Squadron: Birmingham 2019

Exit Wounds With yet another defeat wrought from the jaws of victory, the Heroes looked around their recent battleground. Checking their fallen foes they found that, luckily, none of the brainwashed or misinformed Police Officers present had been killed in the crossfire. In fact, the only opponents who had been permanently dispatched were The Eternal Cossack (nee Warrior) and Cyberlord (nee Toymaster). Everyone agreed that the death of The Cossack was a clear case of self defence and that Cyberlord’s death was sad but unintentional. (If anyone had seen that Electro was the first to check the body, they said nothing.) The Police officers were awoken, told the Heroes’ side of events and urged to leave with their injured comrades. They fled in fear. The unconscious bodies of the fallen villains were piled into their own SquadJet - just as soon as Magnetron had disabled its traps and self destructs and over-ridden its controls. But there was nothing anyone could do to avoid th

Still on the run, the group decided to try and lure their enemies into a trap. Contacting BISCUIT, they arranged to “tell their side of the story” and arranged a meet in public place - Cannon Hill Park in Edgbaston in Birmingham. Before the meet, Steel Reign submerged himself in the nearby boating pool ready for an ambush. The expected attack from Squadron: Birmingham did not materialise. (An aside: Deacon, as always, was keeping out of sight. He was the only member of the heroes’ group whose powers defied analysis and could not be planned for.  Sq:B - who had the heroes under observation using Stockade’s* invisible drones - were under instructions from PsiClone not to attack or reveal themselves in any way until Deacon appeared. And then, when he did, to prioritise him with all of their attacks - shooting to kill. After all, they’d already marooned him on an airless space station miles above the Earth and he’d somehow survived! *Dr Darren G. Stockade - the invisible man - had be

Firefall As the group ditched the ambulance and switched to a parked people carrier - stealing cars was the least of the concerns right now -Magnatron spoke: “I’ve had an idea. Shouldn’t we check him for a tracking device?” Electro scanned PsiClone’s comatose form. She detected five energy signatures - two in his clothes, one on the hospital identity bracelet and two implanted sub-dermally. She burnt out all five - the two subdermal ones causing even more damage on the old man’s ravaged form. Magnatron cried out. He’d had plans for those trackers.  Steel Reign’s driving skills got the team back to their current hideout without being followed, apparently. At the warehouse, they were able to arouse the comatose old man they’d rescued and their worst fears were confirmed. The broken emaciated figure did contain the Psyche of Miasma. She was clearly shaken by what had happened to her, what had befallen her team-mates and the weakened body in which she found herself