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[Red-Hood]

Red hood stepped out of the gate. blegghh, that was a strange feeling. The stormtroopers on this side were already waiting for him, weapons drawn.
"Alright Mr Hood. We are going to need you to take off your helmet and surrender your weapons and any other gear you might have. Your stuff will returned to you in 5 to 10 business days."
" Yea I'm not doing that" Red hood said putting his hands on his hips. Without them noticing Red grabbed a couple of Batrangs from his belt... Just in case.
"Sir please comply, its standard procedure for new primes." Red saw them drop their fingers on to the triggers.
"Mm sounds interesting but I think I'll pass" with a flick of his wrists he threw the Batrangs at them, one at each of them. One flew and hit the stormtrooper on the left in the shoulder causing him to stumble a bit. The one on the right was smacked straight in the visor. Other than the force of being smacked in the face the damage was very little. But the surprise of being struck is what was Red's ultimate goal. He ran at them pulling out his knife in the procces. Once close enough Red dropped down and sweeped the legs out on the storm trooper on the left. Once on the groud he stabbed the trooper in the chest a few times before spring boarding off the stormtrooper into the other. Red shoved his shoulder into the other causing him to fall down as well. Red stomped on the troopeds face breaking the visor out. Red stood up dropping the knife and drawing his guns and pointing one at each of the troopers. They laid there quite still. Holstering his guns he picked up his knife. Red kicked the lifeless bodies of the troopers to check one last time if they were dead.
"Well that was a good workout" Red said cracking his knuckles. He wiped the blood off his knife and looked for a place to hide the bodies. Close by was a dumpster and with surprising ease he shoved the last stormtrooper into trash recipticle. not a bad first day croissaint Red thought with a smirk.

[Thor]

not a bad first day croissaint Red thought with a smirk.

The smile under his crimson helmet was short lived. The street cameras had caught the entire fight and silent alerts had already been sent to all nearby units. The Troopers had already flooded either side of the alley in which the dangerous prime stood oblivious to the veritable army waiting to pounce on him. That was when Thor emerged from the gate. Thor looked around. He saw the rising towers of steel and glass. He saw the flying vehicles overhead. For a moment he even thought he might be home, but it did not take him long to dismiss that idea. The level of technology was similar but Valhalla was warm and filled with life. This place was cold and, for all it's movement and noise it felt dead. That was when he saw the to growing bundles of stormtroopers on either side of an alley. More of Omni's men. To many for him to take alone. Not without the power of thunder. Still he needed information. He would fly into the thick of them, take out enough to secure his flight away from the fight would not end with him back on the graveyard beach of his dream, and then he would fly off with one of them and take the answers he needed.

Thor swung his hammer in a circle before launching directly at a group of troopers. They were too closely clumped together to take advantage of their rifles but the tightness of their group made Thor's swings only that much more effective. Swing after swing clones went flying. A well placed upper cut sent one flying down the alley to come to a skidding stop at Red Hood's feet.

[Red-Hood]

Red felt something bump into the back of his boots, " what the hell?" He said looking g down at the stormtrooper that had skided into him. Red looked up to see a large group of more of the white armoured soldiers and suprising only a few were focused on him but were quickly turning their attention to the newcomer. A tall long haired warrior with a huge ass hammer. Red wasn't sure if he was friend or for at this point but he was definetly not a friend of the troopers which was good enough for him. Red quickly judged how far away The man was from the group and determined he was far enough away to not be in the blast radius. Taking a small device off his belt he chunked it in the middle of the clumped group of troopers. After a few seconds a large dazzling light exploded from the canister blinding the group of them. Idiots Red thought to himself with a scoff. With that he pulled both his pistols out moved into range and began firing into the crowd of stormtroopers with a devastating effect.

[Thor]

Left, right, up, right, down. Thor swung his hammer as fast as he could and even though a white soldier fell with each blow he could tell he was getting nowhere fast. If the other group of Omni's troops were able to form up he would be in real trouble. He saw a flash of white light come from the center of the group of troopers on the other side of the alley, the ones he had just been worrying over. Then he heard shots being fired. A few of the troopers fell. He saw someone with a red face come out of the alley with two guns. Captain America had once told him of a man called Red Skull who fit the description. But Red Skull had been after the Tesseract, why would he be helping an Avenger? Did he think Thor might have one of the Tesseracts? He could not worry about that right now. He had too many enemies and too few answers. He continued to swing his hammer.

