With Great Power is an animanga superhero roleplay set in an original universe featuring a freeform and easy to learn system. We are inspired by the likes of DC Comics, Marvel Comics, My Hero Academia, One Punch Man, Tiger and Bunny and much more. The possibilities for characters and powers are almost endless and players are free to let their imaginations run wild! With such great power, what will you become?
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[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
[attr="class","monbody2"] Sunny was taken aback when the doctor lady, Charlotte, recognized her. Like, genuinely recognized her! Not as some up and coming super hero but as a technological genius. It was...
Wow, that was really nice. Sunny smiled and tried not to gag at the horrible smell, but with the mask she doubted the doctor could see it.
And anyways she was off explaining what they were looking at. A lot of complicated machinery had been crammed in to this man's torso, Sunny's sharp eyes scanning along the edges as she identified a few pieces off the bat. She'd never seen a cyborg with this level of integration. Or well, lack of it might be a better term. Her mind was already whirling with thoughts and numbers, pulling out her phone and its adaptable connector port. The best way to find out what a piece of machinery was doing was to try to get in to the code.
"I'm no doctor but I think you're right, the machine was using the person. I might be able to access the machine code if we can find a port to plug in to a main computing device, but I have some ideas. This pump down here looks like one I've seen in some high end power conversion devices, but some of these I've never seen before in anything. Nothing like this inside Nexus Buster anyways," Sunny replied, setting her phone down on an empty medical tray... thing while she ran a gloved hand along some of the sturdy electronics. Fascinating. And then she hit on what she was looking for; a port. She plugged the little cable in and a thin line of blue lit up along what she presumed was the central drive.
"All right, that's step one... let's see if I can figure something out from this," She mused more to herself than her partner, the machinery was complex but it wasn't written in a language she understood. That really put a damper on her momentum. "개새, I don't recognize this language. The characters look like Russian don't they? You think it's some Russian programming language? Why would there be a Russian cyborg in Wayport? I feel like I could power this all the way back on but who knows what it does..."
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
[attr="class","monbody2"] Sunny kept going through the code as the Tanuki girl explained what she knew. Minor bad guy looking to take it to the big leagues, huh? Usually when people like that decided to make big moves like this it meant someone had to get on to it quickly or a major crisis would be on the city's hands. She'd seen it happen with people like Nautilus, villains who kept a low profile before suddenly bursting on to the scene when it could have been stopped early if anyone had cared to.
Sunny was no super hero, but she couldn't just ignore the situation even if she was as I'll equipped to deal with it as she was.
"That's not good. If he has big plans and no one else is on his trail already he could cause some real damage," She agreed hesitantly, and then the girl went on with some more information. She knew about a bad guy hangout in the city. A place where if anyone knew about what this Mechanoman guy was up to they'd be able to find out.
"Uh... Well," Sunny hesitated, looking down at the fluffy tail swishing excitedly back and forth. She wasn't a super hero. Going in to a villain bar was risky even for a proper hero... But someone who wasn't known might just be the perfect mole. And whatever this machine was if this guy was planning more attacks it would be bad...
"Okay, I guess we have to take care of this. We'll need some kind of disguises, you lead the way. I'm Sun-Hi by the way, we didn't get a chance to go over names..."
Kyoko and Sunny were off quickly. They had to act fast!
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[attr="class","monbody2"] Sunny was still focused more on her social media scrolling than she was Kaiden so she didn't see him jump. A small bit of his dignity spared, but she did look over at him when he chimed in. Honestly? This whole thing was probably being blown out of proportion. Where would you even sell rare earth crystals like that where it wouldn't be immediately reported? And what use would they be to an active villain? Didn't make any sense to her.
"Ugh, it's boring but I'm not just gonna leave. Taking a job like this and just running off is irresponsible," Sun-Hi sighed, leaning back in her pilot's nook and looking at all the little points of light in the dark cockpit. A tiny scanner screen open flashed suddenly and unexpectedly, catching her eye. "Hey hold on, I got something..."
