Ultimization Game II Archive Thread

Re: Ultimization Game Season 2; Episode 7: The Invaders

I know I've been slacking on these lately, but here's my submission

Ultimate Invaders!​

Time is shown on the upper left, making it in the 1930's

A blank TV screen is shown, one of those old time TV screen, built on the floor, the channels were turned, not flicked by a remote. A child like hand flips on the dial, and the black and white imagrey captures his imagination. He stares. mere inches from the screen, his golden hair and freckles, making him seem like a sickly child in the ghostly light.

The TV blars with an ad.

"COME DOWN TO THE LOCAL SUPERMARKET KIDS! FOR A ONE TIME APPEARANCE ONLY! MEET THE INVADERS!

"The heroes of the only World War, the INVADERS are now in the States to promote their upcoming line of ACTION FIGURES!

"Meet the man with a plan, and the body to do it with, THIN MAN!

"See the head of flame ignite in THE BLAZING SKULL!

"The only female to work in the Invaders and made sure she kept them whole, and looking swell the whole time, THE OUTSTANDING NURSE!

"Finally, the one man strike squad known mysteriously as SUBMARINE!

"Come see the INVADERS! APPEARING SATURDAY!"

Another hand turns off the TV, it was femine, and obviously the mother of the child.

"Steven Rogers, you get yourself to bed young man."
"But MOM! The Invaders were going to be on soon! I love there show!"
"Son, you get upstairs in your bed like a good young man, and stop dreaming about being a superhero. I swear, ever since your father brought that accursed thing home, you keep thinking your a superhero, and you're not. No go to bed."
"Alright Mother."

Fin
 
Ultimization Game Season 2 Archive Thread

Rules are as before.
1) All entries are to be your own work. If it is discovered you have entered someone else's work as your own, you will be disqualified from all rounds.

2) Entries are to be posted in this thread, and general discussion on the game can go in the other thread.

3) The game begins Wednesday, December 13th and ends on Monday the 18th. All votes must be in by Tuesday the 19th, and the winner will be notified in time to start the next round.

4) Once all entries have been posted, a mod will close the thread, and you can then send your PMs to me, voting for who you think deserves to win. I will then post the winner.

I give you: X-Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-man
 
Re: Ultimazation Game Season 2, Episode 8: X-Man

This would, of course, be a character in a series of Ultimate X-men arcs.

This first arc would occur at some point after the Cable arc. The Cable arc would end with the death of Professor X, Jean being restored to the group, and Cyclops disbanding the X-men, disillusioned by finding out some of Xavier's darker secrets. Cable escapes to the future, and the X-men were unable to ever conclusively prove who he really was.

Smoke Signal: A vignette of Jean and Cyclops following the X-men's break-up. A telepathic cry goes out world-wide, and is heard by all of the world's telepaths. Jean Grey and Cyclops track the signal down to Switzerland. They discover, in a rather remote cabin, a young boy, 16 years old, who is seemingly very sick. When they knock on the door, it is answered by a woman in her 40's who introduces herself as Madeline Pryor. She says that her son Nathan has been very weak over the last week, and…things…have been happening around the house. Moving on their own. She is saying all of this in German, but Jean is picking their minds in order to speak German and feeding the understanding to Cyclops. Jean explains who they are, and tells the woman that her son is a mutant, and that they know how he can get some help. The woman is very grateful, and tells them that her son always saw them on T.V. and said he wanted to be an X-man. Jean gives Scott a very pointed look, disapproving of the disbanding he initiated and says to him mentally, "I guess that makes him the only X-man now." Cyclops and Jean go in to help the boy who is very physically drained. Jean touches his mind, and finds that his powers of telepathy and telekinesis are apparently so powerful they are feeding off of his body. She "lends" him some energy that she taps into from the Pheonix Force, and he seems much healthier. They offer to take him to Muir Island for tests and treatment, and he agrees, in English. He tells Jean she's not the only one that can learn languages through telepathy.

Muir Island reveals that, yes, Nathan Pryor's powerful Telekinesis and Telepathy feed off of his life energy, so when he uses them, he grows physically weak. If he used them to their full potential, he could die. He does quickly realize that the Pheonix force in Jean is a nearly limitless recharge supply, so he offers to travel with Jean and Cyclops, in order to learn to use his powers from Jean, stopping him from using them accidentally and killing himself. They agree.

For a few months they travel together. Other story-lines are pursued through the other X-men. At some point Jean, Cyclops, and Nathan meet up with Wolverine again, and he makes the joke, "Great, we have a regular Marvel Boy…who is this kid? You guys have a super-powered baby come back to the future or something?"

This leads into the arc that reunites the X-men: Pheonix.

This arc answers the big question asked early in Kirkman's run: Pheonix? The Hellfire Club succeeds in fully releasing the Pheonix Force inside of Jean Grey, turning her into a full-fledged Dark Pheonix. She threatens to destroy the world, brings America to its knees, and begins working toward bringing everyone else down single-handedly.
Magneto, distressed by this destruction wrought by someone so clearly beyond mutant comes out of hiding, and approaches the former X-men into forming a team willing to do something about this whole mess. Cyclops, Nathan, Wolverine, Colossus, Rogue, Forge, Longshot, and Magneto band together to solve the Dark Pheonix problem. After a few failed attempts at doing something useful, Nathan is feeling quite weak. The discussion finally comes down to deciding to kill Jean in order to kill the Dark Pheonix. Wolverine and Nathan both strongly reject this plan, but the others shout them down. The two men leave the group and try and determine a way to bring Jean back to them.

Magneto sends Longshot to dispose of the dissenters, in order to keep the integrity of the plans. As Longshot is fighting with Wolverine and Nathan, Nathan, weak from defending himself grasps Longshot's arm, and in a flash of psychic power, turns Longshot into a dessicated pile of dust. Nate's eye flashes like Longshot's and he comments…"What a stroke of luck." Nathan is restored to health.

Wolverine, mad as hell at Magneto's, and as far as he knows the other X-men's treachery, takes Nathan to Muir Island, in order to figure out what the heck happened. On Muir Island, Moira MacTaggart determines that, in addition to his high-level telepathy and telekinetic abilities, Nathan also can psychically "grab" X-genes from other mutants and imprint them on his own genes. If not done carefully, this destroys the mutant being "grabbed," but MacTaggart is fairly certain that if done carefully, the mutant being robbed of power would survive.

Nathan thinks for a moment and then starts to propose a plan to Wolverine, but Wolverine stops him. "I know what you are about to suggest kid, but I would still have to kill a friend, and that's not something I want to do anymore." Nathan points out that his own powers would eventually consume him anyway, so a quick death saving Jean's life would put Wolverine one ahead on the death count. Wolverine agrees to the plan.

The other "X-men" have devised a trap to assault and kill Dark Pheonix. They are in a pitched battle when Wolverine and Nathan arrive. Wolverine starts to protect Nathan as he slowly works out the X-gene DNA in Dark Pheonix. She figures out what he is doing and comes after him. He tells Wolverine he almost has it and then yells at him, "I have it, now! KILL IT NOW!" Wolverine jumps at Nathan as he uses his power, drawing the Pheonix Force and all of Jean Grey's power into him. Unfortunately, the consuming powers of the Phonix Force also start to consume Nate's body, and as a reflex, it stretches out to the next closest mutant, Wolverine. An explosion of fire and psychic energy rocks the battlefield, and when all dies down, there is only one body to be found by Magneto, Forge, Cyclops, Colossus, and Rogue: Nate.

