Test Drive - August

[omegamods]

Thinking of joining The Omegafriends, but want to get a feel for things first? Need some threads for your application sample? You’ve come to the right place! Reply with your character down below, with at least one of the provided prompts to get things going. Then, go around to other people and tag them! Have threads! Have fun!

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We will be putting up a new Test Drive on the 15th of every month.

Prompts

1. Venture City in Peril! Dr. Devious’s army of Deviobots are ransacking the city! No, wait, Baron Von Tyrannosaur is back with another dinosaur army! No, wait, it's... really, ther's a lot of different ways a city can be imperiled. However, no matter the threat, it’s up to you, the Omegafriends, to save the day - but you’ll need to work together to repel the forces of evil.

2. A Hero is Born! What started as an ordinary day was thrown into chaos as your newfound superpowers began to suddenly awaken! What perilous problems and zany antics will this bring about? Stay tuned to find out!

3. The Adventure Mundane! It's not all over-the-top heroics here - sometimes, ordinary day-to-day life can be just as much trouble! On the trail of a story for the Daily Venture? Frantic last-minute studying for tomorrow's math test? Harassing people to sign petitions on street corners? Hitting the arcade to destroy simulated villains instead of real ones? The sky's the limit!

4. Welcome to the Omegabase! The super-secret underground Omegabase has it all - training centers, VR simulators, free snack machines, but most important is a whole lot of Supers! Take a minute to kick back and get to know your fellow heroes.

5. The Mighty Showdown! In the life of a Super, good and evil are always clashing in battle. Today, you’ve come face to face with one of the many supervillains threatening the future of Venture City! Who will rise and who will fall? Next issue: The shocking answer!

6. Time Warp! Chasing after Lady Blue's latest heist has left you temporarily stranded, along with your fellow heroes, in another era. Where and when have you gone, and how will you cope with the bizarre situation?

7. Wild Card! Got an idea for a thread or prompt that isn’t one of those? Make up your own! We won’t stop you.

Comments

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[fluffytails]

And a villainous hideout it was! Rows of heavy crates lined the walls of the dark warehouse, and the skylights were so dirty that only little of the moonlight ever found its way in there. The sparse, broken down lamps didn't help: Only few of them worked, some showering the wet floor with sparks every so often.

Still, one could spot that some of the crates had been broken open, their content spilling on the floor. Jewelry, coins and other treasures were glittering in the sparse light: Clearly, whoever was using this place had pulled a number of heists.

In fact, a woman in a dark dress was currently sifting through the treasure...

"Oh dear..." The woman muttered as she spotted the arrival, then raised her voice. "I assure you, it's not what it looks like!"

[electricalcurrent]

The hero in a can jetted across the floor now with a purpose to her, making sure she couldn't just run. Though one could always talk to her to figure these things out. Best to talk, even if you were talking after making a hole in someone's wall. Hero insurance would cover that! "Then what is it?" A chirpy voiced female came out.

[fluffytails]

"Oh, why, it's not exactly my lair, you see." Himiko spread her arms slightly, showing she was entirely unarmed. Of course, she would likely be considered suspicious still, being not entirely human.

"You can't truly beliee that someone such as I would bog themselves down with a substandard lair like this? I'm merely... inspecting it."

She placed a golden chalice to the side carefully as she said so.

Why did people always have to come and disturb her when she was trying to make a part of the loot disappear for her own ends?! Curse those meddlesome heroes - even when, technically, she was one of those herself, nowadays!

[electricalcurrent]

The thrusters adjust as the boots and spirals cool down, looking around slowly. Though Himiko not being entirely human wasn't really a total concern to someone who wasn't human to begin with. Spark was an alien and Zapps was an AI. She did watch the chalice get tossed, more out of curiosity. Though the eye above the two normal ones did focus on her while the head turned.

"Well, if you're admitting you're a bad guy, this doesn't matter if its your lair or not! Let's fight!" She stated, thrusting back up and thrusting towards Himiko at high velocity with an energy backed first flying over at her.

