Mutant League 01/14/2008 AM Game 1: Nyssane vs. The Fury

[mattbib]

Greeting fight fans! Welcome to the first fight of the season!

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And now on to our fight...

In the first corner we have Nyssane's Flatman & The Nasty Girls:
Anaconda, Phantazia, Tempo, Arclight, Lorelei I, Mindblast, Flatman

vs

In the other corner is The Fury's Five Methods To Hug a Monkey Part 1 Dot Com:
Storm, Avalanche, Mentallo, Cloak, Thunderbird III, Rockslide, Captain Britain

Both participants have submitted strategies:

Please do not post or vote until both strategies have been posted and read.

[mattbib]

PROLOGUE:
As the battle begins, Tempo immediately accelerates the time around her teammates, increasing their speed greatly (New Mutants #87) and giving them the ability to strike more quickly. Before the opposing team has time to blink, Arclight smashes her fist into the ground and creates a massive tremor. All non-airborne enemies are disoriented from the quake, presumably leaving only Storm, Captain Britain, Cloak, and Thunderbird in the air (assuming they were in the air to begin with). Rockslide, Mentallo, and Avalanche all fall to the ground slowly.

CHAPTER 1:
Note: Everything during Chapter 1 occurs simultaneously. Same with Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 (sorta).

TEMPO --
Tempo spends the majority of the first half concentrating on keeping the speed of her allies at a superhuman pace, and uses what little power she has left to slow Cloak down to a halt, leaving him unable to attack for the time being. She has been shown to stop time completely around the entire X-Mansion, she should be able to hold Cloak and boost her teammates.

PHANTAZIA --
Phantazia immediately blasts Storm with a disruptive beam (Sleepwalker #17), shorting out her flight and sending her crashing to the ground below. This might be able to knock the weather witch unconscious, but for all purposes of not underestimating the enemy, we'll say she's merely stunned for the rest of the chapter. Phantazia then cloaks herself and Tempo from visual detection (X-Force #7).

MINDBLAST --
While disoriented from Arclight's previous attack as he was on the ground, Mentallo is easily susceptible to attack. Mindblast hovers in the air and grabs him with a tractor beam, raising him quickly into the sky, smashing him into any abandoned buildings around the area, and finally slamming him into the dusty Outback field before he even has a chance to use his telepathic abilities.

ANACONDA --
Boosted by Tempo, Anaconda elongates her arm and quickly grabs Captain Britain from the sky. She would obviously be unable to hold him as he is too physically powerful to be constricted, so she merely pummels him in the face with her right fist while wrapping her legs around his and her left arm around both of his arms. With Tempo's speed increase, Anaconda is able to punch several times per second, and although many characters would tire easily from Tempo's powers (such as Thumbelina in New Mutants #87), Anaconda has proven to have far more endurance and stamina than an average woman. Her attacks would keep Captain Britain busy for the first chapter.

FLATMAN --
Flatman immediately goes for Thunderbird. He positions himself at a stance which is unnoticable to Thunderbird and grabs him from the sky. If Thunderbird attempts to use his plasma fire on him, Flatman can easily maneuver himself to dodge the attacks (such as when he dodged Deadpool's onslaught of ninja stars in the GLI Summer Spectacular). Flatman then grabs onto Thunderbird's back quickly and turns into Origami-Fu Monkey Style, continuously pounding on his back and sending Thunderbird down to the ground.

LORELEI & ARCLIGHT --
Lorelei and Arclight quickly rush over to the fallen enemies Rockslide and Avalanche (while Mindblast has already taken care of Mentallo). Lorelei gets as close as she can to Avalanche and begins vocalizing a lulling tune, immobilizing Avalanche with lust (X-Men #63). Arclight is with Lorelei as protection, but also strikes Rockslide, who has taken longer to recover from her prologue attack due to his inexperience. Sending vibrations through his young body with each strike, Arclight is easily able to finish him off with a B-52 punch (which obliterates Rockslide's granite body) while watching Lorelei and making sure none of the heroes are able to attack her.

CHAPTER 2
Note: Mentallo and Rockslide (for now) have been defeated.

TEMPO --
Tempo spends the entire second chapter continually boosting her teammates, and still has Cloak in a time bubble for the first portion.

PHANTAZIA --
Phantazia turns her attention from Storm to Captain Britain, who is being bombarded by Anaconda. She quickly hovers over Captain Britain and disrupts his immune system, halting his mobility (X-Factor #82). He spends the rest of the chapter curled over in agony.

