Charlotte DeBel wrote on Jun 4th, 2008 01:38 PM:
This round I'm fielding
Shifter (Hank Pym+Shift)
Terminatrix (Brainy+Angie)- SuperAdaptoid makeup is still working, of course
Apollo – SA makeup
6 Terminatrix dupesSome quick explanation aka “Spotlight on Shifter”
In fact, Shifter is a "do-it-yourself" planet Ego- he can do nearly anything he need from his very own body, and he has the mass of entire dimension to work with.
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That’s unlimited mass supply for various kinds of chemical craziness, since Metamorpho\Shift’s capabilities in turning into stuff are practically unlimited.
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The only limitation is mass- but when your physical makeup is totally unhuman, I don’t think you should worry about gravity distorting your body.
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Given that, he has unlimited mass (or nearly unlimited- an entire dimension) to turn into nearly anything he can imagine- any technology or chemical weapon possible.
What’s even funnier about that, is that Shift’s powers work a bit like Absorbing Man- he can imitate any thing he touched, saw or knows exact chemical makeup.
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So the materials he can create from his own (unlimited) body mass are unlimited in his variety. And here’s where the fun starts.
Prep.
Doing basic things
First, we have Nate\Mantis amalgam telepathically "feed" Shifter all the technological data we have. So far we have:
Knowledge of Enginner and Brainiac8
Knowledge of Malefic and Mr Terrific (from the 1st round)
Knowledge of Forge and Ultimate Mr Fantastic (from the 2nd round)
Knowledge of prof. Ivo and Brainiac5 (3rd round)
Plus data on 616 Fixer, Reed and Doom's abilities (including technological data), data on psi-amplifying tech, X-Mansion’s Danger Room etc- anything we have in that regard, the knowledge is mostly passive due to the vast bulk of data, but we have more that enough psionics to help Shifter (who already has Pym's genius-level mind) extract the data when needed and which is needed.
Then we have Shifter to “touch” and remember the properties of the following compounds\things:
Engineer’s nanites
Apollo’s solar absorbing cells
Then, via Super Adaptoid’s powers (and Sersi’s powers) we recreate and give Shifter to memorize the samples of:
Captain America’s shield
Emma Frost’s organic diamond
Inerton (nice superhard metal from previous round)
Once we’re done with that, Terminatrix uses Super Adaptoid's abilities and copies the powers of everyone from Gundam's team.
Then she creates a dupe of herself (SA-fashioned) who is given the powersets of Graviton, New Son, Power Cosmic (via Terrax and Airwalker’s powersets) and Vulcan’s powerset.
Meanwhile, Shifter shapeshifts himself into Ultron-looking robot with adamantuium skin and grows to the size of Empire State Building. Once he reaches that height, he swallows a dupe of Terminatrix inside himself. The dupe will act as his symbiote during the entire ordeal, negating whatever gravity influence happens to the Shifter, using New Son’s and Vulcan’s mastery of kinetic energy to speedup and catalyze all necessary chemical changes occurring within Shifter’s body and Power Cosmic to power up all the machinery. He's merging with him and will keep merged during all that stuff, being more of kind of "life support system".
While all that happens, Terminatrix changes Apollo into Super Adaptoid, sharing with him a few powersets from her current (really huge and I’m planning on making it even huger) collection- such as Terrax, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Thor, Lightray, Martian Manhunter, Spartan\Void, Hercules, Iron Fist, Shang Chi, Mantis, Box (M. Jeffries), etc.
At the time Shifter (assisted by a dupe inside him) grows even more- this time aproximately 7 miles tall, covered into Inerton and starts some major shapeshifting. To begin with, the area within “Ultron’s head” is shapeshifted to have a few huge chambers inside of it- one of it being fashioned as Cerebra Chamber- or better yet, chambers, since one Cerebra is replicated per each member. Another chamber is basically a replica of X-Men’s Danger Room (approximately 6 times bigger than original with the walls made of the same alloy Captain America’s shield made from). All those chambers are equipped by replicas of necessary tech, well-lit, warm and are filled with breathable fresh mountain air. Any equipment needed Shifter can create from his (near infinity) body mass, as well as create extra rooms etc.
Once that’s finished, Shifter “swallows” all his teammates inside himself into these chambers. Then Terminatrix uses Void template to teleport everyone to the hollow core of the planet.
Once there (and both my and Gundam’s teams are inside the Shifter), the interesting things begin. That takes less than a day, and we have more than 6 days to do that.
“Power… give me more power"
Last round Leo’s team tried to adapt Infonet (courtesy of Black Box) to DCverse- that has failed due to single reason- his team lacks master hackers from that universes. Mine, on the other hand, have copied Dominus Objective from Black Box and guess who did the copying? Terminatrix. Aka the amalgam of Engineer and Brainiac 8, both master hackers in their universes.
So what we do is using Terminatrix to adjust the Infonet to Wildstorm Verse and DCverse and then start downloading some interesting databases. For example, the Stormwatch database, that Henry Bendix used to create himself an Amazo-like body with the templates of Stormwatch\Stormwatch Black members.
Winter, Jenny Sparks, Battalion (another powerful psi-template to my collection) will go just well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwatch_%28comics%29
We also use Brainiac8’s abilities to download the data on JLA members used by Brother Eye\OMACs and decipher it into “adaptoidable” format.
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That’s in addition to the basic Adaptoid’s list I have, plus data on Leo’s team, some people from B-Dub’s team(+Amazo database), Gundam’s team, Cerebro data on powers of X-roster and extra characters aka Air-Walker, Darkstar and New Son, temporary resurrected by Mental Madonna from astral plane last round.
That done, she enters a “hyperspeed” mode, combining speeds of Flash, Savitar etc, and starts to work on her abilities (while in Danger Room replica). 5 more dupes of her are created in that moment, 2 of them keep all the templates of original, 3 others are concentrated more on superspeed and psi-templates. They start practicing their abilities for actual day and relative...well, how much would the day be accelerated at 99,9% of light speed?
Apollo does just the same with his newly-found abilities, using Lightray's powers in process to put himself into state of constant sundip for all the remaining prep time.
Our psionics are practicing teamwork in the “Cerebra Chamber”- or chambers, since it gets separated into two once the creation of dupes is done. Those are Xavier, Exodus, Legion, three Terminatrix dupes sporting the list of psi-powers from:
Nate Grey
Cable
Professor X
Jean Grey
Rachel Summers
Emma Frost
Lady Mastermind
Doctor Druid
Psylocke
Kid Omega
Moondragon
Mentallo
Sersi
Martian Manhunter
Batallion
And a few else who is less impressive. They have also the combined psi-experience of Nate, Rachel, Cable, Emma, Prof X and the abilities on how to use their power. In fact, that's one potent psi-force.
Those Adapt-dupes go in the second chamber, separated from Gundam’s characters, and wire themselves into that advanced version of Cerebra Shifter has rectreated. What's more, they use the Martian Manhunter's template to even further increase their powers by growing the "neuro-net"- a cybernethic analogue of stretching one's nervous system shown here.
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Since droids don't need to breathe, they can fill entire chamber with “neuro-net”, becoming one huge uber-brain.
“Cerebral” suits of armour, akin to the one I had Nate to wear in previous round, would be given to Gundam's guys as well.