Finally time to fight again (nods to Nataku in thanks). Hi Scoob, and hi voters. I look forward to fighting “the champ” here and think I have a good shot at a win. This is kind of a long-ish write-up (but it’s all worth it), so thanks to everyone who reads through the whole thing. So let’s go…
Kinky is a dangerous character to be in the tournament at this point. Apollo gets stronger every match…particularly my last match. Allow me to explain. If you’ll remember, we had 24 hours of prep for the “bonus round” and our first-drafted amalgam had his powers boosted by 10 times. For me, that was Zod, which meant his armor produced 10x the amount of sun radiation to boost Apollo. That kind of boost is simply incalculable, and saying Apollo was probably flirting with Class Billion+ is a cautious estimate of how strong I was. To be fair, after the fight the boost ends, and so for this fight it’s back to normal…except for one thing. Apollo retains his charge, so while any other character in the tournament would have gone back to normal after the 10x (even if it had been Apollo and not Zod I’d be back to normal)…but now I have the benefits of that fight in terms of my strength and invulnerability. I’m so far beyond your strength I can’t properly put it into words. If you’re not scared of the General by this point, you should be.
So Quasar is able to block telepathy, but has a weakness to magic. Perfect, because Loki is all magic, and magic-based telepathy will go right through his shields to Quasar’s mind. Mjolnir can’t absorb telepathy, and Loki has even influenced Thor before…Quasar won’t be nearly as hard. And this will take away the one advantage Flash Thordon starts the fight with: namely, Flash’s speed and reaction times. Loki rarely shuts minds down, but specializes in magical influence, so some images of yourself stuck in tar and general messing of the brain will be enough to keep you slow enough to hit and also keep you distracted.
And just to make sure, this is what Scoobless wrote in a recent Adam Warlock vs. Quasar thread…
Sentry had written the following...
Even if Warlock didn't have it (soul gem), he'd still be able to combat Quasar with his psionics and telepathy. Quasar has been mind controlled before.
And Scoob replied...
only by magic though... regular telepathy he can deal with, the Q-bands set up a jamming field in his mind to stop telepaths from controlling him
So that should settle that. On to other things…
Thor’s a tough guy and Scoob has managed to boost his strength with Quasar’s constructs. A nice combo, but for one I’m still ridiculously stronger than he is even with the boost, and secondly Quasar’s constructs require concentration. If I don’t just negate the strength boost by smashing his constructs with my magic, the fight itself will be enough for him to lose his concentration. Then it’s regular Thor vs. Uber-Apollo. Advantage me (though I had the strength advantage anyway).
Oh, and as soon as Loki sees Thor he’s going to go ape-sh*t. That’ll just be more incentive to whup Thordon’s ass.
Zod’s armor has taken barrages from Superman, and Loki will have his formidable shields up (shields that have deflected blows from Thor numerous times). Quasar’s constructs are a good foil to magic, but it works both ways so they’ll basically negate each other. But I can phase and teleport too, and with Thordon slowed down anyway from the magical telepathic influence, I’m easily more elusive than he is. And my magical bolts can probably be absorbed by Thor’s hammer, but I won’t even need them since simply whaling the hell out of him will be enough for the win. I could also form some illusions and magical dragons during my prep, but those probably won’t even be necessary. Still, I have them in reserve if I need them.
Here’s an interesting point, and another reason I think I’ll win. If I don’t simply knock Thor out (which is a pretty good possibility) or lop his head off, he’ll start to heal with the heightened “Flash-healing”. That fine and all, but it’s still just a speeding up of the body’s natural processes. Eventually he’d need to eat, drink, etc. to keep it up. It’ll slow down as the fight wears on (unless I make it a quick fight). Apollo, on the other hand, only needs sun radiation to sustain himself and heal. And I have an endless supply coming from the armor.
And if he wants to drain my charge with lightning of some sort, he’ll have to get through my magical shields and armor…all while trying to stay alive. In other words, it’s not likely.
In one issue (I can get the # if needed), Apollo is charged up quite a bit, and he’s surrounded by “super-people-types” (including a Thor clone…it’s the issue where they fight the Avengers stand-ins). And he’s so charged up he doesn’t even need to eye-beam them…he simply emits an aura of sun-energy from himself strong enough that it incinerates the entire pile of super-villians. He then proceeds to ruin the Thor clone. Now, Thordon might not get taken out by something like that, but I’m so uber-charged that even trying to hit me or come close to me is going to be damaging Scoob’s amalgam…I’ll be like a living sun that’s pissed off. So even if Thordon manages to hurt me, it’ll still be hurting him.
I won’t deny that FT would get some hits in, but he’ll be slowed down from the magical telepathy and every hit of mine does a ton more damage than anything Thor or Quasar could muster. I’ll hit him just as much and probably more, and it’ll do far more damage than anything he could hope to do to me.
-DM 😎