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Mist's Jump Part 27
🕑 Added 2017-11-09 08:44:35 +0000 UTCIt hadn’t taken all that long wandering Diagon Alley before Pandora realized that this version of the world was even more screwed up than the world they’d started in. Voldemort had ‘won’ or at least been allowed to win which had basically gutted the so called ‘lightside’ outside of Hogwarts. She wasn’t sure what the real story was just from reading random people’s thoughts but the fact that there were dozens of muggles and even muggle borns being walked around on leashes as pets didn’t help her opinion of this particular version of the world.
A man in dark official looking robes snapped, “You’re dressed like a filthy muggle, where are your papers?”
Pandora mentally cursed herself for dropping her invisibility so she could wander without worrying about people walking into her. She took a quick look through the man’s mind with her telepathy and winced as she realized just how twisted the Ministry had grown under Voldemort, everyone needed papers to prove they were pure enough, if you didn’t have them or you pissed off the wrong people, you could be sold into slavery to a ‘proper’ pureblood. “Ah, papers.” She pulled the latest security arrangements and codes for his branch of the Ministry from his mind then hit him with a wandless imperio. “Stand there, don’t scream.” She pulled her generous donation glove out of her inventory then handed it to the man. “Put this on then give me all of your magic.”
He reached out and grabbed her arm then started giving her his magic.
She knew it wasn’t as effective as him willingly giving her his magic but she didn’t have time to break him or trick him out of his magic. ‘I’m going to need more than twenty minutes if I want to rescue all of the slaves.’ She pulled her phone out and called her father as she waited for the man to finish giving her all of his magic.
Mist answered on before the second ring, “What’s wrong?”
“This world is worse than I was expecting, Voldemort won or Dumblemort let him win. They turned the muggleborns and some muggles into slaves that they walk around on leashes. It’s going to take more than twenty minutes to rescue everyone.”
“Do what you can, I’ll tell Sin when she gets back with Ron. Do you need me to send an avatar to help?”
The enforcer said, “I’m done.”
“I wouldn’t object,” Pandora answered as she dark whispered her glove back to her hand. She gestured and dark whispered the man into the River Styx.” She ended the call then sent her Dad a picture of the street.
Mist looked at the image then closed his phone and put it back in his pocket. “Sorry about that, Pandora needs a hand.” He created an avatar which promptly turned invisible then orbed to the alley.
Luna said, “It’s always good to help friends.”
Ginny nodded.
Mist turned his head slightly so that he was looking directly at Luna. “That reminds me, we really should rescue your grandmother once we get back.”
“I’m sure she would appreciate it,” Luna agreed cheerfully.
“Free her from where?” Ginny asked in surprise.
“Under the Ministry of course,” Mist pointed out as he refilled Ginny’s tea cup. He had a sinking feeling that Sin was taking her sweet time just to make him squirm.
0o0o0
“Come in.” Albus smiled as McGonagall walked into ‘his’ office. “Something I can do for you Minerva?”
McGonagall walked in then glanced around the room, it looked the same as it always did but there was a sense that something was different even if she couldn’t put her finger on it. “Have you hired a replacement for Quirrell and Snape yet?”
He nodded slightly. “As well as Filch, Binns and Ms. Pince.”
McGonagall blinked. “Binns left?”
“Alas, I wanted to update our educational standards a bit considering the horde of new students we’re receiving, I explained that his lectures might be more interesting if they weren’t quite so focused on goblins when there were plenty of other subjects to cover, he stormed off in a huff.” Albus felt a touch guilty for hitting the history teacher in the back with an exorcism spell but he’d had to put up with the man’s lectures for five years and he’d rather not have to put up with it this time around.
“What actually happened to Filch?”
“Filch had an unfortunate accident with his manacles and fell down the stairs.” He didn’t feel particularly guilty over making sure that piece of shit never hurt anyone again though he managed to look concerned about the man’s death thanks to years of having to put up with Fudge and various other politicians.
“Pince?” She’d gotten a letter about the librarian taking a job elsewhere without any real details or way to contact her short of sending an owl to America.
“I received the same letter, she decided to pursue other opportunities.” He suspected the truth had more to due with Mist breaking the various spells on her. He doubted she remembered enough to cause a problem for the school or even his alternate but she remembered enough that she didn’t want to run the library anymore or even be anywhere near Brittain. While he hated that his alternate had screwed things up as badly as he had, he couldn’t honestly say he was sorry to see her go considering she didn’t like dealing with people or children and that was a large part of her job.
“How long do you think you’ll manage to keep your Defense teacher this time?”
“Considering I found the object Tom anchored his curse to, I suspect that she’ll last the entire year at the very least.”
McGonagall smiled in delight. “Finally, maybe we’ll actually be able to keep a teacher for more than a year. Now can you explain why the student list is the largest we’ve had in hundreds of years?”
Albus smiled faintly as he thought about all of the half blood and muggleborn students that Pandora and Mist had recruited from other worlds. “Of course, as you know, I have a fair number of contacts around the world, what you might not know is that my list of contacts extends to aliens from outer space.” He hid his smile at her raised eyebrows. “He’s a nice chap really, a bit of a mad scientist but not a bad sort. He was running some questionable cloning and mildly illegal experiments to try to save his race when a friend of his warned him that his government was getting suspicious so he had to get rid of them before the authorities found out about his experiments. Being that he’s not a monster and was cloning witches and wizards, he asked if I could take them off his hands.”
“Hmm, I can see where that would be a bit of a tight spot.” McGonagall resisted the urge to snort as she ‘connected’ the dots and realized that Severus had probably been cloning people and monsters before something had killed him. ‘Fine, don’t tell me.’ She frowned slightly as she thought about the logistics of trying to educate that many students regardless of where they came from. “We’re going to have to hire more teachers if you want us to handle the sheer volume.”
