Fear Itself - F4
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ever_lovinFrom the live broadcast from Channel 12's helicopter:
"During a time of already significant panic among the people of New York...and indeed, the people of the world...we're reporting live from yet another escalating event. We're witnessing mass destruction on a scale unlike anything I've seen before. Rescue teams and civil authorities have been unable to evacuate danger zones quickly enough to avoid terrible casualties and riots are breaking out across the city, only adding to the disorder and confusion. The decimation of property...the potential loss of life...to call what I am seeing cataclysmic would not be an exaggeration. Reports are unconfirmed, but it appears that the source of this destruction is The Thing! The Future Foundation's Ben Grimm appears to have undergone a sudden and ghastly transformation...a mutation, perhaps...and he's rampaging through the city. It is unclear if this change in his physical form--this apparent change in his state of mind--is some further manifestation of his abnormal physiology or if this might be something else...perhaps, as some have already speculated, something contagious."
[OOC: Everything that occurs within the red velvet room is my own bit of canon. Most of all else is Marvel canon.]
"During a time of already significant panic among the people of New York...and indeed, the people of the world...we're reporting live from yet another escalating event. We're witnessing mass destruction on a scale unlike anything I've seen before. Rescue teams and civil authorities have been unable to evacuate danger zones quickly enough to avoid terrible casualties and riots are breaking out across the city, only adding to the disorder and confusion. The decimation of property...the potential loss of life...to call what I am seeing cataclysmic would not be an exaggeration. Reports are unconfirmed, but it appears that the source of this destruction is The Thing! The Future Foundation's Ben Grimm appears to have undergone a sudden and ghastly transformation...a mutation, perhaps...and he's rampaging through the city. It is unclear if this change in his physical form--this apparent change in his state of mind--is some further manifestation of his abnormal physiology or if this might be something else...perhaps, as some have already speculated, something contagious."
[OOC: Everything that occurs within the red velvet room is my own bit of canon. Most of all else is Marvel canon.]
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 06:13 pm (UTC)If only he could just get one second to think!
In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 06:42 pm (UTC)Something catches his foot and he looks down to see nothing.
"Hrrr? Force-field." he rumbles touching the host's memories.
"Your friends are coming. The want to slow you down...to silence your rage...silence your fury," the starfish says, it's voice like twisting metal. "They want to stop you from spreading the Serpents truth. They want to kill you. Kill them first."
In the fantasi-car above Angrir, Reed says to Susan, "For most of my life Ben's been right there by my side. If there's anything left of him in that creature, he'll listen to me. He'll listen to--"
"REED!" Susan calls out in warning as the hammer Angrir threw crashes through the vehicle sending them flying. Susan catches herself with a force-field and Reed stretches himself into a parachute. "I've never seen him like this...so powerful...so angry," he says.
"They've always hated you," one starfish shriek-whispers to Angrir.
"They hated you because you were different," adds the second.
"Hideous while they were so beautiful!" Confirms the third.
"Reed...Suzie..what is this? An intervention?" Angrir mocks.
"The hammer...that's the source of his power...the source of whatever's wrong with him," Susan says as she spots the hammer flying back to Ben. She builds a quick force-field to block the hammer from reaching him. "If we can keep it from him, we might be able to break whatever hold it has over him."
The hammer strikes the force-field and shatters it. Susan collapses and Reed quickly is at her side. "Sue!"
"Don't worry about me. Just a little rattled."
"I'm not sure if we can stop him..." Reed admits helplessly.
"This is Ben we're talking about. Ben! You've never shied away from the impossible before," Susan replies vehemently.
"You're right," Reed replies encouraged by her words. "And I won't start now." He swarms over to Ben, stretching his limbs to ensnare him. "Ben--listen to me!"
"Let me ask you something, Stretcho. How many little trinkets do you have back in the lab that are designed to kill me? How many weapons have you been secretly piecing together because you knew this day would come?" Angrir taunts as he pulls back the hammer to strike. "I bet you wish you'd brought along one of your ray guns now."
"That's not you talking, Ben. We're going to follow through with on our plans!" Reed says wrapping Ben up before he can strike. "We're going to change the future! And you're going to be with us when we do it!"
"The future?!?" Angrir says grabbing a handful of Reed and tearing.
"YEEEARRGGGHH!!!" Reed screams and passes out.
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 06:47 pm (UTC)What if the machines make things worse? He has no idea what they can do. He steels himself and reaches out again only to be shocked by an invisible electric field...a field protecting the machines? That would mean the machines can do something. Ben dares not hope as he looks around for some sort of control panel.
In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 06:56 pm (UTC)"That's enough!" She yells.
"All right...you've got my attention," Angrir says dropping Reed and turning to Susan. He looms above her and raises the hammer. "I know you blame me for what happened to Johnny. I know you hate me for letting him die. You think you hate me now? Wait 'til you see what I do next."
Susan stands her ground, not giving an inch. "I don't blame you, Ben. I could never hate you. But if that's what you think...after all we've been through...I pity you," she says her resolution to save Ben stronger than ever. She wraps him in a force field, cutting off any air. She will save him but not at the price of the city or any other lives. "What happened to Johnny wasn't your fault. You didn't let him die...no more than I'm going to let you be consumed by this...this evil."