Nate is in a coma for a few arcs. In those arcs Colossus and Rogue rebuild the X-men, Magneto goes back into hiding, and some story arcs go by. Storm mourns the loss of Wolverine. Cyclops mourns the loss of Jean. They all talk about how they didn't know Nate too well, but they hope he awakes, considering how powerful he proved himself to be. On Muir Island, where Nate is being kept, we discover that he has gained Wolverine's healing factor and bone claws, as well as enhances his innate telepathic and telekinetic powers. Trying to take Jean and Wolverine's powers at once must have vaporized both of them, Nate only surviving due to gaining Wolverine's healing factor. Moira suspects that with Wolverine's healing factor, he could wake up any day now, and be able to use his powers without killing himself.

Last X-man arc: Nate finally wakes up, and finds that he has amnesia. His speech patterns are mysteriously like Logan's though, and that disturbs the rest of the X-men. Brain scans show that his thought patterns are nearly identical to Logan's...that somehow, Logan's mind was imprinted on Nate's, and Nate was lost forever. Storm rejoices that "Wolverine" is back, and convinces the otehrs to try and rebuild his life around Wolverine's memories, not Nate's. They give him lots of information on Wolverine's past with them, and he starts to act more and more like WOlverine each day. Over a few missions, he starts to grow increasingly paranoid and begins locking horns with members of the team, wondering if he was really becoming himself, or if he was just turning into someone they wanted him to be.

He leaves the team, and sets out to see what he can learn from other sources. He finds Sabertooth, and gets Sabertooth to talk about their history together. Sabertooth doesn't realize this guy is Wolverine. The only name he gives out is, "X-man." Sabertooth, who has since joined Magneto's newest Brotherhood, recruits X-man to join. Magneto recognizes and remembers Nate, and is intrigued by his apparent shift of personality to Wolverine. He feel that, if he plays his cards right, he will have the world's most powerful telepath and telekinetic, his best assassin ever, and his good luck charm all in one person. X-man rises quickly through the ranks. Magneto reveals that he has found many of the Wolverine files thought destroyed by Weapon X, and gives them to X-man to read. X-man wants to be more himself, and so asks Magneto for adamantium skeleton and claws. Forge, who has since become friends with X-man, figures out a way to do it.

Time passes and X-man proves loyal to Magneto, who continues in hiding, biding his time for bigger plots. X-man starts acting irrationally, and begins seeing the Goblins doing work for him when he uses his TK. It is revealed that the minds of Jean Grey, Logan, Nate Pryor, and the Pheonix Force all inhabit his body. He suffers an intense inner struggle. When Magneto realizes that the Phenix wasn't destroyed, he calls on the X-men to help fight it again. During the inner struggle, it is revealed that Jean selected Logan's personality for the body out of guilt in her role in killing him. Nate is scared of death and has been supressed to the point that he welcomes the oblivion of the Pheonix FOrce to death. Wolverine takes control of his claws and moves to kill himself. Nate takes control of the other hand and cuts the arm Logan is controlling from his body. Jean sees a way all can be fixed and finds the nearest human, and uses the genetic-harvesting power that caused this problem to realign the genes in this hybrid body to regular human status, destroying its potential to host the Pheonix FOrce, self-destroying psychic powers, good luck, and healing. As a parting gift, Jean allows Logan's mind to remain dominant.

Forge builds him a new arm.
 
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Re: Ultimazation Game Season 2, Episode 8: X-Man

Ultimate Marvel Presents: The Askani

#1

Aprroximately 65.5 million years ago, a humanoid figure crashes through the sky. It lands in the spot that today forms the Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico. This fall alone creates massive ecological changes, a chain reaction that leads to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The same area, in the present day... The spot where the figure made impact is now occupied by a sprawing nature resort and commune known as the Askani Settlement. It is run by an American woman in her fifties who calls herself "Mother Askani"; she is formerly known as Madelyne Pryor, a stressed-out advertising executive, who left behind a successful career on Madison Avenue to form a female-only collective, which admits women who have grown weary of the harshness of modern day life, and wish to embrace the nurturing spirit of the earth instead.

Mother Askani appears outwardly accomodating and sympathetic; the most recent additions to the Askani Sisterhood are predominantly 'soccer moms' and career women, who have abandoned jobs and families, after being traumatized and disillusioned by the Liberators' attack on America (in Ultimates:"Grand Theft America"). However, it is later revealed that she is not above bribing corrupt local officials to keep them from sticking their nose in the Settlement's affairs; she gives them a share of marijuana grown on the Askani land in exchange for their privacy.

The Aegean Sea. A Greek fishing vessel finds a man in a futuristic costume floating in a protective bubble. Cautiously, they bring him aboard. They accidentally activate some kind of security device, and the man wakes, killing them all, with some kind of disintegration ray. From a newspaper, he ascertains that it is 2007. His armor talks to him, reminding him that he will need an army to carry out his mission. Claiming the ship for himself, he sets off to find the "deadliest mercenaries of the era" to conscript as his soldiers.

Nevada. Detective Misty Knight is summoned to a golf-course prison by jailed lobbyist Bolivar Trask. Based on previous conversations with his estranged daughter Tanya -- currently missing -- he believes she has been brain-washed into joining the Askani Settlement, when she abruptly stops visiting him. He arranges for Misty to inflitrate the Askani Settlement.

Misty does so, and locates Tanya with surprising ease. Trask's daughter is now calling herself "Sanctity". Tanya insists that she has no intention of returning to America, and that she is there, on her own free will.

Later on, Mother Askani reveals that she figured out Misty's purpose from the very beginning. However, she seems convinced that she can make Misty join the Askani Sisterhood, and begins making veiled threats, when Knight appears skeptical.

Knight is unaware that she has been followed from New York by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Sharon Carter and Clay Quartermain, who are posing as a married couple in a nearby resort. They bugged Misty using a nano-surveillance device, which she ingested through her coffee, at the airport.

During a strange, weekly ritual known as The Witness of the Bright Lady, Mother Askani detects the bug inside Misty, and pulls it out telekinetically thorough her stomach. Knight passes out from the shock, and the panicked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents immediately alert Nick Fury, telling them they might need "big guns". Fury says that he's right on it, and contacts Mahr Vell, telling him he needs a favor.


#2

The readers are finally shown the details of the Witness of the Bright Lady. Mother Askani "channels" the "spirit" of the "Bright Lady", who is in fact not a Lady at all -- it is the astral form of a naked human resembling the original Nate Gray (from AoA/616), but with his penis cut off (making him an "ex-man" -- get it?). This is not explicitly depicted; the genital area is always obscured by another object. Mother Askani attempts to make psychic contact with "her"; "her" comatose body remains buried underneath the crater. The Sisterhood offer their menstrual blood on a regular basis, convinced their female energies will resurrect the Bright Lady, in time to stop the prophesized coming of a False King -- the Fitzroy. This is based on an encrypted message found by an archaeaological team that excavated the site of the Settlement, in the early 80s.

Elsewhere in the Askani Settlement, Misty awakens in a locked barn. A young woman named Rachael Dayspring rescues her, revealing herself to be a powerful telepath who had been abandoned, while working as a spy for (the late?) Professor Charles Xavier. She doesn't trust Mother Askani; she proposes that the two of them escape together.

