12803/Order Borne of Darkness: Prelude

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Order Borne of Darkness: Prelude
Date of Scene: 22 September 2022
Location: Meeting Room - GIRL Headquarters
Synopsis: GIRL discovers an item of the power cosmic beneath the sea! And gets ready to dive into the depths.
Cast of Characters: Monet St. Croix, Valeria Richards, Nadia Pym-van Dyne




Monet St. Croix has posed:
It's a late, quiet night over in GIRL Headquarters. In the meeting room, various systems are no doubt going through automated checks and analysis for whatever projects are going on. With events in the last weeks of the assassination of the Shi'Ar ambassador at the Atlantic spaceport, and the announcement of the Atlantean King that more security will be given, there is no doubt more attention being put up into the skies above.

Valeria Richards has posed:
Watch the skies you sometimes here. Mostly from the tinfoil hat types. But sometimes even a stopped clock can be right, Twice a day usually. As long as it's analog.

Val herself had mostly been at GIRL, usually she keeps her own projectes running at Four Freedom's Plaza and is happy to enjoy just hanging out with her friends and offering help on theirs. Dressed casually for the moment in some snug knee length faded denim jean shorts. The intellectual in her or maybe her godfather's influence will never call them jorts. A blue tee mimicking the family classic uniform and some low cut modern sneakers in white. The socks are pink though.

A wrist computer linked into the locaal network and her home one running through scans and progesses while the blonde just casually kicks back with the others. The only other color a soft gold tone of two wrings on her middle fingers.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
    There are many reasons to watch the skies at GIRL, especially lately. Nadia sits in her chair at the meeting roundtable dressed in her red and black street clothes with a lab coat draped over her shoulders like a cape as she rapidly enters commands into a virtual console. Nearby several holographic screens float in the air streaming data in response to her queries as she tries to figure out what is interdicting deep space communications and Zeta beam travel from reaching the planet Rann.

    Finally she leans back in her seat throwing up her hands and letting out a frustrated sigh, "It's like the whole planet just vanished as far as any of our communications tech is concerned!"

Monet St. Croix has posed:
As Nadia and Valeria work over on projects and discussion, over on a console that's doing automated scans boosted by satellites in orbit, there's a chime registering a power surge. A rather potent one. And one at least that's unusual enough that the system is making a point to highlight it. But there's no blaring over of any sort of emergency system or that it registers as any sort of danger.

But it is a loud enough one to normally warrant interest and analysis.

Valeria Richards has posed:
There's a pot off coffee near by that the blonde grbs and fills a couple cups for herself, Nadia and everyone else that migt just need the boost as much as the dignals from Rann might.

"It's annoying. Like someone's messing with our gear. Zeta Beams this time. And we are getting blocked from calling tech support." she ponders and hmms.

The train of thought gets broken a momet as the scanning systems pick something else up. "Well I was gonna say, sometimes when a friend isn't answering there's a simple solution. Call someone else, or we go knock and do a wellness check. But that..." shhe indicates the pings as even her wrist computer makes some noise.

"Think it's just passing through? That's a lot of energy. Not sure we want it anywhere near us till we know what we're looking at." she worries a little.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
    Nadia nods her head in agreement. "Yeah, I think we're going to have to go knock. Alanna is going crazy worrying about her dad." Lifting a leg and kicking the table, her chair glides back from it. Of course GIRL has mobile swivel chairs.

    Hopping to her feet, Nadia wanders over to the satellite feed. "Well that's weird." A few commands to the computer later and the interface expands to include the Avenger's satellite network as well, not the first time she's hacked it, won't be the last. Don't tell Tony. "Given the number of dangerous aliens lately, we should probably check it out."

Monet St. Croix has posed:
It's picking up energy pulses in the deep sea. Very, very potent energy pulses that like Valeria's going to realize what they are first. The pulses seem to have started within the last several minutes, within the last swing around of the orbitting satellite.

The energy is wide spectrum, extremely unusual even if one doesn't know what it is. It's going through almost -every- single type of phase that can be picked up, radiating all different types of energy that the scanner can register.

