Adventure: Next!
 (Acknowledgment to the producers of the Teen Titans 'Rigged Results'· module for DC Heroes gaming.  It would make a pretty decent comic book story.  So it's kind of ironic that I turned it into a story and then back into an adventure.  But, naturally, I had to make the villains a lot tougher so Ellipsis wouldn't just breeze through it...) 
Laura Greene is visiting New York City to look for employment.  (She's a liberal arts major, and hopes to work for the cause of the Gospel.  Pickings are slim.) But while she's there, chaos strikes the city.  A large wave ('tidal wave") strikes New York harbor from the sea.  The wave strikes up New York Bay, causing the most damage at the piers of Bayonne and southern Manhattan.  Policemen of New York City are overwhelmed, and damage goes far into the west side of Manhattan Island, according to television.  Laura decides she has-to intervene.  She assumes her identity as Morningstar, and takes to the streets of lower Manhattan.  There is much civil disorder there.  She spends time helping the police to cope with it.
She goes Into one place, and confronts several looters.  But they fall before her, like puppets with strings cut!  Laura remembers: this is the city of Ellipsis!  He's probably in action today.
Laura Greene knew Ellipsis from the first.  He always led the Balance capably, and they have deep bonds with him.  But Laura noticed him turning away from his life's path during his final months with the team.  Ellipsis almost embraced the Lord's salvation at one point - but soon after he was attacking street preachers! 
Laura shudders briefly: she remembers Ellipsis in action in this city, the last time she was here.  
Terrorists had taken much of Manhattan Island hostage, and Ellipsis conducted his own reprisal.  It was a rampage! Ellipsis struck directly to the heart of the menace, destroyed it - and disappeared' The Balance, which had also intervened that night, was left to clean up, and protect the innocent in the wake of Ellipsis.  
Since that night they've only seen him twice.  Once they had to fight him before he submitted to government investigation.  The other time he rescued them from Domesday - heedless of their lives, apparently!  Does he still hate them? 
 Laura hoped never to confront Ellipsis again.  And this is his city! 
 His city... It must be God's city too, then; God is superior to Ellipsis!  Laura continues up the street, trusting In her Lord.  
A restaurant proprietor notices her1and gets her to investigate a hostage crisis in his restaurant.  She goes in, and confronts the terrorists.  As she does they fall.  Ellipsis again.  
Laura then starts to calm the hostages - but she is shot!  One terrorist was immune to Ellipsis' mental power!  It is a stun pistol; Laura struggles to recover.  
Ellipsis is above, monitoring the results of his action.  What the bloody hell ••• Morningstar is present - and has taken damage!  He knows that his home city could use Morningstar's help; he decides to intervene.  
Ellipsis enters the restaurant through its picture window on the street, and shoots a force bolt at the terrorist.  The terrorist absorbs it.  
Laura knows he must be there! She thinks at Ellipsis: "He didn't respond to your mind power, Stephen!”· Ellipsis responds: "He must be shielded.  Has happened before.' 
The terrorist proclaims: "My masters armed me against you, Ellipsis!" He shoots a force bolt from his palm.  Ellipsis casually responds, 'Giant Wow," and absorbs the bolt.  
In thought, though: 'Morningstar: if you remove him from here, I shall neutralize him.' Laura -tries, but the terrorist doesn't respond to her telekinesis.  The conclusion: ·”Stephen - he's not organic!”
"Not organic. - of course! Shield us from the humans!' Ellipsis charges the terrorist - and flies right through him, disintegrating his midsection.  The remainder explodes.  But Laura's force field protects the hostages.  
Ellipsis states out loud, "May I be cursed as a novice! It's an android!' 