MINDBLAST & ARCLIGHT --
After Phantazia attacks Captain Britain, Mindblast grabs Arclight in a tractor beam and flings her at Cloak. Arclight immediately begins striking at Cloak, creating a blinding light with each punch (Captain America #392). The light diminishes the darkforce from Cloak, leaving him completely vulnerable (such as when Ecstasy stole Cloak's powers and Union Jack was able to defeat her with light in Union Jack #3), and Tempo releases him from her time halt, allowing Arclight the finishing blow.

ANACONDA & FLATMAN --
Anaconda leaves Captain Britain to be attacked by Phantazia and goes to aid Flatman, who was able to bring Thunderbird to the ground but not defeat him. Flatman is exhausted from the time acceleration and dodging Thunderbird's attacks, so he backs off and lets Anaconda handle the situation. Anaconda elongates her arms and slams her fists into Thunderbird (her elongated punch is enough to crack stone walls - Captain America #310), knocking him out indefinitely, if not shattering his skull.

LORELEI --
Lorelei alters her song on Avalanche to put him under her control (Captain America #416). She forces him to use his powers, creating an Earth split in Storm's direction. Without her powers, Storm falls into the split and is out of the battle.

CHAPTER 3
Note: Cloak, Thunderbird, and Storm have been defeated.

MINDBLAST --
Mindblast grabs Captain Britain's writhing body with her beams and continually lifts him and slams him into the ground until he is knocked unconscious for the battle.

LORELEI --
Lorelei ends her song on Avalanche, snapping him out of his trance. If Rockslide is able to re-form with the rocks around the Australian Outback, Lorelei strolls over to him and lulls him to sleep with her melodies. Rockslide in his horny teenage self should easily be manipulated by Lorelei into paralysis and he'd be out for the rest of the battle.

TEMPO --
Tempo stops boosting her teammates speed and instead powers herself up to gain super speed (X-Men #202), flying at Avalanche and punching him dozens of times per second.

ARCLIGHT --
While Avalanche is dazed from Tempo's assault, Arclight sneaks behind him and slams her fist into his back, sending a vibration through his spine. She finishes the battle by with a quick punch to the back of the head, rattling Avalanche's brain.

FLATMAN --
Flatman turns into Origami-Fu Balloon Style for Celebration!

[mattbib]

Initial Actions (all as start):
- Mentallo, while taking flight, locks onto Lorelei and mind bolts her, she has no defense so is an easy target.
- Storm fires a large lightning bolt at the other team, mainly aiming for Tempo as her ability to speed up her team gives them a first attack edge but her speed is only subsonic, lightning is speed of light so will not be easy to dodge.
- Thunderbird, while taking flight, fires a large concussive beam at Acrlight but makes it a constant flow of energy afterwards firing at the entire other team.
- Avalanche creates a large 50 foot wave in front of him that rushes to the other team, he intends to crash this on them. Captain Britain flies behind this wave at this stage, keeping up with it.
- Cloak take Rockslide into his cloak and teleports to the other team right next to Mindblast, he drops off Rockslide and takes Mindblast and teleports another 400 yard behind the team, here he drops off Mindblast and battles her here.

Mindblast's power cannot produce shields but can lift alot of mass, so she would be able to block the coming wall of rock, away from the battle she cannot do this.

Primary Actions:
- Captain Britain, from behind the wave of rock in a kind of surprise type move, speeds up to his near max (speed of sound) and flies over the wave and heads for Tempo, due to ehr speed only being subsonic, Captain Britain has speed and reactions enough to find and take her out, once he locates her he rams into her and uses his strength to knock her out. There is a chance she will use her powers on him, but he is protected by his shield from any physical harm so will continue until he takes her out.
- Rockslide will attack Lorelei. He wil try to knock her out as Mentallo is attacking her psychically. Once he does Mentallo is freed up again.
- Thunderbird moves in on the other team, chaning to plasma form, he stays flying high above the team and fires beams of heat at them, to scortch and burn them. He also fire s in such a pattern that keeps them in a tight group. any that stray he fires at to keep in the group.
- Storm uses her wind to also keep their team in a tight group, she can create gale force winds which can blow someone over so shouldn't be too hard.
- The wave only takes a short time to reach the other side, Avalanche crashes it onto the other team. It is probably several hundred tonnes of rock and Mindblast is not near the main battle to stop it. Arclight's shockwave might produce some resistance but Avalanche has near control over the rock itself.
- Cloak will fight Mindblast, his intangible body protects him as her powers will not work on him, but he can force his body to harden through will, so he will use what fighting skills he has (not many I think) to just punch her. Then remain intangible so she cannot retaliate.

