Illyana's choice

Before we headed out, before the timer started counting down, we saw a MASSIVE screen with a blue background appear. It listed numerous different things we could do to gain greater rewards, from completing multiple missions of specific types to taking down each boss, it even told us that if we managed to take down all the bosses there would be additional bosses that would show up at random as well as those beaten respawning for us to take down for additional rewards. "Okay so that's new, then again this is my first time trying a Survival with other people. I think it might be best for us to split into two's, Illyana has portals and I've got flight so that should help us be able to cover more ground. So who's going with who?" I asked, Peter saying he'd prefer the portal's as it would help him save on his web fluid. With that Helen joined me, both teams looked at the massive map to pick out targets, more or less splitting the map in half before we each took off

Illyana first chose to head towards what appeared to be a building being used to stockpile weapons, place is crawling with thugs Including a couple of massive guys wielding huge weapons and dozens of enemies with guns. Peter went in first to deal with as many as he could quietly, he was surprised to see them slowly vanish after he'd webbed up some of them and even messaged the rest of us about it. I responded with. "Yeah, basically the enemies here aren't real, so there's no need to hold back. Manage your resources though, there's a LOT more that'll show up if your not keeping it quiet." I explained watching as Helen kept one of the Brute thugs suspended in the air, holding onto the ceiling with her painfully thick legs wrapped around his neck, **** him out before letting him fall to the ground a moment before he vanished. "I get the feeling you were showing off there..." Helen looked back at me giving a little purr in response. "Who me? Never~" She said as she leaped back up, giving me a fantastic view of that gorgeous ass. Yup... she was DEFINITELY trying to tease me...

A few minutes later and Helen was at a terminal, setting it up to send information where it was required for our objective. The upload got about a third of the way through before an alarm sounded, the objective changing to have us defend the terminal until upload finished. Enemies with guns tried running down one of the corridors, I took position at the opening, curled my fingers around the corner and fired multiple explosive beams down the hall. I got a small pop up saying I hit someone's grenade while it was still attached to them, the blast took out a good 6 enemies at once, several others getting blown away from the other blasts. Helen meanwhile was being charged by a few enemies at a time, her strength and agility allowing her to make easy work of them to say the least. It wasn't until the Brute's starting showing up she began to have trouble, they took more hits but she was quick enough to avoid their attacks. We nearly got through the upload without trouble, but the ones coming through the entrance Helen was blocking had started bringing weapons in, crowbars, bats, guns, she had to use some of their own bodies to block the bullets but other than that things weren't going too bad...

Meanwhile with Illyana and Peter, things were going a bit better... It was more accurate to say that Peter was left dealing with a computer to get a pass code while Illyana was tearing through enemies by the dozen and having a LOT of fun with it. Sword drawn, portals in use, she fired blasts of magic energy and tore her way through her enemies, the few that got close to Peter were webbed to the wall before they could shoot him or the terminal he was at. With both teams finished their first terminal mission we continued onwards, Illyana and Peter heading for another terminal to get the rest of the pass code, a screen explaining that the code would unlock a vault with bonus rewards. Helen and I heading for a more combat oriented mission, where we learned there were keys we could get off the people there to be used for vaults or other rewards. Both teams shared information and thankfully we could each bring up a map, one that allowed us to see where everyone was on the map. Illyana and Peter didn't really have much trouble with the next mission, turns out it was close enough to where Helen and I were that the enemies never even noticed them, rushing towards us as we dropped into an Arena like area, over a dozen enemies dropping in to fight us.

I summoned a set of 20 clones and asked if they had more to throw at us... The next wave came in, about 40 of them with 7 Brutes spread throughout the wave. I charged in with Energy Fists active and sent 4 of them flying in a flurry of punches, Helen starting to go for more damaging strikes as the enemies got more numerous. Illyana teased us that since we were fighting so close to where they were hacking a terminal no enemies were alerted to her and Peter's presence. I sent back "Do you wanna switch?" She said she'd love too but they were busy with the terminal currently, with a palpable amount of smug in her voice. I heard Helen suddenly, "Perhaps she's trying to tempt you into spanking her~?" I was very tempted to believe that as well honestly, but we didn't have time to guess anymore. Once the last wave's numbers were nearly depleted the new wave came, half of the 60 thugs were Brutes, and most of them were wielding weapons, blades, shields, some of them had electrified gauntlets even... I was NOT fucking with those, I fired explosive blasts at them right away, if they weren't defeated in those shots their gauntlets were broken, so that's a plus. We got to what was the LAST WAVE and Helen and I just... Stared in shock... "Uh Illyana? I don't know how to explain what I'm looking at..." I said before a pop up said I could SHOW her and Peter what Helen and I were dealing with, I pressed the button and watched a small flying camera appear, hovering over the fight pit we were in.

