ShaggyMarco
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Re: Ultimization Game II - 4 (Season 2, Episode 4)
I'll throw my hand in this:
Ultimate Great Lakes Avengers:
I see this as a "b" story in Ultimates 3. Every other U3 issue will have a 3-5 page GL Avengers mini-issue at the end.
Issue 1: Rockin' the Suburbs Last Year-Milwaukee: A blond woman pulls into her driveway. A shadow is cast on her car. A giant red Crimson Dynamo robot crashes through her house, destroying it. She screams, horrified. The robot takes off again. The woman turns and finds a group of three Liberator foot-soldiers walking through the neighborhood, rounding up the people, herding them towards her. She walks into the rubble of her house, as if looking for someone. She sees one of the Liberators knocking over a neighbor, sending a mother holding a child sprawling. The Liberator rises up to beat her again. The woman yells at the Liberator, grabs a broomstick, and charges him. She slams into him, knocking him over. She dodges blows from other foot-soldiers, and some members of the crowd take cues from her and start fighting the foot soldiers. The Dynamo-bot shows up, shooting at her. An onlooker from the crowd jumps in front of the blast and is seemingly killed. The robot then inexplicably stands still and silent, unmoving. The woman turns to continue the fight and notices that much of the crowd has disappeared. A man then grabs her, and the two of them disappear, reappearing in a house with other scared locals. Some are scared, screaming, "he's a mutant!" and others quiet the panicked people down. The refugees look out the windows and see the rest of the foot soldiers leave. A radio broadcasts that Washington has been retaken, and that the Ultimates have saved the country. The woman goes back out into the street to recover the body of the fallen man. He stands up, apparently unharmed, and comes inside with them.
Issue 2: Solace Clint Barton, freshly discharged from SHIELD has accepted an invitation from an old war buddy, Val Ventura, to stay with him in Milwaukee. On his friend's coffee table we see a newspaper open to an article detailing three locals recognized for valor during the recent GTA. The pictures are of the blond woman, Barbara Morse, the man who took the shot for her, Craig Hollis, and the teleporting mutant who saved the people on the street, DeMarr Davis. Barton looks over the newspaper and says "I can't deal with this right now," and goes out to a bar, intending to drown his sorrows in booze. At the far side of the bar he sees a woman…the woman from the newspaper. She looks as sad as he is. They have a heart-felt and half-drunk discussion about dealing with loss. We find that she lost her husband and infant child in the attack. He talks for the first time about the death of his family at the hands of Black Widow. The two mourners find comfort in each other's dark times and find common ground in dealing with awards and recognition that they can't enjoy because they were unable to save the people who they have always shared such joys with. They go back to her hotel together.
Issue 3: Origins Barton and Morse are driving-talking about the past months. They have been invited to a dinner by the Mayor of Milwaukee, Ashley Crawford, in honor of "The Battle of Milwaukee." Morse is surprised to see a lack of press. Barton is pleased. They get inside, and are surprised to find only five attendees-themselves, Mr. Hollis, Mr. Davis, and Mayor Crawford, a slightly overweight blonde woman (who also happens to be a fairly wealthy local real-estate prospector). She welcomes them all and reveals that she didn't invite them for recognition. She gives a speech commenting on the changing times, and marvels that, with all of the big international heroes out there, the common people are being trampled by the boots of the important people. She proposes to fund a group of special citizens to join together and protect the people of Milwaukee from being stepped on. She admits to doing a good bit of research into their lives, and reveals their secrets: Craig Hollis is an assumed name. He is in fact a Weapon X operative that was freed when the program was shut down, who has settled in Milwaukee to start his life over. DeMarr Davis's recent blood tests have shown that he has shown signs of a manifested X gene. She reveals Barton's (up to that point undisclosed) identity as The Ultimate's Hawkeye. She has no dirt on Morse, who appears to just be a woman who let her rage at injustice get the better of her in a time of trouble. The Mayor has decided to fund something of a "Milwaukee Ultimates" to protect the locals from outside meta-human incursions. They all agree, and the Mayor asks Hawkeye to lead the team. He reluctantly agrees, but makes it clear they shouldn't leave Milwaukee.
Issue 4: Training Day Hawkeye and Doorman train Mr. Immortal and Mockingbird in hand-to-hand combat, shooting, and team tactics. Mr. Immortal talks with Emma Frost in her Chicago school, learning about his mutant powers: he has a very powerful psychic self-image that can reconstruct his body whenever it is destroyed, rendering him, as far as she can tell, immortal. Nick Fury contacts Barton, asking what the hell he and the mayor are doing…Barton just spouts out some stuff about the people being scared and wanting to have a feeling they can look after themselves…and that he only took the job because Milwaukee is so unimportant that there will be no chance of anything more dangerous than common criminals. Mayor Crawford presents Morse with a technologically advanced fighting-baton she had designed by premier weapon specialists, and then calls the group in to present them with their new costumes and show them their HQ.
