The Absconders: Issue 13

This is the THIRTEENTH issue of our new Marvel Fanon-Made storyline called ''The Absconders. ''To read the previous issue, click here. This storyline is Role-played and made by a certain number of experienced RPers. These are our RPers, and their OCs: If you want to join this RP, please ask in the comments and you will need most of our approvals to RP in here. Also, you need to have a Marvel OC (Original Character) submitted to deviantART OR this wiki and must share it with us so we know who we are RPing with. Disclaimer: Any real-life or fictional brands are used in as a parody. None of us are actually sponsored, nor do we care to be sponsored. Now let us begin the RP and enjoy :)
 * TheSuperiorOne - Trey Soniak (Earth-2025)
 * Thecryingwolf3553 - Eliana Rosenheim (Earth-2025)
 * PyroHunter16 - Haruto Higashikata (Earth-2025)
 * Infamoussnake - Dominic Bernedicci (Earth-2025)
 * Guilthegreat - Alexandre Demasque (Earth-2025)

Key: -
 * Normal writing is the dialogue between the characters.
 * Italic writing is a special writing type for characters with second personalities or long distance dialogue (telepathy or calls).
 * Bold and italic writing are the actions that characters do.
 * Writing in between the *asterisk* means that the character is talking in their heads.

June 1st, 2025
Eliana returned to the VP the next day and Myron appeared to greet her in her room.

Myron: Well? Have you chosen your Eldritch master?

Eliana: I... I already did the ritual to summon one...

Myron: What?! You didn't tell me first?!

Eliana: I got impatient. But I don't know if I succeeded or not, he appeared there then disappeared...

Myron: Well, you wouldn't be alive if you failed. I guess now we wait until your new master shows up. But you should already feel the disturbing presence.

Eliana: Is that what that is? I thought I just had a cold...

Myron: Remember to be careful around these Abominations, they're not called that for fun.

Eliana: Yeah sure, I'm off, bye. She walks out and sees Dominic in the main room. Hey, Dom.

Dominic: Hey, so how was summoning a flying spaghetti monster? He kidded around chuckling, but noticed Eliana looked a bit iffy when he said summoning You really summoned one didn't you? He sounded concerned.

Eliana: It wouldn't be false to say I have my regrets, but yeah. It was crazy, like nothing I've ever seen before. But there's so much behind it, so much powers I could unlock. A lot of powerful sorcerers used Eldritch Magic, and I think I've found the perfect master.

Dominic: You know I decided to read about Eldritch stuff, no not from your book, what they are in general. I just want to be sure you know what you're stepping into...Who's the perfect master?

Eliana: A Spirit of Vengeance called Sethyro, well in legends he's more commonly known as King Artair. Apparently he was a King in the middle ages or something that used Eldritch Magic to win a war he could not win, and his people hated this. So they betrayed him, beheaded him, and stitched a wolf's head in place of his own as a sacrifice to the Eldritch masters to spare their realm from darkness. He returned from the dead and kills people who've betrayed another soul, there's a children's bedtime story about it somewhere... But from the legends it looks like he's got some cool powers to offer, because it's said he can bring your worst nightmares to life, he formed some crypts in Spain somewhere a couple hundred years ago to trap several souls according to legends...

Dominic: And you have to serve him, right?

Eliana: Well he's my master now, he'll teach me Eldritch Magic if I complete his bidding, which, according to this book, is always to bring justice to tortured souls, which I already do everyday so shouldn't be too much of a chore.

Dominic: Well thank God for that, so we can technically add Eldritch deity as an ally right? He joked about it, smiling But in all seriousness, at this rate, we will beat the Virtues, well, you, Trey, Micah, Alyna, Giorno, Alex and Jason maybe...I might stay on the sidelines as tech support, ya know, armor gone, but atleast a genius can still be support, right? He sounded a bit like he was demeaning himself and dragging himself down a bit, despite his smile and the chuckle he had at the end.

Eliana: As long as you don't add tech support to the recent list of things you screwed up, then sure. But we're not ready to take on the Virtues just yet, there's seven of them, and they have an army. One of our problems will be containing it all. Which is why we need more numbers.

Diminic: Not necessarily, we could try and get more numbers, or we can find a way to take numbers off of their army, but we really need to be smart about it, as in we had trouble with the guys on the yacht. So boss, what'll it be, I could try and rally numbers, or we could take away numbers from Virtues.

Eliana: Do you really want to jump straight into fighting the Virtues before we're ready? We've fallen for their traps twice, and we suffered greatly from it. We will not attack further until we have the numbers and we have the power.

Suddenly Jason comes running in the room.

Jason: Hey, guys, I don't know what happened to me but, some guy came in my apartment and attacked me, he wanted my magic and the symbiote I stole from Chernie, and he managed to take it. He ran off and I can't find, well I didn't bother to go after him. But just wondering if this is something big or...?

Dominic: He stole the symbiote you had, wait, how in the Hell did he even get past you, pretty sure he would have died if you're implying he attacked you directly.

Jason: I'm pretty sure he had powers. He was creepy, like, creepier-than-my-uncle creepy.

Dominic: Are you telling me a Virtue attacked you, in broad daylight?

Jason: No, he wasn't a Virtue. He had no cloak and his powers didn't match up, he was pretty much immortal and I checked his fears, and he was afraid of you, so I skinchanged into you and he recognised you, he said stuff about breaking you mentally and everything. To be honest I should've opened with that...

