758/The Covens Curiousity:Wildfire V Juggernaut

The Covens Curiousity:Wildfire V Juggernaut
Date of Scene:	03 June 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	The Coven curious about a newly arrived player send their Mercenary against this mysterious space travaller only to be surprised just what he's capable of.
Cast of Characters:	Selene (Underworld), 357, Juggernaut

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Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     The Coven didn't know a lot about Wildfire and anything they didn't know much about made them curious. So of course this called for a probe of sorts, after all the best way to tell somethings power is to send something else up against it. A little skirmish with no known motive or certainly connection to them. For such a task they knew a mercenary suited for the job, someone already known for rampant violence at the proverbial drop of the hat.

The leader of the 'Death Dealers' the covens martial branch was there to see it all unfold. Keeping to the roofs as she waited with patience in her usual black outfit of tight fitting latex, leather, and kevlar with a long leather jacket over top to conceal her further. Those somewhat glowing blue eyes looking into the night as she spotted their quarry and sent the signal a text message to Juggernaut where exactly this new visitor to their planet was.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Selene watching him goes unnoticed. For all his power.. Drake doesn't possess super senses. At least not of the surveillance detection variety. The new guy on the scene, drifts through the air watching below him. Not patrolling.. this isn't his turf. His turf is out there.. in the stars. That said.. Drake will intervene in thuggery on Earth too. Just not a priority. Many teams dedicated to that sort of thing. So right now he's watching people having fun on a friday night about 6 stories below him.

Juggernaut has posed:
    JGR: K. THNX

flashes onto Selene's device in response to the texting of the location of Wildfire. Following that things seem fairly normal and the night carries on without anything unusual happening.

That is until a low whistling sound can be heard and a large shadow begins to fall on Wildfire despite his height in the skies above. Someone yells out, "LOOK OUT!" as eyes turn skyward to see what appears to be a city bus hurtling across the sky like a missile, metal stressing and groaning as it twists through the air, and bears down on Wildfire from behind as If it had been thrown like an Olympic Javelin. Should Wildfire turn it'll be to see the massive vehicle hurtling right at him, front first.

Some distance away, the massive and monstrously muscled form of The Juggernaut stands in the streets, an astonished bus driver that he at least had the courtesy to let get off the bus before he threw it, staring slack jawed at the giants feet. Juggernaut shields his eyes slightly, watching as the bus sails at Wildfire. "Whew. Good thing I didn't throw that hard enough to send it into orbit..":

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     "That's one way to 'thrown down the gauntlet'." She said amused watching the bus fly through the air as she moved closer towards the action in a feat of acrobatics and agility. Her speed and poise keeping her to the shadows even though she was certain their quarry's attention would be firmly focused on the bus hurtling through the air towards him. She looked down at her device and scoffed slightly. "I hate text speech." She said in response to the Juggernauts reply even as she was already recording the affair. "Now lets see just how powerful this new player is."

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     The Coven didn't know a lot about Wildfire and anything they didn't know much about made them curious. So of course this called for a probe of sorts, after all the best way to tell somethings power is to send something else up against it. A little skirmish with no known motive or certainly connection to them. For such a task they knew a mercenary suited for the job, someone already known for rampant violence at the proverbial drop of the hat.

The leader of the 'Death Dealers' the covens martial branch was there to see it all unfold. Keeping to the roofs as she waited with patience in her usual black outfit of tight fitting latex, leather, and kevlar with a long leather jacket over top to conceal her further. Those somewhat glowing blue eyes looking into the night as she spotted their quarry and sent the signal a text message to Juggernaut where exactly this new visitor to their planet was.

((repose of opener that didn't make it into log))

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire pauses, staring hard at the ground. A shadow just eclipsed his own. "But there's nothing behind....." He mutters, turning to face the cause of the shadow. And takes a bus to the face! Or.. the faceplate.

"Ugh.. son of a half crazed qwardian fecal pot!!" The lengthy and odd expletive gets cursed at whomever threw the damn bus at him. Falling swiftly under twenty tons of steel and glass and lets face it.. under-the-seat-gum, Wildfire has little options available.

He pushes off and flies backwards for a long moment, then lifts his faceplate. A simple peice of black glass mounted to the helmet of his suit. From a distance it looks like he's just getting an unimpaired look at the bus.

Then the sky lights up like a nuke just got dropped. Brightness compareable to midday sunlight flashes out for a long 45 seconds or so, accompanied by the boom of an explosion. For those watching, a beam of blistering energy that encompasses the bus in nuclear fire erupts from the opening in his helmet, reaching up into space and likely giving the ISS a show. He holds it for a a long moment as the bus simply comes apart at the molecular level in the blistering assault. There is nothing left to fall.