[fluffytails]

"I-" Himiko started, but the interloper was attacking already - she didn't even have time to try to charm them!

My, the people of this day and age were rash!

Considering that punches were really not appreciated, she immediately dove to the side...

Both towards the left AND towards the right, herself heading left, and a created shadow double moving right. That should confuse the hostile hero somewhat, so she could set up something to bind said hero!

[electricalcurrent]

The secondary eye followed right while the proper eye went left. She kept thrusting forwards, but spun around while she said. "FIREPOWER!" Her enlarged forearms and rocket boosters for her arms changing into a large rifle. "SPLIT!" She ripped the rifle in two, producing two smaller guns with which she fired at both the shadow copy and the real image. The bolts were electrical shot, designed to stun and incapacitate.

[fluffytails]

Thankfully, that yell was warning enough, although Himiko's ears twitched with irritation.

In the last possible moment, she managed to find a shadow to solidify, creating a shadow crate which blocked that attack on her. That hero REALLY wanted her, huh?!

"What do you hero types always have against me! Priests, dagger users and now some weirdo of a knight?! And all I wanted was some well deserved quiet..."

While saying so, she blasted several crackling bolts of pure darkness towards her for. Gee, that one was probably a 'tough cookie', as they'd said in this era. She really didn't like the look of those shots, too.

She wanted rest, not getting shocked into unconsciousness!

[electricalcurrent]

"ARMOR!" Was the next yell, giving them more warning as the thrusters disappeared and she dropped, shifting to be heavily armored around her torso and upper legs. She also mashed her gun together now as the thing fused. "SHIELD!" A bright shield of light energy appeared against the darkness. She had some experience against darkness users, pretty much 100% of those guys were evil!

Did still push her back some as the weight still didn't stop the need to slide back to vaporize it. There was clicking from them as she released a lot of steam for a few moments. She dropped her hands down now, with teh armor up now.

"I am not a knight. Though if you're willing to give yourself up, I can promise plenty of quiet. In your sigiled cell," She stated. She then directed the arm upwards now. "ROCKET BARRAGE!" Which prompted the armor to spring out a number of rocket pods. They didn't fly at her though, but instead heading upwards to blast open the ceiling.

[fluffytails]

"A cell? Oh my, that's so below my station, I'm afraid I won't be able to agree to that..."

Not a knight, then? Well, the armor still seemed knight-ish to Himiko, but if this zealous hero preferred a different word, well, that was fine.
The rocket barrage made her narrow her eyes, though. While debris pelted down on a quickly created block of shadow above Himiko's head, the fox wondered what her self-declared enemy was plotting. Quite a lot of abilities, that one, the armor was dangerous.
Would probably be a good point to check how creative the enemy was, to see if simply escaping was an option.

"Well, I'm afraid I'll have to leave. And you're staying! BIND."
A kind of shadow spike stabbed at Spark and Zapps' shadow from behind, to, well, bind said shadow to the floor - and thus prevent movement. Good way to throw her enemy off, unless said enemy proved to be clever enough to do something with light. Would be good to know...

[electricalcurrent]

There was a moment of a hard clink as the armored form tried to move forwards. The chittering as they waited for a moment before she said something else that might be odd. She had opened up the ceiling to bring down the light to restore her energy, not to free herself from shadows. But given the situation, it would work perfectly well. "SOLAR PANELS!" Her back 'thrusters' came out, with the central ring filled in with shiny mirrors. They flipped forwards into the light before tilting to point the light behind them while her boots came up to activate thrusters, both tugging her away and generating a great deal of light as both of them were as she jetted towards her again.

That said her coming to that decision took about thirty seconds. She had been talking with Zapps to figure out the plan, since she wasn't sure why she was stuck. Figuring it out took enough time that Himiko might be able to get away if she was swift, though wouldn't stop the two from trying to find her. Especially if she ran.

Hope it was fine like this, combat scenes are difficult!

