…cute, but way sticky
Yo! Power Suit Week continues! Two posts below! I’m off to bed cos 3:45 AM is gonna hit me hard!
The Doclopedia #31
Power Suits: The Stealth Suit
The Stealth Suit was invented by that noted French gadgeteer known only as “Z”, who from 1919 to 1940 would invent amazing devices and then leave them out for people to find. His reason for doing this? “To see what happens next!”
Many of the things “Z” built were of limited, but spectacular use, such as the Albinism Bomb and the 500 gallon vat of Super Grease that had the people of Nice slipping and falling for nearly a month. The Stealth Suit, however, was a different kettle of bouillabaisse. It was spectacular to see (or is that not see?) in use and those uses were many, because…
1: It renders the wearer almost totally silent.
2:The strange material it’s made of blends in with any background instantly
3: It has no smell and lets no smell on the inside escape, even though the suit is well ventilated.
4: The helmet allows one to see and hear with much greater power than normal.
5: It’s pretty much bullet and knife proof.
Physically, the suit looks not unlike an old fashioned divers suit, but a bit tighter fitting and with a much smaller helmet. There is no obvious power source.
The Stealth Suit was first left in a park on the south side of Paris in 1927. It was found by a petty thief whose name we do not know, but who soon cut a wide swath through the homes of the wealthy. He seemed to enjoy stealing as much as he could while everyone was home or, better yet, while a big party was going on. At one point, he was #1 on the French most wanted list.
At some point in 1930, the suit fell into the hands of a woman who had been abused by men for most of her life. Once she found out what it did, she felt empowered to kill her husband…and her ex-husband…and her father, three brothers, priest and 28 other men. For two years, France was held in a grip of terror as she left a trail of dead and mutilated bodies across the country. Eventually she was caught while not wearing the suit, but broke free of the police and jumped in front of a bus, dying instantly and taking the location of the suit with her.
As near as anyone can tell, the suit was next used by Robert Delone, who began using it so he could spy on people of interest and then sell his information to the proper agencies. He was very successful and became invaluable during World War 2, going so far as to travel to Berlin and spy on high level Nazi meetings. After the war, Delone revealed himself to the government and was awarded the highest civilian honors. But by then, he had also given the suit to somebody else.
Since then, the Stealth Suit has been passed from person to person. It left France in 1951 and has been known to have been used in Italy, Greece, Turkey, the UK, Norway, Brazil, the USA, Canada and Australia. Sometimes it gets used for good, sometimes for evil and sometimes just to raise a bit of hell.
.
.
The Doclopedia #32
Power Suits: HeroSkin
First off, it should be HeroSkins, plural, because there are like, a dozen of them out there. And, like, it ain’t always HERO skin. I mean, where do you think villains like Mr. Molten come from?
Anyway, dude, this is what I found out about the HeroSkin deal after I hacked some CIA computer that was posing as a Department of Agriculture mainframe.
1: It’s way certain that these skins came from the future. They found some sort of strange Treklike temporal anomaly near where the first one was found. No, dude, not a wormhole, but a small area where time passed really fast for a couple days. Then it was like, gone and shit.
2: The skins are fucking alive and intelligent! No shit! Remember that hero chick called Blond Flame? Turns out that she was really this hotass milf from Petaluma who found the skin in her backyard one day. She told the feds that it called to her using telepathy and made her put it on. Then she just changed into Blond Flame and went out and started kicking criminal ass. How fucking cool is that? The bummer is, after about a month, the skin had her put it in a box and
take it to San Jose. She can’t remember exactly where she dropped it off, but a few days later, that super called Leaping Lizard appeared.
3: Dude, the skin totally fixes up any shit you have wrong with you! That guy back in Ohio called Stretcho? He was a 45 year old farmer who had cancer and had lost his right thumb in an accident when he was 8. But after the skin left him, his cancer was fucking GONE and his thumb had grown back! Dude, that is some serious Wolverine level shit right there.
4: The same skin can make you a hero or a villain! They know that because the guy who used to be Rock Hard gave the skin he wore to some chick who turned into Auntie Matters!
5: Nobody at the CIA or anywhere has a fucking clue what the skins are up to. I know, I know…big surprise that the government is clueless. Me, I think the suits are setting up conditions so that they’ll get created in the future.
Ok, so I’m like, outta here. If you wanna meet up for pizza & beer later, text me.
The Dociverse Blog 