9572/Great Ball of Fire

Great Ball of Fire
Date of Scene:	14 October 2019
Location:	Earth (Sol, Sector 2814)
Synopsis:	Samantha meets Carol while blowing up a Meteor. As you do. Carol may borrow Sam now.
Cast of Characters:	Nyx, Captain Marvel (Danvers)

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Nyx has posed:
Armagedon.... Deep Impact.... All very questionable movies from 90s about Meteors striking the earth and the disasters that came before and after the event.

One definitely more realistic than others.

Today though we aren't talking a dinosaur big meteor so honestly all life on earth isn't in danger and this is a world with SuperHeroes right.

Though Batman and Superman are MIA Right Now so the Justice League won't be the team responding to the ball of fire and rock blazing a trail right towards the Earth. Canada to be specific and close enough to Toronto to make people very uncomfortable.

So while no dinosaurs would be harmed in the making of todays video footage it is enough to get some agencies and earth defending superteam to scramble, mostly those with excellent tracking systems thanks to Stark Tech.

Samantha goes running up to the roof of the Triskelion in her SHIELD Uniform and Flight Jacket. "Acknowledged control... Nyx has the flight path... right... not too big but bad if it hits... we will send footage once we are up and near it for a closer look and advice on what to do with it. Current plan is to probably to disintegrate it but yeah I'll wait for orders."

As she hits the roof brilliant energy wings unfold behind her made of pure particle beam energy "God my life is messed up..." just to herself and then she rockets off towards the sky and orbit... eventually... she has to wait until she is high enough from the city to go supersonic ... and then in thin enough atmosphere so she doesn't damage herself to get up to escape velocity. It is like a blazing angel of technology ascending from New York though.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Alpha Flight's Mackenzie King station keeps a good watch over Earth, although they are mostly concerned about alien menaces from beyond the Moon. When a meteor kicks off the senses, they kind of ummed and erred about it for a while. Who usually dealt with this kind of thing? Superman, right? Wait, no, Superman's missing. Or dead? As the two men working control aboard the station debate it, the meteor comes whirling past into orbit. When in doubt, punch it up to the Director.

Carol was, to put it mildly, not pleased. She'd worked hard to get the day off, but there really were precious few options remaining. So, a moment later, on the front lawn of Kara Danvers' (no relation) home, Carol bids the other blonde a fond but hasty farewell and takes to the skies. As she moves, the simple jacket and jeans she wears shimmers to become the more familiar blue and red of Captain Marvel!

And so it is that she speeds to a glowing stop not far from Nyx, turning slightly to peer at the other woman from across the way and sort of half-wave to her. She didn't really run into people up here.

Nyx has posed:
Samantha is trying to pay attention to what Nyx is doing, which is mostly taking control of the speed and angle of ascent and all that business. Which means she doesn't realize Captain Marvel is there right away.

The Kid, well Teenager, looks way to young to probably get a drink in a bar at nineteen, let alone be flying with god knows what energy source those wings are towards orbit. Also either SHIELD is really loosening up on recruiting people or she may be the youngest SHIELD agent ever if the uniform and jacket aren't stolen.

One thing she definitely doesn't seem to be sporting is a force shield, the material of the jacket and her uniform aren't vanishing but they are definitely taking some wear from the speed, at least until they get out of atmosphere. Coming down might be exciting in it's own right for heat reasons.

Those few reasons left is probably why SHIELD scrambled Samantha while Alpha Flight scrambled Carol.

When she does notice Carol she almost veers into a tumble startled. Sure she met a purple.. or was it pink... lantern last time she was up here but... Captain Marvel. Woah. They are in upper atmosphere though or space, close enough to Orbit that Sam slows down to a stop, wings hanging behind her giving a much better view of the energy. It isn't like she was flapping them.. they exist almost more for appearance sake than function.

Sam taps her ear and mouths 'comms' to Carol.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"Oh, right," Carol mutters, and a strange mohawked helmet manifests itself about her head enabling her voice to crackle through the comms, "Roger that. You're here for the same party I am, I figure?"