Even as she spoke the area behind the glass display case opened up in to a gaping maw of swirling black mist accompanied by an energy spike her scanners picked up. In the time it took for Nexus Buster's controls to unlock and turn around dark figures had begun to issue out of a portal of pure shadow, a hulking minotaur creature with devil horns, twisted goblin like beasts and a few street thugs with guns and strange symbols tattooed across their chests and necks. With a roar the minotaur creature hefted a mighty axe and pointed, and Nexus Buster roared in response as it's thrusters sent it across the room in front of Kaiden to catch a stream of bullets aimed at the other teen. Talk about going from zero to one hundred!
"This museum is closed, beat it goat boy! Watch out for the guns there's a lot of guys coming out of that thing!"
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]Ew dead bodies ew ew ew
[attr="class","monbody2"] To be completely honest, the idea of dissecting a cyborg corpse wasn't Sunny's idea of a good time. For one, who made a cyborg zombie suicide soldier? For two, she was absolutely not a doctor, didn't Aegis have someone to look at this kind of thing? But the report was still something she was equipped to handle since the other super smart guys were busy looking over the loot and wreckage from the Haramite attack a week or two ago. Hard to think such a big event was already starting to stand out as just another Tuesday. It could have gone better, but it could have gone worse too.
So after a little bit of insistence from her 'bosses' Sunny found herself heading for the medical bays to help out. The sterile scents of the medical wing of Aegis' headquarters was alien and strange to her, like stepping in to someone else's realm. No sounds of working power tools or the smell of technology, just the beeping of life monitoring devices and the strong smell of disinfectants. They were pretty busy too after the alien attack. Her room was examination lab three, which wasn't hard to find. Giant girl from the day of the invasion was in there poking at some machinery embedded in the torso of a man twice Sunny's size.
"Uh... Hi. I'm Nexus Buster, I do tech stuff. Someone told me you were having a hard time with this cyborg tech stuff and asked if I could help you out. That guy looks gross though, what the heck happened to him?" She asked, putting on a mask she grabbed from the desk as she came over. The machinery inside was complex and mysterious, from her first glance it looked like most of the machinery wasn't really for keeping this dude alive. Most of his organs had been pushed around and the mask didn't do anything to hide the foul smell of guts and grease mixing together. Gross. She'd never seen a body up close like this before... "God, how can you stand that smell?"
[attr="class","monbody2"] This was nuts. Chaos. Dozens of flying bikes got past Nexus Buster as she tried to direct her shots in to them, but their alien tech was comparable to hers, they were well equipped to deal with a single mecha and most got through. But following behind the loose cannon that was Victory made her approach easier; he sent a hover machine careening in to what looked like an important support pillar.
"Can you not act crazy for five minutes? We need to work together!" Nexus Buster's speakers boomed in protest, a flip of a switch energizing the mech's deflectors. They'd flown in straight through the hangar and she was honestly surprised by how few aliens were in here compare to how many had buzzed out in to the streets. Just a straight invasion force, huh? Of course Victory didn't listen to her and charged off to start fighting spooky looking aliens. They opened fire on her and on the charging idiot with their laser rifles, but thankfully her barrier was pretty robust when it came to energy weapons! Nexus Buster roared as it rocketed forward, a spin of her cockpit sending a dozen of them scrambling for cover as the hulking machine kept pace with Victory.
"We need to find a console I can connect to, if I can get in to their systems I can turn them against them. Try not to break anything too important before I get a chance to look at it, muscle brain!" And as luck would have it, there was a pretty prominent console worked in to the big pillar... that he'd just destroyed. Judging by how structurally important it looked it stood to reason there was another one up ahead. That meant pressing on through a small army of laser aliens. Cool. "Help me get to that other pillar! And do not smash it this time!" Her voice echoed through the cavernous hangar, cutting through the alarms and alien shouting and gunfire. She even expanded her barrier field to include him, taking note of how each flash of hex barrier took off a sliver of power. Replenishment was holding steady but they had to work fast if they didn't wanna get overwhelmed!