Issue 5: Recruits: One of Frost's students follows Mr. Immortal home to HQ, and wants to join the team. Mr. Immortal is unable to dissuade her, and as she is just barely a legal adult, she is accepted onto the team by Mayor Crawford. Her name is Doreen Green and she has Squirrel Powers. Another man, Doug Taggert, who apparently harvested some technology from the Crimson Dynamo robot that was deactivated when the main robot was destroyed by Iron Man 6, has built a suit of powered armor. It is big and green with a Green-Bay Packers logo across the front (he's a big fan). He calls the suit the "Lambeau Leaper" after a local football hero and tradition, but Doorman makes the joke that it looks more like a giant grasshopper. They get word of a tense hostage situation at a downtown bank and all six of the team…still unnamed…arrive, in costume, in public, for the first time. They decide on a plan, and Hawkeye and Mockingbird get up on the roof, intending to come in through the roof. Squirrel Girl asks a number of local park squirrels to invade the bank. Lambeau Leaper comes in from behind and Mr. Immortal attempts to talk them down from the front. In all of the confusion, Doorman teleports in and rescues all of the hostages, teleporting them to safety. In the firefight that ensues, Mr. Immortal is brutally gunned down, and a stray bullet hits Lambeau Leaper, causing his armor to short-out and explode, killing Taggert.
Issue 6: Heroes of another kind This encounter makes the national news, and the media-termed "Great Lakes Ultimates" are criticized by many for putting irresponsible wanna-be heroes in danger, and endangering the lives of others. Mayor Crawford and members of the team defend themselves by making it a point that Doug Taggert was shot, and that killed him…he died helping to protect innocent people. Nick Fury privately contacts Clint Barton and offers to take the team who, admittedly, actually did decent work, and turn them into an official part of the Ultimates, inviting them all to operate out of the Triskellion. Barton declines, telling Fury that he's missed the point, and that the world needs heroes who operate small-scale almost as much as it needs the Ultimates. Fury is upset with Barton, but leaves him alone.
I'll throw my hand in this:
Ultimate Great Lakes Avengers:
I see this as a "b" story in Ultimates 3. Every other U3 issue will have a 3-5 page GL Avengers mini-issue at the end.
Issue 1: Rockin' the Suburbs Last Year-Milwaukee: A blond woman pulls into her driveway. A shadow is cast on her car. A giant red Crimson Dynamo robot crashes through her house, destroying it. She screams, horrified. The robot takes off again. The woman turns and finds a group of three Liberator foot-soldiers walking through the neighborhood, rounding up the people, herding them towards her. She walks into the rubble of her house, as if looking for someone. She sees one of the Liberators knocking over a neighbor, sending a mother holding a child sprawling. The Liberator rises up to beat her again. The woman yells at the Liberator, grabs a broomstick, and charges him. She slams into him, knocking him over. She dodges blows from other foot-soldiers, and some members of the crowd take cues from her and start fighting the foot soldiers. The Dynamo-bot shows up, shooting at her. An onlooker from the crowd jumps in front of the blast and is seemingly killed. The robot then inexplicably stands still and silent, unmoving. The woman turns to continue the fight and notices that much of the crowd has disappeared. A man then grabs her, and the two of them disappear, reappearing in a house with other scared locals. Some are scared, screaming, "he's a mutant!" and others quiet the panicked people down. The refugees look out the windows and see the rest of the foot soldiers leave. A radio broadcasts that Washington has been retaken, and that the Ultimates have saved the country. The woman goes back out into the street to recover the body of the fallen man. He stands up, apparently unharmed, and comes inside with them.
Issue 2: Solace Clint Barton, freshly discharged from SHIELD has accepted an invitation from an old war buddy, Val Ventura, to stay with him in Milwaukee. On his friend's coffee table we see a newspaper open to an article detailing three locals recognized for valor during the recent GTA. The pictures are of the blond woman, Barbara Morse, the man who took the shot for her, Craig Hollis, and the teleporting mutant who saved the people on the street, DeMarr Davis. Barton looks over the newspaper and says "I can't deal with this right now," and goes out to a bar, intending to drown his sorrows in booze. At the far side of the bar he sees a woman…the woman from the newspaper. She looks as sad as he is. They have a heart-felt and half-drunk discussion about dealing with loss. We find that she lost her husband and infant child in the attack. He talks for the first time about the death of his family at the hands of Black Widow. The two mourners find comfort in each other's dark times and find common ground in dealing with awards and recognition that they can't enjoy because they were unable to save the people who they have always shared such joys with. They go back to her hotel together.