[Red-Hood]

Red watched ad the muscular warrior fought with such strength he couldn't help but be impressed with his fighting prowess. A few stormtroopers fell to his barrage of bullets but there were still so many of them and they were pressing in on the warrior. Red quickly checked his ammo on the current clips . He had 7 on one and 5 on the other. He fired the last bit into the crown and another two troopers fell dead. Red holstered his guns and pulled out his knife figuring it would be quicker to fight and to hand then to fiddle with reloading. Red ran and slid cutting the hamstrings of one of the troopers and rising to uppercut another. Slashing, punching, kicking he made his way closer to his hopefully new ally to give him some back up and push the waves of troppers off him.
Once in ear shot Red yelled " Hi there I'm Red hood, what's your name?" With a sick laughter after just slashing one of the troopers throats with a rather lucky shot. looking down he noticed he had been shot several times. Mostly in the leg, and arms nothing fatal.... Yet. Looking up he saw a huge billboard. " hey! Think you could knock that down on top of these guys?" He yelled hoping to end this fight.

[Thor]

Thor watched the red faced man switched from his guns to a tiny sword and began to wade toward him like a limber typhoon of violence. Thor brought his hammer down on a stormtrooper. Trooper after trooper fell in rapid succession as the red hood made his way through the crowd of enemies. Thor sent another white clad soldier flying. As long as this masked man continued to fight against Omni's men he would call him ally. When the red hood finally made his way to Thor, he spoke.

"Hi there I'm Red hood, what's your name? Hey! Think you could knock that down on top of these guys?"

Thor looked up at what his new comrade was motioning to. A billboard. Brilliant. Thor smiled. That was a worthy idea.
"I am Thor, son of Odin! And you my friend are a welcome ally!" With that Thor began to swing his hammer around his wrist. The troopers backed off and readied their blasters, sensing the shift in the thunder gods momentum. "By the Hammer of Thor!" Thor launched into the air dodging the scattered shots of his attackers then flying behind the large propaganda billboard. Thor let himself fall at an angle behind the board, bringing his hammer into forceful collision with it's back. The sign cracked and then began to fall. Not the most subtle of tactics, but very effective.

[Red-Hood]

Red Hood was impressed that the huge muscular Thor could take off and fly like he did. Red watched as he struck the billboard's support beams. The billboard began to teeter and finallyit began to fall. Red smiled seeing that his planned worked. This joy was short lived though as he realized that he was standing under the falling billboard.
"Oh shi-" Red yelled as he kicked a stormtrooper away using the momentum to back flip out of the way. A couple of them tried to run after him not realizing the massive object falling rapidly towards them. With a sicking crunch of bone, metal and wood the billboard fell on top of the group of stormtroopers killing most of them on impact. Red Hood couldn't help but be pleased with him self for taking out a whole squadron of troopers, with help of course.
"Great job big guy!" Red yelled up at Thor. Scanning the area for any other threats Red began to reload his guns in case more of the troopers showed up. The alarms were still sounding and starting to give Red a headache. Looking up he saw a cord connected to one of the speakers. Taking a step back and coning at the wall at a sprint Red was able to cut the wire disabling the blaring noise.
"Much better" Red said sheathing the knife.

[Red-Hood]

As Red Hood waited for his new ally to rejoin him on the ground he took a moment to scan the area of this new world. Taking in the sights around him Red couldn't help but marvel at its beauty, this place reminded him alot of his home, Gotham. Although much brighter. A car of some sort zoomed by over his head. The tec here is more advanced here as well... Red thought to himself. This discovery could be a blessing for finding out information about where he was and why, however it will also be a curse as proven by the burn marks left by the stormtroopers strange weaponry. Now that the battle was over and his blood lust and adrenaline were wearing off Red could feel the constant stinging burning pain rippling in the spots wear he had been struck. Man I could really go for some burn ointment right about now. No sooner had Red finished his thought the little orb Omni had given him at the start of this crazy journey appeared and began to glow.

With it anything you desire can be yours.

