<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/81/Superheroine-2.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: Cramped Dining Room<br/>Milestones: In the Name of the Moon and Silver Age Sensibilities<br/><del>3</del>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 0 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: None | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Solo d10 + Vivacious Maiden of Venus d8 + Godlike Strength 2d12 + Psych Expert d8 + Psych Stunt d8<br/><br/>2d12 = 6, 5 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=96566)<br/>d10 = 10 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=96567)<br/>3d8 = 5, 7, 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=96568)<br/><br/>Spending two plot points on this one, one to keep an extra die for the result, and one to keep an extra effect die.  <strong>23 total, effect dice d12 Emotional and d12 Physical stress</strong>.  Ace is going for a very memorable knockout. :P<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>"If you're too dangerous to leave as a person, it's not because of the powers you've been given."  And suddenly, all the feigned agitation and nervousness was gone, and Ace was perfectly calm.  Her gamble had worked, this time.  Minerva had given away a great deal of information about what her organization was up to, and had moved down within easy striking range.  "It's because of what you choose to do with them, because your mind has been so twisted around that they think there's little hope of ever returning it to its original shape."<br/><br/>And as she spoke, she moved.  It was a little awkward with the strands of spider silk still securing her, but she could bend her legs at the knee with a little effort, and bring her legs up under herself in order to pull her body into a more upright position, even if it would still be awkward with her hands restrained behind her back.  She didn't look over at Minerva or at anywhere else in particular, not yet, since she still didn't want to give away just how little her bonds were actually holding her just yet.<br/><br/>"And I can already tell how you got so twisted, Minerva.  I said it before, but the ends don't justify the means.  The reason they don't is because diseased means cannot create a healthy end.  Every time you do something evil in order to accomplish something good, you lie to yourself, absolve yourself of all wrong-doing, and then your worldview distorts just that little bit more.  The most terrible things can become commonplace once you've convinced yourself that they're necessary, and once you grow accustomed to them, then it's only a short step to fooling yourself into thinking that they're actually virtuous.  All I have to do is look at how you treat Silvia to see just how long you've been at it, just how distorted your world-view's become."  And now, looking directly up at the woman in question, Ace spoke to her, though the words she spoke were still largely to prove her point to the shapeshifter.  "They rescued you, right Silvia?  Whisked you away from those awful people who experimented on and enslaved you, who were planning to force you to spend your entire life being exploited for their gain.  Which means, from Minerva's perspective, that her people own you now.  They gave you your life back, so it's only fair if you now are forced to spend your entire life working to her organization's gain, instead.  It's all for your own good, really.  Until somebody points out that Minerva's group are the ones who mainly benefit from that little arrangement.  And then suddenly it's all for the greater good, because they're going to do great things, and so anything that benefits them also benefits everyone.<br/><br/>"Except that if it doesn't benefit you, then it doesn't really benefit everyone, does it?"  And then, turning to Minerva...  "In fact, I'd be willing to bet that it mostly just benefits you, because that's the usual pattern I see in these sorts of situations.<br/><br/>"Even if all your plans succeed, though, even if you manage to capture Zohar and take over the world, the united government you're planning to build will come tumbling down at some point.  Because you'll have taken it by force instead of building it up legitimately, and much like the ruling elite on my homeworld, those acts will cause people to unite against you.  And much like the ruling elite on my homeworld, you won't stop the resistance--"<br/><br/>And then, Ace sprang into action!  Her legs moved, tearing free of the webbing that encased them as she both stood up and charged forward at Minerva, and her arms ripped free from their bindings as well, her hands closing into fists as they moved!<br/><br/>"--Because you're already underestimating the strength of those you would trod underfoot!"  And then her fists swung forward, catching the shapeshifter's head between them as the motion finished and they slammed together!  The Venusian Wonder was going for a knockout blow!