Crossover Earth '98
Strobe #1 Adam Campbell
After his morning workout, Scott started getting ready to face the day... It certainly had an annoying tendency of needing that kind thing...
Just the typical stuff, callisthenics's, martial arts, standing in front of a high
speed tennis ball shooter, and trying to put the ball's
back in the feed while there flying at high speed at him, without touching them.... you
know... the normal stuff...
Looking at his mail, and seeing mostly bills, "hmmm... pickings seem a bit slim lately.... need to visit the bank..... or maybe rob one..." he thinks.
"Life used to be much easier before............." "Didn't do much for the bills, but then I wasn't desperately trying to maintain such a life style...."
Siting down at the computer, checking his e-mail, "gaaaaa....... Just junk...." Then checking the other account, the one that routes through a rather circuitous route, wandering merrily `round the planet..."ahhh..... more junkmail.... Hello...... what's this, seem's my advert's gotten a response..... hmmm.... Juvulon... wonder what that is....."
A few hours later find our intrepid hero..... (never mind).... Still at the computer
"Well" he thinks "It seems legit, can't find out exactly who's hired me without actually breaking into there system, and that doesn't seem very polite, but It is straight foreword, Break into some place called Upjohn, steal samples of some drug called Juvulon, and leave (much better off at that bill paying thing) with as little evidence left behind as possible. Now lets see what the securitys like, wonder who's doing it....... Ah, him.... So there's probably movement sensor's in all the hallways, and...... hmmmm...... wonder how normal super villains "case" place's, not having worked in security before.....
A few days (and many more preparations) later finds our intrepid......ummmm....
standing in some foliage outside Upjohn matching the layout with the map he acquired,
looks like the only thing I have to worry about is this Blaze character, glad I don't have
his gig, baby sitting buildings like I did before my disappearance made me
"Unreliable". Then `ports into the building near the lab he's looking for, then
onto some nice vantage to try to locate there hired x-hero, who'll probably be the only
one wondering around in an unpredictable manner. Okey, there he is.... and he's going
that'a way... and from through the windows,
there's the camera for lab, appearing under it, taking out his camera, and binoculars
performs his namesake ability, multi-tasking his brain (pity I have to port to be able to
do this....) And teleporting back and forth here and hiding out front (with a good view
with the binoculars of the main desk) pico-second bye pico-second, he's now here And
there...then he does it again, into the broom closet, where he makes a convenient crashing
noise then vanishes, the guard looks up, looks over, just missing the snap of the flash,
and again when looks over at the strange scratching noise at the window he miss's the pic
sliding over
the camera on one those braces like in all those old spy flic's (gotta love mission
impossible)
Now, with the camera taken care of, and blaze wondering off that away, time to get the goodies.. Casually, almost jauntily, going over to the file cabinet, taking the appropriate file "filed under G.... lord know's why...." lays it neatly on the desk, pulls out his little camera, and see's blase looking at him through the glass wall, with vending machine coffee half up to his lips, staring back at him......
"Damn!"
Thinking......"why do they always choose THAT particular moment to realize they
want crappy coffee...." While drawing his tranquilizer gun.... "okey, just port
behind him, knock `im out, prop him up like he fell asleep in a chair.... they'll never be
able to find any evid......... "..."YOUUUCH!!!!!!!!" with the gun going
clacking over there.... "He can shoot through walls..... that's not fair........ nice
shot though................." As he goes for the radio, I get my revenge......
because Its not there anymore, Hold it up, wag my finger smiling, then poof, Im gone, and
it falls to the clattering floor. Now... where the hell is my gun..... God my hand
hurts....... Only stopping my searching to snicker at him, while he's waving his arms at
the camera to get the guards attention before realizing it's blocked, and to port over and
trip him before he can unblock it (good thing his
blast's only work on living things..... I think..... god, my hand hurts.........) And he
goes crashing into a desk papers flying
everywhere...... "Damn..... I'm gonna have to clean that up before I leave, aren't
I..."
"Where the HELL Is my gun???..... Ahhh...... there it is...... In his hand....... damn........And now.... the chase scene......" pity the camera isn't recording, we could send it to funniest home videos us running around this lab like little kids...... whoops..... "errrr... hi" at this blaze brings his hand up for another blast, forgetting he still has the gun in it... feels a tap on his shoulder, looks...... looks again, "wait... two of you???" and feels a sudden lessening of weight in his hand, and small pin prick..... then not much else....
Back to work... God my hand hurts..... and now I gotta clean this friging place to.......
Tiredly take pictures of the file, and take some of the drug itself in a small durable vile he brought with him, and with a heavy sigh, cleans up the lab.... probably the oddest thing I've used my photographic memory for.... Look's again at blaze.... thinking about his throbbing hand..... and a maniacal grin cross's his face.... Vengeance and discrediting him..... in one fell swoop.... Take the sleeping blaze, in a very compromising, and embarrassing position, teleporting him, to a convenient ally, to be found later, wearing nothing but his mask....he heh...
Gets home with his ill gotten gains, sit's back sighing, putting ice on his hand...... then realizes he forgot about the damn pic on the brace over the camera...... Im definitely sleeping in tomorrow.... grudging getting Back into his working cloths...
LA Times
Ex-superhero come Security guard, of the Upjohn institute "Blaze" was found in an ally near the institute by some children, Who's names are withheld at the parents request, wearing nothing more then his mask and a small cut glass window ornament around his neck. Barbiturates where found in his blood stream. He claims he was put there by a meta-villain who he caught robing the institute, but no evidence was found of any break in, nor anything missing, Nor why any villain would want to break into a "Dead Projects" lab to begin with.