Albus blinked as McGonagall failed to call him on his bullshit. ‘I should get someone to check how much that bastard cursed her if that sounded at all reasonable.’ He let himself smile. “Don’t worry, I’ve hired additional teachers to cover the core classes as well as a writing instructor that will be working with the students on how to write reports and other such tasks.”
She stared at him. “You hired more people?”
“I might be a little crazy in my old age but I’m not daft enough to expect us to handle a thousand additional students without extra teachers.”
“A thousand?” McGonagall asked in disbelief.
“At least, I’m still waiting on a final count.” He had to resist the urge to smile at the look of disbelief on her face. “Of course, we’ll be reopening the old dorms and expanding things a touch. I’ll even be teaching a couple alchemy classes this coming year if time permits and I expect it will.”
“How am I supposed to organize classes for that many students?” She asked in disbelief.
Albus smiled as he handed her the rather thick folder that Umy had printed out. “I had a friend run the numbers and come up with class schedules. That reminds me, I need to talk to Rolanda about organizing junior teams for each of the houses considering the sheer number of new students we’ll have.”
“If you’ll excuse me, I need to read this.” McGonagall turned and left the room before Albus said anything else that threatened to cause her more stress.
Albus waited for the door to close then looked over at Fawkes who was sitting on the windowsill. “Was it something I said?”
Fawkes snorted. “You enjoyed that far too much.”
“I’ll admit I was hoping for more of a reaction to my alien story.”
“She probably just assumed that you or Severus were cloning people or that one of your friends needed to get rid of some evidence.”
Albus frowned slightly as he thought about the cloning chamber his alternate had created that Mist had mentioned. “I wouldn’t put it past this Severus if he thought it would help advance his studies or increase the cash in his accounts. Either way, I want her a bit distracted when we spin a story about discovering a potion of youth using Flamel’s stone.”
“Give her a few hours to read through the list of names and she’ll probably be distracted enough to believe you.”
“Sadly.” Albus was hoping that she’d return to something approaching normal without his alternate their to keep cursing her.
0o0o0
Mist yawned as he collapsed on the bed in his new dorm, “I wish someone had talked McGonagall into letting people get sorted a couple of days early.”
George Weasley looked over at his dorm mate, “There aren’t normally this many students, at least she let everyone start eating before she started sorting people.”
“Ron would have killed someone if they hadn’t,” Fred replied.
“I don’t know, he seemed a little off the last couple of days.”
“You mean like actually being on time, polite and chewing with his mouth closed?” Fred asked sarcastically.
“Yeah, that,” George agreed.
“Eh, maybe he listened to our shape up or else speech?” Fred asked hopefully.
“In other words, give it a couple of days and he’ll be back to his usual self?”
“Probably.”
“What was with the mirror that everyone walked past?” Lee Jordan asked.
“I heard it was some type of security feature,” Albus suggested as he sorted through his trunk.
Fred shook his head. “I don’t know, I reckon it’s a prank.”
“How do you figure?” Leo asked.
George said, “I’m with Albus on this one.”
“How would showing everyone as hot girls be a security feature?” Jack asked with a touch of amusement as he knew exactly why Sin had talked Albus into placing the mirror at the entrance then moving it so the first years would also walk past it.
“If it’s charmed to reveal a female version of a person’s true form then you could catch someone using polyjuice.”
“I have to agree with Fred, I think he’s just pranking us.” Mist was going to have to congratulate Sin on her plan to get a nymph copy of the entire school for use with the Fantastic Beasts world and cloning potions.
Lee asked, “What about the hot new teachers?”
Fred said, “Disturbing is what it is, I didn’t even recognize McGonagall until I heard her talk, she looks like she’s twenty.”
“She’s hot which is all sorts of creepy,” George agreed.
“It could be worse, they could be ugly.” Jack was looking forward to having a nice quiet year and learning everything he could.
Leo shook his head. “Let’s just hope they’re decent teachers.”
Fred said, “I’m just glad they replaced Binns and Snape.”
Mist tuned the discussion out as he tried to drift. While he didn’t have to sleep, zoning out now and then was relaxing and kept him from going too crazy or at least that was the idea. We was fairly sure that willingly attending school as a thirteen year old counted as insane but at least if he got too bored he could always leave an avatar in his place and go help Sin straighten out the ministry using the Garden of the Mind room in his warehouse or just replacing them with an avatar if they were particularly nasty. He had a feeling they were going to have a rather full year learning everything they could and tracking down specialists to copy skills from.
0o0o0
Tonks winced slightly as a green splotch of paint appeared on Ginny’s naked behind causing the eleven year old to shriek then turn around and unload half a clip into Lily who had been sneaking up on Ginny before the paint portkey activated and teleported Ginny and Lily back to base. She asked in a whisper, “Has anyone every told you that you’re a bitch?”
Sin lined up another shot and fired at Zoe only for the paintball to hit a shield and slide off the shield leaving no evidence of Sin’s shot. “Cheating little bitch.”
Tonks snorted. “Like you have any room to talk, you’re using magic to hide.”
“Technically, you’re the one that cast a disillusionment spell which is totally legal as you’re not part of the game.”
“Legal and totally unethical.”
“I’m a demon girl, what are these ethics you speak of?” Sin asked with amusement as she lined up another shot and shot Ruby on her hip.
Tonks shook her head when ‘Ruby’ vanished which caused the paint splatter to drop to the ground. “I still can’t believe you talked me into helping you cheat a bunch of children in a friendly game.”
“You’re the one that suggested sex when I asked what you wanted for your help.” Sin shrieked as a paint grenade appeared in her lap with a shower of dark orbs a second before it exploded covering her with purple paint. “Cheater, I shot you!”
Ruby called out from behind a tree, “Avatars for the win!”
