Justice Guild Cutaway: Robotwoman- One Woman's Mettle
Apr 26, 2022 0:08:58 GMT
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 26, 2022 0:08:58 GMT
Earth-109 had its own cohort of newly emergent metahumans in the early sixties as did many other alternate Earths. Here, however, arbitrary and cruel fate led to a string of random events and chance that culminated in the obscenity of nuclear holocaust on October 28, 1962. Across the world, ICBMs thundered through the stricken ionosphere and stratosphere and descended like satanic wrath and fury as they exterminated innocent men and women in their millions that dark evening. But even amongst the turmoil and suffering, women and men of courage and valour made a difference. This is the story of one of them- Robotwoman.
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Christine Steele had been one of her world's few female racecar drivers when a near-fatal accident all but destroyed most of her body. Robotics genius Doctor William Magnus had transferred her brain into a cyborg chassis and thus was born Earth-109's first...and last...cyborg metahuman hero, Robotwoman.
But those thoughts lay in the past as she stumbled across the desolate terrain on the outskirts of Detroit. Although her body was immune and impervious to distant nuclear fire, Christine Steele's innards were not. Abandoning the ruined laboratory of her mentor and friend Doctor Magnus, who had been caught in the open and vaporised, Christine Steele was making for the US/Canadian border, amidst failing and disintegrating internal circuitry and fusing, increasingly unresponsive bodily systems. And then she heard it, weeping and screams from a collapsed building. Her infrared sensor vision saw a trapped family and then she realised. No, she could not let this stand. Even if it meant her own end. And thus, with the last of her cybernetic strength, Robotwoman tore debris and collapsed terrain asunder, even as she fought her failing, fusing robot body. She would not let it stop her, even if that meant that her own existence would end.
And it did, but she had saved a Detroit family from asphyxiation and certain death that evening, and cheated the Reaper. But then her own sensors and circuitry failed and Christine Steele died. However, she had the benefit of knowing that her sacrifice had not been in vain and that lives had been saved, even at the cost of her own. The grateful survivors took Robotwoman's inert body with them across the US/Canadian border before the northern nation adopted its triage policy and closed the border to American refugees days later.
Was it unfair that Robotwoman had only been able to operate as a hero for a matter of days before she was overtaken by an apocalypse that she had not wished for? Perhaps, but in her brief existence, she saved others, even at the cost of her own existence and survival and that is the true mark of heroism.
THE END
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Christine Steele had been one of her world's few female racecar drivers when a near-fatal accident all but destroyed most of her body. Robotics genius Doctor William Magnus had transferred her brain into a cyborg chassis and thus was born Earth-109's first...and last...cyborg metahuman hero, Robotwoman.
But those thoughts lay in the past as she stumbled across the desolate terrain on the outskirts of Detroit. Although her body was immune and impervious to distant nuclear fire, Christine Steele's innards were not. Abandoning the ruined laboratory of her mentor and friend Doctor Magnus, who had been caught in the open and vaporised, Christine Steele was making for the US/Canadian border, amidst failing and disintegrating internal circuitry and fusing, increasingly unresponsive bodily systems. And then she heard it, weeping and screams from a collapsed building. Her infrared sensor vision saw a trapped family and then she realised. No, she could not let this stand. Even if it meant her own end. And thus, with the last of her cybernetic strength, Robotwoman tore debris and collapsed terrain asunder, even as she fought her failing, fusing robot body. She would not let it stop her, even if that meant that her own existence would end.
And it did, but she had saved a Detroit family from asphyxiation and certain death that evening, and cheated the Reaper. But then her own sensors and circuitry failed and Christine Steele died. However, she had the benefit of knowing that her sacrifice had not been in vain and that lives had been saved, even at the cost of her own. The grateful survivors took Robotwoman's inert body with them across the US/Canadian border before the northern nation adopted its triage policy and closed the border to American refugees days later.
Was it unfair that Robotwoman had only been able to operate as a hero for a matter of days before she was overtaken by an apocalypse that she had not wished for? Perhaps, but in her brief existence, she saved others, even at the cost of her own existence and survival and that is the true mark of heroism.
THE END