The faceplate gets locked back in place and he takes a moment to recover before he starts to look around. "Who in the 9 hellworlds threw the bus at me?"

Juggernaut has posed:
A heavy *TWHOOOM* rocks the area as Juggernaut clears the distance of city block and a large building by means of a huge earth shuddering leap and impacts onto the ground about a city block away from where Wildfire l just in time to witness the flash of light and the tremendous display of destructive potential that lights up the sky and cats his massive body in deep canyon like shadows.

The earth ruptures beneath him from his impact but he steps forward, each footfall lurching the area with miniature quakes and cracks spreading out from deep footprints that sink into the concrete and stone by a full foot just from his casual steps.

"Whoa! Not to shabby.." he rumbles out and then he raises his voice and calls out to Wildfire, ""Hey you seem stronger then I though! No wonder they shelled out the big bucks to call me in. What gives..? You some sort of crazy mutant or something?"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     Those blue glowing eyes of Selene's widened as the sight of that massive explosion removing the Bus nearly from existence itself. She felt the shake of the shock wave even from where she was standing taking a step back and sending another message to Juggernaut.

TXT: See if you can discover his motives. Villain, hero, something in between? We need to know who were dealing with and if he's a threat.

Someone with such power warranted knowing why he was here on this planet as the Coven liked to keep their hands into all the pots they could and someone like this could stir them in a way they may not like.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Hearing the calls, Wildfire spins to face them, seeing the huge man in red armor. "Are you the spizzling nebula sucker who threw the bus at me?" He demands, cursing Cain once more. Drifting lower he comes within 10 feet of the armored juggernaut. "Hired? So it was you? Who hired you to attack me?" He asks him. But when asked what he is, he merely shrugs. "I'm.. something."

Juggernaut has posed:
    "What am, a game show host?" grunts Juggernaut as Selene's message comes through his headset, read aloud by the computer. He's no means to respond to her at this point but he's clearly annoyed. "You a hire a guy who can punch Hulk into orbit and ask 'im to do 20 questions. I shoulda demanded carte blanche." But he is being paid a lot of money and Selene is his handler..so..as Wildcire curses at him and approaches he rumbles, "that's righ kid." Eh jabs a thumb into his meat chest for emphasis, massive pectoals bunching up hugely and creaking his armor audibly.

"Lemme ask the questions. You're not from around here, right? What's that 'something' and what's your name" He grins, teeth visible and full within the shadows of his helm, "I always like to know the names of the jokers I gotta mangle. It's good business and polite"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     She re-positioned herself to get a better angle as the two clashed, intent on getting the best footage she could for later study. After all if it did turn out this new 'alien' for lack of a better term was hostile they needed all they could get on him. She remained as stoic as ever despite Juggernaut's approach to things, the further from what she desired the better. After all she didn't want them associated with this little probing mission.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Crosses his arms Drake sneers." Mercenaries.. I hate mercenaries. No honor whatsoever." He tells Juggernaut. He kind of still wishes he still had a body so he he spit at Juggernaut's feet. "You can call me 'oh god please stop' or.. 'please!! noo!!' Hells, call me 'Run!!' That's what I hear most often. My name however... is Wildfire. Hi." He says, raising both hands, glowing with seething white energies. " Mangle this."

Both palms open and twin beams of anti-matter engeries leap from his hands and snap out to slam into the man with the concussive force to snap that previous bus in half. The heat is intense with the energy he produces.

Juggernaut has posed:
    Another flash fills the air followed by an explosive roar as the twin beams slam into the torso of Juggernaut and the the shockwave from the impact explodes out around the giant while kicking up a mushroom cloud of debris and smoke that is both basted away and vaporized fairly quickly by the intense heat wave that envelops the vicinity around the giant.. And when the dust clears, Juggernaut has barely blinked and not even been moved from where he stood.

"Is that it?" he rumbles while raising a huge hand up and clenching his fingers into a monstrous fist. His knuckles creak and crack like the sound of sequia's splintering and he tenses a bicep, bulking it up towards the size of a small car.