Angrir's vision starts to darken...
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 06:57 pm (UTC)In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:01 pm (UTC)Angrir is startled but pleased. Perhaps this age has heroes after all.
"I'm not going to let you hurt anyone else," Susan promises as she starts to feel Ben pushing against her force field. The strain is incredible and her nose starts to bleed. "I swear...I'll drown you if you don't stop. Just get rid of that hammer, Ben. Just get rid of it and come home."
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:02 pm (UTC)In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:06 pm (UTC)"For a second there, Suzie, I thought you we gonna go through with it. But you're done here. Done for good. You tend to your husband. I'll tend to the future."
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:10 pm (UTC)He goes back to looking at the room. Experimentally he kicks at a tile and feels it give a bit. He kicks harder until it cracks; maybe the wires for the electric field run beneath the floor.
In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:23 pm (UTC)"See how that flee?" Starfish one says. "How often have you saved them? How often have you saved their warrens and hidey-holes?"
"And now look how readily they abandon everything you fought to protect...everything your friend died to save," starfish two adds.
"They sicken you, don't they?"
"Almost as much as you sicken them."
In disgust Angrir attacked again and again until he is surprised by an attack of fire. Johnny?
He turns to find the android Dragon man swooping down to attack.
"I am sorry, Mr. Grimm but I cannot allow you to continue on your present course of action." He calls out as he grabs the hammer and pushes down on Ben.
Angrir pushes back and says, "I thought you had--oomph!--renounced violence."
"Indeed, I would prefer a more civilized resolution to our current predicament. But you leave me little choice." Dragon Man punctuations his argument by breathing fire into Ben's face.
"What do you know? Stretcho sicced one of his weapons on me after all," Angrir says grimly while his head is on fire. "I think I liked you better when you were a witless brute."
"Your disappointment is noted," Dragon Man replies as he lands a punch that staggers Ben.
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:24 pm (UTC)In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:28 pm (UTC)"Now what are you? A robot pretending to be a monster pretending to be a man? You're more pathetic than I was," Angrir says standing over the prone Dragon Man. He reaches down and grabs the robots head and begins to pull his jaws apart. Metal shrieks join sin the robot's scream.
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:29 pm (UTC)In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:31 pm (UTC)"A-Alicia?"
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:35 pm (UTC)"No," his whimpers as Agnrir turns to face her fully. "NO!" he screams and attacks the floor in a dead panic. Tiles fly and soon he's exposed the wires he was searching for. He ignores the pain of the raw electricity and pulls on them hard. Finally they break and he runs to the machines...only to find they are empty boxes.
In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:43 pm (UTC)"I...I..."Ben says fighting for control.
"Do not listen to her." Starfish one whispers, fighting for Angrir.
"How many times has she betrayed you? How many times has she broken your heart?" Starfish tow adds.
"Ben...this isn't you. Please, just calm down. Stop this senseless brutality. Please, Ben. Let's sit down...let's talk."
"Don't listen to her! She'll only hurt you again if you--"
"Quiet." Angrir interrupts.
"I want to talk to you, I want to talk to the man I fell in--" Alicia says reaching out to touch him.
"I said--QUIET!" Angrir bellows fully in control again. He grabs Alicia's head in his hand and throws her at a lamp post.
"I've got nothing to say to you!" He bellows again as he raises the hammer to strike and kill.
In the red velvet room
Date: 2012-03-09 07:49 pm (UTC)"Chose another victim then," Angrir says. Ben turns to face Angrir and sees the hole he had made in the tile is now oozing black tar.
"What? he says confused.
Angrir points to the tar. "Embrace the fear, become strong and chose the next victim. If you would save this pathetic life, embrace the fear and chose the target."
Ben chokes on his fear but then again he's never let fear stop him before. He steps forward and stands before the tar pit. "How do I know I can trust you."
"You can't. Embrace the fear. Save her."
Ben steps forward and falls into the fear, drowning.
In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:55 pm (UTC)Angrir/Ben stands there for a second before speaking. "I shoulda known you couldn't leave well enough alone, Suzie. Show yourself."
"Ben...let me help her..." Susan says appears in front of him.
"Heh...go ahead, What do I care?"
"NO! Destroy her! Kill them both!" The starfish cry out in unison.
"No..." Angrir says firmly. He catches sight of Spier-man swinging in the distance and sees his first victim. Webhead can do it, he's floored a Herald of Galactus before! "She can't spread fear...she can't suffer...if she's dead."
He turns then to follow after Spider-man. "But my patience can only bear so much. The next time I see you, you're dead." He calls out to her as he leaves. Maybe if she thinks he's completely gone she won't hesitate again.
Re: In New York
Date: 2012-03-09 07:59 pm (UTC)"Ben!" Alicia calls out.
"He's gone, Alicia. Ben's gone. Whatever that Thing is...it's not Ben..or if it is, he's gone insane."
"No," Alicia counters. "I could hear it in his voice. He's not insane. He's afraid."