The strange and powerful voice of Omni rippled in Red's memory about his vauge explanation of the strange device.I wonder... Red thought taking ahold of the orb. Without thinking to hard Red seemed to know what he must do to heal his wounds. He began to concentrate, knowing somehow that this process would take sometime to fully heal. This device was defiently strange, even though he had only seen it for the first time only a few hours ago it felt as if he had always had thw orb with him. As ig it was sone sort of helpful conpainion, always there when he desired sonething most. Red began to concentrate harder on the areas of his wounds willing them to heal.

[Thor]

Thor watched the billboard crash down on the white clad ants below him. The red dot of his ally quickly leaped out of the way. The Red Hood looked up at him. Thor began his descent slowly. He saw his new comrade call forth a orb of light and color. That thing Omni had told him about. His comrade began to focus on it. Waves of color and light washed over the Red Hood as his wounds slowly dissipated. The process seemed to take a lot of focus. That was probably why his friend didn't notice the stormtrooper crawling out from beneath the billboard only three meters away. Thor threw his hammer. Thor began to fall. His hammer hit the trooper in the head with a crunch. Thor slammed down on the billboard fist and feet. That too made a crunching sound. Thor caught his hammer on its return flight. Thor walked over to the trooper that had been about to emerge from beneath the billboard. Dead. Gods be damned! Why did Omni's men have to be so weak? Each one fell to but one blow of his mighty hammer! How was he supposed to get any information if they kept dying before he could question them?
He took off the clone's helmet. They looked like normal enough humans. He stood up turning the helmet around in his hands. Maybe there was a way to extract information from the helmet? He studied it closely, holding it between both of his hands. It began to shimmer. Thor almost dropped it. Then he realized what had just happened. The shimmering had been the same light and color as his friend was using to heal himself. It was made of the stuff. This was Omni's world. Was it all made of this stuff? He looked at the Red Hood only about half way done. He had felt like he was about to brake the helmet when it shimmered. Could he do that to one of Omni's men? Thor shook his head. That seemed a gruesome thought. The falling billboard had probably caught some unwanted attention. No vehicles zipped over their heads. They should leave the area before more enemies arrived. Thor would wait for his friend to finish healing first and then tell him.

[Red-Hood]

With a gasp Red was finished, he felt great. The burning stinging pain of his wounds were gone. "Damm that's cool" Red said laughing a little. Red pocketed the orb and turned around to face Thor his mighty new ally. "Hey, thanks for the help back, there I don't think I would have been able to take them all out like that" Red noticed that Thor was holding one of the troopers helmets. It looked pale as if Thor some how absorbed the color from it by merely touching it. Red was uneasy by this thought, he subconsciously took a step back from the great warrior. "So uh.. Why did you help me out?" Red's natural paranoia was starting to kick in, this paranoia of course kept him alive after he had been reborn. That and the extensive harsh training he had to endure to survive. Red shivered a little at the memory. He was tough but that scsr would never truly fade.

[Thor]

Thor looked at his new comrade. "Those were the soldiers of Omni. I think he has summoned us here to fight for his entertainment." Thor face darkened. Omni had said that the orbs could bring you anything you desire. He had called it Omnilium. "These... things we just fought. They are made of that stuff you just used to heal." If Omnilium could make people that you desire... "I wouldn't use it anymore. If you do you might wake up one day and find that you as well are made of nothing more than Omni's desire for your existence." Then Thor heard the marching of many feet. He dropped the stormtrooper's helmet. "More of Omni's men are coming." Thor took hold of Red Hood's arm. "Do not let go." With that and a twirl of his hammer the launched into the sky. He would find a suitable roof on which to land. That should give them a moment to think.

[Red-Hood]

I wouldn't use it anymore. If you do you might wake up one day and find you as well are made of nothing more than Omni's desire for your existinence

Red thought about that for a moment. He didn't agree with that conclusion of the Omnilium. Omni didnt seem like the enemy. Of course Red didnt know who was the enemy, for all he knew that could be a possibilty. Red couldnt help shake the feeling that Omni was not their foe, maybe not an ally but defiently not a threat to the pair of them. Only time would tell. Red felt Thor wrap his big burly arm around his and lift him in the air. The feeling was amazing, Red could understand why Superman loved this kind of thing. With a soft thud they landed on the rooftop.
"Listen we need to find information out of why we are here, since those Troopers haven't been very forth coming we need to find a computer of sorts, or a library. That or some how get one of those idiots by themselves to question them. Im not sure who our enemy is but running around fighting the armoured fools for hours. Its counter productive" Red said crossing his arms

[Thor]

As Thor flew through the air, higher and higher looking for a suitable roof on which to land, some of his own words range in his ears.