Main Actions:
- Hopefully the other team were buried in rock. Mentallo uses his powers to find the survivors and helps the rest of his team track them down and take them out.

First target is Phantazia, my main worry here is that her powers can be used to depower anyone in the close proximity but this has only been used on mutants and has never shown to affect mysticaly powered beings, ala Captain Britain.

Mentallo will find her and start mind bolting her, this will hopefully disrupt her enough to stop her using her power, if they remain, she might be invisible. Captain Britain has an extra power that allows him to sense when things are not as they seem, so he can sense through holograms or illusions, this includes Phantazia's invisibility. He will find her and knock her out using his strength wile she is being attacked by Mentallo.
- Storm and Thunderbird swoop closer and attack those who they can find. Thunderbird with concussive beams, Storm with lightning based electricity. Thunderbird will find Anaconda and shoot her fro m a range, Storm will do the same for Arclight, neither land on the ground.They continue until both Anaconda and Arclight are down.
- Rockslide was no doubt caught also by the rock wave but as his body is basically rock, he can just reform himself again. once he does, he'll find Flatman and attack him.
- Cloak is still fighting Mindblast.

Final Actions:
- Time to finish people off, Mentallo finds random enemies and mind bolts them putting them off until they are taken out by their attackers.
- Captain Britain, after he finishes with Phantazia will find Mindblast and Cloak and attack Mindblast and knock her out. He could be stopped by her but with Cloak attacking her as well, hopefully that is enough distraction.
- Once Storm has shocked Arclight unconsious and Thunderbird taken out Anaconda, they seek out anyone who is left to take them out. This might just be Flatman, with Storm, Thunderbird and Rockslide attacking he should go down quickly. Storm uses her lightning to electocute him.

[mattbib]

jarrod, your vote will not count since you voted prior to both strategies being posted.

[Lex]

Wow. I'm impressed that Nyssane references all of her team's actions.

[Brian M.]

I would if Arclight and Avalanche would cancel each other out?

[jarrod]

Originally Posted by mattbib

jarrod, your vote will not count since you voted prior to both strategies being posted.

Ack, I didn't read carefully and went off lineups alone. :/

Can I revote... uh somehow? :/

[The Fury]

Originally Posted by mattbib

jarrod, your vote will not count since you voted prior to both strategies being posted.

:( What's the time on it? If you don't mind me asking.

abandoned buildings around the area

You'd be surpised how many abandoned buildings there are in the australian outback, huh?

[Dagger]

Good strategies both of you, but Nyssane had his team going in super-speed at first, and knocked out some of The Fury's main components before they could act is what swayed my decision in his favor.

[frog]

Originally Posted by Dagger

Good strategies both of you, but Nyssane had his team going in super-speed at first, and knocked out some of The Fury's main components before they could act is what swayed my decision in his favor.

That's what is confusing me. Would Tempo have affected Storm before Storm's bolt could hit Tempo? To me that decides which way the battle goes.

[Brian M.]

Originally Posted by frog

That's what is confusing me. Would Tempo have affected Storm before Storm's bolt could hit Tempo? To me that decides which way the battle goes.

Yea I'm wondering bout that too. It doesn't seem like Tempo moves, instead she stands still and focuses on speeding up her team and slowing down Cloak.

[Hi-Fi]

Right now, I prefer Nyssane's strategy. But Storm would NOT be defeated that easily. So I'm holding my vote for now.

[The Fury]

Originally Posted by Brian M.

I would if Arclight and Avalanche would cancel each other out?

Arclight is shockwaves, Avalanche controls the ground via vibrations.

I've never seen Arclight open a chasm, create a wave of rock that she rides on, it's just shockwaves and has no control on any scale near that of Avalanche over the ground.

[Dagger]

Originally Posted by Brian M.

Yea I'm wondering bout that too. It doesn't seem like Tempo moves, instead she stands still and focuses on speeding up her team and slowing down Cloak.

I didn't think about that. I just assumed Tempo would take to the air. Hmmm.

[Brian M.]

Originally Posted by The Fury

Arclight is shockwaves, Avalanche controls the ground via vibrations.

I've never seen Arclight open a chasm, create a wave of rock that she rides on, it's just shockwaves and has no control on any scale near that of Avalanche over the ground.

Yea but she's still sending a large vibration, energy, through the ground would that not affect the wave or rock Avalanche is sending?