Tonks laughed as the paint portkey activated and took her and Sin back to the picnic area. She smiled as she glanced around at the naked paint covered teenagers. It was times like this that she was glad that Sin had talked her out of joining the ministry, especially since Sin’s group paid a hell of a lot better. Sure, most of the group were a little insane but they were insane in a fun way and honestly, she’d had fun hanging out with people that thought nothing of exploring alternate realities on weekends where events had gone drastically differently than her world. “Are you looking forward to leaving?”
Sin glanced around at the private campgrounds they’d rented for the week at the various paint covered girls they’d collected from the local multiverse. While she was planning on taking most of them with her in expanded chests like the minions, some of them wanted to stay which meant that they’d lose people until the end of the chain whenever that happened. “I had fun seducing a decent number of Gryffindor girls at school and most of the campers but yeah, I’m sort of ready to do something else for a while. I don’t get me wrong, it was fun but I lost count the number of times we killed Voldemort and toppled the Ministry. After the first couple of times, it gets to be old hat, sneak in looking like one of the employees, check to see if any of them are decent people, kill the monsters, make a temporary clone of the ones that aren’t monsters, kill the clones then use avatars to take their place while putting them to sleep with dreamless sleep potions.”
“You make it sound almost boring.”
Sin shrugged. “Eh, most of the Ministries in this section of the multiverse are run by idiots which takes some of the fun out of it.”
“Any idea where we’re going next?”
“Nope, I’m just hoping for somewhere with hot girls and no responsibilities.”
“And no teachers that give you detention for trying to seduce them?” Lily asked as she walked over.
Sin mock pouted. “Oh please, I had McGonagall screaming my name in pleasure on her desk then she turns around and gives me a detention for being out after curfew.”
Lily snorted. “Which you served with her the next day and did what?”
“Fucked her some more,” Sin replied with a smirk.
Tooks shook her head. “I’m just surprised that you managed to get her to unwind that much.”
“To be fair, it was right after the Quidditch cup finals and we’d crushed Ravenclaw almost 800 to 0 so she might have been a bit wound up,” Sin admitted.
Puck snickered as she walked over with her sister. “That was the best game of the season.”
Hermione shook her head. “Considering how many ringers we had for the Gryffindor team and alternates, it was pretty much a mercy killing when Harry grabbed the snitch.”
Tonks shook her head. “At least you didn’t crush Hufflepuff that badly.”
Lily said, “Considering the number of people we recruited that ended up in Hufflepuff, they had a decent team.”
Hermione smiled as she listened to her ‘sister’ chatter about the Quidditch season and how she was looking forward to traveling with them on their adventures. It was a bit strange how much of a fan her sister was considering she was her or should have been if they hadn’t changed things. She absently wondered where her life would have gone if she hadn’t started jumping with Mist, ‘Probably stuck at the ministry in a dead end job trying to ‘change’ the system from within, fuck that.’
0o0o0
Mist smiled at Genie as he found himself back in the blackstone room. “It’s good to see you.”
“Did you have fun playing whack a mole with a bunch of evil bastards?” Genie asked with amusement as she walked over and pulled him into a hug.
Mist returned the hug. “More than I should have. I’m fairly sure that Grindelwald was just trolling me at the end with clones or something because we killed way more than thirteen clones just in the starting world.”
Genie snickered as she let go of Mist. “Everyone needs to blow off steam now and then. Any idea where you’re going next?”
Mist stretched his arms over his head. “Young Justice, not because I particularly want to deal with the dysfunctional group of idiots but I have a couple of powers I wouldn’t mind being able to turn on and off or at least down with toggle.”
“I can see where that would be helpful,” Genie agreed as she brought the Young Justice jump up on the wall. “Before you get sidetracked making a build, you paid for Puck and Tonks do you want to import Ginny, Sirius and Remus?”
“Sirius and Remus are fun and Sin would cry if I didn’t import Ginny so sure, we might as well.”
“The twins?” Genie asked in amusement.
“Considering they’re potion prodigies and I already have a metric fuckton of people, sure, as long as I have the points.”
“You got the max points because of the amusing whack a mole game with Dumblemort so you’re fine.”
Mist said, “At least we left the world a better place than we found it.”
“Define better,” Genie replied teasingly.
Mist frowned slightly. “We cleaned up the ministry, fixed Hogwarts and dealt with Dumblemort, isn’t that a good thing?”
“Sure, the fact that the girls handed out almost fifty thousand dryad potions to the women they recruited from other worlds? Not so much.”
“Fifty thousand?” Mist sputtered. He’d known the girls were having fun creating dryads but he hadn’t realized they’d created that many. “I knew the girls copied the Cauldron of Plenty a couple of times and had avatars duplicating potions but I hadn’t realized they’d gone overboard to that extent.”
“It’s rather easy to go overboard when you’re not paying attention. I don’t think the girls kept notes of who was duplicating what so when the Dryads asked everyone to duplicate a couple of potions here or there, no one really thought twice about it.”
Mist shivered slightly as he thought about much energy fifty thousand dryad trees would be pumping into the Faerie Queen. “I’m suddenly glad that we’re not staying on that world, even ignoring the initial fifty thousand dryads that aren’t tech banes, they’re still pouring energy into the queen right?”
“On that world, yeah. The potions should be safe enough to spread around in other worlds without boosting the PKH queen or causing the tech bane plague.”
“If the queen wasn’t lying in the story, she gets enough energy from a dryad living 100 years to make another potion or from 100 dryads living a year so yeah, that’s 500 potions the first year that she could make and still break even.”
Genie snickered. “Which means she could create 50,000 tech bane dryads the first year using the cauldrons.”
“And every year she’d get more energy coming in so she can make more and more each year, combine that with the prison world which gives them a safe place to leave a tree and yeah this world is fucked,” Mist admitted.
Genie shrugged. “Either that or the queen takes a few years to soak in the energy she’s getting from the dryads so that she can work on regrowing forests and putting the planet back together.”