Issue 3: Origins Barton and Morse are driving-talking about the past months. They have been invited to a dinner by the Mayor of Milwaukee, Ashley Crawford, in honor of "The Battle of Milwaukee." Morse is surprised to see a lack of press. Barton is pleased. They get inside, and are surprised to find only five attendees-themselves, Mr. Hollis, Mr. Davis, and Mayor Crawford, a slightly overweight blonde woman (who also happens to be a fairly wealthy local real-estate prospector). She welcomes them all and reveals that she didn't invite them for recognition. She gives a speech commenting on the changing times, and marvels that, with all of the big international heroes out there, the common people are being trampled by the boots of the important people. She proposes to fund a group of special citizens to join together and protect the people of Milwaukee from being stepped on. She admits to doing a good bit of research into their lives, and reveals their secrets: Craig Hollis is an assumed name. He is in fact a Weapon X operative that was freed when the program was shut down, who has settled in Milwaukee to start his life over. DeMarr Davis's recent blood tests have shown that he has shown signs of a manifested X gene. She reveals Barton's (up to that point undisclosed) identity as The Ultimate's Hawkeye. She has no dirt on Morse, who appears to just be a woman who let her rage at injustice get the better of her in a time of trouble. The Mayor has decided to fund something of a "Milwaukee Ultimates" to protect the locals from outside meta-human incursions. They all agree, and the Mayor asks Hawkeye to lead the team. He reluctantly agrees, but makes it clear they shouldn't leave Milwaukee.
Issue 4: Training Day Hawkeye and Doorman train Mr. Immortal and Mockingbird in hand-to-hand combat, shooting, and team tactics. Mr. Immortal talks with Emma Frost in her Chicago school, learning about his mutant powers: he has a very powerful psychic self-image that can reconstruct his body whenever it is destroyed, rendering him, as far as she can tell, immortal. Nick Fury contacts Barton, asking what the hell he and the mayor are doing…Barton just spouts out some stuff about the people being scared and wanting to have a feeling they can look after themselves…and that he only took the job because Milwaukee is so unimportant that there will be no chance of anything more dangerous than common criminals. Mayor Crawford presents Morse with a technologically advanced fighting-baton she had designed by premier weapon specialists, and then calls the group in to present them with their new costumes and show them their HQ.
Issue 5: Recruits: One of Frost's students follows Mr. Immortal home to HQ, and wants to join the team. Mr. Immortal is unable to dissuade her, and as she is just barely a legal adult, she is accepted onto the team by Mayor Crawford. Her name is Doreen Green and she has Squirrel Powers. Another man, Doug Taggert, who apparently harvested some technology from the Crimson Dynamo robot that was deactivated when the main robot was destroyed by Iron Man 6, has built a suit of powered armor. It is big and green with a Green-Bay Packers logo across the front (he's a big fan). He calls the suit the "Lambeau Leaper" after a local football hero and tradition, but Doorman makes the joke that it looks more like a giant grasshopper. They get word of a tense hostage situation at a downtown bank and all six of the team…still unnamed…arrive, in costume, in public, for the first time. They decide on a plan, and Hawkeye and Mockingbird get up on the roof, intending to come in through the roof. Squirrel Girl asks a number of local park squirrels to invade the bank. Lambeau Leaper comes in from behind and Mr. Immortal attempts to talk them down from the front. In all of the confusion, Doorman teleports in and rescues all of the hostages, teleporting them to safety. In the firefight that ensues, Mr. Immortal is brutally gunned down, and a stray bullet hits Lambeau Leaper, causing his armor to short-out and explode, killing Taggert.
Issue 6: Heroes of another kind This encounter makes the national news, and the media-termed "Great Lakes Ultimates" are criticized by many for putting irresponsible wanna-be heroes in danger, and endangering the lives of others. Mayor Crawford and members of the team defend themselves by making it a point that Doug Taggert was shot, and that killed him…he died helping to protect innocent people. Nick Fury privately contacts Clint Barton and offers to take the team who, admittedly, actually did decent work, and turn them into an official part of the Ultimates, inviting them all to operate out of the Triskellion. Barton declines, telling Fury that he's missed the point, and that the world needs heroes who operate small-scale almost as much as it needs the Ultimates. Fury is upset with Barton, but leaves him alone.