As they are making their escape, they are stopped by Fitzroy (the man who hijacked the fishing ship), who has hired the help of Deadpool and the Reavers.


#3

The Askani Sisterhood are nearly massacred by Fitzroy and his men, before Mahr Vell arrives, leading a battalion of S.H.I.E.L.D. field operatives. Big cluster**** fight.

When Mother Askani is fatally wounded, the psychic energy released awakens the "Bright Lady", whose astral form takes over Pryor's body. Mother Askani/The Bright Lady/the Ex-Man apparently kills Deadpool and the Reavers with ease. After that, it's all-out cosmic-scale war as Mahr Vell, Fitzroy, and Mother Askani/The Bright Lady/the Ex-Man battle it out, ending with the latter subdued, and Fitzroy taken into custody, using a Kree restraining device.

#4

Mahr Vell interrogates Fitzroy and discovers that he is simply a human criminal named Trevor, from a possible future where time-travel is commonplace. He stole a power suit from a Superhero Museum and took advantage of a chronal rift to go back in time, hoping to conquer the world, using its advanced technology.

The "Ex-Man" buried underneath the Chicxulub Crater was an rookie police officer from an elite crime-fighting unit of mutant eunuchs known as The Castrati, who chased Fitzroy into the timestream. He had over-stepped the mark by several millennia. The "prophecy" that the Askani had adopted as sacred text was merely an ordinary mission report, and the name "Askani" simply referred to the rank of the "Ex-Man" within the Castrati -- that of an ordinary patrol man, making him not much different from Misty Knight, really.

The fight was nothing more than a dutiful cop finishing off the job he failed to accomplish.


Addendum: Not really relevant to the story of the "X-Man" per se, but Quartermain and Carter end up interrorgating Rachael Dayspring as well, under less hostile circumstances than Fitzroy. They remark on her similarities to Jean, in passing, including a snide comment about how Xavier must have a "thing for redheads". If Xavier does indeed die after the Cable arc, there will also be some vague hints about him being alive, in one form or another. Basically, in spite of Dayspring's initial uncooperative attitude, they strike a deal where she will become a black ops agent for S.H.I.E.L.D. instead, until Xavier decides to get back in touch with her.
 
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Re: Ultimazation Game Season 2, Episode 8: X-Man

This is my idea. Please do not vote on this one.

This would take place after an arc or two after Cable.

The X-Men had finnaly regrouped, though the lineup is different. Cyclops, Jean, Colosuss, Rouge, Iceman, Havok, Cannonball and Angel. The students take classes via hightech videophones from Emma Frost. Angel rejoined the group after hearing of Xavier's death. Havok and Cannonball are there in order to learn how to fight. There is an underlying sense of grief still.

Jean has been having troublesome dreams. The goblins that have been plauging her have started frontal assults on her psyche while she sleeps.
No one can help her with this, and Jean becomes very depressed. Then, during an attack by the goblins, Jean feels another presence. The goblins are repelled and driven out of the dream, and Jean feels a sense of peace wash over her. Standing to her side is a young boy, 14 or 15 perhaps. He tells Jean he can help her.

For over a week, the boy visists Jean in her dreams, and helps her with her powers. Jean realizes that the boy has taken the form and image of Nate Grey, an imaginary brother from her childhood. Jean also discovers that Nate has a power intellect, rivaling that of Professor Xavier's.

Cyclops and Jean decide to fine Nate and bring him to the mansion. Yet when using Cerebro, they find no trace of the boy. Suddenly, Nate stops visiting Jean, though she does get small quips of him. It seems he is under attack by an immense psychic force. Probing around, Jean stumbles upon the Astral Plane, and discovers Nate in battle with a monster.

The monster calls itself the Shadow King, and attacks Jean as well. The beast comments to Nate, but calls him Charles, that he will have two telepaths to feast on. Jean taps into the Phoenix force and knocks back the Shadow King. It retreats into the darkness, and Nate explains who he really is. He is Charles Xavier.

He conciousness had been trapped in the Astral plane ever since his death. When he felt Jean in danger, he materialized in her mind as Nate Grey. He eventually tells her that he cannot stay on the Astral Plane for too long, for Shadow King will come back stronger, and wishing to devour Xavier.

Jean and Cyclops are then instructed by Xavier to find the body of a young boy. He faintly resembles Nate, and is braindead. The boy is taken, for he was abandonded by his family. Xavier then trasnfers himself into the boy, thus having a corpeal form.

He then had surgery, thus creating a "real" Nate Grey. He still retained his great telepathic power, and his intleect, and also found he had an increase with his telekinetic skills.

Letting Scott continue to take command, he left, in order to track down Shadow King.
 
Re: Ultimazation Game Season 2, Episode 8: X-Man

Ultimate X-Man

I'm not a fan so this is my entry.

X-Man is the alternate Cable from the not so distant future after the his time traveling expedition has run it's course in the current arc. This can only be plausible if he's not Wolverine of course.

I guess it would make a cool mini with a young Cable coming to terms with a world where mutants do not have an Xavier to look after them. He fights through the present against mutants rising to power unchecked and comes to terms with many self revealations about his origins. He will also emerge as one of the most powerful mutants and the new leader to the dream that Xavier once had. The finale is his learning that he's the man responsible for the up and coming hell on earth type of age that mutants now have to endure.
 
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Ultimization Game, Season 2 Archive Thread

Rules

1) All entries are to be your own work. If it is discovered you have entered someone else's work as your own, you will be disqualified from all rounds.

2) Entries are to be posted in this thread, and general discussion on the game can go in the other thread.

3) The game begins Wednesday, December 20th and ends at midnight, December the 25th (Merry Christmas!). All votes must be in by the end of Boxing Day, Tuesday the 26th, and the winner will be notified in time to start the next round.

4) Once all entries have been posted, a mod will close the thread, and you can then send your PMs to me, voting for who you think deserves to win. I will then post the winner.

And the lucky character to be featured in this week's contest is...

Kang the Conquerer

I'm surprised this one hasn't been done yet. If it has, let me know, and I'll change it.
 
Re: Ultimization Game, Season 2, Episode 9: KANG!

issue one
turkey today :a 2000 year old tomb with only readable inscribtion : Magos Immortus is discovered. suddenly we see a couple lighnigbolts schorching the archeologist who dicovered the tomb. next thing we see is the sole survivor followed by blood red locust.
London: a old book is sold by an auction with the title "The scarlet centurion"
as the owner opens the book to see the quality of the book his eys
turn into purple orbs
Ny: the asylum inmate jahangir stranpani(Number 11-1-14-7) is screaming that
the time is ripe with the other two to fulfill his Destiny
the next picture we see Dr. Strange running to PI Conan fergusson(ultimate ghiost rider) asking if he could run to fury .he replies only if x-men are his babysiters of his two children. then we see him in his in his "blazing" glory.
then we see jahanir breaking out with the words : it's time .in the background we see the wall building it self off an rebuilduing himself to stairs)
to follow
 
Re: Ultimization Game, Season 2, Episode 9: KANG!

I found this to be a bit harder than I was expecting. Damn time travel.

I think the oppurtunity to Ultimize Kang was wasted when Millar introduced those time traveling terrorists.

So I have a similiar concept for the character as a terrorists bent on fixing past tragedies (9/11, Killing Hitler, whatever etc...)