She recognizes the woman, and her brow knits as she tries to place her. She has a good memory, but the amount of paperwork that pours across her desk for both the Avengers and Alpha Flight is substantial to put it mildly. She knows the face, but it might take her a moment to put the name to it.

Besides, they have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

"Guess we're working together on this one."

Nyx has posed:
Samantha doesn't have any evident earpiece of helmet on really. Her head cocks though when Captain Marvel engages her comms once Nyx captures the frequency and all that and locks onto it.

"Damn I hope so, I mean I was dispatched because there is a meteor that would make Canada unhappy .. I mean I hear Toronto is a super cool town... but SHIELD wasn't sure anyone else could respond right now so... um.. here I am." the girl doesn't move her mouth at all, though it is her voice that comes across the comms. It honestly reinforces the whole late teens business.

She pauses a moment there, and yes Samantha would probably have crossed a desk. As far as Tony and SHIELD can determine she is being ridden by an extremely advanced Artifical Lifeform that seems to be acting as a Symbiote with the young woman. Either from somewhere in space or perhaps even the future. Teen is basically a walking alien capital ship worth of WMD that Stark hot potatoed right over to SHIELD when she got infected.

"I am really glad we are together on this.. I was probably just going to blast it a lot and hope for the best..."

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"I'll be honest with you," Carol answers, turning slightly to look up to where the blazing light of the meteor grows ever larger in the distance, "I was planning on pretty much doing the same thing. I figure if it becomes small enough rocks, they'll just burn up to cinders on their way down. If Superman was here, he'd probably catch it and throw it into the sun or something. Afraid that's a little beyond me."

She holds her hands out to the side, her body immediately beginning to take on a bright glow as the energy within it begins to coalesce in a more tangible and dangerous form.

"Follow my lead, I guess. Blast the hell out of it, then whatever's left - smash it to pieces!"

Nyx has posed:
Samantha "Acknowledged" then she redirects to ground control "Captain Marvel is here, I'm going to follow their lead on this one and blast and smash." which gets an acknolwedgment.

Honestly SHIELD control is happy to defer to Captain Marvel on this.

"Okay good to go Captain." the teenager brings both her arms up and around now and squints towards the blazing light out there growing ever larger. The energy that starts to arc and race on her forearms is not repulsor technology or cosmic or photon beams. It looks like partical beam energy ... which is pretty much confirmed to the trained eye as the young woman cuts loose.

It is beautiful.

Also really destructive in the whole capital ship advanced alien technology sort of weaponry style. The energy source she is packing has to be one hell of extreme to generate that kind of sustained beam. Because it isn't a pulse and then gone it is more a lance of energy that thanks to Nyx's aiming strikes the Meteor and starts to plow through part of it.

That thing is not a small meteor though and ... Sam may have managed this on her own.. maybe.. big big maybe..... it is a very good thing she has a lot of help right now to blast this thing.

Fiery death isn't something anyone wants.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"Good stuff," Carol says loudly over the comms, attempting to compensate for any noise the burst of energy might make, "You're doing great. Keep it up, I'm gong try and hit it from a different angle."

That said, Captain Marvel rockets upwards and to the side. She's further away now, closer to the meteor, as she holds out both her hands and lets a blast of her own - a white, photonic beam that lances through the air and crashes into the crust of the meteor.

It isn't a once off shot. It's a continued beam which she holds in place, both arms outstretched before her as she attempts to shear the thing into pieces through sheer explosive force.

Nyx has posed:
It is working. It isn't thankfully a dense iron meteorite or some even more exotic metal.

That would be a punch to the gut really and would make this impromptu team up a lot more tragic.

Slowly but surely the approaching ball of death, or oblong of death, is cut smaller. Chunks being sheered off, some disintegrated, and such.

"Thanks!" Sam says able to hear just fine over the comms, since they are basically being patched into her head.