[fluffytails]

Enough time to escape, thankfully - a much better solution than a fight, considering the firepower her enemy could muster. Still - there was a problem left. The fox, after careful consideration, decided on a slightly altered plan.

...Which involved escaping, then quickly jumping up to a crate further away, on which she sat down, to wave at her enemy once the odd armored person detected her.

"A person that did something worth of arrest would have fled in the meantime."

She didn't want her face on a wanted list, so it seemed prudent to just, well, solve this diplomatically. After all, it was certainly possible that a member of the omegafriends would inspect stolen goods after invading a villain's hideout! Just to be safe, and stuff.

Yeah. Reigning in the powers is my main problem.

[electricalcurrent]

There was just a frustrated cry at first that whithered as she said something. She stop thrusting, taking a few moments as the thrusters changed back into solar panels without her saying anything. "A person unworthy of arrest wouldn't admit to having a secret lair and a warehouse full of stolen goods, too, so not sure what your game is," Spark responded. Though she didn't make a strong effort to boost over at her or act hostile.

In reality the suit needed to restore some energy, rapid transformation while not synchronized with the suit AI was a taxing endeavor. Not that Himiko might recognize it as more than a three eyed robotic or a knight of some kind. There was more chittering together.

"If you believe yourself innocent, present yourself in the light and plead your case. I'll investigate the goods here," Spark stated. In a way that sounded like she was reading from cue cards.

I know that problem well. Sillypowers. Flower power might be more suitable for me!

[fluffytails]

"To be precise..." Himiko started, absent-mindedly stroking one of her tails. "We likely have a kind of misunderstanding."

"It is not, strictly speaking, my lair, as noted before. I'm just inspecting it, after the original owner was made to leave. As for the crates, I was checking if their contents fit some heists I was looking into, but alas, they did not."

Which was the only reason her bags were empty.

"And let's be frank, do I truly appear to be that kind of villain? Surely, you notice that I am anything but!"

Of course, there was the whole darkness shtick she had, but that could be prejudice!

[electricalcurrent]

"So you're stealing from someone else's stuff. That just sounds like 'because I'm evil' level of evils," Spark stated, her voice very much back to itself. "I am new to this world, so your appearance as good or evil? I don't know. All I know is that you're stealing stuff and have darkness powers."

[fluffytails]

"Stealing? I'm retrieving the villain's goods, to return them to their rightful owner."

She smiled happily. It was true, since the rightful owner was, of course, Himiko herself. Obviously.

"You could argue that this would be stealing from a thief, but I don't think they'd have the right to complain. Why, I'd think they would never count as the owner to begin with!"

...


"As for darkness, consider it thus: Does the world not need the night? Have it day, the entire day, then all would wither and die in the relentless, merciless light. Without a bit of darkness, the world would be a much less pleasant place~"


While she talked with confidence, the voice shtick of the heroic interloper really made her wonder. What was up with that?

[electricalcurrent]

"Right, so why aren't you getting the cops to do that instead of just doing it yourself?" She tapped her head some, her voice not nearly as chirpy as a few moments ago. She did at least look over at her as she stated that.

"Darkness is absence of energy. What you speak of as the night is not darkness, merely the reduction in received energy. The void, the Abyss... that is the spawn of the anti-thesis of everything," The way she said that... like she was talking about the devil or something.

[fluffytails]

Himiko had the perfect answer for that one.

"Oh, I could have gotten the cops, and I likely would have - after the inspection. After all, as you witnessed, I am an expert when it comes to darkness. It's child's play to find curses, all sort of which may be on these relics!"

She tried a reassuring smile, fangs or not.

"As you say, darkness can be the antithesis of everything. Or, like me, it can just be hungry of being filled. My kind of darkness is the one that makes me bathe in the sun quite a bit. Not all that threatening, no?"

Such a nice, harmless fox!

[electricalcurrent]

"Well, if you're so sure of your innocence, it shouldn't matter if the cops are involved, should it? Extra time or no." she stated plainly. She just couldn't shake the wrongness here, even if her words were hardly threatening.