Episode 4: Blast from the Past! Venture City Invasion!

[omegamods]

On a sunny Saturday morning, it's finally visible - high above Venture City, the descending asteroid. However, it's doing something no real asteroid would do - it's slowing down.

As the space rock comes to a halt, looking like a second moon over the city, several holographic screens emerge from it, all showing the same face.



"Greetings, Earth mammals! A new order is at hand!"

"Sixty six million years ago, a meteor fell, ending the age of my people on this planet. However, not all of us were lost! Thanks to mysterious alien technology found by my ancestors, we were able to escape from Earth before the disaster heralded the rise of your pitiful kind. At long last, with the help of the human Devious, we have found the lost homeworld once more! And so we strike against those that replaced us - we, the true masters of Earth, have returned! And I, Baron Von Tyrannosaur, shall be your new ruler!"

With that, smaller pods start to break off from the dinosaur mothership. As they hit ground (or in some cases, before then), they break open, revealing their cargo - dinosaurs! Some right out of the history books, some of them robots, and some of them somewhere in between!

As Protector watches from deep within the Omegabase, he gives the order. Venture City is under attack. Our time is now.

Calling all Omegafriends!

[[OOC: There will be three dedicated threads for the meteor team: Launch, Breach, and Showdown with Baron Von Tyrannosaur. Once these stubs are up, anyone going on the mission is free to post in them (maximum 8 heroes), and anyone else can reply directly to this post with their actions throughout the city - fighting dinosaurs, rescuing civilians, or even taking advantage of the confusion to commit a few crimes.

Most of the dinosaurs are non-intelligent, aside from the Baron and his immediate underlings. If you want us to NPC some dinosaurs, for a thread other than the last one, drop us a line. Good luck!]]

Comments

[omnitrixter]

"Whoa!"

Ben banked right as the blue and red blur came towards him. The pterodactyl following behind him wasn't able to dodge in time.

He flicked his tail to fire off another blast of green energy to paralyze a flying cyborg trying to target the blur.

[big_blue_boyscout]

Just before Superman can turn around to deal with it, the cyborg is incapacitated. His eyes follow the blast back to it's source. Superman doesn't recognize him, but he did see something he recognizes: the symbol on his chest. He's seen it on the news before, on several other heroes. He'd have to ask about that when they were done here. For now, saving the city and everyone in it is a bigger concern.

"Thanks--"

Superman is cut off when one of the pterodactyl's slams into him, latching onto his back. It roars, rearing up and chomping down on his shoulder ... only to break a few teeth in the attempt. Clark turns as much as he can in it's grip, driving his elbow into it's face and knocking it loose.

"--for the assist." He finishes, looking over towards Ben before knocking the pterodactyl out of the air with a follow-up punch.

Have a couple of tags and then Ben can get taken out sound okay to you?

[omnitrixter]

"No problem," Ben said, happy that this new form's (hmm...maybe he could call it "Jetray") skin was red to hide the blush that would've been all over his face at the praise.

"I'll take the guys to the left while you take the ones on the right?"

[big_blue_boyscout]

Superman nods, looking around to gauge things just a little better. The dinosaurs were everywhere, and between them hitting the ground and the energy blasts from the enhanced ones, they were doing a lot of damage even going down.

"We need to try and move the fighting towards the park and away from the buildings. It's empty, no one's going to be hurt." He shouts over all the noise, nodding towards the green a few blocks away. "Do whatever you can to draw their attention, and follow me. Stay close." Clark may be invulnerable, but he's willing to bet his back-up here isn't, and if things get hairy, he wants to be close enough to make a difference.

[omnitrixter]

"You got it!"

Ben headed towards his target group, folding his wings to dive straight down. It felt a lot like running as XLR8, everything zipping by him so quickly and yet able to keep up with it all. The only difference was the added Y-axis.

He pulled back up into the sky as the fastest but least nimble of the dinosaurs almost caught up and, instead, slammed into the ground. He glanced back to see he'd gathered the attention of a pack, whirling around to fire off a shot with his eyes.

"Didn't know the blasts worked from the eyes, too. Cool," he said pleased.

He zoomed back towards Superman, dinosaurs hot on his heels.

[big_blue_boyscout]

The fact that he didn't know draws a concerned look from Clark, but he doesn't exactly have time to deal with that right now. He turns, facing the horde of dinosaurs, and takes off towards the thickest cluster, letting loose with controlled bursts of heat vision. It didn't take long for them to catch on, and they were on top of him fast.

Instead of going around though, or evading, he went straight through, flying straight into the first dinosaur to reach him and grabbing on, dragging it along with him. With his heat vision and a few solid punches from his free hand he cleared a path, spinning in the air and hurling the pterodactyl he'd caught into another nearby group. That should get their attention.

He waited for Ben, and once he came back with his half of the horde, Clark turned, heading for the park, making sure Ben was right behind him.

[omnitrixter]

Ben couldn't simply fly straight through the horde. Instead, he dipped and twisted about, trying to keep pace with the Man of Steel while not being able to fly in a straight line.

He zipped towards the park, diving to the right to avoid a blast from one cyborg dinosaur's cannon, unknowingly flying into the path of another.

[big_blue_boyscout]

Clark looks back over his shoulder just in time to see the blast streaking towards Ben. There's no time, not enough to do anything other than react. Clark stops, turning and accelerating back towards Ben, rocketing past him into intercept the blast.

Next tag Ben will get taken out?

[omnitrixter]

"Thanks!" Ben called out to Superman, resuming his flight towards the open area.

How long had he been in alien form? Three minutes? Four? He was coming up on the minimum time limit. Ugh, he really wished there was an obvious timer for this stuff.

He flicks his tail to shoot another dinosaur before clipping another with neuroshock blasts from his eyes.