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Post by doc on Jan 12, 2010 10:56:33 GMT -5
"Alternate realities - different timelines, and from what I can tell, some kind of cosmic clandestine war." Captain America lists off the explanations as though he were reading his grocery list. "The important thing is that we saved this man who may have some information as to the mastermind behind the scheme. Care to let us in on it, Hawk?"
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Post by dakota on Jan 13, 2010 9:28:59 GMT -5
More and more townsfolk were starting to gather. " We need somewhere's a little less public." Tabitha suggested, half scowling as how casual Cap was about what was going on.
Clint nodded, but then looked at Tabitha. " Hold it, I heard you were dead too."
Tabitha looked at her tattered clothes, then at Cap," I've had hypothermia once this trip, I 'd like to avoid that a second time." she started to walk. " I should have been. But a group that draws it's members just moments before they die recruited me. Captain has met the rest of the team I'm part of. We travel acrossed dimensions to try to fix stuff the the people that recruited the original Exiles team caused in the first place. Hawkeye, that's why things seem wrong to you. The world you and I come is twenty years ahead of this one. To them, you're still a smart mouthed Avengers. That's why Daredevil is still young and Cap alive. I haven't even been born yet in this reality." she explained.
" This is making my head hurt. So the war never happened yet?" Clint asked, using Cap to hold him up.
Tabitha shook her head. " Not for another ten years or so. If it happens here at all. But we need to know what you know, and what happened to to you?"
" enchantress is what happened to me." Hawkeye replied. " She's part of some group calling themselves the Mistresses of Evil. I don't know who all is involved besides her and someone calling herself Sin. I never saw any others, but did catch a reference to there being six of them. I do know they are planning something big, but I was just a toy for Enchantress. I know Apocalypse is the next step in their plan though."
" Great. Blink and Creed will love this." Tabitha sputtered. She turned to Captain America and Daredevil. " I know this isn't your world's fight for now, but you now know more than I did. We could really use both of your help stopping whoever these Mistresses of Evil are."
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Post by Dome on Jan 13, 2010 9:37:42 GMT -5
"If your here, and all this stuff with the brood or whatever those creatures are is happening here," DD starts while rubbing his chin and reflecting on his days events, "then it seems whatever is happening is affecting this world already. If we don't intercede, and this escalates, then we would be just as liable as those who are actively trying to bring about whatever they are working on. I'm in, what do we do?"
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Post by dakota on Jan 13, 2010 10:39:38 GMT -5
" For now we wait until someone shows up to pick us up." Tabitha replied. " Hopefully Blink hasn't forgotten, or don't something stupid like getting herself hurt. no offense, but I don't want to stay here. Meeting mom and dad was complicated enough." She looked to Cap for his answer.
" and I need to get back to our world. " Hawkeye added. " Kind of scares me to think what Logan, Rhodey and Reed have accomplished without me being the voice of reason. " He smirked. " Logan will be releaved you survived."
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Post by doc on Jan 14, 2010 12:34:55 GMT -5
Captain America starts moving the injured Hawkeye along to try and find some medical help. "From the sounds of things, if we don't act, then this war will likely spill over to our world again. I will be contacting SHIELD and the Avengers, and then I will assist if I'm able."
Sin? The Skull's Daughter? This does not bode well. And again, I'm entering a war that my country has not yet joined in. The more things change...
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Post by dakota on Jan 15, 2010 7:44:43 GMT -5
" Of course." Tabitha replied with a nod. " I'm sure someone is worried about you. What about you, Daredevil? Need to check in with anyone too?" She looked at him funny. " Sorry, I just never heard of you."
" There's alot of people you probably never heard of thanks to the war." Clint said with a forceful 'drop it' tone He looked back at the shaft's remains," I lost my bow."
" I'm sure you have plenty more, old man." Tab replied, " and I'm sure you can swindle more arrows out of Wakunda somehow if you need them."
Clint looked at Cap and grinned innocently," It's not like that at all. You know what T'Challa would do to me if I tried something like that."
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Post by Dome on Jan 15, 2010 7:50:49 GMT -5
Daredevil starts to think of his law practice and his partner Foggy Nelson, and says, "I should probably make a phone."