I think he has summoned us here to fight for his entertainment.

It rang of truth and yet he could not shake the feeling that he was forgetting something. His mind wandered to a story his father used to tell him when he was a child. Valhalla. Resting place of those who die well. For those who die in a blaze of glory the battle is never over. They could fight to their heart's content and when an enemy finally slue them they would return to fight again. Thor tried to think what the last thing he could remember before being pulled to this place by Omni. Had he slain the Dark Elf king or had he died trying? He was no longer sure. Perhaps he had died in that fight. It all made sense. Here anything he desired could be his with the simple want of his thought, and he had already experienced death and rebirth here. This was Valhalla! This was his reward! He would enjoy it. Thor noticed that his new comrade had begun to speak.

...coming we need to find a computer of sorts, or a library. That or some how get one of those idiots by themselves to question them. I'm not sure who our enemy is but running around fighting the armored fools for hours is counter productive.

Thor shook his head. Now that he new what this place was it made this all much easier. He looked at the Red Hood and smiled. "If that is your plan, then lead on warrior of the red helm. I will aid you in your search."

[Red-Hood]

Red Hood stared at warrior for a minute. He studyed him. Judging from his body lauguage Thor must have come to some strange conclusion because now suddenly he seemed happy about being in this world. What a strange guy.. Red thought to himself. With a shake of his head Red walked over to the side of the building. Red would worry about Thor's new revelation later. Scaning the area he began to look for signs of a building wherr they could find more information. This seemed like an impossible task. All the buildings looked the sane to him with. Except for the occasional random symbols Red took for this world's language. Lot of good that is Red thought with a frown. Red couldn't help but chuckle at that. Even though no one could see his face he still naturally emoted. Good to know some part of me is still human... Spacing out Red looked straight down off the two story building they were perched on. With a start Red watched as several people walked in with books in hand and several more walked out with books. The tech of this world was more advanced then could have imagined because just then a dark haired teenager walked out with some sort of PDA like device in his hand but from here Red good vaugely tell it wasn't a PDA but much more than that. With a laugh Red spun around excited.
"Thor! We are on top of the library! Man that was lucky" Third still had that goofy grin on his face from when they first landed on the library. Red shook his head the warrior. Maybe he took a bump on the head in that last fight.
"We should go around back and see if there is a back door. Not a good idea to waltz in through the front door" Red walked to the edge if the side of the building and saw a more futuristic looking stair system like they would have in Gotham.
"Race ya!" Red yelled as he leaped off the edge catching himself on one of the railings and began descending to the ground.

[Thor]

Thor grinned and walked to the edge of the building. He watched his knew ally leap and skidded down the side of the skyscraper. He would give the Red Hood a head start, he would need it. Thor counted to five. "Let the game begin!" Thor shouted then jumped. He began to fall. He picked up speed rather quickly and was soon barreling at top speed toward his red faced comrade. "MY WAY IS FASTER!" He yelled against the howling wind of his own momentum. He looked down. The buildings of this land were so incredibly tall. This one was easily the better part of a hundred stories tall and it was one of the shorter ones. He let himself fall halfway down the building before beginning to swing his hammer in a circle. He was 4/5s of the way to the ground when he let his hammer drag him up into the air before dropping the rest of the way down. He looked up at his comrade. "You alright up there, Red?"

[Red-Hood]

Red pivoted off the side building landing lightly on the ground next to Thor. "Yea , yea, yea. You cheated." Red looked around the alley they stood in and found a door into the building. Red walked over to the door and tried the door to the library. Locked of course which wasn't surprising to Red. Looking both ways down the alley Red walked to the side of he door. Bringing his foot up with a forceful kick Red broke the door knob off. Red pushed the door open and looked in. "Come on" he said beckoning Thor into the library.

