(Profile written by Spacebattles user Bathory).
Name: Morrigan Aensland
Series: Darkstalkers
Classification: Change 7(Stranger 5), Striker 6, Thinker 2, Brute 8, Blaster 8, Mover 8, Breaker 3, Master 7
Disposition: Independent Villain, A-Class threat
Location: Nomadic
General information: The subject appears to be a tall white female with matching green hair and eyes. First appearing in Scotland in the 90s, Morrigan has haunted Earth-Bet for years, leaving behind a trail of bodies. Morrigan is wanted for multiple counts of murder, assault, sexual assault, assaulting law enforcement, property damage, and public lewdness.
Personality: Confident, playful, and charming demeanor that belies her predatory, violent nature. The subject is primarily motivated by boredom and the need for stimulation, be it from combat or preying on unsuspecting men. She primarily attempts to seduce young adult men before murdering them with her Striker power, though men of all ages and a number of women have become her victims, and while disguised with her Changer power, she will attempt any number of ploys to entice prey, from pretending to be a grieving, vulnerable widow to acting the part of a flirtatious exotic dancer. In combat, she does not owe any particular allegiance to any person or organization and will gladly pick fights with law enforcement, gangsters, and capes from either side of the law, and has been a regular participant in Endbringer battles. Prefers to toy with enemies and is known to significantly hold back until she grows bored, at which point she will either leave the area or attempt to slay her foes. The subject is a complete sociopath with no regard for human life.
Powers:
Changer 7(Stranger 5 sub-rating): Highly variable shape-shifter. Can alter the shape and size of her wings, and can turn them into various melee weapons, including spears, blades, tentacles, hooks, chains, scythes, giant hands, and drills. Her wings can also transform into a swarm of purple bats, and can do the same with her entire body. She can similarly alter the shape of her hair to use as a weapon. She can alter everything else about her appearance, including hair color, body shape, facial structure, and clothing, and perfectly imitate the appearance of any one of her numerous victims.
Striker 6: Skin contact with her bodily fluids is always fatal, causing the victim's body to shrivel up until it resembles a mummy. This power is primarily used though a kiss. To date, no Brute or Trump power has defended against this ability.
Thinker 2: Morrigan will gain the memories of anyone killed by her Striker power. She can also sense the presence of Parahumans from a significant distance, and can gauge how much of a threat they are.
Brute 8: Superhuman strength and durability sufficient hold her own against Alexandria and Endbringers. She has demonstrated a potent regeneration ability the few times she's been seriously wounded.
Blaster 8: Can shoot various projectiles from her wings, including lasers, giant arrows, and rockets. Can also shoot energy spheres from her fist. These projectiles have demonstrated enough power to destroy entire buildings and greatly damage an Endbringer.
Mover 8: Superhuman speed and flight via her wings, which can transformed into rocket thrusters to achieve supersonic speeds. Can open portals to escape the area.
Breaker 3: Can transform into a shadowy state that allows her to phase through solid matter.
Master 7: With her demonstrated powers and claim of being a succubus, Morrigan is capable of enticing any human she wants; her seductive charm is strong enough to affect capes with proven resistance to other Master powers. Can summon and command a swarm of purple bats to do her bidding with abilities far beyond a normal bat. She can also summon a duplicate of herself to assist in combat, which can either act independently or mirror her every action to gang up on an enemy. She has also summoned a helper strongly resembling a similar villain who went missing recently(see file: Lilith Aensland).
Recommended Strategies : Caution all male members of the local PRT, Protectorate, and general public against strange women when sightings of Morrigan or the shriveled-up corpses of men are reported in a locale, and recommend that they remain indoors at night past 6pm. Master/Stranger protocols are in full effect in any PRT and Protectorate locations. When she is encountered, unless there are no other options, use ONLY nonlethal munitions and tactics appropriate for her power ratings, with the goal of chasing her away: using explicitly lethal actions WILL result in her holding back less, which WILL result in fatalities for officers and capes. The use of female officers and capes is encouraged. Should Morrigan escalate, retreat and call in a member of the Triumvirate to fight her until she leaves.