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Post by doc on Jan 15, 2010 19:31:46 GMT -5
Captain America smiles at Clint. "Yes, I know. I saw what happened the last time you tried that stunt." He looks at Daredevil and Tabitha. "Let's get to a radio to contact Fury and see how the others made out and then you and I need to have a talk, old friend." He looks at the old archer.
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Post by dakota on Jan 16, 2010 6:41:05 GMT -5
While everyone was at the the mine collapse, it was simple enough for DD to slip back to gather his belongings and then rendezvous with the others at the old veteran's shack. Fortunately he had a radio that Cap was able to relay the details to Col. Fury while DD called his partner to explain he'd be out of town longer than planned. Neither were too thrilled with the information they got. Fury explained his recovery teams were already on site combing the wreckage. Foggy whined about the case load and the posponements they would need. Prtty much what both men expected.
In the meantime, Tabitha had been talking quietly with Clint. when she saw bothmen finishing up their business, she stoof," I ll let you old soldiers talk. I've got some polishing to do." She pulled her sword from it's sheath and moved to the chair in the corner to begin polishing with a rag from her pocket.
" She's as impulsive as her old man could be, but she really a good kid." Clint said, watching the young Exile. " Now, what do we have to talk about?"
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Post by doc on Jan 16, 2010 9:19:47 GMT -5
Captain America sits next to the older version of his friend and puts his shield out so he can rest on it, and removes his cowl. "What happened, Clint? I need to know."
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Post by dakota on Jan 17, 2010 7:33:43 GMT -5
Clint shrugged. " Where do you want me to start, St...," he caught himself with Daredevil sitting there," Cap? The war in our future or your deaths? Yeah, that's why Tabitha doesn't know of Daredevil. I just wasn't as suprised to see you because I was there when we lost you." He turned back to Cap. " You on the other hand, I tied to keep you alive for almost an hour waiting for help to arrive, but ..." he just shook his head, then forced a smirk," that is the one and only time my lips will EVER touch yours, no matter what world I'm on.
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Post by doc on Jan 17, 2010 9:52:42 GMT -5
"Ah, my friend is in there." Cap smiles at Hawkeye's joke. "While I do want to know about the war, and specifically its causes so I can prevent it here, what I do need to know is what's happened with the Enchantress and those AIM agents."
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Post by Dome on Jan 17, 2010 12:24:18 GMT -5
DD listens to Hawkeye. He thinks it over and says, "I agree with Captain America. We need to solve this current crisis and bring the ones responsible to justice before we focus on anything else."
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Post by dakota on Jan 19, 2010 9:21:21 GMT -5
" the footsoldiers from AIM were just patsies to cover up who was really behind it as far as I can figure." Hawkeye replied. " I don't really know much else, you know how foggy Enchantress' powers make your brain."
Tabitha spoke up," go ahead, tell them the rest. then they might understand why I'm so screwed up."
Clint took a deep breath and began.“ It started close to fifteen years ago, but we didn’t know about it until it was too late. The Skrulls infiltrated us, replacing people we’d never expect, and they had come up with some device that made it almost impossible to detect them. They targeted the psychics first, many of them assassinated in one massive coordinated strike. Within twenty four hours, over half the psychics we know were dead. There was an emergency conference convened by Tony at Stark Tower to try to figure out who was behind it, but while it was going on the Skrulls launched their second phase. Genosha was bombarded by a preemptive SHIELD strike and declared a terrorist haven with some trumped up charges presented by G.W. Bridge had provided.Worst part was Fury knew nothing about it because he was at the meeting. “ At the same time, Doom blindsided those of us that weren’t at the conference with a bunch of stolen Life Model Decoy suicide bombers in a co-ordinated blast that leveled headquarters. Of the members there, only me, Pym, Rhodey, Vision, Widow and Quicksilver were the only ones to get out. Found out later the X-teams didn’t fare any better thanks to a blitz by HYDRA while they were still reeling from Xavier, Jean Grey and Emma Frost being killed. And that was when things started to get bad. “ The Skrulls already in place impersonating some of us struck back. The President was killed on live TV by Fantastic Four impersonators and the Secretary of State’s plane was brought down by Silver Surfer. The vice President went to the United Nations and we were all branded traitors and enemies to humankind. Those of us that survived the next fourty eight hours had to go into hiding with the government out for blood. Problem was the Skrulls were the government we found out later. We gathered everyone we could and regrouped in Wakanda while the world got turned upside down. We wanted to help stop it, but no one even knew where to start once the missiles were launched before we could react. Some of the others wanted to go right out and try to stop things, but when people went from calling us heroes to treating us like enemy number one, there was nothing we could do. The Vision proved that when he didn’t listen to you and Reed, and we lost him. So we stayed put for the time being. Finally, a team was sent back to the States to uncover the truth. Spiderman and Shadowcat found the proof of the Skrulls, and Moon Knight sacrificed himself to make sure they escaped. the problem was there was no one left to tell. A dozen of the world’s most powerful countries were being manipulated, waging war on those that weren’t. The planet was a mess.
