New Hero World

I heard they were going to put together a new Justice Crew. It has been ten years since that tragedy, but we still don't know what really happened. The entire Justice Crew was killed, along with their enemies the Doom Crew. Forty of the most powerful supers in the world just all died, all twenty members of the Justice Crew and of course the Doom Crew which was made of their arch enemies. There are theories, that they somehow managed to perfectly kill each other, or that it wasn't all at once and there was a serial killer who knew all their weaknesses and secret identities and we just heard about it after the last few had been killed. Although a lot of people online like to push the "Omega class" conspiracy theory. That the Justice Crew and Doom Crew both made entirely of A and S class supers had to team up together to fight an Omega *or higher if you read some websites*, who managed to kill all of them. But Omega is a myth, yes I know thirty years ago S class was considered a myth, but if there was an Omega who required both good guys and bad guys to team up together and they killed all forty of them then where is this Omega now? Shouldn't they be wreaking havok across the globe or something with no one to stop them?

*Update*

It is official, saw them today on the news, new Justice Crew made up of three men and one woman. Two of these guys look like complete jokes; one of them was dressed up like a pizza themed samurai except he had on a cape and was carrying a round shield; he showed off a bunch of pizza themed gadgets...he's a no power, I swear its like my grandpa's time with the desperate need for heroes so they gave high tech themed gear to no powers to fill out their rosters. The other guy was in a rat costume, but other wise the same thing with the gadgets, minus the cape; and get this these two are called Pizza Man and Rat Man; no joke. The other guy is definitely a super though, huge muscular guy with a thick red beard and long hair, dressed like a barbarian and carrying a huge double sided war axe. Dude calls himself Barbarossa, had to look it up, some obscure German hero who sounds like King Arthur resting under a hill until his people need him. The woman though is dressed up in a pink witch costume, pointy hat even, and a cape; calls herself Pink Witch.

When they did their demonstrations/intimidations for criminals; I could already see their weaknesses, Pizza Man and Rat Man move like they used to be in shape but are getting up there in years and their movements are tech assisted; its all gear with them. I am guessing some old veterans in new costumes or some military guys dragged out of retirement or at least close to it. Pink Witch had some cool magic but it was pretty obvious she is no athlete and all that magic is coming from that ring on her left hand. I think that Barbarossa guy is definitely going to be their tank unless they can get more members.

*Update*

Thanks for all the encouragement, not so much the "its your duty" remarks. I saw they were having open try outs for the Justice Crew, making it more like a domestic military police force though and less a private security force that helps any country in need; so I am iffy on that end. Having to follow orders, rules of engagement, this is a blog that has to be bounced around different servers for us "vigilante" type heroes, because you know if they could they'd sooner arrest those like me. I still can't believe Mighty Girl and Spider Kid were at those try outs. They had to have offered to clear Mighty Girl of all the property damage she has caused when she "goes kaiju", I guess thinking about it Spider Kid is less surprising but he is a kid, there is no way a military police force isn't going to turn around and charge his parents or something instead of inviting a kid to join them. But come on people, you know this is the sub-blog of Lash Fang right? That I am Lash Fang, or Fang Lash as some of you call me, even the papers have done it both ways. I mean its not like I take interviews, I do have this blog though. I'm that really scary one with the eldritch body horror powers who has cleaned up the streets of Mafia gang wars using less than pleasant means. I see the word "sociopath" associated with headlines about me a lot more than "hero". There is no way they wouldn't arrest me on sight.

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"Speaking of," says a short haired woman in the kitchen of their small apartment, "should you really be writing a blog about everything you do anyway hun?"

The longer haired pale woman at the computer in their living room turns, "Are you reading my mind again?"

The woman in the kitchen *giggles*, "Don't have to try, even if you weren't talking out loud as you type you are practically screaming every word you type into the psycho-sphere, shielded telepaths across town are probably picking up every other syllable."

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In a special building in New York city, which is more a museum at this point celebrating past super heroes and their accomplishment, the new Justice Crew are in an office looking over candidates with a uniformed man, one General Brass.

"They're all kids," says Pizza Man taking his helmet off and scratching his grey hair.

"Should we even be doing this?" asks Pink Witch, "We're grateful you let us stay in your world sir but aside from some cosmetic similarities we are still not from here."

