The Waking Nightmare is Over (1/22/22)

For the last 16 months I have been under the control of Hydra, they had me under some sort of spell which has made me do unspeakable evils to help the Nazis in their efforts of global domination. It is only now that the spell has broken that my memories are rushing back to me, it seems that the last 16 months have been a nightmare, where I was not in control of my own thoughts. It all started when I was sent on a deep cover operation into Germany, for over a year I performed a handful of operations that were undermining Nazi, and often more specifically Hydra operations. It would seem they eventually grew sick of me, and sent Karen Bellatrix to put a leash on me, as I was more useful alive than dead. What happened next is rather fuzzy, as I would much rather not remember all that I was forced to do while under mind control. There are a few things that I do remember them forcing me to do while enslaved.
 
The first thing they did was force me to abuse the trust of my contacts all across the world who once helped me put a stop to Nazi operations, and with my abilities I manipulated them into unwittingly helping Hydra. I imagine this has put quite a stain on my reputation, a matter which I will need to correct.
Secondly, they had me put a stop to some super soldier program, we were trying to create a "Captain America", and under Hydra control, I killed him, and destroyed all of their research, and killed the scientist working on the project. Unfortunately for Steve Rogers, he was having a very unlucky day, and my Luck powers caused the technology designed to supercharge him, to malfunction, and turn him into a cooked thanksgiving turkey instead. And finally the biggest thing I remember them having me do, is breaking into a top secret French metahuman research facility, I killed anyone who got in my way, but mostly used my Charming and Fading powers to remain undetected, I then stole a large amount of their research on Metahumans and delivered it right into the hands of Hydra, which also unfortunately included a list of some of the known French metahumans.
 
After proving myself as a valuable asset, Hydra assigned me to a team of other Scions. Had fate not brought us together, I seriously doubt that our team would ever have come together naturally. Skyla Holmes is the leader of a group, someone who I always saw as a pet of Karen, a "favorite child", even under mind control I couldn't take her seriously, as I always saw her as just some kid, and a rather bossy arrogant Ascendant. I also don't trust Parker Peter, or is it "Man Spider", it didn't take mind control to make him an obsessive monster, who seems to be deeply enthralled with his lover Karen, but damn is that monster run fast, he is certainly the stuff of nightmares, which is rather ironic as it would seem he is rather easy to scare. "Jeff" on the other hand is someone I can respect, although perhaps he needs to work on his sense of humor, he is not someone I would want to cross. "Egor" is also someone that I like, although I think he is a bit of a coward, and strange, of course, I wouldn't want to make him angry. As for Desdemona, she is a woman that I hold a deep respect for, while I couldn't remember Miranda while under mind control, I clearly have an affinity for ice cold bitches. I don't get along well with Amena Shrike, or "Blue Lotus" as she prefers to go by, while she isn't someone I would cross, I can't stand her Ascendant arrogance.
 
However it is in the last set operations that our team has embarked on that my memory is most clear on. Karen sent us to an Egyptian museum in Egypt, our goal was to find some strange stone that was to be used by Skyla. We scoped the place out during the day, though the group of clowns that we are, couldn't help but arouse attention, but in the end we managed to locate a secret compartment on some sort of fancy pedestal, but we weren't going to do anything in broad daylight, instead we would come back tonight. Our obstacle was one lonely guard at the front desk, I was ready to charm him to let us past, when Skyla instead took charge, she tried to play lost teenager on the guard, but Skyla really bungled things up, and confused me as much as the guard. Eventually she managed to convince the guard help her make a call to try and "find" her parents, I attempted to charm the guard telling him to fall asleep before they left, but unfortunately he resisted my powers. But then Egor took charge of the situation and taunted the guard to chase him out of the museum, of course, to call it a chase would be laughable, as Egor a slow lumbering man. Finally we were able to make it inside the museum.
 
As we prepared to take the artifact, I had a bad feeling about the mummy coffins. So I decided to hold the rear, but Amena called me a coward for hiding in the back, I decided to ignore her. The spider rushed ahead with great speed and took out the artifact. But as soon as he did, the mummies came to life. Amena tried to run away in terror, but the doors locked behind us, I found that rather amusing. The spider also seemed to tremble slightly at the emergence of the mummies, but came back with a vengeance, brutalizing the closest mummy before running onto the ceiling, so the mummies were unable to attack him, but were all clearly interested in the stone he stole. But while the spider sat on the ceiling the fear set in, and it looked as though he was going to piss himself at the sight of the mummies! Desdemona then began to tear through the mummies with her claws, and tail, don't get on the assassin's bad side. Jeff ground pounded another one with his flaming fist. I blasted the last mummy to total dust with my shotgun.
 