[Thor]

Thor watched his lithe friend glide down the alley wall and check the door. He found it was locked. Thor waited for him to pull out some device or magic or maybe some kind of martial arts move. He had seen one of his friends in Asgard pop a door just by hitting the handle with the palm of his hand. That had made the door swing open silently with what he had called a quivering palm. But Red Hood just kicked the door open then beckoned Thor to follow.
"I could have done that." Thor shook his head, then followed.

[Red-Hood]

Once inside they found themselves in what appeared to be a janitors office. Given the mops and other cleaning supplies piled to one side of the room. Red walked to the other side of the room where another door was. This time the lock was simply a dead bolt. Turning the deadbolt Red walked out into the library. Red couldnt believe the size of this library. Rows apon rows of books strechingas far as the eye could see.And I though Brucie had a huge library, thinking of his youth with Bruce Wayne made his heart ache. He had always been such a nice person to him. A replacement father when his parents were murdered. Red shook the feeling of nostalgia from his mind, he didn't have time to be all sentimental. Doing a quick scan of the room Red didn't see any troopers hanging around the library much to his relief. In the center of the room was several computers, none like he had never seen but could be distunguishable as such. "These are more hi-tech than the Bat-computer that's for sure. Thor keep an eye out will ya? I'm going to try and see what I can find out." Red sat down at the computer and pulled up the history of Corouscant learning ad much as he could about the place.


After what seemed like a long period of time Red discovered as much as he could with out having to hack into the Empire's database. Apparently they were on Tier 1 of a 7 tier city. Tier 1 was home of Emperor Palpetine the leader of the Stormtroopers. Makes sense why there are so many of them up here Red thought to himself. Reading more the Stormtroopers were essentially the police force of the verses or rather self proclaimed from his reading and commentary that others had written about the Empire. Red deduced that much like the GPD back home the Empire was corrupted but the only difference being they were openly so. And no one was challenging the Emperor's tyrannical rule. At least not on this verse. Another governing entity know only as the Kingdom opposed the Empire on numerous occasions. Just when Red was going to dive down the rabbit whole that was the kingdom a wanted poster popped up on the screen. The wanted picture depicted a very nice shot of Thor and himself. Looking around it was clear this same pop up had appeared on the other screens around him. Guess our exploits at the gate weren't unnoticed . Just then a squadron entered through the front doors.
"Shit! Thor get down" Red said jumping from his chair and pulling his ally to a kneeling position. Which wasn't an easy task given the large stature of the muscular warrior.

[Gwendolyn]

Koal looked at his master with a cross expression. "I didn't know you were here. And I have things to do, Master." He turned and began to walk to another building's entrance, "I'm not your puppet." He walked through the sliding doors of the massive building, a slight hiss of air signaling their opening.

The young man turned to his stormtrooper escort, sticking his hand out to the commander. "Thank you very much for your assistance, Commander Wolfe, I believe I can find what I need here." He told the trooper with a small grin.

"You're very welcome sir, keep your nose clean and enjoy your stay here in the empire." The voice cut off with a short burst of static. He ordered his troops into a phalanx-like formation and the men began to march out of the library, their footsteps synchronized perfectly. Koal let out a pensive breath as he inspected the massive structure, his violet gaze scanning every alcove and computer terminal. His eyes caught sight of a bright red blotch jutting out from behind a desk on the second level of the building. Looking around, Koal bunched up the muscles in his legs and launched himself towards the ledge.

He snuck up behind the pair, one of which was a hulking warrior, the other a red-hooded man. He stuck his head right next to both of their ears and whispered, "What are we hiding from?" Koal's teeth were visible as he said this, his eyes sparkling mischievously.

[Red-Hood]

Red Hood jumped visably at the voice that had appeared behind him. Turning he saw a young black haired teenager grining at him. "Where the hell did you come from?! Better yet who are you!" Red said in a harsh wisper. Whoever this kid was he was very unerving. Red prided himself on bot being snuck up on. Especially by a child. Quickly looking over the desk Red could see the storm troopers pulling out some device that displayed Thor's and his pictures. Shit this not good.. Red thought to himself. How could he be so stupid to walk in here with out finding sone sort of disguise? This impulsive nature is what Batman often scolded him and ultimately led to his death. Red snapped out of his brooding state. He must focus on the trouble at hand first.