"From what you told us," says General Brass, "between these Ju-el aliens and this cosmic horror on that other Earth, we've been presented with additional options for what killed both the Justice Crew and the Doom Crew. It is imperative we make a new team."

"We get that," says Pizza Man, "however I believe Pink Witch's concern is that we aren't from here, we don't know any of these people; or have gotten around all the differences between your world and ours. It looks like you've had super heroes longer than we did to the point almost everyone has superpowers of some kind. But these candidates look to mostly be kids, vigilantes, and glory hounds."

"and," says Pink Witch, "you need individuals who will inspire confidence as well as uphold strong moral values.

General brass smiles, "its good to have superheroes like you lot around again. You are exactly right, these last ten years we've seen the public turning to new heroes, who are definitely not heroes. A few of these candidates were on the wanted list for vigilantism, destruction of property, and even manslaughter. We never had anything like the apprenticeship system you told us about. We aren't asking that all these candidates immediately become Justice Crew members, we are planning to reveal to them the brand new Justice Academy, a whole new era in organized super heroism, not just police work, helping out communities, natural disaster relief, and other charitable activities. Restoring confidence, pride, and stimming the tide of violent vigilantes both through proper combat training and more heroes on our side turning them in.

General Brass walks over and picks up a remote and changes the candidate screen to four camera shots on the street, "we had the facial recognition software set to detect these individuals. The first there is the only one that came to try out, Mighty Girl; power is size changing, can't shrink below her human height...something we didn't know till yesterday, but once she grows above 50 feet she starts to turn into a scaly and horned kaiju, she has caused a lot of property damage, may more than the minor crimes she has stopped are worth. We definitely want her in the academy program. These other three however."

He shows an image of a woman on the docks, her arms morphing into tentacles full of fangs, "This is Lash Fang, despite her having a blog, we haven't been able to pin her down. Informants are terrified to say anything. She has a habit of killing criminals, including eating them. We don't want her in the program, we intend to make an example of her, throw the book at her; her and this guy."

He brings up an image of a Japanese man with spikes coming out his elbows, "Calls himself Cyber Ninja-X, a mecha morph, aside from the eating people part he is just as violent as Lash Fang, only far more discreet...no blog trying to get the public's sympathy."

"Public sympathy," says Rat-man, "he is the one you should throw the book at, if this Lash Fang lady has public sympathy on her side I am thinking you may want to do what we did with Badger...my apologies, you don't know who that is. He was an ex special forces super, before joining the heroes he had mainly done assassination missions; however after he left the service he had earned a name for himself for, getting things done, and the public liked him, he scared criminals. The law didn't like him, we offered to clean his record, so long as he played ball with us and tone down the violence. He put on a show for his fans, but no more brutal killings, and we got a team member with public appeal and useful skills."

"hmm," says Pizza Man, "that is a good point, although Badger never ate anyone...is it confirmed she has? These body horror powers can make it hard to tell sometimes."

"We're certain," says General Brass, "but we can swing it as an anomaly of her power, if she can be brought in and agrees to the ultimatum to join the Justice Crew, with mandatory therapy sessions."

"Who is this?" asks Barbarossa indicating the fourth person.

The image is blurry but it looks like a naked lithe woman with pure white skin, white tentacles for hair, giant fangs coming out the back of her head, and four smooth tentacles with triangular squid whip ends coming of out her back, two upper back, and two lower back.

"Calls herself Albia," says General Brass, "claims to have come from another dimension, so far we've seen that she has at least limited shapeshifting, her hair can split apart or fuse into thicker tentacles blue or white, the back of her head opens up and stretches into a giant mouth with size changing teeth, and those tentacles on her back can become thin or so thick she can actually prop herself up in the air with them."

Pink Witch says to Pizza Man, "Sounds like Prof. Squid...the tentacles part anyway."

"We have also," continues General Brass, "seen her shoot red energy beams from her eyes and toxic ink and gas from both mouths. This one is sneaky, not sure how she gets around but we suspect she can shapeshift more than we've seen and has a secret identify, disappearing into the crowd when pursued."

"I suspect," says Ratman, "this one also has done some heinous stuff?"

"The public considers her a super hero," says General Brass, "however she leaves a body count each time she shows up."