Storm vs. Cole McGrath
A/N: Suggested by BADA55W0RD, in which he listed three possible death battles, sorry dude, but this was the only pair in which I knew both combatants. *Sweatdrop*Heavens open with their might, none can stop their thundery path: Cole McGrath, Electric Man and badass and Storm, a top-ranking X-Men and goddess of weather. But who would win when we let them loose on another? It's my job to analyse their weapons, skills and armour to see who would win a Death Battle.
Storm
"I am a woman, a mutant, a thief, an X-Men, a lover, a wife, a queen. I am all these things. I am Storm, and for me, there are no such things as limits"
Ororo Monroe, codenamed Storm after joining Xavier's X-Men, is a very powerful mutant with the ability to control weather. Descended from a tribe of African Priestess', Storm was orphaned in Cairo, where she learned how to steal and survive. Shortly after did she learn of her powers, and was revered as a goddess for it. It wasn't until she joined the X-Men that she discovered the cause for her powers, and has since used it to fight off mutants, humans, aliens, giant mechs and beings from other dimensions!
Storm's power involves using psionic waves to control particles in the atmosphere to do her bidding, which in laymen's terms, means she has absolute mastery of all things in the atmosphere, including weather, air particles, air pressure, even water in the form of waves. On its own, it's a pretty handy ability, but when used in combat, it can be a very powerful weapon. All forms of weather are under her command: rain, snow, wind, lightning, fog and even hybrids, like sleet or hail, if it's a weather pattern, she can do it. When used for battle, Storm can generate winds of hurricane force, even creating hurricanes under her control. This handy ability to control winds allows her the ability of flight by creating air currents which she, and her allies, can fly freely on. In this flight mode, Storm can travel as fast as a jet, and is resistant to air friction and the decrease in temperature in such a fast-moving motion. Having control of wind also allows her control of the air, creating pressures that can cause buildings to explode and even deflect tangible objects such as bullets. She can create intense fog to limit her foes visibility of sight, which is used for sneak attacks; this might be useless for some, but Storm was raised as a pickpocket, and was regarded as the best thief in Cairo, only outsmarted by the mind-reading Professor X, as such, Storm is a master of stealth that uses fog as a means of stealth attacks. Storm's control over lightning storms isn't something to laugh at either, by controlling the particles in the air, she can create lightning storms from her fingertips, and not quick flashes of it either, but continuous streams of it, think Emperor Palpatine, but as a sexy lady. Although using rain in a fight is a little unorthodox, the scale of Storm's rain showers is exceptional to say the least: ending entire droughts in a matter of seconds with its downpour. The extent of Storm's rainfall can cause flash floods which can be used in conjunction with her lightning attacks to fell multiple targets at once. Storm is also known to use blizzards in her fights, and even had enough force to cover all of Canada in an ice-sheet, hah, take that Canada! However, using such a grand scale of attack can be fatal for her. In some extreme cases, she can even become a being that can breathe fire and ice, and even have electricity for hair! On top of all that, Storm can clear the weather she creates as quickly as they came, but if the weather she caused is large enough, releasing all of it will kill her from exhaustion. Because Storm has control over all of the Earth's weather, she has the keen sense of disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere, unnatural or otherwise, creating a sixth sense to powerful forces. On top of all that, she is an expert hand-to-hand combatant, being trained by Wolverine, and is able to wield a variety of weapons including knives, bo staffs and even guns. Needless to say, Storm has quite the list of abilities at her disposal.
Her powers, however, do have their limits, Storm must keep her concentration while performing her storms and if her concentration is broken, so will the weather she's creating. Also creating the weather she forms is correspondent to the planet she resides on. For example, her powers remain normal on Earth, but visiting other worlds with no water means no water-based attacks. Although this is the case, she will always have her lightning storms from her fingertips. Storm's powers are also dependent on her emotional state, when kept at a level-head, her powers are normal and appear at a fixed location, but if under emotional stress or a complete mental breakdown, her storms could affect the entire world, possibly enveloping the world into a second ice age; as such, Storm rarely ever gets into a fit of rage, or any other emotional state, else her powers won't only cause worldwide catastrophe, but also kill her too. It's also stated that her powers are limited to the laws of nature, for example, she can alter the temperature in the air, but cannot go to Absolute Zero, or -273.15 degrees Celsius, and cannot go to the Sun's temperatures on Earth. Her powers are also limited to the physical state of Storm, if she uses a powerful attack that requires ample concentration, or uses her powers over an extended period of time, she will lose conscientiousness and in extreme cases, kill her. Overall, her powers are amazing, but she needs to use it with utmost care, or else all hell will break loose.
