Laminator_X
Once & Future KMC Hawkeye
Given the huge, difficult to traverse battlefield, we're going to win by playing the long game. This match is going to be won not simply with power and tactics, but with overall strategy. We're going to take advantage of superior mobility, intelligence/reconnaissance, and ability to adapt in the field to take the opposition apart piece by piece; and here's how were going to do it.
For starters, we've got excellent intel on Superman Blue thanks to Ra's al Ghul having stolen Batman's intel on his fellow Justice Leaguers. The Fixer also has basic info from Avengers and SHIELD files on Havok and Iron-Fist. Since we've got no knowledge about the Wildstorm characters, we're being extra cautious and paranoid. Also, unlike what we've seen attempted in other match-preps, the Fixer actually can fabricate small gizmos in the field in almost no time, especially with Temugin assisting by refining minerals from the sill and plants when needed.
For the first half-hour, Mordo, and Temugin will make a fox-hole/base 3.5 miles in and a 1.5 miles off-center of our side while Ecstasy, Super-Skrull and Dead-Shot perform long, medium, and short range (respectively) reconnaissance of our surroundings. Not a miles-of rock bunker this time, just a defensible spot with a couple of escape exits, far enough underground to be reasonably safe, dry, and warm. Mordo will use magic to make it comfortable/clean, fresh, lit,etc. Fixer will swamp-proof everyone's equipment and clothing so that we'll be able to operate effectively in the muck.
Second half-hour, we acclimate. and Temugin will extract pure water for our stores, while Mordo channels the power of the Snake-demon Sliggith to create a talisman that allows the bearer to move through the swamp-muck as though it were dry land. Fixer will quick-fab some small, but high-powered transmitters and have Ecstasy place them strategically around an area about 2 miles inside our side of the barrier.
Next half hour we deal with obfuscation. Mordo weave a spell to make our base imperceptible to outsiders. Not invisibility exactly, but the sort of magic we've all seen where no one who means us harm can be aware of it's presence.
Fixer will be making gadgets.
Fixer makes Zemo's Telepathy shields for everyone but Mordo (who is already far better protected on his own, Strange could never just reach out and find Mordo by his thoughts), and modified image inducers for himself, Deadshot and Ra's al-Ghul that allow them to blend into the swamp via holographic camouflage. Adding a uv-laser and optics to Deadshot's arsenal finishes out his time.
During this time, Super-Skrull and Exstasy are practicing coordinated arial maneuvers.
Last half-hour of prep-time: Super-Skrull and Ecstasy move in to position at where the transmitters were earlier set-up (2 miles in , our side). Mordo creates a scrying pool back at the base so that he, and the others can observe and reinforce as necessary. Fixer works on making radios and remote sensor drones for later deployment. Just before Ecstasy and dematerializes vanishes the barrier comes down.
Openning Move: Super-Scrull blazes into the sky like the big target that he is in order to draw out Superman Blue (Ra's is gambling that none of the unknowns on the other side can match Blue's speed). When he comes streaking in to clobber the Super-Skrull, his energy presence will trip the Fixer's transmitters into action. They begin transmitting a bunch of crazy psychedelic interference and noise patterns in spectrums that none of us can see but Blue can causing confusion and distraction. Supes'll probably bet one hit in on Super Skrull, but Kl'rt's ready for it (thanks to Ra's al Ghul's briefing) so he wont be taken out instantly (forcefield +high durability).
Suddenly, as he's focussing his attention on the Super-Skrull amid all the distracting signals (which he would soon drain away if he got the chance) Blue will get sucked into Ecstasy's darkness. Taking in a living energy being will overload the Thing in the Dark (just like we saw in the most recent issue of Union Jack), resulting in Clark Kent and a naked French babe both powerless and falling from a great height. Kl'rt was ready for this and dispatches Kent with an invisible smack rescues his falling teammate. (If things don't go according to plan here, Mordo is watching and waiting, ready to reinforce at any time. The Crimson Bands of Cytorrak would slow blue down enough for Extasy to catch him))
The Super-Skrull switches to shapeshift-wings for flight and invisibly returns his comrade to base. She's powerless for the rest of the match, but my knight just captured Roldz's queen.
We now have my team safely back at their hidden HQ sending out sensors and scrying to observe/find out opponents and prepare further ambushes.
More to come once we assess the other side. 😈
