H Y P E R L A N E
Music: Skeler - ID
After checking in with Mara, and restocking on supplies from his safe house tucked away in Santo, Jack gets into his modified Mitzutani Shion and makes for the nearest Hyperlane entrance.
Setting the Hyperlane auto-driver to the Northern Industrial District Sector 12 exit.
The steering wheel retracts, his seat moves and leans backwards to a 45 degree angle as the vehicle engages it's mag-lev guided system and launches forward, pulling 2gs, pressing him into the syn-leather seats. The skin on his face distorts ever so slightly, but only takes a few seconds to adjust to this new accelerated norm. 300 mph, driven by a supercharged BMW E30 engine, a swap out from it's stock 5-cyclinder; a twin turbo aspiration for better usage in his races as opposed to a single which would be better off the line. Lastly, the piece that makes this all possible on the Hyperlane, a mag-lev system installed on the bottom of the car that acts like a rail-gun accelerator. Using an advanced Electro-magnet, it works in tandem with the Hyperlane's electro magnets built into the road. I would direct you to this link for in-depth information on how Mag-lev propulsion works if you're not familiar.
It'll be 20 minutes before he reaches the NID at this speed. With the Hyperlanes having a diameter of roughly 100 miles give or take a dozen here and there.
During this time, Jack call's Gordie "Optic" Dockett. A Media out of Watson's mega-building 10. He'd done work with him before, specifically the Dynalar gig with Mara, and the guy seemed capable. Though he didn't like the idea of splitting the pot.
The holo rings…."Jack, Mara tells me you might need a hand?"
"Yea I've got this guy in NID that owes a bookie in Watson money."
"Bookie in Watson? Who?"
"No idea, wasn't in the deets. Anyhow, I'm not sure what I'm walkin into so if you don't mind being an extra body.."
Gordie cuts him off, "I got you Jack, no worries. Just slide a piece of that 10 thou when you're done."
Jack curses to himself. Why the fuck did Mara tell him how much it was?
"Sure, let's call it a flat 2 and see where it goes from there."
Jack rolls a 17 for Persuasion vs. Gordie Dockett's 23
"Woah woah. 20%? Maybe it's cause we haven't worked together enough but I ain't some hired muscle. You call me, shits getting done. I want 40 flat, and 50 if there's issues."
Jack grits his teeth. He rolls a crit success 20 for Cool. He avoids being argumentative.
"Gouging me man. Alright whatever, fine 40 it is. I'll see you there."
Jack sends him some meet-up cords in NID and closes the call.
Jack messages Mara
Way to hand out too much info. The guy is takin half the pot …just let me explain the deets on the gig next time please.
Well fed hands, Jack. He did a lot of work pro-bono for me on my next gig.
For you. This is my gig with a different fixer. Just saying respect the boundaries.
Mara sends a confirmation but doesn't reply.
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Superman: Rise of Isis (Henry Cavill/Superman Fanfic) Chapter 27: Quadrant 3 (Cyborg POV)
CYBORG POV
So far so good. Things are going as Batman and I had planned.
Quadrant 1 started with Grand Canyon itself, fairly peaceful. As we headed for Sedona-or Quadrant 2, Sethos, Deathstroke, Circe, Cheetah and Firefly emerged with a military strike team. The goal was to contain or defeat them in the long stretch of desert to prevent them from being a problem in Sedona, with Aquaman's sole purpose being to contain Firefly. Watching Oak Creek rise and obey the King of Atlantis was something to behold from the air. Cheetah was put out of commission in this quadrant, retreating to the Lexwing.
Now we are Quadrant 3, Red Rock National Park and community. Aquaman is staying in the area with Flash to sweep for any threats or to help any people who may have gotten caught in the middle. I watch as he uses the waters to help kayakers and Flash helps with people on shore.
"What the hell are these?!"
I look at the screen and see them, and unfortunately I've seen them before. They were set free the same night that we got Isis out of Alcatraz. "They are metahumans of some sort---"
"Not all of them."
I start doing facial scans to let Batman's computer do the work, but the fighting began before I could get a lock on everyone. Deathstroke and Batman are doing an aerial battle I am recording for later study, Kal and Isis are flying but dealing with Sethos.
"You will give me the jewel!" Sethos roars.
"You will never have the staff of Amun-Ra!" Isis cries.
"Any Kryptonian can have it!"
"Yes-" Isis says slowly. "Any Kryptonian."
