Ascend the Mountain! (Plot Event, Invitation only)

[SHINIGAMI]

After what felt like an age Kiryu finally made it to the top of the mountain. As he dragged himself over the edge he flopped on his back and took a minute to catch his breath back. Then he heard the noises, loud heavy thuds, and a monstrous roar. What the hell is that!?

He picked up his pick axes and made his way into the temple, moving quickly, but quietly. Inside it was much warmer than it was outside so Kiryu removed his heavy coat and shoved it down the side of an elaborate pillar. As he did he took a second to admire some of the ancient carvings, they reminded him of old Greek carvings he'd seen in history books back in school. With his coat hidden Kiryu stretched and flexed his arms and twirled his picks around, he felt a lot better now that he had back to his usual range of motion. He thought about taking off the heavy trousers too, but more roars and load thuds told him that he didn't have the time so he continued down the corridor.

It eventually opened up into a large room. In the room Kiryu first saw the giant green monster, and what appeared to be a yellow banana moving around it dodging the giants clumbersome fists. He knew it had to be a person, but it was moving to fast to make out any detail. Then he noticed another green giant, not quite as big, but bigger than the average man at least, and female. Pretty hot too. A mate for the other one perhaps? Kiryu's chain of thought stopped as the banana dropped in front of him. Standing still Kiryu could see that it was actually, Richard!? What the hell is he doing here!?

“What the fuck are you doing here, what the fuck is that thing and did you bring a first aid kit I think I broke my hand”? Richard asked.
“Why am I here? Why are you here? A green giant? And no” Kiryu answered. “And why are you dressed like a banana?” Before Richard could answer they were interupted by another familiar voice.

"Kiryu, Richard? whata re you..." Kiyru turned to see Sandra stood behind them. What's she doing here? What is going on!? Before he could ask anything Sandra leapt into action calling less talk more fight Kiryu turned and watched her battle the beast, she moved with a grace that reminded him somewhat of a wild cat, and she seemed to have some strength behind her hits, but she was nothing more than a mare nuisance to the giant, and it swotted her away. She landed at his and Richard's feet. They helped her up as she explained that the giant was called The Hulk and that they were pretty much screwed, and needed a plan.

Kiryu darted his eyes around the room looking for a solution. He remembered the braziers he'd seen outside the temple, he'd ignored them as he'd just wanted to get warmed up, and figured if they were outside the temple then they couldn't be important, but perhaps they could be used to hurt the hulk.
“The gloves, from outside. If we can distract the Hulk, maybe one of us could grab the gloves, bet they would do damage.” Kiryu suggested. Only question left was who would grab the gloves and who would distract the hulk, or Hulks? He thought as he noticed the female get back to her feet...

[STAFF2]

The Hulk was relentless, his arms swung in mighty arcs, his feet kicked out with as much force as a jack hammer. As more people got involved, everyone making their own attempt to try pass the guardian and retrieve the gloves, everyone trying to take him down. The Hulk got angrier. He struck with that little bit more force, his reflexes were lashing back that bit faster.

His Granddaughter, Caiera, came at him. Striking hard with both hands on top of his head, she was an impressive little Hulking, impressive enough to knock him down, but she didn't know anything about real rage, The Hulk pushed himself off the ground with his hands, striking her across the face with his elbow as he passed her by, spinning on the spot he brought his other fist around, striking hard in the stomach before finally driving a harsh foot into her chest, sending her straight towards the nearest wall.

Next there was the one that tried cutting him with the silly little machete, the other girl. He had dealt with her type before. "Hulk smash stupid girl!" he roared before driving his foot into the floor beneath him, it shattered instantly, looking like a giant spider web was laid out on the floor. Hulk took up a chunk of broken temple floor in each hand, hurling one, waiting a moment for her to either be struck or to move before hurling the other, trying to lead the throw.

Next it was the speedster, there was one good way to deal with fast people, hit them with something they couldn't dodge. The Hulk brought up his hands before slamming them together, the same clapping technique that had blown back the tanks, soldiers even the Avengers themselves, his Thunder Clap. The arc of pure force, like a sonic boom, exploded out towards the speedster, and the new person that had waltzed in, talking about first aid kits.

Meanwhile.....at the base of the mountain.....someone else had arrived.....

[CAIERA]

Caiera climbed up from the floor, taking a moment to work a crick out of her shoulders, her healing factor already getting to work on taking care of what would have turned into bruising, maybe something worst inside she wasn't aware of. This was getting ridiculous, the longer then kept this going, the angrier Hulk was going to get.....eventually the temple would just cave in, and even though she'd be fine, those gloves would get lost very easily.

