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Hercules ([personal profile] unorthodox_greek) wrote in [community profile] ya_assemble2015-03-31 11:59 am
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[AI] Odysseus Shrugged

Far too many heroes remain missing. Far too many friends, colleagues, siblings ripped away to abandon their return to sheer, capricious fortune. Search efforts were undertaken, though the circumstances of the universe-shattering events remained unclear. How could those who returned do any less?

The scientists had concocted many theories. Sensors, probes, mathematics - a dizzying array of ephemera that meant nothing to a warrior born. Several months ago, however, someone finally gave Hercules something he could understand - a door. A portal, more precisely, to one of those realms between realms that still existed, and to which some of his colleagues may have returned. He had volunteered instantly to explore this realm for any sign of other heroes of the two worlds, to bring them home. He had set forth from the secure 'Exploration Laboratory' of the Baxter Building, alone.

Today, as regularly scheduled, the gateway flickers back to life to permit the return of the mighty explorer it had sent forth - and he is no longer alone.

The power surges as the gateway emits two entangled figures - the son of Zeus, and an immense, translucent white bulk, covered in grasping tendrils and enormous red eyes. They burst from the portal with sufficient momentum to impact the far wall, the tentacled creature burbling in an utterly alien language all the while.

Hercules recovers his footing, pushing back against the wall with one foot - using the other to pin one of the creature's manifold limbs, as his hands seek to constrain several others.

"Aye, so you've said. How was I to know it was your wife and not your daughter? I think you will be forced to agree there's a certain resemblance!"

The response seems to anger the creature further, limbs twitching and lashing at Hercules's flesh as it burbles more rapidly.

"Then perhaps you might pay more attention to the both of them, so this sort of thing might not happen again!"

Slowly, but surely, Hercules begins to move - his feet digging into the durable metallic floor, sliding the enormous creature inexorably back towards the portal.

[ooc: Hi, folks! Feel free to jump on in here if you have a character who might be at the Baxter Building and feels like helping Herc get the jealous jellyfish back through the gateway, and/or chat afterwards.]
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2015-04-05 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Now here was a hero Nova was glad to see now that he was back on Earth. They'd had the odd misunderstanding with the Avengers where Herc had showed up, but he'd also been pretty great about all that stuff with Aegis.

Y'know, barring the part where he tried to punch him senseless. (But that was to give him a chance to prove his worth to the gods, right?)

"Oh pleeease tell me the Many-Angled Ones aren't trying to wiggle their way into our dimension again," Nova said in exasperation as he walked in, immediately taking to the air and flying over to help Hercules punch the damn thing back through the portal.

"Last time I dealt with those guys I almost got trapped in a dying universe. With Thanos." A pause. "With a very, very angry Thanos."
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2015-04-06 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Upon hearing that the alien wasn't a true hostile, Nova changed his tactics from punching to creating a gravimetric field with the Nova Force to help contain and shove the being back through the portal.

"Angry Thanos," Rich answered immediately, without even a second's hesitation. "Angry Thanos is worse."

He dug his feet into the floor to give the tentacle being a good hard shove with the Nova Force, trying to use enough force to move it along without going overkill and eviscerating the thing.

"It wasn't the usual 'my plans are ruined' angry, though. This was 'I'm going to destroy all of existence to get Death's attention.' Vengeful-ex-that-can't-take-no-for-an-answer angry." He paused. "You could say he was a little wroth. A lot wroth, really."
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2015-04-17 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
They finally got the damn thing closed.

"So how does this work? Pym said he took readings of newly arrived people for some kind of dimensional resonance to help the portal scan and find potential locations the other heroes might be in the multiverse, but do you go in and just wander around trying to find 'em?"

Okay so maybe he was grounded to Earth by his brother and his friends, but wandering around in other dimensions seemed like a good way to keep busy. And hell, if he went in sometimes with Hercules, that was a good person to have covering his back.
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Sorry for the long wait, dude, got caught in multiple graduations and applying for grad school

[personal profile] iamresponding 2015-05-21 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Nova tapped his helmet.

"I've got auto-translation in this thing. It usually only needs to analyze a language for a little bit before it figures it out."

Which might make that bit even easier.

"And I can't stand being grounded like this. I promised my brother I'd take a break and stay local for a bit, to take it easy for a while, but I'm already going stir-crazy. And teeechnically he just said I should take a break from flying from world to world fixing problems, he didn't say anything about walking through portals to 'em."
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2015-06-02 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like the kind of contest I can get behind."

He was pretty good at attracting the attention of green alien babes and such. And blue ones. And pink ones.

Somehow. Who the hell knows how that happened?

"Why don't we toss in a second contest running alongside it to see who accidentally causes the most unintentional diplomatic incidents? That's always fun to bet on."

At least when you were betting on that kind of thing with someone like Starlord.