The pol ice are looking for Ellipsis.  There's a citywide crisis that goes beyond all this looting, and the Mayor wants them to bring Ellipsis to help.  Ellipsis goes, along with Morningstar.  
It was the Mayor's idea.  There are superhumans behind this attack and the New York police can't deal with them.  And the Mayor can't afford to give in to them.  Bringing Ellipsis in on this is a desperate idea, but it's the best idea he has.  
Morningstar, as always is ready to help.  The Mayor, of course, is relieved to find that someone from the Balance (U.S.  Government Approved) is willing to save the day for New York City.  But Ellipsis, unlike the Balance, considers this to be a mutual assistance treaty between him and humankind, and negotiates-a deal with the Mayor.  
The deal isn't too harsh: after all, Stephen Wolcott has been threatened along with the rest of humankind.  
That night Ellipsis and Morningstar stand alone on a pier in lower Manhattan, holding .between them a heavy chest full of false diamonds.  
Two hands come from nowhere, grab the chest, and disappear with it! 
Ellipsis tries to sense where the hands came from, and finds nothing - except for someone trying to jam his senses! He starts to try to break the jam.  
Then a mighty CAW! comes forth! The Raven Gaunt, atop a building overlooking them, has seen the villains take the chest.  
(Morningstar, while still in the Mayor's office, called the rest of the Balance in on this.  Everyone but the Mighty Tim showed up.  
(Jon, the Raven Gaunt, doesn't trust Ellipsis.  Ellipsis had it all: a good life, power, and friends.  How could he want to throw it aside? 
(Tom Juergens, the Forward Observer and Decimator, is more trusting – at least of Ellipsis.  He knows how it is to have mental problems, like Ellipsis had.  And Ellipsis helped him through his own.  
(And Ellipsis and his wife, without the knowledge of Morningstar or the Mighty Tim, fought alongside FOAD and the Raven Gaunt to rescue the Mighty Tim from extradimensionals.  That's the main reason why those two trust Ellipsis while the Mighty Tim doesn't.  When Morningstar asked them to come to New York, they came.  The Mighty Tim had other things to do, and was reluctant to come, even when FOAD got mad at him for not wanting to help EllipsIs.  
(The Mighty Tim is rethinking his position.) 

The Raven, with FOAD, takes off toward a warehouse.  Ellipsis breaks off the psi war and follows , with Morningstar behind him.
The Raven circles over the warehouse.  Ellipsis dives in with Morningstar behind him.  

Ellipsis (warning Morningstar to stay back and protect herself) explodes with force, quickly subduing most of those within the warehouse.  There's  still resistance near the sea dock: psi and energy.  But it's only transitory; it tapers off. 
FOAD, on the landward side, subdues a mob boss and two armored protectors as they try to escape from the warehouse.  
The Raven Gaunt, patrolling the seaward side , sees a motorboat escape.  He tries to stop it, but is himself stopped by an invisible shield before the boat.  While wondering what to do, he's called back to the warehouse.  
Ellipsis despite himself, has assumed his traditional role as coordinator of the Balance.  Despite themselves, the Balance accept his leadership (so long as their real leader is absent, at least).  They fly together after the motorboat.  
Their opponents on the boat are three aliens from one alien world.  They are: Caladria, the greatest telepath and telekinetic of the world.
Gron, the strongest warrior of the world.
Death Angel, the one which the world could never allow.  
This is the second world they've come upon in their exile.  They're just coming up to speed here.  And they notice, among their enemies, one who looks like him who humbled their master at the first world they tried to conquer.  

