<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE ZEPPELIN! --> Harbor<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and Ignorance Cannot the Dictate the Course of Men (swapped out)<br/>0 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 6xp<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Transition Scene: Spend 1 PP to create Science Specialty-linked Resource: The Most Perfect Electronic Orgasm <em><strong>EVER</strong></em> d8<br/>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>First Turn Action: Create Asset - Specced Out to the Max<br/>Distinction Die: The Best Laid Plans... d8 (Scene)<br/>Affiliation Die: Solo d8<br/>Power Set Die: Cybernetic Senses d8<br/>Specialty Die: Science Master d10<br/><br/></div></div><hr/><br/>The robotic head slowly turned towards Kanina.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Do I look biologic to you?  I am aware of such a thing - powered armor did exist in my native culture - but just because I am humanoid-shaped and intelligent does not necessarily mean that that is what I am."</tt>Inside, both halves of the hero Darclight (Richard Conway and Khaji Da) had to mentally apologize for the deception.  Of all the heroes on Earth, only those of Stormwatch Red (and, Conway suspected, some of Black team) ever knew that Darclight was an armor and not a full robot.  The deception was entirely necessary, though - if it was discovered that a supposedly dead man was alive, that could cause...problems.<br/><br/>As they assembled in Kanina's ship to head towards the Auxilia drone, with the speakers switched off, the two conversed.  "Khaj, we're going after this Auxilia.  I'm gonna show her the Truth."  He stated the last two in such a way that it was a code phrase for the AI.<span class="bbc_u">"Sir?  Are you sure about that?  We thought about telling...well near everyone we ever talked to about the Truth, but we never did."</span>In that sense, Auxilia would be the first individual ever to learn about why Darclight existed.<br/><br/>"I'm sure."  No he wasn't.  He wasn't sure at all - Conway was just tired of carrying around this damn secret everywhere and not having a soul to share it with.<br/><br/>Hopefully Khaj didn't have voice analyzer software.  "Look, the reason that we could never tell anyone on Earth is that nobody would believe us.  Even if we showed them the Truth, they would ignore it.  Claim it's a really big galaxy out there, and Earth is just one tiny little planet.  You might get someone on par with my genius in the sciences to admit to the<em>possibility</em>of the Deathmarks finding us, but we'd never get an official response, not until they trip the galactic invasion perimeter sensors on Titan."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"What of Red Team?"</span>They had trusted Red Team with the secret that Darclight was not a robot, but a man and a computer.  If there was anyone that Darclight could have trusted, it was them.  "Fencer and Hound would have said the same thing - big galaxy, lots of other, more noticeable targets.  Gunvolt was ex-government before she became one of us; she would trust in an official response.  Shovel Knight...he would have listened, we could have told him, but...he's no good with secrets.  It would have slipped eventually."<br/><br/>He paused.  "But Auxilia, she's different.  She can keep a secret, even if it's only to all of her selves.  Plus, look at her.  Organization.  Order.  That's what she's about.  The Deathmarks destroy everything they touch, can you compute the absolute chaos they would cause by being here?  Plus, she'll be here, even if it takes the Deathmarks a thousand years to find us."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"Very well, sir.  I hope this works."</span><br/><br/>"It should.  But in case it doesn't...I need you to do something for me.  We need to whip up something that'll give us an edge.  A computer program, an algorithm, something that will help us out against her."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"What did you have in mind?"</span><br/><br/>"The profile said that she was made for seduction, in part.  I figure hitting her electronic brain with whatever the computronic equivalent of the most perfect orgasm<em>ever</em>will slow her down a bit."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"You do realize that I am a war machine.  Pleasure is not my forte."</span><br/><br/>"You're built to blow things up, to destroy them, to inflict<em>pain</em>.  Just...you know, reverse all that.  I'm not Steve Jobs - hell, Steve Jobs isn't Steve Jobs - but I know enough programming languages that between us, we should be able to come up with something."<br/><br/>And so they did.<br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Arriving at the harbor, they disembarked from the spacecraft...and into (in Darclight's opinion) a setup for potential disaster.<br/><br/>First, there was the Supergirl - Ace - explaining her plan to win Auxilia's help by pretending to be a supervillainess attacking the city with her pet Kraken to destroy out, which would bring Auxilia out of hiding - much response of "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" would normally ensue from Darclight, were it not for the almost perfect insanity of her plan...<br/><br/>...and Doc Tabby.  Seriously, he was going to need to find a gigantic fake mouse and beat her over the noggin with it until she cried for mercy (or at least asked for one she could use like one of those couch cushions).<tt class="bbc_tt"> "No it did not!"</tt>Darclight retorted when she claimed that their plan had involved the Kraken all along.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"Why do I do this to myself...I miss Red Team."</tt>Right.  Time to find Auxilia.  Maybe while he did that, he could whip up something to help him...and he had it.<br/><br/>"Khaj, Ghost showed us those specs on Auxilia.  Do you still have them?."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"I am aware of them."</span><br/><br/>"Good.  Here's what we're gonna do.  We're gonna use your sensors and those plans to help us break into her system, and then we'll hit her with the orgasm."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Dice Roll for Action</div><div class="spoiler_body">3d8 = 2, 7, 8.<br/>1d10 = 3.<br/>Adding together the 7 and 8 for an action total of 15, and using the d10 as the effect die.</div></div>