Issue #1 When the Fantastic Four head back through time to stop Richard Nathaniels (Original, right?) they find no trace of him but clues that he was at the events at some point. The Fantastic Four attempt to travel back but they find themselves traveling farther into the future for the first time since their time traveling expeditions began.

Issue #2 The world is technologically advanced and peaceful. They explore the world curiously and find it a very pleasant place to be. There's a hint of nostalgia. There are statues of the world leader, Kang, who the public seem pleased with. They meet Kang and he welcomes them to their time. Upon furthur research they learn that all of their allies are long dead and forgotten and even mutants do not exist anymore (Ultimate Legacy Virus?). Reed warns Johnny to not delve into their own history as he doesn't even want to be there as it is. Johnny discovers that The Fantastic Four were defeated and killed by this world's emporer, Kang.

Issue #3 They confront Kang and all is revealed in flashback. Richard Nathaniels succeeded in altering history but himself was caught in time in the past as the future was adjusting itself and no longer reachable. The Fantastic Four having lost everything and also stuck team up to possibly fix things. But Nathaniels also spends his time studying the team and the science of time travel. When enough is accomplished Kang kills Reed, leaves the team stranded and disappears from them. He then time jumps and collects information and technology until in his own timeline, he dominates society and builds a perfect Utopia after conquering the rest of the heroes of that time and again defeating the Fantastic Four particularly proud that he had two chances to kill Reed who he blames for the whole fiasco after he learns just how delicate time travel is and how Reed's responsible for discovering it and endangering reality. He also explains how he is responsible for stopping his former self from carrying out his missions of righting the wrongs as he needed the proper timeline in place in order for his current future to exist because he needed the Fantastic Four in place, Reed specifically, to invent the technologies that he now knew how to use and also learning a few spells Dr. Doom who worked alongside Kang until he betrayed and killed Doom also.

*He also reveals that the Argiopes under his inventions

Issue #4 Standard fight. The Fantastic Four are outnumbered by Kang's armies and ability to counter all of their powers but Reed outsmarts him once again and manages to find the *original* Richards Nathaniel and hold him hostage. The Fantastic Four take him back to the present day but Kang follows.

Issue #5 Kang enjoys beating the world's heroes one by one *again* and Reed realizes he's going to end up repeating the future he saw if he doesn't do something. He tricks Kang into touching Nathaniels. The Argiopes can only be seen by Kang and they come down on him and begin to do whatever they do to wipe him out of existance but before he goes he makes eye contact with his pastself, who stares in disbelief as he disappears before him, and recites a spell*. Kang's now defeated and Reed decides it's time to stop all time traveling expeditions. SHIELD takes Nathaniels into custody.

*The spell was a trick learned by Doom to pass knowledge onto someone else. This makes Nathaniel capable of everything Kang was with the proper equipment if he should ever escape. But SHIELD and everyone else do not suspect it.
 
I try to keep my pattern of my own 616 pull-list in mind when I choose an entry for certain rounds. I figured I'd kill 3 birds with one stone and choose a character from X-Factor/Cable-Deadpool/X-Men mythos...


Siryn

I have my own little idea involving an ultimization of her father too that I'll post later. Good luck. You know the rules already and everything is back on schedule now.
 
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Re: Ultimization Game II Round 10: Siryn

Background:
Recently in Ultimate X-men:

Aftermath Arc:
Professor X is dead.

Cyclops and Jean have had a falling out over Professor X's feeling for her and the Professor's illicit activities.

The X-men have been formally disbanded.

Cyclops has joined Emma Frost's group of mutants in Chicago, and Bobby Drake also enrolls, as home is no good place for him now.

Jean Grey has set out with Wolverine, working to run down what exactly was going on with Professor X's dark activities.

Shadowcat moves home, and continues her relationship with Spider-man.

Colossus, Storm, and Rogue are left homeless, with little direction and even less leadership. They decide to stick together and tap into Professor Charles Xavier's other contacts—they finally get in touch with Moira MacTaggert on Muir Island. They manage to put together enough money to fly out to Muir Island to meet with her. She offers them a job retrieving European mutants who are dangerous to themselves or others. It gives the former X-men direction, and solves Rogue's problem of having to be incarcerated in not under Professor X's protection.

All Different Arc: Soon after arriving on Muir Island the three former X-men are greeted by both Moira and a 42-year-old Irish man named Sean Cassidy. Until very recently, he was a patient of Moira's. His mutant ability manifested when he was younger, but sixteen years ago he he lost all control of it, and the constant noise his voice produced drove him rather insane. He had been kept in a special sound-proof room until MacTaggart could find a way to help him control his voice and regain his mind. This happened about a year ago, and he has since been traveling Europe, helping Moira retrieve unfortunate mutants. He welcomes the X-men to the team. They joke that since the name "X-men" isn't currently taken, they might as well be the X-men. Banshee takes over leading the X-men, augmented by Colossus's strength, Storm's weather control, and Rogue's special power-drain abilities.

The X-men title, for a number of issues, focuses on this team tracking down mutants in Europe, with occasional side-stories focusing on The Academy of Tomorrow. Shadowcat becomes a regular in Ultimate Spider-man. Jean and Wolverine's story continues in the Wolverine mini series, but Jean quickly leaves that series to cross back over into the Academy of Tomorrow series.

Over the course of this "All-New, All-different X-men" we learn that Cassidy has a strong leadership background. He was the head of an IRA terrorist cell with extensive under-world connections in his 20's, before he lost his mind to his power. He goes behind Moira's back and uses the X-men to not only help mutants, but to help people dealing with Super-Threats, and also occasionally to help out some of his old buddies.

The Sound of Siryns, 1 of 2 The IRA, having since become officially peaceful enlists Sean to bring into line a group of former members who are still fighting the old fight. They warn him that these individuals are somewhat more powerful than the average terrorists-they too are mutants. Sean and the X-men hunt them down while they are in the middle of setting up a massive bombing of a prominent government building. They are led by Sean's brother, believed dead, a man called simply, Black Tom. A young woman, not more than 16, called Theresa Rourke, with the apparent ability to get anyone to do anything she asks, and a familiar, if masked, face: Juggernaut, are the key players in this group. They also have a number of soldiers who follow them. Rogue flips out on Juggernaut when he taunts her about "her dead Cajun lover." Storm keeps the soldiers out of the fight. Colossus goes tow-to-tow with Tom, having early success before Theresa takes him by surprise and controls him. Sean then pursues his brother.

Colossus, Theresa, and Tom battle Storm and Sean, but the X-men's hesitation to hurt Colossus puts them at a disadvantage. As the battle progresses Black Tom runs away, ordering the others to flee. Rogue, unwilling to let Juggernaut get away, grabs Theresa, absorbing her power. In her rage, she takes too much, knocking Theresa into a coma. Rogue calls out in a loud voice, "Cain, stop!" before her eyes water up and she falls in a heap, crying. The Juggernaut stops in his tracks, allowing Storm and a now uncontrolled Colossus to take him out. They take the captured and enthralled Cain Marko to a holding cell on Muir Island, the unconscious Theresa to Moira's hospital, and the crying Rogue to her room.

Storm checks on Rogue who hasn't come out of her room. Sean becomes obsessed with trying to figure out what happened to his brother, trying to track him down using his old contacts. Colossus helps Dr. MacTaggert with the unconscious Theresa Rourke.