Caiera took a breath, before starting to tap into the Old Power, her feet were firmly planted, but to take down the Hulk, it would take a very hard punch, she'd need time to generate something big. "If you want to get out of here alive, nevermind with the gloves.....you keep him distracted. Hit him with anything you got, punch him, blast him, kick him, flash him your tits, you just buy me some time." she damn near spat, all the while her body was being covered in a glowing energy as the Old Power was enhancing her strength and durability.

[svcreed]

Her world, the world trapped inside the ancient temple walls, faded in and out of black as the Hulk's missile smashed against her body sending her sprawling into the wall and then to the floor.

She had managed to evade one of the massive chunks of floor that the green menace threw at her, but the other took her by surprise.

Climbing up from the floor she dusted herself off as her body righted itself. healing factors really did come in handy once in a while. The green giant was now directly in front of her and staring angrily, its eyes betrayed any false sense of reason. She may have been invading his space but that wasn't a good reason to throw floor at someone.

Seeing Richard only narrowly dodge the beasts attacks she was reminded of the suspected frailty of the legitimacy of his claims of working in retail. This wasn't the time, in fact someone was yelling at her.

I hope you got a plan greeney! Sandra yelled as she made her desperate bid to distract the green beast of whom was getting faster and stronger and well... angrier.

With a run and a flick of her wrists she drew her final two knives from her backpack, she had already lost a set of machetes and she was quite prepared to lose another pair.

The run went low under a swing as she hit the floor and slid feet first between his legs slashing the exposed flesh of his inner thigh. Spinning to her feet she sidestepped as vertical swing before striking angrily at supposed-to-be-vital-points. Her swings were merely grazing it but his attention was on her and that was what was important.

Paying very close attention to the hulks swings and charges Sandra used her enhanced reflexes and agility to step aside and duck whilst lashing out with what may as well have been feather knives.

Hurry up, I DON'T have all day! she shouted to the others, she wasn't anywhere close to tiring but it was getting harder, she was just making him more and more angry.

[STUN GUNN]

Richard stood and watched as his land lord went after the green giant again throwing everything she had at him as well as avoiding everything he threw at her. He then watched as the green giantess had began to glow green, assuming she had a plan, Richard watched for a little longer trying to wait for his perfect moment to strike. As Sandra shouted at him for aid, he decided this was the time to act.

Richard ran at the green monster, he ducked and dogged out the way of bits of floor as they were hurled at him, Sandra and Kiryu. Richard bounced with a smooth speed and grace which seemed to anger the beast even more. Richard was starting to get into a position where he could make a dash for the prize when the moment showed it’s self. As he shifted himself in front of the giant and the mouth of the temple, Richard went to step again this time to get the beast of balance. But as he moved the best slammed its hands together like a clap knocking hit Richard with such a force it sent him flying out the temple.

Richard bounced off the ice with a sickening thud as he landed just outside the temple, but a second blast from the clap sent him sliding across the ice and for the edge of the cliff and certain death. Richard looked at the cliff as it got closer and closer. He pulled the ice pick from his suit and grabbed it into the ice in attempt to stop himself. The pick just broke under the speed at which he was sliding. Richard watched his feet slid off the edge of the cliff, he threw his hands up in an attempt to grab something to save his life.

Richard felt his body slid over the edge as his hands grabbed at ice and snow, as all hope of survival had left his mind and death filled his thoughts and grief came over him. He felt someone’s hand grab his and with a sudden stop he stopped falling. Richard heard a defining pop as he stopped. Looking up he saw his roommate and friend Kiryu holding him by one hand with the other holding on to an ice pick which seemed to be stuck in the mounting.

“Fuck man that sounded nasty. But thank you for saving me is there anything I can do for you?” Richard laughed as he had somehow just cheated death. After a few choice words from Kiryu, Richard climbed back up the ledge were the temple was. He looked to his friend and smiled “Time to beat this green fuck and get prize eh bud. Let’s go help the Sandra, see if between the three of us we can’t take down this big fuck head”. Richard blurted his speech at Kiryu as he went running back into help his Land lord, as much as he hated teams and friends this was a means to an end and once everyone had used up their usefulness in this fight, Richard could gab the prize and get out of there before anyone could do something about it.

