Log:Lightning Tag Scene 2, Scene 1

Lightning Tag Scene 2 2012/11/17 	 Superhuman 1

Colonial Bay Civic Center

The Colonial Bay Civic Center has provided the highest standard of service and commitment to the community of Colonial Bay. The center itself is made up of a large pyramidal shaped building, which is then subdivided into separate areas within. Colonial Bay's Civic Center boasts the largest exhibition space in Chesapeake Bay area. The Civic Center Arena is Colonial Bay's premiere facility for concerts, wrestling, circus and sporting events. The Music Hall and Theater are two of the region's preeminent arts venues, hosting performances by the Colonial Bay Symphony, the Virginia Opera, and the Theater League. Many other cultural productions, both local and touring, also utilize our world-class facility. The immediate center of the facility houses a decorative fountain. Near the fountain is where the ticketing and information counters can be found. Several posters line the interior walls advertising upcoming events such as plays, indoor sports games, concerts, and art and home shows.

It's been a week since the city center was attacked during the college ballgame and the damages were light enough to be repaired in time for this weeks game. Even though security was heightened of course it seemed that it was a one time occurrance, no altercations other than what would be normally expected at a college ball game. As the game ends the security politely release a comparative held breath, next week the team would be away, security would be someone else's problem. Of course, that's when everything goes sideways.

It's as people are leaving that the trouble starts, out in the main parking lot for the arena cars are literally being thrown about and there are bestial roars as shapes battle amidst a large 'ring' of cleared cars some 100 meters across, the cars that were moved formed into haphazard walls and 'seating'. Amidst the 'ring' can be seen a frightening diaspora of shapes battling it out. Of course someone is filming with their on hand pda or cellphone or whatever and it's being broadcast live to the equivalent of youtube! The taglines have already given them names...

Star Wolf: A six foot tall monstrosity, silver fur covers it's whole body, long arms with wicked claws on each three fingered 'finger' tip with a thumb on each side of it's hand. Elongated wolfish muzzle filled with sharp teeth, heavy mane, blood red cybernetic eyes, and a digitigrade stance with a long fluffy tail.

Freak: A seven foot tall 'woman' with six arms at her shoulders, dark green scaled skin. Her features are a mix of reptilian and human as befits her scales.

Talon: A beautiful blonde who appears to be on the side of side of Space Wolf. She wears a white bodysuit with blue diamond markings and a domino mask over her eyes. Glowing white claws extend from each finger, made of some sort of energy. This same energy covers her eyes.

Monolith: A man, they think, covered in a black angular field that looks vaguely similar to the force fields in that really really really old Dune movie, the ones that were useless in combat, cept this guys apparently works and he battles in tandem with the Freak.

Needless to say... there's been a call for caped support!

Star Girl arrives, riding on the top of the maglev train. She crouches low, securing her position on the train with two feet and a hand placed flat on the top of the car, her long blonde hair whipping back as she zooms along. She calls out over Starguard and other emergency frequencies. 'This is Stargirl, I'm nearing the stadium now.'

After the game was over and the teams ran off the field, the cheerleaders headed to their locker room where some hijinx ensued. Mostly though, they gossipped and showered and changed. Eden had dinner planned with Nelson tonight, and so she was rushing her way through it, trying to avoid the slowdowns and the like. She's finished her shoulder, and dressed in civies, bluejeans and a longsleeve shirt. She has learned to keep her costume in her gym bag these days, just in case and as she heads out of the locker room, she just kinda pauses, awestruck at the scene before her. "Holy frijoles.." she mutters. Her eyes flicker about, hoping attention is elsewhere other than on her, and she knows the stadium fairly well. So she blurs into motion, and emerges from a dark shadowed corner in her costume with the bag left behind. She makes a mental note to retrieve that after all this insanity.

(Let's just hope this wraps up in time for my dinner date.) O O o o. . thinks Bullet as she rolls her neck and casts her gaze about at the various villainous sorts. "Hey Creeps!" She yells out, "Can't you just... whoa! Big Doggie! Don't make me roll up a newspaper!"

Superhuman gets into costume and leaps toward the scene. Over tall buildings in a single bound, no less!

And that is when Mesmer appears on the top of the stadium, his suit clean and pressed. He frowns down at the masses from his vantage point, and Mesmer's mechanical watch voice on the comm, "Mesmer has the crow's nest."

Starlight comes in from her lonely park ranger station out in the wilds borth-west of the city. She's got further to travel, but it's still only a few seconds after the alert when she arrives above the carnage and hovers, taking in the scene below.