The issue ends with Moira telling Colossus "We're losing her!," Rogue telling Storm, "I've done something 'orrible," and Sean finding Tom in hiding, sitting him down, and asking what in God's good name he was doing continuing all of the violence and the killing, though it clearly hadn't worked. Tom responds, "Sean, that's not the story you need to hear right now."

The Sound of Siryns, 2 of 2
The next issue is basically a flashback, with a few modern panels of Colossus and MacTaggart struggling to keep Theresa Rourke alive, Sean listening to his brother Tom, and Rogue confessing to Storm that she has done something so unforgivably bad. The flashbacks come from both Rogue and Tom's perspective, blended together. This is that story: Tom has hidden the fact that Sean's girl friend, Maeve Rourke, back before Sean lost control and went nuts, was scared of Sean, but was pregnant with his child. Afraid that the child would be a mutant like its father, she went to Tom to get help to have the child aborted. Tom, secretly a mutant himself, refused to let her do it, and kept her a prisoner, strapped down so she could do no self injury. He told himself that he was doing it for his brother. After the girl was born, he killed the mother, and raised the daughter, telling her that her real father was the best man in Ireland, and that one day he would get better, and the Cassidy family would finally help Ireland become a truly free nation. He had a bit of a case of Hero-worship for his big brother, and raised her to have much of the same. She grew up idolizing her father. Over the last few years, she manifested an ability to make people do what she wanted when speaking to them just right. After the shift in the IRA's policy from terrorism to diplomacy, Tom refused to toe the party line on account of the fact that he would never betray what his brother fought and sacrificed himself for. Tom and Theresa managed to recruit Cain Marko, the Juggernaut, who was always looking for half a decent fight, and had come to the British Isles looking for some answers to some weird mystical powers he thinks he has via "that damn crystal th' Cajun threw at me." He'd read the Harry Potter books, and figured England new more about magic than America. While working for this IRA splinter-cell, he fell in love with Theresa. When Tom heard that his brother was better, but helping the IRA who had "lost the fight in them," he lost all trust and faith in his brother. He refused to destroy Theresa's idolization of her father, so he told her that the IRA had done some illegal experiments and recreated her father's talents on one of their own, in an attempt to bring them down. She was furious and swore to kill this pretender. Tom thought it would be best that Sean die rather than disappoint Theresa. Tom, upset, crying, and on his knees then asks Sean, "What did your girl DO to her?" It then cuts to Muir Island, where Theresa Rourke is pronounced brain-dead by MacTaggart. Sean receives a cell-phone call from Moira. He answers it. Hears what it says, and then takes out a gun, and says "She killed my Theresa." and shoots Tom in the head.

Next, in Ultimate X-men: Over the next many arcs, Rogue renames herself Siryn, and learns to control her new voice powers and finds she has maintained both her own memories and Theresa's. Sean tries to deal with his guilt over killing the man Theresa thought of as a father and hiding it, and also a desire to kill the woman who now, for all intents and purposes, is both his daughter and his daughter's killer. The relationship between Siryn and Banshee is strange, complicated, and has a number of interesting twists and turns that could go anywhere. Juggernaut fully falls for Marie/Theresa, the two girls who he has most recently loved, all in one body. Over time, Cain gets opportunities that he can change to be a better man, just as Rogue made changes to be a better woman, and he is allowed to join the team, and pursue a relationship with Siryn.
 
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So, I'm trying to write this in a way that will go hand and hand with the solicitations as well. I'm going to run with the assumption that Prof. X dies in the Cable arc, and that the team disbands afterwards. I'm going to scrap the Shadow King plot thread, though, since I can't find a way to fit it in.

The Finale of the Cable Arc

just touching on some points here. The fight between the X-Men and the Wild Pack (or whatever the hell they're called) has Cable blowing out Prof. X's brains, then Jean Grey going nuclear and annihilating Cable. We get last words from the both of them. Cable tells them "the age of Apocalypse is on us, and it's his fault". X tells Jean he loves her, just as he's dying just to get a response along the lines of "You only loved what I was capable of" from Jean/Phoenix.

While this is going on, Rogue and Kitty Pryde are having a heart to heart in the infirmary. Rogue's confused about her place on the team, and Kitty convinces her that she should find out who she is before trying to help out the rest of the world. While the X-Men are off fighting, Rogue leaves the mansion.

Aftermath

The next arc follows the X-Men individually. Scott's taken Jean to a private wing of the mansion. Her psychic powers are starting to twist reality around her, and she's exhibiting levels of paranoia. She's worried that Xavier has been sculpting her mind all this time, that he's the cause of the Phoenix, and that any number of groups including the Shi'ar and a group of aliens called the Brood are coming for her for a multitude of reasons.

After leaving the X-Men, Ali ended up crashing with an old musician friend of hers: Theresa Cassidy. She's since joined Theresa's band, Fallen Angels, along with another mutant called the Vanisher, and a drummer who insists on wearing a full-bodied red dinosaur costume on stage all the time (Devil Dinosaur). They're starting to get serious musical credibility, although it's becoming clear that Theresa has some somewhat shady ties back to Ireland, exhibited in the family that occassionally comes to visit, and her agent.

Rogue left Bobby behind a note. And we get some interaction between Bobby and Kitty. Things seem fairly mended between them. Bobby is heart-broken. Kitty tells him that she's leaving to go home and have a normal life. On the way out, she tells him where she thinks he can find Rogue: New Orleans.

Wolverine and Storm, seeing that the team is as good as gone, pack their things up and go hunting for clues about Xavier's past and his future agenda, as well as clues as to whether or not Cable was actually Wolverine.

We get news reports about scattered cells aligning themselves with the Brotherhood of Mutants intiaiting far reaching attacks worldwide. The general feeling is that the organization is operating as a group of mostly independent seeper cells all masterminded from a tiny core group.

Kitty asks Colossus what he's going to do, and he tells her he's going to keep fighting for mutant rights in New York City. He asks her to join him, and she refuses. The arc ends with Cyclops coming back down to the mansion proper to announce the X-Men are disbanding and that he's leaving to find a cure for Jean, only to discover that the mansion's already abandoned.

(Damn, that took up more space than I thought. I'll pick this back up tomorrow)
 
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Ultimate X-Men 2 Issues

First Issue
Sound Off

The first issue starts with Kitty dragging Peter to a battle of the bands concert in which Dazzler's going to perform. There, they run into Colosuss and Northstar, out on a date. Insert Peter comments about the Man who can turn into steel being gay.

From here, the battle starts, and quickly the competition is sorted through, leaving the best two bands, Dazzler's band and this band called Siryn. Siryn consisted of mostly Irish people, a Black Tom on bass, the lead singer/guitarist called Banshee, his daughter on backup vocals and Keyboard who went by Siryn and a drummer of no particular interest to our story.

The trophy is awarded to Siryn, and Dazzler is mad. The other Xmen try to console her, but she walks of in a puff. Outside, she gets attacked by the Juggernaut. Peter, Colossus and Northstar attack Juggernaut, and Kitty helps out Dazzler. It is during this fight, that Banshee and Siryn walk into the alleyway, and with a combined Sonic blast, cause the raging behemoth to run away. What is weird is how Juggernaut acted after the blast, as if he had no idea why he was there. Kitty thanks them for their help, and the Xmen jet arrives, with Cyclops in it as well as other members of the Xmen. They say that Central Park's trees have come alive, and they go, with Spiderman, to help the people stuck in the trees. Dazzler comes along as well.

Banshee and Siryn shake their head, and mutter Tom's name, and they go to help at the scene.

