Metahumans Rising:Defenders Ascendant

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Campaign Log for Metahumans Rising, Defenders Ascendant

 

Call to Service

 

Issue 1: First Impressions

 

Originally a joint operation between the Bureau of Metahuman Affairs and Metahuman Crime Prevention Department formed to investigate the theft of rogue shipment from Dynamic Biotech Corp in Arlington the Defenders had no idea the size of the task they had been assigned. The investigators include: Dorian Pendleton, a British import and Knight of the Realm, an original survivor from direct KB2 exposure with the ability to manipulate shadows now working with the MCPD. Freedom, a military trained energy manipulator and patriot assigned to the BMA. Drake Walker, MCPD agent with remarkable regenerative powers. Along with Trouble Shooter an expert markswoman and master of trick shots from the MCPD.

 

Detective Shane Stone a private investigator who had received a tip off on the theft had been present. Exposed to the chemicals in the transport Shane found himself changed imbued with the strength of the earth. With no real leads the investigative team met for the first time after his release from the hospital.

 

Meeting for the first time Mr. Stone reviews the events of the night with the team. At the same time across town at the DBC corporate office the vigilante Shadow Knight investigates one of the executives known to be a member of the extremist group Humans Now. Finding a strange message in the executive’s outbound email Shadow Knight races to the his home to investigate further. There Shadow Knight learns of a plan at the Six Bridges, Arlington’s Theater District. With little time Shadow Knight rushes on to the Six Bridges.

 

Going over the details nothing seems to match up. DBC claims to have no shipping manifest and the computer system that held the data has gone down under questionable circumstances. Mr. Stone explains to the other investigators that one of his contacts tipped him off and that a woman had been present, attempting to rob the shipment first. The informant had said a man in white armor and red cross had been with the men who hijacked the shipment. It was he who stopped the other woman. Mr. Stone also confirms that the men who attacked the delivery truck had worn white body armor and helmets.

 

As Trouble Shooter reviews the data they had gathered reports begin filing in about an attack in Six Bridges. Several men wearing armor much like Mr. Stone had described had opened fire on a woman in the area. Soon after, all the lights in the district blew out sending a wave of panic through the city.

 

Whistling Dorian calls a dark steed from the Shadow Realms to transport them to Six Bridges. In an instant, they are gone. Leaping from building to building Shadow Knight watches as the lights go down in Six Bridges, he sees the widening circular pattern and knows he is needed in it’s epicenter.

 

Surrounded by shock troops Lady Night kneels over concealing her wounds, drawing in power from the darkness that has consumed them. She feels them out there moving around her. They think she is easy prey, they have the numbers. She has the darkness.

 

Next Time: Black Out

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Issue 2: Black Out

 

The scene on the streets is strangely quite. Cops move people out of nearby buildings and behind police barricades. As the dark steed rides on into the shadows the joint BMA and MCPD team looks on assessing the damage. A woman doubled over is surrounded but eight men all wearing the same white armor from the DBC robbery. Several others are scattered through the cross streets. Before they can get their bearings the Humans Now troops open fire without warning.

 

Trouble Shooter announces the team is with the MCPD and insists everyone stand down. Mr. Stone summons a wall of asphalt from the ground to guard the woman Dorian already moving to her side.

 

Drake and Trouble Shooter move to apprehend the shooters while Dorian runs past them to aid the troubled woman. Diving into the asphalt Mr. Stone reappears below on of the Humans Now troops sending him flying through the window of a nearby convenience store. Using Mr. Stone’s display of force Doran stands over the woman advising the Humans Now men to stand down the MCPD is on scene.

 

Looking up the woman smiles at the distraction, blades of black force erupting from her body, the closest solder staggering back as it glides through the air. It is only now that Dorian realizes that the woman he has tried to protect is the known Metahuman criminal Lady Night. The violence escalating Trouble Shooter tries to disarm the situation. There is a tension in the air.

 

Across the street by the Globe Theater a man appears for a brief moment wearing a black ninja’s gi and grey headband. It appears as though he whispers something to the gunman standing in front of him before disappearing again. At the same instant the Humans Now agent is lifted into the air as if he’s being pulled punching though a yellow cellophane sheet window of a nearby night club called the Deck.

 

The apparent leader shouts urging them on as the other Humans Now gunmen fire wildly demonstrating a clear skill but not compared to the super powered Metahumans they face. Some however break ranks two running into a nearby movie theater still being evacuated.

 

Enraged Lady Night stands revealing shadowy gossamer wings.

 

"Enough of this, you can deal with these bottom feeders. You can't hide the KB forever!"

 

Launching herself into the air she disappears into the cold January night. Trouble Shooter calls to her as she fires a glue round at a nearby Humans Now Agent. Shadow Knight and the Humans now agent wrestle for a moment revealing that the armor is held in place by quick locks and that he is wearing club attire underneath.

 

Not sure what to do Dorian disables another gunman while trying to stop Lady Night’s escape. Moving quickly Drake takes down the Humans Now leader. Back inside the Deck Night Club Shadow Knight knocks out the gunman.

 

Scanning the area Mr. Stone sees two other gunmen moving in on Trouble Shooter almost without thought one is encased in a stone prison. Making sure the Humans Now leader is disarmed Drake dashes for the Clermont Cinema.

 

Next Time: Black Out Part 2