it anyways?" Kyle asked as he had lost track of time.

"It's uh, um where's my phone at?" John asked as he went looking for it.

"What about that watch over there? Is that set?" Kyle asked pointing at a watch he hadn't noticed before.

"What watch?" John said as he continued to search for his phone had disappeared off to.

"The really goofy looking pocketwatch on your nightstand." Kyle said pointedly.

"Oh that. I forgot I had that." John said looking at that thing he had acquired under circumstances he didn't want to discuss."And there's my phone, also on my nightstand. What do you know? Hehe, oh, it's almost time for you to go actually." He said showing Kyle the time displayed on the phone. As Kyle started getting ready to leave, a beeping noise came from something in his closet. John's face fell a bit when he realized what had made that noise.

"Okay, what was that?" Kyle asked curiously.

"That was the thing that was indicating that you need to hurry up or you'll be late." John said as he started ushering his friend out of his apartment."Bye now." he said as Kyle left looking a bit offended. John walked back to his room and searched for that damn thing that went off. "I swear I turned it off. Do manual overrides account for anything anymore?" he asked himself as he grabbed the communicator and listened to the message on it. It was a call for all of the members of the Guardians. "Okay, what am I supposed to do exactly?" he said to the communicator as if it would actually respond. John then started perusing through some of the information on this thing and found that the teleporter was prompted. "Okay then. That's what I'm supposed to do." he paused. "Give me a few will you?" he asked it, again as if it would actually respond.

With the apartment locked and him all alone for the night, John grabbed his costume and got dressed. He grabbed a spare sack and started putting a random assortment of items into it, and a couple other things that fell in when he wasn't paying attention. Once that was over with, Forcewave sighed and hoped for no nauseous feelings before pressing the button on the communicator and being teleported to the designated location.

”You have got to be kidding me.” Colin sighed, looking close at one of the many tubes within the lab, bubbling and brewing.

”I am totally not.” Travis Master responded with a chuckle, mixing an off colored liquid with another, causing a rapid change within color altogether. ”That’s why Oliver is never allowed in another Chuckie Cheese ever again.”

”That’s… a little disturbing.” Colin noted before shrugging, not like it would ever be brought up with him likely. A low beeping would them being to let off from the small Guardian’s watch thing that had gone silent for a long while. Things had been going slowly for a long while, enough so that perhaps something was finally happening.

”Colin, your watch is beeping. Is it one of those hero friends of yours?”

”probably….sorry Travis, I need to get this.” Not likely that he would stop him, Colin quickly dialed in a small code on his cellphone before stepping out a back entrance of the large building as his suit would fly down from the sky. Slipping into it, he would activate the transceiver and be teleported there.

Beverly walks through the doors of SEU with a sigh.  "Finals done, no job, all the money I could ever want... why do I do this, again?" She looks down as her bag vibrates. She slips into an alley and pulls the communicator.  "Ah. Right. Normal life."  Beverly presses a button on her watch.  Instants later, the Star Cycle arrives in front of her. Moments later, she zips out on the bike in full LIBERTY garb.  Shortly thereafter, she presses a button on the communicator and she's beamed up, arriving in the hangar with her bike.

In time, she arrives in the meeting room.  "Would it be too much to ask for the world to not be falling apart for once?  I just got through saving it last weekend," she remarks. She plops down into a seat, kicking up her feet.  "What's the damage, boss?"

Door slide open, letting Jeisen walk through from the watch room. His dark green cloak was slung back vet his shoulders, revealing his mechanical armor beneath it. His head was bowed down over an eletric all clipboard, lines and lines of letters rhnning down it rapidly. Others might think it gibberish, but Jeisen's was moving fast enough to keep up with it. Nolan's body was no where to be seen but his AI was intergrated with the ship. He shut the door behind Jeisen

Jeisen: "morning or afternoon depending on where you were coming from."

In response to all the Guardians arriving from their teleporters. They were all teleporting into the heart of the ship, the meeting room. It was a simple room with just a round table in the middle. It was suppose to represent that they were all equals within the group. A small globe of the world twirled around slowly in the middle.

Jeisen: "I would be surprised if anyone didn't get slightly sick from that. It's not the nicest wy to get aroud but it is the hardest way to track. Besides, we can't all fly."

Least, Jeisen couldn't. He wasn't quite sure how many others could though. He held up his clipboard and flicked it at the globe. Several dots sprang up around the world. He took his seat.

Jeisen: "I've flagged these seven dots because they may take more then one of us to handle. We have the earthquakes in Nepal, we should send someone there to help. We also have the warlord in South Africa. We don't usually interfere with governments, but this guy has hired a merc metahuman group to commit genocide. So need a few combat volunteers for that one. Finally we've been given concert tickets for an opera in Sidney in thanks for that thing with the octopus. Any take..... Ers..."