"Ooh! Live TV!" Illyana said through the connection, Peter chuckling before I heard him saying, "Uh... What the heck am I looking at?" Helen and I were staring at 100 enemies, standing alongside a clown man, a boss name appearing over him that read "Ozob, the Clown Captain." Bright red hair on the sides of his head in an outward V shape, the top of his head completely bald, wearing black body armor like he worked in RIOT CONTROL and to top it all off? His nose was gone... Replaced... With a painted BRIGHT RED, LIVE GRENADE... That was... more than a little bit of a surprise. To say the least... "Uh... I think I'll deal with him..." I said to Helen, not wanting her do have to worry about a psycho with a grenade in his face. With that I sent my clones at HIM specifically, he swung at them, fighting like some kinda professional boxer. Dodging, punching my clones out, he still took hits cause there was so many, but he was a LOT quicker than he looked. I watched this for all of two minutes and went "NOPE!" and just clone spammed from that point on, overwhelming him, beating him down, trying to NOT hit the damn grenade while Helen and I focused on beating the other thugs. What clones couldn't reach Ozob were fighting the rest of the wave, I heard Illyana cheering us on, even telling me to go for his nose. Eventually Ozob's health neared the end and he yelled for me to at least do the job myself... My clones moved away, focusing on the rest of the thugs, I raised a finger and fired an explosive beam faster than he could react... It hit his nose... And his entire top half EXPLODED in a shower of blood and gore...

The team saw an achievement pop up that said, Congratulations! You celebrated Ozob's defeat with FIREWORKS! And I just stared at the screen a minute... the Clones beating down the last few thugs before we got a message saying we'd won, the rest of the thugs leaving the building, clearing out to not deal with us... "What... the absolute FUCK? I've NEVER seen a boss fight like that before..." I barely managed to get out, Helen hugging me as she tried to calm me down, I think it was the pop up that fucked me up the most from that encounter... then I saw the rewards and one of them was... "Oh no... Ozob's Celebration Blueprint? A special grenade of high explosive, think if you took C-4 and upgraded it to the next level. This is only granted to those that gran Ozob's wish of ending him with one final show!... Sometimes these settings really worry me..." I said as I finished reading the description out loud. Illyana's voice coming in suddenly, "Ooh is that C-5?! You'll let me use it too right?" I promptly cut the feed at that point, putting the blueprint away for the time being. "L-let's continue on..."

Helen and I found some hostages to rescue, having to sneak our way in was pretty easy, Helen was a lot quieter than I'd expected. I had to be careful using my abilities as any Hardlight powers would create a slight glow that could be noticed, plus most of them were loud as well... Getting through the thugs wasn't hard, the hostages escaping shortly after by leaving through the door we'd entered the building from. It took us a bit longer since we didn't have a lot of ways to climb around on walls or web enemies up, but we did another 4 hostage rescue missions before we turned our focus elsewhere. We weren't left with a choice as the entire team saw a pop up at the top of our HUD saying that several bosses had spawned. Killer Croc was running wild in a building, Bane was overseeing another Arena Fight mission with him as the boss fight, lastly there were two other bosses one by the name of Deadshot with the other being called Penguin. We decided to handle the bosses carefully, I would head on to deal with Croc since I had lightning that I thought would be useful, Helen would join up with Peter and Illyana to deal with Penguin and possibly Deadshot depending on which they were closer too, and finally once I was done with Croc I would meet with the others to deal with whoever else was left before we would all head for Bane.

Illyana, Peter and Helen made short work of Penguin, he had an astounding number of thugs to throw at the team but wasn't expecting Peter to yank him over to them almost right away. Helen beat him down before he could get out much more than a Squawk of surprise, the thugs turning and running seeing their boss dealt with so fast... Peter had managed to pull Helen out of the way of a sudden gunshot, Illyana searching for the shooter before they realized the bullet had been ricocheted at them, with that realization they went on the hunt for Deadshot. Meanwhile I entered a building searching for Croc, claw marks and growls helping me to track him down pretty quickly... "I've got your scent..." I heard growled out, it sounded like it was coming from ahead of me, but as soon as I rounded the corner... A powerful tail SLAMMED into my side, launching me through a large room, a hallway and finally into a massive Ballroom... I watched my health lose a large CHUNK from the hit with little bits of additional damage from me going through walls and finally smashing through a trio of tables...

"I'll swallow you whole! FEAST ON YOUR BONES!" I heard as Croc suddenly Burst through the wall and landed in a crouch, going onto all fours and starting to move at me fast as he could, I grabbed the two halves of the table I'd just landed through and threw one at him, he dodged only for me to slap him across the face with the other half. He growled out before his head turned back to me as he went to bite at me, an Impact Palm landed under his jaw as I bent backward to avoid his bite. His body SNAPPED upwards as his teeth clacked together painfully from what was basically a super powered uppercut, he spun around swinging his tail at me. I swung an Energy Fist empowered punch in return and his tail BLEW apart, even though he yelled in pain he still swung back, an arm backhanding me across the room and through more furniture. I watched my health drop MASSIVELY and at first I didn't realize why... Then I saw metal table leg protruding from my abdomen, my body having landed on and been IMPALED on the sharp snapped off end of the leg of this smashed table... Pulling myself off it hurt worse than the impact, but then I heard it...

He was chuckling, laughing even, starting to talk about how I wouldn't be able to fight back like that, that he would eat me bones and all... I stopped listening as I felt myself getting pissed... He thought this was all it took? That THIS was somehow him having an EASY win now? FUCK. THAT. I pulled on my power and found something NEW answering... My hand behind me pulling the last of the leg out of my back, starting to glow with Black and White... He charged and LEAPED up, I flung out my hand and...