Specter, Chapter 8: A Good Day to Hero Hard
GREETINGS TRUE BELIEVERS!
Welcome back!
Wyldfire and SAFEGUARD, working together, followed the digital trail leading away from Paragon Networks to yet another set of servers. Those servers turned out to be housed in an Oscorp facility near the New Jersey shore.
In fact, it wasn’t near the shore at all, but far offshore! It was the Oscorp Industries Offshore Research Platform.
The heroes wasted no time. Using a clever plan, the heroes split into two teams and infiltrated the station. Moving quietly, they made it aboard under the guise of shipwreck victims, which earned sympathy from the Oscorp employees.
It also allowed them some freedom to search the main level of the platform, uncovering clues that there may be more to this platform than meets the eye. Specifically the Kryptonian criminals, the Society of Rao! Quickly, and quietly they regroup in the maintenance area just beneath the main platform to determine their next move!
Meanwhile, at that moment on the research station, the data from Paragon Networks was transferred to a private network in a hidden laboratory. One shared by both Oscorp and the nefarious Society of Rao!
True Believers, that data was just what the Oscorp and Rao scientists were looking for! Using that information, they dove into their work to put their final plans into motion.
But! Deep underwater, not far away, a near silent set of mini-subs covertly monitor the Oscorp station and its supposedly secret research! They aren’t with SAFEGUARD, Oscorp or the Society of Rao. Which begs the question, True Believers…
Are they friend?
Or foe?
Let’s find out!
This is Not Stan Lee saying ...
EXCELSIOR!
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Strange rumors send the Wyldfire team to investigate a modest and nondescript Oscorp Lab building on the southern edge of the Metropolis Research Park. Sources suggest Oscorp has some connection between five missing ooze victims in New York and a shadowy bio-genetic “special project” for “life enhancement”.
This is compounded by the fact that Oscorp is one of the companies studying the mutagenic ooze from the New York.
Wyldfire’s mission
Once they arrived...
The plan, to use a "Bloodmobile" and administering company sponsored vaccines to the employees, went off without a hitch. Medkit and Dr. Blake provided cover, while the others searched the building. In no time, the search turned up:
Fortunately, the plan worked… mostly…
The team has liberated one of the missing kidnap victims, research samples, copies of research report data, and a Kryptonian Tri-comm being used by Oscorp! As a bonus, they recovered a mysterious ‘replicant’ type android made from a mysterious polymer.
They know from a surprise ally in the form of an Oscorp Field Tech, that the other kidnap victims have been taken to a location in Jersey, an off-shore platform, or both!
And then, there is this “Dr. Joara Zarn-Del”, a scientist from New Krypton who seems to be the silent partner in Oscorp’s current escapades. What is her stake in this? The team doesn’t know, but the clues suggest something sinister.
Then!
A little tech help from ShadowStar pointed the team at a mild-mannered data center in Atlantic City, owned by Paragon Networks Ltd. This unassuming location was not only housing several actively used servers by Oscorp Industries but also was renting warehouse space out to Oscorp!
After the clever use of false IDs, the team has made their way inside the building. Using their clever ruse, they have uncovered that Oscorp Industries is renting the warehouse for their own nefarious purposes.
Also, Oscorp is not alone! They are working with an extra-terrestrial threat. The mysterious, and fanatical, Society of Rao! Kryptonians bent on returning to the “Kryptonian Way”. A philosophy that caused the doom of their original homeworld!
In Atlantic City, things got dicey!
Card Shark, in a desperate bid to steal the valuable high tech designs stored in Paragon Networks, staged an ‘office invasion’. A desperate move since all other digital methods of theft had failed.
But he didn’t count on Wyldfire being on the scene!
Quick as a flash, the Wyldfire team took the bad hand dealt them and turned it around! With a little help from SAFEGUARD, they stopped the digital designs of Card Shark all the while freeing another captive from Oscorp’s clutches.
But wait! There’s more!
As a bonus, thanks to the quick thinking of Dr. Adel Urda-Na, the team has a lead on where Oscorp and their Kryptonian allies might have sent a copy of the meta-power research. The same location where the rest of the missing meta-humans might be held!
But!
They gained no new information about how deep Dr. Zarn-Del is involved. She could just be a silent partner. But she could also be an active participant in this ill-advised science!
And last, but never least…
Using a clever plan, our heroes have infiltrated the Oscorp Industries Offshore Research Station Gamma. They hope to track down the last of the missing meta-humans, recover the data, and derail the possible twisted schemes already in motion by Oscorp and the Society of Rao!
They have uncovered a way down to what may be a secret location under the platform! Does it lead to below the waves? Or to the ocean floor itself?
But! Our heroes work is not done!
OR!
… could AIM have been behind this all along?
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