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
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The tanuki girl was real chatty, huh? She seemed excited to meet another super hero, but Sunny would hate to disappoint her. She turned her prototype's attention to the big piece of machinery just like the other girl. Good to know swarms of robots showing up in the middle of the city wasn't a normal thing. But what even was normal in a world of super heroes? Sunny didn't have a good frame of reference; her dad's place had been a regular super brawl spot over the years. You kinda just got used to it. Oh, and she had good things to say about her robot!
Sunny did crack a smile, but she doubted in the darkness and the tinting of the prototype's canopy that the other girl could see it. "It's a custom job, thanks. With any luck you'll be seeing more of it in the future," She replied, a thin beam of light issuing out from the front of the mech as it performed a basic scan. The big piece of machinery was... some sort of computer with a lot of moving parts. Probably some useful data on it. The right blaster arm popped a small compartment out before a connector cable shot out in to a vulnerable looking bit of circuitry. Before long her screens were filling with scrolling lines of code. It was... Really kind of shoddy work.
"Looks like they dragged this thing here to power it up with the substation. Probably not a good thing if it takes that much power. I'm not sure what it does, exactly, without looking deeper in to this crappy code... Hey, here's a name. Does... uh... Mechano-- Mechanoman, is that a familiar name? He's gotta have something going for him to make something this big. I should find him and kick his ass for making me look at this code," Sunny complained, struggling to make out the details of the code. It was written in English code, which was almost worse to try to read than Chinese characters. It didn't help that it was poorly written, no wonder the robots had been so easy to curb stomp, the poor things were probably suffering the mechanical equivalent of a migraine headache! "I don't really keep up with Japanese bad guys if they don't come to Korea, we have our own bunch of jerks."
Well, this hadn't been how Sunny was planning to spend her evening but she was tentatively hopeful. Emphasis on the tentative. Part of her still had a feeling that dear old dad was gonna turn up at some point but it was going okay. He even offered an actual apology, shocker. The elevator ride was short; this time of day not a lot of the folks who lived in this building were going up and down. It went long enough for her to roll her eyes at him though.
"Since when are mech names dorky? It can't possibly be worse than some of those super hero names. Captain Cosmic is way lamer, you remember that time he came over and made awful space puns for three hours on my birthday? Euch," Sunny replied, sneering at the memory of it. She couldn't have been older than ten but it still ranked up there in 'bad super hero experiences'. She was pretty sure he'd been drunk too, but she preferred not to think too hard on it. "Yeah... when you left I was just fourteen. But it's not like it would have been any different if you'd been around."
There was a sort of finality to the way Sunny disregarded her family. Everyone was too busy playing super hero to have time for her, if he hadn't run off it wouldn't have been any different really. She was absolutely certain of that. She led him through the garage to a very fancy sports car; thin cyan underlights matching with the white and pink paint job. She clicked her key fob and the car started up before they got there, hopefully meaning the heater would warm up quicker.
"I've moved up a lot in the world since you last saw me. I try not to be ostentatious but I love sports cars, I saw someone offering a custom job and I had to go for it. Something to tinker with that's not a giant robot. I'm still working on refitting the engine compartment with a fusion power generator like I have in my mech, but..." Sunny hopped in the driver side and turned on her seat warmer. It really was cooler out than she'd expected. She pulled out of her spot once Nico had clicked his seatbelt in to place and out in to the light traffic of early afternoon. The inside was lit similarly to the underside of the car, illuminating the inside with a soft blue light.
"So what have you been up to? More super hero stuff I'm guessing."
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
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This first meeting was turning out to be... interesting was the nice word. Everyone arrived in short order and she waved to Kyoko when she arrived. She didn't recognize anyone but her and Ahoeitu but she'd had a chance to look through the data Aegis was willing to provide to get an idea of what they were capable of. With such a small group coordination was going to be a big deal. Ahoeitu, like most people she knew, talked too much.