Issue 2:
Cassidy's Black Thumb

Arriving at the scene, the Xmen battle foilage that attacks them. Spiderman, getting launched into the sky by a raging branch sees A figure near the middle of Central Park. When he lands, he informs Kitty, who rushes in to find out what it is.

Running into the scene, she finds that the man is directing the foilage, and he is the bass player for the band, called Black Tom, brother to the Banshee and Siryn. Banshee and Siryn both fly in, using sound waves. Black Tom says he was sick of making measley money, and decided to join forces with someone who can help him make alot more. It's time the world started to fear his ability, and he attacks the sound father and daughter team. They fight, and eventually he reacts the same way as Juggernaut, shaking his head in confusion, wondering what was going on.

Then a moment where Banshee and Siryn talk abnout how Black Tom is Banshee's brother, and the two of them knew about their mutant powers for a long time, and Banshee decide to use his powers to help with their band to make more money. His daughter recently learned she had powers, and Siryn wishes to join the Xmen instead of playing the band. Banshee lets her. Banshee and Black Tom act as brothers do, making fun of each other in a teasing way.

Later on, a person with blue hair walks into an alleyway. Astute readers would have noticed the blue haired man in the rock concert and then Central Park. There image goes fuzzy and it is revealed to be Nightcrawler using a holographic inducer. He radioes in to someone.

"Magneto, those new mind controlling devices Forge made, well, they work like a charm."
 
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Ok…..not sure on how this fits in perfect UU continuity but bare with me.



19 Years Ago----In the MacTaggart Manor…a huge estate resting on the bluffs of Glennfunan's End. A stormy night. Even stormier inside…..

"He doesn't love you like I do Moira! You have to see that! You must!"

"You don't know what you're talking about Sean. Charles loves me. And we're getting married! You must accept that and move on!"

"I can't Moira. I love YOU and all Charles loves is his dream of peace. He's off right now in some god forsaken savage land with Erik……but I'm standing here…in front of you……telling you---that I love you. I've seen the way you look at me. I've felt the softness in your hands as you've brushed against me. I know you love me too."

Moira stared at Sean Cassidy and saw the determined passion in his eyes. For a moment she thought of giving in. But her loyalty to Charles Xavier won the moment and she turned from Sean.

"Sean……..please leave."

"You know I can't do that Moira. Not unless you're coming with me." Sean replied.

"I can't Sean. And you know it."

"Moira. Look at me."

She turned and saw those same fiery eyes.

"Moira….tell me you don't love me and I'll leave. I'll leave and I won't come back. I'll leave you and Charles in peace. But you have to tell me that you don't love me."

"I don't….I don't—" Moira stammered, "---I can't say it."

Sean rushed to Moira and kissed her. She fought momentarily---but only for a moment. She quit fighting and wrapped her arms around his neck.



15 Years Ago----A young red-haired girl walks into the dining room of her huge home and finds her father sitting dead at the table. Impaled with a shillelagh. She stood there in disbelief for hours…….

"Sean? Terri? I'm home!" Moira shouted as she placed her keys on the table by the door.

"Sean? Terri? You guys here? I've got dinner. Nothing special, just some----DEAR GOD! SEAN!?!?!"

Moira's eyes welled with tears as she saw her husband lie dead in his chair. She began to sob uncontrollably until in the corner of her eye she saw her daughter Theresa. Standing there in silence.

"OH MY GOD! Terri?!?! Are you alright? Are you hurt? What happened? Terri?"

The girl stood silent. Her eyes locked and fixated on her corpse in front of her.

"Terri…..come on. Speak to momma. Come on baby….say something. Anything? Theresa?" Moira asked…panicky in her actions.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Glass shattered. Wood splintered. The dead body flew across the room….shillelagh still embedded in his chest. Moira was flung into the wall. Her ears began to bleed. She struggled to stand and reached out for Terri. As she stood up, Terri turned her attention to Moira. She was still screaming. The sound blast shattered Moira's kneecaps and she collapsed, hitting her head on the corner of the wall and was knocked unconscious.



Today----

"Oh, Theresa---there you are. Come on now…we don't wanna be late. It's a good hour's drive and I wanna get back before dark. Now come along." said Moira.

"I can get us there faster if we fly." responded Theresa.

"Aye. But we won't be having any of that now. Will we? Now let's get going." replied Moira.

"Aye Mum."


Theresa hated this day. But she understood how much it meant to her mother….so she went along with it.

She begrudgingly stood at the tombstone and whispered a prayer. Moira always said whatever she was gonna say first and then gave Theresa time alone with her father's tombstone. She didn't know what she ever said….didn't care. It wasn't her place. She just cried a few tears and thanked God that Theresa said anything. Ever since the incident---Theresa never really said much of anything.

The ride home was silent as usual. Once inside the house, Theresa went back up to her room and closed the door. Moira sighed and went back downstairs to her lab. Back in Theresa's room----Theresa pulled up 3 floorboards in the corner of her room and yanked a box from under the floorboard. She blew the dust off the box and took a deep breath. She exhaled and opened the box.

Inside were news clippings. News clippings of murder. Numerous victims. All killed by having a shillelagh run thru their chests.

"Daddy….I'm so close." Theresa whispered.

She picked up the latest clipping. A victim…stabbed thru the chest with a giant stick. The victim was in New York.

Then---all of a sudden---something in the photo of the clipping just popped in her head. A face…in the background. He seemed familiar. She looked at several other clippings. The same face. The face of her father's killer. She looked at the date of the NY clipping. 2 months ago! She grabbed a bag sitting at the bottom of her closet and opened a window. She let out a scream and flew off into air.

Moira came running upstairs and ran into the room.

"Terri!?!?! Terri!?!?! What is it?!?!? What's wrong?!?!?" Moira asked.

It took her a minute to realize that Theresa was gone. She noticed the open window and looked out at the landscape. She could see her daughter fly off into the horizon. Moira hung her head and began to cry. But then she noticed something on the floor.

Moira knelt down to pick up the piece of paper and then saw the hole in the floor and the box of news clippings.

"Faith and Begora!" Moira exclaimed. "She's gone off to find her father's killer. Saints preserve her."









Sadly…since there is no crime based UU book other than USM….this small intro would play into an arc similar to the beginning of UXM's "Sinister". The killer of course would be Black Tom….a sociopath with powers….and no real agenda other than a fancy for murder. One of the next NY victims would be Sunspot's cousin. Theresa would get involved and introduced to the AoT. By the association of MacTaggart and wanting nothing to do with Xavier's past---Emma would pass her onto Charles. But she would quickly see she has nothing in common with any of the students. And opt to shack up with the AoT.

They'd find Black Tom and Terri would almost kill him but a young student named Jamie would prevent her from doing so. Terri and Jamie would obviously like each other---but she'd opt to go back home instead of stay in NY. But the 2 would promise to e-mail each other. Leading to her obvious return down the line.
 
Ultimization Game 2: Episode 11; The Swordsman

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And the lucky character to be featured in this week's contest is...

The Swordsman!

Use any version!
 
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Background

Ultimates 2 would end with the Ultimates and SHIELD lauded pretty much unanimously as heroes within the United States. After a Congressional committee is formed and investigates the background, they decide to continue funding to the project. Hawkeye is not a part of the new lineup, and we see why towards the beginning of Ultimates 3. Barton wants to know how and when Black Widow will be executed. Fury says it's not going to happen - that she's too useful. Barton storms off.

