November Falling (Plot)

Summary: Vex is a talented doctor and inventor previously know as Vanessa Exeter. Her husband of 6 years was involved in a car crash and was being rushed to a New York hospital in an ambulance when the EMP blast hit the city one year ago. He died before he could reach the emergency ward and Vex blamed the Champions for her loss.

Vex plans to take revenge on the Champions and the world as a whole. She has forulated a plan to steal an aircraft and take over a lighter-than-air US weapons platform called November 6, in order to show the impotence of the Champions and destroy several large cities. To cover her tracks she has devised several 'distractions' which will take place at the same time as the theft and delay the Champions.

To this end Vex has constructed a powerful teleportation device, and recruited help from several other super villains, some seeking glory and others revenge!


November Falling

The Council of Champions had reformed to combat new menaces to global security. Their reforming created a groundswell of renewed public attention and adoration. Spook meanwhile, disconsolate about his involvement in Legion’s plan (see The High Price of Spandex) had left the group to ponder his future.

Captain Hope and Professor Eternity had reconciled and together with their son, 6 year old Daniel Hope, were about to begin their wedding rehearsal in the Rose Garden at the White House. As the rest of the Champions were preparing to take their places at the rehearsal, the proceedings were interrupted by the arrival of a FLASH message, delivered by Col. Williams, alerting them of four incdients currently in progress.

1- A disturbance at the US Mint in Philidephia
2 - A runway incursion at Andrews Air Force Base
3 -An alarm at the UN Secretary General's residence in New York
4 - A robbery in progress by super villains at the Chase-Manhatten bank in New York


The Champions decided to tackle the bank robbery first. Some initial surveillance revealed that the super villains were currently in the bank. Jack-o-Lantern (Powers: Self Illumination) and Yoga Master (Powers: Self Levitation) were in the lobby threatening hostages while Magna-tic (Powers: Mild-Magnetism) was in the vault helping himself to cash. Ignoring the large modern sculpture, under construction outside, the Champions hurried in and rapidly overpowered the villains whose powers turned out to be extremely weak.

Just as they began to wonder at the ease of their victory the ‘sculpture’ outside began to hum ominously and abruptly the champions were hurled into another dimension…

They found themselves in the midst of a bank robbery, just as before, only they now seemed to be in the midst of subduing staff and guards. As the Champions began apologising and returning the cash they found stuffed in their large carry bags a loudhailer outside crackled to life and Iron Cross of the Justice League told them that they were surrounded and they should immediately let the hostages leave.

Eternity deduced that the sculpture at the bank had, in fact, been a machine which had locked onto their genetic signatures and teleported them to an alternate dimension where the Council of Champions were Super Villains, and the Super Villains were heroes!

Now fugitives from justice the Champions fled the bank and hid while Professor Eternity scrounged parts to create a machine to return them to their own reality with only a minimal time lag.

Upon returning the Champions hurried to the Secretary General’s apartment. Finding his security detail having apparently shot one another they proceeded to the Penthouse apartment.

In darkened corridors, with light bulbs removed and drapes drawn they were hunted by Silhouette and super-villainess who lives in shadow with the power to change and enhance emotions. After a lengthy battle (with each other) the Champions rescue the Secretary General and nuetralise Silhouette.

Once the Council has completed the 4 leads they receive an urgent briefing from General Cleveland of the 89th Air Wing.

The Boeing 707 that was stolen from Andrews is a specialist aircraft designed to dock with and re-supply the Composite Hull High Altitude Powered Platform (CHHAPP) known as November 6.

November 6 has lost contact with the Strategic Air Command 15 minutes ago, soon after they reported that the re-supply plane was approaching.

November 6 has a crew of 12 and has a payload of 20 AGM Maverick ‘s and 10 AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles with nuclear Payloads.

The Council must find November 6, which has disappeared from radar, board it and take it back.

Aboard November 6 the Champions confront Vex, who has constructed power armour capable of unleashing terrible blasts of power, and Captain Despair, an evil version of Captain Hope from an alternate dimesnion (where the Champions had previously been teleported). As the battle rages aboard the craft Vex sets the platform to crash into a city far below and only quick thinking by the Champions can save the day.