E P I S O D E V:K I D S T H E S E D A Y S
D E L A W A R E :20 juillet 2017 - 15:46:00 Tour du métro - Metropolis

Des rochers de pierre énormes et d'autres débris sont tombés comme des météores vers les héros, avant qu'une lumière aveuglante ne transforme tout en sable.
À la fin de la poutre se tenait Supergirl, qui a lutté pour éteindre sa vue laser une fois de plus, en couvrant ses yeux. Pas de tâche facile, mais après un moment la lueur lumineuse dans ses pupilles a brûlé et il était sûr d'ouvrir ses yeux. Se tenant au milieu du chaos pur, Supergirl a utilisé un moment pour s'adapter à la bataille en constante évolution qui se déroule autour d'elle. Ses paumes avaient l'impression qu'elles étaient en feu, et son cœur refusait de ralentir. Et pour un jeune de 19 ans avec un entraînement limité, c'était plus qu'un peu déroutant d'essayer de suivre les rencontres violentes. Pourtant, elle a réussi à distinguer le seul gars, on lui avait demandé de distraire. Elle s'arrêta, respira un peu de courage, puis se lança vers l'avant.
L'ennemi, semble-t-il, s'est préparé à riposter après avoir été bombardé de coups de feu. Avec une force énorme, Supergirl est entré en collision avec Extant, l'a atteint et l'a attrapé par derrière, tenant son bras et son corps immobile, afin que Jim puisse décharger tout son arsenal dans la merde malade.
Surprise, crétin. Vous êtes sur le point d'avoir une vraie mauvaise journée!, elle a crié dans l'oreille d'Extant et a grignoté ses dents à cause des quelques coups de feu s'est également passé pour lui gratifier.
Alors que les autres héros subjugués Extant, l'homme de la Polarité sans doute a finalement décidé de faire son mouvement. En tombant du plafond sous sa forme éthérée, il atterrit derrière Extant et Supergirl, le protégeant du champ de tir de M. Clutch. "J'ai pris un peu de temps pour naviguer dans les conduits d'air. En outre, vous pouvez arrêter maintenant d'attraper." Le lieutenant levait alors la main vers le visage d'Extant. « L'isolement des bactéries étrangères est assez simple quand on est à quatre-vingt pour cent de rayonnement et quand il est composé de la magie du Docteur Fate. Dans ce cas, j'ai tout concentré sur ma paume." avant de plonger son poing fantôme dans le crâne d'Extant.

Lizard n'a pas remarqué beaucoup de ce qui n'allait pas, à savoir que sa tête sonnait assez fort et elle était tout à fait certaine que quelque chose était cassé. C'est-à-dire qu'il était parti si vite, soudain elle une jeune femme comme Superman.
La prochaine chose qu'elle a ressentie, c'est que le même chiffre a un impact sur la force d'un train de marchandises. Ou plutôt un jet. La force physique s'est facilement transférée vers elle, puisque Lizard n'était pas un changeur de monde dimensionnel.
Lizard était aussi certaine qu'elle n'aurait pas dû aller aussi vite dans un mur. Comme le bruit soudain de quelqu'un percutant le mur de béton a été entendu.
Elle savait que sa respiration n'aurait pas dû être aussi difficile, ni goûter du sang ou le faire couler de sa peau. Ou avoir ces tiges de fer qui sortent de sa jambe, de son épaule ou de son bras. "Oui... ce n'est pas normal," pensa-t-elle, avant que son cerveau ne s'empare de la douleur et ne brise la lumière rouge dans son cerveau.
"AHHHHHGHH!" Elle a crié, la douleur était bien pire qu'elle ne s'y attendait. Assez fort pour égaler Black Canary en volume.
Cela a attiré l'attention du Rookie, qui était là dans le silence abasourdi alors que le lieutenant a collé sa main directement dans le corps d'Extant comme une sorte de méchante Indiana Jones, provoquant sa tête à se casser et tourner vers la source de cette raquette, visage légèrement palant à ce qu'il a vu.
'Oooooh, Christ, c'est beaucoup de sang...' était la seule pensée frappant dans la tête de l'homme alors qu'il se précipitait vers l'Lézard, apparaissant comme un flou avant qu'il ne s'arrête devant elle. Je regarde les dégâts.
"Oh oui, c'est... wow. C'est pas vrai. Son dialogue interne s'est poursuivi alors qu'il exhalait à haute voix pour dépasser la vue, avant qu'il ne marche en avant et n'enveloppe un bras autour de sa section médiane pour l'accuser sur son épaule alors que son autre main se dirigeait vers elle.