This sets things up for Ultimates Annual 3, which tells a Hawkeye story.

Ultimates Annual 3

CIA agent Henry Peter Gyrich shows up at Clint's door a number of months after the events of Ultimates 2. Barton's in a bad place, living in a run-down extended stay hotel, subsisting on drugs and alcohol. He tells Barton that he's sorry about the loss of his family. Clint's skeptical. He tells them he wants to help bring the killers to justice. Clint's even more skeptical. He settles a glossy photo from the morgue on the table and Hawkeye is suddenly interested. The corpse looks like he's been run through and then decapitated. Gyrich continues. "One of our agents- codename Trickshot. We believe you trained with him. We also believe the man who murdered him was responsible for your family's deaths." He sets down an open folio. This one has surveillance photographs of another man, slightly older, athletic, with a confident grin and dark hair. "One of our agents. He goes by a number of aliases: Jacques Duquesne, Phil Javert...." Hawkeye interrupts, "The Swordsman..."

We move to a flashback of Clint's training for his entrance into SHIELD. He's being trained alongside his brother Barney and the dead man, Trick Shot. Swordsman is their trainer. We get the skinny on the exact relationships. SHIELD is in its embryonic stages at this point in time and using CIA operatives to train its agents. Swordsman is one of these. Trick Shot is undergoing the same training to work with Central Intelligence. Barton forms a close friendship with TS and a strong mentor/student relationship with the Swordsman. Implications are drawn that Barton is a decorated jet pilot who, for reasons unspecified, is labeled as not suitable for the Air Force anymore. The flashback just follows part of their first training briefing.

We cut back to modern day, where Gyrich is still talking. "Ms. Romanov may have been the traitor in your organization, but this man was the traitor in ours. He planned the killings, and he gave the order. Fury may be interested in playing games, but I'm just looking for justice. If you choose to accept my offer, then we'll give you free reign to take care of Duquesne however you see fit. Kill him, and you get your justice. Bring him in to us, and you can help us bring the rest of these *******s to justice." Barton agrees.

Hong Kong. Clint trails the Swordsman to a club/brothel in a seedier section of town. Swordsman is in a back booth with a few of the girls. Clint tells them to scram, sliding into a seat across from Swordsman. We get a terse conversation between them. 'Why did you do it?' 'Power, money'. that kind of bull****. blah blah blah. During the conversation, we get a shot of underneath the table. Hawkeye has a gun cocked, Swordsman has his sword drawn. Swordsman's responses finally drive Hawkeye out of control, and he fires. Duquesne neatly slices the gun's barrel in half.

What follows is a chase through the streets of Hong Kong. Hawkeye's the same awesome marksman we've come to love, using every object around him in the chase to try and take down and disable Swordsman. Swordsman is an almost-supernaturally skilled acrobat, and is just as skilled at dodging as Hawkeye is at precision. We cut back and forth between this chase and a flashback of one of their sparring/training sessions. In the flashback, Swordsman seems more adept, but is over-confident. He's talking about the weakness of using projectiles as opposed to a real weapon: how Clint's choice of weapons offers only an offensive advantage and nothing defensive. Barton counters that the versatility of his weapons is an advantage, and as long as he can keep his opponents occupied, the defensive aspect doesn't matter. The chase through Hong Kong parallels the training exercise. We reach an end point. In the flashback, Swordsman has defeated Clint, and has his sword held against the other man's throat. In the present day, the two are on the edge of a tall tenement building, close range. Swordsman is about to bear a final swing down on Hawkeye when he catches an elbow in the gut. He falls, but Hawkeye catches him by the arm. His sword hits the ground below. Swordsman's still confident, saying he knew his pupil wouldn't let him die. We get a long shot of Barton's face. His grin isn't pleasant at all. "You won't be dying for a good, long time, boss."

The issue closes with Clint on the cell phone to Gyrich, at a Hong Kong cafe, daytime. He wants to help Gyrich take down Nick Fury.

Future

The events of the annual will lead to an ultimate version of The Thunderbolts led by Hawkeye and handled by Gyrich. They'll be a CIA operation with two principle goals. The official agenda is to root out and neutralize the moles and cells still in hiding after the Liberators' successful attacks on the US. Their hidden agenda is to discredit and undermine SHIELD and the Ultimates. The Thunderbolts will consist of villains undergoing various stages of rehabilitation. Hawkeye takes a perverse joy in making their missions as suicidal as possible. He seems to have a personal deathwish, and has nothing but disgust for the team he's leading. Swordsman has undergone intense and painful torture at the hands of Barton. He's in a constant state of pain, but his code of conduct won't allow him to kill himself. He's on the team at Hawkeye's request. Clint has told Swordsman that he'll allow Swordsman to die when and only when Black Widow has met her maker. Their first target is Elihas Starr A.K.A. Egghead, Swordsman's primary accomplice in the Liberators attacks. Starr is a well-esteemed research scientist within the CIA who's done a damn good job of covering up his corruption. The Thunderbolts will eventually come into direct conflict with the Ultimates, as they try to bring a number of SHIELD detainees to justice and settle their own personal scores with members of the team.

Character Summary

The Swordsman's a former CIA agent who considers himself a swashbuckler in the mold of Errol Flynn. While he doesn't have any superhuman abilities, he's a peak condition acrobat and a master swordsman. While he follows a code of conduct, it's patterned more after his own arrogance than genuine chivalry. Suicide is the ultimate sin to him, as the destruction of self is simply unthinkable. He refuses to cheat in battle, but this is out of pride - his refusal to believe that anyone can best him in a fair fight. He has no problems with the torture or murder of civilians outside of battle. Following the events of the annual, he suffers permanent internal injuries from Barton, which, while not critical, leave him in a constant state of pain.

(I think if you say the character isn't worth more than a quick cameo, then you aren't thinking the right way about him. We haven't really seen any of Hawkeye's rogue's gallery in the UU yet)
 
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The Swordsman's very lame to me. Not the idea of ultimizing him but the character himself.

So to make quick reference to 616 Swordsman I would have him appear in UXM or wherever the Fenris twins appeared again and have Andreas von Strucker sparring with an unknown as his sister goes over plans with him. During the sparring match Andrea would call out "go easy on my poor brother, Jacques." At the end of the Fenris conversation, Andreas would be struck again and admitting to defeat and inferiority would dismiss the instructor with "That will be all Monsieur Duquesne. Thank you."

Nothing big just a quick stab. I don't particularly think a character like this needs a whole crazy story revolving around him.
 
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Swordsman

Jacques Duquesne was raised in the south of France. He attended the famous LeMarc Academy for Boys and during his tenure there he grew fond of the sport of fencing. After begging his wealthy father for lessons, Jacques showed incredible natural instinct for the sport. He went onto win numerous tournaments and competitions…even earning a spot on the French Olympic fencing team and going onto with the gold medal. But deep down he wanted more.

Not content to be just the best fencer. Jacques decided he wanted to be the greatest swordsman in the world. A master of all blades. But to accomplish this dream he was gonna need money. A lot more than he had access too.

Soon after this realization---- Jacques's parents were found murdered. The entire estate went to him. He liquidated all the assets available to him and traveled the world in search of more training.


