Location:
Hidden Tomb on Easter Island
Adamas walked down the wooden stairs and then
the rest of the Guardians went down next. Starbolt was last. They reached the
stone floor. Adamas told them, “I can see that the wall on the far side of the
room was not attached to another room. I can’t see much further than that to be
able to tell if there was a room further down or not without really
concentrating.”
Red Hawk moved out of the line. He said he
had vibrated through the stone before. He could try it again.
Black Orchid turned invisible. Starbolt
couldn’t see her or the Soul Scythe. It had become invisible too. Adamas looked
toward the open doorway to his left lead to a hallway.
CX and Black Orchid followed
Adamas leading the team into the hallway. Red Hawk was moving toward the far
wall when he stopped. Both Thunderhead and Jack Frost stopped too. They turned
to look at the same area that Red Hawk was looking.
Starbolt couldn’t see anything from where he
stood because of the gloom of the room and with Jack floating at head level
while Thunderhead & Red Hawk were standing on the stone flow. Starbolt’s
angle of view was blocked by them.
All three tensed for battle but Starbolt
couldn’t see with what.
"CyberDoom?" Although needling to
conserve his energies for the battle ahead Chris readied himself to throw
dual-blast of vibrational energy at the mechanical maniac. Still no warning
from War Wagon or the Elementals from above tweaks the avian android's
curiosity. "I've taken steps to stop your ever using me for your purposes
again you monstrosity. Stand down or the Guardians will smash you into your
component parts and ship you to StarCorp in tiny little FedEx boxes."
Starbolt saw Thunderhead cover himself in a
fighter’s stance. Then it appeared he rolled with a punch to the chest but
Starbolt saw no one attacking Thunderbolt
Jack Frost executed a floating dodge, like he
was avoiding energy blasts. But there wasn’t any blasts to avoid.
Suddenly Redhawk ducked and readied himself
as if he was about to Vibe blast someone but Starbolt couldn’t see anyone for
Redhawk to target.
Across the Amulet CX said, "There are heiroglyphics all over these
walls. I'm recording them for later
review. Thunderhead, do you think you
can read them?"
CX had heard the Elementals speaking of
Thunderhead’s role as an archeologist. "Not wanting to make assumptions. I can figure them out with time, but you
might be a little quicker at it."
Via the telepathic amulet, Thunderhead
replied to CX, "Come quick! We need
you. Supay is here!"
Jack Frost did a double take. "That's not Supay," he said
via the amulet. "That's Pietor, the
craven sorcerer who summoned me back to the World of Men! Unless my eyes are betrayed by some
spell!"
"What?!" cried Thunderhead, staring
at Supay. Then the avatar of an Incan goddess concentrated. "I reject this reality," he said to
Supay with steely conviction. Thunderhead left the room entering the hallway
where the other Guardians had gone.
Over
the Amulet CX thought, 'Somebody watch my
back. I think these hieroglyphics have something to do with whatever you
guys are seeing. I'm trying to figure them out now. Orchid, are you
seeing the glyphs? They may be hieroglyphics but it’s just a code.
We can break it down and get to the bottom of this.'
"Reveal your true self, coward!"
Jack jeered at the image of 'Doctor Apocalypse.' Jack Frost left the room
following Thunderhead.
Red Hawk
tried to stay focused on the mission at hand. "Forget the glyphs. Find Jacco and the Gate. Everything else is a
distraction to delay us from the task we are here for." Chris analyzed
his sensor data and mumbled something about ancient tombs and CyberDoom being a
mummy. "This place is cursed. Just
like in that old movie I watched last week."
Redhawk fired his dual vibe blasts. The two
blasts struck the back wall of the room.
Focusing his thoughts through the amulet,
Starbolt communicated. "Hawk, I am
protecting our six, and as CX is occupied with the Hyroglyphics, I won't be
going ahead until he is ready to go. C.X. I'll watch your back as long as
needed."
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Battle Conditions:
Adamas Hit Points: 41 Power
Points: 78 Invulnerability: 24
Black
Orchid Hit Points: 30 Power Points:
87 Willpower Defense active and invisible
Centurion
X Hit
Points: 138 Power Points: 99 Magnetic
Defense active
Jack
Frost Hit Points: 24 Power Points:
72 Ice
Defense active, Controlling Weather - Snowfall
Red
Hawk Hit Points: 74 Power
Points: 33 Invulnerability: 10; Vib Def active; Willpower Def active
Starbolt Hit
Points: 34 Power Points: 75 Creation
Points: 45, Used: 0
Thunderhead Hit Points: 28 Power
Points: 77 Height: 6ft, Invulnerability 20