"Ne pas avoir l'air d'un smartass, mais essayer de ne pas bouger. Cela... ne sera probablement pas amusant."
Et sans plus attendre, le Haligonien a commencé à casser les barres entre ses doigts pour la libérer du mur aussi doucement qu'il le pouvait. Malheureusement, pour Jess, cela suffisait encore à envoyer des vibrations à travers l'acier qui seraient exactement le contraire de l'apaisant, même s'il ne fallait que quelques secondes à Duncan pour casser les trois barres. Doucement (bien, aussi doucement que possible compte tenu des circonstances) attraper le reptilien comme elle est tombée légèrement sur son épaule, le jeune homme à moitié nu, maintenant trempé de sang tourna soigneusement et commença vers la salle du moniteur. En s'éloignant de Extant et de ses deux camarades transformés à une marche rapide, étant un peu las de courir à son rythme normal tout en transportant quelqu'un plein de trous, de gros morceaux d'acier et d'alnost certainement quelques os cassés.

Les pouvoirs d'Extant ont continué à s'effacer. Plus de la Justice League a commencé à revenir à la normale et le deuxième docteur Fate a commencé à retrouver sa jeunesse ses yeux fracturés d'énergie et le casque a volé à ses mains. En plaçant le casque sur sa tête, le quartier général booma d'énergie mystique et de puissance. Le héros vêtu d'or et de bleu de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale s'est levé dans l'air et en un éclair tout a commencé à revenir à tel quel.
« Ta haine pour l'héritage de Superman s'arrête ici! » Le destin a crié de ramasser le démobilisé avec ses énergies magiques brutes.
Les deux téléportaient vers des parties inconnues, peut-être même un autre plan dimensionnel. Néanmoins, la Ligue était de retour à la normale avec beaucoup de héros ne se rendant pas compte de ce qui venait de tomber. Les murs n'étaient plus détruits, Vibe était en vie et tentait de briser pour une raison quelconque. Et Bulleteer se tenait debout avec son casque dans la salle du moniteur se demandant pourquoi sur Terre il s'était énervé lui-même.
"Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé?" Il a demandé à voix haute.
Superman a dit de regarder dans les hauts plafonds du hall de la Tour.

Epilogue
Secteur 2813, Krypton
Juin 1938...
La femme Kryptonienne et membre de la Justice League s'est effondrée dans l'existence comme le méchant l'avait dit. Sa planète a explosé devant ses yeux et le boom et le choc de la planète l'ont envoyée et beaucoup de débris se sont retournés plus loin du secteur. Arrivé quelque part près du secteur 1984, Solara s'est finalement réunie dans les restes déchirés de sa tenue extraterrestre.
"Aucun de ces événements n'aurait jamais eu lieu... si je n'avais jamais rejoint la Ligue de Justice! Par où est la Terre?!?" Elle a crié dans l'aspirateur de l'espace où personne ne pouvait entendre sa saloperie.
"Vous regarderez votre planète adoptée mourir tout comme j'ai vu le nôtre Kal-El. C'est ce que je vous jure!" Elle a continué à voler vers la planète la plus proche.
C'est fini...
Name: Duncan MacAodhan
Alias: (He hasn't quite gotten that far ahead yet. Simply referred to as "New Guy" or "Rookie" when on assignment, for now.)
Age: 23
Personality: Clever, Genre-savvy, Frank, Stubborn, Cynical, Big-hearted (even if he's hilariously ignorant of it)
Archetype: Metahuman
Powers:
Immense Physical Prowess- Duncan is, for lack of a better way of putting it, really goddamn strong... and fast... and pretty tough to boot, if the fact that he went toe-to-toe with freaking Metallo (who, in case we've all forgotten, is a super-powered murder-bot powered by magic space rocks strong enough to make Superman bleed) and was able to hold his own for a short while actually somehow doing some damage while being absolutely rag-dolled across the ground and through several buildings.
All that being said, it should be noted that though his metahuman genes put him roughly in the range of Kryptonian physical ability (while falling dramatically short of Superman, who is an absolute beast, even among his own kind), Duncan... is a chainsmoking, borderline alcoholic who has never worked out or trained a single day in his entire goddamn life and as a result, is about as out of shape and weak as he can possibly be. It's anyone's guess what he'd be capable of if he got his shit together and actually trained.
Weaknesses: While Duncan possesses roughly the same physical abilities of a Kryptonian, he is still very much human; He can't fly, he still needs to breathe, possesses no form of crazy eye-lasers or freezing breath and can't survive solely off sunlight. In fact, for simplicity's sake, here's a comprehensive list of examples of things that can hurt and/or kill him just like any other guy.
-Drowning.
