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Forellen watched these strange new people with an almost facinated expression. Her mind was used to thinking of new and bizzare things for her books but this had to be the end all for everything. Oh this was going to be such an awesome book. If she got around to writing it that is. She listened only part way to the conversations around her as she frowned trying to make sence to what was being said.

It was the speaking of her knickname that snapped her back to reality. Blinking she shook her head and looked back at Ceres trying to recall what she had said to her just now. It clicked. Small. "Oh...right...small it is." She said and a moment later she was a small red gold and gray kitten splotted. That should be small enough. "Meow?" She said looking up. She hunkered down and practically lept into Ceres's arms so they could get inside.

Luthor still wore a grin on his face, even in the face of danger. He had squared off too many times against Superman. Crawford, however, was getting more agitated. Don't. Let the League handle this., he thought to himself as he was about ready to pull the trigger. Hesitating momentarily, T.J. looked at the slightly stirring form of Kara. She was worse for wear, no thanks to Luthor's kryptonite. That was when he heard a nearly ethereal voice.

Put the gun down, there is no need for anyone to get hurt.

T.J. stood and spun around, aiming the gun to where he thought the voice was coming from, but saw no one. Then he heard whoever this was ask about a man named Dr. Doom. "Doctor Doom? He sounds like a cartoon character," T.J. said, "And if you'll excuse me, I won't put my sidearm down." That was when he saw the badge being waved around.

"I am an Avenger," the person said.

"A wannabe super hero group, I imagine," T.J. said, mainly out of frustration at his own lack of powers right now. "Do you recognize this symbol, Arrow?" Connor walked up next to T.J. and inspected the badge.

"Never saw it before in my life," the Arrow said in response. "How about you, Bats?" Batman shook his head and headed off the way that Sibyl and Mind Freak did. He need to inspect what was going on.

"Arrow," T.J. said turning himself and the Arrow in place, "Keep an eye on this guy. I'm going to try to contact J'onn." T.J. looked up after conversing with his friend and noticed that Luthor had ran off. Again. "Damn," he muttered as he touched his hand to his ear yet again.

"J'onn. This is Plasma, copy?"

"Copy, Plasma. What happened?," J'onn asked.

"I have no clue, and I'm glad I can get through to you at least," T.J. commented, "But there seems to be something slightly strange going on. Luthor's device went off, and... well... there's someone here who claims to be an Avenger."

"Odd," J'onn remarked.

"Very. I lost contact with Superman when the machine detonated. Can you locate him?"

"No. I cannot. He seemed to have disappeared entirely." When J'onn said that, Plasma's heart sank to his feet. Superman disappeared? The heart and soul of the League gone? It couldn't be possible. "The only ones I can find through what limited sensors I have are your group, Diana, and a few others."

"Damn... How about teleporting us out of here?"

"I cannot. The Watchtower's telemetry is out of alignment. It'll take me a day or so to get that online."

"Damn."

"Anything else, Plasma?," J'onn asked.

"Nothing. Plasma over and out." T.J., though powerless wasn't without his physical strength. Seeing that Kara was still slightly out of it, he walked over to her, and scooped her up in his arms. He sighed slightly as he walked over again to where the Arrow was.

"Whoever you are," T.J. said to the new arrival on the scene, "You can inspect this area all you want, but the battle here is over. Go home."

Ceres was away from the main portion of her team. She had levitated herself and shifter up on some air currents to look for any remains of their team or Dr. Doom. Really, the thing that alarmed her the most was how great the disturbance in the earth's energies were inside this building. It had been central to Doom's machine. It did, though, feel like the Earth was trying to heal itself in some crude way.

"Stay small, Shifter," Ceres felt the kitten stir that she had perched on her shoulder, "If we encounter an enemy, I need you to be the surprise attack... The energy here is really disturbing. I am going to move us to the center of where Doom's machine should have stood and hopefully we will find something."

There seemed to be two areas of the building where the disturbance generated from. The first was where Captain America's team was going to encounter whoever the new people were... the second disturbance was centralized back towards the rear end of this new building. Did these two disturbances cause this misalignment of energy... did they combined tear things apart and try a disturbing way to patch it all together again?