Jeisen was still looking down at his clipboard when he broke off slowly.

Jeisen: "Nolan, bring that up"

Nolan: "yes sir."

A hologram of the ship was brought up. Coming from underneath it was a small red dot.

Jeisen: "Incoming"

[elene and teams turn to post!]

It was time to make a move. Elena's research team had caught wind of a device that she decided must be in her possession. Simply put, it was a watch that was rumored to possessed temporal distorting abilities. Once she heard of this she nearly through her new rose gold Apple Watch in the trash. He group at the moment was scattered about so she sent a very covert message to each of them instructing to meet her in Europe. There she would debrief them on the situation and explain her plan. As there was only one major downfall to the retrieval of this watch. Her investigations revealed that I was in the possession of the group known as The Guardians. They had recruited a number of formidable members so retrieving such an item could prove to be difficult.

Elena and her General stood in a field somewhere in the United Kingdom waiting for her other members to arrive. There would be a total of five of them including herself and her Bodyguard. Alpha, Xander, The Black Knight, and Red would soon arrive and she would break down their plan. She handed out small tracking devices that would be able to lock onto the general location of the watch. Elena had gathered them all in this seemingly random location because reports told her that the Guardians' air ship would be passing by this location. She activated her Celestial Eye and created platforms of Technomatter that would take them up into the sky rapidly. One on top of another, they would fly single file into the sky before the large aircraft came into view. Elena had no doubt that they would be showing up on the radar at this point, though if everything was going to plan they only should appear as a single dot due to their formation.
As they came closer to the ship they fanned out in a five-point-star formation with the Technomatter filling in-between. On their radar it should appear as if the red dot was massively expanding. Some of the Technomatter zoomed ahead at Elena's command and began eating holes in the bottom of the ship where the five of them would enter. The Technomatter would then revert back to the metal that had been initially converted sealing the holes completely. If their security system worked how she was expending, they should be notified of a breach and then the warning should disappear since the entrance holes had been perfectly sealed. She had deactivated her Celestial Eye and any remaining Technomatter in or outside the ship would disappear completely, assimilating into the surrounding elements.
They all had ear pieces in which they could communicate with. On the ground they were all given their assignments for sabotaging the air craft, anything from blowing the engines to messing with their air supply (go with whatever your character would be best at doing to cause strategic internal damage to the ship). Meanwhile, Vexus and her guard would be looking for the location of the watch.

Elena was wearing a very unique outfit that she put together for this mission. She could grab the folded pieces of the fabric by her sides and use them as a glider in case for any reason she would be unable to utilize her ability to fly. Her General did not have such fashion luxuries as he was unfortunately expendable. Elena was wearing her modified Prada sunglasses that were allowing her to se the different corridors and take them through appropriate paths with the least amount of security or personnel.
As her and her bodyguard moved high up through the ship, she began to get readings of a group of people seated in a room. They were giving off higher signals so she could only assume these were the Guardians. A couple of them began to move, so she immediately chimed in on their secure communication links.
"Two Guardians are surveying."
No doubt that had been notified that there were intruders. If this base was as technologically advanced as it looked they might even be able to tell the location of not only her, but the rest of her team as well. It would be interesting to see which ones they would target first. Elena, or the others spreading themselves out across the ship in order to sabotage it. She was following her tracking device to try and find the location of this Time Watch, though the more she moved she closer began to come to this group of heroes. Soon she encountered security, which her General took care of swiftly. Elena ordered that he only knock them out, she didn't want to leave too much of a mess. Especially if the rig crashed and some of the bodies were recovered. If it was found that the crews' necks were snapped and the crash did not kill them something like that could potentially come back on her. Especially if these were not all of the Guardians. Doing something like this would easily put a target on her head.
Vexus increased the potency of her tracking device and linked it with her glasses and sure enough it was revealing that the watch was located on the person of one of the Guardians.

"Just my luck, this damn watch is stuck on Forcewave..."

This did not spell good new for Elena. Forcewave was not one to take lightly. She had encountered him before and then he was a formidable opponent. All this time later she can only image that he has improved. Where as Elena's abilities have also undergone a number of overhauls since then, there was no real way of telling what this boy was capable of now. She hoped that things would go more smoothly for her other members on their adventures. Vexus was two levels before Forcewave staring straight up at him through the structures with her glasses. She closed her left eye preparing to active the Celestial Artifact that slept there. The guards on this floor had already been taken care of, and there were probably more on the way seeing as they had already managed to make it this face. Elena thought about just using her elementals since her eye always had a reason to take a while before it reappeared for use. If he was not the one to engage her first, she would have to make sure to conserve her energy so that she could swiftly retrieve her prize and make a quick escape. All of her members have specific exit strategies once the mission is complete, or if the mission fails. She did not want her co-workers heavily damaged on their first mission. This was not going to be easy, and hitting a big group hard like they were would either make or break them. This was a turning point for the successfulness and prosperity of Deus Ex Machina.
Elena Vexus was confident that she, if none other, would prevail.

