[Thursday, October 30th. 9:40 PM] [The situation outside the Hilton theater: LOUD.] [Ethan Merman is beltin' it out, and it's making life rather difficult for Christian, Horus and Jacky.] [Also making life difficult: Fosse Bear, who's splitting his time between protecting Merman and attempting to maul Christian, and Lloyd-Webber, whose chandelier-based powerset has been surprisingly effective thusfar.] [The three members of Closing Night are well as a team. Can our heroes stand up to this sort of coordinated assault?] [Session Start] [Merman's singing gets even louder! And the cracklin' nimbus of energy around her trident flares and shoots out towards all three heroes!] [At the same time, Lloyd-Webber shakes his thorax to and fro, and the biggest damn chandelier you've ever seen appears in the sky above you... then shatters, raining down shards!] * Christian gets electrocuted by the lightning and gnnghs as his outfit gets a little singed, underneath the holodisguise. He's crouching to his knees for a moment but rolls to the side when the gigantic chandelier comes falling down on top of him. He seems to be a little worse for wear, as he appears to be panting. * Horus floats slightly into the air, STILL disguised yet holding a fiery bow, and gets zapped neatly by the energy. Nevertheless, she flits to the side, avoiding the chandelier. * Jacqueline doesn't have a thing to fear from the lightning, but the chandelier is a different story. She winds up buried beneath it as a consequence of avoiding the lightning, and in the back of her mind is probably grateful that the former /did/ miss; who knows what might have happened with this big, metal thing atop her? * Christian hops up, over Fosse's head and charges his fist right back. Even the hologram doesn't quite cover the howl of his fist as it slams into the concrete, shattering between Merman and Fosse. [Fosse Bear leaps to pull Merman out of the way, but is a moment too slow, and Merman gets buffeted and rocked by the impact. Fosse avoids any significant damage. And the 5m wide, 3m deep crater in the middle of the street, which Merman falls partway down.] [Fosse glares at Christian, baring his teeth... then turns and charges at Horus, trying to slam her out of the air and towards Jacky!] Yeah, fuck you too, furry. * Horus is slammed quite neatly, and she crashes into Jackie, sending them both tumbling back. * Horus rights herself in the air, wipes some blood off her forehead, and flies over the battle as glowing wings sprout from her back. She spots Merman and pulls the 'string' in her bow back, a flaming arrow appearing where it should, and fires a streak of white hot flame down at the villain. [The arrow hits, crashing through Merman's force field as she tries to make her way out of the crater. The flames burst around her, and her voice cracks and chokes, remaining painfully loud but less so than before.] * Jacqueline , after murmuring, "Almost worth it," and roughly sitting upright against a wall with an arm around her middle, fires her gun, hoping to make it that much more difficicult for Ethel to get out from way down in the hole. Arrows, then physics-defying lasers, an unpleasant progression. * TheRedcoat blips into the street, still holding her guns and looking thunderous. She takes half a second to blink in surprise, then flat blasts out at the first enemy she can see. [The beams slam into the now-unprotected Merman, and her voice falters even more. She's in rough shape now.] * Abby has her comm card awkwardly in hand as she appears, then floats just slightly off the ground and gets a grip on her staff again. "The inside's under control." * Horus keeps her sights on Merman as she answers, all winged and white and with a fire bow, "Glad to hear it." [Redcoat shot with her pistol goes awry, but three of her grapples slam into the side of Lloyd Webber, tearing large chunks out of his exoskeleton.] [Meanwhile, the barely-concious Merman's voice has all but faded, thankfully. But she's still up. From the side of the crater, you hear a raspy "There's... no business...", and then cracklin' bolts of electricity shoot out at all of you!] [At the same time, Lloyd Webber turns towards Redcoat, hisses loudly, turns his back to her... and SHAKES HIS BOOTY AT HER!] * Horus tries to dive out of the way, but she must have dived *into* something worse, as a particularly strong bolt of electricity spikes into the sky, slamming right into her body as she swoops into it. She arcs in the air, blasted to the side and down, right through an SUV's windshield. The car alarm goes off. * Abby catches the lightning with her staff, hissing with pain. "It wasn't bloodless either. Hnn..." [... and nothing happens to Redcoat, aside from vague feelings of disgust and confusion.] * TheRedcoat feels there's nothing vague about her feelings of disgust. * TheRedcoat also gets zapped by the fish-bitch's lightning and shit. * Christian dives to the side. "Dammit. We need to take her down. *Now*. I'll keep the fuckin' bear off y'all." * Jacqueline nearly experiences mass short-circuiting, but she is ultimately fine. Save from the fresh burn along her upper arm, anyway, that's kind of bad. * Christian dashes away from the lightning and gets crouched down like a runner's sprint before taking off. He slams his elbow into the side of Mr. Fosse Bear's jaw, possibly knocking off that fancy little bowler of his. [Christian's elbow slams into Fosse's skull, sending him reeling back. The bowler flutters through the air, and lands on Christian's head.] * Abby holds up her staff and says, as the area glows white and green, "Things look a bit dire." She grins. "But we've got soul that doesn't quit. Method Man himself had to yield before it... and so will you." [You got soooooooooooooooul, Abby.] [Fosse glances at the speeding Christian, looks around the battlefield, then rushes at Abby, trying to spike her into Redcoat!] * Christian rushes along side of the bear as he sees him going for someone else. "No you don't, Bear. Your beef is with me." He tries to