Entry by Battlerock Babe, 11th Generation Battlerock warrior
Positron’s Ally - FINALLY!
I keep on hearing about task force missions in Paragon City, and I’ve even been in a few of them. But until now I never really was able to take part in them.
Positron’s Task Force is supposed to the first and the hardest to complete. I can vouch for it being the hardest, because it just about takes FOREVER to complete.
The best advice I could give to any hero taking on Positron’s Task Force is to make sure you have NOTHING ELSE planned! Clear your day planner because it will take you HOURS to go from start to finish. This is not something that can be done quickly.
I was part of a 5-hero team, including a really great husband-and-wife duo. A blaster, two defenders, a scrapper, and yours truly, the sexiest butt-kicking tanker in the city. I was a level 16, but so were a few others and our abilities all got pared down to meet their level 15 requirement, but I think that was more of an asset for me, because I was still able to deal with the huge numbers, and as long as the healers did their bit, the scrapper 2018 and I were able to do ours.
We started out investigating a situation with the Vahzilok. Posi said they once tried to poison the city waters. I remember when they did that… we had to boil our tap water for a week afterwards, and I had to take my showers in at the gym! That wasn’t good when you’re a teenager trying to hide your naturally white hair with blonde dye. Even afterwards the water still smelled bad for a few months. So I certainly don’t want to have them try it again! I like my showers… even if I don’t have to dye my hair blonde anymore.
We had found some information about those flesh-hackers and one of their poisons but nothing concrete about what they were going to do with it. Meanwhile, Positron told us that the Circle of Thorns were attacking the Paragon City FEMA office. We head on over to Skyway City to mount a rescue. Once we rescued the first worker, one of our defenders escorted them to the front door. I had a funny feeling about the rescue, and sure enough, two minutes later our defender hit a MAJOR ambush of boss-level mages and was taken down. These guys were playing for keeps! I backtracked to his location, picked up the hostage, then we all hit the mages in full force. Once they were cleared, I escorted the hostage to safety. Those mages may have been able to take down a defender, but they were no match for the 11th Generation Battlerock Warrior!
Then Positron sent us to investigate something going on with the Clockwork. Those mechanical robots were very protective of something, but we didn’t know what it was.
It turns out that each of the groups had plans that involved the Paragon City Dam in Overbrook! The flesh-hackers wanted to poison the water supply again. The mystics were going to use the water as an elemental conduit for one of their mega-spells. The rust-jobs were going to just blow up the dam to flood Paragon City. And they all knew what they were going to do so they all decided to escalate their plans before the others could ruin them.
A triple-threat like that makes me glad we were on the case. Positron was assembling the Freedom Phalanx, but he knew they wouldn’t be able to make it in time. We headed over to the substation and took on all three groups ourselves. Since the Vahzilok, Clockwork, and the Circle were all battling each other first, we were able to jump on in and hit them quickly before they could organize against us. 2018 and I both hit their biggest bosses first. Once they fell, we worked on the lesser players. We found out that the Vahzilok were the ones prevailing. They were in position first and were getting ready to poison the water supply. I took out some of the poison pumps they installed then we moved on to the boss.
Cortex! I remember my dad talking about him. My dad said that he wanted to be a hero, but he ended being just another poser, like Frostfire. Couldn’t handle the burden, couldn’t control his powers, decided that having a cape means that anything goes. In fact he was one of the first renegade capes that my father helped to bring down. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my father with the morning paper and him telling me the responsibility of being a hero and not going too far.
Well Cortex went BEYOND “too far”. He’s now Dr. Vahzilok’s gopher. And he looks even worse than when I remember seeing him in the paper. He started in how he used to be a hero and now all he knows is Vahzilok. Usual flesh-hack mind-bull. I made sure that when we made our move he was the first one I took on, and I didn’t stop until I brought him down! And I did it with my own dig.
“By the way,” I told him, “my dad says hi… LOSER!”
Okay, maybe I enjoyed doing that too much.
We did the mop-up, took down the last of the Vahzilok, and then that was it. The Task Force was completed, and we all got our nifty little TF badges. I also remember what Positron told me afterwards.
“Your father would have been proud to see you in action,” he said. “Except for that whole ‘loser’ comment.”
If only he knew…
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