“I guess it’s possible.” Mist made a mental note to send a message to the queen about options that didn’t include reducing the world back to the dark ages when he went back there. “Either way, it’s a worry for another day.” He walked over to look at the Young Justice jump.
“That’s one of the nice things about everything being frozen in time when you leave, you have time to figure out how to fix things. Who are you bringing with you?”
Mist sighed as he thought about his list of companions. “No idea, I have a vague idea what I need and what I’m going to have to farm out. I want to pick up Drain No and Toggle, I also want to grab the various notes so I can create technology that duplicates powers as well as the perk that keeps people from duplicating my tech. I’d rather not accidentally destroy the multiverse because I gave replicators access to a breach controller or something.”
Genie winced. “That would be annoying and problematic.”
“Exactly. Once I have a better idea what I want to farm out, I’ll have a better idea who to bring.”
“Sounds good.”
0o0o0
Mist
Background: Superhuman [100]
Race: Human
Location: Gotham
Age: 18
Perks:
Knows His Own Strength: [Free] Even if you have the strength to bench-press mountains,
you’ll never be too strong to safely beat up the bad guys without killing them.
Powers: 300 Stipend
Drain No: [200] Drain No makes it’s user immune to any attempts to steal, weaken, suppress, or remove their powers, including any internal power sources such as mana, soul(s), or chi.
Toggle: [100] Toggle allows it’s user to forgo learning to control their powers by simply allowing them to turn their powers off when they aren’t needed. This can be done per power, so there isn’t a need to go without the ability to teleport because you don’t want to use your super strength. Also works on out of Jump powers, magic, and perks. You can think of this like a “dial”. It can be on, or full power, as well as off, or no power, and anywhere in between those two states. Toggle can’t be used against your will to depower you or prevent you from using your abilities; toggling a power on or off is a decision that you make, not whoever is controlling you.
Aerokinesis: [100] Aerokinesis allows the user to create and manipulate the air, allowing
them to push and pull objects and enemies with air currents and create certain
weather phenomena, such as twisters or tornadoes. Skilled users can use this
ability to fly.
Items:
Cadmus Cloning Projects: [300] These are outlines of the cloning and other related projects Cadmus has undertaken, including the creation of the Genomorphs, implanting memories/programming, and the creation of Human-Kryptonian Hybrids, as well as the blueprints for the special machinery used. You can apply the same principles to create hybrids of your own.
Professor T.O. Morrow’s Notes: [400] These notes detail the creation of the “Red” series of androids, including Red Torpedo, Red Inferno, Red Tornado, and Red Volcano, as well as designs for androids that resemble actual people.
Starro-tech Notes: [600] These notes detail the research Professor Ivo, Brain, and Klarion
the Witch Boy took in order to create Starro-tech; a combination of technology,
magic, and an ancient alien organism. With time, and some studies of your own,
you may be able to apply the principles of Starro-tech to your creations as well,
creating technology and creatures that have features of living beings, magic, and
technology.
Amazo’s Backup Memory: [800] This memory stick contains the encrypted memories of
the android Amazo, and more importantly, contains the information on how the
android replicated the abilities of the Justice League. After breaking the encryption
you will have all the information you need to incorporate superhuman abilities you
possess into your technology, creating machines that speak to each other with
telepathy, process information with super speed, lift great weights with actual super
strength and more.
Companions: [400] 8 companions, 800 points each.
Drawbacks:
Blinded by the Light: [+300] The Light have identified you as a major threat to their plans, and will spend a significant amount of time trying to find a way to kill you or otherwise dispose of you.
Bounty: [+300] You’ve got a massive bounty on your head that will only go up; at first, you’ll only attract Earth assassins and mercenaries, but over time the value of your bounty will grow to the point you attract opportunists from other worlds, possibly including The Main Man himself.
Just a Sidekick: [+100] You have the unfortunate tendency to be dismissed by your peers. No matter how hard or well you work, you’ll always be passed by for others who may even be less qualified than you. If you somehow manage to wind up as part of or the head of a large organization, you will still be dismissed and not shown any respect.
Apokolips Now: [+1,000] After your first day in this Jump is completed, the skies all over the world will open up with massive Boom Tubes, spilling forth thousands of Parademons by the hour that will begin killing indiscriminately and without regard for their own lives. The incursion can be stopped be killing Darkseid once, permanently trapping/killing him, permanently cutting off Earth from Apokolips, or somehow destroying Apokolips itself. If you somehow survive ten years without fulfilling any of those conditions, or if humanity is made extinct, you will be sent home as if you had died. Darkseid is assumed to be at normal power and strength in comparison to his appearance in the comics.
Genie looked over Mist’s choices with a touch of amusement. “I see you’re going for the mad scientist route with the notes, Riley will be happy.”
Mist shrugged. “I just spent a year mastering playing with magic. I’m fine with someone else picking up the mystic background this time. Besides the jumper is the only one that can buy the research notes.”
“Do you have a plan for killing Darkseid?” Genie asked warily.
“I have a couple of plans, I’m just hoping the first one works because I really don’t like B through D.”
“You have a B through D already?”
“Sure, plan B is boosting Clark with my ability to permanently boost people then boosting him with my mutant ability then making tech to boost his powers then having him blast Darkseid. Plan C is using a bomb to wipe out most of Apocalypse and eradiate it with the radiation that kills or at least horrifically weakens New Gods. Plan D involves going back in time and killing Darkseid when he was an infant.”
Genie raised her eyebrows. “Yeah, let’s hope your first plan works then.”
“Yeah.”
“Have you figured out who you want to come with you?”
“Not particularly, I need at least one vigilante, a martian, a kryptonian hybrid, a couple of magic users and at least one drop in. A couple of superhumans wouldn’t go amiss either. I wouldn’t mind importing Ginny and Puck to give them a bit more real world experience but other than that, I’m not sure.”
