Squadron Supreme; From Below
10/1/1945, Washington DC, District of Columbia
Zarda and The love of her life were walking with each other, hand in hand right now with smiles as they passed a group of boys who had been looking at everything that was there and they saw that there was a group of boys who had a comic which they were playing keep away with, as they saw this, Howard gave a look, “Do you wanna, or me?” he asked of them.
That made the group look towards him right now before Zarda snatched it, “Hey–!” one of the boys shouted before seeing the couple, “What?” Howard asked, making the group look towards each other before they had stared to back away, “Nothing.” the leader of them told the couple, come on, guys, let’s leave the little dreamer to herself!” he told them.
That made the couple see the little girl who seemed VERY nervous at the sight of them now as Zarda saw it was one of those old Invader comics that one of the people started to talk about and as she looked towards her and the image of her in her full armor there, making Zarda smirk, “Fan of The Power Princess?” she asked of her and hearing that, the little Dreamer nodded.
“She and The other women on the Invaders are my heroes.” she said towards her and hearing that, the woman smiled, “If you want to talk about them with me, I’d be happy to.” Zarda said with Howard nodding, “Did you meet them?” she asked of the group and hearing that, Howard smirked, “You could say that.” the man said towards the group now and that made the girl excited.
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The group had looked towards each other right about now and as they finished up, a few girls and some of the boys coming the listen, Zarda and Howard got up, “We have to go.” Zarda told them, “I’ve gotta head to work, so do you.” She told Howard and hearing that, he smirked, “Love you, Zarda.” she said and hearing that, the kids that had been listening looked towards them with some surprise right now.
Surprised by that, they looked at her with a smile right about now before she walked away, glad that she had brought the ax in her large purse before going to swing it now when something happened, making her look and see that a beam of rainbow energy had hit her as well, seeing that, she threw the ax into a wall, hoping that her team would search for it right now.
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10/1/1945, Fort Erskine, Teton Wilderness
The Squadron Supreme had been looking towards each other and the clock, “Okay, I’m worried.” Robbie said towards them when all of a sudden she had fallen out from a beam of rainbow energy, falling down and gasping as she shivered, “What the Hell was that?!” she asked, making them look towards them now as The Squadron had seen her and was more worried by it all.
“Zarda, what happened?” Joseph had asked and hearing that, the woman shook her head, “I have no idea, I heard someone say… ‘Not the one’ and then I was here!” she said, shaking a bit as she looked towards her clothes and how there was a bracelet on her wrist now which was making her confused, “What the–?” “Squadron!” The General said towards them, “Namor is awake.” he said towards them.
Hearing that, they didn’t care about that now, one of their closest friend was awake, they had started to walk towards everything right about now and as they did so, the group had ignored that the bracelet was glowing, the runes that were there starting to blink, tracking her location at the moment now as the group had went to go and say hello towards them now.
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10/1/1945, Medical Center, Fort Erskine
“Namor!” Zarda had shouted out as she ran over to hug their weak friend, “I’m so glad that you’re awake!” she told him, making Namor chuckle which turned into a cough, “Do you have any water?” he asked of her, making Robbie whizz over to a faucet, getting him a cup of water now for him to pour on himself, making them laugh at that as he gave a relieved look, “How long have I been out?” he asked.
Hearing that, they all looked towards each other before Jim spoke, “Since August.” Jim told him, making Namor confused, “Okay… and what’s the date?” he asked them, making them realize that he didn’t realize that he didn’t know, “It’s been two months, you’ve been here ever since.” Zarda told him and hearing that, Namor was starting to get upset now.
“I’ve been HERE for two months?!” he asked of them, trying to get up again, only for Zarda to help him into a wheelchair, “We didn’t have a way to contact your people, and when we went down there, the Lemurians had been devastated and we couldn’t find ANY Atlanteans.” Sk’ym’x said towards him and hearing that, Namor seemed to sigh, “They might have been scared off from the bomb.” he told them.
That made the group starting to think about right about now before they looked towards each other, “Okay, how about we get you over towards the hangar and we can get you started on your search?” Zarda asked and hearing that, Namor had nodded as they started to move towards the hangar now, “And we could be happy to assist if you would provide us with the information needed, The General said.
That made the Invaders start to get a bit nervous, disliking that when there was a noise that Skymax heard, making him confused, “What is that?” he said, making them look towards him now, “What’s what?” Zarda asked as he shifted his sears to increase their sensitivity, “Is there something buried beneath the Hangar?” he asked, making the group a bit confused by that when they saw a crack now.
“General, what the Hell is that?” Joseph had asked and hearing that, the group had been a bit worried and confused before small yellow creatures that were there with some paint and armor, screeching as they had ran forward to attack them all and hearing that, the group started to react, “What the Hell was that?!” Zarda shouted in panic as she went to draw her blade.
They had all started to react now and as they started to move, Joseph had started to create a bubble around Namor, “Keep him protected!” Sk’ym’x had shouted as they saw that more were coming now, revealing that there was three creatures that had some strange crustacean armor there as well as a large purple lizard with bull horns now as the four of them came out, “How the Hell was that down there?!” Jim shouted.