[SHINIGAMI]

Everything happened so quickly, by the time Kiryu got his thoughts straight suddenly bits of floor were flying at him. He dived and rolled out of the way. Taking the brief moment to collect his thoughts and make sense of everything. His lanlord and roommate were both something more than what they had seemed, and the green lady was not anything to do with the hulk, and they all needed to work together to get past it. Right got it, and need a new plan Kiryu thought.

Richard had moved in front of Kiryu, and blocked his view. Kiryu went to move, but Richard flew backwards towards Kiryu. He dived out of Richards way, but the blast just caught him and sent him flying backwards out onto the ice as well. He hit the floor hard, and instinctively rolled to the side. As luck would have it, this caused the second blast to miss him.

From the floor Kiryu saw that Richard had been blown towards the edge of the cliff, and was about to slide straight to his death. Without thinking twice Kiryu ran towards Richard, his pick at the ready. As Richard began to topple over the edge Kiryu dived. He slid along the ice and began to close in on Richard as he began to disappear over the edge. As Richard fell Kiryu shot out his hand, grabbed Richards, and slammed the pick into the ice. It stopped them with a sharp jolt, and sickening pop. The pop was followed by a sharp pain in Kiryu's dislocated shoulder.

“Fuck man that sounded nasty. But thank you for saving me is there anything I can do for you?” Richard laughed as he had somehow just cheated death. If it hadn't been for the serious amounts of pain that Kiryu was in he would have laughed, but at the moment all he wanted to do was let go.
“Climb up or get fuck off”Kiryu shouted, and then began to curse some more in Japanese. Richard climbed up, and Kiryu popped his arm back in place, his healing factor fixed it up, and the pain went away. Richard smiled at Kiryu. That smile never sat right with Kiryu, there was something about it said 'don't trust me with your life'. Kiryu also wasn't sure what to make of Richard overall, they had been friendly to each other at home, and even gone out to a few bars together, but their was just something about him that had always made Kiryu want to keep Richard at arms length.

“Time to beat this green fuck and get prize eh bud. Let’s go help the Sandra, see if between the three of us we can’t take down this big fuck head”. Richard blurted, as they ran back to the fight. Kiryu nodded.
“So you work in retail, eh?” Kiryu joked with a smile. Kiryu had always known that Richard hadn't worked retail, and Sandra, clearly she was more than meets the eye. There would be so many questions to answer if they lived through this, now wouldn't be the time though, first they had a jolly green giant to dispose of.

[STAFF2]

The Hulk continued to thrash and kick, swinging massive fists towards anything that got in close, slamming his hands together to create a BOOM like thunder, not only did it produce a deafening noise, but also a released a wave of pure force, a shockwave from his hands. Frothing at the mouth he was, with rage, determination and hatred painted on his face before a grunt and growl as the minor cuts from Sandra healed themselves, a glowing sigil still on his forehead, blue energy coming off it like mist.

Seemingly out of nowhere, from something hidden behind the mountains wind and snow, a pair of beams exploded towards Stunn Gunn and Shinigami, a moment later the sound of snow being crushed under foot could be heard as someone entered the temple. It was the mysterious stranger, the hooded individual that had sent everyone on this task. From under his hood, intelligent eyes scanned who was present, before bringing up a gauntleted hand from under his robes, there was a flash of light, filling the room with a mystical heat then a strike of lightning targeting everyone but himself.

With even the Hulk stunned by the sudden blast and knocked to the floor, nothing stopped the hooded mystic from making his way straight towards the end of the temple and reaching the magical gloves. Whatever gloves he had been wearing were placed away under his robes, before being replaced by the magic ones. "The Gauntlets of Ares they call these.....I call them......Doom's!" With that he spun around on the spot, his robes were kicked back to reveal mystical Power Armour of Dr. Doom!

"While physical violence is so far beneath me, there are times when brute might are a required tool! With the gauntlets of Ares boosted the strength of my armour by a thousand times, even your unbridled rage shall be no match for me Banner!" taunted the Ruler of Latveria as he approached the Hulk, just as its senses were returning after the magical blast when Doom entered.

Before Hulk could rise however, Doom drove his fist straight into the base of Hulk's spine, before landing down another terrible blow, then another and another, the sound of bone breaking echoed through the temple, first the Hulk's spine then the his ribs were shattered by Doom. The Dictator brought up his armoured hands, nimble fingers making a quick mystic enchantment, calling upon a yellow and red energy which he directed towards the Hulk, a massive beam of Eldritch energy rammed into the Hulk, peeling away his flesh and burning his organs as it booted it out of the temple and straight off the mountain itself!

