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 Post subject: The Return of Dr. Romanov
PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:06 pm 
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So, I finally decided to write out one of the ideas i've had. I'm not entirely sure about the powers and abilities of the heroes yet, though I am certain on the characters of Micheal, Dr. Nickolai Romanov, and Paul. It's a bit of a deconstruction of superhero stories. Feel free to tell me what you think.

Snow fell on the city. Micheal, like many other pedestrians in New York, wore snow pants and a jacket to protect against the cold. Arg... he rubbed his face and kept walking.
Great. Unemployed again. And now Sophie's dead, along with Jonah and the other guys at the bookstore...And damn, I was beginning to like her too. Money's gonna run out three months from now, So I better look for a job in construction or start searching now...Mike turned his eyes skyward. Somedays, it's almost not worth what we do here... Mike sighed and walked on. Still, there's always the guys at the survivor's group. And If anything happens, I've got a lot of money set away for Mom and Dad...
"Sir, I'm going to need you to turn around."
"Eh?" Mike looked up from the ground. There was a bright orange barrier with a SHMA agent in uniform behind it. Mike could see one of the long, sinewy tentacles of the thing that killed his friends nestled between the broken buildings beyond. Construction crews were busy clearing the wreckage.

"Oh, sorry. I must have missed a turn a while back."
"Oh, alright then. Say, kid, are you new here?"
"nah, just some of my friends were killed by, well, that," Mike pointed to the creature's corpse.
"Ah man, tell me about it. You're a paid civilian, right?"
"Yeah, yeah." Mike leaned back a bit.
"Well if you think you're job's bad...the big wigs at SMHA actually expect us to stall that sort of thing for the supers."
"Ouch."
"Yeah, no kidding. Name's David."
"I'm Mike...I hope I see you around sometime."
"Yeah, just be sure to be alive, alright? It's been a bad month for me."
"Heh, alright." Mike walked back down the sidewalk towards the park, wearing his first smile in days.

******
The Trial of Dr. Nickolai Romanov, transcription.
[i][defendant enters]
Dr.R:"Right, I'd like to get this over with. I have a spa appointment tommorrow at noon."
Judge Sinclair: "Well, Mr. Romanov, so would I, since we all know how this is going to turn out, but the procedures must be followed, at least to some extent. *Ahem*. Are you Nickolai Romanov?"
Dr. R:"Yes, I am." [rolls eyes]
Judge Sinclair: "Good, good. Now then, you stand accused of thirty counts of human expirimentation, Three counts of medical malpractice, one count of Xenocide, Seventeen counts of crimes against humanity, and charges of war crimes for your actions in scotland, along with one count of genocide, one count of attempted Demonic summoning..."
Dr.R: "hey, I was trying to summon all of hell, not just one demon."
Judge Sinclair: "yes, but it only counts once. Shall I continue, or will you interrupt once again?"
Dr.R:"No, continue."
Judge Sinclair: "Seven counts of attempted murder, six counts of assualt and battery with illegal weaponry, and one count of crimes against reality. [judge takes off reading glasses] Good god, you've been busy."
Dr. R:"Why thank you."


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Another score for the league of mad scientists :twisted: He should have built a death star, much more painless way to bring hell on earth...

Interesting beginning - certainly makes one want to read more, even if it's a little clicheish, but hey, I love cliches :D

Oh, and you might want to check typing more often. Not too bad typos, but they stand out.


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Well, I've been typing this with my Wii, since my computer died. I currently have no way to spell check or copy paste. Once I get my computer back i'll try to fix all the typos.

His death star is busy ravaging worlds in the andromeda galaxy, though.

also, some ideas for the superhero team and Dr. R's allies would be appreciated. I've only got Captain Universe (Flying brick), Sun (pyrokinetic girl), and Paul.


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The invisible man!

Wait, you're saying he's been done before? As a good guy? Bummer.