Coming out of the arena with a duffle bag on her shoulder, Anna sighs and says, "-Really-? Can't I enjoy a game in peace?" before she withdraws a small earpiece and places it in her ear as she taps it and says, "Alright... Mind a little civilian help? I'm not too bad in a fight, just... Don't expect me to be saving the world on a regular basis or anything." as she pulls out an equipment harness and some various combat gear and straps it on as she takes cover behind a car and withdraws a clip, sticking it into the gun and cocking it as she says, "Ready. I'll be using rubber bullets unless they pull out something inanimate."

It seems for the moment that the battling 'people' aren't noticing hero's approach. Especially not those who are far enough away to be barely a speck or the size of an ant like Mezmer who is up on top of the stadium. The crowd is of course growing as many people (whom many are in various states of inebriation) are trying to find seating on the cars without caring about the risk. Of course others who are smarter, wiser, or more angry about their car being used as an impromptu barricade are calling their insurance. Insurance companies should have meta support of their own, to keep their outgoing money down!

Star Girl leaps from the maglev and makes her way over to the ring of cars, via a series of leaps and bounds peaking at 10 stories in the air. She's not being subtle about her approach. She lands at the ring of the cars, perching a top a minivan. She radios, 'At least they've cleared a play pen for themselves. Anyone spot any civilians inside the circle? What do you think the odds are that these supervills surrender peacefully?'

Starlight slips downwards, shrunk and hard to see, coming to a stop some 20m from the Freak and 20m above him.

After calling out and shaking her head. Bullet whooshes through the parking lot and says, "People! Get out of here! Are you stupid! Move it!" The voice is coming from her blurry form as she comes to a stop on top of one of the toppled cars being used as a barricade. She strikes a heroic pose, hands on hips and all as she says, "Do you have -any- idea how stupid you all look right now?!" down towards those within the circle.

Superhuman arrives in a great arc from above, aiming for the centre of the circle.

"Very low." Anna says, "I don't have anything on me that lets me persuade people like that, or any inherent powers that let me do that either. What I do have is something that lets me get a halfway decent shot at this range, though. I'd much prefer that we not turn this into a giant fight with this many people around, but it's not like they're all that reasonable." as she uses a combination of quick movements such as rolling and diving as she advances to a position roughly 16m from the targets, with no real height difference from the north.

Superhuman misses the cenre of the circle by 34m to the northwest. Aiming is hard!

Far enough from everyone that Mesmer is nothing more than a spec on top of the stadium about 100 meters up, about a kilometer away by diagonal distances his eyes focused on the various heros... trying to determine which target would be most effective to take out. "Report on scene as you arrive, Mesmer will be targeting the male with the shield." The mechanized voice that is Mesmer's 'public' persona says over the conn. He says as he teleports to a spot about 100m above the villians. His bottom half of his tie flapping in the wind, below his tie clip.

As the heroes start showing up, especially ones who are flying and announcing themselves in other ways, though perhaps not Starlight being she's so tiny the four villains back off and split into pairs. "Well it's about time." Growls the wolfish one and he moves to protect Talon, watching, waiting, a big wolfish grin on his wolfish muzzle.

Talon literally disappears, completely, utterly, nowhere to be seen at all leaving Star Wolf to circle around nothing it seems. Where she's gone, nobody knows, if she teleported away, if she went invisible, nobody knows! Well she knows, but she obviously isn't telling.

Freak on the other hand leaps over towards the ring of vehicles that composes the Arena, grabbing a car with one of her arms and holding it over her head, moving cover!

With Mesmer appearing directly overhead, the black figure of Monolith suddenly bursts upwards in the air, flying straight towards Mesmer with both blocky fists pointing upwards!

Star Girl's eyelets widen as Freak picks up a car, one-handed. She shouts to any spectators in earshot: "Move! Now! Things are getting dangerous!" She points back towards the maglev station. "Go!"

Mesmer see's Monolith attempting to charge him and he shifts his position attemping to dodge the massive man's attack.

It's a combination of the car being picked up, villains disappearing, and Monolith's super climb up into the air that make people realize that yes, perhaps, distance and telephoto wouldn't be a bad thing! Of course there's a few more inebriated types who don't get the hint but for the most part people are starting to clear the area at Star Girls yell.

Standing up from cover, Anna looks over at Freak and points the gun at her saying, "Put the car down. NOW!" with a glare, relying on the apparent threat of deadly force to intimidate her.