Defeating Storm is no simple task, because she has control over air pressure, most attacks that are thrown at her will be instantly diverted, however if Storm lacks the energy to control the air or if she has no knowledge of the attack coming, such as a sneak attack, the attack will go through. Storm does have a wide range of weaknesses however, the most obvious is that Storm is still human, attacks that would normally kill a regular human still apply to Storm, so a bullet or blow to the head will be enough to kill her. And despite her godly control over lightning, she is not completely immune to it, as she is with extreme cold and extreme heat, so other beings with thunder-based powers, such as Thor, can still harm Storm with said powers.
Storm is a wise mutant who uses her powers for the right occasion. Due to this wisdom, she is often the sub-leader of the X-Men, second only to Professor X. Storm is often calm, cool and collected to keep her powers in check, but her emotional state is still likely. In battle, Storm fights with everything she has against foes she deems enemies. Passionate and caring for those around her, Storm isn't afraid to do what is necessary to divert chaos, on multiple occasions, she was willing to give her life to stop plans of evil and destruction, doing what she believes to be right, even at the cost of her life.
Storm is one of the X-Men's strongest and brightest, but can she handle her competitor?
Cole MacGrath
"I don't know if you've ever let someone down, got your ass kicked or straight up failed. But those are the moments that define us. They push you further than you've ever thought possible, and force you to make choices. No matter what the cost."
Former bike-messenger and straight-up bum, Cole MacGrath's life changed when he was given a job to deliver an artefact, the Ray Sphere, and activate it. The artefact created a massive explosion all around Cole, destroying a large portion of Empire City and killing hundreds caught in its radius, but despite that, Cole emerged from the blast unscathed. It is revealed that Cole is a conduit, beings with otherwise normal lives, but with the electrical energies of hundreds others, they begin to awaken dormant powers. The blast of the Ray Sphere absorbed the electrical energies of the people in the blast, causing Cole's powers to awaken. Ever since, Cole's fought similar conduits, ranging from telekinetic psychopaths, a hundred foot giant with the power to level cities and tank a nuclear blast, and even himself from the future!
Cole's conduit powers involve the generation and control of electricity in any form, either from basic electrical blasts to the control of electronic particles in the air. However, the shape and power of his abilities changes dramatically depending on the actions he makes. If he makes just decisions that hinder his progress but helps others, he undergoes good karma, trading power for nifty abilities; and on the flip side, if he makes selfish decisions that further his progress but hinder others; he takes on evil karma, giving his powers an astonishing boost, while limiting the range of his powers greatly. Cole doesn't gain any new powers from changing karma, but it does give him either way more control of his powers, or way more force.
Starting off with abilities he has in common between both sides, Cole can shoot quick lightning bolts that can be used in quick succession, which can be focused into a sniper-style blast that takes out enemies with a gruelling headshot, throw grenades made of electricity that when detonated, can spark all those nearby, increase the power of his lightning bolts that sacrifice speed for immense power. By using electromagnetism, Cole can hover in the air, though this doesn't mean he can gain altitude, it can stop him from falling to dangerous situations, and his electromagnetism can not only lift himself, but others, having the power to lift cars with minimal effort, Cole can even use this to blast a current of air that has enough force to throw a car. Cole can grind along metal poles, being able to surf along telephone poles or rails horizontally, while jumping to great heights on drain pipes vertically. Cole can also create a shield of electricity that held to either deflect long range attacks or reflect them against his enemies. Cole has a wide range of abilities that influence the person he comes into contact with, he can sense people nearby by sensing the electric signals in that person's body and tell their intentions towards them, by touching a person, Cole can either transmit his thoughts and memories to that person, or receive the thoughts and memories of said person. If Cole is jumping from a great height, he can accelerate himself so that when he lands, he creates a large electric blast around him, sending everything in its path flying, and he can even call down very powerful blasts of thunder from the heavens to smite everything around him, even blowing up tanks, and even summon electric vortexes in the shape of hurricanes.