Things were getting bad out there and she wasn't sure how much good she could do, but she had a hunch if she could get Nexus Buster linked up to the UFO she could divert it somewhere else, maybe use it's weapons to drive off others downtown. And then Ahoeitu said something stupid. "I hope you realize how terrible that idea sounds so I don't have to explain it. If we bring a building sized UFO 'crashing down' in the middle of the city we'll kill thousands of people, what we have to do is find a way to get control of it or drive it off some other way. Same problem with blowing it up, raining fiery alien debris on to the city would be catastrophic. This isn't a video game where everything will just go back to normal when you blow up the mothership," Sunny snapped back, already getting readings coming in from the ship. The language was foreign, but machine code was universal. She still couldn't believe his plan was to just punch shit and wing it. What was he, twelve?
She pivoted her mech and crouched it down with the group gathered and popped the cockpit, pulling out a few ear-mounted communicators she'd made for their upcoming teamwork. If she was going to be on a team she wasn't about to half ass it, and she had a present for her new teammates. "Here, I made these for you guys. They're multi-spectrum communication devices, they'll let us communicate throughout the city so we can coordinate our efforts. It's a secure frequency too so don't worry about them getting in to it. Nexus Buster's communication suite should be enough to keep us in touch even if something happens on the saucer. Judging by their signals I should be able to hijack their controls if we can find the right ports to connect to; if we can do that and subdue the crew we can use its weapons to help downtown, or at least put it down somewhere it's not going to cause a catastrophe. I'll try to monitor the signals I'm getting while I'm up there to help direc--"
Sunny didn't get to finish her sentence before an alarm pinged from inside the cockpit, snapping shut once everyone had taken their comm. The ship was sending out a new signal and a bunch of hover bikes spilled forth from a gaping maw on the bottom of the ship. "We'll have to work on coordination later! 미안합니다! Sorry!" With a few switches pressed the thrusters roared to life and the mech leapt from the rooftop. A thick crimson beam traced a line through the air and shot a rider off the nearest hoverbike as she did so. This was Nexus Buster's first big assignment; she'd better make it count...
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
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A quick change and a meal didn't sound bad, upset as she was. Sunny had fought her whole life to get these assholes to include her in her life and of course now that she'd been forced in to vigilanteeism they were all over her. Jeans, a band tee, her pastel jacket and a ball cap, toss her hair in to a ponytail and wash her hands and she was ready. Quick and easy. It sounded like he was still talking in the other room, and without the whine of her tools she could hear him too.
He liked the name she picked for her robot. Thought they were similar, that they'd have gotten along if he stuck around. She was ready, but she lingered at the door. He could tell she was mad, and... He gave her the closest thing to an apology she'd gotten from most of her family. She looked at her boxes of stuff in her now sparse bedroom and really if he hadn't already interrupted her work and placated her with the offer of food she'd have just told him to leave. But hell, maybe she was feeling sentimental. Maybe she had no idea how to feel.
She re-entered and shut the door back before he had a chance to glimpse the stacks of boxes she was having moved. She still had to find a proper place to continue her work and figure out how to arrange transport for her car though...
"I... Could still hear you in there. You're right, I'm mad. And I feel like I've got every right to be. But..." Where was she going with this exactly? She wished dealing with family issues was like dealing with a machine. Just cold hard facts, no complicated feelings in the way. She shook her head. "I'm still trying to collect my thoughts. I didn't think any of you would actually apologize. Thank you. I'll drive us, we can talk on the way."
Sunny led him out of the apartment, grabbing her keys off the rack and locking the door behind them. The elevator ride down to the garage was going to be awkward without some kind of conversation, so she spoke up. "I'm glad you like the name I picked. I thought, every mecha has a cool name in games and on TV. So mine should have one too. And don't worry about the food, I'll pay, I have a good relationship with the staff at the place I have in mind. It's been a long time, huh?"