Valeria Richards has posed:
Once Val starts to funnel readings through the shared networks of the Fantastic Four and GIRL, and now the Avengers. It's her wrist computer that pings and gives her some info. "Ughhh craaaaaapppp." she says and look very worried.

"That's gonna be a huge probel. I know what that is. Cosmic Power. Power Cosmic. There's no lifesigns. Buuuut that just means no one is up on that. But it's you know if it gets too close to any inhabited world." she says and taps the numeral 4 on her chest.

There's a few swishes of her wirst computer sending instructions to her home systems.

"Don't know how long we got. But I'm having some HERBIEs haul robobutt and start heading for the Tereshkova. Increasing the radioactive shielding. Just need to make sure that when we go..." what that energy could do is pretty much stuff of legends. And Val looks almost frantic.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
    Nadia really doesn't need to be told twice. Cool space energy! "Cosmic Power? /Phenomenal/ Cosmic Power?" Apparently someone showed her Disney's Aladdin. Probably Terry. "Let's go!"

    It doesn't take long to get to the Tereshkova, just the amount of time the elevator takes to get to the underground secret level where GIRL's zeta beam facility is located. From there it is an instantaneous hop to the Tereshkova's onboard zeta platform where it sits in its secret hangar in upstate New York. Launch of course is far less instantaneous, there are engine checks to do, drives to warm up, a cloak to engage in case nosey governments are watching the area, plenty of time for the Herbies to reinforce the shielding.

    "Are you okay Val? You almost never get flustered about anything. How is this Power Cosmic different from like regular cosmic rays?" Nadia hasn't actually heard of Power Cosmic before, though she may have theorized something like it existing. This could be quite the enlightening adventure.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
It's time for Valeria to rapidly explain things. As the duo are rushing along, the signals are steadying. The sensors are able to pinpoint it over deep within the ocean. Over in Atlantean territory, if they were getting it right. Deep in the lowest depths.

It's pulsating steadily now, and the emanations are not increasing. building up and then stabilizing. LIke it was just activated.. Or it was encased in something and whatever it was encased in had started to go live.

Valeria Richards has posed:
There's more details as the location gets more specific. "Okay, screw the Tereshkova. We may need to prep your SubmaGoGo!" she can't excatly remember the name of the sug that made a fantastic journey within Kara.

"Okay, so there's differences in some frequencies of energy. But things like people randomly getting powers like my family. Mixed with Gamma and you get red Hulks is best case scenario. We're talking like harnessed. Reality warping and manipulation. Litrally do what you want and no one can stop you stuff." she explains. "Dad's shielding has been upgraded. I can install upgrades for any shields into dive suits for everyone. I don't want random Things happening and dad moping when he gets home from wherever!" she explains.

"We just need to prep and get moving. But..." she looks at the readings and output increase. "We're definitely on the clock."

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
    Nadia's eyes shine, practically sparkle as Val describes the Power Cosmic. 'I want to study it!' is written all over her face. "That sounds so cool! We need to go get it! Definitely can't have it falling into the wrong hands." She nods to herself. "Definitely." The wrong hands being any where she doesn't get to study it.

    "The HemagloGO? We'd still have to get it to the ocean. Don't worry the Tereshkova has full environmental containment and adequate propulsion systems. The Ocean should be no problem! Next stop Calamari Central!"

Monet St. Croix has posed:
The wrong hands? So many possible ones. But the ladies of GIRL are the first to find out about it. Now the question is how long do they have before every single other bit on the planet and in the cosmos is awareof it. Now..

now's the time to go fishing.

Valeria Richards has posed:
One thing Val does is via wrist computer drop a bunch of information for Cosmic Energies on the GIRL servers. There's going to be some work needing doing and people needing up to speeding so having that on hand. In a group of super geniuses, it's still faster to just dump the info via text since talking is soooooo slow for their brains.

The HERBIE's are on their way with the tech to update the armor and shields of  bothstart ship and sub. And when they arrive on site. GIRL can gear up and hit the surf.