Survival of the Fittest is an ongoing game on WUMB. One of the fun things I like to do alongside the game is an ongoing story featuring fictional versions of board members. In this thread as a primer for SOTF V which will be the first one not to appear in the wumb but in pop instead is the stories so far.
For the first two sotf games there was barely any story and just a linking system so for the first two there will be just a small paragraph of what happened in them
SOTF 1
A group of Wumb members were kidnapped by Mojo (from x-men) and made to pick fictional heroes and villians in order to fight in the survival of the fittest tournement. It turned out this was all a ploy from an evil villianess called Zero doom in order to release an evil creature into our reality. She failed and was beaten up by all the heroes and villians and Mojo sent the wumbers home with their minds wiped.
SOTF II
Zero doom tries the same trick except this time recruiting darkseid and the hordes of apokalips to release the iscariot. They face stern competition from the survivors of the first SOTF and a group of heroes from an alternate world and zero doom fails again
SOTF III
This was when things got good as the wumbers as heroes concept was introduced. Its also when I began writing much longer stories. Presented here are the prologue and the first four parts.
The nexus of time
A control room for all of time itself, current home base of Degaton and zero doom.
“Can I kill the dominion yet?” whined Zero doom angrily
“no not just yet…we need all four of those teams alive for now,”
“what for….my face demands justice,” wined Zero doom
“And the master demands sustenance to continue his escape attempt from the core zone, as you should know,” said Degaton
“well I’m tired of waiting,” muttered Zero doom firing a ray of power at the control station which kept the four teams in stasis.
“You fool…you have killed us all!” shouted Degaton as the stasis wore off and the dominion stepped out of their containment.
“Well lets see how strong you truly are….” muttered Lord apocalypse darkly as he raised his hand in order to allow his allies to begin attacking the two shocked villains.
Then there was a crash, followed by sounds of moaning as the other three teams woke up out of stasis.
(this led into the actual round )
The throne stumbled back in shock and then vanished completely
Degaton managed to freeze both the end and the nightmare and shoved them back into their containment units. He turned round to do the same to the dominion but was blasted by a rather large beam of energy. The energy hit him face first and his body shattered a nearby glass window and he disappeared into the time stream.
“Oh no….not again,” whined Zero doom who very quickly followed Degaton into falling into the time stream after a similar blast.
“You weren’t fit enough to survive,” muttered Lord apocalypse as Zero doom screamed before she was gone.
Lord apocalypse looked at his troops with a grin and then stared outside the shattered window yet again “Its mine….its all mine….I’ve won….I was strong thus I survived and won!”
He then began to laugh and the rest of the dominion quickly joined him in his laughter
"And so it came to pass that all of reality shall fall, and the multiverse was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion as Master of all; and I thought it good. "
The age of Apocalypse was about to begin again….
end prologue
part 1
A game of heroclix for the fate of the universe!
Is it that time again?” ringed a voice which echoed throughout the hall
“a bit slow on the uptake aren’t you pal….after all the dominion have made their first move,”
“well that’s a little bit of grand scale cheating on your part isn’t it,” moaned the first voice as he pulled out what looked like a heroclix board.
“yeah, yeah did you get the figurines from the others?”
“you bet I did!”
“then lets start…maybe you can catch up with my team…doubt it though,”
“is that a wager?”
“….I suppose….”
“then lets get this party started!”
The nexus of time
“At last ultimate power is mine…the strongest truly has survived!” laughed lord apocalypse
Just then there was a shattering of glass and both the end and the nightmare were free of their containment cells.
“what is this!”
“Just phase one of a plot to deal with you permanently apocalypse! Blink get us out of here!” shouted magneto
And with a blink they were all gone
The game room
“round one to the sovereign!” grinned the sovereign as his opponent looked on in frustration.
“don’t celebrate yet begin the bloody fights already….”
Part 2 T.I.T
The first appearance of T.I.T and Trish (known as Trisha back then)
The offices of the Time Investigation Team
“Chaos that’s what it is chronocide on a massive scale!” shouted a girl slamming a pile of papers onto the desk of a young man.
“Calm down Trisha we are trying to do all we can on this mess!”
“But Alan!”
“no buts Trisha, I’ve already sent agents Saturday and Sunday to deal with the dominion,” said Alan as a loud boom emerged in front of them. “Ah see there they are n….oh god!”
“No susan! Sarah!” cried Trisha looking at the two very, very badly beaten bodies of the two time agents.
“sent a message,” croaked Susan Saturday her blood leaking rather rapidly from clover field like tooth marks.
“Stay out of our way,” mumbled Sarah Sunday as she too was leaking blood
“Get them to the hospital wing now!” shouted Alan in horror as medics began to rush into the room carrying stretchers
“They’ve made this personal….” mumbled Trisha angrily as she pulled out a small gun from a holster on her shoe and began to push a small button.
“No you fool he’ll!” BOOOOOM
She was gone…..
Meanwhile during a certain heroclix game
“Bloody hell dude you are still using created characters?!?”
“They do not affect the game Apo…sorry mnemosis so I can do the heck I want,”
“I am still going to win Sov….you do know that,”
“we’ll see shall we?”
part III heroclix party in progress
The first proper appearance of msot of the wumber characters pre hero and villians
Heroclix party in progress…..
It was two hours in and most of the guests had finally arrived. The party was in full swing now and there was now just two guests yet to make it….
“Ah that must finally be brodiebruce with the snacks….” muttered Sovereign walking over to his front door and opening it up.
“Ah welcome to the party guys did you bring them?”
“course we did, so much junk food it could feed just one American!” laughed hpp with a grin
“err sure….” muttered the sovereign really hoping no one heard that
Outside brodiebruce was walking towards the front door when something struck him from behind….
“Phase one complete….pick up the fool and begin to get ready to attack the rest!” muttered Degaton
“yes sir!” grinned Zero doom nastily making her way to the door…..
part 4 heroclix party crashed!
Heroclix party about to be crashed…big-time…..
Windows smashed all around the room causing the startled wumbers to look at what was happening. The sovereign was the first to react.
“Hey nice degaton cosplay going on there!,” grinned sovereign grinning at Degaton who then struck him over the head with a gun barrel. Then the terrifying figure of zero doom loomed over him.
“No…you are not real…I created you!” shouted the sovereign startled at the sight of his own creation staring him in the face.
“Yes and a good job you did too….seriously burning my face off trying to kill me several times….time I repaid the favour!” Zero doom quickly pushed sovereign to the wall and began to repeatedly punch him in the gut
“You’re not real!” cried sovereign after each and every punch until he crumpled into a moaning and very bloody mess on the floor.
Mnemosis ran over to the badly hurt sovereign and stood in zero dooms way.
“touching dying for your friend like this…as you wish boy!” zero doom moved with the speed of a cat and slashed at mnemosis throat with a knife.
The knife hit something all right but it wasn’t mnemosis….
“Gakkk!” whined sovereign knife sticking right out of his chest and then he fell down again this time he wasn’t getting up….
“What do we do with the rest?” asked zero doom
“leave them we’ve got what we came for….” grinned degaton holding the heroclix board and figures in his hands.
They both disappeared laughing leaving the wumbers in disbelief as they stared at the dead body of the sovereign….
Suddenly brodiebruce came in
“so what did I miss?”
more soonish