Superhuman doesn't bother with the threats. She just runs over to Freak and attempts to punch the car-wielding menace. "Hey, what are you doing, you coudl hurt someone!

lizardlike head she spits out bloody (and freaking sharp) teeth onto the ground and hisses with a grin, teeth already regrowing, visibly!
 * CRACK* Freak gets hit and she wobbles, but she doesn't move, shaking her

Looking at Superhuman as he slams into Freak Anna says, "Well, so much for peaceful resolution." then opens fire, rubber bullets heading towards Freak!

Superhuman says, "Oh, I'm sorry! I thought they were bad guys and not peaceful!"

Rubber bullet bounces off Freak's scaley hide but it actually succeeds in knocking her over, the car clanging into the ground and sliding as Freak gets tagged by the rubber bullet. She doesn't seem particularly phased by the shot, nor by sliding as she keeps hold of the car.

Freak gets to her feet in a rolling motion and then she hurls the car at Anna with a loud hiss of anger, instead of Superhuman, maybe cuz Anna knocked her down!

Seeing Freak's intention, and the woman moving in apparently slow motion, Bullet just blurs into superspeed. She hits the ground and leaves a small dust trail as she dashes over towards Anna, moving so that she's covering the -apparenty- gun-wielding civilian with her own body.

As Superhuman and Anna jump in on Freak, Star Wolf leaps over towards Superhuman and lashes out with his claws trying to cut into the alien woman!

The car is flying in, and just before it strikes, Bullet slows down just in front of Anna, "Are you crazy? Get to cover!" she cries just before raising her arms, the car striking her. IF she was a fragile type, she'd be screwed, but as it is, she takes the impact, and flips over Anna, the car rebounding off of her upheld arms. She lands on her feet and shakes her head, "Nice try lady. Got anything else?" she asks.

"I can hold my own, thank you very much!" Anna says to Bullet before she quietly says, "Half the stuff I'm wearing lets me fight just as well as you, alright? I've been in situations like this before, I just don't like to get a reputation for being a hero. If you want, I can explain later. For now, we have a lizard-woman to fight."

Freak's move to the ring of cars has taken her out of Starlight's fly up and punch her range. But two can play the game Monolith just tried. Starlight accelerates to full speed, flying out past Freak, putting a hand out in a brief grab to swing around a lamppost and then returns trying to slam Freak back towards the middle of the ring of cars.

Superhuman says, "Ow, hey!" as she knocked back some 10m. "What's this all about any-mpph.." The latter is interupted by hitting the dirt.

Starlight misses, not a great surprise, and deaccelerates to stop close to Freak. She doesn't forget to call out to Bullet, "Nicely done."

Having landed on her feet, Bullet rolls her neck and just gestures to Freak. "So, your power is to piss off All-State even more?" she asks, "Come on. Show me how much of a badass you are up close and personal?" (Hold Full at this range)

Talon suddenly appears, right behind Bullet! The womans' fingers curl and spread out, white energy claws appearing to match the glow in her eyes. She does /not/ announce her presence, instead attacking from complete stealth at Bullets back!

Starlight darts in to interpose herself between Bullet and the suddenly appearing attacker, taking the hit to protect the unsuspecting heroine.

Star Girl shouts: "Bullet! Behind you!" She hops down from her perch at the edge of the circle of cars, landing about 10 meters away from Talon. She puts her hands together and fires a burst of blue-white energy. ZAM!

ZAM! The energy bolt plows into a car instead of Talon, who twists to avoid it instinctively even as she smirks at the now downed tiny heroine. "Insects shouldn't play with giants." She says in a sexy soprano.

Whether she's aware of the attack or not, Bullet isn't just standing still. She's bouncing on her feet, kinda bluring in motion in her own hex. She looks over at the fallen Starlight and scowls. Then towards Talon, she mutters... "You're right. You must have the brains of a beetle."

Looking over at Talon, Anna says, "Neither should beasts play with hunters!" as she moves to strike Talon with her free hand and move into a defensive position.

Talon gets caught by Anna, after all she's being attacked on all sides but she shakes it off and smirks, "How many people going to sacrifice themselves for you speedy hmm?"

Mesmer's mask face turns to Monolithe, <> He sends to the other man. Directing the man to attack Space Wolf.

The wolfish one leaves off Superhuman when he sees Anna actually /strike/ Talon and with a ferocious roar he is leaping over towards her, slashing out with his talons in a frenzy at her!