It had been a little while since Lucius had joined this mysterious group Miss Elena Vexus had put together, and until now he had not been contacted for anything big. It was odd really, they didn't give him anything and then they want to invade the Guardians hover ship. It wasn't that he was afraid of going there, in fact he could probably blow it to scrap metal by himself if he were so inclined. However, he had just dropped back under the Guardians radar, he didn't want any attention focused on him and his operations. As true as that was he did need to keep his allies happy, so he would go and capture this supposedly mystical time watch. He found this thing rather interesting, if it did possess the abilities it was said to he couldn't let anyone but himself and his closest allies get their hands on it. Which was why he called Alpha, Lucius felt the male would also have an interest in this watch and he needed someone he could fully trust on this mission. Travis accepted, it seemed Lucius' dept to the male was piling up, the question was when he would have to return it.

Vexus gave them all jobs to do, and of course Lucius didn't take the one assigned to him. It was something along the lines of 'blow this up'. Lucius wasn't a goon, he had other ideas. So they would meet up in some random location and make their rather eye catching entrance, it seemed Vexus didn't know the meaning of stealth. Though, it wasn't like it mattered, by the end of the day most everyone on both sides would have the shit kicked out of them. Stepping through the hole Vexus had cut for him Lucius walked into the floating ship to find a group of security guards pointing rather nasty looking guns at him. Better then normal weapons as they were they were no match for Lucius' durability and the guards were quickly incinerated.

'Locate an access point, the virus is to large to send wirelessly." Lucius said to his AI telepathically.

"Of course sir.........there seems to be one two levels below you." Hector said back to Lucius. On that note Lucius started carving a hole in the floor, making quick work of it, In mere moments he got to were he needed to be, it seemed to be some kind of security or utility room, but it had a computer connected to the ships mainframe. Walking over to it Lucius unclasped a usb stick from his belt and plugged it into the computer. He had to deal with a few passwords and security measures, but eventually he got in. Once Lucius uploaded the virus it would make its way into the ships control system, one that was under the control of Jeisen's own AI Nolan. Once in the system the virus rapidly copied itself as all worms do, spreading duplicates into every corner of the system. But that wasn't the bad part, the real payload was the fact the virus was Hector. He made thousands of duplicates of himself in minutes, after which would then try to over power Nolan's control of the ship.

"The worm has been injected, i will gain control in approximately 2 minutes and 37 seconds if there are no complications." Hector said, causing Lucius to smile. This was an all out hostile take over of the system.

There had been a great many things he'd been in his life. Security guard, hardware store clerk, police officer. Then of course there was "Undertaker" and "murderer" and every other name between here and there. He could honestly say he had no regrets about anything he had done. His regrets were in what he failed to do. His failure to escape his fate, his failure to be quicker on the draw. It took only a second and then all of his memories. All of his life was reduced to nothing but the blood-stains seeping through his armor as the light from the oncoming train could be seen. His legs gave out as the muscles and tendon were shredded by the springs and the gears dug through his spine. Leaning back against a car s he watched the light grow closer and closer. Then finally...the impact.

   He had a powerful tool at his disposal however. Vengeance, anger and revenge. All these things were tools to one such as him. It molded him, enabled and empowered him to do the things that even the most powerful and proud aspired to do. When he became the vengeful spirit he was. When he first possessed this boy he was but an armature of the occult. But now...he was so much more. From the graves he still took his victims, though as seldom as they were. His greatest irritation was his inability to strike at the targets he wanted to. Filthy, parasitic little fiends. The morality of the young man he possessed was...far too powerful for his strength to overcome. So killing others of  more mature nature had been a requirement to stave off the inevitable itch. The same itch he had for the past two weeks. The itch he was hoping he could scratch tonight.

  Hades, Lord of the dead, the vengeful spirit and the wielder of the celestial Sephiroth. The black armor clad night with deep maroon eyes shifted the techno-helmet as he looked around. In his presence was none other than the remnants of some Knightwatch wannabe boyscouts looking to replace the once fallen pantheon of mighty heroes. The only member worth any fear had been the one they called "Forcewave" but to this ends he had no idea whom they were or what they even looked like. For all he knew he was going to walk right into the guy and they'd spill coffee on each other. Then thye'd laugh about it and Black Knight would have to beat him relentlessly. Or he'd get zapped and fry like a redhead in the sunlight. Gingers aside, The Black Knight found himself with another member of Deus Ex Machina, the entity he believed was labeled "Aeries" if he recalled correctly.

