>>6001700Meloka doesn't answer, instead swinging her blade and firing two dozenish Ki Needles directly at the box. Only for a crimson shield to appear around it, unfamiliar symbols and characters swimming through the shield. To your surprise her needles shatter against that shield, you glancing over to see her jaw drop in surprise. Neither of you have seen her attack fail like that before, completely fail to penetrate a target on hit.
“Resistance is futile. Submit, and serve the great Lord Darkseid. Or die.” it says, you snarling.
“I've had enough of Darkseid's cowardice!” you roar, storming forward. The box tries to fire some sort of beam from its crimson core, but the energy deflects off your Energy Body. Undeterred you march straight up to the box, reaching out and trying to grab it through that shield. But the shield stops you at your touch, the barrier solid. So, with a furious snarl reach out with your other hand as well, squeezing the shield with all your might. “GRRRAAAAAA!!”
As you roar you give it everything you've got, trying to crush the energy shield in your hands. At first, and for several seconds there's no give, but then you hear it. You FEEL it.
<span class="mu-i">CRACK</span>
“Impossible!” comes the voice, several of the wires coming free, trying to lash you. But your wife's blades make quick work of them, cutting away everything that tries to even get close to you. “You cannot stop Lord Darkseid!”
“GRRRAAAAAAA!!” you roar, lifting your restraints again and exerting even more force. Releasing your full power you begin crushing the shield, cracks spider-webbing across its surface. Your power distorts the shield, squeezing it down from a spherical to an oval shape, more and more cracks breaking out across it. And with a final, definitive shatter the shield buckles and breaks completely.
“GOT YOU!” your wife shouts, immediately firing several Death Slashes from her blades, cutting the wires away as your hands close on the box itself. As you grab it, the lights all go out, the hum of systems immediately going offline. You've done it.
But what now?
>Crush the box now, if it broke free of Arctus' control before it can do so again>Teleport over to Arctus with the box, hand it over and return to the party. They can handle the rest>Telepathically reach out to Arctus, tell him you've got it and ask what he wants done with it>Other(write in) 