Though it was Rebecca Costa-Brown, director of the Parahuman Response Team, who had organised everything, it was Alexandria, founding member of the Protectorate, who showed up to meet the small army of parahumans Legend brought in the wee hours of the morning.
She scanned her eyes over the assembled fighters. Legend and Eidolon were there as expected, so the Triumvirate was together again. Myrddin was there, along with Chevalier, Cinereal, Narwhal, Rime, Exalt, Armsmaster and several of Dragon's suits. In addition to the poster boys and girls, there were a few other members who had come – Joseph Joestar, for one.
There were also a few faces she didn't recognise, which was surprising given her perfect memory and studious habit of reading at least the Threat Profiles of any new parahuman contacts the PRT encountered.
She flew over to Legend. "Legend." She greeted. "I don't recognise everyone here. Care to introduce me?"
"It looks like we missed a few of the Thinkers who predicted Tiamat." Legend said, sourly. "When I went to go round up the troops, these guys were waiting."
A woman wearing casual dress and with bright green hair laughed. "Are you joking? The violent return of a mother goddess? Makai has been ringing with prophesies of this day for nearly a year!" The woman licked her lips. "It's been unbearable, having to wait this long!"
Green hair + the mention of Makai = … "Morrigan Aensland?" Alexandria said, blinking in shock under her helmet. She turned back to Legend. "You let Morrigan Aensland come on this mission?!"
"'Let' is not the right word here." Legend defended himself. "The conversation went more like 'Let me fight her, or I will have to satisfy myself by fighting you'."
Alexandria sighed. The fight hadn't even started yet and she would have to watch out for attacks already.
A white-haired archer stepped forwards from the crowd of unknowns. "Don't concern yourselves with us. Whatever motivation we have for being here, we will all fight Tiamat to the best of our ability." He shot a sideways glance at Morrigan. "Most of us can even be trusted to leave after the fight is done."
"Speaking of explaining things…" Legend pointed to the stack of animal carriers stacked up next to Alexandria. "Mind explaining why you have…" he counted "eleven rabbits with you?"
"I'll explain that in a moment." Alexandria said. "We're still waiting on one more."
"Yeah, where exactly are we, anyway?" Legend looked around. The place they were currently in looked like the inside of a dim cave, only nobody could see the ceiling. Crags of rock that looked almost like altars rose from the ground haphazardly, each one possessing a stone staircase that led from them down to the ground below. "And why did we have to go through a portal to get here even after Doormaker dropped us off?"
"The Clairvoyant can only see into alternate Earths." Alexandria said. "So he can't see in here, and Doormaker can't make portals here either."
"Wait." Eidolon said, having walked up to the pair. "If this isn't Earth, which planet is it?"
"Calling it a planet would imply that there is something in this dimension other than it, which there isn't."
Alexandria grit her teeth. "And there will be our last team member arriving."
Legend, Eidolon and those fighters close enough to hear her turned around to find a girl with screws embedded in her hands, arms and legs, along with a man standing with his back to everyone else.
Unlike the other times she had appeared, this time Ajimu was sitting on the floor. Held in a leg-lock underneath her was a new face, a black-haired boy in a black school uniform. {Anshin'in-san,} the boy said in Japanese, {can you please let go of me now?}
Something about the boy set Alexandria's skin to crawling. Maybe it was the way the boy had absolutely no presence at all. Maybe it was the empty smile on his face. Maybe it was the fact that Ajimu thought him powerful enough to significantly alter their chances of the fight, but he looked like an ordinary high-school boy, her first two points aside.
{That depends, Kumagawa-kun.} Ajimu smiled. {Do you think you understand what's going on?}
{No…?}
Alexandria sighed, then knelt down to bring her face closer to the boy's (successfully hiding her revulsion at doing do). {In a few minutes, a very powerful creature in the shape of a woman is going to be forced into this dimension with us. I need you to weaken that creature as much as possible so we can destroy it. Understand?}
The boy stared up at her with his empty smile. {Ah, so you need me to screw a woman? Why didn't you say so?}
Alexandria raised her gaze to Ajimu. Under her helmet, she raised one eyebrow.