Then we make it bad :twisted:


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On another note, you can see the italicized text, right? Rrright?
The Trial of Dr. Nickolai Romanov, Transcript, Cont.
Judge Sinclair: "Well, then. If i went with the minimum sentece for these crimes you'd be locked up for until the heat death of the universe and then some, so i'll go with that. How do you plead?"
Dr.R:"Guilty, of course. How did your kids like that widescreen HDTV I sent you?"
Judge Sinclair:"Very much. I had the folks at SHMA look it over. The electronics were beyond repair once they were done, but that antimatter warhead in the back left my wife and I with enough money to buy Switzerland. Or did you forget about how much that stuff costs?"
Dr.R:"Oh. That."
Judge Sinclair:"In fact, I took a drop to the lowest paygrade and signed up for the best health insurance plan. Sure, I may not need it, but you never know. [puts on reading glasses]. Now then, where to put you this time..."
Dr.R:"Is hell on the list yet?"
Judge Sinclair:"No, not yet."
Dr.R:"Well, can it at least be some place that bothers to have teleportation blocking fields? Kit thought the last one was too easy."
Judge Sinclair:"I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Ah, here we go. How does Venus sound to you? I hear it's quite nice this time of year."
Dr.R:"Just peachy, Judge!"
Judge Sinclair:"Right, well enjoy your stay."
Dr.R:"Say it."
Judge sinclair:"No! I've learned not to tempt fate."
Dr.R:"Aw..."
[Guards take Dr.R away, and Judge Sinclair leaves the bench.]

*****
A man in a blue shirt looked over the papers from the trial. There wasn't much to look at. It was the standard Dr. Romanov trial. Massive sentence, defendant representing themselves, and little to no chance of the sentence being carried out. He started tapping a beat with his feet, running his fingers through his blonde hair, then tapping the same beat with his fingers on the table while humming a tune that reminded him of-
"God Aaron, stop it!" the brown haired, brown eyed, perfectly normal woman of indertiminate descent across from him had just slammed her hands on the table. Clearly she wanted Aaron to stop.

Aaron stopped.

Aaron started up again.
"Aaron...." she began.
Aaron stopped and looked at the woman angrily.
"Well I'm sorry for trying to think of a way to stop Dr. Romanov without Karen, Sun. Maybe you could come up with something useful, instead of playing with fire all day?"
Sun stood up.
"Well maybe you should actually focus for a change, and go find Paul's next wielder!"
Aaron stood up as well.
"WE DON'T NEED PAUL!"
"When have we not needed Paul?"
"That time in peru-"

At that point, the door was kicked inwards and two men in ski masks ran in. One was holding a gun, which he kept level square at Sun and Aaron, while the other left his gun on his belt and started putting stuff in a large garbage bag.
"Hey, that's my stuff!"
"Lady, are you dense? we're robbin' you. Of course it's your stuff. Oh, and one move and I shoot you. You know, the usual."
"Say, gentlemen..." began Aaron, wearing a smile on his face,"Did you happen to see the name on your way in?"
"No, we didn't. Why, you a cop or something?"
"Not a cop..."
"But definitely something." finished Sun."You get this one, I got the guys in the park."
"Excellent." Aaron stepped forward, grinning widely.
"Sir, I'll shoot..." Aaron stepped forward again.
"I'm warning you..." Aaron stepped forward again.
"Stop." Aaron stepped forward. The gun went off.

Aaron stepped forward again. There was not a single mark on his body. The gun went off again, and still did no harm. The gun went off again, and this time the theif could almost see something bouncing off of Aaron's chest...

...he chose to surrender then. His friend, who had been busy stealing some phat loot, chose that moment to drop the bag, draw his gun, and open fire at Aaron, reasoning that enough bullets would kill him. Such was flawed reasoning. Aaron just casually walked up to him, and punched him square in the jaw. A crumpling sound could be heard as said jaw collapsed.

Alright, Sun and Aaron are introduced. Next post should cover Romanov breaking out of prison, and the other supers.


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You're already telling that he's going to do that? Not that it wouldn't be obvious, but still! :lol: Ah, this truly sounds like something straight out of Marvel comics :)

And yes, italicizing works.


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yes...well, in other news, I figure once I get a new computer, I can put this through some rounds of editing so that it reads better.

Damn my run-on sentences! damn them to hell!


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right then, doublepost time. this one is titled "big trouble in little rock." take a wild guess at what happens to Dr. R. No, really. And if one of you can acurrately guess what happens to MIke and David...then you're better than I thought.

The world watched Dr.Romanov. He wore a straight jacket, a hannibal lecter style mask, and was tied down with countless restraints to a flatbed truck. The truck was escorted by tanks, lumbering metal behemoths, and SHMA teams Beta through Epsilon*. The world watched this tall, thin man with messy black hair and mismatched eyes being driven to his prison with hatred and disgust.

And he loved it.

