The Contest - Part 3 (Backdated to June 6th)

[whoneedsdepthperception]

([LAST TIME on OMEGAFRIENDS: The sinister villain SLADE marked his return to Venture city by hosting a dangerous competition of might for villains and heroes alike, with rewards of cash and other valuable prizes! But when all the OMEGAFRIENDS proved to be
above such greed, Slade hatched an even viler plot! Seeing that Mrs. Helen Parr, innocent mother of two, had befriended many of the younger heroes in town, he kidnapped her and held her hostage! As the heroes were forced to do as Slade said for Helen's sake, Samus Aran and Superman tried to stop the villain, only to be caught in a trap! Will they escape? Will Slade succeed? What is his ultimate goal, anyway? Find out in this week's exciting conclusion on OMEGAFRIENDS!!!])

[A- Omeganet. Audio and Visual]
A little after 6 pm, Slade once again hacks into the Omeganet.

"Good evening, Omega Friends. For such supposedly noble heroes, you certainly don't play very fair, do you? Attacking the referee in the middle of a contest? You should be ashamed of yourselves.
It seems I have no option but to make an example."

The video feed flips to show Slade's latest prisoner:
Superman, barely conscious, hangs in restraints similiar to the ones that hold Helen Parr. Those who look closely can make out flecks of glowing green material imbedded into the man over a wide area.

"I have shot the so-called Man of Steel with exactly enough Kryptonite to slowly and painfully drain him of his life energy over the next 48 hours. After that...
Well, let's just say it's in the best interest of his health that you give me your full cooperation. If, in the next 48 hours, I receive detailed information on every member of the Omega Friends, including civilian identities and data on their known powers, I will release my prisoners to a neutral hospital capable of treating them.

I trust I will be hearing from you soon."

[B- Action. Parr Household. Locked to Robert Parr, Ruby Rose, and Blake Belladonna.]
((Slade will not be commenting in this thread. It takes place shortly after Slade ends his conversation with Bob via the Omeganet. The Parr kids are with friends of the family for the evening.))


[C- Action. Slade's Lair - Detention Level. Locked to Helen Parr, Samus Aran, Superman, and Slade]
Slade enters the room with a calm and confident posture. He looks each prisoner up and down in their restraints, then comments to them in a condescending tone.

"How good to see you all again. I trust you are comfortable?


[D- Action. Entrance to Slade's Lair. OTA]
Venture Munitions Lab A1-13 has been abandoned for well over a decade, yet it seems very busy tonight. Slade's robot commandos can be seen exiting and entering the building in coordinated teams, and occasionaly a black and orange drone flies overhead.

[E- Final Showdown in Slade's Lair. Only open to those who bypass D]
After facing all the obstacles Slade has thrown at you, it is time for the final showdown! Take him down hard!

Comments

[big_blue_boyscout]

"I've got it." Clark says, walking over, a hand on the wall to keep him standing. He reaches up, pulling for longer this time, straining more until the restraint breaks. He's still getting weaker. It can't be more than a few minutes until his power is gone completely.

"We're going to have to try and make this quick ... don't have much more left in me." He says, moving to Samus' other restraint, and prying it off.

[bemoreflexible]

Helen pulls something out of the bot - a small circuit board or something similar - and walks it over to Samus.

"Can you hook this up to your suit? I'm pretty sure it's a passkey. Lets the bots pass through the locked doors."

[bigshoulder_lady]

She drops out of the restraints with an action roll, more out of habit than anything else. "Thank you for the save. Hope we can get you cleared of those things quick," She said, heading over to her suit. She presses her hand against the face mask of the Varia suit, making it seemingly disintegrate and then reappear on her. The suit didn't have a proper way in and out of it so this was how it was.

Samus comes over to Helen, scanning the passkey as she goes. "Yeah, you're right. Good eye, thanks. I've copied the passkey's information onto my suit, should make the doors open. If not, well, gives me enough access I could get them to open other ways." Unfortunately not by shooting them once. She walks over to door, testing it's lock.

She sent out a general SoS to the omagefriends now in addition, activating an automatic beacon on herself. "Raised the call."

[big_blue_boyscout]

"Hopefully ..." Clark says, Managing to pull it together for a while was hard, and it's only getting harder. He's never been exposed to kryptonite, even the tiny shards in him for this long, and with every passing moment it's feeling worse. He's been focusing through the pain, but he can't do that much longer. Everything burns, worst of all where the shards are embedded. His head is spinning, and his stomach is turning. He takes a step forward, but stumbles, dropping on to one knee, a hand moving to clutch his chest, where several of the shards are embedded.

"Then ... let's ... go." He says, trying to get back to his feet. He's going to need some help.