Making Connections (open)

[Echo]

Michael looked around once again, and saw Deathstroke talking with a rather tall woman. He didn't know who she was, but he didn't really care either. Right now they needed to get somewhere safe. The young man pulled out his cell phone, and pressed one of his speed-dials.

Stephen picked up on the other end of the line, and before he could even say hello Mike was giving a short simple order.
"Stephen, send a car to my location." Watz said bluntly.
"Right away, sir." Stephen said before hanging up.

In only a matter of seconds a stretched limo pulled up by the sidewalk where they were gathered, and then the driver got out and opened the back door.
"Everybody in." The silver-haired teen said as he walked over to the limo, and then got inside.

[x23]

"Perhaps Darkseid doesn't leave Apokolips much if you want him you'll have to fight him on his turf..." Drax trailed off when he saw Barda and Deathstroke talking he glared at the woman the same way he did with Darkseid he knew she was the same as that monster she was a god he didn't care if she was good and was trying to help Pepper with her plan on taking out Darkseid he just wanted her dead along with all the others. His right hand began to glow as he raised it at Barda and fired a concussive blast at her before he pulled out his knifes and jumped at the New God.

[Pepper]

Suddenly there were so many people around that Pepper found it difficult to know who to talk to. She didn't smile; she would not smile for a long, long time. But suddenly she had a lot of people on her side, all willing and able to attack Darkseid. Or so they appeared. Her rage and anger at Jarvis was beginning to melt away to be replaced with icy determination and even hope. Tony she thought and the name picked at her with poisoned claws, this might just work.

She wondered if he would approve of her vengeance. He would probably be surprised that his emotionally capable and spitfire of a personal assistant was going to these lengths to avenge a death he couldn't have seen coming. But that was the whole point. He had been a beacon of hope for many, as she had told him. He had become a huge part of her life, both friendly and - too late - romantically. She had been beside him for years, and she had come to know him almost better than he knew himself.

And just like that, he had been snuffed out. A titan died a cheap death. Stark Industries was leaderless, one of the greatest technological industries in the world was now foundering.

There were more reasons that destroyed love to kill Darkseid, and she would use every one of them.

As Echo pulled up a car nearby, Pepper got into it and turned in time to see Drax attack Barda. With a furious sigh, she shouted: "I need each and every one of you to help me! So please hold off on the killing!"

[bigbarda]

Barda threw herself to the side barley avoiding being hit by the blast. Getting up she punched Drax in the face before he could land on her "Back Drax I'm not here to fight you. Yes I am a New God but I had nothing to do with your death leave me out of your fight." She said glaring at the man she then looked at Pepper "I'll help you even though this seems very unlike Darkseid to do something like this with out a reason." She said as she walked over to Pepper but also had an eye on Drax just in case he still wanted to attack her. "You need a boomtube to get to Apokolips and I have one in my back pocket." She said as she got in then took out her mega-rod "Might not look like much but it can do a lot." she said just as Deathstroke got in "And your not worried someone could steal it and use it for there own ends?" He asked looking at the weapon "No unless they knew how to use it maybe if they didn't it would kill them." she replied

[x23]

Drax got off the ground after being punched by Barda then got into the limo and got as far away from Barda as he could like she was going to sneeze on him and kill him. The only reason he was here was to help Pepper in killing Darkseid and that was it he wasn't going to make nice with the New God and didn't plan on doing it with anyone else that was in the car for that matter. He was just going to do his part and be on his way.

[Pepper]

Pepper watched as Drax clambered into the car and she moved slightly so she was sandwiching him between the window of the car and herself. No need for him to attack Barda in the enclosed space of the car. She looked up at Echo to ask him how many more people this car could fit, but noticed it seemed to allow people with ease. So be that, she thought, and her mind began to drift to Tony again. This time, she stopped it and turned to Drax. "Thank you for even giving this a chance," she said. "Is there anything you can tell me about Darkseid right off the bat that is of use to me? I'm not a god-killer like you nor can I even aspire to be one. But I intend to make Darkseid pay and I need to know if there is something I can have that will cause him great damage or great pain. He must have a weakness, something I can exploit."

[Echo]

Mike looked out the window as a small fight started between two of the newcomers, and then leaned back in his seat with his weapon still in his hand. ~These people are more hot-headed than me...and I'm not exactly the coolest cucumber.~ He thought to himself.
Slowly people started to pile into the car, and get situated. He didn't trust anyone in the car aside from Pepper, which was exactly why he kept a grip around his Beam Dagger just in case. Once everyone was inside the driver closed the door, and then got back behind the wheel. It would only be about a minute before they were at the new Watz Tech building.

Michael listened to Pepper, but only a little. His mind was kind of preoccupied with watching Deathstroke and the large woman. He probably didn't need to watch them so closely, all of his limos were equipped with hidden laser guns that he could control from his seat. If any of them tried any funny business they would get perforated before they got the chance to beg for mercy.

