[Friday, October 10th. 7 PM] [Our heroes find thmselves in the lobby of a police station, opposite a fivesome of recently obtained adversaries. All around them, police officers skirmish with Axe Effect goons, and small fires and holes in the floor mark where explosions seem to have occured.] [ChakRam grins widely as he regards the lot of you. "We all underestimated you, we must admit. You all got the better of us." Grenadeer idly tosses and catches a grenade. "But this, my dears, is a different matter entirely."] [Dog Pilum nods gravely. "You face not a single canine, but the entire pack." Mac the Knife smirks viciously. "There ain't no way you can stand up to..."] [Ugg steps forward, and bellows. "... THE LEAGUE OF GUYS (AND ONE GIRL) WHAT THROW ASSORTMENT OF THINGS AT HEADS OF PEOPLE WHAT OPPOSE THEM!"] [The other four *stare* at Ugg, who shoots a look back. "Ugg still say that better name than 'Kitchen Cinqo'."] [ChakRam sighs, and the five of them start to spread out across the room to meet you. "Regardless. Now you all die, and we all get paid enough to retire on."] [Session Start!] * Mizuki lets out a quiet groan at their antics before replying to them, her staff firmly gripped in both hands, "The odds have not changed in the slightest, your naming problems nonwithstanding." * Christian rubs his head above his glasses, looking plenty put out by this whole situation. "Ya *see*?! See what I had to put up with. God. I so wanna murder him right now." He then looks at the villains. "Hey, you wouldn't mind, right? As a retirement present?" * Horus snerks. "Like they'd retire anyway," she comments as she moves for cover. Course they're gonna retire. We're gonna retire 'em right now, ain't we? ["Ugg would very much mind! Ugg going to be Senator one day, and dead people only vote, not run"] * Jacqueline 's eyes move sidelong towards Christian as she dryly says, "And now, you understand how it begins." [Mac the Knife leaps at Redcoat, brandishing a pair of daggers in his left hand. "You'll pay for ruining my autographed shirt! I'll stain your pretty coat with your blood!" Before anyone can consider the implications of his promise to stain REDCOAT with blood, the floor collapses beneath the two of them, dropping them into the basement below!] * Christian cracks his knuckles. "You kinda forgot what I did to your face last time, didntcha?" He then responds quietly to the group. "If we can get 'em all together, it'd work better. Cover me." He then rushes quickly at Ugg and appears in front of him in an instant, smashing his elbow into his pretty face. [Ugg doesn't react in time, and reels back as he takes the elbow right on the jaw. Meanwhile, ChakRam sends a bladed ring spinning towards Horus!] * Horus flits to one side, avoiding the ring without any problems. "I see your aim didn't improve any." [ChakRam curses.] [Dog Pilum steps forward and, with a loud howl, flings a javalin at Mizuki!] * Mizuki easily floats to the side of his throw, glowering at the entire group of villains. [Ugg gathers himself after the hit he took from Christian, picks up a heavy metal desk like it was made of paper, and throws it at Christian's head!] * Christian takes a desk in the head and has a bleeding lip, which he wipes with the back of his hand. "I see your goddamned annoying moves haven't changed any." * Jacqueline flicks a switch on the side of her wonderful super-science gun as targetting reticles spread out to lock onto Ugg and the GrenaDeer both. "I repeat," she says as her finger cradles the trigger. "Embarassments." With that, she sends a multitude of pretty lasers spiralling and twisting out towards them. [Ugg, occupied as he is throwing things at Christian's head, takes a laser to the side. Grenadeer tries to twist to the side, but gets clipped on the leg; snarling, she throws a grenade at Jacky (and Mizuki) in response!] * Jacqueline is all too willing to dive behind a desk to save her skin and her tailored costume when the grenade bounces along the ground. * Mizuki quickly flies away from the grenade before gesturing with her staff and intoning, The rubble and concrete flooring (and maybe a little of the walls) of the station start to... move, coming together and standing to create a large, slightly lopsided form of building rubble. [The grenade does take out a cop and two Axe Effect goons, however.] * Horus spreads her wings and gestures to Chakram, and he explodes with a pale blue fire. That doesn't look pleasant. [Chakram really needs to work on dodging the 'splodey, 'cause that burns him rather impressively.] * Christian keeps an eye on the group and then Ugg, then runs fast enough to breeze past him (creating enough of a breeze as he goes. As he gets to the other side of him, he swivels around with a clothesline forearm to the chest, this arm of his glowing purple. And *boom*. [Ugg steps *into* the blow, confident that his manly pecs will protect him... and they really, really don't as Christian damn near caves in his chest, sending him flying across the room to land next to Chakram. He just barely makes