#i am so sorry about the turdis

[masks-travelers-by-night]

Issue #1: Brain Freeze

A little while ago, the retired Golden-age supervillain Gearmaster launched an attack on Infinitech Labs, surprising everyone, especially Dr. Infinity, the star superhero of the city and founder of Infinitech Labs. She was so take off-guard, in fact, that it fell to a group of teens, there on a school trip, to protect her, stop Gearmaster, and save the day. Their teacher, Mr. Rene Moore, was sadly lost in the fight, infected by the very cyborg virus that Gearmaster may have been there to take.

But now, complexities of their victory notwithstanding, these same teens have gotten together and decided that they deserve celebratory milkshakes and pancakes at the diner on 50th.

So Skate Rat (the coolest skateboarding rat-psychic you've ever met), Shadow Sojourn (a.k.a. Maria Wong, the weirdest interdimensional WWOOFer you've ever met), and Blodeuwedd (a.k.a. Jamina Jones, the smartest steampunk cosplayer/power armour designer you've ever met) get together (leaving their friend Ring, a.k.a. Allen Marcus, who had other things to attend to) and order their much-deserved pancakes.

It's about this moment when an interdimensional frost-demon bursts out of the walk-in freezer at the diner and starts demanding a worthy opponent to champion this dimension.

Naturally, no other superheroes are around, and the kids know how this goes: if you don't get a hero right away, just keep harming innocents until one comes. So they step up to the challenge.

Or, at least, they try. Turns out that they're neither operating like a team, nor prepared to fight what may as well be a jötunn. And so the diner is nearly leveled, burned, and quickly filled with rats, while the frost-demon finds no one worthy of his time.

The team comes together, though, and demands his attention with judicious use of fire extinguishers, insults, and sick skateboard tricks. Once he's good and angry, he breaks all the water mains and locks himself in an icy thunderdome with Skate Rat and Blodeuwedd. Skate Rat's skate tricks and Blodeuwedd's energy-absorbing power armour help them hold the line, but Shadow Sojourn is left outside, because they were examining the dimensional rift left in the walk-in.

Shadow Sojourn realizes that they need to demoralize the frost-demon and make him never want to come back to this dimension, and to that end, a little alien tech and some more taunts get him to see that Shadow Sojourn can and will collapse the gate, stranding him.

One they've done so, he admits defeat, with the note that they are worthy, but also the most annoying champions he has ever fought. Shadow Sojourn offers him a ride back his dimension in their alien craft, the one that looks like Meow Wolf on the inside, and a porta-john on the outside ("The TURDIS," cracks Skate Rat).

On the right back from the Frost Dimension, the team tries to be good to each other, but they're really bad at it, and bruised egos and shake confidences from the fight leave everyone feeling even more like a mess by the time they're back in their own world.

Will they learn to work as a team? Will Blodeuwedd's fears that this is not the only incursion happening around the city be borne out? Will Skate Rat keep his daily life going smoothly? And what has Ring been up to?

[anchoredlou]

hi im sorry i just have to ask, your tag " remember the number niall was proud of.." what's that supposed to mean? yeah nialls single didn't skyrocket so big and so fast bc this is harry styles™(sigh) after all but you make it sounds like niall being proud of his success is not important and ridiculous bc it's nothing compared to harry:...:/ sorry i didn't mean to be rude in sure you didn't mean it that way i just hate to see the boys being compared as if they are competing against one another

NOOOOOOOOO It wasn’t meant like that OH GOD NOOOOOOOOI had in mind what Niall said so proudly about ‘turdy-seven’ countries that ONE DIRECTION were number one in back in 2013

oh god I should’ve been clearer on that. I am never going to undermine any of the boys’ success that they earned in their own right =)