[bigbarda]

"That would be easier said then done there's not many things that could hurt Darkseid. Radion could kill him like it could with any New God but I don't know how to get any." Barda said looking at Pepper she didn't know why she was asking Drax he wouldn't know "He does have an obsession with finding the Anti-Life Equation." Barda said after some thinking of what else could be used to bring Darkseid down "Apokolips is all about building weapons for many worlds you could attack those places. That is if you can get pass the parademons there loyal to their master but none too bright and they do tend to bite." She said.

[Echo]

Mike's attention was quickly drawn to the large woman who had been talking with Deathstroke when she began talking about Darkseid's weakness.
"Radion?" Michael repeated as he looked at Barda. "What's that? Some sort of alien stone?" He asked bluntly.

[Pepper]

There it was, the magic word. Radion. Pepper played the sound of it over and over in her head as Mr. Watz began to inquire about it. Her ears remained attuned to those around her so she would hear if Barda answered the question, but her mind held on to that one word, linking it with hope.

Another question then arose in her mind. "What kind of weapon did he use to kill...Cheetah?" Those beams that had shot out of his eyes had vaporized her after putting her through incredible pain. She was fairly sure that was the same way Tony had died. And, deep inside, she was beginning to comprehend that that was how she might die when she went up against him like this. But if she understood the weapon, she could also find a protection against it. Maybe.

[bigbarda]

"All I know is a few of Darkseid's troops radion blasters but his army's are so large I don't know which ones have it." Barda replied to Mike's question "Darkseid doesn't use any weapons...unless your talking about the omega effect he can use it to teleport a target to any location he chooses and recall them later or erase the target from the universe and similarly reform them. And it's damn near impossible to avoid and most noraml people can't live through the attack Superman has been known to live though it." She said

[Pepper]

Radion blasters. Pepper nodded slightly. She would need to get one of those once she was able to find some radion. And the fact that it could be made into a blaster meant that it was at least able to be manipulated. It was the second thing Barda said, however, that caught her attention, and she stared at her for a few seconds, ignoring everything else around her. The omega effect - the weapon that had killed Tony and Cheetah. Damn near impossible to avoid, but Superman had lived through it. Pepper could ask Superman for help, but that wasn't the point she was thinking of.

As the car continued to drive, Pepper's mind spun with panic and hope and unshed tears. She gulped slowly, and said softly: "Barda...you mean that those attacked by the omega beams are under Darkseid's control?"

Because if that was true, then there a possibility...a faint one so inexplicably small that she didn't even want to torture herself with the thought except she was...that...

No. She couldn't think it.

But maybe she didn't have to kill Darkseid. Maybe she just had to force him to....

Stop. Stop it. This is not only madness, it's foolish. You are avenging Tony's death and moving on.

Without even considering the fact that he...?

No.

[bigbarda]

"Yes in he dose have control over them in a way." Barda replied as she one leg over the other "Its possible that Darkseid didn't kill Tony Apokolips is second to New Genesis in technological advancement. With their technology, they are the height of power in most of the universe and are able to devastate galaxies maybe he took Tony so he could merge Stark's technology with his own to make it even more powerful." Barda said what a mouth full that was "Cheetah on the other hand he could have taken to be apart of Female Furies he's always looking for replacements they either die or leave like I did." She told her that was the only reason she could think of why Darkseid would take the two she didn't think either one of them did something to make him mad.

[Echo]

Michael listened closely to what the tall woman was saying, and then the driver spoke to them after coming to a stop in the parking lot of the Watz Tech Incorporated building. "We're here." Said the driver.

Michael ran over what Barda had said in his mind as he got out of the car and pulled his cell phone out. He dialed the number of a man he didn't think he'd need to call at such a time, but with his talents he could prove to be useful. "Dr. Ohnn, this is Watz. I need your help with something. Think you could drop by my office?"

The man on the other end of the line smiled a little. "Sure. When do you need me, Mr. Watz?" Jonathan asked.
"Now, if you can." Mike replied.
The phone went dead, and then a portal opened up a few yards in front of Michael, and out came The Spot. "So, what's up?"

(OOC: I play both of them, it's cool)

[Pepper]

The words took Pepper's breath away and suddenly she felt an immense pressure all around her. Thank God at that point the car stopped and she practically flung herself out of it, accidentally stepping on Drax with her heels, ("Sorry!") and clambering out of the car to stare up at the sky and gasp for breath. All of her grief and the pressure of the mission she was so determined to complete crushed down upon her, and she closed her eyes and shook from the weight of it. She clasped her hands together, the diamond cutting her finger, and then she looked down at the ring on her hand.

Because as she forced herself to accept and feel the pressure, she at the same time released it through a series of hyperventilating breaths. This was too much for her to take and she wavered, trying to contrlo herself. Natalia and Gwen were right. She felt too strongly. And she had tried to stop feeling everything through shock and denial. But there was no time for that now. She could see Jonathan Ohnn coming out of a portal and she continued to stare at the ring.

"He could be alive," she whispered out loud.

The hope, aloud.

She turned towards them, a ray of light cutting through her dark spirit.