The fight shapes up as follows: Ellipsis and Morningstar vs. Caladria.  Caladria asks Ellipsis: "Are you the so-called DoomBreaker?' 
'So called by whom?' 
Ellipsis can tell nothing from Ca1adria's mind - except that she is from the Galaxy.  
The Earthlings get the advantage, sort of: Ellipsis neutralizes Caiadria's mental powers vs. his own.  But Ellipsis sees things going on, and leaves Morningstar against Caladria for a telekinetic duel.  Caladria gloats at Morningstar's being abandoned, but Morningstar responds, "He must think I can beat you.  And he usually knows what he's doing." 
Gaunt the Raven against Death Angel.  Death Angel is the deadliest of the aliens, and slices one wing of the Raven clean off.  Ellipsis comes over to reinforce.  
(By the way: Death Angel's emblem is 'Down Arrow' overlaid with wings, which roughly means Death overlaid with Flying in his language.)
FOAD vs. Gron.  With Caladria and Death Angel otherwise occupied, FOAD jumps onto the escape ship and fights Gron.  Gron is enormously powerful and swings a weenie good axe (a wicked good axe, excuse me), but that's all he does.  He never hits FOAD - but he does manage to destroy the escape ship.  Gron and FURD flounder about for a bit.  
Death Angel knows of the one who defeated his master, and intends to test the power of this one who dresses like him.  He attacks Ellipsis with all his power, yelling, "Die, OoomBreaker!'.  
Ellipsis manages to redirect this power, plus his own, to down Death Angel.  (The attendant pyrotechnics light the sky like full sunlight.)  Death Angel falls into the water.  (FOAD goes to the Raven Gaunt, and keeps him afloat.  Gron does likewise to the Death Angel.) 
Ellipsis turns back to Morningstar vs. Caladria.  The alien has won; Morningstar mumbles, 'I'm sorry...i tried...”  Thought images form unbidden in Ellipsis's mind: She would be dead, except she fought honorably with respectable power and so was spared.  
 Ellipsis remembers the last battle he was in which was this desperate.  Captain Gonzo died that night.  
At that moment, the Mighty Tim arrives aboard a Coast Guard cutter, spouting flame against all enemies of the Balance.  Caladria (prudently) drops Morningstar and evacuates with Gron and-Death Angel.  
 Ellipsis mentally contacts the Mighty Tim - tersely.  The danger is great; Ellipsis must pursue it and fight it as best he can.  He welcomes assistance from the Balance.  but real zes at least half of them need a hospital.
So the Mighty Tim turns back, with Morningstar and the Raven Gaunt.  FOAD stays with the Coast Guard.  Ellipsis goes on against the enemy.

The enemy has a platform out the Ambrose Channel, where most New York harbor traffic goes.  On that platform, three aliens stand silent among the milling humans.  But among themselves they talk.  "He comes.”· 
"He is the DoomBreaker " 
"But-I have not fought him yet!”
"You will have your chance ••• someday.”
Ellipsis has found the platform, and knows the deadline must be near.  So, on general principle, he destroys every pillar that platform has against the ocean floor.  
A large wave rises as the station sinks into the ocean.  
Ellipsis is momentarily worried: the wave is coming from beyond the station (somehow), and is coming toward land! But the wave covers the station and not much else.
Among the sinking villains he finds only humans.  
He thinks: The wave would have been much more powerful, with an alien telekinetic to make a channel for it.  
So why did the aliens leave? 
Afterward, Ellipsis meets with the Mighty Tim.  Tim is by Morningstar's bedside, with FOAD nearby.  The doctors thought Morningstar would be paralyzed for life!  Morningstar s power stone thought otherwise.
Ellipsis states: "Is good you came when you did.  There were three evils here, no two of which I could have withstood by myself.”
What's more, he has some idea where the evils come from.  They referred to the title "DoomBreaker" as they fought him.  Ellipsis has been called by that title only by aliens: the ones he saved from the nearly omnipotent conqueror Urr!  He has no idea why the evils would be here, other than revenge.
Ellipsis, contemplating how he would fare against three evils (or more) by himself, tells his former teammates about his space adventure and declares his inability to resist the threat by himself, Mighty Tim responds! "You don't have to, Steve, The Balance is here.”
Ellipsis thinks for a moment, and states, "If I am to fight beside you, Jet us be one team again." 
Mighty Tim, FOAD, and Morningstar (from her Sickbed) grasp his hand to confirm his oath.