"You will die, today, Isis!"
I look to the ground where the rest are and see a fog encircling everyone. A face appears and the computer captures it. The plants start to grow larger and move.
"Mist is here!"
"Yeah!" Flash nods, watching Mist take human form and materializing to throw a grenade at cars in a school parking lot. "He needs to be contained!"
"Air and fauna are hardly ever contained!" Poison Ivy comes into view. Plants start to snake their way to Upper Red Rock Road, where the high school and performing arts center is.
Who could go against someone like this? "Aquaman--"
"On it!" Aquaman flips off his cycle with trident and shield in hand as the trees snatch it. He rolls and turns, pointing his trident at the plants and begins to dehydrate them.
"My babies!" Poison Ivy fumes.
"Stand!" I tell everyone.
Green Lantern starts to turn and create a funnel, pulling air to him but Mist as well. He rises above the funnel before Mist can touch him and turns to encompass him in a green sphere. I smile as Mist bounces about inside the bubble, unable to escape.
"So where do I take this?"
I frown. "Damn." I put the Flying Fox on remote in my memory, grab a cylinder, and ignite my rocket to fly down. "Here!" I fly back up to the ship and get another, flying it down to the ground while narrowly missing the firefight between Deathstroke and Batman. "Aquaman!"
Aquaman nods and turns his trident toward Poison Ivy herself. Horror stricken, she backs away. I was going to hold the cylinder, but then I see a man of steel, and not Superman.
"Girder," I say softly, and turn to fire my sonic cannon at him, protecting the cylinder and myself.
Girder struggles with the disruption, giving Flash enough to time to push away...and away...and away...
"Where you goin'?" I yell.
"I don't know!" Flash yells back.
Aquaman keeps backing Poison Ivy toward the cyclinder and she tries to move away, but then I turn on suction and it brings her inside. I seal the top and she screams.
"Can't do much with glass and metal," I mutter. In the distance near Boyton Canyon, I see a figure streaking across the sky.
"Uh-oh," Aquaman says. "Who was that?"
I sharpen my red eye and use the telescopic vision and hearing:
"You are not going to the temple!" Sethos sneers.
"It is my right!" Isis says with outrage.
"I have your staff!" Sethos declares. "You have already been defeated by me!" He twirls the staff, and adds in a growl, "You lost your right ages ago."
The flying figure stops.
"Who are you?" Kal El asks.
"Rightful ruler." he replies. "I am Black Adam"
"Of what?" Sethos asks.
"Of all I survey," he says, outstretching his hand. "The staff, woman."
"No," she says simply.
"Batman!" I call to him. "Plan B!"
The hatch of the ship opens and out flies none other than Shazam.
"Seriously?" Shazam says and takes off.
"Can't you get your own powers?" Shazam asks. "Always trying to steal or swindle them--"
"Quiet, boy!" the warrior says. "My rule will start with you, on your knees or in your grave!"
"Who is that?" Flash asks as the two beings start trading blows that spark lightning.
"Black Adam," Batman, Aquaman and I reply.
"What are we gonna do?" Flash looks panicked.
"Not my fight," Batman replies. "Not this time."
Isis takes off with her mother's staff, and Superman and Sethos start fighting in the air, the former with crook and flail, the latter with a staff. Isis flies over the Kachina Woman statue to a structure behind it built in the stone. It was the temple, hidden in plain sight.
Kal puts up a good fight and Sethos chases him inside the temple. Moments later, the skies darken.
Deathstroke jets for the temple but I blast him with my sonic cannon. He goes into a tailspin and heads for the Lexwing, which has stopped moving.
Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and I secure prisoners as the Lexwing just hovers.
"Why isn't he attacking?"
"We're protected by the Fox," I answer.
"So it's over?" Flash asks.
"I think it has just begun."
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Item: What appears to be some kind of cell, perhaps? A cylindrical object, two dark and seemingly plastic caps, albeit unusually hard, even for a plastic, at either end, each with a small contact of a vaugely green crystalline substance. The part of the cyclinder between the caps is seemingly transparent and filled with an opaque, dark green substance, which occasionally seems to pulse with light. Both caps have markings, not in any known language, and mirrored, besides one single symbol difference between the two, likely denoting charge polarity.
Recipient: Ana
“Hm……certainly a battery of some kind…..” Once more she carefully examines the object. What could it be a battery for? Who made it?
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