[04th January 2011]
[Metropolis, Delaware, United States of America]
It was...strange...being Superman...or at least pretending to be Superman as Skulls had put it to him...Connor found himself flying through the night sky of Metropolis, red cape billowing behind him, to the fight ahead. At least the cape was real, unlike the spell that Zatanna had case to make him look like...the man he wanted to be sometimes. The man he'd been made to be...or at least someone had tried to be made in the image of, to defeat him should Superman turn mad and begin destroying the world. And they'd failed in that...he wasn't even fully Kryptonian and part of him was glad to be flying to a fight, to beat up whoever was attacking his teammates, as flying around Metropolis had brought up thoughts he'd rather not have to deal with now.
Punching vampires with guns seemed a great way to relieve that stress he figured as he flew forward over the brightly illuminated buildings of the city. That was cool at least, actually flying and not just jumping far and getting to pretend for a few seconds he was soaring through the skies...best first Christmas present ever. Seconds flew by and suddenly he was there, seeing the flashes of gunfire at the building and the shapes of people surrounding the LexCorp building. Seeing the man in the robes and brightly shimmering staff he opted for him to make the big entrance like Superman did, and take out the probably leader guy as he did so...accelerating downwards, arms straight out ahead of him, he slammed into the chanting robed-man at a the speed of small breaking car. Best not to kill him after all...
Slam
...he thought to himself just as he impacted the vampire wizard-man. At this not so swift blow the enemy was flung backwards into a pile of barrels and a dumpster at the back of a construction site it looked like to Connor's eyes. Placing his hands on his hips, and hovering in the air as the attention of the other armed enemies came upon him and he gave a stern look at them like Robin and Kid Flash had told him to do while in Metropolis as Superman "HALT EVIL DOERS! I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER PEACEFULLY BEFORE YO..."
"Shtuperman! Veapons!"one of the black masked men yelled hand touching his ear, the others seeming startled a moment before guns were lowered again by those nearest and...
Crackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrack
...bullets pinged harmlessly off of his body. Or the armour beneath his body as he tried to decide what Superman would do as others amongst the vampire-men drew blockier things in hand after shoving guns over shoulders to hand by straps behind backs. Connor landed from the hover, pressing foot into the ground and jumping forward after a moment's bracing...slamming the nearest of the men...a woman actually...back into the wall behind her and grabbing the weapon with his gauntleted hand. Or to her eyes with Superman's bare hand before throwing it away from her against the wall...
"Wow" he muttered as fangs erupted forward hissing into his face as hands banged upon his face and shoulders with surprising strength. Startled by the hissing, the sudden snapping of teeth towards his face he slammed her back into the wall...up against some concrete pillar with metal bars out of it before bending the metal around her to secure her in...
'Huh?' he thought as he staggered ever so slightly as something, flashing brightly, slammed into his back with minor impact. Twisting to the right he finished tying the hissing monster-person to the pillar to dodge the now numerous red-light irritations coming his direction...then watching in shock as one, then two, then three, red beams slammed into the bound woman and she...
...just screamed and turned into dust before his eyes...
...then winced as the red light beams hit part of his arm where he didn't have any armour. Pain, and nasty red line of burning, spread out from where it had hit and Connor braced his arms ahead of him to protect himself with his gauntlets from the Red Light Lasers the enemy apparently had. These were really bad men to kill their own friends like this, and he pressed forward shrugging off the now intense fire as confused sounded voices shouted out from the six or seven weapon users...
'Ohhhh...illusions gone' he realised his arms before him now showing the dark green and gun metal grey colours of the armoured gauntlets and gloves rather than pale hands and blue spandex. But he also felt stronger somehow...oh, yeah Skulls said something about absorption and...
...Connor lowered his arms and pointed hands at the ground and spoke the word...unleashing a stream of flame that tore up the ground between him and the laser guns. Dust, dirt and flames rising up to block the view of the enemy, causing one or two to jump back, or just reel back to cover their faces in fear for just a moment. Bracing himself Connor jumped...
WHAM
...then slammed down in the midst of the semi-circle of attackers beyond the flames. The mild shockwave of the impact stagger the two nearest to him as he spun and kicked that man in the stomach like Black Canary had trained him to do. Not...perfectly...but he held back on the blow and still managed to send him flying the intended distance, grabbing the weapon as it flew from then man's hands and crushing it between his own.
Duck or roll to the side Superboy. NOW!* the sound of Artemis's voice echoed in his mind along with the familiar feeling of the mind link coming into place. He opted to roll to the right as an arrow flew passed where he'd been standing a few seconds later; slamming into the chest of one of the vampire guys and exploding. Even as Connor came out of the roll and shoulder charged the next nearest enemy an explosion of foamy-stuff had covered the guy behind him, before quick hardening and leaving only the head and upper shoulders free. Connor was glad to see the others arriving, and connection to all the others as they 'checked in' to let him know they were here as a team.
Kay Guys, Vampires* John's voiced echoed out a moment later in that slightly distorted way when he communicated telepathically *...there dead already, and they won't stay down easily, don't assume dead unless the body burns up. Also; DO NOT GET BIT PLEASE. Got Lobby secure here, dusted two and have the rest restrained. Watch for the Wizard outside, he got back up after Connor decked him*
Eyes on him, waving green staff at you Superboy, get out the way he's shooting!*
At Miss Martian's warning he jumped again, out of the way of a green beam of energy that impact where he had just being standing. Another arrow flew out of nowhere, foam exploding, and took out one of the Red Light Laser gun wielding vampires as they tried to take aim at him...