The young woman maintains that concentrated blast of particle beams, moving her hands this way and than, tagging the incoming object, sheering off a chunk, then moving her hand to blast the shaved off part to smaller chunks and so on. Methodical and trying not to WOOT over the comms figuring Captain Marvel may not appreciate a woot of success.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"Yahoo!" Carol calls over the comms, channeling Han Solo as the meteor begins to break apart. Sure, she can be serious when she needs to be but saving Toronto from fiery destruction warrants a cry of success. Besides, she's loves Star Wars ever since she was old enough to understand what movies were.

She continues channeling her own energy into the great ferrous monstrosity, brow furrowed, and lips cocked upwards at the corner in a triumphant little smirk.

"That's the stuff, kid," she calls, unable to keep from channeling her favorite smuggler it would seem, "Let's blow this thing and go home."

Nyx has posed:
Okay well if Carol can yahooo over the comms while blasting a meteor Samantha feels bold. There is a laugh in response and then she gives a woooop cry of joy.

"On it!" another laugh and she slices off some more of the great.. well less great and less big rock now. Her eyes narrow and another couple of energy beams lance out .. catching some of the energy fragments like a strange version of superman's heat vision.

Honestly the amount of energy between the two of them could probably pop a hole through a mountain, so it isn't too much longer before the thing is broken down. "Nyx says everything left should burn up really!" over the comms as she stops firing.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
When the meteor is finally blasted to literal smithereens, Carol's hands fall to her sides and she regards their joint handiwork with a self-satisfied little grin. She turns in the air, jetting back over towards Nyx and nodding her head appreciatively.

"Glad you were here," she offers, glancing down at the planet far below, "If it were just either one of us, I'm not sure we could've got it before it completely broke through the atmosphere. We don't need football sized rocks falling from the skies at terminal velocities."

The name, however, seems to have rung the necessary bells: "Nyx, huh? I thought I recognized you. We haven't met, but I've read your file. I'm Carol."

Nyx has posed:
"I am really really glad you were up here Captai... Carol." she corrects herself and then grins before frowning down to the planet in the distance "No one needs meteors.. I mean my track record with them is spotty at best." bemused.

Her attention turns back to Captain Marvel. "Of course I have a file.. hopefully nothing too bad in it." she has no idea if the almost start to crime is in there or how much Carol might have access to SHIELD vs. Stark files after all.

"Nyx is the Artificial Intelligence in my head... I'm Samantha or Sam... everyone at work calls me Agent Twinning which is great since I'm finally not a probie." a grin.

Honestly it is probably a good question what SHIELD even does with the teen, it is a different power scale than most of the problems they deal with as just evidenced.

"Not looking forward to the paperwork.. but at least this went much better than that stupid rogue speedster."

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"Sam," Carol repeats, as though trying the name on for size and finding it agreeable, "Nice to meet you, Sam - and yeah, nothing too terrible. Nothing to make me want to try and throw you in jail or anything like that."

She can't help but look a bit thoughtful for a moment, tilting her head to regard the superheroine carefully before she speaks again.

"I'll be honest," she continues, "SHIELD doesn't usually truck with someone who's packing the kind of punch you are. Usually they kick that stuff up the chain and let the Avengers deal with it."

Nyx has posed:
"Well... I mean Mr. Stark is the one who shipped me off SHIELD after this Coulian Android in his office tasered me.. I woke up in R&D And spent ..weeks being poked and prodded."

This is admitted a bit hesitantly.

"Assistant Director May and Agent Johnson are my handlers and they gave me a shot and got me some training... they are good people but yeah I don't really get assigned out on any missions so far.. well one but I am not allowed to talk about it." spy agencies.

"This was a blast.. no pun intended it ... just boom zap... the one time I fought Sentinels in the park I clipped a couple skyscrappers and that wasn't good. I took out five of the things though." she sounds very proud.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"You look like you've got your ducks in a row now," Carol admits, thinking back to the file, "You sounded a little more chaotic in the report."

It may be time to reconsider some things. But given everything that's been going on, she's not exactly sure now would be the best time to do something like that. The Justice League down two founders. The problems with Tony that she's noticed but only told Cap about so far.

"Sentinels, huh? Yeah, I - " she cuts herself off, frowning slightly and muttering a little bit, "I had a run in with them, too." Not that it was a secret. It was all over the news.

