Part II: On To Battle
Just as a reminder, I bought spying.
Thor is familiar with Hulk and how his powers work, Reed has dealt with Ultimate Hulk so he can lend his thoughts to the discussion (he built a cage for him actually, but I digress), Lex is familiar with Fate, so we’re well briefed on the combatants. I’ll be utilizing this information in my match.
Part III: The Plan
During prep, here’s what I’m building:
For Lex: http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?image=49114770og6.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=42395303vq2.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=72171293jt0.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10ku3.jpg
It makes him roughly Superman-level. As fast as Fate will be, and roughly as strong.
I’m not pimping Reed out with a suit, but he will have his own defense in the form of invisibility/intangibility, with the help of Thor:
http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=invisibleintangiblecm0.jpg
…Reed will stay inside the vortex at the far end of the battlefield. It’s probably possible for Fate to detect him if he tries, but unlikely since he’ll be occupied with my team.
For Reed:
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helmet1cb2.jpg
http://img387.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helmet2of9.jpg
For those who haven’t read the arc, it’s a helmet that manifests Reed’s thoughts into physical reality (not unlike Doctor’s powers). We’ll stay basic and just say he manifests The Ultimates again.
Ultimate Thor, Iron Man, Cap, Scarlet Witch, Wolverine, etc. Basically we just added a whole team to our side…no different than the summoning that has occurred in past matches (Kandy’s matches come to mind), just more powerful.
And I haven’t even gotten to our heavy hitters.
Habib Unleashed
Papa Smurph had Hulk/Fate grow last match. Great. We will too. Except it’s only ¼ of my team.
Habib grows himself to the size of a skyscraper:
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=210sr.jpg
And gives himself super-strength:
http://img456.imageshack.us/my.php?image=134tb.jpg
And creates a field around himself to convert energy blasts into something harmless:
http://img282.imageshack.us/my.php?image=55eg.jpg
or
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=16jf4.jpg
Take a minute to digest that, and realize how powerful he’ll be. And once he creates something, he doesn’t have to continue to think about it, so he won’t have to give any thought to Lex or Reed.
Basically, I got tired last match of having Habib sit around while he babysat the Galactus-busting gun and made a field around my team. He’s a freaking one-man army, and deserves better.
Habib The Gentle
But why do all of that when I can quell my opponent with less overt tactics. I despise unchecked aggression when there’s simpler ways of handling things.
So Habib will do all that during prep, but once the battle starts he’ll attack Dr. Hulk empathically. See, Papa Smurph has Hulk as his “mind” (if memory serves) and we know from Thor that his strength is fueled by rage.
So Habib does this:
http://img282.imageshack.us/my.php?image=185kg.jpg
…but rather than every thought from every human being (like the scan) why not send Hulk every happy, altruistic, and calming thought in all of human history? Why not indeed?
No personality in the omniverse could take such an influx of gentle emotions and not be calmed by it. So Hulk, by extension, will be Banner, or at least at base levels, and so far below my entire team that killing him or knocking him out will be easy.
In Conclusion
Tomorrow’s a busy day for me, so I’ll make it on when I can but won’t get a chance to do much posting until tomorrow night. I’d ask everyone to hold off on voting until toward the end, unless you can’t, in which case I understand the need for an earlier vote.
….anyway.
If I need to do anything extra in prep, I will, because I can go back and say what I’m doing later on because of my spying.
Otherwise, Reed just made the goddamn Ultimates, World War Doctor will calm Hulk down then smash the living God out of him, Lex is Superman-level, Thor is…well…Thor. And we have two magical beings to deal with anything Fate might have in store for us (pun intended). Any one or two people on my team could probably beat him at this point, but I’m not taking chances. So it’s all coming down, and Papa Smurph is in a helluva lot of trouble.