" Don't you know who I am?" He rumbles as he twists at the waist and then --

" I'm THE JUGGERNAUT!" The next instant sees his fist hurtling around towards Wildfire as he bears down on the other man. The air pressure alone beginning to shake the area as the fist hurtles around with force that would turn a tank into shredded confetti.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     Interference in this things was always a problem. As she hear the police nearing from a few streets away she dashed at incredible speed. Flipping between buildings as she focused upside down in mid air sending several shots into the tires of the approaching police units to slow them down only to continue on down the street tossing a handful of caltrop like devices to get the vehicles approaching from another direction before she resumed her recording in time to see the two forces clash above. "He really loves saying that." She said somewhat dry amusement, curious who would yield first.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Eyes go wide as Wildfire see's Juggernaut not even fazed by the blast. "Just.. stop! I don't want to hurt you!" He shouts, dropping the assault and soaring back up into the air. Benefit of being a being of pure energy.. he needs no acceleration time. He just moves. Still confidant he can put a stop to the crazed man, he just doesn't want to hurt the area around him.

Drake can hears the sirens, so remniscent of the Science Police where he's from. But he kind of has his hands full.

"Fine.. I warned you!" He says and he starts to swell, growing and growing til his feet touch the ground again. Easily 40 feet tall. A massive hand comes down in a fist, to crush the Juggernaut, 100 plus tons of force coming down on Juggernaut's head.

Juggernaut has posed:
    Juggernaut's first swing is a miss as one instant Wildfire is there and the next, he's not! The sheer force of his blow sends a blast of air pressure exploding across the landscape, blowing cars over and shaking the entire cit block . He staggers abit, not expecting such acceleration and movement from his quarry. He then looks up as Wildfire reaches his apex..and begins to grow. Juggernaut's eyes widen at that though it's more from surprise and interest than any sort of fear or shock. "Hrm..he might not be from around 'here'.." he speaks into hs headset, communicating with Selene as Wildfire continues his growth. And then the fist comes hurtling down.

Juggernaut vanishes beneath it. The impact thunderous and kicking off a seismic event that rattles its way up and down the entire local area. Windowws shattering and a huge crater forming along with a plume of dust and debris that fliees up as igh as Wildfire is tall. At first the fate of Juggernaut is unclear. But.it doesn't take long for Wildfire to realize that fist never actually reached the ground itself and was stopped dead in its tracks by Juggernaut's own massive fist punching upward to slam into the giants and hold it at bay. The huge man widens his stance and grins as his other fist clenches and cranks down as his legs crouch.

"Nice punch!" he rumbles, "That's at least as strong as what I've seen Colossus do! Maybe even Thor!"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     Selene ducks behind a wall on the roof she was upon as the blast wave goes by, holding her long coat up to help shield herself from the sheer force as she responded afterwards.

TXT: He seems reluctant, he may not be an invader at the very least.

It was becoming obvious that this was certainly a new player when it comes to the clash of the titans but so far at least not one that appeared to be a problem for The Coven at least for now. Still though she was reluctant, there was still so much they didn't know. Why was he here of all places? Why has he come?

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire recoils from the punch back into his fist. He wasnt expecting that. "Nova's you're strong.. what Species are you? Kryptonian? Daxamite?" He questions of the armored man. Then smiles inside his helmet, seeing the eyeholes of the dome over Juggernauts head. "They have a saying in this era.. If you can't beat'em.. join em.." He tells Cain, and cocks a fist back as if to strike. But as the fist soars down. the man starts to shrink. Down down down back to man size.. then.. smaller. Toddler size.. Infant.. Cat.. Mouse.. then gone. At least to any unpowered eyes. He's about as big as a nickel now, soaring toward Juggernauts armored face. The man might see a dark blur like a large fly in his face. Wildfire is aiming to get inside his helmet (the dome one) via the eye holes.

Juggernaut has posed:
    "I aint no wussy Kryptonian or Daxamite." declares Juggernaut, never missing an opportuinty to brag about himself, "I make those guys look like pipsqueaks!" He readies himself to leap at the giant Wildfire but then the shrinking happens and Juggernaut pauses in his movements, skidding to a stop and blinking rapidly as Wildfire blurs infront of his vision and momentarily vanishes from his line of sight, "What the hell.." he rumbles, to himself and also into his communicator. "..He's gone! He punked out!" He swivels at the waist, turning from side to side to try and get a good look of the area. "..He's got a broad set of powers. That hit would have flattened anybody that can't take a hit from at least The Thing... plu sflight, energy, growth..teleportation. Th'hell is he?"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     Selene narrowed her eyes, in just these few moments they'd already seen so much from this new entity. But he knew all about other alien races that had visited earth so in all likelihood he was one himself.

TXT: I didn't see him leave, he must still be there somewhere. Be cautious, he may have even more tricks and we want to see all of them.

