Metal Mettle Resolute Metal, totally not the same robotic Villain as Metal Mettle makes a cameo "Did someone say large scale nanite robots?  Also, the common robotic minion designs have ROCKET FEET, duh."  Jake gets a +10 Cameo bonus to nanotechnology.

  The rest continue to do their thing.  Humorous image of the moment is Gadget Gun reenacting a particular scene from Hotshots part Duex with the amount of bullets fired in one spot.  http://youtu.be/qQxvSsVQkoU?t=5m10s

The once uphill fight suddenly becomes noticeably easier when the nanites "infect" Hamidon. Other villains seem to join the fray as well, fighting right alongside the heroes! Hamidon starts devolving as per Emmy's ritual from before and the smaller he gets, the quicker he shrinks! Finally, Hamidon is nothing more than a scare, naked man curled up on the ground. But at least he's fully human now.

Emerald seems to be flashing occasionally with the energy from earlier and has her hands ready to slam him again with still more kinetic attacks.

The villains who joined the fight are all looking ready to kill Hamidon. Shelly rushes over to stand in front of him and squeaks out, "Wait! He's done! He's defeated! Do we really need to kill him now?!"

Raichel says, "If he really *is* subdued..."

Angel says, "Are you nuts?! After all the people he's killed and how hard it was just to bring him down?! He gets the death sentence thousands of times over!"

Burning Animus says, "Kill him!"

Very quickly, the voices who want Hamidon dead are outweighing the voices who want to spare him. For even among the heroes are mostly those who want him to just die. Alexis seems torn.

Max stands proudly beside his daughter.  Jake's just glad his robots were able to escape before their presence inside Hamidon would have caused an explosive fatality.  Because then he'd be put under a legal microscope.

"I'll be working on directing a boosted suspect medicac signal to your area," he offers, getting to work.

Mits and Kitau are in the "Not this again, can't we just put him out of our misery?" camp, but because of their love for Shelly and Timothius they stand defensively in front of Shelly.

"Mittens would like to thank everyone who helped with the defeat of this notorious nimrod.  On a more practical note, authorities are likely on the way.  Hint HINT.  Wink WINK.  Cough, Rogue Isles types might want to make themselves scarce, cough."

Wild-eyed Raymond looked ready to bash Hamidon's now human body into a bloody paste but seeing Shelly stand in the way he turns to leave.

"Tsh.  It's not worth it to go to jail for finishing off a condemned freak."

  Gadget Gun comments "It comes down to less of a question of right and wrong, and more of a question of if we want longbow shooting at you once they show up."  And as it is, the heroes seem to fight longbow more than the villains these days already.

  "I want to do the obvious, but someone would just leap in the way.  Then we'd all start hitting eachother over the matter while Hammidon sneaks off during the moralistic violence."  Bamzor may be direct and violent, but even he has pattern recognition.  Villains have escaped in flimsier circumstances.

  Alloy Archmage meanwhile is paying more attention to Emerald.  "Are you going to be allright?  I've seen what happens to you when a power surge wears off."

  Batsmash died again... Wait, no, he's back up.

Emerald answers Alloy, "I'm... not... fine..." she pukes up some blood and shivers before collapsing.

Timothius immediately gets to healing Emerald, but it looks like she may need more than his healing. PLOT SICKNESS!

Eli works furiously with Jake to get a makeshift medivac for Hamidon.

The villains seem hesitant to leave, but several among them make the point that there are enough heroes here to hold off the villains until longbow arrives. Others who make the point that the heroes have certainly earned everyone's respect today by helping beat Hamidon. Even a few of them admit it was the heroes' plan and that the villains were only help. Either way, all the villains get convinced to flee the scene before longbow arrives. Which they do.

Shelly hugs her dad once things start settling down, looking relieved.

Hami is eventually teleported and "secured". After a few arguments between Shelly, Angel, and Longbow about jurisdiction and law, an agreement is eventually settled.

It soon becomes known that Emerald is not well at all and Alexis is missing.
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Jake sighs in relief now that the craziness is over.  "Thanks for the help, Eli."