-Poison Gas.
-Regular poison.
-Electrocution.
-Starvation.
-Asphyxiation.
-Dehydration.
-Bleeding out.
-Bleeding internally.
-Food poisoning.
-Heart-failure.
-Liver-failure.
-Kidney-failure.
-Cancer.
-Hypothermia.
-Being thrown into the sun.
-Being thrown into space in general.
-Tameranean Cooking.
In addition to that, the exact minute he woke up in the Metro Tower, Batman informed that he'd be quitting smoking and drinking cold turkey and going on a new diet. In addition to running The Dark Knight's daily balls-to-the-wall exercise routine at increased gravity (In Bruce's own words; "...And you'll go until I'm tired of watching.") and sparring with Ajax, an old robot companion Superman built in the 60's and general ass-whoopin' enthusiast.
Long story short, at game start, a week after getting his ass handed to him by Metallo and three days into Batman's insane work out routine and getting punched in the face a few times a day by Ajax, Duncan is battered, bloodied, bruised, sore, outright exhausted and severely craving smokes, booze and greasy food. He's not going to be at his best.
Appearance: To read what Duncan is physically capable of, you might picture some sort of hulking mountain of a man with bulging muscles and a jawline chiseled from granite... to actually meet the man however, you'd be disappointed and maybe a little confused- MacAodhan is not a large man. In fact, compared to most in the League he is downright tiny, standing at only 5'6" on a good day and lacking the bulging, musclebound physique of proper superheroes in favour of a lean, though dense physique closer to that of an Olympic swimmer if anything, though his broad shoulders and calloused hands make a fairly decent indicator of his blue-collar background, to which he also owes the habit of shaving his brown hair into a buzzcut, to cut deal with the heat in his workplace.
Lacking much in the way of an actual superhero costume, when in the field, Duncan simply throws on his workboots, gloves, jeans and a denim jacket over either some plain wifebeater or t-shirt, topping it all off by tying a simple black rag over his face, leaving only his hazel eyes and a bit of skin exposed and putting on an old ballcap he got from some Halifax pub or another. When at JLU Headquarters, however, he is almost only ever seen in old JLA-issued gym-wear as he goes about his daily routine of attempting to survive whatever new insanity Batman has concocted for him that day.
Character Evolution: I'd like to see Duncan come into his own as a member of the JLU, growing in power and renown with time but still keeping true to his modest origins, perhaps even taking on a real alias and costume at some point and becoming an honest-to-God Superhero... though only after a long series of painful and hilarious misadventures. And If he forms some buddy-cop relationship with another player or npc and maybe finds a bit of romance along the way, all the better.
Basically, a good old-fashioned coming of age story... Only with a lot more explosions and occasionally saving the whole damned planet.
BRIEF Bio: Despite what one might might assume when encountering literally anyone even remotely associated with superpowers and tights, Duncan's tale is... rather mundane. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a Fisherman for a father and a mother who ran a local diner, the boy in question up grew extraordinarily normally; playing videogames, staying at his grandparents' when his mom was busy at the shop and his dad was out at sea and helping his granddad out in the garage fixing cars and the occasional boat.
And then one day when he was fifteen, he got hit by a truck.
After about a good ten seconds of screaming and another thirty spent wondering why he wasn't dead, he extricated himself from the big-rig's engine-block that had wrapped around both him and the streetlight he'd been leaning against only to find that not only was he not dead, he was perfectly intact. All things considered, that's some pretty heavy shit to lay on a fifteen year old. So it's not all that surprising that when the (very) drunk trucker half staggered, half fell out of his truck at the sight of him, and sirens began echoing in the distance, the kid ran the hell out of there. A few days of trial, error and a lot of Wikipedia later, and the boy had a pretty good idea what all that was about: He was a Metahuman, a one-in-a-million carrier of a superhuman gene that may or may not activate under extreme stress (Like, for instance, getting hit by a truck while waiting for the bus). Frankly, it sounded a lot like a bunch of pseudo-science crap you'd find in an old comic book, but lacking any other explanation for his sudden... talents... it was one he'd have to accept.
Now, usually, when someone finds out they've got crazy superpowers, things usually go in one of two predictable ways; one, they become a spandex-clad boy-scout that dedicates every moment of every day to having the brightest smile, rescuing cats from trees and giving lectures about the dangers of "The Reefer" and sex before marriage or two; going full ham, burning orphanages, kicking puppies and generally being real goddamn edgy just for the sake of it. Duncan to his credit, chose the rarely considered, often forgotten third option-
"Yeah... No. Fuck that."