{Isn't he adorable?} Ajimu closed her eyes and tilted her head, still smiling.
Something clicked in her head. {Wait. 'Kumagawa'? You mentioned him the first time we met. Isn't he the one who ripped your face off?}
{Yep!} Kumagawa cheerfully admitted. {That was me! Ah, but it was only to check if I really loved her.}
Alexandria immediately abandoned any and all plans to ever recruit Kumagawa into any organisation she was a member of.
"Ajimu Najimi?" Morrigan had apparently just noticed the new arrival, striding over. "I haven't seen you in centuries, you old hag! You still owe me a fight!"
Alexandria quietly filed that statement away to analyse later.
"Sorry, your highness." Ajimu smiled. "But I make it a point to never fight protagonists."
Ajimu released Kumagawa, who straightened up. Ajimu and Hanten then disappeared.
Morrigan shook her head. "That girl is no fun at all…"
"Alexandria." Legend prompted. "The plan…?"
"The plan. Right." Alexandria straightened. "Everyone, listen up!"
In a space just above the river Euphrates, space began to bleed. Darkness began to seep out of a point in the middle of the river, which soon solidified into the black mud of the Chaos Tide.
In a strange and disgusting parody of the birthing process, a form was squeezed out of the Chaos Tide. Naked save for some scant cloth on her crotch, arms and legs, the creature resembled a woman, save for the enormous ram-like horns that emerged from the side of her head, forming a shape like butterfly wings behind her. Chains bound her arms and legs, and she hovered above the ground. The Chaos Tide now gushed out from her form in unimaginable quantities.
A couple of local fishermen saw this happening, and began to scream as the Tide raced across the river towards them almost faster than they could see. In less than a second, the Tide would be upon them…
…which is when a soft golden glow engulfed both fishermen, and lifted them well clear of the genocidal mud.
Standing on the riverbank was another creature not native to this world, spoken off only in old legends and fantasy stories. Her coat was a pink so pale it could easily be mistaken for white, and her majestic mane and tail shone with all the colours of an aurora. Her horn glowed the same soft gold as the fishermen.
"In Babylonian myth, the heavens and the earth were made from parts of Tiamat's corpse, which means that anywhere in those places is automatically a battlefield that gives Tiamat the advantage. You can't fight Tiamat in a world 'made of Tiamat'."
"So what can we do, then?"
"You have to fight her in a world or phase she had no part in creating. Purgatory, Asgard, Tartarus…"
Princess Celestia's horn's glow suddenly became far brighter in intensity, and a golden rectangular portal formed in midair, showing the same location that Alexandria and the others waited in.
"I'm sorry." She said.
Tiamat did not react as another golden glow engulfed her body and carried her through the portal to Tartarus.
The moment Tiamat arrived and the portal closed, the parahumans sprang into action. All the non-flyers were ridding on one of Dragon's suits; with the exception of Kumagawa, who was riding on Alexandria's back. (He'd tried to cop a feel, but she'd bent back his hand to just before the breaking point and released it. He hadn't tried again, though he still hadn't lost that empty smile.)
The Chaos Tide erupted out of Tiamat's body, and almost immediately covered the ground around them as far as the eye could see. The Blasters of the group, in retaliation, unloaded onto Tiamat, knocking her back but not damaging her.
"Even after you remove her home-field advantage, Tiamat is still a god – and a creator god at that. 'Normal' attacks won't be able to hurt her."
"What kind of attacks will, then?"
"With Tiamat, you have an opening. The gods of Babylonian mythology have already killed her. If you remind the world of that fact, then she'll be returned to the afterlife."
Already, monsters were beginning to emerge out of the Chaos Tide. The assembled group switched targets to destroying the monsters, leaving Tiamat clear for the time being.
