Log:Big Trouble in Little Chinatown

One Shot by Cobalt 2013/05/10 	 Abigail Regan Maxwell Star Wolf Teklin 1

Chinatown

This district is home to Colonial Bay's large Chinese community; as much Chinese as English is seen on signs and perhaps more Mandarin is spoken. Most famous is Ming Street, curving round from Beach Street to Wharf Street, always full of tourists, especially at its northern and western end. This is practically a street market, with hawkers extolling their wares to passers-by, and signs and banners advertizing everything from fresh duck to herbal supplies, restaurants and bakeries and other businesses. The Heavenly Dragon Palace and the Buddhist temple are among the more famous sights. But perhaps true Chinatown is south and west of Ming Street, where the tourists rarely go.

Chinatown. Lovely chinatown, authentic chinese tourist traps mixed with authentic chinese gambling dens and criminal syndicates. For the most part it works out alright, the criminals mostly pick on each other but sometimes something strange happens and things get out of hand. Like right now. Reports come in over police bands and whatnot that there's been an explosion in chinatown. Specifically, that a vehicle has exploded (What they still use gasoline propulsion?!) and there is indicators of a meta element. Which means that it'll take time before CBPD can mount an appropriate response!

Well most of CBPD might be a while before they can respond and usually Maxwell isn't called in till after the cops have shown up, he was not far away getting a cup of coffee and he decides that maybe this is a chance to start taking an active role again. He makes his way towards where the vehicle exploded, keeping his eyes open for what might be going on.

Yes, lovely Chinatown. Abigail isn't in that crazy costume of hers tonight. She's simply sitting and talking with one of the locals. The local has a son who died in the service last year. Abby was the one who broke the news to the grieving mother. Thus, she established a friendship. Once a month, she visits the woman and she was just starting to leave the woman's home, waving and offering pleasant wishes in Mandarin.

The explosion... she gets a text on her cellphone and raises both brows before looking at it. "Great." she mutters as she starts heading for her bike. "I guess I'm looking into carbombs now." she adds as she hops onto the bike and starts heading towards the location she was told the car bomb was at.

Many years ago the slender silhouette of Sable/Obsidian Butterfly was a reasonably common sight against the Colonial Bay skyline. Though it has only been a few days since her return it has not taken the heroine long to sink into the same habits. Unluckily she was not in the area when the explosion occurred but it is not long before she can be seen leaping from rooftop to rooftop with her customary blend of speed and preternatural grace. Closing in on the scene she descends to the footpath, landing a lot more lightly than she used to in the past."

As the heroes approach the scene from their various angles the exploded car is picked up off the ground and then thrown to the side. Not to actually hit anything, but more to remove the vehicle from the person it hit, and exploded onto perhaps or maybe the person hit it and the car exploded, who knows. From the rubble of that steps an armored obviously cybernetic form, that or it's a stick figure wearing robotic armor. Musculature on the arms and legs seem to be made of some sort of mechanical cabling, armor plating covers thighs, biceps, forearms, lower legs, and of course the chest and groin. The armor is painted blood red while the cabling is a highly reflective black metal. The figure is also wearing a full helmet. The figure looks at the nearby surroundings and spots what the hero's spot: Two other individuals, both obviously non-human.

On the nearby Rooftop to the explosion: A feral being, silvery fur covering it's muscular form, digitigrade stance, wolf like head, claws and very much looking like a werewolf from the best movies special effects studio's except, this isn't special effects.

Climbing along the wall: A figure covered in what looks like pale bone white chitinous armor, while it is vaguely human in overall appearance, it's joints bend far to much and it moves more like an insect. It has a long (very long) bladed and spined tail and no discernible face. It does however have a mouth full of razor sharp teeth (Picture a xenomorph from Aliens without the long head and the second mouth, also bone white instead of black roughly).

Turning the corner, Abigail brings her bike to a stop. She doesn't skid, doesn't do anything dramatic for the moment. She shakes her head and reaches up to peel her helmet off. "Really?" she asks softly. "What in the... oh come on." She lowers her kickstand and steps off the bike, hanging the helmet on the handlebars before starting to walk closer, "Okay people! Everyone stand down! Starguard is on the scene!" Yep, she's trying this angle first... and is simply strolling forward.

Maxwell blinks a bit and then shakes his head, better safer than sorry, he focuses and kicks on his forcefield the faint bluish distortion to the air around him appearing. He eyes the three that his attention is drawn to and wonders what might just be going on here.

Obsidian Butterfly moves forward toward the armoured figure from the opposite direction to Abigail. She lifts her voice to address the individual. "Sir! Are you alright? Would you like to file a complaint?" Her gaze flickers briefly to the two predatory figures lurking on the fringes but she tries not to give any warning that she's spotted them. As the Colonel calls out Regan goes silent, continuing to close in on the man in the suit but letting Abigail take charge of the scene.