"I'm proud of you, Shelly," Max says softly when he returns her hug.

Raymond is relieved the standoff simmered down and flies off.  As soon as he hears Alexis is missing he begins searching for her, frustrated there's little he can do to help Emmy.

Mits adds a little tech healing with her handheld first aid gizmo.  "Normal mortals aren't meant to channel that much arcane energy all at once.  It's impressive she wasn't erased from existence in the process.  keep up the heals, bro.  Me and Alloy can look into possible magical treatments that'll hopefully be more permanent."

  Alloy may be concerned about Alexis's sudden disappearance so close to dealing with a self proclaimed guardian of nature, but Emerald's health passing into projectile bleeding territory is the more clearly pressing concern until such a time it becomes clear he can do nothing to help.

  "I would go into the cans and can nots of such energy channeling in mortals, but that's academic nitpicking compared to facing reality.  So Mittens may have the right idea unless this is a problem solved either with sonic energies or a variety of crystals and lava."

  Melty is sad, you can tell because Sad Hulk Piano plays while he looks at Emerald.

  Gadget Gun goes to check in with Angel on the whole Hammidon legal snarl situation, as well as check up on the girl herself.

  Bamzor heads for the Rogue Isles to check up on the less antagonistic sorts in the aftermath of Hammidon's partial smashing.

  Batsmash FOUND FIVE DOLLARS!  Then follows after Raymond to give what little help he can finding his favorite elf.

Shelly, of course, hugged her dad and smiled.
Eli was sure to thank Jake back and immediately go for a nap.

---

Emerald is laying in a bed and looks over to see Mittens and Alloy. Her eyes are constantly changing color, occasionally flash (complete with sound effects that sound like sparks flying), and seem to go from glowy to normal to looking like some kind of high-tech cyber eyes. Her fur occasionally pulses with a variant color like a really slow heartbeat. She speaks in a weak tone, "Magic... not just magic like we normally know it... pure magic. The kind that made our world. The kind everything comes from. We're some of the few in our supergroup who have touched it via the Well of Furies. It may also be why I was able to handle the power that flowed through me. But I am sick and I can feel the Well is trying to take advantage of my current weakness to sway me towards being under its control. Go to Ouroboros. Maybe someone there knows of a way to cure me."

---

Meanwhile, GG finds Angel and Shelly at a meeting with the politicians of Paragon City. There are some famous supers there as well, such as the Freedom Phalanx. Shelly seems to be kind of stressing, trying to keep it together while the politicians argue over whether to kill the Ex-Hami or not. Shelly's argument is that the guy is not directly guilty of the atrocities his other form committed, so he should get something equivalent to involuntary manslaughter.

Angel has been quiet for the most part, only interjecting her thoughts once in a while. Her stance seems to be that guilty or not, the people of Paragon City need to find a way to make sure Hami, or something LIKE Hami, is prevented from ever happening again. So she is slightly siding with the ones present who are in favor of dissection.

When she sees GG, she waves. GG is being held off by guards who explain this meeting is by appointment only and such, but Angel comes to him. Angel asks, "What's up, Gadget Gun?"

---

Raymond and Edward's search isn't fruitless. He is actually able to find Alexis relatively quick. She is at the top of the hill in Eden, sitting lazily and gazing at Eden with tear-stained eyes.

Max is present to support Shelly and comforts her when she looks like she needs it, but he keeps his opinions to himself unless asked directly in the meeting.

Jake figures he'll leave all that other stuff in the capable hands of the older members of the supergroup and relegates himself to guard duty to make sure Hami doesn't get away.  He coms Lib and asks for her to accompany him.

Raymond's approach isn't very stealthy so Alexis had plenty of time to react.  He walks up to her and offers a comforting arm-around.

"Found her," he coms the supergroup, "She's unharmed."

Mits nods.  "Will do.  Hang in there!"

She takes some video of Emerald's Technicolor self to help with describing her symptoms later.

"Take care of her please, Mocha."

She heads for Oboros.

