[Event] The Days of Valor and Villainy: March of the Dark Stars! #0

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

[Location: Nahan Springs, Downtown area]

It was as sudden as it was frightening. A black spot in sky, stars that were once observed were simply...gone. No one understood what it meant, no one knew what it meant. This ominous void that suddenly appeared, and devoured ancient lights.

Then...there came a message, a warning, carried on the air with a furious roar in the minds of all who could be reached. It didn't matter the origin, or the language. It didn't matter the state or the allegiance. It was a message to be understood.

[THEY COME. PREPARE. THEY COME. PREPARE. THEY C-]

Then...there was deep silence. The winds stopped, as if reacting with fear.

It was not soon after when the void grew larger and R.E.D.I. mobilized.  They did not have much time but they were able to ascertain that what was approaching was a massive ship of some sort. It was moving at a rapid speed leaving them little time to truly prepare.

R.E.D.I. sent out the call and got to work.

It was only a week...

Now, years in the sky have opened and loom above cities all around the world and everyone waits with baited breath. R.E.D.I. still searching for an answer to this new crisis.
In Nahan Springs a shelter has been built and a call for heroes to defend the city has gone out hoping that their defense will be adequate.

No one knows when it will begin but as heroes gather all anyone can do is wait and try to stay safe....

Edited Wednesday at 10:43 PM by AsBloodTurnsEverCold

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

The people were scrambling. Emergency services on high alert on every corner. Soldiers of all types stood by awaiting orders and ready to protect the shelters that had been erected through The Shining City as everyone prepared. Above the clouds twisted and turned in a threatening display and from them emerged an enormous black ship created of a technology no one could understand. It sat silently above the gold and antiquated buildings, with a mount open like some manner of monster. It was silent, merely floating above the city silently. There was something...unsettling about it besides its size and design. There seemed to be an area around it that caused great unease and at any moment it felt as though it could spring to life. It was clearly made of metal and yet it seemed alive.

Jets flew by, no one acting until given the signal by those in charge who were currently arguing in some base somewhere about what to do. Everyone was on standby, but that was beneficial in some way. It lets the various Valors and Viles who cared time to gather and know who they were to fight alongside. Not everyone was from the same city, and not everyone had the same idea about the situation but with the severity of things they were forced together. Not every city had one of these black ships above them. It seemed deliberate, focused upon major cities with a lot of life.

Set up in the Downtown area was a large tent housing advanced equipment. Around it were intimidating figures in advanced armor who seemed to have no purpose other than to protect the tent. There weren't many, and they said not a word other than asking for ID when people approached. They were silent guardians of the people inside who were working their hardest to decipher the identity of their new visitors. It had been some time since R.E.D.I. had mobilized like this....so everyone knew that nothing good could come of things.



The rest of the normal force were made up of normal soldiers and G.H.A.R.D. Soldiers called upon to aid the Valors (and Viles by consequence) who had answered the call. They were more talkative. They were normal men and women who believed in the mission but their equipment wasn't remotely as advanced. Some of them were scared and others were excited for the action. This wasn't a new situation by far, or at least, it appeared to be rather standard! Alien force? Check. Advanced warning for some reason? Check. Threatening ships? Check. What was the worst that could happen? The heroes would be enough to solve this problem like they usually were.

No one else was quite sure. This felt different. This felt different to the usual alien invasions. The Rust Men of Mars hadn't created such fear, the Black Hole Harriers hadn't done more than terrorize a small town, the Three Legged conquerors from Venus had waged war on the world but even they seemed so small compared to whatever this was. This felt like something new in a way. A new threat for a new age of heroes and villains. A new threat that would put to the test more than themselves...but no one was sure. They only had sighting of a legion of black ships floating vigilantly over the cities of tomorrow and yesterday. They only had silent monuments that carried a threat unheard and unrealized.

Would they be side? No one was sure. 

But they were preparing to find out and inside the tent the brains of R.E.D.I. were hard at work including the particular scientist in charge of this particular zone. 

Yuka had been assigned Zone 3, or Nahan Springs as it was called and appointed lead. She had put out a call for any individual willing to respond...not simply Valors and not simply Villains. She had suspected that the ships were after areas of high life concentration though for what reason she had not worked out. She also managed to pick up a strange signal...almost imperceptible but was hard at work trying to decode it.

She was a simple Class 2 but she was rising through the ranks fast so eyes were on her to know exactly what was going on.

She stood outside and stared up at the ship though she wasn't not working. Scanning, analysis, and stalking were all things the woman could do easily from her apparatus. She wondered....would those she called really be ready? She wasn't a superstitious woman which was quite funny given the world she lived in but even she could feel something different.

If R.E.D.I didn't find an answer would the heroes be able to handle what was coming? Would the villains take advantage? Would Earth be doomed?

She just didn't know...

Had they even correctly estimated the danger? Zeus....

It felt too low. She put her hands on her hips as she worked through the files. If there was any time for the beings of the plant to prove themselves then she was sure it would be now.
She'd do her best to aid them in that but well...perhaps they all needed a little luck.

[AsBloodTurnsEverCold]

Everglow gently set down, letting the man and woman's feet touch the ground first before crouching ever so slightly to let the children off. He stood tall as they moved to the shelter and vanished inside, waving at the children who thanked him. He was a native of this city so knew that these shelters were state of the art. The hero had been helping people get to where they needed to be the whole day. He didn't really need to be called upon to defend his home. There were, of course, stubborn citizens but the people of his city tended to be very hopeful of their heroes. He didn't want to let them down but even he had to admit this felt odd. Once they were inside he took to the sky again and flew towards the staging area, a glowing trail behind him as he moved quickly through the city streets. Empty. It was odd to see but he was thankful.

He set down once he got close and walked inside. The valor had been at this for some time. He'd fought some heavy hitting entities but it was always weird seeing things set up like this. The armed soldiers and scientists scrambling around, the incident reporters and more. It felt different to even your usual happening which was often sudden. He'd never really had the chance to prepare before. He also wasn't particularly fond of G.H.A.R.D. due to their stance on unregistered heroes but they did move quickly. They had arrived within hours of R.E.D.I.'s call and set up and so did some other heroes some of which he knew and others he didn't There were even Villains, some of which he'd once put in prison and others he'd only read about on the news. It was all something new to him. The Kaiju Panic hadn't even bee this...organized.

His white cape flowing behind him as he moved he went over to an observation area set up near the Grand Fountain and looked up. Ominous twisting clouds. The city was...afraid. The energy he could normally feel flowing normally seemed almost afraid of this thing. He'd fought aliens but he'd never seen anything like this. He'd never heard anything like that voice n his head before. It sounded like millions all crying out in warning and then it was a deep silence. It had scared him and he imagined it scared the regular citizens more. What was coming? He really hoped they could stop it. He'd seen enough destruction.

Still...Everglow fiddled with his mask and leaned over the railing and looked into the waters of the fountain. He listened as heavy footsteps marched and took position. Heroes and villains talked, and wondered. It was all they could do at the moment was wonder. He had ever desire to go up to that ship and knock but he wasn't that impulsive. All he could do was wait with the others and be ready to act at a moments notice. It was all heroes could really do in situations like this. Wait, act, and do their best to protect those who couldn't protect themselves.

His suit gently pulsed with the low hum of energy. He listened to the ambient power and stared into the water.

All they could do was wait....