No wonder the Elder Council wanted to learn what they could about this Wildfire, his abilities were on par with some of the OMEGA level mutants and other aliens they catalogued and tried to avoid.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire slips inside the helmet, darting around to the side. "What does punk out mean? Is that meant to mean I ran away? Hardly..I'm just ALOT harder to hit. I wonder though.. how invulnerable are you inside your armor?" He asks. Only Juggernaut can hear him.. not that anyone else was trying to eavesdrop. A minute blast of energy lances out, appaearing no bigger than the arc of electricity in a bug zapper, but packing enough punch to shear a bus in half. Taking Cain in the outer cartiledge of the ear, "I'm a Legionaire, you nebula sucking Nova. How do you like me now?"

Juggernaut has posed:
    There are advantages to the helmet, to be vertain. There are also disadvantages and this is one of them. Cain cant' actually reachhis own head for times like this and when the discharge goes offf, his head is rocked by the force, which in turn throws his body off balance and sends hi mstaggering to the side to slam into a nearby light pole, warping it around his vast body. "Whullfh!" he rumbles before finally reaching up to grip either side of his helmet with his huge hands, "You little bug! So you wanna play hard to get, eh? I don't need my armor to be invulnerable, you idiot. I -AM invulnerable. Aint nothing on this planet can stop me and you're ticking me off!"

WIth that he wrenches his helmet free, pulling the domed shape protection off and tossing it to the ground, revealing his thuggish huge necked face. A proverbial tankish giant with a crew cut of red hair and unshaven dusting on his brick like jaw.

"You're clever though." he rumbles, "Let me give you a round of applause!" And with he claps his huge hands together, slamming his meaty palms just infront of his own head and producing a thunderous shockwave that ripples out, hoping to catch the flitting about Wildfire in its thunderous wake.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     "Shrinking too?" She needed to get closer, to get a better shot. Running towards the edge of the building she leaped from the top, her coat billowing above her falling story after story until her feet touched the ground and she stood up with a bounce. Dashing between alleyways and side streets a shadow in the night before perching on a fire-escape that was closer trying to see the now much smaller scale fight as that shockwave rumbled through the neighborhood. The vampires eyes full of concern and questions of just what was going to happen next.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire is caught in the hurricane of that clap, the shockwaves throwing him back a good 40 feet from the titan. If he were flesh and blood he'd certainly be rocked by that blow, synapses all askew. But he's beyond that now. The sentient cloud of anti-matter comes charging back in to punch Juggernaut in the chin, a good 20 tons of force behind the blow. He's not pulling his punches anymore. Clearly this guy can take it. But that's also the problem. He can take a lot.

The nickel sized hero becomes termite sized, and flits into Cains ear canal, pulling the earpeice from it's place. he holds it up his his faceplate and shouts

" I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money... but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you leave me be now, that will be the end of it - I will not look for you, I will not pursue you... but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you... and I will dragging you kicking and screaming into the light of day."

Completely unaware he's talking to a vampire. Just a happy coincidence.

Juggernaut has posed:
The force of the blast slams into Juggernaut's head again but is massive neck muscles bulge and his head doesn't even rock despite the maximum force. His eyes do lose sight of the small Wildfire once again, particularly as his world is filled with light from the blast. But then he hears Wildfire speaking right into his ear piece and he growls and reaches his huge fingers for it, trying to both find and smush Wildfire as well as grab and rmemove the ear piece. "Alright you're prtty powerful, fu of a lot of tricks." he rumbles. "WHy don't you make yourself full sized again so you can take a hit like a man!"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     Her look turned stern as she listened and scrambled up the fire-escape fully, laying down on the roof to get a more direct shot as the conflict continued. Selene was a military leader and strategist, these sessions of studying possible threats helped her learn and their scientists research counter-measures if possible.

TXT: The money has been transferred, try not to die. There's a bonus if you can render him unconscious, if that's even possible.

Selene wanted to make sure that their new visitor was pushed to his limit. That she'd seen everything there is to see before they pull back from this skirmish.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
"Take a hit like a man? But I'm not a man Mr. Juggernaut.. Haven't been a flesh and blood human man in almost 5 years now. And I'd venture to guess neither are you. You take hits that would stagger a Daxamite. Shrug off energy blasts that would cripple starships. Why would I make this a fair fight? When the odds are stacked in your favor from the beginning. No thanks."

He tells him this, darting away from the man, then back in. No more punching. This time he goes for the eyes, powerful and bright blasts of stark white light emanating from Wildfires hands, all the while buzzing around the man's head like a superpowered bee.

But just as suddenly, Wildfire drops behind Cain, still tiny. Grips his belt, and with all his considerable might he tugs upward. Trying with all he's go to lift Cain toward the stars. 20 tons of uplift ought to be enough... ought to be. "Let's go for a ride big man."