Teklin doesn't take her eyes off the wolf on the roof, or the bug on the wall. "Star Guard." One can practically /hear/ the smirk in her voice, even distorted by the mechanical voice modulator that is either built into her larynx, or the helmet. "Then you can help me squash these alien threats. Or not, I don't care. All my boss cares about is them being removed from Chinatown." And then rocket boots on her feet activate, launching her into the air as she closes on the bug, spins, and drives a rocket propelled kick right at the bug!

As Teklin goes flying up, Star Wolf leaps down at the cyborg. Nasty talons are flexed into being, long and wicked as it tries to land a powerful swipe on the cyborg before it can get to the bug!

Sparks fly where the wolf's claws scratch armor plating but otherwise... Teklin simply lands on her feet and prepares to try again...

Obsidian Butterfly blinks, her head swivelling as Teklin launches smoothly into the air. "So, yeah, pretty much everyone flies." Her eyes widen as the wolf launches itself into the air, it's talons glittering in a scything arc. She then looks around to determine where there might be any stragglers or bystanders who might need protection or guidance.

If it were the weekend it'd be worse, but thanks to it being Thursday night there's very little ground traffic, not much tourists and most scampered when the car went boom.

The bone like alien scampers to the side on the wall, Teklin's foot smashing through the structure with relative ease. Enough to leave a good sized hole from that boot but the cyborg does not seem put off.

The tail on the alien flexes and whips out, trying to wrap around Teklin as she flies there in the air...

And misses... with a hiss...

"Really? Why does everyone just refuse to listen to reason? Get some powers and suddenly, you know better than everyone else." That said, Abigail lifts a foot, steps on the fender of a car to launch herself into the air as if in a Wire-Fu film. Of course, she's using her golden plasma thrust effect to maintain her momentum. "I said -EVERYBODY- stand down!" she calls out, before coming to rest basically right by the cyborg, landing almost as if she simply stepped up to that spot, in a potentially defensive stance. "Are you planning to listen, or are you going to force me to subdue -everyone- here at once?" she asks.

"Look Star Guard," Teklin says while avoiding that whipping tail, smacking it away from her, "These things are /monsters/ they don't see reason, they just attack, and attack, and attack until they're put down. You're yelling at animals and expecting them to talk back. Besides, you didn't pay my retainer fee. Until Star Guard does, I am acting under the orders of my employer."

Maxwell blinks and then just shakes his head a bit, "You heard her, she said stop and desist." he is going to try and assist. He focuses his mind on Star Wolf and lets loose with a mental blast designed to cause a form of mental paralysis and remove him from fighting at least that is the plan.

"The irony is, your behavios is precisely the same as you claim theirs is." offers Abby, "So... the choice is yours."

Having assured herself that there are no bystanders in imminent danger Regan returns her attention to the cyborg and friends. She winces as the hole is punched in the wall, then moves forward, focussing her attention on the Wolf-oid. Her boots clip against the asphalt as she gathers speed, running a few steps to leap at her chosen target. As Abi's command resounds through the intersection however she aborts her lip and instead stutter steps to maintain her balance and dissipate momentum.

The wolf like being stops, utterly still for a moment, eyes looking far away for the time being as Maxwell's mental blast takes effect it seems. Meanwhile, up in the air. Teklin smirks, "Fine." she pulls her leg out of the wall, "It's your ass, I'll be here to clean up the bloodstains."

And the bug, is not standing down judging by that inhuman hiss and gnashing of way to many teeth.

Obsidian Butterfly starts walking slowly toward where Abigail and Teklin hover, careful to stay on balance and looking to see how the pallid insectoid reacts. "On your mark Colonel."

What with Abigail glowing right there and being all noisy and stuff the alien doesn't seem to know which to focus on, Teklin, or Abigail. It's tail lashes behind it as it crouches into the side of the wall right next to the hole that is where it was before the cyborgs kick. It scampers up the wall away from the pair of the fliers like it might be retreating... At least until it gets to the roof top. Then it crouches behind the edge and peeks over it, mostly hidden... but that tail, that tail is really really long, and it snaps down over the edge attempting to spear Abigail right in the chest!

Teklin doesn't do anything at all, merely watching, "I told you so." She can't resist, folding her arms across her chest as she hovers.

Obsidian looks a bit relieved as the alien figure retreats only to ensconce itself firmly behind cover and attack. Her lips compress in anger as the tail slashes out and she springs upward, soaring into the night sky in an arc designed to land her next to the recalcitrant bug. "You had the option to do this the easy way,"

Left arm whipping up to produce a minimal block, Abigail redirects the tail just inches to the side of her head, eyes not -really- straying far from Teklin's.... well her faceplate. "I'm sorry, were you talking?" she asks.