“Let’s start with that, write up the builds while I try to track down a world where Darkseid is going to attack early.” Genie closed her eyes and started searching through the various Young Justice worlds for a world that matched what she needed.
“Sounds good.” Mist turned his attention back to the screen and started working on builds for the people he was importing.
0o0o0
Abby/Selena
Background: Superhuman
Race: Human
Age: 17
Perks:
Knows His Own Strength: [Free]
Abby’s Powers:
Chlorokinesis: [150] Chlorokinesis allows the user to control and greatly accelerate the growth of plants on the molecular level with their mind. This can be used to create hybridized plants as well as plant like minions and creatures.
Electrokinesis: [150] Electrokinesis allows the user to manipulate existing sources of electricity, such as power plants or storm clouds, as well as create a small amount of electricity themselves. This can be used to fry most electronics, as well as your enemies.
Selena’s Powers:
Grow: [300] Grow allows the user to change their shape dramatically, growing from their normal size to anywhere between, and including, 300 feet in height, or adding three hundred feet to their total height if they’re already as large or larger than 300 feet.
Pandora:
Drop In:
Race: Human
Age: 17
Genius Intellect: [300] Despite your apparent age, you possess one of the greatest minds that the world has ever seen . You’re ability to come up with ideas and invent is nearly unparalleled, and actually building your inventions is child’s play. What’s more, your inventions have a lot more room in terms of following conventional physics; you can create things like teleportation devices, collars that nullify superpowers, and more.
Removed From Context: [300] Being from outside of this world makes it much harder for others to predict what you’re doing or planning at any given time, making you harder to counter in a fight as well as harder to plan against. In addition, it’s impossible to replicate your powers and technology that aren’t native to whatever world you’re in. If you willingly choose to share or give your technology, than it may be replicated.
Sonic Scream: [200] Sonic Scream allows the user to emit a wave of sonic energy from their vocal chords capable of damaging steel. In addition, this power grants expert voice control in order to control this power, making the user capable of vocal tricks like throwing their voice. Also gives the user a great singing voice.
Xander
Background: Mystic [100] You’re a trained magic user.
Race: Atlantean [200] You’re from Atlantis and can breathe underwater.
Age: 18
Thrifty Thaumaturge: [200] Sometimes, you need to take shortcuts when performing magic. Luckily for you, you’ve turned what other magic users might call laziness into an art form. You can substitute similar regents for each other when performing rituals, casting spells, or when creating magical items. Recipe calls for bottled chi? How about some mana instead? Need soul gems? I’m sure you’ll find these diamonds will suffice. Need the blood of a dragon? I’m sure that lizard’s will do. This can’t be used to substitute ingredients that are integral to what you’re trying to do; for example, if you were trying to make a potion to copy someone’s appearance, and said potion required their hair or DNA or whatever, you’d still need to have that for the potion to work, and if a ritual calls for a specific item you’ll still need to have it.
Basic Magic: [Free] You’ve got basic knowledge of magic, and can perform minor spells, such as changing the colors of objects, weakening objects, and summoning small objects or animals.
Cantrip Master: [100] Your mastery of magic has made you very flexible and versatile in the mystic arts, and you can now modify and alter the basic spells in your repertoire. This allows you to do things like changing how a spell is delivered; for example, turning a projectile spell into a spell delivered with a touch. In addition, you can choose where your spells will appear from, so long as it’s within ten meters of yourself, as well as what direction they will go. If you choose to make a spell have an area of effect or a burst effect, it will only be able to affect an area of ten meters in any direction. In addition, if a spell is actually described as simple or as a cantrip in setting, but still has some sort of limit or cost on using it, your mastery of cantrips has made it so you can cast those spells for free.
Advanced Magic: [200] Your magical potential increases greatly, giving you much more magical power and a greater capability for casting powerful magic. You are now capable of much greater magical heights; and are at least on par with Zatanna.
Atlantean Sorcery: [Free] You’re experienced with Atlantean sorcery, allowing you to manipulate water, using it to blast your foes, create waves, and shield yourself. You can also create solid constructs with your water, as well as generate electricity from your body. Advanced practitioners can do even more, such as shooting and creating ice.
Sin:
Background: Drop In
Race: Human
Age: 13
Gum Up The Works: [200] If you’re going to mess with someone else’s plan, you’ve got to do it right. You now have a sixth sense for exactly what you need to do to wreck the plans of others, as well as what the consequences of doing that will be.
Incomprehensible: [300] Incomprehensible removes and makes the user immune to any unwanted mental illnesses or mental control, and gives the user nearly limitless mental storage. In addition, those who unwantedly attack or attempt to read the user’s mind with their own mental powers are in for a nasty shock as the user’s mind lashes out, transferring any damage back to the user’s attacker or allowing the user to browse their would-be mind reader’s memories instead.
Item:
Space Hog: [300] This motorbike-esque vehicle is capable of extremely fast travel through space, and somehow allows its rider to breathe and speak in space despite an apparent lack of anything that would allow that. Has a dolphin decal on the side for some reason.
Puck Granger
Background: Vigilante:
Race: Human:
Age: 16
Peak Condition: [Free] A combination of good genetics and your active, hectic lifestyle means that your body is always at the peak of what’s possible for a human. This doesn’t grant extra intelligence, but it does increase your brain’s processing power and grants great memory recall, as well as sharper senses.
Grandmaster of Combat: [200] You’ve mastered nearly every melee and ranged weapon known to man, and you can keep up with skilled fighters like Batman and Deathstroke and with even more time and training to hone yourself, you may even surpass them. You also learn fighting techniques quicker, especially when taught by a skilled teacher.