“ We’ve been doing what we could ever since with two main forces. Logan, Rhodey , Reed Richards and me since you were killed lead lead one team, while Tony, Ben Grimm, Nick Fury and Thor lead the other. We do what we can to try to convince what’s left of the general population of the truth and expose the Skrulls and their allies, while using guerrilla tactics to strike back as best we can for those that can’t.”
“ Daredevil, I’m afraid you were gone during the early days of the invasion, but it had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t there and details were sketchy, so I don’t know the whole story. I know you were knocked off a roof and fell twenty-some stories onto a busy street, and what ever happened that Elektra was there but would never speak of it. Rumors were she was responsible after a jealous fit after she found out Pepper Potts’s son was yours. No one ever found out either because Elektra was killed in a suicide mission not long after that, but she had acted strangely prior to that.” “ Steve, I know too well how we lost you. Nick somehow got some info on something fishy in Europe and passed it on to our group. You and Wolvie led the charge just like you always do, and walked us right into the trap they baited us into. They had us outnumbered twenty five to one when they ambushed us. And let’s face it, no matter what happens, Captain America always has to be the hero. Problem was Red Skull was leading them and counted on that. You were covering our retreat when you took a machine gun blast from behind before I saw him. The only consolation was Schmidt took his last breath before you did thanks to two arrows through the windpipe. All I could do was sit there with you in my arms while Logan and the rest of the team massacred the rest of them. The only thing harder than that was when I had to tell your wife and daughter you were dead. Guess I should have told you earlier that you finally got over that goofy teenager thing with women long enough to hook up with Carol Danvers after the two of you went on what you called an adventure to help Namor deal with one of Attuma’s schemes before we knew anything about the Skrull’s plan. You had a daughter you named Gloria, though everyone calls her Glory. “ Fury and Stark tried to convince me to take up your shield first, then when I refused, they went after Bucky. He took it, but then told them he would hold in trust until the right person to have it was ready. They tried to argue, but then Carol stepped in, put Tony through a wall for being so callous and agreed with Bucky. He then dedicated himself to being Gloria’s mentor until she turned sixteen and was ready to fill your shoes. You’d have been proud of her, she took the best of both of you rolled up in one. Luckily, she looks like her mother though”
Tabitha butted in while still polishing her blade carefully with a tightly folded cloth, the first indication she was listening. “ The bad news is she went missing shortly before I joined the Exiles a couple months ago.” She looked at Cap,” sorry.”
the far wall shimmered, and a portal appeared. Morph's head stuck through it and he whistled," Wow Tabby, you called out the big guns. Do we have time for autographs before we go home?" an arm stuck through the portal with a notepad for a hand, followed by the other with a camera," maybe some pics for my scrapbook."
Tabitha shook her head and started for the portal," Pull yourself together Morph. what happened to Blink picking us up?"
" they aren't back yet. So I thought I'd help out. so about that pic..."
Tabitha cut him off by pushing him through the portal and following him, beckoning the others to follow.
Clint looked at Cap and DD. " Shouldn't keep the girl waiting. Not with her temper."
[go ahead with closeout posts, new issue starting soon]
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Post by doc on Jan 19, 2010 10:37:29 GMT -5
Cap absorbs Clint's story fully stoic, his face unreadable. "Alright. Thanks, Clint. Now, let's get this show on the road, as they say." He looks to Tabitha. "I'm ready."
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