It didn't matter at the moment. She had to keep looking for Team B... and there was nothing. It was like they didn't even exist. No sign of armor, badges, signals, nothing... they were just gone. Hitting her comm badge, she started to speak... the only thing she got out to Captain America was, "Doom!"

She saw the familiar flick of a green cape running out through a doorway towards the front area that had Captain America and the new people. She had a hard time bending the will of the elements in this place but she tried. How did Doom survive? Maybe he was central to the disturbance and it acted as his own disgusting shield? Her head was splitting but she couldn't let Doom get away.

Working with the air currents, she forced a gush of wind to blast open the wall of the room Doom had just escaped into. Of course, her power was misleading her and she didn't recognize the energy burst that Doom had sent towards her until it sprayed out of the rubble and slammed her into a wall. She slid down and told Shifter, "Go get him, tiger."

Doom recognized what was going to happen so he started to flee towards the other team of Avengers and the other wordly people. But it was more like he was looking for something. Ceres ran after Shifter, who was growing in size, towards Doom. She forced up natural rubble from the earth and forced it to pursue Doom as well. Doom's armor gave him the strength to move on.

When Doom burst into the room that had what he was looking for, he sent out a massive energy blast to knock down who he could. Working with the element of surprise, he strong armed the one who looked like a bat with his sheer force and a few magical blasts and ripped away his belt. Laughing maniacally, Doom said before fleeing like a proper villain often does, "Now, I have the best of both worlds! Thank you, superheroes. Thank you. Oh, and I think you will be coming with me too."

Doom ensnared Luthor in a band of energy and pulled it with him. Before anybody could really do anything, Doom opened a portal above the building and started moving towards it.

"Stop him!" Ceres yelled not stopping on her path. She pratically forced herself through the team teams of people. Levitating up through the hole in the ceiling that Doom left, she was rocked back down to Earth by one of his blasts of mystical energy. She was definitely not on her A game still. Groaning, she thudded down to the ground and Doom disappeared.

Her head was pounding now and she could feel herself starting to lose control of her own form as the emotions of confusion by all present and the unbalanced earth were starting to overwhelm. Sitting up and trying to turn her skin flesh rather than the blue fur it started to sprout she said, "Don't know who you all are, why you're here, and why your building is in the middle of our city... but that man is one of the most powerful villains on this planet and by the looks of it he took things from you he deems powerful as well..."

"Ceres is right," Captain America stepped back, "We need to discuss what is going on here and determine our next course of action. If you find that acceptable as well... I am Captain America, sworn to protect this land. This team is our remaining team of Avengers who were fighting Dr. Doom and trying to help stop whatever creation he made that did this... Mr. Fantastic, Ms. Marvel, Quicksilver, Nix, Ceres, Shifter, Venin, and Ghost."

Forellen hopped off of Ceres's shoulder and turned into a blue and red tiger. Hey the lady made a request didn't she. It was a small irrisistable urge at humor even though there was nothing funny about it. She went chasing after doom. She got there just after he plowed through some of her team and those strangers. She bit off a curse as he got away. To little to late it seemed. She shook her head snorting. She shifted back to normal frowning. "Here...just relax for now." She said to Ceres as she offered to help her up. There was nothing to do now but wait. She inclined her head at the mention of her name and glanced at the other people before resetting her image inducer and making herself look normal.

In the autumn glow of a small Italian square people shuffle through their day as song Ave Marai dances from old violin strings. Hands old and worn but the love music has not left them these feeling this old man’s heart. Yet the world is too busy to notice the feelings unshared as they are too wrapped up in their own lives; passion echoes alone.
But from the shadow there is someone who listens. A nameless figure only known those as a stranger. A world contantly in motion but in the stillness he see things like himself that the world seems to forget. This is his small moment of peace, two pieces that echo together as a phantom in the warm glow of evening.

It seems that timelessness is not the only thing passed by on this eve; to the eyes of the stranger her existence is known. The child stands alone golden eyes drawn up to the sky and soul glowing pure white as snow. As if drawn there by the warmth of the holy song she lets her soul be enveloped in its glow.
A child, a man, and a stranger. To people they do not exist even unknown the child smiles to them. Taking the hand of a stranger existence has been made know; with a smile three souls have found a place to belong.