And so, despite the call to adventure literally screaming directly into his ears, Duncan carried on his life as normal; Growing up as normally as he possibly could- getting average grades, shoveling his grandparents' driveway in the wintertime, trying and failing several times at that whole romance thing and working through his apprenticeship as a diesel mechanic at the local shipyard after highschool.
Unfortunately for him, as the old trope goes, 'The Call Knows Where you Live'.
And one day while Duncan was just wrapping up his night-shift, Metallo came bursting out of one of the shipping containers at the yard and immediately began wrecking shit left and right. Despite having reservations about the whole 'Hero' thing, the one guy in town with the ability to intervene couldn't exactly sit idly by while a super-powered terminator powered by glowing space-rocks butchered his coworkers and leveled his town. So, throwing on a respirator to hide his face, the young man nutted up and went after the deranged cyborg... or, more accurately, spent the next hour on the receiving of a brutal beatdown at the hands of someone that was at least as strong, as fast and much, much more experienced than he was that was also incapable of feeling pain or fatigue, all to buy time for people to get away and call for someone who actually knew what the hell they were doing.
Luckily, they did, and the Big Blue Boy-Scout himself arrived to lay the smackdown on the now damaged Metallo.
Unluckily for Duncan, he woke up a week later on a bed in Metropolis, feeling like all hell and staring at the grimacing face of Batman, who quite candidly informed him that he very nearly got himself killed and that his car, his home and his job had all been annihilated in his little dust-up with the super-powered murderbot. Also, even if no one knew who he was, they sure as hell knew he existed, which as a rule, generally meant that there were now people looking for him; Some good, most bad. So he could either join the Justice League and maybe not die the next time this happens... or he could just go home and try his luck on his own. Suffice to say, there was really only one smart choice to be had there, and he took it.
And then, to top off this long, hilariously uncanny series of events, Superman showed up less than an hour later and dragged him out to a baseball game.
And so it was that, sitting in the stands of a stadium in a foreign city, next to the closest thing the world knew to a god and eating an overpriced and undercooked hotdog, Duncan joined the Justice League.
He honestly didn't think his life could get any weirder than this.
And he was very mistaken.
Notes:
Sample Post:
To say the least, it had been... an interesting week and a half; It had started off pretty plain, he woke up at seven at night on Monday, grabbed a donair at his mom's diner by eight and was at work by nine, swapping out the fuel lines on an old tug that probably should've been decommissioned when his dad was still a boy. And then suddenly a robot showed up, kicked his ass across town and halfway to Dartmouth, blew up his apartment, blew up his car and blew up his place of employment before being beat down by the most weirdly friendly guy he'd ever goddamn met.
So now here he was, holding a duffel bag of what little could be salvaged of his apartment and standing at the entrance to his room at the headquarters of the freaking Justice League.
It was all just a little... surreal.
"Well, shit, here goes nothing." Duncan growled under his breath, touching the key-pad and entering as the door hissed open in a way that reminded him distinctly of every episode of Star Trek he'd ever seen, half-expecting there to be yet another one of Superman's robots waiting inside to cave-in his face in the name of training, but kinda hoping it wasn't, because sleeping on the couch in the common room was starting to get a little old and he'd already had his daily recommended dose of robot boots to his ass.
To his surprise, it didn't actually look that bad- a simple looking double bed, a computer desk, chair and a laptop, a big damn window with a view of the Metropolis waterfront flanked on both sides by empty bookshelves, a little kitchenette off to the side and a bathroom past that. To be honest, after spending the past three days under Batman's balls-to-the-wall training regime, he'd anticipated something more... spartan. Something did catch his eye, however, what looked to be a big, rolled-up poster just sitting on his bed with a post-it note on it, so, dropping his bag and closing the door behind him, the young Canuck went over to give it a look.
"Just a little something to welcome you aboard...
-GL"
His brow furrowed briefly, but suddenly did a lot less of that when he unfurled the damned thing and found a pin-up of a tanned, red-headed woman with solid green eyes, a supermodel's body garbed up in a string bikini and a very... friendly look on her face as she blew a kiss toward the camera.
And another post-it note.
"They're called Tameraneans. Stick around and you might meet a few.
You're welcome.
-GL"
Whatever thoughts he had at that moment (or several, as he just stared at what he'd found) were interrupted as Batman's voice came over the intercom.
"MacAodhan, we have a situation. Kit up and meet me downstairs in five."
The words echoed in his head for a few seconds before they fully registered, and he reluctantly averted his eyes from his new-found favourite sight and gently placed it back down on the bed.
"Right... Right. I'll be down in a minute."
Duncan sighed.
It looked like his life was going to continue being interesting for the rest of the forseeable future.