With the Hulk out of the way, he re-directed his attention to the present Super humans. "With the magics of this mountain preventing me from teleporting here or away from here, I must move by foot, now......are any of you foolish enough to stand in Doom's way?" threatened the evil Doctor, wicked eyes glaring from behind his mask as he summed them up, weaklings, foolish individuals with barely a smatter of real power between them. But they had wounded and distracted the Hulk enough to allow the aging Doom to retrieve his prize!

[svcreed]

Dodging the strike of the hulk, of which were very quickly getting faster and stronger, Sandra twisted and turned like a mad woman. Screaming to her new giant green sister in battle to hurry the hell up. She moved from one foot to another, back wards, sideways and even jumping several shovel like hands which came low. it was getting far from easier and as she looked over the hulk's bulging shoulder she saw the other green glowing.

A world shattering slice made contact as she was in mid flight, but there was no pain as she flew across the room and smashed into a wall hard enough to loosen the ceiling above her. A second impact came when a block of temple fell from the shaken ceiling, and that hurt. You... outta time lady... he called as blood gargled in her mouth. With hands slick by sweat she tried to move the boulder that trapped her legs but she was spent, apparently fighting the hulk could drain a person.

Looking towards the entrance she saw someone walk in, at first she thought was Richard and Kiryu, but it wasn't... it was the old dude. She watched through half conscious and bloody eyes as the man began ranting, saying words that she was sure meant something but at the same time didn't. There were brilliant flashes and some more talk and then there was a dude in armor that, with the gloves of 'hairy'? proceeded to smash the life out of the thing that had put her in such a sodden bloody state.

ugh... do we ... get our prize... she choked up a gout of blood and felt her ribs and spine starting to heal. She would be fine in a few minutes.

[SHINIGAMI]

he lightning hit Kiryu before he could even work out what was happening. He went flying his top and chest burning from the energy. He hit the floor hard and turn over. He tired to moved but his chest hurt to much, he'd have to wait a few seconds for it to heal. He took the time to study this new addition to the party.

Kiryu couldn't believe it. It was the old man who'd made the deal with him. He figured there would probably be a double cross at some point, but things like that didn't usually happen until the trade offs. He'd planned for that, this however was unexpected to say the least. He watched as the man proceeded to beat the Hulk down. Kiryu also found it curious as to why the guy even bothered to hire them in the first place. He seemed to have done a better job than all of them put together, even before putting on the gauntlets. Sheer lazyness.

Kiryu picked himself up as the man, Doom was it? Turned back towards them. Kiryu wondered where he'd heard the name, but couldn't quite place it.
"With the magics of this mountain preventing me from teleporting here or away from here, I must move by foot, now......are any of you foolish enough to stand in Doom's way?" Threatened Doom. Kiryu didn't see much reason to fight. He couldn't win, even with his healing at best he could hope to maybe ruin the paintwork, if Doom decided to beat him with his fists.

ugh... do we ... get our prize... Sandra asked. It was a good question, and if this guy was still going to pay up, then there would be no reason to fight.
“Yeah we did help you get the gloves, just like you asked. A deal's a deal right?” Kiryu said. It was a long shot, but fortune favours the bold.

[STUN GUNN]

Richard watched as every-ones attempt to hurt this big bulk failed just as quick as the next. Richard thought about running over and shocking the big basted, just as he went to move he was sent flying in to the wall of the temple by something or someone. Richard hit his head hard on the wall knocking him old cold for a few seconds.

Richard lifted his head groggily as he got his bearings and sight back. He looked around the area to see what was going on. He noticed the cave and remembered what was going on, he looked around aging to see where everyone else was. Richard looked across the cave to Sandra under a rock and Kiryu standing and saying something. Richard couldn't tell what has he was still a bit out of it. He looked to see where the green giant was but he could find it, he also looked for the green giantess, but couldn't see though he didn't look hard.

That's when he spotted the extra man in armor, who seemed to be walking away with the gloves they were all after. Richard looked the man over as he got back to his feet, he couldn't work out why no one had tried to stop him. He took one last looked at everyone who seemed to have a look of shock and anger on the faces.

Richard turned his attention back to the stranger and deiced he was going to get the gloves off that man and complete the task at had been ask of him. After all this might be his only chance to find out where Lovca was. Richard rubbed his hands together as fast as he could building the biggest charge he had ever felt. He at the stranger who was leaving and sent the the biggest force he could muster into the stranger. All Richard hopped for now was that the armor the man was wearing was conductible.