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
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Fox kid leapt in to action pretty quickly! With a wave of her hand thick vines sprouted up and in an instant a dozen robots were sliced apart by a storm of leaves. It was super impressive, she had to admit, even if she'd seen countless displays of super force growing up. A few more robots clambered over the husks of their allies after the attack, which was her cue.
Tagging a switch to retract the energy barrier she twisted the controls, the mecha rising up higher on its twin legs and taking aim with its laser cannons. Thick high powered crimson beams lanced through the air and punched right through the centers of each one that popped up. Just six more, but that counted. She was braced for more to climb out but...
Wait, was that it? She nudged the prototype and approached the machine they'd brought with them, poking around the side to check. Nope, nothing.
"You know I thought there would be more of them than that," Sunny commented, her voice projecting from the machine as it turned to face the fox kid. She made the robot wave one of its arms in greeting. "I don't come to Japan much, are robot swarms like a normal thing? You'd think that would make news for your neighbors. And, um... Nice tree."
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]I guess someone has to do it
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Sunny really couldn't believe this. Guy just dips and then comes back just to chat? And maybe it was kinda nice that he came to check up on her just over the news story. It got worse the longer he explained himself though. He came because dear old dad couldn't get through to her. Of course. She should have known. All this time and they still didn't give a damn about her.
"Hmph! So I was still right. You came because he thinks you'll get me to talk to him. None of you seemed to care to involve me in your lives before and now I'm worth your time," She replied bluntly, trying to hide her anger but not really able to keep her voice from rising. Why was she even bothering? Did she even want the token gestures being floated her way now? Deep breath. Don't lose it here in the hallway and attract the neighbors down the hall.
The tiny woman let out an annoyed sigh and leaned against her door frame. She was quiet while he offered to go get a meal, actually catch up with one another. None of the other Lee's had really offered. Her initial bristling had been enough to brush them off. She shook her head.
"Fine, I guess. But I can't go out wearing this," Sunny relented, stepping back in to her workshop and pushing the door open farther for him. Tools were laid out in neat rows in their coordinated toolboxes, drills and heavier regular use items hanging from their special spots on the walls except for the handful of tools at her workbench. A lot of them had been packed up since Aegis wanted her to move to America for at least a few months, and here and there posters and blueprints took up the rest of the wall space. It was just a shame she couldn't get her car up here yet. She paused at the door to her bedroom before entering, mostly because he offered coding help.
"Thanks but no thanks. Nexus Buster is my life's work, no one's working on it but me. Be back in a minute," she said before slipping in to her room. But she did poke her head back out quickly "Don't touch the body, the paint's still curing!"
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]Just another Thursday, huh?
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For all her resources Sunny couldn't do it on her own. Finding out who had stolen her designs for the prototype now called Nexus Buster had proven impossible; AHI had done the transaction under the table and nothing she could come up with for a network bug had given her anything useful. So she'd been forced to sign on with Aegis. Of course her dad had tried to get involved then. Of course as soon as she was a super hero he suddenly wanted something to do with his youngest daughter. She had work to do anyways. Her high rise suite with its large open central room had become her workshop since she started working with Ashita Heavy Industries and standing in the middle of her work bay was her pride and joy, painted in a vibrant blue and sporting the outline of future hot rod flames on its flanks.
Nexus Buster was a marvel of engineering but it was still just a prototype. Its combat systems hadn't been fully tested and every time she went over her files she found something to tweak, a code to tighten up, a part that would work more efficiently with its already power strapped systems. Getting it properly ready for a tour of duty with Aegis worried her; it should stand up fine to the normal rigors of super life but the world was a dangerous place. She couldn't leave any of it to chance. And today she'd managed to overload the right laser cannon and had to pull the whole thing apart to figure out what had gone wrong. Sweatpants and a tank top were all she'd bothered to put on, already stained with black and blue fluids from the machine when a sound hit her ears.