David looked over the scene in Aaron's apartment. Behind him, other SHMA agents were arranging visits with telepaths for the neighbors, treating the would-be thieves, and patching up the holes caused by the richocheting bullets. One of the agents was busy watching the news on the TV.
"Captain.." David began, talking to Aaron.
"What? They tried to rob us, so I stopped them."
"Captain, it's not that, it's..listen, where would you rather be tonight: here, filling out paperwork, or out there, stopping the Doctor from escaping?"
"The other teams can handle it."
"No, they can't, and you know that. Alpha team was built specifically to fight him and his gang, even without Karen."
"You...you wouldn't understand."
"Wouldn't I? My wife died in Scotland too, you know. Listen, you need to go on with your life, not mope about the house all day."
"You..you just don't get it. None of you do." Aaron walked outside, past all of the agents. David went over to Sun.
"God, why do you live with that man?"
"It's cheap, and he's less scary then Mnemosyne."
"Good point."
****
The trouble began as the procession drove through the now-empty town of Little Rock Virginia, a small community bordered on one side by dense forests, and bordered on the other side...
...by more dense forests. The members of the guard were constantly scanning the area for anything, anything at all. They missed nothing.

Well almost nothing. But really, it could be forgiven. Everbody missed seeing Engima stanging brazenly in the road, Missle launcher in hand, because everybody always missed Enigma. To try to describe Enigma was an enterprise doomed to fail. Nobody ever saw Enigma or even knew it was there unless it wanted them to know.

And right now, Enigma wanted them to know.

The missile Enigma fired did not aim for any of the supers, or the tanks, or the metal juggernauts gaurding Dr. Romanov.

instead, it went for a armored truck that had a few people on the back eating lunch.
The truck's armor had been built to take small arms fire and could not hope to stop the hyper-engineered missile from punching through with ease and exploding on the inside of the truck. The armor kept the explosion contained, though.
Teams broke off from the main group and left the road, trying to find the shooter.

But they could not hope to find Enigma, for Engima did not want to be found.
*with about five members a team (two support, three combat) that means that the much-loved doctor is being guarded by 20 or so superheroes, five groups of five mechs each, and twenty tanks. And this is just to get him from New york City to the launch site in Florida.


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Too bad you have to type this all by Wii, but even so your story is interesting and well written, atleast for me.

I guess I'll bookmark this thread :p.


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I have to type this all by wii....

...with a USB keyboard. I'm not that hardcore. But while making the last post a faulty internet connection doomed the original version of Dr. R's escort.
maybe I should go write this at the library instead.

still, glad you like it!


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Big trouble in Little Rock, part 2.
The procession came to a screeching halt. The truck that exploded had been holding the equipment necessary to create a Teleportation Area Denial effect. Without it, there was nothing to stop her.

A black circle appeared infront of the group, and out stepped a bright little girl with jet black hair and mismatched eyes."hello," she said, and the world watched in shock and horror as she began her massacre.

They threw everything at her. Shells, energy blasts, bullets, bombs, plasma discs, lasers, everything. The first black circle dissappeared and two more sprung into existence;one in front of the girl, like a sheild, and the other above the guards. The first circle absorbed every attack, and the second one spit it right back out. When she was done, only ten of the supers were left alive out of all the guards.

The girl walked up to the stopped truck where Dr. Romanov lay. They moved forward to fight her, stopped, and started fighting each other. They fought hard, not holding back a thing. Laser beams and lightning bolts flew through the air as the girl cut the doctor free, first going for the restraints, then working him out of the jacket, then taking off the mask. Behind her, the heroes started falling, some unconsious, some dead, until there were none left to stop the girl.
"Kit! What took you so long?"
"I'm sorry uncle, Eggy was sleeping, and Ms. Lethe was busy playing card games."
"Ah well Kit, the important thing is that you saved me. Now, let's go home, I can cook you some food, just they way you like it."
"Will it be hearts?"
"Sure."
"Yay!" Kit created another black circle and stepped through. Enigma soon followed. Dr. Romanov looked around a bit, spotted the news helicopter against the night sky, waved, and stepped in after his friends.
******
Elsewhere, Aaron sat down on a park bench and looked up at the sky. A man sat down next to him.
"So..." the man began, "you're Captain Universe, right?"
Aaron groaned.
"Yes, I'm Captain Universe..."
"well, then, why aren't you helping keep Dr. Romanov imprisoned?"
"Because...Because Karen made me promise not to kill anyone. If I went near the Doctor, I might lose my control...and I don't want that happening."
"I'm sure you can keep control."
"What makes you say that?"
"Because you're Captain Universe. You can do anything if you try hard enough."
"Right, sure I can."
"No, seriously! you're the whole reason that there's any of nevada left to go back to, and you stopped Cain and his army of vampires from taking over the world. You can handle it."
"Well, it's good to see someone has faith in me...but I had help on that last one. What's you're name?"
"Micheal. You going to go back to being a hero?"
"I dunno...maybe." Aaron got up and walked away, leaving micheal alone with the stars.
****
Aaron shoved his way past the various people running around his house. Something was up, he just wasn't sure what.
"DAVID!" David came running.
"Oh thank god we found you. Sparky and 'Syne are on their way, and we've got our best men working to find him."
"find who?"
"The doctor...He's escaped."
"You're kidding."
"No...go look at the TV." Aaron did, and he glared at the misicule man on the television.
"Sun?"
"Yeah?"
"Get the box. We've got work to do."