"I think you forget. You're out of your league from the start you sneaky coward." replies Bullet. "Any time you want to try it, I'm game."

"Got more carssss." Freak hisses at Bullet and she reaches out with three arms to grab hold of another car, sending a drunkard falling backwards with an oof as he hits another car and sprawls. That sharp toothed grin remains behind those thin scaley lips as she wings the car at Bullet!

Meanwhile, Star Wolf narrowly misses Anna, which is probably a good thing for the antiquities dealer.

Seeing Freak going for another Car, Bullet shakes her head. She holds up a hand, "Hold that thought pinhead." she mutters before she's off like a shot once more. She flashes past Freak with that car over her head and lashes out hoping to punch the girl. Then she turns and dashes to the edge of the car-ring and just beyond it. Trying to put at least a single car between her and Freak.

With Freak getting tagged she staggers a bit but she doesn't fall, with her main target no longer even in sight however she grins and then she /hurls/ the car with as much force as she can into the car that Bullet hides behind. "Coward." She hisses.

There is now leaking gasoline all over the place by those two cars, but, fortunately, no explosion. What people that were left now, even the drunk ones, start to clear out!

Star Girl turns her blasters on Freak, arms outstretched and palms together. ZAM! Right now, she's too focused on the moment to provide repartee.

Meanwhile, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Monolith absolutely shrugging off the attempt to turn his attention to someone else! "Try again headcase." The now (for sure) man in the obsidian force field states in a deep reverberating voice before he reaches out to try and touch someone, well, tries to double fisted punch Mesmer down towards the ground!

Star Girl watches her blast miss Freak by a mile. She thinks to herself. o O ( Damnit girl... get it together! )

Superhuman pulls herself up from the ground, looking rather miffed, tilts her head back, and sneezes lightning at the nearest villain: Freak. "You still haven't said what this is about!"

Freak gets blasted backwards by the lightning and she slams into a car, crumpling it's side and knocking it backwards a bit with a scrape of metal on concrete. Freak hisses, shaking her head, trying to clear her thoughts even as she falls to her hands (all six of them) and her knees.

Sometimes, delaying works. But there are times when you need to take an opportunity when it presents itself. Bullet rushes out of cover and flashes past Superhuman, "Thanks for the setup!" she announces as she races over towards where Freak is prone, and runs back and forth trying to strike the downed villainess twice before moving to end up maybe 20m away from anyone.

Freak gets tagged, twice even, and sent sprawling both times, scraping across asphalt but she's still moving, more than twitches anyways, even as she's trying to clear her thoughts still. Pain helps. Some.

Dropping down to the ground, Anna plants her feet against Star Wolf's stomach as he leans in to swipe her and says, "Up and over you go!" as she tries to throw him over into a nearby car.

As Star Wolf avoids the attempt to throw him by springing out of the way of the grasping hands of Anna, Talon surveys the field and then she points white energy talons at Bullet, "You. Be still." The claws don't shoot or anything, but instead the white energy that seems to compose Talons eyes flash brilliantly and lance out towards Bullet!

Bullet is enwrapped by pale misty white energy that seems to bind her in place, her eyes matching in brilliance to Talon's own now!

Star Wolf is apparently Talon's attack wolf, because at Talon's comment to 'be still' his head is swivelling and he focuses on Bullet! With another fast leap he flies away from Anna and lashes out with talons at Bullet!

Suddenly slowing to a stop, Bullet is looking right at Talon since she was spoken to. This means she's quite able to see the wolf coming in. She'd speak, but she's frozen in place. Her eyes dialate as the attack comes in, and she is sent sprawling, still in the pose she was in when on her feet. A rib even fractures under that costume. But she's tough, she'll be fine... right? Anyone?

Superhuman runs to gets Talon and Freak lined up and then coughs in their direction, setting up waves of high pressure and vaccuum

Freak had just gathered her senses, but then she is hit by the pressurewave and it overwhelms her, knocking her to a twitching tangle of limbs on the ground. Talon screams as she is hit, but she somehow manages to keep her feet, not happy!

Star Girl switches targets, and strategies. Now that Freak is down, she turns her blasters on Talon. Instead of releasing a high intensity blast, she sprays a hail of blastlets at Talon, hoping to hit this time.

Talon is struck by the blasts and flung into one of the barricade cars with a metal *PANG* and she hits the ground, unconscious.

Snapping out of the power that held her, Bullet shakes her head and blurs once more. She's on her feet and glaring at the wolf, "Bad Dog." she mutters, "Now, if I only had a cannon to fire at you right after that line, I'd be like a badass Geena Davis Pirate..."

