LM CLassic Semi-finals: Puck vs Logical-Master

RE: First Contact: Part 1 CON states that Sinister would counter the first phase of my strategy with his ability to counter psychic contact in a manner that would result in Apocalypse being removed from city limits in this encounter. He goes on to state that this ability has bested Marvel psychics of the highest level, yet merely offers non cosmic level telepaths as examples. First, I'd like for him to better explain him short nudging Apocolypse out of city limits (I.e. is this teleportation?). Also, I'd like for him to explain what kind of ability it is granted that he claims that it works regardless of one's psionic level of power. Second, there is ample reason to believe that Apocolypse outclasses Mr. Sinister in mostly any regard 1) Sinister had been working under Apocolypse for centuries, resenting nearly every moment of it, yet unable to do anything about it. Even with all the preparation time he could ask for (the creation of a highly potent virus meant to remove all of a mutant's abilities and eventually kill them), the best Sinister could do was weaken Apocolypse, only to survive because Apocolypse ALLOWED it: http://img297.imageshack.us... Sinister could have easily attempted to do battle with a WEAKENED Apcolopyse in the same manner at which my opponent refers to Mr Sinister having bested Psylocke, X-man and Cable (which would have been in his best interest, given that Apocalypse swore to end his life if they met again), but instead, he chose to flee in TERROR, hoping they'd never cross paths again. 2) Apocolyse establishes Xavier as being NOTHING to him even in regards to telepathy: http://static.mojefotke.si... We should keep in mind that Xavier has shown himself telepathically able enter the mind of and even to resist even the powers of Galactus, even if merely for a few moments: http://img707.imageshack.us... http://img33.imageshack.us... For him to be bested by Apocolypse so easily speaks volumes of what chance Sinister would have at even being able to think about taking him on. Based on the above 2 points, it seems reasonable to conclude that Sinister's powers alone would be ineffective against Apacolypse's (especially him passing up on the opportunity to fight the foe in the weakened state) RE: First Contact: Part 2: CON suggest that Mr. Sinister could also redirect any psionic technique which Apacolypse employed, briefly sighting an instance of the villain redirecting Cabel's psionic energy. However, there are a few problems with this argument in particular. A) It borders on the no limits fallacy. Just because Mr. Sinister can redirect the energy of a small fry like Cabel (not in his prime) tenfold, it doesn't mean he can do the same to do someone who most certainly exceeds his power (again, refer to points in Part 1). 2) Apocolypse wouldn't be trying to search the deepest regions of Sinister's mind (which is how his trapped worked in the first place, hence the lines "Dig Deeper Nate Grey, dig deeper)). He's only attempting to learn of his location. This would take far less psionic energy and would not allow Sinister‘s trap to work. 3) His psionic abilities are great enough for him to CASUALLY detect even the Watcher's presence: http://img696.imageshack.us... (whose psionic powers of non interference make him undetectable by all but the most powerful beings of the Marvel Universe, unless willed otherwise).. Thus, I hold that Mr. Sinister would be found and he would still be duly dealt with. Of course, lets assume that CON is correct and that Mr Sinister counter to Apcolypse's opening mental assaults results in there being time for any of the other combatants on CON's team to get to work. Contingency Plan: Batman uses his mother box power of detection or life sense (whichever can be used more efficiently to complete this phase of the battle)( http://dc.wikia.com... ) to do the job Apocalypse was supposed to do, fortunately not being hindered by the issue of having to have superior telepathic prowess. Apocalypse instantly reads Batman's mind, sees what he sees and knows Mr Sinister‘s precise location. Knowing his location, he then proceeds to telepathically tell Doomsday to clean Mr Sinister's clock via speed blitz and phase one of my strategy is still successful. Note: This also can be applied to Sage being successfully in boosting Sinister's abilities to a level which will enable him to fight on par with Apocalypse (unlikely given that he has failed to come up with his own method of doing this, in spite of having centuries as well as the knowledge that would come from working under him). RE: CON's assault: CON's team begins to attack after Amazo has already been powered up by Spider-Man and Doomsday. Given that Apocalypse has the powers teleportation, there's no reason as to why he couldn't simply teleport to Amazo's location (for that matter, no reason to believe anyone on Team PRO would be separated, assuming Doomsday has yet to blitz anyone at this stage. Anyways, CON breaks his assault down to 2 stages. 1. Since Amazo now has Apocalypse powers as well, he proceeds to create either a telekinetic field or uses his energy manipulation to create an energy field around both Batman and Spider-Man. This is assuming Apocolypse himself is somehow still at a stalemate with Mr. Sinister (otherwise, he could do this himself). Nevertheless, the force fields make Sage's nannites ineffective. Even if the nannites were able to reach Spider-Man and batman before a force field was made, Spider-Man's super human reflexes and his spider sense would easily be allow him the speed and clairvoyance needed to avoid being tagged by these machines. http://img505.imageshack.us... http://img509.imageshack.us... NOTE: Spider-Man dodges his blasts fired with the intention of killing (and surfers blast can move around light speed, meaning his precognition and reflexes are very refined), and said blast were augmented by the natural boost symbiotes give to their hosts 2. Amazo uses his powers of bio molecular manipulation to manipulate his body into a more organic state, incidentally no longer making him susceptible to electronic disruption, but not before already having created a force field that will stave off the nannite assault. ------>ADJUSTMENTS TO PHASE 3: With CON's offense successfully dismantled, Super Amazo continues using the strategy listed in Phase 3. As insisted, if Apocolpse and Sinister are still duking it out, Batman's mother box should be the perfect substitute in hunting down the remaining members of Team CON (meaning even Deadpool can be located). Super Amazo first engages Engineer, absorbs the energy out of the bubble field which Spiral had created as Apocolypse has shown himself capable of against Cyclopse: http://img94.imageshack.us... . With no force field, Engineer and her duplicate are defenseless against Super Amazo and is vanquished quickly. Spiral is the next to go with her invisibility being useless against telepathy and/or the mother box. Sage is taken down just as easily and then Mr Sinister, presuming Apocalypse could not deal with him. I'll concede to detective work being moot when it comes to locating Deadpool, but Bats and Spidey have the motherbox, so locating him and reaching any location he is in (via boomtube) should not be a problem. Finally, if they do fight, Spider-Man tells Batman to grab some popcorn as he proceeds to single handedly beat the stuffing out of him. The webhead would be able to anticipate all of his moves (spidersense), has super strength/reflexes (10 tons) as well as genius level intellect. Either that or a more powerful member on my team handles this. === Till next round . .