Gadget Gun

  GG is against dissection, if admittedly for practical reasons of it being likely pointless when the magical bacteria had already been removed by (mostly) magical means.  Look, just because he is a firm believer, and successful practitioner of 'even the most ancient of magics can't handle being shot too much', he can still accept some things just fall under 'Magic, whatever' categories.

  "Checking up on you, and the whole political tangle involved here.  Though it looks like I'll just have to find out after the fact."  He may be able to get in on his own merits later, but he has always preferred using what influence (of the non funny money variety) he has to stay out of the political spotlight, not step into it.

---

  Batsmash

  The joke character comes to a quiet stop beside Alexis and Raymond, and sits down beside them.  "Anything you'd want to talk about?  Or would you prefer more quiet time while we keep the psychic monkeys from interrupting you?"

---

  Alloy Archmage

  Alloy hopes the 'cure' from Oro isn't a more fatal than average stabbing with a fancy Rularu dagger.  But then Emerald isn't an insane Incarnate ghost worshipping Mot (Yet?).  "Take it easy Emerald, you'll be fine once this is over with.  Though if the Well was smart, it would leave you be for better results."  If The Well was fed by how badass something was, and favored the badass (and plot demanded arbitrary power ups), then Emerald all on her own would be better than Emerald given a metaphysical leash.

  The robot janitor turned wizard follows after Mittens.

Alexis glances in Raymond and Batsmash's direction, but not directly at them. She gazes at the waterfall in the distance. "It's so beautiful..." she manages to say in a cracked voice, eyes squinting slightly as if about to cry again.

---

The usual crowd is in Ouroboros. From the denizens to the miscellaneous heroes and villains who come here. Prometheus is looking directly at Mittens and Alloy when they arrive next to the portal. He doesn't move from his spot, though, and lets them approach him if they want.

---

Angel nods to GG. "Thanks for checking, Gadget. The talks are actually getting somewhere. Despite this, it does sound like they're going to retire soon and say something like 'we need to think on this' and then have another debate tomorrow. I'd say give the meeting another 10 minutes. Either the meeting will be done, or I will be."

---

Liberty shows up in her red, white and blue, wearing a cape and all. She lands about 10 feet from Jake before taking a few steps over to him. "You called?"

Seeing Alexis about to cry again, Raymond offers an arm-around.

"Yeah..."

He gives a glance to the waterfall, trying hard to think positive thoughts then looks back to Alexis.  Hard to think of anything nice to say that wouldn't sound awkward or trite.

"It's good to pause and admire beauty."

---

Jake nods.

"I'm expecting an escape attempt.  Not so much from Hami ragaining consciousness, though that is not outside the realm of possibility, but rather from one of the many factions who believe they can 'use its power' to their own ends."

He looks up from his digital device.

---

Mits doesn't really expect Prometheus to know how to cure Emmy, but he looked in her direction!  That's plenty to draw Mittens aggro!

"Take a look at this, Prometheus."

She shows him the video of glowie Emmie.

"Know what's wrong with her or how to fix it?"
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  Batsmash

  Smash has some philosophical thoughts about the sight, but they are probably not the sort that would help matters.  Considering the sight of a waterfall forced upon the landscape about as natural as the hoover dam.  "There's more like it well beyond the city, everyone needs a break from all this at times, even you Alexis."

---

  Gadget Gun

  GG nods, and says "Still faster progress than most anyone would have expected.  Still, even with all that has gone on it's good to see you doing a bit better."  The jump from 24/7 base living to self made monster combat and political drama is quite the distance, it's not like this Angel is a bunny.

---

  Alloy Archmage

  Alloy goes along with Mittens, hoping that the vague and nebulous man who lists mission objectives that get chat spammed away swiftly has something more noteworthy to say when it comes to keeping Emerald in one piece.

Alexis says, "I'm just... sad about this place. Sad that so much life was lost in the making of a beautiful scene. Sad that because of that, people are going to look at beauty like this with disgust for a long time. Sad that this place in particular is going to have most if not all of it removed and remolded because of the heavy memories that go with it all."