Pulling out her gun once more, Anna fires on Star Wolf saying, "C'mere furball!" as she readies herself to intercept Star Wolf, assuming she gets his attention.

Monolith finally notices that the ground game is seriously being lost here and he frowns, "Why'd I have to get stuck with Freak? Why not Dusk, or Dawn? Oh well, can't lose the points for a capture." And Monolith flies at speed to land directly above Freak, grabbing hold of her with one hand and as he does so, the obsidian field that surrounds him, envelopes her as well!

"Now, sit, roll over, play dead. You need to... hey, hold that thought." says Bullet as she turns into a gold and white streak. She flashes by right where Mesmer is about to strike the ground, and snags him out of the air, setting him down near the edge of the ring, "Hey, watch that first step, it's a big'un." she says, standing back up to face the enemies.

When Talon hits the ground it's like Star Wolf physically is struck. He howls in pain and then he leaps away from Bullet, or rather, where Bullet was, completely ignoring her jibe and he lands in a protective crouch over Talon, snarling and holding his claws out as if daring anyone to approach the unconscious villainess!

"Hey akela!" Anna says, "We're heroes remember? We're not going to kill your girlfriend." before she moves in a bit closer while still firing on him, "Still got to keep you from hurting people, though." she says.

The rubber bullet hits solidly into Star Wolf but the beast just snarls louder and sprays frothy almost rabidlike spittle now!

Star Girl circles Star Wolf slowly, one hand raised and the other, holding her wrist to steady her aim. She draws a bead on Talon and prepares to blast her if she stirs from onconsciousness. She calls over to Star Wolf, "Game over, wolfie... time to give up."

Star Wolf is showing absolutely /no/ sign of recognition of any of the words said to him, and when things are pointed at him, he's still moving, swaying, circling, ready to strike and hard to pin down!

Superhuman translates what Star Girl said into Guild Tradespeal, watching Star Wolf's reaction - and ready to cough at Star Wolf and Talon if he doesn't surrender promptly.

Star Wolf continues to act like a very stupidly overprotective guard dog above Talon, showing no signs of comprehension.

The vacuum of the cough waves has appears to have little effect on the wolf.

As the 'cough' rolls over Star Wolf there seems to be no effect beyond a ruffling of fur, Talon on the other hand groans in unconscious pain at the effect. Without any further hesitation Star Wolf grabs hold of the downed Talon and then leaps away, jumping up and over the barricade to land out of sight of the people inside the barricade!

Monolith looks at the unconscious Freak he carries and sighs audibly, his voice reverberating like a voice modulator maybe due to the frequency of the force field. "Lightning is still going to top the leaderboard after this..." And then with a sonic boom Monolith accelerates into the air, and is gone for all intents and purposes now over a kilometer away!

Calling out to Superhuman, Bullet says, "Hey! Could use your mobility to get some of these bystanders to medical facilities!" And then she turns and streaks off to start putting word to action..

As Star Wolf bounds off with Talon, and Monolith makes off with Freak the crowd starts to relax since the fighting is done, insurance calls are made, and of course the news! Youtube is going off like crazy at the feeds and apparently someone made a life streaming multi-screened event for 9.95$ access...

Mesmer stands up, putting a hand to his head and glancing around. Trying to figure out where everyone went.

Looking over at Bullet, Anna walks up to her as she places the gun in her holster on the harness and says, "So, not so bad for someone without powers, hm?"

Star Girl tries to find someone who was filming the fight to ask about seeing footage.

Star Girl easily finds a pair of college kids who were using their PDA's to film it all, not the live streamers of course, but they definitely have footage they were uploading to the youtube equivalent. They have no problems sharing, since, it was going on youtube anyways.

Bullet is not just standing there. She's picking up glass-shard wounded drunks, and running them over to EMT's who are likely just arriving on the scene. She's not really someone to converse with right now. She does slow down and pose for photo-ops as she works.

Mesmer looks around, then carefully dusts himself off. "So... to whom do I owe my much softer than anticipated landing?" He asks, as he begins the process of lifting cars up and rearranging them, searching for bystanders caught within as he does so.

Fortunately bystanders weren't /in/ the cars when they were stacked up. So bystander injuries are light, just drunks who were foolish enough to not run when Star Girl told people to clear out.

Running past with one more drunk in a fireman's carry, Bullet slows down and says to Mesmer, "You're welcome." before she flashes off and drops off her package once more.