Moving on to the abilities that reflect Cole's karma, Cole can heal the person he touches of both injury and illness by transferring his power to him, Cole can shape his lightning into binding shackles that restrain enemies movements, Cole can gather a large amount of electricity and fire it at his foes, causing a large chain reaction of other electric bursts to occur. In his evil state, Cole can kill a person by touching their head and draining them of their neuro-electricity, fuelling himself in the process, he is capable of firing continuous bolts of lightning in the form of a stream, shocking his enemies over a long period of time. And as stated, his powers that have in common between the two sides can be altered to have either more precision and effect or more power and range.
Cole has other abilities outside of his standard electric abilities, he is an expert climber and parkour expert due to extensive training in a law-void city, which can be augmented with thanks to his abilities of temporal flight and grinding capabilities. He has great endurance to battle large monsters and other conduits of equal power and ability, being able to defeat his future self who had years upon years of knowledge and training. He is an expert hand-to-hand combatant that doesn't rely on his powers, but uses his powers to enhance it further, either creating blades of electricity on his arms or by using his personalized weapon called the Amp, similar to a tuning fork, Cole can generate electricity into it and attack foes with blunt force and electrical power rolled up in one nice package.
Though it must be noted that Cole is not able to completely create electricity, his body acts like a battery, storing energy that he gathers and the more he uses his powers, the more he becomes drained. The only way to fuel himself is by absorbing the electricity from items that generate electricity, from cars, power stations or people. If Cole is in a section of land devoid of electrical power, like rural areas or urban areas with a blackout, Cole will be vulnerable with a limited amount of power in his body. However, Cole can use a power called Karmic Overload that can give Cole an unlimited amount of power but only for thirty seconds, his power will return back to normal afterwards, so it is perfect in case Cole finds himself without a reliable power source. Cole is constantly generating electrical power on a daily basis, and this is a fatal flaw in his power: if he comes into contact with a large body of water, like a lake, river or sea, his power will electrocute himself, and if left long enough, killing him in the process. It doesn't work with small bodies like rain or puddles, but it does mean he can't take regular baths from now on, smelly bugger! Because of his constant generation of electricity, Cole cannot use most electrical appliances or vehicles since his body would overload it's circuits; this includes guns since the gunpowder in it's barrel ignites when Cole touches the gun, creating a violent explosion that could tear his hand off, although Cole can use this to his advantage by destroying guns of similar calibre, rendering them useless and jumping from cars to boost his jump. Cole is also susceptible to bullets and other things deadly to humans, making him human like everyone else.
Cole's personality changes with his karma, when good, he is righteous, law-upholding and good-natured, but when evil, Cole can be arrogant, have little regard for those around him, and won't stop against anyone who stands in his way. Besides those changes, Cole isn't the brightest tool in the shed, often letting others do the thinking outside of combat, letting them do the brain work, while Cole does the brawn work; however, this has led to him being tricked and fooled on multiple occasions, so with brain power, Cole could use a few.
We've analysed the two competitors, each are masters of electricity and thunder, but who's got the bigger joules? It's time to see who could win a Death Battle!
Cole Macgrath patrolled the city in which he resided, as a being with super powers; he was used to heavy combat against large forces. That was his thoughts as a towering thirty foot purple shaded robot, unbeknownst to him dubbed a Sentinel, came from the sky and landed before him.
"This is new!" He chuckled as grabbed his Amp and readied for combat. But a large amount of lightning struck his foe and as quickly as it came, it blew up into tiny metallic pieces. "What the?!" From the sky, flew Storm, clad in a black uniform, her hair fluttering in the wind, she flew down to greet Cole.
"Just in time." She sighed.
"No offense, lady, but I don't take too kindly to strangers beating up competition!" Cole snarled, sending off sparks through his Amp.
"Hm? Then I propose a battle if you were in need of a battle!" Storm challenged.
"Sounds like fighting words! Bring it on!" Cole smirked as the two competitors squared off for battle.
FIGHT!
Storm's eyes glowed white and began hurling massive gale-force winds at Cole, who barely managed to hold on, but countered by creating an electromagnetic barrier that helped to shield him from the wind.
"Impressive, but try this!" Storm whipped up a hurricane that shattered the area around them, but Cole remained firm as he concentrated into creating a thunderbolt that not only pierced through the hurricane, ending it's destructive path, but struck at Storm on the shoulder, had it not been for the hurricane diverting it's path, the lightning would have struck her on the head. The attack did however cause Storm to lose her focus and forcibly cease the hurricane's destructive path.