get Abby out of the way and interpose himself between the two of them. [Christian reaches Abby! ... just as Fosse's huge paws come swinging around, slamming into the both of them and sending them flying. On the bright side, Christian's presense sends them off course a bit, so Redcoat is able to avoid. On the downside, they both crash into a lamppost.] * TheRedcoat ducks like a ducking fiend. * Horus climbs her way out of the SUV, wincing even as her wounds heal through Abby's magic, and takes to the air again. She flies for Merman and fires one more arrow at her with a bow that materializes from nothing. * Abby tries to block with her staff... and instead takes the blow and crashes into a lamppost! She pulls up out of it, and Christian, muttering, "I can't dodge a damn thing today, on or off stage." [The firey bolt slams into Merman, sending her down for the count.] * Christian lifts himself up, groaning. "You and me, both." * Jacqueline finally tries aiming for real as her entire arm trembles due to the stress incurred by the radiant orb growing within the muzzle of her gun. When it finally explodes from the barrel to fly towards Fosse, the only thing that keeps her from falling over due to recoil is the wall at her back. * TheRedcoat swings back up and re-aims the grappler gun at Mr. Bear-no-longer-in-ill-fitting-hat, and tosses her fedora at the bug. [Fosse dives the hell outta the way of Jacky's attack, which coincedentally takes him out of the way of Redcoat's grapple gun. Lloyd Webber isn't so lucky, and gets slashes across his side by Redcoat's fedora.] [Lloyd Webber turns to Fosse and begins chittering in an oddly operatic manner. Fosse growls back, and the two briefly exchange grunts and arachnid arias before Fosse sits back on his hind legs and raises his paws above his head. Lloyd Webber, for his part, lays himself flat against the ground.] * Horus glances at the two. "What in the fuck?" she asks herself, before gesturing for the wind to lift Ethyl to her in the air. She's at least not letting her get away somehow. "They surrenderin'?" she calls to the others, more loudly. * Abby half-closes her eyes, then nods slightly and says, "Good." A pause as she licks her lips, then she says, "I, uh... the audience is coming back. I have to... get backstage." * Christian gets ready to beat the crap out of some people and glares at them. "Aw fuck. They can't surrender. That means I can't kick their asses anymore." He eyes Fosse Bear with a withering stare, ready to punch him if he so much as sneezes funny. [Fosse coughs in a manner that fails to be funny in any way.] * TheRedcoat reaches into her coat with a growl...then looks at everyone else, groans, and goes for her coat pocket and pack of cigarettes instead, sighing loudly in a put-upon fashion as she lights up. * Jacqueline looks to Christian, then to Fosse. Then to Christian, then to Fosse again. And finally, to Christian. Not... /exactly/. * Horus floats down to the ground, Ethyl in hand, more or less. "Get back there," she says to Abby quietly. "And, uh... make sure she's okay, yeah?" Didn't notice her in the crowd. * Abby replies, "She was fine. She... uh, was onstage during our fight." * Horus winces and nods. * Abby then gives a half-salute with her staff, before she double-times it into the back alley. * TheRedcoat growls out. "How are you going to cover for the whole gender thing?" * Abby yells back, "Acting!" * TheRedcoat shrugs and takes another deep drag, surveying the carnage. * Christian sighs. "Well I guess it don't *mean* that, no. But fuck, we're supposed to be the good guys." He looks them over. "You still piss me off, asshole." To Fosse. [There's a decent amount of carnage, most notably the huge goddamn hole in the middle of the street. Ethal Merman is still out cold.] Either of ya lash 'em up? * TheRedcoat looks at the audience and sighs again. "Especially since we have witnesses." I don't think you want to trust me with tying them up. Hyde, can you put somethin' together? * Horus pulls out the card and starts, well, dialing Solaris and Sis. Admin. Why, I never thought you'd ask. Yeah, I was more meanin' some gravitational forcefield kinda shit or light beams or...somethin'. I dunno, I just smash stuff. * Jacqueline says this as she just kind of makes to head down the street without actually answering the question; she has to find parts, after all. [Sister Admin's voice comes over the comm. "We're monitoring. SPLEE-NY team is inbound, ETA three minutes with superhuman restraint gear. Though I'm not sure they carry in bear and spider sizes."] * Christian wobbles and clutches his head. "Jesus *Christ* that took a helluva lot outta me." 'Salright, we got Hyde on it, too. [Solaris speaks up. "I'll advise them. Did you manage to capture Method Man as well?"] He teleported us outside before we could do so. * Abby looks around in the alley, turning back on the hologram generator before slipping through the back door, hopefully only slightly noticed. Abby is checking on it. [Solaris pauses for a moment. "Well, even if he got away, bagging those three is a hell of an accomplishment. Good job, all of you."] Yeah... * Horus keeps an eye on the bear and the spider and the unconscious chick. * Jacqueline returns with a can of silly string, if silly string were luminescent and highly tensile upon making contact with the air; she begins spraying it liberally over Webber and Fosse's prostrate forms to tangle them up a while. Yeah. Right. [In a somewhat apropos gesture, Jacky webs up Lloyd-Webber. And the bear. Don't forget the bear.] * Christian slumps into the lamppost. "Can I get outta this crap yet?" * TheRedcoat stands watch over the prisoners. Maybe she accidentally flicks ash into their faces. Maybe the wind blows it away. Oops. * Horus heads over to the slumping Christian, maybe to keep him company. She shrugs. [As our weary heroes relax, a flying SPLEE-NY response team slowly hovers down to the ground to collect the prisoners. Meanwhile, inside the theater... the show must go on.] [Session End]