Dominic: He-...Oh, oh God... Suddenly his phone rang, and he checked Caller, and the label was just: "Your Inner Demon", he looked at Eli and Jason if he should answer it.

Jason: Prank call him.

Eliana: I wouldn't answer it. Don't fall for any games.

Dominic answered it, but he turned off the mic for it, and put it on speaker.

"Your Inner Demon": ''8-5-12-12-15 4-15-13-9-14-9-3 9 23-15-21-12-4 12-9-11-5 20-15 20-5-12-12 25-15-21 20-8-1-20 9-13 23-1-9-20-9-14-7~! 12-15-15-11 20-15 20-8-5 18-1-20 13-5-5-20 1-14-4 20-8-5-18-5 25-15-21 23-9-12-12 6-9-14-4 23-8-1-20 25-15-21 19-5-5-11! Hahahahahahahahahaha! F-ck that's good! He hung up, and Dominic was a mix of shocked and lost, as he was spacing out.''

'Eliana looked at Dominic for his reaction, looking concerned. Jason smiled in awkwardness at the weird phone call.'

Jason: What the Hell was that?

Eliana: I don't know, sounded like a code... Did you record the message?

An Hour Later
'Eliana was interviewing Alex to see if he could be trusted. She still hasn't given him access to the VP, he can only enter with another member.'

Eliana: Alexander Damasque, alright. Let's just jump right in to make this less awkward, what're your superpowers?

Alex: Is charisma a superpower?

Eliana: Evidently not. You're the first Absconder who needed to be interviewed. Trey said you're not to be trusted. Answer the question seriously.

Alex: Alexandre Demasque I'm nearly a 100 years old by now, I can regenerate, I'm stronger than the average person, I can withstand any kind of substance that could kill a human, I can make red flames that explode, I can go intangible too...Oh! and I can also teleport, is that serious enough for you lady?

Eliana: Sounds useful. I heard they call you the Red Mask, you're a thief apparently, why should we trust you?

Alex: I'm not asking for your trust. It's your choice to trust me or not.

Eliana: Well I don't trust you, but we need you. But I want you to know that if you betray us or impede us in any way, we won't forget it, and we will punish you for it. *Did that sound intimidating? Should I have told him we don't trust him or not?*

Alex: he chuckles Good attempt, but I'm not the kind of person to get intimidated, God himself could be stepping on me, making me endure a 1000 shades of pain, and I will gladly whisper in his ear: "f-ck off".

Eliana: Courageous, huh? Or stupid, the line between those terms has become blurry. To he honest, we're just a bunch of teenagers failing to pull together a superhero team, we're getting desperate because of the Virtues threat, and we need people like you. We don't ask you to fight for us with blind loyalty, we'll help you in any way we can if you help us. That's the whole deal with the Absconders, we're not just here to have fun, we look out for each other too.

Alex: I see. Well, I'm the oldest and the one with the most experience. As long as you acknowledge this, I won't have any problems at all working with you guys. He takes out a cigarette and lights it Oh...and by the way, it's neither courage or stupidity, it's called confidence. Eliana smiles at this, then nods, accepting him into the Absconders.

Meanwhile Dominic had translated the message, as in his room there were holograms were everywhere, and Dominic read the riddle part of the message.

Dominic: "Look to where the Rats meet, and you will find the power that you seek"? Sh-t. *Maybe I should call someone with actual experience...* He goes to an almost alien piece of hardware which looked like a camera and a projector, it chimed a few times before it revealed a familiar face, Ripper of the Hivemind as a hologram.

Ripper: Bernedicci, it has been a while...

Dominic: Not too long I'm afraid.

Ripper: ''Why contact now? Unless you want to know something.''

Dominic: Yes, I want to know more about Wickeds...

Ripper: To cut short, they are inner demons that nanites personify into a virus, think as a rite of passage if you can best one, if you can you will gain a power that will keep rising as you grow yourself, if you fail, well you die, but the Wickeds, that fate has bareky ever been recorded...Is this about your Wicked?

Dominic: *Of course it is Captain Obvious...*

Ripper: To give you advice and a warning, a Wicked is basically a host at their worst, not by quality, but by morality, even worse its only limitations are really whatever its current state is and their personality, so knowing you and the sins you shared with us, that is a demon that will go to great lengths to test you...

Dominic: How do I stop it?

Ripper: You do it, the willpower of a Wicked is so strong they can only be killed by the host they were derived from, so if I were you, do not involve your friends in fighting him.

Dominic: How bad is the situation if the Wicked has a Host body, a Klyntar and magic?

Ripper: ''Then all I can do...is wish you luck, and attempted retribution. I'm sorry we are heading into an asteroid field, if you need any of us, contact us again... He logged off and Dominic sighed in a stressed way, sitting on the couch in his room, and rubbing the temples of his head.''

While he was Sitting Alex came in his room, a cigarette in his hand, he looks around nonchalantly

Alex: officially a member of the absconders now.

Dominic: Okay, good for you, no mindless killing, no thing to hinder team etc. He rushed through the whole process groaning, and Alex could see the holograms of the code he was trying to crack.

Alex: that's a lot of things right there...I came here to tell you that imma give you a solid punch when you will expect it the least.

Dominic: Okay, now go smoke a blunt or something. At this point he was just trying to make Alex go away.