Items:
Expertly Crafted Weapon: [Free] Shock Gloves
Bulletproof Cape: [Free] Your costume’s cape, if you choose to have one, is now bulletproof and as durable as steel, though no less flexible. In addition, it’s designed in a way that makes it easy for its wearer to tear away if it would hinder them.
Utility Belt: [Free] This utility belt contains several gadgets and non-lethal weapons, including smoke bombs, stun grenades, several Tasers, several tracking devices, and several rebreathers. Also comes with a grappling hook.
Inertia Belt: [200] This belt gives the user the ability to create “bubbles” of kinetic energy that absorb kinetic energy, making the bubble stronger as it’s struck physically. It requires concentration to maintain, and will disappear if its user is distracted or attacked.
Reach Scarab: [400] You have a Reach Scarab attached to your spine. It’s special in several ways; for one, it is permanently “off mode”, meaning the Reach cannot take control of the Scarab- and therefore you- in any way. Second, it can be removed from your spine without killing you. Finally, despite being sentient the Scarab does not take up a companion slot as long as it remains in Scarab form. The Scarab grants its host several superhuman abilities: It is capable of constructing objects and shifting shape with nanotechnology, has highly advanced scanners capable of scanning for life forms through buildings and detecting when others are lying, translating seemingly any language, projecting holographic images, extreme durability, flight, and sonic and plasma weaponry.
Hermione Granger:
Background: Mystic [100]
Race: Human
Age: 16
Basic Magic: [Free]
Acrobat: [100] You could give Dick Grayson a run for his money in the acrobatics department. You are capable of complicated acrobatic maneuvers and parkour.
Sorcerer Savant: [150] Your understanding of the mechanisms involved in casting spells now let you copy the techniques of other magical users, so long as you have the capability to cast the type of magic that they’re using. This effectively allows you to learn a spell after seeing someone else cast it, though you’ll still need to master it to cast it reliably.
Waring Warlock: [150] Your magical techniques are enhanced when used against another practitioner of magic, turning every fireball into an inferno and every force field or ward into a nigh impenetrable barrier. Not only does it look flashy, but your onslaught can actually disrupt their spell casting, making countering your magic harder.
Hasty Hexer: [300] You don’t always have time for lengthy rituals; you need that spell
now! You can substitute any required ritual for some of your inner energy, making
a spell that would require hours of work happen instantly at the cost of making you
extremely tired. If you happen to have mana or other magical energies like that
within you, you can substitute those instead. Burning through all your energy in a
short span of time can be dangerous and possibly fatal if you push it too far, but
experienced magic users are unlikely to do so accidentally.
Beth
Background: Superhuman [100]
Race: Hybrid Kryptonian [200] You were born in a lab. Sadly the scientists don’t really understand what they’re doing which means that you’ll have trouble thinking and will often get things backwards early on. You can overcome the worst of this with a few weeks’ time but you’ll always be a little bit gullible and childlike during the jump. Your appearance will be much paler than normal, and your face will be slightly uncanny to look at. You will insist on wearing the “S” backwards for some reason.
Age: 16 (physically)
Powers:
Flight: [Free] Flight allows the user to fly at around 700 MPH, and much faster in a vacuum.
Super Durability: [Free] Super Durability allows the user to tank most forms of gunfire and explosives, as well as many forms of harmful energies and extreme temperatures. Does nothing against purely magical attacks, though it still works on things like creatures summoned or enhanced with magic or summoned fire.
Super Senses: [Free] Each purchase of this allows the user to upgrade one of their five
basic senses; sight allows them to use infrared and x-ray vision, as well as
providing a massive boost that allows them to see very small things or things that
are very far away. Hearing allows them to hear conversations from miles away, as
well as whispers in large, loud rooms.
Super Strength: [300] Super Strength allows the user to lift great weights and strike with
massive force. Lift roughly 75 tons. (25 of that is due to race)
Heat Vision: [200] Heat Vision allows the user to project heat from their eyes, as well as the intensity with which it is projected; from just enough to melt snow to melting through steel.
Ginny Granger:
Background: Superhuman [100]
Race: Human
Age: 17
Acrobat: [100]
Force Manipulation: [600] Force Manipulation allow the user to create translucent constructs out of pure force, allowing them to create force fields or batter their opponents. This cannot be used on the internals of things, even if you can see them. The strength of your constructs will depend on your concentration and focus; in theory, a construct could be maintained indefinitely, if you concentrated on it. However, if your constructs are struck with enough force your concentration can be broken, with the construct going with it.
Rose:
Drop In:
Race: Martian: [400] Beth is a red martian that is rather clumsy with her powers. That means that she has trouble controlling her powers to start with and Density Shifting is beyond her for the duration of the jump.
Age: 46
Animal Transformation: [Free] Animal Transformation allows the user to transform into any animal that they’ve directly observed. You do not gain any supernatural abilities that they possess, but this does not impede your ability to take their form; of course, if their form itself could be supernatural, you will not be able to transform into them. Clothes and armor are temporarily absorbed into your body after transformation, removing any non-supernatural benefits to wearing them. You maintain a common color scheme throughout your transformations, unless you have Shape-Shifting in which case your copies are perfect.
Cellular Regeneration: [Free] Cellular Regeneration allows its user to rapidly regenerate, healing on the cellular level. This allows the user to heal severed limbs and missing organs in minutes and broken bones and bullet wounds in seconds. In addition, so long as more than 50% of the heart or brain remains, the user can regenerate the missing parts without technically dying or having any memory loss.
Density Shifting: [Free/Locked] Density Shifting allows it’s user to alter their density, allowing
them to pass or “swim” through objects and people. They cannot manipulate the
density of worn or held items; only themselves. Unusually dense objects, or ones
that have supernatural properties, may be impossible to pass through. They can
also make themselves denser, increasing their durability slightly. Martians can do
this naturally; however, this is an advanced technique for them and will require
training to do reliably, if at all.