“I’ll deal with the lizard! The rest of you take care of the yellow things and those crustaceans!” she shouted as they saw that the creatures were shooting some sort of slim from their rifles, making them begun to react towards the projectiles with blocking and dodging, making them see how there was a slime that was starting to freeze up now nd hold people in place.
They saw that the creatures were shouting, pointing towards Joseph, so Jim had decided to cook them up now, Zarda mean while was busy with the large beast, able to hold her own, but there was a lot of weight and mass towards the monster right now, the creatures starting to speak again before they saw that the rifles weapons were changing now, making Skymax take a breath as he transformed into a beast like them.
He went to attack now towards the supposed leader that the yellow creatures were listening to when it stabbed him, whatever the bade was made of, it was sharp, and it was hot, shouting out a foreign phrase that made Namor pause which the others seemed to notice at that with another who got onto Jim now started to speak towards the Prince, confusing them.
“You know these thins?!” Doctor Spectrum had asked of him, Namor seemed to pause at that before he had spoken towards him, “They are Crustakkar, Crab–Men from The Under–Earth!” he shouted towards them as they started to fire towards the group now, each one creating a small explosion that knocked them all back away, with one of them got closer and closer towards them when Joseph had been hit with one.
That made him begin to lose focus, his bubble beginning to get wobbly and weak before he fell onto the ground, looking around towards everything now with some nervousness now before he was picked up by one of them, it shouted and hearing that, they started to move as fast as they could away from them, the creature and the yellow beasts had started to move now.
“Namor!” Jim had shouted towards him, making the prince shout out now, “I’ll get my way out!” he shouted towards them now as he struggled, dragged down there into whatever that was, “DO NOT GO DOWN THERE!” The General had shouted towards them all, making the group look towards each other with some confusion by all of that before they had started to look towards him now.
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They started to look towards the man as he took a deep breath, “We cannot go and start to head down there, it’s a possibility that there is a trap waiting for you there, we need to be smart and we need to be careful, create a base of operations down there so that we can safely work with whatever monsters live down there.” The General told them, making the group angry.
“Namor is down there–!” “And we’d be useless if we’re dead!” The General had shouted towards Robbie as well, both of them starting to look towards everything that was there right now when Zarda spoke, “I’ll go down first… I’m durable and I know how to survive in a primal location.” she told them and hearing that, he nodded towards that, “Put down a place for us to secure,” he ordered.
“Spectrum with lay down the hardware there and we’ll have a place there.” he explained and hearing that, the group looked towards each other before they had started to work on some plans, “All right then, how about we get started to tear apart the area so that they never think to try and invade us again.” the General said and hearing that, they started to get to work now.
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11/11/1945, The Spike, Subterranea
The members of the Squadron Supreme had been looking over everything that had been constructed, seeing the massive amount of work that was put into what was essentially an elevator with a lot of supplies and resources at the bottom, the group looking towards everything that was there before they started to get a bit relieved by everything that was there.
“We’ll start sending expeditions out, map out everything that was there and as they had do so, we’ll catalog every monster and enemy that is hiding underneath the Earth.” he said towards the right about now and as they began to look over everything there right about everything right about now before they saw that there was a file that was there which made Robbie curious.
“Nova Corps? You’re making a file against them?” he asked, making the General give a look, “Of course I will, after all, there’s no telling if that man was telling the truth.” he said towards him and hearing that, the Squadron didn’t like that, but they were going to trust that he wouldn’t try to kill Kaanah Shiir, “Is there a file on me?” Sk’ym’x had asked, making The General nod.
“After all, we only know you, not your people.” he told him, making Skymax sigh, “Fine then, better than nothing.” he said towards him and hearing that, the group started to move right now and as they had done so, the group each looked towards each other right now as the man started to look over everything that they had before when the Skrull had looked at the small idol he had.
The alien had this carved by some of the metal that he had brought with him, after he had the vision, carved in the forms of Kly’bn and Sl’gur’t, the eternal and the God of infinite names, it made him feel a bit closer to his past, his family, and the people that he loved, recalling all of hat, the man smiled at that right now, “Alright, let’s get to work!” Zarda shouted.
Hearing that, they all started to get on the next mission, all of them starting to look at the scenes that were there right about now and as they had started to look through everything, the Squadron smiled at that and were all at the ready now as they each went to move right about now, the group had been a bit surprised before they started to move forward.
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12/31/1945, Shelton Residence, Washington DC
The group had been looking around at everything that was there and as they did so, the members of the group had been smiling, relieved at everything at the moment and as they did so, the members of The Squadron were all smiling towards each other right about now and as they had been celebrating with each other right now and drinking with some of the neighbors there as well.
They had been walking towards the center where the children were enjoying some of the drinks and sweets that were brought out, Zarda smiled towards them all, glad that she locked up her personal armory before realizing that there was a noise, one that made her look and see that it was Howards relative… Timothy Dugan, “Dum Dum!” Pleasure to meet you, Dum Dum!” people were going as he looked at the ax.