With the mummies destroyed we managed to leave the museum. And we reported back to Karen. Skyla used the fancy stone that we got to locate our next objective, which would require us to fly to Italy, and more specifically to look for another artifact in Pompeii that would let us access the land of Olympus in Greece. We are quite the globe trotters this operation. But before we could perform our operation, Karen cut us a secret deal with Mussolini, he wanted us to put the pain on the mafia, a task which our group readily completed, our group certainly did a massive amount of damage to the Italian mafia. I am certain that is something we might come to regret later. The first thing I did is cause a mobster to have the worst luck imaginable, while filling up his gas tank at a gas station, he was smoking, I caused him to sneeze just perfectly, which caused his cigar to ignite the gas, blowing up the entire gas station. The next thing I did was charm a mobster to lead me right to his leader, I teleported in right behind his boss and assassinated him, killing all of his inner circle quickly after, as they tried to react in the sudden chaos and shock.
 
Now that we left the mafia in ruins, we were ready to head to Pompeii, and as agreed, not a soul was in sight. We explored some ancient temple and found a secret underground river which lead to an ancient treasure chamber full of strange arcane energy that I could deeply feel. Though there were of course traps, I wasn't expecting living jello to come after us. I wanted to reach the treasure before anyone else could, but while Jeff ran straight into a green cube, which left him completely helpless, I purposefully teleported straight into some blue cube, in stung a little but I was left unphased, I grabbed a fancy looking spear and teleported back out again. The rest of the party took action, they all tried to save Jeff from the green cube, but it would seem they were sturdy masses of jello, and tommy gun fire seemed to bounce right off of them. In the end Desdemona popped the green cube. I then went in to try and pop the blue cube with my shotgun, and I certainly left it riddled with holes, then Egor blasted it with a ray of light, and the cube exploded!
 
The party examined the treasure after the fight, Egor got some magic shield, Desdemona a magic sword. I apparently found the Spear of Mars (Keen, Elemental (Celestial Fire), and Vicious), a beautiful spear. The party also let me hold onto a golden statue of Zeus. A rather curious object to be sure. I don't mind that the best party members got all of the cool items.
 
Our next task was to compete in the Olympics, while I may not be the most Athletic person, I used my luck to skew things in my favors, allowing me to win more than a couple of gold medals. Skyla seemed to be rather annoyed when I beat her at the archery contest. While at the Olympics we met Tony the tiger, another Hydra agent, under mind control, but the mafia managed to capture him. But it was too late, we needed to press on wards. By beating the Olympics Zeus showed us the path to the realm of Olympus, after traversing some strange cave the Zeus statue transformed into a key, which opened a gateway to another plane, quite handy. In this new realm we found our new home, a magical home that would tend to all our of needs. But in it we also found a strange passage into the Tartarus, which we of course opened, we had to fight some demon monster, and then we managed to unleash some dark force into the world, oops. But in so doing, the spell on our minds was broken for good! We were finally free! In this house we also found the tesseract, a very powerful artifact, that which also happened to store some woman named Tessa. Who was trying to keep the demons locked up, again, my bad.
 
But now it was up to us to decide our fates, we have this realm of Olympus seemingly to ourselves to use as we please, and now that we have our lives back, our group needed to discuss our next plan. We tried to argue who should be the leader of the group, I stayed quite, and overall it seems for now that no one is the true leader of our group, at least for now. More importantly, what should we do next? For me I would say that the first order of business is trying to repair the damage Hydra did to our lives, fight for the years we lost back, and more importantly kill Karen and all the rest of those Hydra bastards. We also discovered that the Zeus statue is a shape shifting key that can take the door to Olympus with us, a very useful feature. I of course volunteered to keep hold of the object, though the group quickly objected to my plan, I simply felt I was the best equipped to watch over it. Instead we argued, and came to the decision that we would all take turns watching over any powerful objects that our group takes control of, and never are we allowed to have both the Tesseract and the key. Which I agreed was a fine decision. Besides, now that I've spent some time in this plane, I can always travel here if I wish.
 
After getting some time to ponder after the group broke to explore our new magical home, to claim our own rooms and what not, I looked around, this plane of Olympus would be perfect for beginning my grand plan of establishing my own spy/military organization. Of course, I am not so sure the group would be on board with my plans, so perhaps I will instead consider other planes to construct a secret base on, I will only need to determine how I can make permanent or transportable gateways between these planes, much like our special key to Olympus, I will have to spend some time studying the artifact in an attempt to learn how to create copies of my own.