Aria sat in the depths of her mind watching her dearest memories unfold before like the pages of a storybook. Remembering the warmth in each one. She smiled listening quietly to the sound of Phantom Strange calling her name. She loved the sound of his voice. Suddenly the sound was different a cry resounded through a deafening silence as all was shredding by a blinding white. “FATHER???!!!????” Aria’s screams echoed through her own mind.

Though the action where delayed Aria’s body reacted on it’s own to the unknown energies in the room wanting to absorb their knowledge. This uncontrolled act was enough to bring Aria back to consciousness and of remind her of the state she was in. Her whole body felt like it was on fire from the amount of exhausting weighing on her. And she didn’t know which hurt worse the throbbing in her head or the pain in her ankle. I certainly made a mess of myself; at least... feeling the cool grip of the briefcase in her hand. ... At least I managed to keep this away from Luthor.

It was by now that Aria noticed that she wasn’t alone. Before her she saw blurry forms that she believed to be people, but she could not get her eyes to focus enough to tell. ...Who? Her eyes began to glow out of her confusion her body began to react on it’s own again. Firefly sphere began forming on their own as Aria cringed in pain; she didn’t have the energy to do this. Calm down Aria... get a hold of yourself. Don’t react you need to control it. These people may be here to help. With a heavy breath Aria moved the lights to form words “Are you friend or foe?” all the while trying to keep herself from slipping back into a state of unconsciousness.

"Well i suppose id like to see this Watchtower thing it seems to be your main base of operations." Geovani said remaining singly human for the time being.

He had watched doom rush by and had known it wouldnt have been worth trying to even catch him.

((Srry for short post i figured i9 should but im not really in the rping mood))

Sibyl held her head as a migraine formed. It seemed everyone was talking as once with a collision of voices of words being said and words that had yet to be said. But she tried to stay attentive as best she could whilst introductions were being exchanged by Plasma and Captain America, who looked like he was headed to a Patriotic Halloween party as opposed to fighting crime.

"So this Doom fellow is bad news huh? Guess I coulda figured as much, what with his name being 'Doom' and all." She muttered the last bit to herself, almost as an afterthought more than anything when Mr. Fantastic spoke up. It figured the two head hachos would do a pow wow at the Tower, and most the rookies left to wander around until conclusions were made and plans for formed. She was definitely going to be one of those rookies, especially since Batman was headed up to see the Martian.

"Oh, if anyone is like spooked or totally freaked by the notion of aliens, you probably shouldn't go up to the Tower." Undoubtedly that comment drew a few raised eyebrows and looks of confusion, but she was just trying to prevent any weirdness. Although her world had just been spliced and rearranged with another universe, so the weirdness wasn't exactly an unknown idea for the day.

"So, B-Man," Sibyl could see the sneer forming from under the Dark Knight's mask, but wasn't fazed in the least. "Are we playing it by ear while you guys get to know each other better, or should we maybe run down some names and see who still around?" She stated the question as if it were the most obvious notion in the world.

"You know, family, friends, super villains? I mean, with the sudden surge of craziness going on, I'm willing to bet, Penguin, Joker, and some of their other favorite psychos are having a ball with this, um, mix up." Sibyl waved over to indicate the group of Avengers, some of them looked like they'd rather punch something versus sitting around like lost ducks. She slapped her hands together, already knowing Batman was going to, rather reluctantly, agree with her.

"And I'm bettin this fine team of crime fighters has a most lovely database like J'onn of all those naughty, naughty criminals. We should definitely check them out, n** those bad guys and their notions of evilness in the butt before they can even call their braindead henchmen in for duty."

Sibyl raised her hand when Gotham's finest open his mouth to speak effectively cutting him off, "you don't need to say it. I know what you're going to say. 'Oh what a marvelous idea, Sibyl. You can be in charge of one of the recon teams. Then, when we fix whatever Luthor did, you'll be an official member of the Justice League.'"

The glare from Batman intensified, "I most certainly was not going to say that."

The violet haired super hero simply shrugged her shoulders, "nah, but I bet you were thinkin it." The narrowed eyes and crossed arms of the Dark Knight seemed to say otherwise, but she wasn't deterred. Things were too wacky for her to care about what the Bats thought of her antics. Besides no one liked to work with a stick in the mud, and Sibyl was willing to bet she had just lightened the tension in the room a couple of notches.