it to his feet, and looks about ready to fall over.] [ChakRam looks a bit shaken at that, but recovers and tosses a ring crackling with energy at Horus!] * Horus avoids that easily. "Nice toss!" she calls. * Christian gets a bit of a cocky grin after the blow and hehs as he relaxes his stance just a tad. "Think you all bit more off than you can chew, ring boy." [Dog Pilum, meanwhile, pulls out an intricately engraved pilum and throws it at Mizuki!] * Mizuki keeps fly-dodging things that get thrown at her! It's amazing. Her staff actually meets the javelin slightly to deflect it, even. [Ugg stumbles, and leans against a support pillar to keep him standing. "Ugg... still have more throw... left in him..." He turns, rips the 20-foot-tall support pillar from the floor and ceiling, and throws it with a mighty heave towards several of the heroes!] * Christian 's eyes get wide as he gets bowled over by the support pillar, taking it in the chest and goes flying back with the momentum, tumbling towards the rest of the group. * Mizuki gets bowled over too, knocked back behind her kami. The stone hits him and it makes a groaning stone-on-stone noise, but doesn't go any farther. * Jacqueline peeks her head up from the desk somewhat needlessly to check on things, only to bring it right back down again when a freaking pillar comes surging towards her. She doesn't bother sticking it up /again/ after that, content with just pointing her gun up and pulling the trigger. The gun and her goggles know where the lasers should go, and thus they are moving in physics defying fashion towards Ugg and ChakRam. [Ugg, exhausted from the effort of throwing something that big, makes no effort to dodge, and gets nailed in the stomach and goes down, while ChakRam easily sidesteps.] [Grenadeer, meanwhile, throws an EMP grenade towards the grouped heroes!] * Christian looks wounded enough from the blow he took as he gets up on one knee, but manages to roll to the side as he sees the grenade coming, behind some of the debris. * Mizuki gets buffeted by the energy, but it doesn't knock her down. The Kami, meanwhile, just walks through the wave of energy before swinging a massive jagged fist made of rubble at ChakRam. * Jacqueline 's goggles are filled with static as the EMP explosion finds her through her oh so safe wodden barricade, somehow, and sends her rolling forward a short ways in ungainly fashion with a scowl. [ChakRam gets smacked aside by the Rock Kami, and goes skidding across the floor from the force of the blow. He does make it back to his feet, though.] * Horus does her best to keep ChakRam from staying up, as she forms her bow in her hands and fires a hot, bright bolt of light his way. [ChakRam sees that at the last minute, and tries to duck behind another support pillar to get cover, but takes the flaming bolt on his back and reels. He's still standing, but not looking good.] [One of the Axe Effect guys, not busy at the moment, decides to chuck an axe at Jacky!] * Jacqueline just plain shoots that out of the air, scowling that much more when it takes her a few pulls of the trigger to actually get anything to happen. [The Axe Effect guy looks suitably impressed. "Hey, that was awesome!" he exclaims, right before taking a chair upside the head from a police officer.] * Christian grumbles out at Grenadeer. "Hitting guys while they're down is a pretty bitchy thing to do, y'know. Villainous, but bitchy." He runs full speed at Grenadeer and is at her before she can even blink, closelining her and grabbing her as he drags her along top speed to slam her into Dog Pilum. [Grenadeer gets clobbered by Christian, and dragged along as he slams her into Dog Pilum. The two of them go down in a heap, but quickly recover, with Grenadeer looking the shakier of the two.] [ChakRam draws two of his rings, spins them around each wrist, and throws them in separate arcs, converging on Horus!] * Horus moves to avoid the one, then sees another and hesitates just enough to get hit by both, though her aura takes the brunt of the blows. [Dog Pilum draws an obsidian black javalin from his pack, and lobs it at Christian.] * Christian shifts to the side just as the black javelin comes, having it whiz by inches from his face. He doesn't look too pleased at that one. * Jacqueline angrily draws up to her feet and rearranges her jacket and the costume beneath. Her goggles are only fully online again, and the display is sort of grany, but she'll take what she can get; it doesn't prevent her from sending more coherent light twisting towards GrenaDeer and Dog Pilum, certainly. [Grenadeer takes the blast right upside the head, and crumples to the ground. Dog Pilum takes the blast on the thigh, and stumbles back.] [ChakRam spits out some blood, and then glares at the lot of you. "Battle to you, then. War still goes to us, though." And they all disappear in puffs of smoke.] * Christian grumbles. "Fuckin' pissant annoyance goes to you you mean." He looks around the office to see what other cleanup the need to do with the axe stooges. [By this time, the police