---

Prometheus says, "Yes." in answer to Mittens. "She needs the Evertime Stone. It is currently being sought after by Arachnos, so you will likely run into some resistance. Hopefully, knowing the location will get you there sooner than they."

He gives a location under the water between Grandville and Saint Martial.

---

Angel smiles at GG. "...thanks." and goes back to the meeting. About 10 minutes later, she exits. If GG was still there waiting, Angel says, "Wanna grab a bite to eat?" nobody else seems to be exiting the meeting yet.

---

Liberty asks, "Why call me specifically?"

Raymond nods, trying hard to think of something profound and comforting to say.

"They say time heals all wounds.  The habitat that was here originally had to be cleared out to make way for the city.  Which then had a beauty of its own.  Then that was replaced with this beauty.  In time this beauty will be replaced with another and then that too will change.

"It's like the changing of the seasons.  The breathtaking snow-covered winter wonderland must melt away for spring flowers to grow and bloom.  Then a beaver dam floods the flowers with a silver pond teeming with fish and ducks.  In time a wolf eats the beaver, the dam fails, the pond drains, and the flowers return.  Then in time a new beaver moves in.  You could say there is a beauty in the healing transformation that will happen here."

---

"Handy you know the cure!  Thanks!"

Mits of course shares the location with Alloy.

"Good news!" she coms the SG as she hurries to the mission, "Got a location for a cure for Emmy!  Likely dangerous.  All backup appreciated!"

She transmits the location.

---

Jake blushes a little, unprepared for Liberty's question.

"Uh...  Lots of reasons.  You're reliable, respectful, available, tough...  Why not?"
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  Batsmash
  Ed is less nature documentary about things, though Raymond's attempt was still nice.  "Even if Eden is never the same again, the people that remain will help eachother.  It happened here, it happened at Faultline..."  Galaxy.  "Its why so many remain in paragon even after so much.  You can always come to any of us when you need something Alexis, even if it's to let us know you need some time alone to think things over."

---

  Alloy Archmage
"Thank you, Prometheus."  He wonders if they will have to deal with the Coralax or Mako considering the location.

---

  Gadget Gun
  GG indeed is still around, and nods to his favorite person to ever punch him in the face (so far as helmet visors go).  "That sounds lovely, I'm sure we are both overdue for something approaching normal these days.  Name a place and I'll treat you if you'd like."

  OOC: Mailed the Gadget Gun costume files.  I still like the overall look of the "90% Imperial Guard" parts more, though included a 'From Beta' version where the chest and legs are "Armored Bodysuit" style for comparison.  Along with the Cyberpunk Detective look.

Alexis says, "Thanks guys... I guess I could ask one of the techies to scan this place and digitize it for posterity. I guess my main remorse is the fact people have to look on such beauty with hatred. I admit that at its core, this place will be more beautiful with people in it. But I just wish things didn't have to happen this way. And... Hammidon touched my heart before our mission happened. I will forever be connected with this place like one would be attached to a place they grew up."

---

<Mission: Retrieve the Evertime Stone from Arachnos>
Various members hop on SG channel to discuss who would be best to go with. Soon, Mittens and Alloy have a full team and get to enter the mission (in game, it would be entering a submarine that leads to the mission). It is an underground ruin of Oranbega.

---

Angel sees the SG request and says, "....Looks like we have a chance to help Emerald, GG. Lunch will have to wait."

---

Liberty checks the SG channel. "Aw man! Not a single tank on the team yet!" she looks at Jake. Then replies on the SG channel, "Jake's got me guarding Hami. Any other tanks available?"

Raymond nods his agreement with Batsmash's offer to Alexis.

"It is beautiful, isn't it?  Know then that you're not alone in thinking so.  And I expect in time hearts will heal and appreciation for this beauty will grow.  How 'bout we take some video of our own once we help with the mission for Emerald's cure."

He offers Alexis and Batsmash team invites and answers on SG channel, "I'm on my way.  I can tank."

---

"Mittens begins scouting the place out using her trusty stealth enhanced super speed, careful to watch for things that can see through her invis."