13 Years Later----

Jacques has mastered over 15 different styles of combat with blades. But yet there is something else still eating at him. No longer content with being the greatest, during one of his sparring sessions, Jacques kills his opponent. While the onlookers there dismiss it as an accident, Jacques knows differently. He no longer fights for the thrill of competition. He now fights for that moment when blood is shed and his opponent's eyes glaze over and grow dull as death takes them. Jacques is in love with "the kill".

He soon begins to hire himself out as a world-class assassin. Not longer after, he receives an assignment from one Wilson Fisk.




The following is the beginning of the USM arc in which Swordsman would appear.
My So Called Life – It's been 3 months since the shocking events of the Clone Saga. Since then Peter has had a lot of time to think about what he plans to do with his life. He still had yet to take Reed's offer for a cure.

For a while he thought of being Spiderman no more. And for a bit---he tried to stick with the decision. For May's sake. Now that she knew his secret---how could he put her thru the torture of sitting at home and wondering if he'll be there in the morning? So for May's sake…he attempted to have a normal life. No tights. No webs. Not even an outburst or fight in school.

But part of this plan for a normal life meant no crazy super-powered girlfriend. In light of his shocking revelation that he still loves MJ, Peter has decided to do the right thing and end it with Kitty. How in the world can he maintain any kinda normalcy when his girlfriend is being kidnapped to mysterious islands and having to fight futuristic mercenaries? Too bad everything doesn't turn out like Peter had hoped. Although he isn't with Kitty anymore…after everything that MJ went thru recently---it is she that's decided that she needs to stay away from Peter for her own safety.

And while Peter may be hurt…he soon sees this as an opportunity to take some "me time" and find out what's best for him.

At home, Peter's relationship with May is fractured at best. They both have decided to try and start anew. Peter realizes that May doesn't fully trust him anymore…but they try. They both are telling the truth to each other and Peter has promised her that he hasn't even looked at the tights since that one crazy night. At times it looks as if it just won't work out and that they'll forever be strangers to one another…but they realize that they are all each other has in this world and they always give it another try.

All the while---Peter has not interfered with the law as Spiderman…he still hears stories about random criminals getting away with crimes because nobody was there to stop them. Deep down he still yearns for justice in the world. This leads him to the revelation that he wants to be a lawyer when he grows up. He then recalls that he has a card of one Foggy Nelson in one of his Spidey boots in the basement. He runs down to the basement and gets the card and looks up directions to the law firm. A couple days later he heads to the law firm and inquires about an internship. A man wearing sunglasses tells him "Although it's admirable that you wish to join the fight for justice---you're too young. This is line of work is no place for kids."

Dejected---Peter heads out the door when all of a sudden the words echo in his head. Peter quickly turns around and says "IT'S YOU!!!"




A Call To Arms – Peter confronts the lawyer and tells him that he knows who he is. And while the lawyer tries to brush off the crazy allegations of rambling teen, Peter is too persistent and wears the lawyer down. The lawyer then introduces himself as Matt Murdock and comes clean. He tells Peter than the only reason he's coming clean is because he already knew who Peter was when he walked in the room.

The 2 talk and somehow Peter talks his way into helping Daredevil. Thus leading into the Ultimate Knights arc of USM. During the arc, we learn that Kingpin has taken a new bodyguard--- The Swordsman.

One of the big highlights of the arc would be a kick *** duel between DD and Swordsman. In the end DD of course gets the best of him, thus leaving Jacques's character open for returns as a vengeful criminal against DD. But that sounds a little cliched (and reeks of Bullseye) but hey.......
 
Ultimization Game, Round Two - Episode 12

Rules

1) All entries are to be your own work. If it is discovered you have entered someone else's work as your own, you will be disqualified from all rounds.

2) Entries are to be posted in this thread, and general discussion on the game can go in the other thread.

3) The game begins Friday, January 19th and ends on Monday the 29th. All votes must be in by Tuesday the 30th, and the winner will be notified in time to start the next round.

4) Once all entries have been posted, a mod will close the thread, and you can then send your PMs to me, voting for who you think deserves to win. I will then post the winner.

Get ready for it folks.

They rocked faces before Alien was ever released.
They play into the history of the X-Men and Ms. Marvel.
And while we've seen them in a Danger Room scenario, it was really just an Easter Egg.

They are....

THE BROOD!

So let's see if you can find a way to work them into continuity without being cheesy. I figure most people won't be satisfied with space opera, so let's be as creative as we can be. Bonus points if you turn Xavier into the Brood Queen.

Good look, space cadets.
 
Re: Ultimization Game, Round Two - Episode 12

Ultimate X-Men

Issue 1, A Beacon From Space

The issue begins with two astonomers looking into the night sky. They see a flash of light, and record it, noting that it seems to be from a dying star. The also note that within the light flash, there was a black spot.

Jean Grey is shown mediating. The beacon is seen in her head as a ship being pushed to it's limits byt he dying star. The ship is sendin gout an SOS signal, to which Jean Grey responds to. It latches onto her pyshic projection, and begins its trek to Earth for repairs. On the way, Jean tries to breaks it's hold, but it won't let her.

Enter a fight between the X-men and Magneto's new brotherhood. When the X-men get back Cyclops finds Jean Grey in their room, mumbling to herself about something coming.

The Brood.

Issue 2- And Things Get Stranger...

Before Cyclops can even rush over to her, as she is drooling and spaced out, he gets a call from Wolverine. Turns out Magneto's group is at it again, and this time, trying to get some adamtinium from the site where Reed Richards built the Ultimate Nullifier. The X-men rush into action.

As they fight, with Captain America's and Captain Marvel's help as he is protecting Earth's only hope against Galactus, scenes are interposed with the ship and Jean astral body. She finds herself staring at a ship of all dead people, and a number of aliens. They snap at her astral form, and she wonders where they come from. Looking out one of the ships windows, she see the planet Earth. They were about to land.

As the two factions fight, its is increasingly aware that there is going to be a stalemate unless something happens soon. Carol Danvers goes to radio Fury for more Ultimates help, when gets attacked by Multiple Man. She is knocked into the power source of the machine, and she winks out of existence. This causes Captain MArvel to go insane, and begins to take out the surrounding mutants with ferocity. Magneto's group escapes, and the Ultimates and Xmen try to figure out what happened.

Then, the machine fires, sending a beam of light into outer space.

Jean Grey sees the light smash into the ship, disabling it. The pyshic connection between her and the ship is severed, and she's back in her body. Cyclops is there, asking her what's going on. She explains there was a ship stuck in space, but it was attacked, and aliens were feasting on the rotten corpses.

A Bird in the Sky Forshadows War

Though the ship was destroyed, the aliens were close enough and far enough in the Earth's atmosphere that they make it to the planet, though on the island of Madagascar. Xmen and the two Captains go to investigate. They get into a fight with the Alien creatures. It was there when they see one of the dead creatures the Aliens ate come back to life, and begin to work with them.

Meanwhile, in the wreckage, Carol Danvers is seen, looking different. She flies into the sky, exhibiting super powers, and flies to hel out Captain Marvel.

Have a nice long fight scene.

Then, when all is said and done Carol explains she was transported to a newer universe, where she got her powers. This universe allowed her to come back, and that's how she got here. The Brood, as they are called, a necrophages, a certain type of bacteria that reanimates dead bodies for it's own purposes, hence why all the dead animals where fighting for them.

Of course, others of this Brood could have landed anywhere on Earth, leaving them open for future arcs. They could even inhabit the dead bodies of the Moondragons to form a strange cult of sorts.
 
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