have mostly turned the tide against the Axe Effect goons, and are cheerfully kicking the crap out of them now that they've realized they helpfully melt into goop.] * Mizuki 's kami, having been denied hitting any of the big five, joins its, er, inhabitants by similarly smashing Axe Effecters. [As the kami wades into the fray, a cop hands it a large chair. The kami stares at the chair for a moment, then seems to shrug and starts smacking Axe Effect goons around with it.] * Mizuki frowns at their disappearance, before saying quietly, "Was that it? Just... a skirmish?" Apparently. * Christian lets out a sigh and then looks for his smokes. "Frankly, I'm getting sick to shit of it." [Suddenly, Redcoat runs back into the building through the main entrance, and tells you all to follow her outside.] * Jacqueline angrily mutters, "There is a certain kind of /acclaim/ in such tactics; ninja employed such stealthy, hit and run maneuvers against the most dangerous of targets as a show of their intended victims' strength." I will still do something terrible to the tart in the deer uniform. Fucking hate that smoke. I'm comin', Red. * Horus moves for the outside. * Jacqueline trudges along outside as well. You and me both. It ain't just that barbarian that pisses me off anymore. * Mizuki smiles a little at her Kami and she murmurs, before she heads to at least the doorway, so she can keep an eye on the kami and the outside. * Christian heads out, sticking the cigarette in his mouth and lighting up as he gets outside. [Redcoat leads you outside, where the cops have similarly turned the tide, albeit with numerous injuries. Daegal is still suplexing Axe Effect goons left and right, though he's pretty well cut up and glowing blue at this point. Stone is similarly cut up, and points towards the SPLEE-NY entrance. "Someone planted a bomb down in our HQ! Bomb squad is ETA ten minutes, and we ain't got that much time!"] * Christian looks at the HQ, then looks at Mizuki and Horus. "How fast can you fly?" Fast. * Christian then calls out to Stone. "Yo. It movement sensitive?" * Jacqueline mutters, "See? They're really quite afraid of us," and then she looks sidelong towards Horus. "How quickly can you fly while carrying me?" ["Damned if I know; I've been out here with these axe douchebags." He turns to Jacky. "Wanna take a look?" ( EDIT +} ) * Mizuki half-smiles, "I think I will defer to the God of the Sky on flight." ( EDIT +] ) * Horus moves over to Jacqueline. "Take my hand, all right?" * Christian grumbles slightly, then turns to Jacky. "If you can disarm it. Otherwise, I can run in there and take it out while Horus flies it outta here." ( EDIT delete Horus' last statement ) Stop talking about this and get in there and try to disarm it. * Jacqueline rolls her eyes as she adjusts the lapels of her coat and briskly walks towards the entrance. "Mind your tone; you aren't /that/ pretty," she snaps in annoyance to Horus. * Christian rolls his eyes, which would be more noticeable without the shades, but heads on in with Jackie without comment. [Jacky heads downstairs! Along with the others, she passes by a few unconcious cops, along with one that appears to be uncontrollably doing the hustle.] * Mizuki doesn't follow immediately, what with her not being able to disable bombs and having an active Kami. Instead, she starts healing up cops the easy way. * Horus stays outside, helping with the fight by blasting waves of axe guys as she waits. [Jacky sees the bomb in the middle of the room, and immediately recognizes it as a powerful EMP device that will essentially reduce all the power armor and high-tech weapons stored in the SPLEE-NY HQ to scrap. She also notices a fairly obvious movement sensor on the device, and a countdown clock that reads 2:17.] * Jacqueline softly sighs as one glance(and a database lookup) tell her all that she needs to know. "An EMP device. How original." [Meanwhile, Mizuki tends to various fallen officers, receiving thanks, plaudits, and offers of dinner for her trouble.] * Christian shrugs. "Ain't one to complain about originality if it's effective, now are they? * Mizuki demures on all of them, although the offers of dinner seem to embarass her. After one such offer she murmurs to herself, * Jacqueline 's heels clack against the ground as she approaches the bomb, and then she crouches beside it. Her fingers move with the gentlest of touches along its sides as she mutters, "Artistry and ingenuity are important parts of life. Even super-life. Proles." Her goggles' reticles are scanning frantically over the bomb all the while to do what comparisons can be done via judicious websearching and the like. [Jacky sees that, to access the innards of the device, she needs to carefully remove a panel so as not to activate the rather sensitive movement sensor.] * Jacqueline shakes a little screwdriver from within the sleeve of her coat, and with its aid she manages to get the panel unsecured and set aside, allowing access to the creamy center within. * Christian waits for Jackie to finish her delicate work, ready