  "...." The silence of the Black Knight was upon the area as the eyes shifted and not a detail was missed. Sephiroth sparked, charged with the gloriousness of two released seals. He had to usurp this form when the seals were activated. Needless enough to say a random corpse is laying about of a would-be villain who tried to take advantage of the economy by robbing a bank. For now though, he'd simply watch and wait as he awaited the ever coveted action.

London was such a beautiful place. He couldn't wait to leave a mark on it as pure as innocence and as bloody as a holocaust.

Normally Alpha stayed out of the affairs of fellow ne’er-do-wells, but one could say that for an ally he would make a few exceptions to the rules. Lucius had requested that he come along with him to take something from a small group of heroes, The Guardians if he had remembered correctly. That meant it was likely he would end up meeting with that damn heroic acquaintance of his. Something that Alpha had always wanted to avoid. Regardless, both to foster a greater alliance between them and just for other reasons, he would go along with this little mission of Lucius’ ally. Daniel would be waiting for him as a location close to his base, and within an instant they were teleported elsewhere. Working with the villainess Elena Vexus, he had heard of her before but her escapades were not known for success.

With him, well he had a feeling that she would have a better chance at that. Within a matter of seconds, he was with the other ones that would be leading the attack upon the great cruiser that flew through the sky. The small group they had was impressive enough upon a glance, but then again looks were not something that he could trust. Lifted high into the sky by an unknown material that Vexus had produced, he could feel the wind rush past the small gap between sleeve and gloves. Each would be given a different task, though Alpha would more go on his own rather than simply listening to a woman he owed no allegiance to. Stepping through a small hole made within the hull, he would branch off to do his part. Where he ended up going was the room that dealt with the air supply of the ship, any non meta-human guards would find themselves easily brought under his control.

Honestly, it had all been too easy for Alpha but he wasn’t expecting much of the hero group. The portion of the ship meant to deal with air supply was before him, and with a motion of his hand it would open.

[All heros who want a reaction post, go ahead. Keep it within two minutes of the radar blip please. no order, just react as you see fit]

That teleportation device thingy or whatever it was would take him up, way up. Like up in the clouds level up. The wind was strong and the air felt a bit thin here atop this, whatever it was. It kind of looked like an aircraft carrier. Okay yeah, this looked all too familiar. Somebody took a bit too much inspiration from something. Also hey, other people were here too. They must have pressed the buttons on their device thingies too.

Those other people were a blonde girl in a red outfit that looked completely lost, and a large metal suit of armor. They must be some of the other members of this little assortment of heroes. Forcewave waved hello to both of them before heading towards a door that would lead inside. Walking through the wind almost caused him to lose the bag he was holding. Forcewave walked inside and followed the signs that led him to the meeting room. Inside said room was a bunch of stuff one might expect to see in a meeting room. Tables, chairs, computers, etc. Also there were three more people in here. There was Jeisen, the apparent leader of the Guardians whom he had some doubts about, somebody in a red and blue hooded outfit complete with a long cape, and hey, it's Uzma. What was she doing here, and why was she wearing a shirt with Tyuki's band's logo on it?

"Oh, hi. That communicator device thing you gave me signaled for a meeting. I'm guessing this is important." he said before slowly walking up to the table to take a seat. Might as well since he might be here for more than a moment. Some events around the world were being discussed. There were probably a lot more things going on since this is Earth, and stuff is always happening. Suddenly a signal was coming from outside the ship that indicated they were under attack. Well, that was some strange timing. They come under attack literally minutes after they were all just called in.

Forcewave quickly got out of his seat and readied himself for this incoming attack as much as he could. He kept a close eye on the screen in front of him to get an idea of what they were up against and their plan of attack. According to this, they were under attack by a group of individuals consisting of two people he recognized but could remember the identities of, some other guy, that one guy from New York he had seen before, a robot, and Elena Vexus. Well, this was interesting. Last time he had heard from Vexus, she was in D.C and apparently exploded. What were they doing here? We're they just planning on destroying this place for some reason? Whatever they were here for, it had to be prevented.

"I'm going outside. Fighting them inside isn't a good idea. Fighting them on this ship isn't a good idea to be honest. It might be a good idea to bring this thing back down to the surface. Might make it easier." he suggested and hoped something would be done to make things less of a hassle. Forcewave then exited the meeting room to venture back outside to fend off these attackers.