Alexandria, taking the chance, flew in as close to Tiamat as she dared. {Now!} She screamed at her passenger.
Kumagawa gripped onto Alexandria with his legs, and held out both hands. Giant screws the size of water-bottles appeared in his hands, though they quickly lengthened to the size of swords.
He threw both screws through the air, both of which easily pierced through Tiamat's chest.
Alexandria flew back out of range. {They pierced her so easily…!}
{Don't get your hopes up.} Kumagawa said. {Book Maker is an attack that soils the heart, not the body. But, with this, she will be transformed from 'a creator Goddess who has come to remake the world' to 'a Goddess who created the world but has now been forced out of her eternal rest to do it again'.}
{That's the same thing!}
{No it isn't. One's a Plus, the other's a Minus. In this particular case…}
As Alexandria watched, Tiamat's hair turned from silver to white. At the same time, the emergence of the Chaos Tide slowed from a flood to a mere trickle.
Kumagawa closed his eyes to emphasise his empty smile. {Her desire to remake the world has been all but sealed off, like a girl who can't take a dump because her panties are screwed on.}
Alexandria spun around, flinging Kumagawa to the only unoccupied Dragon Suit with far more force than was actually necessary. Forget washing it, she was going to have her uniform replaced altogether after this.
"Ah, but, but! I really should ask – your power…"
"Yes? What about it?"
"Does it change the way you think? Make you look at the world differently to a normal human?"
"…mine does, yes."
"Ah."
"What?"
"What I'm describing is basically a magic ritual. But magic was designed for people who thought like human beings – it's not safe to use by those whose brains work differently."
"…but it should be fine if I get someone without 'my kind of power' to do it, right?"
"Joseph!" She yelled.
"I told you before, call me JoJo!" Joseph yelled back, flying his Dragon Suit like it was an airplane (that is, the on-board bio-computer had to keep stepping in to stop him from crashing). Struggling with one hand with the controls, he reached out with his other hand and grabbed a terrified rabbit.
A golden, crackling surge of Hamon surged down Joseph's arm and into the rabbit, causing its ears to stiffen out like helicopter blades. With that, he unceremoniously tossed the poor creature out the side of the suit. Surreally, the stiffened ears caused the rabbit to spin though the air and slow it's fall to something survivable.
In this fashion, Joseph tossed out all eleven rabbits while the rest of the team kept Tiamat occupied and her monsters hurting.
Meanwhile, Alexandria tangled with a creature that looked similar to a spider, if it wasn't two meters tall and didn't have blades for arms. She grabbed one arm and ripped it off, but the creature slashed at her with one of it's other arms. Old habits led to her not dodging such an attack until it was almost too late, and the creature cut a shallow wound into her 'invincible' flesh.
"Agh!" She screamed, grabbing two of it's remaining arms and using them as leverage to break the entire monster in half.
Legend finished blasting another one of the creatures, and came over to check on her. "Alexandria, are you…?!"
"I'll be fine." She waved him off. "Remember, these things can hurt anything that came from a womb, and that includes us!"
"Before she died, Tiamat created eleven monsters to kill the gods that had killed her mate, and the gods killed those eleven monsters in the same battle that they were able to slice her in half. Switching the order of events lessens the connection, but if you recreate that battle the world should 'remember' that Tiamat is supposed to be dead."
And as the first of the rabbits fell into the Chaos tide, someone with very good vision and a superhuman reading speed might have been able to glimpse the names on the rabbit's name tags: Bašmu, Ušumgallu, Mušmaḫḫū, Mušḫuššu, Laḫmu, Ugallu, Uridimmu, Girtablullû, Umū dabrūtu, Kulullû and Kusarikku.
A flicker of recognition seemed to pass through Tiamat as the eleven rabbits sank into the Chaos Tide, and as rabbits were warped and changed by the Tide, they each changed into their own, unique forms; different from the monsters randomly emerging from the Tide.
"Everything's ready over here!" Joseph shouted, wincing. For some reason, his head suddenly felt sore, like he'd tried to understand a really difficult math problem. He channelled some Hamon into it to deal with the pain.