to run it away if need be. But he figures that if it was safe to move, Jackie probably would have said so, or her pride is keeping her from saying so. And who wants to deal with that? [Inside, Jacky finds an impressively designed EMP bomb. She can see numerous redundant circuits, and with just a glance see notices at least two false triggering mechanisms that, if disturbed, would cause the device to go off. The counter reads 1:35.] * Jacqueline pinches the bridge of her nose tightly as she looks the insides over and catalogues what is at hand. After taking a few seconds to collect herself she finally says, "There are three more traps to potentially set the bomb off early and ten coloured wires." A beat, a loud sigh. "Really. Multi-coloured wires. /Really/," is muttered. [Indeed, there are wires in Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Black, White, Purple, and Taupe. Apparently, the bombmaker has a fondness for movie cliches.] Really. What would you do then? [But as the clock ticks down to 1:00, something about those wires nags at Jacky...] [Jacky knows she's seen this bomb design before, but can't place it.] * Jacqueline mutters, as she tries to work out some kind of a pattern, "I used a series of solar panels fed by miniature sun lamps timed to flash off and on in time with Beethoven's Third, once; power and communications through the power of machine code all at--well, /that's/ better." Complaints about technique are all well an' good, but I think we're waiting on if you can fuckin' disarm it or not. * Jacqueline slips a finger in to push it through a barely glimpsed microfilament in order to snap its delicate length. "Of course I can disarm it," she says once she does just that. "I am better than the engineer of this thing." * Jacqueline slips a finger in to push it through a barely glimpsed microfilament in order to snap its delicate length. "Of course I can disarm it," she says once she does just that. "I am better than the engineer of this thing." ) [Anticlimactically, the timer stops at 0:27.] * Christian breathes out a breath as he rubs his eyes under the glasses. He looks a bit frustrated. "Actions speak louder than words, y'know. Good job though." He starts to head out at a normal pace. (Actually, should probably be an indication that the bomb is shut off before Christian says that.) * Jacqueline murmurs, "Of course it was," as she slips her screwdriver away and brings her gun to bear. A thin, controlled and continuous stream of energy is fired to be used like a blowtorch in order to try freeing the actual destructive implement from the rest of the device. [Jacky manages to remove the power core and a few other useful bits from the device!] * Jacqueline tucks her prizes under her arm and into her pockets as the case may be, and with a small nose of indignation she marches right out to leave the station. [Jacky and Christian emerge, much to the relief of Stone. "Excellent job, Miss Hyde."] [The fighting outside has ended at this point, with Horus and Redcoat assisting Stone, Daegal and the cops, and Mizuki tending to the wounded as best she can.] Damned if I didn't want to launch that thing into orbit though. Yes. But then I wouldn't have these; we've all won, really. * Christian deadpans. "Yeah. Really fuckin' proud of you." [Daegal wanders over to Horus, glowing metallic blue and bleeding from numerous wounds that seem to be closing up before Horus' eyes. "You guys took care of those idiots that were inside?"] * Horus floats down to the ground. "Yeah," she says. "They poofed away, but we beat 'em up pretty good." ["Hate it when they do that. Pain in the ass." He looks around at the group, then back to Horus. "Helluva buncha people you got with you."] * Horus nods. Yeah, they kick some serious ass. [He grins widely. "I've been thinking of getting a bunch of the younger heroes together to do something similar. Work together, watch each other's backs, safety in numbers, that sorta thing. When you see Sister Admin, can you let 'er know that I'm gonna be in touch to try'n get it organized?"] * Horus laughs. "Yeah, I'll do that. And if you want me in your club... I mean, I'm already in this one, but if there isn't a conflict and stuff... let me know." Seems to be working all right so far, but we're a pretty young group too. ["Kickass. I promise absolutely no spandex." He chuckles. "I'm gonna help clean up. See ya 'round."] * Christian just watches the conversation for a bit, then sighs. "Next time, we kick their punk-asses to Jersey." * Horus smiles and waves. "See ya." * Mizuki drifts over near the others, staff in hand, and says, "The cops' health is mostly in hand, for now." * Jacqueline is happily strolling away as Horus and Daegal talk. She's got supplies she didn't have to come up with herself, and that's never a bad thing. She's even whistling a little as she walks. [Daegal claps Christian on the shoulder as he walks by. "Man, I wouldn't wish Jersey on my worst enemy. Stay safe."] * Christian looks up. "Yeah. I'll look ya up if I see ya on the streets." [Session End!]