"Heh! You won't be so lucky next time!" He taunted, but the level-headed Storm prepared for further combat, knowing that her foe was not a run-of-the-mill fighter. "My turn!" He threw three glowing grenades at Storm, but she managed to fly away from it just as it exploded into a large burst of electricity. "Got'cha!" Cole let loose a flurry of electrical blasts that storm managed to deflect by diverting the air current around her.
"You must try harder than that!" Storm called and blasted Cole with thunder from her fingers. At first, it looked to have been weakening Cole, but the electrical conduit grabbed the lightning by his hands and began to absorb the power generated from Storm. Knowing the attack was futile, she stopped immediately, landing to conserve her energy. "What on Earth…?"
"Thanks for the power boost, baby! Now let's continue!" Cole laughed as he ran full speed toward her and using his main weapon, the Amp, he swung the large electricity charged tuning fork at her, but seeing the attack coming, she blasted air at Cole so powerful, the attack was cancelled out, Cole was blasted back and the Amp fell out of reach. "Hoo! Knocked the wind out of me!" Cole got up and switched back to electrical attacks, throwing his charged grenades at the weather mutant.
"You'll have to do better than that!" She taunted, blasting a large amount of air pressure, reflecting the grenades.
"Uh oh!" Cole panicked, and summoned an electrical barrier that shielded him from the grenade blasts. "That was close!" Storm looked down to see Cole was stepping on a puddle that was giving off a few sparks.
"Now it's my turn!" Storm called, her eyes growing white again as huge amounts of storm clouds formed, soon it began to drizzle.
"Hate to burst your bubble, but rain doesn't work on me!" Cole laughed rudely.
"Then try this!" Storm retorted and increased the density of the rain. Before long, the entire street was beginning to flood, damaging Cole heavily.
"Nghh! Not good!" He ran with what little strength, heading towards a nearby alleyway with two tall buildings, grabbed onto a drain pipe, sky rocketing himself onto the roof above. "Try this on for size!" He shot a more concentrated blast of electricity not for Storm, but at the ground. Noticing this and the danger it posed if the electricity hit the water with her still in it, Storm flew up, ending the rain storm just in time, as the electricity hit the water, shocking everything around it. "Dammit! Forgot you can fly!" With the rain stopping, the flood naturally passed.
"You are going to be a challenge, after all." Spoke Storm. "Then I shall not hold back!" Concentrating all her might, she created a hurricane twice the size of a regular one, destroying the building Cole stood on.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Cole grunted in surprise, as he used his electromagnetic thrusters to float in midair and safely land on a nearby electrical cables that not only charged his powers, but allowed him to grind alongside it, gaining distance between him and the approaching hurricane.
"Creative, but can you handle two more?!" Storm summoned two more large hurricanes, destroying all in it's path, and hurtling Cole several meters away, greatly hurting him in the process.
"Nghh! Gotta take her out, but those tornadoes'll shred me up in seconds…maybe…" Cole strategized then spotted a lamppost and drained its energy, something that Storm picked up as strange. "This'll take up most of my juice, but if it works, it'll be my win!" He concentrated hard and threw up an equally large electro-magnetic tornado.
"Try as you might, you won't-!" Storm taunted, but was silenced as the tornado lifted a car with Cole on top of it, using his electricity and that from the car; he jumped clean over the rampaging tornadoes and over Storm's head.
"Let's finish this!" Charging up his velocity, he began to fall at a great speed toward Storm, she tried to use the air to deflect him, but the speed was too great and was struck by Cole, and the two fell to the ground as the electric conduit created a massive surge that blasted all in it's path. Despite this large-scale attack, Storm was still alive and managing to stand. "Not bad using your wind attack to cushion my attack!"
"Water's his weakness…Maybe if I…" Storm thought up, and then used her powers to conjure a thick mist, greatly limiting Cole's vision.
"Damn, can barely see!" Cole growled looking around, but to no avail. Suddenly, he was blasted from behind with a large air punch, blasting him several meters away. "Oww! Come on out!" He was blasted by the same attack three times in a row. Finally Cole came up with a plan and focused his energy into his hand that he pulsed onto the ground, creating a radar of Storm's whereabouts. "Got'cha!" Cole gathered a large amount of electromagnetism and blew it forward as one massive air current, and as predicted, blasting Storm away from her attack and ending the massive fog, but as the fog cleared, Cole seen he was at the coastal area, with the ocean not a few feet away from where he stood. Storm was planning to throw him into the ocean with just one more push.