Teklin says, "You do realize that was a testing attack right? They're predators. You want to think you can take them both on by yourself, go right ahead."

As she lands the black-clad heroin spins, lashing her fist in a whipping back fist aimed for what appears to be the critter's cephalus, though there are no guarantees when fighting more exotic opponents.

The alien creature gets hit and knocked backwards away from the edge of the roof and onto the middle of the roof. It flips over to it's feet even as it's rolling though and it hisses loudly at Obsidian Butterfly, lots, of, teeth. It's tail whips back and forth over it's head. Clearly it's agitated.

Meanwhile Teklin says, "Are you going to yell at her for not standing down now? Or is it only your friends get to play hero."

Obsidian Butterfly's fist thumps solidly against the side of the alien's heavily armoured cranium, her weight rocking slightly into the blow to maximise the impact which seems gratifyingly firm. She falls back into stance, her hands lifting into a formal guard. Her expression remains firm despite the savage hiss and the flurry of teeth and tail. . o O (You think you're scary but you've never seen my in-laws)

Star Wolf knows /exactly/ who tagged him with a mental attack, mainly because he felt it and it wasn't fully invisible. That canine muzzle swings towards Maxwell and he bares... a lot of teeth before he tears across the asphalt and sidewalk towards Maxwell in a rush. He closes the distance in about half a second, all things considered, and then slashes with his talons as he growls ferally! Clearly, he's not standing down either.

Maxwell gets slashes at, the claws hitting his forcefield and going though it a bit throwing Max to the ground, "Now that just wasn't nice at all. No respect for Law Enforcement." he lifts up off the ground and flies up before looking back down at the wolf and letting loose with a mental blast.

Star Wolf whines at the hit, but it's more a growly whine as his synapses try to fry at the assault from the mentalist, as for respecting the cops. Well, Star Wolf is still standing, still growling, still slobbering all over the place practically as he crouches down, clearly preparing to jump in the near future...

Shrugging her shoulders, Abigail says to Teklin, "Well, she's not an unknown, being paid by a third party, agenda unknown. Is she?" she asks, "Oh, and she's earned my trust... you on the other hand... haven't earned anything, have you?"

Obsidian Butterfly moves in on her opponent, carefully adjusting the angle of her approach to give the creature minimum openings for attack, though of course that tail is constant threat at any range. As she closes in on contact range her speed increases in a sudden burst, step, cross-step, side kick, her boot hissing through the air toward the alien's rib cage.

The alien gets hammered, again, and sent sprawling further across the roof and it again sprawls for only a short time before it's back on it's feet and hissing again. It leaps at Obsidian Butterfly, closing the distance in a heartbeat before it's tail lashes out, swinging wider before it in a wild thrash of blades and spines. An area which includes Obsidian Butterfly...

Obsidian looks quite pleased at her kick landing, dropping back into a fluid combat stance. Her weight is perfectly distributed, her guard ideally ready to cut off any conceivable angle of attack, except of course for a whithering whirlwind of chitinous shrapnel. Her slender form shudders under a hail of impacts that clearly leave her the worse for wear, her costume showing the occasional rent and tatter. "Right." She says simply.

Maxwell shakes his head, "Should really stand down, and yoou wouldn't have to go through pain like that." he says as he lifts higher into the air and lets loose with another mental blast at Wolf. He is hoping that maybe he can overload the others brain before the wolf can get too physical with him.

Meanwhile, down below, as the wolf gets more angry it completely ignores Maxwell's words, and it seemingly doesn't even /feel/ that attack by the mentalist that time. It launches itself up into the air with a roar, claws leading as it attempts to bring Maxwell down to earth... the /really frikken hard/ way.

Shaking her head, Abigail mutters something quite vulgar in Mandarin. Something not taught in schools. She pushes off of the wall and spins about to stop right by Max where she reaches a hand out to grab him before he starts falling. Then she aims downward and launches a bolt of plasma at the Wolf, "Down boy!" she calls out as she does so.

The plasma bolt smashes into Star Wolf and sends him flying downwards with the smell of burning canine fur (Ewww) and he smashes into the rooftop of a nearby building, and crunches halfway through it. The wolf is clearly still mobile however, and clearly very annoyed.

Obsidian Butterfly straightens from her huddle as the savage assault subsides and the alien rocks slightly backward. Her eyes glitter coldly toward the cyborg settling behind her opponent with a slight lift of her chin. "One, two, three." On the count she spins in place, her foot swinging up high over her head and then down, trying to smash into the creature's forehead in a viciously powerful ax-kick. She uses every ounce of skill and poise to maximise the impact. Her form tensing with the effort.