She of course updates the coalition with what she finds.

---

Must be nice to be something everyone needs on their team, Jake thinks to himself.

"I'll tank," Kitau says in SG channel.

  Batsmash

  "I don't hate the hole in the ground where Galaxy used to be, Alexis.  I hate the gooey skeleton jello monsters from space who made it that way.  Most people will only resent the trees trying to tear their faces off."  Then mission shenanigans turn up, he nods, looking back to Alexis.  He'll understand if she's not in the mood to crush things with large rocks, just as much as he would understand if she was.

---

  Gadget

  Gadget Gun nods to Angel, "Seems that way.  Looks like we will be shooting ghosts in the face once more."

---

  Alloy Archmage

  Alloy doesn't eyeroll at Mitten's antics because he is used this and accepts her personality quirks, not because he can't eyeroll.  "These places can be pretty big Mittens, don't run by any of those red crystals."

Alexis gets up. "We're on our way." she says on SG channel. She looks at the other two. "A chance to help Emerald sounds like just what the doctor ordered. Let's get this cure."

---

Liberty seems a little relieved. "Thanks, Kitau and Raymond." she flops against a wall. She's about to mention Jake helping, but Alexis speaks up on SG. So any plant control will be handled. Liberty says, "I really hope everyone will be OK..."

---

<Mission: Retrieve the Evertime Stone from Arachnos>
Pretty soon, the huge bunch of volunteers all arrive in the zone, ready to be mass teleported. Or just recalled one at a time.

Meanwhile, Mittens finds a single, robed CoT sitting on some steps with his elbows rested on his knees. The steps lead up to an altar with some levitating stone.

"You're welcome," Raymond answers Liberty.

He's relieved to see Alexis volunteered to help, figuring that'll be the best medicine for her.  He nods to her and Batsmash then uses his mission port power.

Mittens likes it when robots accept her personality quirks, especially epic awesome robot mages she respects.

"Thanks for the reminder, Alloy.  Will do!"

When she finds the lone CoT, she quietly informs the rest of the alliance complete with location and detaild description, then helps with the teleports as they arrive.

"Unless there's any objection as soon as everyone's gathered I'm gunna step forward and introduce myself."

"There is an objection," Raymond answers, "It should be either Kitau or myself who approaches him first.  No telling what sorts of ghost or demon hoards will suddenly appear once he realizes he's not alone, and we can't have our troller dropping from an alpha."

"You make too much sense."

Kitau lets Raymond confront the baddie, ready to step in and taunt should negotiations fail.

Meanwhile Jake nods to Liberty.  "Me too.  But should something bad happen, it'll be a good thing we'll be available to extract them."

  "I am inclined to agree.  Just because some controllers can take a punch from Marauder and stay standing-" in a lower double digit HP sense, after Max HP buffs "does not mean it is an incredibly bad idea."

  Meanwhile, Gadget arrives with Angel as Batsmash arrives with Alexis.  They keep their distance from eachother and Alloy lest the universe explode before they can help emerald.

<Mission: Retrieve the Evertime Stone from Arachnos>
The robed figure stays seated where he is and doesn't seem to react to the group or their conversation. Once addressed, however, the robed figure tilts its faceless hood upward to "look" at Raymond.

He speaks, his voice sounding baritone and echoing off the walls. "I am the keeper of the Evertime Stone. Why are you here?"

"Alright already, jeez," Mittens relented.

Raymond is taken aback by the so far rational interaction with the apparent guardian.

"My name is Raymond.  I'm here because I was told the Evertime Stone can help a friend recover from a serious condition."

To the alliance he comms, "This is unexpected.  He didn't attack.  You think he's stalling for time?"

"Keep him busy," Mits answers, "I'll sneak past to take the stone when he inevitably refuses to let us have it."

  Melty has a good reason for why.  "..."  Thanks, Melty.

  "If it helps the decision, Arachnos is already apparently on it's way and they don't ask as nicely as us."  While not here, Bladed Butler takes pride in the fact Arbiter Sands considers his coffee 'acceptable'.