"Almost had you." Storm growled.
"So that was your plan, huh?" Cole chuckled. "Well I won't go down that easy!"
"Even if that didn't work, I still have a back-up plan!" Storm floated up and began to create massive waves in the ocean using the force of the winds. Before long, the shoreline of the ocean began to draw back massively.
"Oh crap, she's gonna make a tsunami!" Cole gasped in terror. He was now faced with a difficult decision: save the city by trying to stop the tsunami, or run at the top of the tallest building and survive on his own. Cole tried striking her with lightning bolts, but Storm had also altered the air to divert his attacks. Seeing no choice, Cole began to ran and climb the nearest tall building using his expert climbing skills. It was a close call as the tidal wave surged the city, barely missing Cole, and being too short to submerge the building he stood on, but the entire city was now flooded with it's might. "Jesus, that woman is crazy!" Storm landed on the building opposite Cole's, the concentration of creating such a force greatly tired her out.
"It's finished!" She spoke as if she was the victor. "The city below is submerged! The power to all the buildings is out! All I need to do is destroy the building you stand on and you will perish!" But Cole began to laugh at Storm.
"Go ahead and try!" Cole smiled evilly, knowing his action to save himself instead of stopping Storm's actions; Cole's personality took a cold twist. Using his lightning powers, he created a giant thunderbolt that destroyed the building Storm stood on. Barely dodging, Storm began flying, albeit with great difficulty, given her exhaustion.
"He's become evil?" Storm pondered. Cole continued his attack by firing more electric blasts, but instead of being blue in colour, they were tinted red. "Like that will work!" She created an air barrier to deflect the blasts, but they were stronger and faster than before, making deflecting them increasingly difficult. She landed on a building further away from Cole so that she could rest without him interfering, but to her surprise, Cole was hopping from building to building towards her, using a combination of his own skill and his electromagnetic thrusters. Storm used her thunderbolts to try and destroy the next building Cole would land on, but he managed to catch it and absorb it into his own powers. "He's certainly persistent! Fine, this will take all my energy, but it will defeat him for sure!" She began to use all the energy she could muster to create a larger tsunami, set to completely engulf the city, giving Cole no sanctuary. Cole noticed the decreasing water and grew alarmed.
"Damn it! Not on my watch!" He yelled and landed on the roof Storm was on and with a now vulnerable Storm, he was set to use his leeching powers, to absorb Storm's neuro-energy. But the air current that surrounded Storm was proving difficult to get around, protecting her well. "Time to do it!" Cole awakened his dormant powers as Karmic Overload and began blasting Storm with a continuous stream of red electricity that soon pierced her air barrier. "Now!" He grabbed her head, absorbing her neuro-energy, killing her instantly and calling off the tsunami. In triumph, Cole threw Storm into the sky and fired a lightning bolt at her dead body, watching as Storm fell into the flooded city.
"Hah! Take that!" Cole laughed evilly. "Alright, now how am I gonna get down from here?"
K.O!Phew! That was one electrifying battle, pardon the pun! Storm's powers were ferocious and powerful, but a combination of Cole's quick-thinking and endless combinations of his conduit powers outmatched Storm's. Yes, Storm can create apocalyptic scenarios, being able to create ice ages and flood entire cities with a tsunami, but only at the risk of her own life, which will only make her vulnerable for attack. At Cole's peak, however, he was able to take on giants of pure destruction, who were able to survive nuclear blasts and destroy cities instantly, and win. Storm's idea to flood the city was genius, taking advantage of Cole's weakness to large bodies of water, albeit a little cruel to helpless kittens, but she didn't take into consideration Cole's ability to scale large buildings; as well as the fact that Cole already tackled the possibility of a flooded city and came out on top, making Storm's idea flawed in the face of the Electric Man. Storm's power is great, but against the power of the electric conduit, it was no match. The victor is Cole McGrath.
A/N: Be sure to favourite and review if you enjoyed this epic instalment. If you have any ideas for a future death battle, hit me up with a suggestion in the reviews and I'll see what I can do. See yah next time!