Teklin spins into a crescent kick, driving her own booted foot down at the back of the alien in perfect timing with the other martial artist and between the two of them they send it crashing to the ground. It hisses in pain, thrashing about before it springs back up to it's feet and bolts away from the both of them, it's claws scrabble across the surface of the rooftop and dig in, biting as it hisses ferociously at the pair of women and that tail... it never stops whipping about, stabbing forwards again and again trying to shred both of the two martial artists!

The timing of both blows seems to be precisly correct to maximise effect. The black clad heroine's breath eascaping in a gutturalki cry. She seems less than please that their target is only further enraged and lifts her guard once more in a fruitless attempt to ward off the stinging storm of blows from that tail.

Sparks fly as the tail smashes into Teklin's armor, the cyborg unable to ward off the flurry of strikes as well but she weathers it well, all things considered. She'll need a new paint job after this...

Obsidian winces and shudders under the impacts, staggering slightly under the force of the impacts. "Another one of those will totally ruin my evening."

Star Wolf leaps to his paws with another roar! Not only was he struck, but that female has his lunch! He bounds forwards and then launches himself into the air... right at Abigail!

The wolf /narrowly/ misses Abigail, flashing by in a bundle of silver fur, claws, and lots of teeth! He hits the pavement in the street below with a near frenzied growl!

Obsidian Butterfly takes a few steps to her left so that she and Teklin once again flank their obstinately conscious target. After a quick breath, she counts again. "One... two... three!" This time she jump,s twisting in mid air so that her weight helps the force of her kick, her boot carving a viciously powerful crescent toward the junction of neck and shoulder.

The creature adapts quickly, as Obsidian Butterfly leaps down with that massive kick and Teklin also closes to try and put in the cous de gras on the alien... it only partly works. Leaping to the side at the last instance the Alien narrowly avoids Teklins kick! Even still it gets clipped by Obsidian Butterfly and sent sprawling again with another hiss... but without both impacts... it's still mobile!

Twisting just barely out of the way, Abby drifts a few meters and drops Max's punch drunk body there before she drops in a straight line to land right beside the wolf, "Boo!" she calls out as she does so, a flurry of hand strikes going out towards the creature.... her entire body glowing, but where skin is uncovered like the face and hands, it's glowing more than usual as she suffuses her muscles with her energy. The flurry is used to try to create an opening for a precise and powerful strike.

Obsidian Butterfly's lips twist into a rueful grimace as Teklin's attack misses. Seh glances at the armoured figure for a moment before turning again to the creature. "Well, putting it on the defensive is good."

The hit doesn't really seem to hurt Star Wolf that much, but, amazingly it does knock him at least briefly onto his butt with a thumb. Probably was stunned by all the pretty colors and caught off balance!

Star Wolf springs back to his paws after getting knocked over by Abigail and he snarls, what with her so close he doesn't even have to move anymore, he just lashes out at her, ripping with his claws, but this time... he's trying for somewhere more lethal than just flesh wounds!

Meanwhile on the rooftop, Teklin watches the alien for a few moments, studying it, and then she lifts her hands. Ports in her palms glow briefly before the skyline is lit up like crazy in a brilliant flash of light! Well perhaps not the skyline, but that whole rooftop seriously glows!

There is a high pitched 'SCREE' from the rooftop as the alien is blinded by that flash of light. It's hard to tell where it's eyes are, but it apparently does have them. In a defensive reaction it swings it's tail about itself in a tornado whirlwind of destruction! Well not quite, but it is enough to send Obsidian Butterfly flying backwards to hit the edge of the building where she collapses, unconscious. Meanwhile more sparks fly off Teklin's armor and one could almost see the cyborg smirk, if her helmet wasn't on.

Having knocked the wolf down once, Abigail leans to her right to evade the incoming claws. But then she continues her motion, whipping about once, then twice, and launching into the air to send a sweeping kick towards the beast's head. Either way, she'll end up landing beside where it's -currently- standing.

Down on the street that super spin kick that Abigail whips off with crashes into Star Wolf's head and sends him flying... literally flying all the way across the street and into a wall where he smashes into, and through the wall to land on the other side of the wall in a pile of rubble. Unfortunately, on the rooftop there is only one more 'SCREE' and then the scuffling stops. By the time anyone gets to the rooftop and Obsidian Butterfly wakes up, Teklin and the Alien, are gone... but Star Wolf is easily captured! So it's not a full loss!

Maxwell comes to his senses and staggers to the edge of the roof he is on and looks over in time to watch Abigail knock Star Wolf into the building. He shakes his head, "At least someone got him." he mutters to himself, "Next time..." he turns and floats off the roof, rubbing his head a bit and waits for the police to arrive, after all being attached to the police department and leaving the scene would be very bad form.