Friday, July 29, 2016

To Save Valhalla!

SPIDER-MAN

Seeing Thanos, Spidey tosses a spidey-tracer on Thanos' big blue back. If the distance seems too far for a toss, Spidey will stick a tracer on his webshooter, and shoot a line of webbing across the distance, so that the web will carry the tracer to Thanos.

Then he will acrobatically jump, swing and stick to the side of the giant boat of the dead, waving his arms at the giants and shouting in an annoying teen voice: "Run, run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me! I am your friendly neighborhood SPIDER-MAN!!" (He is hoping they will rush at the boat, and he can nimbly leap aside at the very last microsecond, allowing them to crash into it.)

"YES WE CAN. WE CAN CATCH YOU AND GOBBLE YOU UP!"

They can't. They run headlong into the boat and knock themselves out, denting the boat in the process.

STORM
Can a wind help slow or move ths ship? If so, Storm will try to aid in keeping it from colliding with Valhalla.

Well, it's a SAILING ship ... so yes. A hundred times yes. Wind is what it's FOR.

A mighty wind bellies out the sails of the Grave Ship, slowing its ponderous progress. Indeed, it would have reversed it altogether, had not the grave-cobweb sails torn apart under the gale, snapping the masts with them.

ANT MAN
Ant Man will jump in between the ship and the mead hall of Valhalla and try to catch it. He thinks of his daughter, Cassie, and thinks, "If I don't live through this, sweetie, I hope you will be all right!"

You know, maybe she will. Her new dad isn’t such a jerk. But she’ll be better off if Scott’s watching over her!

Ant-Man does indeed get between the ship and the hall.

He does indeed catch the ship.

STOPPING it, though, is pretty darn near impossible. But he does slow it down, and also lift up the bow so it's pointing upward, not level. In fact, if he let go right now, it might pass harmlessly OVER Valhalla, not INTO it.

INVISIBLE GIRL

Sue puts up a force field shaped like a inclined plane in front of the mead hall, so that if the ship of the dead makes it so far, the prow will be gradually turned aside.

The force field catches the bow of the ship just as it elevates beyond Ant-Man's reach. The ship continues up the plane, over the spired tops of Valhalla, and off into the air. The strain is incredible, but Sue can hold it until it's safely over the Mires of Despair, and then either slant it back downwards, or just drop it.

(Sue knows exactly what it feels like moments before she can't hold it any more and lets go. It feels like the Hulk straining against her forcefield. She's not there yet.)

She asks the Vision and Wanda if either can tell where Thanos went or what happened inside the Falling Tower.

Wanda says, "I shall see."

She has seen beyond the edge of the Universe. Perhaps something there will be visible to her now. Her eyes probably get that strange, zoned look and her hands semi-involuntarily make arcane gestures, as if summoning powers beyond mortal space and ordinary time.

Thanos has two minions, red and green, who are receding through folded space. The red one is headed for a distant world orbiting a triple yellow star, while the green one plunges into the Sun, Earth's Sun, then out the other side! Wanda cannot see through the Sun, and for some strange reason cannot see AROUND it, either.

Thanos, meanwhile, retreats to the Andromeda Galaxy, very much like our own, and angles his course to home in on a sun much like our own, circled by seven concentric asteroid belts, which is not like our own. Six of the belts are rocks, with glinting bits of metal and ice mixed in, but the third one out from the star is all metal and ice, shaped not like jagged rocks, but like smoothly curved teardrops, as though not shattered, but melted ...

Thanos alights on a massive black stone throne spinning slowly on a chunk of ivory in asteroid-choked space. Figures, male and female, emerge from the stark, airless shadows, bowing their cloaked heads and gathering about the throne. Thanos holds up his massive golden glove, with the Blue Cube radiant upon the third knuckle, and chuckles.

Then he looks to the heavens, pans around, and settles directly on the Scarlet Witch, looking right into her eyes from a distance of two million light-years.

His gaze flicks a few meters away. It's where the Vision stands ...

And the mad purple Titan smiles.


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  1. Wanda breaks visual contact with Thanos. Quickly.
    "We need to move from our current locations--particularly you, Vish!" She takes him by the hand and whirls him to another spot some distance away. Hopefully the others follow.

    "He is on his black throne on a world of ivory, in a sea of asteroids in the Andromeda galaxy."

    "His red man is going to a world near a triple yellow star. Dr. Doom has gone into the Sun--and then out the other side--I can not see him further.

    "He is smiling at us."

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  2. ANT MAN

    Ant Man, panting, recalls his ants, shrinks them, put them in his belt, shrinks himself down, goes to the party, and asks what is going on?

    After hearing what Scarlet Witch said, Any Man says, "Wait, wait. What is the point of running if Thanos can now teleport? He'll just catch us anyway. Besides, we cannot teleport, or get away from him, or go anywhere else. So how are we going to A, stop him, and B, get away from him? Any ideas?"



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  3. Storm uses her winds to help the ship go where Giant Ant Man and Sue want it to go.

    Storm compares the mighty speed of her hurricanic winds with the ability to travel between GALAXIES!!

    She sighs.

    She then dives and flies over Valhalla and the battlefield looking for rogue enemies.

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  4. INVISIBLE GIRL

    Invisible Girl lowers the ship gently to a landing, and walks over to it, makes a staircase out of force fields, walks up, and talks to Thor. She repeat to him what Scarlet Witch said, and asks "Thor, can you open an interdimensional gateway with your hammer to intercept Dr. Doom?"

    She asks Baldur, "Is there anything that Valhalla magic or technology can do to block the eyesight of Thanos? He is smiling therefore apparently watching us from the Andromeda Galaxy."

    Sue will ask Scarlet Witch the same two questions if she is within earshot. "Can you open a gateway to Dr. Doom? Who is the other man working for Thanos? Can you do or find anything to block his visions of us?"

    Sue looks back and forth. "Where is Machine Man?"

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    1. Machine Man totters out of the stack of zombies, his arms hanging slack, his eye gone blank, emitting a steady electronic drone.

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    2. Scarlet Witch says determinedly, "If I had the blue stone, I believe I could do it. I think it will help to not look at him. He noticed me. He could hone in on me and therefore you as a target. We are so far away that even moving this short distance may have affected his aim. Unless, of course, he is cool about blowing up anything that might be in the vicinity. As to his other compatriot, I did not recognize him, but he was quite cadaverous. And a vile shade of crimson. Unlike Vish."

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  5. INVISIBLE GIRL

    Sue will also turn invisible and step to one side, just in case Thanos is looking at her, too.

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  6. SPIDER MAN

    Spider-Man says to the group as he swings by, "What is stopping him from just finding the locations of the infinity gems and just teleporting there, or better yet, teleporting them to him?"

    He grabs the Serpent Crown, sticks it to his back, and hunts for Machine Man.

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    1. VISION

      "If someone already possesses the other three gems, collecting them would require overpowering their resistance. Three gems are no doubt stronger than one, if they can be brought into harmony. But I doubt Thanos could exert that much power over an interstellar distance. He would have, it seems to me, to go to the gems, defeat their wielders, and then take them."

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