Juggernaut has posed:
    Juggernaut is not an easy man to move under any circumstances, but not knowing where the force of the lift is going to come from means he has no idea where or how to push against the force with counter strength until it's to late as the bright flash of light throws him completely off balance and he staggers while emitting a loud "Grah! For the love of..whoop!"

And just like that he's been dragged airborne..by his belt though that also gives him a target as his massive hands begin slapping around his waist area, slamming into his body around the area where he feels the most pressure and the thunderclaps resulting from his palms smacking agiainst his body getting louder and louder..

"Not so fast, chump! I still got questions for you and it aint that easy to take me for a ride!"

Selene does qnot get a verbal answerq just yet. One thing at a time.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     She pushes a bit of dark hair from her face as they both go flying into the air, rolling under a water tower on that roof she peaks out slightly to maintain her surveillance. Though the fight had gotten even more attention as it went on, after all their clash was loud and even though Selene had slowed down the police more were starting to come towards the area even though they couldn't do much other then try to keep the civilians out of it. "Just how high are they going to go?" She asked herself watching as they gained more and more altitude.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire braces against the claps, but he can't fight physics.. not all the time anyway. The shockwaves from the powerful claps throw him around. But he refuses to let go of the belt. So as Wildfire gets throw around, so too does Juggernaut. The two pirouette and swirl through the air, Drake desperately trying to stay oriented and airborne through the hurricane. "Just... a a little.. higher.." He grunts. Though he has no physical body he still exerts himself though he does. 'muscle' memory as it were.

20, 35... 55. 70 feet up.. That's enough. Hopefully

Wildefire tosses the man up as much as he'll go with a quick jerk, then darts away, out and under the now falling titan. with the kind of near perfect manuverability that not having to obey mass related physics can acheive. " Maybe you'll do better in space you stupid Nova." He calls, growing to human size right before Cain's eyes. Below him. He reaches up and lifts his black glass faceplate.

For a long instant Cain can likely see into Wildfire's helmet.. Apparently just a containment suit for the thing inside. He might glimpse a blackness, marked by two stark white gaps in the black, what might be eyes. And a longer slash in the black.. a mouth perhaps.

then there is nothing but white, a second blast equal to the first that disintegrated the bus erupts from his faceplate, spearing up and into the falling Juggernaut.

Brilliant white light like daylight shines out, and the directed energies of multiple nukes lance out into Juggernaut. It like won't kill him. But this zipcode will be a distant memory.

Juggernaut has posed:
"You little.." rumbles Juggernaut, preparing to launch into a roar of swearing that would make the most foul mouthed of soldiers blush. But he's drowned out by the roar of that incoming blast. He thrusts his huge hands out infront of him against the power being directed his way, his monstrous palms actually seeming to catch and disperse the beam wildly. His brute strength literally pushing back against it - except his feet have no footing and as such he only serves to blunt the force of the attack an instant before his whole body is enveloped in a a blinding explosion akin to the same one from earlier.

The blast fills the turning night into day for an extended period of time and when it is no longer so, Juggernaut's body is gone.

But not disintegrated. Not by a long shot. Instead he's been shot like a comet, redirected from the force of the blast and his own interference across the entire area like a shooting star, up and then down again to slam into the harbor with a thunderous *FWHOOOM* upon his impact.

The blast easily disrupts his ear piece. He is invulnerable. His paraphernalia less so> Selene is cut off from him,, getting nothing but static now..

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
     The sheer force of the fall caused a near explosion as water flies into the air. Selene stands atop the building as the falling water makes it seem like it's raining as she get's in contact with her people. "The probe is over, I'll upload it when I get back.. Our asset might need to be recovered send a extraction team to the coordinates I'm sending."

she walks to the edge of the building kneeling down looking over the harbor trying to get a better idea where he landed. "I have no idea how were going to counter that if we need to. Hopefully it doesn't come to that." She dismounted from the building landing atop a nearby parked motorcycle as she started to take off down the street.

The fight was over for now and The Coven got the information they wanted on this new entity, a being of energy that sounded like a man. Another mystery to be unraveled and hopefully not another enemy to be made. But in Juggernauts case there was at least a grudge to be settled, Selene was sure of that much.

Wildfire (357) has posed:
Wildfire floats in midair, closing his faceplate and locking it in place. "Teach you to screw with a Legionaire buddy. Next time.. No kid gloves. I'll fly you into the sun, see if you can survive there." He remarks, watching the trail of his 'comet' Satisfied, he turns and soars off. To rejoin his fellow Legionaries and tell them of the armored Juggernaut. and how to beat him.