This post is ((finally)) finished. Next should follow the heroes and the villains getting together.


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Ahh Creepy girl! Creepy girl!
I love creepy girls. :twisted:


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Yeah, Kit's like that.

anyways, while I'm working on the next bit and Aaron's peptalk, introducing.....THE FOURTH WALL MAILSLOT!
you can talk to all the characters, even the dead (Karen), those only mentioned by name (Paul, Lethe, Mnemosyne), and ones who haven't been introduced yet. (Sparky)


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Chapter 3-Geneva Schmenva

The doctor and friends walked along a spotless hallway. To his left, Kit was skipping merrily, enjoying the reduced gravity. To his right, there was a tall, pale, red haired woman, and behind him was an empty space that Engima may have occupied. It's not like anyone would have noticed if it did.

They quickly came up to a high-tech looking door. Dr. Romanov looked to either side of him.
"Kit? Lethe? I need more subjects...a couple dozen should work this time."
"On it," said Lethe.
"They have to be alive, right?"
Nickolai rolled his eyes.
"Yes kit, they have to be alive..."
"drat."
"Come on Kit, it'll be fun! We can go shoot stuff with water again, you know."
"well, alright, Ms. Lethe....but only if I get to shoot trees."
"Okay. You can shoot all the trees you want." Lethe led Kit down a side hall away from the others.

"Enigma? You there?"
there was a tap on the floor.
"ah, excellent. Go get susan to meet me in my office, will you?"
there was a single tap again, and when the doctor was fairly sure that it had left, he punched a short series of numbers into a keypad to the side of the door. It slid sideways and he walked through.

Now he walked through another hallway, much wider than the last. On either side of it there were these things. They had clearly been human, once. The dull look in their eyes gave away them for the hollowed husks that they now were. Doctor Romanov walked past these abominations of his own making, and stopped.
One of them was crying.

It was still mostly resognizable as human, but the four long, clawed arms sprouting from the back would have thrown people off a bit. They, along with it's regular arms, were wrapped around the pitiful creature hugging it's knees to it's chest.

It looked up.

Nickolai looked down.

The arms unfurled from the thing and reached for Nickolai. He stepped back, and the claws fell short of their mark. Before the creature could get up for another shot, the order came from the scientist's lips.
"kill him."

the dozens of creatures on the sides of the hallway rushed past the doctor and began tearing the poor thing apart. He left the carnage and stepped through a wooden door into his office.
****
Micheal lay down on the park bench. It was a nice night, really, and he couldn't complain much. It's just that...well, it seemed kinda pointless. The villains showed up, killed thousands, got beaten up by the heroes, thrown in jail, broke out, lather, rinse, repeat. He was still just lying down when a little girl and a woman with red hair walked past.
"Hey, you probably shouldn't be out so late, you know. It can get dangerous at night."
"Hmm?" The woman turned to face him. "Well, Kit, what do you think?"
"He'll work. Could use some more women though, to balance it out."

"Kit, gender neutrality is not nessecary in our business.."
"umm, Excuse me?"
"Oh, just checking out...yeah, you'll do fine. Come with me please."
"I don't ev-"
"Come with me." There was something else in the woman's voice this time, something that just made Mike want to forget all his worries and follow her. After all, how could someone with a voice like that be evil? wiat, what? her voice wasn't like that a second ago..was it?
"Yeah..sure. Got any asprin?"
"Of course. Just follow me." The woman stepped through a black circle in the air.when did that..get here...I need to clear my head..like thinking in a fog...Mike stepped through the portal after her.

This will be added to. Yes, our friend the doctor is an [censored]. And it gets worse. Enigma's mute, if you haven't noticed, and it's power is always on.


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hello? anybody? I won't update if I don't think you're listening...


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