Shape-Shifting: [Free] Shape-Shifting allows the user to copy others perfectly, including voices, as well as create additional appendages or manipulating existing ones.
Super Durability: [Free]
Telekinesis: [Free] Telekinesis allows the user to manipulate things with their mind, with the strength and ability of the telekinesis depending on the user’s mental fortitude. This can only be used on things that are within the range of the user’s vision, and cannot be used on the internals of living organisms, even if the user can see those things somehow.
Telepathy: [Free] Telepathy gives the user the ability to mentally speak with others, link the minds of a group of people together so that they can speak to each other, influence the thoughts of others, and read the surface thoughts of others. These abilities can be fooled or resisted by those with similar abilities or those with strong wills. Experienced users can control others with their mind and go through the memories of others, though this can cause psychological damage and is much easier to resist than a telepath’s other powers.
Items:
Bio-Suit: [Free] Your costume is now partially organic and capable of shifting its density
and shape shifting, allowing it to camouflage itself or change in size and shape to
suit your needs. It responds to telepathic commands, but can be “programmed”
with pre-set functions for those that lack telepathy.
Martian Bio-Ship: [400] The Martian Bio-Ship is a living organism capable of travel through space, as well as through water. It’s durable enough to withstand large explosions, though it lacks weapons of its own, and it’s capable of shapeshifting to add additional features to the ship as well as to camouflage itself. It is capable of assimilating technology into itself, including alien technology, and can be piloted using telepathy or through more manual means. Despite being sentient, the Bio-Ship does not take up a companion slot so long as it remains in ship form.
Puck frowned as she looked at the Reach Scarab on her equipment list. “This thing better not leave scars when I get it out.”
Mist shook his head. “That’s what we have Amy and Amelia for.”
“Wait, you’re telling me we don’t keep them around for the kinky sex?” Sin asked with amusement.
“Nope, that’s you,” Xander replied playfully as he looked over his perks.
“Damn straight.”
“Is something you most certainly aren’t,” Hermione muttered as she looked over her perks. “We’re going to have to do a lot of cross training once we copy everyone’s perks and abilities.”
Mist glanced over at Rose. “Considering the sheer number of perks martians get, yeah.”
Beth looked at Genie as she asked, “How much of my strength can I share with perk copying?”
Genie said, “You get one level of super strength just for being a kryptonian hybrid which is attached to your race, the other two levels can be copied.”
“And then upgraded,” Xander pointed out gleefully.
Genie rolled her eyes. “I’m suddenly starting to feel sorry for the criminals in Gotham.”
“I’m not.” Xander was looking forward to cleaning up Gotham before goofing off the rest of the time.
“Me either,” Abby pointed out.
“Isn’t the acrobat perk a waste if Hermione already has it?” Ginny asked.
Mist said, “Not particularly, there isn’t a lot else to buy and it ties your backstory together with your sisters.”
Ginny looked at Hermione and Puck. “It’s going to be weird having sisters.”
Hermione smiled at Ginny. “Hopefully it’s a nice change from having a bunch of brothers. If nothing else it should give you a better background outside of the wizarding world.”
“Which is probably a good thing,” Ginny admitted.
“Considering the drawbacks I’m going to be dealing with, try not to call me unless it’s really important for the next day or so.”
Xander nodded. “No problem.”
Sin asked, “Speaking of dealing with problems, do you mind if I deal with Klarion and the rest of the idiots that cast the spell to separate the children and adults into two different worlds in the show?”
“Just be careful.” Mist wasn’t particularly happy with Sin going after the lunatics but she was more or less immune to magic and mind control and durable enough to deal with just about everything they could try.
“On that note, I’ll see everyone in a year.” Genie snapped her fingers and sent the group to Gotham.
0o0o0
The Joker frowned as he saw some costumed idiot in his favorite seat. “Hey, look boys we have someone that thinks he’s a comedian.”
Mist blinked as he went from freaking out about seeing the Joker walking toward him with a group of heavily armed thugs to completely unconcerned about the lunatic as his memories returned. “Comedian?” He smirked at the man. “Sure, I can tell a joke if you want to hear it.”
The Joker tilted his head slightly. “Go ahead, impress me before I kill you.”
“What’s the difference between a hero and a problem solver?”
One of the Joker’s goons asked, “What?”
Mist held the Joker in place with his telekinesis as he explained. “A ‘hero’ will toss a villain in prison, never mind how many times the prison system has failed to hold him, a problem solver on the other hand, fixes the problem so the villain can’t escape.”
The Joker scowled as he found that he couldn’t move. “Kill him!”
Mist tossed up a wall of force to soak the bullets then waited until the thugs opened fire. “Wrong choice.” He snapped his fingers and caused their heads to explode with a ‘touch’ of magic. Normally he didn’t kill people for working for villains, as jobs were hard to get but he’d make an exception for anyone stupid enough to willingly work for the Joker.
The Joker stared at Mist in shock. “Heroes don’t kill people.”
Mist ignored the screams of the other never do wells in the bar as he pulled a black soul gem out of his inventory. “I could argue the point but you’re not worth my time.” He toggled off his ESP as he really didn’t want the Joker’s memories floating around his head then cast soul trap on the Joker. “And I’m not a hero.” He burned him to ash with a spell so that his DNA wouldn’t be recoverable. He checked the filled black soul gem then stuck it in his inventory. Normally he’d wait for the cops but he had a fair number of things to accomplish before the day was through.
He used telekinesis to swap his phone to vibrate then turned invisible and tossed up a mana shield. He really didn’t need his phone ringing while dealing with his next project. He used his Dragon Break ability and split the timeline. In one he ordered another drink and settled in to wait for the police, in the other he opened a door to the closest Reach ship then stepped through into the hallway right outside of the bridge. He let the portal close then looked through the bridge door with x-ray vision. ‘Six humanoid bugs, I wonder if Skitter can screw them up.’ He checked with his darklighter ability to make sure they weren’t worth saving, he wasn’t surprised that they weren’t. He killed all of the bridge crew by snapping their necks with telekinesis then teleported into the room.