Sun-hi wasn't sure at first what it was over the whine of her power drill, but when she paused she heard it again. Doorbell.
She took a moment to assess whether or not to answer before pulling herself away from the hundred pound mech arm opened up on her workbench. It better not be the Cardinal or he'd really get an earful. But it wasn't his voice from the other side of the door when she got there. Sounded familiar though. And whoever it was knew her name. Oh boy. She opened the door and was met with a familiar face, albiet one she hadn't seen since she was a preteen. Oh. He had his super hero gear on so that made it real, real easy to figure out who this weirdo was.
"... Hi. I thought you died." Sunny said flatly, not really making any moves to let him in. Course he was way taller than her so he had a pretty clear view of her workshop. "Funny, I can't get any of you to so much as text me back but the minute I finish my Aegis paperwork everyone comes around. Don't I feel special?"
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]Just another Thursday, huh?
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Of course it was an alien invasion. As soon as they'd gotten the threat from space the team of young adults was in action. Everyone else was already out fighting but Sun-hi had to take a minute to power up Nexus Buster and load in some data from the Aegis servers. She'd been staying at the headquarters while she found a decent spot to relocate to and so far she hadn't had to deploy for real. Apparently back in the day these same aliens had fought Solara, the world's most famous super hero, and there was still a little information floating around from then. She'd have to see if it was useful information on the way. Things were kinda... chaotic to say the least, but it hadn't reached them yet. Better to be ready for it when it came than be caught off guard.[break][break]
Once Nexus Buster, gleaming chrome and hot rod flames, she launched and set on route to the rooftop rendezvous Ahoeitu had pointed out. The big sleek UFO hovering over the city was like a shot out of a movie and she could swear she could hear it making a noise over the purr of Nexus Buster's engines. With everyone inside her teammate was easy to pick up on the scanner and she set the mech down with a hearty thunk! on the rooftop. Sunny revved the thruster engines as a threat to the aliens overhead, but she doubted they could hear it.[break][break]
"What, you haven't provoked them yet?" Her voice projected out of the mech as it approached the edge of the rooftop. She'd have to upgrade the machine's scanning systems; she wasn't getting anything useful back off of having the sensors pointed at the UFO. Til she got something useful her eyes were skimming through the file she downloaded. If Aegis had any ideas how to fight these guys it'd only help their chances. Sunny wasn't really keen on getting murdered by aliens today. "I'm going to try to get readings on their tech from here, if I can get some energy frequencies I can modify my barrier to handle it better. I think we're going to need it."
[attr="class","monlyrics2"]Less talking, more smashing!
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The robots were rushing about pretty quickly with whatever task their bad guy boss had set them to. They were sending signals to communicate with one another but they were smart enough to encrypt it so her prototype couldn't just read them. Oh and also there was a blue fox girl here and she smashed a robot before the two locked eyes for a second. Some big vines had wrapped up and crushed a couple bots so she assumed this was an actual hero she hadn't heard of. Cool?[break][break]
"Friend if you're smashing robots too," Sunny replied back in Japanese. The girl was speaking it and she was a bit rusty, but she was good enough for conversations and the speakers carried her voice from the enclosure out to where she could hear it. In hindsight she really should have come up with an ad-hoc name to toss out for the machine she was piloting but it was a little late for that now! The robots were reorganizing and a dozen of them transformed their arms in to some sort of laser cannon.[break][break]
The engines roared. pulling back on the yoke the prototype turned to face its small frail looking enemies and stepped backwards towards the fox kid as she hit a few switches. The barrier at the front expanded in size enough to protect the other girl,a green hive of hexes flashing with each impact. Her eyes flicked between the target machines and her readouts, little green edges at the borders of her screen. Power was holding well enough, so with another button press she raised up the laser cannons and opened fire at a few of them. Blew a hole right through the first one, second one collapsed in a sparking pile. Needed some more calibration.[break][break]