Nyx has posed:
"I saw... and yeah I really can't stand them. Nyx was pretty irked by them too. I think they feel they are superior to any sentinel." the teenager laughs.

"Maybe we can work together on another mission or something...." okay yeah Sam is hungry to get out there and work and SHIELD, well there aren't a lot of missions for a girl who can take a punch from a Kryptonian or blast Meteors really.

"I mean.. not wishing another meteor or anything ... but .. you know... there a lot of problems right now with Superman MIA and all..."

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"You know," Carol begins, her words trailing off just slightly as she appears deep in thought, "Maybe we can. I've got some ideas - if SHIELD would be willing to loan you out, of course. Maybe we can call it interagency cooperation?"

There's no tell as to just what she has in mind, but there's still a faint little smile on her face suggesting that there's definitely an idea of some sort percolating behind her eyes.

"So, how would I contact you in that case? Just drop by the Triskelion?"

Nyx has posed:
"Well.. hah.. I mean yes that would be very effective but I'll also put in my report that you might want to borrow me for some operations. I mean putting it like that makes me feel like a very overly armed rental car though.. but yeah I am super thrilled at the idea.

The teen means it to, grinning.

"I'd just put in a request with the Assistant Director's office ... I don't see my Asst Director May would be upset at this idea...."

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Carol can't help but grin a little at that.

"To be honest, I'm thinking more long term than borrowing you for a few missions. But, well, it's something I need to think a little more about. Not so much a problem with you, as needing to put everything in order. Have you ever been to Starling City? Did you like it?"

Nyx has posed:
"I mean.. I've only ever been to a couple classified locations and New York City... also Orbit... I mean I've flown since I found out I could fly to a few places in the Tristate area...." yeah she has not gotten out a whole lot yet.

She thinks about what Carol said, I mean Skye and May are great but SHIELD has been a lot of paperwork and no real missions for her.

Nyx meanwhile pushes Sam's thoughts because this is an interesting avenue to explore for the AI.

"I'd love to see it though and do a longer term borrowing if it means more adventure or even Avengers stuff..." there is a pause "God that sounds odd saying it out loud... though I guess saying it floating in space is odder." she eyes the planet. "I do not relish re-entry."

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"I can't speak for the Avengers stuff," Carol admits, looking a little rueful, "I'll certainly put your name forward, although things are a little - tense right now. All this Superman stuff has us kind of scrambling to make sure we can fill any gaps he might have left behind."

She didn't know the man, but she recognized what he brought to the world.

"But there's an operation I have more direct authority over," Carol explains, "We have a program for training those with abilities who are still learning to control them, not to mention a lot more action to accommodate your paperwork. I can understand if you don't want to venture too far out of New York, though. Let me see what I can pull together."

Nyx has posed:
"Well... in atmo I can do Mach 2 easy without ripping my gear and skin up... so it isn't like I can't get back if I were to be needed or get there." she pauses 'I am very interested though, seriously. Thanks for even considering it Carol."

She does this little spin tucking those wings as she does. Those wings look very dangerous to touch way the energy sort of flickers.

"I'm going to have to go slow back down so I don't burn up my clothes though... The last time was hilarious for the flight deck and I don't want a repeat." a grin.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
"Oh, believe me, I know," Carol says with a grin, "Back before I could kind of ... will my outfit into existence? I had that problem sometimes."

She lifts a hand to the side of her face, as though whispering low, "Not to mention getting a wedgie when your costume doesn't have leggings. Let's just say there's a reason I switched to the full bodysuit."

That said, she waves a hand and begins to drift back downwards, "It was nice meeting you, Sam. I'll be in touch."

Nyx has posed:
Sam fires off a salute at the departing Captain. "Thanks, this will make a great report and .. yeah pitty us poor folk who can't materialize costumes...."

No seriously that flight jacket is going to take one hell of a beating. Honestly Sam is hard on uniforms.

She starts to drift down too, applying reverse thrust once gravity starts to take over so she goes slow and doesn't fireball until she can descend at a safe enough speed.