He blurred around the room looting the bodies and sticking weapons in his inventory then created half a dozen avatars to take the crew’s place. He waited until his avatars swapped clothes and sat down at their stations then opened a portal inside Darkseid’s chest then unleashed a line of balefire into his internal organs completely destroying the dark god or at least killing his current form. He was really hoping for the former but this was Darkseid so he’d take the later. He let his door close then worked on the alert he wanted to send to the rest of the Reach.
He was a little surprised by the boom tube that appeared twenty seconds later as that meant they could track his doors or at least scan the other side of them. He quickly sent off an alert to all Reach ships as the troops from Apocalypse rushing out of the boom tube.
Granny Goodness demanded, “Who ordered the attack!”
Mist created an illusion of a reach weapon behind his back then pulled it and hit Granny Goodness with balefire then ‘collapsed’ when several of the other troops opened fire on him and the rest of the bridge crew. He twisted so that he could work on constructing fragments of a reach energy weapon so they’d have evidence as his avatars worked on killing most of the soldiers from Apocalypse before they were ‘brought’ down. He took control of one of his avatars and kicked the last soldier back through the boom tube. He smiled slightly as his avatars got up off the ground, pulled the dead Reach bridge crew out of his inventory and staged the scene in a blur. He set the ship’s self destruct then fried the console and teleported back into the hallway. He turned invisible then opened a door to Oa and stepped through. He let the door close behind him then carefully and quietly moved through the streets away from where he’d opened the portal.
0o0o0
Klarion frowned slightly as a thirteen year old girl stepped out of a portal into his inner sanctum holding a sword in one hand and a knife in the other. “Why do I have a feeling this isn’t a social call?”
Sin blurred forward, ignoring the blast of magic he sent at her as she stabbed the soul trapping dagger into his eye. She brought her sword up and around and cut off his head. “Hah…” she trailed off as she noticed that his neck wasn’t leaking blood and that he was pouting at her.
“Can we talk about this?” Klarion asked with amusement.
“You’re supposed to die when people cut off your head,” Sin complained.
Klarion reached down and picked up his head. “I’m immortal.”
Sin scowled as she turned, raised her hand and blasted the Chaos Lord’s cat that was trying to sneak up on her. She sighed as Klarion screamed and vanished as he lost his hold on Earth. “I was hoping soul trapping you would work but I’ll take what I can get.” She summoned her Thanatos projection then handed it her sword.
The projection reached down and picked up the dagger from the ground where it had fallen when Klarion’s head vanished.
Sin opened a portal to Faust’s workshop and sent her projection through. The mage barely had enough time to turn before her project had slit the demonologist’s throat. ‘Sorry Faust but you would have cast a rather nasty spell in the future and thousands of children would have died.’ She pulled a soul trap dagger out of her inventory and swapped it with the filled dagger her projection had then opened a portal to Wotan’s base and sent her projection through. She didn’t mind playing the hero and having fun but there were some seriously messed up people in Young Justice and she wanted most of them dealt with before they settled in to play cops and robbers.
0o0o0
Mist looked at the prosecutor that was glaring down at him where he was sitting in the interrogation room. “So let me get this straight, the Joker’s gang opened fire on me and I can’t claim self defense?”
“Where you ever in actual danger?” the man asked snidely.
“Defense of others is a thing,” Mist replied calmly.
“You burned him to ash in front of the crowd of people!”
Mist tilted his head slightly. “You’re not from Gotham are you?”
“What does that have to do with it? The law is the law.”
“I want a Jury trial in Gotham.” Mist smirked at the man.
“What? Are admitting your guilt?”
“I’m admitting that the Joker burst into flames in front of me and that whoever killed him did so in the defense of others. Good luck proving anything else. Besides if I had killed him, the guy was a known terrorist with chemical weapons expertise. So yeah, go ahead take me to trial in Gotham.”
“I don’t think you understand the seriousness of the charges.”
Mist looked through the man’s head with telepathy. “Ah, that explains it, you think you can leverage this into some type of anti metahuman victory. Sorry to disappoint you but it’s the Joker, even if I stood up on the stand and said I set him on fire just because he was there the jury would still declare me not guilty. Either way, they will throw me a parade.”
Commissioner Gordon piped up from the door, “And the mayor will hand him the key to the city.”
“This isn’t over,” the prosecutor said as he stormed out.
“Was it something I said?” Mist asked innocently.
Gordon said, “Come on, we still need your fingerprints and you to fill out paperwork.”
“Best of luck with that,” Mist said as he dropped the timeline and glanced around the rather lovely streets of Metropolis as he walked down the sidewalk in plain clothes, looking for all the world like a normal person out for a stroll. He smiled as he walked around the corner of the street and saw the massive Lexcorp building. He briefly considered teleporting Lex out of the building and watching him fall. ‘As fun as that would be, it would just cause problems for the League.’
Mist used his X-ray vision locate Lex, thankful that his X-ray vision didn’t have the issue with lead that Clark’s did. He walked into the alley then glanced around to make sure no one was watching then activated his power that kept him from being seen and recorded. ‘Maybe if I hadn’t taken the light drawback and if you weren’t such a crook you’d be worth saving, nah fuck that, he made his choices.’ He teleported into Lex’s office behind the villain then silently cast soul trap. He twisted the spell to last until Lex died then used his biokinesis to cause a blood clot to move into his brain and gave him a massive stroke. ‘It’s too bad your supposed genius didn’t come with common sense.’
He teleported back to the alley then headed toward the Daily Planet to have a telepathic word with Superman about his clone and proper behavior that won’t get him in trouble with his mother.