Alexandria heard the shout and saw what had happened to the rabbits. Nearly there. "Cinereal!"
Cinereal held the power to produce something like ash from her body, shooting it out in waves and blasts. Before the battle had started, Alexandria had had her spread the stuff as far and as wide as she could in the time they had.
When Tiamat had arrived, the ash had been buried under the Chaos Tide, but hadn't been erased. And as Cinereal snapped her fingers, she reminded everyone why she had previously gone by the name 'Ash Phoenix'.
The Chaos Tide bubbled, steamed, and then violently erupted as the ash beneath it violently caught fire and burned hotter then molten gold.
All of the assembled fighters were high above the mud when this happened, but several of them still covered their faces as the sudden burst of head erupted upwards from all around them.
After an eternity, when the ash had all burned up, the Chaos Tide sat on the ground as so much dry earth.
Many of the smaller monsters had been destroyed, but not all of them, and the eleven rabbits-turned-monsters did not appear to have been harmed at all.
And, of course, Tiamat herself was perfectly fine.
This is it.
"Everyone! Once the eleven monsters are dead, we can destroy Tiamat!" Alexandria yelled.
"Well then," Eidolon smiled "lets get to work."
(Profile written by Spacebattles user reptilia28).
Name: Unknown
Codename: Archer
Series: Fate/Stay Night
Classification: Striker/Blaster (Sub-Brute, Thinker)
Disposition: Independent villain
Location: Mobile; no known base of operations
General information: Reports of a man fitting the subject's description have been intermittently reported by various agencies worldwide since shortly after Parahumans first began appearing. He is an assassin, attacking Heroes, Villains, and civilians alike without hesitation or mercy. While he seems to focus on individuals, he has no regard for collateral damage, eliminating anyone nearby. His targets seem to be random; no obvious connection exists between his apparent targets, and even Thinker analysis provides inconsistent results. There have been no successful attempts to contact or locate him outside the battlefield.
Personality: As reports of his appearance invariably mark a thorough and brutal cleansing of the local population, there is very little concrete knowledge of his personality. Testimony from the few surviving Heroes that have fought with him portray him as silent and analytical.
Powers:
Striker/Blaster 7+: Archer has demonstrated the ability to create weapons out of thin air that possess a variety of effects, which he can then use in melee combat or fire at range from a large bow, also projected. In addition to firing arrows as speeds consistent with high-end machine guns, his most consistently reported weapons are: A pair of short swords that he can throw like boomerangs; a projectile with explosive power comparable to a tactical airstrike; a different projectile that can track a target without fail at supersonic speeds; a unidirectional shield capable of blocking armor-piercing tank rounds.
Thinker 5: Archer is able to detect individuals from several kilometers away; the method is currently unknown. Furthermore, he is able to quickly locate and exploit flaws in an opponent's combat technique, even if they are otherwise much faster or stronger than him.
Brute 3: Parahuman responders that have survived melee combat with Archer have noted that he is stronger than a person of his physical build should be. Even if his projections are of negligible weight, the strength required to draw a bow powerful enough to fire a projectile at the extreme ranges that he does exceeds that of even the strongest non-Parahuman bowman.
Notes: Facial analysis has matched Archer with one Shirou Emiya to 98.5% accuracy. Due to the discrepancy in ages between the two, it was originally believed that Archer may be S. Emiya's birth father or other close relative until a DNA analysis showed a 100% match. The current theory is that S. Emiya is a clone of Archer, released for reasons currently unknown. Further observation of S. Emiya is advised.
Recommended Strategies: Due to his ability to detect and respond to threat from several kilometers away, it is imperative for responders to close the distance between them and Archer as quickly as possible. His shield is powerful, blocking all forms of Blaster attacks, as well as both mundane and Tinker-tech weapons without breaking; however, as previously mentioned, it is unidirectional. High explosives combined with sustained fire from multiple directions seems to be the most likely way to subdue him.