Looks like we've got the last of them secured in here and...OH FUCK! ROCKET...*
What? HOLY SMO..*
SKULLS!!?* Artemis shouted out as Fortune's and Rocket's responses cutting out...followed by the sudden breaking of glass and sight of them flying out through the remaining windows of the LexCorp building to slam into a car on the curb outside *SKULLS? ROCKET? Speak guys!!!"
OW* Rocket echoed back after a moment as Connor dodged the nearest laser guy while running at the one with a gun shooting towards where Rocket and Skulls had gone...
Crackcrackcrackcrack
"ROOARRRRRRR" echoed out from the building as Fortune's angry, and slightly pained voiced echoed out over the link.
MOTHERFU...OW...Minor Heal ,fuck it...Guys problems, two big ones. Figured out what Luthor had hidden here for these guys to want raid for...*
Giant Hairless Gorillas with laser guns for heads*
"ROOARRRRRRR"
No...Yeah...Maybe...Ogres with Guns for Heads* came back as the front of the building erupted with bright flashes of light...before the front exploded in a mass of flame and broken glass before one of these Gorilla-Ogre things as they'd called them charged out into the open. Followed moments later by a second one as Connor grabbed the gun out of the hands of the vampire and shattered it with his hands, then throwing it at another of the momentarily stunned vampires *...little help needed guys...SHIELD!*
The ugly whatever-they-were moved about bend forward and walking on their fists, big metal helmet-things like Doctor Oyo's covering their massive heads with only jaws full of teeth showing as the big glowing red gems in the centre of their helmets pulsed. Pulsed, and then erupted with an ugly energy beam as the light show out of the corner of his eye indicated Skulls and Rocket throwing up protective energy shields in front of them. Enough to stop the attack at least as mental growling indicated and the night was briefly illuminated by the beams impacting the protective shields.
I'll help, can somebody hold down these ones*
"Dnib htiw leets sniahc!" he heard the voice of Zatanna echo out as the vampire wizard was lifted into the air by Miss Martian, blocking with some sort of energy bubble another foam arrow from Artemis at him, before glowing chains flew from the building site around them and raced towards the hovering vampire wizard. Connor grabbed the nearest vampire, the one in his way, and hurled him at the hovering one, before charging at the gorilla-ogres while the rest of the team dealt with the gun wielding attackers. His feet tore up the tarmacadam as he ran and then jumped forward to punch one of the monsters...once, twice, stagger the creature and...
SHREEEEEEEEEE
...the force of the energy beam slamming into him drove Connor backwards, feet digging into the ground...before being hurled off into the air for a moment, then landing on his back a few metres away...
...just in time for the creature to roar into his face as it jumped, landing upon him with force to momentarily drive the breath from him before electric gauntlet things began to pound his face...
WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM
...he growled out in pain at the blows before bar of energy smashed into the creature he was trying to block before Rocket came into view above him. Energy crackling out around her, and then him, in a half-sphere as took a gasping breath and pushed himself back up, with a hand up from Rocket as she herself groaned and held up the other hand to maintain the force-field the creature threw a steel girder at. One that bounced off the shimmering energy field, though causing it to wobbled back and forth a bit for a moment...
Guys enemy wizard just teleported out chains and all* Zatanna told them as Connor jumped in again and began exchanging blows with the creature that had been punching him into the ground moments ago. A vicious upcut sent the creature reeling backwards after he followed it up with a knee to the chest *other attackers went with him or secure*
One...fucking dodge...right plan guys* Skulls muttered back throwing a ball of fire at the other creature then jumping over a concrete slab and moving forward as it exploded after the creature had thrown a trash big back at Connor's skull masked teammate *Z, you can knock out them with your magic right?*
Yeah, if there alive and not very smart*
They are, organic but something need take out them head things first. Artemis I need you on ranged support, blind'em so we can get a shot. Connor need you to get in and do some damage to those headsets while Rocket shields you...me and Z will try knock'em out with magic"
Got it/K/Understood/Shooting/And...GO!* echoed back with his own agreement, surging up and dodging for a moment before arrows flew past him. One smashing into the helmet thing of the nearest creature, exploding in foamy stuff; before another impacted with a bright flash that caused the creature to rear back and roar out in pain...
Connor moved as the struggling creatures rose off the ground, the one nearest managing to tear off the hard foam-stuff from its face and emitting another screeching beam towards him despite being disorientated. Jinking to the left help, just under the beam as a shimmering energy field erupted around him and deflected the heat and energy of the attack. Too late the monster saw the punch...into the stomach, and then another smashing into the gem-helmet thing to shatter it even as he gripped tightly...
WHAM
...before slamming the creature into its neighbour as Miss Martian adjusted it to being closer, and more hittable, to Connor's attack. Both monsters slammed into the ground, helmet-gems broken along with the backpack things on their backs that came into view now...
CLEAR*
He jumped backwards as both Zatanna and Skulls appeared behind and above the creatures tangled up between themselves, moving groggily against each other as Connor's teammates pointed at them with a long staff, and short wand, respectively.
"S&*%!"
"PEELS!"
...then the monsters weren't moving anymore as he allowed himself to groan tiredly...
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