He saw that it was the hand ax that she had been trying to NOT use right now, “Huh, I thought that I put that away.” she said, making the man look towards her, making the man looking towards everything that was there and as they started to look towards her, “Where’d you get something like that?” he asked in confusion, making the woman sigh, “Got this from a crater.”
That made Dum Dum curious right now, looking at it which was when she saw that there was something strange in the glow of the ax while she saw that he had a locket which made the woman curious as she saw that there was a blonde woman and seeing that and how she had a scar, Zarda grew curious, “Who is she?” Zarda had asked of him, making Dum Dum smirk at that.
“Do you recall those Howling Commandos, James Howlett and Victor Creed?” he asked, making the woman nod, she liked the brothers, they were pretty calm at the moment, “This is their sister, Clara Creed.” he said and hearing that, the woman noticed that there was some wounds which were making her concerned for the girl but as she looked at the ax, it seemed to be glowing brighter now.
Seeing that, she went to drop it into the armory with the rest of her weaponry right now and as she saw that everything was safely stored away, the Utopian turned back towards everyone, “Well then, let’s get back to the party!” she told them, making the man a bit curious at the statement right now before he followed, “Is that thing safe?” he asked of her, making Zarda nod at that.
“It’s been glowing recently, but I’m not concerned right now.” she told him, making the man nod, trusting The Invader for the moment right now when he saw his cousin, “Howard!” he shouted, walking towards his favorite relative who seemed to be pretty happy right about now as all of them had started to talk towards each other right now as they enjoyed their time together right now.
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2/14/1946, Restaurant, Washington DC
The two of them had been smiling towards each other, enjoying their meal together and as they had done so, there was a feeling, one that made Zarda confused as she had looked towards her bag where she had kept the ax now, she couldn’t leave it alone in the house armory now, it was glowing too hot and might cause a house fire, also it always seemed to be missing somehow.
Looking towards it, she was getting concerned, glad that she had put some lining into the purse right now which made Howard curious, “What’s going on with that thing?” Howard asked, making the woman shake her head, “I had no idea.” she told him, it had been getting more and more dangerous right now and as she saw how it seemed to be getting hotter as well, Zarda shut it closed.
“I’ll bring it to Fort Erskine later.” she said towards him, making Howard a bit more relieved by that right now as the two of them started to look towards each other right now and wanted to hold hands with each other, happy right about now and as they had started to enjoy their day together at the moment, the problem in hand being forgotten for the moment right now.
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7/18/1946, Washington DC, District of Columbia
Zarda was going through her usual routine right about now and as she had done so, the woman started to raise the ax up right now and as she did so, there was a beam again, only this time, people came down now wearing golden armor with blades, “We finally found you.” they said towards her, making the woman on the defense at the moment before realizing that there was something wrong with them.
That made the Utopian look at the item in her hand before one of them spoke, “You will come with us for your crimes against Asgard.” he said towards her, making The Power Princess at the ready at the moment before they had grabbed at her and took the weapon before they started to look upwards, “Heimdall, we have the criminal.” the man said towards her, making Zarda confused.
They saw that there was another beam of light at the moment and saw that there was a vision that was before her before she was torn upwards now and into the sky right now, seeing how there was an army that was waiting for her and it was making the woman hope that her team would be able to find her and maybe they would be able to get her away from Asgard, whatever that was.
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7/18/1946, Fort Erskine, Teton Wilderness
The Squadron had been waiting and looking towards each other right about now and as they had done so, the group realized that there was an issue, “Where’s Zarda?” Skymax had asked and hearing that, they all realized that there was something which was making them all a bit curious right now and as they looked towards each other, “Strange, she’s usually here by now.” Robbie said.
They had all started to look around right now and as they did so, there was a horn as a small portal had appeared, that made them look and see that there was something which was making the group all at the ready now before they saw that there was a man in a strange outfit which was making the group all tense at the moment before he had unfurled a scroll.
“As the associates of Zarda Shelton of Utopia Isle, I am here to inform you that she has been captured for her crimes now and will be tried before the court of Asgard, if you wish to join us, we will be awaiting you.” The man said, offering them a horn, “Use this to come and we shall await you.” The man told them before looking upwards, “Heimdall!” He shouted as the man was taken away now by the same portal.
As the group saw this, they all looked towards each other before Joseph took the horn, “We’re obviously going to rescue her.” he muttered, making the others all nod in agreement as he pressed his lips to the horn, just as The General came in, “What the Hell are you doing?!” he questioned, making the group all look, “To rescue our friend.” Robbie said as they all started to move home now.
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7/18/1946, The Bifrost, Asgard
The three of them had looked around in confusion, unsure how all of that had happened now as they noticed that there were men there who had looked at them with caution, “We’re here for the trial of Zarda.” Robbie told them and hearing that, they lowered their weapons, “Then come, Forseti is awaiting her and you.” one of them said, making the group curious.
They had followed after him and as they did so, a man with golden eyes watched them, “You must be careful here.” he told them, “For enemies will await you here.” he said, making the three of them curious, looking towards them all right now before they continued to do so, each of them wondering what it was that they would see there right now as they entered such an incredible place now.